The Shmueliad
@feinson.bsky.social
Eldritch Millennial. Childless Cat Lord. Rural Jurist. Rootless Cosmopolitan.
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The Shmueliad
@feinson.bsky.social
· Oct 7
My favorite Jonas brother is Honus.
#jokesfromtwentyyearsago
#jokesfromtwentyyearsago
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If you’ve got a Senate Democrat who is not calling for new leadership, they’re part of the problem.
We should no longer trust Senate Dems who decline to come out against the leadership that led us here. Until proven otherwise, we should assume they were in on the game to fool their own supporters.
We should no longer trust Senate Dems who decline to come out against the leadership that led us here. Until proven otherwise, we should assume they were in on the game to fool their own supporters.
“After a year spent organizing to try to convince the Democratic Party to unify and oppose this regime, here’s where I am: The time for convincing is over. We need new leadership.” - @ezralevin.bsky.social
Demand that your Dem senators call on Schumer to step aside: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Demand that your Dem senators call on Schumer to step aside: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
November 11, 2025 at 1:58 AM
If you’ve got a Senate Democrat who is not calling for new leadership, they’re part of the problem.
We should no longer trust Senate Dems who decline to come out against the leadership that led us here. Until proven otherwise, we should assume they were in on the game to fool their own supporters.
We should no longer trust Senate Dems who decline to come out against the leadership that led us here. Until proven otherwise, we should assume they were in on the game to fool their own supporters.
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Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
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Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc
November 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc
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the question nobody with a soul is asking, answered by people nobody wants to hear from
November 6, 2025 at 12:58 PM
the question nobody with a soul is asking, answered by people nobody wants to hear from
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Carly Rae XCX
November 5, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Carly Rae XCX
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Dick Cheney was proud to have normalized state-sponsored torture. That, and the dead of Iraq in an unjust war, constitute his entire legacy. “That’s not funny” is a meme-y cliche but I don’t care about the friend he shot or our jokes about it. Cheney is Kissinger level. He made the world worse.
November 4, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Dick Cheney was proud to have normalized state-sponsored torture. That, and the dead of Iraq in an unjust war, constitute his entire legacy. “That’s not funny” is a meme-y cliche but I don’t care about the friend he shot or our jokes about it. Cheney is Kissinger level. He made the world worse.
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If ICE agents begins harassing voters on the way to vote on Tuesday, we need local prosecutors to charge the ICE officers with state law crimes. We need to send a message for 2026 that they will be swiftly arrested.
November 2, 2025 at 5:59 PM
If ICE agents begins harassing voters on the way to vote on Tuesday, we need local prosecutors to charge the ICE officers with state law crimes. We need to send a message for 2026 that they will be swiftly arrested.
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lol your life is worse off because too many white people hate Black people.
"Why does my life suc-" because mee maw hates Black people.
"Why does my life suc-" because mee maw hates Black people.
"Why don't people support welfare programs?"
Racism. More specifically, anti-Blackness.
White folks asked about who welfare serves overestimate the number of Black people on welfare. Not only that, but just the mere THOUGHT of who welfare supports led less white people to support it. #blacksky
Racism. More specifically, anti-Blackness.
White folks asked about who welfare serves overestimate the number of Black people on welfare. Not only that, but just the mere THOUGHT of who welfare supports led less white people to support it. #blacksky
November 3, 2025 at 12:48 AM
lol your life is worse off because too many white people hate Black people.
"Why does my life suc-" because mee maw hates Black people.
"Why does my life suc-" because mee maw hates Black people.
I have two stone legs
And a head stuck in sand
And a 1200 BCE ruined pedestal
With a mighty slogan etched
Nothing remaaa-aains but the sand that stretches far away
Ozymandia-a-a-aaa-aaaas
And a head stuck in sand
And a 1200 BCE ruined pedestal
With a mighty slogan etched
Nothing remaaa-aains but the sand that stretches far away
Ozymandia-a-a-aaa-aaaas
Me and my boys went to a strange LAND
The sun beat down on the desert SAND
My man Ad-rock turned to us and said
Yo, you two see that BIG-ASS HEAD?
We approached this ancient, beat up MASS
We learned his name was OZYMANDIAS
A sign said take a look AND DESPAIR
But we saw no works, nothing was THERE
The sun beat down on the desert SAND
My man Ad-rock turned to us and said
Yo, you two see that BIG-ASS HEAD?
We approached this ancient, beat up MASS
We learned his name was OZYMANDIAS
A sign said take a look AND DESPAIR
But we saw no works, nothing was THERE
Ozyman, Ozyman-
dias does what no mortal can
and his works? are they there?
no, but maybe still despair
dias does what no mortal can
and his works? are they there?
no, but maybe still despair
November 2, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I have two stone legs
And a head stuck in sand
And a 1200 BCE ruined pedestal
With a mighty slogan etched
Nothing remaaa-aains but the sand that stretches far away
Ozymandia-a-a-aaa-aaaas
And a head stuck in sand
And a 1200 BCE ruined pedestal
With a mighty slogan etched
Nothing remaaa-aains but the sand that stretches far away
Ozymandia-a-a-aaa-aaaas
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Every day it feels more and more like a zombie apocalypse over on LinkedIn, in which you start a conversation with someone who you hope is an ordinary person and then a couple of turns in discover that they have surrendered their brains to the "AI" mass delusion.
November 2, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Every day it feels more and more like a zombie apocalypse over on LinkedIn, in which you start a conversation with someone who you hope is an ordinary person and then a couple of turns in discover that they have surrendered their brains to the "AI" mass delusion.
I heard there was a statue there
Said "look upon this and despair"
And all around the land is just the sandiest
The head looked out upon the land
But now it's buried half in sand
An ancient king whose name was Ozymandias
Said "look upon this and despair"
And all around the land is just the sandiest
The head looked out upon the land
But now it's buried half in sand
An ancient king whose name was Ozymandias
it's two vast legs,
without any trunks.
it's a visage that's shattered
and even half-sunk
isn't it ironic
don't ya think?
it's like cold commaaaaaaaaand
in the lone and level sands
it's like Ozymaaaaaaaaaaaandias,
and nothing left but decay
without any trunks.
it's a visage that's shattered
and even half-sunk
isn't it ironic
don't ya think?
it's like cold commaaaaaaaaand
in the lone and level sands
it's like Ozymaaaaaaaaaaaandias,
and nothing left but decay
met a guy from the old world
talkin bout these vast and trunkless legs
standin’ alone in a new world
just a bunch of rocks and broken dregs
it ain’t nothin but busted
half a shattered visage there in the sand
hey there baby, check out my sneer of cold command
talkin bout these vast and trunkless legs
standin’ alone in a new world
just a bunch of rocks and broken dregs
it ain’t nothin but busted
half a shattered visage there in the sand
hey there baby, check out my sneer of cold command
November 2, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I heard there was a statue there
Said "look upon this and despair"
And all around the land is just the sandiest
The head looked out upon the land
But now it's buried half in sand
An ancient king whose name was Ozymandias
Said "look upon this and despair"
And all around the land is just the sandiest
The head looked out upon the land
But now it's buried half in sand
An ancient king whose name was Ozymandias
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The people on the right getting mad at Tucker Carlson for hosting Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes on his podcast don’t seem to have gotten mad at all at Donald Trump for hosting Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes at his home for dinner. Funny that.
November 1, 2025 at 11:51 PM
The people on the right getting mad at Tucker Carlson for hosting Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes on his podcast don’t seem to have gotten mad at all at Donald Trump for hosting Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes at his home for dinner. Funny that.
Twit.
Change one letter. Ruin a candy.
I’ll go first. Death Bar.
I’ll go first. Death Bar.
October 30, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Twit.
Klingon short-order cooks: “Today is a good day to fry.”
exasperated Klingons: "Today is a good day to sigh."
Klingon hair stylists: "Today is a good day to dye"
October 30, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Klingon short-order cooks: “Today is a good day to fry.”
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My God they've just created a machine that incentivizes every Trump staffer to break the economy (and much else) on purpose so they can insider trade on Truth Social.
Literally every insider trading son of a bitch in this regime is gonna be deliberately *increasing* volatility as much as possible.
Literally every insider trading son of a bitch in this regime is gonna be deliberately *increasing* volatility as much as possible.
"Truth Social users will be able to trade prediction contracts related to major events and milestones, such as political elections, interest and inflation rate changes, commodity prices on gold and crude oil, events across all major sports leagues"
What the bloody hell?
crypto.com/us/company-n...
What the bloody hell?
crypto.com/us/company-n...
Truth Social to Become World’s First Social Media Platform Offering Prediction Markets via Exclusive Partnership with Crypto.com
Trump Media Expansion Now Includes Strategic Push into Prediction Markets
crypto.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:51 AM
My God they've just created a machine that incentivizes every Trump staffer to break the economy (and much else) on purpose so they can insider trade on Truth Social.
Literally every insider trading son of a bitch in this regime is gonna be deliberately *increasing* volatility as much as possible.
Literally every insider trading son of a bitch in this regime is gonna be deliberately *increasing* volatility as much as possible.
If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula.
October 29, 2025 at 2:39 AM
If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula.
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43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.
October 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM
43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.
“If we merely wait for the appropriate moment we will never live to see it, because this [appropriate moment] cannot arrive without the subjective conditions of the maturity of the revolutionary force being fulfilled - it can only arrive after a series of failed attempts.”
October 28, 2025 at 12:52 PM
“If we merely wait for the appropriate moment we will never live to see it, because this [appropriate moment] cannot arrive without the subjective conditions of the maturity of the revolutionary force being fulfilled - it can only arrive after a series of failed attempts.”
“The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being. Philosophy is not the reflection of a pre-existing truth, but, like art, the act of bringing truth into being.”
October 28, 2025 at 12:30 PM
“The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being. Philosophy is not the reflection of a pre-existing truth, but, like art, the act of bringing truth into being.”
Thank goodness we now have AI to free us from the yoke of creativity.
People who aren’t writers think writer’s block is at least as big and real a problem as I thought quicksand would be, as a child.
AI can help authors beat writer’s block, says Bloomsbury chief
Publisher last week reported jump in revenue in academic and professional arm thanks to AI licensing deal
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Thank goodness we now have AI to free us from the yoke of creativity.
Worst send since the email I got from a pro se litigant last week.
Who sent him and why does he still have a job as the third base coach?
October 28, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Worst send since the email I got from a pro se litigant last week.
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This happened over the weekend.
I want you to watch it.
I want you to understand that wiping it out has been a major Russian imperial objective for literally centuries—under the Tsars, under the Soviets, and now.
youtu.be/5XSBK81UeYU?...
I want you to watch it.
I want you to understand that wiping it out has been a major Russian imperial objective for literally centuries—under the Tsars, under the Soviets, and now.
youtu.be/5XSBK81UeYU?...
Valeriia Vovk and the Ukrainian Retro Revival
YouTube video by #DogShirtTV
youtu.be
October 27, 2025 at 1:23 PM
This happened over the weekend.
I want you to watch it.
I want you to understand that wiping it out has been a major Russian imperial objective for literally centuries—under the Tsars, under the Soviets, and now.
youtu.be/5XSBK81UeYU?...
I want you to watch it.
I want you to understand that wiping it out has been a major Russian imperial objective for literally centuries—under the Tsars, under the Soviets, and now.
youtu.be/5XSBK81UeYU?...
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Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
October 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
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Supreme Court: "Money talks, and money talking is Constitutionally protected speech".
"And by the way (wink, wink), you cannot bribe us for a specified quid pro quo, but tips for services rendered are greatly appreciated."
Democracy dying in the light of day.
www.skadden.com/insights/pub...
"And by the way (wink, wink), you cannot bribe us for a specified quid pro quo, but tips for services rendered are greatly appreciated."
Democracy dying in the light of day.
www.skadden.com/insights/pub...
US Supreme Court Holds That Federal Bribery Law Does Not Criminalize Gratuities | Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Snyder v. United States has the potential to impact other statutes dealing with bribes and payments to government officials, such as the FCPA.
www.skadden.com
October 26, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Supreme Court: "Money talks, and money talking is Constitutionally protected speech".
"And by the way (wink, wink), you cannot bribe us for a specified quid pro quo, but tips for services rendered are greatly appreciated."
Democracy dying in the light of day.
www.skadden.com/insights/pub...
"And by the way (wink, wink), you cannot bribe us for a specified quid pro quo, but tips for services rendered are greatly appreciated."
Democracy dying in the light of day.
www.skadden.com/insights/pub...