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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃

@smotus.bsky.social

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 6h

Huh what nation in Lincoln’s time had 11 states

🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 22h

“MEEEMMMORIEEEES!!!”

🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 1d

I appreciate everyone's concern that the administration that has been arresting and detaining people based solely on appearance and language might start doing that now

🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 1d

Chai Hulud
Shadout Maple
Muad Dibbhin-Dots
Har-Cone-In

🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 1d

In a month he’ll be arguing that it needs to be taller than the Washington monument and the US Capitol

🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 1d

Pumpkin Idaho

🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 1d

It was in a special aisle by the crema and mascarpone but not by the sour cream. Go figure.

🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 2d

So I'd find it... by the sour cream? By the specialty cheeses? By the dips?

🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 2d

Crème fraîche needs to figure out whether it’s cheese or not right fucking now

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 2d

It begins

🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 3d

I love how the judge’s main argument is “I dunno guys this seems like a pain”

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 3d

The President of the United States personally called and pressured Georgia election officials to declare him the winner of an election he'd lost. This is permissible.

Judge Dismisses Georgia Election Interference Case Against Trump

www.nytimes.com

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 3d

Bay Leaves Matter, and if you bring that “Allspice Matters” bs you’re getting blocked.

🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 3d

Our chief weapon is a fanatical devotion to critical thinking skills

🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 3d

Bay leaves are bullshit. This is known.

🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 3d

I am well trained

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 3d

BRB am becoming Catholic

Vulture @vulture.com · 3d

Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’

Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT

Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’

www.vulture.com

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Micah @rincewind.run · 3d

the decline and fall of the american republic in two headlines

judge dismisses georgia election interference case against trump

bolsonaro ordered to begin serving 27-year prison sentence for attempted coup

🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 3d

My brain at 2AM: Does baking soda actually deodorize refrigerators or did Arm & Hammer just convince us of this in the 50s so non-bakers would buy it?

Vulture @vulture.com · 3d

Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’

Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT

Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’

www.vulture.com

Reposted by Nathan P. Kalmoe

🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 4d

A roundtrip LAX-JFK flight in the late 60s was around $3K in today’s dollars. The people who wore suits on those flights were the people who regularly wore suits. Complaining about informally-dressed fliers is complaining that the wrong sorts of people are flying today.

🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 5d

I mean I'd prefer we had enough air traffic controllers to fly all our planes safely, but hey, shaming people in open-toed shoes on airplanes isn't terrible I guess