Swarmpicker
@swarmpicker.bsky.social
I'm a social psychologist, swarm intelligence pioneer, guitar player, retired. Mostly spend my time on music these days, a few gigs, some recording. Live in Maryland, grew up in Arizona.
This is just embarrassing.
The con artist is at it again with a made up #FIFA peace prize. I think it was meant as the #PieceOfShit prize, then it would a real prize #MAGAmorons eat that shit up #DV1 #ProudBlue
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Trump Humiliates Himself And America By Accepting A Made Up Peace Prize
Donald Trump hit a new low on Friday when he accepted a peace prize that was made up by the soccer organization FIFA in a ceremony that was embarrassing for the nation.
www.politicususa.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:16 PM
This is just embarrassing.
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Rural folks need to face the reality that they are "takers" and the cities are "givers". So step 1 is for cities to demand statehood. Let Central Missouri be a state, bordered by a St Louis state and Kansas City state. See what it's like to have your tax-free utopia.
December 5, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Rural folks need to face the reality that they are "takers" and the cities are "givers". So step 1 is for cities to demand statehood. Let Central Missouri be a state, bordered by a St Louis state and Kansas City state. See what it's like to have your tax-free utopia.
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The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.
December 5, 2025 at 1:20 AM
The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.
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imagine US political culture if Ford hadn't pardoned Nixon, and instead he went to jail
December 4, 2025 at 8:12 PM
imagine US political culture if Ford hadn't pardoned Nixon, and instead he went to jail
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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
You gotta love how the IG doesn't refer to him as the "Secretary of War."
You would be right to be skeptical of the Pentagon's new pocket press corps' characterization of the DOD IG's report on Pete Hegseth's Signalgate scandal. You can also read the report yourself at the DOD site here: media.defense.gov/2025/Dec/04/...
December 5, 2025 at 5:08 PM
You gotta love how the IG doesn't refer to him as the "Secretary of War."
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Whatever happened to, "Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime. That's why I poop, on company time."
December 5, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Whatever happened to, "Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime. That's why I poop, on company time."
Good point. Also eugenics is an experiment that has to take place over many generations to have a real effect, and it's hard to do anything on that kind of long-term schedule.
Can you think of any project (besides a govt) that has lasted more than 100 years or so?
Can you think of any project (besides a govt) that has lasted more than 100 years or so?
As a bioethicist, I also feel the need to add that the central issue with eugenics is “it’s evil” not “it’s factually incorrect.” And if we finally learned that, maybe big name bioethicists wouldn’t publish “what if eugenics but hi-tech” every five years.
1. Historically, eugenics was not a pseudoscience. It was *science* Almost every scientist, social scientist, academic, etc. believed in the validity of eugenics. You would have to search far & wide to find a scientist that didn't believe in some form of it. They taught it in college!
December 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Good point. Also eugenics is an experiment that has to take place over many generations to have a real effect, and it's hard to do anything on that kind of long-term schedule.
Can you think of any project (besides a govt) that has lasted more than 100 years or so?
Can you think of any project (besides a govt) that has lasted more than 100 years or so?
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If we can only have art from people who "aren't in it for the money" that means we can only have art from privileged middle-class dilettantes. Making art being a viable career is responsible for nearly all worthwhile art, and if it's not a viable career any more we will get drastically less of it.
December 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
If we can only have art from people who "aren't in it for the money" that means we can only have art from privileged middle-class dilettantes. Making art being a viable career is responsible for nearly all worthwhile art, and if it's not a viable career any more we will get drastically less of it.
We're not sending them our best people.
CBP seizes guns, ammunition at outgoing Texas port of entry
www.upi.com
CBP seizes guns, ammunition at outgoing Texas port of entry - UPI.com
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December 4, 2025 at 4:09 AM
We're not sending them our best people.
It's kinda disconcerting when people assume these probably-fishermen were actually drug smugglers. I have not heard of any evidence suggesting they were doing anything other than fishing.
It isn't a war. If it were, the strikes are still war crimes.
The drugs weren't headed to the U.S.
The people killed were likely poor, low-level smugglers, not drug lords.
Most overdose deaths are from fentanyl. Fentanyl doesn't come from South America.
Everything else Marshall says is correct!
The drugs weren't headed to the U.S.
The people killed were likely poor, low-level smugglers, not drug lords.
Most overdose deaths are from fentanyl. Fentanyl doesn't come from South America.
Everything else Marshall says is correct!
Sen. Roger Marshall defends Hegseth: "Look, we're losing 200 Americans every day to drug poisoning from these drug lords. This is a war. And it's ugly. War is never pretty ... that strike probably saved thousands of American lives."
December 3, 2025 at 11:18 PM
It's kinda disconcerting when people assume these probably-fishermen were actually drug smugglers. I have not heard of any evidence suggesting they were doing anything other than fishing.
I've used MuseScore for years and always loved it, but it has been enshittified almost beyond being usable now.
December 3, 2025 at 8:58 PM
I've used MuseScore for years and always loved it, but it has been enshittified almost beyond being usable now.
Wow I failed Wordle today. One slot could have been any of a *lot* of letters.
December 3, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Wow I failed Wordle today. One slot could have been any of a *lot* of letters.
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There have been at least 19 murders in D.C. since Trump deployed the National Guard here in August. One was the murder of a Guard soldier less than a week ago.
December 2, 2025 at 5:45 PM
There have been at least 19 murders in D.C. since Trump deployed the National Guard here in August. One was the murder of a Guard soldier less than a week ago.
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Kirkland >>>Trumpland
December 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Kirkland >>>Trumpland
I keep saying, we are inviting a Crusade. The Catholic Church can do what sovereign governments can't.
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Pope Leo urges US not to attempt military ouster of Venezuela's Maduro
Pope Leo urged U.S. President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday not to try to oust Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro using military force.
www.reuters.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:48 AM
I keep saying, we are inviting a Crusade. The Catholic Church can do what sovereign governments can't.
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
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Sick, immature worker ants produce a signal that triggers their nestmates to destroy them, according to a study of a single ant species in Nature Communications. This act is thought to benefit the colony as a whole by preventing the spread of infection. go.nature.com/3Ks2Kqe 🧪
December 2, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Sick, immature worker ants produce a signal that triggers their nestmates to destroy them, according to a study of a single ant species in Nature Communications. This act is thought to benefit the colony as a whole by preventing the spread of infection. go.nature.com/3Ks2Kqe 🧪
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If Admiral Bradley didn’t realize before that these cowards were setting him up to take the fall, he knows it now. Time to hire a good lawyer.
December 2, 2025 at 12:44 AM
If Admiral Bradley didn’t realize before that these cowards were setting him up to take the fall, he knows it now. Time to hire a good lawyer.
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Trump: we’re going to keep America safe. We’re keeping the drugs out!
Also Trump: pardons a guy convicted of trying to bring *hundreds of tons* of cocaine into the US.
Also Trump: pardons a guy convicted of trying to bring *hundreds of tons* of cocaine into the US.
December 1, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Trump: we’re going to keep America safe. We’re keeping the drugs out!
Also Trump: pardons a guy convicted of trying to bring *hundreds of tons* of cocaine into the US.
Also Trump: pardons a guy convicted of trying to bring *hundreds of tons* of cocaine into the US.
Imagine what will happen when the Admiral is charged with murder or a war crime, and cowards above him let him take the fall.
People will understand that, unless this Adm. Bradley is one bloodthirsty nut who loves killing people.
People will understand that, unless this Adm. Bradley is one bloodthirsty nut who loves killing people.
December 1, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Imagine what will happen when the Admiral is charged with murder or a war crime, and cowards above him let him take the fall.
People will understand that, unless this Adm. Bradley is one bloodthirsty nut who loves killing people.
People will understand that, unless this Adm. Bradley is one bloodthirsty nut who loves killing people.
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
I get email from The Intercept asking for donations but, I'm sorry, I can't get over how they ratted out Reality Winner and destroyed her life.
December 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I get email from The Intercept asking for donations but, I'm sorry, I can't get over how they ratted out Reality Winner and destroyed her life.
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"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
November 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.