KarateBugman (he/they)
@karatebugman.bsky.social
I like Kamen Rider and I'll probably never post about it. I'm just talking over here.
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A Republican call to give Americans cash instead of health insurance subsidies revives an old idea that has left millions with medical debt. n.pr/44dfWWE
Republicans push high deductible plans and health savings accounts
A Republican call to give Americans cash instead of health insurance subsidies revives an old idea that has left millions with medical debt.
n.pr
December 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
A Republican call to give Americans cash instead of health insurance subsidies revives an old idea that has left millions with medical debt. n.pr/44dfWWE
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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What is one thing our colleagues lost, miss and cannot escape in #Gaza? Hear our staff reflect on living and working through the genocide.
Doctors Without Borders calls for an immediate ceasefire and an end to the bloodshed.
Doctors Without Borders calls for an immediate ceasefire and an end to the bloodshed.
October 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
What is one thing our colleagues lost, miss and cannot escape in #Gaza? Hear our staff reflect on living and working through the genocide.
Doctors Without Borders calls for an immediate ceasefire and an end to the bloodshed.
Doctors Without Borders calls for an immediate ceasefire and an end to the bloodshed.
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Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got
- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford
- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford
October 8, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got
- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford
- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford
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Ban socialists all you want. The idea will never die. Humanity could be nuked back to the stone ages and it would return
October 5, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Ban socialists all you want. The idea will never die. Humanity could be nuked back to the stone ages and it would return
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Newsletter: This is The Case Against Generative AI, a comprehensive analysis of a financial collapse built on myths I’ll dispel, the markets’ unhealthy obsession with NVIDIA's growth, and the fact that there is not enough money in the world to fund OpenAI.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...
The Case Against Generative AI
Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth
Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newsletter I've ever written, weighing in somewhere around 18,500 wo...
www.wheresyoured.at
September 29, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Newsletter: This is The Case Against Generative AI, a comprehensive analysis of a financial collapse built on myths I’ll dispel, the markets’ unhealthy obsession with NVIDIA's growth, and the fact that there is not enough money in the world to fund OpenAI.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...
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Despite not violating Meta's Community Standards, organic, educational abortion content is still getting removed. Meta must be more accurate and consistent in the enforcement of their guidelines instead of singling out content about abortion. www.eff.org/pages/silen...
The Abortion Hotline Meta Wants to Go Dark
BY KENYATTA THOMAS | September 26, 2025This is the sixth installment in a blog series documenting EFF's findings from the Stop Censoring Abortion campaign. You can read additional posts here. When we
www.eff.org
September 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Despite not violating Meta's Community Standards, organic, educational abortion content is still getting removed. Meta must be more accurate and consistent in the enforcement of their guidelines instead of singling out content about abortion. www.eff.org/pages/silen...
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More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
www.miamiherald.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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It is fucked up what they did to the headphone jack
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
September 20, 2025 at 12:24 AM
It is fucked up what they did to the headphone jack
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Trump just designated “Antifa” as a terrorist organization, on par with ISIS and Al Qaeda. As a reminder, “antifa” is short for “antifascist”.
They will use this lie to surveil, imprison, and kill Americans on the left.
This may be our Reichstag Fire moment. Wake up.
www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/p...
They will use this lie to surveil, imprison, and kill Americans on the left.
This may be our Reichstag Fire moment. Wake up.
www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/p...
Trump says he’s designating Antifa as a terrorist organization | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump said he is designating the far-left anti-fascism movement Antifa as a terrorist organization, announcing the move on his Truth Social platform in the early hours of Thursday mor...
www.cnn.com
September 18, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Trump just designated “Antifa” as a terrorist organization, on par with ISIS and Al Qaeda. As a reminder, “antifa” is short for “antifascist”.
They will use this lie to surveil, imprison, and kill Americans on the left.
This may be our Reichstag Fire moment. Wake up.
www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/p...
They will use this lie to surveil, imprison, and kill Americans on the left.
This may be our Reichstag Fire moment. Wake up.
www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/p...
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its kind of insane that we’ve been forced to watch rightwingers openly celebrate and taunt everyone over the death of people like trayvon martin for over a decade now and now they’re trying to grandstand over the one time it’s personally affected them and political project
September 17, 2025 at 4:00 AM
its kind of insane that we’ve been forced to watch rightwingers openly celebrate and taunt everyone over the death of people like trayvon martin for over a decade now and now they’re trying to grandstand over the one time it’s personally affected them and political project
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Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide.
As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.
End the genocide. Ceasefire now.
As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.
End the genocide. Ceasefire now.
September 16, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide.
As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.
End the genocide. Ceasefire now.
As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.
End the genocide. Ceasefire now.
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I plan to post this ABC News supercut video of Trump calling Harris and Democrats "fascists" (and "communists"!) everytime I see a Republican on TV whining about Trump being called a "fascist" by the left.
Oh, the hypocrisy! Oh, the gaslighting!
Oh, the hypocrisy! Oh, the gaslighting!
September 15, 2025 at 5:37 AM
I plan to post this ABC News supercut video of Trump calling Harris and Democrats "fascists" (and "communists"!) everytime I see a Republican on TV whining about Trump being called a "fascist" by the left.
Oh, the hypocrisy! Oh, the gaslighting!
Oh, the hypocrisy! Oh, the gaslighting!
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“My first instinct is to laugh, but I remember that American history is filled with men and women who were as lethal as they are ridiculous,” Ta-Nehisi Coates.
September 15, 2025 at 10:27 AM
“My first instinct is to laugh, but I remember that American history is filled with men and women who were as lethal as they are ridiculous,” Ta-Nehisi Coates.
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Wow
September 15, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Wow
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Trans rights are human rights
chat what do you think the odds are we can get a senator on bluesky to say trans rights
Hello (again) Bluesky! I’m going to start posting here again, because that other app has become a disaster.
But first, I want to introduce myself. My name is Tina Smith, and I’m a proud United States Senator for Minnesota… ⬇️
But first, I want to introduce myself. My name is Tina Smith, and I’m a proud United States Senator for Minnesota… ⬇️
November 1, 2024 at 5:02 PM
Trans rights are human rights
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the people who mocked and made up shit about the attack on paul pelosi have thoughts about decorum and we should definitely take them very very seriously
September 10, 2025 at 9:40 PM
the people who mocked and made up shit about the attack on paul pelosi have thoughts about decorum and we should definitely take them very very seriously
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if charlie kirk didn't get shot the right wing would be equally and as consequentially as mad about a tv commercial or restaurant logo or something else, they're gonna do what they're gonna do regardless
September 10, 2025 at 10:34 PM
if charlie kirk didn't get shot the right wing would be equally and as consequentially as mad about a tv commercial or restaurant logo or something else, they're gonna do what they're gonna do regardless
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over time I believe this will end up being one of the most unpopular things the administration ever does
a death sentence for many hobbies and all the average consumer sees is that you’re taking away all their bargains
one of the few policies that has a direct negative effect on almost everyone
a death sentence for many hobbies and all the average consumer sees is that you’re taking away all their bargains
one of the few policies that has a direct negative effect on almost everyone
The de minimis rule that allowed small packages worth less than $800 to be exempt from tariffs ended on Friday, Aug. 29, 2025.
Postal traffic to US drops more than 80% after trade exemption rule ends, UN agency says
The de minimis rule that allowed small packages worth less than $800 to be exempt from tariffs ended on Friday, Aug. 29, 2025.
n.pr
September 7, 2025 at 11:12 PM
over time I believe this will end up being one of the most unpopular things the administration ever does
a death sentence for many hobbies and all the average consumer sees is that you’re taking away all their bargains
one of the few policies that has a direct negative effect on almost everyone
a death sentence for many hobbies and all the average consumer sees is that you’re taking away all their bargains
one of the few policies that has a direct negative effect on almost everyone
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"I watched Snow White when I was a kid and I ain't give a b*tch a poison apple yet" is my favourite line
August 31, 2025 at 6:00 AM
"I watched Snow White when I was a kid and I ain't give a b*tch a poison apple yet" is my favourite line
Me when I see anyone posting an AI generated video making fun of Trump and/or Vance:
September 2, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Me when I see anyone posting an AI generated video making fun of Trump and/or Vance:
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This is a very useful list and interview from one of the authors of a recent book about UBI that is his recommended list of books to read about UBI, starting off with Marx and Hayek as intros, then Standing and Parijs to go deep, and then his book: "Basic Income: The Policy That Changes Everything."
Universal Basic Income
Is basic income a viable policy that changes everything? Matthew Johnson, Professor of Public Policy at Northumbria University, and other members of the 'Common Sense Policy Group' think so. He introd...
fivebooks.com
August 27, 2025 at 2:32 PM
This is a very useful list and interview from one of the authors of a recent book about UBI that is his recommended list of books to read about UBI, starting off with Marx and Hayek as intros, then Standing and Parijs to go deep, and then his book: "Basic Income: The Policy That Changes Everything."
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Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
National Guard is now tasked with picking up garbage in DC
August 26, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it