A penitent who is loud
@loudpenitent.bsky.social
Interfaith cis Jew, never posts on behalf of his employer, he/his
Seriously, people, stop following me over my rather basic takes on politics alone, I really do want to post more about stupid shit.
Seriously, people, stop following me over my rather basic takes on politics alone, I really do want to post more about stupid shit.
What the fucking fuck?
what the fuck
November 25, 2025 at 7:54 PM
What the fucking fuck?
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I literally could not imagine more effective Zionist propaganda than saying this shit
August 29, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I literally could not imagine more effective Zionist propaganda than saying this shit
Ugh between burn gel and calahist I have been Assimilated into the Goop today
November 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Ugh between burn gel and calahist I have been Assimilated into the Goop today
Yeah the thing is, folks, Google would really rather their search work well than it work badly, and the AI overviews are, among other things, an attempt to make it "work well!"
What has happened is SEO was always a red queen competition & Google kept losing ground due to lack of focus on Search.
What has happened is SEO was always a red queen competition & Google kept losing ground due to lack of focus on Search.
Ok, I intensely dislike Google’s AI overviews and many of their recent product changes.
But also… I really don’t think you could transplant the old Google search algorithm to today’s Internet and have it do nearly as well. The information environment itself has gotten a lot harder to search.
But also… I really don’t think you could transplant the old Google search algorithm to today’s Internet and have it do nearly as well. The information environment itself has gotten a lot harder to search.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Yeah the thing is, folks, Google would really rather their search work well than it work badly, and the AI overviews are, among other things, an attempt to make it "work well!"
What has happened is SEO was always a red queen competition & Google kept losing ground due to lack of focus on Search.
What has happened is SEO was always a red queen competition & Google kept losing ground due to lack of focus on Search.
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“More explosive early resignations are coming,” one unnamed senior House Republican told the outlet. “It’s a tinder box. Morale has never been lower.”
“This entire White House team has treated ALL members like garbage,” the lawmaker said
No paywall
“This entire White House team has treated ALL members like garbage,” the lawmaker said
No paywall
More Republican reps are considering following MTG out the door, report says
‘More explosive early resignations are coming,’ one unnamed senior House Republican said.
www.the-independent.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:51 PM
“More explosive early resignations are coming,” one unnamed senior House Republican told the outlet. “It’s a tinder box. Morale has never been lower.”
“This entire White House team has treated ALL members like garbage,” the lawmaker said
No paywall
“This entire White House team has treated ALL members like garbage,” the lawmaker said
No paywall
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This was my white whale for a long time, but the sourced audio sample during Xenogears' "Blazing Knights" boss fight track was taken from Christian Brando's manslaughter trial in 1990!
November 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
This was my white whale for a long time, but the sourced audio sample during Xenogears' "Blazing Knights" boss fight track was taken from Christian Brando's manslaughter trial in 1990!
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Every left wing caricature of the democratic party is somehow actually true of labour now
November 24, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Every left wing caricature of the democratic party is somehow actually true of labour now
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Just utter imbeciles pulling out every cable that holds together the modern world in a desperate hunt for immigrants
November 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Just utter imbeciles pulling out every cable that holds together the modern world in a desperate hunt for immigrants
What the hell has HAPPENED to the UK?
Trevor Phillips proposes banning "remittances" (ie: imposing currency/exchange controls on international cash transfers by foreign nationals from Britain). He says this would disincentivise immigration, in a Times piece saying the Home Secretary needs to go [much] further
archive.ph/RlXPj
archive.ph/RlXPj
November 24, 2025 at 10:21 PM
What the hell has HAPPENED to the UK?
At the risk of wading into the self definition of a group I do not belong to, it seems to me that any definition of queerness that considers sexual or gender identity secondary is a questionable one in any meaningful sense of the word.
November 24, 2025 at 10:05 PM
At the risk of wading into the self definition of a group I do not belong to, it seems to me that any definition of queerness that considers sexual or gender identity secondary is a questionable one in any meaningful sense of the word.
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This is identical to Russia invading Ukraine. Illegally invading a country for their resources and likely killing thousands—if not more—is immoral and should not be supported by anyone with any shred of moral conscience.
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
This is identical to Russia invading Ukraine. Illegally invading a country for their resources and likely killing thousands—if not more—is immoral and should not be supported by anyone with any shred of moral conscience.
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The problem with labor is not alienation, the problem with labor is laboring.
November 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
The problem with labor is not alienation, the problem with labor is laboring.
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I find the use of "warriors" rather than soldiers somewhat infantilizing.
As if US service members are playing dress up with swords.
As if US service members are playing dress up with swords.
November 24, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I find the use of "warriors" rather than soldiers somewhat infantilizing.
As if US service members are playing dress up with swords.
As if US service members are playing dress up with swords.
Folks are dunking on this but honestly whatever you think of the man he has a point - capitalism did not create oppression, and what we had before capitalism was not freer for the majority of people.
Look up how subsistence peasantry lived, don't compare yourself to nobles or literati.
Look up how subsistence peasantry lived, don't compare yourself to nobles or literati.
“Capitalism forces you to wake up at 7am against your body’s natural rhythms” no that’s Taylorism and if you don’t like living in a society that coordinates effort to ensure a better outcome for all then I don’t think you’ll love the alternatives
November 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Folks are dunking on this but honestly whatever you think of the man he has a point - capitalism did not create oppression, and what we had before capitalism was not freer for the majority of people.
Look up how subsistence peasantry lived, don't compare yourself to nobles or literati.
Look up how subsistence peasantry lived, don't compare yourself to nobles or literati.
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Sen. Mark Kelly has released a statement.
"If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won't work. I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies..."
"If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won't work. I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies..."
November 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Sen. Mark Kelly has released a statement.
"If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won't work. I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies..."
"If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won't work. I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies..."
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Taiwan has never been part of China.
President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke by phone Monday on trade, Taiwan and Ukraine, with Xi stressing that Taiwan’s return to China is part of the “post-war international order,” according to Chinese state media.
Trump, Xi spoke on phone Monday to discuss trade, Taiwan and Ukraine, US and Chinese officials say
President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke by phone on Monday to discuss trade, Taiwan and Ukraine, according to the White House and Chinese officials.
bit.ly
November 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Taiwan has never been part of China.
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#SaveSpeech
The call campaign is having an effect! The pressure right now is integral, if you are making calls, PLEASE KEEP CALLING. If you havent called yet or took a break, now is a GREAT time to hop on and add to the pressure!
The call campaign is having an effect! The pressure right now is integral, if you are making calls, PLEASE KEEP CALLING. If you havent called yet or took a break, now is a GREAT time to hop on and add to the pressure!
November 24, 2025 at 6:50 PM
#SaveSpeech
The call campaign is having an effect! The pressure right now is integral, if you are making calls, PLEASE KEEP CALLING. If you havent called yet or took a break, now is a GREAT time to hop on and add to the pressure!
The call campaign is having an effect! The pressure right now is integral, if you are making calls, PLEASE KEEP CALLING. If you havent called yet or took a break, now is a GREAT time to hop on and add to the pressure!
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Ranked Choice would be a great choice for the primaries. It would dramatically boost the odds of a strong non-establishment candidate to win as well as reduce their ability to complain if that candidate loses.
www.axios.com/2025/11/24/d...
www.axios.com/2025/11/24/d...
Scoop: Democrats eye ranked-choice voting for 2028 primaries
It's a tool that drew national attention when it propelled New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani to a decisive primary win.
www.axios.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Ranked Choice would be a great choice for the primaries. It would dramatically boost the odds of a strong non-establishment candidate to win as well as reduce their ability to complain if that candidate loses.
www.axios.com/2025/11/24/d...
www.axios.com/2025/11/24/d...
Gah I keep accumulating politics followers :(
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Gah I keep accumulating politics followers :(
This is a pervasive issue of mine about "evil" settings.
Works depict Evil Land almost inevitably as a carnival of vice and joyful worldliness (because they assume they'll be among the decadent elite &/or protagonists able to take their pleasures by force) and not as a place of misery & hardship.
Works depict Evil Land almost inevitably as a carnival of vice and joyful worldliness (because they assume they'll be among the decadent elite &/or protagonists able to take their pleasures by force) and not as a place of misery & hardship.
Basically, and bluntly, Hazbin depicts the difference between Hell and Heaven as that between not *vice and virtue*, but as *worldliness and hedonic pleasure vs innocence.*
It's a rather juvenile sort of mentality really, one that inherently makes Hell more appealing - they fuck there!
It's a rather juvenile sort of mentality really, one that inherently makes Hell more appealing - they fuck there!
November 24, 2025 at 6:26 AM
This is a pervasive issue of mine about "evil" settings.
Works depict Evil Land almost inevitably as a carnival of vice and joyful worldliness (because they assume they'll be among the decadent elite &/or protagonists able to take their pleasures by force) and not as a place of misery & hardship.
Works depict Evil Land almost inevitably as a carnival of vice and joyful worldliness (because they assume they'll be among the decadent elite &/or protagonists able to take their pleasures by force) and not as a place of misery & hardship.
Apropos of nothing, I'm vaguely surprised the 40k Horny Deep Cut Fandom isn't feral for Felicia Tayber
November 24, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Apropos of nothing, I'm vaguely surprised the 40k Horny Deep Cut Fandom isn't feral for Felicia Tayber
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Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune
This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.
fortune.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
This is the actual core of the problem about how a lot of leftists responded to 10/7.
It's not unreasonable (though poorly timed) to go "this was the tragic result of decades of sectarian violence & oppression." Leftists wanted to go "this is the exhilarating, based result of righteous vengeance."
It's not unreasonable (though poorly timed) to go "this was the tragic result of decades of sectarian violence & oppression." Leftists wanted to go "this is the exhilarating, based result of righteous vengeance."
What you say is something like "the atrocities committed today only highlight the importance of an end to violence and a lasting peace between Israel and an independent state of Palestine."
Bluntly, the problem is that DSA liked that Hamas was killing people; they thought it was a victory.
Bluntly, the problem is that DSA liked that Hamas was killing people; they thought it was a victory.
November 23, 2025 at 9:27 PM
This is the actual core of the problem about how a lot of leftists responded to 10/7.
It's not unreasonable (though poorly timed) to go "this was the tragic result of decades of sectarian violence & oppression." Leftists wanted to go "this is the exhilarating, based result of righteous vengeance."
It's not unreasonable (though poorly timed) to go "this was the tragic result of decades of sectarian violence & oppression." Leftists wanted to go "this is the exhilarating, based result of righteous vengeance."
TikTok continues to be a blight.
Going on any other social media site makes me realize that bluesky isn’t so bad
November 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
TikTok continues to be a blight.
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I mean I would push back on the premise that Trump’s alliance with Fuentes isn’t considered antisemitism. At most I’d say Trump is already antisemitic so Fuentes doesn’t really tell us anything new.
November 23, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I mean I would push back on the premise that Trump’s alliance with Fuentes isn’t considered antisemitism. At most I’d say Trump is already antisemitic so Fuentes doesn’t really tell us anything new.