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Lost Mike
@lostmike.bsky.social
· Sep 24
"Defoe says, that there were a hundred thousand stout country-fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse."
- William Hazlitt, "On Prejudice"
- William Hazlitt, "On Prejudice"
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👇🎯 Still waiting for the very first “enthusiastic Black Biden voters in Philly and Atlanta diners” story from 2021.
No one showed up in Madison at any point in the last decade to write the story about disenfranchised liberal voters due to the worst gerrymandering in the country, either.
No one showed up in Madison at any point in the last decade to write the story about disenfranchised liberal voters due to the worst gerrymandering in the country, either.
"Guy in a diner" story, Dec 2025 edition.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/u...
Somehow I've missed the profiles of people in Nashville / Austin / Houston / Kansas City MO / Charlotte / etc who have been gerrymandered out of "fair" representation.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/u...
Somehow I've missed the profiles of people in Nashville / Austin / Houston / Kansas City MO / Charlotte / etc who have been gerrymandered out of "fair" representation.
They Wanted a Conservative State. They Might Get a Democratic Representative Instead.
www.nytimes.com
December 30, 2025 at 7:36 PM
👇🎯 Still waiting for the very first “enthusiastic Black Biden voters in Philly and Atlanta diners” story from 2021.
No one showed up in Madison at any point in the last decade to write the story about disenfranchised liberal voters due to the worst gerrymandering in the country, either.
No one showed up in Madison at any point in the last decade to write the story about disenfranchised liberal voters due to the worst gerrymandering in the country, either.
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50 ICE agents swarming a public library to arrest one person.
This isn’t policing — it’s authoritarian spectacle.
Armed intimidation, fear as policy, and taxpayer money burned to terrorize communities.
This is fascism in plain sight. #TrumpWatch #Resist
This isn’t policing — it’s authoritarian spectacle.
Armed intimidation, fear as policy, and taxpayer money burned to terrorize communities.
This is fascism in plain sight. #TrumpWatch #Resist
December 30, 2025 at 4:19 AM
50 ICE agents swarming a public library to arrest one person.
This isn’t policing — it’s authoritarian spectacle.
Armed intimidation, fear as policy, and taxpayer money burned to terrorize communities.
This is fascism in plain sight. #TrumpWatch #Resist
This isn’t policing — it’s authoritarian spectacle.
Armed intimidation, fear as policy, and taxpayer money burned to terrorize communities.
This is fascism in plain sight. #TrumpWatch #Resist
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I've liked JVL's writing in the past and am an ex-Bulwark subscriber, so this isn't easy for me to say, but:
Jonathan, would your opinion of the merits of MTG be different if the bill she helped pass hurt people that you actually cared about?
Jonathan, would your opinion of the merits of MTG be different if the bill she helped pass hurt people that you actually cared about?
She helped pass a bill—which is 100% part of liberalism. Maybe you don’t like the bill. Maybe the bill will hurt some people and have bad outcomes. But that’s part of liberal democracy.
December 30, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I've liked JVL's writing in the past and am an ex-Bulwark subscriber, so this isn't easy for me to say, but:
Jonathan, would your opinion of the merits of MTG be different if the bill she helped pass hurt people that you actually cared about?
Jonathan, would your opinion of the merits of MTG be different if the bill she helped pass hurt people that you actually cared about?
I have seen no evidence whatsoever that Marjorie Taylor Greene is "standing for liberal democracy" in any way, shape, or form.
She is a vicious bully who fled public life when criticism of Trump got some of her former allies to turn on her. That's all.
She is a vicious bully who fled public life when criticism of Trump got some of her former allies to turn on her. That's all.
And if you refuse to give someone credit for standing for liberal democracy just because they don’t agree with your policy preferences, you’re missing the big picture. www.thebulwark.com/p/why-marjor...
Why Marjorie Taylor Greene Gives Me Hope
People don’t change—but they can remember who they are.
www.thebulwark.com
December 30, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I have seen no evidence whatsoever that Marjorie Taylor Greene is "standing for liberal democracy" in any way, shape, or form.
She is a vicious bully who fled public life when criticism of Trump got some of her former allies to turn on her. That's all.
She is a vicious bully who fled public life when criticism of Trump got some of her former allies to turn on her. That's all.
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“Two days later, on that same shore, a scorched 30-foot-long boat itself would wash up. Then, two mangled bodies. Then…packets…Most packets were empty, though traces of a substance that looked and smelled like marijuana were found in the lining of a few.”
Gift link
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/w...
Gift link
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/w...
Grim Evidence of Trump’s Airstrikes Washes Ashore on a Colombian Peninsula
www.nytimes.com
December 30, 2025 at 3:14 AM
“Two days later, on that same shore, a scorched 30-foot-long boat itself would wash up. Then, two mangled bodies. Then…packets…Most packets were empty, though traces of a substance that looked and smelled like marijuana were found in the lining of a few.”
Gift link
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/w...
Gift link
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/w...
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So the President did disclose a CIA drone strike inside Venezuela.
And this does cross a red line of violating the UN Charter -- where the boat strikes on high seas had not.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/29/p...
And this does cross a red line of violating the UN Charter -- where the boat strikes on high seas had not.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/29/p...
Exclusive: CIA carried out drone strike on port facility on Venezuelan coast | CNN Politics
The CIA carried out a drone strike earlier this month on a port facility on the coast of Venezuela, sources familiar with the matter told CNN, marking the first known US attack on a target inside that...
www.cnn.com
December 30, 2025 at 1:46 AM
So the President did disclose a CIA drone strike inside Venezuela.
And this does cross a red line of violating the UN Charter -- where the boat strikes on high seas had not.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/29/p...
And this does cross a red line of violating the UN Charter -- where the boat strikes on high seas had not.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/29/p...
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Turning Point Mojave be like:
If Caesar's Legion are the bad guys, then why is it that only the caravans in NCR territory are the ones that seem to be getting robbed?
December 30, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Turning Point Mojave be like:
While I've occasionally played through video games on the side of *imaginary* bad guy factions, I absolutely refuse to do this for *historical* bad guy factions, e.g. Nazi Germany, the Warsaw Pact, etc.
It means that, for example, I essentially can't play 90% of submarine simulators.
It means that, for example, I essentially can't play 90% of submarine simulators.
I don't know why i always end up playing the Paragon/good side in RPGs, even though I sometimes plan to do the darker/bad choices
it happens every time.
it happens every time.
December 29, 2025 at 5:57 PM
While I've occasionally played through video games on the side of *imaginary* bad guy factions, I absolutely refuse to do this for *historical* bad guy factions, e.g. Nazi Germany, the Warsaw Pact, etc.
It means that, for example, I essentially can't play 90% of submarine simulators.
It means that, for example, I essentially can't play 90% of submarine simulators.
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ultimately a lot of these guys have the personality trait where they encounter dipshit bullying (which is what a lot of anti-masking sentiment is) and their natural reaction is to make sure the bully thinks they are cool and shouldn't get lumped in with the rejects and losers.
Disappointed to see Jon Stewart & co joke about masking in public. I do it for my medically fragile daughter (Batten Disease). People not masking properly led to her getting pneumonia, which led to her being on life support, which led to me getting price quotes on her cremation just in case.
December 29, 2025 at 6:29 AM
ultimately a lot of these guys have the personality trait where they encounter dipshit bullying (which is what a lot of anti-masking sentiment is) and their natural reaction is to make sure the bully thinks they are cool and shouldn't get lumped in with the rejects and losers.
"Hemingway was an individualist who believed in discipline for everybody else" is one of the most savage sentences I've ever read.
December 29, 2025 at 1:16 AM
"Hemingway was an individualist who believed in discipline for everybody else" is one of the most savage sentences I've ever read.
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Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.
December 28, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.
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Utterly chilling reporting from the Prospect and NY times on trumps war in the Caribbean
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/w...
October 25, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Utterly chilling reporting from the Prospect and NY times on trumps war in the Caribbean
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/w...
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Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
![[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation
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Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village)
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December 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
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That’s about one-third of the total number of TLAMs the Navy was able to procure in 2024, by the way.
Reuters reporting it was over a dozen Tomahawks
December 26, 2025 at 7:13 PM
That’s about one-third of the total number of TLAMs the Navy was able to procure in 2024, by the way.
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If you’re playing White QB Bingo tonight, we just got “coaches son” and “gym rat” in reference to Bo Nix.
December 26, 2025 at 1:57 AM
If you’re playing White QB Bingo tonight, we just got “coaches son” and “gym rat” in reference to Bo Nix.
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There’s no exit from this current path without doing things that will be unpopular but necessary. Accountability isn’t fun or expedient.
December 26, 2025 at 2:29 PM
There’s no exit from this current path without doing things that will be unpopular but necessary. Accountability isn’t fun or expedient.
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The Wisconsin component of the analysis here is revealing. Evidence is consistent with DOGE strategically delaying contract terminations in WI until after the 2025 state Supreme Court elections to mitigate electoral risk.
December 26, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The Wisconsin component of the analysis here is revealing. Evidence is consistent with DOGE strategically delaying contract terminations in WI until after the 2025 state Supreme Court elections to mitigate electoral risk.
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here we go (police incident report follows)
December 26, 2025 at 2:43 AM
here we go (police incident report follows)
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If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
cnn.it
December 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
I don't want to live in a country that doesn't swnd these goons to prison at the very least.
ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
December 26, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I don't want to live in a country that doesn't swnd these goons to prison at the very least.
A bit late, drunky.
Kavanaugh in a footnote in today's opinion says "the officers must not make interior immigration stops or arrests based on race or ethnicity."
December 23, 2025 at 11:53 PM
A bit late, drunky.