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James Mackay

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Australian Actor. Dog Advocate. Sports Tragic.

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Register to vote. Shine a spotlight on political donations. Organize boycotts. If you have to go down, go down fighting and drag them to hell with you. In times like these, pettiness is a virtue.

28.02.2026 14:59 πŸ‘ 149 πŸ” 51 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
a lonely Matt Goodwin texting on his phone

a lonely Matt Goodwin texting on his phone

β€˜hi, grandma? can u come pick me up from my rap battle? it's over. no, i lost. he saw u drop me off & did a pretty devastating rhyme about it’

27.02.2026 08:03 πŸ‘ 701 πŸ” 161 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2

The New York Rangers expect me, a woman, to come back and watch the rest of the season after I watched the people who run the organization and two of its players laugh at female athletes. I think I’m good on hockey for the rest of the season. It’s been, like, really ruined.

24.02.2026 11:07 πŸ‘ 6970 πŸ” 1194 πŸ’¬ 286 πŸ“Œ 71

These virtual assistants that doctors are using are annoying as fuck. β€œDo you need surgery.” I don’t fucking know. I was hoping one of the humans who works there might be able to tell me. Jesus Christ

18.02.2026 22:15 πŸ‘ 477 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 0

Mate this is gorgeous.

15.02.2026 15:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The transition from taking pictures or video of a subject, to taking pictures of ourselves experiencing the subject instead, really creeps me out.

12.02.2026 15:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

man I’m sorry to be all corny here but when I see a β€œthe city is beautiful! There’s more to it than homeless people!” I gotta say you know who’s also beautiful? People who have no place to live & are trying to get by in a system that has turned its back on them & if you don’t see that that’s on you

08.02.2026 04:42 πŸ‘ 10257 πŸ” 1657 πŸ’¬ 113 πŸ“Œ 65

On my flight today, a chatty lady said, β€œI can’t go to New York with all that’s going on over there.” And I said, β€œWhat? Free child care?” And she stopped talking to me.

12.02.2026 05:14 πŸ‘ 6592 πŸ” 758 πŸ’¬ 72 πŸ“Œ 39
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Please VOTE πŸ’™.......

10.02.2026 10:34 πŸ‘ 168 πŸ” 97 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 3
Bad Bunny shows love to all the Latin flags and shouts out Canada!πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦
Bad Bunny shows love to all the Latin flags and shouts out Canada!πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ YouTube video by The Brandon Gonez Show

Bad Bunny shouts β€œGod Bless America” and then lists all the countries that actually ARE American (not just the one with the people that call themselves Americans), including Canada. #BadBunny #SuperBowl

09.02.2026 06:15 πŸ‘ 867 πŸ” 175 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 10
A vibrant, wide-angle photo of a colorful outdoor mural promoting the "Super Bowl LX Apple Music Halftime Show." The mural is painted on a long blue wall in a sunlit, tropical setting with real palm trees and bright pink bougainvillea flowers cascading over the top.

The artwork features a playful, surreal collage of cultural and football-themed elements:

    Central Text: The Apple Music logo in bold yellow and red 3D lettering is flanked by "SUPER BOWL LX" above and "HALFTIME SHOW" below.

    Iconic Imagery: Large illustrations of a golden trumpet, pink sunglasses, maracas, dominoes, and a cup of coffee with a musical note in the foam.

    Football Elements: Brown footballs are depicted growing on palm trees like coconuts and resting on the ground.

    Foreground: A young girl in a yellow dress walks along the sidewalk in front of the mural, passing a small goalpost illustration where a green parrot is perched.

The overall aesthetic is warm, festive, and celebrates a fusion of Latin-inspired culture and American football.

A vibrant, wide-angle photo of a colorful outdoor mural promoting the "Super Bowl LX Apple Music Halftime Show." The mural is painted on a long blue wall in a sunlit, tropical setting with real palm trees and bright pink bougainvillea flowers cascading over the top. The artwork features a playful, surreal collage of cultural and football-themed elements: Central Text: The Apple Music logo in bold yellow and red 3D lettering is flanked by "SUPER BOWL LX" above and "HALFTIME SHOW" below. Iconic Imagery: Large illustrations of a golden trumpet, pink sunglasses, maracas, dominoes, and a cup of coffee with a musical note in the foam. Football Elements: Brown footballs are depicted growing on palm trees like coconuts and resting on the ground. Foreground: A young girl in a yellow dress walks along the sidewalk in front of the mural, passing a small goalpost illustration where a green parrot is perched. The overall aesthetic is warm, festive, and celebrates a fusion of Latin-inspired culture and American football.

I'm going to do a thread of all the references and context behind Bad Bunny's performance and what it means for Puerto Ricans to see this on the biggest stage.

The opening title screen is a street mural in Puerto Rico that comes to life with footballs as coconuts.

Follow along!

09.02.2026 17:08 πŸ‘ 3640 πŸ” 1318 πŸ’¬ 69 πŸ“Œ 177

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the TaΓ­nos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

09.02.2026 01:38 πŸ‘ 20661 πŸ” 5278 πŸ’¬ 108 πŸ“Œ 179

loved every second of Bad Bunny. That message of inclusion and a celebration of cultures like Puerto Rico’s is just what America needs right now. Plus, his music just gets you in motion. 10/10

09.02.2026 01:36 πŸ‘ 31579 πŸ” 3924 πŸ’¬ 681 πŸ“Œ 156

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

04.02.2026 16:44 πŸ‘ 19786 πŸ” 5960 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 79

Texans: TODAY (2/2/26) is the last day to register to vote for the March primaries.

02.02.2026 13:49 πŸ‘ 2614 πŸ” 1475 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Personally, I think that anyone who was sending friendly emails back and forth with Jeffrey Epstein or attending events with him post-2008 should be thrown into an active volcano.

31.01.2026 22:52 πŸ‘ 8338 πŸ” 1207 πŸ’¬ 92 πŸ“Œ 82

one thing you never want to have to realize is that you were really underestimating the number of pedophiles

31.01.2026 17:35 πŸ‘ 2972 πŸ” 480 πŸ’¬ 32 πŸ“Œ 31

I don’t know how to order a thread properly, it seems. Oh well. And by the way. The absolute horror show of CSAM being produced at industrial scale by β€œGṞ0k” on that other website, should have its owner in prison already. ANYONE who makes something that does that should go to jail. Obviously.

30.01.2026 09:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And in the current world, the notion that people may no longer be able to easily differentiate between documentation of real events and content intended to propagandize or spread disinformation, has the potential to lead us - even further - down some very dark paths. Turn it off. Turn it all off.

30.01.2026 09:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

But I don’t see anyone benefiting from this in the long-term but the billionaires struggling to hide their boners at the thought of no longer having to pay a workforce. The ultimate exploitation. And AI is trained on theft. AI customer support sucks. β€œIs that real or Ai?” It all sucks. I hate it.

30.01.2026 09:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There is a massive financial bubble growing here. It’s not the billionaires who will suffer when that inevitably pops. It’s not they who will suffer the growing environmental impacts of these vast data centers. It’s those local communities. It all makes me sick. Ramming it down throats constantly.

30.01.2026 09:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I cannot imagine the pain of a parent whose child was driven to suicide by a CHATBOT. I cannot imagine the agony of an intimate partner spiraling into psychosis. β€œJust a few cases.” NOT just a few, and worse still, however many, that’s how many so far. I do not see the benefit here for humanity.

30.01.2026 09:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This thing proves itself inaccurate, sycophantic, hallucinogenic, and psychopathic. The use of it negatively impacts the user’s own cognition over time. This fucking guess machine, crammed into military systems, government apparati, every online platform everywhere all at once. What’s the benefit?

30.01.2026 09:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I don’t want AI music. I don’t want AI actors. I don’t want AI books or screenplays or television storylines. I don’t want AI effects. I don’t want AI cartoons. I don’t want AI drawings or paintings or sketches or β€œphotos” or β€œvideos”. I don’t want AI summaries. Suggestions. None of it. None. Nada.

30.01.2026 09:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0
The Times, 30th January 2026: "All 2.4m of Britain’s creative workers are at risk β€” and we know why. A new report into the impact of AI on the creative sector makes for apocalyptic reading. The government must act now."
Source: https://archive.is/hvRv2

The Times, 30th January 2026: "All 2.4m of Britain’s creative workers are at risk β€” and we know why. A new report into the impact of AI on the creative sector makes for apocalyptic reading. The government must act now." Source: https://archive.is/hvRv2

"The UK creative industries β€” which contributed Β£125 billion to the economy in 2024 and supported 2.4 million jobs β€” are being destroyed by an AI sector that, whatever its long-term potential, contributed just Β£11 billion in the same year and supported only 85,000 jobs."

archive.is/hvRv2

30.01.2026 09:02 πŸ‘ 491 πŸ” 251 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 34
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AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

β€œThe collapse of the AI bubble is going to be ugly…AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector & tech monopolists run amok.β€œ

Read this article by @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy. Whether you agree with it all or not, it’s important.

18.01.2026 22:33 πŸ‘ 504 πŸ” 221 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 18
https://voteyesornoai.com/vote/results

https://voteyesornoai.com/

https://voteyesornoai.com/vote/results https://voteyesornoai.com/

DuckDuckGo is asking Β«Where do you stand on AI?Β»
Now take a look at these answers and the amount of votes 😎

Keep saying that WE DONΒ΄T WANT AI ! ✊πŸ”₯

Vote here: voteyesornoai.com

17.01.2026 21:27 πŸ‘ 221 πŸ” 118 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 10

I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"

17.01.2026 04:28 πŸ‘ 11080 πŸ” 1935 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 272

In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties.

The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.

Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.

15.01.2026 16:58 πŸ‘ 4394 πŸ” 2782 πŸ’¬ 125 πŸ“Œ 744