Half Asleep
@naptime53.bsky.social
I'm tired, okay. She/her. Librarian, archivist, runner. Formerly in Ohio, which sucks politically but has all the good ice cream.
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AI companies going bankrupt and authors getting paid, this is the future I want
November 18, 2025 at 4:53 AM
AI companies going bankrupt and authors getting paid, this is the future I want
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These people need to go.
Raskin: We are a big tent. We must be a huge, vast tent. I say this is a party that’s got room for Marjorie Taylor Greene if she wants to come over.
November 17, 2025 at 12:05 PM
These people need to go.
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I really need everyone in power at the DNC to not get distracted by this and to just embrace Let Them Fight.
You do not have to hand it to the Jewish Space Laser Lady. Ever.
You do not have to hand it to the Jewish Space Laser Lady. Ever.
November 16, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I really need everyone in power at the DNC to not get distracted by this and to just embrace Let Them Fight.
You do not have to hand it to the Jewish Space Laser Lady. Ever.
You do not have to hand it to the Jewish Space Laser Lady. Ever.
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Record profits are unpaid wages.
Amazon announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year.
UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.
Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M.
This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.
Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M.
This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
November 15, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Record profits are unpaid wages.
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Trump is so proud of his performance, I bet he could be goaded into taking the test on live TV. That would absolutely silence all his critics.
He’s doing “I aced it” on the “very advanced mental acuity” test again.
November 15, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Trump is so proud of his performance, I bet he could be goaded into taking the test on live TV. That would absolutely silence all his critics.
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if microsoft just made outlook search not suck they'd see triple the productivity gains of any AI integration
November 14, 2025 at 12:18 AM
if microsoft just made outlook search not suck they'd see triple the productivity gains of any AI integration
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The different between the right and centrists is that the right gleefully kills millions of people and centrists present mass murder as a technical solution, like they added up all the numbers and carried a zero and oops, sorry, millions have to die.
November 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
The different between the right and centrists is that the right gleefully kills millions of people and centrists present mass murder as a technical solution, like they added up all the numbers and carried a zero and oops, sorry, millions have to die.
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Much like 2024, Democrats seem to think there’s a binary choice in the 2026 election between voting for Republicans (evil) and voting for Democrats (feckless).
They rarely acknowledge the third option which inevitably harms them the most: staying home.
They rarely acknowledge the third option which inevitably harms them the most: staying home.
November 10, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Much like 2024, Democrats seem to think there’s a binary choice in the 2026 election between voting for Republicans (evil) and voting for Democrats (feckless).
They rarely acknowledge the third option which inevitably harms them the most: staying home.
They rarely acknowledge the third option which inevitably harms them the most: staying home.
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Any D running for Senate in 2026 must vow to oust Schumer as leader. Maybe he would quit
November 10, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Any D running for Senate in 2026 must vow to oust Schumer as leader. Maybe he would quit
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Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything
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I'm real real close to feeling like we can't ever know who these 8 took the fall for, so maybe we should just throw them all out and start from scratch.
November 10, 2025 at 2:55 AM
I'm real real close to feeling like we can't ever know who these 8 took the fall for, so maybe we should just throw them all out and start from scratch.
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The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM
The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
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The lesson that Schumer learned from the March debacle:
- do a better job timing the cave to Trump so it happens on Sunday night, not during the day when offices can be lobbied
- do a better job picking senators who are retiring or not up in '26 to vote aye
- make sure you don't have to vote aye
- do a better job timing the cave to Trump so it happens on Sunday night, not during the day when offices can be lobbied
- do a better job picking senators who are retiring or not up in '26 to vote aye
- make sure you don't have to vote aye
November 10, 2025 at 2:19 AM
The lesson that Schumer learned from the March debacle:
- do a better job timing the cave to Trump so it happens on Sunday night, not during the day when offices can be lobbied
- do a better job picking senators who are retiring or not up in '26 to vote aye
- make sure you don't have to vote aye
- do a better job timing the cave to Trump so it happens on Sunday night, not during the day when offices can be lobbied
- do a better job picking senators who are retiring or not up in '26 to vote aye
- make sure you don't have to vote aye
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Do you support a change in Senate leadership after this surrender?
Not picking on Booker - we should ask this of literally all the no votes.
Not picking on Booker - we should ask this of literally all the no votes.
As I've always said, I will not support a government funding bill that continues to raise our costs, jeopardizes our health care, and hurts the people of my state.
November 10, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Do you support a change in Senate leadership after this surrender?
Not picking on Booker - we should ask this of literally all the no votes.
Not picking on Booker - we should ask this of literally all the no votes.
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This shutdown deal does nothing to help those in our state struggling with the cost of healthcare. Half a million Ohioans will face skyrocketing premiums because once again Washington politicians have made a mess.
November 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
This shutdown deal does nothing to help those in our state struggling with the cost of healthcare. Half a million Ohioans will face skyrocketing premiums because once again Washington politicians have made a mess.
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let me just say Harry Reid would NEVER have allowed this
November 10, 2025 at 12:19 AM
let me just say Harry Reid would NEVER have allowed this
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fuck them all
Deal has been reached, I’m told by multiple sources, and Kaine has announced his support
November 10, 2025 at 12:23 AM
fuck them all
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We’ve only ever asked them to try. They won’t even do that.
November 10, 2025 at 12:26 AM
We’ve only ever asked them to try. They won’t even do that.
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Bloomberg notes that, “Any one senator can force days of delay and votes.”
If Schumer, or any other Democratic senator, really objects to the deal being worked out right now, they can do something about it.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
If Schumer, or any other Democratic senator, really objects to the deal being worked out right now, they can do something about it.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Bloomberg notes that, “Any one senator can force days of delay and votes.”
If Schumer, or any other Democratic senator, really objects to the deal being worked out right now, they can do something about it.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
If Schumer, or any other Democratic senator, really objects to the deal being worked out right now, they can do something about it.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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If Schumer votes AGAINST this but enough Ds vote FOR it that it passes, he needs to RESIGN immediately.
He will have shown himself to be absolutely ineffective as a minority leader. He has to go.
Literally resign tonight.
He will have shown himself to be absolutely ineffective as a minority leader. He has to go.
Literally resign tonight.
November 10, 2025 at 12:57 AM
If Schumer votes AGAINST this but enough Ds vote FOR it that it passes, he needs to RESIGN immediately.
He will have shown himself to be absolutely ineffective as a minority leader. He has to go.
Literally resign tonight.
He will have shown himself to be absolutely ineffective as a minority leader. He has to go.
Literally resign tonight.
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Seriously.
agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
November 10, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Seriously.
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When the party you voted into office is led by quislings.
(That's a serious insult. Look up "Vidkun Quisling, the Nazi collaborator.")
(That's a serious insult. Look up "Vidkun Quisling, the Nazi collaborator.")
"concepts of a vote"
“A promise of a vote on healthcare” is nothing
November 10, 2025 at 1:26 AM
When the party you voted into office is led by quislings.
(That's a serious insult. Look up "Vidkun Quisling, the Nazi collaborator.")
(That's a serious insult. Look up "Vidkun Quisling, the Nazi collaborator.")
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Like… people want affordable groceries, housing, and healthcare, *And* they want their friends and loved ones the be alive and safe and free from persecution.
These are not mutually exclusive ideas. They are in fact bound up together.
These are not mutually exclusive ideas. They are in fact bound up together.
Too many news outlets & pols framing Tuesday as affordability *Instead Of* "woke"/"DEI"/whatever the fuck when Mamdani & Sherrill both *explicitly* embraced trans & other LGBTQ+ rights, VA solidly rejected Republicans' virulent anti-trans attack adz, & a PA elected their 1st trans mayor. Be serious.
Pro-Equality Candidates Win, Anti-Trans Campaigns Lose Again, in Election 2025 | GLAAD
History was made, and repeated, in the 2025 election, with significant impacts for LGBTQ Americans and candidates who campaigned to support LGBTQ people. Virginia voters elected the Commonwealth’s fir...
glaad.org
November 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Like… people want affordable groceries, housing, and healthcare, *And* they want their friends and loved ones the be alive and safe and free from persecution.
These are not mutually exclusive ideas. They are in fact bound up together.
These are not mutually exclusive ideas. They are in fact bound up together.
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Any politician who votes to give more of our tax money to the grifters who have already gotten too much deserves to be primaried into the sun
“OpenAI is getting ready to run hat in hand to the taxpayer for subsidies.” After losing more than $13 billion this year, OpenAI officials are angling for a bailout. From @ryanlcooper.com:
trib.al/CUazMCQ
trib.al/CUazMCQ
OpenAI Is Maneuvering for a Government Bailout - The American Prospect
For artificial intelligence to ever pencil out, some truly enormous revenue streams will be required. And if you need trillions of dollars for data centers forever, there’s only one entity to turn to: Uncle Sam.
trib.al
November 9, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Any politician who votes to give more of our tax money to the grifters who have already gotten too much deserves to be primaried into the sun
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Bail out the people who are harmed, not the bad companies that caused the harm.
my hot AI take is that regardless of how we feel about it, bailing out the big AI companies may be *necessary* to avoid long-term systemic harm to real people
as always, the system acts too late to contain the blast radius
as always, the system acts too late to contain the blast radius
November 8, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Bail out the people who are harmed, not the bad companies that caused the harm.