The Gurgling Cod (he/him)
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JBF IRL. (Jonathan Beecher Field) The Internet's only early Americanist. Acting Dean of Weird Kids. Uncle. Assistant SID, PTKU. Early American settler colonialism, charcuterie, stonemasonry, mutts.
JBF IRL. (Jonathan Beecher Field) The Internet's only early Americanist. Acting Dean of Weird Kids. Uncle. Assistant SID, PTKU. Early American settler colonialism, charcuterie, stonemasonry, mutts.
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1) Drop a donation in any amount to a diaper fund.
2) Dm me your address. I don't want screenshot or amount.
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Choose your fighter
February 12, 2026 at 2:04 AM
Choose your fighter
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Someone create a photo gallery of midwesterners in pajamas and robes telling the paramilitary troops to eat shit
Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones.
Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.
Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.
February 12, 2026 at 12:52 AM
Someone create a photo gallery of midwesterners in pajamas and robes telling the paramilitary troops to eat shit
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NBC Sports has two men who were busted for sexual harassment, Mike Tirico and Shaun White, all over the Olympics, but fired Gabriella Papadakis over calling out her ex-partner as abusive. He just won gold, btw. 🙄
Gabriella Papadakis says she lost NBC Olympic job over book
Olympic ice dance champion Gabriella Papadakis says she lost her commentary role with NBC at the upcoming Winter Olympics because of her former skating partner's response to revelations in her new boo...
www.espn.com
February 12, 2026 at 12:20 AM
NBC Sports has two men who were busted for sexual harassment, Mike Tirico and Shaun White, all over the Olympics, but fired Gabriella Papadakis over calling out her ex-partner as abusive. He just won gold, btw. 🙄
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I find it hard to imagine a post-fascist US with either of the existing parties in its current form. Both a pandering attitude to xenophobia (more or less selective in its targets) and a reflexive fetishization of militarized policing (more or less tempered by demands for “training”) are bipartisan
Many analogies made btw resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act & popular resistance to ICE. One analogy not often made is that it literally took the creation of a new political party to get the “opposition” to stop compromising w the slavocracy
February 12, 2026 at 1:04 AM
I find it hard to imagine a post-fascist US with either of the existing parties in its current form. Both a pandering attitude to xenophobia (more or less selective in its targets) and a reflexive fetishization of militarized policing (more or less tempered by demands for “training”) are bipartisan
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Just take a look at this and remember, Pam Bondi's concern here was not with any of the victims of these crimes but with the nosy Democrats who actually gave a shit about them.
February 12, 2026 at 12:38 AM
Just take a look at this and remember, Pam Bondi's concern here was not with any of the victims of these crimes but with the nosy Democrats who actually gave a shit about them.
I did not do a full dive, but what he lists as publication on his website are PDFs with no clear publication outlet.
Curious about my man's credentials for sure.
And having Gee talk about leadership is like having Typhoid Mary drop a keynote at the CDC
And having Gee talk about leadership is like having Typhoid Mary drop a keynote at the CDC
February 11, 2026 at 11:57 PM
I did not do a full dive, but what he lists as publication on his website are PDFs with no clear publication outlet.
I’m going to use this as a grade if I have to
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
February 11, 2026 at 11:33 PM
I’m going to use this as a grade if I have to
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To be clear: "A.i." is not going to live up to the "hype" of actually replacing good human work. Its purpose is to destroy our expectations of quality and value and accept ever-increasing enshittification, immiseration, and death in order to increase the wealth of billionaires.
February 11, 2026 at 11:27 PM
To be clear: "A.i." is not going to live up to the "hype" of actually replacing good human work. Its purpose is to destroy our expectations of quality and value and accept ever-increasing enshittification, immiseration, and death in order to increase the wealth of billionaires.
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Legal status doesn’t matter: if you exceed ICE’s melanin threshold, you get snatched. It is ethnic cleansing. There is no other word for it.
The news has shown you video of these often violent detentions. What you don’t see is what happens to these individuals after.
I’ve had a front row seat.
7/
The news has shown you video of these often violent detentions. What you don’t see is what happens to these individuals after.
I’ve had a front row seat.
7/
February 11, 2026 at 9:56 PM
Legal status doesn’t matter: if you exceed ICE’s melanin threshold, you get snatched. It is ethnic cleansing. There is no other word for it.
The news has shown you video of these often violent detentions. What you don’t see is what happens to these individuals after.
I’ve had a front row seat.
7/
The news has shown you video of these often violent detentions. What you don’t see is what happens to these individuals after.
I’ve had a front row seat.
7/
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I love learning about free speech from Columbia the school most famous for having cops beat and arrest its own students for noticing a genocide.
Very excited about this new @knightcolumbia.org project, both because it gives us the chance to look beyond the current democratic crisis and because so many super people have already agreed to participate. knightcolumbia.org/content/new-...
New Knight Institute Initiative to Focus on “Reconstructing Free Expression” After Trump
knightcolumbia.org
February 11, 2026 at 10:00 PM
I love learning about free speech from Columbia the school most famous for having cops beat and arrest its own students for noticing a genocide.
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My girl is just FIRE! 🔥 She makes me hate this state a little less.
I hope she meets that bitch in the schoolyard at recess! 😏
I hope she meets that bitch in the schoolyard at recess! 😏
Jasmine Crockett Goes Off on Pam Bondi
YouTube video by electron media group, inc.
youtu.be
February 11, 2026 at 10:08 PM
My girl is just FIRE! 🔥 She makes me hate this state a little less.
I hope she meets that bitch in the schoolyard at recess! 😏
I hope she meets that bitch in the schoolyard at recess! 😏
I am confident that this entire process happened without a human being’s involvement
I am suddenly an Instagram jail for this post from November 2024 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I have never felt more like a sex worker in my life.
February 11, 2026 at 10:09 PM
I am confident that this entire process happened without a human being’s involvement
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People on Reddit are getting Amazon to refund their Ring products because of their partnership with Flock and that creepy Super Bowl ad
www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...
www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...
February 10, 2026 at 9:55 AM
People on Reddit are getting Amazon to refund their Ring products because of their partnership with Flock and that creepy Super Bowl ad
www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...
www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...
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Had a fantastic time hectoring everyone about AI last night! Someone sent me this photo they snapped, and I like it very much.
February 11, 2026 at 9:51 PM
Had a fantastic time hectoring everyone about AI last night! Someone sent me this photo they snapped, and I like it very much.
I am suddenly an Instagram jail for this post from November 2024 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I have never felt more like a sex worker in my life.
February 11, 2026 at 9:15 PM
I am suddenly an Instagram jail for this post from November 2024 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I have never felt more like a sex worker in my life.
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SHE REMOVED THEIR WEDDING PHOTO LMAOOOOOO
Oh she HATED his guts
Oh she HATED his guts
February 11, 2026 at 3:40 AM
SHE REMOVED THEIR WEDDING PHOTO LMAOOOOOO
Oh she HATED his guts
Oh she HATED his guts
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VImportant thread about how the state broadening the definition of "pornography" is intended as a weapon against the LGBTQIAP+ and Black and Brown communities.
I obviously don't advocate giving kids sexually explicit materials. But "bodies/sex/sensuality/queerness exist" isn't inherently explicit.
I obviously don't advocate giving kids sexually explicit materials. But "bodies/sex/sensuality/queerness exist" isn't inherently explicit.
When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as “pornography,” people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict “pornography” and what that actually means
February 10, 2026 at 7:05 PM
VImportant thread about how the state broadening the definition of "pornography" is intended as a weapon against the LGBTQIAP+ and Black and Brown communities.
I obviously don't advocate giving kids sexually explicit materials. But "bodies/sex/sensuality/queerness exist" isn't inherently explicit.
I obviously don't advocate giving kids sexually explicit materials. But "bodies/sex/sensuality/queerness exist" isn't inherently explicit.
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The way she fucking smirks when Rep. Balint is talking about losing her grandfather in the Holocaust
BONDI: You didn't ask Merrick Garland anything about Epstein
BALINT: Weak sauce
BONDI: And with this antisemitic culture right now, she voted against a resolution--
BALINT: You want to go there! Really? Talking about antisemitism to a woman who lost her grandfather in the Holocaust! *storms off*
BALINT: Weak sauce
BONDI: And with this antisemitic culture right now, she voted against a resolution--
BALINT: You want to go there! Really? Talking about antisemitism to a woman who lost her grandfather in the Holocaust! *storms off*
February 11, 2026 at 7:54 PM
The way she fucking smirks when Rep. Balint is talking about losing her grandfather in the Holocaust
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I can't think of an attorney general ever showing this much open contempt for Congress before.
Not only would most of them think this kind of conduct was beneath them, they'd have known that the Judiciary Committee chair, whatever the party, would never stand for clownish antics like this.
Not only would most of them think this kind of conduct was beneath them, they'd have known that the Judiciary Committee chair, whatever the party, would never stand for clownish antics like this.
Bondi is now just straight up ignoring questions from Democratic members
February 11, 2026 at 7:56 PM
I can't think of an attorney general ever showing this much open contempt for Congress before.
Not only would most of them think this kind of conduct was beneath them, they'd have known that the Judiciary Committee chair, whatever the party, would never stand for clownish antics like this.
Not only would most of them think this kind of conduct was beneath them, they'd have known that the Judiciary Committee chair, whatever the party, would never stand for clownish antics like this.
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Trump and his minions keep insisting that domestic terrorism is strictly a left-wing phenomenon, so of course they have found ways to depict far-right violence as a product of 'Antifa' and leftist organizing--while blurring the line between protest and terrorism.
open.substack.com/pub/davidnei...
open.substack.com/pub/davidnei...
February 11, 2026 at 7:58 PM
Trump and his minions keep insisting that domestic terrorism is strictly a left-wing phenomenon, so of course they have found ways to depict far-right violence as a product of 'Antifa' and leftist organizing--while blurring the line between protest and terrorism.
open.substack.com/pub/davidnei...
open.substack.com/pub/davidnei...
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Ah another one of his, "If we don't measure reality, reality will not happen" specials.
February 11, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Ah another one of his, "If we don't measure reality, reality will not happen" specials.
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Pam Bondi will *inevitably* be tossed under the bus by her pedophile boss, and each day she gets closer to being disposed of like trash.
And, she knows. It must eat at her, knowing she has about as much hope of making it out of this alive and unscathed as a Joe Pesci character.
And, she knows. It must eat at her, knowing she has about as much hope of making it out of this alive and unscathed as a Joe Pesci character.
February 11, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Pam Bondi will *inevitably* be tossed under the bus by her pedophile boss, and each day she gets closer to being disposed of like trash.
And, she knows. It must eat at her, knowing she has about as much hope of making it out of this alive and unscathed as a Joe Pesci character.
And, she knows. It must eat at her, knowing she has about as much hope of making it out of this alive and unscathed as a Joe Pesci character.
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And you know this, I'm preaching to the choir here, but we zagged and went aggressively against AI and have grown enormously, responsibly, and sustainably, while every company I know that started dicking around with it is in serious trouble. This is our industry-specific, but it is a data point.
February 11, 2026 at 7:45 PM
And you know this, I'm preaching to the choir here, but we zagged and went aggressively against AI and have grown enormously, responsibly, and sustainably, while every company I know that started dicking around with it is in serious trouble. This is our industry-specific, but it is a data point.