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Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · 36m

Jim has interesting ideas about what is “entirely appropriate”.

Gym Jordan’s head on an image from the Beavis and Butthead wrestling episode. The caption reads “Ah! help! He’s got a boner!”

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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 2h

A few days ago, I wrote up a piece on Republicans routinely forgetting when Biden took office and how the problem seems to be getting worse: tinyurl.com/3bdxp3te

I suddenly wish I’d held off a few more days. (The “Biden FBI” didn’t exist on Jan. 6. Trump was president at the time.)

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Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · 12h

Aktion T4 is how the Nazi’s developed the gas chambers they would later use on the Jews.

“First they came…” is wrong. Fascists always come for the disabled first. Trump falsely blamed the disabled for a plane crash week 1…

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Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · 12h

Honestly, well out of the park seems to be the only place PCA can’t get to. Just epic jumps and routes.

Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · 12h

Real Christian persecution…

www.wbez.org/immigration/...

Religious leaders denied request to deliver communion to detainees at Broadview facility

Hundreds of people joined a delegation of Catholic priests and nuns marching to the Broadview detention site to hold communion, but they were turned away with no reason given. Later Saturday, nearly 1...

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 13h

According to the victim's attorney, the body camera captured the officer saying, “Do something, bitch,” before leaping out of the car and shooting her multiple times. Another officer asked, “Hey, what happened?” The first pointed to his camera, “Hey, don’t speak. You’re good”
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Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · 12h

Has anyone else noticed that the MLB Google AI Cloud ads are all trivial calculations involving stupid things?

“AI Cloud, for stupid shit no one needs to know, but which you could calculate with your fingers and toes…”

Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · 14h

Seems to me a good spicy sausage often leads to a midnight run but, in this case, I have a beef with those particular sausages that dates all the back to their last year at County Stadium.😉

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Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · 14h

But the sausages don’t need to run twice….

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Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · 15h

Maybe the legs should be permanently added.

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Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · 16h

I’m even more skeptical. LLM/TNN is a great classifier, but only when the sample properly matches the training set. In radiology, accuracy of models drops when analyzing samples from hospitals outside the original training sets.

w/o more details, no reason to give the number any credence at all.

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Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · 17h

Beyond that, Dems have honored an Independent DOJ. Both key players in Epstein’s sweetheart deals have joined the Trump admin.

Further, for several decades the parties have shown vastly different tolerance for elected officials when sexual misconduct is exposed.

Look at Trump’s cabinet…

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Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · 21h

They could also all be put under tremendous pressure just by passing serious SCOTUS ethics/corruption legislation. That’s a much easier lift than expansion and might even vacate some seats.

They are all connected to the corrupt right wing welfare train.

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Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · 21h

So… Dems are willing to take the hit, even if that means folks like Bill Clinton are embarrassed/indicted, the GOP isn’t.

Of course their motives are at least partially political, but that doesn’t make the distinction any less significant.

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Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · 21h

Maybe not the best move when you are the party of a wanna be military dictator, but people are allowed to be both evil and stupid.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

When Republicans are pre-butting a pro-democracy rally like No Kings and making shit up left and right to scare people, you know they're losing and in panic mode.

Pedal to the floor.

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Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · 23h

To be fair, there is some very new research that assesses “heart age” from an ECG using trained AI models. Like in radiology, a lot hinges on the training set, so I could see them getting this weird outlier and sticking that in a report instead of his cholesterol, obesity, or mental decline.

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Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · 1d

The wild part to me is that self described “conservative Catholics” will wail about Leo being “woke”, but he is just reiterating what Pope Benedict first put in writing as a cardinal and reiterated as pope in SACRAMENTUM CARITATIS.

Just wait until they find out what Jesus had to say…

NPR @npr.org · 1d

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

Pope Leo XIV says 'inhuman treatment of immigrants' in the U.S. isn't 'pro-life'

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 1d

Thoughts and prayers to Cosplay Cop Kristi who had to brave the dogs, farmer’s markets, capybaras, and marathon runners of Portland this week.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Same day that the US announced a $20 billion bailout of Argentina that will benefit Trump's political allies and donors.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

CNN reporting that 4,000 federal employees were fired on Friday, in HHS, Education, Energy, HUD, Homeland Security, Patent and Trademark Office, EPA.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Trump administration lays off thousands of federal workers during government shutdown | CNN Politics

More than 4,000 federal employees received layoff notices Friday as part of the Trump administration’s broad effort to reshape the government while it remains shutdown, according to a court filing Fri...

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Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · 1d

In 2002 I was at game 6 of the World Series between the Angels and Giants. It looked like the Giants were going to seal the deal, but the Angels played their “Rally Monkey” bit they were doing then, the crowd became unbelievably loud, and they rallied back to win both that game and game 7. So…🤷‍♂️

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Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · 1d

Our daughter and son-in-law were at the game and say the crowd went nuts.

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Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · 1d

Like a 15th inning win over Detroit to advance to the ALCS!

www.seattletimes.com/sports/marin...

Did the Mariners finally win ALDS Game 5 because of Humpy the Salmon?

Humpy won his first ever Salmon Run Friday night -- just before the Mariners secured a win and advanced to the ALCS.

www.seattletimes.com

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Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · 1d

Finally, congrats Humpy! And congrats Mariners!

www.seattletimes.com/sports/marin...

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 1d

Bob is a retired educator in Idaho and his wife spent decades working in health care.

If Republicans refuse to work with Democrats to protect the health care tax credits, his premiums will increase from $51 to $2,250 a MONTH.

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