Michael DuVernois
@duvernois.bsky.social
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Ah yes, Noam Chomsky with Epstein. Denying genocides? Discussing child rapes? Doing socialism on the billionaire plane flight to rape island? Manufacturing consent?
December 19, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Ah yes, Noam Chomsky with Epstein. Denying genocides? Discussing child rapes? Doing socialism on the billionaire plane flight to rape island? Manufacturing consent?
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Pete Hegseth’s requirement that his “warfighters” use generative AI to “outpace our adversaries” and achieve victory is off to a great start.
December 11, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Pete Hegseth’s requirement that his “warfighters” use generative AI to “outpace our adversaries” and achieve victory is off to a great start.
Does the US have an opposition party? Asking for a friend.
November 10, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Does the US have an opposition party? Asking for a friend.
Tulips are pretty at least
"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."
America is now one big bet on AI
It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy
www.ft.com
October 6, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Tulips are pretty at least
Where do these people come from? Absolute aliens. Kentucky Fried French Fries? This is the opposition leader?
CHUCK SCHUMER: "New data came out today from KFF - and that is not Kentucky Fried French Fries ... the Kaiser Family Foundation"
October 5, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Where do these people come from? Absolute aliens. Kentucky Fried French Fries? This is the opposition leader?
Editor's note: they will do nothing to stop him.
if i were a would-be dictator whose only civilian check on power had been consumed by total-complete partisan loyalty, something i would definitely do is call an unprecedented in-person meeting of the only people who could stop me and then proceed to illustrate why they should stop me
September 30, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Editor's note: they will do nothing to stop him.
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![Comic. [Two people hiking up mountain] PERSON 1: Okay, we’re nearing the next downhill segment I’ll put in the order. ...Confirming start and end points… Submitted! [water slide being dropped from above by drones] PERSON 2 with long hair: Look, here it comes! [Waterslide positioned on downhill slope of mountain with both people riding down] BOTH: Wheeee [Waterslide carried back into the air] [Both people continuing to hike up next slope] [caption] On-demand waterslide delivery has really improved the whole hiking experience.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreidm63b6uwkz3637hw7j676gmfr7goembontcnk3vq4dakkqbfvg7a@jpeg)
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When I have to randomly put a bunch of dots on a map, I too copy paste clusters and rotate them around to make it look like they are actually different
September 6, 2025 at 3:23 AM
When I have to randomly put a bunch of dots on a map, I too copy paste clusters and rotate them around to make it look like they are actually different
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I know a lot of these folks didn't sign up to be at the vanguard of resisting American fascism, but sorry, that's your job now
if you can't do the job give it to someone who can
if you can't do the job give it to someone who can
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is on her way to Martha’s Vineyard, @nbcwashington.com reports
August 14, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I know a lot of these folks didn't sign up to be at the vanguard of resisting American fascism, but sorry, that's your job now
if you can't do the job give it to someone who can
if you can't do the job give it to someone who can
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Well I guess some things have changed since Umberto Eco wrote this in 1995
July 27, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Well I guess some things have changed since Umberto Eco wrote this in 1995
Today I learned two things about the Union Carbide Bhopal accident. We never did figure out how the water got into the chemical storage tank to cause the reaction and mass death. And the public relations lead for the chemical company later was Hillary Clinton's campaign lead. What a weird world.
August 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Today I learned two things about the Union Carbide Bhopal accident. We never did figure out how the water got into the chemical storage tank to cause the reaction and mass death. And the public relations lead for the chemical company later was Hillary Clinton's campaign lead. What a weird world.
Lots of folks know about his connection to Bill Gates, Steve Bannon, the Pope, Lawrence Krauss, Noam Chomsky, and Woody Allen. But I want to know more about that photo with Fidel Castro! The Austrian passport! Was this intel op strictly private, just with the Russians, maybe the Saudis? Coincidences
A glimpse inside Epstein’s townhouse helps answer some of the mysteries surrounding the sex offender. He used the space as a stage to show off, and further amass, the rich and powerful.
As Ehud Barak glowingly wrote, he was a collector of people.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/u...
As Ehud Barak glowingly wrote, he was a collector of people.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/u...
A Look Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan Lair
www.nytimes.com
August 6, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Lots of folks know about his connection to Bill Gates, Steve Bannon, the Pope, Lawrence Krauss, Noam Chomsky, and Woody Allen. But I want to know more about that photo with Fidel Castro! The Austrian passport! Was this intel op strictly private, just with the Russians, maybe the Saudis? Coincidences
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New START, which replaced START I and is the last remaining bilateral treaty putting any legal and verifiable constraints on the US and Russian nuclear arsenals, expires in less than seven months.
OTD 15 years ago, President Barack Obama and President Dmitry Medvedev signed the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty in Prague, Czech Republic. New START—which expires on February 5, 2026—limits each country to 1,550 deployed strategic warheads and a combined total of 700 ICBMs, SLBMs, and bombers.
July 31, 2025 at 4:07 PM
New START, which replaced START I and is the last remaining bilateral treaty putting any legal and verifiable constraints on the US and Russian nuclear arsenals, expires in less than seven months.
Use this to keep them straight:
July 29, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Use this to keep them straight:
So the Qataris fund Hamas, fund a boatload of anti-semitic propaganda in the west, couldn't find anyone to buy this plane, so bribed Trump with it, and most of a $1B from an unrelated fund to refurbish it for AF1 or Trump's personal use? The corruption seeps into every little corner.
ICYMI: The Air Force’s Sentinel ICBM is so significantly behind schedule and vastly over budget the Department of Defense thought nothing of secretly transferring $934,000,000 out of the program to cover the cost of refurbishing and modifying Trump’s “free” Qatari 747-8 jet into a new Air Force One.
What Will It Cost to Renovate the ‘Free’ Air Force One? Don’t Ask.
www.nytimes.com
July 29, 2025 at 1:46 AM
So the Qataris fund Hamas, fund a boatload of anti-semitic propaganda in the west, couldn't find anyone to buy this plane, so bribed Trump with it, and most of a $1B from an unrelated fund to refurbish it for AF1 or Trump's personal use? The corruption seeps into every little corner.
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Tom was a prodigy who skipped grades to enter Harvard University as a freshman at 15. Below is the final stanza of “Dissertation on Education,” the poem he wrote and submitted around 1943 with his successful college application.
Drafted into the Army in 1955, Tom worked at the NSA for two years.
Drafted into the Army in 1955, Tom worked at the NSA for two years.
April 9, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Tom was a prodigy who skipped grades to enter Harvard University as a freshman at 15. Below is the final stanza of “Dissertation on Education,” the poem he wrote and submitted around 1943 with his successful college application.
Drafted into the Army in 1955, Tom worked at the NSA for two years.
Drafted into the Army in 1955, Tom worked at the NSA for two years.
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A genius has passed away. youtu.be/QEJ9HrZq7Ro?...
Tom Lehrer - Wernher von Braun
YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel
youtu.be
July 27, 2025 at 5:38 PM
A genius has passed away. youtu.be/QEJ9HrZq7Ro?...
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My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.
July 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.
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Happy birthday to Raymond Chandler, inventor of Google
(Legitimately love this attempted mockery of science fiction. I'd easily read a novel or series in this style.)
(Legitimately love this attempted mockery of science fiction. I'd easily read a novel or series in this style.)
July 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Happy birthday to Raymond Chandler, inventor of Google
(Legitimately love this attempted mockery of science fiction. I'd easily read a novel or series in this style.)
(Legitimately love this attempted mockery of science fiction. I'd easily read a novel or series in this style.)
The B61-12 is the dial-a-yield, deep penetrating version. Set to the minimum 300 ton yield, this would be the next step up in bombs for something like Fordo. Though obviously moving these around is very different than using one. Am assuming this is a spoken threat to the Iranian nuclear program.
Multiple indicators—including the flight of a specialized C-17A Globemaster III from Kirtland AFB, New Mexico, last Thursday—strongly suggest that US nuclear weapons, specifically the new B61-12 gravity bomb, have been redeployed to RAF Lakenheath in the United Kingdom for the first time since 2008.
US nuclear weapons ‘on UK soil’ for first time in 17 years
Flight from New Mexico to RAF Lakenheath believed to have dropped off B61 nuclear bombs that can be carried by Britain’s new F-35A fighter jets
www.thetimes.com
July 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
The B61-12 is the dial-a-yield, deep penetrating version. Set to the minimum 300 ton yield, this would be the next step up in bombs for something like Fordo. Though obviously moving these around is very different than using one. Am assuming this is a spoken threat to the Iranian nuclear program.
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![Comic. The Most-Observed Animal and Plant in Each State on iNaturalist. (Not the most common species in the state, just the one people have reported the most times.) [labeled map of the US] WA: Mallard/Western Sword Fern. OR: Mule Deer/Western Ponderosa Pine. CA: Western Fence Lizard/California Poppy. HI: Green Sea Turtle/‘Ōhi’a Lehua. ID: Mallard/Big Sagebrush. NV: Common Side-Blotched Lizard/Creosote Bush. MT: White-Tailed Deer/Common Yarrow. WY: American Bison/Sticky Geranium. UT: Mule Deer/Utah Juniper. AZ: Ornate Tree Lizard/Saguaro. CO: Mule Deer/Great Mullein. NM: Mule Deer/Creosote Bush. AK: Moose/Fireweed. ND: American Bison/Prairie Rose. SD: American Bison/Hoary Vervain. NE: American Robin/Common Milkweed. KS: Ornate Box Turtle/Amur Honeysuckle. OK: Pond Slider/Eastern Redcedar. TX: Northern Cardinal/Pinladies. MN, WI, IL: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Common Milkweed. IA, MI: White-Tailed Deer/Common Milkweed. MO: Brown-Belted Bumble Bee/Amur Honeysuckle. AR: Three-toed Box Turtle/Chinese Privet. LA: Green Anole/Baldcypress. IN: American Robin/Amur Honeysuckle. OH: Eastern Pondhawk/Virginia Springbeauty. KY: Common Box Turtle/Amur Honeysuckle. TN: American Robin/Christmas Fern. MS: Northern Cardinal/Pale Pitcher Plant. AL: Gulf Fritillary/American Sweetgum. GA: Green Anole/American Sweetgum. FL: Brown Anole/White Beggarticks. NY: Eastern Gray Squirrel/White Snakeroot. PA: White-Tailed Deer/Garlic Mustard. WV: White-Tailed Deer/Great Rhododendron. VA: White-Tailed Deer/Eastern Poison Ivy. MD: White-Tailed Deer/Wineberry. DE: Fowler’s Toad/American Pokeweed. NC: Eastern Gray Squirrel/Christmas Fern. SC: Northern Cardinal/American Sweetgum. NJ: Spotted Lanternfly/Common Mugwort. VT: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Eastern White Pine. NH: White-Tailed Deer/Eastern White Pine. MA: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Eastern White Pine. CT: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Striped Wintergreen. RI: American Herring Gull. ME: American Herring Gull/Canadian Bunchberry.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreic4f56ywseq7bqc7zza3y76pxyzn5c5htebrior6jdbrfszhuiquy@jpeg)
July 22, 2025 at 7:52 PM
My rule of thumb for Gaza protestors has been whether they were also protesting the Assad regime slaughtering a half million or not. The ongoing genocide of the Druze provides another chance to see if people protesting against Israel are principled or if their only principle is hatred of Jews.
July 19, 2025 at 9:41 PM
My rule of thumb for Gaza protestors has been whether they were also protesting the Assad regime slaughtering a half million or not. The ongoing genocide of the Druze provides another chance to see if people protesting against Israel are principled or if their only principle is hatred of Jews.
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I for one would like to stop being trapped in a Matt Groening panel from 1996
July 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I for one would like to stop being trapped in a Matt Groening panel from 1996
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🥚 The fact that international adoptees—many of whom were stolen, sold, and trafficked by Christian agencies for adoption by Christian white people—are now targeted for deportation as adults should cause the U.S. Supreme Court to spontaneously combust from shame.
www.visaverge.com/immigration/...
www.visaverge.com/immigration/...
Minnesotan Adopted from India Faces Citizenship Proof Challenges
In 2025, Astrid-Ira McCarthy, adopted from India, discovered missing naturalization documents while applying for a passport. Many international adoptees adopted before 2000 face similar challenges pro...
www.visaverge.com
July 15, 2025 at 2:15 PM
🥚 The fact that international adoptees—many of whom were stolen, sold, and trafficked by Christian agencies for adoption by Christian white people—are now targeted for deportation as adults should cause the U.S. Supreme Court to spontaneously combust from shame.
www.visaverge.com/immigration/...
www.visaverge.com/immigration/...
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Now THAT's a cease and desist letter
July 14, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Now THAT's a cease and desist letter