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Chris Dennis

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Author of Here Is What You Do. NEA Fellow, public health, harm reduction, rural gay dad. Writing in: Best American Essays, Paris Review, Granta, Playgirl, Guernica, McSweeney's.

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ChatGPT therapist mode

29.12.2025 07:51 πŸ‘ 177 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Question for Mike Flood: With $450 million being allocated to Alligator Alcatraz, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain peopleβ€”How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the tax payers have to pay for a fascist country?

04.08.2025 23:46 πŸ‘ 18752 πŸ” 6166 πŸ’¬ 719 πŸ“Œ 1025
BLACK SABBATH - "War Pigs" (Live Video)
BLACK SABBATH - "War Pigs" (Live Video) YouTube video by Black Sabbath

song of the summer

www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3b6...

05.08.2025 19:50 πŸ‘ 116 πŸ” 28 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1
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I see why he bankrupted casinos.

05.08.2025 16:56 πŸ‘ 26145 πŸ” 7319 πŸ’¬ 2644 πŸ“Œ 785
Button that says β€œPlease Don’t Die” over a drawing of a Narcan applicator.

Button that says β€œPlease Don’t Die” over a drawing of a Narcan applicator.

It’s almost overdose awareness month and we bought a button maker at work. And we’re planning to distribute a 1000 Narcan kits.

30.07.2025 18:10 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Book news from me. Been a long haul to here. xo

16.07.2025 14:03 πŸ‘ 75 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 7

THERE IT IS. Crying shaking cosmic horroring.

18.07.2025 20:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is what they said about Bernie. They literally have one play.

16.07.2025 01:04 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

the singular message of this ad is "zohran loves new york city" and it is incredibly effective

08.07.2025 02:33 πŸ‘ 20449 πŸ” 2642 πŸ’¬ 366 πŸ“Œ 125
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Worth a watch:

Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

26.06.2025 16:28 πŸ‘ 11011 πŸ” 4409 πŸ’¬ 203 πŸ“Œ 726

What *is* their worst fear about the left? That the left also cares about the lives of Palestinians?

26.06.2025 17:23 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, Miles, thanks for writing this. Such good work.

22.06.2025 23:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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He Had a Mental Breakdown Talking to ChatGPT. Then Police Killed Him Alex Taylor believed he had made contact with a conscious entity within OpenAI’s software, and that she'd been murdered. Then everything went wrong.

Grateful to all who’ve read and supported my AI coverage lately. This is probably the most difficult work I’ve done on the subject to date and I hope it it can be a wake-up call. My profound thanks to Kent Taylor for trusting me with his son Alex’s story.

22.06.2025 19:40 πŸ‘ 2106 πŸ” 578 πŸ’¬ 50 πŸ“Œ 92

Boebert was a central participant in January 6. she should have been booted out of Congress on January 21 2021

12.06.2025 21:12 πŸ‘ 1218 πŸ” 203 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 6

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

11.06.2025 16:22 πŸ‘ 48809 πŸ” 14777 πŸ’¬ 575 πŸ“Œ 376
Conservative Man Who is Afraid of Cities Mocks 22- Year-Old Girl Sailing Into
Warzone

Conservative Man Who is Afraid of Cities Mocks 22- Year-Old Girl Sailing Into Warzone

the hard times doesn't miss @thehardtimesnews.bsky.social

08.06.2025 16:45 πŸ‘ 3395 πŸ” 866 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 7
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Remembering Chevalière d'Éon for Pride. A transgender woman in the 1700s who was also a spy and who turned double agent, extorted an entire monarchy to get her gender marker changed, and lived her life as a woman in a time when such was thought impossible.

We have always been here.

01.06.2025 21:04 πŸ‘ 22758 πŸ” 4689 πŸ’¬ 267 πŸ“Œ 176

Just saw a comedian say "If vaccines caused autism then America would have trains" and I almost spit out my drink.

30.05.2025 11:56 πŸ‘ 8417 πŸ” 2431 πŸ’¬ 38 πŸ“Œ 54
There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.

There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

30.05.2025 16:20 πŸ‘ 39806 πŸ” 13844 πŸ’¬ 1265 πŸ“Œ 820

This is so class-war coded. As if gay Harvard grads and plumbers are somehow at odds with each other. How does this β€œdivide the electorate” shit still work. They would love us to believe that workers are enemies to one another. It’s always giving: don’t look behind the corporate overlord curtain.

28.05.2025 11:25 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I mean, I voted for Kamala because I felt she could be pressured into acknowledging that there’s a genocide happening. She lost. And now a genocide is still happening, under a US administration that’s actually gleeful about it. Should I hold you personally responsible for that?

27.05.2025 17:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh? Me personally?

27.05.2025 17:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Actually I think people assumed Kamala was persuadable, and the other guy isn’t.

26.05.2025 20:35 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
Bruce Springsteen walking toward the camera in a white tank top and high waisted army green pant with black belt and sweat shirt tied loosely around his shoulders β€” giving daddy, giving sex, giving authority, giving humanity.

Bruce Springsteen walking toward the camera in a white tank top and high waisted army green pant with black belt and sweat shirt tied loosely around his shoulders β€” giving daddy, giving sex, giving authority, giving humanity.

daddy’s home.

22.05.2025 15:49 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Brother Bear from The Berenstain Bears, floating above the room with his third eye open, surrounded by an orb of rainbow light while his family looks on in horror.

Brother Bear from The Berenstain Bears, floating above the room with his third eye open, surrounded by an orb of rainbow light while his family looks on in horror.

when you let gay children play their music in the living room.

20.05.2025 17:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

finally, someone is standing up to the homeless

12.05.2025 17:26 πŸ‘ 153 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 2

Conservatives are already calling him the woke pope.

08.05.2025 18:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œchicago pope” is one of the shows jack donaghy greenlit when he was tanking nbc

08.05.2025 17:29 πŸ‘ 8114 πŸ” 1183 πŸ’¬ 71 πŸ“Œ 37
Rihanna dressed as sexy pope at 2018 MET GALA

Rihanna dressed as sexy pope at 2018 MET GALA

What if she walked out of the conclave.

08.05.2025 18:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

08.05.2025 17:36 πŸ‘ 28791 πŸ” 8101 πŸ’¬ 38 πŸ“Œ 761