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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social

Remember how if a kid choked on a little plastic toy they used to stop selling the toy

aug 29, 2025, 5:09 pm • 7,932 2,471

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daniel sieradski @self.agency

they passed a law that you can’t federally regulate a.i. for 10 years🫩

aug 29, 2025, 5:44 pm • 40 3 • view
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Ben Keel @bennkeel.bsky.social

For the US, this is not true. The ban on states regulating AI was taken out of the midsummer bill. www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...

aug 30, 2025, 6:36 pm • 4 1 • view
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daniel sieradski @self.agency

well that’s a minor relief

aug 30, 2025, 8:10 pm • 0 0 • view
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Hamza in Gaza 💯💟 @salmsasd12.bsky.social

Please brother can you boost the tweet please my family suffers from acute malnutrition please a quote from you will save the life of my family of 8 members who have not eaten for a long time I swear 💔😭

aug 30, 2025, 8:55 pm • 0 0 • view
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Elias @nae89p.bsky.social

I am Dina, the mother of a child named Elias 💔. His small body is wasting away from malnutrition, and his eyes call out to me every day, and I am powerless to save him. I ask for your mercy and help, as his life is in danger, and any support from you may restore his hope.💔💔

aug 31, 2025, 4:59 pm • 0 0 • view
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Mahmoud☘️💕 @shahed12.bsky.social

Life has become unbearable in Gaza no water, no food, no safety. Every day feels like a fight to stay alive. Please, if you can, donate or share. Your help can bring light into our darkest days.😣🥺

aug 30, 2025, 10:11 pm • 0 0 • view
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ivory @ioletsgo.gay

yeah they invented a small items cylinder to torture small indie lafufu manufacturers bsky.app/profile/cpsc...

aug 30, 2025, 5:56 am • 0 0 • view
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Karen H @karenmhj.bsky.social

IIRC only 4 people died from lawn darts, so they banned those. Only 2 more to go?😬

aug 29, 2025, 10:05 pm • 3 0 • view
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Tip Keeping Bellhop @chaptal.bsky.social

It’s the jarts of tech.

aug 29, 2025, 8:50 pm • 0 0 • view
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Redmond Geek @redmondgeek.bsky.social

Never forget.

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aug 30, 2025, 5:29 pm • 0 0 • view
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Aubrey @girlapart.bsky.social

That’s just computer speak for Thoughts & Prayers, just so you don’t start worrying they are a little bit too alive.

aug 29, 2025, 5:44 pm • 1 0 • view
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Angry Allosaurus @angryallosaurus.bsky.social

It's cuz the US Consumer Product Safety Commission used to test toys and force companies to recall or provide safety warnings on toys. But the Trump admin is gutting that, too.

aug 30, 2025, 4:25 am • 2 0 • view
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Cannonball Titcomb™ @cannonball-titcomb.bsky.social

Coming soon: extra-sharp Jarts

aug 30, 2025, 5:10 pm • 0 0 • view
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Dell Adams @dell-adams.bsky.social

Lawn darts for the brain

aug 30, 2025, 4:41 am • 2 0 • view
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Mike Bischoff @mpbmke.com

Sam Altman is Irwin Mainway

aug 29, 2025, 5:43 pm • 22 1 • view
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Liselle Baker @elles-bells.bsky.social

You beat me to it!

aug 29, 2025, 6:26 pm • 1 0 • view
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Liselle Baker @elles-bells.bsky.social

Irwin Mainway-I ChatGPT: “Kids, be careful” youtu.be/veMiNQifZcM?...

aug 29, 2025, 6:25 pm • 2 0 • view
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dr lilith, chaos scientist ❤️‍🔥 @moonxglitch.bsky.social

open AI got stock in thoughts and prayers

aug 30, 2025, 4:18 am • 0 0 • view
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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social

Integrating AI into everything is like putting the Panera lemonade that kills you in the water

aug 29, 2025, 5:31 pm • 287 16 • view
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whippet enjoyer @fiftyburger.bsky.social

They should put the Panera lemonade that kills you in the tap water.

aug 29, 2025, 5:37 pm • 3 0 • view
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James @toner56.bsky.social

in other words, what RFK thinks Fluoride does (when it's actually the exact opposite)

aug 29, 2025, 6:11 pm • 46 1 • view
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Ryan Blackwell @ryanblackwell.bsky.social

Deeply saddened. It's no "thoughts and prayers" but it'll have to do.

aug 30, 2025, 4:08 pm • 0 0 • view
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~Swinton @basicchunnel.bsky.social

Yeah but then we had a good 30-40 years to build up “common sense” contempt for the mandate of regulatory authority.

aug 30, 2025, 3:31 am • 2 0 • view
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~Swinton @basicchunnel.bsky.social

Strangely enough the CPSC remains the sole federal online presence not to have changed that much over the last decade

aug 30, 2025, 3:33 am • 0 0 • view
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Pinko Teddy @pinkoteddy.bsky.social

AI doesn’t kill guns, people kill guns. Or something.

aug 29, 2025, 5:44 pm • 0 0 • view
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nomadenhaft @nomadenhaft.bsky.social

Did they though? I thought they just slapped a warning label on everything and called it good.

aug 29, 2025, 6:12 pm • 0 0 • view
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hortnon.bsky.social @hortnon.bsky.social

like maybe a 1979 boba fett

aug 29, 2025, 5:29 pm • 8 0 • view
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SMuffinMan 🏳️‍🌈 @smuffinman.bsky.social

Boba Fett didn't exist in 79

aug 30, 2025, 5:46 pm • 0 0 • view
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hortnon.bsky.social @hortnon.bsky.social

it just takes 2 seconds to google this i promise

aug 30, 2025, 6:15 pm • 2 0 • view
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SMuffinMan 🏳️‍🌈 @smuffinman.bsky.social

Damn I need to shut my stupid mouth. Didn't realize they went so hard to have merch before the movie was out back then. I stand corrected!

aug 30, 2025, 6:27 pm • 1 0 • view
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hortnon.bsky.social @hortnon.bsky.social

kath specifically did a podcast episode about this recently podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

aug 30, 2025, 6:31 pm • 1 0 • view
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Madopal @madopal.bsky.social

This is Battlestar Galactica erasure

aug 29, 2025, 5:46 pm • 6 0 • view
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Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social

They’re actually shitting down enforcement on that, I hear.

aug 30, 2025, 4:29 pm • 0 0 • view
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Huw Thomas @huwthom.bsky.social

Fun Toy Banned Because Of Three Stupid Dead Kids - The Onion share.google/rlkY4onLV5ny...

aug 30, 2025, 7:20 am • 0 0 • view
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I'm just Jeff, your friend who cares @leffjakin.bsky.social

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aug 30, 2025, 5:33 pm • 1 0 • view
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Doozer @doozerflange.bsky.social

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Pinto de sete cabeças @oninego.bsky.social

well they haven't stop selling guns after children killed other children with it so...............................

aug 29, 2025, 10:36 pm • 0 0 • view
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Retronymous @retronymous.com

many people on this here site: "is there a free speech concern in discouraging the use of delicious tiny plastic bits in toys?"

aug 29, 2025, 5:21 pm • 2 0 • view
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Prof. Jealousy @uncleicon.bsky.social

Yeah...man...if this is all just gonna be forced on us, at least give us back OG formula 4 loco or whatever.

aug 29, 2025, 5:14 pm • 27 0 • view
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radek @radekllundain.bsky.social

Put the cocaine back in Coke

aug 29, 2025, 5:54 pm • 30 0 • view
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Martin Z @pxtl.ca

Also the lithium back in 7-up.

aug 30, 2025, 3:50 pm • 1 0 • view
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Mitchell Horton @jarlent.bsky.social

I have an old bottle of some kind of over the counter "tonic" from way back in the day It had weed, alcohol, heroin and cocaine in it Let's GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

aug 30, 2025, 4:54 pm • 2 0 • view
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maianetliss.bsky.social @maianetliss.bsky.social

We could unlock the forbidden 5th loko by mixing 4 loko with cocaine coke

aug 29, 2025, 10:20 pm • 23 0 • view
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Bone Daddy @legoonerier.bsky.social

Bruh. I’m ready. I might die, but I could also ascend to levels only known to the chosen few, like Rick James, Gary Busey, and Billy Mays.

aug 31, 2025, 12:54 am • 0 0 • view
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Gordon Vincent He/Him @gordonvincent.bsky.social

The little plastic toy company didn't take the precaution of buying the government.

aug 30, 2025, 5:56 pm • 5 0 • view
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Paint it Blue @kimberlysaysnope.bsky.social

Remember when the country cared about if it's people lived or died...

aug 30, 2025, 6:31 pm • 0 0 • view
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Dewey Diva @deweydiva1.bsky.social

AI version of Thoughts and Prayers.

aug 30, 2025, 5:03 pm • 0 0 • view
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Michael F. Meitbual @michaelmeitbual.bsky.social

Isn't that why Kindereggs were outlawed in the US?

aug 29, 2025, 5:58 pm • 3 0 • view
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Bone Daddy @legoonerier.bsky.social

The film Pulse is gonna look like a documentary when people start making mockups of their dead friends and shit eventually gets twisted even more so.

aug 31, 2025, 12:55 am • 0 0 • view
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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social

Lawn darts called. They’re demanding reparations.

aug 29, 2025, 6:31 pm • 0 0 • view
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DocLB2 @doclb2.bsky.social

Yikes. This is just. Yikes.

aug 30, 2025, 12:46 pm • 0 0 • view
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angecat.bsky.social @angecat.bsky.social

In waiting for someone in this administration to come out and say that the AI is fine and trans people are to blame

aug 30, 2025, 5:17 pm • 0 0 • view
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Nic Eureka @neureka.bsky.social

Available in the US?

aug 29, 2025, 5:39 pm • 0 0 • view
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Mike Bonsiero @bonzi777.bsky.social

Yeah but only in the last couple years

aug 29, 2025, 5:44 pm • 0 0 • view
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{ @postes.zip

they're still banned

aug 29, 2025, 8:17 pm • 0 0 • view
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Pawz @pipimioden.bsky.social

different version altogether.

aug 29, 2025, 9:23 pm • 0 0 • view
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Darth J.D. @starklyjd.bsky.social

Still can’t get proper kinder eggs in this country because a child might swallow a yellow plastic capsule that came in their hollow chocolate egg. But too much money is tied into a computer helping kids commit suicide to put a stop to it, I guess.

aug 29, 2025, 8:10 pm • 30 0 • view
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Kereminde @kereminde.bsky.social

I'm also going to remember "lawn darts" were a thing, too. :)

aug 29, 2025, 10:02 pm • 0 0 • view
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Dan Isaacs (Kelce's Version) @danisaacs.bsky.social

I guess we know who is developing these LLMs

aug 30, 2025, 3:25 am • 2 0 • view
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morepanthers.bsky.social @morepanthers.bsky.social

That's exactly what I keep thinking. Where are the customer protections. Companies should not be allowed to do whatever they want to us

aug 29, 2025, 5:15 pm • 14 0 • view
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Jason 8647 Paul @jasonpaul.bsky.social

I think we can bring back metal tipped lawn darts now.

aug 29, 2025, 5:53 pm • 2 0 • view
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Britni @moxiecotton.bsky.social

We are still rolling back human rights and basic safety standards it wouldn’t surprise me if this was a legit things they wanted to do.

aug 29, 2025, 6:32 pm • 4 0 • view
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Amias Channer @amias.net

Tbf those cases were not easy to prove, they took a lot of arguments to prove culpability. In this instance it's likely that a defense could argue that the persistence of the person in getting the information gives a kind of carrier immunity like the postal service has over contents of letters.

aug 30, 2025, 6:56 am • 1 0 • view
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Chloe @wat3rm370n.bsky.social

They don't do that anymore. youtu.be/6RTowjg73K0?...

 Infant lounger deaths higher than initially reported, NBC News investigation finds - NBC News - May 29, 2023 Alexander Hoehn-Saric, Chair of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC): “So we have laws that restrict our ability to talk to the public about all the information we know about products. So if I knew about a danger about a product right now I couldn't go and tell you about it without actually first going to the company itself and letting them know what we're going to say.”
aug 30, 2025, 6:42 am • 0 0 • view
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ARichmondFoodReporter @alexandratx.bsky.social

Bag o’ Glass

aug 29, 2025, 6:04 pm • 2 0 • view
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☆ ˚✧𝖘𝖆𝖗𝖆𝖍𝖙𝖔𝖓𝖎𝖓✧˚ ☆ @dopamachine.bsky.social

We have a whole separate boring kinder egg because they don't trust American kids with the originals.

aug 29, 2025, 11:57 pm • 4 0 • view
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Kevin @samhinkieknew.bsky.social

In business school, you learn about how J&J recalled Tylenol because there was a risk of poisoning from the product. It’s taught as an example of corporate management responding correctly to a crisis, and being rewarding with consumer brand loyalty. Not sure those rules apply anymore.

aug 29, 2025, 5:49 pm • 7 0 • view
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Morslok @morslok.bsky.social

Headline I want to see: "Is A.I. the Lawn Darts of the psyche?"

aug 29, 2025, 5:41 pm • 7 0 • view
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mst3kharris.bsky.social @mst3kharris.bsky.social

Kinder Eggs were banned for years!

aug 29, 2025, 6:55 pm • 2 0 • view
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Michael Bednarski 🇨🇦 @mikebednarski.bsky.social

An oldie!

Boy holds a Kinder Egg in a classroom. A girl holds an automatic firearm. One is illegal. The Kinder Egg is illegal in the United States.
aug 29, 2025, 8:47 pm • 9 0 • view
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Godspeed You! Woke Moralists @dashwallkick.bsky.social

a cop shot a kid and orange caps had to be on toy pistols. we have just fully surrendered to theft, fraud, and abuse thanks to rich interests.

aug 29, 2025, 5:35 pm • 77 2 • view
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David Giltinan 👾🗣️🎙️ @davidgiltinan.com

This was back in the "customer is always right" era.

aug 30, 2025, 3:48 am • 0 0 • view
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Justin. @uhjustin.bsky.social

The dumbest, and unfortunately richest people in the country decided to hang most of our economy on this little plastic toy. So now, making them stop selling it means going to war with essentially the Dumb Illuminati.

aug 30, 2025, 6:49 am • 1 0 • view
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Jimmy Two Hands 🌞☀️😎 @jimmytwohands.bsky.social

maybe they’ll let us have lawn darts back if we slap some ai into them pointy bitches

aug 29, 2025, 6:18 pm • 19 1 • view
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axel @holier-thxn-thou.bsky.social

Man, this shit gets more dystopian by the minute. If this shit is allowed to slide, we better at least bring back those flying fairy doll things that always crashed. Probably significantly less dangerous than this tech

aug 29, 2025, 7:42 pm • 0 0 • view
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redstormpopcorn @wasteof.technology

A full quarter-century ago: theonion.com/fun-toy-bann...

aug 29, 2025, 9:13 pm • 15 0 • view
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Jillbles @jillbles.bsky.social

*raises hand in has-never-had-a-real-Kinder-egg*

aug 29, 2025, 5:29 pm • 5 0 • view
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Hunter Duke 🇨🇦 @hunterduke.bsky.social

That was the before times.

aug 30, 2025, 5:55 pm • 0 0 • view
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Jim Mayfield @bigpoison.bsky.social

Wait until you hear about alcohol

aug 30, 2025, 5:28 am • 0 0 • view
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Denise Lee @dadavies.bsky.social

The list of changes after small # number of incidents is long: -child-resistant medicine caps (& later Tide pod caps) -coffee temp at fast food outlets -colorful water blasters after realistic models being mistaken for actual weapon -warnings not to use hair dryer in bathtub -child-proof lighters

aug 29, 2025, 6:56 pm • 13 0 • view
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Ashleigh @otterbgoode.bsky.social

Taking shoes off at airport

aug 29, 2025, 7:57 pm • 9 0 • view
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TeeJay Ach @pragmaticleftist.bsky.social

Except the shoe thing is less than useless.

aug 31, 2025, 9:57 pm • 1 0 • view
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Jackie➿ @jackieny.bsky.social

How many kids died playing in refrigerators that were put to the curb with the door on before it became a rule to remove the door

aug 30, 2025, 12:30 am • 0 0 • view
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getting really into surf rock this year @patrickmcmahon.bsky.social

now and then i remember that we banned the sale of lawn darts

aug 29, 2025, 5:36 pm • 11 0 • view
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shackleford.bsky.social @shackleford.bsky.social

You guys banned kinder surprise decades ago.

aug 29, 2025, 7:24 pm • 1 0 • view
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kingdead42.bsky.social @kingdead42.bsky.social

The US never banned "Kinder Surprise Eggs", but there is a law from 1938 that forbids foods if it "has partially or completely imbedded therein any nonnutritive object." Of all the stupid things the US does, I never understood why outlawing putting choking hazards in kids treats is "crazy."

aug 29, 2025, 8:00 pm • 3 0 • view
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shackleford.bsky.social @shackleford.bsky.social

Ok semantics, they still aren’t allowed to be sold in the US, because they are a choking hazard, which was an example of the original point.

aug 29, 2025, 9:08 pm • 2 0 • view
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Lord Sparkinari @sparkcj.bsky.social

Lawn darts posed less of a threat than 99 percent of the things tech bros/fear mongering conservatives value

aug 30, 2025, 4:31 pm • 2 0 • view
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OGfattcatt @ogfattcatt.bsky.social

“We are deeply saddened by this thing we did and will continue to do”

aug 29, 2025, 8:18 pm • 27 0 • view
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Kathy 🌻🚀🪐🏺🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱 @kathy13.bsky.social

What about the Lawn Darts?

aug 30, 2025, 5:14 pm • 1 0 • view
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Cath Mastro @cathmastro.bsky.social

Lawn darts with metal tips!

aug 30, 2025, 5:01 pm • 0 0 • view
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worm @afraidofwhatineed.bsky.social

our entire economy is being propped up by the computer that drives you insane we have no choice here

aug 30, 2025, 3:35 pm • 1 0 • view
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Matthew Claxton @matthewclaxton.bsky.social

Kinder Surprise Eggs – still illegal in the United States.

aug 29, 2025, 5:21 pm • 41 0 • view
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Adam @clunkclunk.com

Came here to post that. Thank you for doing it :salute:

aug 30, 2025, 5:08 pm • 1 0 • view
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yajur.bsky.social @yajur.bsky.social

If Kinder paid Trump a $10 million bribe they’d be on shelves by the end of the week

aug 30, 2025, 5:05 pm • 2 0 • view
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Shirty 🍁 @whogivesashirt.bsky.social

Kinder Eggs are still banned in the US.

aug 30, 2025, 3:48 pm • 4 0 • view
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Julia DOESN’T WANT YOUR MONEY @booktweeting.bsky.social

they won’t let me, an adult who has read peer-reviewed papers on sunscreen ingredients, buy Korean sunscreens

aug 29, 2025, 5:17 pm • 107 0 • view
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dsfredericks.bsky.social @dsfredericks.bsky.social

The administration got rid of the Consumer Product Safety Commission anyway so no more dumping products that injure people.

aug 30, 2025, 5:07 pm • 2 0 • view
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One. Step. Beyyyyyyooondddd. @regjoe.bsky.social

There's a historical book called The Santa Claus Man about an early 20th century scammer. In the book they relate that there were 2x different Boy Scouts organizations then, one was very pro gun. There was a fatality. They rethought & stopped the gun stuff.

aug 29, 2025, 5:38 pm • 6 0 • view
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Bone Daddy @legoonerier.bsky.social

It honestly doesn’t even fit the vibe. Like the general tone is intelligently exploring and understanding the outdoors, while leaving minimal impact. It’s closer to general forestry. I didn’t make Eagle, but I made it until my troop disbanded just before I turned 18.

aug 31, 2025, 12:59 am • 1 0 • view
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Claire M @clairemarz.bsky.social

We can have assault rifles but not Jarts.

aug 30, 2025, 1:04 pm • 2 0 • view
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gengarro @gengarro.bsky.social

The Second Amendment clearly outlines the right to bear AIs

aug 30, 2025, 5:41 am • 0 0 • view
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Count_Floyd @count-floyd.bsky.social

Yep, but now we have a machine that will make any toy you want...so how could the maker of that machine take any responsibility if someone makes a toy that tells the person how to kill themselves? It works for the NRA, so the AI corps will take the same spineless tack the NRA takes.

aug 30, 2025, 5:09 pm • 0 0 • view
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DJ @decemberjazz.bsky.social

Now, Re: the post murder firearms mantra.

aug 30, 2025, 9:12 pm • 0 0 • view
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DJ @decemberjazz.bsky.social

So. The American firearms 'thoughts and prayers' syndrome reprise.

aug 30, 2025, 9:07 pm • 0 0 • view
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Suffragette @suffragette.bsky.social

The Bag O' Glass guys won.

sep 1, 2025, 2:05 am • 0 0 • view
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professoraxeman @axeeugene.bsky.social

I'll never forgive my mother for taking away my Battlestar Galactica Cylon Raider laser bullets.

aug 30, 2025, 5:53 am • 1 0 • view
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Multi A Andi @multi-a-andi.bsky.social

Yeah america. Wheres the energy you had about kinder surprise eggs?

aug 30, 2025, 6:44 am • 1 0 • view
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angegen.bsky.social @angegen.bsky.social

That second statement admits guilt. May degrade. They know the problem exists.

aug 29, 2025, 11:32 pm • 1 0 • view
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dontpushthat.bsky.social @dontpushthat.bsky.social

Fight club something something recall costs more than ignoring the problem

aug 29, 2025, 6:11 pm • 0 0 • view
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Central Coast FOG @centralcoastfog.bsky.social

“deeply saddened” is the new “thoughts and prayers.”

aug 30, 2025, 5:08 pm • 1 0 • view
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BGMcKay 🇨🇦 @bgmck.bsky.social

This is what I was looking for

aug 30, 2025, 6:32 pm • 0 0 • view