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Amanda M
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web developer, cozy gamer, passport stamp collector
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redactedquirk.bsky.social
A screenshot from the Sims 2. The mother serenely sits at a computer while her baby is on fire on the floor beside her.
May 25, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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edzitron.com
This may genuinely be one of the most devastating things I've seen about a tech CEO in the mainstream media. Amazing.
Backers are asked to believe that OpenAI is the most responsible guardian of The Dangerous Majick, while also understanding that the urgency of Al's arms race frees it from all obligation to act responsibly. Burning cash is foundational to its business. There's no time to sandbox new products or abide by laws when liquidity is only ever measured in months. The looming threat of insolvency is what propels OpenAI forward. Does value-for-money get a look in? We know very little about OpenAI's day-to-day operating costs, but we've learned a little more about the day-to-day operating costs of the CEO. Maybe it's useful to know that Altman uses a knife that's showy but incohesive and wrong for the job; he wastes huge amounts of money on olive oil that he uses recklessly; and he has an automated coffee machine that claims to save labour while doing the exact opposite because it can't be trusted. His kitchen is a catalogue of inefficiency, incomprehension, and waste. If that's any indication of how he runs the company, insolvency cannot be considered too unrealistic a threat.
May 12, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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jules.su
SHOW ME TO ME PLEASE SEND IT TO ME RACHEL
March 5, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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skiles.blue
I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.

18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.

We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
18f.org
March 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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theonion.com
Boss Thinks Female Employee Might Be Ready To Handle Job She’s Been Doing For Past 2 Years
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Boss Thinks Female Employee Might Be Ready To Handle Job She’s Been Doing For Past 2 Years
February 26, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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theserfstv.bsky.social
Canadians on here actually being like "I can't believe how bad things are getting in the US" without acknowledging Alberta just passed some of the harshest anti-LGBTQ+ laws and are about to vote Doug Ford back into power.

Wakeup because the far right are in inside the building
February 20, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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kylietcheung.bsky.social
this man is a predator running a cult please don't even bother arguing with me you can't convince me otherwise lol. really sick behavior
annamerlan.bsky.social Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · Feb 15
For those of you no longer on Twitter, another alleged secret child of Elon Musk's has just been revealed via the kid's mother, a blogger at the Babylon Bee and a Post Millennial contributor.
Post from Ashley St. Clair, which begins, "Five months ago, i welcomed a new baby into the world. Elon Musk is the father."
February 15, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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magsster.bsky.social
Well, Doug, if you want to revert to archaic forms of punishment such as the death penalty, what should the punishment be for fraud, corruption, and theft? We know you (Jack & Jill) and Steve Clark were involved. RCMP investigation.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Lawsuit alleges former Ford staffers promised to use 'backchannel contacts' to get land rezoned | CBC News
Two former Ford government staffers — including one at the centre of the Greenbelt scandal — are being sued by a property developer who alleges they promised to use their influence at Queen's Park to ...
www.cbc.ca
February 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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brianfung.me
The DOGE website is reportedly hosted on non-government servers, not secured against database attacks and can be easily defaced, 404 reports www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...
Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website
"THESE 'EXPERTS' LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN."
www.404media.co
February 14, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
Federal employee with a data role told me that a document was removed from employee access because it had the word "inclusion" in it.

As in, "inclusion of data in our estimates."
February 11, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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joshjoshjosh5.bsky.social
Really makes you think
Screenshot from FF7, Cloud and Barret sitting on a train w/ Narret saying: people say they love MILFs yet look how they treat the original MILF (mother earth)
February 11, 2025 at 12:43 PM
amandamcodes.bsky.social
My partner did not want to taste my banana bread batter because he knows it's not safe to have raw flour or eggs but I had some anyway because I figured a small amount was fine but then ended up with the 💩 so love that for myself
February 9, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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mattbinder.bsky.social
i wonder why these guys hate the CFPB so much

ohh
February 9, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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thefairybear.bsky.social
Meme showing screenshots from Star Wars where Padme says “so this is how liberty dies” and instead of saying “with thunderous applause” it says “with a coup by a fake government agency named after a meme run by the most divorced man alive and his troop of incel twinks”
February 4, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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josephpolitano.bsky.social
USAID’s website has been deleted, all that is left is a note saying all personnel are now on administrative leave and personnel outside the US are to be brought home. Completely illegal, no act of congress or even executive order was signed to dismantle the agency
“On Friday, February 7, 2025, at 11:59 pm (EST) all USAID direct hire personnel will be placed on administrative leave globally, with the exception of designated personnel responsible for mission-critical functions, core leadership and specially designated programs. Essential personnel expected to continue working will be informed by Agency leadership by Thursday, February 6, at 3:00pm (EST). For USAID personnel currently posted outside the United States, the Agency, in coordination with missions and the Department of State, is currently preparing a plan, in accordance with all applicable requirements and laws, under which the Agency would arrange and pay for return travel to the United States within 30 days and provide for the termination of PSC and ISC contracts that are not determined to be essential. The Agency will consider case-by-case exceptions and return travel extensions based on personal or family hardship, mobility or safety concerns, or other reasons. For example, the Agency will consider exceptions based on the timing of dependents’ school term, personal or familial medical needs, pregnancy, and other reasons. Further guidance on how to request an exception will be forthcoming. Thank you for your service”
February 5, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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junlper.beer
elon musk is the shadow president and making up what he deems legal. he genuinely wants it to be a crime to know who is working for him
February 3, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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mattbinder.bsky.social
NY Post article headline says immigrants are being "coached to fight back" by leftist groups

and in the article what they're talking about is making sure that they know their constitutional rights
New York Post @nypost Chicago raids expose how leftist groups help criminals evade ICE: 'Coached to fight back' trib.al/RBqWpsO 2:48 PM • Jan 31, 2025 “I do not wish to speak with you, answer your questions, or sign or hand you any documents based on my 5th Amendment rights under the United States Constitution. I do not give you permission to enter my home based on my 4th Amendment rights under the United States Constitution unless you have a warrant to enter, signed by a judge or magistrate with my name on it that you slide under the door. I do not give you permission to search any of my belongings based on my 4th Amendment nights. I choose to exercise my constitutional rights.” Leftist groups have been coaching migrants on their constiutional rights and what to say if they are approached by a federal officer. Dana Kennedy for NY Post
February 3, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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kenklippenstein.bsky.social
This is a crisis response app. If a diplomat is in danger, for any reason, this sends their whereabouts to diplomatic security in country and DC
kenklippenstein.bsky.social Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · Feb 3
USAID employees overseas are no longer able to access their government security app, which gives them this error code (images provided to me by USAID worker)
February 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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carlbergstrom.com
What’s his beef against USAID in particu….oh. Wow.
X post: Elon Musk @elonmusk We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper. Could gone to some great parties. Did that instead. U.S. policy was to help bring an end to apartheid and establish a nonracial, democratic government. In response to this policy and the Act, USAID/South Africa was responsible for financing projects that apartheid victims viewed as critical in promoting social, political, and economic change through peaceful means. The mission enabled community consultation and ensured that the United States did not impose foreign-defined solutions to local problems. USAID created projects and activities to respond to the priorities of the black community and its leaders, maximized black participation and leadership, and ensured activities had a linkage to the general objectives of U.S. policy. First-year funding for the program was $25 million, which was raised to $50 million the second year. The main project areas were community outreach and leadership development to redress the repression of black-led institutions; educational support and training to address the educational crisis in South Africa; black private enterprise development to combat the inhibiting effects of apartheid–induced discrimination in private enterprise; university grants to help create a new generation of economic and political leaders; human rights; legal assistance; labor union training; and health and nutrition
February 3, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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phillewis.bsky.social
Ontario Premier Doug Ford is announcing that the province will rip up its $100M contract with Elon Musk’s Starlink ahead of Trump’s incoming tariffs
Ontario rips up $100M Starlink contract ahead of U.S. tariffs
Ontario Premier Doug Ford is announcing that the province will rip up its $100 million contract with Elon Musk’s Starlink ahead of U.S. President Donald Trump’s incoming 25 per cent tariffs.
www.cp24.com
February 3, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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mmasnick.bsky.social
Worth reading.
There is a fundamental difference between partisan policy debates and what we're witnessing now. When Republicans pass legislation on immigration, when they reform tax policy, when they push back against progressive cultural initiatives—this is the normal, healthy function of democratic governance. Elections have consequences, and the party in power has every right to advance its policy agenda through legal channels. But what's happening now exists in a different category entirely. When private citizens gain unauthorized access to Treasury payment systems, when security officials are removed for following classification protocols, when congressionally established agencies are illegally shuttered—these aren't policy changes. They represent the systematic dismantling of the constitutional framework that makes policy debates possible in the first place. Consider the profound difference: Opposing Democratic policies on taxation or immigration is legitimate political disagreement. Refusing to execute laws passed by Congress, removing civil servants for following legal requirements, and allowing private citizens to seize control of government functions represents an attack on constitutional governance itself. The former is about what policies we should have; the latter is about whether we'll maintain a system where policy debates matter at all. To conservatives who value our constitutional inheritance: This isn't about advancing Republican policies or opposing Democratic ones. It's about whether we'll preserve the constitutional system that allows these debates to occur through democratic processes rather than personal decree. When we replace professional civil service with personal loyalty systems, when we ignore congressional mandates, when we allow private interests to seize control of government functions—we're not winning political battles, we're destroying the arena where those battles are meant to occur.
February 3, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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jsweetli.bsky.social
Contrary to some info I've seen, 19-yr-old Doge staffer "BigBalls" Edward Coristine did not delete his X account, it's just renamed and is private.

Wired reported that govt tech workers had to defend their work to the Neuralink intern in an Office Space-esque scene.

/ more for Canadians
February 2, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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edzitron.com
On top of all of this truly horrifying and terrifying shit we also have to suffer the indignity of saying "DOGE" every time we find out about which 22-year-old that wears a bowtie is currently deleting people from social security based on how "based their vibe is"
February 2, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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andylevy.net
every time i read about musk and his young turd engineers i think of chang taking over greendale www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
image of chang in napoleonic costume walking the halls of greendale community with his middle-school deputies, from the tv show “community”
February 3, 2025 at 1:57 AM