Chris Walker
@pleasantlyhaunted.bsky.social
Screenwriter, editor. All opinions objectively good and true.
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So fucking pissed that OpenAI has completely ruined videos of animals. There was something especially fucking magical about lo-fi randomly caught glimpses of the entire spectrum of behavior of life that happens on our planet and from this point on you’ll never be able to trust it actually happened.
October 14, 2025 at 1:06 AM
So fucking pissed that OpenAI has completely ruined videos of animals. There was something especially fucking magical about lo-fi randomly caught glimpses of the entire spectrum of behavior of life that happens on our planet and from this point on you’ll never be able to trust it actually happened.
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Love the new Rose Garden patio look, it's just missing a couple empty Maxwell House cans for cigarette butts
September 6, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Love the new Rose Garden patio look, it's just missing a couple empty Maxwell House cans for cigarette butts
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Being mean is not the flex some of you seem to think it is
June 25, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Being mean is not the flex some of you seem to think it is
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I would bet pretty heavily that there are some majors and lieutenant colonels having some pretty intense heart to hearts right now
June 10, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I would bet pretty heavily that there are some majors and lieutenant colonels having some pretty intense heart to hearts right now
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BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.”
They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
June 10, 2025 at 12:17 AM
BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.”
They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
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Salgado’s work had an indelible impact on documentary photography, sometimes arousing debate and raising fundamental questions about the power relationships inherent in the field. aperture.org/editorial/in... cc: @susanmschultz.bsky.social
Sebastião Salgado’s Vision of the Human Condition
In 2014, Salgado reflected on his life as an engaged photographer who documented labor, migration, and the Earth’s fragile ecosystems.
aperture.org
June 1, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Salgado’s work had an indelible impact on documentary photography, sometimes arousing debate and raising fundamental questions about the power relationships inherent in the field. aperture.org/editorial/in... cc: @susanmschultz.bsky.social
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truly stunning that prestigious law firms, the other ivies, etc didn’t know the same basic lesson of dealing with bullies that most of us learned in elementary school
April 19, 2025 at 1:33 AM
truly stunning that prestigious law firms, the other ivies, etc didn’t know the same basic lesson of dealing with bullies that most of us learned in elementary school
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Critics say
Trump hopes to deport and imprison U.S. citizens abroad. Critics say the concept is unconstitutional and dangerous.
'Homegrowns are next:' Trump hopes to deport and jail U.S. citizens abroad
Trump hopes to deport and imprison U.S. citizens abroad. Critics say the concept is unconstitutional and dangerous.
www.npr.org
April 17, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Critics say
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No. We are not living beyond our means. We have simply been denied the means to live.
April 17, 2025 at 2:05 AM
No. We are not living beyond our means. We have simply been denied the means to live.
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…just as *every other survey and experiment* has found for decades. The “problem” with UBI is that greedy rich fucks want captive victims and UBI causes supplies of those to plummet.
A German experiment has found that people are likely to continue working full-time even if they receive no-strings-attached universal basic income payments.
German experiment gave people a basic monthly income – the effect on their work ethic was surprising | CNN
A German experiment has found that people are likely to continue working full-time even if they receive no-strings-attached universal basic income payments.
www.cnn.com
April 12, 2025 at 3:53 PM
…just as *every other survey and experiment* has found for decades. The “problem” with UBI is that greedy rich fucks want captive victims and UBI causes supplies of those to plummet.
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Is it relevant that America’s literal origin story is that a people went to war over an unaccountable authority imposing an unreasonable tax on them. (and that tax was an import tax, a tariff)
It seems relevant
It seems relevant
April 6, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Is it relevant that America’s literal origin story is that a people went to war over an unaccountable authority imposing an unreasonable tax on them. (and that tax was an import tax, a tariff)
It seems relevant
It seems relevant
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Trump should know sales receipt tariff itemization on iPhones and products is definitely going to happen, making his tariff policy politically untenable. Hopefully, he realizes this sooner than later, so we can avoid needless economic suffering.
April 6, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Trump should know sales receipt tariff itemization on iPhones and products is definitely going to happen, making his tariff policy politically untenable. Hopefully, he realizes this sooner than later, so we can avoid needless economic suffering.
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From the other place. Spot on.
March 31, 2025 at 11:47 PM
From the other place. Spot on.
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I don’t answer my phone but I sure will text you “what’s up” right after you call me
March 31, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I don’t answer my phone but I sure will text you “what’s up” right after you call me
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Marco Rubio will probably go down in history as the biggest monster of this entire period.
Hundreds of international students have just received an email telling them their visas have been revoked.
The ‘justification’ is campus activism or social media posts.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/hun...
The ‘justification’ is campus activism or social media posts.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/hun...
March 29, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Marco Rubio will probably go down in history as the biggest monster of this entire period.
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The people were angry: It took a wheelbarrow of German marks to buy a dozen eggs. Disillusioned nationalists rallied behind a charismatic wannabe dictator who claimed only he could save them.
Stream my hour-long special “Rick Steves’ The Story of Fascism in Europe” at www.ricksteves.com/fascism.
Stream my hour-long special “Rick Steves’ The Story of Fascism in Europe” at www.ricksteves.com/fascism.
March 29, 2025 at 2:40 AM
The people were angry: It took a wheelbarrow of German marks to buy a dozen eggs. Disillusioned nationalists rallied behind a charismatic wannabe dictator who claimed only he could save them.
Stream my hour-long special “Rick Steves’ The Story of Fascism in Europe” at www.ricksteves.com/fascism.
Stream my hour-long special “Rick Steves’ The Story of Fascism in Europe” at www.ricksteves.com/fascism.
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Please take this seriously: If we get out of this alive, we literally need to push HARD for deep structural changes across law, policy, the judiciary, and the ways in which elected officials get coopted by donors. There is no other way to secure the future.
March 29, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Please take this seriously: If we get out of this alive, we literally need to push HARD for deep structural changes across law, policy, the judiciary, and the ways in which elected officials get coopted by donors. There is no other way to secure the future.
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The Signal chat also reveals what Nazi historians call “working toward the Führer”—it’s clear nobody really spoke to Trump or knows what he wants (or whether he even considered the issue or has an opinion) but they keep invoking what Trump *would want* as totemic justification for their decisions
In the texts they literally discuss that there’s no tactical reason to do the strikes now but they debate the politics of it, and JD Vance objects and then unobjects almost exactly like the politburo scenes from The Death of Stalin
March 27, 2025 at 12:53 PM
The Signal chat also reveals what Nazi historians call “working toward the Führer”—it’s clear nobody really spoke to Trump or knows what he wants (or whether he even considered the issue or has an opinion) but they keep invoking what Trump *would want* as totemic justification for their decisions
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This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
March 26, 2025 at 11:46 PM
This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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it is BUCK WILD that they are just texting this shit to each other
March 26, 2025 at 12:39 PM
it is BUCK WILD that they are just texting this shit to each other
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“People tend to become dependent upon AI chatbots when their personal lives are lacking. In other words, the neediest people are developing the deepest parasocial relationship with AI.”
Wow the exact thing genAI creators intended, for their users to become psychologically dependent and chemically addicted to their product, is happening, who could have seen this coming
futurism.com/the-byte/cha...
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Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot
ChatGPT "power users," or those who use it the most, are becoming dependent upon — or even addicted to — the chatbot.
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March 26, 2025 at 3:22 AM
“People tend to become dependent upon AI chatbots when their personal lives are lacking. In other words, the neediest people are developing the deepest parasocial relationship with AI.”
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This is so surreally corrupt it’s hard to even grasp. US media is incapable of processing it - directly using the White House to promote a meme coin with hidden ownership structure.
March 23, 2025 at 5:25 PM
This is so surreally corrupt it’s hard to even grasp. US media is incapable of processing it - directly using the White House to promote a meme coin with hidden ownership structure.