Malaclypse the Middle
@malaclypse.bsky.social
A hoopy frood who really knows where his towel is. Two wheels good, four wheels bad. Ex Sociology adjunct turned Accounting nerd. North of Boston, near witches. Born into a 321 PPM world. He/Him. Aurë entuluva. I have frogs everywhere.
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“Harry, I’m going to let you in on a little secret.Everyday, once a day, give yourself a present.Don’t plan it, don’t wait for it. Just let it happen. It could be a new shirt at the Men’s store.A catnap in your office chair. Or meeting this cat, intent on murder, on my morning ride.”
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Imagine being the most toothless speaker in history, lips firmly planted on the president’s arse, with the least in-session time this year in decades, and still whining like an absolute baby about your workload
Speaker 'barely holding it together' and 'crushed by his workload': NYT
Speaker 'barely holding it together' and 'crushed by his workload': NYT
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) made several revealing admissions about the stressful and chaotic nature of his job, according to a recent New York Times report.The Times' Annie Karni wrote in a Wednesday article that Johnson turned what was meant to be an easy interview with a friendly podcast h...
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November 27, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Imagine being the most toothless speaker in history, lips firmly planted on the president’s arse, with the least in-session time this year in decades, and still whining like an absolute baby about your workload
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fun fact, due to the earth not being perfectly round and having a bulge in the middle from spinning everest is, while the tallest mountain, not the point furthest from the earth’s center. that’s a volcano in ecuador
People should stop climbing mt everest
November 27, 2025 at 1:57 AM
fun fact, due to the earth not being perfectly round and having a bulge in the middle from spinning everest is, while the tallest mountain, not the point furthest from the earth’s center. that’s a volcano in ecuador
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hi i bet you need to hear Hüsker Dü performing the Mary Tyler Moore song live in 1985 today
Love Is All Around
YouTube video by Husker Du - Topic
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November 27, 2025 at 12:50 AM
hi i bet you need to hear Hüsker Dü performing the Mary Tyler Moore song live in 1985 today
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I don't see how Tesla's Model 3 can survive if Benz can offer an alternative EV this cheap, with this kind of performance, on top of the 15% tariff that it's charged in the US.
Imagine what this model does to Tesla in Europe, where Benz pays no tariffs.
Imagine what this model does to Tesla in Europe, where Benz pays no tariffs.
November 26, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I don't see how Tesla's Model 3 can survive if Benz can offer an alternative EV this cheap, with this kind of performance, on top of the 15% tariff that it's charged in the US.
Imagine what this model does to Tesla in Europe, where Benz pays no tariffs.
Imagine what this model does to Tesla in Europe, where Benz pays no tariffs.
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Because I think we need to ask the important questions, regardless of potential controversy, here is one for you: If you had lived at the time, and in the circumstances, in which it would have been relevant, would you have been a Dapper Dan man?
November 27, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Because I think we need to ask the important questions, regardless of potential controversy, here is one for you: If you had lived at the time, and in the circumstances, in which it would have been relevant, would you have been a Dapper Dan man?
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#FavQuotesFromLynne
Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.
Charles M. Schulz
Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.
Charles M. Schulz
November 27, 2025 at 1:20 AM
#FavQuotesFromLynne
Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.
Charles M. Schulz
Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.
Charles M. Schulz
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I think this is an underrated source of the extent to which Bluesky is in a false consensus about public AI hatred. If you are a power user on a microblogging site you are basically by definition not going to see the "take the effort out of reading and writing" machine as being useful
I think more than anything else AI feels like a miracle to people with questionable literacy because it can read and write for you, and a lot of us who are highly literate underestimate how many of our society's leaders, esp in business, struggle with literacy.
It's pretty much mandatory at work that I appear to be using it, so I've doe a few functional things with it, and it's a moderate time-saver if used right. But nowhere near worth it's stock value, energy cost.
Then I realize there's a lot of people who simply can't write coherent paragraphs.
Then I realize there's a lot of people who simply can't write coherent paragraphs.
November 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I think this is an underrated source of the extent to which Bluesky is in a false consensus about public AI hatred. If you are a power user on a microblogging site you are basically by definition not going to see the "take the effort out of reading and writing" machine as being useful
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This is true. It is the best email I got this year.
November 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
This is true. It is the best email I got this year.
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
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November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Was it the lions? the tigers? the bears? Oh My!
This is nuts!
Why is WAPO writing up anyone’s speculation about who the suspect might be?
I get that Laura’s statements and actions are at times newsworthy given her influence on Trump, but no one’s speculation — outside of a government official’s — should be written up this way.
Why is WAPO writing up anyone’s speculation about who the suspect might be?
I get that Laura’s statements and actions are at times newsworthy given her influence on Trump, but no one’s speculation — outside of a government official’s — should be written up this way.
November 27, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Was it the lions? the tigers? the bears? Oh My!
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It’s not new but it is still available and relevant to current politics. If you’re interested in trade policy and politics, I honestly think it’s a fun read with all statistics confined to appendices which you can skip if you’re not into that sort of thing.
www.amazon.com/Politics-Fai...
www.amazon.com/Politics-Fai...
November 26, 2025 at 11:44 PM
It’s not new but it is still available and relevant to current politics. If you’re interested in trade policy and politics, I honestly think it’s a fun read with all statistics confined to appendices which you can skip if you’re not into that sort of thing.
www.amazon.com/Politics-Fai...
www.amazon.com/Politics-Fai...
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People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.
November 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.
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This path leads to chaos.
November 26, 2025 at 5:25 PM
This path leads to chaos.
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![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Pediatricians say vaccines do not cause autism. A bear-eating heroin addict who fantasizes about sucking his own semen out of his lovers' orifices says they do. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.
November 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Pediatricians say vaccines do not cause autism. A bear-eating heroin addict who fantasizes about sucking his own semen out of his lovers' orifices says they do. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.
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God this is so depressing given the political response to it
"the economic response to the pandemic really worked. Indeed, there is a good case that it was the most successful example of countercyclical policy in US history." jwmason.org/slackwire/at...
At Groundwork: Lessons from the September Jobs Report – J. W. Mason
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November 26, 2025 at 9:34 PM
God this is so depressing given the political response to it
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In college, i had a friend who would now and then go buy a case of PBR, stick them all in a backback, and then just wander the library at night handing them out. He would simply say "study beer" and hand you one, even if you were a complete stranger. So don't tell me angels aren't real
They should invent a library that serves beers.
November 26, 2025 at 9:41 PM
In college, i had a friend who would now and then go buy a case of PBR, stick them all in a backback, and then just wander the library at night handing them out. He would simply say "study beer" and hand you one, even if you were a complete stranger. So don't tell me angels aren't real
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“Don’t post misinformation” is always an iron clad rule in breaking news situations, but you wouldn’t think you’d have to remind a sitting governor
November 26, 2025 at 9:36 PM
“Don’t post misinformation” is always an iron clad rule in breaking news situations, but you wouldn’t think you’d have to remind a sitting governor
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as so often, the explanation is probably 'animals feel emotions that are similar to ours, and when we disregard the evidence to avoid 'anthromorphism' it's fundamentally ideological, not scientific'
this might be the saddest story I've ever written, about a seal that I will be thinking about for a long, long time.
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Why Won’t Nora The Leopard Seal Abandon Her Dead Pups? | Defector
In the fall of 2021, Renato Borras-Chavez, a marine mammal ecologist at the University of Rhode Island, spotted a leopard seal on an ice floe. Borras-Chavez was on a research expedition to a glacial f...
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November 26, 2025 at 6:23 PM
as so often, the explanation is probably 'animals feel emotions that are similar to ours, and when we disregard the evidence to avoid 'anthromorphism' it's fundamentally ideological, not scientific'
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The Governor of West Virginia also does not appear to comprehend the meaning of the word “confirm.”
The Governor of West Virginia might have been too eager to please Trump on this one…
November 26, 2025 at 9:39 PM
The Governor of West Virginia also does not appear to comprehend the meaning of the word “confirm.”
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I both think this is impossible and also think that it is highly probable
According to his wife, Stephen Miller eats only mayonnaise.
I cannot decide if this disgusting fact is the most or least surprising thing I've read this week.
I cannot decide if this disgusting fact is the most or least surprising thing I've read this week.
November 26, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I both think this is impossible and also think that it is highly probable
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Let’s just check what international organization thinks housing is genocide
November 26, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Let’s just check what international organization thinks housing is genocide
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DC Fire and EMS has a whole chart of local hospitals and their capabilities in their protocols. When you have a multiple casualty incident, one priority is to not overload any particular facility with patients.
I pulled the below directly from DC’s protocols if you’re curious.
I pulled the below directly from DC’s protocols if you’re curious.
November 26, 2025 at 8:42 PM
DC Fire and EMS has a whole chart of local hospitals and their capabilities in their protocols. When you have a multiple casualty incident, one priority is to not overload any particular facility with patients.
I pulled the below directly from DC’s protocols if you’re curious.
I pulled the below directly from DC’s protocols if you’re curious.