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thekindlyman.bsky.social
@thekindlyman.bsky.social
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I was Hodorific back on the Xitter but that name was taken over here. Here's hoping this place has fewer Nazis than the old one...
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richardkadrey.bsky.social
My friend Nancy recused an awesome stray cat, but it needed some significant vet care and the bills are piling up. If you could throw even a little cash Nancy's way, you'd be helping both her and the kitty a lot. Please repost this. Thanks.
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Donate to Help OB the Stray Cat Heal and Find a Home, organized by Nancy Collins
Hi, my name is Nancy A. Collins. Some of you might know me as a novelist and … Nancy Collins needs your support for Help OB the Stray Cat Heal and Find a Home
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November 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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athul.acharya.cc
Just one of the many ways in which being an above-replacement-level lawyer means knowing what arguments not to make
gerritd.bsky.social Gerrit De Vynck @gerritd.bsky.social · 6h
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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mcopelov.bsky.social
Today in life under competitive authoritarianism

More textbook stuff
November 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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grudgie.bsky.social
I say it every day but every day there’s a Trump scandal that would be the biggest scandal for like 43 Presidents that swallows the entire term. Every. Single. Day.
November 25, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
I do appreciate that they've completely dropped the pretense.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 24, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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brandonfriedman.bsky.social
The folks at @afghanevac.bsky.social have in hand a new USCIS directive which largely targets Afghan refugees who fled the Taliban in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal in 2021.

In case you needed a reminder that the most loathsome people in the world work for DHS.
USCIS Refugee Memo – Summary of Key Provisions Effective immediately, USCIS is ordering: ● A total freeze on all pending Form I-485 applications filed by refugees admitted from Jan 20, 2021 – Feb 20, 2025 ● A mandatory re-interview of all principal refugees admitted during that period ● A review and potential re-interview of derivative refugees, including spouses, children, and follow-to-join beneficiaries ● A reassessment of whether each refugee met the definition at the time of admission Authority being invoked: ● INA § 101(a)(42) (refugee definition) ● INA § 207 and § 209 (termination and adjustment authority) ● USCIS asserts power to undo past refugee admissions Consequences: ● USCIS may terminate refugee status for principals and all derivatives ● USCIS may deny green cards, even for those who already have them ● There is no appeal of a denied refugee-based I-485; the only option is to contest removal in immigration court ● Refugees placed in removal proceedings may renew their I-485 claim before an immigration judge Additional conditions: ● USCIS has 90 days to create the priority list for who will be re-interviewed ● The freeze on I-485s remains until lifted in a future memo ● Only the USCIS Director or Deputy Director may authorize exceptions ● USCIS is explicitly framing this as correcting “expediency,” “quantity over quality,” and “vulnerabilities” in Biden-era adjudications ● The memo states USCIS will revisit all inadmissibility grounds, including those previously waived ● The memo highlights a review of the persecutor bar ● It asserts a need to ensure refugees “pose no threat to national security or public safety”
November 25, 2025 at 2:34 AM
thekindlyman.bsky.social
Swear to god I thought this was an @theonion.com article based on that headline and snort laughed, then saw the source, and now I just want to walk into the sea. What a miserable effing world.
November 25, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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energy9086.bsky.social
Republicans: “mission accomplished!”
November 25, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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charles.littlegreenfootballs.com
i’m not crying you’re crying

xkcd: Fifteen Years

Fifteen Years
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November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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murshedz.bsky.social
👀 NEW CBS poll: Seven in 10 Americans (including over half of Republicans!) say they would oppose the US taking military action inside Venezuela.

These numbers couldn’t be more emphatic against Trump and Rubio’a dumb and dangerous adventure around Venezuela:

www.cbsnews.com/news/poll-ve...
CBS “Three in four Americans also say Trump would need congressional approval before taking military action in Venezuela, including just over half of Republicans.”
November 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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adapalmer.bsky.social
A 35-day deep-sea expedition in the Southern Ocean has uncovered 30 new species: from a carnivorous “death-ball” sponge to iridescent armoured worms, black corals and even the first-ever live footage of a colossal squid in its natural habitat. buff.ly/9uVWJvN
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Armored worms and death-ball sponges among array of life newly documented from the deep sea
In the darkness of the deep ocean, where pressure crushes and light fails, an expedition has found an astonishing array of life, including a carnivorous “death-ball” sponge (from the genus…
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November 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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esqueer.net
They're offloading all the debt onto special purpose vehicles (SPV) that are legally distinct entities propped up by promises from meta for decades of demand in compute. The banks take all the risk, Nvidia gets the equity and revenue, Meta gets the stock bump without the downside.
justinhendrix.bsky.social Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 1d
"It seems like a marvel of financial engineering: Meta is building a $27 billion data center in Louisiana, financed with debt, and neither the data center nor the debt will be on its own balance sheet."
AI Meets Aggressive Accounting at Meta’s Gigantic New Data Center
Favorable treatment off the balance sheet hinges on some convenient assumptions.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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scalzi.com
"Men are in trouble, is the solution making them a problem for women and children too"
November 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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lizzieohreally.bsky.social
Listen to me: if you are thinking of deep frying a turkey, I want you to go on YouTube right now and learn from those mistakes.

Then I want you to buy a level. And a fire extinguisher. And review high school physics. And your insurance policies.

Best of luck.
November 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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maxberger.bsky.social
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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robertscotthorton.bsky.social
"US senators say they spoke with Rubio about Trump’s Ukraine peace plan who denied it is a US plan." Welcome to the Topsy Turvy administration in which six or seven people are pursuing their own private foreign policy, and much of it is scripted by a hostile foreign power.
US senators say they spoke with Rubio about Trump’s Ukraine peace plan who denied it is a US plan
U.S. senators critical of President Donald Trump’s approach to ending the Russia-Ukraine war say they spoke with U.S.
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November 23, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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drpopcultureusa.bsky.social
PHOTO TAKEN NOV 22, 1963 - HOW PRESIDENT KENNEDY LEFT THE OVAL OFFICE
November 22, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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tomfreeman.bsky.social
If the Republican position is "Republicans should get away with committing crimes in public office" and the Democrat position is "Republicans should get away with committing crimes in public office" then the result will be that Republicans keep getting away with committing crimes in public office
kevinmkruse.bsky.social Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d
There are going to be prominent Democrats and mainstream media voices who insist that we have to "turn the page" and "forgive and forget" and they should all be roundly ignored, if not mercilessly mocked.
maxberger.bsky.social Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 3d
It’s crazy to think about the crimes we’re going to learn about after this regime ends.

We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.

We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
November 22, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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animalphotorefs.bsky.social
GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.

Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
Exotic Animal Photo Reference Repository
www.animal-photo-references.com
January 27, 2025 at 9:45 AM
thekindlyman.bsky.social
PSA
booksofm.com Monica Valentinelli is riding to Isengard @booksofm.com · 5d
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."

There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 21, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
Maths Puzzles for Conspiracy Theorists.
One of the cartoons from my new book 'Physics for Cats'. In good bookshops now and online in English, French, German and Spanish editions.
Title: Maths puzzles for conspiracy theorists. 1. A train departs at 2pm Travelling at 40mph. The next train follows an hour later, travelling at 45 mph. Why are we still using trains when the government has hyper-speed ufo technology? 2. Susie brings eighteen Apples and twelve Oranges to school and divides them equally Between her six Friends. How many of these children are in the pay of big fruit? 3. When Tom was eight, his sister, anne, was half his age. Tom is now 48, so why does Anne just laugh at him when he patiently explains to her that the earth is flat? From 'Physics for Cats' by Tom Gauld - order it at www.tomgauld.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:20 AM
thekindlyman.bsky.social
Um, yes, that is the lesson of the Holocaust? We fight the oppressors, it's what you do if we have even a scrap of humanity.

I mean, what the hell? Was the real lesson "don't rock the boat if you're friends kick off a genocide?" Maybe she's a Cartman aficionado and it's "respect my authori-tay?"
jakemgrumbach.bsky.social Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 7d
I'm struck by this clip of former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz saying Holocaust education has backfired in part because people Palestinians as victims: "They think the lesson of the Holocaust is…you fight the big powerful people hurting the weak people."

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From the JewsOfConscience community on Reddit: Former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz speaking to the Jewish Federation and lamenting that young people are learning the wrong lessons from Holocaust e...
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November 21, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
i’m sure someone else has already put this together but fucking wild he called for members of congress to be hanged the same day the coast guard said a noose is no longer a hate symbol
November 21, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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riayn.bsky.social
For those of you in the UK, especially if you are a UK citizen, can you please take part in the consultation on changes to Indefinite Leave to Remain (Settlement) that were just proposed by the UK government. We need as many people as possible to reject these proposals. www.gov.uk/government/c...
Earned settlement
The government is consulting on how the current settlement system should be reformed and how those reforms should be implemented.
www.gov.uk
November 21, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.

I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
II. Credibility The Court next addresses the credibility of the parties’ evidence and witnesses. After reviewing all the evidence submitted to the Court and listening to the testimony elicited at the preliminary injunction hearing, during depositions, and in other court proceedings, the Court finds Defendants’ evidence simply not credible. [FN 6] Plaintiffs submitted a mountain of evidence, providing the Court with over eighty declarations, numerous videos and articles, and other evidence. Defendants did not rebut anything that Plaintiffs set forth in their declarations or testimony, even with BWC footage. [FN 6] In another case considering some of the same evidence presented to this Court, another court in this district also found that the perceptions of certain of Defendants’ declarants, such as Hott and Parra, were not reliable. See Illinois v. Trump, No. 25-cv-12174, 2025 WL 2886645, at *5 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 10, 2025) (noting a “troubling trend of Defendants’ declarants equating protests with riots and a lack of appreciation for the wide spectrum that exists between citizens who are observing, questioning, and criticizing their government, and those who are obstructing, assaulting, or doing violence”), motion to stay denied in part, 155 F.4th 929 (7th Cir. 2025).
November 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM