gleebix
@gleebix.bsky.social
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gleebix
@gleebix.bsky.social
· Jun 1
somewhere, deep in the olympic national forest is a hidden cache of approximately 20,000 hush puppies
i know this because i helped sasquatch hide them
i know this because i helped sasquatch hide them
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Lots of people advocated for nationalizing stuff despite the last time this happened being the formation of the TSA, and despite seeing 4 years of this bullshit firsthand the first time.
Can you even imagine how bad it'd be now if that nationalization had occurred
Can you even imagine how bad it'd be now if that nationalization had occurred
October 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Lots of people advocated for nationalizing stuff despite the last time this happened being the formation of the TSA, and despite seeing 4 years of this bullshit firsthand the first time.
Can you even imagine how bad it'd be now if that nationalization had occurred
Can you even imagine how bad it'd be now if that nationalization had occurred
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Nationalizing sounds like a good idea and then you look at this president, literally giving military titles to billionaires and such, giving the richest man on earth root access to everything in between incoherently shooting the economy in the dick, etc.
Suddenly you're like damn, missed a bullet.
Suddenly you're like damn, missed a bullet.
October 23, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Nationalizing sounds like a good idea and then you look at this president, literally giving military titles to billionaires and such, giving the richest man on earth root access to everything in between incoherently shooting the economy in the dick, etc.
Suddenly you're like damn, missed a bullet.
Suddenly you're like damn, missed a bullet.
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This news story reveals that the CIA was, and probably still is, recruiting child soldiers to train into killers and assassins. This has been available for days and I haven't heard anything about it.
No WONDER this guy is mentally unstable. But no, let's just focus on his fucking skin color, huh.
No WONDER this guy is mentally unstable. But no, let's just focus on his fucking skin color, huh.
December 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM
This news story reveals that the CIA was, and probably still is, recruiting child soldiers to train into killers and assassins. This has been available for days and I haven't heard anything about it.
No WONDER this guy is mentally unstable. But no, let's just focus on his fucking skin color, huh.
No WONDER this guy is mentally unstable. But no, let's just focus on his fucking skin color, huh.
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Its yesterdays new by now, but someone in my Discord realized something about the Afghan shooter recently
It's widely reported that he was recruited by the CIA in 2011 for a death squad. It was also widely reported that he's 29. It is NOT widely reported that that means he was 15 at the time.
It's widely reported that he was recruited by the CIA in 2011 for a death squad. It was also widely reported that he's 29. It is NOT widely reported that that means he was 15 at the time.
December 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Its yesterdays new by now, but someone in my Discord realized something about the Afghan shooter recently
It's widely reported that he was recruited by the CIA in 2011 for a death squad. It was also widely reported that he's 29. It is NOT widely reported that that means he was 15 at the time.
It's widely reported that he was recruited by the CIA in 2011 for a death squad. It was also widely reported that he's 29. It is NOT widely reported that that means he was 15 at the time.
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a sign people really want a feature and find it good is when companies make turning it off a 12 part process (firefox), require registry modifications (microsoft) or contact support to reveal the real off switch instead of their two decoy toggles (google) so they can claim people don't turn it off 📈
firefox AI and slop disablers from tumblr for the people from local hero mckitterick. Tried it on my end and the browser is significantly faster now
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December 2, 2025 at 10:20 AM
a sign people really want a feature and find it good is when companies make turning it off a 12 part process (firefox), require registry modifications (microsoft) or contact support to reveal the real off switch instead of their two decoy toggles (google) so they can claim people don't turn it off 📈
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for anyone who may be using chrome still goto chrome://flags/ and disable everything to do with "ML" "AI" "gemini" and also "NTP Compose Entrypoint"
December 2, 2025 at 7:37 AM
for anyone who may be using chrome still goto chrome://flags/ and disable everything to do with "ML" "AI" "gemini" and also "NTP Compose Entrypoint"
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firefox AI and slop disablers from tumblr for the people from local hero mckitterick. Tried it on my end and the browser is significantly faster now
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December 2, 2025 at 3:47 AM
firefox AI and slop disablers from tumblr for the people from local hero mckitterick. Tried it on my end and the browser is significantly faster now
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So the outcome of “ultra processed food” lawsuits gonna be banning all preservatives, and food will go stale/moldy/bad super fast -sickening even more people and wasting folks’ money
And meanwhile, polluters will slip their bribes in and we’ll still have pesticide contamination in food
And meanwhile, polluters will slip their bribes in and we’ll still have pesticide contamination in food
December 2, 2025 at 11:49 PM
So the outcome of “ultra processed food” lawsuits gonna be banning all preservatives, and food will go stale/moldy/bad super fast -sickening even more people and wasting folks’ money
And meanwhile, polluters will slip their bribes in and we’ll still have pesticide contamination in food
And meanwhile, polluters will slip their bribes in and we’ll still have pesticide contamination in food
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I think we have to interpret this through the lens of
1. The tanking poll numbers
2. The freak out about war crimes
They are hoping some extra racism will cheer up the base and spread opposition to their political program/pogroms thinner. It’s a distraction and also the point. Simultaneous.
1. The tanking poll numbers
2. The freak out about war crimes
They are hoping some extra racism will cheer up the base and spread opposition to their political program/pogroms thinner. It’s a distraction and also the point. Simultaneous.
NEW: The official USCIS guidance on this pause is out. Until further notice from the USCIS Director, all immigration benefits (including citizenship) are indefinitely suspended for nationals of 19 countries, as are all affirmative asylum applications from nationals of any country.
December 3, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I think we have to interpret this through the lens of
1. The tanking poll numbers
2. The freak out about war crimes
They are hoping some extra racism will cheer up the base and spread opposition to their political program/pogroms thinner. It’s a distraction and also the point. Simultaneous.
1. The tanking poll numbers
2. The freak out about war crimes
They are hoping some extra racism will cheer up the base and spread opposition to their political program/pogroms thinner. It’s a distraction and also the point. Simultaneous.
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The oligarchs’ reaction to this piece is heavily illustrative of the fact that for decades most of the press coverage they got was trade related and fawning. Now they think stating the obvious is a “hit piece” when their own actions reflect badly on them
December 2, 2025 at 12:54 PM
The oligarchs’ reaction to this piece is heavily illustrative of the fact that for decades most of the press coverage they got was trade related and fawning. Now they think stating the obvious is a “hit piece” when their own actions reflect badly on them
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I’ve worked in tech, media, finance, and politics and each industry has its own strengths and flaws. But the most thin skinned people? Tech, hands down. Finance people don’t tell themselves they’re saving the world
December 2, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I’ve worked in tech, media, finance, and politics and each industry has its own strengths and flaws. But the most thin skinned people? Tech, hands down. Finance people don’t tell themselves they’re saving the world
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She shouldn't have to keep doing this by herself. She is supposedly a member of a political party and every single one of her *colleagues* should be BLASTING the fascist in chief. ALL OF THEM. Where is the solidarity???
Congresswoman Omar calls Trump's comments about her 'creepy' after the US president launches into an anti-Somali tirade.
Ilhan Omar denounces Donald Trump for calling Somali immigrants ‘garbage’
Congresswoman Omar calls Trump's comments about her 'creepy' after the US president launches into an anti-Somali tirade.
bit.ly
December 3, 2025 at 12:34 AM
She shouldn't have to keep doing this by herself. She is supposedly a member of a political party and every single one of her *colleagues* should be BLASTING the fascist in chief. ALL OF THEM. Where is the solidarity???
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Ijeoma Oluo said something during the 2016 election about how it is not an improvement if the boot on your neck has a high heel and I have thought about that almost every day since
December 3, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Ijeoma Oluo said something during the 2016 election about how it is not an improvement if the boot on your neck has a high heel and I have thought about that almost every day since
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I’ve been thinking a lot about the old saw that we get more conservative as we age and wondering whether what that really means is not so much that you go backward, but that you refuse to evolve as the world moves forward without you. Hillary is who she always was, but we have WILDLY outgrown her
God, same. I was a white, progressive, democratic person who identified as a woman when she was big in the era of Our Next Hope for exactly my demographic. But good God has it not aged well. She is the worst. Part of it is my evolution and her lack of evolving.
December 3, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I’ve been thinking a lot about the old saw that we get more conservative as we age and wondering whether what that really means is not so much that you go backward, but that you refuse to evolve as the world moves forward without you. Hillary is who she always was, but we have WILDLY outgrown her
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Heather Cox Richardson writes:
December 2, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Heather Cox Richardson writes:
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not to keep ragescreaming about Hillary Clinton but can you imagine if she and Biden had just gracefully retired after the Obama administration? they were popular then! they would have gone out on top! and then they just lit it all on fire. honestly the desire to be president feels like a red flag
December 2, 2025 at 11:35 PM
not to keep ragescreaming about Hillary Clinton but can you imagine if she and Biden had just gracefully retired after the Obama administration? they were popular then! they would have gone out on top! and then they just lit it all on fire. honestly the desire to be president feels like a red flag
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Bad news for Hegseth, it turns out the Pentagon is a big bureaucracy filled with people who got there because they know how to fight bureaucratic battles and they will wait for you to lie about something then leak details about it. Who knew?
A most important question on the Sept. 2 double-tap strike is who had "target engagement authority" (TEA).
Wall Street Journal:
"A Defense Department official ... said Hegseth was the 'target engagement authority,' the key figure who authorized the strike."
www.wsj.com/politics/whi...
Wall Street Journal:
"A Defense Department official ... said Hegseth was the 'target engagement authority,' the key figure who authorized the strike."
www.wsj.com/politics/whi...
December 2, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Bad news for Hegseth, it turns out the Pentagon is a big bureaucracy filled with people who got there because they know how to fight bureaucratic battles and they will wait for you to lie about something then leak details about it. Who knew?
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Wait, does he think the fog of war is literally smoke?
December 2, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Wait, does he think the fog of war is literally smoke?
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Of course the individuals have agency and are driving the problem, too. They could say "Hey, I'm retired, I handed the baton to the next generation!" Their refusal to let go is on them.
December 2, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Of course the individuals have agency and are driving the problem, too. They could say "Hey, I'm retired, I handed the baton to the next generation!" Their refusal to let go is on them.
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A core problem for American liberalism is a constitutional inability to tell people who were important to the movement decades ago to go away because they're not relevant anymore.
Reagan/GW Bush admin people might as well not exist to the modern right. Maybe that's...something to consider.
Reagan/GW Bush admin people might as well not exist to the modern right. Maybe that's...something to consider.
Hillary Clinton blames TikTok and “totally made up” videos for young people’s views on Israel and Palestine.
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
December 2, 2025 at 9:54 PM
A core problem for American liberalism is a constitutional inability to tell people who were important to the movement decades ago to go away because they're not relevant anymore.
Reagan/GW Bush admin people might as well not exist to the modern right. Maybe that's...something to consider.
Reagan/GW Bush admin people might as well not exist to the modern right. Maybe that's...something to consider.
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The issue is even more reductive than whether or not you feel like Hillary Clinton has a point here (lol). The deeper issue is why are the Clintons still a thing. Why does anyone listen to either of them, ever, about anything. It's ancient history. Let them go.
December 2, 2025 at 9:55 PM
The issue is even more reductive than whether or not you feel like Hillary Clinton has a point here (lol). The deeper issue is why are the Clintons still a thing. Why does anyone listen to either of them, ever, about anything. It's ancient history. Let them go.
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After 6 months of working in private practice therapy listening to people talk about their relationships, I think I have finally figured out What the Hell Is Going On with Dating:
December 2, 2025 at 10:32 PM
After 6 months of working in private practice therapy listening to people talk about their relationships, I think I have finally figured out What the Hell Is Going On with Dating:
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that's not fog of war. When you're sitting in central command watching from a video, you are in the opposite of fog of war. You have maximum tactical data available to you.
Fog of war is for soldiers engaged in combat on the ground, who have limited tactical data and no perspective.
Fog of war is for soldiers engaged in combat on the ground, who have limited tactical data and no perspective.
Q: So you didn't see any survivors after that first strike?
HEGSETH: I did not personally see survivors. The thing was on fire. This is called the fog of war. This is what you in the press don't understand. You sit in your air conditioned offices and plant fake stories in the Washington Post
HEGSETH: I did not personally see survivors. The thing was on fire. This is called the fog of war. This is what you in the press don't understand. You sit in your air conditioned offices and plant fake stories in the Washington Post
December 2, 2025 at 9:40 PM
that's not fog of war. When you're sitting in central command watching from a video, you are in the opposite of fog of war. You have maximum tactical data available to you.
Fog of war is for soldiers engaged in combat on the ground, who have limited tactical data and no perspective.
Fog of war is for soldiers engaged in combat on the ground, who have limited tactical data and no perspective.
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It's no coincidence Hegseth lobbied hard for pardoning Eddie Gallagher who was basically a spree killer in uniform and had his own unit sabotage him so he wouldn't kill civilians.
December 2, 2025 at 9:25 PM
It's no coincidence Hegseth lobbied hard for pardoning Eddie Gallagher who was basically a spree killer in uniform and had his own unit sabotage him so he wouldn't kill civilians.