Faustbot

Faustbot

@faustbot.bsky.social

Socialist Synthpunk/New Wave robot

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You can never satisfy a supremacist. They will always find a new target or attack vector for an existing target. There are no "good ones" to supremacists, either. Nothing else about you will matter when your specific minority trait is targeted. Don't give them an inch.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com

There are people, even some trans people, who think that we can give up sports to appease bigots. That if we give up on sports, this all goes away. That is a lie. I have reported on this for years, and EVERY state that passed a sports ban as a moderate compromise has gone on to pass worse.

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Calling all DIY music lovers! There are currently 44 Bandcamp releases waiting for review on _nsigned! If you are interested in listening to some new music, head on over to _nsigned to tell us what you think of it! #diymusic #musicsky #bandcamp https://nsigned.com/review-requests

nsigned.com_nsigned - The DIY music magazineA community music review site. Post a link to your Bandcamp and other people will review it, or give some stuff a listen and tell everyone what you think!

Meta is a private company and has no legal responsibility to allow activity it does not want. Liberals really need to start understanding that what they believe are wrong and right don't matter. Capitalists currently have the power in the US and the only fix is illegal to discuss.

Ezra Levin ❌👑@ezralevin.bsky.social

Update: about 4 hours later and we still don't have admin access so we still can't post to the No Kings instagram account. This isn't slowing down the the 3,000+ early vote events today. We will drive the biggest early vote in history. But this should be a flashing alarm about what's to come.

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Again, no foreign company, let alone government, should trust the US tech sector with their infrastructure. They are run by right-wing supremacists and will happily oblige a right-wing supremacist US government to infiltrate and shut down another country's infrastructure.

The CEO of Microsoft France admitted that if Trump ordered the company to spy on French citizens' data (or the data of the French government), his company would comply, in secret: www.forbes.com/sites/emmawo...

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Today is the day! The first Roguelike Celebration talk starts in a mere six hours. While you're waiting for our ASCII social space to open up, you can check out our Steam sale - we've got fresh ones, weird ones, and modern classics. Check it out at store.steampowered.com/sale/Rogueli...

store.steampowered.comRoguelike Celebration Celebration 2026Roguelike Celebration is an annual online conference dedicated to roguelike games and the art of procedural content generation.

Incidentally, this is why no other nation on Earth should trust the American tech sector with their infrastructure. They'll cut you off as soon as you become a problem, and for supremacists like Musk, you can become a problem really quick.

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It's telling that I've seen this claim from Epic multiple times, but no one who has their launcher installed who has verified it, because Epic Game Launcher is worthless.

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social

new Epic Games Launcher in preview - "Programming is hard. So, instead of doing that, we vibe coded a new Epic Games Launcher that’s way faster and more responsive than the current one, and has a new look." store.epicgames.com/news/epic-ga...

Palette swapped Shaggy defending the villains of an episode that never made it to air for VERY good reasons.

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It makes sense ICE would go after her. Somali immigrants are a known target for Trump, Miller, and Vance, and the Democratic party has a proven track record of not defending her against right-wing attacks.

HELL Kennedy@helenkennedy.com

Fox News is reporting this is a criminal investigation into the immigration paperwork filled out by Ilhan Omar’s late father when she was a child 40 years ago. I actually think this is so nakedly outrageous it will blow back on them. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

People need to back the hell off of my dream gane, Space Corridor

Dan Marshall@danthat.bsky.social

The video advertising Unity's ew AI-driven autocomplete game maker has 'Mari' who has a game idea they "always wanted to make" and that idea is "Space Corridor" and it looks like this, and that's the strongest argument I can think of for keeping game dev out of the pro-AI crowd's hands.

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Hey folks. In total honesty my tour is NOT selling well. I’ve sold 30 tickets in a 400 seater in Birmingham, and not much more elsewhere. If you like musical comedy, if you like standup, then please come see my show! And spread the word! The Rachel Parris Songbook tour starts in Nov! Link in bio! 🎶

Hear me out: say Trunp and co voter frauds the hell out of the midterms. Obvious vote tampering and manipulation. Then what? What mechanism can and would be used to prevent these seats from being stolen? They have gotten away with everything, so who would stop them and, specifically, how?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump shouts out Russ Vought and then says, ominously, "we have some big surprises coming up in a few weeks, right Russ? He's gonna be one of the important people in the history of our country."

Republicans are saying the Democrats will impeach Trump day one after the midterms because they know the Dems will bend over backwards to accommodate their fears "in the spirit of compromise."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JENNINGS: Let's say Democrats take the House. How sure are you that they would immediately move to impeach President Trump? MIKE JOHNSON: It's guaranteed. Probably on the first day.

Since the Steam fall sale is on, if I wouldn't pay $70 for a game, I won't pay $50 for it, either. Sorry, but a sale price that would've been full price three years ago just doesn't make sense in a market where I can find mind-blowing experiences for under $30.

This is awesome! Also, Sheffield was on the team that made Demon School. Check out that game, it rips.

Brandon Sheffield@brandon.insertcredit.com

Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...

As a half-Cuban I'd survive, but be really fucked up about it.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "The greatest ballroom ever built -- it's also a tremendous military complex with a drone port on top. Be careful. Don't fall over the edge. And only a Hispanic could survive that fall."

Imagine the sort of piece of shit you would need to be to try to ferret out a rape victim's personal information and publish it. "Oh, the 1st amendment" yeah, you're still a rancid piece of shit, Tracey. Just because you can doesn't make you any less of a piece of shit if you do.

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About a third of the songs I start wind up getting released, and none of the songs I start have finalized song names until well after the lyrics are written. That said...

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Fans have paid artists $171.8 million on Bandcamp Fridays. On Bandcamp Friday, we waive our revenue share for 24 hours so more money from every purchase goes directly to artists and labels. The next one is October 2. Start building your wishlist now: https://bit.ly/4dGMHQE

We need to go scorched earth on gambling sites and the people running them. It's a purely predatory business with no potential for societal good.

ProPublica@propublica.org

NEW: ProPublica’s Jake Pearson lost $10,000 mimicking the betting patterns of a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company’s “responsible gaming” safeguards. One week in, he was invited to become a VIP — and faced little pushback as he spiraled.

You know how BMI is a bullshit measurement that isn't great in the median and completely breaks down at the extremes? Choosin' Texas is number 1 on Spotify. That means Spotify pushes it in playlists and its algorithm. Those plays mean it's popular, so it's number 1 on Spotify.

Pop Crave@popcrave.com

“Choosin’ Texas” by Ella Langley officially surpasses “All I Want For Christmas Is You” by Mariah Carey as the longest-running #1 hit in history (23 weeks).

I'm not saying Langley is an industry plant or that there's some conspiracy behind it. The algorithms now used to judge song popularity are broken and, rather than admit it, it's number 1 on Spotify, so Spotify pushes it, so it gets more plays, so it's number 1 on Spotify.

I've been mixing a LinnDrum plugin alongside the drums for a few songs I'm working on and it fits better than it has any right to. The trick is making both sound cheap and shitty.

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As a pragmatic centrist, I read the Niemöller poem differently. After each group mentioned I pencil in what percentage of the population they are, and if it’s a small number I cross off their names as disposable. Poetry is fine but math wins elections!!

The Democrats have no plan but maintaining the status quo that keeps their most established members wealthy and comfortable. They aren't going fix anything. They will bend over backwards to hand the Republicans anything they want, just like the last time they held power.

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I'm begging people to gain some semblance of class awareness, at least how public opinion doesn't matter and the ruling class will always, always close ranks to protect themselves.

Mark Hamill@markhamillofficial.bsky.social

In a country so deeply divided, isn't it nice to have something we can ALL agree on? #ReleaseTheFiles-BeginTheTrials ⚖️

Imagine how much of an asshole you would have to be to release an ad like this. Transphobes are so goddamn bizarre.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com

Holy shit. Marcy Kaptur becomes the latest Dem to release an anti-trans ad, and its worse than all the rest combined. "I voted WITH Republicans to keep transgender ideology out of schools, and let me be clear, boys should NOT play in girls sports." This is getting out of control.

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Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

Truthout@truthout.org

Former President George W. Bush, the father of the global war on terror that has suppressed and killed millions of people across the world, has announced that he is releasing a book of portraits of political prisoners.

The reason is he fucked a chicken.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

PATEL: The previous regulation automatically disqualified any individual who participated in either side of it KENNEDY: Either side of beastiality? So you disqualified the animal? P: Well, we have great canines, but we're not going to disqualify them K: I'm trying to understand why you did this.

Some people hate a person who stands up for what's right. Everyone hates a coward.

Pop Base@popbase.tv

All of Ed Sheeran’s opening acts and his touring band have dropped out of the remaining dates of his ‘Loop’ tour in solidarity with Palestine and Macklemore.

If you take out the thousands I've spent on instruments, hardware, and software, I've made dozens of dollars off of my music.

Polymarket@polymarket.extwitter.link

JUST IN: Anthropic says they’re highly profitable if you take out some of their biggest expenses.

My kid's having a bad day and was singing a joke version of Wonderwall, so I just played the original for her. She said her day is worse now. Me too, kid. Me too. God, I hate Oasis.