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grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 7h

Trump's USDA is like "Okay we need you to believe in science".

That's how big a fuck up this is lol www.texastribune.org/2025/10/14/s...

USDA slaps down Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller over New World Screwworm

The federal agency accused Miller of disregarding proven strategies to combat the parasitic pest “in favor of clickbait publicity stunts.”

www.texastribune.org

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Saganomics @saganomics.bsky.social · 6h

As an officer of a local party where about 70 of our 280 committee seats are filled, I cannot reiterate enough that the party is a creation of the people whose hands are on it. In too many places there aren't enough hands, or those hands are complacent or bitter. But they could be yours instead.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 7h

So ICE is supposed to be removing the fence but instead has, for now, acquired even more fence for mysterious purposes

Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere @tylerplariviere.bsky.social · 7h

A lots happened, a flatbed with fence equipment entered the facility a couple dozen agents came out, chatted with ISP, and three ICE marked vehicles have come out and are parked in front of the fence on beach street.

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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 7h

ever since 2008, established local politicians have been kicking off campaigns against Steve Cohen by saying insane shit that scares donors, then going on to lose by sixty-plus in the face of a unified front behind Cohen that they helped create by being weird and off-putting, it's kind of impressive

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 7h

Lattice, which is supposedly their core Software of Everything for The Future Of Defense, is a buggy kludge that everyone will privately say doesn't work, and the only reason they keep getting contracts is DoD has been captured (not just a Trump thing) into shoveling money their way

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 5h

very random that they funded Airbnb with $40 boxes of political breakfast cereal back when it was AirBed & Breakfast because you literally slept on air mattresses

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 11h

"Winning elections forever is not a strategy!" is correct. But the implication of this is that at some point in the future we need to have a reason that losing them isn't existential

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Blaze @blazeberaht.bsky.social · 1d

“They assumed that no one was ever going to check and scan all these satellites and see what was out there. That was their method of security,” Schulman says. “They just really didn't think anyone would look up.”

I can’t believe the first rule of fantasy sneaking really does work IRL.

David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 1d

An absolutely terrifying SCOOP from @mattburgess1.bsky.social and @agreenberg.bsky.social revealing that everything from inflight browsing data to military communications are being beamed unencrypted from satellites all the time

www.wired.com/story/satell...

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

www.wired.com

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rimidar @rimidar.bsky.social · 1d

It’s funny (‘funny’) that the whole ‘fren = far right ethno nationalist’ thing was a retroactive justification by both the frens and opponents to make the whole thing less embarrassing and stupid broadly

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big neutrals @boymoder.meangirls.online · 1d

absolutely. I think the avg person is totally unaware of just how much of our modern hell descends from reddit mod drama a decade ago. that sounds like made up bullshit but is actually 100% real. if you even know what "r/subredditdrama" is you're basically more politically aware than 95% of america

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Boo-is @louisevans.bsky.social · 1d

“the modern Nazis bear the mark of Cain (babytalk) because they were driven forth from the garden (their native subreddits) by an angel with a flaming sword (Reddit mods)”

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Jana H-S (they/she) @jana-aych-ess.bsky.social · 2d

if you meet the buddha on the road, trick him into killing you, to establish dominance

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amb @amb.bsky.social · 1d

1) they're burning money either way 2) i'm not your boss

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 1d

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amb @amb.bsky.social · 1d

it also takes video generation resources away from malicious users

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amb @amb.bsky.social · 1d

if you hate Sora videos then you should be using the app as much as possible so that openai runs out of money faster. you'll have to stop if they somehow figure out a viable monetization strategy so get in now just in case

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 1d

but Trump doesn't want a thousand stories about how an Oberlin sophomore said that sandwiches are racist. he wants to turn on the TV and see someone saying Portland burned down and that immigrants are eating your cat

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 1d

people are definitely never gonna invoke you as an ancestral spirit while doing healing rituals where they use your people's ancient wisdom to puke spaghetti on ceremonial sweaters & self-actualize

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 1d

they're definitely not gonna put you in a glass box dressed up like otzi the iceman with a placard calling you "Proto-Whiteboy Female, fl CE 1900-1950"

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mediumvillain @mediumvillain.bsky.social · 2d

the fact that the right wing authoritarian extremist president openly describes anything liberal, left wing or remotely related to PoC as crime, violence, lawlessness & terrorism should give the game away entirely, but too many Americans are deeply fucking stupid indoctrinated rubes

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 2d

ai as an enterprise is fundamentally the task of trying to approximately compute the true name of humanity as a whole. this is a very normal thing to do and you should not be alarmed

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⛈️ Ascended NPC Alex ⛈️ @lastnpcalex.agency · 2d

people will be like "im not a spin lattice in a network, flowing toward lowest energy as the external field and temperature allows!" and then affectively polarize based on some stuff someone at the domain wall of their social graph says to them

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Caller @quiet-caller.bsky.social · 2d

the real trick is to actually have fun being poor

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 2d

the president is constantly talking about dying because his heart is so powerful that he will never die, and the fact that others will fascinates him

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

trying to blind aircraft pilots with lasers is so bad it’s an actual violation of IHL

like, it’s not acceptable to do this in an actual war

ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary...

ihl-databases.icrc.org

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