@msdobalina.bsky.social
Biding my time 'til I unplug Peter Thiel's cryochamber.
“Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice."
~Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice."
~Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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If I am any country in the world right now (except Russia), I am looking at the US like a box that fell out of a truck driving in front of me that is marked "TNT."
Pulitzer worthy:
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Yarvin’s schtick is warmed over and dumbed down McCarthyism articulated in the faux intellectualism of a Dennis Miller, packaged for an audience of billionaires who think they’re smarter than Mike Lindell but they’re not. bsky.app/profile/seth...
This bananapants Yarvin tweet is a perfect example of why it's more useful to think of the US right as a movement defined by emotions and imagination, more than it is a movement defined by anything we could reasonably call "ideas." Yarvin is a first-rate reactionary fabulist, and a 7th rate thinker.
what the fuck are you talking about man
February 17, 2026 at 6:11 AM
Yarvin’s schtick is warmed over and dumbed down McCarthyism articulated in the faux intellectualism of a Dennis Miller, packaged for an audience of billionaires who think they’re smarter than Mike Lindell but they’re not. bsky.app/profile/seth...
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Gift link from OP. Made me recall all the "both parties are the samezzzzzz" demographic.
1/3 Remarkable interview of Lisa Friedman abt how cabal of idiot lawyers engineered existential peril to planet in form of Trump repealing “endangerment finding.” (No paywall, NYT shld make this free.) Truly disgusted w climbers who will let world perish for own gain.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/p...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/p...
The Secret Plan to End U.S. Climate Regulations
www.nytimes.com
February 17, 2026 at 1:10 AM
Gift link from OP. Made me recall all the "both parties are the samezzzzzz" demographic.
Sarah Longwell, of all people, should know that the under-30 swing was mostly young men. Women in that age range also slid but by a very small margin. Yet nowhere in this article does she explicitly mention it.
February 17, 2026 at 1:08 AM
Sarah Longwell, of all people, should know that the under-30 swing was mostly young men. Women in that age range also slid but by a very small margin. Yet nowhere in this article does she explicitly mention it.
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Columbia University has punished two people affiliated with its dental college after documents released by the Justice Department revealed that they had bypassed the normal process to help Jeffrey Epstein’s girlfriend gain admission.
Columbia University has punished two people affiliated with its dental college after documents released by the Justice Department revealed that they had bypassed the normal process to help Jeffrey Epstein’s girlfriend gain admission.
Columbia Punishes 2 Who Helped Epstein’s Girlfriend Enter Dental College
www.nytimes.com
February 17, 2026 at 12:23 AM
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Columbia University has punished two people affiliated with its dental college after documents released by the Justice Department revealed that they had bypassed the normal process to help Jeffrey Epstein’s girlfriend gain admission.
Columbia University has punished two people affiliated with its dental college after documents released by the Justice Department revealed that they had bypassed the normal process to help Jeffrey Epstein’s girlfriend gain admission.
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This is a nice move in an interview www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/u...
February 16, 2026 at 6:54 PM
This is a nice move in an interview www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/u...
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The man, Greggy Sorio, was released on Friday, per local reporting: www.king5.com/article/news...
Judge rules ICE medical neglect made detention unconstitutional, Filipino man released
A Filipino man was begging for months to go to the hospital after a "stabbing" pain in his stomach. He ended up with a bone infection and an amputation.
www.king5.com
February 16, 2026 at 9:34 PM
The man, Greggy Sorio, was released on Friday, per local reporting: www.king5.com/article/news...
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A federal judge on Friday ordered the release of a man who had been in immigration detention due to "objectively unreasonable failures of care that more likely than not resulted in permanent disability, including the loss of his toe and part of his foot."
![While Respondents largely do not address the conditions of Petitioner's confinement in responding to this claim, they argue elsewhere that "the medical care [Petitioner] has received is constitutionally adequate." Dkt. No. 22 at 15. But the record here compels a finding that, on the preponderance of the evidence, Petitioner's medical care, and denial of medical care, included objectively unreasonable failures of care that more likely than not resulted in permanent
disability, including the loss of his toe and part of his foot. The Court bases this finding on the
following facts:](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreifgw3hkuamuxfvezrwuuwgt43gses572ta3swqhq4ht2ebcbiwpkm@jpeg)
February 16, 2026 at 9:31 PM
A federal judge on Friday ordered the release of a man who had been in immigration detention due to "objectively unreasonable failures of care that more likely than not resulted in permanent disability, including the loss of his toe and part of his foot."
Ummm...unless ski jumpers have instrument landing capabilities this is just terrifying?
February 16, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Ummm...unless ski jumpers have instrument landing capabilities this is just terrifying?
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thank you, algorithm
February 16, 2026 at 8:07 PM
thank you, algorithm
I need this on a t-shirt. Maybe featuring medieval torture devices, but in pink and cute. Kawaii goth, so the people who suspect it's a warning will mostly feel confused.
when life gives you demons, make demonade
February 16, 2026 at 7:08 PM
I need this on a t-shirt. Maybe featuring medieval torture devices, but in pink and cute. Kawaii goth, so the people who suspect it's a warning will mostly feel confused.
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extremely rude of my baby to roast me by pointing at this character in her book and loudly insist it’s “daddy”
February 16, 2026 at 6:10 PM
extremely rude of my baby to roast me by pointing at this character in her book and loudly insist it’s “daddy”
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Federal court orders Trump administration to restore historical panel exhibits at President’s House in Philadelphia.
Happy Presidents Day.
Happy Presidents Day.
February 16, 2026 at 5:33 PM
Federal court orders Trump administration to restore historical panel exhibits at President’s House in Philadelphia.
Happy Presidents Day.
Happy Presidents Day.
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If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''
On this day in 1921, Congress reluctantly accepted a sculpture memorializing women’s 19th A victory. Congress relegated the memorial to the Capitol’s crypt & painted over the feminist inscription. The statue stayed entombed in the crypt for 76 years. The inscription is still not restored. #WeTheMen
February 16, 2026 at 4:35 PM
If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''
Historically literate posters trolling Sparta fanboys today and I am howwwwling
I think of this every time someone says ‘molon labe’. Like, that is exactly what happened.
February 16, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Historically literate posters trolling Sparta fanboys today and I am howwwwling
lolol The right-wing manly man obsession with Sparta is trending today.
If I had a nickel for every time I trolled Sparta stans on the bird site by pointing out it was an unsustainable society based on slavery, pederasty, & fear of extrajudicial killings by secret police, I could have retired in 2018.
And then Spartan Oliganthropia enters the chat
February 16, 2026 at 4:56 PM
lolol The right-wing manly man obsession with Sparta is trending today.
Conservatism is a personality disorder. We see this in both leadership and "conservative" voters.
The United States' national debt is set to balloon to $64 trillion over the next 10 years, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said on Wednesday, citing a jump in annual deficits that owes in part to tax cuts enacted by President Trump. | ABC
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US debt projected to reach $64 trillion in a decade, nonpartisan group says
The United States' national debt is set to balloon to $64 trillion over the next 10 years, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said on Wednesday.
abcnews.com
February 16, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Conservatism is a personality disorder. We see this in both leadership and "conservative" voters.
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Notable message from President Zelensky. The USA is clearly putting pressure on Ukraine to hand over more of its land to dictatorial Russia.
Good to see the Ukrainian pushback--but the USA should hang its head in shame.
Good to see the Ukrainian pushback--but the USA should hang its head in shame.
February 16, 2026 at 10:07 AM
Notable message from President Zelensky. The USA is clearly putting pressure on Ukraine to hand over more of its land to dictatorial Russia.
Good to see the Ukrainian pushback--but the USA should hang its head in shame.
Good to see the Ukrainian pushback--but the USA should hang its head in shame.
Why TF is battery life even available to these skanky apps? There isn't even a user-controlled privacy toggle (not in iOS, anyway).
(6/11) Uber tracks battery life. Former exec Keith Chen noted in 2016 that users with low battery are statistically more likely to accept surge pricing. Uber says it doesn’t use that data to set prices, but the correlation remains a point of regulatory scrutiny. www.npr.org/transcripts/...
This Is Your Brain On Uber
This week we feature Keith Chen, a behavioral economist at UCLA and the head of economic research at Uber. Keith explains why surge pricing makes us nuts and discusses our weird economic choices.
www.npr.org
February 16, 2026 at 3:04 AM
Why TF is battery life even available to these skanky apps? There isn't even a user-controlled privacy toggle (not in iOS, anyway).
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4/11) In 2025, Delta tested “Fetcherr,” reportedly an AI designed to find the highest price before a consumer abandons a purchase. Delta has called that characterisation inaccurate, but on investor calls, execs hyped the tech as a “super analyst” that would end static prices.
February 11, 2026 at 8:41 PM
4/11) In 2025, Delta tested “Fetcherr,” reportedly an AI designed to find the highest price before a consumer abandons a purchase. Delta has called that characterisation inaccurate, but on investor calls, execs hyped the tech as a “super analyst” that would end static prices.
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Hey everyone. Potentially the biggest story in the country, right here. substack.com/home/post/p-...
February 15, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Hey everyone. Potentially the biggest story in the country, right here. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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The FDA led them on, and they spent $750 million on trials to demonstrate safety and effectiveness only for the FDA to make up a transparent excuse and refuse to consider it. If they don't backtrack, we're never getting top tier medicines in the US again.
February 15, 2026 at 1:52 PM
The FDA led them on, and they spent $750 million on trials to demonstrate safety and effectiveness only for the FDA to make up a transparent excuse and refuse to consider it. If they don't backtrack, we're never getting top tier medicines in the US again.
Revisiting this to caution:
Do Not Fall for Ammon Bundy's criticism of ICE.
In Nov., he tried & failed to discharge a $52 million defamation judgement in favor of St. Luke's hospitals (who he smeared).
He's still a malicious dildo & destructive scumbag, and is probably in search of a grift.
Do Not Fall for Ammon Bundy's criticism of ICE.
In Nov., he tried & failed to discharge a $52 million defamation judgement in favor of St. Luke's hospitals (who he smeared).
He's still a malicious dildo & destructive scumbag, and is probably in search of a grift.
The rancher who led the armed takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon 10 years ago is now speaking out against ICE.
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2026/02/ammon-bundy-is-fed-up-with-federal-overreach-again-this-time-its-about-ice.html
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2026/02/ammon-bundy-is-fed-up-with-federal-overreach-again-this-time-its-about-ice.html
February 15, 2026 at 4:34 AM
Revisiting this to caution:
Do Not Fall for Ammon Bundy's criticism of ICE.
In Nov., he tried & failed to discharge a $52 million defamation judgement in favor of St. Luke's hospitals (who he smeared).
He's still a malicious dildo & destructive scumbag, and is probably in search of a grift.
Do Not Fall for Ammon Bundy's criticism of ICE.
In Nov., he tried & failed to discharge a $52 million defamation judgement in favor of St. Luke's hospitals (who he smeared).
He's still a malicious dildo & destructive scumbag, and is probably in search of a grift.
Warzel's error is to see nothing but nihilism here. But there is at least one shared value: 4chan has always been obsessively misogynistic. Beyond debate. I lurked on 4chan for years, thru the viral "murdered my girlfriend" video. And the whole point, the ONLY point, of Gamergate was misogyny.
February 15, 2026 at 12:26 AM
Warzel's error is to see nothing but nihilism here. But there is at least one shared value: 4chan has always been obsessively misogynistic. Beyond debate. I lurked on 4chan for years, thru the viral "murdered my girlfriend" video. And the whole point, the ONLY point, of Gamergate was misogyny.
This is just another flavor of the Texas abortion bounty hunters, it's f**king disgusting, and it invites utterly pointless abuse.
The US Gov literally _shits computing power_.
There is absolutely ZERO need to derp-source chaotic "mine the data" digital vigilantism by wannabe DOGE twats.
The US Gov literally _shits computing power_.
There is absolutely ZERO need to derp-source chaotic "mine the data" digital vigilantism by wannabe DOGE twats.
February 14, 2026 at 11:55 PM
This is just another flavor of the Texas abortion bounty hunters, it's f**king disgusting, and it invites utterly pointless abuse.
The US Gov literally _shits computing power_.
There is absolutely ZERO need to derp-source chaotic "mine the data" digital vigilantism by wannabe DOGE twats.
The US Gov literally _shits computing power_.
There is absolutely ZERO need to derp-source chaotic "mine the data" digital vigilantism by wannabe DOGE twats.