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John Wallach

@jmwallach.bsky.social

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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. (PfP defaced sign from Seattle in 2000s stick figure man with claw hand and caption "Stop for me it's the claw" where the original sign had no claw on figure and said law. Banner is early ARPA map.) He/him

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John Wallach @jmwallach.bsky.social · 1d

I demand we make America great like when my relatives arrived and there were open borders.

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John Wallach @jmwallach.bsky.social · 35m

When your feed is all anti AI all the time.

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Two people asked Grok if a particular video is Al. One response says it is Al, another says it isn't.
Please don't waste your time asking Al chatbots if something is Al.

Il Pomodoro @dabenner.bsky.s... • 2m
This event is in the future.
Google screenshot

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2h

defeating ICE the DC way: they must sit through the most boring powerpoint man has ever created

Michele Okoh |🖤🩶🤍💜|🔺🐘 @okohlaw.bsky.social · 19h

It’s the Portland way.

LA: we will fight you.
Chicago: we will fight you.
PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 40m

Here’s the New York Times’ own Clyde Haberman (Maggie’s dad) repeating it in 2018

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About the Dodgers, I recall Brooklynites' raw emotions when Walter O'Malley moved the team to LA in the late '50s.
Question back then: What do you do if you're in a room with Hitler, Stalin & O'Malley, and you have a gun but only 2 bullets.
Answer: You shoot O'Malley twice.
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John Wallach @jmwallach.bsky.social · 38m

Trump probably will say 15 is too old.

Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 3h

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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The Provost / سيدة الفتنة @msentropy.bsky.social · 1d

When an Oath Keeper leaked the 2009 DHS memo about militias recruiting members of the military, the entire right-wing went ballistic about “presidential tyranny” and “political prosecution” and “patriotic dissent” and “domestic extremism” and “government overreach.”

just saying

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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 1d

This took longer to put together than I thought it would, but I finally wrote up a long post on the inventories of highly-enriched uranium and separated plutonium produced during the Manhattan Project. I think I have the exact-ish numbers, finally... blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2025/10/10/m...

Manhattan Project fissile material inventories

Reconstructing the quantities of enriched uranium and plutonium produced during the Manhattan Project.

blog.nuclearsecrecy.com

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John Wallach @jmwallach.bsky.social · 2h

One of my greatest regrets is not going with the gutter punk Poles that invited me to their squat while waiting for a night train in Budapest.

Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 2d

🇵🇱 Habitual friendly reminder: never start small talk with Poles, you'll regret that.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 2h

That’s so sad. She was a truly spectacular actress, and stole my heart in Annie Hall.

La dee dah…

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John Wallach @jmwallach.bsky.social · 2h

I am generally for drugs but not for these people.

John Wallach @jmwallach.bsky.social · 2h

About time the Jews actually ran things.

John Wallach @jmwallach.bsky.social · 2h

GNU yourself.

John Wallach @jmwallach.bsky.social · 2h

What five events defined your childhood

Step brother's death
Y2K
First time on IRC
Clinton impeachment
Learning wget

Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 2h

What five events defined your childhood

First kiss with Jennifer
Sailing with my Dad
Summer camp in NH
Blizzard of 79
Beastie Boys License to Ill

Dom White @domw.bsky.social · 3h

What five events defined your childhood?

Fall of the Berlin Wall
Italia 90 (marginally, over Mexico 86 and Euro 96)
Election of New Labour
1st Gulf War
Chernobyl

John Wallach @jmwallach.bsky.social · 2h

I thought presidential system was the problem but when nobody cares about the rules it doesn't matter much what they are...

John Wallach @jmwallach.bsky.social · 2h

Traitors hang.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 2d

Doug Wilson co-authored a (plagiarized) book that defended the institution of slavery *as it was practiced in the antebellum South*. This is how Douthat introduced the subject while providing him with the NYT's platform:

Douthat: So, just to take a related example, one of the controversies of many that you’ve been mixed up in has to do with slavery, and whether slavery is absolutely forbidden by the Bible, absolutely forbidden to Christians, or whether it is critiqued, but allowed for.

Wilson: Right.

Douthat: And you think it is critiqued, but allowed for.

Wilson: Right.

Douthat: On this, on a straightforward reading of the New Testament, I would agree with you. I would say, pretty clearly, there is a pretty clear path from the message of the Bible to the abolition of slavery. But there is no moment in the New Testament when Jesus insists on the manumission of slaves.

Wilson: Right.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 7h

Best combination of a terrible headline and a great article I've seen in a while. Click-bait put to a good use.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/o...

Opinion | With Mamdani, the Left Finally Has Its Trump

www.nytimes.com

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John Wallach @jmwallach.bsky.social · 2h

There are many...

Translations from https://www.cesnur.org/2003/dracula/IV.htm

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 3h

Okay, NOW let's talk about the behavior of the prosecutor, currently up for a magistrate judge position, here...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 7h

Argentina edition of Libertarian bible

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h

Imagine that

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John Wallach @jmwallach.bsky.social · 3h

Can only cook if someone has a K6-2.

John Wallach @jmwallach.bsky.social · 3h

That exceeds my first year physics knowledge.

John Wallach @jmwallach.bsky.social · 3h

Be sure to remind Trump voters that this is what they voted for.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 16h

FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

John Wallach @jmwallach.bsky.social · 4h

If you didn't gopher, gtfo.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2d

after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet

John Wallach @jmwallach.bsky.social · 4h

How is it that nobody has come up with a good Epstein-Barr joke about this administration?

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