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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 5d

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

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Andy Waddington @thewaddingtons.com · 8d

The US census asks if you are White and suggest English as an origin

Question 9
What is Person 1's race?
Mark one or more boxes AND print origins.
White- Print, for example, German, Irish, English, Italian, Lebanese, Egyptian, etc

Andy Waddington @thewaddingtons.com · 12d

A good premise, unfortunately: "Croke Park the fourth-largest stadium in Europe, and the largest not usually used for association football in Europe."

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Andy Waddington @thewaddingtons.com · 17d

At the start of this is he explaining that the reason why they don't separate out the vaccines is because it is "inconvenient" to go back every year?

As if the AAP doesn't recommend 3 months then 6 month visits before recommending annual visits after age 3. 15 visits by age 5.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17d

Trump: "It's too much liquid. Too many different things are going into that baby at too big a number. The size of this thing when you look at it. It's like 80 different vaccines and beyond vaccines."

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 19d

Why does it take a BRITISH newspaper to break a story like this? Where the hell is the American media? 🤨

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Andy Waddington @thewaddingtons.com · 18d

It's when they're carrying multiple burner phones for arbitrage that you've got problems!

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 20d

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion.

Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

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Andy Waddington @thewaddingtons.com · 19d

This seems like a very important question with clear consequences.

I can't decide if he probably did because he knew he was in the clear for the bribery/fraud or he didn't because he thought he'd get away with it entirely.

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 21d

Dutch late night TV has its take

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Andy Waddington @thewaddingtons.com · 22d

Is this exploit *only* on 2G?

So the "cat and mouse game" is already solved for Android with the 2G connectivity toggle except people need to be told to change the default?

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Andy Waddington @thewaddingtons.com · 25d

That sky cam photo suggests the problem there wasn't speed but someone who caused a crash because they were in the left lane for Bartlesville exit and they tried to force their way into the 244 lane?

I see people doing crazy things to avoid going the wrong way all the time.

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Andy Waddington @thewaddingtons.com · 26d

They are in danger, they know they're in danger and the threats work

Trump:
“I have this piece of glass here. But all we have really over here is the fake news, right? And to get me, somebody would have to shoot through the fake news. And I don’t mind that so much. I don’t mind.”

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Andy Waddington @thewaddingtons.com · Sep 10

That link explains who likely drew the cartoon.

Andy Waddington @thewaddingtons.com · Sep 10

I am assuming the Island? The number on the cartoon plane is his "Lolita express" 727

www.primetimer.com/news/who-is-...

Who is Joel Pashcow? Epstein birthday book allegedly included joke about selling a “fully depreciated” woman to Trump

Joel Pashcow apparently joked about an alleged deal between Epstein and Trump in his birthday note

www.primetimer.com

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · Sep 8

This is a paragraph Brett Kavanaugh wrote on his little computer and then sent out into the world:

Moreover, as for stops of those individuals who are legally in the country, the questioning in those circumstances is typically brief, and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U.S. citizens or otherwise legally in the United States.

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Andy Waddington @thewaddingtons.com · Sep 6

This appears to be confirmation of something that has been suspected for a long time.

bsky.app/profile/josh...

There's a big difference between Trump knowing for years that Epstein was abusing girls and keeping silent until he could exploit that information and whatever Johnson splutters here.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · Sep 6

So I’m pretty sure I remember this right. But in one of those interviews I believe Michael Wolf said that Epstein suspected Trump of dropping a dime on him to the authorities. They got in a dispute over a real estate deal. That was their falling out. Trump was trying to buy an estate that …

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 5

in which Mike Johnson claims that Donald Trump was an FBI informant to take down Epstein

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Stan Kelly @kartoonistkelly.bsky.social · Sep 5

Now you C-D-See it, now you don't.
@theonion.com

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Andy Waddington @thewaddingtons.com · Sep 5

When he said "clean it up" did anyone ask him who is covering the cost of that?

Andy Waddington @thewaddingtons.com · Sep 5

Looking forward to the photos of OHP Troopers clearing debris after they move the people. Or is Stitt going to call in the National Guard to do the cleanup?

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Andy Waddington @thewaddingtons.com · Sep 3

I've always assumed that the State hasn't stepped in to clear State property because they refuse to put any money in the budget to pay for that. Was there another group responsible for the State's property all this time?

Or is Stitt just saying that he's going to find some money to pay for it now?

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Andy Waddington @thewaddingtons.com · Sep 2

They've moved from lying for Trump's ego "healthiest President ever"*

To lying to us "shakes more hands than any President ever"*

I'm pretty sure that means his health is deteriorating. That might be a story if a WH journalist thinks the president's health is of interest.

* Paraphrased quotes

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Andy Waddington @thewaddingtons.com · Aug 31

Doubled up on "them." also. Which is not a mistake I'd ever expect a human to make when writing 🤷‍♂️

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Andy Waddington @thewaddingtons.com · Aug 28

There are approx 150,000,000 people eligible to be President and the NY Times has put all this effort into making an infographic to show the impact of one "special" American doing whatever he wants and then the rules being reapplied.

Very on brand.

Andy Waddington @thewaddingtons.com · Aug 28

2. to keep vaccines available to people who want them, especially...

"especially" does not mean excluding the preceding group.

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Andy Waddington @thewaddingtons.com · Aug 26

youtu.be/ptz4wNHSyhE

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