Andy
@fossilbeds.ami.social
Interested in evolution, education, ADHD, science communication, understanding cognitive bias, and defending democracy. And Taylor Swift.
Literally the 2020’s are defined by the phrase “but her emails” and all the ironic context implied by that
To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein
November 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Literally the 2020’s are defined by the phrase “but her emails” and all the ironic context implied by that
Is there a more specific German word than schadenfreude to describe the glee I feel reading these?
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Is there a more specific German word than schadenfreude to describe the glee I feel reading these?
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Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
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New video: A glacier on Antarctica’s Eastern Peninsula experienced the fastest retreat recorded in modern history—in just two months, nearly 50 percent of the glacier disintegrated. Watch this video to understand what happened. Study by @ciresnews #Antarctica #glaciermelt
November 3, 2025 at 8:17 PM
New video: A glacier on Antarctica’s Eastern Peninsula experienced the fastest retreat recorded in modern history—in just two months, nearly 50 percent of the glacier disintegrated. Watch this video to understand what happened. Study by @ciresnews #Antarctica #glaciermelt
Once again democracy is saved by the villains being dumber than everyone else. We live in a Scooby doo episode.
Understand that the Halligan thing is 100% Pam Bondi's fuck-up. She could have appointed Halligan Special Attorney and this thing would still be alive.
So it's not just that HALLIGAN is an incompetent bigot.
It's that Bondi is too.
So it's not just that HALLIGAN is an incompetent bigot.
It's that Bondi is too.
November 24, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Once again democracy is saved by the villains being dumber than everyone else. We live in a Scooby doo episode.
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In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
November 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
So according to the culture war addled, right wing scotus justices, no evidence for claim means no can prove point.
But no evidence mean good thing here, I say.
No. No evidence of bad thing in case. Judge Thomas say. So that mean no prove that bad thing bad.
Not how think work, I say.
But no evidence mean good thing here, I say.
No. No evidence of bad thing in case. Judge Thomas say. So that mean no prove that bad thing bad.
Not how think work, I say.
“When Justice Thomas writes in his concurrence “This absence of evidence is a “major drawback” in assessing the effects of puberty blockers on children with gender dysphoria” he collapses a complex, very real evidence-base into non-existence through what I can only describe as rhetorical magic.”
November 23, 2025 at 10:36 AM
So according to the culture war addled, right wing scotus justices, no evidence for claim means no can prove point.
But no evidence mean good thing here, I say.
No. No evidence of bad thing in case. Judge Thomas say. So that mean no prove that bad thing bad.
Not how think work, I say.
But no evidence mean good thing here, I say.
No. No evidence of bad thing in case. Judge Thomas say. So that mean no prove that bad thing bad.
Not how think work, I say.
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I never expected to write about my time rigging card games. Then I watched him get elected in 2016. I hinted at it with a post. When Kavanaugh was sworn in, I’d had enough. The book is set in the world of crooked poker, but that’s not what it’s about. It’s about what’s happening to all of us now.
October 26, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I never expected to write about my time rigging card games. Then I watched him get elected in 2016. I hinted at it with a post. When Kavanaugh was sworn in, I’d had enough. The book is set in the world of crooked poker, but that’s not what it’s about. It’s about what’s happening to all of us now.
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They are literally firing all the judges they think might grant relief. They just fired a friend of mine a couple hours ago. They have no shame. The bastards want an assembly line for deportations and nothing more; rubber-stamping bootlickers who’ll yes’sir at every new diktat to deny.
Instead of hiring more immigration judges, the Department of Justice just posted an ad for "deportation judges." join.justice.gov
November 21, 2025 at 11:17 PM
They are literally firing all the judges they think might grant relief. They just fired a friend of mine a couple hours ago. They have no shame. The bastards want an assembly line for deportations and nothing more; rubber-stamping bootlickers who’ll yes’sir at every new diktat to deny.
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your Cool friend: ooh, honey, ‘leftist’? no, the preferred nomenclature is ‘Person of Objective Correctness’
i think it’s time to retire “online leftists” and start using “people who are constantly proven right about everything all of the time”
November 16, 2025 at 6:06 AM
your Cool friend: ooh, honey, ‘leftist’? no, the preferred nomenclature is ‘Person of Objective Correctness’
I love people
For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
Epstein Document Search
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
November 13, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I love people
Ok. Fine. Here’s mine. Btw I could hear them crackling
November 13, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Ok. Fine. Here’s mine. Btw I could hear them crackling
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Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.
People have got to read this BEFORE commenting on this story
Read about WHY Ketanji Brown Jackson stayed the SNAP order. Her move is probably the best solution for getting SNAP benefits approved quickly. open.substack.com/pub/stevevla...
190. SNAP WTF?
A very quick explainer on what (and why) Justice Jackson issued an "administrative stay" in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what's likely to happen next
open.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:25 PM
People have got to read this BEFORE commenting on this story
This corporate vs citizens conflict is, to me, the most important theme of 2025 and beyond.
Pushing back against the extortion and exploitation of corporate profit-interests is the People’s fight
Pushing back against the extortion and exploitation of corporate profit-interests is the People’s fight
trump's effort to sway voters by threatening them if they don't elect the candidate he prefers has been notably ineffective. voters just get mad and say, "fuck off, bully."
as opposed to his efforts to threaten corporations, media orgs, universities, and elites, all of whom tend to cave instantly.
as opposed to his efforts to threaten corporations, media orgs, universities, and elites, all of whom tend to cave instantly.
November 7, 2025 at 8:54 PM
This corporate vs citizens conflict is, to me, the most important theme of 2025 and beyond.
Pushing back against the extortion and exploitation of corporate profit-interests is the People’s fight
Pushing back against the extortion and exploitation of corporate profit-interests is the People’s fight
Alright. Ally @cowboylikeally.swifties.social gave me track 10. It was kinda tough because I apparently like track 9’s or 11’s more frequently.
Here’s my picks!
Reply and I’ll give you a track number! [f(X)=all real integers, domain (1,~50)]
Here’s my picks!
Reply and I’ll give you a track number! [f(X)=all real integers, domain (1,~50)]
November 6, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Alright. Ally @cowboylikeally.swifties.social gave me track 10. It was kinda tough because I apparently like track 9’s or 11’s more frequently.
Here’s my picks!
Reply and I’ll give you a track number! [f(X)=all real integers, domain (1,~50)]
Here’s my picks!
Reply and I’ll give you a track number! [f(X)=all real integers, domain (1,~50)]
Taking this to the range to sight it in
November 6, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Taking this to the range to sight it in
God I miss Quiznos. I really need a sandwich now. Not jimmy johns though. Bleh.
Assault now. Injury, government says, isn’t the layman’s definition but the legal one. “Hit with a sandwich. Having a sandwich spiked on your chest. Is that offensive to a person of reasonable sensibilities? Certainly. We have an assault.”
November 6, 2025 at 8:26 PM
God I miss Quiznos. I really need a sandwich now. Not jimmy johns though. Bleh.
Amazing
Closing arguments begin. The government says, “Everyone has a right to their personal beliefs…However, that does not give them the right to touch another person, to strike another person, even with a sandwich.”
November 6, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Amazing
The tackiest man that ever lived
dawg not the steakhouse wedding font
New sign outside the Oval Office..
November 5, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The tackiest man that ever lived
We needed this
November 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
We needed this
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Here’s a different angle of the video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground shared with the Tribune from a different source
October 31, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Here’s a different angle of the video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground shared with the Tribune from a different source