Nicholas Adams
@nicholasadams.bsky.social
Standing between you and a better world.
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Trump's FTC leaders bad-mouthed Lina Khan when they dropped this lawsuit, claiming that they were cleaning up her mess. Now that it's been unsealed, we can see that was a total lie. This was a coverup to protect Pepsi and Walmart.
1. For at least 10 years, Pepsi has conspired with Walmart to force up grocery prices. That’s the shocking evidence made public today in an unsealed FTC lawsuit. The suit was abandoned in May by the Trump FTC just before it was to be un-redacted. We went to court to get it unsealed & won.
December 12, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Trump's FTC leaders bad-mouthed Lina Khan when they dropped this lawsuit, claiming that they were cleaning up her mess. Now that it's been unsealed, we can see that was a total lie. This was a coverup to protect Pepsi and Walmart.
Unrelated, but really want a Book of the New Sun RPG setting. You can play an executioner, a madly hypergamous waitress, a reanimated corpse, or a genius giant. Bonus class: lexicographer.
How much of this comes down to how many Mormons write science-fiction?
Don't forget:
-Super China
-Remilitarized, cyberpunk Japan
-There's a South America?
-Deseret
-Super China
-Remilitarized, cyberpunk Japan
-There's a South America?
-Deseret
December 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Unrelated, but really want a Book of the New Sun RPG setting. You can play an executioner, a madly hypergamous waitress, a reanimated corpse, or a genius giant. Bonus class: lexicographer.
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25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.
December 12, 2025 at 5:36 AM
25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.
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Georgia elected 2 new Democratic PSC members in a landslide.
Before they are seated in January, the current ALL REPUBLICAN PSC is ramming through a plan at the last minute that will bring -
1. More data centers
2. More CO2 by building gas power plants
3. Higher rates for working Georgians.
Before they are seated in January, the current ALL REPUBLICAN PSC is ramming through a plan at the last minute that will bring -
1. More data centers
2. More CO2 by building gas power plants
3. Higher rates for working Georgians.
Georgia Power, PSC staff strike deal to allow historic data center expansion
Georgia Power and the Public Service Commission’s staff unveiled a deal that would allow the utility to build huge amounts of new power plants, mostly to serve data centers.
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December 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Georgia elected 2 new Democratic PSC members in a landslide.
Before they are seated in January, the current ALL REPUBLICAN PSC is ramming through a plan at the last minute that will bring -
1. More data centers
2. More CO2 by building gas power plants
3. Higher rates for working Georgians.
Before they are seated in January, the current ALL REPUBLICAN PSC is ramming through a plan at the last minute that will bring -
1. More data centers
2. More CO2 by building gas power plants
3. Higher rates for working Georgians.
One of my favorite artists is trying to crawl out from a six-year semi-exile due to an ex’s false allegations.
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AT HOME IN THE CHAOS - Artillery Magazine
What do CNN chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward, three-time Adult Video News All-Girl Performer of the Year Charlotte Stokely and art-world
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December 4, 2025 at 11:37 PM
One of my favorite artists is trying to crawl out from a six-year semi-exile due to an ex’s false allegations.
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This is incredible editor work.
Ok, however much you've thought about this Nuzzi business, I promise I've thought about it more.
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Notes on Your American Canto Draft
I read it. Everyone deserves a good editor, even people who don’t get one. Olivia, Thank you so much for this. I’m impressed with the scope of your ambition...
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November 22, 2025 at 1:53 PM
This is incredible editor work.
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WAPO: “.. Since 2000, political giving by the wealthiest 100 Americans to federal elections has gone up almost 140 times ..”
@washingtonpost.com #GildedAge 🥇
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@washingtonpost.com #GildedAge 🥇
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November 21, 2025 at 5:57 PM
WAPO: “.. Since 2000, political giving by the wealthiest 100 Americans to federal elections has gone up almost 140 times ..”
@washingtonpost.com #GildedAge 🥇
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@washingtonpost.com #GildedAge 🥇
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I expected once the shutdown ended, that @dieworkwear.bsky.social would publish his "Excited to Wear this Fall" post. I figured he was probably just holding out as a negotiation tactic...
November 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I expected once the shutdown ended, that @dieworkwear.bsky.social would publish his "Excited to Wear this Fall" post. I figured he was probably just holding out as a negotiation tactic...
lol “moist little psychos.”
Not saying this is everything but authoritarian populist movements don’t usually work when you frontload them with moist little psychos
November 19, 2025 at 1:43 PM
lol “moist little psychos.”
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I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.
November 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.
Caring who you’re in a room with is such a 2014 thing.
The guests at President Trump’s dinner for Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia included prominent figures in sports and business, such as Cristiano Ronaldo and Elon Musk. Read more: nyti.ms/49ZFWby
November 19, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Caring who you’re in a room with is such a 2014 thing.
It’s 1999 and every company on earth is throwing millions into “putting a dot com on the end of it and ship it!”
“Gentlemen, with these GPUs we are at last in a position to achieve a scientific goal that has eluded this company for decades. We’re finally going to crush those white-coated Garnier bastards and their goddamn Laboratoire.”
November 18, 2025 at 11:19 AM
It’s 1999 and every company on earth is throwing millions into “putting a dot com on the end of it and ship it!”
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“Gentlemen, with these GPUs we are at last in a position to achieve a scientific goal that has eluded this company for decades. We’re finally going to crush those white-coated Garnier bastards and their goddamn Laboratoire.”
November 18, 2025 at 10:45 AM
“Gentlemen, with these GPUs we are at last in a position to achieve a scientific goal that has eluded this company for decades. We’re finally going to crush those white-coated Garnier bastards and their goddamn Laboratoire.”
I want a Culture story in which a Mind running an orbital goes rogue and drives its population of post-scarcity utopian socialists to fascism. How does the rest of The Culture react?
November 14, 2025 at 10:55 AM
I want a Culture story in which a Mind running an orbital goes rogue and drives its population of post-scarcity utopian socialists to fascism. How does the rest of The Culture react?
New Dril just dropped.
i hit a button on my newly invented switchblade broadsword and the whole thing launches out of my hands and disappears over the horizon. i never explained what it was supposed to do so everyone is cheering and going nuts
November 13, 2025 at 11:27 AM
New Dril just dropped.
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The first woman to serve with the elite SEAL Team Six as a troop commander has had her orders revoked just days before she was supposed to take over a new command.
Pentagon Pete Accused of Ousting Hero Who Was First Female in SEAL Team Six
The Navy captain’s orders were revoked just days before she was supposed to take over a new command.
trib.al
November 11, 2025 at 5:07 PM
The first woman to serve with the elite SEAL Team Six as a troop commander has had her orders revoked just days before she was supposed to take over a new command.
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So something this article mentions that I want to footstomp for folks that don’t work with the military: it’s an “up or out” institution where if you don’t get promoted, your career is over. To get promoted you need to have specific types of jobs on your record. This move effectively ends her career
The first woman to serve with the elite SEAL Team Six as a troop commander has had her orders revoked just days before she was supposed to take over a new command.
Pentagon Pete Accused of Ousting Hero Who Was First Female in SEAL Team Six
The Navy captain’s orders were revoked just days before she was supposed to take over a new command.
trib.al
November 12, 2025 at 1:35 PM
So something this article mentions that I want to footstomp for folks that don’t work with the military: it’s an “up or out” institution where if you don’t get promoted, your career is over. To get promoted you need to have specific types of jobs on your record. This move effectively ends her career
Motherfucker really got too deep into The Culture without understanding its basic ethos. He's proposing Slap Drones, but as a fascist.
in a long life filled with saying stupid shit this is may be the stupidest shit he's ever said
November 11, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Motherfucker really got too deep into The Culture without understanding its basic ethos. He's proposing Slap Drones, but as a fascist.
I am an attorney; I know other attorneys whose capacity for reading comprehension is... suboptimal.
ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
November 11, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I am an attorney; I know other attorneys whose capacity for reading comprehension is... suboptimal.
Read “firefighters” at first and spent a long moment really trying to wrap my head around this fact.
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Read “firefighters” at first and spent a long moment really trying to wrap my head around this fact.
“They have agreed to give us what we want after we give up our leverage. We see no tactical issues with this.”
Shaheen: "We've heard from a number of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle that they're willing to come to the table, they're willing to work with us once the govt is open to get this done. We've heard the same thing from the White House. So now we'll see if they're really gonna work w/us"
November 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
“They have agreed to give us what we want after we give up our leverage. We see no tactical issues with this.”
We are the richest country in the world. God forbid we ever act like it.
I dunno. I do like our government spending less money anywhere they can. I like even more if my taxes go down as a result. Since when is our job to be the world’s mom and dad? Did other countries step up to fill that gap?
November 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
We are the richest country in the world. God forbid we ever act like it.
Revoke charter, dissolve corporation.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
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ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
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November 7, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Revoke charter, dissolve corporation.
100% true. Stupidly.
Every-day liberals/leftists get mad at political scientists when we say we really do need a strong conservative party for society to function well.
And this is directly attributable to Trump's victory in 2016. Yet another in a seemingly endless list of ways letting him be president for 4 years and head of a major political party for 8 (and counting) have made our country and world worse off.
November 6, 2025 at 9:05 PM
100% true. Stupidly.