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Sometimes I find the adult content labeller on here to be so ridiculous. Friends, this is pretty covered up for Charlie XCX, which is probably why The Guardian used it for it's thumbnail. The label loses utilities when this Guardian card gets the same label as erotica. cc @moderation.bsky.app

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Budapest Pride thread, from the ground

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If I were a hero I think I would probably not be happy to know that my name had replaced another guy’s entirely because the secretary of defense hates gay people

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How can an org like Zeteo square its values with being built on substack? Never made much sense to me. Just build a website?

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If you were to ask me in 2019, I would’ve said around 5yrs to fully complete. But now it’s a much harder question bc OpenAI has gotten itself into a potentially existential predicament. At some level they are just trying to survive. To understand their situation you have to start at the beginning. 🧵

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Put more simply: why did Microsoft invest in a company that some executives believed would fail? Was this Satya going out on a limb? Or was it a strategic play for IP? All this and more in my next premium newsletter coming Friday.

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I may get why politicians may think they can’t call it the MAGA Murder Budget, I guess. But Big, Deadly is far more accurate than Ugly and people may even hear it. And you don’t have to worry about the editorial board of your district’s one paper.

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When British parliament threw out the regulations governing the machine-made cloth trade in 1809—during a time of great elite power and hostility to organizing—the Luddites rose up and orchestrated a guerrilla campaign of machine smashing that brought the nation to the brink. Just saying.

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a lovely defense of being multiply rooted, from Mamdani's father, noted scholar Mahmood Mamdani

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theonion.com/every-trait-...

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One really useful thing about just making some public transport free is it just completely moots the useless neolib conversation around the public transport 'paying for itself' a question never raised about say cars on roads

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From your skeets to Shoup's ears

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Free parking=Abundance Free buses=insanity

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In addition to being aggressively factually inaccurate, as a general matter it's wildly hyperbolic to say anyone getting elected is 'Jews worst fears'. Have you met us? We can imagine much worse than an election to be afraid of

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The Times could have tried talking to ANY of the actual Jews or Jewish orgs involved in Jews for Zohran! There were many many many — and highly visible. And it’s dangerous malpractice for the NYT to not include us for the sake of an inflammatory binary.

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Some have asked me what I did when I found out @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social won the primary. I’m so grateful to be able to share that experience and memorize that profound moment in my life @alannavagianos.bsky.social @huffpost.com

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"The problem with the polling and all the emphasis on data in contemporary politics is that it does not take into account that the electorate doesn’t really exist until election day, and the politician and his or her campaign are actively creating that electorate."

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Do No Harm uses its misleadingly medical sounding name to legitimize its anti-trans activism. Click through to learn more and help our channel grow!

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I'm often asked what Democratic politicians can do to learn from pro wrestling and combat Republican neokayfabe The simplest answer to that question is just, "Practice doing Dusty Rhodes's 1985 'Hard Times' promo in front of the mirror every morning until you really MEAN it" 🗣️ #wrestlesky #polisky

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Mamdani wins the primary with hearty support from the Jewish left, cross-endorses with Brad Lander, wins the Upper West Side, wins Dan Goldman's district, gets Jerry Nadler's endorsement The NYT:

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for its 25th anniversary this summer, wrote about But I'm a Cheerleader, and the campy soul of Christofascism. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/but-im-a-c...

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what could possibly go wrong

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Difficult to overstate how much blood RFK and Trump will have on their hands in the coming years. Difficult to overstate how many innocent kids will die as a result of the people who cast votes for Trump last November.

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"This being on TV I consider a victory for the shitposter community"

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The real magic, exceptionalism if you will, of America is that a family can go from immigrants to jingoistic nationalist in like 3 generations. Try pulling that off in the Old World. Melting Pot!

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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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They won't really though. You think the fancy people kevetching about the Mamdani win are going to move Ohio or something? Pfft

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IANAL but isn't this principally down to the different opperating processes of the courts? district/appellate courts don't really get any choice in the cases that they take and broadly speaking are looking for operational reasons to rule narrowly, otoh the supremes pick their cases, and rule broadly

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Socialism, tonight, defeated barbarism. After the two-decade midnight of 9/11, dawn is breaking.

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Tesla's Supervised Robotaxi launch was a pathetic flop. Tesla's Supervised Robotaxi launched yesterday to much acclaim from the Tesla Cult. Since nobody who was at the event has properly summarized the first day, we thought we would do it. Below are our findings. 🧵

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folks are building lists of all the Tesla robotaxi failures, and it's important to remember that we're talking about a fleet of <20 vehicles, over three days, in one the smallest and easiest geofences possible, based on coverage from 100% fanboy influencers www.reddit.com/r/SelfDrivin...

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Feels like ranked choice was absolutely decisive in this race—not because of the vote count, but because of how it changed the incentives from zero-sum to cooperapetitive. It allowed a fractured left field to align organically through co-endorsements instead of falling into a circular firing squad.

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A fun thing about American politics is that more people voted in New York City in a June primary than live in five states that get two senators.

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