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Scott @smadin.net · 16m

(on top of which everyone left of the late, unlamented John McCain should be happy to wear masks in public as often as possible, in the current political circumstances.)

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Scott @smadin.net · 17m

I can't swear no one ever has, but I've certainly never SEEN a masking advocate doing any "demanding". and angrily/defensively overreacting to a reasonable, polite request to do something easy and only very slightly inconvenient, for the significant benefit of others, is…a choice.

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Scott @smadin.net · 22m

well I could list some other things from 20+ years ago that I'm still angry at myself for, if you'd like

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Scott @smadin.net · 22m

and for another thing, this is the exact same dynamic that's been happening for over five years

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Scott @smadin.net · 23m

masking discourse is so weird, because, for one thing, one person will be like "to demonstrate solidarity with disabled and immuno-compromised people, please consider wearing a mask in indoor public spaces" and someone else will go "how DARE you make this DEMAND for ETERNAL UNIVERSAL MASKING"

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AndreaaaHHhHHHHh!! Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 2h

There's no reason to believe "AI" is inevitable, except that technofascist backers in gov't and business will find a way to destroy us to maintain their investment. We didn't/don't believe lies from big banks/big oil, why are we believing technofascists? AI is neither inevitable nor unavoidable.

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Scott @smadin.net · 29m

I know! how could I have been so stupid??

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Scott @smadin.net · 47m

Once in my early 20s, still new to bars and clubs, I went to see a show, didn't understand tipping etiquette, and got an earful from the bartender about it. He was right, of course, and I'm still mortified whenever I think about it.

Or did you mean still mad at someone other than myself?

John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 2h

What meaningless thing/experience are you still mad about? Like it should not matter at all, DOES not matter at all. But you’re still MAD.

And how long has it been?

I bought some bagels at Hy-Vee four years ago. So bad. Too big. Hard. Bland. WORTHLESS.

I’m still FURIOUS.

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Cen Galdre @cengaldre.com · 1h

"ICE shouldn't use full body restraints"
"ICE shouldn't use teargas"
"ICE shouldn't break into homes without warrants"

ICE shouldn't exist. We don't have to split hairs, energy, and resources. Its a private military that circumvents limitations on deploying military force on citizens.

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 3h

Here's the thing.

I feel like, if you'd spoken to a group of women, of any & all backgrounds, they could have predicted this. Same-same Black people. Same-same LGBTQIA+ folks. Same-same Jews.

I'm never surprised when men ~joke~ about raping women & non-Jews about shoving Jews into ovens.

Politico @politico.com · 11h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 5h

Members of the Unpresidented Brass Band were bull rushed & brutalized in the middle of playing "Ghostbusters." One was sent to the hospital and another tackled, arrested, and taken across state lines where she is still being detained.

Read more about Sunday's protest in Portland here:

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Scott @smadin.net · 3h

monogodmous

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Scott @smadin.net · 3h

the "while I take complete responsibility, I also deny any and all responsibility" is a nice touch

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 3h

Lol, fired for being dumb enough to put it in print

Staten Island Republican fires chief of staff over alleged text comments, including ‘I love Hitler’

The alleged texts exchanged via Telegram chats among young Republican leaders was obtained by Politico over a seven month period.

www.silive.com

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Scott @smadin.net · 3h

it's so fun how "originalism" means the text of the Constitution can only ever mean what its authors would have understood it to mean in the context of their time, except if that text was written between 1864 and 1870.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 3h

Spent all day reading briefs in Louisiana v. Callais and watching white people argue that the 14th amendment is a race-neutral colorblind amendment and citing Plessy for that proposition has me so angry. Just.. come the fuck on.

The Reconstruction Amendments were not intended to be race-neutral.

Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 12h

Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act.

I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 5h

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 11h

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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Jimmy Lonetti @djgloverepair.bsky.social · 4h

Fyi- Neko Case ticket price Friday night at First Avenue might be more than the average Paul McCartney ticket price the same night at US Bank Stadium.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 4h

There is no conceivable argument that these ships, even if we assume they were carrying narcotics, could not be dealt with in some other way. I think we can just drop the caveats and say: This is mass murder.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 9h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 9h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 9h

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 11h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Scott @smadin.net · 4h

maybe it was just super stressful for him to have to keep updating Covenant Eyes so his son would know every single time he saw another naked biker.

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Scott @smadin.net · 4h

imagine admitting this out loud

U.S. House Speaker calls Portland naked bike ride ‘most threatening thing I’ve seen yet’

"The most threatening thing I’ve seen yet was the naked bicyclers in Portland who were protesting ICE down there," said U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson Tuesday.

www.oregonlive.com

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 4h

Or Treasury, for that matter

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 4h

Literally nothing coming from the Pentagon, DHS, or DOJ should be considered credible unless backed up by an independent source outside of government. (This, for the record, is a huge problem!)

MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 5h

Of all the things that didn’t happen

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Osaka: None/bun - A sack of nuns @osakanone.bsky.social · 5h

remigrate is not a dog whistle, and is open nazi language

Remigration

Not to be confused with Return migration.
Remigration is an originally European far-right proposal of ethnic cleansing[1] via the mass deportation of non-white immigrants and their descendants, sometimes including those born in Europe, to their place of racial ancestry.[2][3] It is popular especially within the Identitarian movement.[4][5] Some proponents of remigration suggest excluding some persons with non-European background from such a mass deportation, based on a varyingly defined degree of assimilation into European culture.[6][7][8]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remigration

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 6h

Whooooooo.

MR. KHOJASTEH: Your Honor, with respect, do you
doubt the fact that a retainer [sic] is in place in -- a
detainer is in place?
THE COURT: I absolutely doubt the fact until I see
it. Because you know what? You all have taken a position over
and over again that you have done things lawfully, and then a
witness gets on the stand yesterday and admits you haven't done
it lawfully.
MR. KHOJASTEH: What did the witness say yesterday
that was unlawfully?
THE COURT: I'm not here to answer your questions,
sir. You're here to answer mine.

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