Boulder Dude
@bd1901.bsky.social
Living the good life in Colorado.
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The two work in tandem to create a terrible synergy: people will believe images/video they want to believe while disregarding those they don't.
Congratulations to humanity for building a cognitive bias confirmation machine. 🥳
Congratulations to humanity for building a cognitive bias confirmation machine. 🥳
sorta coming around to the view that the social danger of genAI images is less that they'll make people believe fabricated things are real and more that they'll make people believe real things are fabricated
November 27, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The two work in tandem to create a terrible synergy: people will believe images/video they want to believe while disregarding those they don't.
Congratulations to humanity for building a cognitive bias confirmation machine. 🥳
Congratulations to humanity for building a cognitive bias confirmation machine. 🥳
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They supposedly ended it by ***checks notes** massacring, raping, and enslaving women and children. But they did it very Christianly.
VP JD Vance stood before a crowd and tried to falsify history, claiming Christians ended widespread mass child-sacrifice practices among Native Americans
November 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
They supposedly ended it by ***checks notes** massacring, raping, and enslaving women and children. But they did it very Christianly.
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From the Larchives. Wishing my American friends a Thanksgiving dinner that can't be beat! Maybe two!
November 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM
From the Larchives. Wishing my American friends a Thanksgiving dinner that can't be beat! Maybe two!
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Cartoon: Instead of Elf on a Shelf this year, how about Betty on a Yeti! With thanks to Brent Smith for the idea :) Enjoy!
November 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Cartoon: Instead of Elf on a Shelf this year, how about Betty on a Yeti! With thanks to Brent Smith for the idea :) Enjoy!
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A *huge* vaccine victory. I've been writing on this for years; Australia has seen remarkable progress in cervical cancer prevention with the HPV vaccine. I love seeing science triumph like this.
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
A *huge* vaccine victory. I've been writing on this for years; Australia has seen remarkable progress in cervical cancer prevention with the HPV vaccine. I love seeing science triumph like this.
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The spirit of Thanksgiving has infused the White House press office today, bringing us together in a blessed moment of harmony and goodwill.
November 27, 2025 at 5:34 PM
The spirit of Thanksgiving has infused the White House press office today, bringing us together in a blessed moment of harmony and goodwill.
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A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving
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This is an incredibly powerful piece, impeccably researched, and everyone should take the time to read it. It clarifies a lot of things I’ve instinctually felt but haven’t quite had the words to describe.
We have a “poverty trap” and it’s driving the destruction of social cohesion.
The “poverty line” is’t 35,000, it’s $150,000, and making more than one, and less than the other is worse than being “poor”.
Which is why the rage.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
The “poverty line” is’t 35,000, it’s $150,000, and making more than one, and less than the other is worse than being “poor”.
Which is why the rage.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM
This is an incredibly powerful piece, impeccably researched, and everyone should take the time to read it. It clarifies a lot of things I’ve instinctually felt but haven’t quite had the words to describe.
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The Trump administration has reacted to a small scale lone wolf attack by in DC announcing a sweeping collective punishment, using the organs of government to heap blame on partisan rivals, and potentially dissuading anyone from collaborating with US forces abroad for a generation.
CIA statement about the Afghan man identified as the gunman who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington
November 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The Trump administration has reacted to a small scale lone wolf attack by in DC announcing a sweeping collective punishment, using the organs of government to heap blame on partisan rivals, and potentially dissuading anyone from collaborating with US forces abroad for a generation.
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"While governors often align with their parties’ presidents, Abbott’s support for Trump’s expansion of federal powers is a striking departure from his own historical and ardent defenses of state sovereignty."
Greg Abbott has bent his views on state sovereignty to accede to the wishes of Trump.
Texas recently joined dozens of states in turning over voter roll information to the DOJ, despite long-standing resistance to federal oversight of state elections.
With @texastribune.org
Texas recently joined dozens of states in turning over voter roll information to the DOJ, despite long-standing resistance to federal oversight of state elections.
With @texastribune.org
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, Long a Defender of States’ Rights, Embraces Trump’s Push to Expand Presidential Power
Defending Texas sovereignty has been central to Abbott’s political identity. Yet he has helped Trump erode states’ authority over elections, policing and deploying the National Guard.
www.propublica.org
November 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
"While governors often align with their parties’ presidents, Abbott’s support for Trump’s expansion of federal powers is a striking departure from his own historical and ardent defenses of state sovereignty."
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Once again; you can't moderate your way to neutralizing an issue like immigration.
It's fundamentally just racist reaction. Nothing is ever enough because what's demanded—ethnonationalist homogeneity—is completely unavailable in modern conditions. There will *always* be a basis for more demagoguery
It's fundamentally just racist reaction. Nothing is ever enough because what's demanded—ethnonationalist homogeneity—is completely unavailable in modern conditions. There will *always* be a basis for more demagoguery
YOU WANTED NET IMMIGRATION TO COME DOWN! THIS IS WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE!
November 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Once again; you can't moderate your way to neutralizing an issue like immigration.
It's fundamentally just racist reaction. Nothing is ever enough because what's demanded—ethnonationalist homogeneity—is completely unavailable in modern conditions. There will *always* be a basis for more demagoguery
It's fundamentally just racist reaction. Nothing is ever enough because what's demanded—ethnonationalist homogeneity—is completely unavailable in modern conditions. There will *always* be a basis for more demagoguery
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In recent days, Israel has dramatically escalated its violations of the ceasefire in both Gaza and Lebanon, which have been met with utter silence from the United States. Could this mean a return to the full-scale atrocities of the past two years?
mondoweiss.net/2025/11/isra...
#Palestine #Israel
mondoweiss.net/2025/11/isra...
#Palestine #Israel
Israel is violating ceasefires in Gaza and Lebanon, and Trump is allowing it
In recent days, Israel has dramatically escalated its violations of the ceasefire in both Gaza and Lebanon, which have been met with utter silence from the United States. Could this mean a return to the...
mondoweiss.net
November 27, 2025 at 4:04 PM
In recent days, Israel has dramatically escalated its violations of the ceasefire in both Gaza and Lebanon, which have been met with utter silence from the United States. Could this mean a return to the full-scale atrocities of the past two years?
mondoweiss.net/2025/11/isra...
#Palestine #Israel
mondoweiss.net/2025/11/isra...
#Palestine #Israel
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This week’s comic now up on @dailykos.com
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Hollingsworth Hound reveals who’s really the cause of the housing crisis. And you won’t believe who it is!
¡Ay, Caramba!
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www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
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Hollingsworth Hound reveals who’s really the cause of the housing crisis. And you won’t believe who it is!
¡Ay, Caramba!
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www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Cartoon: Tom the Dancing Bug's Hollingsworth Hound explains the housing crisis
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November 27, 2025 at 3:52 PM
This week’s comic now up on @dailykos.com
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Hollingsworth Hound reveals who’s really the cause of the housing crisis. And you won’t believe who it is!
¡Ay, Caramba!
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www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
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Hollingsworth Hound reveals who’s really the cause of the housing crisis. And you won’t believe who it is!
¡Ay, Caramba!
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www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
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Under Trump, official statements degenerate into comically absurd conspiracy rants with no basis in fact.
CIA statement about the Afghan man identified as the gunman who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington
November 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Under Trump, official statements degenerate into comically absurd conspiracy rants with no basis in fact.
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Definitely not a bubble
Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, AI related stocks have accounted for 75% of S&P 500 returns, 79% of earnings growth, and 90% of capital spending (Capex and R&D) growth. am.jpmorgan.com/content/dam/...
November 27, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Definitely not a bubble
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Winter also wrote or co-wrote just about every significant transpo bill over the last decade. Funding, speed cameras, etc. She was a giant in that world.
What a terrible thing. Rest in peace, Senator.
What a terrible thing. Rest in peace, Senator.
Faith Winter is why Colorado has a paid family leave program. My enduring memory: breaking the news to her that the AP had called it and the measure had passed, five years ago this month.
She was killed in a car crash today. I wish her loved ones solace and comfort. coloradosun.com/2025/11/26/f...
She was killed in a car crash today. I wish her loved ones solace and comfort. coloradosun.com/2025/11/26/f...
November 27, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Winter also wrote or co-wrote just about every significant transpo bill over the last decade. Funding, speed cameras, etc. She was a giant in that world.
What a terrible thing. Rest in peace, Senator.
What a terrible thing. Rest in peace, Senator.
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not the point, but I did a doubletake on this graphic - "That blob is labeled 'White House' but they left off part of ... oh right"
November 26, 2025 at 10:34 PM
not the point, but I did a doubletake on this graphic - "That blob is labeled 'White House' but they left off part of ... oh right"
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Well THAT should help recruiting in dangerous places.
CIA statement about the Afghan man identified as the gunman who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington
November 27, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Well THAT should help recruiting in dangerous places.
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Ashamed to say I'd never had sweet potato pie before today.
Tried three today: the well-known Patti LaBelle pie from Wal-Mart, a recipe that viewers suggested I make at home, and a slice from Denver's famous Welton Street Cafe.
(You're dismissed now, pumpkin pie. We're done.)
Tried three today: the well-known Patti LaBelle pie from Wal-Mart, a recipe that viewers suggested I make at home, and a slice from Denver's famous Welton Street Cafe.
(You're dismissed now, pumpkin pie. We're done.)
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Ashamed to say I'd never had sweet potato pie before today.
Tried three today: the well-known Patti LaBelle pie from Wal-Mart, a recipe that viewers suggested I make at home, and a slice from Denver's famous Welton Street Cafe.
(You're dismissed now, pumpkin pie. We're done.)
Tried three today: the well-known Patti LaBelle pie from Wal-Mart, a recipe that viewers suggested I make at home, and a slice from Denver's famous Welton Street Cafe.
(You're dismissed now, pumpkin pie. We're done.)
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Did he start going on about people eating pets?
Trump's speech about the shooting in DC veered into him attacking the Somali community in Minnesota, which of course had nothing to do with the shooting. Gives away his bigoted game.
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Did he start going on about people eating pets?
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Also these are people at the heights of the industry, and both Nuzzi and Lizza were almost instantly rehabilitated by top media companies after a first round of scandals that should have made them radioactive. Now lo and behold, much bigger shoes to drop, and we probably haven't seen the last of it.
The reason that we reporters are focused so intensely on the L'affair Nuzzi is that, as Olivia notes, it is a basically apocalyptic scandal in the most literal sense of that term: a dropping of masks. It's acting as confirmation of every hideous story anybody's ever told about political journalists
this was bad before, but these are the most troubling and serious allegations you can make about a journalist. if they’re true, i genuinely can’t think of a worse scandal in the history of political journalism. devastating to our industry, to public trust as a whole, and to everyone in its orbit
November 27, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Also these are people at the heights of the industry, and both Nuzzi and Lizza were almost instantly rehabilitated by top media companies after a first round of scandals that should have made them radioactive. Now lo and behold, much bigger shoes to drop, and we probably haven't seen the last of it.
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I was trying to remember a particularly egregious Trump ambassador pick and I started scrolling through all of them and yikes. It really hits you how nuts this administration and its era is.
List of ambassadors appointed in the second Trump presidency - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 27, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I was trying to remember a particularly egregious Trump ambassador pick and I started scrolling through all of them and yikes. It really hits you how nuts this administration and its era is.
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When the Wampanoag first fed the Pilgrims
they didn't realize
they'd just invented Socialism
for undocumented refugee immigrants.
Happy Thanksgiving.
they didn't realize
they'd just invented Socialism
for undocumented refugee immigrants.
Happy Thanksgiving.
November 26, 2025 at 11:10 PM
When the Wampanoag first fed the Pilgrims
they didn't realize
they'd just invented Socialism
for undocumented refugee immigrants.
Happy Thanksgiving.
they didn't realize
they'd just invented Socialism
for undocumented refugee immigrants.
Happy Thanksgiving.
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This fallacy should henceforth be known as a Barro's Blunder.
Anyway, the world does not need another post dunking on Josh Barro. What it does need, is a word for the fallacy where you make up some weird stereotype about people, and then when it turns out they don't actually act that way, you think that's something strange about *them*.
November 26, 2025 at 10:47 PM
This fallacy should henceforth be known as a Barro's Blunder.
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SHITTTTT
Federal judges allow North Carolina to use a redrawn congressional map that could flip a U.S. House seat to Republicans as part of President Donald Trump’s multistate redistricting campaign ahead of the 2026 elections.
Judges allow North Carolina to use a map drawn in bid to give Republicans another US House seat
Federal judges have allowed North Carolina to use a redrawn congressional map designed to give Republicans an additional U.S. House seat.
bit.ly
November 26, 2025 at 11:20 PM
SHITTTTT