Publius Maximus
publiusmaximus.bsky.social
Publius Maximus
@publiusmaximus.bsky.social
Giant nerd. I will like your selfies and reblog your pets.
Jacobite Pretender for Tumblr clout.

DNI if Jim Sensenbrenner

I use a pronoun labler and would like if you did too:
https://bsky.app/profile/pronouns.diy
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but:

The heliocentric view of the solar system is correct.
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We're all thinking it
Reconstruction 2 is going to require a level of seizing assets that I am very comfortable with but you may still need to work through
New: “Eric Trump Has Gotten 10 Times Richer Since Dad’s Election”

@kylekhanmullins.bsky.social for @forbes.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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I've said for years that Twitter has become nothing but a hate site and a vector for harassment.

And now it's a doxxing tool.

Get the fuck off of Twitter, now. And pressure the organizations you work with to get off.

It's a danger to everyone's safety.
NEW: Elon Musk's Grok chatbot will, with minimal prompting, provide residential addresses of everyday Americans.

Prompts as simple as "[name] address" immediately returned accurate home addresses of private citizens — alongside other personal info we didn't ask for.

futurism.com/future-socie...
December 5, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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Netflix Wins the Warner Bros. Discovery Bidding War, Enters Exclusive Deal Talks (Netflix offering $30 a share and a $5 billion break-up fee) www.thewrap.com/netflix-wins...
December 5, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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solar panels saved this school district so much money they were able to give their teachers $15k raises: www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/ark...

via @goodgoodgoodco.bsky.social
How one school district used solar panels to give teachers a $15K pay raise
The initiative has inspired other school districts in the area to follow suit.
www.goodgoodgood.co
December 4, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Give yourself a high five if you wrote a book this year.

You did great!
December 5, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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I would like this game to exist but you could not pay me to design or implement it
December 5, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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7. 'dogs from god' targeted orbital hot dog strike
December 5, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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SPLIT IN HALF?

The boat was capsized and SPLIT IN HALF?

I got nothing folks.

Trials. Prison. Everyone.

If you told me this was a psy-op to make me rethink my moral opposition to the death penalty, I would at least have to think hard about you being right.
I mean, this is an execution
December 5, 2025 at 2:39 AM
I never expected the face eating Leopards would eat MY face!
A Somali immigrant who campaigned for Trump responds to Trump calling Somalis “Garbage.”

“We see hope in you. Please differentiate between good, bad and evil… We’re getting killed out here.”
December 5, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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It’s Advent Calendar time for Thursday!
December 5, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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The first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 5, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Folks: Tiny Baby is sitting in a cardboard box.

That is all.
December 5, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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Making stuffed peppers
December 5, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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if you are running for congress in a flippable district i will do it for free
if anyone wants to actually do the acting for a TikTok series called "Desperate House Lies" where we make skits about this dynamic, i will help you write scripts
December 5, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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I’ve said it once,

I’ll say it again.

The 1981 radio dramatisation of The Lord of the Rings is so fucking good.

Ian Holm as Frodo is so beautiful especially as he played Bilbo in the films.

Bill Nighy is amazing as Sam.

There’s so much to love about this adaptation.
December 5, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Our infrastructure isn’t ready for what’s coming.
The Bay took over the highway during this morning's #KingTides in Marin.
December 5, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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December 4, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Only tangentially related, but FUN FACT, gang: At least 9 Japanese medical schools, including the illustrious Tokyo Medical University, have been caught CHANGING THE SCORES on admission exams to exclude female applicants for the last 20 YEARS.

This is real! It happened!

www.bbc.com/news/world-a...
December 4, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Elise Stefanik just humiliated Mike Johnson so hard his son’s phone got an alert
Elise Stefanik is going after Mike Johnson — calling him an ineffective leader who's losing control over the GOP conference headed into the midterms.

"He certainly wouldn't have the votes to be speaker if there was a roll-call vote tomorrow." www.wsj.com/politics/eli...
Exclusive | Trump Ally Elise Stefanik Attacks Speaker Johnson’s Leadership
In interview, New York lawmaker says Johnson is losing control of House Republicans
www.wsj.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Hey how much do you guys tip the government guy who comes around every few weeks to beat you with a garden hose?
December 5, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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(That being said, just like how we have to get used to new shoes, I think it's worth telling everyone that they need to at least work on being comfortable in N95s or stronger.)
December 5, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Gavin Newsom spent the early months of Trump 2 having friendly chats with far-right extremists. He praised Steve Bannon shortly after he gave a literal Nazi salute.

Google "Newsom vetoes" for a long list of things he has fucked up for California. He's a snake and you shouldn't trust him.
You may have gripes...nobody is perfect, but Newsom has been a great governor. He's an excellent administrator, and if you want to join the circular firing squad which has destroyed progressive politics, be it on you.
December 4, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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STORE: Thank you for your order!
STORE: We are preparing your order!
STORE: We put your order in a box!
STORE: Look who has a mailing label!
STORE: Your order has been shipped!
STORE: Your order is in your city!
STORE: Your order is nearby!
STORE: Your order sees you.
STORE: Turn around.
December 5, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Oh.
do they think taskmaster is your real husband that sometimes uses your account
December 5, 2025 at 12:14 AM