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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

genuinely crazy-making how much the national press is indifferent to the verifiable fact that jd vance is buddy buddy with internet nazis, and the degree to which this is almost certainly a form of solidarity among people with a similar institution pedigree

Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 1d

mainstream media report on jd vance’s twitter mutuals, challenge level: impossible

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

He has already chosen, what the fuck are we doing here
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 3d

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 5d

They don't have an answer, because they don't ask the question.

It is 2025. If you are a Democratic Party operative in 2025 and you aren't even looking into media ownership and propaganda effects, then you are either a conman or a mark.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 5d

(6) This idea that democrats should abandon trans people and immigrants and climate change (in 2025!) is just unconscionably dumb.

Declaring “I’m focused on prescription drug prices” sounds like pandering because it IS pandering. Everyone can tell.

Try standing for something. See how it feels.

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Posts by Emily K 🐸🐸 @posts.by.emilyk.art · 5d

Great explainer as to why the Shoah is so specifically associated with Jews, even as millions of others were targeted and murdered.

Antisemitism isn't the belief that Jews are evil. It's the belief that evil is Jewish - every evil in your midst goes back to the Jews and evil must be rooted out.

Dalassa @dalassa.bsky.social · 5d

Yes. Unfortunately a lot of people ask that question not in good faith.

The answer is that the Nazis killed a lot of people but specifically targeted Jews and Roma for immediate and organized murder. Lots of Slavs were murdered but in a much more haphazard way.

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Samuel Karp @samuelkarp.com · 5d

The FreeBSD extensions got merged into the OCI Runtime Spec today! This is another step on the way to bringing the container ecosystem to FreeBSD. runj will add support for this soon (most of the work is already done): github.com/opencontaine...

Add FreeBSD as a platform by dfr · Pull Request #1286 · opencontainers/runtime-spec

This uses FreeBSD jails to implement container isolation.

github.com

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Samuel Karp @samuelkarp.com · 7d

Commenting here for a reminder!

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Art by Emily K @museum.of.emilyk.art · 8d

Here is a corrected version of it. It should have any and all typos taken care of - but feel free to point out any! I want this to be squared away before I make any prints! Thanks, #JewSky for your enthusiasm!

A spelling-corrected version of my previous illustration: Hebrew calligraphy in dark green stretches in lines across the image. Negative space makes room for a simple representation of an inflatable frog costume with a blue bandana. That shape consists of the English translation of the Hebrew, in a lighter green, and in much smaller text.
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Famously, the Egyptian tyrant causes Egypt to be overrun with frogs because he refuses to free the Hebrew people, but there are additional details that make this a fun one to ponder. For one, the Hebrew says "the frog came up" - ONE frog - even though the rest of the time it says "frogs." So there are a few explanations rabbis have come up with to explain this. One is that a single frog multiplied to create swarms. A more creative explanation is that there was a singular giant frog who traveled and brought destruction. Jewish social media was sharing videos of the Portland Frog protester with the caption, "One Big Frog! One Big Frog!" Of course the frog protesters did multiply, and many were seen in crowds all over the world on "No Kings" Day. This calligraphic work takes the verses addressing the frog plague and combines them to form a simple rendering of the Portland Frog protester. The frog figure itself is made up of the English translations of the Hebrew around it. At the bottom left my signature is in the shape of a lily pad.

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Samuel Karp @samuelkarp.com · 8d

SnoPUD had outages earlier today too. Fortunately ours was only out for an hour, but I'm hoping it doesn't go out again tonight. Parenting with no power is no fun...

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 9d

I know folks have been talking about this for a few days now, but I just want to emphasize: the next D POTUS needs to demolish everything Trump erects

Blot it all out

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 9d

NEW: NBC News confirms that the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, on the east side of the White House, has been destroyed as part of the demolition of the East Wing.

(📸 Getty Images)

A picture of the garden in front of the east wing of the White House. A mix of colorful flowers and small trees

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14d

Oh it’s not appropriate for your program to air the president wearing a crown and shitting on American citizens?

You’ll talk about it in euphemisms? Maybe call it the “crown video” and ignore the shitting part? Because that’s appropriate?

Tell me, was it appropriate for the president to do it?

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 14d

The Governor has signed S.B. 524–now police departments in California are at a crossroads. They can retain AI-written police report drafts themselves. Axon can change their product to make it lawful. Or police can drop Axon’s Draft One product. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Victory! California Requires Transparency for AI Police Reports

California Governor Newsom has signed SB 524, making California the second state to take an important first step toward regulating AI police reports.

www.eff.org

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Stone Cold “Crazy” Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15d

Hard to estimate any of these crowd sizes other than “bigger than Trump’s crowds.”

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 18d

Jewish law & Bible scholarship don't think the word in the 10 Commandments for "steal" is about, like, shoplifting.

Look at eg Genesis 40:15, Exodus 21:16 , Deuteronomy 24:7--

the commandment is not to steal people. Don't kidnap.

Though you shouldn't need the Bible to teach you that. #AbolishICE

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Stone Cold “Crazy” Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · Oct 2

/2 I mean what Chappelle is doing is like inviting Jared Fogle on your podcast to talk about parents being too strict

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Stone Cold “Crazy” Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · Oct 2

/3 The gulf is between people who see this as brutal and inhuman, and people who see the victims of this as inhuman. The gulf is between people who speak our opposition and people who think that makes us unpatriotic, unreliable, someone to be mocked with sombrero videos.

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Stone Cold “Crazy” Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · Oct 2

/2 The gulf is between people who think this is bad and think it is good. The gulf is between those of us who think the government shouldn’t treat people that way and people whop think we are stupid, un-American Marxists to think that.

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Stone Cold “Crazy” Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · Oct 2

There is a gulf in America. I submit it is the gulf between good and evil, or at least not-evil and evil.

The gulf is not just between people who oppose this and people who are indifferent to it or reluctantly accept it in support of immigration policy or see it as collateral damage.
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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · Oct 2

This raid is disgusting, abominable behavior, traumatizing children and families in their homes.
abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

"They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'"

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Ian Coldwater 📦💥 @lookitup.baby · Oct 1

G’mar Chatimah Tovah, fam. May we all reflect and do better.

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Samuel Karp @samuelkarp.com · Oct 1

(and I'm guessing that you were joking but others might not know this)

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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · Oct 1

To anyone disabled, pregnant, prone to eating disorders, blood sugar issues, on meds that require food etc: Yom Kippur rules are very clear. You must NOT fast if it will hurt your health. Don’t believe me? Believe Chabad, even they say so. Judaism doesn’t want you to endanger your health.

What is the procedure for one who must eat on Yom Kippur?

Just as a healthy person fulfills a mitzvah by fasting; an ill person does a mitzvah by eating.

www.chabad.org

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Samuel Karp @samuelkarp.com · Oct 1

I think medication is usually continued (extending the principle of pikuach nefesh).

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · Sep 18

if the remaining talk show hosts don't devote their monologues to this they're scabs and cowards.

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Samuel Karp @samuelkarp.com · Sep 17

New post on my blog: Writing Software for Myself

samuel.karp.dev/blog/2025/09...

Writing Software for Myself

This post is part of the Lobste.rs blog carnival. A while ago I read this blog post “An app can be a home-cooked meal”. It really resonated with me. Later, I realized it’s because I&...

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · Sep 13

Why isn’t every local news broadcast opening with, “What are the ‘Groypers’, and how do you know the signs of your son is part of the deadly gang?”

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