Crip Dyke
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Crip Dyke
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Not related to AI, but in 2nd grade we were all asked to write to an author. I chose Joy Adamson. I got nothing back.

...until 6 months later, when I found out my letter had made it to Kenya, she had replied on her typewriter and signed her reply in her own hand.

The stamps alone were a treasure.
In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.

KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.

His reply was a doozy.
November 11, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Quick snapshot of the @runforsomething.net candidate sign-ups -- we're building a party of fighters, not folders.
November 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
This goes hand in hand w why I don't use "homo/bi/transphobia". It implies I give a fuck if you're scared.

No, I care if you oppress ppl. If you're scaredy-waredy, you can talk to your therapist about it. No need to involve me in that shit.

If you fake bravery enuf to not discriminate, I'm good.
Which says so much about how racists center themselves. I'm not interested in shaming you; I just want you to stop oppressing people. If talking about race makes you feel ashamed, that's on you.
The whole point is to make it seem as if any talk of race/gender is designed to shame white people
November 11, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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now with alt text
November 11, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Love or hate forced-feminization stories or mind-control sex stories and all the related possible stories of coercing or forcing sex in fiction...

...what is the moral case for making fictional characters articulate consent to kissing but not to being beheaded by a Paladin's vorpal sword?
I lost my Patreon for the time being. This obviously is a massive blow. I will try to resolve Patreon’s issues with my ASMR account, but I think this is the beginning of the end for using Patreon as a VTuber
November 11, 2025 at 12:25 AM
SPOILER: Even Axios doesn't claim he fought to extend it longer than it lasted.

In October he wanted the shutdown to continue through election day. After Mamdani won, he no longer cared.

Why would Schumer want his left flank to think he was fighting on election day, but not the day after?
November 10, 2025 at 11:35 PM
For everyone encouraging me to vote Dem **just a little bit harder** in upcoming elections, I have a question for you.

Dems want power. But what will they do with that power?

AFAICT, the desperate Dem wet dream is going back to the Obama years, which means < 96 months to the next Trump.
November 10, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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This simply happened and no one in the media speculated why the President would do this or what it means about his involvement
“The President sent his lawyer to negotiate a settlement with a convicted sex trafficker to provide cushy accommodation in exchange for her silence on his participation in said sex trafficking” is a cold description of the facts of an insane story that the media doesn’t find worthy of scrutiny
November 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
@moiradonegan.bsky.social owns literally my favorite example of biting understatement in at least year. From Salon:

“There is a real appetite for antifeminism among some intellectual elites that is perhaps psychologically informed,” says Donegan.

"Perhaps psychologically informed" indeed.
November 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
They literally had a caucus meeting to decide who would vote against the filibuster. It's not an accident that no one up for reelection in 2026 is on this list save Fetterman, who is legit bonkers.

Schumer planned behind closed doors to do this & all agreed.

All of them are traitors. All of them.
Here’s the fucking traitors
November 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Scratch a transphobe and a general purpose bigot bleeds.
Nothing illustrates the arseholery of the IOC and the British Press more than the use of the image of a not-Trans woman to illustrate a story about trans women being banned (because there are no current trans women competing at this level)
November 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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When it all boils down, they have to do *something,* and locking up phones is a helluva lot easier than tackling their internalized bigotry.
November 10, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Chris, I'm not saying I'm surprised. I thought this was the most likely outcome. But I did not treat denial of cert as a foregone conclusion.

Can anyone believe these days that SCOTUS actually follows the law rather than their political whims? What evidence is there for that position?
This was not a surprise to anyone who followed me and other actual reporters who know Supreme Court procedure.

The only places it succeeded were to generate donations for Liberty Counsel and to prompt clicks through ragebait headlines from your favorite resistance grifters.

Sorry, it's true.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court DENIES former county clerk Kim Davis's request for the justices to take up her longshot bid to overturn 2015's Obergefell v. Hodges marriage equality decision. No justice even writes about the request.
November 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
1/2: Can we please normalize the word ANTI-CONSTITUTIONAL?

When some schmuck says that a Mormon Christmas tree can't be part of the city hall Christmas decorations, that's unconstitutional. They have no power to do that.

Trump/MAGA are opposed to the constitution and fighting to disempower it.
November 10, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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We basically have a split council and the left has to mobilize if we want to win on these crucial issues.

The reactionaries with show up foaming at the mouth and councilors on the fence have to see that there is the same or greater energy in favor of funding rent assistance.

Organize or lose.
I don’t think people understand how organized pro-sweep turnout will be to wednesdays council meeting.

Register for item 8 ASAP. If you can’t make it, testify in writing:

www.portland.gov/council/agenda
November 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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They caved in March so they could get a better deal now. They’re caving now so they can get a better deal in some indeterminate future. The better deal is always just beyond their reach, but continuing to cave will get them there. And if you don’t agree with that, you don’t understand Politics,
November 10, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Sure would be nice if there was an opposition party with some leverage they could use to push back against this.

Or, well, an opposition party at all.
November 10, 2025 at 4:17 AM
@wyden.senate.gov @merkley.senate.gov @murray.senate.gov @cantwell.senate.gov

I've said this many times, but I'm not the only one saying.

It's too late to save my support. You would have needed to oust Schumer a while ago. But there are others trailing me. You could save their support if you try.
I'm leaving a message with my senators in #mapoli Mass. If they don't call on Schumer to resign, then it's tacit agreement with the decision. Voting no isn't enough if you don't call for consequences for selling out the American people; then you agree with the decision, and he is covering for you
November 10, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Oh, bullshit.

We're not stupid. They have closed door meetings to determine which Dems will vote against their own filibusters to sabotage them. Who votes which way is an exercise in PR, not principle. If Schumer didn't support this deal than
it wouldn't have happened.
November 10, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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To borrow from Belize in Angels in America, “Not even the people facing astronomic premium hikes want to extend the credits more than you, Jeanine.”
Shaheen: So let me be clear. No one in the senate chamber wants to extend the ACA tax credits more than I do.
November 10, 2025 at 3:31 AM
There are no good senators. The GOP is the GOP. The Dems + Sanders & King supported Schumer. Schumer made this happen.

There are no good Senators.
4. John Hickenlooper. Squishy moderate from what is now a very blue state (CO). May have been involved behind the scenes. Primary.

5. Ben Ray Lujan. Usually pretty good, actually, I'd leave him alone.

6. Ed Markey. Generally a good Senator but too old. Please do not replace with Seth Moulton.
November 10, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once.
November 10, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Some ppl admitted it to themselves earlier this year. Some ppl are doing it now. But for some rank-&-file dems it won't be until they're cradling a sleeping child as they sit in the boxcar on the way to the camps that they finally whisper to themselves,

I SHOULD HAVE LISTENED TO THE TRANSES.
I think this is true. Democrats previously had the ability to say that voting for them delivered the lesser of two evils. I've long believed that was true. But I was a chump.

My senator, Adam Schiff, keeps voting for Trump's nominees. I voted for Schiff. And yet he keeps voting for Trump's agenda.
I'd argue it's even worse than 2024. In 2024 we had the promise that they'd fight Republicans. Now that we see what they're really made of (jelly) no one has any reason to vote for them.
November 10, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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They clearly picked people who aren't up next year. They do this all the time. It's never just the defectors who are to blame, because they're all in on it together
so currently defectors are:

Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Blame *all* Democratic incumbents for this surrender. Not just the ones voting for it. The others could have voted to remove Schumer long ago and install a leader capable of formulating a strategy and holding his people together. They were content to stay with a proven loser.
I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable.

We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.

A vote for this bill is a mistake.
November 10, 2025 at 1:25 AM