𑀅𑀓𑁆𑀱 🌉 𐨀𐨐𐨿𐨮 𓃠🏴🚩🇵🇸🇺🇦🇦🇲🇸🇾
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Do Imb amuse yuo Momb?….What amb I, sum kindt ov JOAK to yuo??
December 26, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Do Imb amuse yuo Momb?….What amb I, sum kindt ov JOAK to yuo??
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In case you needed to see a cat in a beret
December 23, 2025 at 9:52 PM
In case you needed to see a cat in a beret
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[Momager here. Full transparency, some drinks have been drunk! So this is a little bit more sentimental than usual. But I wanted to just say how much I love this tiny, furry idiot, and how lucky I am that she chose me to be her human. Thank you Bluesky friends for being such a lovely community.]
December 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
[Momager here. Full transparency, some drinks have been drunk! So this is a little bit more sentimental than usual. But I wanted to just say how much I love this tiny, furry idiot, and how lucky I am that she chose me to be her human. Thank you Bluesky friends for being such a lovely community.]
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today is international homer day and thats why I can't move him to put the bed cover i washed back on
December 27, 2025 at 12:14 AM
today is international homer day and thats why I can't move him to put the bed cover i washed back on
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They say hi too 🤗
December 27, 2025 at 12:14 AM
They say hi too 🤗
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Also: is this safe? Did they consult with a psychiatrist before doing this? I don't want these people around kids. They might give the kids ideas to mutilate their bodies. Don't let them become teachers. If you do this you should be banned from sports. You have to tell me if you get this.
December 27, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Also: is this safe? Did they consult with a psychiatrist before doing this? I don't want these people around kids. They might give the kids ideas to mutilate their bodies. Don't let them become teachers. If you do this you should be banned from sports. You have to tell me if you get this.
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I always talk about how no one more strenuously or vigorously takes efforts to affirm their own gender than cis people. The level of work they put into it outstrips us by far.
December 27, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I always talk about how no one more strenuously or vigorously takes efforts to affirm their own gender than cis people. The level of work they put into it outstrips us by far.
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I saw this mug when I was doing my Christmas shopping but put it back on the shelf because I was supposed to be shopping for others. I have not been able to stop thinking about it. So today I went out and brought it home 🐾
December 27, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I saw this mug when I was doing my Christmas shopping but put it back on the shelf because I was supposed to be shopping for others. I have not been able to stop thinking about it. So today I went out and brought it home 🐾
I am... horrified!
December 27, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I am... horrified!
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while i have your attention, block popehat, the original "we have to hear him out" jesse singal white knight
December 7, 2024 at 7:01 AM
while i have your attention, block popehat, the original "we have to hear him out" jesse singal white knight
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JD Vance's career was financed by Peter Thiel, an immigrant, and one of Trump's biggest fundraisers was his AI czar, David Sacks, also an immigrant. Trump's Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-Deremer is the daughter of an immigrant, and his Secretary of State Rubio is also the son of immigrants.
December 27, 2025 at 12:16 AM
JD Vance's career was financed by Peter Thiel, an immigrant, and one of Trump's biggest fundraisers was his AI czar, David Sacks, also an immigrant. Trump's Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-Deremer is the daughter of an immigrant, and his Secretary of State Rubio is also the son of immigrants.
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It’s pretty wild that the most rabidly anti-immigrant administration in recent memory is comprised of a President married to an immigrant, a VP married to the daughter of immigrants, an assistant AG in charge of Civil Rights who’s an immigrant (Dhillon), & it was all funded by an immigrant (Musk).
December 27, 2025 at 12:12 AM
It’s pretty wild that the most rabidly anti-immigrant administration in recent memory is comprised of a President married to an immigrant, a VP married to the daughter of immigrants, an assistant AG in charge of Civil Rights who’s an immigrant (Dhillon), & it was all funded by an immigrant (Musk).
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The masculine urge to be controlled in every aspect of your life and identity. The masculine urge to ask permission to exist. The masculine urge to have 0 confidence in your own tastes and choices.
December 27, 2025 at 12:05 AM
The masculine urge to be controlled in every aspect of your life and identity. The masculine urge to ask permission to exist. The masculine urge to have 0 confidence in your own tastes and choices.
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Gender-affirming care!
December 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Gender-affirming care!
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December 27, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Yes another example of gender affirming care for cis ppl.
December 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Yes another example of gender affirming care for cis ppl.
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Pffft.
Hey, idea: give all that fatty tissue to me. Don’t wanna waste it.
Hey, idea: give all that fatty tissue to me. Don’t wanna waste it.
December 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Pffft.
Hey, idea: give all that fatty tissue to me. Don’t wanna waste it.
Hey, idea: give all that fatty tissue to me. Don’t wanna waste it.
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There’s a lesson here about writing in the age of weaponized lies: Always precede false claims with giant red text, ideally wrapped in a <blink> tag, that says “THIS IS A LIE I AM REFUTING!!”
But also, why is a book that makes this kind of lazy, bad-faith argumentation getting any accolades at all?
But also, why is a book that makes this kind of lazy, bad-faith argumentation getting any accolades at all?
December 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
There’s a lesson here about writing in the age of weaponized lies: Always precede false claims with giant red text, ideally wrapped in a <blink> tag, that says “THIS IS A LIE I AM REFUTING!!”
But also, why is a book that makes this kind of lazy, bad-faith argumentation getting any accolades at all?
But also, why is a book that makes this kind of lazy, bad-faith argumentation getting any accolades at all?
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And yet, In Covid’s Wake quotes me as saying that “the FBI went beyond strategic information sharing and made direct moderation demands” — literally the opposite of what I argue — to buttress their claim that the government was too busy censoring speech to adequately deal with the pandemic.
December 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
And yet, In Covid’s Wake quotes me as saying that “the FBI went beyond strategic information sharing and made direct moderation demands” — literally the opposite of what I argue — to buttress their claim that the government was too busy censoring speech to adequately deal with the pandemic.
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One such refutation appears in my paper under the heading “The FBI went beyond strategic information sharing and made direct moderation demands.” I spend several hundred words explaining that that didn’t happen.
![Receiving and acting on external reports is a core function of plattorm content moderation teams, and the essential nature of this work is an independent evaluation of reported content under the platform's own policies. The fact, cited in Missouri v. Biden, that platforms only acted on approximately half of reports from the FBI shows clearly that the standards platforms applied were not wholly, or even mostly, the government's.
Finally, it does not withstand factual scrutiny that platforms were so petrified of adverse consequences from the FBI that they uncritically accepted and acted on information sent to them by the government. The Twitter Files themselves document clearly at least two instances in which, presented with low-quality information or questionable demands, Twitter pushed back on the FBI's requests. In one case, the FBI passes on a request-seemingly from the NSA-that Twitter "revis[e] its terms of service" to allow an open-source intelligence vendor to collect data from the Twitter APIs to inform the NSA's activities. This request is arguably as close to jawboning as any interaction between Twitter and the FBI gets; yet, in response, I summarily dismissed not only the request for a meeting to discuss the topic, but the entire premise of the request, writing, "The best path for NSA, or any part of government, to request information about Twitter users or their content is in accordance with valid legal process." The question was not raised again.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ka6qwlgc2fec7gkz6cfuuxgx/bafkreibhs7piz367lbv4dfkgv3zw27p2wys2cqsuyn53oecxdnzusu5goq@jpeg)
December 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
One such refutation appears in my paper under the heading “The FBI went beyond strategic information sharing and made direct moderation demands.” I spend several hundred words explaining that that didn’t happen.
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The authors quote from an article I wrote in 2023, refuting false claims about government jawboning of social media platforms. One of the claims I directly push back against is the persistent lie that the FBI demanded Twitter censor online speech.
knightcolumbia.org/blog/getting...
knightcolumbia.org/blog/getting...
Getting the Facts Straight: Some Observations on the Fifth Circuit Ruling in Missouri v. Biden
knightcolumbia.org
December 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The authors quote from an article I wrote in 2023, refuting false claims about government jawboning of social media platforms. One of the claims I directly push back against is the persistent lie that the FBI demanded Twitter censor online speech.
knightcolumbia.org/blog/getting...
knightcolumbia.org/blog/getting...
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A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
December 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
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I 💙 large woody debris!! (And so do salmon!)
Several organizations in Oregon will collect discarded Christmas trees to help build habitat for salmon and steelhead.
Oregon Christmas trees can get a second life as habitat for salmon
If you’re thinking about what you’re going to do with your Christmas tree, have you ever thought about turning it into a home… for fish?
www.opb.org
December 26, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I 💙 large woody debris!! (And so do salmon!)
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Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.
December 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.
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Any "free speech" organization that partners with the Manhattan Institute to file an amicus brief is not actually a "free speech" organization.
NEW: A prominent free speech group helped right-wing dark money score a legal win against an Ohio school board and its anti-bullying policy, which protected transgender and nonbinary students.
www.importantcontext.news/p/how-a-free...
www.importantcontext.news/p/how-a-free...
How a Free Speech Group Helped Right-Wing Dark Money Undermine Protections for Trans and Nonbinary Students
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression weighed in on a case brought by Parents Defending Education in Ohio.
www.importantcontext.news
December 26, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Any "free speech" organization that partners with the Manhattan Institute to file an amicus brief is not actually a "free speech" organization.