Okay but what if I wrote a fanfic set in the Looney Tunes universe in the style of Mexican Magical Realism

“Earlier this year a local blog called Clay News & Views listed bigoted statements Rawson made on X throughout 2023 and 2024 in which the candidate condoned slavery and called for gay people to be executed.”

Exclusive: He Marched With Nazis in Charlottesville. Now He’s Expected to Join the Florida Legislature.

The Republican nominee for a seat in the Florida House of Representatives...

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What a surprise to learn that a Russian oligarch close to Putin paid for Junior’s lavish wedding. Who could’ve expected it?

If folks on here want to pretend that the only thing Talarico said was about sports, that's fine—it's also not true. He would ban gender affirming care for 17 year olds. And I'm sure many of you haven't tried to figure out how to keep a trans kid from killing themselves, so you don't get it

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d ago

Talarico says he would vote in favor of a national ban for transgender surgeries for minors

With AGI overwhelming the news again, I repeat: There is no path to intelligence via LLM. But an LLM botnet choking the internet, or someone using a local model to attack aging infrastructure, are both real risks and too late to prevent. Pay no attention to the bogeymen, the harm is here today.

Luke Ontario@coolhand.bsky.social · 4mo ago

In 2012 I took a comp ling course that went deep into language models as AI. The professor dropped a quote that I think about probably once a week now: “building a computer model of language and expecting intelligence is like building a computer model of the ocean and expecting to get wet”

So, the United Kingdom of England, Man and Gibraltar, then? This is what happens when 60% of Brits want to return to the EU and the anti-Brexit party says no.

Politics UK@politicsuk.com · 2d ago

🚨 NEW: The leaders of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will meet tomorrow to sign a joint declaration for all three countries to gain independence from the UK

I know that the United States elected Trump twice, one time even sort of on purpose, but I'll still pick Brexit as the most eyes-wide-open act of willful national self-destruction in my lifetime.

Politics UK@politicsuk.com · 2d ago

🚨 NEW: The leaders of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will meet tomorrow to sign a joint declaration for all three countries to gain independence from the UK

"Trump would rather destroy something than let it exist without being a tribute to himself" really sums up everything about his approach to the country

Jim Lokay@jimlokay.com · 2d ago

WaPo reports Kennedy Center may close by Tuesday and faces bankruptcy if Trump's name is not added to the center. "Trump is unlikely to provide “fundamental oversight” of that project or lead a financial rescue without “appropriate recognition” of his role." GIFT LINK: wapo.st/4cLnDHP

Hide sight is always 20/20.

Quote this with your first anime

Battle Of The Planets G-force Anime Title Sequence Intro Phoenix Jason Battle Of The Planets Intro

Alt: Battle Of The Planets G-force Anime Title Sequence Intro Phoenix Jason Battle Of The Planets Intro (adapted from Science Team Gatchaman)

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🖍️Padunk💕@padunk.bsky.social · 2d ago

Quote this with your first anime

"And then two fireman picked me up and whisked me away from Ground Zero." "Oh my, Commander, what did you do then?"

Isn’t it interesting though that Mike Johnson shrugs all this off as just provocative things said just to create a “persona online” from one of his ACTUAL NOMINEES FOR CONGRESS, but Hasan Piker, who isn’t running for anything, supposedly represents the entire Democratic Party.

Trump and his allies “test out their strategies here because they think people elsewhere aren’t watching,” says Katie Kersh, a Dayton-based immigration lawyer. “They will bring them to your state eventually."

Zeteo@zeteo.com · 2w ago

Trump and MAGA have waged a campaign of racist lies and fear on Springfield, Ohio’s Haitian community — from ICE raids to the president’s destruction of Temporary Protected Status (TPS). @swin24.bsky.social reports on the crackdown that is unlike anything else. Read now: zeteo.com/p/trump-spri...

Name a non-LotR character who could resist the One Ring. "For some things the price is too high." (BTW, I think he's the ONLY Trek captain who could resist, and even then only if he knew exactly what it was in advance.)

Displeased Jean-Luc Picard

ALT: Displeased Jean-Luc Picard

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 3d ago

Name a non-LotR character who could resist the One Ring. Xena yes, Hercules no. Hercules would have turned super-Nazgûl in nothing flat, maybe faster.

Name a non-LotR character who could resist the One Ring A life of being the universe's chewtoy has made Rincewind very suspicious of anything positive in his life. Any promises the Ring might make would only make him wonder when the bill will come due... and how expensive the interest would be.

VƎX Werewolf@vexwerewolf.bsky.social · 3d ago

Name a non-LotR character who could resist the One Ring "D-do not mistake-MISTAKE me, in-in-insect. It is not that I do not d-d-deserve the p-p-power of the One Ri-Ri-Ring. It is s-s-simply th-that my d-d-divine f-form has no place upon which a ring could s-s-sit."

Name a non-LotR character who could resist the One Ring. Xena yes, Hercules no. Hercules would have turned super-Nazgûl in nothing flat, maybe faster.

In the same way that the invention of photography incentived the development of abstract art, the silver lining to this immense dark cloud is that a type of "dirty" art will be incentivized. One that revels in ugliness and the vulnerability of human error. The end of auto-tune.

Money that comes into the United States government is government revenue. It is part of the public fisc. There's not "taxpayer money" and then "extra bonus money outside the rules." It's all taxpayer money. And spending *any* of it requires Congressional authorization. 2/

🤔 @espn giving Cruz air to push policy opposed by the @NAACP but Kimmel can’t interview Talarico?

Bear in mind a lot of them are booing because Rafael Cruz showing up at a Texas sporting event means the Texas team will lose. Sorry, fellow T-sips, but Bevo's losing his horns today.

Awful Announcing@awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 3d ago

ESPN had Ted Cruz on 'College GameDay' in a conversation with Rece Davis for nearly 10 minutes. Cruz was heavily booed by the crowd -- and heard "Ted, you suck!" chants -- in Austin.

Note: if Hasbro keeps on tanking and Disney keeps on buying up IP, this might not be wrong in less than a decade.

Twilight Sparkle on Her Throne

Alt: Twilight Sparkle sitting on a throne, wearing a crown

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Sophia_Nyx 🐰@sophianyx.bsky.social · 3d ago

Name a Disney Princess, wrong answers only.

Damn they're sensitive about Epstein. 👀

Here's what I think about when I think back on 9/11. The attack happened on the watch of a Republican president who had been warned, repeatedly & explicitly, that an attack was coming. He dismissed those warnings.

What I took from that era is that there is nothing the Republican Party can do that's awful enough, disastrous enough, to bring it any real accountability, because the whole system is wired to defend & excuse it. The Trump Era has only made that more nakedly obvious.

Again— the problem the anti-DSA “SoCiALiSm” fearmongerers will always have is @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social & @aoc.bsky.social exist👇🏽 They’re not afraid of them failing, they’re afraid of them succeeding — and 🇺🇸 realizing what government could be if it worked for the people not the oligarchy

Not true! But what DID happen is that nearly all Dem politicians threw in with Bush/Cheney and the R’s in Congress to support the Patriot Act and invasion of Afghanistan, as well as censoring of non-maximally-patriotic speech - and that’s what today’s R’s are truly nostalgic about.

Senator Elissa Slotkin@slotkin.senate.gov · 4d ago

But that feeling of a shared bond among all Americans in the early weeks after the attack is something I’m so glad I got to experience. Because it’s the thing that I think we’re missing the most today.

To be clear- this is Trump demanding a personal loyalty oath. You know, the thing dictators do. The thing HITLER did. This should be the leading story here- not that he's asking people to rig the election for him, but that people should put him above the country and above the Constitution.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d ago

Trump: "Please right your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States. That loves us so much he can't even breath. That I will go out with my family, my friends, I'll do it any way - I don't care if I'm registered or not, I'm going to try to cheat like hell..."

Literally seconds after reports of the first plane crash came in a co-worker loudly stood by her seat and shouted anti-middle-eastern slurs. Later that day an Indian friend was asked why “his people” attacked the USA.

Senator Elissa Slotkin@slotkin.senate.gov · 4d ago

But that feeling of a shared bond among all Americans in the early weeks after the attack is something I’m so glad I got to experience. Because it’s the thing that I think we’re missing the most today.

The plagiarism machine I created will likely kill us all, there’s a 40% chance, no, higher, like 75%,or more! But NO I will not “unplug it,” that’s an insane suggestion. The scientific solution is to *give me more money.*

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