Andy Merritt
@andymerritt.bsky.social
You're short, your bellybutton sticks out too far, and you're a terrible burden on your poor mother.
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I'd say I hope it burdens your soul but I think you surrendered yours a long time ago.
April 11, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I'd say I hope it burdens your soul but I think you surrendered yours a long time ago.
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So many of you good liberal Democrats conspired to bring us to this point. Equating any criticism of Israel's ongoing genocide with terrorism. Tossed our country's bedrock principles about speech into the shitter so Israel could go on killing. Calling peaceful protests anti semitic.
April 11, 2025 at 8:34 PM
So many of you good liberal Democrats conspired to bring us to this point. Equating any criticism of Israel's ongoing genocide with terrorism. Tossed our country's bedrock principles about speech into the shitter so Israel could go on killing. Calling peaceful protests anti semitic.
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making peace with the taco salad i ordered when another table's fajitas arrive
April 10, 2025 at 12:07 AM
making peace with the taco salad i ordered when another table's fajitas arrive
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what a delightfully charming oopsie from the septuagenarian with the nuclear codes 👍👍
www.cbsnews.com/news/h-r-mcm...
www.cbsnews.com/news/h-r-mcm...
April 10, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Of course Schumer had to horn in on the moment.
April 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Of course Schumer had to horn in on the moment.
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I'm not a programming guy but MSNBC and CNN should be airing this Cory Booker thing in the same way you take over programming if there's a no-hitter or a basketball player with 60 points in three quarters. It's a physical feat! Cut in for this kind of thing. Costs nothing, gooses ratings, good TV.
April 1, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I'm not a programming guy but MSNBC and CNN should be airing this Cory Booker thing in the same way you take over programming if there's a no-hitter or a basketball player with 60 points in three quarters. It's a physical feat! Cut in for this kind of thing. Costs nothing, gooses ratings, good TV.
The thing about what Cory Booker is doing is that it SHOULD be “the least the Democrats can do” and spark a real change in strategy and messaging. But you just know there are party elders calling him a grandstanding jerk under their breath.
April 1, 2025 at 10:52 PM
The thing about what Cory Booker is doing is that it SHOULD be “the least the Democrats can do” and spark a real change in strategy and messaging. But you just know there are party elders calling him a grandstanding jerk under their breath.
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March 29, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now
This is the text of the email just sent to hundreds of international students telling them that their visas have been revoked due to activism or social media posts.
March 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now
This. There's a thin but important line between "Everything sucks and always will" and "Everything sucks and I don't know if I can do anything about it but I'm going to try anyway because otherwise that abyss sure is staring right back at me."
Doomerism is libs' and lefties' way of obeying in advance.
March 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
This. There's a thin but important line between "Everything sucks and always will" and "Everything sucks and I don't know if I can do anything about it but I'm going to try anyway because otherwise that abyss sure is staring right back at me."
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Doomerism is libs' and lefties' way of obeying in advance.
March 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Doomerism is libs' and lefties' way of obeying in advance.
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Absent from this list: Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries
New — 34 members of Congress are demanding answers from DHS, ICE, and the State Department on the arrests of Rumeysa Ozturk and several other students, seemingly for their political views.
"Absent compelling evidence," the members demand Rumeysa's release & visa restoration.
"Absent compelling evidence," the members demand Rumeysa's release & visa restoration.
March 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Absent from this list: Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries
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Seriously.
Don't post "AI images of me in the style of ____".
AI is theft.
AI is also trying to steal artist's jobs.
It is a horrible look.
Don't post "AI images of me in the style of ____".
AI is theft.
AI is also trying to steal artist's jobs.
It is a horrible look.
March 28, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Seriously.
Don't post "AI images of me in the style of ____".
AI is theft.
AI is also trying to steal artist's jobs.
It is a horrible look.
Don't post "AI images of me in the style of ____".
AI is theft.
AI is also trying to steal artist's jobs.
It is a horrible look.
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i miss when i could google things
March 27, 2025 at 11:35 PM
i miss when i could google things
Maryland-Florida is fun because either you can root for the coach who ghosted his team right before its biggest game in like two decades or you can root for the coach with credible swept-under-the-rug sexual harassment allegations.
March 28, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Maryland-Florida is fun because either you can root for the coach who ghosted his team right before its biggest game in like two decades or you can root for the coach with credible swept-under-the-rug sexual harassment allegations.
There are a lot of reasons why baseball is dying and this isn't the biggest one but it's indicative: It's 2025, it's Opening Day, and I can't watch or listen to my favorite team's game because I'm not in my home and haven't paid for an over-the-top service ON TOP OF the RSN I already pay for.
March 27, 2025 at 8:13 PM
There are a lot of reasons why baseball is dying and this isn't the biggest one but it's indicative: It's 2025, it's Opening Day, and I can't watch or listen to my favorite team's game because I'm not in my home and haven't paid for an over-the-top service ON TOP OF the RSN I already pay for.
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Stuff like this is perfect because it shows how utterly devoid of creativity genAI evangelists are.
Great you recreated a photo that already exists in a drawing style that only has currency because of who you're stealing it from giving the world something with absolutely no value or meaning.
Great you recreated a photo that already exists in a drawing style that only has currency because of who you're stealing it from giving the world something with absolutely no value or meaning.
OpenAI released a new version of their image generation technology, and people are using it to recreate memes in the style of Studio Ghibli.
Studio Ghibli Memes Take Over the Internet—Thanks to AI
The Studio Ghibli version of a Ben Affleck meme is a personal favorite.
www.thedailybeast.com
March 27, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Stuff like this is perfect because it shows how utterly devoid of creativity genAI evangelists are.
Great you recreated a photo that already exists in a drawing style that only has currency because of who you're stealing it from giving the world something with absolutely no value or meaning.
Great you recreated a photo that already exists in a drawing style that only has currency because of who you're stealing it from giving the world something with absolutely no value or meaning.
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The most effective statement that Senate Democrats could make right now would be removing Chuck Schumer as the minority leader. Get real about fighting back or shut the fuck up.
March 27, 2025 at 12:59 AM
The most effective statement that Senate Democrats could make right now would be removing Chuck Schumer as the minority leader. Get real about fighting back or shut the fuck up.
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This is the op-ed she's been disappeared for. These motherfuckers. All of you motherfuckers.
www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024...
www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024...
March 26, 2025 at 6:39 PM
This is the op-ed she's been disappeared for. These motherfuckers. All of you motherfuckers.
www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024...
www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024...
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The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again.
This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.
This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again.
This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.
This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.
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None of this shit even has the pretense of “homeland security” or whatever other lies they would typically tell. It is specifically for protesting another country’s genocide. Not violently. Not even all that aggressively. Just saying please stop killing.
March 26, 2025 at 6:53 PM
None of this shit even has the pretense of “homeland security” or whatever other lies they would typically tell. It is specifically for protesting another country’s genocide. Not violently. Not even all that aggressively. Just saying please stop killing.
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I don't care what side of the Israel-Palestine conflict your sympathies lie on, snatching up people with a valid student visa for the crime of writing an OpEd is naked fascism and if you don't oppose this you are a threat to this country's most basic values
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I don't care what side of the Israel-Palestine conflict your sympathies lie on, snatching up people with a valid student visa for the crime of writing an OpEd is naked fascism and if you don't oppose this you are a threat to this country's most basic values
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Due process is the notion that the state has an evidentiary burden to overcome if it intends to imprison or punish someone, and if it gets to ignore that sometimes, then it's all fake for everyone
March 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Due process is the notion that the state has an evidentiary burden to overcome if it intends to imprison or punish someone, and if it gets to ignore that sometimes, then it's all fake for everyone