Icefire9
@icefire9atla.bsky.social
32M, progressive Democrat. Lover of science, work in the biomedical field.
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good piece on Waymo's self driving cars
we can reasonably begin to look at self driving as a potential public health breakthrough, Waymo cars are much better and safer drivers than people
the problem is the economics of the technology not the technology itself
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o...
we can reasonably begin to look at self driving as a potential public health breakthrough, Waymo cars are much better and safer drivers than people
the problem is the economics of the technology not the technology itself
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o...
December 2, 2025 at 11:58 AM
good piece on Waymo's self driving cars
we can reasonably begin to look at self driving as a potential public health breakthrough, Waymo cars are much better and safer drivers than people
the problem is the economics of the technology not the technology itself
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o...
we can reasonably begin to look at self driving as a potential public health breakthrough, Waymo cars are much better and safer drivers than people
the problem is the economics of the technology not the technology itself
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o...
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What discovering the germ theory of disease does to a society. Sanitation, hygiene, vaccines, and antibiotics.
December 2, 2025 at 12:57 PM
What discovering the germ theory of disease does to a society. Sanitation, hygiene, vaccines, and antibiotics.
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Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
December 2, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
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saw this photo just now on CNN’s year in pictures
such a perfect snapshot of America…two old white men who can’t even walk celebrating as they wreak havoc on the republic, knowing they won’t be around to suffer the consequences of their actions
such a perfect snapshot of America…two old white men who can’t even walk celebrating as they wreak havoc on the republic, knowing they won’t be around to suffer the consequences of their actions
Sen. Mitch McConnell and Sen. Jim Justice high five as they wheel by at the Senate subway elevator.
December 1, 2025 at 7:44 PM
saw this photo just now on CNN’s year in pictures
such a perfect snapshot of America…two old white men who can’t even walk celebrating as they wreak havoc on the republic, knowing they won’t be around to suffer the consequences of their actions
such a perfect snapshot of America…two old white men who can’t even walk celebrating as they wreak havoc on the republic, knowing they won’t be around to suffer the consequences of their actions
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yeah AI Ben Garrison is incredible
November 30, 2025 at 5:17 PM
yeah AI Ben Garrison is incredible
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19 year old freshman just wants to go home for Thanksgiving to see her family, she gets deported to Honduras.
Former President of Honduras who’s serving 45 years in prison for drug trafficking?
He gets a full presidential pardon.
Both are Honduran. Only one is a criminal.
Former President of Honduras who’s serving 45 years in prison for drug trafficking?
He gets a full presidential pardon.
Both are Honduran. Only one is a criminal.
November 29, 2025 at 8:27 PM
19 year old freshman just wants to go home for Thanksgiving to see her family, she gets deported to Honduras.
Former President of Honduras who’s serving 45 years in prison for drug trafficking?
He gets a full presidential pardon.
Both are Honduran. Only one is a criminal.
Former President of Honduras who’s serving 45 years in prison for drug trafficking?
He gets a full presidential pardon.
Both are Honduran. Only one is a criminal.
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Stephen Miller’s Wife @katiemiller : “Can you cite the statute that makes the boat bombings illegal?”
@bakarisellers.bsky.social : “The due process
clause in the constitution.”
@bakarisellers.bsky.social : “The due process
clause in the constitution.”
November 29, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Stephen Miller’s Wife @katiemiller : “Can you cite the statute that makes the boat bombings illegal?”
@bakarisellers.bsky.social : “The due process
clause in the constitution.”
@bakarisellers.bsky.social : “The due process
clause in the constitution.”
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Break them
Gallup poll | 11/3-11/25
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
November 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Break them
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This is so deeply at odds with the vision and history of America. Take pretty much any ethnic or racial group that are part of the American mosaic America today - they have all faced the same accusation. The moment these accusations are turned into policy are some of the most shameful in US history
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:58 PM
This is so deeply at odds with the vision and history of America. Take pretty much any ethnic or racial group that are part of the American mosaic America today - they have all faced the same accusation. The moment these accusations are turned into policy are some of the most shameful in US history
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This is fundamentally Nazism. The idea that different peoples than the favored races carry degradation in their very genes, that they cannot strive to become better because biology compels them to be worse. It’s not just repugnant, it’s a bald faced lie.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This is fundamentally Nazism. The idea that different peoples than the favored races carry degradation in their very genes, that they cannot strive to become better because biology compels them to be worse. It’s not just repugnant, it’s a bald faced lie.
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A roll of aluminum foil is maybe one of the most incredible things you will ever hold in your life. That was a creation for kings and you wrap it around food and throw it in the dumpster. You talk about planes as aluminum cans, as if both are not one of the most incredible creations in history.
November 27, 2025 at 5:50 PM
A roll of aluminum foil is maybe one of the most incredible things you will ever hold in your life. That was a creation for kings and you wrap it around food and throw it in the dumpster. You talk about planes as aluminum cans, as if both are not one of the most incredible creations in history.
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So many men go through life like that. You can play poker because it's right-coded, you can't enjoy fruity alcoholic drinks because they're women-coded, you can't lick an ice cream cone because it's gay-coded. All day, every day, choosing and judging things based on coding for narrow norms.
November 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
So many men go through life like that. You can play poker because it's right-coded, you can't enjoy fruity alcoholic drinks because they're women-coded, you can't lick an ice cream cone because it's gay-coded. All day, every day, choosing and judging things based on coding for narrow norms.
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ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
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We don't put serial scammers in prison for long enough. Nor do we catch them often enough.
The funny thing is that these guys are much more reliable recidivists than the typical drug addict or drunk driver.
The funny thing is that these guys are much more reliable recidivists than the typical drug addict or drunk driver.
My in-laws have a landline and they have already received 7 scam phone calls on it this morning.
The inability (or refusal; my largely ignorant assumption is that it’s a little of both) of government to do anything about this problem is maddening and corrosive.
The inability (or refusal; my largely ignorant assumption is that it’s a little of both) of government to do anything about this problem is maddening and corrosive.
November 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
We don't put serial scammers in prison for long enough. Nor do we catch them often enough.
The funny thing is that these guys are much more reliable recidivists than the typical drug addict or drunk driver.
The funny thing is that these guys are much more reliable recidivists than the typical drug addict or drunk driver.
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i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
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A socialist society is still going to need to answer practical questions of administration dependent on scarcity, and that includes forcing you, the worker, to get out of bed and go off to do your socially necessary job whether you like or find it fulfilling, or not.
November 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM
A socialist society is still going to need to answer practical questions of administration dependent on scarcity, and that includes forcing you, the worker, to get out of bed and go off to do your socially necessary job whether you like or find it fulfilling, or not.
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If you have a GOP rep and you’ve been holding off on contacting them because what difference will it make, you could be the reason the funniest thing happens
PUNCHBOWL: “.. GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term. Here’s one particularly exercised senior House Republican:
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November 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
If you have a GOP rep and you’ve been holding off on contacting them because what difference will it make, you could be the reason the funniest thing happens
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When Biden was elected they literally tried to overturn the election, by legal means and when that failed, by force. Then they spent the next four years gaslighting and justifying it, and pardoned everyone who was part of the attempt.
November 24, 2025 at 3:53 AM
When Biden was elected they literally tried to overturn the election, by legal means and when that failed, by force. Then they spent the next four years gaslighting and justifying it, and pardoned everyone who was part of the attempt.
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seen on WT Harris in E Charlotte
November 23, 2025 at 3:35 AM
seen on WT Harris in E Charlotte
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'I make plows, and I want fish. Fisherman, would you give me fish for my plows?'
'I'm a fisherman, I don't need plows."
'Fuck.'
'I'm a fisherman, I don't need plows."
'Fuck.'
November 23, 2025 at 9:39 PM
'I make plows, and I want fish. Fisherman, would you give me fish for my plows?'
'I'm a fisherman, I don't need plows."
'Fuck.'
'I'm a fisherman, I don't need plows."
'Fuck.'
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“the Grinch hated Christmas, the whole Christmas season. Now, don’t ask why, no one quite knows the reason.”
Grinch: * proceeds to give very detailed list of reasons why he hates Christmas*
Grinch: * proceeds to give very detailed list of reasons why he hates Christmas*
November 23, 2025 at 4:25 AM
“the Grinch hated Christmas, the whole Christmas season. Now, don’t ask why, no one quite knows the reason.”
Grinch: * proceeds to give very detailed list of reasons why he hates Christmas*
Grinch: * proceeds to give very detailed list of reasons why he hates Christmas*
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AOC is liberal. She believes in free and fair elections, the peaceful transfer of power, the rule of law, universal human rights. The modern GOP is trampling over *literally* all of these things.
November 22, 2025 at 8:17 PM
AOC is liberal. She believes in free and fair elections, the peaceful transfer of power, the rule of law, universal human rights. The modern GOP is trampling over *literally* all of these things.
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I don't think there's a meaningful remnant of the GOP that remains small-L liberal. All the former 'liberal center' GOPers are either Democrats now, retired, or sold their souls. Part of the left also isn't (small-L) liberal, but its a group so fringe that it doesn't include AOC and Mamdani.
November 22, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I don't think there's a meaningful remnant of the GOP that remains small-L liberal. All the former 'liberal center' GOPers are either Democrats now, retired, or sold their souls. Part of the left also isn't (small-L) liberal, but its a group so fringe that it doesn't include AOC and Mamdani.
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The Iranian regime has destroyed Tehran, all because they’re too corrupt and incompetent to manage the water supply, and now 10M ppl are about to be forcibly displaced.
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:29 PM
The Iranian regime has destroyed Tehran, all because they’re too corrupt and incompetent to manage the water supply, and now 10M ppl are about to be forcibly displaced.
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It is indisputable that Brexit has been an economic disaster, and notable that none of its political architects have paid any price.
Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist
Brexit Hit to UK Economy Double Official Estimate, Study Finds
Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist.
bloom.bg
November 21, 2025 at 10:15 AM
It is indisputable that Brexit has been an economic disaster, and notable that none of its political architects have paid any price.