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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin

@shimminykricket.bsky.social

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Electrical, electromechanical, and embedded systems engineer and teacher. Dad. ♦️👌 1911. PC Gamer (Steam: Pres. Shimmy Carter). Loves history, philosophy, science and thinking about hard problems.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.bsky.social · Apr 3

Me in the tariff era:

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 5h

i don’t think the moon should be a priority but i also think that if it’s going to be, it’s helpful not to completely fuck STEM funding streams that create scientists but I’m just a scientist with public policy experience so what do I know

CNN @cnn.com · 5h

Calls for the United States to return astronauts to the moon before the end of the decade have been increasingly loud and frequent, emanating from bipartisan lawmakers and science advocates alike. But underlying that drumbeat is a quagmire of epic proportions.
https://cnn.it/4oejhw7

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5h

Like a piece of shit eating itself.

University Using AI to Falsely Accuse Students of Cheating With AI

Australian Catholic University used an AI tool to falsely accuse students of cheating us an AI, taking months to clear their name.

futurism.com

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING via AP

US says it's sending about 200 troops to Israel to help support and monitor Gaza ceasefire deal.

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zoladudley.bsky.social @zoladudley.bsky.social · 1d

Trump said he was going after “Democrat oriented” federal workers/programs…so, does this mean programs for the disabled are something only Democrats care about?

Disability Rights Watch (US) @disrightswatch.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking: per internal sources, the entire Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS), including OSEP and RSA beneath them, was RIFed last night at the Department of Ed. Developing story. DoEd union says may take 1-2 days for all affected employees to receive official notice.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.bsky.social · 1d

"Pretty privilege" implies "ugly disadvantage/poor treatment" at worst and "ugly indifference" at best.

Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.bsky.social · 1d

This is exactly the point incels i.e. involuntary celibates have been making for over a decade now. Folks just skate past it because of the often reprehensible behavior of the worse incels.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.bsky.social · 1d

Fetterman is a living breathing counterargument to the way Ezra Klein thinks about politics.

Will🇺🇸📎✌️🌲 @econaturalist.bsky.social · 1d

This guy turned out to be a disappointment.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1d

The Broligarchs are the Frankenstein's monsters of capitalism: failed humans given limitless power by feckless elites of both parties--& this is where "both sides suck" really is tragically accurate--who were seduced by super-yachts & lavish parties into abdicating sovereign control over capital.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1d

With the Broligarchs, there's no longer any claim of merit or value creation to legitimate their wealth.

They've become so obscenely wealthy that they're more powerful than nation-states, so they no longer need to give a flying 💩 about legitimacy.

It's might makes right all the way down.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1d

What Thiel is saying about tax havens = what Altman is saying about copyright:

"I can't be rich unless you let me steal from you."

This is how Broligarchs differ from oligarchs of yore: the latter tried to hide their thievery; the Broligarchs trumpet their entitlement to steal as a natural right.

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John Paul @johnpaulhi.bsky.social · 1d

Dating would be a lot easier if the opposite sex had a tail so I could see if it was wagging or not after I did or said something.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 6d

Bill Nye is currently on the Hill to advocate against a proposed 47% cut to NASA science from the Trump admin

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Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 1d

Fox News, OAN, Newsmax, News Nation had reporters in Portland on the ground 24/7 in the summer of 2020.

They have literally no one filming the peaceful streets because that would be antithetical to the story they wanted to tell. So they just take his word for it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 1d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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♎ jentrification @jentrification.com · 1d

"A 2% tax on the wealth of billionaires, about 3,000 people in the world, would be more than enough to provide social protection to all people in low-income countries, 820 million people in the 26 poorest countries. And the billionaires would not even notice it."

Olivier de Schutter: ‘A 2% tax on billionaires would provide social protection for 820 million people in low-income countries’

‘The money is there,’ says the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. ‘All that is needed is the political will’

english.elpais.com

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Chico Escuela @blaqdocdown.bsky.social · 1d

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.bsky.social · 1d

Real. Lol

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 2d

there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif

Wide shot of many people in inflatable costumes

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Miss Aja @brat2381.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t know if y’all can tell or not but AG Letitia James is pissed😂😬

Baaaaaaaaby do these people know state crimes can’t be pardoned by the President?

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.bsky.social · 1d

Authoritarianism is a game of chicken between the fascists doing too much too fast turning the centrists against them and their opponents inadvertently reinforcing the fascist pitch to the useful idiot centrists that their political opponents are actually dangerous to the country.

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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 1d

The doctor:

Fake teen doctor Malachi ‘Dr. Love’ Robinson

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.bsky.social · 2d

This is dope. Just requested to join!

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Shaquille Sunflower🦇🎃 @mumzzzthewurd.blacksky.app · 3d

Fall weather is finally here 🍂🎃

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