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trick a treatler @ouroboredom.bsky.social · Jun 12

🎵"Sign-up for the protest"
that's a fed
👏👏
"You can register to protest"
that's a fed
👏👏
If they tell you sit quiet
When police incite a riot
But they still need you to sign-up—that's a fed
👏👏🎵

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trick a treatler @ouroboredom.bsky.social · 6h

I swear there was just a documentary or smth about a Mormon airline mogul doing this for his stalker son.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8h

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7h

One way of thinking about the Trump administration is that the worst people in American government are pushing out the best people in American government
www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

Their interview, described in a federal lawsuit filed last week by Mr. Driscoll and two other recently fired senior FBI officials, began with benign questions about the gravest threats to the nation and possible adjustments to the FBI's structure, but then took a swerve: Who had Mr. Driscoll voted for? When did he start supporting President Donald J. Trump? And had he voted for a Democrat in the past five elections? He declined to answer those three, noting to the 29-year-old attorney and former podcaster that the questions were inappropriate and potentially violative of the Hatch Act.

Mr. Ingrassia asked another question that would in the ensuing weeks take on greater significance: Did Mr. Driscoll think the FBI agents who had "stormed" Mar-a-Lago in August 2022 should be held accountable? Mr. Driscoll said no, since they had been executing legal search warrants.

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trick a treatler @ouroboredom.bsky.social · 6h

Netanyahu was never going to abide a ceasefire, and Biden was never going to enforce it.

We all agree that Trump/Bibi is worse for Palestinians (+MENA) than Biden/Bibi, and was always going to be. That doesn't make Dems ME policy any better on merits. Nobody is defending Trump, you're deflecting.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7h

give me a prize for how peaceful i am or i'm going to fucking destroy you

Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 10h

The Guardian- The US president may impose tariffs, demand higher NATO contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says, if on Friday he is not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. www.theguardian.com/world/202...

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

www.theguardian.com

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trick a treatler @ouroboredom.bsky.social · 7h

trick a treatler @ouroboredom.bsky.social · 7h

None of that, however, matters, bc your argument relies on the existence of Trump being exonerative of Biden. It's not, and has nothing to do w what OP said. You are arguing against sentences that you made up in your mind all by yourself.

trick a treatler @ouroboredom.bsky.social · 7h

No that's fair, the limits weren't literally "nothing." The line, so to speak, wasn't following the bare minimum requirements of domestic & international law — it was public opinion turning on him — and that does genuinely count for something.

trick a treatler @ouroboredom.bsky.social · 7h

Can you rephrase this in a sane way that makes sense, or have you received medical assistance?

trick a treatler @ouroboredom.bsky.social · 7h

Oh my bad, I forgot about the token arbitrary lines that weren't "domestic and international laws against arming & financing genocide."

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trick a treatler @ouroboredom.bsky.social · 8h

You should work more on reading comprehension & less on reciting comfortable shibboleths.

trick a treatler @ouroboredom.bsky.social · 8h

That is not the original claim.

trick a treatler @ouroboredom.bsky.social · 8h

A tougher line, or any line at all, would have limited Israel's arms supply. Biden having no lines apparently whatsoever had no relationship to how much worse Trump would inevitably be. You're doing a bit of a pancakes/waffles thing.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 9h

Tomorrow: The AI Bubble is built on impossible promises. GPUs die in 5 years, nobody has built a 1GW data center, and they have the power to do so. Stargate Abilene won't have enough power before 2028.

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Everybody is very casual with how they talk about Sam Altman’s theoretical promises of trillions of dollars of data center infrastructure, and I'm not sure anybody realizes how difficult even the very basics of this plan will be.
Nevertheless, everybody is happily publishing stories about how “Stargate Abilene Texas - OpenAI’s massive data center with Oracle - is open,” by which they mean two buildings, and I’m not even confident both of them are providing compute to OpenAI yet. There are six more of them that need to get built for this thing to start rocking at 1.2GW - even though it’s only 1.1GW according to my sources in Abilene.
But, hey, sorry - one minute - while we’re on that subject, did anybody visiting Abilene in the last week or so ever ask whether they’ll have enough power there?
Don’t worry, you don’t need to look - I’m sure you were just about to, and had simply been busy! - but I did the hard work for you and read up on it, and it turns out that Stargate Abilene only has 200 megawatts of power - a 200 megawatt substation that, according to my sources, has only been built within the last couple of months, with 350 Megawatt of gas turbine generators that connect to a natural gas power plant that might get built by the end of the year in the event that one of the multiple construction firms involved . Said turbine is extremely expensive, featuring volatile pricing (for context, volatility fell in Q2 2025…to 69% annualized, meaning that if you had these prices across the entirety of a year you’d see swings of 69% up or down) and even more volatile environmental consequences, and is, while permitted for it (this will download the PDF of the permit), impractical and expensive to use long-term.
Analyst James van Geelen, founder of Citrini Research recently said on Bloomberg’s Odd Lots podcast that these are “not the really good natural gas turbines” because the really good ones would take seven years to deliver due to a natural gas turbine shortage.
But th…

$Stargate Abilene does not have sufficient power to run at even half of its supposed IT load of 1.2GW, and at its present capacity - assuming that the gas turbines function at full power - can only hope to run 370MW to 460MW of IT load. I’ve seen article after article about the gas turbines and their use of fracked gas - a disgusting and wasteful act typical of OpenAI - but nobody appears to have asked “how much power does a 1.2GW data center require?” and then chased it with “how much power does Stargate Abilene have?” The answer is not enough, and the significance of said “not enough” is remarkable. Today, I’m going to tell you, at length, how impossible the future of generative AI is. Gigawatt data centers are a ridiculous pipe dream, one that runs face-first into the walls of reality. The world’s governments and media have been far too cavalier with the term “gigawatt,” casually breezing by the fact that Altman’s plans require 17 or more nuclear reactors’ worth of power, as if building power is quick and easy and cheap and just happens. I believe that many of you think that this is an issue of permitting - of simply throwing enough money at the problem - when we are in the midst of a shortage in the electrical grade steel and transformers required to expand America (and the world’s) power grid. I realize it’s easy to get blinded by the constant drumbeat of “gargoyle-like tycoon cabal builds 1 gigawatt data center” and feel that they will simply overwhelm the problem with money, but no, I’m afraid that isn’t the case at all, and all of this is so silly, so ridiculous, so cartoonishly bad that it threatens even the seemingly-infinite wealth of Elon Musk, with xAI burning over a billion dollars a month and planning to spend tens of billions of dollars building the Colossus 2 data center, dragging two billion dollars from SpaceX in his desperate quest to burn as much money as possible for no reason. This is the age of hubris - a time in which we are going to watc…$

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 9h

Queer people are the working class. Arab and Muslim people are the working class.

The working class is intersectionality personified. It's not three cis straight white men in an Ohio diner.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 9h

Just to be clear:

Trans people are the working class. Black people are the working class. Immigrants are the working class. Pregnant people are the working class. Brown people are the working class. Asian people are the working class. Disabled people are the working class.

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trick a treatler @ouroboredom.bsky.social · 8h

The secret to decoding all economic mysteries is to first *truly* understand and accept that, beyond any rational consideration, rich people just do shit cuz they wanna & they can.

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The White Rose Society (Australia) @whiterosesociety.bsky.social · 9h

Liberals dismiss antifa as just an idea — instead of acting to defend the activists, researchers, and organizers facing persecution. theintercept.com/2025/09/27/t...

What Liberals Get Wrong About Trump’s Executive Order on Antifa

Liberals dismiss antifa as just an idea. That opens up the activists, researchers, and organizers to a real risk of persecution.

theintercept.com

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trick a treatler @ouroboredom.bsky.social · 9h

How does Bibi's unwillingness to compromise exonerate Biden's decisionmaking? It seems like you might be the one ignoring material reality. If Bibi wasn't gonna play ball, Biden shouldn't have been his sugar daddy. Very simple calculus.

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trick a treatler @ouroboredom.bsky.social · 9h

okay fine, i volunteer for the catapult

trick a treatler @ouroboredom.bsky.social · 11h

she left

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 13h

No incarnation of any political party at any time in any country on earth has ever spent so much time thinking about children’s genitals.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 16h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12h

CNN: We have just learned that Letitia James has just been indicted by the DOJ

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trick a treatler @ouroboredom.bsky.social · 12h

losing a rap battle so bad the judge says "and stay down"

trick a treatler @ouroboredom.bsky.social · 13h

Critical to bear in mind that more than half of US adults maintain a reading comprehension level on par w that of an 11yr old, at the 6th grade level. Were way deeper into a multigenerational literacy crisis than can be accounted for by iPad babies.