Rick

Rick

@abnormal.gay

i post mostly jokes™️ They/them. Musician. Teacher. Prob AuDHD 32 🏳️‍🌈♾️ Find out how extremely normal i am at https://abnormal.gay What even is gender anyway? Occasionally NSFW banner alt text: I'm Normal, I Promise ;-)

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This I wish I knew sooner You can be non binary even if you're AMAB and pass as a man. Self diagnosis is valid (autism)...especially if it triggers a hyper fixation. You're masking so much you even mask in private. Stop it. Gay sex is awesome.

normal people: e-ink devices are great because they're simple and monochrome and get you away from the distraction-fest of your phone eink device makers: yo what if we stuck a bunch of ai shit on this thing

it's kind of darkly funny that AI companies trained their models on every piece of news ever written, but completely ignored the lessons the news industry learned from the dot-com era, namely: if you set up the expectation of a product being free, it will be very hard to get people to start paying

and you'll have to stuff it with increasingly obtrusive ads just to stay above water

i feel like ever having worked in any Trump Administration should be probably cause to search your computer for CSAM

that's the most racist thing i've heard from a Trump admin official since...the last time a trump admin official was at a podium

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i like that the big divide on this post is whether people read it, correctly, as "*run explicitly* on banning online gambling" or whether they ignored the modifying verb and adverb and read it as "i don't think anyone should ban online gambling"

jamelle@jamellebouie.net

i don't think anyone should run explicitly on banning online gambling but i do think that a democratic-led government should just quietly take steps to undermine the industry and create an inhospitable regulatory environment

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The internet can be pretty gullible about tech products, but congrats to everyone who called exactly what this was going to be used for from the first moment they saw it.

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anyone mad about this is just annoyed they weren't invited to the cool mayor's fun game

Chris Sommerfeldt@c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social

New: Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a group of his friends have been secretly using the NYPD Police Academy’s gymnasium in Queens to play pickup basketball — scrambling some operations at the facility. w/ @grahamrayman.bsky.social & Joe Anuta www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

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did you guys think this would make him seem less cool somehow or what

Chris Sommerfeldt@c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social

New: Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a group of his friends have been secretly using the NYPD Police Academy’s gymnasium in Queens to play pickup basketball — scrambling some operations at the facility. w/ @grahamrayman.bsky.social & Joe Anuta www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

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Politico wrote up Zohran playing basketball with the uncovering-a-big-scandal tone the same day the NYTimes wrote up "credible allegation that The President of the United States raped a woman" as a political strategy story. Broken media in a nutshell

Chris Sommerfeldt@c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social

New: Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a group of his friends have been secretly using the NYPD Police Academy’s gymnasium in Queens to play pickup basketball — scrambling some operations at the facility. w/ @grahamrayman.bsky.social & Joe Anuta www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

AI will not rest until every website on the whole internet is exactly identical

proposed headline for coverage of Flavio's reaction: Crybaby loser (Bolsonaro) says he's gonna get his Dad (Trump) to beat you (Lula) up

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This drives me CRAZY. I grew up playing sports w/ boys. I played on a U12 boys select soccer team, b4 switching to a U12 girls team that kept beating us. Nobody had any issue with any of it. Youth sports have never had the strict sex/gender boundaries that “XX-XY” activists are now trying to defend.

Andrew D Thaler@drandrewthaler.bsky.social

I live in a rural town and, like, I don't know how to tell you this, but the girls play on the boys team and vice versa all the time because otherwise we don't have enough players for a game and it's literally always fine so stop being weirdos about kids sports and just let trans kids play.

no guys i promise the *next version* of chatgpt will actually be good. no really, this time it's true! we promise. please give us more money and land and power and water /s

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It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

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the handful of die-hard anti-trans voters that exist are going to vote GOP no matter what. so this ad will not pick up a single new voter. all it does is further disenfranchise trans ppl – a marginalized group MAGA hates. this is a pro-MAGA ad & Turek is furthering MAGA's cause by airing it

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com

Josh Turek of Iowa, Democrat, comes out with one of the worst anti-trans ads yet. Not only is it an anti-sports ad, it proposes a ban on federal funding for gender affirming care. That would hit all medicaid and medicare patients, and any ACA federally-subsidized plans as well. Horrific.

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I see our media has learned valuable lessons from the past TEN YEARS of false equivalences between “funny harmless banter from a Democrat” and “genuine treason and rape apologia from a Republican” and has decided to double down

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Oh it's a *discourse* discourse

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This would be the most any person has donated in any election cycle. And #2 is also Musk, in 2024.

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As we approach the midterms, remember that the Alt National Park Service is a merch sales operation claiming without evidence to be a group of federal employees, and is not a genuine source of news about elections of any kind. Please get your election info from a local, reputable source.

these people watch dystopian sci-fi and call it "brainstorming"

Amy Feldman@amyfeldman7.bsky.social

*NEW* Colossal Biosciences’ Ben Lamm and Anduril’s Palmer Luckey team up on a new startup to genetically engineer war dogs for the military. Warhound comes out of stealth at $1.2B valuation For @forbes.com with @iainmartin.bsky.social and @mhunterhart.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

rooting for the cavs to experience the full James Harden experience which is: Harden scores 40 but they still lose

Elon Musk is hurt that his trans daughter doesn't like him so he has decided to take that pain out on every single trans person in the whole world.

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You know what pissed me off about the Ramaswamy ad beyond the obvious grotesqueries? There’s no EVIDENCE disputing Acton’s life story. There are court proceedings backing up her story. And all Ramaswamy’s got is the (accused) mother saying “nu uh” and somehow that’s enough? FOR THE REPUBLICAN PARTY

is AI good at any of the things they promised it would be good at? no what is it good at? hacking and scamming people so it fits in great with 2026 capitalism

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The Republican Party is absolute in its devotion to their core base of support, child molesters.

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Ramaswamy is doubling down on the ad starring Amy Acton's abusive mother defending Acton's rapist and calling her a liar about it at age 12 because Republican politicians and voters ideologically support the physical and sexual abuse of women and children by men, whom they see as their owners.

Philip Bump@pbump.com

Vivek putting money behind it now.