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Diasporic Minnesotan @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 7h

We Minnesotans have an allergy to flavor.

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Diasporic Minnesotan @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 9h

Make mine an everything (plus the lox, capers, and red onions)

I just love all the seeds, even if my gums don't.

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 9h

Project 2029:

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Diasporic Minnesotan @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 10h

Evidence again undercuts Trump administration claims.

Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 11h

Report on Soros Cited by Justice Dept. Does Not Show Funding for Terrorism ... you don't say www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Report on Soros Cited by Justice Dept. Does Not Show Funding for Terrorism

www.nytimes.com

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Diasporic Minnesotan @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 10h

Between him and Noem, South Dakota owes the rest of the country a HELL of an apology. Really punching above their weight in evil.

Diasporic Minnesotan @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 10h

But, they didn't. So, we get to fascism.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

Diasporic Minnesotan @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 11h

Rich man sharts, but the WaPo is going to pretend it wasn't a shart.

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Diasporic Minnesotan @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 11h

We've got contract negotiations next year. Going to be pushing hard against any mandatory AI anything, at least as a starting place.

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 11h

is the secret "have millions of dollars in soft money from gullible far right billionaires" because the secret to his organizing might have been a Scrooge McDuck pile of $

flux.community @flux.community · 12h

Charlie Kirk was a religious extremist and an advocate for mass censorship of academics he hated.

But as a political organizer and creator of opportunities for his comrades, there's much that can be learned from what he did. @matthewboedy.bsky.social discusses on the latest Theory of Change

What Charlie Kirk knew

The slain co-founder of Turning Point was a masterful political organizer—and a religious extremist

plus.flux.community

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minty tear gas @nihilamacabre.bsky.social · 11h

A black and white photo of an edited tabloid headline. Header: "Exclusive! Frogs more popular than the church?" Large, central text, surrounded by frogs inside circles: "People want frogs not Jesus!"

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 12h

Took a break from the Supreme Court's ongoing horrorshow to focus on what really matters: how funny it is for a federal judge to decide, as a matter of law, that Drake lost the Kendrick Lamar beef

Federal Judge Declares Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” Too Awesome to Be Defamatory

Apparently, Drake decided that losing in the court of public opinion was not humiliating enough.

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Diasporic Minnesotan @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 11h

I hate this fucking reality.

memeorandum @memeorandum.com · 12h

Melania Trump in talks with Putin on reuniting Ukrainian children with families (Brett Samuels/The Hill)

Main Link | memeorandum Permalink

Diasporic Minnesotan @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 12h

"Evidence again undercuts Trump administration claims" would be a better headline.

NPR @npr.org · 16h

ICE claims assaults on its officers are up sharply since June. There's no public evidence that number is true.

White House claims "more than 1,000%" rise in assaults on ICE agents, data says otherwise

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers claim assaults on their officers are up sharply since June. There's no public evidence that number is true.

n.pr

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Diasporic Minnesotan @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 12h

No. 1 is a huge one to get past. Had a student with "How long until we get to full fascism..."

Me: "We're in fascism, in the process of a regime consolidating power. It's not coming, it's here."

S: "But when they start shooting people and stuff"

Me: "They have. It's not everything at once."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h

The House Majority Whip is also insisting that a peaceful "No Kings" demonstration is in fact a "hate America rally" held for the "terrorist wing" of the Democratic Party.

Really feels like they're trying to manifest a violent reaction to it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

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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Stryvec @stryvec.bsky.social · 12h

Move over Blackbloc, now is the time for Frogbloc!

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Diasporic Minnesotan @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 12h

I can VERY EASILY see mgmt trying to force AI into the assessment process, and I can see companies like OpenAI selling it that way. There is a HUGE overlap between the institutionalized "culture of assessment" and the uses of those tools.

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Diasporic Minnesotan @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 12h

This is--for most of us, I would hope--a "no duh" thing.

However, I can really, really see admins trying to push this with regard to assessment outcomes and such: have the AI do it. It's so in fitting with that entire mindset.

John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 16h

I strongly urge everyone to not just read this warning from @marcwatkins.bsky.social, but heed it, and be vocal and forceful pushing back against using AI to grade student writing. This must be anathema if we're going to have a world where learning means something. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

The Dangers of using AI to Grade

Nobody Learns, Nobody Gains

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 13h

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I’ve missed hearing Woody Allen’s voice - I’d been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self.

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⁩ is the perfect interviewer. She seemed almost like a daughter to him - in a way she is. We all are.

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J.M. Berger @jmberger.com · 13h

Also, it's very exclusive in-group signalling. They're not speaking to the non-MAGA audience at all, because in their minds those people don't matter any more.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13h

The fact that they are still doing the "Soros-paid protestors" bit is just an incredible testimony to the durability of certain tropes to negate the popular will, regardless of the lack of evidence.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Diasporic Minnesotan @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 13h

I'm all for some mountaintop removal of the Seven Mountains.

Diasporic Minnesotan @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 14h

There are no decent human beings working at #OpenAI.

Not. One.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 14h

“Another former OpenAI employee who also was not authorized to speak publicly argued that releasing a deepfake AI social media platform was the right business decision, even if it contributes to the collapse of everyone's shared sense of reality.” 💀

Sora gives deepfakes 'a publicist and a distribution deal.' It could change the internet

OpenAI's new hit app has unleashed a new wave of AI slop across the internet. But what happens when there are no rules over hyper-realistic synthetic videos?

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Diasporic Minnesotan @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 14h

A serious question: Who would pay money to listen to Peter Thiel wax on philosophical, ethical, or religious issues? Why?

He has nothing to say. People who think he does are fucking idiots.

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 16h

The tech billionaire and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel says the antichrist is ... Greta Thunberg www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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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Diasporic Minnesotan @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 14h

I will be at my mom's funeral, but I'll be with everyone in spirit.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

Diasporic Minnesotan @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 14h

Now is the time of monsters ... and I feel fine.

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