Tom Ellison
@tomellison123.bsky.social
-Climate change, disinformation, security
-Humor in McSweeney’s, New Yorker, etc.
-Board, Homes Not Borders
-Rule of 3 disregarder
Humor writing at: www.tom-ellison.com
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-Humor in McSweeney’s, New Yorker, etc.
-Board, Homes Not Borders
-Rule of 3 disregarder
Humor writing at: www.tom-ellison.com
Personal views
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Tom Ellison
@tomellison123.bsky.social
· Feb 19
Possibly the acquisition my coworkers have been most excited about ever
I can finally share that my satire of the masculinity-industrial complex will be a real book! Chud Buffly's Alpha Male Manhood Manual: How to Know Everything, Feel Nothing, Get Jacked, and Never Die will come out in 2026 from Quirk Books (once I finish writing, but Chud's grindset tips will help).
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This great thread makes a point I've been trying to convey for years. Calling all data-driven prediction or decision software "AI" is a huge gift to LLM hypemen, who want people to believe, incorrectly, that LLM data centers are crucial for solar forecasting or operating buildings and power grids.
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 6:08 PM
This great thread makes a point I've been trying to convey for years. Calling all data-driven prediction or decision software "AI" is a huge gift to LLM hypemen, who want people to believe, incorrectly, that LLM data centers are crucial for solar forecasting or operating buildings and power grids.
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Folks, Zohran Mamdani—smart guy, reminds me of a young me—you know what he said, I told him, “Zohran, I’m gonna do it, I’m gonna say the shahada,” and he said to me “Mr. President, you should say a third line confirming your belief in the wilayat of Ali,” should we do it folks? Should we say it?
November 22, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Folks, Zohran Mamdani—smart guy, reminds me of a young me—you know what he said, I told him, “Zohran, I’m gonna do it, I’m gonna say the shahada,” and he said to me “Mr. President, you should say a third line confirming your belief in the wilayat of Ali,” should we do it folks? Should we say it?
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also we now have a “whites only” refugee policy. they aren’t trying to hide the white supremacy anymore. it’s overt and mainstream.
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
also we now have a “whites only” refugee policy. they aren’t trying to hide the white supremacy anymore. it’s overt and mainstream.
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My great uncle Herb Bilus was a US Coast Guard officer who transported waves of GIs to Omaha Beach on D-Day, and I'm fairly sure he saw the swastika as a hate symbol
Now that’s a lede.
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 20, 2025 at 7:46 PM
My great uncle Herb Bilus was a US Coast Guard officer who transported waves of GIs to Omaha Beach on D-Day, and I'm fairly sure he saw the swastika as a hate symbol
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this thread is unbelievable
November 20, 2025 at 1:34 AM
this thread is unbelievable
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At last, they found the #CensorshipIndustrialComplex! DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin confirmed that the department would "contact Facebook and social media companies to do more to stop the rampant misinformation and disinformation circulating online"
November 19, 2025 at 9:36 PM
At last, they found the #CensorshipIndustrialComplex! DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin confirmed that the department would "contact Facebook and social media companies to do more to stop the rampant misinformation and disinformation circulating online"
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This story does a good job of arguing that there’s nothing happening to men that isn’t happening to everyone else. It’s just that this is the first time a broken system has caught up with men, and unlike the rest of us, they don’t know how to cope with the system being against them.
What Did Men Do to Deserve This?
Changes in the economy and in the culture seem to have hit them hard. Scott Galloway believes they need an “aspirational vision of masculinity.”
www.newyorker.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:24 PM
This story does a good job of arguing that there’s nothing happening to men that isn’t happening to everyone else. It’s just that this is the first time a broken system has caught up with men, and unlike the rest of us, they don’t know how to cope with the system being against them.
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Amazing how there's only two genders but infinite gradations of underaged sex.
November 15, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Amazing how there's only two genders but infinite gradations of underaged sex.
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True comedy is watching Dave Portnay trying to use a hammer
November 14, 2025 at 5:42 AM
True comedy is watching Dave Portnay trying to use a hammer
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November 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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20,000 refugees and Afghan SIV holders in the DC area - even green card holders - are losing SNAP benefits and at risk of going hungry. Homes Not Borders is launching a new food relief program to fill the gap.
Donate here: $35 feeds a family of four for a day
www.homesnotborders.org/donate-money/
Donate here: $35 feeds a family of four for a day
www.homesnotborders.org/donate-money/
Donate Money
www.homesnotborders.org
November 8, 2025 at 12:32 PM
20,000 refugees and Afghan SIV holders in the DC area - even green card holders - are losing SNAP benefits and at risk of going hungry. Homes Not Borders is launching a new food relief program to fill the gap.
Donate here: $35 feeds a family of four for a day
www.homesnotborders.org/donate-money/
Donate here: $35 feeds a family of four for a day
www.homesnotborders.org/donate-money/
Among 1,000 other things, it's always weird to see that the most powerful people in the world have the email stylings of your least favorite uncle.
November 12, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Among 1,000 other things, it's always weird to see that the most powerful people in the world have the email stylings of your least favorite uncle.
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My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
November 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
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The President pardoned members of his private militia after they failed to overturn an election; they, in turn, pledge their support to him and urge him to use them to police civil society.
New:
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
![STEWART RHODES (FOUNDER, OATH KEEPERS): And one other thing I want to say is that President Trump, as commander in chief, always has absolute authority to call all of us up as the militia because every one of us — in federal statues defining the militia, it's every able-bodied male from age 17-45. And for us veterans, it goes up to age 64 because of our prior training and experience.
Right now, under federal statutes, President Trump can call us up as the militia if he sees it necessary, especially for three purposes: to repel invasions, to suppress insurrections, and to execute the laws of the union. And right now, we see all three of those in play.
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And the militia is all of us. So the National Guard is part of the militia, which is why it's completely lawful for him to use the National Guard as he has, and he should do more of that, I think, across the country.
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He could just say given the circumstances of an invasion, insurrection, and resistance against federal law being being enforced, I'm calling up the militia, ordering all the men to come together [in] every county, put the veterans in charge of training and organizing all the other men and just have them stand too and await his orders. He can do that and I think he should do that. And so that's what I'll be advocating for from him. So from the bottom, from down the rank and file, we can let President Trump know that we're ready to serve, encourage him to do that, call us up as a militia, order us all to come together in our counties under his command, which gives you complete legal sanction to do what you're doing.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:af7tqcetuyt352aolf3znlxe/bafkreialm4skuozqobejpd6vx4m6kuwsgtidxmmxvj3ftcff6otiuyohiy@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The President pardoned members of his private militia after they failed to overturn an election; they, in turn, pledge their support to him and urge him to use them to police civil society.
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They turned Indivisible into an officially anti-Democratic incumbent organization overnight. Just remarkable stuff!
a man in a pink shirt is standing in front of a fence holding a hose .
Alt: mustachioed Elijah Wood tracing his hand sensually along a white wire fence before turning to the camera and saying "Terrific!!"
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:46 AM
They turned Indivisible into an officially anti-Democratic incumbent organization overnight. Just remarkable stuff!
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This is not a deal — it's an empty promise.
Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families.
Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families.
Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Senate reaches deal on ending the shutdown
Democrats are coalescing around a bipartisan agreement to fund the government.
www.politico.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 AM
This is not a deal — it's an empty promise.
Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families.
Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families.
Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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i’m ready for something different than whatever the fuck this is
November 10, 2025 at 12:51 AM
i’m ready for something different than whatever the fuck this is
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🚨 We’re hearing that Senate Democrats are on the verge of caving to Trump in another “Schumer Surrender.”
That means your Democratic senators need to hear from you right now.
Call: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Email: act.indivisible.org/sign/funding...
That means your Democratic senators need to hear from you right now.
Call: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Email: act.indivisible.org/sign/funding...
November 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
🚨 We’re hearing that Senate Democrats are on the verge of caving to Trump in another “Schumer Surrender.”
That means your Democratic senators need to hear from you right now.
Call: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Email: act.indivisible.org/sign/funding...
That means your Democratic senators need to hear from you right now.
Call: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Email: act.indivisible.org/sign/funding...
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if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.
November 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.
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wonder if this could have anything to do with the British press running a 24/7 hate campaign where typically a single newspaper might contain 3 anti-trans stories *a day*
"The wide-ranging polling on attitudes also suggested the proportion of the public feeling transgender rights have gone "too far" has more than doubled in five years" I WISH there was a follow-up question as to what new trans rights they think have come in over say, I dunno, the last 15 years?
November 8, 2025 at 4:57 PM
wonder if this could have anything to do with the British press running a 24/7 hate campaign where typically a single newspaper might contain 3 anti-trans stories *a day*
20,000 refugees and Afghan SIV holders in the DC area - even green card holders - are losing SNAP benefits and at risk of going hungry. Homes Not Borders is launching a new food relief program to fill the gap.
Donate here: $35 feeds a family of four for a day
www.homesnotborders.org/donate-money/
Donate here: $35 feeds a family of four for a day
www.homesnotborders.org/donate-money/
Donate Money
www.homesnotborders.org
November 8, 2025 at 12:32 PM
20,000 refugees and Afghan SIV holders in the DC area - even green card holders - are losing SNAP benefits and at risk of going hungry. Homes Not Borders is launching a new food relief program to fill the gap.
Donate here: $35 feeds a family of four for a day
www.homesnotborders.org/donate-money/
Donate here: $35 feeds a family of four for a day
www.homesnotborders.org/donate-money/
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This great thread raises some questions worth thinking over:
1. Is all electricity demand equivalent, or should grid policy distinguish between demand that provides essential services (e.g. hospitals) and demand that doesn't (e.g. computers mining crypto in air conditioned warehouses)?
1. Is all electricity demand equivalent, or should grid policy distinguish between demand that provides essential services (e.g. hospitals) and demand that doesn't (e.g. computers mining crypto in air conditioned warehouses)?
I reckon the most interesting subset of discourse here is when presumed [good] factors are actually either actually bad, or there to downplay or dismiss the bad even if the amount of good is way smaller than the bad.
A short thread to explain: on "training for electrification" + "demand response"
A short thread to explain: on "training for electrification" + "demand response"
I would love it if public discourse on data centers could be just a skosh more sophisticated than "data centers good vs. data centers bad."
November 7, 2025 at 12:58 PM
This great thread raises some questions worth thinking over:
1. Is all electricity demand equivalent, or should grid policy distinguish between demand that provides essential services (e.g. hospitals) and demand that doesn't (e.g. computers mining crypto in air conditioned warehouses)?
1. Is all electricity demand equivalent, or should grid policy distinguish between demand that provides essential services (e.g. hospitals) and demand that doesn't (e.g. computers mining crypto in air conditioned warehouses)?
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The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."
China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics
The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising
www.economist.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:05 AM
The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."
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A fantastic piece of data journalism. #JournalismMatters💪
"How Elon Musk is Boosting the British Right. For nine months, Sky News' Data and Forensics team has been investigating whether X's algorithm amplifies right-wing and extreme content. It does."
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
"How Elon Musk is Boosting the British Right. For nine months, Sky News' Data and Forensics team has been investigating whether X's algorithm amplifies right-wing and extreme content. It does."
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:32 AM
A fantastic piece of data journalism. #JournalismMatters💪
"How Elon Musk is Boosting the British Right. For nine months, Sky News' Data and Forensics team has been investigating whether X's algorithm amplifies right-wing and extreme content. It does."
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
"How Elon Musk is Boosting the British Right. For nine months, Sky News' Data and Forensics team has been investigating whether X's algorithm amplifies right-wing and extreme content. It does."
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...