Jeff Fecke
@jkfecke.bsky.social
Deleted the stove emoji because we are now touching it.
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nothing bad can happen. it can only good happen. :)
November 17, 2025 at 5:50 PM
nothing bad can happen. it can only good happen. :)
Whistles are your friend.
i think the synthesis so far of the LA/DC/Chicago experiences is:
1) vulnerable people should hide and wait it out to whatever extent they can
2) other people should help them do that, financially and otherwise
3) other people should also get loud
4) not violent though
1) vulnerable people should hide and wait it out to whatever extent they can
2) other people should help them do that, financially and otherwise
3) other people should also get loud
4) not violent though
Greg Bovino is leading a rebel cavalry terrorizing America—and it's important to recognize that it's in retreat. While the trauma and terror Bovino’s raiders instill is real and damaging, it’s remarkable to note how ineffective the force has turned out to be. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-bord...
November 17, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Whistles are your friend.
I actually think it's good that AI writing is mid. For one thing, a lot of writing just needs to be mid, so it's good it can crank out a boilerplate customer service letter. But great writing, and great art, are beyond it because it is not conscious, at least not yet.
Why AI writing is mid
How the current way of training language models destroys any voice (and hope of good writing).
www.interconnects.ai/p/why-ai-wri...
How the current way of training language models destroys any voice (and hope of good writing).
www.interconnects.ai/p/why-ai-wri...
Why AI writing is mid
How the current way of training language models destroys any voice (and hope of good writing).
www.interconnects.ai
November 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I actually think it's good that AI writing is mid. For one thing, a lot of writing just needs to be mid, so it's good it can crank out a boilerplate customer service letter. But great writing, and great art, are beyond it because it is not conscious, at least not yet.
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it is true that racists exist throughout the United States
but to try and equivocate and say that it's not a uniquely localized problem in the American South is absurd
which is very strange for someone who later accurately says it's due to the South's unique history!
bsky.app/profile/espi...
but to try and equivocate and say that it's not a uniquely localized problem in the American South is absurd
which is very strange for someone who later accurately says it's due to the South's unique history!
bsky.app/profile/espi...
The south is not racist because of its demography - it’d the Blackest part of the country. It’s racist because of its history and also because of *rural* white enclaves — which exist all over the country
November 17, 2025 at 5:28 PM
it is true that racists exist throughout the United States
but to try and equivocate and say that it's not a uniquely localized problem in the American South is absurd
which is very strange for someone who later accurately says it's due to the South's unique history!
bsky.app/profile/espi...
but to try and equivocate and say that it's not a uniquely localized problem in the American South is absurd
which is very strange for someone who later accurately says it's due to the South's unique history!
bsky.app/profile/espi...
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People who brag about not sleeping are a huge red flag. If you think that not sleeping is not a big deal, read this paragraph. It's like getting kicked in the head by a horse all the time.
November 17, 2025 at 3:28 PM
People who brag about not sleeping are a huge red flag. If you think that not sleeping is not a big deal, read this paragraph. It's like getting kicked in the head by a horse all the time.
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women are always saying “lord grant me the confidence of a mediocre man.” ok well he did. now what. is the world a better place? look at what you’ve wrought.
Olivia Nuzzi's 'American Canto': Read the Exclusive Excerpt
She flamed out and she faded away. 'Vanity Fair'’s West Coast Editor returns to the written word to survey scorched earth.
www.vanityfair.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
women are always saying “lord grant me the confidence of a mediocre man.” ok well he did. now what. is the world a better place? look at what you’ve wrought.
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I regret to inform you that Olivia Nuzzi's book appears to be Perfect
insane, stupid, comically overwritten, dishy, politically indefensible I cannot wait to get my hands on it I must accept this is who I am as a person at some deep level whether I like it or not www.vanityfair.com/news/story/o...
insane, stupid, comically overwritten, dishy, politically indefensible I cannot wait to get my hands on it I must accept this is who I am as a person at some deep level whether I like it or not www.vanityfair.com/news/story/o...
November 17, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I'm gonna be honest, I always expected the right to swing right back to "Anything after menarche is okay" once one of their own was directly implicated. Pedocon Theory is real.
Yes? They are?
I feel like we have talked about this before in other contexts and people correctly lambasted the French. The only difference is that now that your guy has been caught doing it you have to say it’s actually good
I feel like we have talked about this before in other contexts and people correctly lambasted the French. The only difference is that now that your guy has been caught doing it you have to say it’s actually good
November 17, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I'm gonna be honest, I always expected the right to swing right back to "Anything after menarche is okay" once one of their own was directly implicated. Pedocon Theory is real.
This was and is abhorrent to me. I never cared whether my daughter was chaste or wanton, I cared that she was happy and successful by her terms. Indeed, I think men who care too much about the "purity" of their daughters have something deeply wrong with them. You do not own your daughter.
Video of Speaker Mike Johnson making his daughter take the "purity pledge" filmed by a German show.
Purity culture is so gross, giving ownership of a girl's autonomy to her father then passed to her husband. If it's all about just keeping children safe, why is it just the girls?
Purity culture is so gross, giving ownership of a girl's autonomy to her father then passed to her husband. If it's all about just keeping children safe, why is it just the girls?
November 17, 2025 at 5:23 PM
This was and is abhorrent to me. I never cared whether my daughter was chaste or wanton, I cared that she was happy and successful by her terms. Indeed, I think men who care too much about the "purity" of their daughters have something deeply wrong with them. You do not own your daughter.
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I’m not a big supporter of violence but if the next ten or so strangers to meet Larry Summers just straight-up sucker-punch him in the face I am not going to lose any sleep.
gosh I wonder why they called her peril www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 17, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I’m not a big supporter of violence but if the next ten or so strangers to meet Larry Summers just straight-up sucker-punch him in the face I am not going to lose any sleep.
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Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
November 17, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
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Wait uh if you watch through to the end of the clip THEY TRIED TO BUY TACOS FROM A SHOP WHERE THEY HAD PREVIOUSLY KIDNAPPED A WORKER, WHO IS STILL DETAINED
I’m still struggling with the fact that ICE “brown shirts” went to a taco shop and thought they would get served.
F that!
F that!
November 17, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Wait uh if you watch through to the end of the clip THEY TRIED TO BUY TACOS FROM A SHOP WHERE THEY HAD PREVIOUSLY KIDNAPPED A WORKER, WHO IS STILL DETAINED
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relatedly, ralph nader deserves to be remembered for the rest of time as someone who voluntarily assisted in a critical attack on american democracy, the importance of which far outweighs any of his consumer advocacy
bush v gore is the hinge upon which basically everything awful from the last quarter century swings on
i don't think that bush v. gore is the *worst* ruling in the history of the supreme court, but i do think it is the most openly *corrupt* ruling in its history. a real disgrace.
November 17, 2025 at 4:35 AM
relatedly, ralph nader deserves to be remembered for the rest of time as someone who voluntarily assisted in a critical attack on american democracy, the importance of which far outweighs any of his consumer advocacy
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I feel like the pope being an American cinephile is God finally rewarding Scorsese for a lifetime of devotion
November 17, 2025 at 4:35 AM
I feel like the pope being an American cinephile is God finally rewarding Scorsese for a lifetime of devotion
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A discussion sparked by a piece whose opening argument was that Larry Summers was the tragic, rational victim of a feminized woke mob
Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
I mean
November 17, 2025 at 7:21 AM
A discussion sparked by a piece whose opening argument was that Larry Summers was the tragic, rational victim of a feminized woke mob
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at one point he sends an email which is just, explicitly, "I am going to extort sex from a junior colleague whom I explicitly know does not want to have sex with me, in exchange for career help."
larry summers is genuinely, deeply misogynist in a way which is not even captured by his public contempt for women
November 17, 2025 at 8:47 AM
at one point he sends an email which is just, explicitly, "I am going to extort sex from a junior colleague whom I explicitly know does not want to have sex with me, in exchange for career help."
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There's layers to why this is disturbing and I don't know how to explain it.
It's more disturbing that mediocre PodBros white men no matter the political spectrum are literally having a fundamental moral crisis about why rape and sexual assault are bad, no matter the age.
That's the real tea here.
That's the real tea here.
November 17, 2025 at 9:05 AM
There's layers to why this is disturbing and I don't know how to explain it.
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Doesn’t matter. “Starmer and Mahmood wanted to take jewellery from asylum seekers” is a mark those two will never be able to wash off and which the party as a whole will have to put in onerous work to remove.
My guess is they will end up u-turning on the jewellery thing (you can already see it being softening in interviews) and possibly the 20 years (which is way longer than Denmark).
November 17, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Doesn’t matter. “Starmer and Mahmood wanted to take jewellery from asylum seekers” is a mark those two will never be able to wash off and which the party as a whole will have to put in onerous work to remove.
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Yes? They are?
I feel like we have talked about this before in other contexts and people correctly lambasted the French. The only difference is that now that your guy has been caught doing it you have to say it’s actually good
I feel like we have talked about this before in other contexts and people correctly lambasted the French. The only difference is that now that your guy has been caught doing it you have to say it’s actually good
November 17, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Yes? They are?
I feel like we have talked about this before in other contexts and people correctly lambasted the French. The only difference is that now that your guy has been caught doing it you have to say it’s actually good
I feel like we have talked about this before in other contexts and people correctly lambasted the French. The only difference is that now that your guy has been caught doing it you have to say it’s actually good
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We really need to do something about white boys and men. There is something deeply lacking in our emotional education. And it is a danger to the people around us. We are not entitled to a world that conforms to our desires and expectations. www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
Minnesota man kills co-worker with sledgehammer, saying he didn't like her, charges say
A man is accused of killing a co-worker with a sledgehammer at a food and dairy processing facility in central Minnesota.
www.cbsnews.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:02 PM
We really need to do something about white boys and men. There is something deeply lacking in our emotional education. And it is a danger to the people around us. We are not entitled to a world that conforms to our desires and expectations. www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
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man.
The Sun has been told Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will on Monday propose confiscating jewellery, watches, necklaces from asylum seekers to meet asylum costs
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
November 17, 2025 at 12:35 PM
man.
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"Trump is historically and deeply unpopular. it’s not just that people disapprove of him; they strongly disapprove of him. This is the biggest story in US politics. [It's] bad for Rs and getting worse."
On the pod @speechboy71.bsky.social is great on the big picture:
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
On the pod @speechboy71.bsky.social is great on the big picture:
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
Trump Explodes in Angriest Epstein Tirade Yet as Allies Visibly Panic
With Trump distracted by Jeffrey Epstein even as allies and advisers fret about the midterms, the author of a new piece on Trump’s standing decodes why his approval is hitting dangerous new lows.
newrepublic.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:04 PM
"Trump is historically and deeply unpopular. it’s not just that people disapprove of him; they strongly disapprove of him. This is the biggest story in US politics. [It's] bad for Rs and getting worse."
On the pod @speechboy71.bsky.social is great on the big picture:
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
On the pod @speechboy71.bsky.social is great on the big picture:
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
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gosh I wonder why they called her peril www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 17, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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Cishet people would rather blog than go to therapy
November 17, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Cishet people would rather blog than go to therapy
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November 17, 2025 at 2:26 AM