Tom Buttry
@tsbuttry.bsky.social
Royals, Chiefs, Marquette fan. Board game and cocktail enthusiast. NGO advocacy in the streets, snarky progressive politics in the skeets. Thoughts are my own.
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Any and all of the predictable laments about two G5 teams in the Playoff HAS TO INCLUDE acknowledgement of the ACC being inept. Blame the ACC. Blame the conference commissioners who built this format.
Don't blame JMU and Tulane, who took care of business and cleared the bar. This is not on them.
Don't blame JMU and Tulane, who took care of business and cleared the bar. This is not on them.
why are we bashing jmu and tulane when the acc was a trash heap that should’ve been no-bid
December 7, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Any and all of the predictable laments about two G5 teams in the Playoff HAS TO INCLUDE acknowledgement of the ACC being inept. Blame the ACC. Blame the conference commissioners who built this format.
Don't blame JMU and Tulane, who took care of business and cleared the bar. This is not on them.
Don't blame JMU and Tulane, who took care of business and cleared the bar. This is not on them.
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We need to develop an understanding that climate denial is first and foremost ideological and not driven by the supposed ‘non-ideology’ of rational self-interest/greed
“The Daily Nebraskan found in the leaked spreadsheet that every program eliminated appeared to be profitable…every program that the chancellor proposed eliminating generated more money from tuition dollars than the department costs to run”
December 7, 2025 at 5:08 PM
We need to develop an understanding that climate denial is first and foremost ideological and not driven by the supposed ‘non-ideology’ of rational self-interest/greed
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If you call it a “male immaturity epidemic,” a very different set of phenomena come into focus, as this thread shows
I'm starting to wonder how much "the male loneliness epidemic" is just straight and bisexual women identifying low-effort, mean, and incompetent men and choosing not to date, marry, and tolerate them anymore
December 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
If you call it a “male immaturity epidemic,” a very different set of phenomena come into focus, as this thread shows
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I really hate hearing folks declare that art isn’t as good nowadays. Cultural production is always happening at a more or less constant rate. Distribution and preservation have stagnated but art continues.
December 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I really hate hearing folks declare that art isn’t as good nowadays. Cultural production is always happening at a more or less constant rate. Distribution and preservation have stagnated but art continues.
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You can’t have democracy if you don’t have accountability. That’s the entire point of the damn system.
December 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
You can’t have democracy if you don’t have accountability. That’s the entire point of the damn system.
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Who has made this 🤣
December 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Who has made this 🤣
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December 6, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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December 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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looking forward to either a 6-3 decision that trump as God Emperor of the United States can change the constitution by fiat or a 5-4 decision that 14th amendment means what it says with a dissent from thomas that actually the constitution recognizes donald j. trump as sovereign
*SUPREME COURT TO REVIEW TRUMP’S BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP ROLLBACK
December 5, 2025 at 6:57 PM
looking forward to either a 6-3 decision that trump as God Emperor of the United States can change the constitution by fiat or a 5-4 decision that 14th amendment means what it says with a dissent from thomas that actually the constitution recognizes donald j. trump as sovereign
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since we're doing USPS discourse again, a reminder of what Dems should be saying
"the USPS is a miracle. it's in the constitution. for the price of a single stamp you can send a letter across the country, from Hawaii to Maine. Trump is trying to take that away from you. He's attacking Christmas cards and wedding invitations. It's un-American and it has to stop."
December 5, 2025 at 2:10 PM
since we're doing USPS discourse again, a reminder of what Dems should be saying
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As a Supreme Court justice, my job is to call balls and strikes. Specifically in the style of Angel Hernandez and Doug Eddings.
by John Roberts
by John Roberts
December 5, 2025 at 2:30 PM
As a Supreme Court justice, my job is to call balls and strikes. Specifically in the style of Angel Hernandez and Doug Eddings.
by John Roberts
by John Roberts
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ME: they shouldn't be able to say 'your order has shipped' when they've just created a label. That's not shipped.
ISAAC CHOTINER: so, you've never claimed to have a task underway when you've merely opened the file?
ME: that's not-
CHOTINER: in this Teams message to your boss, you said-
ISAAC CHOTINER: so, you've never claimed to have a task underway when you've merely opened the file?
ME: that's not-
CHOTINER: in this Teams message to your boss, you said-
December 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
ME: they shouldn't be able to say 'your order has shipped' when they've just created a label. That's not shipped.
ISAAC CHOTINER: so, you've never claimed to have a task underway when you've merely opened the file?
ME: that's not-
CHOTINER: in this Teams message to your boss, you said-
ISAAC CHOTINER: so, you've never claimed to have a task underway when you've merely opened the file?
ME: that's not-
CHOTINER: in this Teams message to your boss, you said-
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An American journalist helped facilitate RFK Jr's ingratiation into Trump's world and kept secret disqualifying information on him that could have kept him out of major policy, which impacts millions of people.
Kennedy's zombie ACIP panel just voted to restrict hepatitis B vaccine for newborns. Experts say it will harm children for no reason. www.ms.now/news/rfk-cdc...
ACIP member Dr. Cody Meissner:
"'Do no harm' is a moral imperative. We are doing harm by changing this wording. And I vote no."
ACIP member Dr. Cody Meissner:
"'Do no harm' is a moral imperative. We are doing harm by changing this wording. And I vote no."
RFK Jr.’s CDC panel: No more hepatitis B vaccine for some newborns
The CDC's vaccine advisory panel, stocked with anti-vaccine activists and loyalists to RFK Jr., voted Friday to stop recommending a birth dose of vaccine.
www.ms.now
December 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
An American journalist helped facilitate RFK Jr's ingratiation into Trump's world and kept secret disqualifying information on him that could have kept him out of major policy, which impacts millions of people.
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It may sound radical, but if one guy has so much wealth and power that he can use the large newspaper he owns to publicly threaten to ruin a service we all rely on, presumably as a bargaining tactic to get lower rates, we probably need to tax that guy until he can't do that anymore.
Exclusive: Amazon has long been USPS’s top customer, providing over $6 billion in annual revenue in 2025.
But Amazon may give up its long-standing partnership with USPS to deliver packages itself, which could spell disaster for the mail agency.
But Amazon may give up its long-standing partnership with USPS to deliver packages itself, which could spell disaster for the mail agency.
Amazon explores cutting ties with USPS, building its own delivery network
Amazon looks into expanding its nationwide delivery network and giving up its longstanding partnership with the U.S. Postal Service.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
It may sound radical, but if one guy has so much wealth and power that he can use the large newspaper he owns to publicly threaten to ruin a service we all rely on, presumably as a bargaining tactic to get lower rates, we probably need to tax that guy until he can't do that anymore.
Today in the death of irony...
If I were a Member of Congress, I'd actively push a rider that as long as his name's on the building, there should be a 24/7 projection of the double tap strike directly beneath it.
If I were a Member of Congress, I'd actively push a rider that as long as his name's on the building, there should be a 24/7 projection of the double tap strike directly beneath it.
Donald Trump wants to be recognized as a peacemaker.
His deputies obliged today by putting his name on the headquarters of the U.S. Institute of Peace, an agency that DOGE tried to kill.
The new name — the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace — "adds insult to injury," said a lawyer for USIP staff.
His deputies obliged today by putting his name on the headquarters of the U.S. Institute of Peace, an agency that DOGE tried to kill.
The new name — the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace — "adds insult to injury," said a lawyer for USIP staff.
Building gets a new name: The ‘Donald J. Trump’ Institute of Peace
The change comes as Trump’s administration has touted his peace deals and ahead of a signing of a deal between the leaders from Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo this week.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Today in the death of irony...
If I were a Member of Congress, I'd actively push a rider that as long as his name's on the building, there should be a 24/7 projection of the double tap strike directly beneath it.
If I were a Member of Congress, I'd actively push a rider that as long as his name's on the building, there should be a 24/7 projection of the double tap strike directly beneath it.
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One of my most conservative-coded opinions is that one of the reasons we're in this mess is because of the profound decadence, solipsism, moral rot, and general lack of personal virtue afflicting much of the upper PMC / bourgeoisie.
December 4, 2025 at 6:08 PM
One of my most conservative-coded opinions is that one of the reasons we're in this mess is because of the profound decadence, solipsism, moral rot, and general lack of personal virtue afflicting much of the upper PMC / bourgeoisie.
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A lot of suicide attempts, especially among young people, are impulsive, which means that throwing up even temporary obstacles can save lives. It's not true that everyone who gets advice on how to kill themselves from an LLM would have figured it out anyway. These tools are causing avoidable deaths.
I am a suicide attempt survivor so I’m kind of selfishly interested in prevention and, again, while it may difficult to completely prevent IDEATION, what ChatGPT does (despite guardrails!) is *cheerlead and facilitate* completion. You can come back from ideation but not a chat-optimized completion.
This is not true. This is argument that pro-gun people use to discount red flag and waiting period laws. Ease of access and lethality (let alone cheerful instruction in the best method!) is the #1 predictor of attempts leading actual completion. The more barriers, the more people live.
December 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
A lot of suicide attempts, especially among young people, are impulsive, which means that throwing up even temporary obstacles can save lives. It's not true that everyone who gets advice on how to kill themselves from an LLM would have figured it out anyway. These tools are causing avoidable deaths.
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Are your non-white US citizen loved ones carrying their passport as an every day routine? That's the country we live in now.
December 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Are your non-white US citizen loved ones carrying their passport as an every day routine? That's the country we live in now.
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the ozone hole is closing, thanks to 90s-era internationally-negotiated rules that would get laughed out of a White House meeting today
it is MIRACULOUS that we got rid of lead paint and asbestos when we did. if we had tried that today, there would be people whining about how we're restricting their rights.
Bring back residential-use lead paint, you cowards.
December 4, 2025 at 2:33 PM
the ozone hole is closing, thanks to 90s-era internationally-negotiated rules that would get laughed out of a White House meeting today
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Wonder how many years we have left of unleaded gasoline before there's a movement to put the lead back in
December 3, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Wonder how many years we have left of unleaded gasoline before there's a movement to put the lead back in
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I think part of What's Going On with billionaires is that the daily friction of interacting with normal people is part of what anchors people to the real world, and once you have enough money to buy your way out of the friction you can knock down a load-bearing column propping up your sanity.
December 3, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I think part of What's Going On with billionaires is that the daily friction of interacting with normal people is part of what anchors people to the real world, and once you have enough money to buy your way out of the friction you can knock down a load-bearing column propping up your sanity.