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optimismprime01.bsky.social
Brandon
@optimismprime01.bsky.social
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big ol nerd of: music/guitar, ttrpgs, pc games, sf/fantasy, politics, food.

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mouse, from the matrix, saying "morpheus is fighting neo"
November 15, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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a cartoon woman in a hoodie looks blankly at the camera, then exits muttering "jesus fucking christ..."
November 9, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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starting... when exactly?
lauren boebert and marjorie taylor greene screaming and making fools of themselves (more than usual) at a biden state of the union address
November 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Alright, let’s get into this. I saw that post sooner than the one about join dot ice dot gov, but we can roll all of that up into this as well, as it follows the theme of “MAGA Right lacks a shred of media literacy.”
A Pinned tweet from @elonmusk on Twitter: When Tolkien wrote about the hobbit, he was referring to the gentlefolk of the English shires, who don't realize the horrors that take place far away. They were able to live their lives in peace and tranquility, but only because they were protected by the hard men of Gondor. What happened to the nice man who was brutally murdered while walking his dog will happen to all of England if the tide of illegal immigration is not turned. It is time for the English to ally with the hard men, like Tommy Robinson, and fight for their survival or they shall surely all die."
November 4, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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I'm not saying that the @dropout.tv @makesomenoiseshow.bsky.social cast from monday did this heist but...
Lou Wilson and jiavani!!!! flanking Ross Bryant, who's saying "we robbed the louvre!" on the set of make some noise, at the end of the prompt "the beastie boys auction some artwork"
November 3, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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oh fuck me i'm going to have to write about this aren't i.
a screenshot from facebook of the official department of homeland security facebook page with a quote saying "the board is set, the pieces are moving. we come to it at last, the great battle of our time." below is an image of meriadoc brandybuck from the two towers, saying "there won't be a shire, pippin." with join dot ice dot gov underlaid beneath that.
October 30, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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apocryphal, but:
Once upon a time, the US Army wanted to use neural networks to automatically detect camouflaged enemy tanks. The researchers trained a neural net on 50 photos of camouflaged tanks in trees, and 50 photos of trees without tanks. Using standard techniques for supervised learning, the researchers trained the neural network to a weighting that correctly loaded the training set—output "yes" for the 50 photos of camouflaged tanks, and output "no" for the 50 photos of forest. This did not ensure, or even imply, that new examples would be classified correctly. The neural network might have "learned" 100 special cases that would not generalize to any new problem. Wisely, the researchers had originally taken 200 photos, 100 photos of tanks and 100 photos of trees. They had used only 50 of each for the training set. The researchers ran the neural network on the remaining 100 photos, and without further training the neural network classified all remaining photos correctly. Success confirmed! The researchers handed the finished work to the Pentagon, which soon handed it back, complaining that in their own tests the neural network did no better than chance at discriminating photos. It turned out that in the researchers' dataset, photos of camouflaged tanks had been taken on cloudy days, while photos of plain forest had been taken on sunny days. The neural network had learned to distinguish cloudy days from sunny days, instead of distinguishing camouflaged tanks from empty forest.
October 17, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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interesting because and i quote
Dear Customer, Current behaviour is as per samsung UX for ONEUI 8.x now when decreasing volume using volume key, it would only put the device in vibrate mode and not in silent mode Thank you.
October 10, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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kendrick lamar stunting over drake at the super bowl. hey drake! i hear you like em young.
October 9, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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had to do a thing. @jaredlholt.bsky.social and @michaelehayden.bsky.social this is pretty accurate for andy ngo, right?
a picture of conspiracist and general kook giorgio tsoukalos, the ancient aliens guy, saying "antifa"
October 9, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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"we just have to overinvest in this new unproven technology"
a screenshot of tobias funke and lindsay bluth funke with tobias explaining everything that goes wrong (originally open relationships) lindsay: well, did it work for those people? tobias: no, it never does. i mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might, but... tobias: ...but it might work for us.
October 9, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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demonic sexual performances? i thought it was bad bunny not drake
kendrick lamar performing at the super bowl looking directly into the camera and the eyes of one audrey drake graham and singing "HEY DRAKE/I HEAR YOU LIKE EM YOUNG"
October 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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got it before it vanished! for all the talk of how vaunted The Algorithm is it sure as fuck can't read the room on my anti-ai stance.
An image from a Facebook feed, "try free ai creation tools" with a man in a pastel yellow suit on a tandem bike with a pink horned fluffy monster behind him
October 4, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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yeah i feel like maybe something happened in 1968?
Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister, civil rights activist and political philosopher who was a leader of the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. He advanced civil rights for people of color in the United States through the use of nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws and other forms of legalized discrimination.
October 1, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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a bluesky post from ungoliant @gorgol.bsky.social generals gathered in their masses / president calls them all fatasses (to the tune of war pigs by black sabbath)
October 1, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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getting real tired of reading a headline and going "oh hey i heard about that from the pod i listen to that specializes in debunking and explaining fringe conspiracy thought"

thanks @travisview.bsky.social and @jakerockatansky.bsky.social I'm ahead of the curve in understanding all this shit
a description of qaa podcast (formerly qanon anonymous) episode 274, med beds and skye prince We discuss the shift in the podcast's cover art, theme song and name. Then we explore miracle cure-all 5D "med beds" and delve into the online community around "Skye Prince", a multi-faceted grifter at the nexus of QAnon, UFO disclosure, prosperity gospel and new age pseudo-medicine.
September 28, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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it better be The One and Only PPL MVR.
an image of the band, The One and Only PPL MVR; there are three yeti-like figures running towards the camera. rumors abound that The One and Only PPL MVR are in fact a side project of a well known band, but i have not seen actual proof yet.
September 23, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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always thought kash was a karen, nice to have confirmation from the spam folder
email title: Official Notification Regarding Fraud Investigation from: Mr. Kashyap Pramod Patel <karen.kh0914@wave.plala.or.jp> Dear beneficiary I am Mr. Kashyap Pramod Patel, the newly appointed Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). I officially assumed office on January 21, 2025. During a recent internal compliance audit conducted under my supervision, I identified an abandoned financial asset totaling Fifty Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars (USD $50,500,000.00 ). Records confirm that you are the sole and verified beneficiary of this fund. The allocation was duly approved in your favor by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) with the full authorization of the World Bank. It was established as part of a restitution program to compensate individuals who suffered financial losses as victims of fraudulent activities. Further inquiry revealed that this fund was intentionally withheld by the former FBI Director, Mr. Christopher A. Wray. His dismissal was ordered by the President due to repeated misconduct, including the misappropriation of beneficiaries’ assets. Mr. Brian Driscoll, who served briefly as Acting Director following Mr. Wray’s removal, confirmed these findings during the audit. In accordance with Section 27(b) of the Federal Abandoned Assets Recovery Act (FAARA) of 1986, any unclaimed financial asset exceeding five years of dormancy must be retrieved by the federal authority and released to its rightful owner after verification. Your case qualifies under this federal provision, and restitution of your funds has been scheduled. To enable proper processing and allow you to choose the most convenient method of receiving your funds, kindly confirm your preferred disbursement option from the following: ATM Debit Card Direct Online Banking Transfer Consignment Box Delivery...
September 22, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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could be a little bit worse, but not by much
amy wong from futurama, talking into a miniscule cell phone approximately the size of her finger
September 9, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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doctors i trust more than rfk jr
an image of various actors who played doctors in star trek; L-R: unknown, wilson cruz/hugh culbur, siddig el-fadil/julian bashir, gates mcfadden/beverly crusher, robert picardo/the doctor, john billingsley/phlox
September 8, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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every single ai company right now is worse at money than tommy fucking shriggly
comedian vic michaelis, is wearing a tan pantsuit over a pink blouse, on the dropout show very important people, asking in a stunned, confused fasion, "what did you do with $100,000?" comedian zac oyama, made up to look like the meatiest meathead ever, with a mohawk combed forward, tiny ears, and a neck the size of an end table, and wearing a shirt that says "dream big lift bigger" replying that he took the $100,000 and "I invested it and then I turned it into $16,000." this is followed by both comedians breaking character, stammering over the ludicrousness, and cracking up, resulting in a faux "please stand by" message.
September 8, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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a duck in a harris/walz camouflage hat smoking contentedly
August 21, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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oh come on it only takes a few hundred hours if you're a completionist!
a screencap of the website "how long to beat" which tracks the amount of time different players have spent beating games. this page is for the video game "dyson sphere program," where the main story takes 67 hours, the main+sides is 109, and the completionist is 232 hours, with a combined all-styles playtime average of 89 hours. altman should stick to his fantasy world.
August 19, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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on a scale of one to... this... what was her jumping like?
an image of trump at a campaign rally while the richest man in the world is jumping around behind him, shirt exposing some midriff; reader, if i had that much money I'd hire a personal trainer and have a six pack.
August 5, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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harrison ford agrees
Harrison Ford: [about making the first "Star Wars" movie] I did once say, "George, you can type this shit, but you can't say it!", and of course, that's the year he gets nominated for an Oscar for Best Screenplay. What do I know, right?
August 2, 2025 at 5:23 PM