butcher bird hi-fi
@shrike17.bsky.social
'we ain't got no swing, 'cept for the ring of that truncheon thing'
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December 16, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Amazon wasn't letting people evacuate during a flash flood GO NOW evacuation up around Tukwila, WA. The state had to step in and say "fuck you, let these people go".
More recent updates:
> The police are literally at the warehouse forcing them to evacuate.
> The police are literally at the warehouse forcing them to evacuate.
December 16, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Amazon wasn't letting people evacuate during a flash flood GO NOW evacuation up around Tukwila, WA. The state had to step in and say "fuck you, let these people go".
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Real talk, Capitol Hill is the best.
December 16, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Real talk, Capitol Hill is the best.
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counterpoint: nothing you post on any social media platform will in any way combat the dangerousness of the right
IMO it's hard to combat the dangerousness of the right by participating in a platform where they aren't present.
I think the best way to explain the X vs Bluesky preference is whether a person thinks the left is more annoying than the right is dangerous.
The reason so many Noah Smiths end up on the X side of that equation is that while the left annoys them personally, the right mostly endangers other people.
The reason so many Noah Smiths end up on the X side of that equation is that while the left annoys them personally, the right mostly endangers other people.
December 15, 2025 at 6:51 PM
counterpoint: nothing you post on any social media platform will in any way combat the dangerousness of the right
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While the news and @governorferguson.bsky.social are telling people not to get caught in the floods, but none of them are telling businesses to prioritize their employees safety, over squeezing the maximum possible labor from them in this moment
> Amazon's response to the flooding has been to write people up who are late and to refuse to let people leave who live in evacuation areas. Seems like letting an entire warehouse die in a tornado wasn't a learning experience.
December 16, 2025 at 12:32 AM
While the news and @governorferguson.bsky.social are telling people not to get caught in the floods, but none of them are telling businesses to prioritize their employees safety, over squeezing the maximum possible labor from them in this moment
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A million Muslims live in New York City. We belong here, as does every other New Yorker.
This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.
This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.
December 15, 2025 at 10:25 PM
A million Muslims live in New York City. We belong here, as does every other New Yorker.
This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.
This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.
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In the USA even the very wealthy old men must perform as gladiators until death in inhospitable outposts like Indianapolis in order to provide their children with medical care.
December 16, 2025 at 12:27 AM
In the USA even the very wealthy old men must perform as gladiators until death in inhospitable outposts like Indianapolis in order to provide their children with medical care.
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It's getting cold here in Providence, and our distro fund is currently overdrawn because we had to buy more cold weather and harm reduction supplies for our unhoused neighbors. Please send what you can!
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Venmo: @rijbgc
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Venmo: @rijbgc
December 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM
It's getting cold here in Providence, and our distro fund is currently overdrawn because we had to buy more cold weather and harm reduction supplies for our unhoused neighbors. Please send what you can!
💸🧤🧦🧣☕️
Venmo: @rijbgc
💸🧤🧦🧣☕️
Venmo: @rijbgc
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SPD Invites Officers in "Officer Involved Shootings" to Attend Billy Graham Evangelical Ministry Retreat
The fundamentalist ministry, run by Donald Trump ally Franklin Graham, is anti-LGBTQ and anti-choice—and teaches that a woman's place is in the home.
publicola.com/2025/12/15/s...
The fundamentalist ministry, run by Donald Trump ally Franklin Graham, is anti-LGBTQ and anti-choice—and teaches that a woman's place is in the home.
publicola.com/2025/12/15/s...
SPD Invites Officers in "Officer Involved Shootings" to Attend Billy Graham Evangelical Ministry Retreat - PubliCola
By Erica C. Barnett Seattle Police Department sergeant Christopher Gregorio sent a department-wide email Monday morning inviting officers and their…
publicola.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:41 AM
SPD Invites Officers in "Officer Involved Shootings" to Attend Billy Graham Evangelical Ministry Retreat
The fundamentalist ministry, run by Donald Trump ally Franklin Graham, is anti-LGBTQ and anti-choice—and teaches that a woman's place is in the home.
publicola.com/2025/12/15/s...
The fundamentalist ministry, run by Donald Trump ally Franklin Graham, is anti-LGBTQ and anti-choice—and teaches that a woman's place is in the home.
publicola.com/2025/12/15/s...
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The videos are supplements to my reporting. You can support my work below:
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Writings about policing, inequality, and a better world.
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December 16, 2025 at 12:29 AM
The videos are supplements to my reporting. You can support my work below:
www.joeyscott.xyz
www.joeyscott.xyz
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The LAPD gets $1 million to cover hiring officers into January despite the city’s budget crisis. It’s a symptom of a bigger problem: no matter the conditions, there’s always money for police.
December 16, 2025 at 12:28 AM
The LAPD gets $1 million to cover hiring officers into January despite the city’s budget crisis. It’s a symptom of a bigger problem: no matter the conditions, there’s always money for police.
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why would immigrants do this www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
December 16, 2025 at 12:21 AM
why would immigrants do this www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
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Only the same guys who were sending counter-terrorism alerts to each other over Bernie Sanders tweeting about my union in 2019 would've come up with this. It's like fusion center bulletin mad libs. bsky.app/profile/alex...
This is a post-9/11-style entrapment. You can tell by the DHS-fusion-center-bulletin-brained group name. And going to the desert, which has no advantage over someone’s basement other than allowing the FBI to avoid having any other witnesses, is a nice added touch. apnews.com/article/los-...
December 16, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Only the same guys who were sending counter-terrorism alerts to each other over Bernie Sanders tweeting about my union in 2019 would've come up with this. It's like fusion center bulletin mad libs. bsky.app/profile/alex...
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MAGA faithful reading his Rob Reiner reflections
December 16, 2025 at 12:09 AM
MAGA faithful reading his Rob Reiner reflections
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December 16, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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A nuclear-armed U.S. under full totalitarian control is an existential threat to billions of people. To life on this planet.
It's up to us, U.S. citizens living here in the imperial core, to stop it. Nobody is coming to save us. Not the U.N., not the ICJ. It's us or it's nobody.
It's up to us, U.S. citizens living here in the imperial core, to stop it. Nobody is coming to save us. Not the U.N., not the ICJ. It's us or it's nobody.
December 15, 2025 at 1:45 AM
A nuclear-armed U.S. under full totalitarian control is an existential threat to billions of people. To life on this planet.
It's up to us, U.S. citizens living here in the imperial core, to stop it. Nobody is coming to save us. Not the U.N., not the ICJ. It's us or it's nobody.
It's up to us, U.S. citizens living here in the imperial core, to stop it. Nobody is coming to save us. Not the U.N., not the ICJ. It's us or it's nobody.
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Rep. Randy Finealso rushed to blame Muslims and call for Muslim Americans to be punished. “Diversity has become suicidal,” he said. “It is time for a Muslim travel ban, radical deportations of all mainstream Muslim legal and illegal immigrants, and citizenship revocations wherever possible.”
December 15, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Rep. Randy Finealso rushed to blame Muslims and call for Muslim Americans to be punished. “Diversity has become suicidal,” he said. “It is time for a Muslim travel ban, radical deportations of all mainstream Muslim legal and illegal immigrants, and citizenship revocations wherever possible.”
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“Islam is not a religion. It’s a cult,” said Sen. Tommy Tuberville. “Stop worrying about offending the pearl clutchers. We’ve got to SEND THEM HOME NOW or we’ll become the United Caliphate of America.”
December 15, 2025 at 11:30 PM
“Islam is not a religion. It’s a cult,” said Sen. Tommy Tuberville. “Stop worrying about offending the pearl clutchers. We’ve got to SEND THEM HOME NOW or we’ll become the United Caliphate of America.”
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Nice gyre. Widening?
December 14, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Nice gyre. Widening?
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There's a cross-platform uniformity to how LLMs bullshit you.
Today I was designing an exercise for a responisble-use of-LLMs course we are designing for NIH trainees. I asked ChatGPT to complete one of Claude Shannon's original guessing games:
"There is no reverse on a __(10 letters)__"
Today I was designing an exercise for a responisble-use of-LLMs course we are designing for NIH trainees. I asked ChatGPT to complete one of Claude Shannon's original guessing games:
"There is no reverse on a __(10 letters)__"
December 15, 2025 at 11:25 PM
There's a cross-platform uniformity to how LLMs bullshit you.
Today I was designing an exercise for a responisble-use of-LLMs course we are designing for NIH trainees. I asked ChatGPT to complete one of Claude Shannon's original guessing games:
"There is no reverse on a __(10 letters)__"
Today I was designing an exercise for a responisble-use of-LLMs course we are designing for NIH trainees. I asked ChatGPT to complete one of Claude Shannon's original guessing games:
"There is no reverse on a __(10 letters)__"
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for anyone who doesn’t understand the context here, a levee broke due to the weeks of excessive rain we’ve been getting — not a sudden event! — and Amazon tried to force its workers to stay on the job or punish them for calling out
forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatx...
forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatx...
December 15, 2025 at 10:28 PM
for anyone who doesn’t understand the context here, a levee broke due to the weeks of excessive rain we’ve been getting — not a sudden event! — and Amazon tried to force its workers to stay on the job or punish them for calling out
forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatx...
forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatx...
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> Amazon's response to the flooding has been to write people up who are late and to refuse to let people leave who live in evacuation areas. Seems like letting an entire warehouse die in a tornado wasn't a learning experience.
December 15, 2025 at 10:22 PM
> Amazon's response to the flooding has been to write people up who are late and to refuse to let people leave who live in evacuation areas. Seems like letting an entire warehouse die in a tornado wasn't a learning experience.
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