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Shawn Yarbrough
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izzos.us
We all know Clarke's "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"

Well we have corollary:
Image of Shax from Star Trek Lower Decks with the words "Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice"
December 12, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
Trump is sinking us in inflation and debt.
Tweet by Alex Cole stating that Republicans blamed Biden for eight years over the national debt, yet Trump has added $2.3 trillion in under a year, followed by a NewsWire headline reporting that the U.S. national debt has risen by $2.3 trillion since Trump took office.
December 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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elienyc.bsky.social
I can tell some of you people have never watched the WWF/WWE.

Elon is doing a classic “heel turn.” This builds tensions and keeps ratings high.

By Electomania 2028, liberals will try to tag Elon in, but he’ll refuse. Then, when Trump is about to be pinned, he’ll bit Dems with a steel chair.
June 5, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Can’t we all just get along?
June 3, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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drnereide.bsky.social
🧵
A unique celestial object, known as ASKAP J1832–0911, is capturing the attention of astronomers.

Discovered 15,000 ly from Earth, this enigmatic object, located in our galaxy, behaves in a way never seen before.

➡️ chandra.si.edu/press/25_rel...

Identified thanks to⤵️

🔭 🧪 #science #galactic
This composite image shows ASKAP J1832 in the context of a supernova remnant and nearby gas clouds. Radio data is red and X-ray sources seen with Chandra are in dark blue. The supernova remnant is the large, wispy, red oval ring occupying the lower right of the image. ASKAP J1832 sits inside this ring, to our right of center: a tiny purple speck in a sea of colorful specks. The gas cloud shows infrared data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and resembles a mottled green, teal blue, and golden orange cloud occupying our upper left half of the square image. A fine white circle identifies ASKAP J1832.
June 3, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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lissaharris.bsky.social
the sick thing is, we have an actual policy that was revitalizing US manufacturing without relying on the nimble hands of underpaid 10yo wastrels

it’s called the Inflation Reduction Act and they are shoving it into the wood chipper
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Apr 6
Lutnick: "The army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little screws to make iPhones -- that kind of thing is going to come to America."
April 6, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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mrsmisanthrope2.bsky.social
We can’t ban assault weapons because “bans don’t work”. Also, we’re banning tiktok.
January 18, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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spavel.bsky.social
Well this is grim
weird interaction with a student this week. they kept coming up with weird "facts" ("greek is actually a combination of four other languages") that left me baffled. i said let's look this stuff up together, and they said ok, i'll open a search bar, and they opened... ch*tgpt and i was like "this is not a search bar" and they were like "yes it is, you can search for anything in here" the thing that made me feel crazy is like. every kid that's using this as a browser is getting new BESPOKE false "facts." this isn't "a widespread misconception about X that stems from how it's taught in schools." each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine with the "widespread misconception about X" you can start at a baseline. like, ok, in tenth grade we all talk about X thing from history, and that leaves us with some misguided concepts about X, but we can correct that as students get broader understandings of the world but with this, each child is getting UNIQUE wrong facts they are SURE are correct... because they did what we told them to do! they "looked it up"! they got it from somewhere! it's not a kid making up a belief on hearsay and assumption... it's something they think they LEARNED this kid was extremely combative with me, and i understood why. i was sitting in front of him and telling him that the internet, a computer, technology, all these supposedly authoritative things... were wrong. and that i, one person, was right. he basically *couldn't* believe me. 8 135 3.8K 97K ... stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h he decided that i was simply a teacher who'd made a mistake. he could check it, after all! he could look it up! he could find the REAL facts. i obviously hadn't done that, i was just an adult who'd decided i was smarter than him. hence the defensiveness. like i said: i understood 5 760 3.2K 82K stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h ... it was so fucking rough. i did my best, but i am one person trying to work against a campaign of misinformation so vast that it fucking terrifies me. this kid is being set up for a life lived entirely inside the hall of mirrors
July 6, 2024 at 10:15 PM
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nameshiv.bsky.social
optimist: the cup is half full

pessimist: the cup is half empty

me: which one of you bastards drank half my coffee
November 24, 2024 at 12:00 PM