PJ Westin
@pjwestin.bsky.social
Social media refugee looking for a new home.
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“The left is missing out on AI!” YEP. Most of us want to miss out! If it ever proves its actual usefulness to our actual lives, stops plagiarizing, and is no longer an environmental disaster, maybe we revisit. Burden of proof is on the industry. So far they’ve done the opposite of that!
February 18, 2026 at 5:22 AM
“The left is missing out on AI!” YEP. Most of us want to miss out! If it ever proves its actual usefulness to our actual lives, stops plagiarizing, and is no longer an environmental disaster, maybe we revisit. Burden of proof is on the industry. So far they’ve done the opposite of that!
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Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.
February 18, 2026 at 5:13 AM
Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.
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I think it’s time for Democratic leaders to start saying “if you’re a pilot or ground crew involved in a deportation that was stayed by a judge, you’ll be held criminally liable for human trafficking.” Everyone involved in these flights should have that fear in the back of their minds.
Overnight, this probable ICE flight landed in Benin and is now returning to Senegal, likely for a crew layover.
February 16, 2026 at 10:57 AM
I think it’s time for Democratic leaders to start saying “if you’re a pilot or ground crew involved in a deportation that was stayed by a judge, you’ll be held criminally liable for human trafficking.” Everyone involved in these flights should have that fear in the back of their minds.
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Truly the most stupid timeline. At a point in time where renewable energy has tipped into genuine widespread viability, capital invents whole new ways to fabricate waste and scarcity.
Valve warns of Steam Deck OLED stock issues due to RAM shortage
Valve warns of Steam Deck OLED stock issues due to RAM shortage
Hardware manufacturers are struggling to secure key components due to rampant demand within the AI industry.
www.gamedeveloper.com
February 17, 2026 at 11:28 AM
Truly the most stupid timeline. At a point in time where renewable energy has tipped into genuine widespread viability, capital invents whole new ways to fabricate waste and scarcity.
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wow
February 17, 2026 at 5:54 AM
wow
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Booker should do another phony baloney filibuster where he talks about how much he wanted to hug Ronald Reagan.
February 17, 2026 at 2:30 AM
Booker should do another phony baloney filibuster where he talks about how much he wanted to hug Ronald Reagan.
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If the same kind of politicians and mindset dominate the Democratic Party in 10 years, they’ll be getting all sentimental and mushy about Trump too.
So say I this sooth!
So say I this sooth!
February 17, 2026 at 2:25 AM
If the same kind of politicians and mindset dominate the Democratic Party in 10 years, they’ll be getting all sentimental and mushy about Trump too.
So say I this sooth!
So say I this sooth!
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Democrats love praising Republicans, who in turn tell the world that Democrats are all filthy demons.
Absolutely deranged behavior.
Absolutely deranged behavior.
February 17, 2026 at 2:18 AM
Democrats love praising Republicans, who in turn tell the world that Democrats are all filthy demons.
Absolutely deranged behavior.
Absolutely deranged behavior.
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a very direct, public "if you run for president this is how it's gonna go for you" from the paper of record
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
February 16, 2026 at 8:17 PM
a very direct, public "if you run for president this is how it's gonna go for you" from the paper of record
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AOC outperformed Harris with both Trump AND Biden voters.
Split ticket voters offer some bracing lessons for the Democratic Party
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was surprised to see her New York 14th congressional district swing heavily toward Trump even as voters there showed strong support for her candidacy.
www.ms.now
February 15, 2026 at 8:20 PM
AOC outperformed Harris with both Trump AND Biden voters.
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Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
February 16, 2026 at 11:52 PM
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
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Everywhere this man goes he should be treated as if he murdered millions of children, because he did.
The Project 2025 architect who promised to put federal employees “in trauma” is spending $15 million of former USAID funding—money that would have gone toward fighting HIV, polio, malaria, and other diseases—to bankroll his security detail. trib.al/TSV3cmb
February 16, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Everywhere this man goes he should be treated as if he murdered millions of children, because he did.
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A Marine veteran who witnessed Alex Pretti shooting claims that federal agents held a gun to his head, detained him, seized his phone, took fingerprints and DNA without a warrant, and held him for eight hours before releasing him without charges into subzero temperatures.
Marine Detained in Minneapolis Says Feds Copied His Phone Without a Warrant
He was observing after Alex Pretti’s killing. Feds detained him at gunpoint, sampled his DNA, scanned his face, and cloned his phone.
theintercept.com
February 16, 2026 at 3:58 PM
A Marine veteran who witnessed Alex Pretti shooting claims that federal agents held a gun to his head, detained him, seized his phone, took fingerprints and DNA without a warrant, and held him for eight hours before releasing him without charges into subzero temperatures.
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Burn out? Did Michelangelo burn out when painting the Sistine Chapel? Oh he did. Oh no.
February 16, 2026 at 12:35 PM
Burn out? Did Michelangelo burn out when painting the Sistine Chapel? Oh he did. Oh no.
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This is happening because OpenAI - a company that does not have anything even approaching a viable business model and is setting money on fire - used borrowed money to advance buy all of the raw materials for RAM production so competitors couldn’t get it
this RAM crisis feels like it’s going to ruin consumer electronics over the next decade. Bloomberg reports that Sony is considering pushing the PS6 release to 2028 or even 2029 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
February 16, 2026 at 1:01 PM
This is happening because OpenAI - a company that does not have anything even approaching a viable business model and is setting money on fire - used borrowed money to advance buy all of the raw materials for RAM production so competitors couldn’t get it
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Another ICE plane landed in Cameroon eight hours ago. bsky.app/profile/gbro...
Also overnight, this Omni 767 landed in Cameroon. This is likely a third-country removal of non-Cameroonian migrants with withholding of removal orders to their countries of origin.
Cameroon has been in an armed civil conflict since 2017, with deadly clashes occurring as recently as last Monday.
Cameroon has been in an armed civil conflict since 2017, with deadly clashes occurring as recently as last Monday.
February 16, 2026 at 11:42 AM
Another ICE plane landed in Cameroon eight hours ago. bsky.app/profile/gbro...
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We've joked for years about how posting isn't activism but now that the government is a gang of social media-obsessed fascists it actually is
Posting about ICE on Instagram is now enough to get you an “administrative subpoena.” 👀
@nytimes.com #$META
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
@nytimes.com #$META
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
February 16, 2026 at 3:32 PM
We've joked for years about how posting isn't activism but now that the government is a gang of social media-obsessed fascists it actually is
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The huge success of "actually eating steak and butter every day is GOOD for me" is great evidence for the Everyone is 12 Now theory
Fun fact: half of the “experts” who wrote RFK Jr’s new food guidelines—which push people to eat more red meat, saturated fats, beef tallow, & full fat dairy—have financial ties to the livestock & dairy industries
Looks like RFK Jr & Makary CREATED a corrupt food pyramid
Looks like RFK Jr & Makary CREATED a corrupt food pyramid
Makary: "We ended what was a corrupt food pyramid"
February 16, 2026 at 3:37 PM
The huge success of "actually eating steak and butter every day is GOOD for me" is great evidence for the Everyone is 12 Now theory
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BlueAnon (the putatively liberal version of QAnon) is 100% a thing and it’s important for us to acknowledge that and try to root it out.
February 16, 2026 at 1:45 PM
BlueAnon (the putatively liberal version of QAnon) is 100% a thing and it’s important for us to acknowledge that and try to root it out.
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'I Spilled My Soda,' Report Nation's Dopes https://theonion.com/i-spilled-my-soda-report-nations-dopes-1819572671/
February 16, 2026 at 4:00 PM
'I Spilled My Soda,' Report Nation's Dopes https://theonion.com/i-spilled-my-soda-report-nations-dopes-1819572671/
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Bookseller Scrambles To Hide All The Classics After Seeing Emerald Fennell Approaching Door https://theonion.com/bookseller-scrambles-to-hide-all-the-classics-after-seeing-emerald-fennell-approaching-door/
February 16, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Bookseller Scrambles To Hide All The Classics After Seeing Emerald Fennell Approaching Door https://theonion.com/bookseller-scrambles-to-hide-all-the-classics-after-seeing-emerald-fennell-approaching-door/
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Is it good or bad that an agency that is technically involved in law enforcement is using ideas from the serial killer playbook?
A female ICE thug posing as a distressed motorist in neighborhoods of Brooklyn Park (63% non-white), MN, to entrap good samaritans. This is the same MO Ted Bundy used to lure his victims to their demise.
February 15, 2026 at 10:57 PM
Is it good or bad that an agency that is technically involved in law enforcement is using ideas from the serial killer playbook?
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Wild how Obama was willing to invent a legal justification to assassinate Awlaki without a trial but found it beyond the pale to "stretch the definition of criminal statutes" to prosecute banking executives. Bruv, no stretch needed, I promise. Just a plain text reading.
February 16, 2026 at 10:19 AM
Wild how Obama was willing to invent a legal justification to assassinate Awlaki without a trial but found it beyond the pale to "stretch the definition of criminal statutes" to prosecute banking executives. Bruv, no stretch needed, I promise. Just a plain text reading.