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Jed Davis 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸😱
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[he/him] [📍 San Francisco] [sad about computer, sad about politics, FIXME more topics go here]
…right, yes, the tourist is *looking for* the passport, of course that's complementary case and not passive case. Of course.
November 20, 2025 at 7:29 AM
I might've made some poor choices in life, but at least I never transvestigated President Eisenhower, which I have just learned is not the case for everyone.
November 20, 2025 at 6:53 AM
🎶 The gentry are all 'round
🎶 On each side they are found
🎶 Their wisdom so profound
🎶 To cheat us of our ground

(TBH I'm with the gentry here, but the song kind of slaps.)
I probably *should* be facing enclosure-related local unrest as I relentlessly convert the low-productivity peasantry into high-productivity burghers and laborers with round-the-clock construction to bring new areas up to the standards of the 'core.'
November 20, 2025 at 6:08 AM
The “regional slop (complimentary)” thread could use whatever's going on in that third photo. Looks like more than a match for the New England Slimy Beef.
November 20, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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The Speech & Debate Clause is quite something
You know about Trump and Zelesnkyy’s call, but have you heard about the call between Trump and the Saudi Crown Prince?

Watch my statement below. Mr. President, release the transcript.
November 19, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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I posted Trump’s unhinged screed announcing he’s signed the Epstein files but it contains so many lies that I deleted my post and will just tell you that Trump announced on social media he has signed the Epstein files
November 20, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Fish have committed credit card fraud
November 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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seven years later and you’re still saying nonsense about Nazi Germany, now that’s impressive
November 19, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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More blog catchup: a closer look at the “no need to stir a lot of organic chemistry reactions” data. This topic gets bench chemists all . . . Well, you know:
Reaction Stirring, Part Two
www.science.org
November 18, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Some people are saying deep fry turkey gender reveal and why would you even put that out there.
November 19, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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happy World Toilet Day to all who celebrate.
November 19, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Oh yay we built a particle accelerator for paranoid schizophrenia.

(As seen in the famous Philip K. Dick novel, “this particle accelerator has some interesting points and I am definitely not suffering from paranoid schizophrenia or amphetamine psychosis.”)
Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
November 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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The drinking water fandom is dying. Like and share if you're still sipping that clear stuff in 2025
November 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Will say again. If this was London or Paris, it would not be tolerated. But we expect Ukrainians to put up with this horror every night. Indeed, we in the west are getting inured to it. It should enrage us.
Cosmic fucking horror
November 19, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I make one stupid mistake at work, something really minor, no damage except to my dignity: oh look I fuck up everything, I'm worthless, etc. Meanwhile *these* people…
NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court.

Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
November 19, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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I honestly didn't even know this was a mistake you could make. Impressive!
NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court.

Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
November 19, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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I mentioned this a week ago and got a few "no thanks grandpas" - which, fair, I get it. But people want to find their friends!

We resolved not to touch this until we could reasonably solve enumeration attacks and consent from all parties. I'm optimistic, but we're presenting for scrutiny now
"Find friends by phone" is a common tool in social networks. We're proposing a secure scheme and requesting comments from the dev community.

Goals:
・Double opt-in: you're not findable by your phone unless YOU use the tool
・Secure to enumeration attacks
・Resistant to decryption if compromised
Request For Comments: A secure contact import scheme for social networks | Bluesky
This article outlines plans for a future Bluesky feature \- it doesn’t exist yet\! By sharing our ideas early, we hope to solicit feedback from the community.
docs.bsky.app
November 18, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Looks like this was collusion between Schumer and Thune. Schumer announced he'd be calling for unanimous consent at about 5PM. All the GOP Senators left for dinner, leaving an almost empty chamber. Schumer made the motion, no one objected, it passed. (Normally the GOP leaves someone there.)
November 19, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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the first trans member of congress got nearly the entire house democratic caucus to sign onto a letter saying

misgendering trans people is not only wrong but violates the rules of that chamber of congress

you don’t see that happen in most countries tbh
November 19, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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The woman to my right was responsible for the fact that the silicon in devices we're using can be used the way it is. It's Lynn Conway, and she not only helped invent VLSI (very large scale integration: shoving a bazillion transistors into a teensy tiny space), #TransAwarenessWeek . . .
November 19, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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American single stair regulations are *not* "written in blood." We know this because the proponents literally wrote that they did it as pretext to ban tenements.
November 19, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Two years and two days ago, a woman delivered some chili to her new neighbors. Everyone was very happy and normal and there were no lasting effects.
November 18, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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November 18, 2025 at 7:43 PM