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Cyril Pickering @cyrilpickering.bsky.social · 22h

I've heard AI podcasts. They are mostly vapid conversations between two soulless voices, spouting uninsightful buzzwords, trying to fool an audience into thinking that the people talking are actually friends.

Real podcasts are...
Oh.
Oh no.

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Cyril Pickering @cyrilpickering.bsky.social · 11d

They call that mailer an alu card

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Cyril Pickering @cyrilpickering.bsky.social · 12d

"Lousy Smarch weather"

That one comes out during every snow storm

Cyril Pickering @cyrilpickering.bsky.social · 23d

You mean I can't trust the Ooktrind brand mouthwash that I have been ordering from Amazon? It has 57k positive reviews...

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Cyril Pickering @cyrilpickering.bsky.social · Sep 7

My "Just be a perverted" shirt brings up a lot questions, which... I honestly don't have a good answer for.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Sep 6

The blowdried crybaby who is too chickenshit to ride the C train thinks these namby pamby astronauts have been coddled enough

NBC News @nbcnews.com · Sep 6

It's full steam ahead for NASA, according to Sean Duffy, the agency's acting administrator. During an internal employee town hall, Duffy warned of "letting safety be the enemy of progress" when it comes to winning the space race, according to a recording obtained by NBC News.

Interim NASA head tells agency that it will beat China back to the moon

Acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy also told agency employees not to let "safety be the enemy of progress."

nbcnews.to

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Cyril Pickering @cyrilpickering.bsky.social · Sep 2

woody and buzz lightyear looking out a window

ALT: woody and buzz lightyear looking out a window

media.tenor.com

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Cyril Pickering @cyrilpickering.bsky.social · Aug 31

Hell yeah!

Cyril Pickering @cyrilpickering.bsky.social · Jul 22

This is the winner for me

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Dr Elizabeth Murray @drelizabethmurray.bsky.social · Jul 12

He sold vaccine cards and injected kids with saline so they thought they were vaccinated. There are no rules anymore

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Cyril Pickering @cyrilpickering.bsky.social · Jul 8

That stood out to me. Sounds like it was written by someone who only kinda knows about statistics but wants to sounds like an expert

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Cyril Pickering @cyrilpickering.bsky.social · Jul 7

I guess Epstein was indeed just a New York financier...

Cyril Pickering @cyrilpickering.bsky.social · Jul 5

He is possibly the funniest mayor NYC has ever had.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc9C...

New York City Mayor Says 'Every Day' City Could Experience 9/11

YouTube video by Washington Free Beacon

www.youtube.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Jul 4

“Can you explain this three-year gap on your résumé?”

“Uh … Prison? Yes, that’s it. I was in prison.”

“So you weren’t an editor at the New York Ti-“

“PRISON!!!”

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Cyril Pickering @cyrilpickering.bsky.social · Jun 11

I wonder if some countries will boycott the games

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Cyril Pickering @cyrilpickering.bsky.social · Jun 6

Congrats, Doc.

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Cyril Pickering @cyrilpickering.bsky.social · May 14

Elon is just mad that Rhodesia rebranded to Zimbabwe

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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · May 12

“And so the Greeks send me this horse, we’re talking about one of the most beautiful horses you’ve ever seen. So big. So strong. Normally they keep this kind of horse for themselves but they were such big fans they said sir, please take our big wonderful horse we’ll even bring it to your house”

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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · May 11

It's true! Bondi was a registered lobbyist for foreign clients, including the government of Qatar - which is now giving Trump a jet. tinyurl.com/mr36frb8

Bondi is the first AG to have been a lobbyist for foreign governments. (She also disbanded the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force.)

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · May 11

I’m sorry, what now?

Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · May 11

Pam Bondi was getting $115,000 a month to lobby for Qatar before she left to defend Donald Trump:

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Cyril Pickering @cyrilpickering.bsky.social · May 8

I just finished watching about 20 minutes ago. I'm pretty sure that now my neighbors think I'm crazy

Cyril Pickering @cyrilpickering.bsky.social · May 4

NJB: "The Netherlands wasn't already like this, but they made changes over the years"

Also NJB: "The US will always be car dependent. Just move"

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Cyril Pickering @cyrilpickering.bsky.social · Apr 29

I see the argument in favor of landed gentry is alive and well

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · Apr 23

A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...

Tricia McLaughlin &
@TriciaOhio
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The narrative being pushed about Jose Hermosillo is false. On April 8, Hermosillo approached Border Patrol in Tucson and stated he had entered the U.S. illegally through Nogales. He said he wanted to turn himself in and completed a sworn statement identifying as a Mexican citizen who had entered unlawfully.
He was processed and appeared in court on April 11. Afterward, he was held by the U.S. Marshals in Florence, AZ. A few days later, his family presented documents showing U.S. citizenship. The charges were dismissed, and he was released to his family.
This arrest was the direct result of Hermosillo's own actions and statements.

In an interview with Popular Information, his first with any media outlet, Hermosillo said DHS'.
's account was false.
According to Hermosillo, he was visiting his girlfriend's family in Tucson from his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Several hours before his arrest, Hermosillo was transported to a hospital in Tucson by ambulance after suffering from a seizure. He has a New Mexico state ID, but did not take it with him during the medical emergency.
After being released from the hospital following treatment, Hermosillo did not know how to return to where he was staying.
He approached the Border Patrol officer because he was looking for someone to help him. "I saw a car, and I askled] him for help," Hermosillo said. He told the officer that he was staying in Tucson.

"You"
re not from here. Do you have your
papers?" the officer said, according to Hermosillo. When the officer asked where he was from, Hermosillo said he told the officer,
"New Mexico." The officer then accused Hermosillo of lying. "Don't make me lout] like [I'm] stupid," the officer said. "I know you're from Mexico." After that, Hermosillo said, he was arrested.
Hermosillo said that he never told the officer that he was born in Mexico, was a citizen of Mexico, or entered the country illegally. And he would not have said those things because they are not true. He signed the transcript released by DHS because the officer ordered him to "sign everything." But Hermosillo did not read it, because he cannot read.
According to Hermosillo's girlfriend, Grace Hernandez, Hermosillo has learning disabilities and can only write his name.
Hermosillo said he did not graduate from high school and dropped out after the 10th grade.

The officer also signed the document, which said Hermosillo "read" the document or had
it read to him. But Hermosillo said no one read him the document.
Other documents created by the officer have inaccuracies. For example, the criminal complaint says that Hermosillo was detained
"at or near Nogales, Arizona." But Hermosillo was detained in Tuscon, which is more than 70 miles from Nogales. John Mennell, a spokesperson for the U.S. Border Patrol, said that it was an "unintentional" error.
Hermosillo said he was detained with about
15 other men in a cell at the Florence Correctional Center. He was served only cold food. He said he contracted the flu because
"they have it cold in there and everybody's getting sick." Hermosillo said he requested medicine but was not provided with any.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Apr 20

i will remark again on this hallmark of maga politics, which is that trump embodies the organic will of the voters and this imbues him with sovereign power that cannot be checked or limited by any other institution in the society.

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · Apr 20

We must dissolve the Supreme Court and give Donald Trump unlimited powers. Or else we will have a dictatorship.

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Cyril Pickering @cyrilpickering.bsky.social · Apr 16

What's that? Making a deal with a conman might go badly?

Morgan Fairchild @morgfair.bsky.social · Apr 16

Trump's deals with big law firms could be 'unravelling': NYT reporter

www.rawstory.com/trump-law-fi...

Trump's deals with big law firms could be 'unravelling': NYT reporter

A new report from the New York Times reveals that many of the big law firms that struck deals with President Donald Trump to avoid having their security clearances stripped are now finding that they'r...

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