Kyle Smith
@cgistar.bsky.social
Boring security nerd, ancient tech hoarder, new tech explorer. Spend most of my time wrangling kids, playing video games, and trying to get outside. he/him
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Nothing says good morning like a cat jumping on your bladder
August 8, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Nothing says good morning like a cat jumping on your bladder
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If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
June 22, 2025 at 2:47 AM
If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
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Tariffs.
Stock market down.
Medicaid slashed
Secret police throwing anyone who looks Latino in unmarked vans.
National guard and marines deployed in LA.
No end to the wars in Gaza or Ukraine
Bombing Iran
This is the worst first six months of any presidential term in my lifetime.
Stock market down.
Medicaid slashed
Secret police throwing anyone who looks Latino in unmarked vans.
National guard and marines deployed in LA.
No end to the wars in Gaza or Ukraine
Bombing Iran
This is the worst first six months of any presidential term in my lifetime.
June 22, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Tariffs.
Stock market down.
Medicaid slashed
Secret police throwing anyone who looks Latino in unmarked vans.
National guard and marines deployed in LA.
No end to the wars in Gaza or Ukraine
Bombing Iran
This is the worst first six months of any presidential term in my lifetime.
Stock market down.
Medicaid slashed
Secret police throwing anyone who looks Latino in unmarked vans.
National guard and marines deployed in LA.
No end to the wars in Gaza or Ukraine
Bombing Iran
This is the worst first six months of any presidential term in my lifetime.
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The Peace Candidate.
June 22, 2025 at 12:13 AM
The Peace Candidate.
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•US Intel confirmed Iran has 0 nukes
•Iran never attacked USA
•Iran offered to revive nuclear deal
•Iran is a signature to NPT
•Iran allows full IAEA inspections
And ALL notwithstanding
•Trump had no approval from Congress
Trump has violated his Oath. If Congress had a spine they’d impeach him
•Iran never attacked USA
•Iran offered to revive nuclear deal
•Iran is a signature to NPT
•Iran allows full IAEA inspections
And ALL notwithstanding
•Trump had no approval from Congress
Trump has violated his Oath. If Congress had a spine they’d impeach him
June 22, 2025 at 12:21 AM
•US Intel confirmed Iran has 0 nukes
•Iran never attacked USA
•Iran offered to revive nuclear deal
•Iran is a signature to NPT
•Iran allows full IAEA inspections
And ALL notwithstanding
•Trump had no approval from Congress
Trump has violated his Oath. If Congress had a spine they’d impeach him
•Iran never attacked USA
•Iran offered to revive nuclear deal
•Iran is a signature to NPT
•Iran allows full IAEA inspections
And ALL notwithstanding
•Trump had no approval from Congress
Trump has violated his Oath. If Congress had a spine they’d impeach him
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I always think of this 2018 oral history of Stephen Miller’s high school years, in which almost all his peers remember him as loathsome, racist, oppositional, inaccurate, and constantly playing the victim card lamag.com/politics/ste...
Trump Advisor Stephen Miller Has Always Been This Way
From "virtual loner" to the White House: An oral history of Stephen Miller's days at Santa Monica High
lamag.com
June 8, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I always think of this 2018 oral history of Stephen Miller’s high school years, in which almost all his peers remember him as loathsome, racist, oppositional, inaccurate, and constantly playing the victim card lamag.com/politics/ste...
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Americas starter Pokémon
April 27, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Americas starter Pokémon
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old Soviet joke for our times:
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
March 3, 2025 at 12:54 AM
old Soviet joke for our times:
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
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Pam Bondi is disbanding the Foreign Influence Task Force - the FBI team that is charged with combatting foreign meddling in US elections.
Worth asking how this makes us more safe in any way, shape, or form.
Worth asking how this makes us more safe in any way, shape, or form.
February 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Pam Bondi is disbanding the Foreign Influence Task Force - the FBI team that is charged with combatting foreign meddling in US elections.
Worth asking how this makes us more safe in any way, shape, or form.
Worth asking how this makes us more safe in any way, shape, or form.
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Thou shalt accept that DEI didn't hold your career back -- you're just mid, bro.
January 23, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Thou shalt accept that DEI didn't hold your career back -- you're just mid, bro.
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The Eaton fires destroyed a youth care facility my friend worked at. They had no time to pack, and everything is lost.
Please help support them if you can. These children and teen were ALREADY vulnerable before the fires.
www.gofundme.com/f/provide-ai...
Please help support them if you can. These children and teen were ALREADY vulnerable before the fires.
www.gofundme.com/f/provide-ai...
Donate to Provide Aid to support youth Displaced by Fire, organized by Hwesu Cobb-Phillips
As a member of Bourne Family Services, our organization and members… Hwesu Cobb-Phillips needs your support for Provide Aid to support youth Displaced by Fire
www.gofundme.com
January 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
The Eaton fires destroyed a youth care facility my friend worked at. They had no time to pack, and everything is lost.
Please help support them if you can. These children and teen were ALREADY vulnerable before the fires.
www.gofundme.com/f/provide-ai...
Please help support them if you can. These children and teen were ALREADY vulnerable before the fires.
www.gofundme.com/f/provide-ai...
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I want to watch TV coverage of the live fall of the Syrian regime.
CNN is airing a Giuliani documentary, Fox News has a comedian joking about Canada, MSNBC a documentary about migrants
So I turned on BBC,which is breathlessly switching between Syria, South Korea demonstrations, and Ghana election
CNN is airing a Giuliani documentary, Fox News has a comedian joking about Canada, MSNBC a documentary about migrants
So I turned on BBC,which is breathlessly switching between Syria, South Korea demonstrations, and Ghana election
December 8, 2024 at 3:21 AM
I want to watch TV coverage of the live fall of the Syrian regime.
CNN is airing a Giuliani documentary, Fox News has a comedian joking about Canada, MSNBC a documentary about migrants
So I turned on BBC,which is breathlessly switching between Syria, South Korea demonstrations, and Ghana election
CNN is airing a Giuliani documentary, Fox News has a comedian joking about Canada, MSNBC a documentary about migrants
So I turned on BBC,which is breathlessly switching between Syria, South Korea demonstrations, and Ghana election
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Why the crypto industry backed Trump: because the crypto oligarchs want billions of dollars from the US government
@chrislhayes.bsky.social has the best explanation of this story I have seen
youtu.be/qWANiC28M8o?...
@chrislhayes.bsky.social has the best explanation of this story I have seen
youtu.be/qWANiC28M8o?...
‘Enormous heist’: Hayes on the ‘audacious scheme’ to reward big donors
YouTube video by MSNBC
youtu.be
December 7, 2024 at 5:01 AM
Why the crypto industry backed Trump: because the crypto oligarchs want billions of dollars from the US government
@chrislhayes.bsky.social has the best explanation of this story I have seen
youtu.be/qWANiC28M8o?...
@chrislhayes.bsky.social has the best explanation of this story I have seen
youtu.be/qWANiC28M8o?...
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i’m gonna just watch this at least once a day and i recommend everyone do the same
November 6, 2024 at 11:00 AM
i’m gonna just watch this at least once a day and i recommend everyone do the same
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“I’ll stop drinking if you let me run the Pentagon” is maybe the most alcoholic thing anyone has ever said
December 5, 2024 at 2:38 AM
“I’ll stop drinking if you let me run the Pentagon” is maybe the most alcoholic thing anyone has ever said
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You could just block the account itself, but it's funnier when you subscribe to a list that's just Chris Cillizza and block that instead.
November 28, 2024 at 9:48 PM
You could just block the account itself, but it's funnier when you subscribe to a list that's just Chris Cillizza and block that instead.
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Louder, for the people in the back:
I don't fight because I'm sure I'm going to win. I do it because I know that a world in which I don't fight will be worse.
I don't fight because I'm sure I'm going to win. I do it because I know that a world in which I don't fight will be worse.
November 26, 2024 at 1:01 AM
Louder, for the people in the back:
I don't fight because I'm sure I'm going to win. I do it because I know that a world in which I don't fight will be worse.
I don't fight because I'm sure I'm going to win. I do it because I know that a world in which I don't fight will be worse.
So tired of seeing screenshots of fascists and grifters so people can dunk on them. You are still giving their messages air. Folks see it and go look at their account and some stick around.
November 26, 2024 at 6:25 AM
So tired of seeing screenshots of fascists and grifters so people can dunk on them. You are still giving their messages air. Folks see it and go look at their account and some stick around.
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Suing Kendrick for having a superior diss track is something Kendrick would say Drake does in a diss track
November 25, 2024 at 10:22 PM
Suing Kendrick for having a superior diss track is something Kendrick would say Drake does in a diss track
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The main thing I’m noticing in the new surge of people (hi! I hope you have a better time here!) is that a lot of them can no longer tell a smart person making a joke, even in the most venerable meme forms, from a person with a completely melted brain saying the dumbest/meanest thing.
November 24, 2024 at 8:56 PM
The main thing I’m noticing in the new surge of people (hi! I hope you have a better time here!) is that a lot of them can no longer tell a smart person making a joke, even in the most venerable meme forms, from a person with a completely melted brain saying the dumbest/meanest thing.
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Pretty much every serious photographer here tries to capture photos of the volcano and the northern lights together. Sometimes, they succeed quite well ;) Photos from Wioleta Gorecka, taken near Reykjanesvíti.
November 23, 2024 at 12:38 PM
Pretty much every serious photographer here tries to capture photos of the volcano and the northern lights together. Sometimes, they succeed quite well ;) Photos from Wioleta Gorecka, taken near Reykjanesvíti.
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If you could tell your Congressional rep not to vote for a bill that would give the Trump administration the power to revoke non-profit status from any org they don't like...say...EFF, for example, I would appreciate it.
act.eff.org/action/tell-...
act.eff.org/action/tell-...
Tell Congress Not To Weaponize The Treasury Department Against Nonprofits
A dangerous bill that gives broad and easily abused new powers to the executive branch would allow the Secretary of Treasury to strip a U.S. nonprofit of its tax-exempt status. Nonprofits would not ha...
act.eff.org
November 17, 2024 at 6:27 PM
If you could tell your Congressional rep not to vote for a bill that would give the Trump administration the power to revoke non-profit status from any org they don't like...say...EFF, for example, I would appreciate it.
act.eff.org/action/tell-...
act.eff.org/action/tell-...
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Y’all, I truly do love you. But “Harris did [insert hobbyhorse here] wrong” is a truly unhinged reaction to what just happened. This country voluntarily elected a fascist.
November 6, 2024 at 1:33 PM
Y’all, I truly do love you. But “Harris did [insert hobbyhorse here] wrong” is a truly unhinged reaction to what just happened. This country voluntarily elected a fascist.
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As OpenAI and Meta introduce LLM-driven searchbots, I'd like to once again remind people that neither LLMs nor chatbots are good technology for information access.
A thread, with links:
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A thread, with links:
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November 4, 2024 at 3:12 AM
As OpenAI and Meta introduce LLM-driven searchbots, I'd like to once again remind people that neither LLMs nor chatbots are good technology for information access.
A thread, with links:
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A thread, with links:
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SHELVE YOUR GLAIVE, TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE DESPAIR. AND YOU WILL WIN.
November 5, 2024 at 7:20 AM
SHELVE YOUR GLAIVE, TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE DESPAIR. AND YOU WILL WIN.