John Buball
@pcho.bsky.social
Praised bar skills, raised bar bills
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Spoiler: They used the money just as wisely as anyone else would, and it's so frustrating that this still isn't a common sense assumption to make.
December 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Spoiler: They used the money just as wisely as anyone else would, and it's so frustrating that this still isn't a common sense assumption to make.
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If I were tracking my child's erections you would not be able to torture such an admission out of me
Mortality makes fools of us all but this is a pathology
Mortality makes fools of us all but this is a pathology
December 30, 2025 at 7:38 PM
If I were tracking my child's erections you would not be able to torture such an admission out of me
Mortality makes fools of us all but this is a pathology
Mortality makes fools of us all but this is a pathology
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This column on Vox is the biggest pile of steaming AI crap I've seen this year. Human's aren't running out of ideas. Instead, those with power and money don't want to listen to ideas that threaten their power and money.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This column on Vox is the biggest pile of steaming AI crap I've seen this year. Human's aren't running out of ideas. Instead, those with power and money don't want to listen to ideas that threaten their power and money.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
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this is the simple answer to people who keep saying NATO expansion matters. Sure, it matters because it presented an obstacle to Russian imperial ambitions. Putin didn't invade because he hated NATO expansion, he hated NATO expansion because he wanted to invade
December 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM
this is the simple answer to people who keep saying NATO expansion matters. Sure, it matters because it presented an obstacle to Russian imperial ambitions. Putin didn't invade because he hated NATO expansion, he hated NATO expansion because he wanted to invade
also Brigitte Bardot: soutient le Vrai Parti des Brutes Sanguinaires
Brigitte Bardot : « L’espèce humaine est arrogante et sanguinaire »
Brigitte Bardot : « L’espèce humaine est arrogante et sanguinaire »
« B.B. », morte, à l’âge de 91 ans, s’était racontée à la journaliste du « Monde » Annick Cojean en janvier 2018. Elle évoquait le traumatisme de ses années cinéma, son antipathie pour le genre humain, et le sens de la vie qu’elle a trouvé dans le combat pour la protection des anima
www.lemonde.fr
December 28, 2025 at 11:26 AM
also Brigitte Bardot: soutient le Vrai Parti des Brutes Sanguinaires
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“The U.S. government just banned five people from entering the country because it doesn’t like their speech. This ban, according to the State Department, is necessary to protect free speech.
If that sounds insane to you, congratulations on your reading comprehension.”
Via @mmasnick.bsky.social
If that sounds insane to you, congratulations on your reading comprehension.”
Via @mmasnick.bsky.social
Opinion | Marco Rubio is using real censorship to fight fake censorship
Mike Masnick: In the name of protecting free speech, the U.S. government just banned five Europeans from entering the country because it doesn’t like their speech.
www.ms.now
December 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
“The U.S. government just banned five people from entering the country because it doesn’t like their speech. This ban, according to the State Department, is necessary to protect free speech.
If that sounds insane to you, congratulations on your reading comprehension.”
Via @mmasnick.bsky.social
If that sounds insane to you, congratulations on your reading comprehension.”
Via @mmasnick.bsky.social
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even if the Supreme Court says we can never touch Trump for any of this shit, the next admin should go after everyone involved in buying and selling pardons and they should do it loudly and aggressively
New reporting says Don Jr. directly facilitated the pardon of a crypto whale who had promoted the Trump's family crypto. Jr. brought the pardon lawyer to the White House, and introduced him directly to his Dad. Pardon occurred right after. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/pardon-the...
December 27, 2025 at 6:17 PM
even if the Supreme Court says we can never touch Trump for any of this shit, the next admin should go after everyone involved in buying and selling pardons and they should do it loudly and aggressively
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But that one white guy couldn’t get a job in Hollywood because woke!!!!
December 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
But that one white guy couldn’t get a job in Hollywood because woke!!!!
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Of all the examples of people dying because somebody inexperienced was in charge, the biggest, most horrifying was Elon Musk and DOGE. No idea what AID did, didn’t care, blew it up and at least 600,000 people died unnecessarily as a consequence. Mass murder out of ignorance and bias. Thanks, Elon.
the very last person who should be prattling on about the dangers of inexperience is the grifting troglodyte who killed millions when he was put in charge of “efficiency”
Best Twitter riposte of the day
December 28, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Of all the examples of people dying because somebody inexperienced was in charge, the biggest, most horrifying was Elon Musk and DOGE. No idea what AID did, didn’t care, blew it up and at least 600,000 people died unnecessarily as a consequence. Mass murder out of ignorance and bias. Thanks, Elon.
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"Israel has bombed Lebanon once every four hours on average since the implementation of the ceasefire, according to ACLED, an independent conflict monitor.
Hezbollah shelled Israel once, in the week after the establishment of the ceasefire in Dec 2024."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Hezbollah shelled Israel once, in the week after the establishment of the ceasefire in Dec 2024."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Israel strikes southern Lebanon as deadline to disarm Hezbollah nears
Strikes were latest violation of year-long ceasefire and targeted what Israel said were Hezbollah sites
www.theguardian.com
December 28, 2025 at 10:43 AM
"Israel has bombed Lebanon once every four hours on average since the implementation of the ceasefire, according to ACLED, an independent conflict monitor.
Hezbollah shelled Israel once, in the week after the establishment of the ceasefire in Dec 2024."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Hezbollah shelled Israel once, in the week after the establishment of the ceasefire in Dec 2024."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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If the US wants to sanction an EU Commissioner for work he did to restrict the spread of extremism in the EU then that is a decision that must have consequences, incl reciprocal denial of visas - not least for the leaders of tech companies who lobby the White House to undermine the EU / EU law
France foreign minister: ‘France strongly condemns the visa restriction imposed by the United States against Thierry Breton, former minister and European Commissioner, and 4 other European figures. The Digital Services Act (DSA) was democratically adopted in Europe so that what
December 23, 2025 at 11:07 PM
If the US wants to sanction an EU Commissioner for work he did to restrict the spread of extremism in the EU then that is a decision that must have consequences, incl reciprocal denial of visas - not least for the leaders of tech companies who lobby the White House to undermine the EU / EU law
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The whole idea that Weiss spiked the CECOT story because there wasn't an on-the-record statement from the Trump administration is laughable, as Sharyn Alfonsi notes. It's regular journalistic practice to run a story without comment, as long as you've given the source a chance, which 60 Minutes did.
December 22, 2025 at 12:05 PM
The whole idea that Weiss spiked the CECOT story because there wasn't an on-the-record statement from the Trump administration is laughable, as Sharyn Alfonsi notes. It's regular journalistic practice to run a story without comment, as long as you've given the source a chance, which 60 Minutes did.
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
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I feel like that makes it worse, bc it underscores that it's not just (using just loosely) RFK Jr randomly being a conspiracy addled eugenicist wackjob -- this catastrophe was coordinated and had the backing of the conservative legal movement
It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines.
It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States.
And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).
It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States.
And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).
December 20, 2025 at 6:02 AM
I feel like that makes it worse, bc it underscores that it's not just (using just loosely) RFK Jr randomly being a conspiracy addled eugenicist wackjob -- this catastrophe was coordinated and had the backing of the conservative legal movement
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Les piratages de données personnelles se multiplient dans l’indifférence politique générale.
Piratages massifs des services publics : le silence politique - Projet Arcadie
Les piratages de données personnelles se multiplient dans l’indifférence politique générale.
projetarcadie.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Les piratages de données personnelles se multiplient dans l’indifférence politique générale.
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This part:
During a trip to the bathroom, they ran into Mr. Trump's new wife. (Marla) Maples clasped her hands, Ms. Coleman recalled, and looked her in the eye.
"Whatever you do, do not let her around any of these men, and especially my husband," she told Ms. Coleman. "Protect her"
During a trip to the bathroom, they ran into Mr. Trump's new wife. (Marla) Maples clasped her hands, Ms. Coleman recalled, and looked her in the eye.
"Whatever you do, do not let her around any of these men, and especially my husband," she told Ms. Coleman. "Protect her"
These are the people who are willing to go on the record.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
December 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM
This part:
During a trip to the bathroom, they ran into Mr. Trump's new wife. (Marla) Maples clasped her hands, Ms. Coleman recalled, and looked her in the eye.
"Whatever you do, do not let her around any of these men, and especially my husband," she told Ms. Coleman. "Protect her"
During a trip to the bathroom, they ran into Mr. Trump's new wife. (Marla) Maples clasped her hands, Ms. Coleman recalled, and looked her in the eye.
"Whatever you do, do not let her around any of these men, and especially my husband," she told Ms. Coleman. "Protect her"
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Que penser de la DGSI qui rempile avec Palantir au moment même où l'entreprise américaine s'affiche comme le bras armé du trumpisme et forge une théorie de l'Etat qui vise à privatiser le régalien ? "La solution sera temporaire", jurait le patron du service, il y a... dix ans.
December 14, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Que penser de la DGSI qui rempile avec Palantir au moment même où l'entreprise américaine s'affiche comme le bras armé du trumpisme et forge une théorie de l'Etat qui vise à privatiser le régalien ? "La solution sera temporaire", jurait le patron du service, il y a... dix ans.
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AI is perfect for the modern right, a cohort whose intellectual reproduction rests entirely on creating an alternate reality to feed the fears of their marks, and cannot deal with challenges to their priors.
December 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
AI is perfect for the modern right, a cohort whose intellectual reproduction rests entirely on creating an alternate reality to feed the fears of their marks, and cannot deal with challenges to their priors.
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ICE is thug scum
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 8:09 PM
ICE is thug scum
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WHY ARE YOU ANNOYED THIS IS WHAT YOU WANTED TO HAPPEN
December 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM
WHY ARE YOU ANNOYED THIS IS WHAT YOU WANTED TO HAPPEN
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“It would seem like the U.S. is favoring, for ideological reasons, a narco-state to prevent the left from returning to power."
MS-13 and Trump Backed the Same Presidential Candidate in Honduras
MS-13 told Hondurans to vote for the Trump-backed candidate or “we’ll kill you and your whole fucking family.”
interc.pt
December 14, 2025 at 1:24 AM
“It would seem like the U.S. is favoring, for ideological reasons, a narco-state to prevent the left from returning to power."
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WATCH: Bystander disarms active shooter at Bondi Beach in Sydney
December 14, 2025 at 9:23 AM
WATCH: Bystander disarms active shooter at Bondi Beach in Sydney
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In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps
Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.
www.wsj.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
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“What most struck me is the brutality and physical violence involved in every story,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal. “This is stuff that should be unrecognizable as America. It should make everyday Americans outraged.”
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
Immigration Agents Have Often Grabbed and Mistreated Citizens, Congressional Investigators Find
Prompted by ProPublica’s reporting, an investigation by Senate Democrats documented the experiences of nearly two dozen citizens wrongly detained by immigration agents, contradicting the Trump adminis...
www.propublica.org
December 11, 2025 at 11:00 PM
“What most struck me is the brutality and physical violence involved in every story,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal. “This is stuff that should be unrecognizable as America. It should make everyday Americans outraged.”
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
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Trump on Monday falsely denied making a comment he had made on camera just five days prior. Then he launched a personal attack against the reporter who had accurately repeated his previous remark.
Fact check: Trump denies saying something he said on camera five days ago | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump on Monday falsely denied making a comment he had made on camera just five days prior. Then he launched a personal attack against the reporter who had accurately repeated his pre...
www.cnn.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Trump on Monday falsely denied making a comment he had made on camera just five days prior. Then he launched a personal attack against the reporter who had accurately repeated his previous remark.