Zechariah
@zechariahj.bsky.social
Professional non-fiction writer (i.e., lawyer)
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Finally, a use for the American Shahed
Why should we increase military spending? So we can keep murdering fisherman in the Carribean?
December 11, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Finally, a use for the American Shahed
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Rutgers U scientist who bred downy-mildew-resistant basil receives major recognition. It says here that he "helped save the world's basil" and that may be a slight over-statement but I grow this basil breed in my own backyard and it is pretty great! www.rutgers.edu/news/james-s...
James Simon, Who Helped Save the World’s Basil, Receives Highest Honor for His Work
www.rutgers.edu
December 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Rutgers U scientist who bred downy-mildew-resistant basil receives major recognition. It says here that he "helped save the world's basil" and that may be a slight over-statement but I grow this basil breed in my own backyard and it is pretty great! www.rutgers.edu/news/james-s...
in college I had an airplane project that I had to build but I couldn’t hack it and I presented a windmill instead
I somehow got a C and never thought that experience would be relevant again.
I somehow got a C and never thought that experience would be relevant again.
Incredible scenes here: Boom Supersonic is raising $300mm and pivoting to AI by signing a contract to supply its turbines as electrical power for data centers. They're even talking about converting turbines from simple to combined cycle via a "field upgrade". This is all deranged.
Boom Supersonic raises $300M to build natural gas turbines for Crusoe data centers | TechCrunch
Crusoe will pay Boom $1.25 billion for more than a gigawatt of generating capacity with deliveries of the turbines starting in 2027.
techcrunch.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:45 PM
in college I had an airplane project that I had to build but I couldn’t hack it and I presented a windmill instead
I somehow got a C and never thought that experience would be relevant again.
I somehow got a C and never thought that experience would be relevant again.
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it's always funny when a cis woman who doesn't even pass is trying to downplay a policy that revolves around harassing people who don't pass
Staggering arrogance and stupidity from McDonnell. We all know what sex we are. There's no reason for men to break the law and use women's single-sex spaces. They can simply respect women's boundaries or can be told to leave. Women matter in society, law, culture, politics ... and elections!
December 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
it's always funny when a cis woman who doesn't even pass is trying to downplay a policy that revolves around harassing people who don't pass
A lot of lives could have been saved if the administration did this instead of killing real people in the Caribbean. All they wanted was the video anyways.
The latest trend in Facebook’s ever downward spiral down the AI slop toilet are AI deportation videos. And the Facebook algorithm is rewarding creators for it. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports.
Full story: www.404media.co/ai-generated...
Full story: www.404media.co/ai-generated...
December 6, 2025 at 7:48 PM
A lot of lives could have been saved if the administration did this instead of killing real people in the Caribbean. All they wanted was the video anyways.
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I am not joking when I say that these people changed my position on Capital Punishment. I lived in Boston when the marathon was bombed and I didn't like the death sentence in that case, but these guys keep gleefully keep racking up the body count and it's bringing out the worst in me.
They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 2:55 AM
I am not joking when I say that these people changed my position on Capital Punishment. I lived in Boston when the marathon was bombed and I didn't like the death sentence in that case, but these guys keep gleefully keep racking up the body count and it's bringing out the worst in me.
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over 10000 fictional children would have seen fictional women’s fictional nudity in this one allegorical work alone
narrowly averted by these brave safety teams
narrowly averted by these brave safety teams
December 4, 2025 at 7:06 PM
over 10000 fictional children would have seen fictional women’s fictional nudity in this one allegorical work alone
narrowly averted by these brave safety teams
narrowly averted by these brave safety teams
Does anyone else see this commentary written out and feel like it’s translated Russian television?
Fox’s Greg Gutfeld on double tap boat strike: “It's just better for us to kill them in the ocean, make them shark feed, be done with it”
December 3, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Does anyone else see this commentary written out and feel like it’s translated Russian television?
There is always a content based speech restriction against personally insulting a professor in your essay.
December 1, 2025 at 5:20 PM
There is always a content based speech restriction against personally insulting a professor in your essay.
Mocking this with apprehension knowing I wrote some bad essays in my day
Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough
November 29, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Mocking this with apprehension knowing I wrote some bad essays in my day
“You’re making things up again, Arnold”
"God created...women in the image of his beauty"?
Imagine typing that and not thinking about what you just typed. 😂
Imagine typing that and not thinking about what you just typed. 😂
November 29, 2025 at 6:08 PM
“You’re making things up again, Arnold”
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This is genocidal logic, but it's also just deeply embarrassing magical thinking. The "facts & logic" crowd insists I can't be a woman because they've convinced themselves that would require some woo woo notion of "gender identity", but they find this fucking volksgeist nonsense totally plausible?
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 5:36 AM
This is genocidal logic, but it's also just deeply embarrassing magical thinking. The "facts & logic" crowd insists I can't be a woman because they've convinced themselves that would require some woo woo notion of "gender identity", but they find this fucking volksgeist nonsense totally plausible?
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i think in particular rhe “sex isn’t the problem, the bad ethics are” takes are incredibly risible. no, like, the sex is inextricably related to everything else
November 27, 2025 at 4:03 AM
i think in particular rhe “sex isn’t the problem, the bad ethics are” takes are incredibly risible. no, like, the sex is inextricably related to everything else
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you really think that “willing to be mistress to powerful people, no matter how evil and disgusting” and “commits pathological breach of professional ethics” have zero relationship with each other?
November 27, 2025 at 4:07 AM
you really think that “willing to be mistress to powerful people, no matter how evil and disgusting” and “commits pathological breach of professional ethics” have zero relationship with each other?
Someone ought to tell these people that elite schools still have affirmative action by state.
Not hard to be the top student in Arkansas!
Not hard to be the top student in Arkansas!
"Now a Palo Alto High junior, Xu said she’s focused on exploring her passions. ... Still, she said the thought lingers that, “My parents did so much for me. They moved countries. If I don’t succeed, was it all for nothing?”"
No pressure!
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
No pressure!
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
To help their kids ‘climb the ivy,’ Chinese mothers uproot their families for Silicon Valley schools
“Harvard, Yale, Princeton, it’s on every family’s mind,” said a consultant. “The brand name of the university is a huge attraction for East Asian families who view education as an...
www.sfchronicle.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Someone ought to tell these people that elite schools still have affirmative action by state.
Not hard to be the top student in Arkansas!
Not hard to be the top student in Arkansas!
Yes, which is why the judge dismissing on this basis was a coward’s way out
I mean you could drag an appeal out for a year, easy. That way you’re not faced with litigation of the embarrassingly meritorious vindictive prosecution motions or any of the other trash-fire elements of this; you get to litigate a dry statutory interpretation issue.
November 24, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Yes, which is why the judge dismissing on this basis was a coward’s way out
This is the opposite of what’s real. Every country has standard state run universities.
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
November 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
This is the opposite of what’s real. Every country has standard state run universities.
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There’s a whole lot of political thought made up from nothing more than “We’ve got to put these people on that land, then make them stay there.”
It’s everywhere. There might even be some aspects of it that you like. And yet it’s always hostile in practice to individual and even communal dignity.
It’s everywhere. There might even be some aspects of it that you like. And yet it’s always hostile in practice to individual and even communal dignity.
November 21, 2025 at 4:21 PM
There’s a whole lot of political thought made up from nothing more than “We’ve got to put these people on that land, then make them stay there.”
It’s everywhere. There might even be some aspects of it that you like. And yet it’s always hostile in practice to individual and even communal dignity.
It’s everywhere. There might even be some aspects of it that you like. And yet it’s always hostile in practice to individual and even communal dignity.
It would be a great improvement if everyone could just stop lying.
You do not have a real opinion about building heights. Just stop it.
You do not have a real opinion about building heights. Just stop it.
Forget Eureka. This quote should be California’s state motto:
November 21, 2025 at 2:26 AM
It would be a great improvement if everyone could just stop lying.
You do not have a real opinion about building heights. Just stop it.
You do not have a real opinion about building heights. Just stop it.
I can do this in my head and none of you prudes can stop me
This is a nuts story. An AI chatbot and image platform left millions of images exposed. They show what people are actually using the AI for: taking random women's yearbook, graduation, and social media photos and making super realistic hardcore porn with them
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn
Chatbot roleplay and image generator platform SecretDesires.ai left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social me...
www.404media.co
November 19, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I can do this in my head and none of you prudes can stop me
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The idea that location is important in housing is one of the least controversial ideas in human history. I have no idea why anyone is even trying to dispute this.
people do in fact prize location very highly, as demonstrated by the fact that people are not moving to random houses in the middle of nowhere
November 19, 2025 at 2:54 AM
The idea that location is important in housing is one of the least controversial ideas in human history. I have no idea why anyone is even trying to dispute this.
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Lol everyone from random places gets to call cities hellholes because we let gay people live here and the moment we hit back we're being contemptuous
Yeah a big part of the problem here is that highly online YIMBYs just regard all these places as unlivable hellholes that people only buy houses in because they’re priced out of NYC. Look at all the contemptuous nicknames they have for the places where 75% of Americans actually live!
November 18, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Lol everyone from random places gets to call cities hellholes because we let gay people live here and the moment we hit back we're being contemptuous