David Lublin
@davidlublin.bsky.social
Writing code, making art, and other stuff. Mostly yelling into the void. He / Him.
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David Lublin
@davidlublin.bsky.social
· Nov 14
Someone told me that bluesky doesn’t have enough cute animal pics, and they are right. You can never have enough. This is what the Internet was made for.
Andrew Cuomo may have lost the election, twice, but he won his audition for being a regular on right wing talk shows and FoxNews.
Andrew Cuomo, back again with an epic two-hour radio segment rehashing his campaign points and attacking the guy who beat him, is not going away quietly.
Andrew Cuomo Is Riding This Thing All the Way to the Bottom
Cuomo and another washed-up former governor telling each other "exactlyyyyy."
hellgatenyc.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Andrew Cuomo may have lost the election, twice, but he won his audition for being a regular on right wing talk shows and FoxNews.
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Okay, I think that's enough sentences for one civilisation. Time to shut it down.
Tomorrow Grimes will DJ a livestream of immortality influencer Bryan Johnson tripping on shrooms to determine its effect on longevity. Mr. Beast and the CEO of Salesforce will be there too.
Grimes DJing Immortality Influencer's Shroom Trip With Special Guest Mr. Beast
Grimes is a fan of Bryan Johnson, the multimillionaire and immortality influencer who spends his time trying to fight death. He is perhaps best known for undergoing plasma transfusions with donations ...
stereogum.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Okay, I think that's enough sentences for one civilisation. Time to shut it down.
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The problem with fetishizing the rule of law is that people have to break the law to resist fascism, state violence, and oppression. This has always been true, and is very much the case RIGHT NOW.
November 29, 2025 at 1:44 AM
The problem with fetishizing the rule of law is that people have to break the law to resist fascism, state violence, and oppression. This has always been true, and is very much the case RIGHT NOW.
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"The agreement places no restrictions on our transgender community."
Except whether they can play sports, where they can use the bathroom or locker room, what kind of housing they can live in, and what healthcare they can receive.
Except whether they can play sports, where they can use the bathroom or locker room, what kind of housing they can live in, and what healthcare they can receive.
November 29, 2025 at 4:32 AM
"The agreement places no restrictions on our transgender community."
Except whether they can play sports, where they can use the bathroom or locker room, what kind of housing they can live in, and what healthcare they can receive.
Except whether they can play sports, where they can use the bathroom or locker room, what kind of housing they can live in, and what healthcare they can receive.
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Anderson Cooper: So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them?
Answer: Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing… #HousingFirst
Answer: Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing… #HousingFirst
100,000 Homes: Housing the homeless saves money?
Giving apartments to the chronically homeless can save taxpayer dollars, advocates say
www.cbsnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Anderson Cooper: So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them?
Answer: Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing… #HousingFirst
Answer: Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing… #HousingFirst
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“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
It costs a lot less to house people.
It costs a lot less to house people.
Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
thebetter.news
November 24, 2025 at 8:01 AM
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
It costs a lot less to house people.
It costs a lot less to house people.
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Posts about urban biking in Dutch cities are routinely replied to with comments like “well, they have the big advantage of being relatively flat.”
The Dutch also have the big advantage of not constantly making excuses about why they can’t make clearly smarter city-making decisions. #Leadership
The Dutch also have the big advantage of not constantly making excuses about why they can’t make clearly smarter city-making decisions. #Leadership
November 29, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Posts about urban biking in Dutch cities are routinely replied to with comments like “well, they have the big advantage of being relatively flat.”
The Dutch also have the big advantage of not constantly making excuses about why they can’t make clearly smarter city-making decisions. #Leadership
The Dutch also have the big advantage of not constantly making excuses about why they can’t make clearly smarter city-making decisions. #Leadership
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And one more other thing I’m seeing now, that Northwestern unsurprisingly didn’t mention in its statement, effectively banning gender affirming care at NU school of medicine
November 29, 2025 at 2:32 AM
And one more other thing I’m seeing now, that Northwestern unsurprisingly didn’t mention in its statement, effectively banning gender affirming care at NU school of medicine
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So the BBC did a news story on the horrible conditions in the hotels were people seeking asylum are forced to live and instead of the media talking about humanity and compassion about improving conditions and letting them work, this was the outcome:
So how exactly are they meant to get to them? Many are placed in areas without accessible transport links. They can't afford to pay for journeys themselves because of how little support they get.
Yet again Labour choosing to pander to Reform than think of consequences.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Yet again Labour choosing to pander to Reform than think of consequences.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Government to ban asylum seekers from using taxis
The ban is set to come in February and any exemptions will have to be signed off by the Home Office.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 7:55 AM
So the BBC did a news story on the horrible conditions in the hotels were people seeking asylum are forced to live and instead of the media talking about humanity and compassion about improving conditions and letting them work, this was the outcome:
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“Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others agree it’s extortion but aren’t critics.”
How did the @nytimes.com editors let this sentence appear?
"Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with this administration."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
"Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with this administration."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Northwestern University Nears Deal to Resolve Its Conflict With the White House
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:36 PM
“Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others agree it’s extortion but aren’t critics.”
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If you have ever posted about how journalists at national papers should quit their jobs but you aren’t paying Marisa to do hers, you’re doing it wrong
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November 28, 2025 at 10:31 PM
If you have ever posted about how journalists at national papers should quit their jobs but you aren’t paying Marisa to do hers, you’re doing it wrong
Senate Democrats all lined up to approve Marco Rubio, telling us that he would be the adult in the room, and it was “decorum” because he was their colleague in the senate; all a bunch of cowardly bullshit.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio plans to skip a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels next week, two U.S. officials said, in a highly unusual absence of the top U.S. diplomat from a key transatlantic gathering.
November 28, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Senate Democrats all lined up to approve Marco Rubio, telling us that he would be the adult in the room, and it was “decorum” because he was their colleague in the senate; all a bunch of cowardly bullshit.
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I’d love tech CEOs to stick to a lane. Either AI makes workers so much more productive that they need to do layoffs or there’s so few workers in place that everyone needs to work nights and weekends.
Now it just seems layoffs are happening for economic reasons with AI as a convenient cover story.
Now it just seems layoffs are happening for economic reasons with AI as a convenient cover story.
November 28, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I’d love tech CEOs to stick to a lane. Either AI makes workers so much more productive that they need to do layoffs or there’s so few workers in place that everyone needs to work nights and weekends.
Now it just seems layoffs are happening for economic reasons with AI as a convenient cover story.
Now it just seems layoffs are happening for economic reasons with AI as a convenient cover story.
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A lot of people, both gleeful Republicans, and cowering Liberals looking for an excuse to show their bellies, mistook a narrow victory in a low turnout cost of living election as a total cultural victory and have been acting as if that is a strong mandate for a slate of cruel, regressive policy
Gallup poll | 11/3-11/25
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
November 28, 2025 at 7:53 PM
A lot of people, both gleeful Republicans, and cowering Liberals looking for an excuse to show their bellies, mistook a narrow victory in a low turnout cost of living election as a total cultural victory and have been acting as if that is a strong mandate for a slate of cruel, regressive policy
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YODA: people hurt, hurt people.
November 28, 2025 at 8:55 PM
YODA: people hurt, hurt people.
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When troops are deployed overseas in places they absolutely should not be because of a warmonger ass president, and they are killed by someone who acted on their own accord, we typically don’t have a problem blaming the U.S. commander in chief
"In the months leading up to the D.C. deployment, Beckstrom worked for a community health center that serves people with mental illness and substance abuse disorders." www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
National Guard member killed in D.C. shooting remembered for 'heart of gold'
The slain soldier’s former boyfriend recalled her empathy and generosity. “She doesn’t even have to know you and she’ll do anything for you,” he said.
www.nbcnews.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:42 PM
When troops are deployed overseas in places they absolutely should not be because of a warmonger ass president, and they are killed by someone who acted on their own accord, we typically don’t have a problem blaming the U.S. commander in chief
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I’ve seen a few people say if Blue Sky gets weird they’re gonna migrate to Threads and let me tell you something…Threads is WAYYYYYYY worse than you’re imagining 😭
November 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I’ve seen a few people say if Blue Sky gets weird they’re gonna migrate to Threads and let me tell you something…Threads is WAYYYYYYY worse than you’re imagining 😭
It sounds like the Democrats issued some strongly worded statements, the IRS ignored you, and then a judge did the actual work here?
In March, @wassermanschultz.house.gov, @replindasanchez.bsky.social, and I led 59 Members demanding the IRS stop illegally sharing taxpayer information with DHS.
A federal judge has now blocked this unlawful practice.
A federal judge has now blocked this unlawful practice.
BREAKING: Federal judge blocks the IRS from sharing taxpayer information with ICE, ruling the practice unlawful.
November 28, 2025 at 6:37 PM
It sounds like the Democrats issued some strongly worded statements, the IRS ignored you, and then a judge did the actual work here?
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This is fundamentally Nazism. The idea that different peoples than the favored races carry degradation in their very genes, that they cannot strive to become better because biology compels them to be worse. It’s not just repugnant, it’s a bald faced lie.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This is fundamentally Nazism. The idea that different peoples than the favored races carry degradation in their very genes, that they cannot strive to become better because biology compels them to be worse. It’s not just repugnant, it’s a bald faced lie.
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Everyone screaming that military officials should disobey illegal orders is failing to understand that the military wants to murder these people. It’s what they have been doing for decades its just out in the open now.
So I'm pretty sure a three star knows that an order to strike alleged combatants who are hors de combat is facially illegal, in case anyone's still having any hangups on whether Bradley needs to be in the dock after this
November 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Everyone screaming that military officials should disobey illegal orders is failing to understand that the military wants to murder these people. It’s what they have been doing for decades its just out in the open now.
And the Democrats have already shown that they won’t do anything to hold anyone accountable for this at any point.
In every other era, you could say of government scandals that it’s not the crime, it’s the cover-up. But here,
nobody is making any effort to cover up the crimes at all: they’re banking on the public just being too bored and racist to care.
nobody is making any effort to cover up the crimes at all: they’re banking on the public just being too bored and racist to care.
So the order for the US military to launch these deadly Caribbean boat strikes was straightforwardly illegal under US and international law, immoral under long established standards, and on top of that, terrible strategy.
Not maybe. Not got to check with a lawyer. Unambiguous. Blatant. Deliberate.
Not maybe. Not got to check with a lawyer. Unambiguous. Blatant. Deliberate.
November 28, 2025 at 6:31 PM
And the Democrats have already shown that they won’t do anything to hold anyone accountable for this at any point.
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remember: columbo isn't a cop. he's a fae with a strong sense of justice, who shows up to crimes and glamours people into thinking he's a cop.
that's why he doesn't carry a gun: the cold iron
that's why he doesn't carry a gun: the cold iron
November 28, 2025 at 11:47 AM
remember: columbo isn't a cop. he's a fae with a strong sense of justice, who shows up to crimes and glamours people into thinking he's a cop.
that's why he doesn't carry a gun: the cold iron
that's why he doesn't carry a gun: the cold iron
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Gallery: Sorry, your art was not accepted for our exhibition, but thanks for applying.
Me: What? I never applied.
Gallery: Oops! [verbatim] "I was using an AI tool to organize a spreadsheet of exhibition submissions. It incorrectly invented a few names during the sorting process, and yours was one."
Me: What? I never applied.
Gallery: Oops! [verbatim] "I was using an AI tool to organize a spreadsheet of exhibition submissions. It incorrectly invented a few names during the sorting process, and yours was one."
November 28, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Gallery: Sorry, your art was not accepted for our exhibition, but thanks for applying.
Me: What? I never applied.
Gallery: Oops! [verbatim] "I was using an AI tool to organize a spreadsheet of exhibition submissions. It incorrectly invented a few names during the sorting process, and yours was one."
Me: What? I never applied.
Gallery: Oops! [verbatim] "I was using an AI tool to organize a spreadsheet of exhibition submissions. It incorrectly invented a few names during the sorting process, and yours was one."
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now shifting into Jólakötturinn (child-eating Icelandic Yule cat ) season
November 28, 2025 at 3:43 AM
now shifting into Jólakötturinn (child-eating Icelandic Yule cat ) season