Former Gnome
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Yearning for the vast and endless sea.
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“The President sent his lawyer to negotiate a settlement with a convicted sex trafficker to provide cushy accommodation in exchange for her silence on his participation in said sex trafficking” is a cold description of the facts of an insane story that the media doesn’t find worthy of scrutiny
November 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
“The President sent his lawyer to negotiate a settlement with a convicted sex trafficker to provide cushy accommodation in exchange for her silence on his participation in said sex trafficking” is a cold description of the facts of an insane story that the media doesn’t find worthy of scrutiny
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If your office is on the south side of the Capitol complex you can ignore the following:
If Lucy is holding a football, don’t try to kick it. She’s not to be trusted.
Thanks.
If Lucy is holding a football, don’t try to kick it. She’s not to be trusted.
Thanks.
November 6, 2025 at 1:39 AM
If your office is on the south side of the Capitol complex you can ignore the following:
If Lucy is holding a football, don’t try to kick it. She’s not to be trusted.
Thanks.
If Lucy is holding a football, don’t try to kick it. She’s not to be trusted.
Thanks.
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
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Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists.
You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man, but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?
You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man, but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?
November 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists.
You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man, but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?
You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man, but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?
You cease, we fire.
November 4, 2025 at 2:14 PM
You cease, we fire.
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Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’
November 3, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’
Democrats have been moving right on almost every issue for the past half century.
I guess here on Bluesky it's controversial to note that the Democrats, once the majority across this country, were reduced to national minority (in stages, from 1968, to 1980, to 2016) by moving left.
But if you'd rather think I'm just making Trump's point...well, whatever helps you cope.
But if you'd rather think I'm just making Trump's point...well, whatever helps you cope.
I'm questioning this statement, "the left started to lose the public (who to this day don't see Reagan the same way they do.)"
Who is this *public* you speak of? Wouldn't the left be a subset of it?
This feels like the current Trump regime's feelings that Democrats aren't real Americans.
Who is this *public* you speak of? Wouldn't the left be a subset of it?
This feels like the current Trump regime's feelings that Democrats aren't real Americans.
November 2, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Democrats have been moving right on almost every issue for the past half century.
One party wants the destruction of civilization, the other party wants bipartisanship.
I will never understand the pundit obsession with getting Democrats to solve "political division."
Not only is this what they're already doing, but Klein admits that Republicans will never do the same. So elections will remain constant GOP smears and simping Democratic promises of bipartisanship.
Not only is this what they're already doing, but Klein admits that Republicans will never do the same. So elections will remain constant GOP smears and simping Democratic promises of bipartisanship.
November 2, 2025 at 2:10 PM
One party wants the destruction of civilization, the other party wants bipartisanship.
Sunday election days make so much more sense than Tuesdays.
November 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Sunday election days make so much more sense than Tuesdays.
Elon’s donating them because he can’t sell the ones he’s building, right?
The nation’s largest police fleet of Tesla Cybertrucks is set to begin patrolling the streets of Las Vegas in November thanks to a donation from a U.S. tech billionaire, raising concerns about the blurring of lines between public and private interests.
Nation's largest fleet of police Cybertrucks to patrol Las Vegas
The nation’s largest police fleet of Tesla Cybertrucks is set to begin patrolling the streets of Las Vegas in November.
bit.ly
November 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Elon’s donating them because he can’t sell the ones he’s building, right?
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it’s ironic how nothing makes you sound more like you live in a weird little bubble than when you make the bizarre assumption that liberals in big cities have never interacted with a conservative before
The educated liberal big city US folks outraged at Trump's renovation of Lincoln bathroom really need to scroll some Facebook of their less established relatives and friends to see what kind of aesthetic resonates with Trump's target audience.
November 1, 2025 at 3:39 PM
it’s ironic how nothing makes you sound more like you live in a weird little bubble than when you make the bizarre assumption that liberals in big cities have never interacted with a conservative before
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False news | The war in Gaza has stopped.
True news | The war of extermination continues with bombings, assassinations, destruction, and the annihilation of families and children all timed and justified by yet another “pretext.”
True news | The war of extermination continues with bombings, assassinations, destruction, and the annihilation of families and children all timed and justified by yet another “pretext.”
October 30, 2025 at 10:24 AM
False news | The war in Gaza has stopped.
True news | The war of extermination continues with bombings, assassinations, destruction, and the annihilation of families and children all timed and justified by yet another “pretext.”
True news | The war of extermination continues with bombings, assassinations, destruction, and the annihilation of families and children all timed and justified by yet another “pretext.”
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how do you even talk about how the policy response to Wall Street gambling off a cliff in 2008 was to essentially earmark billions of fed dollars specifically for the purpose of subsidizing a campaign of mass psychosis inducing fascist propaganda across the entire world polity for a whole generation
October 29, 2025 at 8:08 PM
how do you even talk about how the policy response to Wall Street gambling off a cliff in 2008 was to essentially earmark billions of fed dollars specifically for the purpose of subsidizing a campaign of mass psychosis inducing fascist propaganda across the entire world polity for a whole generation
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Yet again i want to remind everyone that Bill Gates and several other billionaires have invested in mining projects in Greenland that are only accessible because of melted land and sea ice, he and other billionaires are essentially shorting the planet
Bill Gates softens 'Climate Disaster' approach, says too many resources are going to fight the problem
Bill Gates softens 'Climate Disaster' approach, says too many resources are going to fight the problem
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates says countries and leaders need to shift their approach to climate change and focus on 'improving lives'
cnb.cx
October 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Yet again i want to remind everyone that Bill Gates and several other billionaires have invested in mining projects in Greenland that are only accessible because of melted land and sea ice, he and other billionaires are essentially shorting the planet
The idea that you can talk about the economy without talking about immigrants or the climate (never mind climate immigrants) is also mind boggling.
Okay, let's get into the text...
Here are their bullet point recommendations: Talk about the economy! Don't talk about immigrants or climate or "social issues!" Criticize the ultra-wealthy, but in a very-not-socialist sort of way!
This is... just popularism? Didn't we already do this?
Here are their bullet point recommendations: Talk about the economy! Don't talk about immigrants or climate or "social issues!" Criticize the ultra-wealthy, but in a very-not-socialist sort of way!
This is... just popularism? Didn't we already do this?
October 28, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The idea that you can talk about the economy without talking about immigrants or the climate (never mind climate immigrants) is also mind boggling.
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"Everything that Israel has accused the Palestinians of, Israel does as a matter of doctrine," says journalist @jeremyscahill.com, co-founder of @dropsitenews.com.
October 27, 2025 at 12:53 PM
"Everything that Israel has accused the Palestinians of, Israel does as a matter of doctrine," says journalist @jeremyscahill.com, co-founder of @dropsitenews.com.
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Who knew witnessing a murder could make you laugh
October 27, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Who knew witnessing a murder could make you laugh
Leaving aside the existential threat to civilization it poses, if they think immigration is Democrats’ Achilles heel you’d they’d accept the need to cut emissions for that alone.
The idea that climate change is no biggie and not a problem at all that these guys all have is truly astounding to me.
October 28, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Leaving aside the existential threat to civilization it poses, if they think immigration is Democrats’ Achilles heel you’d they’d accept the need to cut emissions for that alone.
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As the single most important news story this year, I can't wait to see the detailed and central coverage this will get in every media outlet we have
‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:00 AM
As the single most important news story this year, I can't wait to see the detailed and central coverage this will get in every media outlet we have
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I love that we’re all unanimously like “listen that building is not sacred to me and it has a bloody history and if it came down ethically I probably wouldn’t shed a tear, but watching this man smash a wrecking ball into the side of it from sheer selfish malice has unexpectedly fucked me up”
October 21, 2025 at 2:59 AM
I love that we’re all unanimously like “listen that building is not sacred to me and it has a bloody history and if it came down ethically I probably wouldn’t shed a tear, but watching this man smash a wrecking ball into the side of it from sheer selfish malice has unexpectedly fucked me up”
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the internet is forever enough to hurt you, but not forever enough to help you
Did you know that, according to a recent study by the Pew Research Center, 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible?
When Online Content Disappears
A quarter of all webpages that existed at one point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer accessible.
f.mtr.cool
October 21, 2025 at 11:43 PM
the internet is forever enough to hurt you, but not forever enough to help you
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This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal
To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 19, 2025 at 2:05 PM
This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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So this is what's above the fold in today's NYT, while the protests get two photos below the fold and a piece on A23. I know I shouldn't be surprised at this point, but damn.
October 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
So this is what's above the fold in today's NYT, while the protests get two photos below the fold and a piece on A23. I know I shouldn't be surprised at this point, but damn.
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A lot more people should be rooting for the mariners because a mariners World Series appearance is explicitly called out as a requirement to achieve our collective relief from samsara
October 18, 2025 at 2:05 AM
A lot more people should be rooting for the mariners because a mariners World Series appearance is explicitly called out as a requirement to achieve our collective relief from samsara