EIL
@emipsaloquitur.bsky.social
(she/her) Lawyer. Cereal connoisseur. Not verified but my cats will vouch for me.
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jooting and jollering
October 2, 2023 at 1:50 AM
jooting and jollering
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Monsters have me wanting to believe in hell right now.
After a discussion with their attorney, I have confirmed that Juan, his 16-month-old sister, his mom, and his dad have been deported.
February 18, 2026 at 12:58 AM
Monsters have me wanting to believe in hell right now.
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Ocasio-Cortez because (a) Trump will be wildly unpopular, (b) anti-incumbency will be a significant factor (this is endogenous to (a)), and (c) she will present as the “normal” candidate, notwithstanding attempts to paint her as radical.
OK, I'm collecting takes from people. Assume for this tweet that 2028 is Ocasio-Cortez vs Vance. Who wins and why?
February 18, 2026 at 12:37 AM
Ocasio-Cortez because (a) Trump will be wildly unpopular, (b) anti-incumbency will be a significant factor (this is endogenous to (a)), and (c) she will present as the “normal” candidate, notwithstanding attempts to paint her as radical.
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a fucking pedophile sexually abused nearly every prospective and actual Olympian gymnast for over two decades, and the political discourse is hyper-fixated on the hypothetical unfairness of trans girls competing with cis girls
1 reason why I get so angry at anti-trans "safety in women's sports" people is NONE of them do SHIT or say ANYTHING about actual safety in womens sport. There are ongoing histories and challenges and abuses in sport, and folks are more than welcome to pay attention, and give a damn. But they don't.
February 17, 2026 at 7:57 PM
a fucking pedophile sexually abused nearly every prospective and actual Olympian gymnast for over two decades, and the political discourse is hyper-fixated on the hypothetical unfairness of trans girls competing with cis girls
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Ossoff making this a central campaign message is a good thing and long overdue. Dems everywhere should be Banging pots and pans about it.
Such an easy layup.
Such an easy layup.
I admired the spirit of @ossoff.bsky.social's line of attack against Donald Trump—that his "is the most corrupt administration of all time, and everybody knows it." The problem is, it's not actually true. Everybody does not know it. We should examine why. www.offmessage.net/p/republican...
Republicans Are Much Much More Corrupt Than Democrats
But most people either do not know this, or refuse to admit it.
www.offmessage.net
February 17, 2026 at 11:19 PM
Ossoff making this a central campaign message is a good thing and long overdue. Dems everywhere should be Banging pots and pans about it.
Such an easy layup.
Such an easy layup.
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The Russo-Japanese War was the first major conflict in history that saw more deaths in combat than deaths by disease.
Realistically, if you were sent to war any time before WW1, you were more likely to shit yourself to death than die at the hands of the enemy.
Realistically, if you were sent to war any time before WW1, you were more likely to shit yourself to death than die at the hands of the enemy.
If anyone asks you who won the Crimean War the answer is indisputably “cholera”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean... (scroll to “Casualties and Losses”)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean... (scroll to “Casualties and Losses”)
A major cause of death in pretty much every pre-20th century war (especially siege based ones) was highly curable bacterial diseases ripping through people in close proximity to each other, as opposed to actual violence.
February 17, 2026 at 9:10 PM
The Russo-Japanese War was the first major conflict in history that saw more deaths in combat than deaths by disease.
Realistically, if you were sent to war any time before WW1, you were more likely to shit yourself to death than die at the hands of the enemy.
Realistically, if you were sent to war any time before WW1, you were more likely to shit yourself to death than die at the hands of the enemy.
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Antibiotics are one of the greatest discoveries of the modern medical age (along with vaccines)
February 17, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Antibiotics are one of the greatest discoveries of the modern medical age (along with vaccines)
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I think some people like ChatGPT because they weren't really taught how to do research
February 17, 2026 at 9:31 PM
I think some people like ChatGPT because they weren't really taught how to do research
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People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.
WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives for 2026 sold out
WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives for 2026 sold out
Hyperscalers are tearing hard drives out of the hands of manufacturers. Prices are therefore also rising for SSDs.
www.heise.de
February 17, 2026 at 9:12 PM
People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.
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He had a joke in his stump speeches about how, if he were to walk on water, the headlines the next day would read “Jesse Jackson Can’t Swim”
How many of the media outlets eulogizing Rev. Jesse Jackson today spent decades trying to undermine his work & turn him into a punchline?
February 17, 2026 at 2:20 PM
He had a joke in his stump speeches about how, if he were to walk on water, the headlines the next day would read “Jesse Jackson Can’t Swim”
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collins is not going to be the deciding vote on anything in an election year when she is facing real potential challengers
February 17, 2026 at 9:19 PM
collins is not going to be the deciding vote on anything in an election year when she is facing real potential challengers
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i mean, democrats *are* going to block it, collins knows that, that’s why she voted for it, it’s a dead letter.
Trump's election bill tops 50 Senate votes, but Democrats could still block it
The SAVE America Act has passed the House and enjoys President Trump's support, meaning the Senate's 60-vote threshold is the only thing standing in the way of it becoming law.
www.nbcnews.com
February 17, 2026 at 9:16 PM
i mean, democrats *are* going to block it, collins knows that, that’s why she voted for it, it’s a dead letter.
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i've said before that there's a very strange class of post that fundamentally boils down to "budgets/resource constraints aren't real"
Look, I post a lot about video games, but if you sound like this you should really take a beat and assess whether you're burning your best energy on the right thing.
February 17, 2026 at 6:43 PM
i've said before that there's a very strange class of post that fundamentally boils down to "budgets/resource constraints aren't real"
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To folks on here: America is careening toward a post-literacy moment faster than I realized, but this is a screenshot of a tweet excerpting a Times article I neither reported nor wrote.
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
February 17, 2026 at 9:05 PM
To folks on here: America is careening toward a post-literacy moment faster than I realized, but this is a screenshot of a tweet excerpting a Times article I neither reported nor wrote.
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The reason why the ICE shit is so stupid is because of two things:
1.) ICE arrests a single person with multiple people.
2.) If you do a Kav stop and detain someone, you will require the agents to leave the area to detain the person.
1.) ICE arrests a single person with multiple people.
2.) If you do a Kav stop and detain someone, you will require the agents to leave the area to detain the person.
February 17, 2026 at 8:55 PM
The reason why the ICE shit is so stupid is because of two things:
1.) ICE arrests a single person with multiple people.
2.) If you do a Kav stop and detain someone, you will require the agents to leave the area to detain the person.
1.) ICE arrests a single person with multiple people.
2.) If you do a Kav stop and detain someone, you will require the agents to leave the area to detain the person.
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come on he can't look like that. You can't be buying the Pedo Ranch and look like a shaved Grinch who keeps showing up at Cindy Lou Who's place even when it isn't Christmas Eve.
Report: Texas Republican candidate Don Huffines owns Jeffrey Epstein’s Santa Fe ranch
https://heartlandsignal.com/2026/02/17/report-texas-republican-candidate-don-huffines-owns-jeffrey-epsteins-santa-fe-ranch/
https://heartlandsignal.com/2026/02/17/report-texas-republican-candidate-don-huffines-owns-jeffrey-epsteins-santa-fe-ranch/
Report: Texas Republican candidate Don Huffines owns Jeffrey Epstein’s Santa Fe ranch
A new report revealed that Donald Huffines, a Republican running in Texas’ Comptroller of Public Accounts race in 2026, is the owner of deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch in Santa F...
heartlandsignal.com
February 17, 2026 at 7:57 PM
come on he can't look like that. You can't be buying the Pedo Ranch and look like a shaved Grinch who keeps showing up at Cindy Lou Who's place even when it isn't Christmas Eve.
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By the always excellent Erin Davis, a chart of the first names that have seen the greatest (estimated) drop in living Americans with that name. Much more here, including an interactive to look the trends for any first name: erdavis.com/2026/02/16/i...
February 17, 2026 at 4:19 AM
By the always excellent Erin Davis, a chart of the first names that have seen the greatest (estimated) drop in living Americans with that name. Much more here, including an interactive to look the trends for any first name: erdavis.com/2026/02/16/i...
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This isn't a story about AI gaining consciousness, it's a story about the capacity for AI agents to contribute to frighteningly scalable harassment. Because "go off my little bot friends and gather intel and write crappy linkedin style blog post hit pieces" is a thing a crappy human can do.
February 17, 2026 at 7:54 PM
This isn't a story about AI gaining consciousness, it's a story about the capacity for AI agents to contribute to frighteningly scalable harassment. Because "go off my little bot friends and gather intel and write crappy linkedin style blog post hit pieces" is a thing a crappy human can do.
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Look, I can’t just obey laws every time I walk into a bank, be reasonable.
Rep. Buddy Carter: "Some of the demands that the Democrats have put forth, we're not gonna be able to obtain that. We can't have a warrant every time."
February 17, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Look, I can’t just obey laws every time I walk into a bank, be reasonable.
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These are bad people who are trying to do terrible things. But instead of worrying about what might happen, the best thing to do is prepare for it as best that you can. Political leaders should be prepared for bad things happening as should regular citizens.
February 17, 2026 at 6:38 PM
These are bad people who are trying to do terrible things. But instead of worrying about what might happen, the best thing to do is prepare for it as best that you can. Political leaders should be prepared for bad things happening as should regular citizens.
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If you are worried about this scenario happening in your community, you should either become a poll worker or get started organizing a rapid response network or patrol. Have dozens of people descend on a polling station to blow whistles at or record ICE agents to make their lives miserable.
February 17, 2026 at 6:32 PM
If you are worried about this scenario happening in your community, you should either become a poll worker or get started organizing a rapid response network or patrol. Have dozens of people descend on a polling station to blow whistles at or record ICE agents to make their lives miserable.
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The bigger reality is creating a sense of fear, not that they’d be able to pull it off. I’m not sure how fearful people who can legally vote would be.
February 17, 2026 at 6:23 PM
The bigger reality is creating a sense of fear, not that they’d be able to pull it off. I’m not sure how fearful people who can legally vote would be.
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Each arrest takes like a half dozen agents. They just don’t have the manpower for this. I am not even sure where the marginal utility of this type of thing would be. Maybe if they concentrated their efforts in one congressional district or something.
One of my biggest fears about the midterms is that ICE could flood the polls with agents who perform Kavanaugh Stops on every non-white person before they get a chance to cast a ballot, then detain them until voting is over. Which is not far-fetched at this point. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-po...
February 17, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Each arrest takes like a half dozen agents. They just don’t have the manpower for this. I am not even sure where the marginal utility of this type of thing would be. Maybe if they concentrated their efforts in one congressional district or something.
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running out of goons theory undefeated
Chamberlain Harris, a 26-year-old White House aide and a longtime executive assistant for President Trump, is slated to be sworn into the 126-year-old commission that is set to review his White House ballroom plans.
Harris has no notable arts expertise.
Harris has no notable arts expertise.
Trump picks his White House assistant for panel reviewing ballroom
Chamberlain Harris, a 26-year-old White House aide and the president’s longtime executive assistant, is set to be sworn in Thursday.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 17, 2026 at 6:51 PM
running out of goons theory undefeated
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that's another thing. I think Dems lose a lot of respect from swing voters for not standing up for what they obviously believe, while Trump gets credit for being "honest" (actually just an asshole, but still)
February 17, 2026 at 6:35 PM
that's another thing. I think Dems lose a lot of respect from swing voters for not standing up for what they obviously believe, while Trump gets credit for being "honest" (actually just an asshole, but still)