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Res ipsa locutus of borg
@masbackward.bsky.social
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Civil rights lawyer working in the south. Opinions are product of my genes, environment, and culture.
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February 7, 2026 at 4:52 AM
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Evergreen:
February 4, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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Beatings to continue until morale improves:
February 4, 2026 at 1:02 AM
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Lol, this is savage:
Excerpt from chicago tribune: "Abughazaleh, 26, who moved to Chicago in 2024. She has been a frequent presence at protests and in general has behaved more like a performance artist than a congressional candidate. As part of that effort, she made a show of declining (sending a spokesman, for goodness sake) to be part of the editorial board’s endorsement interviews after first informing us she would attend. That’s her prerogative, of course, but we hope that even those philosophically aligned with her progressive views will agree that sort of behavior won’t produce much of anything positive in Congress. Other than TikTok videos. The good news for voters otherwise predisposed to Abughazaleh is that there’s a youthful progressive candidate in the race with similar views but who comes with a record of service and without the ego. Bushra Amiwala, 28, has been a school board member in Skokie for seven years. A staunch progressive who supports Medicare for All and liberalization of immigration policies to make it easier for international students to stay here and work after they graduate, Amiwala impressed us with her knowledge, communication skills and enthusiasm. Her views are to the left of ours, but easily within the bounds of those who are interested in Abughazaleh’s candidacy. We wouldn’t be surprised to see Amiwala in Springfield soon."
February 4, 2026 at 12:43 AM
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February 3, 2026 at 4:14 PM
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Meanwhile Bari Weiss noped out as soon as the infighting started:
January 16, 2026 at 7:37 PM
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A lot of interesting and subtle results that are way more complicated than AI Bad or AI Good:
Excerpt reading: "Bresnahan eventually caught the chatbot mixing up dates and hallucinating blood-pressure readings; as a result, she had trouble figuring out if a new medication was causing fluctuations. In some conversations, ChatGPT even seemed to confuse her mother’s conditions with health issues that Bresnahan herself had experienced and inquired about. “I’m thinking, I have scoliosis—she doesn’t!” Bresnahan told me. Such errors are endemic to the current crop of large language models. And yet it was obvious that, in many respects, ChatGPT was helping orient Bresnahan in a bewildering medical system. “It was like having a doctor willing to spend an unlimited amount of time with you,” she said. “It talked you through what was going on at whatever level of sophistication you needed. And it helped formulate questions for when we actually saw the doctor, so we could make the most of our time together.”"
January 12, 2026 at 9:49 PM
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December 17, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Not to be too cringe but J.R.R. said it pretty well:
Image of Gandalf with the text: "Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment."
December 17, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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true range of human experience
December 9, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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The point of this article is that originalism doesn't work, at least as applied to the 14th:
December 5, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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December 3, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Literally every post on here about the NYT:
November 16, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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May 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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literally every time
Images from Knives Out: Glass Onion. Daniel Craig says "It's so dumb" Kate Hudson says "It's so dumb, it's brilliant" He responds angrily: "No! It's just dumb!"
May 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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May 15, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Q: I read somewhere that you went to Studio 54. Were you tripping with Grace Jones? A: I wish. I never did coke. I didn’t even see the famous people. I was probably wearing shorts and a Polo shirt. That’s what I always wore. I still do. In fact, it’s getting to shorts weather now, and I can only imagine with my pale legs what I look like in shorts.
May 12, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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He's problematic in many ways but guess how old Congressman Sri Thanedar is from this photo:
April 16, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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My version is even funnier -- it explains that there are 4-5 limes in a pound but then also explains that this means there are 70 in a bag because 45x2=70:
February 8, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Excerpt from opinion in the previous link setting out their demands in return for ceasing their walmart-burning program.
February 7, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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watching the football
January 19, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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The three genders
September 29, 2024 at 10:18 PM
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My partner and I got one this year on Etsy and I'm very happy with it:
December 8, 2023 at 2:00 AM