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I’M LOSING MY SHIT THIS IS SO FUNNY
December 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I’M LOSING MY SHIT THIS IS SO FUNNY
Remember when the reactionary centrist crowd flipped out over universities putting out lists like this that weren't even official policy?
According to a new court filing, the Trump administration has a six-page list of banned words that Head Start locations are forbidden from using when describing their programs.
Among the censored words: "disability," "race," "women," "trauma," "Gulf of Mexico." Short thread with the full list. 🧵
Among the censored words: "disability," "race," "women," "trauma," "Gulf of Mexico." Short thread with the full list. 🧵
December 12, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Remember when the reactionary centrist crowd flipped out over universities putting out lists like this that weren't even official policy?
Machine learning is an interesting and potentially useful technology.
AI is fucking grifty bullshit.
AI is fucking grifty bullshit.
Computer scientists: "So with machine learning we can extract subtle patterns from massive datasets. What shall we do with it?"
Business school professors, every single time: "You know, I think phrenology got a raw deal in the late 1800s."
Business school professors, every single time: "You know, I think phrenology got a raw deal in the late 1800s."
Can Your Face Predict Your Salary? Using AI Personality Assessments in Hiring
A new study from Wharton faculty explores how AI can extract personality traits from facial images — and what that means for your career.
knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu
December 11, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Machine learning is an interesting and potentially useful technology.
AI is fucking grifty bullshit.
AI is fucking grifty bullshit.
Fuck it, let's go 2-2-6.
Oh we scoring goals in 2026
December 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Fuck it, let's go 2-2-6.
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Have you seen anyone saying “Whoops, I personally fucked it very badly indeed with my noisy squealing about cancel culture?”. I haven’t seen anyone, but surely there must be one somewhere.
December 10, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Have you seen anyone saying “Whoops, I personally fucked it very badly indeed with my noisy squealing about cancel culture?”. I haven’t seen anyone, but surely there must be one somewhere.
It's wild to me that people know Zack Woods from The Office and not Silicon Valley but I'm a bit weird in that regard I guess
it's 2025 and the gangly guy who appeared on a few seasons of The Office is now our only mirror to society
December 10, 2025 at 12:17 AM
It's wild to me that people know Zack Woods from The Office and not Silicon Valley but I'm a bit weird in that regard I guess
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"I'm not in denial about [AI]. I'm in open rebellion."
Amen.
Amen.
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 10, 2025 at 12:11 AM
"I'm not in denial about [AI]. I'm in open rebellion."
Amen.
Amen.
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More to the point, this culture of students showing up to college at 18 believing they know what courses they need to take is ludicrous in its face, yet here we are.
You’re 3 months out of high school. In terms of insight and understanding of adult life you are effectively a toddler.
You’re 3 months out of high school. In terms of insight and understanding of adult life you are effectively a toddler.
A liberal arts education is designed to make you a better person, not train you to do a job.
If you are providing me with an education that is low utility in the world then it’s a disservice. My composition class spent four weeks on poetry. I’m sorry, but that only would’ve been useful if I wanted to be a poet. I don’t need to know iambic pentameter in order to be a victim advocate.
December 9, 2025 at 11:50 PM
More to the point, this culture of students showing up to college at 18 believing they know what courses they need to take is ludicrous in its face, yet here we are.
You’re 3 months out of high school. In terms of insight and understanding of adult life you are effectively a toddler.
You’re 3 months out of high school. In terms of insight and understanding of adult life you are effectively a toddler.
Just like Rudyard Kipling wrote: "If you can lose your head while those about you/Are looking at you thinking 'what the fuck?'"
Everything else aside, the idea that this is a model for many men of *masculinity* is so wild. This? This is "manly"? This is how people think it's cool to act?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-wG...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-wG...
Dave Portnoy Demands NFL Investigate Pete Carroll & Raiders For Rigging
YouTube video by Clasher Sports
www.youtube.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Just like Rudyard Kipling wrote: "If you can lose your head while those about you/Are looking at you thinking 'what the fuck?'"
The key point from one of the trustees: it's parents' responsibility to guide their children's reading.
MAGA is full of fundamentally lazy people who don't want to parent their children.
MAGA is full of fundamentally lazy people who don't want to parent their children.
A few dozen people were very mad that the governing board of the Randolph County libraries told them to pound sand when they demanded a book be censored
So the Republican-run County Commission fired everyone on the Library's Board of Trustees
www.randolphhub.com/article/news...
So the Republican-run County Commission fired everyone on the Library's Board of Trustees
www.randolphhub.com/article/news...
Commissioners vote 3-2 to dismiss Library Board of Trustees
<p>How the Library Board voted to handle a controversial children's book led to a majority decision by commissioners to dismiss the whole board.</p>
www.randolphhub.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The key point from one of the trustees: it's parents' responsibility to guide their children's reading.
MAGA is full of fundamentally lazy people who don't want to parent their children.
MAGA is full of fundamentally lazy people who don't want to parent their children.
Was about to make a bunch of "spot of tea, innit" jokes until I realized she's from Wake Forest
Bright future loading for Lauryn Thompson ⭐️
We have signed English Youth International forward Lauryn Thompson through 2029. Welcome, LT!
We have signed English Youth International forward Lauryn Thompson through 2029. Welcome, LT!
NC COURAGE SIGN FORWARD LAURYN THOMPSON THROUGH 2029 | News - NC Courage
18-year-old Wake Forest native has English Youth National Team and ECNL experience
www.nccourage.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Was about to make a bunch of "spot of tea, innit" jokes until I realized she's from Wake Forest
Your occasional reminder that the NCGOP made this illegal in NC.
A new study has found that Chattanooga, Tennessee's decision to build their own affordable community-owned fiber broadband network has driven $5.3 billion in economic benefits back to the community.
From my colleague and friend @seangon.bsky.social:
From my colleague and friend @seangon.bsky.social:
Chattanooga’s Municipal Fiber Network Has Delivered $5.3 Billion in Community Benefits, New Study Finds | Welcome to Community Networks
Since 2011, a new study finds that Chattanooga's city-owned fiber network has generated $5.3 billion in net community benefits for Hamilton County. Conducted by researchers at the University of Tennes...
communitynets.org
December 8, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Your occasional reminder that the NCGOP made this illegal in NC.
...in their suit and tie or evening dress?
Duffy on what he's doing to improve the airport experience for travelers: "Maybe I want a workout area where people might get some blood flowing doing some pull ups or step ups in the airport."
December 8, 2025 at 9:25 PM
...in their suit and tie or evening dress?
It's all part and parcel of a silly belief that anyone can change anything about themselves if they just Try Hard Enough, coupled with the equally silly belief that there's exactly one way to do life right.
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 8, 2025 at 1:56 PM
It's all part and parcel of a silly belief that anyone can change anything about themselves if they just Try Hard Enough, coupled with the equally silly belief that there's exactly one way to do life right.
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Everybody acting like there is a “debate” on birthright citizenship doesn’t believe in the constitution. Simple as.
December 7, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Everybody acting like there is a “debate” on birthright citizenship doesn’t believe in the constitution. Simple as.
A reminder that the strike was illegal even if the boat was trailing a plume of cocaine visible from space.
It looks like Tom Cotton was being deceptive by saying video shows the men trying to flip boat "loaded with drugs." As I reported, Ds who saw video say no drugs were visible/boat was crippled.
Q for Rs is simple: Did you see drugs and was boat incapacitated, or no?
newrepublic.com/article/2039...
Q for Rs is simple: Did you see drugs and was boat incapacitated, or no?
newrepublic.com/article/2039...
December 5, 2025 at 6:24 PM
A reminder that the strike was illegal even if the boat was trailing a plume of cocaine visible from space.
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What I'm trying to say is that no organization on Earth is more in tune with Donald Trump than FIFA. The two were made for each other.
December 5, 2025 at 6:11 PM
What I'm trying to say is that no organization on Earth is more in tune with Donald Trump than FIFA. The two were made for each other.
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This is the administration that claimed, if elected, it would “protect women’s sports.” That was always a transparently thin lie.
From @theathletic.bsky.social: The Department of Education has rescinded Title IX guidance that stated NIL payments must be proportionate between a university’s male and female athletes. nyti.ms/40Z3Z4i
Department of Education rescinds Title IX guidance that NIL payments must be proportionate
How Title IX would factor into schools' revenue-sharing decisions has been a lingering question.
nyti.ms
February 12, 2025 at 10:05 PM
This is the administration that claimed, if elected, it would “protect women’s sports.” That was always a transparently thin lie.
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It’s true. We shouldn’t pretend that. Trumpist culture is not the same as American culture and not equal. Trumpist culture is proudly ignorant, defiantly against America’s founding values and subsequently developed values, venomously bigoted, and generally despicable.
Fox News' Will Cain: "I’m sure there are very honorable law-abiding upstanding citizens and contributors from the Somali community here in the United States, BUT..."
He goes on to say "we aren’t going to pretend here that all cultures are of equal value or the same."
He goes on to say "we aren’t going to pretend here that all cultures are of equal value or the same."
December 3, 2025 at 10:31 PM
It’s true. We shouldn’t pretend that. Trumpist culture is not the same as American culture and not equal. Trumpist culture is proudly ignorant, defiantly against America’s founding values and subsequently developed values, venomously bigoted, and generally despicable.
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Really appreciate the clarity of the president saying black people are ruining the country and this entire room of groveling empty suits saying nothing bsky.app/profile/just...
Trump, continued: "What the Somalian people have done to Minnesota is not even believable. It’s not even believable. And a lot of it starts with the governor. A lot of it starts with Barack HUSSEIN Obama, because that’s when people started coming in... They want to kiss our country good night."
December 3, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Really appreciate the clarity of the president saying black people are ruining the country and this entire room of groveling empty suits saying nothing bsky.app/profile/just...
These pardons are a potent weapon against Trump because they associate him with the elite impunity and legalized corruption we all hate. Someone needs to get Jeffries the memo.
Jeffries claims the charges against Cueller were "very thin" and says Trump's pardon was "exactly the right outcome"
December 3, 2025 at 7:18 PM
These pardons are a potent weapon against Trump because they associate him with the elite impunity and legalized corruption we all hate. Someone needs to get Jeffries the memo.
The game here is obvious - administrators are using the anti-DEI panic to shut down publications they don't like.
And I'm assuming "shut down" in this case means "cut off official funding" since they can't legally stop distribution... Anyone know how much it'd cost to print unofficially?
And I'm assuming "shut down" in this case means "cut off official funding" since they can't legally stop distribution... Anyone know how much it'd cost to print unofficially?
On Monday, the University of Alabama suspended two student-run magazines over fears stemming from a July DOJ memo. The student journalists I spoke with yesterday told me that the decision was nonsensical and threatened their First Amendment rights.
www.alreporter.com/2025/12/03/u...
www.alreporter.com/2025/12/03/u...
University of Alabama suspends two student magazines over DEI
The editors of the publications, which focus on women’s wellness and the Black student experience respectively, expressed shock at the decision.
www.alreporter.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:54 PM
The game here is obvious - administrators are using the anti-DEI panic to shut down publications they don't like.
And I'm assuming "shut down" in this case means "cut off official funding" since they can't legally stop distribution... Anyone know how much it'd cost to print unofficially?
And I'm assuming "shut down" in this case means "cut off official funding" since they can't legally stop distribution... Anyone know how much it'd cost to print unofficially?
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Saw this new @nccourage.com merch and accepted the craft challenge. Cross stitch, southernness, and soccer. Cross stitch by me. Let’s go Courage!
#forthelove #nccourage #nwsl #stitchsky
#forthelove #nccourage #nwsl #stitchsky
October 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Saw this new @nccourage.com merch and accepted the craft challenge. Cross stitch, southernness, and soccer. Cross stitch by me. Let’s go Courage!
#forthelove #nccourage #nwsl #stitchsky
#forthelove #nccourage #nwsl #stitchsky
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One of these is a racist, far-right aspiration to ethnically cleanse the West by forcibly removing all non-white people -- a goal now endorsed by the U.S. government.
The other is a sometimes ham-fisted effort to acknowledge this country's shitty treatment of indigenous people.
Not similar!
The other is a sometimes ham-fisted effort to acknowledge this country's shitty treatment of indigenous people.
Not similar!
December 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
One of these is a racist, far-right aspiration to ethnically cleanse the West by forcibly removing all non-white people -- a goal now endorsed by the U.S. government.
The other is a sometimes ham-fisted effort to acknowledge this country's shitty treatment of indigenous people.
Not similar!
The other is a sometimes ham-fisted effort to acknowledge this country's shitty treatment of indigenous people.
Not similar!
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No-strings-attached, zero-means-testing, no-questions-asked cash payouts have been proven, over and over again, to be the most effective form of charity/aid going.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
December 3, 2025 at 7:12 AM
No-strings-attached, zero-means-testing, no-questions-asked cash payouts have been proven, over and over again, to be the most effective form of charity/aid going.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.