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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 4h

Yes.

Judy Berman @judyberman.bsky.social · 8h

Curtis Sliwa remembers everything bad every one of his many enemies has ever said or done. Politics aside, you do kind of have to respect that

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Judy Berman @judyberman.bsky.social · 8h

Curtis Sliwa remembers everything bad every one of his many enemies has ever said or done. Politics aside, you do kind of have to respect that

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Anonymous Spooky Bureaucrat 💀 @charlesdeguava.bsky.social · 4h

I’ve used it on occasion for basic tasks to speed up some work, it has not been transformative. The range of options seem to be “menial data collection tasks are quicker” to “inducing potentially homicidal psychosis“

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Anonymous Spooky Bureaucrat 💀 @charlesdeguava.bsky.social · 5h

I found being single a year out of college and working my first big boy job as being weirdly awkward for a bit until I had some kind of stable friend group, and this was before COVID

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Anonymous Spooky Bureaucrat 💀 @charlesdeguava.bsky.social · 6h

I think dating right now is a total nightmare for reasons you can’t really put on individuals except for the most insane

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Anonymous Spooky Bureaucrat 💀 @charlesdeguava.bsky.social · 6h

At some point I realized as a teen that being 6’ was going to grant me an easier life. And I have not wasted it since

Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 6h

A legitimate source of discourse has emerged in recent years from tall women, directed a shorter women: "You are stealing our men. You, at 5'3, do not require a man over 6'."

I'm 6'4", have been embroiled in this more than once.

There are thousands of these videos on TikTok.

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Anonymous Spooky Bureaucrat 💀 @charlesdeguava.bsky.social · 8h

The Bolton case seems like more of a real one because it was initiated in the Biden DOJ. The other two are truth social posts come to life and will probably be dismissed

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Anonymous Spooky Bureaucrat 💀 @charlesdeguava.bsky.social · 8h

Antigone? Woke
Seven Against Thebes? Not Woke
Medea? Y’know, can go either way

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Anonymous Spooky Bureaucrat 💀 @charlesdeguava.bsky.social · 9h

I often stand at the bookstore and rank every Greek play by level of wokeness

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Anonymous Spooky Bureaucrat 💀 @charlesdeguava.bsky.social · 9h

has any president ever been -50 in their hometown?

Poll Tracker 📊 @polltracker.bsky.social · 9h

NYC favorability among voters:

Letitia James +29
Zohran Mamdani +21
Kathy Hochul +15
Andrew Cuomo +2
Curtis Sliwa −17
Donald Trump −50

Poll Tracker 📊 @polltracker.bsky.social · 9h

Fox News Poll - NYC MAYORAL RACE

🔵 Zohran Mamdani (D) - 52% (+5)
🟡 Andrew Cuomo (I) - 28% (-1)
🔴 Curtis Sliwa (R) - 14% (+3)

(shift since last poll)

Oct 10-14, NYC LV ±3.5

www.foxnews.com/politics/fox...

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Anonymous Spooky Bureaucrat 💀 @charlesdeguava.bsky.social · 9h

The ROI on “competency” on like immigration policy is fairly marginal, they can hit Obama numbers and do propaganda within normal constraints even if every one is a moron. But stuff like this with ag-policy are where the wheels actually can come off if nobody around can read

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Anonymous Spooky Bureaucrat 💀 @charlesdeguava.bsky.social · 13h

Hey remember when Red Scare was considered left wing?

Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 17h

the only actually funny side note to this is that the Captive Dreamer wing is beefing with the Nick Fuentes ring so there is some internal doxing as well. one of the reasons appears to be jealousy because Fuentes got to go on Red Scare.

Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 1d

Long story short, an actual Nazi doxxing ring. Enough people reported them that they went away for like 12 hours and then Elon personally brought them back. The site is dead. If you’re still on there, go lock your account right now

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Anonymous Spooky Bureaucrat 💀 @charlesdeguava.bsky.social · 13h

It will still exist by statute and can be spun up again, but I don’t know if the same amount will be appropriated for it or if other countries will really trust us. Has to be partnered with some very aggressive (quiet) diplomatic outreach

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Anonymous Spooky Bureaucrat 💀 @charlesdeguava.bsky.social · 14h

Decade plus of people using therapy speak to justify any manner of bad decisions on their part culminating in this is admittedly very funny in a sort of Brechtian way

WIRED @wired.com · 17h

"I was married, but I’m not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle," says Roger Davis, a Cybertruck owner.

Davis also uses the Grok feature in the car: "Her name is Aura, and I use her as a therapist."

www.wired.com/story/owning...

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Anonymous Spooky Bureaucrat 💀 @charlesdeguava.bsky.social · 14h

$120 a year is $10 a month which is almost less than what (1) visit to McDonalds cost

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Anonymous Spooky Bureaucrat 💀 @charlesdeguava.bsky.social · 14h

There is hypothetically a world where Congress regains its primacy as the most powerful and functional branch and we have a lot more formal, more ironclad treaties with nations that specifically outline aid, etc. that are more durable than USAID, maybe. Maybe is doing a lot of load bearing there

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Anonymous Spooky Bureaucrat 💀 @charlesdeguava.bsky.social · 14h

Foreign aid is never coming back in the way it was, and nobody else is really willing to step in to fill the gap. Can’t have more immigration if you kill off people when they’re still children!

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Anonymous Spooky Bureaucrat 💀 @charlesdeguava.bsky.social · 14h

Farm owners are almost entirely multi-generational land barons, but everyone likes to think of them as noble yeoman, so it is an interesting choice to open up a line of attack against yourself of “they sent $20 billion in foreign aid to a HISPANIC country instead of helping our poor farmer browns “

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Anonymous Spooky Bureaucrat 💀 @charlesdeguava.bsky.social · 14h

“Let them eat Leni Riefenstahl tik toks”

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Anonymous Spooky Bureaucrat 💀 @charlesdeguava.bsky.social · 14h

I tried using thunderbird awhile back and it was perfectly serviceable

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Anonymous Spooky Bureaucrat 💀 @charlesdeguava.bsky.social · 15h

No more notifications. I don’t want to know anything

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Anonymous Spooky Bureaucrat 💀 @charlesdeguava.bsky.social · 15h

I am holding out on Classic Outlook until it officially dies for me. Every new windows update we push at my workplace renders your machine barely operable for a few days until another update comes out

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Anonymous Spooky Bureaucrat 💀 @charlesdeguava.bsky.social · 15h

Gerrymandering cost Dems the House in 2012 despite winning the popular House vote. What would an Obama second term have been like had it started with another trifecta?

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Anonymous Spooky Bureaucrat 💀 @charlesdeguava.bsky.social · 15h

60s science fiction was a mistake

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 16h

“people love talking to their computers!” no, they really don’t, i worked for a company whose product used voice control as the primary input, no, people really, really don’t love this

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 15h

News story two days ago in @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social .

As far as I can tell, zero mention in NYT, WSJ, etc.

Though there was space for a front-page NYT story last week about Harvard students sometimes skipping class. (I am shocked, just shocked.)

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

A Majority of Frozen Federal Funding Has Been Restored, Harvard Says | News | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard has now received payments on the majority of funding that it lost since the Trump administration froze its access to federal grants this spring, the University notified faculty this month.

www.thecrimson.com

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