ribbonknight
@ribbonknight.bsky.social
Politics, video games, comics/manga, chronic health bullshit, & feminist SF. I live in Wisconsin and I have a dog named Stella.
It’s the last song in the trailer, but I mean the rest is also good
Presenting the trailer for FFXIV Patch 7.4─Into the Mist!
Set to arrive on Tuesday, December 16. 🗓️
Set to arrive on Tuesday, December 16. 🗓️
FINAL FANTASY XIV Patch 7.4 - Into the Mist
FINAL FANTASY XIV Patch 7.4, Into the Mist, launches December 16, 2025!
youtu.be
December 6, 2025 at 12:48 AM
It’s the last song in the trailer, but I mean the rest is also good
omfg FFXIV released the trailer for its next patch this morning, and the song is a fucking banner, but now at the end of the day I’m finding out Tom Morello literally collaborated with Soken to write it
December 6, 2025 at 12:45 AM
omfg FFXIV released the trailer for its next patch this morning, and the song is a fucking banner, but now at the end of the day I’m finding out Tom Morello literally collaborated with Soken to write it
bro what the fuck, how am I supposed to continue on with my day after being eviscerated like this
December 5, 2025 at 1:27 PM
bro what the fuck, how am I supposed to continue on with my day after being eviscerated like this
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The reason the judiciary functions is because judges understand that despite everyone being human beings who hold grudges and have stupid opinions and peccadilloes and flaws, there is a sense that you have to justify what you're doing on more than "because I say so."
This Court is undermining that.
This Court is undermining that.
December 4, 2025 at 11:14 PM
The reason the judiciary functions is because judges understand that despite everyone being human beings who hold grudges and have stupid opinions and peccadilloes and flaws, there is a sense that you have to justify what you're doing on more than "because I say so."
This Court is undermining that.
This Court is undermining that.
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It's not just liberal judges they're doing this to. They're doing this to plenty of conservative judges too; judges who actually spent weeks and weeks poring over the details and with their arms deep in the guts of thousands of pages of documents and days of testimony.
Those judges are pissed.
Those judges are pissed.
December 4, 2025 at 11:12 PM
It's not just liberal judges they're doing this to. They're doing this to plenty of conservative judges too; judges who actually spent weeks and weeks poring over the details and with their arms deep in the guts of thousands of pages of documents and days of testimony.
Those judges are pissed.
Those judges are pissed.
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I don't think the Justices understand the extent to which they are playing with fire. The more they do this, the more District Courts will engage in open disrespect of the Supreme Court, because what other response is there to open disrespect directed at them? That's bad for the Judiciary, period.
December 4, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I don't think the Justices understand the extent to which they are playing with fire. The more they do this, the more District Courts will engage in open disrespect of the Supreme Court, because what other response is there to open disrespect directed at them? That's bad for the Judiciary, period.
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As Justice Kagan begins her dissent by pointing out, what is even the point of trial, of fact-finding, of clear error, of standards of review, when the Supreme Court simply ignores every single part of that and decides everything purely on the papers without any real consideration of the facts?
December 4, 2025 at 11:08 PM
As Justice Kagan begins her dissent by pointing out, what is even the point of trial, of fact-finding, of clear error, of standards of review, when the Supreme Court simply ignores every single part of that and decides everything purely on the papers without any real consideration of the facts?
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makes you wonder how much the conservatives on the court are also in a fantasy political world
December 5, 2025 at 2:57 AM
makes you wonder how much the conservatives on the court are also in a fantasy political world
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funny thing about this is depending on the scale of the swing next year this might end being worse for republicans than striking down the maps talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme...
Supreme Court Conservatives Reinstate Texas’ Gerrymandered House Maps
The Supreme Court, in a Thursday evening order, put on hold a...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:57 AM
funny thing about this is depending on the scale of the swing next year this might end being worse for republicans than striking down the maps talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme...
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It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.
December 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.
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This was across the road from my house. So many people showed up within minutes. ICE agents circled the block for 45 minutes after they’d been chased off, just to troll. There is no hell hot enough to roast those fuckers.
We encountered an ICE immigration enforcement action on Park Ave. in Minneapolis today. When my colleague Ben Hovland and I arrived there were only a couple observers, but there were dozens blowing whistles by the time ICE agents left without making an arrest.
www.instagram.com/reel/DR3DO1I...
www.instagram.com/reel/DR3DO1I...
MPR News on Instagram: "Nearly two dozen community members surrounded a house on the 3100 block of Park Avenue in Minneapolis when Homeland Security Investigations officers detained an East African ma...
Residents of Minneapolis's Park Avenue neighborhood respond to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation with a community watch, as reported by MPR News. The community watches as federal agents...
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December 5, 2025 at 3:10 AM
This was across the road from my house. So many people showed up within minutes. ICE agents circled the block for 45 minutes after they’d been chased off, just to troll. There is no hell hot enough to roast those fuckers.
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So they don't even have to pretend "pure motives." They just have to say "this was for partisan reasons, not because of race" and they win. It's disgusting and stupid, but that's where we are.
December 5, 2025 at 2:54 AM
So they don't even have to pretend "pure motives." They just have to say "this was for partisan reasons, not because of race" and they win. It's disgusting and stupid, but that's where we are.
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To be fair, the justices are not technically wrong that the standard here, which the district court reviewed, was that if the gerrymandering was for partisan reasons, it's legal. It's only illegal if it was for race. But that allows the justices to just out & out say "THIS IS FOR PARTISAN REASONS!"
“Yes, yes, we can see all your ‘facts’ and all the adorable little ‘evidence,’ but you failed to consider that none of that matters if we all close our eyes and pretend the Texas GOP actually had pure motives here, you stupid little rubes.”
The dripping contempt the right wing SCOTUS majority holds for district judges is truly a sight to behold every time. When they deign to give actual reasons for their shadow docket holdings, it’s “look at the absolute idiots who keep getting everything wrong!”
December 5, 2025 at 2:54 AM
To be fair, the justices are not technically wrong that the standard here, which the district court reviewed, was that if the gerrymandering was for partisan reasons, it's legal. It's only illegal if it was for race. But that allows the justices to just out & out say "THIS IS FOR PARTISAN REASONS!"
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Oof. This is the sort of misleading claims Trumpian conspiracy theorists used to foment questions about 2020, or discredit results in WI or MI by talking of "statistically unlikely" odds of Milwaukee or Detroit counts. (Built on a false claim of that 99% means "99% of precincts," which it doesn't.)
BREAKING: Election Advocates Demand Recount in Tennessee
open.substack.com/pub/narativ/...
open.substack.com/pub/narativ/...
BREAKING: Election Advocates Demand Recount in Tennessee
They’re questioning how 31,000 additional votes appeared with 99.4% votes counted - and that's not all.
open.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Oof. This is the sort of misleading claims Trumpian conspiracy theorists used to foment questions about 2020, or discredit results in WI or MI by talking of "statistically unlikely" odds of Milwaukee or Detroit counts. (Built on a false claim of that 99% means "99% of precincts," which it doesn't.)
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Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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Daily bunny no.3156 can give you some recommendations
December 2, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Daily bunny no.3156 can give you some recommendations
One of the reasons we live in a condo is so that we don’t have to do things like yardwork or snowblowing.
But why are the maintenance ppl snow blowing at 11pm?! 😭
But why are the maintenance ppl snow blowing at 11pm?! 😭
December 2, 2025 at 5:07 AM
One of the reasons we live in a condo is so that we don’t have to do things like yardwork or snowblowing.
But why are the maintenance ppl snow blowing at 11pm?! 😭
But why are the maintenance ppl snow blowing at 11pm?! 😭
As I approach the age my parents were when they had me, I grow to understand while my default memories my parents at home were:
Dad asleep in the recliner with a blanket, newspapers, etc.
Mom reading or sleeping in bed. (my mom worked 3-11p)
Dad asleep in the recliner with a blanket, newspapers, etc.
Mom reading or sleeping in bed. (my mom worked 3-11p)
December 2, 2025 at 12:50 AM
As I approach the age my parents were when they had me, I grow to understand while my default memories my parents at home were:
Dad asleep in the recliner with a blanket, newspapers, etc.
Mom reading or sleeping in bed. (my mom worked 3-11p)
Dad asleep in the recliner with a blanket, newspapers, etc.
Mom reading or sleeping in bed. (my mom worked 3-11p)
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when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes
November 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes
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Their "data set" is a Google spreadsheet with three columns and 72 rows! There isn't even good proof that they didn't totally fabricate it!
November 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Their "data set" is a Google spreadsheet with three columns and 72 rows! There isn't even good proof that they didn't totally fabricate it!
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If this was a real study it would be published in a real journal not a fking press release. They don't even have the confidence in their theory to do what a lot of other AI companies do and commission real university scientists to run it.
November 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
If this was a real study it would be published in a real journal not a fking press release. They don't even have the confidence in their theory to do what a lot of other AI companies do and commission real university scientists to run it.
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This is inevitability propaganda by an AI company made to make you feel like you must use AI & it's bullshit. This methodology is bullshit, for many reasons, not least of which is, it is reliant on common crawl, now blocked by many of the biggest content producers online graphite.io/five-percent...
November 28, 2025 at 12:54 PM
This is inevitability propaganda by an AI company made to make you feel like you must use AI & it's bullshit. This methodology is bullshit, for many reasons, not least of which is, it is reliant on common crawl, now blocked by many of the biggest content producers online graphite.io/five-percent...
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Automated text generation has existed for decades. "Dead internet" is from 2016. Markov chain text generation dates to at least 1984. The incentives to algorithmicly generate web text have been around since before 2010. Huge swaths of the internet have been case for seo/advertising slop for decades.
November 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Automated text generation has existed for decades. "Dead internet" is from 2016. Markov chain text generation dates to at least 1984. The incentives to algorithmicly generate web text have been around since before 2010. Huge swaths of the internet have been case for seo/advertising slop for decades.