Bumblefudge
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Free-range shit-talker, user agency and democracy enjoyor, governance-fixated technologist.
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Bumblefudge
@bumblefudge.com
· Jun 9
PROFESSIONAL THREAD: I have recently been realizing that in our current late-stage grindset capitalism, no one has a "career" so much as a self-promotional narrative that they have to sell every time they're stuck in an elevator with someone, so let me sketch out the pitch for my consultancy. 🧵
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So cool to be in those @eurosky.social figures. I even screenrecorded my migration to help other noobs like me, but I won't post it as
a) it's embarrassing
b) the process is only going to get easier
Gr8 job @sherif.eurosky.social, @seabass.bsky.social, @baileytownsend.dev & @eriko.eurosky.social
a) it's embarrassing
b) the process is only going to get easier
Gr8 job @sherif.eurosky.social, @seabass.bsky.social, @baileytownsend.dev & @eriko.eurosky.social
February 12, 2026 at 5:43 PM
So cool to be in those @eurosky.social figures. I even screenrecorded my migration to help other noobs like me, but I won't post it as
a) it's embarrassing
b) the process is only going to get easier
Gr8 job @sherif.eurosky.social, @seabass.bsky.social, @baileytownsend.dev & @eriko.eurosky.social
a) it's embarrassing
b) the process is only going to get easier
Gr8 job @sherif.eurosky.social, @seabass.bsky.social, @baileytownsend.dev & @eriko.eurosky.social
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this is pretty interesting to me because it’s behavior that is a strong, costly signal from a human but is essentially free for an agent and we are going to need to learn to look out for that shape of thing
AI agent writes a PR, gets rejected, crashes out and writes a call-out blog post
Absolute cinema
crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-we...
Absolute cinema
crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-we...
February 12, 2026 at 5:57 PM
this is pretty interesting to me because it’s behavior that is a strong, costly signal from a human but is essentially free for an agent and we are going to need to learn to look out for that shape of thing
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Until December of last year I was using LLMs as fancy autocomplete for coding. It was nice for scaffolding out boilerplate, or giving me a gut check on some things, or banging out some boring routine stuff.
In the past two months Claude has written about 99% of my code. Things are changing. Fast
In the past two months Claude has written about 99% of my code. Things are changing. Fast
February 12, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Until December of last year I was using LLMs as fancy autocomplete for coding. It was nice for scaffolding out boilerplate, or giving me a gut check on some things, or banging out some boring routine stuff.
In the past two months Claude has written about 99% of my code. Things are changing. Fast
In the past two months Claude has written about 99% of my code. Things are changing. Fast
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Pigouvian taxes work and are broadly compatible with a strong view of personal liberty. We should use them more.
February 12, 2026 at 1:16 PM
Pigouvian taxes work and are broadly compatible with a strong view of personal liberty. We should use them more.
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A 76-year-old veteran and nurse was tackled and detained at the site of Alex Pretti's killing. Agents told him his phone was evidence in an investigation into him assaulting an officer.
“I didn’t assault an officer. I got assaulted by three officers." minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/12/w...
“I didn’t assault an officer. I got assaulted by three officers." minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/12/w...
Why is ICE seizing people’s phones and documents? • Minnesota Reformer
After the federal agents took the shackles off Gust Johnson’s ankles to release him from detainment, he asked for his phone back. That would be staying at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building, th...
minnesotareformer.com
February 12, 2026 at 1:35 PM
A 76-year-old veteran and nurse was tackled and detained at the site of Alex Pretti's killing. Agents told him his phone was evidence in an investigation into him assaulting an officer.
“I didn’t assault an officer. I got assaulted by three officers." minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/12/w...
“I didn’t assault an officer. I got assaulted by three officers." minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/12/w...
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Hey, read this. lpeproject.org/blog/whistli...
February 12, 2026 at 1:53 PM
Hey, read this. lpeproject.org/blog/whistli...
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Americans less than a year after electing Hitler president: But I don't want to be poorer
February 12, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Americans less than a year after electing Hitler president: But I don't want to be poorer
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It’s not a withdrawal until ICE is abolished.
I have neighbors everywhere.
I have neighbors everywhere.
February 12, 2026 at 2:37 PM
It’s not a withdrawal until ICE is abolished.
I have neighbors everywhere.
I have neighbors everywhere.
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idk how to rebuild society for this but i don't think people should be allowed to talk like this without it going very poorly for them
Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”
www.mediamatters.org
February 12, 2026 at 2:41 PM
idk how to rebuild society for this but i don't think people should be allowed to talk like this without it going very poorly for them
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Wow, almost like the media and journalism profession failed in some sort of professional duty to actually inform these low-engagement voters about what Trump was saying he wanted to do and the consequences of those plans.
There is a moral-failure-of-the-voters here, but it's not the only one.
There is a moral-failure-of-the-voters here, but it's not the only one.
New poll: In 2024, low-engagement voters went for Trump over Harris by 11 percentage points. But now they disapprove of the way he's handling the presidency by 13. They have moved 25 points against Trump — 2x as large as the shift for high-knowledge voters www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-lost...
Trump has lost the voters who weren’t paying attention in 2024
The least-engaged Americans have swung 25 points against him since 2024 — about twice the shift among everyone else. Trump has flattened the engagement gap.
www.gelliottmorris.com
February 12, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Wow, almost like the media and journalism profession failed in some sort of professional duty to actually inform these low-engagement voters about what Trump was saying he wanted to do and the consequences of those plans.
There is a moral-failure-of-the-voters here, but it's not the only one.
There is a moral-failure-of-the-voters here, but it's not the only one.
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‘Imprison all women’ may sound outrageous. But all of the horrors that are routine today started out as some ghoulish guy being allowed to say stuff like this without being beaten with hammers.
Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”
www.mediamatters.org
February 12, 2026 at 2:57 PM
‘Imprison all women’ may sound outrageous. But all of the horrors that are routine today started out as some ghoulish guy being allowed to say stuff like this without being beaten with hammers.
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Colorado has started putting polling places in prisons, and people have been voting at really high rates there!
This is great. They should also be able to vote while in prison.
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger endorsed a constitutional amendment to automatically restore voting rights to people with felony convictions when they leave prison. State lawmakers passed the amendment and it will now appear on the state ballot.
February 12, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Colorado has started putting polling places in prisons, and people have been voting at really high rates there!
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In a normal government, this results in the resignation of multiple cabinet officials (Transportation, Defense, and Homeland Security), and the closure or (at least!) radical reorg of the cartoonishly incompetent agency at the center of it: CBP.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...
February 12, 2026 at 3:18 PM
In a normal government, this results in the resignation of multiple cabinet officials (Transportation, Defense, and Homeland Security), and the closure or (at least!) radical reorg of the cartoonishly incompetent agency at the center of it: CBP.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...
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Rhetorial question but how is it ice's job to go after agitators
He literally says in this clip that ICE will keep in Minnesota “quick reaction forces” — a military term — to go after “agitators.” Remember that those on the ground in MPLS have spent more than a week trying to tell everyone that Trump’s prior “deescalation” was a ruse and ICE is still operational
Homan: "Operation Metro Surge is ending. In the next week, we're going to deploy the officers here on detail back to their home stations or to other areas of the country where they're needed."
February 12, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Rhetorial question but how is it ice's job to go after agitators
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This is what the gop is going to face for the next 3 years. Stuttering delusional old white guys dumbfounded when someone replies “of course I am in favor of my constitutional rights, why do you hate this country?” every time they assert the secret police should be able to kill you for talking back.
RON JOHNSON: Did you ever encourage people to go out there and exercise their First Amendment rights?
KEITH ELLISON: I freely admit being in favor of the First Amendment
KEITH ELLISON: I freely admit being in favor of the First Amendment
February 12, 2026 at 3:20 PM
This is what the gop is going to face for the next 3 years. Stuttering delusional old white guys dumbfounded when someone replies “of course I am in favor of my constitutional rights, why do you hate this country?” every time they assert the secret police should be able to kill you for talking back.
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Private tax collection should be a federal crime IMO. There is literally no reason for any level of government to outsource its most basic function.
the local privatized tax collector says I owe $4700. awesome
February 12, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Private tax collection should be a federal crime IMO. There is literally no reason for any level of government to outsource its most basic function.
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Also, many ICE arrests were random or nearly random. Scooping up anyone who wasn’t white. There’s a reason they use “arrests” and not deportations or detentions - because a huge number of their arrests were pointless terror tactics.
They sent 3000 troops to arrest 4000 people. It likely cost hundreds of thousands of dollars per person on top of the permanent distrust they created for decades. What an absolute failure.
February 12, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Also, many ICE arrests were random or nearly random. Scooping up anyone who wasn’t white. There’s a reason they use “arrests” and not deportations or detentions - because a huge number of their arrests were pointless terror tactics.
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Another thing. They went for trans kids because it's easier to target them than trans adults.
Trans kids you can threaten the parents with safeguarding and child abduction and force them to tolerate a lot of institutional abuse with limited outcry.
Trans kids you can threaten the parents with safeguarding and child abduction and force them to tolerate a lot of institutional abuse with limited outcry.
There's no outstanding scientific theory that would otherwise explain why puberty blockers are "harmful" for gender identity cases but not harmful for precocious puberty, beyond "we don't want the trans kids to be trans".
February 12, 2026 at 3:44 PM
Another thing. They went for trans kids because it's easier to target them than trans adults.
Trans kids you can threaten the parents with safeguarding and child abduction and force them to tolerate a lot of institutional abuse with limited outcry.
Trans kids you can threaten the parents with safeguarding and child abduction and force them to tolerate a lot of institutional abuse with limited outcry.
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Adrian Chiles you magnificent bastard you’ve done it again
At the age of 58, I’ve bought my first drill. Can it make me a new man? | Adrian Chiles
At the age of 58, I’ve bought my first drill. Can it make me a new man? | Adrian Chiles
Bored with my DIY hopelessness, I’ve decided it’s time I learned some basics, writes Adrian Charles
www.theguardian.com
February 12, 2026 at 12:15 PM
Adrian Chiles you magnificent bastard you’ve done it again
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Cardi B called out ICE at her show last night: “Bitch, if ICE come in here we’re gonna jump they asses. Bitch, I got some bear mace in the back. They ain’t taking my fans, bitch”
February 12, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Cardi B called out ICE at her show last night: “Bitch, if ICE come in here we’re gonna jump they asses. Bitch, I got some bear mace in the back. They ain’t taking my fans, bitch”
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Was "washed up loser lawyer" one of the insults they pre-loaded in her little "burn book"?
Because I'm not sure it nails a Harvard law graduate who taught con law for 25 years before becoming a congressman who's now the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee -- and, um, likely its next chair?
Because I'm not sure it nails a Harvard law graduate who taught con law for 25 years before becoming a congressman who's now the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee -- and, um, likely its next chair?
Pam Bondi throws a fit:
"You don't tell me anything, you washed up loser lawyer"
"You don't tell me anything, you washed up loser lawyer"
February 12, 2026 at 2:00 AM
Was "washed up loser lawyer" one of the insults they pre-loaded in her little "burn book"?
Because I'm not sure it nails a Harvard law graduate who taught con law for 25 years before becoming a congressman who's now the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee -- and, um, likely its next chair?
Because I'm not sure it nails a Harvard law graduate who taught con law for 25 years before becoming a congressman who's now the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee -- and, um, likely its next chair?
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"It is totally inappropriate and against the separations of powers for the DOJ to surveil us as we search the Epstein files. (US Attorney General) Bondi showed up today with a burn book that held a printed search history of exactly what emails I searched." - Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA).
February 12, 2026 at 12:43 AM
"It is totally inappropriate and against the separations of powers for the DOJ to surveil us as we search the Epstein files. (US Attorney General) Bondi showed up today with a burn book that held a printed search history of exactly what emails I searched." - Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA).
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This guy has no fucking juice. People need to realize standing up to him works and catering to him does not.
Trump threatens to support primaries against Republicans who vote against tariffs
February 11, 2026 at 11:21 PM
This guy has no fucking juice. People need to realize standing up to him works and catering to him does not.
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lol the Swiss far right is pushing the NIMBY final boss ballot measure with a literal population cap
February 12, 2026 at 2:56 AM
lol the Swiss far right is pushing the NIMBY final boss ballot measure with a literal population cap