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Shaun Manning

@fasterthanshaun.bsky.social

Co-founder and former owner of Booksweet, your community bookstore in Ann Arbor. Writer of things, mostly comics. Open for work. He/Him. shaunmanning.com

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Good lord i hope this is the moment AI FO

09.08.2025 15:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Pfizer Covid vaccine for young children may not be renewed by FDA Email obtained by Guardian says Pfizer was told approval may not be granted, meaning Moderna may have to fill gap

NEW: The FDA may yank Pfizer's under-5 Covid vaccine this fall. Pfizer has the only pediatric vaccines for all kids over six months, not just those with health conditions. My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

09.08.2025 11:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 295    ๐Ÿ” 218    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 20    ๐Ÿ“Œ 70

the immigrant communities I'm in are full of people seriously planning on leaving.

09.08.2025 14:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 666    ๐Ÿ” 136    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 15    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9

The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed.

Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.

09.08.2025 13:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17159    ๐Ÿ” 5951    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 628    ๐Ÿ“Œ 276

Well this is awful

09.08.2025 07:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I think it's a waste of time to spend your time on social media yelling at people who have the exact same level of power that you do to change the world which is to say very little.

It IS a good use of your time to enlist other people into actions and projects you would like them to join with you.

08.08.2025 21:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 842    ๐Ÿ” 216    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 12    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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a man singing into a microphone with the words " i won 't do " written below him Alt: Meatloaf singing into a microphone with the words " i won 't do that" written below him

I would do anything for graft
But i wonโ€™t do that

08.08.2025 23:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Here's something interesting about this: AI can't figure out that there are open source images of all US presidents that it can simply grab and use legitimately. Instead, it has to be [sparkles] generative [/sparkles] and gets everything spectacularly wrong. It's literally so stupid.

08.08.2025 20:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yeehaw!

08.08.2025 19:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

God dang i want your version of this series

08.08.2025 18:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Didnโ€™t want to believe this was true. Itโ€™s true.

07.08.2025 21:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14040    ๐Ÿ” 3505    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 395    ๐Ÿ“Œ 320
07.08.2025 19:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3014    ๐Ÿ” 399    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 30    ๐Ÿ“Œ 12
Kitski, a torty cat, turns to face the camera, tongue out

Kitski, a torty cat, turns to face the camera, tongue out

โ€˜Sup

07.08.2025 21:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This world is full of so many wonders, I truly hope Shania Twain finds just one that impresses her

07.08.2025 20:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Going to keep saying: a society that wants to keep functioning needs to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

07.08.2025 18:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3742    ๐Ÿ” 887    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 35    ๐Ÿ“Œ 20

Sometimes it's wild to step back and realize just how boiled the frog is at this point

06.08.2025 20:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 267    ๐Ÿ” 27    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
ICE is hiring!

US immigration and Customs Enforcement is looking for highly motivated, morally indifferent individuals to join our team.

Open positions include:
Senior Goon
Racism Enforcement Office
Unmarked Van Driver (Part-Time)

Experience with children a plus

usajobs.gov

ICE is hiring! US immigration and Customs Enforcement is looking for highly motivated, morally indifferent individuals to join our team. Open positions include: Senior Goon Racism Enforcement Office Unmarked Van Driver (Part-Time) Experience with children a plus usajobs.gov

From this month's edition of The Onion.

07.08.2025 16:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 27975    ๐Ÿ” 6213    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 695    ๐Ÿ“Œ 310

imagine if the democratic leadership had like 5% of the backbone of the good pierogi vendors

07.08.2025 01:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 904    ๐Ÿ” 109    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 24    ๐Ÿ“Œ 10

The reason the Dems are a failed party is because they have collectively decided that the best policy for any issue is a halfway compromise between a good idea and fascist bigotry, rather than fighting for any sort of coherent ethical framework

07.08.2025 12:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2173    ๐Ÿ” 610    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 17    ๐Ÿ“Œ 25

We have to get comfortable telling people theyโ€™ve been acting like suckers and the things they believe are cultivated for suckers. Radical honesty.

06.08.2025 22:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2271    ๐Ÿ” 377    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 49    ๐Ÿ“Œ 15
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Please, can we stop doing prequels? Star Trek should be boldly going - not become a franchise about playing with our favorite scifi action figures & stories that have a destined predetermined outcome. Trek is about how the future is what we make it, not inevitable nor empty nostalgia.

07.08.2025 02:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1399    ๐Ÿ” 220    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 74    ๐Ÿ“Œ 60

Just discovered that my teen knows all the words to Gangstaโ€™s Paradise, a song I have not once heard her listen to.

Is sheโ€ฆ enjoying Coolio /secretly/?

07.08.2025 14:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

lol ok chuck

07.08.2025 14:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

There's a long history of students standing up for liberty when university administrators will not. It's still sad to watch those with actual power decline to use it.

07.08.2025 03:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 156    ๐Ÿ” 33    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Please note prominently that he has no legal authority to do this

07.08.2025 14:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

this guy is what people pretend Gavin Newsom is

07.08.2025 13:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1338    ๐Ÿ” 234    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 34    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

I wanted to know whether Russia truly meddled in the 2016 election to aid Trump. So I asked Grok, and then kept asking Grok again and again because it wouldn't give me the answer I wanted.

by Matt Taibbi

07.08.2025 02:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1431    ๐Ÿ” 149    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 15    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6
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a man in a suit says " oh hi mark " Alt: Tommy Wiseau in The Room says " oh hi mark "

Is this the new

07.08.2025 13:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

really curious if thereโ€™s a historical record of other examples of โ€œraising river levels to augment the recreational activities of a political leaderโ€

07.08.2025 04:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 535    ๐Ÿ” 87    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 43    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6

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