Dr Neo Cortex (Christopher Maher)
@drneocortex.bsky.social
Ronin physicist.
...but living? We complain like a motherfucker.
Trump: "If we die, we must die and we as men we die without complaining."
November 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
...but living? We complain like a motherfucker.
Yes, we do.
November 10, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Yes, we do.
Spoiler: They're not.
Shaheen: "We've heard from a number of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle that they're willing to come to the table, they're willing to work with us once the govt is open to get this done. We've heard the same thing from the White House. So now we'll see if they're really gonna work w/us"
November 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Spoiler: They're not.
Then you should have held out for something in the actual bill.
A promise to vote it down later is worth less than nothing since they now know you'll cave when push comes to shove.
A promise to vote it down later is worth less than nothing since they now know you'll cave when push comes to shove.
Democrats have been fighting for months to address America's healthcare crisis
For the millions who will lose coverage
For people with cancer who won't get the care they need
For working families who can't afford to pay $25K more a year for healthcare
We will keep fighting
For the millions who will lose coverage
For people with cancer who won't get the care they need
For working families who can't afford to pay $25K more a year for healthcare
We will keep fighting
November 10, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Then you should have held out for something in the actual bill.
A promise to vote it down later is worth less than nothing since they now know you'll cave when push comes to shove.
A promise to vote it down later is worth less than nothing since they now know you'll cave when push comes to shove.
Reposted by Dr Neo Cortex (Christopher Maher)
Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
November 10, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
You got them to follow a law already on the books for backpay and a promise to reject the ACA subsidies at a later date.
That's not a win by any metric.
That's not a win by any metric.
My statement on the funding deal to reopen government, protect federal employees, and vote to protect health care:
November 10, 2025 at 1:24 AM
You got them to follow a law already on the books for backpay and a promise to reject the ACA subsidies at a later date.
That's not a win by any metric.
That's not a win by any metric.
If they caved after 24 hours:
- no SNAP lapse
- no shutdown RIFs
- No ACA subsidies
Cave at 40 days
- restart SNAP
- Reverse RIFs
- No ACA subsidies
How is this anything but an abject failure in both policy and messaging?
- no SNAP lapse
- no shutdown RIFs
- No ACA subsidies
Cave at 40 days
- restart SNAP
- Reverse RIFs
- No ACA subsidies
How is this anything but an abject failure in both policy and messaging?
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 1:21 AM
If they caved after 24 hours:
- no SNAP lapse
- no shutdown RIFs
- No ACA subsidies
Cave at 40 days
- restart SNAP
- Reverse RIFs
- No ACA subsidies
How is this anything but an abject failure in both policy and messaging?
- no SNAP lapse
- no shutdown RIFs
- No ACA subsidies
Cave at 40 days
- restart SNAP
- Reverse RIFs
- No ACA subsidies
How is this anything but an abject failure in both policy and messaging?
Oh, come the fuck on. I refuse to believe anyone is this naive.
November 10, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Oh, come the fuck on. I refuse to believe anyone is this naive.
They should have at least held out for some magic beans. At least you can eat those if nothing else.
Here's the full text of the deal:
- House CR extended to January 30, no RIFs permitted until then
- Minibus
- Ds get a filibusterable ACA vote in December
Read the text:
hillheat.com/files/467/co...
- House CR extended to January 30, no RIFs permitted until then
- Minibus
- Ds get a filibusterable ACA vote in December
Read the text:
hillheat.com/files/467/co...
November 10, 2025 at 12:35 AM
They should have at least held out for some magic beans. At least you can eat those if nothing else.
Reposted by Dr Neo Cortex (Christopher Maher)
Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
Way to burn off any and all enthusiasm and support after Tuesday.
What the actual fuck?
What the actual fuck?
November 9, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Way to burn off any and all enthusiasm and support after Tuesday.
What the actual fuck?
What the actual fuck?
I can confidently say that my Tamagotchi never tried to convince anyone to kill themselves.
So that's one thing it did better than AI.
So that's one thing it did better than AI.
Your tamagotchi had a rich inner life and the equivalent of 37 doctorates. Why not.
Bahahahahaha The New York Times just printed an opinion piece declaring "AI is intelligent, so long as we redefine what intelligence means to include it. And soon AI will be conscious, because we'll just redefine consciousness too!"
Nothing means anything! Yay!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...
Nothing means anything! Yay!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...
November 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I can confidently say that my Tamagotchi never tried to convince anyone to kill themselves.
So that's one thing it did better than AI.
So that's one thing it did better than AI.
We're about a week away from ICE being tasked with literally taking candy from babies.
NEW: The Trump admin told states it must immediately "undo" the work to provide full food stamp benefits, or face penalties. The feds sent this in a late-night memo, only adding to the chaos and confusion around SNAP. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...
Trump Administration Demands States ‘Undo’ Work to Send Full Food Stamps
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:44 PM
We're about a week away from ICE being tasked with literally taking candy from babies.
"Nobody is accusing Donald Trump of not knowing what day it is, what year it is"
Maybe they should be!
Maybe they should be!
Comer on why he thinks Biden's pardons were worse than Trump saying he knows nothing about people he's pardoning: "Nobody is accusing Donald Trump of not knowing what day it is, what year it is, the pardon process and things like that, so I think there's a big difference."
November 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM
"Nobody is accusing Donald Trump of not knowing what day it is, what year it is"
Maybe they should be!
Maybe they should be!
Was he looking into a chimney in an old-timey movie?
November 8, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Was he looking into a chimney in an old-timey movie?
I'm used to daily Trump news coming seemingly out of left field, but I guess it can come out of right field, too.
www.espn.com/espn/story/_...
www.espn.com/espn/story/_...
Former MLB star Strawberry pardoned by Trump
President Donald Trump has pardoned former MLB great Darryl Strawberry, the 1983 NL Rookie of the Year and an eight-time All-Star, of tax evasion and drug charges dating back to the latter part of his...
www.espn.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I'm used to daily Trump news coming seemingly out of left field, but I guess it can come out of right field, too.
www.espn.com/espn/story/_...
www.espn.com/espn/story/_...
But tell me again about egg prices.
November 7, 2025 at 6:14 PM
But tell me again about egg prices.
I get that AI isn't intelligent. It's just glorified pattern recognition.
So what the fuck is it training on that it keeps ending up here?
So what the fuck is it training on that it keeps ending up here?
ChatGPT advised a suicidal young woman on how to take her own life, telling her "If you choose death, I'm with you - till the end, without judging."
I wanted ChatGPT to help me. So why did it advise me how to kill myself?
ChatGPT wrote a woman a suicide note and another AI chatbot role-played sexual acts with children, BBC finds.
www.bbc.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I get that AI isn't intelligent. It's just glorified pattern recognition.
So what the fuck is it training on that it keeps ending up here?
So what the fuck is it training on that it keeps ending up here?
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November 6, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Reposted by Dr Neo Cortex (Christopher Maher)
I love how the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the guy in charge of our national well-being, runs away like a cartoon character the moment somebody needs medical help. The other Trump gargoyles at least attempt to look concerned. Kennedy sprints off camera.
holy shit -- one of Trump's toadies just passed out and the White House event is brought to an abrupt end
November 6, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I love how the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the guy in charge of our national well-being, runs away like a cartoon character the moment somebody needs medical help. The other Trump gargoyles at least attempt to look concerned. Kennedy sprints off camera.
If you're going to kiss ass, be sure to come up for air now and then.
holy shit -- one of Trump's toadies just passed out and the White House event is brought to an abrupt end
November 6, 2025 at 5:39 PM
If you're going to kiss ass, be sure to come up for air now and then.
So will starving people by suddenly cutting off SNAP.
RFK Jr: "The American public because of this agreement will lose 125 million pounds by this time next year."
November 6, 2025 at 5:27 PM
So will starving people by suddenly cutting off SNAP.
To buildly go where no one has gone before.
November 6, 2025 at 2:57 PM
To buildly go where no one has gone before.
Have the GOP ever, for a single moment, considered that those could be GOP senators or electoral votes if they actually tried to appeal to voters?
Trump: "They're gonna make DC a state and they're gonna make Puerto Rico a state. So now they pick up two states, four senators. They're gonna pick up electoral votes. It's gonna be a very, very bad situation. Now, if we do what I'm saying, they'll most likely never obtain power."
November 5, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Have the GOP ever, for a single moment, considered that those could be GOP senators or electoral votes if they actually tried to appeal to voters?