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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 3h

We gotta do a nationwide inquest into antisocial behavior. Leaving your dog's poop on the street. Not returning shopping carts. The What's Wrong With You initiative

tinybaby @tiny.baby · 3h

people playing music/videos on their phone speakers in public is more than just mildly annoying and is instead a leading indicator of the decline of community and empath

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 3d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Paul B. 🎳 @pb317.bsky.social · 7h

And are you married?

Screenshot from The Simpsons S8/Ep 6, 'A Milhouse Divided', in which Kirk Van Houten shows Homer his cool race car bed after separating from his wife, Luann. Quote over the image is taken from the recent Wired Magazine article on Tesla Cybertruck owners, and reads:
"I WAS MARRIED, BUT IM NOT MARRIED ANYMORE, WOMEN DON'T LIKE THE VEHICLE."

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Erick Fernandez @erickfernandez.bsky.social · 8h

Yes because of the Epstein files discharge petition, but also because Johnson and the rest of the GOP are going to try to overturn the elections of Democratic House members during the midterms, especially in more competitive seats.

Laying the groundwork for that.

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 10h

i genuinely do not understand why he keeps digging the hole deeper on this one

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

KARL: I mean, you could swear in Adelita Grijalva tomorrow, right?

MIKE JOHNSON: No, not tomorrow. We couldn't. We wouldn't.

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

If anyone is confused: read about Google moving to use AI to organize all their other search features here. While it’s a better experience, the recursion problem is worrying and it will make it impossible to distinguish organic results.

www.pcworld.com/article/2333...

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

Google integrated AI into the PAA feature recently as with most Google features. The quality of what gets plucked has plummeted. The important aspect of this is that the software Google uses can easily take a good source and twist it. Automation makes deception so much easier.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 22h

The latest AP-NORC poll had Trump at 37% approval, but, sure, lean into Trump-is-King. Good idea.

MAGA really doesn't know how to think about anything except to take the opposite position of their enemies, real or perceived.

Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 1d

Really think the biggest win today aside from just numbers is negatively polarizing the regime of 12-year-olds into fully adopting #YESKINGS as their official stance.

Jd Vance posted an AI video of trump as a king. Complete with crowned and sword. They fucking love their kings..

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 22h

Trump just posted an AI slop video of himself dumping shit on protestors from a fighter jet while wearing a crown, just in case you were wondering how today’s events impacted his mental health situation.

They’re losing. They’ve already lost. He will get a lot more weird and aggro from here on out.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776).
In America, the law is king.

But where says some is the King of America? I'll tell you Friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the Royal Brute of Britain. Yet that we may not appear to be defective even in earthly honors, let a day be solemnly set apart for proclaiming the charter; let it be brought forth placed on the divine law, the word of God; let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarchy, that in America the law is king. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d

To call it 'the most corrupt administration in US history' does not do it justice; that so understates the degree of corruption as to be almost false.

They have in fact instituted a new regime in which officeholders treat the public's thing—the republic—as their personal property...like kings do.

tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 1d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

Coast Guard Buys Two Private Jets for Noem, Costing $172 Million

www.nytimes.com

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 1d

Same energy

NYT 1931: HITLER CONDEMNS RIOTS.; He Says They Were Provoked by Paid Agents in Germany.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.

Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 1d

Reminder that @axios.com is right-wing propaganda. TSMC announced a $10B investment in 2020 then, following CHIPS Act (2022) and a $6.6B grant from the Biden admin (2024), dramatically expanded it to $65B.

Trump had nothing to do with it.
www.axios.com/2025/10/17/n...
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Nvidia and TSMC announced Friday their first completed U.S.-made wafer that will eventually become Blackwell chips for AI purposes, Nvidia first tells Axios.

Why it matters: This milestone represents some of the first fruits of the Trump administration's push to build AI technology in the U.S., and stay ahead in the race to control the future of artificial intelligence.

TSMC Arizona and U.S. Department of Commerce Announce up to US$6.6 Billion in Proposed CHIPS Act Direct Funding, the Company Plans Third Leading-Edge Fab in Phoenix
Third fab will produce the most advanced leading-edge semiconductors in the U.S., bringing TSMC’s total investment in Arizona to over US$65 Billion

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Paul B. 🎳 @pb317.bsky.social · 1d

Our tabby, Beatrice (1.5y), unknowingly posed for a photo this morning.

Here she is, next to a pillow my wife had made. The front panel of the pillow is from a t-shirt she wore as a child when at her father’s. He was a White Sox fan. The shirt commemorates the 1983 A.L. West division title.

Beatrice the cat, half sitting on sofa arm, half on sofa cushion, next to a white and red pillow with a cartooned "Winnin’ UGLY" White Sox baseball player, drawn in the team’s white, navy, and red 80’s color scheme.

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Eric Deggans @edeggans.bsky.social · 1d

Quoted in this story on turbulence at the Indiana Daily Student, where Indiana University officials made the shameful decision to censor the student newspaper, firing its advisor and shutting down the print edition. To no one’s surprise, I was critical: https://loom.ly/haV7puk

IU alumni, professional journalists react to changes at the Media School this week

Professional journalists educated at Indiana University are reacting to changes made at the Media School this week. They have cited concerns about censorship, d

indianaeconomicdigest.net

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d

i imagine there’s about to be an influx of MAGA chuds spewing their bullshit but i really can’t stress enough that if we don’t give them oxygen, they’ll get bored and leave. block early and often.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d

i know the desire to fight with these sick freaks is strong but resist the urge and just block. it’s better for your brain.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

They are arriving because of the mass mobilizations and they have figured out that Twitter isn't going to be the main space to monitor activity.

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 2d

Amazing.

Emergency applications
Trump in 9 months: 29
Biden: 29
Trump: 41
Bush/Bush/Obama/Obama: 8

Anything Trump wants they go to the Supreme Court. And the Supreme Court almost always gives it to him. So they just keep going back.

brownc424.bsky.social @brownc424.bsky.social · 2d

Well to put it in perspective: The record is 41 held by Trump (1st term). In second place we have Trump (2nd term) tied with Biden (August 2024 was the last one filed by his administration). From 2001-2017 there were 8 emergency applications, Total.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 2d

I think it is about time that Democrats started familiarizing themselves with Lincoln’s response to Dred Scott instead of accepting the tacit premise that whatever a bare majority of the Supreme Court decides, dictates our constitutional fate

Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 2d

Segregationists spoke of the “long civil rights movement” as the “Second Reconstruction” and for inspiration turned to the Redemptionists, who declared war on the first Reconstruction and after many decades of legal and extralegal efforts Installed
Jim Crow regimes.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

Parties Brace for a Political Future Without the Voting Rights Act

www.nytimes.com

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 3d

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

vance to his kids: “it is okay to tell your friends you love hitler as long as you don’t get caught”

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 2d

It's telling that Vance's first instinct following the Politico leak was to tell his sons to be wary of what they write in group chats--to assume “some scumbag is going to leak it in an effort to try to cause you harm.”

His message here is basically--be racist; just don't get caught.

Vance said he planned to warn his children—“especially my boys”—to be cautious about what they share in group chats or online, advising them to assume “some scumbag is going to leak it in an effort to try to cause you harm or cause your family harm.”

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 4d

JD Vance’s unwillingness to condemn the Nazi GOP groupchat provides the press corps yet another opportunity to probe his personal associations, and take note of how the whole administration exists to please them and make sadistic content go viral. www.offmessage.net/p/governing-...

Governing For The Gram

Republicans are obsessed with finding non-existent connections between Democrats and "the violent left" Meanwhile...

www.offmessage.net

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 2d

Chris Murphy is one of the only Dems who gets that there is no budget “deal” to make. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2d

Back when posting was good

@BustaRhymes
SHOULD I BUY A HOUSE... or.. A LINK TO A PICTURE OF A PIXELATED MONKEY
7:49 AM • 10/15/21 • Twitter for iPhone
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NFTea Expert @NFTeaExpert • 7h
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Replying to @BustaRhymes
Houses are often more of a liability than an asset unless you can make it cash flow or you are flipping

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 2d

"I have a decent fluency in LLMs, and they have utility, but the absurd degree of over-hype, the way they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value."

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andybchen.bsky.social @andybchen.bsky.social · 2d

B2B means bootlicker to boot

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