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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 5h

Men would rather collapse a government than go to therapy

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Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social · 7h

We’re in this weird period in which everyone is afraid of people that almost everyone despises

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Witkoff tries to praise Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, but has a hard time finishing his thought because of booing

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 7h

Cool. Have fun with that then. Can’t imagine all the people who will suffer under their jack boots will agree with you, but why would you care about that.

Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 7h

And what should you care about embarrassing yourself in public. I have a feeling you’ve done it a lot of times before and here you still are, as insipid, clueless, and self-humiliating as ever.

Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 7h

Look I get it, admitting you fucked up is hard. Much easier just to brazen your way through it. All it means is everyone else knows you’re doing it.”, that you’re too weak to take responsibility for stuff and that you are a shill for Trump and authoritarianism.

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 7h

You don’t know how long you’ve lived in San Francisco? You don’t understand that someone who doesn’t live here and instead in a far more dangerous place doesn’t get to lecture us about policing?

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Emilie Dufour, ælle 🌸 🏳️‍⚧️ MD @emiliedufour.bsky.social · 12h

RFK's paralogical thinking is a masterful example. To be shown to students in psychiatry and medical schools. @turban.bsky.social @chasetmanderson.bsky.social @apapsychiatric.bsky.social @kathaschmack.bsky.social @aaas.org

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 8h

I’ve been here eighteen years. How long have you lived here?

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 8h

In the meantime, keep our city’s name out of your shitty mouth.

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 8h

In the meantime, again, San Francisco has high *shoplifting* and comparatively low violent crime to - 60th or below out of all US cities.

Denver by the way is in the mid-twenties. Your city is FAR more violent than San Francisco. You want troops in your cities, fine. Go ask for them.

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 8h

(1) Trump has been putting troops into cities to intimidate them. No one in those cities wants them because they hurt minorities, undocumented people, protestors and the homeless.
(2) Benioff said he should do it to SF.
(3) If you agree with him, you agree with (1) above.

Is that clear enough?

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 8h

Scott, I’m going to suggest you put down your phone, turn off Fox News and go and see the coverage of what they’ve been doing in other US cities. And when you’ve done that work, there will be a very short test and then we’ll listen to you (by then) informed opinions.

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 8h

THAT IS WHO THESE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ROUNDING UP, displacing and locking up. Them, migrants and non-white American citizens who protest. Have you not been reading the fucking news?!

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 8h

If you can’t understand that you’re not only completely detached from the reality our lives but you’re pretty self evidently also not enormously bright.

a man wearing glasses and a suit says oh jesus christ

ALT: a man wearing glasses and a suit says oh jesus christ

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 8h

I think if you’re a sane human being you know that these troops are being sent to intimidate and threaten vulnerable people. And if you’re *asking* that to happen so you don’t have to hire security guards for your event, you’re wildly detached from reality, putting others at risk, and it’s bad.

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 8h

If you don’t like homeless people that’s your business. We’d rather they were looked after but the rest of America isn’t fucking doing it. And if you come to SF and feel like people are breaking traffic laws, argue for more traffic police. Don’t send fucking soldiers to scare the shit out of people.

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 8h

I live there. Literally none of us want the fucking National Guard walking around our streets with ICE holding guns and arresting our neighbors. It wouldn’t make us feel more safe. Armed soldiers with guns do not make us feel more safe.

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 8h

Literally only a straight, white man who has never felt threatened by the police could say half of the crap you’ve said in this thread. And only someone who hasn’t been reading any of the news would think Trump’s intent in sending troops into cities that don’t want them is to “help”.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 10h

Would be a good time to shut down Dreamforce. If I have friends who are still speaking there, this is a good reason to cancel.

Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 1d

Marc Benioff went full Tom Cotton to @heatherknightsf.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 8h

It’s going to be some bullshit time travel or multiverse thing isn’t it. Or Twins! I bet it’s twins!

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 8h

Why would he be in it? He’s literally dead guys. Sheesh.

The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · 16h

Jim Caviezel will not return to play Jesus Christ for director Mel Gibson‘s forthcoming follow-ups to the smash hit The Passion of the Christ, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

Jim Caviezel Won’t Return as Jesus for Mel Gibson’s ‘Resurrection of the Christ’

Jim Caviezel will not return to play Jesus Christ for director Mel Gibson‘s forthcoming follow-ups to the smash hit The Passion of the Christ, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 9h

Yeah but *all* the programs in the previous films were also basically humans. Like your weather app on your phone, in this metaphor, is a human that a laser could turn into a fully human being. I find this… troubling if not explored and interesting if explored.

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 9h

Also real human intelligence translated into a machine probably doesn’t *need* lungs. It could be simply simulated on hardware. Doesn’t work as well if you got an FTP program or instant messenger and used a laser to form it into a fleshy human being.

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 9h

Of course it isn’t. But the more time you spend in it, the more it “not being that kind of movie” becomes a problem. Eventually if you keep stretching the very lightly sketched metaphorical universe to its edges, it starts to fail!

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 9h

The relationship then between the virtual world and the real world and ethics and sentience and ISOs etc. becomes more interesting and relevant. It would feel like it has something to say. As it stands it’s just adventures in wildly stretched metaphor land with little to no stakes.

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