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Professor Furious @professorfurious.bsky.social · 4h

It's projection all the way down, God.

Professor Furious @professorfurious.bsky.social · 4h

"Your Omnipotence"

Professor Furious @professorfurious.bsky.social · 4h

It's not you.

Professor Furious @professorfurious.bsky.social · 4h

I know I am.

Professor Furious @professorfurious.bsky.social · 4h

"Dozens"
Also technically true while entirely misleading.

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Professor Furious @professorfurious.bsky.social · 1d

Not anymore, they don't.

Professor Furious @professorfurious.bsky.social · 1d

What with the attacks in the Caribbean, you misspelled "murderer".

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Professor Furious @professorfurious.bsky.social · 1d

Classic Friedman today.
Offer advice to a world that will never exist.
Never change, Tom.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/o...

Opinion | Give Trump the Nobel for Gaza, if He Does the Harder Parts to Come

www.nytimes.com

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Professor Furious @professorfurious.bsky.social · 2d

More than ever, my old friend.

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Professor Furious @professorfurious.bsky.social · 2d

Police state engendering mob threats leading to exile:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

www.nytimes.com

Professor Furious @professorfurious.bsky.social · 4d

Probably current ICE thugs.
Hard to say with all the masks.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 7d

The Ig Nobel is incredible , one year an Indian guy won it for calculating the average surface area of an elephant and during his acceptance they had an elephant hold up a sign with the surface area of the scientist on it, they do showbiz better than the Oscars

Jeffrey J. Hall @mrjeffu.bsky.social · 22d

Video: a Japanese scientist was attacked by flies while giving the acceptance speech for his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research paper that proved painting Zebra-like stripes on cows led to a decrease in biting fly attacks.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 8d

We are here because policing in the U.S. has been this way for generations. This is why ICE acts with impunity. They know they can act this way.

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Professor Furious @professorfurious.bsky.social · 8d

Counterpoint:
All language is "made up".
That's how language is made.

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 8d

You may have heard my arguments against the Electoral College before. Here’s a new one the Founders never anticipated:

If the President is elected by popular vote, he probably wouldn’t selectively punish entire states for voting against him.

OPB @opb.org · 8d

Oregon is set to lose an additional $400 million in federal grants awarded for climate action and is among more than a dozen Democratic states losing federal funding after the Trump administration terminated nearly $8 billion for those states this week.

Oregon to lose an additional $400 million in federal climate grants

Oregon and 15 other Democratic states are losing nearly $8 billion toward climate projects, after the Trump administration terminated multiple federal grants.

www.opb.org

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Professor Furious @professorfurious.bsky.social · 8d

I regret I can only like this post once.

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Professor Furious @professorfurious.bsky.social · 9d

The Who

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Professor Furious @professorfurious.bsky.social · 9d

They're going to call this the "whatever" age:
www.propublica.org/article/elon...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors, Company Insider Testifies

The newly unsealed testimony marks the first time direct Chinese investment in the company has been disclosed, raising new questions about foreign ownership interests in one of America’s most importan...

www.propublica.org

Professor Furious @professorfurious.bsky.social · 9d

"You people should all get down on your knees and thank Mad King Donald Trump for destroying your building in order to save it."

Rebecca Schoenkopf @wonkette.bsky.social · 9d

oh my fucking god www.wonkette.com/p/illegal-ch...

www.wonkette.com

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Professor Furious @professorfurious.bsky.social · 9d

...um... yeah. Someone had to do a study to reveal that probablistic outputs are probablistic? Is this study from the Department of Tautology that is a Department?