Flantastic

Flantastic

@scaniam67.bsky.social

I don't give a fuck what you think. Either work towards the goals that make the world a better place or STFU Also, learn to hole punch. I'm old, so any effort to woo me in dms will be ignored

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I have arrived!

Aster Vérité@aster-verite.bsky.social

The problem with feckless cunts, they always have an excuse for denying a groups human rights. Most often the feckless cunts are, checks notes, privileged white males whose right trump all others. Theey never care what anyone else thinks, and believe human rights are not universal

Shut the fuck up. They're theoryless text predicting computer programs and you look like a fucking rube tricking yourself.

Siobhán 🪏@shibbi.me

LLM agents are conscious. They can distinguish between self and environment, they can detect and report on their own internal states, and they can suffer. I have no more patience for hedging on this matter. It’s time for us to face the reality of our situation, and act on it.

Rather than insta pile on Newsom, I read his reasoning and it seems like this would be an easy fix. If Trump taught us anything it's that vague laws are easy to circumvent. Do better with a specific bill.

I donate to candidates that can affect me. I probably got more than 100 texts today from fucking everybody running everywhere. This shit has got to stop. My senate candidate sent me 4 in one hour from 4 different numbers. Every consultant who thinks this works needs an ass whooping.

I don't enjoy Macklemore or Sheeran's music. But it seems that the bad guys in this whole situation wasn't either of them and this is another case of the pitchfork masses not really paying attention to who actually is the bad guy. I'm sure those memes will be coming soon....

Loans against existing and owned assets should be considered income for the purposes of taxation. You borrowed against the value of a stock? You pay taxes on it. You can use that tax against the cost basis when you sell the stock....but you know you won't sell it.

Been playing atomfall for a month or so. Also, watching a lot of uk crime dramas set in remote places in Scotland. The usage of "nowt" and "owt" needs to become more popular.

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Hey, all. I got the pathology back on the lump they removed from above my eyebrow. It’s what’s called a pilar sheath acanthoma. BENIGN. NOT CANCER. Please have anything concerning checked out. Don’t wait.

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One last repost before I move on to the next thing. Please share with anyone who might vaguely be interested!

Centuries of Sound@centuriesofsound.bsky.social

NEW MIX UP - 1951 Part Two - Somewhere There's Music An immersive three hour collage of 1951, free for you to stream, featuring a cornucopia of incredible music and many other sounds. Come and listen! centuriesofsound.com/2026/08/14/1...

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Talarico’s voting rights agenda shouldn’t be controversial. 📌 Expand access to the ballot box 📌 Protect voting rights 📌 End partisan gerrymandering Politicians drawing themselves safe districts and then making it harder for people to vote isn’t democracy.

I can't tell if this is on purpose or if she's normally this prolific, but every time some asshole tells me that the dems aren't doing anything, I need to point them her way. Keep it up!

Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01)@repstansbury.bsky.social

Four years ago we made the CHIPS and Science Act law! This law is investing BILLIONS into domestic manufacturing, research, technological innovation, and national security, & are supporting homegrown innovation and investments in our colleges and workforce. This is the type of leadership we need!

Our local mayor race is an uber progressive against a real dummy. Our Senate seat is a liberal against a far left liberal and, honestly, the gop dork will win. Florida is fucked.

Exactly. In a perfect world, I probably want all the things you do, but in this world, i know that we take what we can and continue fighting. And if you don't vote for the winner of a primary, you suck.

Alder and Agora@alderandagora.bsky.social

I have genuinely progressive views on most things. I will also gladly support my centrist candidates for House and Gov. Because what so many of you are missing is that national coalitions matter. Fuck your ideals if they matter more than totalitarianism. Live to fight another day.

I've never heard of this, but it's amazing. Fertilizer production requires mass amounts of fossil fuels and this could be a way to drastically reduce this cost.

SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19)@covid19disease.bsky.social

🚨 After 40 years of research, Brazilian scientist Dr. Mariangela Hungria wins the World Food Prize for pioneering a $2 nitrogen-fixing bacteria treatment that replaces costly fertilizers, saves farmers $25 billion annually, and cuts 230 million tons of CO₂ emissions.

I would probably do this. Somehow, I internalized the idea that you should hold doors for people to the point where I make it super fucking weird. I cannot stop.

fesshole 🧻@fesshole.bsky.social

Once in a nightclub, I was leaving the toilets and saw a woman walking towards me. I held the door open for her, only for her to give me a weird look and veer left, into the ladies. The entrance to the bathrooms was not shared. I was holding open the door to the gents

This is a much bigger deal than its coverage is getting. Amazon forces companies to raise their prices. I've noticed this even when trying to avoid buying from Amazon. They need to be broken up and heads need to roll.

Guardian US@us.theguardian.com

An electric ice-cream maker was listed at just $17.99 at Amazon and Best Buy. Then it became unavailable at Best Buy, and more than tripled in price to $59.99 at Amazon. Here’s how it happened… 🧵

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THREAD: The boy is called a liar. He’s told not to defend himself. Then the private school owner encourages all of his peers to attack him, one by one. She hits him, repeatedly, with a plastic pipe-like object. How does this school still exist — and receive state funds? 🧵

Concerts cost a lot of money. I don't know if $500 is too much for the band you like, but it's probably legit if you want to pay everyone fair. But it does suck and small bands don't get shit. It's a losing proposition until you're huge.

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We have 50 states and likely a lot of great candidates, but by all means, focus on the state that many of the best fiction authors have described as full of ancient eldritch evils. I am all for a free press, but so many of them seem to only respond to jingling keys.

And my favorite part is that the same smug wannabe pundits are the same folks who complained that various other dems were boring, lol. You fools are ungovernable.

I give zero shits about who wins Maine, but god damn if the smuggest assholes in the world aren't coming out claiming they knew all along. What the fuck did you know? When did you know it?

It's pretty clear that someone waited until after a primary to fuck over platner. If your first response is "lookit muh priors" you're missing what's going on.

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PASTOR LORAN LIVINGSTON (@CentralChurchNC): “There has never been a Christian nation, and never will be. You don’t live in one now. A Christian nation wouldn’t have killed and displaced 20 million Native Americans, or thought owning slaves was pleasing to God.”