@littlestormcloud.bsky.social
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DOGE stole the phrase "waste, fraud, and abuse" from government regulations, where it is used to prohibit corrupt contracts, and inverted its meaning:
They use it to mean a leftist conspiracy imagined to engage in the financial corruption that DOGE is actually doing by self-dealing gov contracts
They use it to mean a leftist conspiracy imagined to engage in the financial corruption that DOGE is actually doing by self-dealing gov contracts
November 26, 2025 at 4:03 AM
DOGE stole the phrase "waste, fraud, and abuse" from government regulations, where it is used to prohibit corrupt contracts, and inverted its meaning:
They use it to mean a leftist conspiracy imagined to engage in the financial corruption that DOGE is actually doing by self-dealing gov contracts
They use it to mean a leftist conspiracy imagined to engage in the financial corruption that DOGE is actually doing by self-dealing gov contracts
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ANYWAY! If you never buy my books, if you only ever get books/ebooks from libraries, you are STILL supporting authors & I think you are grand.
If you are stealing from authors, just like tech bros stealing our work for hallucinating autocompletes, you're not hurting publishers. Just us. Own that.
If you are stealing from authors, just like tech bros stealing our work for hallucinating autocompletes, you're not hurting publishers. Just us. Own that.
November 25, 2025 at 11:30 PM
ANYWAY! If you never buy my books, if you only ever get books/ebooks from libraries, you are STILL supporting authors & I think you are grand.
If you are stealing from authors, just like tech bros stealing our work for hallucinating autocompletes, you're not hurting publishers. Just us. Own that.
If you are stealing from authors, just like tech bros stealing our work for hallucinating autocompletes, you're not hurting publishers. Just us. Own that.
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Evil.
The first official confirmation that Noem herself made the decision not to turn the planes around. A couple hundred men were tortured as a result — and soon after, the Supreme Court confirmed that the Trump admin’s Alien Enemies Act process was a total violation of due process.
BREAKING:
“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. “
“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. “
November 26, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Evil.
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Yes, and also recognize that with creative fields, survivorship bias is real: You hear about full-time creatives with envious career arcs precisely because they've survived in the field where others (for whatever reason and independent of quality of work) have not. This is an important fact.
Would-be/struggling writers can feel like losers or wannabes when they read about other writers writing "full time" or promo'ing their book in various exotic cities. And it's good to recognize that, yeah, sometimes there's another income (or a spouse is helping to pay the bills).
November 26, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Yes, and also recognize that with creative fields, survivorship bias is real: You hear about full-time creatives with envious career arcs precisely because they've survived in the field where others (for whatever reason and independent of quality of work) have not. This is an important fact.
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I truly hate generative "A.i." with all my little heart.
November 26, 2025 at 3:08 AM
I truly hate generative "A.i." with all my little heart.
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No matter how long I live after we get through this dark chapter, I will never get over the immorality, the amorality, the corruption, the criminality and the cruelty in service to one of the worst humans to ever walk the earth.
November 26, 2025 at 1:13 AM
No matter how long I live after we get through this dark chapter, I will never get over the immorality, the amorality, the corruption, the criminality and the cruelty in service to one of the worst humans to ever walk the earth.
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Congratulations to the 13 presidents of the California State University system who were given 5-20 percent raises! (retroactive to July 2025)🎉🎉🎉👏👏👏Don’t let a $144 million budget cut to the CSU harsh their glow up!
November 26, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Congratulations to the 13 presidents of the California State University system who were given 5-20 percent raises! (retroactive to July 2025)🎉🎉🎉👏👏👏Don’t let a $144 million budget cut to the CSU harsh their glow up!
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Sending people to a country we know will send them back to a place where they face persecution is called chain refoulement and it’s against US and international law. So that’s why our govt is pretending it isn’t aware of what Ghana has been doing for two months.
November 26, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Sending people to a country we know will send them back to a place where they face persecution is called chain refoulement and it’s against US and international law. So that’s why our govt is pretending it isn’t aware of what Ghana has been doing for two months.
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Hello @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social - can you please help us get Subway service updates here or somewhere else that isn't Twitter? Thank you.
November 26, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Hello @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social - can you please help us get Subway service updates here or somewhere else that isn't Twitter? Thank you.
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I mean, I do eat bon bons. Several times a year even. 🤣
But my ability to afford a small luxury now and then is unrelated to whether or not the fruits of my labour, which aren’t even ranked in Mazslow’s hierarchy of needs, should be stolen and hand-waved off as a scrimmage against petit bourgeois.
But my ability to afford a small luxury now and then is unrelated to whether or not the fruits of my labour, which aren’t even ranked in Mazslow’s hierarchy of needs, should be stolen and hand-waved off as a scrimmage against petit bourgeois.
November 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I mean, I do eat bon bons. Several times a year even. 🤣
But my ability to afford a small luxury now and then is unrelated to whether or not the fruits of my labour, which aren’t even ranked in Mazslow’s hierarchy of needs, should be stolen and hand-waved off as a scrimmage against petit bourgeois.
But my ability to afford a small luxury now and then is unrelated to whether or not the fruits of my labour, which aren’t even ranked in Mazslow’s hierarchy of needs, should be stolen and hand-waved off as a scrimmage against petit bourgeois.
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"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
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Honestly, this makes me want to dress more like a slob when I travel just to spite that moron
Sean Duffy, the U.S. transportation secretary, has been urging people for the past week to dress and comport themselves better as a way of restoring “civility” to air travel. On Tuesday, he added another item to his list of concerns: the quality of the snacks handed out on commercial flights.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Wants Healthier In-Flight Snack Options
Sean Duffy, who has been promoting greater decorum among air travelers, said he would like to see choices besides salty pretzels and buttery cookies.
nyti.ms
November 26, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Honestly, this makes me want to dress more like a slob when I travel just to spite that moron
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Has his dementia finally gotten so bad that even legacy media can't ignore it?
November 26, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Has his dementia finally gotten so bad that even legacy media can't ignore it?
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As far as i can tell, people are recording/yelling while wearing their pajamas and sandals, and the feds respond by pointing their weapons at the crowd and then gassing a residential block.
November 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
As far as i can tell, people are recording/yelling while wearing their pajamas and sandals, and the feds respond by pointing their weapons at the crowd and then gassing a residential block.
More on the brutal overreach in Minnesota (pretty sure it’s Minnesota)
As far as i can tell, people are recording/yelling while wearing their pajamas and sandals, and the feds respond by pointing their weapons at the crowd and then gassing a residential block.
Gas
November 26, 2025 at 12:36 AM
More on the brutal overreach in Minnesota (pretty sure it’s Minnesota)
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Incredible @matinastevis.bsky.social story about an asylum-seeker kept apart from her son and family as she ping-ponged back and forth between U.S. and Canadian immigration officials has a telling detail about ICE Air.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
November 26, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Incredible @matinastevis.bsky.social story about an asylum-seeker kept apart from her son and family as she ping-ponged back and forth between U.S. and Canadian immigration officials has a telling detail about ICE Air.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
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This is me after being pepper sprayed by SPPD. The crowd was noisy but completely nonviolent. There was a lot of anger but no violence from the crowd- SPPD escalated.
November 25, 2025 at 8:49 PM
This is me after being pepper sprayed by SPPD. The crowd was noisy but completely nonviolent. There was a lot of anger but no violence from the crowd- SPPD escalated.
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WANT.
Also, this is the best adaptation of The Hobbit. Not the bloated Peter Jackson trilogy version, this one.
Also, this is the best adaptation of The Hobbit. Not the bloated Peter Jackson trilogy version, this one.
Spectacular new Bilbo Baggins and Gollum vinyl figures celebrate The Hobbit animated movie special.
Bilbo and Gollum Vinyl Figures Spectacularly Celebrate THE HOBBIT Animated Movie
nerdist.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:59 PM
WANT.
Also, this is the best adaptation of The Hobbit. Not the bloated Peter Jackson trilogy version, this one.
Also, this is the best adaptation of The Hobbit. Not the bloated Peter Jackson trilogy version, this one.
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An Iranian professor for the University of Oklahoma was released by ICE after spending three days in detention for what the agency has deemed “standard questioning.” Vahid Abedini was on his way to the Middle East Studies Association’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C. when he was arrested.
ICE Detains Iranian Professor for 3 Days for “Standard Questioning”
“It was a deeply distressing experience, especially seeing those without the support I had,” the scholar said.
truthout.org
November 26, 2025 at 12:00 AM
An Iranian professor for the University of Oklahoma was released by ICE after spending three days in detention for what the agency has deemed “standard questioning.” Vahid Abedini was on his way to the Middle East Studies Association’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C. when he was arrested.
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According to anxiety, you need to hurry up and get ready for something that will never happen.
November 25, 2025 at 9:12 PM
According to anxiety, you need to hurry up and get ready for something that will never happen.
This is where every conversation I have ends up lately. “How are you?” Is a minefield of an opener these days.
Everything seems so much harder lately. Just hard, hard, hard. (IT'S FINE IT'S FINE)
November 25, 2025 at 11:52 PM
This is where every conversation I have ends up lately. “How are you?” Is a minefield of an opener these days.
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It's not even new! Singular "they" is at least several centuries old.
May 24, 2024 at 5:26 PM
It's not even new! Singular "they" is at least several centuries old.
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‘Born in the 90s’ hahahahahahahaha
Son I had they/them friends and I graduated in the (mid) 90s.
Son I had they/them friends and I graduated in the (mid) 90s.
July 20, 2023 at 3:13 AM
‘Born in the 90s’ hahahahahahahaha
Son I had they/them friends and I graduated in the (mid) 90s.
Son I had they/them friends and I graduated in the (mid) 90s.
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My favorite is
Roses are Red
Violets are Blue
Singular They
Predates Singular You
Roses are Red
Violets are Blue
Singular They
Predates Singular You
May 5, 2023 at 2:50 PM
My favorite is
Roses are Red
Violets are Blue
Singular They
Predates Singular You
Roses are Red
Violets are Blue
Singular They
Predates Singular You