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Just a guy raising some pets. Former professor of American history who loves to talk politics and Magic the Gathering. He/him.

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Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · Dec 23

“AIs talking to AIs, both sides trying to scam the other” is the inevitable final destination of the technology

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Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 9h

Take that power bills

Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 9h

Still can’t afford healthcare tho

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 13h

Press pool: “On Trump’s desk in the Oval Office today was a plan for a triumphal arch on the other side of the river from the Lincoln Memorial”

Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 10h

It’s fun to live in a world where every other country lives in a domestic abuse situation with the global hegemon

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 11h

Truly a man of peace www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

www.theguardian.com

Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 11h

Give me a pope who isn’t afraid to play it fast and loose with the excommunications for spite

Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 12h

Press F to bone saw the journalist

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Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 12h

Okay I know we’re numb to shit but jeeeeeezus

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12h

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 13h

Saw the new Knight of 7 Kingdoms Trailer. The casting looks solid, the guy playing Dunk seems perfect and Egg looks as you’d expect.

Curious to see the reaction to this one when it’s very much not doing the magic or dragons

Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 13h

That’s a good boy so I’ll add a pic of mine

Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 13h

Sharia law, a thing that is possible

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 1d

Listening and learning

Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 14h

It’s like the Great Depression except everyone saw it coming and instead of fleeing everyone decided to see if they could make just a little more money instead by doubling down

David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 17h

🎈📌👶 www.marketwatch.com/story/the-ai...

AI bubble is 17 times the size of that of the dot-com frenzy, analyst says

A research firm is arguing not just that AI is in a bubble, but that it is 17 times the size of the dot-com bubble.

www.marketwatch.com

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Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 14h

Look the award is meaningless so if we can use it as a bribe to get him to fully back Ukraine into the end of the war then I would be on board

Henry Kissinger was a recipient, it’s truly not important if we give it to someone undeserving if it achieves a greater goal

Chris Cillizza @chriscillizza.bsky.social · 19h

What if...Donald Trump actually deserves the Nobel Peace Prize?

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Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 14h

Scary beasts at play

Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 14h

That’s how you do science right, start with your desired outcome and work from there?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 15h

Let’s hope it sticks but I kind of doubt it

Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 16h

I cannot recall any time in my entire awareness of pop culture that Johnny Cash wasn’t both popular and cool

That Hurt cover really brought him to a younger generation

bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 18h

wtaf are you talking about

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 17h

The judge: it is hereby ordered that you are in fact, not like us

Erik Uebelacker @uebey.bsky.social · 17h

NEW: Drake loses his defamation case against Kendrick Lamar over the “Not Like Us” lyrics.

More coming @courthousenews.bsky.social

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Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 17h

This is the price of citizenship Brett Kavanaugh thinks we should all pay

CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 18h

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 18h

Okay it’s actually fine to get rid of circumcision as a default thing but at least make it for reasons that aren’t insane

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 20h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 23h

I’ve said all along the Nobel committee should just offer it as a bribe for keeping support for Ukraine until it’s over

The award was always meaningless but doubly so after Kissenger got one, let it do some good even if it’s for a venal idiot

Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 23h

The same fundamental reason that college increases tolerance: getting out of your bubble and exposing yourself to people from other places is a good experience

More evidence for my “subsidize foreign travel for high school grads” idea

Mary Grace🕷️🕸️🎃👻 @emgeekay.bsky.social · 1d

“…”tolerant attitudes” were “largely explained by increased positive contact with individuals from different cultures” and the positive associations created by the sensory experience of eating good food.”

www.theguardian.com/food/2025/oc...

Enjoying international cuisines makes people more tolerant, UK study finds

Frequent and varied eating found to reduce likelihood of perceiving immigrants as ‘cultural or economic threats’

www.theguardian.com

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On This Day in Simpsons History @dailysimpsons.bsky.social · 1d

30 years ago today, we first heard “In the Garden of Eden” by I. Ron Butterfly. "Bart Sells His Soul," first aired October 8, 1995.

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Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 1d

The WaPo is dead and I honestly feel bad for the good journalists chained to the Bezos propaganda machine for their livelihood and healthcare

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Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 1d

This is a dark ass videogame story

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 1d

Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war.Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers.

Models of parking lots, antennas, + pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites

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Fascinating work here tracing how the IDF recycled 3D assets from a cyberpunk sci-fi art project, the Scottish Maritime Museum and elsewhere to populate its widely-seen models of supposed enemy locations in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. One of the most infamous, the alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.

Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know why it took til October to get them to finally adopt this but better late than never

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Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 1d

Yes and this rock keeps tigers away