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@chowdster.bsky.social

Not sure what I'll use this account for, stay tuned

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AI geniunely democratizes the creation of art. This is mostly bad, because the average person has terrible taste.

ashley fairbanks@ziibiing.com

this lady on threads posted this big huge thing about how artists are just jealous that everyday people can now use AI to create better art that gets more attention so i click through to see her “art”… i wish there was an unveil feature here:

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Ohio is indeed a Soviet state

Vaquera Elisa@boxelderdust.bsky.social

>entire culture based around inefficient ag and rusting factories >hilariously corrupt >reactionary on social issues to the bone >has one cult of zoomers trying to wishcast it into being a progressive icon >has another cult of zoomers who just think it’s hilarious because of iFunny brainrot

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Yes they've destroyed gaming discourse for a generation but at least they've made it impossible for them to enjoy their own supposed hobby and identity

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Replying to @danacorn.bsky.social

I’ve been called a “self-hating trans person” for wanting the party that’s broadly in favor of trans rights to beat the party that’s uniformly and obsessively against trans rights. Do I need to explain why that’s moronic? I really hope I don’t.

So both Ulysses S Grant and Harry S Truman have the same middle initial that stands for nothing.

ex-Lethality Jane@lethalityjane.bsky.social

My favorite Ulysses Grant fact is that he was born Hiram Ulysses Grant but hated that his initials spelled "HUG" so he applied to West Point as "Ulysses Hiram Grant" but his sponsor accidentally put "Ulysses S. Grant" and then the Army said "your paperwork says Ulysses S. Grant so that's your name".

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the kind of person who posts here is very likely to have over-learned 'the personal is the political' in a way that make them interpret 'I don't think this empirical claim about society you are making is true' as 'I am invalidating your personal experiences', like that's just it in it's entirety

Ed@ed3d.net

Matt Darling pushes a lot of Stancil buttons--in that I like them both and find them infuriating enough to follow either of them--but "are there numbers to back up this claim?" is a powerful question that should not be reacted to in as hostile a manner as people frequently do

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Oppenheimer and The Odyssey are movies about men feeling guilt and shame over their life's crowning achievement bringing untold suffering into the world clearly this is an expression of Christopher Nolan's guilt for popularizing superhero movies with The Dark Knight

Remember when leftists wanted Graham Platner to go on Tucker Carlson to appeal to the Volk of Maine?

Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com

Hasan Piker and Ryan Grim are now openly encouraging #MESEN presumptive Democratic nominee Graham Platner, who was Grim's bartender at the Tune Inn on Capitol Hill and had a Totenkopf tattoo until last year, to meet with Tucker Carlson, who has platformed numerous Nazi apologists over his career

It's a good thing that Tim Walz is making those demands, I agree with those demands. You're literally doing the exact thing I just described. You're taking a Democrat saying something you agree with, on an issue that Democrats are better on, and using this to criticize "Democrats". Just baffling.

Romaq@romaq.bsky.social

bsky.app/profile/roma... Why is Walz demanding Democrats not give up on Trans rights? Are those Democrats objectively superior in abandoning trans rights? "Then profit." Excuse me while I piss myself laughing. Where my money at? Where's the profit?

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Here are the facts: People have always had and will always have abortions in all 50 states. Abortion pills are safe, effective, and have been used by millions of people. No court or politician can change either of those realities.

"sure, leftists made fun of Hillary Clinton for stressing the importance of the Supreme Court. But that doesn't excuse her for failing to stress the importance of the Supreme Court" ???

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Replying to @opinionhaver.bsky.social

Ideally, you want just enough oppression to serve as memento mori and illuminate power structures, but not enough that you're routinely in fight-or-flight mode. This is why bisexuals should be in charge.

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In my lib propaganda empire I'm greenlighting like 7 cop shows about Internal Affairs constantly going after loose cannons.

The median voter thinks asshole = good at war and economy and the more asshole you are, the gooder at war and economy you are. Therefore, Trump being the King Asshole means we'll all be rich and nobody will fuck with us again.

Everyone's talking about the Hasan angle here, but the most insane part of this is when Jia says that the murder of Brian Thompson was "an effective act of political consciousness raising", and that she's disappointed the Democrats didn't use it to push for universal healthcare.

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The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.

Ari Berman@ariberman.bsky.social

So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out

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Pawn shop guitars can be had for around $50, and they can help your kid express themselves and make friends. They also learn how to care for and maintain a tool, that is something tangible, that has value. It can inspire them to work towards something better in themselves and in their hands. 🙂🎶🤘

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The President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes and wipe out a "whole civilization" — all because he started a disastrous war of his own making and had no plan and no strategy for how to end it. This is abhorrent, and the American people do not support this.

ex-Lethality Jane@lethalityjane.bsky.social

Finally getting around to watching The Pitt and this show is like 95% good and then one character will turn to face approximately 1° right of the camera and say "Assaults on healthcare workers are a nationwide problem. What are you doing to help?" in their best 90s PSA voice.

Begrudgingly gotta hand it to the zoomers on this one. Can someone give me Legolas with the broccoli haircut?

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com

making fun of losers who are still into Harry Potter actually seems to be working to some extent, and we should keep doing it Gen Z and Gen Alpha members are our strongest soldiers when it comes to calling out Harry Potter as irredeemably cringe millennial adult-baby slop

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folks,

Aman Batheja@amanbatheja.bsky.social

The “main goal” of the Iran War may have changed, reports Washington Post: “Israeli officials said securing the [Strait of Hormuz] for energy shipments could become the war’s main goal now that regime change and ending Iran’s ability to obtain a nuclear weapon seem out of reach.”

The "AI can't make real art" crowd has been real quiet ever since this dropped

Lum@brokentoys.social

chinese propaganda trolling continues to be unmatched (first 3 minutes here, complete 5+ minute video in twitter link below)