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Steve T PhD
@thelasttheorist.bsky.social
Social scientist, project manager, engineer
Kansas, New School, and Tufts alum
Still running
https://storrente.com
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AI guys: "Actually AI is a TOOL."
Tool guys:
Been informed that my task today is to keep one person in the living room instead of the kitchen by engaging in conversations about anything besides politics. Going to go make some notes before everyone arrives . . .
November 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
November 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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If the state of Delaware prohibited companies incorporated there from spending on elections in any way, Citizens United would be dead in the water.

Delaware incorporates more companies than any other state.

It’s a blue state. Let’s get cracking on moving Delaware lawmakers on this!
November 26, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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We need a full and transparent investigation, and the federal administration should not use this as an excuse to deploy even more troops into American cities. (2/2)
November 26, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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worst forest/trees problem in generations is that a canto is A SECTION OF A LONG POEM. THAT'S IT. YOU DIDN'T WRITE A CANTO BECAUSE YOU THOUGHT THE WORD LOOKED COOL ON YOUR MEMOIR. CANTOS ARE POEMS. THAT LANGUAGE IS DYNAMIC DOES NOT MAKE YOUR SLAMBOOK A CANTO AMERICAN OR OTHERWISE
November 27, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Hoping I can use rollover not-posting to keep my daily average low for weeks now.
November 27, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Been offline all day and I'm dismayed that there are apparently more gross revelations.
November 27, 2025 at 2:36 AM
This is probably a bit niche but I find it funny that the brand of this sous-vide cooker is "Anova."
November 26, 2025 at 11:18 PM
JFC these squalid conniving losers.
And advising Ushakov on how Putin should best approach Trump: congratulate him, emphasize Russia's desire for peace, and portray Trump as someone who can deliver it.
November 25, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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My colleague, Dr. Vahid Abedini, was illegally detained by ICE on Saturday. He is currently being held without a court date in sight, despite being in the country legally. Please spread the word! We must ensure his due process rights are upheld. www.oudaily.com/news/ou-prof...
OU College of International Studies professor reportedly arrested by ICE
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reportedly arrested an OU professor at Will Rogers International Airport Saturday.
www.oudaily.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Marjorie Taylor Greene's resigning in time to get a pension is a lesson to everyone.

Most Americans don't get *any* pension anymore, but Congress gave itself a pension after only five years of work.

Our "representatives" aren't working for us, they are [barely] working for themselves.
November 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I now have to triple check everything before I leave on a trip. a bit tightly-wound these days.
November 25, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Always the tension before the trip . . .
November 25, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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As I said in July as CU was preparing to put up this statue, "One of the most prominent bigots in recent Colorado history is a man named Bill McCartney." @boulderrl.bsky.social reports that CU this weekend barred the press and erected a statue of McCartney, celebrating a man who hurt many people.
Bill McCartney statue installed at CU Boulder, drawing protests from LGBTQ+ advocates
McCartney was both a record-setting coach and an advocate for policy that stripped legal protections for LGBTQ+ people. His statue went up this month.
boulderreportinglab.org
November 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I guess it's better to have your case kicked because you're not the US Attorney than because you filed an indictment that wasn't really voted on.
A federal judge has ruled that former insurance lawyer Lindsey Halligan was invalidly appointed as interim U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia and has dismissed the indictments of former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.
Comey and James Cases Dismissed Over Halligan’s Invalid Appointment
A federal judge has ruled that former insurance lawyer Lindsey Halligan was...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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academia be like
November 24, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Threads accounts are based in Secaucus, NJ.
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 24, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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what a surprise, majority of fash "Ireland is full" posts on shitter are from outside Ireland
November 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
"Replacement" is doing a lot of work in this sentence, as they say. Not as much work as all that trenbolone, of course.
“Kennedy is 71, but with the help of weight lifting, artificial tanning, a careful diet, and testosterone-replacement therapy, he looks more like a comic-book character than a senior citizen, his bronzed face all chiseled angles, his eyes sky blue.”
November 24, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Are we going to prom or to Hell, Charlie Brown?
I was cured all right, Charlie Brown
Why did I cover up the colors stuck inside my head, Charlie Brown?
November 24, 2025 at 4:11 AM
He puts one of yours in the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way, Charlie Brown.
If you can't take a little bloody nose maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed, Charlie Brown
Take it sleazy, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Play La Marseillaise, Charlie Brown. Play it.
somehow, Palpitine returned, Charlie Brown
When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 3:42 AM
[Parisian accent]: "If I was management, I wouldn't have offered you a cigarette, Charlie Brown."
Nobody trusts anyone anymore, Charlie Brown
We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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NEWS: I spent the past 24 hours going through major MAGA accounts on Twitter, and a bombshell development has become clear: most of the right-wing ecosphere is being fed propaganda from foreign actors.

This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
NEWS: Major MAGA Accounts on Twitter Exposed as Foreign Actors
A stunning development over the past 24 hours.
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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absolutely excellent story about the *real* big energy of the decade/millennium unfolding before us
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Accessible, cheap clean energy could spark a new world order
Unshackled from legacy fossil fuel interests, the world’s clean energy future is being forged in the bustling cities of the global south.
www.abc.net.au
November 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM