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functional moron

@fiveburger.bsky.social

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created June 22, 2023

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Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social) reply parent

also misread your initial post about it not being that bad lol my b

5/9/2025, 7:15:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social) reply parent

oh for sure, it helped a lot with covid i just don’t know if i’ve had such a visceral side effect from medicine before. sorry you’re getting hit so hard.

5/9/2025, 7:14:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Visit Lake Street (@visitlakestreet.bsky.social) reposted

One day until the Taco Tour on Lake Street, Saturday, September 6th! 🌮 Be there to enjoy tacos, music, family games, contests, and free swag! 🙌✨ 📅 Saturday, September 6 🕛 12–8 PM 📍 El Nuevo Campo | 2709 E Lake Street, Minneapolis #TacoTourOnLakeStreet #VisitLakeStreet #HotSauceTasting #TacoTour

5/9/2025, 3:14:17 PM | 5 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social) reply parent

wait do they have metro transit merch??

5/9/2025, 3:46:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social)

the real reason they are trying to make this years covid vaccine harder to get is that they finally made it so it gets you high

5/9/2025, 3:40:12 PM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social)

just a heads up, when you are checking in for the covid vaccine and they ask if you have any major health conditions- they are asking about the list of symptoms that lead you to qualify. i asked if that’s what it meant to the woman checking me in and she said no and then it became a real hassle!

5/9/2025, 3:33:38 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social)

this guy is just so unbelievably good at this

5/9/2025, 2:50:35 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social) reply parent

awe no he did that because i was a mavs fan and he wanted me to be happy

5/9/2025, 2:29:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social) reply parent

can i also throw cognitive dissonance on the pile

5/9/2025, 2:27:05 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social)

yeah idk yall i think mark cuban is a dumb guy who genuinely just thinks having money means you are smart

5/9/2025, 2:26:47 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social) reply parent

cuban starts the debate by saying the company reached out to him and he didn’t invest because it seems dumb as hell, but doesn’t seem to square that with ballmer being the biggest investor in that company!

5/9/2025, 2:21:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social) reply parent

after i taught about confirmation bias last year in class i had a student come up and ask me if that’s why people are dismissive of jordan peterson and my answer was basically “not really, but it’s definitely the reason you like him”

5/9/2025, 2:17:49 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Coach Finstock (@coachfinstock.bsky.social) reposted

We used to call this stupidity. There were smart people and stupid people and we let the smart people do the things they were good at and the stupid people were taken care of and didn't need to worry about what the smart people were doing. But now we let the stupid people think they're smart.

5/9/2025, 3:27:19 AM | 4101 948 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social)

mark cubans central argument so far seems to be “ballmer wouldn’t be this dumb” and i don’t find it particularly compelling?

5/9/2025, 1:57:21 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social) reply parent

i think it might raise the salience of the cuomo-trump partnership to less informed loyal dem voters!

5/9/2025, 1:51:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social) reply parent

i’m gonna kick your ass

5/9/2025, 1:45:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social)

i think pablo torre has a nice voice

5/9/2025, 1:38:15 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social)

oh baby, pablo torre vs. mark cuban debate released this morning

5/9/2025, 1:31:49 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social)

i continue to feel pretty apprehensive about this whole “the economy” thing. experts seem a little more calm but as a non-expert it really feels like a house of cards to me lol

5/9/2025, 12:59:54 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social)

god and i’m pretty sure none of this economic data includes the 150k government employees who took the buyout that should be ending this month?

5/9/2025, 12:53:18 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social)

if this was happening under kamala harris major newspapers would be running headlines calling for her execution

5/9/2025, 12:40:55 PM | 48 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social) reply parent

noooo

5/9/2025, 12:14:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social) reply parent

lol i always forget about that extra game somehow

5/9/2025, 4:21:51 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

They did, it was pretty hard. Tho this guy won.

Craig T Nelson celebrity look alike
5/9/2025, 3:59:45 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social) reply parent

did they do the celebrity look alike game

5/9/2025, 3:58:48 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social) reply parent

i gotta know what the jumbo tron people are doing

5/9/2025, 3:58:32 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social)

think i’m gonna try and log off and watch the lynx game on replay tomorrow morning. please do not come stand outside of my house shouting the score at me after the game tonight

5/9/2025, 2:15:30 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social) reply parent

my only computer is a work computer :(

5/9/2025, 2:14:08 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social) reply parent

was looking forward to watching but whatever! fuck me i guess lol

5/9/2025, 2:11:21 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social)

it’s so cool that i pay for fanduel sports and also have a cable login and also pay for wnba league pass and cannot watch the lynx tonight because i don’t want to give jeff bezos money too

5/9/2025, 2:10:57 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social)

go lynx imo love da lynx imo

5/9/2025, 1:53:29 AM | 13 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social) reply parent

easily the best part of being a fan of the dallas cowboys is that everyone else is a fan of them too

5/9/2025, 1:46:50 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social)

it’s my favorite time of the year. time for families all across this great nation to gather together by their televisions and root for the dallas cowboys, their favorite team

5/9/2025, 1:46:31 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social)

i want to tell him 'bout the man in the stairs

5/9/2025, 1:07:29 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social) reply parent

i'm a hater but the joy of hating is for the person to play and play badly not this.

5/9/2025, 12:51:14 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social)

dang this sucks

5/9/2025, 12:50:57 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social)

it is time to start spreading misinformation on the internet that this change means trump is going to institute a draft

4/9/2025, 11:14:11 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social) reply parent

lol i have another friend who likes it quite a bit! i also think "i like this thing other people hate" is a more interesting brand of hot take than the reverse

4/9/2025, 10:48:20 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kalvin the Reindeer (@kalvinmacleod.bsky.social) reposted

[playing poker] FRIEND: I’m all in ME: [yearning for this type of commitment since we first met] me too, man, I’m all in too FRIEND: um, a pair of kings ME: you bet we are

17/12/2024, 11:08:06 PM | 10489 2308 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social) reply parent

whats the album?

4/9/2025, 10:38:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social) reposted

Enough with the backroom scheming. If Trump is serious about intervening in the mayoral race, he should come to New York City and debate me directly.

4/9/2025, 8:57:42 PM | 5961 1023 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social) reply parent

nooooooo

4/9/2025, 10:29:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social)

a certain brand of conservatism is just based around deciding that anything people like is woke and evil simply because people like it?

4/9/2025, 10:29:35 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social)

yeah? well i'm gonna make the first AAAAAA game, what now?

4/9/2025, 10:25:02 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social) reply parent

i'm not actually certain that it wouldn't be better for trump to just release all of the info with him all over the list. he'd have the media doing stories about "innocent until proven guilty" and unreliable evidence within three days and everyone moved on within ten.

4/9/2025, 9:57:13 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social)

the epstein stuff seems to be the only story that mainstream media are able to actually keep a focused drumbeat on and it's because it's the only thing that trump is trying to hide

4/9/2025, 9:56:28 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social)

it’s gonna be so fun destroying this thing with a baseball bat when the robot wars come

4/9/2025, 9:36:27 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social) reply parent

lol i didn't realize he wasn't sworn in what

4/9/2025, 9:01:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social)

it's actually not stuck in my mind that way because i'm a normal person and not a giant piss baby

4/9/2025, 8:57:02 PM | 31 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social)

one thing about the rfk jr hearing today: i think that if you lie in front of congress you should be charged with perjury

4/9/2025, 8:48:15 PM | 83 6 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social) reply parent

actually creating an abundance of homes, resources etc. would require way more immigration. which we should do! immigration rocks!

4/9/2025, 8:42:38 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social)

pretty hard to take these guys seriously when they don't even take their own ideas seriously

4/9/2025, 8:41:30 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social) reply parent

gosh idk but that does sound like him

4/9/2025, 8:36:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social) reply parent

chug beef tallow, don't take vaccines, drink as much as you want, don't worry about it we'll tell you it's all fine.

4/9/2025, 6:46:31 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social) reply parent

improve it in communicating the idea? or just using better grammar? genuinely curious.

4/9/2025, 6:45:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social)

the people who talk about how RFK is "addressing legitimate concerns about health" or whatever are so utterly full of shit. they just want to be told that they can do whatever they want and live forever.

4/9/2025, 6:44:55 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social) reply parent

yeah i get that distinction and again it's not my field so i'm probably missing something but if you want other people to understand what you did, but cannot write out what you did yourself, i guess i don't see what you're telling the llm that's going to make it more clear?

4/9/2025, 6:40:45 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social) reply parent

if you can't write the ideas yourself, how can you be sure that the LLM is communicating the right thing? maybe because it's out of my field but i'm trying to figure out how you could give an LLM the necessary details of the message but not just write the message itself?

4/9/2025, 6:34:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social)

does anyone know if i can still get these if I wasn't here last weekend?

4/9/2025, 6:23:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lincoln Michel (@thelincoln.bsky.social) reposted

Destroying the planet in search of a computer program powerful enough to count the 'b's in blueberry

4/9/2025, 6:07:50 PM | 96 31 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture opera trinitatis ad extra indivisa sunt (@mtrkdjoyce.bsky.social) reposted

under no circumstances can the legitimacy of a desire to see appropriate reforms made to our gun laws become an excuse to equivocate regarding any attempt to categorically deny trans people rights - *any* rights - that others retain

4/9/2025, 6:04:10 PM | 97 33 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social) reply parent

i wish it was snowing

4/9/2025, 5:39:46 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social)

day 2 of the semester- i am already up to 24 open tabs

4/9/2025, 5:21:00 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social) reply parent

i don’t want to be forced to be on my phone at dinner!

4/9/2025, 5:13:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social) reply parent

i think it’s done a disservice to how people talk about this stuff that all versions of pattern recognition tech are called “ai” and grouped with llms. pattern recognition is something people are bad at and tech can help! but i am skeptical specifically of reproducing patterns in language

4/9/2025, 5:07:08 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social) reply parent

best example i can think of is that calculators (much lower rate of error than llms, etc etc) are really helpful for math! but we also don’t start out by using them, we teach people what the numbers mean so that, hopefully they can understand what they are using it for.

4/9/2025, 4:52:51 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social) reply parent

i do think there are interesting ai use cases that can be helpful, particularly in some medical areas but i have yet to see one that doesn’t require the person using it to have enough knowledge to interpret the results and know when they are wrong

4/9/2025, 4:51:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social) reply parent

for sure! i appreciate your input because i do think my initial post was skewed towards saying that everyone should/can develop those specific skills when i was meaning to be more specific. character limits can certainly make the nuance in these discussions hard sometimes.

4/9/2025, 4:39:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social) reply parent

i do qualify as at risk for a couple of reasons and i will not publicly advocate for anyone to lie, but i will let people know that all you have to do is check a little button that says "yes i qualify" and it's fine

4/9/2025, 4:38:12 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social)

well, the absolute uncertainty about whats going to happen with vaccines inspired me to get my covid/flu vaccines booked way earlier in the year than i normally do...so, yay?

4/9/2025, 4:36:51 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social) reply parent

i get that and not everyone needs to have every skill. the person in the original post said they don't need to use writing much so they don't and that seems fine to me. there's lots of stuff i am bad at. i'm mostly talking about trying to do something that requires that skill.

4/9/2025, 4:32:40 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture lauren (@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com) reposted

there are countless alternate universes where the paxlovid didn't take, where the eclipse fried something permanent, where the bullet was a little to the right, etc and every friday night they get on a zoom call to dunk on us

4/9/2025, 3:17:52 PM | 1461 150 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social) reply parent

i think my main problem is that if you struggle with writing ai ensures you will never get better and also, being able to write the material feels like a necessary component of being able to evaluate and edit the output!

4/9/2025, 3:17:55 PM | 40 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

A lot of video-game publishers spend hundreds of millions of dollars chasing after "realistic graphics" and "massive open-worlds" when what players really want is just a shitload of weird little guys

4/9/2025, 3:08:55 PM | 3522 1030 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social) reply parent

people have been waiting for it for years and it became sort of a meme that it would never come out so that doesn’t surprise me lol

4/9/2025, 2:43:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social)

trump take groceries!!!

4/9/2025, 2:13:28 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social) reply parent

it’s getting bad out there!!

4/9/2025, 2:13:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social) reply parent

i don’t know i don’t really think it’s guerilla advertising i think they are just good games people like talking about

4/9/2025, 2:12:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social)

i think they should delay the release of silk song since i’m still a couple days away from finishing hollow knight

4/9/2025, 2:05:25 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Dayen (@ddayen.bsky.social) reposted

Angela Gonzales-Torres, a primary challenger to Democratic Rep. Jimmy Gomez in downtown Los Angeles & the newest Justice Democrats endorsee, saw her father deported 15 years ago, lived in shelters & the family car, & gets how the political moment calls for a strong defense of immigrants.

4/9/2025, 1:12:15 PM | 151 36 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) reposted

US stocks vs. rest of the world: worst underperformance since 2009. @mikezaccardi.bsky.social @dailychartbook.bsky.social

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4/9/2025, 9:54:13 AM | 2515 1026 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social)

ok but i hate qr codes as menus so much lol i don’t want to have to stare at my phone to order at a restaraunt!

4/9/2025, 12:23:28 PM | 17 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social)

saw an 18 year old smoking a cigarette today. was like seeing a dodo bird in the wild.

4/9/2025, 2:14:56 AM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social) reply parent

the more i learned about the contract the funnier it got

4/9/2025, 12:41:56 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social) reply parent

oh you know i’ve already watched this three times

3/9/2025, 11:22:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social) reply parent

i mean there’s obviously *some* things you could do to stop me but you don’t have the guts

3/9/2025, 11:06:37 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social)

i’m going to listen to the album Born to Die (2012) and there’s nothing you can do to stop me.

3/9/2025, 11:06:02 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social)

walking around on a perfect breezy september day and could almost be convinced that there are good things in the world

3/9/2025, 10:34:36 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social)

can’t stop thinking about this and i’ve also decided that anyone involved with the creation of call of duty is going to hell

3/9/2025, 9:44:49 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social) reply parent

really hard not to want to just solely focus inward and protect my community and my people but then i'm conservative so idk

3/9/2025, 8:19:22 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social)

yeah idk man i think we are kind of cooked

3/9/2025, 8:18:31 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social)

will vote for any politician that promises to fund a giant saw to separate florida from the rest of us bugs bunny style

3/9/2025, 6:52:42 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Terry-Enescu (@cjterry.bsky.social) reposted

A lesson for us all on why you should not promise the impossible to the terminally insane

3/9/2025, 7:23:38 AM | 1292 353 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social)

my barber brought up unprompted that he is excited for when trump dies lol

3/9/2025, 4:54:41 PM | 16 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture I'm Jorts (@lethaljorts.bsky.social) reposted

The Fallout Timeline continues apace

3/9/2025, 3:15:12 PM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture mtsw (@mtsw.bsky.social) reposted

This is the result the bosses wanted to guarantee by bringing Trump back in, to end the Biden era labor market that gave workers power over bosses

3/9/2025, 2:27:40 PM | 305 75 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social) reply parent

it’s hard to strike the balance because even if they 100% were smuggling drugs it’s still an evil atrocity but uh, there’s a reason due process is so important!!

3/9/2025, 2:14:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social)

it’s soooo funny that the literal only way that kawhi could void the contract is by leaving the clippers

3/9/2025, 2:01:35 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social) reply parent

dude got out of the espn PR factory and went on a generational run

3/9/2025, 1:57:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture functional moron (@fiveburger.bsky.social) reply parent

accidentally saw the video once and can’t stop feeling sick. propaganda about extra judicially murdering people is just straight up fascist. and it’s meant for us all to get used to it. we have no way of knowing if there were evendrugs on that boat or if they just were murdering migrants

3/9/2025, 1:40:35 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view