John Wallach
@jmwallach.bsky.social
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
(PfP defaced sign from Seattle in 2000s stick figure man with claw hand and caption "Stop for me it's the claw" where the original sign had no claw on figure and said law. Banner is early ARPA map.)
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John Wallach
@jmwallach.bsky.social
· Oct 25
I actually do want the next president to appoint someone like Stephen Miller, except I want it to be Bill Kristol, and I want his monomaniacal obsession to be destroying Trump’s legacy and prosecuting everyone in the administration.
PNNAC
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If current trends continue, Elon will go from being the most racist person alive to the most racist to have ever lived.
it should probably be a bigger story that the richest man on earth and leading Republican is a fucking Nazi
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
December 3, 2025 at 7:45 AM
If current trends continue, Elon will go from being the most racist person alive to the most racist to have ever lived.
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I know this is the website where basically no one watches cable but there's this DHS ad with Kristi Noem telling people to self-deport and it's reached the point where my 75 year old mother yells obscenities at the TV that I usually see typed out in League of Legends lobbies
December 3, 2025 at 2:14 AM
I know this is the website where basically no one watches cable but there's this DHS ad with Kristi Noem telling people to self-deport and it's reached the point where my 75 year old mother yells obscenities at the TV that I usually see typed out in League of Legends lobbies
Hmmm, dunno cause Trump said they didn't.
Rand Paul just posted this letter from the Coast Guard confirming that 1/4 of the boats they stop carry no contraband. The likelihood that Hegseth & Bradley ordered the murder of innocent civilians is very high.
December 3, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Hmmm, dunno cause Trump said they didn't.
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Man, isn't it fascinating how an administrative subpoena "chills" the First Amendment rights of big donors, but racial profiling, revoking legal status due to social media posts, getting fired for not revering white supremacists enough or being put on leave for teaching academic writing does not?
Specifically, Roberts and Gorsuch are open to the argument that the subpoena "chilled" donors. (Basically, made them scared to associate with First Choice.) Alleging that government actions "chill" the First Amendment rights of CPCs is a favorite of ADF, as @susanrinkunas.com and I explored here:
Abortion Pill “Reversal” Is a Hoax. It's Also a Powerful Right-Wing Legal Strategy.
Speakers at a crisis pregnancy center conference made rare admissions about the challenges of providing so-called abortion “reversal,” and indicated its importance as a litigation tool.
www.autonomynews.co
December 2, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Man, isn't it fascinating how an administrative subpoena "chills" the First Amendment rights of big donors, but racial profiling, revoking legal status due to social media posts, getting fired for not revering white supremacists enough or being put on leave for teaching academic writing does not?
Love to retweet two contradictory takes within 30 seconds.
December 3, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Love to retweet two contradictory takes within 30 seconds.
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Dems often overperform in special elections because Resist Dems always vote and MAGA doesn’t show up when Trump isn’t on the ballot.
That’s great but doesn’t tell us a whole lot about the larger political environment.
But this is different. MAGA showed up. They just got annihilated on persuasion.
That’s great but doesn’t tell us a whole lot about the larger political environment.
But this is different. MAGA showed up. They just got annihilated on persuasion.
Generally agree, after all, using specials in 2024 was extremely flawed in predicting the 2024 November election.
One thing though is that this wasn't a low turnout election by US standards, it almost reaches midterm level turnout after being nationalized, and we still get such an overperformance.
One thing though is that this wasn't a low turnout election by US standards, it almost reaches midterm level turnout after being nationalized, and we still get such an overperformance.
December 3, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Dems often overperform in special elections because Resist Dems always vote and MAGA doesn’t show up when Trump isn’t on the ballot.
That’s great but doesn’t tell us a whole lot about the larger political environment.
But this is different. MAGA showed up. They just got annihilated on persuasion.
That’s great but doesn’t tell us a whole lot about the larger political environment.
But this is different. MAGA showed up. They just got annihilated on persuasion.
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yeah if these are the kinds of political swings we're getting in Trump country the Republicans are beyond screwed for the midterms
December 3, 2025 at 2:12 AM
yeah if these are the kinds of political swings we're getting in Trump country the Republicans are beyond screwed for the midterms
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do we think Ben Whishaw struggles to date because of how weird it must be to sleep with someone who has Paddington's voice
December 1, 2025 at 12:03 PM
do we think Ben Whishaw struggles to date because of how weird it must be to sleep with someone who has Paddington's voice
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“That sounds illegal”
December 1, 2025 at 6:24 PM
“That sounds illegal”
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If it doesn’t have philosophy, it’s not a university, it’s a white collar trade school
So our campus just announced the six undergraduate programs being put on the chopping block.
One of them is Philosophy.
Philosophy.
Can we be a university without offering a Philosophy major?
One of them is Philosophy.
Philosophy.
Can we be a university without offering a Philosophy major?
December 2, 2025 at 10:25 PM
If it doesn’t have philosophy, it’s not a university, it’s a white collar trade school
Shouldn't the word for palindrome be a palindrome?
December 2, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Shouldn't the word for palindrome be a palindrome?
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when someone tells you they're MechaHitler, believe them. the first time
December 2, 2025 at 4:22 PM
when someone tells you they're MechaHitler, believe them. the first time
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Indeed there were many concerned, hand-wringing articles and X posts about "echo chambers" and how we were depriving ourselves of the wisdom of alternate viewpoints, all of which was easily decoded as I AM IMPORTANT AND HAVE IMPORTANT THOUGHTS WHY WON'T YOU ACKNOWLEDGE ME AND MY IMPORTANTOSITY
back when bluesky was still blowing up, wasn't bsky's self-moderation what the dipshits on the right complained about the most? like, those stupid bastards were actually for-real crying about censorship and suppression of free speech because so many of us blocked them.
December 2, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Indeed there were many concerned, hand-wringing articles and X posts about "echo chambers" and how we were depriving ourselves of the wisdom of alternate viewpoints, all of which was easily decoded as I AM IMPORTANT AND HAVE IMPORTANT THOUGHTS WHY WON'T YOU ACKNOWLEDGE ME AND MY IMPORTANTOSITY
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adverse possession. look it up.
The bear that moved into a home’s crawlspace more than a week ago in Altadena is not budging: despite numerous attempts by the homeowners to keep him out, the animal is staying put.
Unbearable living situation: Bear under Altadena home showing no signs of leaving
“I feel nervous all the time,” homeowner Ken Johnson said. “I’m always looking over my shoulder to see if he’s coming out.”
nbcnews.to
December 2, 2025 at 11:30 AM
adverse possession. look it up.
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Protrust
MAGA is back pretending they care about corporate power and "antitrust reform" (with the press' help) this time as a ruse to help Larry Ellison top Netflix in the acquisition bid for Warner Brothers, CNN, and HBO:
December 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Protrust
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Trump last night shared images of posts & a video from a QAnon influencer known as "The SCIF," along with a video & a post from far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
December 2, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Trump last night shared images of posts & a video from a QAnon influencer known as "The SCIF," along with a video & a post from far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
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The only thing worse than ignoring our criticisms is lying about what our criticisms are
For my part, I would say that questioning the framing of some Times stories—for example, the highlighting of Trump’s putative emotions or the foregrounding of what he says (even when, as is often the case, what he says is false)—is not an indication that I want my “views validated.”
December 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The only thing worse than ignoring our criticisms is lying about what our criticisms are
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The only people who endlessly complain about color revolutions are dipshit leftie campists and Q-pilled right-wingers and the thing they have in common is they're both huffing Russian propaganda
Sen. Eric Schmitt: "This is the language of a color revolution where you're calling on military men and women to disobey orders."
December 1, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The only people who endlessly complain about color revolutions are dipshit leftie campists and Q-pilled right-wingers and the thing they have in common is they're both huffing Russian propaganda
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really went dark for the sequel
November 28, 2025 at 5:41 PM
really went dark for the sequel
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I’m going to get an engineering degree from OU by saying bridges can only be measured in cubits and shekels
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-stat...
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-stat...
OU puts graduate instructor on leave after student claims discrimination on Bible-based essay grade
OU placed a graduate student instructor on leave after a student publicly contested a grade and filed an illegal discrimination claim after she received a failing grade on an essay
www.oudaily.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:57 AM
I’m going to get an engineering degree from OU by saying bridges can only be measured in cubits and shekels
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-stat...
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-stat...
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Pete can feel the blindfold closing in on him.
Exactly 80 years ago this precise moment (8:40am Hamburg time, Nov. 30, 1945), German submarine commander Heinz-Wilhelm Eck and two of his former subordinates on the U-852 were shot by Allies in Hamburg for killing the survivors of a ship they had sunk. Pete Hagueseth needs to lawyer up immediately.
The Peleus War Crimes Trial
After sinking the Greek steamer Peleus in 1944, the captain ordered his crew to attack the survivors, three sailors survived and faced their attackers in a war crime trial.
www.usni.org
December 1, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Pete can feel the blindfold closing in on him.
Telling devs that coding was initially female coded is the fastest way to get them to accept that they are not Gandalf the computer wizard.
Hate to be that guy but this is more reflective of your personal relation to production than it is an insight to what is happening with AI.
Programming was always more of a trade and people who can freely navigate disruption brought on by AI is a reflection of either management or having a moat.
Programming was always more of a trade and people who can freely navigate disruption brought on by AI is a reflection of either management or having a moat.
This is the nut of it
I never built my identity around programming ability and so this era has been weirdly pain free
I always resented the code even as I was paid to write it! It’s been impossible to relate to everyone who did a whole sandcastle around Syntax Knowing
there’s so much more to do
I never built my identity around programming ability and so this era has been weirdly pain free
I always resented the code even as I was paid to write it! It’s been impossible to relate to everyone who did a whole sandcastle around Syntax Knowing
there’s so much more to do
November 30, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Telling devs that coding was initially female coded is the fastest way to get them to accept that they are not Gandalf the computer wizard.
Is @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social on strike?
November 30, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Is @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social on strike?
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i think the funniest military job would be being a JAG for space force
November 29, 2025 at 7:36 AM
i think the funniest military job would be being a JAG for space force
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Should these people be allowed to vote? Yes of course, voting tests are bad. Should they be allowed to use up valuable oxygen? Well,
November 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Should these people be allowed to vote? Yes of course, voting tests are bad. Should they be allowed to use up valuable oxygen? Well,