R. Fuckminster Buller
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Either war is obsolete or men are.
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when I got a german shepherd I never wanted to be seen as one of these types of guys and i think that’s why my second dog was the most beautiful and gay dog imaginable
December 26, 2025 at 6:28 PM
when I got a german shepherd I never wanted to be seen as one of these types of guys and i think that’s why my second dog was the most beautiful and gay dog imaginable
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It’s the 32nd anniversary today of one of the greatest chase sequences in the whole history of the motion picture, which means it’s also the anniversary of the single greatest sound effect 🧵👇
Well, it’s the day after Wallace and Gromit rode again – and it’s the 31st anniversary of the first appearance of the greatest sound effect in the history of the motion picture, so here’s the story of how (I found out how) they made it...
December 26, 2025 at 6:36 PM
It’s the 32nd anniversary today of one of the greatest chase sequences in the whole history of the motion picture, which means it’s also the anniversary of the single greatest sound effect 🧵👇
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Didn’t get everything you wanted for Christmas? These single-digit billionaires can increasingly relate.
December 26, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Didn’t get everything you wanted for Christmas? These single-digit billionaires can increasingly relate.
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If you need a last minute Christmas present, consider haunted shoe.
Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
More than 400 leather hobnailed boots, thought to date back to the 19th Century, have been found.
www.bbc.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
If you need a last minute Christmas present, consider haunted shoe.
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I bet Stephen Colbert, a gentle, humanistic wife guy who loves lord of the rings and went into sketch comedy for a living, did not ever expect to have his life threatened by the president of the United States with only two more sleeps til Christmas.
The president is apparently celebrating Festivus and the airing of the grievance is about 45 minutes too late.
December 24, 2025 at 6:50 AM
I bet Stephen Colbert, a gentle, humanistic wife guy who loves lord of the rings and went into sketch comedy for a living, did not ever expect to have his life threatened by the president of the United States with only two more sleeps til Christmas.
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Literally any other attorney general before Bondi would have fought tooth and nail and then resigned over this alone. Letting White House staff take over making public statements in the name of DOJ is in and of itself completely insane.
December 24, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Literally any other attorney general before Bondi would have fought tooth and nail and then resigned over this alone. Letting White House staff take over making public statements in the name of DOJ is in and of itself completely insane.
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What is the real world equivalent of a dark souls merchant located in a hard to reach place in the middle of nowhere with deadly enemies right next to them, complaining about how little business they get lately
December 24, 2025 at 8:46 AM
What is the real world equivalent of a dark souls merchant located in a hard to reach place in the middle of nowhere with deadly enemies right next to them, complaining about how little business they get lately
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If you’re rich enough to comprehensively thwart service we should tax you until you’re not.
December 24, 2025 at 2:00 AM
If you’re rich enough to comprehensively thwart service we should tax you until you’re not.
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It is crazy that the president can sue anyone while he is president by the way. There is always incentive to settle if he is office and it always effectively a bribe. Congress needs to eliminate that possibility
December 23, 2025 at 11:07 PM
It is crazy that the president can sue anyone while he is president by the way. There is always incentive to settle if he is office and it always effectively a bribe. Congress needs to eliminate that possibility
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Btw this is one of the biggest reasons why it’s not as easy as people think to start up independent newsrooms or just be an indie journalist on substack. If you are actually holding powerful and rich people to account, you WILL need legal representation. Not a matter of whether but when
I say that as someone who has started newsrooms from scratch sometimes with two people - if you’re doing your job correctly you will need a lawyer because the first thing rich people do when you write something they don’t like is threaten you legally. It’s cheap for them and expensive for you
December 23, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Btw this is one of the biggest reasons why it’s not as easy as people think to start up independent newsrooms or just be an indie journalist on substack. If you are actually holding powerful and rich people to account, you WILL need legal representation. Not a matter of whether but when
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It's so sad to know how many mid-career+ journalists who have been laid off and/or burned out are going to leave the industry because of how bad everything has become, not return, and journalism will suffer from that level of experience, skills and perspective walking out the door forever.
December 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
It's so sad to know how many mid-career+ journalists who have been laid off and/or burned out are going to leave the industry because of how bad everything has become, not return, and journalism will suffer from that level of experience, skills and perspective walking out the door forever.
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If you bet on Trump as permanent realignment by doing something like showing up to the inauguration to sit front row, personally pay for his vanity projects, or let him dictate your syllabi and admissions policies, or personally served to cut off foreign aid to fatal results, you have to be sweating
![Gallup poll | 12/1-12/15
President Trump approval crosstabs (%)
🟥Overall (59/36 disapprove) [-23]
🟥Democratic (93/3 disapprove) [-90]
🟩Republican (89/8 approve) [+81]
🟥Independent (68/25 disapprove) [-43]
🟥18-34 (68/25 disapprove) [-43]
🟥35-54 (59/36 disapprove) [-23]
🟥55+ (53/43 disapprove) [-10]
🟥No college (55/37 disapprove) [-18]
🟥College graduate (59/37 disapprove) [-22]
🟥Male (53/42 disapprove) [-11]
🟥Female (64/30 disapprove) [-34]
🟥White (52/46 disapprove) [-6]
🟥Non-white (71/21 disapprove) [-50]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreifnv6vxufu6icjvsd5toirz3lmqkzertdpdnlqh7q44momevhfjqq@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 2:45 AM
If you bet on Trump as permanent realignment by doing something like showing up to the inauguration to sit front row, personally pay for his vanity projects, or let him dictate your syllabi and admissions policies, or personally served to cut off foreign aid to fatal results, you have to be sweating
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All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house.
This is where America is now
This is where America is now
December 23, 2025 at 1:58 AM
All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house.
This is where America is now
This is where America is now
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great news on this, cait from 11 hours ago
I hope Bari Weiss is having a terrible day. I hope it's the worst day of her life and I hope the rest of them are even worse
December 23, 2025 at 12:22 AM
great news on this, cait from 11 hours ago
🧵
Wildly different things, tasks, techniques, subspecialties being lumped into "AI" and then being conflated with each other, doesn't help. Different types of models vs the techniques to train them vs the tasks they are supposed to accomplish, all under "AI".
December 22, 2025 at 10:57 PM
🧵
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!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
December 22, 2025 at 10:39 PM
!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
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Trump: "We're going down -- you can do your own math -- but it's 2,000%, 3,000%. It's pretty amazing"
December 22, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Trump: "We're going down -- you can do your own math -- but it's 2,000%, 3,000%. It's pretty amazing"
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Tyrant seeks to build a grandiose, outdated "golden fleet" he loudly declares will be unstoppable. Somewhere, a greek chorus escalates its chanting. #lateempirebingo
December 22, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Tyrant seeks to build a grandiose, outdated "golden fleet" he loudly declares will be unstoppable. Somewhere, a greek chorus escalates its chanting. #lateempirebingo
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In case you need to hear it from someone who was raised Hindu: Usha is not a hostage, she is an accomplice. She is culpable. Fuck her and the fascists she colludes with. May she go down with all of them. As Zohran ably demonstrates, our communities do not aspire to whiteness & don’t seek to appease.
Vance's latest rant has set off another misguided round of "free Usha" rhetoric. This isn't just inaccurate--she's wholly a part of this fascist project--it's dangerous. We can no longer afford to imagine fascism as smaller than it is. Hindu fascism is vast, too. No religion is immune.
December 22, 2025 at 4:53 AM
In case you need to hear it from someone who was raised Hindu: Usha is not a hostage, she is an accomplice. She is culpable. Fuck her and the fascists she colludes with. May she go down with all of them. As Zohran ably demonstrates, our communities do not aspire to whiteness & don’t seek to appease.
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Here’s a gift link to this stunner Washpost story, quoting the 60 Minutes correspondent on the CECOT story, who accuses Bari Weiss of spiking the piece all because the Trump Administration wouldn’t comment.
“Government silence is a statement, not a VETO.”
wapo.st/3YL4T3D
“Government silence is a statement, not a VETO.”
wapo.st/3YL4T3D
‘60 Minutes’ correspondent says CBS’s Bari Weiss abruptly pulled segment on Trump deportations
CBS News pulled a ‘60 Minutes’ segment about a prison in El Salvador one day before it was set to air because the Trump administration declined to participate.
wapo.st
December 22, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Here’s a gift link to this stunner Washpost story, quoting the 60 Minutes correspondent on the CECOT story, who accuses Bari Weiss of spiking the piece all because the Trump Administration wouldn’t comment.
“Government silence is a statement, not a VETO.”
wapo.st/3YL4T3D
“Government silence is a statement, not a VETO.”
wapo.st/3YL4T3D
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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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The CISA's new director, hand-picked by Kristi Noem, asked to be "read in" to highly sensitive, compartmentalized intelligence shared with a select few people in the civilian agency by the NSA or CIA.
It was so sensitive that his predecessor had never asked to see the raw intel. 1/
It was so sensitive that his predecessor had never asked to see the raw intel. 1/
Acting CISA director failed a polygraph. Career staff are now under investigation.
Acting CISA director failed a polygraph. Career staff are now under investigation.
At least six career staff were placed on leave after DHS opened an investigation into whether they misled the agency’s acting director, Madhu Gottumukkala, into taking the test.
dlvr.it
December 22, 2025 at 7:18 AM
The CISA's new director, hand-picked by Kristi Noem, asked to be "read in" to highly sensitive, compartmentalized intelligence shared with a select few people in the civilian agency by the NSA or CIA.
It was so sensitive that his predecessor had never asked to see the raw intel. 1/
It was so sensitive that his predecessor had never asked to see the raw intel. 1/
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my son (4) said he built a “crazy train” with his train set this morning so I introduced him to Crazy Train the song and now he’s playing trains and whisper chanting “CRAZY TRAIN” to himself
December 21, 2025 at 4:14 PM
my son (4) said he built a “crazy train” with his train set this morning so I introduced him to Crazy Train the song and now he’s playing trains and whisper chanting “CRAZY TRAIN” to himself
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to add to the Jake Paul schadenfreude, Andrew Tate also lost a fight to some reality TV influencer. most analysis of the fight I've read described his opponent as deeply untalented but Andrew lost anyway. Tate's endurance was awful and he was gassed after the first round.
December 21, 2025 at 12:46 AM
to add to the Jake Paul schadenfreude, Andrew Tate also lost a fight to some reality TV influencer. most analysis of the fight I've read described his opponent as deeply untalented but Andrew lost anyway. Tate's endurance was awful and he was gassed after the first round.