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Cunty Poopster @cuntypoopster.bsky.social · 8h

What it’s like inside my head? lol

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Cunty Poopster @cuntypoopster.bsky.social · 16h

I wanna yeet both of them off my screen

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 19h

Inside the Hermitage, the winter palace where Tsar Nicholas II and his family lived before they were executed—in a country where Russians were starving.

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Cunty Poopster @cuntypoopster.bsky.social · 16h

Remember kids: Only corporations can make money from gambling, sex, or drugs. Everyone else is a criminal.

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Cunty Poopster @cuntypoopster.bsky.social · 17h

Never thought that I would this country make our citizenship test harder than ever AND make our gestapo entry test easier than ever.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 18h

Tapping the sign

Why Underachievers Dominate Secret Police Organizations: Evidence from Autocratic Argentina
Adam Scharpf and Christian Gläßel

Autocrats depend on a capable secret police. Anecdotal evidence, however, often characterizes agents as surprisingly mediocre in skill and intellect. To explain this puzzle, this article focuses on the career incentives underachieving individuals face in the regular security apparatus. Low-performing officials in hierarchical organizations have little chance of being promoted or filling lucrative positions. To salvage their careers, these officials are willing to undertake burdensome secret police work. Using data on all 4,287 officers who served in autocratic Argentina (1975-83), we study biographic differences between secret police agents and the entire recruitment pool. We find that low-achieving officers were stuck within the regime hierarchy, threatened with discharge, and thus more likely to join the secret police for future benefits. The study demonstrates how state bureaucracies breed mundane career concerns that produce willing enforcers and cement violent regimes. This has implications for the understanding of autocratic consolidation and democratic breakdown.

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Cunty Poopster @cuntypoopster.bsky.social · 18h

Is the elimination of SNAP benefits a way to speed up the civil war? Historically, the lack of food does directly lead to turmoil. But no one studies history anymore so nothing matters.

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Cunty Poopster @cuntypoopster.bsky.social · 19h

I bet Fan Duel have lobbyists now.

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Cunty Poopster @cuntypoopster.bsky.social · 19h

You know the shopping here is bad when I'm actually excited to go back to SLC to shop.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 20h

The East Wing has learned its lesson.

by Susan Collins

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Cunty Poopster @cuntypoopster.bsky.social · 21h

I love 4 Non Blondes coming onto TikTok and seeing their song all over the place.

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Cunty Poopster @cuntypoopster.bsky.social · 23h

You know the stars aligned when you sell an old perfume right after you decide to buy a new one.

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Cunty Poopster @cuntypoopster.bsky.social · 1d

I've used my birthday next month as an excuse to buy whatever the crap I wanted recently. I got to get that in check because I know I'm going to use the same birthday excuse to spend more money the week before my birthday when I visit the kids.

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Cunty Poopster @cuntypoopster.bsky.social · 1d

I’m convinced I’ll be able to quit weed before I can quit sugar.

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Cunty Poopster @cuntypoopster.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, they are the only ones who can afford decorating since they don’t have kids?

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Cunty Poopster @cuntypoopster.bsky.social · 1d

Remember, ai can produce the outcome. But humans will always be needed to verify process. Our job is to know the technology enough to find the mistakes. If kids can't read for content, they will never be able to verify the process and will always depend on ai for the outcome.

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Cunty Poopster @cuntypoopster.bsky.social · 1d

So sorry. I feel for all of those who are trying to survive under this oppressive administration.

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Cunty Poopster @cuntypoopster.bsky.social · 1d

So law firms are using AI to help with the work of lawyers and speeding up their workday. Are they going to reduce billable hours? Or bill the same, but do less work?

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Cunty Poopster @cuntypoopster.bsky.social · 1d

And yes, an Asian knows her pasta shapes better than Italians because we invented noodles.

Cunty Poopster @cuntypoopster.bsky.social · 1d

Orecchiette

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Cunty Poopster @cuntypoopster.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing the cost of feminine hygiene products that women of birthing age need every month has gone up and I pray everyday that my period will end so I can afford food too.

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Cunty Poopster @cuntypoopster.bsky.social · 1d

Lisa Barlow defending herself on a TikTok about her using cash on RHOSLC is giving Jen Shah vibes.

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Cunty Poopster @cuntypoopster.bsky.social · 1d

But please have more babies because the Antichrist is coming.

jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 2d

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

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Frank Cogliano @frankcogliano.bsky.social · 1d

Graduate seminar did a deep dive on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense yesterday. At the line, “in America the law is king,” they (14 students from 6 countries) burst out laughing. I've been doing this for 35 years and this is the first time that was a laugh line.

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Terry Pond @tcpond.bsky.social · 2d

Rainbow image with text: The fact that I’m still attracted to men should prove that sexuality is not a choice.” Though the image does not state this specifically, it could apply to cis women as well as men who are attracted to men.

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