Jjinandtonic
@jjinandtonic.bsky.social
This place is not a place of honor. Nothing of value is here. What is here was time wasted. It is dangerous and should be repulsive to you. This bio is a warning of danger.
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Despite admitting to having illegally sent a guy to El Salvador by mistake, and even though the U.S. is paying El Salvador to indefinitely imprison him, the DOJ is arguing that, well, nothing to do, it's not in our hands anymore. The general tone of their response is "welp, sucks to be him."
You know, the Founding Fathers literally rebelled over this
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the vigil was pretty affecting. it was great to see all the support from a pretty white rural community, for them to hear the story a daughter told of her green-card holding mother being brutalized, knelt on, and interrogated while the DHS guys tried to make them admit her REAL ID was fake
I'm going to a vigil tonight that will almost certainly be under DHS surveillance to show solidarity with families whose loved ones were kidnapped in broad daylight what the fuck is Sheldon Whitehouse doing to face these 'dangers' of which he speaks, huh?
November 11, 2025 at 3:41 AM
the vigil was pretty affecting. it was great to see all the support from a pretty white rural community, for them to hear the story a daughter told of her green-card holding mother being brutalized, knelt on, and interrogated while the DHS guys tried to make them admit her REAL ID was fake
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thread. interesting research
but also, they named their french LLM Baguettotron
i hope it sticks. i hope Baguettotron is the best LLM out there and everyone has to say its name
but also, they named their french LLM Baguettotron
i hope it sticks. i hope Baguettotron is the best LLM out there and everyone has to say its name
Breaking: we release a fully synthetic generalist dataset for pretraining, SYNTH and two new SOTA reasoning models exclusively trained on it. Despite having seen only 200 billion tokens, Baguettotron is currently best-in-class in its size range. pleias.fr/blog/blogsyn...
November 11, 2025 at 2:57 AM
thread. interesting research
but also, they named their french LLM Baguettotron
i hope it sticks. i hope Baguettotron is the best LLM out there and everyone has to say its name
but also, they named their french LLM Baguettotron
i hope it sticks. i hope Baguettotron is the best LLM out there and everyone has to say its name
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So every part of this is dumb but the idea that the Iliad is about 'fighting for princesses' is such a vapid take on a work that tells you exactly what it is about in the first (and last) lines.
You can tell the poem isn't really about Bryseis because her return does not resolve the conflict.
You can tell the poem isn't really about Bryseis because her return does not resolve the conflict.
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 2:22 AM
So every part of this is dumb but the idea that the Iliad is about 'fighting for princesses' is such a vapid take on a work that tells you exactly what it is about in the first (and last) lines.
You can tell the poem isn't really about Bryseis because her return does not resolve the conflict.
You can tell the poem isn't really about Bryseis because her return does not resolve the conflict.
get ready to tell many more people to their faces, “your ideas are dumb and i think less of you for hearing them”
also imagine a million of these posts, forever
November 11, 2025 at 3:10 AM
get ready to tell many more people to their faces, “your ideas are dumb and i think less of you for hearing them”
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November 11, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Very much worth noting (with thanks to @sarahtaber.bsky.social’s excellent video on the topic) that “farm bankruptcy” is very often not the depression-era image of people losing their generational land but rather well to do landowners discharging their debts (especially post 2019)
"In the first six months of 2025, there were 57% more farm bankruptcies than during the same period last year, according to United States Courts."
www.cbsnews.com/news/us-farm...
www.cbsnews.com/news/us-farm...
Generations work on family farms. With costs high and prices low, farmers worry they may lose it all.
Generations have worked family farms in the U.S. Now, with costs high, prices low and tariffs causing additional difficulties, farmers say they're at risk of losing it all.
www.cbsnews.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Very much worth noting (with thanks to @sarahtaber.bsky.social’s excellent video on the topic) that “farm bankruptcy” is very often not the depression-era image of people losing their generational land but rather well to do landowners discharging their debts (especially post 2019)
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There are 1,700 ballots that need signature confirmation. That is enough to change the election.
Go. Check. Your. Ballot.
komonews.com/news/local/s...
Go. Check. Your. Ballot.
komonews.com/news/local/s...
November 11, 2025 at 2:31 AM
There are 1,700 ballots that need signature confirmation. That is enough to change the election.
Go. Check. Your. Ballot.
komonews.com/news/local/s...
Go. Check. Your. Ballot.
komonews.com/news/local/s...
Da black sox are comin back babyy
Breaking news per Jeff Passan: “Cleveland Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz have been indicted by prosecutors in Brooklyn on a host of charges related to a scheme to rig bets on pitches thrown in MLB games. Ortiz was arrested in Boston earlier today. Clase is not currently in custody”
November 11, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Da black sox are comin back babyy
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Each and every donation to the Foodraiser generates $41 in matching funds and there is another overall matcher who will match dollar for dollar for the first $75,000 raised! In other words, even a small donation goes a really long way. Scroll up in the thread below to find the donation links!
Saved it on the work laptop by mistake, no wonder I couldn't find it 🤪
So matchers! They make things exciting because no one knows where we'll end up 😂
I think I've got all the current matching offers here, basically adding +$36 for each person who donates by this Friday @ 11:59pm PST! 🔥🔥
So matchers! They make things exciting because no one knows where we'll end up 😂
I think I've got all the current matching offers here, basically adding +$36 for each person who donates by this Friday @ 11:59pm PST! 🔥🔥
November 11, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Each and every donation to the Foodraiser generates $41 in matching funds and there is another overall matcher who will match dollar for dollar for the first $75,000 raised! In other words, even a small donation goes a really long way. Scroll up in the thread below to find the donation links!
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BTW if you heard any immigration lawyers quietly celebrating the end of Chevron deference last year the complete and total disrespect the federal circuit courts are now permitted to show the Trump-shaped rubber stamp that is the Board of Immigration Appeals was why. It is such a delight to see
November 11, 2025 at 12:25 AM
BTW if you heard any immigration lawyers quietly celebrating the end of Chevron deference last year the complete and total disrespect the federal circuit courts are now permitted to show the Trump-shaped rubber stamp that is the Board of Immigration Appeals was why. It is such a delight to see
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politics rn are when youre playing a social deception game and one of your teammates on the not-hitler side doesn't want to take the game seriously and you all lose and they don't know why everyone is so upset at them
November 11, 2025 at 12:11 AM
politics rn are when youre playing a social deception game and one of your teammates on the not-hitler side doesn't want to take the game seriously and you all lose and they don't know why everyone is so upset at them
Average Catholic--Evangelical conversation
November 11, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Average Catholic--Evangelical conversation
Idk how people go to a shooting range and casually rattle off like 200 rounds, each shot feels like the breath of an angry god this demands reverence
November 11, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Idk how people go to a shooting range and casually rattle off like 200 rounds, each shot feels like the breath of an angry god this demands reverence
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fair use kink; you can fuck me me whenever you want without a license as long as I am being used for criticism, commentary, satire or research purposes
July 8, 2023 at 10:23 PM
fair use kink; you can fuck me me whenever you want without a license as long as I am being used for criticism, commentary, satire or research purposes
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When CA launched Prop 50, it was polling at 38%. And so, we did it anyway. Winning campaigns requires that your GOALS define your actions, recognizing opinion - including who agrees to vote - is malleable. In other words, be a thermostat, not a thermometer.
contrarian.substack.com/p/bringing-a...
contrarian.substack.com/p/bringing-a...
Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight, Part I
“Pollingism” Has Failed Democrats and Voters. Tuesday Showed the Power of Magnetism.
contrarian.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:08 PM
When CA launched Prop 50, it was polling at 38%. And so, we did it anyway. Winning campaigns requires that your GOALS define your actions, recognizing opinion - including who agrees to vote - is malleable. In other words, be a thermostat, not a thermometer.
contrarian.substack.com/p/bringing-a...
contrarian.substack.com/p/bringing-a...
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How you know a snack is gonna be good:
November 10, 2025 at 2:35 AM
How you know a snack is gonna be good:
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low polyamory
November 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
low polyamory
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We deserve a Democratic Party that is willing to fight as hard as we are.
We need new leadership in this moment and to get there, we need a chorus of support for change. Tell your Democratic senators to call on Senator Schumer to step aside as Minority Leader. It’s time for drastic action.
We need new leadership in this moment and to get there, we need a chorus of support for change. Tell your Democratic senators to call on Senator Schumer to step aside as Minority Leader. It’s time for drastic action.
CALL NOW: Tell Your Democratic Senator It's Time for Chuck Schumer to Step Aside
indivisible.org
November 10, 2025 at 7:14 PM
We deserve a Democratic Party that is willing to fight as hard as we are.
We need new leadership in this moment and to get there, we need a chorus of support for change. Tell your Democratic senators to call on Senator Schumer to step aside as Minority Leader. It’s time for drastic action.
We need new leadership in this moment and to get there, we need a chorus of support for change. Tell your Democratic senators to call on Senator Schumer to step aside as Minority Leader. It’s time for drastic action.
What a weirdly specific privision to obejct to
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Sen. Rand Paul said he will not support speedy passage of a deal to reopen the government because of a provision that would make some THC products illegal.
Sen. Rand Paul said he will not support speedy passage of a deal to reopen the government because of a provision that would make some THC products illegal.
The government shutdown may last longer because of a fight over hemp
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said he will not support speedy passage of a deal to reopen the government because of a provision that would make some THC products illegal.
www.nbcnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:26 PM
What a weirdly specific privision to obejct to
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"Young people took seriously what we taught them".
November 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
"Young people took seriously what we taught them".
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I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
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I think it's also lost on these people that the concepts of masculinity changed drastically even during this time. Like Eisenhower had massive dandy energy lol. Macarthur too, who had lunch DAILY with his mother at West Point lol
Also getting furious 'the russians' were counted in there lol.
Also getting furious 'the russians' were counted in there lol.
November 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I think it's also lost on these people that the concepts of masculinity changed drastically even during this time. Like Eisenhower had massive dandy energy lol. Macarthur too, who had lunch DAILY with his mother at West Point lol
Also getting furious 'the russians' were counted in there lol.
Also getting furious 'the russians' were counted in there lol.
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This week is further proof that we can't rely on our institutions to protect our rights against rising authoritarianism. The legal community and anyone who believes in democracy must act.
JOIN The #LawyersMarch for Democracy
🗓 Nov. 15 | 1:00 PM
📍 Supreme Court
👉 actionnetwork.org/events/lawye...
JOIN The #LawyersMarch for Democracy
🗓 Nov. 15 | 1:00 PM
📍 Supreme Court
👉 actionnetwork.org/events/lawye...
November 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
This week is further proof that we can't rely on our institutions to protect our rights against rising authoritarianism. The legal community and anyone who believes in democracy must act.
JOIN The #LawyersMarch for Democracy
🗓 Nov. 15 | 1:00 PM
📍 Supreme Court
👉 actionnetwork.org/events/lawye...
JOIN The #LawyersMarch for Democracy
🗓 Nov. 15 | 1:00 PM
📍 Supreme Court
👉 actionnetwork.org/events/lawye...