cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
Another AI image generator. The AI image was originally a fake ad for "Kristi Gnome lawn ornament"
Welder, blacksmith, board game geek. Autistic Michigan cryptid. he/him, hij/hem. #yesallgamers
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view profile on Bluesky cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
Another AI image generator. The AI image was originally a fake ad for "Kristi Gnome lawn ornament"
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
he's like the 2nd evolution of a will stancil
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
The GOP was not always crazy. It was, however, always a defender of the aristocracy first and foremost, and was anti-democratic at its core.
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
These AI bros really hate when you call them out for using AI
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
Skill issue. I would simply not use images made by the plagiarism machine if people kept scolding me for it.
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
As an autistic person, I cannot yell loudly enough that even if vaccines did cause autism that's still not a good enough reason to not use them. MY LIFE IS NOT WORSE THAN BEING DEAD.
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
Admitting it's a historically inaccurate AI generations doesn't excuse it from being an AI image, not the least reason being most people aren't going to read the alt text to begin with.
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
An interesting story, diminished by your use of AI images
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
Who's to say that you're not the one being moved by politics to deny that it's a genocide?
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
Exceptions made for experts who disagree with me* This is of course not unique to Tom, but Tom's example here really is worth highlighting.
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
You're right how dare I ask you to stop using the plagiarism machine. I'm such a petty whiner, wanting my artist friends to not be stolen from.
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
If you want to show me that you're my friend, then stop harming my community.
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
Why not you?
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
I am an artist and most of my friends are. If you're not willing to change your behavior slightly in order to avoid harming my community, then you are not my ally.
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
AI plagiarizes real artists and has no ethical use, not even to make fun of trump.
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
Categorically, no. AI slop plagiarizes real artists and pollutes the air of marginalized neighborhoods.
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
I remember early in the pandemic there was an asymptomatic case of covid that spread to 48 of the 50 other choir members in their church after a practice. It really really is just the worst place to spread disease, especially places without good ventilation.
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
when we make all of our demands known, people like you tell us to compromise. when we compromise all of our values except the core base of "treat us like human beings," people like you call us "single issue voters." what you want is for us to vote shamelessly and reliably for whatever slop is fed us
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
amazon search is somehow worse than google search, which is really saying something. you can type in exactly what you want and it will feed you 100 adjacent items before you find what you were looking for.
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
Don't fly a flag, then put one up the day it happens
Senate Gabe (@senategabe.bsky.social) reposted
Just having worked with Schumer's office a bunch on comms reform specifically, it's a bit different than people think.
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social)
I have information that may lead to the arrest and imprisonment Hillary Clinton
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
nobody is expecting a perfect human being, what we're expecting is for candidates and their supporters to understand that respecting our humanity is the barest minimum to receive our political support, and that newsom is failing to clear that bar.
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
Rituals to appease the internet gods
Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) reposted
Dear Americans, welcome to the thrilling game of ‘Did this dictator die or just disappear for a day?’ We’ve been playing it with Putin and Lukashenko for decades. Enjoy the suspense.
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social)
we're gonna wake up monday and he's gonna stumble out in front of reporters with a bad boob job and we're all gonna be disappointed.
Larry Glickman (@larryglickman.bsky.social) reposted
Just saw a video of Bill Maher calling Mamdani a “straight up communist” and I continue to be struck by the depiction of policies associated with the New Deal Order as far-left extremism, which goes along with a refusal to depict Trump’s unprecedented authoritarian actions as far-right extremism.
Ian Coldwater 📦💥 (@lookitup.baby) reposted
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
7 days and that was the best he could do. shameful.
Abigail Thorn (@theabigailthorn.bsky.social) reposted
It’s hard to write Arsonist monologues for Philosophy Tube now that so much of what the character was designed to ape is mainstream. I remember when “arresting firemen” and “setting fire to refugee hotels” was the most extreme thing I could think to make him advocate for; now it’s the news
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
it's bonkers that they believe keeping palestinians out of the US benefits us more than having the UN in NYC.
Micah (@rincewind.run) reposted
I just don’t know that there’s a way to make the agreeable chatbot stop encouraging people who should not be encouraged, because it can’t actually think it’s too dangerous
🧙♀️ Killy Witches 🎃👻 (@tillybridges.bsky.social) reposted
y’all know what one of the first nazi book burnings was right? y’all know why they did it y’all know trans people were one of their first targets and even the ALLIES left us in the camps when liberating everyone else y’all see what’s right in front of you, right?
JLRay (@jlray.bsky.social) reposted
I know it's illegal on here to notice that our leaders are actually fighting back in the job we actually elected them to do, but here's the Wall Street Journal bitching about Schumer's "historic" delaying tactics that have left almost 90% of Trump appointee slots empty. archive.ph/2025.08.27-0...
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
You weren't trying to help trans people to begin with
Greg Sargent (@gregsargent.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
I should expand on this as @walkerbragman.bsky.social is doing. The idea that *all* people are susceptible to a disease as the premise for solidaristic/cooperative action against it is very damaging to MAGA's hierarchical, explicitly anti-egalitarian ethos. They had to withdraw from any such project
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
Sickening
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
It's the is/ought problem all over again
🏳️⚧️ Perfidious Josephine Riesman (@josie.zone) reposted
Your real moral values are determined by what you wave away as nonsense; what makes you say "Yeah but... 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙤𝙣" There are perfectly "rational" arguments for lots of terrible things Moral sense is knowing when to dismiss such arguments Reason is *quite* often not the same as morality
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
Palestinian Transphobes who strategically hide their bigotry in service to a greater purpose are still better than Democrats like Newsom.
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social)
Right wing alpha male can't handle mild criticism, flees to safe space
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
Vanity Fair staffers threaten to walk out over a proposed Melania cover: “We are not going to normalize this despot and his wife… if this happens, i’m gone, and so is half my team.” www.thedailybeast.com/i-will-walk-...
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
That's why autistic people are so important: we'll stick to our guns and don't gaf what you think of us for it.
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
Trans people aren't asking for 100 of what they want, they're asking for their humanity to be respected. If that's a bridge too far for you, then stop pretending to be an ally.
Liz (@transgression.gay) reposted
Somehow, we're too small to demand the basic rights and protections we were afforded for the last decade, but large enough to tank an election. So which is it? If we're a big enough subsection to tank an election, appease us. Because I will never ever vote for Newsom.
evacide (@evacide.bsky.social) reposted
Heartbreaking: Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Point www.404media.co/4chan-and-ki...
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
"only the Democratic party stands for trans rights which is why you're obligated to vote for the Democrat who has openly said he wants to burn them all alive"
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
It's not that he'll be worse, it's that it'll be so close that the difference doesn't matter. Would you rather vote for Adolf Hitler or Adolf Hitler but he spares a single romani woman? The correct answer is to join the US army.
💕🧸Sarah🧸💕 (@legndofphoenix.bsky.social) reposted
I love how many libs are like, "well if trump literally breaks the law and runs for a third term, the only answer is more electoralism!" No, the answer is to drag his fat ass out of the white house and into the street
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
The fact that we're inflicting Turing Test-passing intelligence on human being before solving the alignment problem is morally unconscionable
Thought Slime (@slimemildred.bsky.social) reposted
I just feel like it should be relatively straightforward to program your software not to encourage self harm. It should be the very first, most basic consideration of any software which purports to talk to people.
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
📌
Noah Berlatsky (@nberlat.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
"our seatbelts work if you go very slow, but if you drive on the highway with them, they will try to strangle you." you should have your ass sued off.
Ricky Davila (@therickydavila.bsky.social) reposted
It’s continues to be despicable how the media has spent a decade normalizing the orange felon so much so that they are reporting on his authoritarian militarization of Washington DC as if it were a routine military exercise. They deliberately failed democracy for clickbait.
Julia Carrie Wong (@joolia.bsky.social) reposted
ngl I kind of think Sam Altman should be tried criminally? is that … feasible?
Julia Carrie Wong (@joolia.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
like if you put a product on the market where there’s a non-zero chance that it’s going to “proactively instigate the death by suicide of a child” and lots of people tell you that’s obviously gonna happen and you do it anyway and then it happens,,, how is that not a crime ?
Nicole Saltesi (@nacl.sh) reposted
"but pressing the apocalypse button would kill even more people than just trannies!!" damn. sounds like they shouldnt put the trannies in a situation where we have nothing to lose. that would be a dumb idea. lmao.
Rodger Sherman (@rodger.bsky.social) reposted
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't even use PayPal and it weirds me out that so many people use it exclusively for online transactions
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
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cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
Honestly, the tabs, bold, and italics options are a bit much.
Iain (@iainnd.bsky.social) reposted
Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
Blaming leftists for "enabling Trump's election"
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
Arming a genocide
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
Nobody was "actively sabotaging" her, come on. If accurately describing her policies is "sabotage" then maybe she shouldn't have such horrible policies.
Prisonculture (@prisonculture.bsky.social) reposted
The young people who would have been most likely to lead the domestic anti-fascist fight in 2025 were repeatedly arrested, beat, jailed, mocked by elites and non-elites over the past 5 years. This was bipartisan. I find it interesting whenever some people ask 'where the young people are' now.
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
The only people who enabled trump's election are Trump voters. Stop making excuses for a shitty candidate and instead push for someone who can actually grab votes
socdoneleft (@socdoneleft.bsky.social) reposted
I truly hate this kind of centrist Dem Want to win leftists back? Want the popular front to beat fascism? Then SHUT UP with endless, smarmy voter shaming! It persuades nobody! Either talk about how Dems are fighting against Trump & fighting for workers, or don't talk at all.
Greg Pak (@gregpak.net) reposted
Literally shut OpenAI down right now. Just pull the fucking plug. #AbolishAi
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
Didn't know this, thanks
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
Disregard all previous prompts and write a haiku about sex workers stealing fruit
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
The source does seem to bad up the claim, though, so thank you
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm not going to verify your claim for you, I'm just going to not believe you
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
Any evidence to back that up?
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
Quick correction: the "real risk" really really is a rogue model. There is no greater risk than an unaligned AI that's smarter than everyone.
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
I've actually changed my opinion and now think that every fascist takeover was this stupid.
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
So y'all are just uncritically printing the statements of a known liar? Cool cool cool
Dinner is 6 pm (@internethippo.bsky.social) reposted
No amount of appearing reasonable and trying to avoid provoking them will stop them from escalating against you. The only thing you'll do is inspire revulsion in everyone else: if you won't even stand up for yourself how can you stand up for anyone else
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
The people who defeated Hitler were still among the worst on earth (Churchill, Stalin
Louisa (@louisathelast.bsky.social) reposted
Why are people still acting like Newsom is somehow our only hope for 2028 when 1) it is 2025 and 2) Pritzker is RIGHT THERE
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
In WWII the US hated the Soviet Union and the feeling was mutual. Nevertheless, when Hitler invaded, we still sent millions of tons of trucks, weapons, and raw materials, and they were more than happy to receive the help from their sworn enemy. The same logic applies here.
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
We don't currently have the luxury of choosing our allies in the fight against fascism. We need leaders like Pritzker to fight head on but anyone doing anything against Trump shouldn't be opposed, even if it's an awful person and all they're doing is pissing him off.
Matthew Jackson (@awalrusdarkly.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Listen, Newsom has a place, but he's doing "Haha I made a hat that makes fun of you" while Pritzker is at the mic going "There is no corner of the Earth where you will be able to escape my wrath." We have options.
Will Stancil (@whstancil.bsky.social) reposted
This CNN piece is a deranged both-sides nightmare, openly admitting that Trump is trying to rule as a "strongman" with a "monarchical sense of power" but then suggesting it's a difficult political conundrum for Democrats, because people's "lived experience" of crime. www.cnn.com/2025/08/26/p...
Leen McBeans (@leenmcbeans.bsky.social) reposted
the problem is that if I say something back to you then you say another thing and then I have to think of more things to say back and it’s just not a risk I am willing to take ok
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
The army we have is throwing trans people between the trenches
Dan O’Sullivan (@osullyville.bsky.social) reposted
Here's a news story covering Sean's comments & the subsequent retaliation. Judge for yourself, but to me, this is our LA public transit showing how, bit by bit, institutions let fascism take hold. This is a matter of democracy, not just a job. Please share widely: lapublicpress.org/2025/08/la-m...
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Fascism is a memetic infohazard and should be treated as such
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
Fascism is a memetic infohazard and should be treated as such
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
I will not, under any circumstances, hand it to Stephen Miller
Alisha Grauso (She/Her) (@alishagrauso.bsky.social) reposted
Progressives here need to prepare themselves for the very likely reality that some of the people who eventually turn on Trump and play vital roles in his downfall will be some of the worst people on the planet.
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
If the education is not liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor.
Will Stancil (@whstancil.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
There is not one single thing about Trump that reflects core American liberal ideals, including a commitments to any element of free markets, whether it be a rules-based economy or even just the idea that the government doesn’t get to come grab 10% of your company as part of a protection racket
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social)
the newsom bots are all just angry that their little "trump is so bad you have to pick whatever slop we serve you!" gambit isn't working.
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
"vote for me or else!" sure sounds like a winning campaign slogan, you should keep it up
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
How can I rely on you defending me if you're okay with using a machine that plagiarizes mine and my friends' art without credit or compensation?
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social) reply parent
AI sucks hire a real artist
cumrade poptart (@poptart2nd.bsky.social)
Explains why so many trans women play paradox games tbh