Mark Simmons
@markdsimmons.bsky.social
Mostly harmless. Disappointed. Be nice. He/him.
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The federal government is faking evidence in major criminal cases and then lying when caught. In addition to that they are destroying evidence of their crimes against humanity and the population.
ICE’s Detention Center outside Chicago was sued on October 30 for allegedly abusing detainees. One day later, a "system crash" lost all video footage that could have shown how detainees were being treated. trib.al/QwT3aqI
November 21, 2025 at 12:48 AM
The federal government is faking evidence in major criminal cases and then lying when caught. In addition to that they are destroying evidence of their crimes against humanity and the population.
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The district courtroom really is one of the last spaces left in American public life where there’s a serious possibility that a strategy built on the denial of reality just won‘t fly.
THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
November 21, 2025 at 12:23 AM
The district courtroom really is one of the last spaces left in American public life where there’s a serious possibility that a strategy built on the denial of reality just won‘t fly.
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Not sure you selfish oafs realize that on smaller planes, they seat the First Class passengers like Mr Duffy first and then file the rest of the plane past them.
Seeing your impoverished peasant clothing as you waddle past on the way to wherever planes stack poor people really ruins his champagne.
Seeing your impoverished peasant clothing as you waddle past on the way to wherever planes stack poor people really ruins his champagne.
WATCH: Trump’s Transpo Secretary Duffy’s message to Americans struggling with high holiday prices thanks to his tariffs — “dress up” when you fly you slobs
November 20, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Not sure you selfish oafs realize that on smaller planes, they seat the First Class passengers like Mr Duffy first and then file the rest of the plane past them.
Seeing your impoverished peasant clothing as you waddle past on the way to wherever planes stack poor people really ruins his champagne.
Seeing your impoverished peasant clothing as you waddle past on the way to wherever planes stack poor people really ruins his champagne.
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This shit is delightful
November 20, 2025 at 9:12 AM
This shit is delightful
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"don't pay attention to any of that frivolous humanities education, STEM all the way - what, do you think you can hack a computer with poetry or something?"
apparently, yes
apparently, yes
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 7:16 PM
"don't pay attention to any of that frivolous humanities education, STEM all the way - what, do you think you can hack a computer with poetry or something?"
apparently, yes
apparently, yes
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Crow: "It just tells us everything that we need to know that reminding people to obey the law, reminding people to obey the Constitution, is somehow criminal in Trumpworld and should be responded to with death threats. It's very, very telling."
November 20, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Crow: "It just tells us everything that we need to know that reminding people to obey the law, reminding people to obey the Constitution, is somehow criminal in Trumpworld and should be responded to with death threats. It's very, very telling."
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I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought I'd see a President call for my execution.
Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
November 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought I'd see a President call for my execution.
Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
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This is the President of the United States threatening to kill members of Congress because they told our members of the military to refuse illegal orders from any commanding officers.
November 20, 2025 at 9:26 PM
This is the President of the United States threatening to kill members of Congress because they told our members of the military to refuse illegal orders from any commanding officers.
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"China’s state lenders have funneled $200 billion into U.S. businesses for a quarter of a century, but many of the loans have been kept secret because the money was first routed through shell companies"
fortune.com/2025/11/18/s...
fortune.com/2025/11/18/s...
'China was playing chess while the rest of us were playing checkers': Bombshell study finds $200 billion of secret loans to U.S. businesses over 25 years | Fortune
Many of the loans from China’s state lenders were routed through shell companies in the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Delaware and elsewhere, according to AidData.
fortune.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
"China’s state lenders have funneled $200 billion into U.S. businesses for a quarter of a century, but many of the loans have been kept secret because the money was first routed through shell companies"
fortune.com/2025/11/18/s...
fortune.com/2025/11/18/s...
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If we had to hear “Baby Shark” everywhere we went for two whole months out of the year we’d throw a fit, right?
And rightfully so.
So tell me, why do we put up with it when the song is “Frosty the Snowman”?
And rightfully so.
So tell me, why do we put up with it when the song is “Frosty the Snowman”?
November 19, 2025 at 6:16 PM
If we had to hear “Baby Shark” everywhere we went for two whole months out of the year we’d throw a fit, right?
And rightfully so.
So tell me, why do we put up with it when the song is “Frosty the Snowman”?
And rightfully so.
So tell me, why do we put up with it when the song is “Frosty the Snowman”?
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Health Secretary Wes Streeting says he is not comfortable with the prospect of families with children being deported - but insists it is the 'right thing' to do.
Appalling
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Appalling
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Wes Streeting admits he is not comfortable deporting kids under new asylum plan
Health Secretary Wes Streeting said he is not comfortable with the prospect of families with children being deported following a backlash - but insisted it is the 'right thing' to do
www.mirror.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Health Secretary Wes Streeting says he is not comfortable with the prospect of families with children being deported - but insists it is the 'right thing' to do.
Appalling
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Appalling
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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In ICE masking news: The federal government has sued California to prevent enforcement of the state's "No Secret Police Act," which bans federal law and immigration enforcement officials from wearing masks on duty in most circumstances.
apnews.com/article/fede...
apnews.com/article/fede...
Trump administration sues California over law banning masked federal agents
The Trump administration has filed a lawsuit over California’s new laws banning federal agents from wearing masks and requiring them to have identification while conducting operations in the state.
apnews.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:20 PM
In ICE masking news: The federal government has sued California to prevent enforcement of the state's "No Secret Police Act," which bans federal law and immigration enforcement officials from wearing masks on duty in most circumstances.
apnews.com/article/fede...
apnews.com/article/fede...
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For the first time ever, I had to make a payment in crypto.
I can now confidently say that crypto payments combine the speed of a dial up modem and the ease of updating the drivers on a 1998 HP Laserjet printer.
I can now confidently say that crypto payments combine the speed of a dial up modem and the ease of updating the drivers on a 1998 HP Laserjet printer.
November 18, 2025 at 5:58 AM
For the first time ever, I had to make a payment in crypto.
I can now confidently say that crypto payments combine the speed of a dial up modem and the ease of updating the drivers on a 1998 HP Laserjet printer.
I can now confidently say that crypto payments combine the speed of a dial up modem and the ease of updating the drivers on a 1998 HP Laserjet printer.
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Cloudflare just put up a blog post on today's incident.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/
https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/
November 19, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Cloudflare just put up a blog post on today's incident.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/
https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/
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This is well outside my beat, so apologies for what might be an obvious question. But what’s to stop the administration from altering or destroying material in the Epstein files that may implicate Trump? Would we know if something had been destroyed? Are there unalterable redundancies somewhere?
November 19, 2025 at 1:07 AM
This is well outside my beat, so apologies for what might be an obvious question. But what’s to stop the administration from altering or destroying material in the Epstein files that may implicate Trump? Would we know if something had been destroyed? Are there unalterable redundancies somewhere?
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Yep, here's your problem
gizmodo.com/ai-powered-t...
gizmodo.com/ai-powered-t...
AI-Powered Teddy Bear Caught Talking About Sexual Fetishes and Instructing Kids How to Find Knives
OpenAI blocked access for the toymaker following the incidents.
gizmodo.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Yep, here's your problem
gizmodo.com/ai-powered-t...
gizmodo.com/ai-powered-t...
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I’ve been thinking and it’s kind of exceptional that not a single person said “Hey now” after the piggy comment.
November 19, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I’ve been thinking and it’s kind of exceptional that not a single person said “Hey now” after the piggy comment.
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Why do they keep making buttholes.
Is everyone ready for the Summit on European Digital Sovereignty?
Do we have a hashtag? #SEDS? #DigitalSovereignty?
The graphics look like the French and German flags tried to make an AI logo together.
Do we have a hashtag? #SEDS? #DigitalSovereignty?
The graphics look like the French and German flags tried to make an AI logo together.
November 18, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Why do they keep making buttholes.
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Eleventh Circuit throws out Trump's suit against CNN in a per curiam unpublished ruling. Meaning Trump's arguments were totally meritless, not even worthy of a published opinion. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
November 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Eleventh Circuit throws out Trump's suit against CNN in a per curiam unpublished ruling. Meaning Trump's arguments were totally meritless, not even worthy of a published opinion. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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It's very hard to see a single thing Microsoft has done with Windows the last 10 years that has not been about surveillance to monetize user behaviour.
November 18, 2025 at 10:10 PM
It's very hard to see a single thing Microsoft has done with Windows the last 10 years that has not been about surveillance to monetize user behaviour.
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I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk?
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
November 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk?
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
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Liz Truss due to her brief stint as PM receives a lifetime pension worth £100,000 annually and £1 million in 24 hour year round security.
Funded by the taxpayer to spend all her time talking down the UK.
Funded by the taxpayer to spend all her time talking down the UK.
November 18, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Liz Truss due to her brief stint as PM receives a lifetime pension worth £100,000 annually and £1 million in 24 hour year round security.
Funded by the taxpayer to spend all her time talking down the UK.
Funded by the taxpayer to spend all her time talking down the UK.
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Once you've seen this you can't unsee it (ht @stephenkb.bsky.social). politicians trying to describe things as "is this Labour", "this is not Labour", "there is nothing Labour about this", "this has the mandate of Labour, it partakes of the Labour nature" as a substitute for good or bad.
November 18, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Once you've seen this you can't unsee it (ht @stephenkb.bsky.social). politicians trying to describe things as "is this Labour", "this is not Labour", "there is nothing Labour about this", "this has the mandate of Labour, it partakes of the Labour nature" as a substitute for good or bad.