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Insufferable INTJ (She/Her) @mightyani.bsky.social · 13h

A programming meme.

"What people think programming is like" and it's a pic of a white dude in a black hoodie hunched over a laptop, with his fingers ablur as they type quickly.

"What programming is actually like"
And it's a kid sitting and thinking with a look of consternation on his face

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Insufferable INTJ (She/Her) @mightyani.bsky.social · 18h

@democrats.org better start laying out detailed, concrete plans to hold these monsters accountable

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 21h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Insufferable INTJ (She/Her) @mightyani.bsky.social · 1d

How is it these dipshits are in charge

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

Someone uploaded the video to reddit. He said it and then just abruptly stopped talking. The video is still working - you can see him blinking. And it's not an audio problem his mouth isn't moving

www.reddit.com/r/LateStageC...

From the LateStageCapitalism community on Reddit: Stephen Miller states that Trump has plenary authority, then immediately stops talking as if he’s realized what he just said

Explore this post and more from the LateStageCapitalism community

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Boooooooowerks @bauwerks.net · 1d

What's creepy about this is his facial expression and body swaying doesn't skip a beat, he just shuts up like you pressed the B button in a game to skip the dialog audio but the character's still swaying in place, waiting for you to press the button again to move to the next dialog part.

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

Someone uploaded the video to reddit. He said it and then just abruptly stopped talking. The video is still working - you can see him blinking. And it's not an audio problem his mouth isn't moving

www.reddit.com/r/LateStageC...

From the LateStageCapitalism community on Reddit: Stephen Miller states that Trump has plenary authority, then immediately stops talking as if he’s realized what he just said

Explore this post and more from the LateStageCapitalism community

www.reddit.com

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Insufferable INTJ (She/Her) @mightyani.bsky.social · 1d

Congress's pay and physical office accoutrement should exponentially decay for each day even one Federal worker goes without fair pay and benefits

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Insufferable INTJ (She/Her) @mightyani.bsky.social · 1d

Wow what an incredibly unsurprising bit of media history

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Insufferable INTJ (She/Her) @mightyani.bsky.social · 1d

How many times do I have to say it that an Ivy League education does not mean you're smart?? 😭

a cartoon character with red hair is sitting at a table with a bowl of oranges .

Alt: We all headdesk like Merida from Brave, here, when we also find out that Elon Musk didn't even earn his physics degree from @upenn.edu: they printed one out for him after he whined to investors he didn't have a degree 💔💔

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Insufferable INTJ (She/Her) @mightyani.bsky.social · 1d

If you're a Federal (or state whose job is funded by the Federal) government employee and you still support this monster then I hope your family and friends who are not batshit insane like you stage a very aggressive intervention and keep you in a barbed wire enclosure

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Some federal workers may not get back pay after shutdown ends, White House suggests

With the shutdown about to enter its second week, Trump says some furloughed workers "don't deserve to be taken care of".

www.bbc.com

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Rep. Steven Woodrow @woodrowforco.bsky.social · 1d

It’s kinda laughable to claim we’ve been too progressive on climate change, housing, gun violence, and healthcare.

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Insufferable INTJ (She/Her) @mightyani.bsky.social · 1d

How is it that Marjorie Taylor-Green is the moral lodestar on the ACA subsidies

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Geelan Mitchell Media @victoriannews.com.au · 1d

Guess who owns Harper Collins? Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.

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Insufferable INTJ (She/Her) @mightyani.bsky.social · 1d

Listen.

If torturing other human beings is an accepted tenet of your religion then your religion is garbage and so are you.

Tax the churches, fund M4A

Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 1d

The New York Times exists at this point to launder hatred for trans people. Today's coverage includes a citation to this law review article that says conversion therapy bans are anti-religious discrimination and it's not illegal to ban queer behavior, only queer identity. 🙃

Religious practitioners were exempt from the bans, and they have continued to provide most conversion therapy, according to researchers who track it. But the bans, the legal historian Marie-Amélie George has argued, created “a social norm against conversion therapy writ large,” which influenced even the practitioners not directly regulated by them.

LGBT rights groups have recently made bans on conversion therapy, a
practice intended to reduce or eliminate a person’s same-sex sexual
attractions, a primary piece of their legislative agenda. However, the
statutes only apply to licensed mental health professionals, even though
most conversion therapy is practiced by religious counselors and lay
ministers. Conversion therapy bans thus present a striking legal question:
Why have LGBT rights advocates expended so much effort and political
capital on laws that do not reach conversion therapy’s primary providers?
Based on archival research and original interviews, this Article argues that
the bans are significant because of their expressive function, rather than
their prescriptive effects. The laws’ proponents are using the statutes to
create a social norm against conversion therapy writ large, thus
broadening the bans’ reach to the religious practitioners the law cannot
directly regulate. LGBT rights groups are also extending the bans’
expressive message to support the argument that sexual orientation is
immutable and to reverse a historical narrative that cast gays and lesbians
as dangerous to children. These related claims have been central to gay
rights efforts for much of the twentieth century and continue to shape
LGBT rights battles. While the expressive effects of the bans are important,
the laws and the campaign around them may have a negative effect. LGBT
rights organizations working on the laws do not distinguish between
conversion therapy efforts aimed at changing sexual orientation and those
targeting behavior. This is troubling, not only because it fails to
acknowledge the needs of same-sex attracted individuals who wish to live
in accordance with their religious beliefs, but also because it reinforces a
limited view of gay identity. Many within the LGBT movement contest the
identity model that legal advocates have championed, and that conception
of se…

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AlamedaMark @alamedamark.bsky.social · 2d

This was literally the next post in my feed.

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Insufferable INTJ (She/Her) @mightyani.bsky.social · 1d

The step-son of the founder of Covenant Eyes, an anti-porn plug-in for browsers Josh Duggar, House Speaker Mike Johnson, and Mike Johnson's son use(d), has been arrested after he allegedly drove to Grand Rapids, MI to have sex with a 14 year old girl.

He is 38.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 1d

IN HONOR OF FRIENDSHIP MONTH:

djt: "We have certain things in common, Jeffrey."

Epstein: "Yes we do, come to think of it."

djt: "A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday- and may every day be another wonderful secret."

And by "wonderful secret", he means raping children.

#PedoPrez

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Insufferable INTJ (She/Her) @mightyani.bsky.social · 1d

Them: Authoritarianism meant to burn you out. Grind you down. Make you give up.

Me: *chuckle* I don't think these assholes know exactly how much oppositional defiance and spite have been motivating factors for me over the last four decades.

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Insufferable INTJ (She/Her) @mightyani.bsky.social · 1d

Sauce:

blog.bostonorganics.com/remote-work-...

Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us happier.”

The flexibility of remote employment has fundamentally transformed how we approach professional satisfaction and personal well-being. A comprehensive Australian research project, spanning four years a...

blog.bostonorganics.com

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Insufferable INTJ (She/Her) @mightyani.bsky.social · 1d

It sure does!!

A screenshot of an online news article showing a smiling woman sitting at a desk with an open laptop in front of her. She is turning and smiling at the camera. Below her is the headline:

Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: "Working from home makes us happier."

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

I’m a career prosecutor who took a $25,000 check from an affiliated entity of Donald Trump’s while investigating Trump University and later left my lobbying firm to become Donald Trump’s personal impeachment lawyer, White House aide, and Attorney General. So don’t you DARE question my integrity.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi to Blumenthal: "You lied. How dare you? I'm a career prosecutor. Don't you ever challenge my integrity. Do not question my ability to be fair and impartial."

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Insufferable INTJ (She/Her) @mightyani.bsky.social · 1d

Shhhh, nobody tell them 🤭

Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder if history has any lessons about what happens when large concentrations of armed soldiery stop getting paid.

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

Okay so you have the National Guard deployed to several American cities and plan on sending them to more, so is the plan to actually not pay these people and just find out what happens?

Insufferable INTJ (She/Her) @mightyani.bsky.social · 2d

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www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

Leopards ate our ancient human ancestors' faces, AI analysis reveals

A study provides insight into the demise of two prehistoric individuals of the now-extinct human species Homo habilis.

www.livescience.com

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Felonious Monk @alexqgb.bsky.social · 2d

Not that it needs pointing out, but never apologizing, never making corrections, never admitting fault is a hallmark of clinical narcissism.

This is not fortitude in any sense. It’s just evidence of a deeply disordered personality, now in charge of news at CBS.

Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 2d

now that the news is official: some thoughts on Bari Weiss taking over at CBS News, and what it means that the Free Press—a publication that never apologizes or corrects itself when its "reporting" is ripped to shreds—is touted as a needed dose of "trust and integrity" slate.com/technology/2...

CBS Is About to Hand Over Its Newsroom to an Anti-Woke Crusader. You Should Be Worried.

She’s made a career railing against “wokeness.” Now she’s in charge of a venerated newsroom.

slate.com

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Insufferable INTJ (She/Her) @mightyani.bsky.social · 2d

Aaaaaaaand that's no more @cbsnews.com for me after being a loyal viewer for decades, for at least the remainder of this twatrocket's tenure, maybe longer.

Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 2d

now that the news is official: some thoughts on Bari Weiss taking over at CBS News, and what it means that the Free Press—a publication that never apologizes or corrects itself when its "reporting" is ripped to shreds—is touted as a needed dose of "trust and integrity" slate.com/technology/2...

CBS Is About to Hand Over Its Newsroom to an Anti-Woke Crusader. You Should Be Worried.

She’s made a career railing against “wokeness.” Now she’s in charge of a venerated newsroom.

slate.com

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Insufferable INTJ (She/Her) @mightyani.bsky.social · 2d

What looks like a graphic tee design with an adorable bunny lighting the fuse of a firework, with the text:

Be Kind

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Annoying

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