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Rachel
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Learner, baker, cross stitch maker.
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internethippo.bsky.social
I love working at the Department of Justice and participating in a conspiracy to cover up the demented 80 year old president's sex crimes. I spend 18 hours a day redacting documents and there's a putrid husk where my soul used to be
December 20, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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thegmcconnachie.bsky.social
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”

Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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clairewillett.bsky.social
reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle
One thing that has become really clear since yesterday is that we live in at least two different realities. Talking to a friend who only knew Charlie as a Christian motivational speaker because that's all that ever came across her feed. Showed me videos I've never seen before of him saying perfectly reasonable and empowering things. I showed her videos she'd never seen before of his racism, misogyny, homophobia, advocating for violence against specific groups of people. She was horrified by his remarks about Pelosi's husband's attacker being bailed out and celebrated for his violent act. She was horrified by a number of things that he said, but she had never seen or heard them before, the same as I had never seen or heard the generalized clips of him sounding like a perfectly nice loving man and father. Neither of us had a whole picture of this man. I mentioned he was a known white supremacist and she thought I was joking. She talked about him giving a speech about finding your purpose and doing good in the world and I thought she was joking. I saw why this friend was mourning the loss of a person she thought was a good person. My friend, bless her, saw why I feel the way I do about him. We understood each other better. In spite of a multi-billion dollar internet machine specifically focused on keeping us apart. Because we talked to each other with the desire to listen and to learn rather than the desire to change someone else's mind or to be "right". None of those motivational things he said change my opinion about him because they don't erase the negativity, the subtle calls for violence, the belittling and denigrating of other races religions genders etc. His negative and blaming comments about homeless people, the poor, and victims of domestic violence. His comments about rounding up people who didn't think like him and putting them in camps where their behavior could be corrected. That time he said empathy was a made-up word he didnt believe in. That other time he said the Civil Rights Act was a mistake. The time he said most people are afraid when they get on a plane and see that there's a black pilot. His anti-vaccination rhetoric and his active campaigning against people being allowed to wear masks for their own health. His open support of fascism and white supremacy. To me, all of those are fully unchristian sentiments. Those are undeniable and just one of them would be a deal-breaker for me. All of them together are a picture of a man who was polarizing, enraged a lot of people and rightly so, but even with all of that I would never wish upon him or especially his children the end that he got. Oh, and my friend had never heard, and God help me I don't know how she escaped the news, but she had never heard of the Minnesota legislators who were shot in June. The husband and wife and dog who were killed, one after throwing themselves over their child to protect the child. The other couple who somehow survived. Politically motivated attacks specifically because they were democrats. She learned about those shootings that happened months ago because I showed her Charlie Kirk's comments about them. The kidnapping plot against a female Midwestern Democratic governor. The assassination attempt against Pennsylvania's democratic governor. All things Charlie had plenty to say about while supporting the Second Amendment and bashing the Democratic party. She didn't know about any of it because we're all living in two different worlds and none of us have the whole story.
September 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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ryanestrada.com
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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internethippo.bsky.social
Aside from the obvious direct harm, what's so irritating is that a handful of spoiled ignorant assholes are breaking things that we all built together. They weren't content to own almost everything, they had to wreck what little they didn't own. It's vandalism on a mass scale and has to be punished
March 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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mollyjongfast.bsky.social
Feels like a metaphor
hydetimothy.bsky.social Timothy Hyde @hydetimothy.bsky.social · Feb 14
Allegory alert!
Photo of a bald eagle under the headline "Bald eagle in Massachusetts euthanized after testing positive for bird flu"
February 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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fleerultra.bsky.social
these guys literally only know one move and not only is it a terrible move on its own terms, but in this specific case is wildly inadequate to the moment.
edburmila.bsky.social Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · Feb 9
No one has tried this before, let's see how it plays out.
February 9, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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fleerultra.bsky.social
(3) Not a single Democratic vote on the big House budget bill unless/until Musk and his goons are gone.

That's it. That's what I expect. Not because I think it's the best strategy for positioning themselves for the midterms, but because *they took an oath to protect the Constitution*
February 9, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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internethippo.bsky.social
Me: Oh no that trolley is going to run us over!

Guy tied up on the track next to me who somehow thinks he's actually the guy holding the lever: Lol cry more 😂
January 23, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
Professor of evilology here. Evil people often lie to obscure their true motives. 🧵
February 2, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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andylevy.net
just got a visit from the cops because some karen complained that i’ve been yelling “you there boy what day is this” at kids in the street for the past three hours 🙄
December 25, 2024 at 4:05 PM
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actioncookbook.com
screenshot of a tweet from actioncookbook on 5/7/2020: Every article about a major retailer going bankrupt spends eight paragraphs musing “I guess millennials just don’t buy shirts?” before casually mentioning a private equity acquisition three years ago in one sentence at the end
December 20, 2024 at 6:40 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
Errands are for mornings in my opinion. Once the clock has struck noon it's time to start "settling in" on the way to winding down time (8 pm) followed of course by bedtime (10 pm)
December 10, 2024 at 8:01 PM
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rufustsuperfly.bsky.social
Must be terrifying knowing that someone who you’ve never met has the power to destroy your life
December 7, 2024 at 12:18 AM
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fizbin.bsky.social
I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)

projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim
You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...
projects.propublica.org
March 22, 2024 at 1:25 PM
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qjurecic.bsky.social
relatable www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...
“I’m furious about what happened last night,” said Lee Sang-seon, a 55-year-old building maintenance manager in central Seoul, where protesters gathered to call for Yoon’s resignation. “This is a historic moment, but I don’t want to experience this kind of history,” he said.
December 4, 2024 at 12:58 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
I had 4 days off and by the end of that time I was thinking about creative pursuits, maybe even getting involved in my community. Thank god that's over now
December 2, 2024 at 9:07 PM
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notalawyer.bsky.social
hunter biden probably deserved a pardon, but it still irritates me in a sense. joe biden and establishment democrats badly misunderstood the republican party, and we're stuck living in the world they left us while they head for the escape pods
December 2, 2024 at 3:36 AM
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notalawyer.bsky.social
I’m back on the Tok with some quick thoughts about throwing trans people and the left under the bus
The left isn’t responsible for Kamala’s loss
TikTok video by fivefourpod
www.tiktok.com
November 22, 2024 at 11:56 PM
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notalawyer.bsky.social
Democrats have spent years carefully abandoning political positions it fears might cost them votes, each time getting closer to the ultimate goal: a political party that has zero positions and therefore cannot lose votes.
November 20, 2024 at 12:54 AM
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markharris.bsky.social
It would be politically smart for Democrats to name their own health team--a volunteer slate of healthcare officials (an alternative HHS head, surgeon general, CDC chief, etc.) who will offer factual info about health and science for the next 4 years. Start showing voters what a contrast looks like.
erininthemorning.com Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Nov 20
Politico is reporting Trump will name Dr. Ladapo of Florida to a senior spot, likely Surgeon General or Assistant HHS.

This would be a horrifying pick for trans people. He's responsible for Florida's adult trans ban, and works with SEGM/Anti-trans global movement.

He's also an ardent anti-vaxxer.
November 20, 2024 at 12:51 AM
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internethippo.bsky.social
The grim reaper doesn't kill you, right? He just escorts you to the afterlife? Why does he need to look like that then. Clean yourself up man, I'm not going anywhere with you dressed like this
November 18, 2024 at 3:50 PM
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jayhulmepoet.bsky.social
God as a Carpenter; hands shot through with nails

From 'The Vanishing Song'
God as a Carpenter; hands shot through with nails From 'The Vanishing Song' by Jay Hulme In that moment, perhaps, He remembered the things He'd created, in thirty years of hammer striking wood. And in His pain He thought of all Creation as good enough; still good.
November 15, 2024 at 8:43 AM