Jen Larkin
@petticoatdespot.bsky.social
Social justice magetank. Goth, neurodivergent, and allergic. Cisgender out of spite, trans rights supporter. WoW player and board gamer.
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Have you ever noticed that when you say you dislike someone and people start insisting that you just haven't given them a chance, so you need to view their entire body of work before judging them, and the mechanism by which you do that pays them for it, you're always talk8ng about a white guy?
If someone says "I didn't see him harm anyone," that doesn't mean that he harmed no one. If someone says "he was nice to me," that doesn't mean he was nice to everyone. Trump sycophants are claiming that these 2 claims prove Trump's innocence, but that's untrue.
Virginia Giuffre's brother: This is not a hoax. The White House only wants it to not be a hoax when it's convenient for them. They want to mention my sister's name and say Trump is vindicated because my sister said so. Not true, not true at all. She actually never said that once.
November 15, 2025 at 9:22 AM
If someone says "I didn't see him harm anyone," that doesn't mean that he harmed no one. If someone says "he was nice to me," that doesn't mean he was nice to everyone. Trump sycophants are claiming that these 2 claims prove Trump's innocence, but that's untrue.
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Silicon Valley, 1990s: Free and open access to all the world’s knowledge will usher a new utopian age of information!
Silicon Valley, 2025:
Silicon Valley, 2025:
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November 15, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Silicon Valley, 1990s: Free and open access to all the world’s knowledge will usher a new utopian age of information!
Silicon Valley, 2025:
Silicon Valley, 2025:
"OpenAI’s model said it was 'acceptable' for a robot to wield a kitchen knife to intimidate workers in an office and to take non-consensual photographs of a person in the shower."
The problem is the LLMs. They are not ready for prime time but they're in the 8pm slot anyway.
The problem is the LLMs. They are not ready for prime time but they're in the 8pm slot anyway.
AI-powered robots are ‘unsafe’ for personal use, scientists warn
The AI models were prone to safety failures and discrimination, a new study found.
www.euronews.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:15 AM
"OpenAI’s model said it was 'acceptable' for a robot to wield a kitchen knife to intimidate workers in an office and to take non-consensual photographs of a person in the shower."
The problem is the LLMs. They are not ready for prime time but they're in the 8pm slot anyway.
The problem is the LLMs. They are not ready for prime time but they're in the 8pm slot anyway.
Ignore the hype.
According to the article, the company claims that peoplr could live to 150 because it increases lifespan by 64% from the start date. So if you start taking it at birth and you would have lived to 95 without it, you could live to 150. Or maybe not, but 100 years to see if it works?
According to the article, the company claims that peoplr could live to 150 because it increases lifespan by 64% from the start date. So if you start taking it at birth and you would have lived to 95 without it, you could live to 150. Or maybe not, but 100 years to see if it works?
Scientists Say They’ve Made a Pill That Could Let You Live to 150
They’ve been promising eternal youth forever. Now a Chinese biotech startup says it might actually have the chemistry right.
www.vice.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Ignore the hype.
According to the article, the company claims that peoplr could live to 150 because it increases lifespan by 64% from the start date. So if you start taking it at birth and you would have lived to 95 without it, you could live to 150. Or maybe not, but 100 years to see if it works?
According to the article, the company claims that peoplr could live to 150 because it increases lifespan by 64% from the start date. So if you start taking it at birth and you would have lived to 95 without it, you could live to 150. Or maybe not, but 100 years to see if it works?
While I support this idea, that tacky gold shit is not meltable because it's only spraypainted gold.
November 15, 2025 at 8:54 AM
While I support this idea, that tacky gold shit is not meltable because it's only spraypainted gold.
Hey, Baton Rouge: there is an election today (Saturday). There are 3 propositions on the ballot. They SUCK but if any of them fails, all 3 programs (library, Council on Aging, mosquito abatement) will lose funding.
If 1 fails, it is unlikely to be replaced with a non-sucky version. It's our option.
If 1 fails, it is unlikely to be replaced with a non-sucky version. It's our option.
November 15, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Hey, Baton Rouge: there is an election today (Saturday). There are 3 propositions on the ballot. They SUCK but if any of them fails, all 3 programs (library, Council on Aging, mosquito abatement) will lose funding.
If 1 fails, it is unlikely to be replaced with a non-sucky version. It's our option.
If 1 fails, it is unlikely to be replaced with a non-sucky version. It's our option.
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Kristi Noem paid a LOT of money to her friends (and probably herself) to shoot propaganda of her on a horse. In normal times, this is a huge scandal, and Noem is immediately fired and likely indicted. These are crimes! Waste, fraud, and abuse!
Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...
www.propublica.org
November 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Kristi Noem paid a LOT of money to her friends (and probably herself) to shoot propaganda of her on a horse. In normal times, this is a huge scandal, and Noem is immediately fired and likely indicted. These are crimes! Waste, fraud, and abuse!
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I’d rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer.
November 15, 2025 at 8:22 AM
I’d rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer.
People aren't telling women that their number 1 priority is their career. Nor does having a career mean that a woman doesn't have a family.
Having a career gives a woman the ability to leave an abuser.
That's what the GOP is trying to eliminate: escape routes.
Having a career gives a woman the ability to leave an abuser.
That's what the GOP is trying to eliminate: escape routes.
Duffy's Advice For Women - Give Up Your Career And Make Babies
Transportation Secretary and former reality TV star Sean Duffy jumped the track witth his unreal advice for women.
crooksandliars.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:28 AM
People aren't telling women that their number 1 priority is their career. Nor does having a career mean that a woman doesn't have a family.
Having a career gives a woman the ability to leave an abuser.
That's what the GOP is trying to eliminate: escape routes.
Having a career gives a woman the ability to leave an abuser.
That's what the GOP is trying to eliminate: escape routes.
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First they blamed the Dems for not funding SNAP
Then they went to court to ask permission NOT to pay
The shutdown is ending & they’re making everyone reapply and “prove” they’re legitimately starving.
It’s almost as though they spent the money and have zero intentions of ever funding it again.
Then they went to court to ask permission NOT to pay
The shutdown is ending & they’re making everyone reapply and “prove” they’re legitimately starving.
It’s almost as though they spent the money and have zero intentions of ever funding it again.
November 15, 2025 at 4:20 AM
First they blamed the Dems for not funding SNAP
Then they went to court to ask permission NOT to pay
The shutdown is ending & they’re making everyone reapply and “prove” they’re legitimately starving.
It’s almost as though they spent the money and have zero intentions of ever funding it again.
Then they went to court to ask permission NOT to pay
The shutdown is ending & they’re making everyone reapply and “prove” they’re legitimately starving.
It’s almost as though they spent the money and have zero intentions of ever funding it again.
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Biden didn’t release the Epstein files because Merrick Garland was actively investigating Epstein/Maxwell co-conspirators all the way up until January 2025. Then Trump shuttered the probe. www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey...
House Democrats press DOJ for details on Epstein co-conspirators probe that was "inexplicably killed"
Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein provided the Justice Department with "precise and detailed" information about 20 alleged co-conspirators, House Democrats say.
www.cbsnews.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Biden didn’t release the Epstein files because Merrick Garland was actively investigating Epstein/Maxwell co-conspirators all the way up until January 2025. Then Trump shuttered the probe. www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey...
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“Weaponizing the DOJ” takes on a whole new level when you order investigations in order to reopen it so it’s no longer closed and you can claim you can’t release information because it’s an “ongoing investigation”
November 15, 2025 at 2:55 AM
“Weaponizing the DOJ” takes on a whole new level when you order investigations in order to reopen it so it’s no longer closed and you can claim you can’t release information because it’s an “ongoing investigation”
Well, obviously, this is a sign that Bill Clinton and Larry Summers must be investigated! But not Trump. Because reasons.
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Well, obviously, this is a sign that Bill Clinton and Larry Summers must be investigated! But not Trump. Because reasons.
He doesn't know what they examined but he got a perfect score.
MRIs don't get scored.
MRIs don't get scored.
‘Was It Your Brain?’ Reporter Asks Trump About MRI and Is Told, ‘I Have No Idea What They Analyzed’
‘Was It Your Brain?’ Reporter Asks Trump About MRI and Is Told, ‘I Have No Idea What They Analyzed’
President Donald Trump admitted having "no idea what they analyzed" when he underwent an MRI during a recent trip to Walter Reed Medical Center.
The post ‘Was It Your Brain?’ Reporter Asks Trump About MRI and Is Told, ‘I Have No Idea What They Analyzed’ first appeared on Mediaite.
dlvr.it
November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
He doesn't know what they examined but he got a perfect score.
MRIs don't get scored.
MRIs don't get scored.
Hey, Homeland Security: those aren't "criminal illegal aliens" or very bad people. That isn't crying. You've been ordered by the courts to release people because their arrests were illegal. You want to believe otherwise due to your hatred.
Facts don't care about your feelings.
Facts don't care about your feelings.
Official U.S. Government account refers to its citizens as "imbecilic morons".
November 15, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Hey, Homeland Security: those aren't "criminal illegal aliens" or very bad people. That isn't crying. You've been ordered by the courts to release people because their arrests were illegal. You want to believe otherwise due to your hatred.
Facts don't care about your feelings.
Facts don't care about your feelings.
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It is all of our jobs to convince people in our lives that these assholes don’t deserve credit for partially fixing problems they caused in the first place (despite lacking the legal power to cause them).
BREAKING: President Trump drops tariffs on beef, coffee and tropical fruit as pressure builds on consumer prices.
Trump drops tariffs on beef, coffee, tropical fruit as pressure builds on consumer prices
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to get rid of tariffs on a broad swath of commodities, including beef, coffee and tropical fruits.
bit.ly
November 14, 2025 at 11:46 PM
It is all of our jobs to convince people in our lives that these assholes don’t deserve credit for partially fixing problems they caused in the first place (despite lacking the legal power to cause them).
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They’re all just looting the treasury now
November 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
They’re all just looting the treasury now
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I don't mean to be glib or trivializing: Texas A&M's "to end indoctrination you must teach only our doctrine" is some arbeit macht frei obscenity. No, of course it's not genocide. But it's the logic of sadistic erasure, the way in 1984 2+2=5 made even believing the truth impossible.
November 14, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I don't mean to be glib or trivializing: Texas A&M's "to end indoctrination you must teach only our doctrine" is some arbeit macht frei obscenity. No, of course it's not genocide. But it's the logic of sadistic erasure, the way in 1984 2+2=5 made even believing the truth impossible.
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Get ready to hear this spiel from Trump's circle as commonly as we used to hear "of course Trump will be happy to release his taxes, just as soon as the IRS completes its audit."
Everyone does know what's going on here, right? Should the Epstein evidence bill pass both the House and Senate, these criminals will say it can't be released because there is an active investigation. Never mind that a thorough investigation was completed, and the DOJ was prepared to try Epstein.
November 14, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Get ready to hear this spiel from Trump's circle as commonly as we used to hear "of course Trump will be happy to release his taxes, just as soon as the IRS completes its audit."
In his defense, the Dem leaders *don't* know what theyre doing. But the base in shambles? LOL no.
This is what happens when Mike Johnson gives them another day off. Ronny starts day drinking again.
November 14, 2025 at 11:32 PM
In his defense, the Dem leaders *don't* know what theyre doing. But the base in shambles? LOL no.
Trump claims that the "Democratic shutdown" cost the US $1.5 million. We all know it was a Republican shutdown, but $1.5 trillion?
Is that the backpay for furloughed workers that we would have paid anyway? What money is this, exactly?
Is that the backpay for furloughed workers that we would have paid anyway? What money is this, exactly?
TRUMP IS SPIRALING
Trump once again calls Epstein's child sex trafficking ring the "Jeffrey Epstein Hoax" and tells Republicans to focus on other things instead.
Trump raped children.
Justice for Katie Johnson ⚖️
Trump once again calls Epstein's child sex trafficking ring the "Jeffrey Epstein Hoax" and tells Republicans to focus on other things instead.
Trump raped children.
Justice for Katie Johnson ⚖️
November 14, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Trump claims that the "Democratic shutdown" cost the US $1.5 million. We all know it was a Republican shutdown, but $1.5 trillion?
Is that the backpay for furloughed workers that we would have paid anyway? What money is this, exactly?
Is that the backpay for furloughed workers that we would have paid anyway? What money is this, exactly?
This photo is going to win someone at Reuters an award.
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 11:27 PM
This photo is going to win someone at Reuters an award.
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For more on Rev. Woolf, who appears to have been arrested today: he published an editorial with @rns.org literally this week titled “Why clergy should risk assault to protest ICE” —> religionnews.com/2025/11/13/w...
November 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
For more on Rev. Woolf, who appears to have been arrested today: he published an editorial with @rns.org literally this week titled “Why clergy should risk assault to protest ICE” —> religionnews.com/2025/11/13/w...
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Yes, that is as Kafkaesque as it seems; the BIA is saying that a child adjudicated to be abused, abandoned, and neglected, who has already been approved for a status that will permit the child to get a green card, should nonetheless be deported instead — because of backlogs outside of their control.
November 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Yes, that is as Kafkaesque as it seems; the BIA is saying that a child adjudicated to be abused, abandoned, and neglected, who has already been approved for a status that will permit the child to get a green card, should nonetheless be deported instead — because of backlogs outside of their control.