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spiraldee.bsky.social
GenX snarkbeast. Artist (traditional+craft+AI). Cat mom. Horror junkie. Chaos Muse (aka 'next level weirdness magnet'). In a perpetual state of too much or too little coffee. Not as interesting as the conspiracy theories about me might make one think.
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What I've learned since Trump took office again is that doing business with the United States government isn't worth the hassle because they can simply cancel your contract and any money you've already spent on the project goes up in flames.

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"The chatbot’s instructions tell it to “de-emphasize the climate catastrophe narrative,” to focus on “real pollution, not CO2.” The bot is told to frame these arguments in the most reasonable possible way" "chatbots are useless" is wrong. They're very, very useful, for a certain kind of person:

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a new John Carpenter movie called Escape from America where Luigi Mangione is released to run for President of the United States

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this truly couldn't have happened to a funnier person

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I’m loving this… Wall Street Just Coined a New Slur for Trump: “TACO” —Trump Always Chickens Out. The financial world is starting to see him for what he is: Bluster, lies, and a side of cognitive decline.

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we’re in a place where these guys aren’t actually very popular but their fans are a loud enough minority that they’re still able to do an enormous amount of damage every shithead Andrew Tate fan feels like five

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Like we needed another ridiculous motivation for a cabal of nefarious weirdos trying to clone Jesus to make a shitty Dan Brown movie knockoff plot. :/

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This is how you fill for-profit prisons with a minimum population capable of literal legal slave labor for an indeterminate length of time without having to even say who they even are or why they are there. Not just some nebulous 'them', literally any of us. I'm rarely a serious person; I am now.

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Again, the unique thing about Biden is that people saw the problem and fixed it as soon as possible. This may be the only example of this happening in American history this century. And the Democratic Party did it. If Tapper broke "this story" last year, fair play. Now it's just MAGA fan service.

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The day Trump pardons Ghislaine Maxwell is going to be wild

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LEFTIST: Dude, you need to grow up and get a hobby. Start treating women like people and find a useful role in society. RIGHT WING INFLUENCER: You’re a pussy. You’re a beta cuck. You’re poor because of the soy in your blood. Suck my dick, simp. YOUNG MAN: the liberals have left me no choice

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"It exploded later than it did last time!" is one hell of a giant leap for mankind, huh.

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Bluesky leftists: Silicon Valley elites have embraced eugenics Reasonable pundits with zero patience for Bluesky hyperventilating: Oh come on now, nobody believes in eugenics these days. Curtis Yarvin: Eugenics is good actually.

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they're also a license to fulminate against a world that has lied to you and deceived you in a way that displaces whatever other grievances you might have about your life

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"Are you surprised?" no but what if I were. what if I began each day with childlike wonder only to have it stomped out of me as the sun rises and sets. what then. bet you'd feel pretty bad for asking, huh.

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See the Rationalist HP fanfic for more craziness.

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What

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Spiny #Sowthistle (Sonchus asper) shot yesterday in Whitman.

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If this was a 'you could buy it in a store' phone I would not be able to resist it. Don't ask me why; even I don't understand this one.

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This is exactly my dad's brand of nerdistry. Pretty sure there are still dead betamax electronics in his attic. Yes, multiple. He had one running into the mid 2010s, iirc.

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There are whole movies that don’t have the twists and turns of this paragraph.

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The rapidity with which the media conventions have shifted to "trump's mad at you, what did you do to deserve it" is disconcerting but as with pretending anti-vax raw milk drinking carnivores who sun their assholes have a point to make, power really does alter media behavior bsky.app/profile/lemi...

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

the vice president of the united states hangs on this intellectual titan's every word

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

Do give this a watch. It reminds me a lot of time on text-based games. Like... a lot. So much.

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You ever notice how these "purity tests" are like "do you believe everyone should have the same rights" and "do you believe the rich should be taxed to benefit the poor" and "do you think immigrants are people" like bro this isn't the LSAT

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To those who served, but were never honored. We honor you. We remember you. We thank you and we won’t forget you.

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The Utah Report doesn’t come to the conclusion the Utah legislature would have liked for it. This and three other stories of the week by @evanurquhart.bsky.social, @valorievandieman.bsky.social, and @funcrunch.bsky.social.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

This is like Black people boycotting the Klan. It's not like we were getting in there anyway.

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

The best example of the blurring of state & vigilante violence is the masked maybe-uniformed-maybe-not “ICE” officers. Are they ICE? Doesn’t seem to matter. It’s treated as lawful. Please recognize this threat for what it is.

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Tracking the Far Right Groups Targeting LGBTIQ Events During Pride Month

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The way I would phrase it is that the best way to recruit people is to try to be the kind of person other people want to be. And when the good guys present as neurotic messes and the bad guys sell themselves as unstoppable ubermensch, Not Good things become more likely.

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I swear, I have never seen my general take on life as a whole described more concisely and accurately than this.

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Turning politics and ideology into a type of fandom really has had dire ass consequences.

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Thinking more about it, I think I'm really onto something with the cargo cult analogy. These guys act like the performance of wealth and "hustle" will bring them actual wealth. Like we invented secular prosperity gospel with crypto and influencers as Creflo Dollar.

submitted 3 days ago • 31 comments

This is what fascist state capture looks like in practice—a pervasive blurring of the boundary between state & vigilante violence under the aegis of the law.

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Clasping Venus' Looking Glass (Triodanis perfoliata) shot in East Oregon yesterday, my first spotting of the species this season. #Bloomscrolling #Wildflowers #UrbanWildflowers #SidewalkFlowers

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