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Murshed Zaheed

@murshedz.bsky.social

This is art. 🤗

Sharing an excerpt of facebook screenshot of Amanda Gailey:

As someone who uses Signal every day, I need to explain how totally committed to being an absolute dumbass multiple people had to be in order for this security leak to happen.
Okay, so in Signal if you want to talk to multiple people you have to create a group and give it a name, for example "JD Vance Humps His Couch." You then add people from your contacts to the group. If you are a competent user of Signal, you can then restrict the permissions so that only designated admins can add people. If you are an absolute dipshit whose only job qualification is pwning the libs on Twitter, you would create a group about war plans and not know about or activate this functionality.
If you are in a group and are allowed to add members, either because you are an admin or because the admin was raised on lead paint milkshakes, you then must do the following to add someone:
Click on "JD Vance Humps His Couch"
Scroll down to "Add Members."
Select one or more people from your phone's contact list.
Click "Update"
Confirm that yes, you want to add that member.
This is impossible to do accidentally.
Then, once you have gone through the multi-step process of adding a member, an announcement appears on the screen for literally everyone in the group to see: "JD Vance Has Added Chairry to the Group." This sentence is a line in a single-stream text thread and if anyone is reading their messages they cannot miss it. (If they are not reading their messages, one might wonder why they have been included on the chat to begin with.)
At this point, anyone can say in the chat or privately, Hey JD, why are you adding the bedroom-eyed plush chair from Pee-Wee's Playhouse to our chat about your upholstery problem?
Yet nobody in the war bro chat said a thing about the new member added to the group.

March 26, 2025 at 12:42 AM

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Kevin M. Kruse

@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

"Patriotism is supporting your country all of the time and your government when it deserves it."

Hashnaif @hashnaif.bsky.social · Mar 26

Twain was suspicious of populism, jingoism, imperialism, the money obsessed mania of the Gilded Age, and any expression of mindless American might or self-importance. Above all Twain was a patriot in the best sense of the word.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr8q...

Excerpt from Conan O'Brien's Mark Twain Prize Acceptance Speech

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March 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM

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Nicole Tersigni

@nicsigni.bsky.social

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

March 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM