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created August 11, 2023

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This film was my personal kickoff moment for the 90s swing revival.

31/8/2025, 9:28:43 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Of course Irving Berlin already wrote the perfect song for today’s disappointment back in 1941 youtu.be/WJYCh8Sqzsw?...

30/8/2025, 3:38:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Of course the right still needs someone to listen to them while they rant at thanksgiving. That’s why they’re all complaining about the Bluesky “bubble” right?

30/8/2025, 11:47:09 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Roger Daltry in Highlander the series. An excellent regular guest star and so funny!

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30/8/2025, 10:48:07 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You’re weak.

30/8/2025, 10:27:06 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He’s one of those ones I’m always excited to see when he shows up in a film or tv show

29/8/2025, 6:41:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s the little things you do together Setting our alarms together Checking lists we made together Going old and grey together… That make marriage a joy! Uh huhhhh

29/8/2025, 6:35:38 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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In tabletop games there are totally collectors like this who don’t even play what most of what they buy and store

27/8/2025, 11:17:17 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zachary Schrag (@zacharyschrag.bsky.social) reposted

God help us.

From Jasper Smith, Screenshot of Virginia Commonwealth University Department of History webpage. Photographs of Frida Kahlo, Mildred and Richard Loving, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Maggie Lena Walker, along with artistic representations of Sun Tzu, Robert E. Lee, Queen Elizabeth I, and Tukankhamen, including the antiracist graffiti on Lee's pedestal. Above it all, a warning,
25/7/2025, 7:36:51 PM | 6 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oh. My. God.

25/8/2025, 10:55:46 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grimm ☀️ (@mugrimm.bsky.social) reposted

I think if we could sneak in a guy dressed from head to toe, stage ready, as Magical Mister Mistoffelees into the Lincoln Bedroom he could trick Trump into doing anything.

23/8/2025, 12:06:14 AM | 70 11 | View on Bluesky | view

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I can’t imagine being an ordinary family then becoming the center of this mess.

23/8/2025, 12:10:21 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I had watched hours of Intervention where they emphasized not being judgmental over drug use and supporting the person above all. Then I flipped onto the biggest loser and the coach was standing over a panting man lying on the gym floor and the coach had his foot on the man’s chest yelling at him.

21/8/2025, 8:25:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I didn’t like Clippy I don’t want this either

20/8/2025, 12:14:37 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m in them now!

19/8/2025, 9:43:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My parents got a Havanese and my dad trained it to take to do hospice visits. He is now their favorite child 😂

18/8/2025, 11:06:52 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I really appreciated that my book I bought for welcoming the premature baby said bluntly at the beginning that there is no “natural” alternative treatment for everything the hospital is doing for your baby. The natural alternative is that they die.

18/8/2025, 10:59:42 AM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Love the read!

17/8/2025, 1:39:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Groundbreaking

16/8/2025, 12:10:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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No secrets between sailors!

15/8/2025, 8:51:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You don’t have to hand anything to Glenn Youngkin especially on economics

15/8/2025, 8:21:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Glenn Youngkin sucks

15/8/2025, 7:08:41 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Dork ass losers

15/8/2025, 5:27:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We just intentionally bought our new Nintendo from Best Buy to avoid Walmart and Target

15/8/2025, 12:45:31 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin Biba (@erinbiba.bsky.social) reposted

Just saw someone call Mamdani a “Dem op” because Obama called and congratulated him after he won the primary and they chatted for a bit and for the love of god y’all have got to stop being such fucking weirdos.

14/8/2025, 9:56:15 PM | 1166 119 | View on Bluesky | view

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Dreamy right?

14/8/2025, 10:48:08 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Just another thing to sell for parts

13/8/2025, 10:16:28 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Thank you I’ve been wondering about that fabric!

12/8/2025, 11:53:39 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Would attend this con!

12/8/2025, 9:38:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I love all of Peggy’s smart looking hats

12/8/2025, 2:58:54 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The only crime is the outrageous prices at beverage carts on the mall

11/8/2025, 9:14:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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10/8/2025, 5:06:18 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Fubar 🇨🇦 (@captainfubar.bsky.social) reposted

A particularly gut wrenching excerpt from this article:

30/7/2025, 7:24:40 AM | 3703 1318 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) reposted

No, you did not give those of us who happened to look like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor any due process. And that was profoundly wrong. It destroyed our lives.

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8/8/2025, 6:46:32 PM | 14133 4016 | View on Bluesky | view

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I learned this a few years ago but everyone in my family pronounces it like Herbert. I’m fine being wrong

8/8/2025, 1:26:22 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ (@skwinnicki.bsky.social) reposted

"this product is good because it's like having a pocket full of PhDs" just suggests to me you've never actually been in a room with a bunch of experts on a topic. You think you're going to come away with a quick, simple, easy-to-digest summary of their expertise? Think again.

7/8/2025, 8:30:50 PM | 1277 204 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not even the original “Gods not Dead” movie, he’s in the lesser sequel lol

7/8/2025, 6:46:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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5/8/2025, 5:53:37 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Bring tissues for the show! I cried!

4/8/2025, 11:29:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We paired Korean BBQ at Don Don (v close!) with our maybe happy ending matinee and the staff there was tops!

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4/8/2025, 11:16:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Damon (@vf25fsherylkai.bsky.social) reposted

How about a bill for an onlime registry of jobs that don't respond to applications instead I'm sure that will be way more useful

4/8/2025, 12:45:01 AM | 50 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social) reply parent

Why should employers waste their time snitching on interview no shows to the government? That sounds onerous for the employer as well as dumb policy.

3/8/2025, 10:27:27 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We just saw the god Bacchus, just has to be…

3/8/2025, 5:19:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I didn’t need to be outside. I was a shy nerd who never even went to high school parties…but I had a summer job where I was working with college guys and older at 16. That’s enough. 😂

3/8/2025, 12:04:50 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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One of Karla Holmolka and Paul Bernardos victims had been locked out for coming home late. She never went home again

3/8/2025, 12:01:01 AM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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I love Kurm because he’s also always really depressed

2/8/2025, 5:11:19 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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No actually a LOT of ladies are into the Beast on that show. They made a poetry album

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2/8/2025, 4:04:33 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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When I first heard of the Muscular Christianity movement I think I guffawed for an hour doing the reading for a class. Then I saw the bro culture get real big a few years later with the evangelicals…

2/8/2025, 3:49:02 PM | 38 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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Christina Crawford thanks her WONderful fans in the mirror
2/8/2025, 3:36:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matt Gabriele (@profgabriele.com) reposted

fwiw we don’t hear enough about the parents of the young men who are radicalized

2/8/2025, 8:58:19 AM | 579 80 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not the kind of innovative immersive productions the Sphere was originally promising either. This is just IMAX that sucks

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Noooo what will take care of my stress hives?

2/8/2025, 3:07:37 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I was in NYC recently and took a photo when I found myself in front of the New York Horological Society like a big dork.

2/8/2025, 3:06:37 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wild now if you ever worked in customer service in the past. I didn’t know you could know so little about where you work and what you sell.

1/8/2025, 9:54:13 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Much more money for much less luxury

1/8/2025, 4:50:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I asked an ulta employee to help me choose a foundation and she didn’t know anything about the different brand attributes or matching to my skin. Back in the day that didn’t happen except at the drug store for makeup there would be some skilled customer service employees with product knowledge!

1/8/2025, 3:54:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Clothing is not the quality it once was at every level but luxury level now. I’m buying used and vintage older stuff because it is durable and better quality all over. Even brands I considered affordable/ less quality in the 90s like Newport News or Chadwicks are nicer than today’s mall store make

1/8/2025, 3:49:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Michael Jackson with glowing eyes from thriller
1/8/2025, 12:43:27 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A lot of us are insufferable assholes

1/8/2025, 2:20:54 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Watch but don’t share with us anymore

1/8/2025, 2:19:45 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There was so much early support from AsAm theater fans. This is a misstep especially for a first replacement for the show

31/7/2025, 6:59:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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👀 It’s perfect. Too bad I have no one to buy her for. My kid is kinda over dolls

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It’s very satisfying!

31/7/2025, 3:13:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My daughter and I are going to practice lighting candles with matches this weekend. She loves our “grown up skills” mini classes. She’s used a kitchen knife and the stove for a long time.

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30/7/2025, 10:53:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Love the name!

30/7/2025, 4:55:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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At the private school we did for two years they sent out so many emails about parent conflict in the parking line and people were so awful and aggressive

30/7/2025, 11:22:14 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) reposted

Tae Heung Kim, 40: - Lived in US since he was 5 - Has green card - Getting PhD at Texas A&M - Researching vaccine for Lyme disease - Has 1 minor pot charge from 2011, since sealed Also: Detained incommunicado by DHS after returning from wedding in Korea www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

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Profile picture The New York Times (@nytimes.com) reposted

The Gullah Geechee, descendants from enslaved West Africans who were forced to work in the Carolina Lowcountry, are struggling to preserve sacred traditions as wealthy northerners swallow up valuable property around Hilton Head Island. nyti.ms/4mmAwdW

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Profile picture KEW blocks early and often (@kidadaewilliams.com) reposted

For decades, the Amistad Research Center in NOLA has served as 1 of America’s largest repositories of artifacts on Black history, featuring a collection of 15 million rare documents dating back to the 1780s, as well as a fine art collection. Its future is uncertain. www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...

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I made a large decorative hairpin out of sterling silver for my sisters wedding and people kept telling me to make them and sell them for 50$ The silver costs more than that

29/7/2025, 1:42:29 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fascinating! My most boomer hippie mom opinion is we should all know more about our sexual organ function but I never thought of this comparison. We are all just a series of tubes bound by mostly water aren’t we 😂

29/7/2025, 1:40:29 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m busy trying to ignore both!

29/7/2025, 12:50:06 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wow, can’t like this b/c those are suck ass chips but I support problematic women so you enjoy those!

28/7/2025, 6:30:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I thought of then dancing too lol

28/7/2025, 6:00:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My god! I lived to see this day!

28/7/2025, 5:55:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My husband and I are so locked in every week. He used to laugh at me watching it in S1. The Carrie Coon of it all got him though. Next to get him into Lestat/Louis’s shenanigans…

28/7/2025, 5:49:02 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Like how you temper chocolate!

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The absolute gall

27/7/2025, 6:02:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The guy who rode Lewinsky jokes for decades????

27/7/2025, 4:58:58 PM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jack Tripper (@chadstanton.blacksky.app) reposted

Big issue here is they believe Paramount is “feeding” Colbert and not making profit from his labor.

26/7/2025, 8:47:18 AM | 408 96 | View on Bluesky | view

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I read Stephen king at 10 and Flowers in the Attic at 11 lol

27/7/2025, 1:41:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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She looks like Sam’s mother fr

27/7/2025, 1:21:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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How do I wait until 2026?!?!

27/7/2025, 1:56:07 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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“All up in the videos…dancing” was a true assessment of him in the end

27/7/2025, 1:52:58 AM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Anyone who writes these needs to share their own heat and AC settings for the year

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The Kurgan would be a soulless corporate guy these days I guess

25/7/2025, 12:24:14 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted

This moment from today’s Medicaid vigil is so powerful… Question: What do you say to the people who voted to cut Medicaid? Be honest. Samantha Phillis: They voted against my child’s life. #MedicaidCutsKill

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Execution on his videos is always 🤌

24/7/2025, 11:52:32 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Joe Sudbay (@joesudbay.bsky.social) reposted

Venezuelan makeup artist Andry Hernández Romero returns home, describes torture during El Salvador detention "It fills me with so much peace, so much comfort, so much tranquility that I was never alone, from day one. There were many people who worried for me" he said www.reuters.com/business/med...

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Now it’s gotta be Sevvyn

23/7/2025, 11:09:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That’s how I got my first credit card. It went…poorly

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“Name me anyone who cares as much as Eva Peron!!!”

22/7/2025, 8:41:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My husband works in board gaming. A friend was so insistent that chatgpt helped him learn rules faster, despite it telling him several mistakes during a game. Every time there was a question, those who just read the manual found the answer faster than the guy who claimed ChatGPT saved him time.

22/7/2025, 1:32:59 AM | 21 4 | View on Bluesky | view

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It was great for most of the white people at that time with all the rickets and pellagra. I bet they loved grinding poverty and not owning anything while the planters LARPed at being royalty

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So tragic!

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Aw geez

21/7/2025, 5:46:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Purity Tester (萬Q 紫米) (@anem0ne.net) reposted

there is something intangibly gross in how asian features are so frequently used for artificial, machine personas it's almost as if in popular imagination asian features are associated with a sort of controllable autonomous programming, but no soul.

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There must be a million summaries already in existence but she loved the fact that it was AI written therefore better 🤷‍♀️

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When I saw Gypsy on Broadway this spring the very nice lady next to me proudly showed me the summary of the play she’d had ChatGPT do for her. She thought it was so novel. She was very nice so I didn’t say, why do you need a summary we are watching it right now????

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