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cricketmice.bsky.social
An example of how Trump is a vehicle for grievances because everyone driven by resentment projects onto him. A leftist like AOC feels America is beautiful and wants to improve it. A crank leftist likes the idea of destroying America, but is totally powerless, therefore they approve of Trump doing it
December 19, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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chen-yenhan.bsky.social
I think if anyone needs any takeaway from what’s been going on here, it’s this:
November 21, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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walmsley.bsky.social
I recall someone (probably you) saying that the two failure modes of LLMs are recitation (reproducing the training data exactly) and hallucination (failing to reproduce the training data exactly)
October 13, 2025 at 8:49 PM
adro64.bsky.social
One must imagine the Toronto Blue Jays happy.
October 28, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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djinnandtonic.bsky.social
🇺🇸 🇫🇷 👁 À BAS LES MAGATARDS 👁 🇫🇷 🇺🇸
🇺🇸 🇫🇷 👁 À BAS LES PÉDOCONSERVATEURS 👁 🇫🇷 🇺🇸
🇺🇸 🇫🇷 👁 À BAS LES TRAITRE-VOLEURS 👁 🇫🇷 🇺🇸
The Marquis de Lafayette, in a dark waistcoat (?) with gold fringe and buttons
October 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social
If nothing else I find it obscene to turn governmental agencies that are meant to function as institutions in service of the entire American political community into overtly partisan propaganda mouthpieces.

It’s just such a visceral degeneration of civic life it drives me insane.
October 18, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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nick-tortelli.bsky.social
150,000 years into the future, an octo-man archeologist carefully lifts a book from an ancient box. He blows dust away from the cover, revealing a pregnant Sonic the Hedgehog riding Lightning McQueen reverse cowgirl style. "What could this mean?" the archeologist asks himself.
October 6, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com
heggseth's weird podcast rant (delivered to 800 generals and admirals for some reason) is just another sign of how this is a tv presidency. they don't really know how to do policy. their instinct is theater. encounter a problem? put on a spectacle
September 30, 2025 at 1:47 PM
adro64.bsky.social
Lollapalooza sucks this year
labonnelab.bsky.social @LaBonneLaB @labonnelab.bsky.social · Sep 28
Just a Sunday afternoon in the most touristy part of Chicago...😡
September 29, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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zachweinersmith.bsky.social
Full comic here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/tap-tap
#smbc
September 26, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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rincewind.run
the problem with doing WW2 revisionism on here is that everyone on this website is a thirty eight year old nerd who spent all of high school reading WW2 history books
September 24, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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govpritzker.illinois.gov
A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.

This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.

All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
September 17, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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proptermalone.bsky.social
they don't want pussy. they want to endlessly critique pussy
August 2, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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boxelderdust.bsky.social
Man what am I even supposed to say to this shit

That our ostensible leaders are feckless cowards who break down pissing like puppies at the sight their own shadow, too terrified to call a spade a spade? Yeah, I’ve known that for about 12 years, what else is new
September 11, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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adamisacson.com
Here's the video Trump just posted to Truth Social, with the claim that 11 people aboard the boat were killed.

There is zero evidence of self-defense here. Looks like a massacre of civilians at sea.

Even if they had drugs aboard, that's not a capital offense.
September 2, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
Full resignation letter from Demetre C. Daskalakis, a CDC leader, does not hold back.
"The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."
My resignation letter from CDC. Dear Dr. Houry, I am writing to formally resign from my position as Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), effective August 28, 2025, close of business. I am happy to stay on for two weeks to provide transition, if requested. This decision has not come easily, as I deeply value the work that the CDC does in safeguarding public health and am proud of my contributions to that critical mission. However, after much contemplation and reflection on recent developments and perspectives brought to light by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., I find that the views he and his staff have shared challenge my ability to continue in my current role at the agency and in the service of the health of the American people. Enough is enough. While I hold immense respect for the institution and my colleagues, I believe that it is imperative to align my professional responsibilities to my system of ethics and my understanding of the science of infectious disease, immunology, and my promise to serve the American people. This step is necessary to ensure that I can contribute effectively in a capacity that allows me to remain true to my principles. The recent change in the adult and children’s immunization schedule threaten the lives of the youngest Americans and pregnant people. The data analyses that supported this decision have never been shared with CDC despite my respectful requests to HHS and other leadership. This lack of meaningful engagement was further compounded by a “frequently asked questions” document written to support the Secretary’s directive that was circulated by HHS without input from CDC subject matter experts and that cited studies that did not support the conclusions that were attributed to these authors. Having worked in local and national public health for years, I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people. It is untenable to serve in an organization that is not afforded the opportunity to discuss decisions of scientific and public health importance released under the moniker of CDC. The lack of communication by HHS and other CDC political leadership that culminates in social media posts announcing major policy changes without prior notice demonstrate a disregard of normal communication channels and common sense. Having to retrofit analyses and policy actions to match inadequately thought-out announcements in poorly scripted videos or page long X posts should not be how organizations responsible for the health of people should function. Some examples include the announcement of the change in the COVID-19 recommendations for children and pregnant people, the firing of scientists from ACIP by X post and an op-ed rather than direct communication with these valuable experts, the announcement of new ACIP members by X before onboarding and vetting have completed, and the release of term of reference for an ACIP workgroup that ignored all feedback from career staff at CDC. Their desire to please a political base will result in death and disability of vulnerable children and adults. Their base should be the people they serve not a political voting bloc. I have always been first to challenge scientific and public health dogma in my career and was excited by the opportunity to do so again. I was optimistic that there would be an opportunity to brief the Secretary about key topics such as measles, avian influenza, and the highly coordinated approach to the respiratory virus season. Such briefings would allow exchange of ideas and a shared path to support the vision of “Making America Healthy Again.” We are seven months into the new administration, and no CDC subject matter expert from my Center has ever briefed the Secretary. I am not sure who the Secretary is listening to, but it is quite certainly not to us. Unvetted and conflicted outside organizations seem to be the sources HHS use over the gold standard science of CDC and other reputable sources. At a hearing, Secretary Kennedy said that Americans should not take medical advice from him. To the contrary, an appropriately briefed and inquisitive Secretary should be a source of health information for the people he serves. As it stands now, I must agree with him, that he should not be considered a source of accurate information. The intentional eroding of trust in low-risk vaccines favoring natural infection and unproven remedies will bring us to a pre-vaccine era where only the strong will survive and many if not all will suffer. I believe in nutrition and exercise. I believe in making our food supply healthier, and I also believe in using vaccines to prevent death and disability. Eugenics plays prominently in the rhetoric being generated and is derivative of a legacy that good medicine and science should continue to shun. The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud. I am resigning because of the cowardice of a leader that cannot admit that HIS and his minions’ words over decades created an environment where violence like this can occur. I reject his and his colleagues’ thoughts and prayers, and advise they direct those to people that they have not actively harmed. For decades, I have been a trusted voice for the LGBTQ community when it comes to critical health topics. I must also cite the recklessness of the administration in their efforts to erase transgender populations, cease critical domestic and international HIV programming, and terminate key research to support equity as part of my decision. Public health is not merely about the health of the individual, but it is about the health of the community, the nation, the world. The nation’s health security is at risk and is in the hands of people focusing on ideological self-interest. I want to express my heartfelt gratitude for the opportunities for growth, learning, and collaboration that I have been afforded during my time at the CDC. It has been a privilege to work alongside such dedicated professionals who are committed to improving the health and well-being of communities across the nation even when under attack from within both physically and psychologically. Thank you once again for the support and guidance I have received from you and previous CDC leadership throughout my tenure. I wish the CDC continued success in its vital mission and that HHS reverse its dangerous course to dismantle public health as a practice and as an institution. If they continue the current path, they risk our personal well-being and the security of the United States.
August 28, 2025 at 1:01 AM
adro64.bsky.social
HE PUT FUCKING LOSS ON HIS RIFLE?
sharonk.bsky.social Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · Aug 27
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alexjungle.bsky.social alexjungle.bsky.social @alexjungle.bsky.social · Aug 27
#BREAKING the suspect in todays Minneapolis shooting identified at robin westman these are photos from YouTube videos uploaded from him today before the shooting he quoted Adam Lanza and has an arsenal of weapons with writings
August 27, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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walmsley.bsky.social
gotta say, "LinkedIn Influencers" is a real step down from the banks and Hollywood in terms of institutions for the Jews to control from the shadows
hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social 我不喜欢万税爷 @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · Aug 24
The latest on how the internet has made us all medieval peasants: “this cookie chain has the spirit of the perfidious Jew behind it”
August 24, 2025 at 10:57 PM
adro64.bsky.social
You go to war with the army you have, not the army you want.
smbccomics.bsky.social SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · Aug 8
Maybe we can crowd out evil conspiracies with benignly stupid ones?

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1-panel SMBC comic update with the caption: "The more conspiratorial politics has gotten, the lower my standard for fellow travelers." The panel shows a caricature of the comic author talking to a man who believes that the rule of God-Empreror Squatch is a desired form of government.
August 8, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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July 31, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social
Here.

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No End Save Victory
Against the Nationalists
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July 30, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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sodrock.bsky.social
The disaster at Jena-Austerlaut was the formative experience for Clausewitz. How the armies and state built by Frederick the Great crumpled like a house of cards bothered him for many years. When he wrote about years later, many of the problems he diagnosed eerily parallel 2025 America. My latest ⬇️
America as Prussia in 1806
Decaying Institutions, Social Nihilism, Elite Complicity, and a Slow March Toward Disaster
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July 23, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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whstancil.bsky.social
So basically what these people have done is reinvent the idea of disparate impact, but inverted it, so that the negative impact you need to look out for is when black people receive any kind of benefit whatsoever, even accidentally
July 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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mosheroperandi.bsky.social
I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts.

Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
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There is no such thing as liberalism — or progressivism, etc. There is only conservatism. No other political philosophy actually exists; by the political analogue of Gresham’s Law, conservatism has driven every other idea out of circulation. There might be, and should be, anti-conservatism; but it does not yet exist. What would it be? In order to answer that question, it is necessary and sufficient to characterize conservatism. Fortunately, this can be done very concisely. Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time. For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual. As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence. So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone. Then the appearance arises that the task is to map “liberalism”, or “progressivism”, or “socialism”, or whateverthefuckkindofstupidnoise-ism, onto the core proposition of anti-conservatism. No, it a’n’t. The task is to throw all those things on the exact same burn pile as the collected works of all the apologists for conservatism, and start fresh. The core proposition of anti-conservatism requires no supplementation and no exegesis. It is as sufficient as it is necessary. What you see is what you get: The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.
July 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM