Scott S. Semester
@sssemester.bsky.social
Indianapolis Hoosier. Bon vivant. Christian, but pretty bad at it. Likes sweaters, arugula, compassion. Hates waiting, romaine, injustice. Is really proud of you. (he/him)
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Okay, so, we’re all going to have to agree that it’s wrong to have sex with children. Like, if you don’t agree with me inside your own head, you should keep that inside until you tell a therapist. Also, people who defend pedophiles can not be trusted with your children. At all. AT ALL. EVERRRRRRRRR.
in case you're wondering how the cope is going www.mediamatters.org/megyn-kelly/...
November 13, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Okay, so, we’re all going to have to agree that it’s wrong to have sex with children. Like, if you don’t agree with me inside your own head, you should keep that inside until you tell a therapist. Also, people who defend pedophiles can not be trusted with your children. At all. AT ALL. EVERRRRRRRRR.
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the only thing democrats should be saying today is “the entire republican party is engaged in a coverup of the most notorious child sex trafficking ring in world history”
November 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
the only thing democrats should be saying today is “the entire republican party is engaged in a coverup of the most notorious child sex trafficking ring in world history”
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This sounds reasonable but is 100% wrong. Whether you or agree or disagree with a study is completely immaterial. What matters is whether the study was conducted properly and generates valid results. And it's impolitic to say but it's true: you have to have some level of expertise to judge that.
JD Vance: "Science as practiced in its best form is that if you disagree with it, then you ought to criticize it and you ought to argue against it."
November 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This sounds reasonable but is 100% wrong. Whether you or agree or disagree with a study is completely immaterial. What matters is whether the study was conducted properly and generates valid results. And it's impolitic to say but it's true: you have to have some level of expertise to judge that.
Pretty soon, “I asked my Uber driver” will become an acceptable citation.
They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.
November 12, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Pretty soon, “I asked my Uber driver” will become an acceptable citation.
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We used to have the Bureau of Labor Statistics collect inflation data but under Trump we’ve outsourced it to DoorDash
November 12, 2025 at 1:09 AM
We used to have the Bureau of Labor Statistics collect inflation data but under Trump we’ve outsourced it to DoorDash
Turns out, “*I'm* the Left, you unpatriotic piece of shit. If you can only win by cheating, you don't deserve to win. Fuck off and lose my number.” is also a recognized Unsubscribe command.
November 12, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Turns out, “*I'm* the Left, you unpatriotic piece of shit. If you can only win by cheating, you don't deserve to win. Fuck off and lose my number.” is also a recognized Unsubscribe command.
The Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site (just a few blocks from my house!) is hosting a special Veterans Day remembrance at 5:32 p.m. Eastern Time.
At sunset, a lone bugler will sound Taps to honor all veterans who have passed, and you can watch on Facebook Live: www.facebook.com/share/1WPd1Q...
At sunset, a lone bugler will sound Taps to honor all veterans who have passed, and you can watch on Facebook Live: www.facebook.com/share/1WPd1Q...
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November 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site (just a few blocks from my house!) is hosting a special Veterans Day remembrance at 5:32 p.m. Eastern Time.
At sunset, a lone bugler will sound Taps to honor all veterans who have passed, and you can watch on Facebook Live: www.facebook.com/share/1WPd1Q...
At sunset, a lone bugler will sound Taps to honor all veterans who have passed, and you can watch on Facebook Live: www.facebook.com/share/1WPd1Q...
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I know, everybody should leave X, but I think an exception should be made solely for Joyce Carol Oates so she can keep wounding Musk's withered soul on his own site and he can't do a thing about it.
![Joyce Carol Oates quoting a tweet that says “wherever he [Elon Musk] goes, he wants to leave”:
"wherever he goes, he wants to leave"-- that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:buy3qvqcj3o76leo6ap7pn2p/bafkreifilfbsxemfsambf4kqwolr24ld2ekqcrz4ybgv3bv7kzi5e6kppm@jpeg)
November 11, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I know, everybody should leave X, but I think an exception should be made solely for Joyce Carol Oates so she can keep wounding Musk's withered soul on his own site and he can't do a thing about it.
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There's also some irony in the fact that Gen X continues to vote MAGA and MAGA just absolutely reamed Gen X on health care costs. People who are about to hit Medicare eligibility but not quite there? That 55-64 bracket? Absolutely fucked with no recompense.
November 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
There's also some irony in the fact that Gen X continues to vote MAGA and MAGA just absolutely reamed Gen X on health care costs. People who are about to hit Medicare eligibility but not quite there? That 55-64 bracket? Absolutely fucked with no recompense.
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she's poasting that she didn't even mean to wreck his psyche, she was just musing out loud and his psyche was just collateral damage. absolutely savage 😂
November 11, 2025 at 3:55 AM
she's poasting that she didn't even mean to wreck his psyche, she was just musing out loud and his psyche was just collateral damage. absolutely savage 😂
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"truly it was out of curiosity"
November 11, 2025 at 3:49 AM
"truly it was out of curiosity"
That raggedy doofus took her case all the way to the Supreme Court because she couldn’t do her job.
And yet somehow, defying (my very low) expectations, these Supremes got it right.
And yet somehow, defying (my very low) expectations, these Supremes got it right.
New: The Supreme Court DENIES Kim Davis' request to overturn Obergefell, the marriage equality decision. No noted dissents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
November 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
That raggedy doofus took her case all the way to the Supreme Court because she couldn’t do her job.
And yet somehow, defying (my very low) expectations, these Supremes got it right.
And yet somehow, defying (my very low) expectations, these Supremes got it right.
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I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit
this should not be controversial 🫠
this should not be controversial 🫠
November 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit
this should not be controversial 🫠
this should not be controversial 🫠
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I think Senate folders are significantly underestimating how fucking angry Democratic voters are at them
November 10, 2025 at 12:40 AM
I think Senate folders are significantly underestimating how fucking angry Democratic voters are at them
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agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
Oh, we are very, very cooked.
If a budget deal goes through without restoring Medicaid & ACA subsidies, they will never be restored.
That's a death sentence for millions of Americans but also to the entire republic and economy: Health care is a for-profit business generating TREMENDOUS economic activity & will grind to a halt.
That's a death sentence for millions of Americans but also to the entire republic and economy: Health care is a for-profit business generating TREMENDOUS economic activity & will grind to a halt.
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Oh, we are very, very cooked.
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I asked Georgetown law prof David Super wtf is going on with this latest demand for states to claw back benefits already sent out.
He says the law doesn't allow for this, and if the USDA is mad that states already sent out SNAP money, too bad—they were following USDA's own guidance. Full comments:
He says the law doesn't allow for this, and if the USDA is mad that states already sent out SNAP money, too bad—they were following USDA's own guidance. Full comments:
November 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I asked Georgetown law prof David Super wtf is going on with this latest demand for states to claw back benefits already sent out.
He says the law doesn't allow for this, and if the USDA is mad that states already sent out SNAP money, too bad—they were following USDA's own guidance. Full comments:
He says the law doesn't allow for this, and if the USDA is mad that states already sent out SNAP money, too bad—they were following USDA's own guidance. Full comments:
Lololol at “Dunning-Kruger-Times-dot-com.”
With a “WOW!,” President Trump posts a claim about DOGE and “royalties linked to Obamacare” that originated on a satirical website. That site’s own About section reads: “Everything on this website is fiction… If you believe that it is real, you should have your head examined.”
November 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Lololol at “Dunning-Kruger-Times-dot-com.”
Does a photo of Director Patel exist in which his facial expression does NOT convey, “No, but— Okay, wait…”?
November 9, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Does a photo of Director Patel exist in which his facial expression does NOT convey, “No, but— Okay, wait…”?
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Haha, it's "locker room talk" again.
Ongoing failure to recognize that violent misogyny holds together the MAGA coalition across race, class & religion will be the death of the US.
Tens of millions of Americans hate women so much that they enabled this rather than elect female candidates as POTUS.
Ongoing failure to recognize that violent misogyny holds together the MAGA coalition across race, class & religion will be the death of the US.
Tens of millions of Americans hate women so much that they enabled this rather than elect female candidates as POTUS.
“.. in a group Signal chat, .. he wrote in part: ‘I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.’”
@reuters.com #Chicago
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@reuters.com #Chicago
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November 7, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Haha, it's "locker room talk" again.
Ongoing failure to recognize that violent misogyny holds together the MAGA coalition across race, class & religion will be the death of the US.
Tens of millions of Americans hate women so much that they enabled this rather than elect female candidates as POTUS.
Ongoing failure to recognize that violent misogyny holds together the MAGA coalition across race, class & religion will be the death of the US.
Tens of millions of Americans hate women so much that they enabled this rather than elect female candidates as POTUS.
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Yes hello, I am the worst guy who everyone hates. I am doing money crimes by harming the environment and people. I stole someone else's idea and turned it into a product that explodes and or coaxes people into suicide, sometimes both at the same time, and I deserve one trillion dollars. Thank you.
November 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Yes hello, I am the worst guy who everyone hates. I am doing money crimes by harming the environment and people. I stole someone else's idea and turned it into a product that explodes and or coaxes people into suicide, sometimes both at the same time, and I deserve one trillion dollars. Thank you.
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I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul
November 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul
I got every question correct in this week's Slate News Quiz!
slate.com/news-and-pol..., if you want to play.
slate.com/news-and-pol..., if you want to play.
November 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I got every question correct in this week's Slate News Quiz!
slate.com/news-and-pol..., if you want to play.
slate.com/news-and-pol..., if you want to play.
I started watching The Substance. I don't think that movie is for me.
When she opened the box and it had all the goops and shots and whatever? I would have been, like, "That's WAY too many instructions."
When she opened the box and it had all the goops and shots and whatever? I would have been, like, "That's WAY too many instructions."
November 7, 2025 at 1:44 AM
I started watching The Substance. I don't think that movie is for me.
When she opened the box and it had all the goops and shots and whatever? I would have been, like, "That's WAY too many instructions."
When she opened the box and it had all the goops and shots and whatever? I would have been, like, "That's WAY too many instructions."
Upstairs’s water heater pooped the bed, hull-integrity-wise, meaning the forecast for my kitchen is rainshowers and a high of $$$ to $$$$, I’m assuming, once the estimates come in for restoration.
(I turned off the breaker for the kitchen immediately after taking this video.)
(I turned off the breaker for the kitchen immediately after taking this video.)
November 5, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Upstairs’s water heater pooped the bed, hull-integrity-wise, meaning the forecast for my kitchen is rainshowers and a high of $$$ to $$$$, I’m assuming, once the estimates come in for restoration.
(I turned off the breaker for the kitchen immediately after taking this video.)
(I turned off the breaker for the kitchen immediately after taking this video.)