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SuaSponte2024

@suasponte2023.bsky.social

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Data architect, legal analyst, writer. Formerly "Matt Gertz's Forehead" on the hellsite. A rising tide sinks all boats with holes in them. "There's a world going on underground." - Tom Waits (Underground)

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SuaSponte2024 @suasponte2023.bsky.social · 19d

Texas is invading Illinois and Oregon.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 19d

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

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SuaSponte2024 @suasponte2023.bsky.social · 4h

It will be called Trump's Folly, eventually, I hope.

SuaSponte2024 @suasponte2023.bsky.social · 5h

I feel like I learned a ton reading that. 🥰

SuaSponte2024 @suasponte2023.bsky.social · 5h

Personification of LLMs is fun but dangerous, like a bad habit, IMO.

SuaSponte2024 @suasponte2023.bsky.social · 8h

And I have a decade more on you. 😕

SuaSponte2024 @suasponte2023.bsky.social · 8h

In Kurt Vonnegut's Galapagos (IIRC) the only way to identify the distant descendants of humanity as humans will be the fact they think farts are hilarious.

SuaSponte2024 @suasponte2023.bsky.social · 8h

Haricots are a musical fruit.

SuaSponte2024 @suasponte2023.bsky.social · 8h

And that's not all he's been doing.

SuaSponte2024 @suasponte2023.bsky.social · 8h

Roger Stone is an OG ratfucker. A wizened goblin of dirty tricks, not to be underestimated. He's a 60s Batman villain made flesh.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 17h

“According to a 2019 USDA report, every dollar in new SNAP benefits increases GDP by $1.50 in a weak economy.”

“SNAP benefits are one of the fastest, most effective forms of economic stimulus because they get money into the economy quickly during a recession.”

~Center for Budget and Policy

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SuaSponte2024 @suasponte2023.bsky.social · 8h

>>>Women are not usually interested in science fiction, but that's doubly true of Star Trek in particular.<<<

Wow. I bet he doesn't even know what slash is.

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Matias @kaplan.bio · 11h

oh so now suddenly these guys can't do phrenology

tweet from matty that reads "I'm honestly still not 100% sure how you're supposed to tell if a given skull insignia is specifically a nazi skull"

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SuaSponte2024 @suasponte2023.bsky.social · 8h

What happened to the furniture and art that was in the East Wing? Was it moved out before the demolition began? Is it in a Federal warehouse? Mar-a-lago?

SuaSponte2024 @suasponte2023.bsky.social · 11h

Read the sentence carefully.

It doesn't say what actual metric was increased by 175K. Was it the yearly total of applicants? The average number of applicants per week?

And what was the number that increased by 175K? If it were 2000, that's a big deal. If it were 200,000, it's less of a deal.

SuaSponte2024 @suasponte2023.bsky.social · 11h

>>>DHS reports has skyrocketed to 175,000.<<<

What has skyrocketed? The number of applicants a week? The total number of applicants per year?

And from what # did it skyrocket too?

This may make it sound like a lot more applicants are applying, but it doesn't actually mean anything.

SuaSponte2024 @suasponte2023.bsky.social · 12h

They mean every word I think.

Website, giantfreakingrobot.com. Article headline, Dungeons & Dragons Doubles Down On Political Activism, No Longer Any Bad Guys In The
Game, byline: Jennifer Asencio

First sentence (only sentence captured in image): On October 15, Wizards of the Coast released new Pride-themed artwork on their Dungeons & Dragons social media. Almost immediately, fans of the game reacted to the picture with derision, including a few accounts run by major gaming personalities and creators. Dungeons & Dragons has been taking a lot of criticism over its diversity initiatives, and the
new picture is an example of why.

SuaSponte2024 @suasponte2023.bsky.social · 12h

Giant Freaking Robot has also been freaking out over this little fella, claiming they destroyed D&D just by existing.

A smiling, pastel Beholder (D&D monster) that is absolutely not ruining your childhood.

SuaSponte2024 @suasponte2023.bsky.social · 16h

Hasn't this been true for decades? It's what Eisenhower warned about the military industrial complex, after all.

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SuaSponte2024 @suasponte2023.bsky.social · 18h

What's going to hold up that ceiling? Flying buttresses outside?

SuaSponte2024 @suasponte2023.bsky.social · 19h

>>>The Garcia case is divisive in the small community of scholars who work on First Amendment issues.<<<

The micro-aggressions of a reporter with a grudge, right there.

SuaSponte2024 @suasponte2023.bsky.social · 20h

>>>Over the past year, investors wary of the volatility in the S&P 500 and cryptocurrency markets have snapped up the video-game items at a record rate.<<<

This is one of the dumbest sentences I have ever read. The fact that it's apparently true is even worse.

SuaSponte2024 @suasponte2023.bsky.social · 1d

It won't cost us a dime because it's going to cost us at least $300 freaking million.

SuaSponte2024 @suasponte2023.bsky.social · 1d

pseudorandom numbers, darn it all.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 2d

"Win" what, in order to accomplish what, for whom.

Opinion The New York Times Editorial Board: The Partisans Are Wrong: Moving to the Center Is the Way to Win

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SuaSponte2024 @suasponte2023.bsky.social · 1d

"See you tomorrow."

SuaSponte2024 @suasponte2023.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, blow it out your ass.