Matt “Holding on for a Gyro" L
@matt12l.bsky.social
Assistant Ketchup Sommelier - center fielder 1908 Chicago Brown Sox’s - third chair kazoo of the Whoville municipal brass band
Motto: “We all need more equality and less bullsh!t”
Motto: “We all need more equality and less bullsh!t”
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How was the Roman Empire cut in half? With a pair of Caesars.
December 2, 2025 at 10:31 AM
How was the Roman Empire cut in half? With a pair of Caesars.
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“They are in fact burrowed into the agencies like ticks.”
Prepare for Long Lyme in terms of the spread, damage, and difficulty to diagnose and treat.
www.wired.com/story/what-i...
Prepare for Long Lyme in terms of the spread, damage, and difficulty to diagnose and treat.
www.wired.com/story/what-i...
DOGE Isn’t Dead. Here’s What Its Operatives Are Doing Now
Contrary to popular reports, DOGE has “burrowed into the agencies like ticks,” government sources tell WIRED.
www.wired.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:05 PM
“They are in fact burrowed into the agencies like ticks.”
Prepare for Long Lyme in terms of the spread, damage, and difficulty to diagnose and treat.
www.wired.com/story/what-i...
Prepare for Long Lyme in terms of the spread, damage, and difficulty to diagnose and treat.
www.wired.com/story/what-i...
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What do you call a dog magician?
A labracadabrador!
A labracadabrador!
December 2, 2025 at 12:31 PM
What do you call a dog magician?
A labracadabrador!
A labracadabrador!
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Meet Heater, the first of many community catstituent leaders who are officially endorsing the campaign!
More to come 👀 #catsforkat
More to come 👀 #catsforkat
December 1, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Meet Heater, the first of many community catstituent leaders who are officially endorsing the campaign!
More to come 👀 #catsforkat
More to come 👀 #catsforkat
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ICE is horrific...and also an extension of how policing has always worked, not a radical break from it.
December 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
ICE is horrific...and also an extension of how policing has always worked, not a radical break from it.
I really want this to be true, but I also don’t want to get my hopes up. This nonsense can drag on for a long time. Just remember the early 1980s Soviet Politburo.
Donald Trump is crumbling before us.
Pete Hegseth is under fire for war crimes, with congressional inquiries looming.
Kash Patel is getting publicly humiliated by his own FBI agents.
RFK Jr.'s freak flag is getting national attention thanks to the Lizza-Nuzzi insanity.
The wheels are coming off.
Pete Hegseth is under fire for war crimes, with congressional inquiries looming.
Kash Patel is getting publicly humiliated by his own FBI agents.
RFK Jr.'s freak flag is getting national attention thanks to the Lizza-Nuzzi insanity.
The wheels are coming off.
December 2, 2025 at 2:20 AM
I really want this to be true, but I also don’t want to get my hopes up. This nonsense can drag on for a long time. Just remember the early 1980s Soviet Politburo.
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working at the nyt
November 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM
working at the nyt
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“the combat decisions HE has made”
If Admiral Bradley didn’t realize before that these cowards were setting him up to take the fall, he knows it now. Time to hire a good lawyer.
December 2, 2025 at 2:08 AM
“the combat decisions HE has made”
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when they put an AI feature in my printer
December 1, 2025 at 11:42 PM
when they put an AI feature in my printer
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One hundred fucking percent correct.
December 1, 2025 at 11:39 PM
One hundred fucking percent correct.
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REPUBLICAN MAYOR IN KANSAS FACING DEPORTATION OVER VOTER FRAUD
Joe Ceballos, a longtime Republican and small-town mayor in Kansas, is facing felony voter fraud charges and possible deportation from the presidential administration he voted for.
Full story: https://bit.ly/4iwEwYj
Joe Ceballos, a longtime Republican and small-town mayor in Kansas, is facing felony voter fraud charges and possible deportation from the presidential administration he voted for.
Full story: https://bit.ly/4iwEwYj
December 1, 2025 at 9:14 PM
REPUBLICAN MAYOR IN KANSAS FACING DEPORTATION OVER VOTER FRAUD
Joe Ceballos, a longtime Republican and small-town mayor in Kansas, is facing felony voter fraud charges and possible deportation from the presidential administration he voted for.
Full story: https://bit.ly/4iwEwYj
Joe Ceballos, a longtime Republican and small-town mayor in Kansas, is facing felony voter fraud charges and possible deportation from the presidential administration he voted for.
Full story: https://bit.ly/4iwEwYj
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When are we putting AI on the blockchain, anyway
December 1, 2025 at 10:49 PM
When are we putting AI on the blockchain, anyway
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I'm going to write the new "There Will Come Soft Rains" where ai has destroyed the world and all that echoes through the vast wasteland is, "Enter prompts now. Enter prompts now. Enter prompt now."
November 30, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I'm going to write the new "There Will Come Soft Rains" where ai has destroyed the world and all that echoes through the vast wasteland is, "Enter prompts now. Enter prompts now. Enter prompt now."
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To be fair, Trump and Hegseth are more Klink than Rommel
December 1, 2025 at 10:45 PM
To be fair, Trump and Hegseth are more Klink than Rommel
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one thing that receives almost no attention is that the only reason he ran for president again is because he had to to avoid prosecution for a litany of crimes, the whole plan was: 1). Take shelter in SCOTUS-granted immunity. 2). Loot.
trump is the president in the sense that he holds the office but he very clearly isn't the president in the sense that he has basically relieved himself of its duties
Trump’s echo chamber:
Very little U.S travel
No rallies or contact with supporters
Right-wing media
Dinners with rich donors and billionaires
Truth Social
Lack of staff to tell him no www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Very little U.S travel
No rallies or contact with supporters
Right-wing media
Dinners with rich donors and billionaires
Truth Social
Lack of staff to tell him no www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
December 1, 2025 at 9:28 PM
one thing that receives almost no attention is that the only reason he ran for president again is because he had to to avoid prosecution for a litany of crimes, the whole plan was: 1). Take shelter in SCOTUS-granted immunity. 2). Loot.
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just called ai "the mediocrity machine" in a meeting and the tech bro is shaking a finger at me and twitching so hard he can't even plug what's happening into the machine so it can tell him how to respond
November 30, 2025 at 11:47 PM
just called ai "the mediocrity machine" in a meeting and the tech bro is shaking a finger at me and twitching so hard he can't even plug what's happening into the machine so it can tell him how to respond
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it's always a good time to learn about the first dotcom crash
![Anyway, Lucent really fucked up big time. In 1998 it signed a $2 billion “equipment and finance agreement” with telecommunications company Winstar, which promised to bring in “$100 million in new business over the next five years” and build a giant wireless broadband network, along with expanding Winstar’s optical networking. In December 1999, WIRED would say that Winstar’s “small white dish antennas…[heralded] a new era and new mind-set in telecommunications,” and included this awesome quote about Lucent from CEO and founder Will Rouhana:
On one level we are a customer and they are a supplier. On another level they are a financier and we are a borrower. On yet another level they are providing services around the world to accelerate our development. They also want to use our service, and have guaranteed $100 million in business.
Fuck yeah!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qc6xzgctorfsm35w6i3vdebx/bafkreifk5hhjtxq4xziq5drtistjsduo4eebqteau4oj2qyhardr3bbcsa@jpeg)
December 1, 2025 at 6:43 PM
it's always a good time to learn about the first dotcom crash
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so it was a cranial mri and it came back extremely dirty
*LEAVITT SAYS HER TEAM IS RELEASING TRUMP MRI RESULTS
*LEAVITT: TRUMP MRI WAS PREVENTATIVE CARDIOVASCULAR IMAGING
*LEAVITT: TRUMP'S CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM SHOWS EXCELLENT HEALTH
*LEAVITT: TRUMP ABDOMINAL IMAGING PERFECTLY NORMAL
*LEAVITT: EVERYTHING EVALUATED IS FUNCTIONING W/ NORMAL LIMITS
*LEAVITT: TRUMP MRI WAS PREVENTATIVE CARDIOVASCULAR IMAGING
*LEAVITT: TRUMP'S CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM SHOWS EXCELLENT HEALTH
*LEAVITT: TRUMP ABDOMINAL IMAGING PERFECTLY NORMAL
*LEAVITT: EVERYTHING EVALUATED IS FUNCTIONING W/ NORMAL LIMITS
December 1, 2025 at 6:58 PM
so it was a cranial mri and it came back extremely dirty
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OT: I actually think that *academic* international-relations scholars *should* be using "kinetic" more, but that's for a very specific reason: we talk about "military power" & "military capabilities" in a way that collapses their social & symbolic properties w/ their employment to destroy things.
I'm really fascinated by the way this administration seems to think "kinetic strike" is a sort of magical phrase as opposed to being to being ridiculous military jargon. Hegseth uses it a lot the way a teenager will use some new word they think makes them sound sophisticated.
REPORTER: Does the administration deny that that second strike happened, or did it happen and the administration denies that Hegseth gave the order?
LEAVITT: The latter. Secretary Hegseth authorized Admiral Bradley to conduct these kinetic strikes. He worked well within his authority and the law.
LEAVITT: The latter. Secretary Hegseth authorized Admiral Bradley to conduct these kinetic strikes. He worked well within his authority and the law.
December 1, 2025 at 7:32 PM
OT: I actually think that *academic* international-relations scholars *should* be using "kinetic" more, but that's for a very specific reason: we talk about "military power" & "military capabilities" in a way that collapses their social & symbolic properties w/ their employment to destroy things.
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Admiral Bradley, you are what we call a DUPE. You're the fall guy. Do I think you gave the "kill order" for the 2nd strikes? Yes. Yes, I do. Do I think you got the order from Secretary Hegseth? Yes. Yes, I do. Doesn't matter, though. You should have refused the order. Dupe.
December 1, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Admiral Bradley, you are what we call a DUPE. You're the fall guy. Do I think you gave the "kill order" for the 2nd strikes? Yes. Yes, I do. Do I think you got the order from Secretary Hegseth? Yes. Yes, I do. Doesn't matter, though. You should have refused the order. Dupe.
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Trump take
Americans are spending more but getting less.
Although overall US online shopping increased 3% on Black Friday, it was driven by a 7% jump in the average selling price, according to Salesforce. https://cnn.it/48cFAND
Although overall US online shopping increased 3% on Black Friday, it was driven by a 7% jump in the average selling price, according to Salesforce. https://cnn.it/48cFAND
December 1, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Trump take
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There is a part of me that is really really bitter that people are only now noticing how bad things are at large red state public universities like OU. It’s been this way for a long time.
Minority faculty targeted and abandoned.
Deeply conservative admins and vicious politicians.
Minority faculty targeted and abandoned.
Deeply conservative admins and vicious politicians.
Look, y'all know I hate AI as much as the next passionate hater of AI, but ChatGPT has nothing on the University of Oklahoma deciding that based on the first amendment students can literally say anything in their papers as existential threat to the university.
Oklahoma University has placed a grad student instructor on admin leave for failing a psychology paper on gender for citing *the Bible* as a source of empirical evidence.
In response, OU has placed on instructor on admin leave citing, get this, the FIRST AMENDMENT.
Universities are cooked.
In response, OU has placed on instructor on admin leave citing, get this, the FIRST AMENDMENT.
Universities are cooked.
December 1, 2025 at 3:13 PM
There is a part of me that is really really bitter that people are only now noticing how bad things are at large red state public universities like OU. It’s been this way for a long time.
Minority faculty targeted and abandoned.
Deeply conservative admins and vicious politicians.
Minority faculty targeted and abandoned.
Deeply conservative admins and vicious politicians.
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Footage of the destruction of the same Shahed that was carrying an R-60 air-to-air missile.
December 1, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Footage of the destruction of the same Shahed that was carrying an R-60 air-to-air missile.