Maximus
@themerciful.bsky.social
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Maximus
@themerciful.bsky.social
· Sep 11
Another f***ed up day in this f***ed up world.
But never lose sight of who's trying to make it better, and who's trying to make it worse.
But never lose sight of who's trying to make it better, and who's trying to make it worse.
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can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
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December 8, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Hoping for new leaders to rise up with great work ethics, conscience, character, morality, humanity, sacrifice and principle. Not just one, but many.
December 8, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Hoping for new leaders to rise up with great work ethics, conscience, character, morality, humanity, sacrifice and principle. Not just one, but many.
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Christmas in New Jersey
December 12, 2023 at 12:53 AM
Christmas in New Jersey
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Careful what you wish for...
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Careful what you wish for...
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The way to understand the second Trump administration is as a content generation machine. They aren’t implementing fascism, they’re creating fascism-flavored content. They aren’t implementing real policy, they’re signing executive orders to post about them. Anything that gets attention is the goal.
I don't really know what the administration hopes to gain by picking fights with the most well-liked pop artists in the United States. You're just generating backlash for no discernible reason outside of owning the libs.
Sabrina Carpenter ratioed the White House after it used her song in an ICE video.
The WH deleted the post…but now it’s back with a new ICE video, this time using an altered clip from Carpenter’s SNL monologue.
The WH deleted the post…but now it’s back with a new ICE video, this time using an altered clip from Carpenter’s SNL monologue.
December 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The way to understand the second Trump administration is as a content generation machine. They aren’t implementing fascism, they’re creating fascism-flavored content. They aren’t implementing real policy, they’re signing executive orders to post about them. Anything that gets attention is the goal.
How Tech Billionaires are Erasing Democracy
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The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
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December 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
How Tech Billionaires are Erasing Democracy
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This is exactly what churches should be doing, calling out injustice.
📌 Lake Street Church Nativity: a bold social justice statement with ICE-like Roman soldiers, the Virgin Mary in a gas mask, baby Jesus zip-tied, Joseph on the ground, pushing viewers to think about immigration.
📌 Lake Street Church Nativity: a bold social justice statement with ICE-like Roman soldiers, the Virgin Mary in a gas mask, baby Jesus zip-tied, Joseph on the ground, pushing viewers to think about immigration.
December 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
This is exactly what churches should be doing, calling out injustice.
📌 Lake Street Church Nativity: a bold social justice statement with ICE-like Roman soldiers, the Virgin Mary in a gas mask, baby Jesus zip-tied, Joseph on the ground, pushing viewers to think about immigration.
📌 Lake Street Church Nativity: a bold social justice statement with ICE-like Roman soldiers, the Virgin Mary in a gas mask, baby Jesus zip-tied, Joseph on the ground, pushing viewers to think about immigration.
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"The Donald Trump administration has changed which holidays qualify for free entrance to national parks, removing two holidays celebrating Black people and adding the president’s birthday."
National parks change prioritizes Trump birthday over days honoring Black people
Free entrance days at national parks no longer include MLK Day and Juneteenth.
www.sfgate.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:10 AM
"The Donald Trump administration has changed which holidays qualify for free entrance to national parks, removing two holidays celebrating Black people and adding the president’s birthday."
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it's very hard to distinguish between Trump's cognitive decline and his cognitive never-having-inclined
October 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
it's very hard to distinguish between Trump's cognitive decline and his cognitive never-having-inclined
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just at the end of a snow squall you'll see for maybe ten seconds the weirdest and most beautiful light on earth. thats what you tell an old person when they ask you why you always have your phone
December 4, 2025 at 8:42 PM
just at the end of a snow squall you'll see for maybe ten seconds the weirdest and most beautiful light on earth. thats what you tell an old person when they ask you why you always have your phone
Not even smart enough to pay cash? 🙄
"Agents filed subpoenas for credit card receipts from shoe sellers... They then compared the credit cards used to those used to purchase bomb components."
www.ms.now/news/fbi-arr...
"Agents filed subpoenas for credit card receipts from shoe sellers... They then compared the credit cards used to those used to purchase bomb components."
www.ms.now/news/fbi-arr...
FBI arrests suspect in Jan. 2021 pipe-bombing case
Authorities say the suspect placed viable explosive devices outside RNC and DNC offices the night before the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
www.ms.now
December 4, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Not even smart enough to pay cash? 🙄
"Agents filed subpoenas for credit card receipts from shoe sellers... They then compared the credit cards used to those used to purchase bomb components."
www.ms.now/news/fbi-arr...
"Agents filed subpoenas for credit card receipts from shoe sellers... They then compared the credit cards used to those used to purchase bomb components."
www.ms.now/news/fbi-arr...
We've all been there.
www.nbcnews.com/news/world/a...
www.nbcnews.com/news/world/a...
American Student Ends Up Trapped in Giant Vagina Sculpture
Firefighters embarked on an "extraordinary rescue mission" when an American exchange student got his leg trapped inside a giant vagina sculpture.
www.nbcnews.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:40 PM
We've all been there.
www.nbcnews.com/news/world/a...
www.nbcnews.com/news/world/a...
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Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
December 2, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
Good for them!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/s...
Cory Booker Weds Alexis Lewis in a Private Ceremony
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Good for them!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/s...
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White House Reclassifies Nursing As Hobby
White House Reclassifies Nursing As Hobby
WASHINGTON—Describing the practice as a “fun little side project” rather than an occupation, Education Secretary Linda McMahon announced Monday that nursing would be reclassified as a hobby under new ...
theonion.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
White House Reclassifies Nursing As Hobby
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No idea why an Afghan refugee shot National Guard soldiers within walking distance of the White House, but this new USCIS directive was revealed on Monday. Worth noting.
The folks at @afghanevac.bsky.social have in hand a new USCIS directive which largely targets Afghan refugees who fled the Taliban in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal in 2021.
In case you needed a reminder that the most loathsome people in the world work for DHS.
In case you needed a reminder that the most loathsome people in the world work for DHS.
November 27, 2025 at 5:19 AM
No idea why an Afghan refugee shot National Guard soldiers within walking distance of the White House, but this new USCIS directive was revealed on Monday. Worth noting.
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District courthouse in Baltimore named after Mabel H. Hubbard, state’s first Black female judge
Baltimore courthouse named after Mabel H. Hubbard, state’s first Black female judge
In 1981, Gov. Harry Hughes appointed Mabel H. Hubbard to the District Court of Maryland for Baltimore City. She then served as a judge of Baltimore Circuit Court from 1985 to 1999.
buff.ly
November 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
District courthouse in Baltimore named after Mabel H. Hubbard, state’s first Black female judge
This will be a good lesson for people about trusting AI.
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
This will be a good lesson for people about trusting AI.
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“Surveillance tools justified for one purpose inevitably expand to others. Immigrant or not, this expansion should horrify everyone as ICE and CBP continue their campaign of indiscriminate violence in yet more American cities.”
I have the data, and I must scream
Three weeks tracing DHS contracts through Baltimore, the Mid-Atlantic, and beyond
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November 25, 2025 at 4:27 PM
“Surveillance tools justified for one purpose inevitably expand to others. Immigrant or not, this expansion should horrify everyone as ICE and CBP continue their campaign of indiscriminate violence in yet more American cities.”
“This entire White House team has treated ALL members like garbage. ... More explosive early resignations are coming. It’s a tinder box. Morale has never been lower. Mike Johnson will be stripped of his gavel and they will lose the majority before this term is out.”
x.com/JakeSherman/...
x.com/JakeSherman/...
Jake Sherman on X: "A few other GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term. Here’s one particularly exercised senior House Republican: “This entire White House team has treated ALL members like garbage. ALL. And Mike Johnson" / X
A few other GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term. Here’s one particularly exercised senior House Republican: “This entire White House team has treated ALL members like garbage. ALL. And Mike Johnson
x.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“This entire White House team has treated ALL members like garbage. ... More explosive early resignations are coming. It’s a tinder box. Morale has never been lower. Mike Johnson will be stripped of his gavel and they will lose the majority before this term is out.”
x.com/JakeSherman/...
x.com/JakeSherman/...