New year new mittenz
@moremittenz.bsky.social
Analytics by trade and a past life fighting Memphis crime with data. Ranting half-baked passing thoughts to myself and getting it out of my system before I ruin Thanksgiving dinner. I don’t claim to be right, but only the cat can judge me.
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My prediction is after the primaries, Dems will go along with everything trump wants. They’ll be safe from public opposition. Trump won’t have to even try to rig an election when whoever wins is already in his pocket. Efficiency!
📌 until primaries are over, see if my prediction is correct.
📌 until primaries are over, see if my prediction is correct.
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Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession
January 5, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession
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“Just have the servicemembers follow their oath” sounds clean and simple in a skeet. In real life it’s anything but and it’s not practicable as a genuine check on civilian leaders. You’re asking young people with high school educations to make legal, constitutional decisions in an info-vacuum.
January 4, 2026 at 5:02 PM
“Just have the servicemembers follow their oath” sounds clean and simple in a skeet. In real life it’s anything but and it’s not practicable as a genuine check on civilian leaders. You’re asking young people with high school educations to make legal, constitutional decisions in an info-vacuum.
Trump thinks removing Maduro is enough because trump thinks the US would fall apart without him.
January 3, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Trump thinks removing Maduro is enough because trump thinks the US would fall apart without him.
Why would Venezuelans celebrate? Because if the same thing happened to trump, lots of Americans would celebrate too. And lots of Americans would take up arms. His regime has spent 50+ years getting into power, and they wouldn’t go quietly. MAGA would back them 100%.
January 3, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Why would Venezuelans celebrate? Because if the same thing happened to trump, lots of Americans would celebrate too. And lots of Americans would take up arms. His regime has spent 50+ years getting into power, and they wouldn’t go quietly. MAGA would back them 100%.
Because installing our own puppets in Latin America has gone so well in the past…
January 3, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Because installing our own puppets in Latin America has gone so well in the past…
Sultry like a chicken…bok bok bacaak
January 2, 2026 at 2:33 AM
Sultry like a chicken…bok bok bacaak
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Ignoring urgently needed reforms in favor of fruitlessly trying to find evidence of fraud, DOGE descended on the Social Security Administration “thinking it should work like a McDonald’s,” the agency’s former acting chief told ProPublica.
This is our #4 most-read story of 2025:
This is our #4 most-read story of 2025:
The Untold Saga of What Happened When DOGE Stormed Social Security
DOGE has ignored urgently needed reforms and upgrades at the Social Security Administration, according to dozens of insiders and 15 hours of candid interviews with the former acting chief of the agenc...
www.propublica.org
January 1, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Ignoring urgently needed reforms in favor of fruitlessly trying to find evidence of fraud, DOGE descended on the Social Security Administration “thinking it should work like a McDonald’s,” the agency’s former acting chief told ProPublica.
This is our #4 most-read story of 2025:
This is our #4 most-read story of 2025:
My friend bought his wife $400 boots because they sparked his foot fetish. We all learned that night how many of our friends have foot fetishes as they admired the boots.
Also, quality footwear is expensive. And lasts forever. Like my knee high lace up steel toe gripfast leather boots from 1998.
Also, quality footwear is expensive. And lasts forever. Like my knee high lace up steel toe gripfast leather boots from 1998.
January 1, 2026 at 9:40 PM
My friend bought his wife $400 boots because they sparked his foot fetish. We all learned that night how many of our friends have foot fetishes as they admired the boots.
Also, quality footwear is expensive. And lasts forever. Like my knee high lace up steel toe gripfast leather boots from 1998.
Also, quality footwear is expensive. And lasts forever. Like my knee high lace up steel toe gripfast leather boots from 1998.
Black eyed peas: check (slightly falling apart, liquid is gravy consistency)
Cornbread: check (soak jalapeños in the buttermilk overnight for a diffuse heat)
Hog jaw: gross (only eat competition pork)
Greens: gross (super gross)
Monty python: check (holy grail)
Tree down: check (☹️)
Cornbread: check (soak jalapeños in the buttermilk overnight for a diffuse heat)
Hog jaw: gross (only eat competition pork)
Greens: gross (super gross)
Monty python: check (holy grail)
Tree down: check (☹️)
January 1, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Black eyed peas: check (slightly falling apart, liquid is gravy consistency)
Cornbread: check (soak jalapeños in the buttermilk overnight for a diffuse heat)
Hog jaw: gross (only eat competition pork)
Greens: gross (super gross)
Monty python: check (holy grail)
Tree down: check (☹️)
Cornbread: check (soak jalapeños in the buttermilk overnight for a diffuse heat)
Hog jaw: gross (only eat competition pork)
Greens: gross (super gross)
Monty python: check (holy grail)
Tree down: check (☹️)
We glorify the Italian mafia and feature the Russian mob in movies. But heaven forbid someone black or brown act the same. And racists have been targeting Minneapolis Somalis for years.
I’m not going to dismiss allegations out of hand, but they will absolutely be held to a higher standard of proof.
I’m not going to dismiss allegations out of hand, but they will absolutely be held to a higher standard of proof.
January 1, 2026 at 12:05 AM
We glorify the Italian mafia and feature the Russian mob in movies. But heaven forbid someone black or brown act the same. And racists have been targeting Minneapolis Somalis for years.
I’m not going to dismiss allegations out of hand, but they will absolutely be held to a higher standard of proof.
I’m not going to dismiss allegations out of hand, but they will absolutely be held to a higher standard of proof.
New slogans:
“If ICE can mask, so can you”
“Keep your snot to yourself”
Shame is way more effective than appealing to an anti-masker’s better nature.
“If ICE can mask, so can you”
“Keep your snot to yourself”
Shame is way more effective than appealing to an anti-masker’s better nature.
December 31, 2025 at 3:38 PM
New slogans:
“If ICE can mask, so can you”
“Keep your snot to yourself”
Shame is way more effective than appealing to an anti-masker’s better nature.
“If ICE can mask, so can you”
“Keep your snot to yourself”
Shame is way more effective than appealing to an anti-masker’s better nature.
Condition: create a shorthand to circumvent reasoning
Emotion: the feeling and physical response that occur before reasoning
Pair the two first. Then reverse engineer the reasoning to make yourself feel better. Repeat.
Emotion: the feeling and physical response that occur before reasoning
Pair the two first. Then reverse engineer the reasoning to make yourself feel better. Repeat.
Fascism requires mythology. Fascism is built on symbols, aesthetics, and raw emotion. The rationalization is an afterthought.
If you ask a fascist what radicalized them, guess what you're going to get?
If you ask a fascist what radicalized them, guess what you're going to get?
December 31, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Condition: create a shorthand to circumvent reasoning
Emotion: the feeling and physical response that occur before reasoning
Pair the two first. Then reverse engineer the reasoning to make yourself feel better. Repeat.
Emotion: the feeling and physical response that occur before reasoning
Pair the two first. Then reverse engineer the reasoning to make yourself feel better. Repeat.
I had to do a census of every daycare in Shelby county TN when I was a grad student 20 years ago. I have no doubt that there’s fraud. In Memphis at least, it ain’t money laundering, and the fraud is over scraps.
Long rambling 🧵
Long rambling 🧵
Trump guys are about to Comet Pizza every third daycare center because they think they are all fronts for Somali money laundering. They're only doing this near cities with progressive mayors. This is straight up Government by LibsOfTikTok.
December 31, 2025 at 2:58 AM
I had to do a census of every daycare in Shelby county TN when I was a grad student 20 years ago. I have no doubt that there’s fraud. In Memphis at least, it ain’t money laundering, and the fraud is over scraps.
Long rambling 🧵
Long rambling 🧵
Instead of cancelling, make every performance a criticism and caricature of the admin. Bring onstage everything they want to cancel: drag queens, rainbows, Ukrainian flags, all of it.
As things at the Kennedy Center continue to devolve, I'm thinking of Guster's protest while performing there earlier this year as a bright spot for resistance.
EXCLUSIVE: After Kennedy Center cancels LGBTQ+ musical, Guster brings cast on stage in protest
Finn's run at the storied DC venue was axed after Trump took over.
www.thehandbasket.co
December 30, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Instead of cancelling, make every performance a criticism and caricature of the admin. Bring onstage everything they want to cancel: drag queens, rainbows, Ukrainian flags, all of it.
I went to summer camp with someone from a wealthy family. One year I hitched a ride on their jet. Lou Dobbs had also hitched a ride. Pretty sure he wasn’t going to summer camp.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 29, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I went to summer camp with someone from a wealthy family. One year I hitched a ride on their jet. Lou Dobbs had also hitched a ride. Pretty sure he wasn’t going to summer camp.
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states can’t borrow like the federal government can, and many state constitutions require the budget be balanced every year. now, add all the financial pressures from ACA, the BBB’s SNAP/medicaid cuts, withheld disaster funds, lower tax revenue from a sputtering economy… yeah, it’s bad
NEW with @natsfert.bsky.social: Some states are spending hundreds of millions to make up for federal cuts to Obamacare aid. They warn it won't be enough to stop millions of people from becoming uninsured. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
States step into the breach as Obamacare subsidies lapse
Even state governments that want to help can’t completely cover rising insurance premiums.
www.politico.com
December 29, 2025 at 9:59 PM
states can’t borrow like the federal government can, and many state constitutions require the budget be balanced every year. now, add all the financial pressures from ACA, the BBB’s SNAP/medicaid cuts, withheld disaster funds, lower tax revenue from a sputtering economy… yeah, it’s bad
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If you think of "hiring in entry level positions" as "procuring labor to do the tasks entry level people do" then you probably do think AI is a magical headcount reduction machine.
But the point of hiring in entry level positions is to produce mid-career employees.
But the point of hiring in entry level positions is to produce mid-career employees.
December 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
If you think of "hiring in entry level positions" as "procuring labor to do the tasks entry level people do" then you probably do think AI is a magical headcount reduction machine.
But the point of hiring in entry level positions is to produce mid-career employees.
But the point of hiring in entry level positions is to produce mid-career employees.
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One of the most successful propaganda campaigns of our time is the right-wing claim that liberals dominate the media. The right has pushed this myth for decades on Fox and other outlets. You know about it because RIGHT-WING MEDIA HAVE A HUGE MEGAPHONE. My thread. 1/10 🧵
December 29, 2025 at 1:35 PM
One of the most successful propaganda campaigns of our time is the right-wing claim that liberals dominate the media. The right has pushed this myth for decades on Fox and other outlets. You know about it because RIGHT-WING MEDIA HAVE A HUGE MEGAPHONE. My thread. 1/10 🧵
She turned a blind eye to what was right in front of her to satisfy her own ambition. She sold her soul and went on a moral choose-your-own-adventure for years. No amount of maturity will overcome that kind of character flaw.
Sorry but you do not, under absolutely any circumstances, gotta hand it to Marjorie Taylor Greene www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/m...
‘I Was Just So Naïve’: Inside Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Break With Trump
www.nytimes.com
December 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
She turned a blind eye to what was right in front of her to satisfy her own ambition. She sold her soul and went on a moral choose-your-own-adventure for years. No amount of maturity will overcome that kind of character flaw.
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Replacing junior coders with AI is a deliberate decision to rack up technical debt: bug-ridden, sprawling code bases that are impossible to understand or maintain.
It'a a decision that ensures you won't have any senior coders in 6 years when you need people to fix it. It's eating your seed corn.
It'a a decision that ensures you won't have any senior coders in 6 years when you need people to fix it. It's eating your seed corn.
December 28, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Replacing junior coders with AI is a deliberate decision to rack up technical debt: bug-ridden, sprawling code bases that are impossible to understand or maintain.
It'a a decision that ensures you won't have any senior coders in 6 years when you need people to fix it. It's eating your seed corn.
It'a a decision that ensures you won't have any senior coders in 6 years when you need people to fix it. It's eating your seed corn.
The “flood the zone” strategy is a great shell game of distractions - 1 is scandalous so distract with 2, when that gets too hot distract with 3, when that gets too hot go back to 1 etc. no progress is made on any. Epstein is a distraction as much as the others distract from it. Now we have 60 min…
December 22, 2025 at 2:48 AM
The “flood the zone” strategy is a great shell game of distractions - 1 is scandalous so distract with 2, when that gets too hot distract with 3, when that gets too hot go back to 1 etc. no progress is made on any. Epstein is a distraction as much as the others distract from it. Now we have 60 min…
Bari saw it Friday, but waited to pull it until 2 hours before air, which was certain to cause an uproar…almost like they want to distract everyone
Why would you need to put a pause on a story that has been meticulously fact-checked and lawyered?
Sounds like the kind of story you’d want to run right away!
Sounds like the kind of story you’d want to run right away!
December 22, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Bari saw it Friday, but waited to pull it until 2 hours before air, which was certain to cause an uproar…almost like they want to distract everyone
I’m 99% sure this is either a false flag and a maliciously compliant agent or a gang of 13-year-old boys. Maybe even a Monty python fan. TILF. They went with TILF.
Dear Bluesky hammer&sickle crowd:
That new dude in your group? He’s an FBI agent.
That new dude in your group? He’s an FBI agent.
December 16, 2025 at 12:36 AM
I’m 99% sure this is either a false flag and a maliciously compliant agent or a gang of 13-year-old boys. Maybe even a Monty python fan. TILF. They went with TILF.
I have 23 pages total that I asked an LLM to come up with 1-3 funny sentences to describe each month for an annual recap. After several hours of different prompts, the useful content includes one phrase and two sentences I used for inspiration. It was very helpful reminding me who to roast tho.
December 12, 2025 at 12:44 AM
I have 23 pages total that I asked an LLM to come up with 1-3 funny sentences to describe each month for an annual recap. After several hours of different prompts, the useful content includes one phrase and two sentences I used for inspiration. It was very helpful reminding me who to roast tho.
What if federal student loans had pre-negotiated tuition with universities like health insurers do with doctors?
December 11, 2025 at 11:58 PM
What if federal student loans had pre-negotiated tuition with universities like health insurers do with doctors?