Jesse Farrell
@jfarrell.bsky.social
🏳️⚧️ powerlifter, unfree software repairbot, cat mum.
🏉: UBB/Leinster/🇮🇪 (♂️) 🇼🇸/🇹🇴/🇫🇯/🏴 (♀️).
@_jfarrell on Twitter; @[email protected] in fediverse.
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Pro-democracy, antifa-scist.
Capitalism is a choice.
🏉: UBB/Leinster/🇮🇪 (♂️) 🇼🇸/🇹🇴/🇫🇯/🏴 (♀️).
@_jfarrell on Twitter; @[email protected] in fediverse.
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Pro-democracy, antifa-scist.
Capitalism is a choice.
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"Wisconsin [Republican] governor candidate Andy Manske wants to use Al to shrink the government."
The Democrats have an easy "people first" platform to run on here--vote for me if you want to be able to talk to a person when you need help with your Medicare, car registration, hunting license, etc.
The Democrats have an easy "people first" platform to run on here--vote for me if you want to be able to talk to a person when you need help with your Medicare, car registration, hunting license, etc.
November 28, 2025 at 4:17 PM
"Wisconsin [Republican] governor candidate Andy Manske wants to use Al to shrink the government."
The Democrats have an easy "people first" platform to run on here--vote for me if you want to be able to talk to a person when you need help with your Medicare, car registration, hunting license, etc.
The Democrats have an easy "people first" platform to run on here--vote for me if you want to be able to talk to a person when you need help with your Medicare, car registration, hunting license, etc.
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Explaining to the increasingly skeptical Dickensian orphan who time traveled to the future that yes, I have an Apple TV account, no I don't remember the password, yes I pay money for thing, no I don't want to deal with the password right now, yes I can still watch it, and so on
November 28, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Explaining to the increasingly skeptical Dickensian orphan who time traveled to the future that yes, I have an Apple TV account, no I don't remember the password, yes I pay money for thing, no I don't want to deal with the password right now, yes I can still watch it, and so on
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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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Online hate shaped the unrest in the Southern Syrian city of Suweyda. ISD’s new analysis shows how misleading content and anti-Druze rhetoric—over 34K posts btwn March and Sept 2025—spiked with conflict, linking online discourse to offline violence. Read the report below.
How violence in southern Syria fuelled anti-Druze hate and online misinformation
Violence targeting groups in Syria including the Druze community and others is driving a tide of online hate and misinformation.
www.isdglobal.org
November 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Online hate shaped the unrest in the Southern Syrian city of Suweyda. ISD’s new analysis shows how misleading content and anti-Druze rhetoric—over 34K posts btwn March and Sept 2025—spiked with conflict, linking online discourse to offline violence. Read the report below.
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“Black Friday,” Stephen miller yells, getting redder and redder, “will be replaced with White Friday.”
November 28, 2025 at 1:38 PM
“Black Friday,” Stephen miller yells, getting redder and redder, “will be replaced with White Friday.”
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this is just gutter racism
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
this is just gutter racism
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yeah I know he was doing a vaudeville show! I'm talking about what a weirdly awkward presence he had, as a tv presenter.
November 28, 2025 at 1:09 PM
yeah I know he was doing a vaudeville show! I'm talking about what a weirdly awkward presence he had, as a tv presenter.
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Watched a bit of the Beatles Anthology doc -- I don't know if I ever quite clocked, as a kid, what a profoundly strange tv host Ed Sullivan was.
November 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Watched a bit of the Beatles Anthology doc -- I don't know if I ever quite clocked, as a kid, what a profoundly strange tv host Ed Sullivan was.
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As I always do with boycotts, I urge: be tough with corporations, gentle with individual buyers. For some people, Black Friday sales are the way they get their kids jackets that fit, shoes that hold up to the weather. Yelling at them doesn’t help the cause.
November 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM
As I always do with boycotts, I urge: be tough with corporations, gentle with individual buyers. For some people, Black Friday sales are the way they get their kids jackets that fit, shoes that hold up to the weather. Yelling at them doesn’t help the cause.
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The crisis isn’t refugees. It’s not that one person committed one tragic crime and killed one other person. The crisis isn’t that America’s 250-year old history of hosting immigrants turned out to be a mistake.
The crisis is that STEPHEN MILLER, a hateful little maggot, controls the government.
The crisis is that STEPHEN MILLER, a hateful little maggot, controls the government.
November 28, 2025 at 1:17 PM
The crisis isn’t refugees. It’s not that one person committed one tragic crime and killed one other person. The crisis isn’t that America’s 250-year old history of hosting immigrants turned out to be a mistake.
The crisis is that STEPHEN MILLER, a hateful little maggot, controls the government.
The crisis is that STEPHEN MILLER, a hateful little maggot, controls the government.
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The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture
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The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
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The era we are living in offers too many illustrations of greed, narcissism, and hatefulness. But I still believe we can recommit ourselves to serving the common good of all Americans. [Artwork by Jennifer Bloomer]
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 AM
The era we are living in offers too many illustrations of greed, narcissism, and hatefulness. But I still believe we can recommit ourselves to serving the common good of all Americans. [Artwork by Jennifer Bloomer]
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"If my net saves the life of at least one soldier,I'll consider that I have helped in some way,that I have done something for this cause"
77-yr-old Mykola Malkov from Yampil,Vinnytsia region,has woven over 9,000 square meters of bases for camouflage nets,which are sent to Defenders on the frontline
77-yr-old Mykola Malkov from Yampil,Vinnytsia region,has woven over 9,000 square meters of bases for camouflage nets,which are sent to Defenders on the frontline
November 28, 2025 at 12:14 PM
"If my net saves the life of at least one soldier,I'll consider that I have helped in some way,that I have done something for this cause"
77-yr-old Mykola Malkov from Yampil,Vinnytsia region,has woven over 9,000 square meters of bases for camouflage nets,which are sent to Defenders on the frontline
77-yr-old Mykola Malkov from Yampil,Vinnytsia region,has woven over 9,000 square meters of bases for camouflage nets,which are sent to Defenders on the frontline
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TIL "SCTV" got the ACTUAL voice of HAL 9000 from "2001", Douglas Rain, to reprise his role in a "Merv Griffin Show" parody with Rick Moranis as Merv, John Candy as Orson Welles, Dave Thomas as Steven Spielberg, and Eugene Levy as George Lucas: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZTu...
SCTV: the merv griffin show special scifi segment (hal9000 cameo)
YouTube video by Will 🦇
www.youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:40 AM
TIL "SCTV" got the ACTUAL voice of HAL 9000 from "2001", Douglas Rain, to reprise his role in a "Merv Griffin Show" parody with Rick Moranis as Merv, John Candy as Orson Welles, Dave Thomas as Steven Spielberg, and Eugene Levy as George Lucas: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZTu...
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Would love to hear a comic being asked “do you think you were phenomenally lucky to be able to build your reputation during a time that encouraged and rewarded creative freedom? And why do you think that stopped?” And NOT answer “humans outside my core audience started objecting to being bullied.”
November 28, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Would love to hear a comic being asked “do you think you were phenomenally lucky to be able to build your reputation during a time that encouraged and rewarded creative freedom? And why do you think that stopped?” And NOT answer “humans outside my core audience started objecting to being bullied.”
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Brilliant! Nothing could top SCTV in the imaginative mash-up department. Their “Death of a Salesman” with Ricardo Montalban (Levy), DeForest Kelly (Thomas), and George Carlin (Moranis) is another classic.
November 28, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Brilliant! Nothing could top SCTV in the imaginative mash-up department. Their “Death of a Salesman” with Ricardo Montalban (Levy), DeForest Kelly (Thomas), and George Carlin (Moranis) is another classic.
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One lesson not learned
The War Comes Home: The Toll of War and the Shifting Burden of Care
Report after report and study after study begins by pointing out that the Americanmilitary’s post 9/11 engagements in Iraq and Afghanistan are taxing service members andtheir families like none before...
costsofwar.watson.brown.edu
November 28, 2025 at 12:17 PM
One lesson not learned
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Ukraine's anti-corruption agencies searched the home of President Volodymyr Zelensky's powerful chief of staff today, escalating a major political crisis as Kyiv faces pressure from Washington to accept terms for a peace deal
Ukrainian anti-graft police search home of Zelensky aide
Ukraine's anti-corruption agencies searched the home of President Volodymyr Zelensky's powerful chief of staff today, escalating a major political crisis as Kyiv faces pressure from Washington to acce...
www.rte.ie
November 28, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Ukraine's anti-corruption agencies searched the home of President Volodymyr Zelensky's powerful chief of staff today, escalating a major political crisis as Kyiv faces pressure from Washington to accept terms for a peace deal
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Westlife’s comeback: The boy band that overcame bankruptcy, mental health struggles and fading from the spotlight
Westlife’s comeback: The boy band that overcame bankruptcy, mental health struggles and fading from the spotlight
Westlife is a boy band capable of filling arenas 25 years after their debut — even if the group’s members are now in their late forties. The Irish group, the natural successors to phenomenon acts like Take That and Backstreet Boys in the early 2000s, has returned to the stage to celebrate a quarter-century as the “good guys of pop.” Seguir leyendo
english.elpais.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Westlife’s comeback: The boy band that overcame bankruptcy, mental health struggles and fading from the spotlight
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Proof that this manufacturer has replicated our design 100% is also posted on their social media pages.
We want to clarify that the manufacturer never contacted us for permission to copy our product. And we have not granted such permission to anyone.
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We want to clarify that the manufacturer never contacted us for permission to copy our product. And we have not granted such permission to anyone.
2/3
November 28, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Proof that this manufacturer has replicated our design 100% is also posted on their social media pages.
We want to clarify that the manufacturer never contacted us for permission to copy our product. And we have not granted such permission to anyone.
2/3
We want to clarify that the manufacturer never contacted us for permission to copy our product. And we have not granted such permission to anyone.
2/3
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Weird the way the entire world went mad and only the creator of the IT Crowd was unaffected.
November 28, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Weird the way the entire world went mad and only the creator of the IT Crowd was unaffected.
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Rachel Reeves is billing the #Budget2025 as the long overdue tax rise on the rich — yet Spears Magazine, the glossy read “for ultra high net worths & their advisers”, is celebrating how little impact it’ll have.
🧵So what's spin and what's really in the Budget? 👇 1/13
🧵So what's spin and what's really in the Budget? 👇 1/13
November 28, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Rachel Reeves is billing the #Budget2025 as the long overdue tax rise on the rich — yet Spears Magazine, the glossy read “for ultra high net worths & their advisers”, is celebrating how little impact it’ll have.
🧵So what's spin and what's really in the Budget? 👇 1/13
🧵So what's spin and what's really in the Budget? 👇 1/13
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Yknow, I never see anyone talk about this side effect of “personalization”—people are weird, and it turns out that it’s hard* to make massive amounts of advertising money catering to specific interests. So platforms have re-created a boring middle, shoved us all into it, and claim it’s “targeted.”
I wrote a bit about this many years ago on Twitter-that-was: the algorithm has gradually eroded "here's what you want to see" by replacing it with "here's what we'd like you to want to see."
It continues to trade on its former reputation solely due to inertia. Underneath, it's all ads.
It continues to trade on its former reputation solely due to inertia. Underneath, it's all ads.
love to live in a world where all my personal data is relentlessly harvested so that megacorps can feed it into their all-knowing algorithms and yet somehow the end result is that algorithm going “we think you’d like Clarkson’s Farm”
November 28, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Yknow, I never see anyone talk about this side effect of “personalization”—people are weird, and it turns out that it’s hard* to make massive amounts of advertising money catering to specific interests. So platforms have re-created a boring middle, shoved us all into it, and claim it’s “targeted.”
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The news from Hong Kong is incredibly tragic. Deepest condolences to the families. "Rescue efforts end at Hong Kong tower block fire as death toll reaches 128. Firefighters comb through high-rises with as many as 200 people still missing, according to officials." www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
Rescue efforts end at Hong Kong tower block fire as death toll reaches 128
Firefighters comb through high-rises with as many as 200 people still missing, according to officials
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:18 PM
The news from Hong Kong is incredibly tragic. Deepest condolences to the families. "Rescue efforts end at Hong Kong tower block fire as death toll reaches 128. Firefighters comb through high-rises with as many as 200 people still missing, according to officials." www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...