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Tamatoa's teeth @shinycrab.bsky.social · 9h

Why do cops ever need to disperse peaceful protesters??

L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 10h

LAPD on horseback disperse protesters on No Kings Day in downtown L.A. ~ @shoton35mm.bsky.social

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Tamatoa's teeth @shinycrab.bsky.social · 9h

Colonel Sanders is a lich

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 9h

Someone said the Kool Aid man is a “small Kaiju” which I agree with.

Is Ronald McDonald a cryptid?

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 11h

Is the Kool Aid man a cryptid?

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 11h

Liberals say that Trump has turned our democracy into a fascist dictatorship. They're wrong—he's turned our republic into a fascist dictatorship.

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 12h

Performative action is what got the Feds to finally admit AIDS was real, and the stories of that era moved the Overton window enough for Obergfell.

(Hopefully we move the window faster this time)

Performance is media-philic, and humans need to see things several times to fix it in their brains.

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Tamatoa's teeth @shinycrab.bsky.social · 10h

Very cool safety net we've constructed out of human bodies

accidentalflyer 🇨🇦🇹🇼🇺🇦 @accidentalflyer.bsky.social · 11h

This is what GOP wants to replace social security and pension? (Also, happened at one of my ex-employers. Payroll manager had a drug addiction problem. She was caught quickly though.) www.wsj.com/personal-fin...

Her 401(k) Contributions Vanished—and Her Company Had No Answers

One woman’s quest to recover more than $50,000 in missing 401(k) money shows the risks in some small retirement plans.

www.wsj.com

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Tamatoa's teeth @shinycrab.bsky.social · 11h

I have friends everywhere

T @trollyman.bsky.social · 17h

Laramie Wyoming no kings

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Dale Denwalt @denwalt.bsky.social · 13h

Retired Army Sgt. Brian Wofford spoke to me this morning at the Oklahoma City #NoKings protest. Didn’t expect him to be carrying his DD214 so I asked some warmup questions like when he got out and whether his injury was service-related.

He paused while describing the car bomb in Iraq to say this:

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Tamatoa's teeth @shinycrab.bsky.social · 1d

Just regular water and some urea?

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B. Whyte, MD @urbanedoc4kids.bsky.social · 2d

We don’t check the sperm counts of children. Literally not a thing, aside
from rare situations.
Their obsession with the genitalia of children *should* concern literally everyone. In addition to the fact that both of these fellas were buds with Jeff Epstein.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

RFK Jr: "Today the average teenager in this country has 50% of the sperm count, 50% of the testosterone of a 65 year old man. Our girls are hitting puberty 6 years early ... our parents aren't having children."

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 4d

I know the temptation is to just scroll past this with a “not surprised” reaction, but you should read this if you have the emotional bandwidth to encounter horrifying slurs and violent sentiments, because there’s an important takeaway: extremism is often performed to reinforce an in-group’s bond.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Tamatoa's teeth @shinycrab.bsky.social · 4d

That we know of!!

Tamatoa's teeth @shinycrab.bsky.social · 5d

My Spanish friend told me yesterday she didn't understand why ppl thought Columbus was bad...

He wasn't even Spanish!

Tamatoa's teeth @shinycrab.bsky.social · 5d

Happens to the worst of us

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Tamatoa's teeth @shinycrab.bsky.social · 5d

Dude - you and me, road trip

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 5d

Just rounding people up. A US citizen who says he had his birth certificate with him (!) was still thrown in the back of a truck and detained.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 5d

What if the unidentified masked men with guns don't accept the validity of your papers?

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5d

Kavanaugh stop

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 5d

What if the unidentified masked men with guns don't accept the validity of your papers?

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 5d

This is the response I received from ICE when I inquired about the 13-year-old they abducted from Everett, Mass. on Friday:

Good afternoon, Marisa.
Please see the below from DHS on the 13-year-old alien.
Please feel free to direct any questions to them.
Respectfully,
James

Tricia McLaughlin
@TriciaOhio • 6h
S...
Here are the facts: he posed a public safety threat with an extensive rap sheet including violent assault with a dangerous weapon, battery, breaking and entering, destruction of property.
He was in possession of a firearm and 5-7 inch knife when arrested.

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Tamatoa's teeth @shinycrab.bsky.social · 5d

I have, generally, a hard time processing verbal information vs reading but with audiobooks the slower pace seems to give me better retention. What's not to love when you have options

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Taylor Nichols, MD FACEP @tnicholsmd.com · 5d

Keep talking to normies about what is actually happening! Keep telling them these stories.

Again, these are not popular policies! People do not like this. They are not aware, information ecosystems have been intentionally broken to try to break our shared reality. Tell them.

Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 5d

In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear how he was injured). But when the patient was loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the ambulance driver: www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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Tamatoa's teeth @shinycrab.bsky.social · 6d

The key is to spent all your meetings sending emails to avoid other meetings

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Tamatoa's teeth @shinycrab.bsky.social · 6d

🎶muuust be Santaaaa🎶

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Tamatoa's teeth @shinycrab.bsky.social · 6d

"My god it's erythemous"

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Tamatoa's teeth @shinycrab.bsky.social · 6d

Carefully engineering my ai prompt, sifting through countless branches of dialog, ruminating on every possibility till I find the perfect opener: "Nice to meet you."

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Tamatoa's teeth @shinycrab.bsky.social · 7d

It's gonna end up like "low background steel" where after a certain point the sources are polluted enough it'll be easier to use pre-ai sources for basic facts

Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · Aug 18

Needless to say, an LLM cannot reliably determine whether a source supports a given claim, just as it cannot determine whether a claim is true. This will automate generation of documents that make false claims, with citations that exist and may, on superficial reading, support those false claims.

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