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“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.” - Philip K. Dick

“Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.” - Bertrand Russell
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Actually, Bari, I think you should explain why "trust in the mainstream news organization and the legacy press" is "at historic lows" and spell out what news sources you think people retreat to "that protect them from conflicting narratives". I think your explanation would be...edifying.
partial quote of Bari's speech: "with trust in the mainstream news organization and the legacy press at historic lows- and it's not hard to understand why- many people have retreated to news sources that protect them from conflicting narratives. I don't need to name them. you know who they are.
January 27, 2026 at 5:42 PM
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ChatGPT this week: it can exclude future past dates!
reply from ChatGPT saying, "let me know: if you want me to exclude future dates (like 2025-07-11)?
December 13, 2025 at 7:13 PM
eliserothberg.bsky.social
Comic describing the BS Asymmetry Principle, also known as Brandolini's Law, states that it takes significantly more effort to debunk misinformation than it does to create it. This highlights the challenges in addressing the spread of false information in society. Two stick figures interact in three panels. First panel: figure 1 says: Wait! I bet the moon's made of cheese (under panel is "Effort: I" in green) Second panel: figure 2 replies: Well, spectrographic analysis and orbit calculations suggest not. Plus we built a rocket, took people there, and they couldn't eat it. (under panel is "Effort: IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII" in red) Third panel: figure 1 says: .... Hm, yeah... I'm still thinking cheese.
September 29, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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"In the wake of recent comments and decisions by Disney/ABC executives, our family has decided to suspend our Disney+ account indefinitely. I refuse to pay for state-run media, which is now what you are. Congratulations- you caved to fascists. You are terrible people and I hope you get everything you deserve. You should have never suspended Jimmy Kimmel for simply stating a truth, even if you don't agree with it. He made jokes- it's not like he incited a riot (but you're all okay with that- you've bowed down to the buffoon that caused it). Oh- and I was asked to tell you you you're "a bag of dicks" and I can't disagree."
September 19, 2025 at 8:35 PM
eliserothberg.bsky.social
Ooh- the NY Post! Bastion of truth! Purveyor of fair and balanced reporting!

How about let's take a slightly less cherry-picked look at those messages...

This is according to FOX News (also absolutely not a lefty source) www.fox32chicago.com/news/message...
What do the messages mean? Dig Deeper: "Notices, bulges, OwO what's this?" – This is a Gen Z phrase used in the "furry community." The OwO is meant to mimic a wide-eyed face emoji. "Hey fascist! Catch!" – This appears to be a reference to the Helldivers 2 video game. The arrows are the sequence of controller moves that allows the player to drop bombs. "Oh Bella, ciao, bella, ciao Bella ciao ciao ciao." – "Bella Ciao" is an Italian folk song and anti-fascist resistance anthem. AI edits of Trump singing it have been widely shared on social media. "If you read this, you are gay LMAO" – Conspiracy videos accusing Trump and his allies of being secretly gay have also been shared on TikTok.
September 12, 2025 at 9:40 PM
eliserothberg.bsky.social
"Do it with the confidence of a mediocre white man" printed in colored letters on a red background
September 12, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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This sums it up pretty perfectly. Also see Murc's Law.
post by Leah V. @LeahVredenbregt Nancy Mace's very first words to reporters on Charlie Kirk was "democrats own what happened today" When @ryanobles followed up about if that means Republicans "own" the shooting of Minnesota lawmakers she says "are you kidding me?"
September 11, 2025 at 1:39 AM
eliserothberg.bsky.social
So Trump’s wearing the same clothes as yesterday?
Caption; “Donald Trump loads into the motorcade at the White House on August 32, 2025 as he heads to trump national gold course in Sterling, Virginia”. He’s wearing a white hat that has a logo that ends in A a white shirt and a dark windbreaker- exactly like he’s wearing in a photo supposedly from Sept 1.
September 1, 2025 at 10:14 PM
eliserothberg.bsky.social
A "a controversial turn"?? Are you fucking kidding me Women's Health??

Please do downplay into non-existence the blatant stupidity and racism of yet another mediocre TV personality with no political experience- great idea!
headline: "Apple News+ Editor's Pick Jillian Michales was once the most famous trainer on TV. Now she's taken a controversial turn. Read in Women's Health."
August 26, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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Another favorite from today’s very crowded, very energetic (but peaceful) #NoKings protest.
Woman holding sign saying “More pride less prejudice “
June 14, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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One of my favorite signs from today’s (extremely well attended) #NoKings protest in Culver City
Man holding up sign that says, “It’s so bad even the introverts are protesting”
June 14, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Culver City #NoKings
June 14, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Culver City. City Hall 10:59 am
June 14, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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“LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell has drawn a distinction between protesters and masked "anarchists" who, he said, were bent on exploiting the state of unrest to vandalize property and attack police….”
“LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell has drawn a distinction between protesters and masked "anarchists" who, he said, were bent on exploiting the state of unrest to vandalize property and attack police. "When I look at the people who are out there doing the violence, that's not the people that we see here in the day who are out there legitimately exercising their 1st Amendment rights," McDonnell said Sunday. "These are people who are all hooded up — they've got a hoodie on, they've got face masks on." “
June 10, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Not all dems.
Screenshot of skeet of Bernie Sanders talking about trumps overreach and list for power.
June 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
eliserothberg.bsky.social
There’s always an Ayn Rand quote.
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals one makes them…. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Reardon, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with.” ― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
June 10, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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'"The bullet track produced a 2 cm wide wound that extended down to the cartilaginous surface of the ear," Ronny Jackson wrote in a memo, "the wound is beginning to granulate and heal properly."'
Still from this Colbert clip showing Trump's ear with absolutely no damage.
May 15, 2025 at 4:47 PM
eliserothberg.bsky.social
#Iceland is one of the most gorgeous places on Earth.
View of green mountains and cloudy sky from inside an ice cave in Iceland
May 9, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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From DataUSA. datausa.io/profile/univ...
"University of Toledo is a higher education institution located in Lucas County, OH. In 2022, the most popular Bachelors Degree concentrations at University of Toledo were Registered Nursing (277 degrees awarded), General Marketing & Marketing Management (185 degrees), and Mechanical Engineering (164 degrees). In 2022, 4,541 degrees were awarded across all undergraduate and graduate programs at University of Toledo. 54.2% of these degrees were awarded to women, and 45.8% awarded men. The most common race/ethnicity group of degree recipients was white (3,047 degrees), 9.18 times more than then the next closest race/ethnicity group, black or african american (332 degrees)."
April 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
eliserothberg.bsky.social
great juxtaposition here
two skeets in a row: first has a headline, "Tesla paid zero federal income tax in 2024, despite $2.3 billion in Income". the second: "Man's asthma inhaler cost went from $66 to $539, then he died"
February 1, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Quote from Steven Weinberg, American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics: "With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion."
January 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Since the right loves them some Ayn Rand:
“Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator. A mystic craves obedience from men, not their agreement. He wants them to surrender their consciousness to his assertions, his edicts, his wishes, his whims—as his consciousness is surrendered to theirs. He wants to deal with men by means of faith and force—he finds no satisfaction in their consent if he must earn it by means of facts and reason. Reason is the enemy he dreads and, simultaneously, considers precarious; reason, to him, is a means of deception; he feels that men possess some power more potent than reason—and only their causeless belief or their forced obedience can give him a sense of security, a proof that he has gained control of the mystic endowment he lacked. His lust is to command, not to convince: conviction requires an act of independence and rests on the absolute of an objective reality. What he seeks is power over reality and over men’s means of perceiving it, their mind, the power to interpose his will between existence and consciousness, as if, by agreeing to fake the reality he orders them to fake, men would, in fact, create it.” ― Ayn Rand
January 16, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Not what normally come to mind when one thinks of Arizona. #photography from the car
View from the car of grey sky, snow-covered trees and spindly fence in Arizona.
November 20, 2024 at 9:38 PM
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Moving car #photography Can’t take a bad picture in Iceland.
Sky with setting sun and clouds streaking up the sky in a v shape in Iceland
November 17, 2024 at 7:11 PM
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Ice cave in Iceland
Ice cave in Iceland, blue and white ice walls and ceiling, black sand floor, light coming in from an entrance on the right
November 14, 2024 at 11:39 PM