Billy Shakes
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That’s a New Jersey fist.
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Adobe’s company mission might as well be “get every single one of our customers to despise us with the heat of a thousand suns”
December 16, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Adobe’s company mission might as well be “get every single one of our customers to despise us with the heat of a thousand suns”
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I am so glad I don’t live in the time I studied.
Important Martin Luther lore:
December 15, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I am so glad I don’t live in the time I studied.
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Sometimes people wonder why I'm still an optimist in these times and the simple answer is that if read how *liberal* people in the UK and US talked about black people you realise we have had such a total shift in world thinking in the last century even reactionaries can't think that far back
December 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Sometimes people wonder why I'm still an optimist in these times and the simple answer is that if read how *liberal* people in the UK and US talked about black people you realise we have had such a total shift in world thinking in the last century even reactionaries can't think that far back
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Only red state Democrats hate the Republican Party sufficiently
blue state party machinery: quick. everybody is watching us. let's commit some crimes and praise Trump in really weird ways
red state party machinery: welcome to our Christmas Mayoral Struggle Session
red state party machinery: welcome to our Christmas Mayoral Struggle Session
Wow: Harris County Democratic officials voted Sunday 186 to 80 to bar Houston Mayor John Whitmire from seeking the party's endorsement over his handling of ICE and appearing at a fundraiser for Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Tx)
Story by @fbugenhagen.bsky.social:
www.chron.com/politics/art...
Story by @fbugenhagen.bsky.social:
www.chron.com/politics/art...
December 15, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Only red state Democrats hate the Republican Party sufficiently
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to think that text-based social media users are probably in the top quintile of social media users for literacy to begin with
December 15, 2025 at 9:37 PM
to think that text-based social media users are probably in the top quintile of social media users for literacy to begin with
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there were excesses to woke 1, but the primary reason these people won’t stop crowing about censorship it is that there was a brief moment where being a vicious public asshole bore real social consequences
Our local news recently reported that a nonprofit is collecting toys for kids whose parents were deported. FB commenters were overwhelmingly negative. Many suggested ICE raid the toy drive and arrest the kids, too.
I hate that I’m now aware of how much of our country craves this sort of cruelty.
I hate that I’m now aware of how much of our country craves this sort of cruelty.
this is one of the most psychotic things Trump has ever posted
December 15, 2025 at 9:35 PM
there were excesses to woke 1, but the primary reason these people won’t stop crowing about censorship it is that there was a brief moment where being a vicious public asshole bore real social consequences
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this old quote kinda sits in my history-loving gut like a reminder of a bad meal, but, the math checks out
“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”
- Aldous Huxley
- Aldous Huxley
December 15, 2025 at 8:38 PM
this old quote kinda sits in my history-loving gut like a reminder of a bad meal, but, the math checks out
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It's amazing how few people really understood what was going on prior to this election with the natcons taking over everything.
I mean look at how many senators, religious leaders, JD Vance, were all there saying exactly what they wanted to do. And people, didn't believe them?
I mean look at how many senators, religious leaders, JD Vance, were all there saying exactly what they wanted to do. And people, didn't believe them?
I feel like a lot of them thought this would be like Trump I and not the NatCon social revolution
All I'm gonna say is now that anti-porn bills are everywhere I'm seeing a lot of these guys talk about how much the LGBT community (and their money) mean to them
December 15, 2025 at 5:13 PM
It's amazing how few people really understood what was going on prior to this election with the natcons taking over everything.
I mean look at how many senators, religious leaders, JD Vance, were all there saying exactly what they wanted to do. And people, didn't believe them?
I mean look at how many senators, religious leaders, JD Vance, were all there saying exactly what they wanted to do. And people, didn't believe them?
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If your goal is combating the dangerousness of the right, you may want to think beyond posting
IMO it's hard to combat the dangerousness of the right by participating in a platform where they aren't present.
I think the best way to explain the X vs Bluesky preference is whether a person thinks the left is more annoying than the right is dangerous.
The reason so many Noah Smiths end up on the X side of that equation is that while the left annoys them personally, the right mostly endangers other people.
The reason so many Noah Smiths end up on the X side of that equation is that while the left annoys them personally, the right mostly endangers other people.
December 15, 2025 at 7:38 PM
If your goal is combating the dangerousness of the right, you may want to think beyond posting
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If he wants to help you do crimes he's a fed (clap clap clap)
If he wants to help you do crimes he's a fed (clap clap clap)
If he wants to help you do crimes then you're gonna have to do time
If he wants to help you do crimes he's a fed (clap clap clap)
If he wants to help you do crimes he's a fed (clap clap clap)
If he wants to help you do crimes then you're gonna have to do time
If he wants to help you do crimes he's a fed (clap clap clap)
October 20, 2025 at 4:48 PM
If he wants to help you do crimes he's a fed (clap clap clap)
If he wants to help you do crimes he's a fed (clap clap clap)
If he wants to help you do crimes then you're gonna have to do time
If he wants to help you do crimes he's a fed (clap clap clap)
If he wants to help you do crimes he's a fed (clap clap clap)
If he wants to help you do crimes then you're gonna have to do time
If he wants to help you do crimes he's a fed (clap clap clap)
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Dr Russell D. Moore is a theologian, pastor, and the editor in chief of Christianity Today.
December 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Dr Russell D. Moore is a theologian, pastor, and the editor in chief of Christianity Today.
Shocking, truly shocking (that the UK thought this wasn’t going happen)
December 15, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Shocking, truly shocking (that the UK thought this wasn’t going happen)
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"Jobs including doctors, nurses and support staff," it says.
They intend to drive up patient wait times to create dissatisfaction with VA, leading veterans to, presumably, call for privatization.
They can't suggest privatization now because veterans love VA. So they intend to turn vets against it.
They intend to drive up patient wait times to create dissatisfaction with VA, leading veterans to, presumably, call for privatization.
They can't suggest privatization now because veterans love VA. So they intend to turn vets against it.
Exclusive: The Department of Veterans Affairs will abruptly eliminate as many as 35,000 health care positions this month, mostly unfilled jobs.
The cuts come after a massive reorganization effort already resulted in the loss of almost 30,000 employees.
The cuts come after a massive reorganization effort already resulted in the loss of almost 30,000 employees.
VA plans to abruptly eliminate tens of thousands of health care jobs
Strains on the Veterans Affairs system could grow with the elimination of as many as 35,000 mostly unfilled health care positions, including doctors and nurses.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 13, 2025 at 11:53 PM
"Jobs including doctors, nurses and support staff," it says.
They intend to drive up patient wait times to create dissatisfaction with VA, leading veterans to, presumably, call for privatization.
They can't suggest privatization now because veterans love VA. So they intend to turn vets against it.
They intend to drive up patient wait times to create dissatisfaction with VA, leading veterans to, presumably, call for privatization.
They can't suggest privatization now because veterans love VA. So they intend to turn vets against it.
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I can literally think of nothing worse than every word used to describe this new private members club (it’s not even the one you think)
www.ft.com/content/6aad...
www.ft.com/content/6aad...
December 14, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I can literally think of nothing worse than every word used to describe this new private members club (it’s not even the one you think)
www.ft.com/content/6aad...
www.ft.com/content/6aad...
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Have oft thought that the thing about the modern radical right is they do not so much have an agreed version of what women's gender role should be so much as they have a consensus that gender roles should be A Thing.
Reform MP Danny Kruger on pornstar/provocateur Bonnie Blue announcing her support for the party: "We’ll take votes from wherever we can get them, we want all the support we can get. Quite like Bonnie Blue."
Says party isn't "going to be fussy, we're not going to be judgemental" about Reform voters
Says party isn't "going to be fussy, we're not going to be judgemental" about Reform voters
December 15, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Have oft thought that the thing about the modern radical right is they do not so much have an agreed version of what women's gender role should be so much as they have a consensus that gender roles should be A Thing.
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95%!
Can you think of anything else that 95% of the British public would agree on? We can't even agree whether to put the cream or the jam on first...
Can you think of anything else that 95% of the British public would agree on? We can't even agree whether to put the cream or the jam on first...
🚨 The UK government just published a breakdown of the responses to its consultation on AI & copyright:
- 95% of respondents want AI companies to pay for their training data (made up of 88% saying strengthen copyright law, & 7% saying leave it as is)
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- 95% of respondents want AI companies to pay for their training data (made up of 88% saying strengthen copyright law, & 7% saying leave it as is)
🧵 1/2
December 15, 2025 at 2:08 PM
95%!
Can you think of anything else that 95% of the British public would agree on? We can't even agree whether to put the cream or the jam on first...
Can you think of anything else that 95% of the British public would agree on? We can't even agree whether to put the cream or the jam on first...
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When doing presentations to the likes of foreign companies seeking to understand the political environment in the UK, I always used a different but similar version of this chart. I referred to it as "the single slide which explains just about everything".
A graph that tells you everything you need to know about why British politics is in the state it is in.
December 15, 2025 at 11:21 AM
When doing presentations to the likes of foreign companies seeking to understand the political environment in the UK, I always used a different but similar version of this chart. I referred to it as "the single slide which explains just about everything".
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The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.
I'm dubious about Amazon's commitment to keeping pre-existing conditions a thing of the past.
December 14, 2025 at 11:50 PM
The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.
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Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.
December 15, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.
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Whenever I see a minister (or backbench Labour MP) give some weak response, I just want to scream the following at them:
YOU ARE THE GOVERNMENT OF THE DAY WITH AN ENTIRE COMMS APPARATUS AT YOUR FINGERTIPS - USE THE BULLY PULPIT TO SAY “RACISM BAD.“ ALL DAY, EVERYDAY, ON EVERY AVAILABLE OUTLET
YOU ARE THE GOVERNMENT OF THE DAY WITH AN ENTIRE COMMS APPARATUS AT YOUR FINGERTIPS - USE THE BULLY PULPIT TO SAY “RACISM BAD.“ ALL DAY, EVERYDAY, ON EVERY AVAILABLE OUTLET
December 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Whenever I see a minister (or backbench Labour MP) give some weak response, I just want to scream the following at them:
YOU ARE THE GOVERNMENT OF THE DAY WITH AN ENTIRE COMMS APPARATUS AT YOUR FINGERTIPS - USE THE BULLY PULPIT TO SAY “RACISM BAD.“ ALL DAY, EVERYDAY, ON EVERY AVAILABLE OUTLET
YOU ARE THE GOVERNMENT OF THE DAY WITH AN ENTIRE COMMS APPARATUS AT YOUR FINGERTIPS - USE THE BULLY PULPIT TO SAY “RACISM BAD.“ ALL DAY, EVERYDAY, ON EVERY AVAILABLE OUTLET
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I used to think the British right were nostalgic for the 1950s, but now I see that it’s the 1930s.
December 15, 2025 at 8:34 AM
I used to think the British right were nostalgic for the 1950s, but now I see that it’s the 1930s.
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So we have two immigrant heroes. One in Australia who helped disarm one of the shooters and one in the US who helped track down the Brown U shooter. When a man stabbed several people in the UK, it was also an immigrant who disarmed him.
Weird that the Far Right keeps vilifying immigrants.
Weird that the Far Right keeps vilifying immigrants.
December 15, 2025 at 2:17 AM
So we have two immigrant heroes. One in Australia who helped disarm one of the shooters and one in the US who helped track down the Brown U shooter. When a man stabbed several people in the UK, it was also an immigrant who disarmed him.
Weird that the Far Right keeps vilifying immigrants.
Weird that the Far Right keeps vilifying immigrants.
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We are not entirely prisoners of our information and discursive environments and norms, but we are enormously vulnerable to them, for the most part. That’s something few theories of liberal democracy grapple with at all, and I don’t think we have a clear and convincing answer to how to confront it.
December 14, 2025 at 11:22 PM
We are not entirely prisoners of our information and discursive environments and norms, but we are enormously vulnerable to them, for the most part. That’s something few theories of liberal democracy grapple with at all, and I don’t think we have a clear and convincing answer to how to confront it.
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Either we are a society of grown, responsible adults with agency over society and choice or we are but sheep waiting for our next shepherd to lead us to our glory or our doom.
We can't be both.
We can't be both.
December 14, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Either we are a society of grown, responsible adults with agency over society and choice or we are but sheep waiting for our next shepherd to lead us to our glory or our doom.
We can't be both.
We can't be both.
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CBS should make me editor-in-chief and it will be 24 hours nonstop coverage about arcane menswear rules no one knows or cares about
December 15, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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