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Laura K Mac

@lauramac95.bsky.social

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Cataloger Beer-league ballerina, hockey fan, mathy person Dog person Trans-inclusive normie feminist Team shiitake Profile pic = me after ballet class (selfie of a redheaded white woman in a gray sweatshirt & pink mask). Banner = my 3 dogs on the couch.

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Laura K Mac @lauramac95.bsky.social · Mar 2

Stone Cold “Crazy” Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · Feb 28

As an offshoot of this thread, let’s talk about what happens if federal, state, or local officials text, email, call, or show up at your door wanting to talk to you about what you said about the President.

I have a theme, a thesis, a throughline, a leitmotif, which is SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH.

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Stone Cold “Crazy” Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · Feb 28

This is a First Amendment question combined with a practical question. The answer is as follows.

First, the First Amendment protects advocating the moral and practical necessity of breaking the law in the abstract.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 13h

One of the weirder things about Me Too is that every accusation made against it by its detractors is in fact a description of those opponents’ own behavior. Here: other people must suffer extreme indignity for the sake of men’s ability to avoid discomfort and feel good.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 1d

Okay folks, I'm up early here in the Azores so I can fly to Terceira Island and get a photo that re-creates this image from "Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis"

I don't know why I have to do this, but I just have to

Angra do Heroísmo, as depicted in Indy Atlantis

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Laura K Mac @lauramac95.bsky.social · 17h

OMG THANK YOU FOR THIS

I *love* that game and random stuff reminds me of it sometimes.

I think I still have it somewhere (box o games in the garage) but no computer that will play it. 😭

Laura K Mac @lauramac95.bsky.social · 18h

Congratulations! (internet rando here.) Beautiful couple, wedding, bouquet, cake, pictures. 😍

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Jared Rizzi @jaredrizzi.bsky.social · 19h

Onion Sickos meme but French: "oui... Hon hon hon... OUI!"

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 20h

It's insane that this even needs to be said.

“A free country does not dispatch police in the dead of night to pull people from their homes because a sheriff objects to their social media posts,” @adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social speaking to @willoremus.com.

www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

A retired policeman posted a Charlie Kirk meme. He spent a month in jail.

The 61-year-old Tennessee man plans to sue after authorities dropped charges over a political Facebook post. Free-speech advocates say it’s a symptom of a wider crackdown.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Minneapolis for the Many @mplsforthemany.com · 20h

Since the last election, a secret network of 24 McDonald’s owners has spent over $100,000 to back Jacob Frey and his allies.

5 of them are out-of-state and only 2 of them live in Minneapolis!

All with deep pockets, willing to spend big to tip the scales of this election.

Title text: "McDonald's Spending Big on Conservative Candidates" with text below "Since the last city election, a network of 24 McDonald's donors stretching all the way to Montana has spent over $100,000 in Minneapolis elections." Above a graphic of Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin with pictures of GOP donors connected to locations in each state.

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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 1d

An undergrad who didn’t even go to journalism school asks the could-not-be-more-pertinent question that absolutely terrifies the “paper of record’s” “New York” bureau

Nick Pinto @nickpinto.bsky.social · 1d

This story about Melissa DeRosa allegedly threatening Cornell's funding after an undergrad dared to ask her about Cuomo's sexual harassment allegations is not gonna do anything for this crew's reputation as frothing bullies.

www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...

‘Watch Yourself’: Top Cuomo Advisor Melissa DeRosa ’04 M.P.A. ’09 Berates Undergrad Who Probes Cuomo’s Sexual Harassment Allegations

Melissa DeRosa ’04 M.P.A. ’09, secretary to former governor Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.) berated a Cornell undergraduate student at a Oct 1. Cornell Political Strategy Group event after asking about Cuomo’s ...

www.cornellsun.com

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Laura K Mac @lauramac95.bsky.social · 20h

As an Italian American, I am adamantly not affiliated with these clowns

Russ Frankenstein (no relation) @russ41.bsky.social · 1d

"During her time as Cuomo’s top aide, DeRosa allegedly played a central role in retaliating against sexual harassment claims by employees and creating a “toxic workplace environment,” according to the New York Times. ...

DeRosa serves on the advisory board of Cornell’s Department of Communication."

Nick Pinto @nickpinto.bsky.social · 1d

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 1d

I'm fine with aggressively spreading the rumor that JD Vance and Erika Kirk are fucking. What do I care

Charlee @ch4rlee.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, they big fuckin.

An image of JD Vance hugging Erika Kirk at the Turning Point USA thing. Her hand is on the back of his head.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 21h

What’s the single best Simpsons Treehouse of Horror segment?

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 1d

all cereal should be required to have lore

Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · Apr 23

Vanilly Crunch (1971-1975): A Cap'n Crunch variant, featuring frosted vanilla/cake batter-flavored puffs. The fictional lore was that a character named Seadog was baking a cake, and the batter spilled into a batch of cereal, which the Cap'n loved, and which was then transported around by Wilma Whale

A cereal box on which Capn Crunch rows a boat in front of a white bowl of cereal, full of round puffs. In the background, a whale wearing heavy makeup emerges from the ocean, in front of a clipper ship

A cereal box featuring Capn Crunch and a dog wearing a sailor hat, both standing behing a white bowl filled with round puffed cereal, which reads "Vanilly Crunch frosty-sweet cereal"

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Amy Nemmity @amy.wrestlejoy.com · 1d

I don't see a lot of people talking about this, so I want to highlight something GOOD

Billie Eilish stood in a room full of billionaires and said "you're billionaires... Why?"

She donated 11.5 MILLION DOLLARS to food equity and climate orgs, which Stephen Colbert announced to said billionaires.

Billie Eilish Calls on Billionaires to Support People in Need: 'No Hate, But Give Your Money Away'

Billie Eilish donates $11.5 million from 'Hit Me Hard and Soft' tour to charity and calls on billionaires to support people in need during hard times.

www.rollingstone.com

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 2d

JD Vance, the second most powerful person in the country, makes a flatly racist comment about immigrants and barely any mainstream news orgs are writing about it? Kudos to my employer, USA TODAY, for unflinchingly allowing me to share my views.

www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Vance seems to think segregation is 'acceptable' if neighbors don't speak English | Opinion

Vice President JD Vance has added a flatly segregationist twist to his broadly unlikable personality.

www.usatoday.com

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

Please note what happened here. By challenging Trump to pause his terror raids for Halloween, Pritzker forced Kristi Noem to come out *for* continuing to traumatize kids. Polarizing these debates draws attention/forces MAGA depravity into the light.

newrepublic.com/article/2023...

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 1d

I'm always amused by genAI users who are shocked to discover genAI does the thing it was designed to do, the thing the developers have been all over the news saying, the thing millions of resisters have also said.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 1d

The screenshots, of course, don't have alt text, but you don't need to waste your time reading them. Claude basically says the White House has not demolished the east wing and spits out several paragraphs of nonsense about it.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 1d

So close to getting the point. So fucking close.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum.
www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

man, it sure looks like republicans are using threat of federal government force to try and silence journalists

Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 1d

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Greg Smith @onshi.bsky.social · 1d

I was interviewed a few years ago by a company that was developing “closed caption glasses” (a feature the Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses include). They weren’t super happy about what I had to say: yes, it would help me “hear”; no, I wouldn’t buy or use it (and all smart workplaces should ban them).

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

No. Next question.

Can smart glasses ever earn our trust?

Chinese groups are racing to make the high-tech eyewear practical and affordable after years of false starts

www.ft.com

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

you’d think people would learn from history about “the importance of not fucking up one really big thing, because if you do so, all the other things you did that you’d like to be remembered for will crumble to ash and irrelevance,” but so it goes

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2d

the worst chickenshit in American history www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Biden Justice Department slow-walked key decisions in Trump legal probes

The picture of a hesitant Justice Department runs contrary to the GOP allegation that the indictments of Trump were the product of a Democrat-led plot.

www.msnbc.com

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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🎃 @hilaryagro.com · 2d

A writer tried dating alt-right men as an experiment to learn about them. There is so much going on here I don't even know where to start

www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/...

I told him that I was born in Russia and was a writer. He showed me a list he’d written of his favourite desserts in the city. It was a sober hobby he’d started during the pandemic, going to restaurants by himself, sampling sweets. He made a lot of lists, he said, most of them food-related. I asked what other kinds he made.

“Lists of lies liberal white women tell about Donald Trump,” he replied.

Suddenly, his leg was shaking. He grabbed the edges of the table and raised his voice: “White, liberal women are a plague on our society.”

He proceeded to drink 11 iced coffees.

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Laura K Mac @lauramac95.bsky.social · 3d

oh my god fuck all this into the sun

Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 3d

This is so bleak:

www.404media.co/a16z-is-fund...

Last week, I wrote about Doublespeed, essentially a click farm that sells “synthetic influencers” to astroturf whatever product or service you want across social media, despite it being a clear violation of every social media platform's policy on inauthentic behavior. But that was just the tip of the iceberg.

a16z’s Speedrun is also backing:

Creed: An AI company “rooted in Christian Values” which produces Lenny, a “Bible-based AI buddy who's always got your back with wise words, scripture-inspired guidance, and a listening ear whenever you need it.”
Zingroll: The “world’s largest Netflix-quality AI streaming platform,” which is another way of saying it’s a Netflix populated exclusively with AI Slop.
Vega: which is building “AI-powered social orbits.” What does that mean? Not entirely clear, but the company has produced one of the most beautiful Mad Libs paragraphs I’ve ever seen: “We’re building the largest textual data moat on human relationships by gamifying the way people leave notes for each other. For the first time, LLMs can analyze millions of raw, human-written notes at scale and turn them into structured meaning, powering the most annotated social graph ever created.”
Moona Health: an AI-powered Sleep care app the company says is covered by insurance. “Our AI-powered platform automates insurance claims and scheduling and analyzes sleep data – providing personalized session guidelines to therapists,” Moona says.
Jooba: “The world’s first autonomous recruiting firm.”
Margin: “The World’s first AI powered credit card.” Margin says “Customers earn points, with dynamic rewards that adapt to their preferences in real time.”
First Voyage: A wellness app that gives you AI “mythological pets that turn wellness into play.”
Axon Capital: billed as “DeepMind for Finance,” Axon says it has “pioneered brain-inspired, low-latency AI for financial markets.”

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Laura K Mac @lauramac95.bsky.social · 3d

Right? I'm stunned.

Laura K Mac @lauramac95.bsky.social · 3d

X’er here, proudly caucusing with the millennials 🙌🏻

Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 3d

Kinda not sure what we're supposed to do about chatGPT being as normalized as it is. I feel like everyone that's either very young or very old is into it, millennials largely being the only normal ones lol

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