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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 1d

There are a lot of people--in federal/state/local government, in national/local media, in the RNC and the DNC--who need him to fail. Their livelihoods depend on him failing.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 1d

What's going to be difficult is untangling active sabotage (which he will definitely face from all angles) vs. genuine failures

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

we’ll see how his mayoral tenure shakes out but i am convinced that Mamdani has the juice. not just the charisma to win an election but the temperament to govern and the measured pragmatism of someone who genuinely believes what they’re saying and wants to accomplish real things.

Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani

www.nytimes.com

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 7h

weird phenomenon i keep encountering where “writers” correctly identify the soul-sucking danger that large language models pose to their craft, but for some reason have no problem using generative AI to make images. like….are you stupid!!!!

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 6h

c'mon man

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."

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Lacci @lacci.bsky.social · 8h

Arguably you have to go back to 1929 to get the last crash in the US before 2000 related to a bubble like that. That's part of why the .com crash was earth shattering to the financial elite (for a minute). They were telling everyone who'd listen they'd made that kind of crash completely impossible.

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Lacci @lacci.bsky.social · 8h

It feels like a lot more crashes but it's probably just the two so far. We've had other big recessions but stuff like the savings and loan crisis and the COVID recession seem like they likely weren't linked to a hyped product. You maybe could find a case for the S&L crisis.

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Lucas Nunes @lucasjn.bsky.social · 19h

Here's a T. Rex bored to death trying to bite their own tail. My partner asked me to animate it in stop motion, after she watched a video about the very important topic of "could T. Rex chew its own tail like a dog". The puppet is still a work in progress 🦖

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 9h

"A group of non-revenue-generating energy companies have collectively ballooned in value to more than $45 billion in hopes that tech companies will one day pay for their yet-to-be-built power.The biggest of these is the OpenAI CEO Sam Altman-backed nuclear startup Oklo..."

The Frothiest AI Bubble Is in Energy Stocks

Concept stocks with no revenue have soaring valuations. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has backed the biggest of these energy companies.

www.wsj.com

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Lacci @lacci.bsky.social · 10h

Actually I don't think general m**ls makes any cereals I'm allowed to eat so if there actually was a lot of content about their stuff I probably would have to mute it. I love cereal but I'm not allowed to eat iron fortified food cause they could you know seriously hurt me (the hemochromatosis).

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Lacci @lacci.bsky.social · 10h

Gotta keep the cereal and nut content out of the feed?

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WeeMadAndo @weemadando.bsky.social · 13h

I hope that the union defenestrate every teacher that does this.

Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 13h

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

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Lacci @lacci.bsky.social · 12h

I really need to try to get my life back on something vaguely resembling track.

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Lacci @lacci.bsky.social · 12h

I've heard it's even more important to dry polyvinyl alcohol filament (often used for support pieces that can be dissolved out).

You printing anything exciting? I've often thought about getting a 3D printer (or CNC router or lathe) but never have.

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 13h

A new Model T cost about $300 in 1924 (about $5600 in 2024 dollars).

CNN @cnn.com · 19h

New car buyers can expect to shell out an average of more than $50,000 for the first time, according to a report from Kelley Blue Book. https://cnn.it/4odLnaO

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 15h

Three panel cartoon by Wawa wiwa comics

An octopus, a shark and a jellyfish are talking to each other

Octopus: I once saw a human and peed myself

Shark: a human saw and peed himself

Jellyfish: a human touched me once and his friend peed on him

Octopus: dude…

Shark: what?

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🐴 Jam 🎃 comms open! ⭐ @wyrdlittleguy.bsky.social · 1d

Keeping this going just a little longer

🐴 Jam 🎃 comms open! ⭐ @wyrdlittleguy.bsky.social · 12d

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Blue anthro snow leopard laying on a grassy hill pointing at the night sky

Smiling anthro red panda against a light blue background

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Lacci @lacci.bsky.social · 17h

He doesn't seem to want Obergefell v. Hodges to be overturned but that's about as critical as he's been of the administration and the court. Except of course criticizing the three liberal justices for being insufficiently civil in dissents (if anything they're too hesitant to be directly critical).

Lacci @lacci.bsky.social · 17h

Kennedy is actually either criticizing both sides or just criticizing Trump's opponents, it's a little hard to tell because he's so cautious and lawyerly about his statements. I suspect he's basically a full on MAGA supporter. He certainly praised Trump extravagantly in his first term.

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Lacci @lacci.bsky.social · 17h

I really hate the way Anthony Kennedy is portrayed. Even in interviews. He speaks pretty cautiously and vaguely about political decisions by judges and the tone of our discourse. And the media portrays that as critical of Trump when actually that doesn't seem to be the case.

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Lacci @lacci.bsky.social · 18h

He's lying about ever having psychosis mitigation measures. I think he's basically talking about removing half-baked half-hearted restrictions on certain topics, both stuff like suicide and sexual shit. But his goal is to create addictive nightmares so I think you're right about what it will do.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' appeal of $1.4 billion judgment for calling Sandy Hook school shooting a hoax.

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 1d

sharing squirrelly secrets #sqrlpix

2 small squirrels nose to nose on a branch

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

one response to this (correct) observation is to say “well, the cops will attack you no matter how you dress and behave.” that’s right. images of cops and ICE beating grandmas and kids in inflatable frog costumes is a win for the opposition.

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

newrepublic.com

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은민 @em913em.bsky.social · 1d

바람 속에 흩날리는 코스모스를
폭풍을 잠재우는 꽃잎의 영광을

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 2d

"The book is absolutely chock full of pretty scandalous revelations"

Paul Holden on #politicslive talking about his new book 'The Fraud'

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