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doleful moo of a cow @oulipien.bsky.social · 7m

There's only one reason to publicize this kind of information: to let users make inferences about the labeled entity. The problem is that you can't really make reliable inferences. The problem lies with the tool and its maker, not the users

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doleful moo of a cow @oulipien.bsky.social · 9m

This is not "people aren't using this responsibly", it's "this was misconceived from the jump"

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doleful moo of a cow @oulipien.bsky.social · 16m

Good job Brian I did too and now I'm tired

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1d

It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1d

One thing about American's widespread distrust and disapproval of the Supreme Court is that mainstream news coverage mostly doesn't dwell on stuff like standing, so people don't even begin to grasp how rigged the Court truly is www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Supreme Court Live Updates: Justices Seem Set to Rule Against Colorado’s Ban on Conversion Therapy

www.nytimes.com

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 23h

SYLVESTER THE CAT: *twisted beyond recognition into a cenobite, now a voyager into the hell realms beyond pain and pleasure* your thuffering will be like thuccotash

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doleful moo of a cow @oulipien.bsky.social · 21h

Barely ever watched Friends so I assume this is Janice

Janice the muppet with a guitar sitting in a knock-kneed posture on an amp

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DJ Boozy Brunch @griph.bsky.social · Jun 9

I’m at the Dr. Burke episodes of my Friends rewatch so here is my little Friends fanfic which was previously retweeted by, among others, the former television critic for the New Yorker

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doleful moo of a cow @oulipien.bsky.social · 21h

I don't think that's the preferred termino oh a cataMOUNT

doleful moo of a cow @oulipien.bsky.social · 1d

Not sure if you mean notated music or not but Katherine Young's Further Secret Origins is good

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 1d

He’s unbelievably bad at what he does and yet his admin has fundamentally changed the entire face of American governance as we know it. He has state propagandists. He’s taking state ownership of companies. He’s shaking down private and public institutions for protection money.

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doleful moo of a cow @oulipien.bsky.social · 1d

they still make U2 fans?

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 1d

They hanged Charles I for this shit

George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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doleful moo of a cow @oulipien.bsky.social · 1d

Solo bassoon or can the bassoon just be featured in an ensemble

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Justin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social · 1d

Please scream this from the mountains. Do we really want them to be as efficient as the Nazis before responding?

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Feb 5

that said: I think the "it's not fascism unless they're good at it" brand of analysis probably isn't the move

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lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 1d

I guess I shouldn't be *surprised* but it is making my head spin that the feds have shot two people, with live rounds, killing one of them, in Chicagoland in recent weeks, and in both cases they were very clearly found to be lying about what happened, and essentially nothing is happening about it.

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Fantômas, Le contrebandier de DEI @theefantomas.bsky.social · 1d

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 1d

Again, going in circles, but Trump ****literally**** does not understand how the American government works. He has ****never**** understood it. He was, until this administration, protected from his own stupidity but now there is no longer anyone at the helm. It’s ***actual*** anarchic governance.

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doleful moo of a cow @oulipien.bsky.social · 1d

I was not a fan of the wank article! Maybe I should write it up in more detail

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doleful moo of a cow @oulipien.bsky.social · 1d

I kind of like "to cure a weakling McGraw"

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doleful moo of a cow @oulipien.bsky.social · 1d

How is treating the left and liberals as the only ones with agency an overcorrection from the POV of "I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don't know. They're outside my ken. But sometimes when I'm in a theater I can feel them."?

James Felix Black @tft.io · 2d

It's overcorrection from the point of view of Pauline Kael's famous quote, ISTM. They don't know any Red Hats, so Red Hats must not actually exist.

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doleful moo of a cow @oulipien.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know if Alex Press is on here but she's a certified Adams Watcher and would surely have dozens of candidates

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 1d

at this point you have to acknowledge that there is no way that these guys don't try to mess with the 2026 midterms. there is absolutely no respect for the legitimacy of the opposition

Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 2d

Stephen Miller: "Eventually elections don’t carry the day because violence beats votes… When we see a muscular response from the federal government, it’s because we’re not going to let violence beat votes."

Is he implying federal intervention determines political legitimacy, not ballots or courts?

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doleful moo of a cow @oulipien.bsky.social · 1d

What work are the first three words doing

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doleful moo of a cow @oulipien.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah I was really corpseposting with that one

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doleful moo of a cow @oulipien.bsky.social · 1d

Believe it or not, many 12-year-olds are perfectly decent people and many adults are not and "everyone is 12" is not really that useful as an analysis

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