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Jón Kristinsson

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Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

December 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM

stunt nuts

@decafbeef.bsky.social

history class homework: describe the causes that led to the fall of the Roman empire

evangelical college student: Roman Catholicism is a satanic plague upon the Earth that must be cleansed with fire. in this essay I will...

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 5d

if you ask students to list the causes of the Irish famine and they just say “the Irish are demonic” can you really not fail that kid?

December 1, 2025 at 6:58 AM

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vanoreo

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November 30, 2025 at 9:20 PM

stunt nuts

@decafbeef.bsky.social

new schaden-Chotiner-freude just dropped

Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 11d

A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.

Isaac Chotiner: "You would have to be brain-dead to read this piece and not immediately wonder who is funding Semafor Gulf."

Quote post of Ben Smith saying: "Fascinating @msergie piece on covering a monarchy" about a Semafor article on Saudi Arabia's crown prince

Smith responds to Chotiner: "That's a hell of an allegation/implication, Isaac.

To figure out the literal answer to your question, you'd either have to look and see who the sponsors are in the email (I haven't checked today!) or read our publicly disclosed list of investors. I believe you're trying to imply that it's the Saudi government? Have you read more of our coverage, or just this tweet?

My impression — correct me if I'm wrong — is that you're working on zero information and smearing us in general, and an experienced journalist
@msergie
whose work I suspect you're totally unfamiliar with in particular."

Chotiner responds:"I’m not making any allegation. I’m making a simple point about how an average reader—myself included—might respond after reading this ridiculous piece"

Ben Smith: "Just asking questions! Come on. You genuinely know better. Or read Mohammed's long career of work covering the Gulf and the Syrian war before you imply he's some kind of stooge."

Noah Kulwin: "The point is not about who funds your reporting/if your colleague is a “stooge”. Isaac’s comment is that the reporting is so bad so as to make a reader wonder who is funding it"

Smith: A reader, sure. A journalist who can do very basic homework, kind of lame.

Chotiner: "You are right, I’ll do some homework now by perusing Jay Solomon Semafor pieces, and reading Jason Greenblatt Semafor columns. In the meantime, I will formally say that I am making no accusation and was just astonished at how inane the piece was"

Chotiner quote-posts with "I see Semafor loves running column after column by this guy (https://semafor.com/author/faisal-j-abbas), who also publishes pro-Saudi conspiracies about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi https://arabnews.com/node/1386291"

Ben Smith's post says "I hope I'm not overreacting, but it makes me crazy when people I think of as reporters do this "just asking questions" stuff. Feel free to report it out by googling/asking me/reading our various scoops and reports about the region — these two just now" and links to two Semafor articles

Chotiner quote posts Ben Smith: "You might have heard that the UAE is helping destroy Sudan, but at the next Semafor event, all is well."

Screenshot says "Held at Abu Dhabi Finance Week, Semafor will spotlight insights from the Global Findex 2025 report and the Global Digital Connectivity Tracker, translating global research into actionable, locally relevant conversations.

As the third stop on The Next 3 Billion Tour, this edition explores how the Gulf's growing investments in Africa can accelerate digital connectivity and financial inclusion. With Abu Dhabi's focus on sustainable finance, digital transformation, and cross-border collaboration, it offers a strong platform to examine how technology and capital can work together to expand access and opportunity."

Ben Smith's post says "Just asking questions! Come on. You genuinely know better. Or read Mohammed's long career of work covering the Gulf and the Syrian war before you imply he's some kind of stooge."

November 25, 2025 at 3:52 AM

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FreeLinkophant Shelley B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛

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Never Ask

A Woman, Her Age

A Man, His Salary

Keith Olberman how old Olivia Nuzzi was when they started dating.

November 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM

stunt nuts

@decafbeef.bsky.social

getting kicked out because I keep complaining to the bartender that the ice has melted on their curling table

Egg Blart: Nog Cop @babadooknukem.bsky.social · 20d

This place by my house has what looks like Pub Curling??

November 16, 2025 at 7:03 AM

stunt nuts

@decafbeef.bsky.social

Bojack Horseman was not supposed to be a documentary

Staid @staidindoors.bsky.social · 21d

Dasha Dropped by Gersh Following Gab with Groyper

New York Magazine @nymag.com · 21d

Dasha Nekrasova has been fired by Gersh and from an upcoming film project for a recent episode with Christian nationalist Nick Fuentes.

November 15, 2025 at 7:11 AM

stunt nuts

@decafbeef.bsky.social

extremely "am I out of touch? no, it's the children who are wrong" vibes

Emily Flitter @emilyflitter.bsky.social · 23d

We’re seeing materials that no journalists, not Julie Brown, not Ronan Farrow, not anyone from any paper, managed to get access to before now. The conspiracy theories bouncing around about NYT are nothing more than a show people’s ignorance of what goes into a real piece of investigative journalism

November 13, 2025 at 6:20 PM

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Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew

@amandasmith.bsky.social

I’m sick of being lectured by the guys who work for us.

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 25d

But there are real dangers out there that must be fought; and energy spent fighting each other is energy lost to that bigger fight.

November 11, 2025 at 1:28 AM

stunt nuts

@decafbeef.bsky.social

chuck Schumer or GTFO.

Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 26d

I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable.

We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.

A vote for this bill is a mistake.

November 10, 2025 at 4:00 AM

stunt nuts

@decafbeef.bsky.social

chuck Schumer out the window or STFU

Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 26d

My red line has always been lowering health costs for Americans. Donald Trump and Republicans don’t want an agreement that meets that bar. I’m a no.

November 10, 2025 at 3:29 AM

stunt nuts

@decafbeef.bsky.social

I am morally opposed to the death penalty

BUT...

derek van vliet @derek.bike · 26d

mods are asleep, post bored poutine

photo of a board of wood with 7 french fries placed in a row on it. i’m between each french fry is a cheese curd. the fries and curds are laying on a bed of gravy. technically it’s poutine?

November 9, 2025 at 11:32 PM

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Gravel Influencer

@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social

Why does the House, the larger of the two legislative bodies, not simply eat the Senate

November 9, 2025 at 10:07 PM

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Blue Heron Farm

@blueheronfarm.bsky.social

Charlie Brown with Lucy holding the football. It says we'll vote on the ACA subsidies in December

November 9, 2025 at 10:42 PM

stunt nuts

@decafbeef.bsky.social

Rep. Sean Casten, welcome to the War on the Senate

Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 26d

I don't know what the Senate is going to do. But if they do in fact fold in exchange for nothing, they will be living up to past performance. To expect the Senate to carry out the will of the American people is to misunderstand why it was created in the first place.

November 9, 2025 at 10:33 PM

stunt nuts

@decafbeef.bsky.social

we're watching, @murray.senate.gov & @cantwell.senate.gov

falling for empty promises and jangling keys will get you primaried.

Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 26d

Caving on a deal that doesn’t fix health care is, and always has been, a giant betrayal of the American people.

Hold the line. Save health care. I’m a NO on anything that doesn’t extend ACA subsidies.