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Gene Warren @gwarren.bsky.social · 3h

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Triops Has Three Eyes - They Might Be Giants

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Gene Warren @gwarren.bsky.social · 4h

Only if I saw that expert would lose to someone with similar expertise that held my same view.

Gene Warren @gwarren.bsky.social · 4h

I’d say how stupid does he think we are, but looking at everything since he started running 10 years ago…..

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 10h

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.

Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).

*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”

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President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 1d

"is that good" www.bbc.com/news/article...

US axes website for reporting human rights abuses by US-armed foreign forces

The Human Rights Reporting Gateway acted as a formal "tip line" to the US government.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

the most corrupt administration in my lifetime

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the ghost of pony pony huckabuck @spindlypete.bsky.social · 1d

check out this absolutely terrifying ancient babylonian lullaby

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What is the oldest lullaby or nursery rhyme that...
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As far as the earliest we know of, it's another Babylonian tablet, about 4000 years old and most often known as Little Baby in the Dark House. We don't have the music for it, but again, the BBC article has a good go at describing some commonalities of the music that tends to accompany lullabies, so that might inspire you.
The rough translation for that Babylonian lullaby, by the way, is:
Little Baby in the dark house
You have seen the sun rise
Why are you crying?
Why are you screaming?
You have disturbed the house god.
'Who has disturbed me?' says the house god.
'It is the baby who has disturbed you!
'Who scared me?' says the house god.
'The baby has disturbed you, the baby has scared you, making noises like a drunkard who cannot sit still on his stool.
He has disturbed your sleep!
'Call the baby now, says the house god.
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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

SNAP benefits expire in one week.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Leavitt: At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the president's main priority.

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Gene Warren @gwarren.bsky.social · 1d

I think that having massive wealth might be morally corrosive, but I’m a firm believer in testing one’s hypothesis, so in the name of science I’m willing to bear that burden.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 1d

Remember those times i said we were headed for an epistemic crisis because bad people were gonna use deepfakes to make propaganda & conspiracy theories & destabilize consensus reality-making & how the central paradigm of "generative AI" enables, encourages, & was indeed built on this premise?

Yeah.

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 2d

This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.

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Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social · 1d

No one does horror like the folks at the Onion back in the day doing Clickhole

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“You never know true beauty until you see Earth from space, or true terror until you hear someone knocking on the space station door from outside. You look through the porthole and see an astronaut, but all your crew is inside and accounted for. You use the comm to ask who it is and he says he’s Ramirez returning from a repair mission, but Ramirez is sitting right next to you in the command module and he’s just as confused as you are. When you tell the guy this over the radio he starts banging on the door louder and harder, begging you to let him in, saying he’s the real Ramirez. Meanwhile, the Ramirez inside with you is pleading to keep the airlock shut. It really puts life on Earth into perspective.”

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · Jul 16

Every once in awhile, I think of my favorite “…the fuck did you just say?” phraseology, which is from Homer’s Iliad, proving we have never, ever changed as a species, only less fancily inclined.

“What nonsense has escaped the barrier of your teeth now?”

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 1d

"If you want to break up a drug cartel, blowing up a boat does little to accomplish that...You arrest traffickers, seize evidence, and build cases against them. If you are targeting govt officials, you flip your perpetrators to get to the bigger fish at the top."

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Jason Wilson @jasonbwilson.bsky.social · 1d

How dumb do you have to be to fail the ICE tests -- exams in which you can consult your textbooks?

Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 1d

New ICE recruiting methods have resulted in half of this group of absolute winners failing AN OPEN BOOK TEST

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d

NBC News finds that:
-- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six.
-- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam.
-- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph.

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Some new ICE recruits have shown up to training without full vetting

The recruits have had criminal backgrounds or failed drug tests or were unable to meet physical or academic standards, raising concerns about the agency’s rush to hire immigration officers, sources to...

www.nbcnews.com

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Psychopomp Francis II @francisgasparini.bsky.social · 13d

TECH BRO: We have created the Gravy Dispenser from the the scifi novel Please Create The Gravy Dispenser

AMERICA: (330 million rise as one in applause)

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

it's dizzying to me that stories like this -- a corrupt grift built on democracy-wrecking lies that culminated in a coup attempt -- barely breakthrough anymore. they're just daily background noise now.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

COLLINS: The NYT is reporting your legal team is seeking $230 million from your own DOJ now in response to the investigations into you. Is that something you want?

TRUMP: It could be, yeah. I don't even talk to them about it. All I know is they would owe me a lot of money. They rigged the election.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4d

The current iteration of the Republican Party consists of two competing factions:

Fuck Them Kids (figuratively) and Fuck Them Kids (literally).

In this essay I will

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Akela Lacy @akelalacy.bsky.social · 4d

Trump is quietly expanding control of state & local police. "Their larger project is to blur the lines between different law enforcement agencies in the military and create one national police force that is essentially under the command of the president.” theintercept.com/2025/10/20/t...

Trump “National Police Force” Built on ICE Partnerships With Local Agencies Like… Wildlife Commissions?

Trump is using ICE partnerships and lies about immigrant crime waves to create a national police force that operates under his orders.

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 5d

Reminder: We spent YEARS reading thousands and thousands of articles on the Tea Party and how it was a true expression of the American people's will, and it never mounted anything nearly as big as Saturday's No Kings rallies. [1/3]

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5d

The networks took the much smaller Tea Party movement so seriously they broadcast a Tea Party rebuttal to Obama’s 2011 SOTU on top of the normal GOP one.

Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 5d

Reminder: We spent YEARS reading thousands and thousands of articles on the Tea Party and how it was a true expression of the American people's will, and it never mounted anything nearly as big as Saturday's No Kings rallies. [1/3]

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 6d

"Mr. President sir the idea is you're constantly flying around in a big jet filled with your own shit in it. Like human shit. Anyways you're wearing a little crown in your little shitmobile and you're dumping the shit out. I think people will like it."

molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 6d

and another thing: he’s not mad. please don’t put it in the newspaper that he got mad.

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 6d

Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 6d

Here’s why I think the blow up costumes work: The fascist rhetoric is that the protests are “I hate America” rallies filled with “terrorists” that will “cheer for chaos instead of country” and impossible to hide images of joy and togetherness and generally being silly decimates their propaganda.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6d

OK guys, post your best signs from today for entry into my Top 15 No Kings Sign Contest.

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