Harry
@harryiii.bsky.social
You know that person who thinks they're always right and when they are, they never stop telling you, "I told you so?"
I find that insufferable.
I find that insufferable.
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Harry
@harryiii.bsky.social
· Jun 18
What is common knowledge in your field that amazes outsiders:
There are 52 cards in a deck. The number of combinations of those cards is 52!, 52 factorial, and it's an exceptionally large number.
The sun will red giant and engulf the earth before the human race plays all combinations of that deck.
There are 52 cards in a deck. The number of combinations of those cards is 52!, 52 factorial, and it's an exceptionally large number.
The sun will red giant and engulf the earth before the human race plays all combinations of that deck.
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🚨BREAKING: In a sweeping victory for voters, a Utah court struck down the GOP-controlled legislature’s congressional gerrymander and a companion law designed to entrench partisan power — restoring a fair map for the 2026 elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Utah Judge Strikes Down GOP Gerrymander, Restores Voter-Approved Fair Map
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:43 PM
🚨BREAKING: In a sweeping victory for voters, a Utah court struck down the GOP-controlled legislature’s congressional gerrymander and a companion law designed to entrench partisan power — restoring a fair map for the 2026 elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Not just galling to the conspiratorial minded; more like suspicious as hell!!!
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Here's the part that gets me on the shutdown: The section prohibiting Trump from firing workers is great! But it wasn't carried through to stop rescissions & withheld funds.
That Democrats knew how to write a No Kings budget, then only passed a tiny section of it to get Tim Kaine's vote, is galling.
That Democrats knew how to write a No Kings budget, then only passed a tiny section of it to get Tim Kaine's vote, is galling.
The Most Frustrating Thing About the Shutdown Cave - The American Prospect
Senate Democrats actually know how to use their power to counter Donald Trump and ensure that legislative funding gets spent—but this continuing resolution makes it clear they chose not to.
prospect.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Not just galling to the conspiratorial minded; more like suspicious as hell!!!
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There's a lot of horrible information available on the intertubes these days, but I don't know that I've read anything more horribly indicative of our time. We've failed as a society.
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Study finds tubal ligations to permanently prevent pregnancy increased by 51% in 4 academic medical centers in PA, NY, FL & TN since Dobbs. A greater proportion were younger & had never given birth. Most worried their options would be limited in the future.
www.psu.edu/news/researc...
www.psu.edu/news/researc...
More women sought permanent contraception after Supreme Court Dobbs decision | Penn State University
The number of women undergoing tubal ligations — a surgical procedure that permanently prevents pregnancy — increased across four academic medical centers in four states in the year after the Supreme ...
www.psu.edu
November 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM
There's a lot of horrible information available on the intertubes these days, but I don't know that I've read anything more horribly indicative of our time. We've failed as a society.
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Whelp, here's an institution that has absolutely no justification to be tax exempt any longer.
I think we had one of these lackeys run for our local school board this month. On the plus side, they're a special Texas Stupid, so they're easy to spot, but I bet it plays in some parts of the country.
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I think we had one of these lackeys run for our local school board this month. On the plus side, they're a special Texas Stupid, so they're easy to spot, but I bet it plays in some parts of the country.
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Via ProPublica, Fort Worth Report and The Texas Tribune, led by a reporter who was an @rns.org reporting fellow last year: “No Separation Between Church and State”: Inside a Texas Church’s Training Academy for Christians Running for Office fortworthreport.org/2025/11/10/f...
A Texas church’s online class trains Christians to run for office. Now it may go national
Fort Worth’s Mercy Culture Church aims to get more conservative Christians elected through its online Campaign University.
fortworthreport.org
November 10, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Whelp, here's an institution that has absolutely no justification to be tax exempt any longer.
I think we had one of these lackeys run for our local school board this month. On the plus side, they're a special Texas Stupid, so they're easy to spot, but I bet it plays in some parts of the country.
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I think we had one of these lackeys run for our local school board this month. On the plus side, they're a special Texas Stupid, so they're easy to spot, but I bet it plays in some parts of the country.
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Tonight was a very bad night.
November 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Tonight was a very bad night.
A fine legal mind and visionary would realize that without a governor of law, capitalism will necessarily devolve into a rentier economy.
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November 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
A fine legal mind and visionary would realize that without a governor of law, capitalism will necessarily devolve into a rentier economy.
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Cameron Diaz, Being John Malkovich
What’s your all time favorite Hollywood Homely fail? When a woman is meant to be unattractive but she’s gorgeous. Thinking of how Safety Not Guaranteed has a key moment where a man’s ex is in the script old and no longer attractive and she’s a knockout who the movie still plays as old.
November 9, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Cameron Diaz, Being John Malkovich
Stupid is as stupid does; voting for an idiotic, career con-man with nothing to offer other than an idiot-savant ability to bully, is pretty fuckin' stupid; voting for him twice . . . well, representative democracy had a pretty good run . . .
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Seriously? He has no idea how insurance works or how to govern. I’ll never get over 77 million people thinking a man this incompetent belongs anywhere near the Oval Office.
November 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Stupid is as stupid does; voting for an idiotic, career con-man with nothing to offer other than an idiot-savant ability to bully, is pretty fuckin' stupid; voting for him twice . . . well, representative democracy had a pretty good run . . .
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Go ladies, go!
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November 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Go ladies, go!
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That could be the word to describe the nature of the malignant narcissist's entire regime. Our body politic, the media, and the Republican Party has been comprised of nothing but Uriah Heep style catchfarts since 2016, if not before.
(Spellcheck does not know that word; it soon will!)
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(Spellcheck does not know that word; it soon will!)
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Word of the Day is ‘catchfart’ (17th century): an obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind.
November 7, 2025 at 12:30 PM
That could be the word to describe the nature of the malignant narcissist's entire regime. Our body politic, the media, and the Republican Party has been comprised of nothing but Uriah Heep style catchfarts since 2016, if not before.
(Spellcheck does not know that word; it soon will!)
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(Spellcheck does not know that word; it soon will!)
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When I saw this photo come out I knew this guy would not disappoint.
Pierrot, by Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1718-19, 📸 by @andyharnik
November 7, 2025 at 5:31 AM
When I saw this photo come out I knew this guy would not disappoint.
Here's how ya do it.
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Beshear sends state National Guard to staff food banks seeing ‘surge’ amid SNAP delays
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kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/05/b...
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kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/05/b...
Beshear sends state National Guard to staff food banks seeing ‘surge’ amid SNAP delays • Kentucky Lantern
Gov. Andy Beshear is sending the National Guard to staff food banks while more than 600,000 in the state await federal food assistance.
kentuckylantern.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Here's how ya do it.
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This fact, if it is so, could be setting up the most succulent schadenfreude sandwich of splendiferous proportions.
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Texas has more registered dems than GOP, so there is no guarantee that they will get 5 seats; not if dems and left leaning unaffiliated turn out and vote.
November 6, 2025 at 2:28 PM
This fact, if it is so, could be setting up the most succulent schadenfreude sandwich of splendiferous proportions.
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Agreed, most of the leadership in the United States--the hegemony of any various factions--are either rentiers or beholding to the rentier class.
I believe this is why the Democratic hegemony has not made a reversal of the Citizens United decision an absolute platform mandate; the electorate would.
I believe this is why the Democratic hegemony has not made a reversal of the Citizens United decision an absolute platform mandate; the electorate would.
I do think yesterday’s results reinforced the dynamic that while much of the American leadership class is chickenshit, most of the electorate is not
November 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Agreed, most of the leadership in the United States--the hegemony of any various factions--are either rentiers or beholding to the rentier class.
I believe this is why the Democratic hegemony has not made a reversal of the Citizens United decision an absolute platform mandate; the electorate would.
I believe this is why the Democratic hegemony has not made a reversal of the Citizens United decision an absolute platform mandate; the electorate would.
This isn't actually that hard to believe. It does stretch credulity to think that he's as willfully obtuse as he presents himself, but if you know practitioners of the Prosperity Gospel, you'll accept the possibility.
That he lives under a rock, the fridge, or behind the commode, that's on brand.
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That he lives under a rock, the fridge, or behind the commode, that's on brand.
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Mike Johnson Wants You to Believe He Lives Under a Rock
House Speaker Mike Johnson has made a habit of pretending not to know about Trump-related news events when asked to comment by reporters.
www.rollingstone.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
This isn't actually that hard to believe. It does stretch credulity to think that he's as willfully obtuse as he presents himself, but if you know practitioners of the Prosperity Gospel, you'll accept the possibility.
That he lives under a rock, the fridge, or behind the commode, that's on brand.
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That he lives under a rock, the fridge, or behind the commode, that's on brand.
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A shade tree observer might be inclined to think that David Hogg's approach to winning elections trumps Ken Martin's and the DNC wasn't capable or agile enough to recognize that.
Mamdani won *because* he presented an intelligent and engaged departure from the status quo.
That's not the DNC's DNA.
Mamdani won *because* he presented an intelligent and engaged departure from the status quo.
That's not the DNC's DNA.
The entire right-wing propaganda machine came after Zohran Mamdani.
The president and his allies came after him.
Democratic leaders, by and large, did not have his back until the last minute.
He still won, turning out historic numbers and inspiring young voters.
His politics can win anywhere.
The president and his allies came after him.
Democratic leaders, by and large, did not have his back until the last minute.
He still won, turning out historic numbers and inspiring young voters.
His politics can win anywhere.
November 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
A shade tree observer might be inclined to think that David Hogg's approach to winning elections trumps Ken Martin's and the DNC wasn't capable or agile enough to recognize that.
Mamdani won *because* he presented an intelligent and engaged departure from the status quo.
That's not the DNC's DNA.
Mamdani won *because* he presented an intelligent and engaged departure from the status quo.
That's not the DNC's DNA.
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The Bush/Cheney years were dark. Their corruption and criminal lack of accountability for oil wars in the Middle East, not to mention failing to stop 9/11 despite warnings, were as destructive as Trump. But the difference is they committed atrocities without the nouveu riche reality TV show antics
November 4, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The Bush/Cheney years were dark. Their corruption and criminal lack of accountability for oil wars in the Middle East, not to mention failing to stop 9/11 despite warnings, were as destructive as Trump. But the difference is they committed atrocities without the nouveu riche reality TV show antics
The Humungus has endorsed Andrew Cuomo.
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November 4, 2025 at 5:41 AM
The Humungus has endorsed Andrew Cuomo.
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Hours of darkness today.
November 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Hours of darkness today.
Petitio principii his ass. If he's going to word salad any answer with gibberish, you might as well set the table by begging the question to at least get some concept entered into the discussion.
This technique won't pass logical proof requirements, but consider the source, that could never happen.
This technique won't pass logical proof requirements, but consider the source, that could never happen.
Exactly. Show him his post first. Put it up on a screen. Then ask him virtually any question about any word, phrase, or sentence in it.
November 3, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Petitio principii his ass. If he's going to word salad any answer with gibberish, you might as well set the table by begging the question to at least get some concept entered into the discussion.
This technique won't pass logical proof requirements, but consider the source, that could never happen.
This technique won't pass logical proof requirements, but consider the source, that could never happen.
I've long held that supporters of this regime fall into three categories, with overlapping aspects; these are: greedy, stupid, just plain mean.
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November 3, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I've long held that supporters of this regime fall into three categories, with overlapping aspects; these are: greedy, stupid, just plain mean.
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Article I, Section 5 bars either chamber of Congress from adjourning for more than three days without the other's consent.
Coordinating to block elected representation through adjournment is a coup.
Coordinating to block elected representation through adjournment is a coup.
November 2, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Article I, Section 5 bars either chamber of Congress from adjourning for more than three days without the other's consent.
Coordinating to block elected representation through adjournment is a coup.
Coordinating to block elected representation through adjournment is a coup.
Petitio principii kiss my ass!
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How to answer a loaded question.
(This is Joe Neguse, Congressman for Colorado's 2nd District.)
(This is Joe Neguse, Congressman for Colorado's 2nd District.)
November 2, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Petitio principii kiss my ass!
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