Tommaso Sciortino
@sciortino.bsky.social
Dad, Husband, East Bay YIMBY, socdem🧦, founding board member of @eb4everyone, singer/pianist, 🇺🇸🇮🇹🇪🇺, I � Unicode, Gemini CLI Dev
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The only way to stop this for state govts to start going after the universities that do this and then for the next democratic admin to go after universities again too.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:59 AM
The only way to stop this for state govts to start going after the universities that do this and then for the next democratic admin to go after universities again too.
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post a meme from your abandoned memes folder
November 29, 2025 at 6:41 PM
post a meme from your abandoned memes folder
Got exposed to some real antisemitic crap this morning. A (crappy) song called "We don't have a presbyterian problem". It's kind of amazing how much these guys have to dance around their point. They are constantly self censoring and speaking in codes. Must be exhausting.
November 29, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Got exposed to some real antisemitic crap this morning. A (crappy) song called "We don't have a presbyterian problem". It's kind of amazing how much these guys have to dance around their point. They are constantly self censoring and speaking in codes. Must be exhausting.
The leftism we need: automation is awesome as it eliminates human drudgery.
The leftism we have: human drudgery must be preserved to protect the system by which people sell their labor for sustenance.
The leftism we have: human drudgery must be preserved to protect the system by which people sell their labor for sustenance.
Marx cheered industrialization and the elimination of human drudgery as he thought it hastened the day of revolution.
Some modern day leftists fear it instead because they can't imagine a world where people's livelihoods didn't depend on selling their labor.
Some modern day leftists fear it instead because they can't imagine a world where people's livelihoods didn't depend on selling their labor.
November 29, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The leftism we need: automation is awesome as it eliminates human drudgery.
The leftism we have: human drudgery must be preserved to protect the system by which people sell their labor for sustenance.
The leftism we have: human drudgery must be preserved to protect the system by which people sell their labor for sustenance.
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Marx cheered industrialization and the elimination of human drudgery as he thought it hastened the day of revolution.
Some modern day leftists fear it instead because they can't imagine a world where people's livelihoods didn't depend on selling their labor.
Some modern day leftists fear it instead because they can't imagine a world where people's livelihoods didn't depend on selling their labor.
November 29, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Marx cheered industrialization and the elimination of human drudgery as he thought it hastened the day of revolution.
Some modern day leftists fear it instead because they can't imagine a world where people's livelihoods didn't depend on selling their labor.
Some modern day leftists fear it instead because they can't imagine a world where people's livelihoods didn't depend on selling their labor.
B. J. Leiderman composed the Wait Wait Don't Tell Me theme once decades ago and gets thanked weekly alongside a bunch of people who put in effort every week.
Make of that what you will.
Make of that what you will.
November 29, 2025 at 4:57 AM
B. J. Leiderman composed the Wait Wait Don't Tell Me theme once decades ago and gets thanked weekly alongside a bunch of people who put in effort every week.
Make of that what you will.
Make of that what you will.
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Gay, straight, cis, trans, ally, enemy. We are all equal under the blazing fury of Will Stancil's hate
November 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Gay, straight, cis, trans, ally, enemy. We are all equal under the blazing fury of Will Stancil's hate
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this image was generated with google's latest nana banana pro tool. we have no idea how bad it is about to get.
November 27, 2025 at 10:15 AM
this image was generated with google's latest nana banana pro tool. we have no idea how bad it is about to get.
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If Trump proactively pardons Hegseth, the solution is to signal either to the ICC or the country of origin of the murdered men that we will honor extradition requests on this point.
And then, in something of an irony, Noem him out of the country before anyone can react.
And then, in something of an irony, Noem him out of the country before anyone can react.
November 28, 2025 at 6:40 PM
If Trump proactively pardons Hegseth, the solution is to signal either to the ICC or the country of origin of the murdered men that we will honor extradition requests on this point.
And then, in something of an irony, Noem him out of the country before anyone can react.
And then, in something of an irony, Noem him out of the country before anyone can react.
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Abraham Lincoln, 1855.
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
![I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor or degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes" When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy [sic].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:egd33s7iuqsmwlwab6mbtrqi/bafkreiaaicjid4jg3oongeah73ukqvwsqv4vwbp75q4f755nldtcfermhi@jpeg)
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Abraham Lincoln, 1855.
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
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Whether this was random street crime or targeted political violence, I think it was bad for the president to unnecessarily put the National Guard in harm’s way like this. They simply don’t need to be there.
November 26, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Whether this was random street crime or targeted political violence, I think it was bad for the president to unnecessarily put the National Guard in harm’s way like this. They simply don’t need to be there.
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so this is like, one of the biggest free speech infringements by a western democracy in our lifetimes right?
November 28, 2025 at 12:11 AM
so this is like, one of the biggest free speech infringements by a western democracy in our lifetimes right?
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unintentionally getting owned by help pages with "don't know this? click here!" links & you keep not knowing & you keep clicking until eventually there are no more because they assume they've reached the absolute floor of possible ignorance, & it's still '1st step: Woozle your Blang values' to you.
November 26, 2025 at 9:41 PM
unintentionally getting owned by help pages with "don't know this? click here!" links & you keep not knowing & you keep clicking until eventually there are no more because they assume they've reached the absolute floor of possible ignorance, & it's still '1st step: Woozle your Blang values' to you.
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anyone talking to Socrates:
unintentionally getting owned by help pages with "don't know this? click here!" links & you keep not knowing & you keep clicking until eventually there are no more because they assume they've reached the absolute floor of possible ignorance, & it's still '1st step: Woozle your Blang values' to you.
November 26, 2025 at 9:42 PM
anyone talking to Socrates:
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Every journalist post: hey guys I know you think that we should have said something about the child trafficker who hung out with our boss and emailed with our coworkers, but you guys are making some real journalistphobic assumptions and forcing us to do emotional labor, please examine your attitude.
November 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Every journalist post: hey guys I know you think that we should have said something about the child trafficker who hung out with our boss and emailed with our coworkers, but you guys are making some real journalistphobic assumptions and forcing us to do emotional labor, please examine your attitude.
Making my traditional pecan pie: smittenkitchen.com/2015/11/peca...
pecan pie
Six simple tips to send your pecan pie game into the stratosphere, because just-good-enough pecan pie would never cut it around here.
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November 27, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Making my traditional pecan pie: smittenkitchen.com/2015/11/peca...
White Guy who never interacted with many Asian people: Truly amazing that they made so many terracotta warriors and they all look exactly alike!
November 27, 2025 at 12:28 AM
White Guy who never interacted with many Asian people: Truly amazing that they made so many terracotta warriors and they all look exactly alike!
"Euphemism treadmill? Hey everyone, check out this asshole over here doesn't know we call that shibboleth generators now!"
Where there is a group people are yearning to be a part of, Shibboleth generators will be there.
November 26, 2025 at 10:16 PM
"Euphemism treadmill? Hey everyone, check out this asshole over here doesn't know we call that shibboleth generators now!"
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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The GOP entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to gerrymander everyone else, and nobody was going to gerrymander them. In half a hundred places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.
COOK POLITICAL: Republicans “may have had a blind spot: the extent to which Democrats could push .. in blue states to fight back.” 🤡
@cookpolitical.com #Redistrict
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@cookpolitical.com #Redistrict
www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/hou...
November 26, 2025 at 8:18 PM
The GOP entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to gerrymander everyone else, and nobody was going to gerrymander them. In half a hundred places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.
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Union forces had suffered some 5,800 casualties but inflicted twice that on the rebels. When a chaplain asked General Thomas whether the dead should be sorted and buried by state in the new military cemetery, the Virginian who stayed loyal replied "Mix 'em up. I'm tired of states' rights.” (21
November 25, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Union forces had suffered some 5,800 casualties but inflicted twice that on the rebels. When a chaplain asked General Thomas whether the dead should be sorted and buried by state in the new military cemetery, the Virginian who stayed loyal replied "Mix 'em up. I'm tired of states' rights.” (21
Most embarrassing civil war injury.
Brigadier General Charles Harker, leading a brigade of Illinoisans and Ohioans in Sheridan’s division tried to copy his commanding officer’s stunt but mounted a gun that had just been fired. The red-hot barrel scorched his ass so badly he couldn’t sit a horse for weeks (18
November 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Most embarrassing civil war injury.
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Anyway, the main defining feature of the AI discourse, whether it's on this platform or anywhere else, is that it's very silly.
November 26, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Anyway, the main defining feature of the AI discourse, whether it's on this platform or anywhere else, is that it's very silly.
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The average medieval peasant could not buy a gas station delta 9 gummy and watch “Scooter Fail Compilation 5” on YouTube, which makes it difficult to compare GDP across time
November 26, 2025 at 5:03 AM
The average medieval peasant could not buy a gas station delta 9 gummy and watch “Scooter Fail Compilation 5” on YouTube, which makes it difficult to compare GDP across time