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Kvetch & Release 🎣 @kvetchrelease.bsky.social · 9h

Well, what was the music?

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9h

I just checked and this is real. It's on Border Patrol's official Instagram (I don't see it on Facebook) and is being celebrated by Nazis on Twitter, as you can see in the screenshot.

The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.

Twitter account: Uncensored @HmanQuotes1945: Official border patrol Facebook page is posting with the banned lyrics of Michael Jackson's song.
"Jew me sue me... Kick me k*ke me."
Epic

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Kvetch & Release 🎣 @kvetchrelease.bsky.social · 10h

A dentist reviews Reds.

youtube.com/watch?v=V5Ej...

Limited Perspectives Collection on Letterman, 1982-84

YouTube video by Don Giller

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Stacie Rosenzweig @ethicking.com · 13h

This is the weirdest throw pillow ever

Orin Kerr @orinkerr.bsky.social · 13h

In the mail, AMK’s new book.
www.amazon.com/Life-Law-Ear...

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V is for very, very spooky @alana-m-vincent.net · 22h

Political theory is not the same thing as political science.

LibraryThing @librarything.com · 22h

Today is the birthday of Hannah Arendt, the Jewish political scientist and philosopher, twice arrested by the Nazis, who eventually made her escape to the United States in 1941. #HannahArendt #💙📚 #Booksky

A photograph of Hannah Arendt, underneath the words "Legacy Library."

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Kvetch & Release 🎣 @kvetchrelease.bsky.social · 20h

I was going to reply "0%” for precisely this reason.

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Kvetch & Release 🎣 @kvetchrelease.bsky.social · 21h

Are GQ editors huffing glue? Writer Watt DeFuq investigates.

GQ @gqmagazine.bsky.social · 1d

Is hard-right streamer Nick Fuentes winning over women on the left? Writer Katherine Dee investigates www.gq.com/story/nick-f...

Is Nick Fuentes Winning Over Women on the Left?

There are the Tumblr “Nickstorians” and sincere fanfics. But are young, liberal, possibly irony-poisoned women fetishizing or even falling for the hard-right streamer with the “groyper” following? Wri...

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Kvetch & Release 🎣 @kvetchrelease.bsky.social · 21h

Více versa for me.

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Kvetch & Release 🎣 @kvetchrelease.bsky.social · 21h

Dressing for the job I want.

Gram Parsons looking absolutely fabulous in his Nudie suit.

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Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 21h

Cali just banned bosses from requiring workers to repay them if they quit: www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/u...

Staffing agencies have sued hundreds of healthcare workers for quitting or refusing work, sometimes seeking five figures, I reported in this investigation: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

www.gov.ca.gov

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Laura @wompanafrank.bsky.social · 1d

This is one of the more astonishingly (and maliciously) inaccurate descriptions of the Tanakh I’ve ever read.

Skeet reads: “They’ve also got a Holy Book that explains they are always right and their enemies are godless scum.

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Kvetch & Release 🎣 @kvetchrelease.bsky.social · 1d

Delicious cake.

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Kvetch & Release 🎣 @kvetchrelease.bsky.social · 1d

No cakes, just bread and rolls.

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Kvetch & Release 🎣 @kvetchrelease.bsky.social · 1d

More eggs for me then

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

NC GOP release is clear about the anti-democratic intent - memory-holes TX redistricting and says they will "block the efforts of blue state Democrats to take control of Congress from Republicans" as if winning an election is illegitimate bergerpress.medium.com/general-asse...

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Kvetch & Release 🎣 @kvetchrelease.bsky.social · 1d

Some of my colleagues insist "we have to teach our students how to use AI responsibly, because not using it with be an option" and it's becoming increasingly difficult not to scream and break things.

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Doc Kennedy @dockennedy.bsky.social · 1d

A) NC is already extremely gerrymandered, from 7-7 in 2022 to 11-3 if this goes as they hope
B) This is Phil Berger's attempt to win Big Orange's favor as Berger is in a bitter primary fight against a MAGA challenger

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

🚨BREAKING: North Carolina became the latest GOP-controlled state to announce it will gerrymander its congressional map to please President Donald Trump. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

North Carolina Is Latest Gop-Controlled State To Announce a Gerrymander

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Kvetch & Release 🎣 @kvetchrelease.bsky.social · 1d

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Kvetch & Release 🎣 @kvetchrelease.bsky.social · 1d

Mine were not as high.

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Kvetch & Release 🎣 @kvetchrelease.bsky.social · 1d

I had some of those years ago and wish I still did.

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Kvetch & Release 🎣 @kvetchrelease.bsky.social · 1d

The older brother mentioned is my dad. I'll just say the facts about his departure from the family business and subsequent career are *very* different from the account here.

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Kvetch & Release 🎣 @kvetchrelease.bsky.social · 1d

There's some revisionist history here, but those details are not particularly interesting for anyone except the family.

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Kvetch & Release 🎣 @kvetchrelease.bsky.social · 1d

My (much younger) cousin Lucie and her dad (my uncle Jimmy) did this podcast about the demise of the family baking business.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

“Family businesses can be f*cked up.” (An emotional phone call with my dad)

Podcast Episode · The Real Stuff with Lucie Fink · 10/07/2025 · 27m

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Hell-issa Johnson, PhD 🎃 @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 1d

Even more crazy when you look at the OP's feed and learn they added this to their prompts because they asked the LLM how to get better results and this is what it said

Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.

A post from an academic on blue sky that says: "I'm learning about "prompt engineering" when asking LLMs to extract data. I now add this to all instructions:

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Be concise, analytic, and specific (cite page/figure if provided). If essential info is missing, keep going but flag Unclear and exact data needed. Never invent data.

#academicsky"

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