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Charlenerd
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Software developer by trade. I enjoy music, mathematics, playing piano, studying quantum computing and history. And also procrastinating. A lot of procrastinating.

Prejudiced against antivaxxers.

Work in progress.

He/Him
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November 15, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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My “I am not a malformed creep who groomed a child for years and then abducted her to my secret dungeon, I’m just a misunderstood tragic romantic” playlist is raising a lot of questions already answered by my playlist.
Trump blares Phantom of the Opera at the White House with an empty Friday schedule
November 15, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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The people who cling to the Woody Allens of this world will never understand the people who drop the Neil Gaimans like they’re on fire.

Some of us are allergic to joining cults.
"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.
November 14, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.
November 13, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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If Trumpism implodes so comprehensively it costs Rs the state legislature, I'll nominate him for a Nobel Prize myself

bsky.app/profile/schn...
In that environment, a couple of NC districts could break fir the Democrat for the first time in a while.
November 15, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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Merrick Garland left a standing impression that no one powerful will ever be held accountable. Democrats should rectify that by saying, loudly and every hour, that people who act on illegal orders will face punishment by the next DOJ.
Dems can say: Are you really sure you want to trust Trump, of all people, when he tells you that what he’s directing you to do is lawful, and that you’ll be protected later as a result? That’s a tenuous position for anyone to put themselves into—and Dems should not hesitate to say so.
Awful: Trump's boat bombings are now being justified by a new legal memo that relies on WH's own determinations as evidence. Memo also says people can't be prosecuted for the killings. But that reveals WH knows there's legal vulnerability here, Ds tell me.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
November 14, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Trump should release all of the Epstein files: every person and every document in the files.
November 15, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Something the US needs to accept too is that without a large-scale correction imposing consequences on a large number of people, the crisis of governance here will continue indefinitely
November 12, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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i’d be more comfortable with the olivia nuzzi coverage if every story was headlined something like “seduced by a guy who eats roadkill: the story of an extremely stupid lady”
November 14, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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And if you abstained or voted 3rd party, yeah… you fucking elected him.
November 14, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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MT Greene firing back at Trump. Includes a text she sent him.
I don’t understand all the ins and outs of this nasty little fight, but I enjoy that it’s happening.
November 15, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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So that's why he's called the head of state
November 15, 2025 at 1:33 AM
It would usually be misogynist of me to say “the only reason she’s successful is because men find her attractive”, but not in Nuzzi’s case.
The only thing that's interesting about Nuzzi is the story of how an amoral careerist with no interest in policy and abysmal ethics became an acclaimed national political reporter. But rather than tell that story, the entire media seems desperate to play a part in it.
It rocks that all 20 people who genuinely think the Olivia Nuzzi stuff is interesting have editorial discretion at major media outlets. Just publish your group chats
November 15, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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I’ll never forget that when Sharp Objects came out Nuzzi wrote that piece criticizing the show and the book for perpetuating the stereotype that female journalists sleep with their sources.
November 15, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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I will no doubt read and enjoy all your very good Nuzzi jokes, but I also want to say earnestly, so many of us (myself included) are on the verge of being pushed out of this industry and it's genuinely so dispiriting to see the worst among us, ethics-wise, get such preferential treatment.
November 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Turns out you can communicate across containers via 63-bits of available space in a shared lock you acquire on /proc/self/ns/time that all processes have access to.

No networking required. The post has a demo of a chat app communicating across unprivileged containers.

h4x0r.org/funreliable/
November 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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“Equally remarkable was how quickly Attorney General Pam Bondi acquiesced to his demand, even though four months ago the Justice Department formally declared that nothing in the Epstein files warranted further investigation.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
The Justice Department Will Investigate Epstein Ties. Just Not to Trump.
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Donald Trump Sucked Me Off??
November 15, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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November 15, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Well that's an interesting way to cover the story, NYT.
November 14, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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To quote Peggy Noonan, “is it irresponsible to speculate? No, it’s irresponsible *not* to.”
The important thing is not whether the Trump performing sexual favors for Bill Clinton thing is true. The important thing is that we all pretend it’s true, and that someone asks Trump about it every day.
November 14, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Trump says he’s withdrawing his endorsement of Marjorie Taylor Greene, calling her a “ranting lunatic”
November 15, 2025 at 1:34 AM
As far as I can tell Cheryl Hines buys into the whole MAHA thing so I have no sympathy for her whatsoever. Anyone who stays with RFK Jr deserves whatever they get.
Imagine being Cheryl Hines and waking up today to dozens of text messages from friends linking to the NYT profile on Nuzzi where she admits RFK said "I love you" first after you just went on The View and covered for him lmao
November 15, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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sorry but i think it’s newsworthy every time someone wants to fuck rfk jr. and we’re never going to fully understand human psychology if we don’t figure it out
It rocks that all 20 people who genuinely think the Olivia Nuzzi stuff is interesting have editorial discretion at major media outlets. Just publish your group chats
November 15, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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Olivia Nuzzi got sent in to do a profile but it turned out she wanted to fuck the subject so we sent in Jacob Bernstein to profile her and it turns out he also wants to fuck the subject
you can’t be putting this in the paper (gift link but i do not recommend you use it www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/s...)
November 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM