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lorem ipsum 🇧🇷🇺🇸 @whiskeynachos.bsky.social · Aug 29

2022 was when I finally broke from the Jacobin crowd because they pivoted on a dime from "obviously Russia won't invade" to "the Nazis had it coming." Feb 2022 is when I stopped calling myself a leftist and embraced the label of "liberal" because frankly you lot made more sense.

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · Aug 29

In 2022 it got psychotic. I was arguing about Ukraine with someone I had been on reasonably good terms with before; I sent her an article from a Ukrainian professor in the US, and no joke she dismissed it because she couldn't tell 'if he had any Nazi connections' or 'who his parents were'

Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · Aug 29

What's been very revealing to me about most of these pieces is that the reaction (at best) usually amounts to dismissal of the writer in question, often on fairly reprehensible grounds

Truthout @truthout.org · Aug 29

"If Ukraine accepts a “deal” that includes occupation and further annexation of land, it will not end this war and lead to lasting peace. Such a deal will simply pause Russian aggression until Putin has time to regroup and come back for more Ukrainian land.”

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 43m

i do actually think this is an interesting phenomenon when paired with many young conservative men having very little idea how to dress and style themselves

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 53m

From cabinet secretaries to state legislators, many women in today’s GOP have one thing in common: They got their start in public life by winning beauty pageants.

The Beauty Queens of MAGA World

From cabinet secretaries to state legislators, many women in today’s GOP have one thing in common: they got their start in public life by winning pageants.

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Christo Silvia @christosilvia.bsky.social · 34m

Yup

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 4h

This video is everywhere because it's a hilarious visual refutation of Portland being on fire. You can't get a mass movement going without convincing the masses

so yes, this does do something actually

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This literally does nothing. You are not beating fascism by dressing up in inflatable suits and dancing

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Portland is leading the way. This is how you (non violently) beat Fascism. Humor and ridicule are key.

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Christo Silvia @christosilvia.bsky.social · 45m

It does kind of seem like they gave the Nobel Prize to the Ahmed Chalabi of Venezuela

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 20h

This is great. And making the bike lanes around the park wide and two-way would really help get some transportation cyclists out of the park. It's also just the right thing to do.

Chris Sanders @swiftysanders.bsky.social · 20h

I am quoted in this article.

"A cycle track around the park would get a ton of use and it’s going to take pressure off of Central Park," said Chris Sanders. "That would solve like 99 percent of whatever the perceived problem is for Central Park itself."

nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/10/09/w...

Want Safety in Central Park? Add Protected Bike Lanes Around and Through It: Advocates - Streetsblog New York City

It's time to ring the park with green paint — and add green veins through it.

nyc.streetsblog.org

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Calliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 48m

Peter Thiel's shtick gets progressively funnier as Peter Thiel himself asymptotically approaches the literal biblical Antichrist.

Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 5h

Conservative tech lord Thiel said tighter financial regulations “were a sign that a singular world government has begun to emerge that could be taken over by an Antichrist figure who could then use it to exert control over people.” Via WashPost

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

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Christo Silvia @christosilvia.bsky.social · 56m

I don't know why anyone didn't understand this as obvious, like I was a tween and I understood that was why

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 1h

This was not why he won the Nobel Peace Prize and I do not understand why white people do not get it. He won it for getting elected to the presidency as a Black man in the US. They gave MLK the prize for his civil rights activism and basically treated Obama’s election as civil rights activism.

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1h

One of the only things Trump has ever been right about: Obama had no business winning the Nobel Peace Prize for what amounted to the accomplishment of being a US president who was not George W Bush. (Remember, he had been in office for eight months at the time.)

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Errol 🦇 🏳️‍🌈 @eerieseymour.bsky.social · 1d

The Orphan Crusher is here to stay. If we don’t feed more Orphans to the Crusher the Orphan Crushing industry will die. It’s time to wake up to the reality of the Orphan Crusher. The Orphan Crusher is worth billions. We need to teach people to use the Orphan Crusher. It’s here to stay.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1h

You see this and think "What happened" and the answer is one old asshole posted a tweet. Healthy political and economic system

Snapshot of the stock market showing most stocks turning negative after trump posted on truthsocial about china

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1h

Side note: lest you think this is a one-off, a sizable group of Catholic nuns, priests and lay leaders have announced plans to do the same thing — offer communion to detainees in the Broadview ICE facility — tomorrow.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2h

NEW: Clergy are at the Broadview, IL ICE facility today — where clergy have been shot w/pepper balls in recent days.

UMC minister Rev. Hannah Kardon, one of those shot w/pepper balls in the past, among those asking to give communion to those detained. Attendees (who sent photos) say police declined

Clergy holding communion wares talking to police.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 4h

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

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Samus is Here @samusishere.bsky.social · 1h

American swing voters are sick freaks, guys. Please stop with the wishcasting of "once Trump kills a protestor or judge, it's all over!" and stop with the bed wetting of "oh no! A normie lib shot some Republican, they're going to do full fascism now."

No swing voter cares.

Samus is Here @samusishere.bsky.social · 1h

You guys have to stop saying this, lol. Americans do not care about political violence at all. Trump could order a judge assassinated, have it happen, and nothing would change. Someone could kill Trump's entire cabinet and nothing would change either.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 1h

mad king just found out that other countries can raise tariffs back in response to his tariffs and now he’s really upset

spOOKY tadpole 🍄 oooOooooOoo @spacefrog.dev · 1h

why did stonks just drop like that?

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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 1h

gotta love the brainworms that get you to "congestion pricing unfairly targets the working class" and "free bus fare unfairly benefits the capital class"

Nick @sregorn.bsky.social · 1h

great post sir, keep saying shit like this

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Oleksa Drachewych @odrachewych.bsky.social · 1h

Much is going to be made of this, but as I have said multiple times when interviewed, but both Putin and Zelenskyy have learned how to deal with Trump and it includes playing to Trump's personal desires. They both desire US engagement on their side. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

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Cackling O'Brien, Chief Witch-gineer 🔵 @radobrien.myatproto.social · 1h

There's kind of a pattern after a national leader nationalizes their oil reserve and whooooo boy does this track

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 3h

Machado has also expressed support for foreign military intervention to topple the socialist government of Maduro and personally appealed to Netanyahu for help with regime change in Venezuela. Trump has publicly praised Machado in the past.

"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 3h

The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Maria Corina Machado, has praised Donald Trump as a "visionary" and approves of his military attacks on Venezuelan civilians

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Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 1h

You know how newborns make a lot of noise, but it's all grunts and fussing and crying? Well, yesterday Thea said "ah goo" with her actual little voice. It's so surprising when that happens

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 2h

Pretending every huge peaceful protest is worse than January 6th while also pretending January 6th never happened.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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Christo Silvia @christosilvia.bsky.social · 2h

Make hay while the sun shines, try to get a decent amount of designs out of your engineers while you have them, and lay them off when sales drop

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 2h

Nvidia gets to make all the money *now,* probably the only real winner in the entire "AI" debacle.

That win is at the cost of their future, because there's not going to be this kind of market in five years. Everyone's already gone incredible in debt to buy server GPUs they won't be able to pay off.

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 2h

Yet even if these data centers get built - and one analyst told me only 30% of them are viable - they are dead weight debt vehicles of what will be near-obsolete GPUs that *everybody* has been buying - all built for AI compute demand that doesn't exist.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-bubbl...

And Even If They Build Them, These Projects Are Dead Weight Debt Vehicles
Private equity firms make money by investing in things that they eventually sell, with the average holding period being around 5.8 years.

How, exactly, does that work when you’re building data centers full of GPUs that will, after five years, be five generations behind?

How, exactly, does a private equity firm cash out on an asset that everybody else appears to be building, and who exactly do they sell it to?

And what happens if the GPUs inside die after three years? Who pays to replace them, and what do they replace them with?

In the best case scenario, we’re watching a situation where private equity investors pile tens or hundreds of billions of dollars into assets that start decaying the second that they’re built, ones that are commoditized by the very nature of the supposed “popularity” of generative AI and the single vendor — NVIDIA — that everybody is buying GPUs from.

There is little to differentiate one data center from another outside of its location, and at some point you have to wonder if that will matter when only one company — OpenAI — appears to actually need these massive amounts of compute.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 2h

Maria Corina Machado seems like she sucks but I also cannot help delighting in the fact that Trump still doesn't have the Nobel. He only wants it because Obama got it, just like his vapid ass only wanted to be president because Obama was. His racism is obvious and shallow.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 11h

softbank's investing in it? we're all fucked.

Scott Rose @rprose.bsky.social · 11h

SoftBank, once best known for having lots of money, is seeking a $5b margin loan (on ARM shares!) to invest in OpenAI

A generational all-in bet on AI infrastructure and we are nearing the finance equivalent of turning over couch cushions to find cash to pay for it
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

SoftBank in Talks for $5 Billion Margin Loan Backed by Arm Stock

SoftBank Group Corp. is in talks to borrow $5 billion from global banks, refilling its coffers at a time Masayoshi Son is accelerating the Japanese investment firm’s bets on artificial intelligence.

www.bloomberg.com

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