RoombaRider
@pfoxen.bsky.social
SGE Main, Internet Fox, EV Enthusiast-but-not-fanboy. The rabbits in this feed are mine and they're very good boys.
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RoombaRider
@pfoxen.bsky.social
· Mar 30
Update on the update.
#bunnysky thank you for your good vibes for my little guy.
The meds seem to be working; he's a little lower energy still, but the vet did warn that was likely for a week or two.
But he's given me binkies and the occasional zoomies, and look at how handsome he looks!
#bunnysky thank you for your good vibes for my little guy.
The meds seem to be working; he's a little lower energy still, but the vet did warn that was likely for a week or two.
But he's given me binkies and the occasional zoomies, and look at how handsome he looks!
Either he's a Nazi or he's too incurious / 4chan-brained to question the wisdom & significance of a dumb decision he made as a young adult.
Neither is suitable to represent people regardless the platform.
Neither is suitable to represent people regardless the platform.
"When voters are read direct quotes from Platner’s since-deleted Reddit posts, he loses to Collins by double digits."
EMILYs List poll: Platner will lose Maine Senate race
The Maine Senate race is all but a must-win for Democrats looking to take back the Senate.
www.politico.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Either he's a Nazi or he's too incurious / 4chan-brained to question the wisdom & significance of a dumb decision he made as a young adult.
Neither is suitable to represent people regardless the platform.
Neither is suitable to represent people regardless the platform.
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"When voters are read direct quotes from Platner’s since-deleted Reddit posts, he loses to Collins by double digits."
EMILYs List poll: Platner will lose Maine Senate race
The Maine Senate race is all but a must-win for Democrats looking to take back the Senate.
www.politico.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:51 PM
"When voters are read direct quotes from Platner’s since-deleted Reddit posts, he loses to Collins by double digits."
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If this is what they are doing with the AI, what do you think they are doing with the much simpler and easier to control algorithm that chooses which posts you see and which of your posts are seen by others?
November 12, 2025 at 4:56 AM
If this is what they are doing with the AI, what do you think they are doing with the much simpler and easier to control algorithm that chooses which posts you see and which of your posts are seen by others?
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What do liberals stand for? This
“Stigmatizing fascist beliefs is not at odds with the ideal of the open society because a commitment to that ideal is not a suicide pact.” www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalisms-...
Liberalism's Positive Vision Must Be the Open Society
Liberalism is not just the mitigation of dangers. It is also an active striving towards a world that is truly free.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:05 AM
What do liberals stand for? This
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When my wife and I were in our 20's, still young and fit, she had a bad accident and crushed a couple of vertebrae in her spine. She was in a wheelchair for a time and it was very eye opening to see how folks reacted to her: by all appearances young and in good shape, but in a wheelchair.
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Yall real silent about disability injustices because most of you don’t see disability as a thing that can happen to you.
We are “aww those poor people”. Meanwhile disability can happen to anyone at any moment and those injustices you ignored? They become your experiences too
We are “aww those poor people”. Meanwhile disability can happen to anyone at any moment and those injustices you ignored? They become your experiences too
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 PM
When my wife and I were in our 20's, still young and fit, she had a bad accident and crushed a couple of vertebrae in her spine. She was in a wheelchair for a time and it was very eye opening to see how folks reacted to her: by all appearances young and in good shape, but in a wheelchair.
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There's been a lot of pearl-clutching about public grocery stores!
Which is wild, because we have a LOT of experience with public grocery stores in the US. And the folks it serves (US military & military families) stand by it.
Which is wild, because we have a LOT of experience with public grocery stores in the US. And the folks it serves (US military & military families) stand by it.
Public Grocery: Let's Talk Logistics!
YouTube video by Farm to Taber
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 6:02 PM
There's been a lot of pearl-clutching about public grocery stores!
Which is wild, because we have a LOT of experience with public grocery stores in the US. And the folks it serves (US military & military families) stand by it.
Which is wild, because we have a LOT of experience with public grocery stores in the US. And the folks it serves (US military & military families) stand by it.
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Growing up on military bases is why my fantasy of a better world involves things like community centers, and tool libraries, and municipal kitchens, and dense housing, and walkable neighborhoods, and free mass transit -
Because none of that is abstract for me. It's just "how things were."
Because none of that is abstract for me. It's just "how things were."
June 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Growing up on military bases is why my fantasy of a better world involves things like community centers, and tool libraries, and municipal kitchens, and dense housing, and walkable neighborhoods, and free mass transit -
Because none of that is abstract for me. It's just "how things were."
Because none of that is abstract for me. It's just "how things were."
Rich people broke the contract.
That's pretty much it.
That's pretty much it.
“What is new is the confluence of three trends:
The sheer scale of wealth for the richest.
The untethering of compensation from performance.
The amount of harm these figures are willing to inflict on society.
All three are rising to a dangerously high tide.
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
The sheer scale of wealth for the richest.
The untethering of compensation from performance.
The amount of harm these figures are willing to inflict on society.
All three are rising to a dangerously high tide.
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Welcome to Tesla Capitalism
Or: JVL explains why Americans are toying with socialism.
open.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Rich people broke the contract.
That's pretty much it.
That's pretty much it.
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A thing I wrote about Schumer when Mamdani won the primary and kind of thinking about it a lot the last two days
Worth reminding everyone that the current highest ranking Democrat in America openly admits he bases his decisions on what he thinks an imaginary person would want and today he and most of his allies are struggling to understand how somebody like Mamdani won by talking to voters who actually exist
November 11, 2025 at 7:25 PM
A thing I wrote about Schumer when Mamdani won the primary and kind of thinking about it a lot the last two days
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November 11, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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it’s pretty funny how being good at persuasive communication is still the #1 path to winning power over and above any other skill, but the rich tech guy math-fetishizing set is desperately committed to pretending it isn’t
Good writing *makes* you interested in the topic. Good writing is persuasive writing, even in poetry and prose.
November 12, 2025 at 2:24 AM
it’s pretty funny how being good at persuasive communication is still the #1 path to winning power over and above any other skill, but the rich tech guy math-fetishizing set is desperately committed to pretending it isn’t
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absolutely agree
Teaching, nursing are good examples where the gender politics (and other factors too) overcomes the broader market tendency to reward STEM qualifications, since both professions have STEM qualifications (at least for math/sci teachers) but are lower paid and pinker collar than ed levels wld suggest.
November 12, 2025 at 2:26 AM
absolutely agree
You mean making it harder to bring and retain high skill people in America is incentivizing businesses to just go where those people are anyway?
WHO COULD HAVE POSSIBLY GUESS-oh right, pretty much anyone who is NOT a raging bigot.
WHO COULD HAVE POSSIBLY GUESS-oh right, pretty much anyone who is NOT a raging bigot.
NEW: Trump’s crackdown on immigrant work visas is spurring a Wall Street hiring boom … *in India.* www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Trump’s H-1B Visa Crackdown to Accelerate Wall Street’s Expansion in India
Investment banks are hiring finance specialists in hubs like Bengaluru and Hyderabad, a trend expected to accelerate after the H-1B crackdown.
www.bloomberg.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:02 AM
You mean making it harder to bring and retain high skill people in America is incentivizing businesses to just go where those people are anyway?
WHO COULD HAVE POSSIBLY GUESS-oh right, pretty much anyone who is NOT a raging bigot.
WHO COULD HAVE POSSIBLY GUESS-oh right, pretty much anyone who is NOT a raging bigot.
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Sincere question: Do Democrats not understand how the ACA works? Do they not understand they are bankrupting people
Maybe the GOP was never going to fully cave on extending the tax credits but the “deal” the Dems settled for is worthless to most ACA users!
Maybe the GOP was never going to fully cave on extending the tax credits but the “deal” the Dems settled for is worthless to most ACA users!
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Sincere question: Do Democrats not understand how the ACA works? Do they not understand they are bankrupting people
Maybe the GOP was never going to fully cave on extending the tax credits but the “deal” the Dems settled for is worthless to most ACA users!
Maybe the GOP was never going to fully cave on extending the tax credits but the “deal” the Dems settled for is worthless to most ACA users!
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Kendrick, Joyce Carol Oates, Menswear Guy, and Isaac Chotiner are the Voltron of People You Don't Want Focusing on You
November 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Kendrick, Joyce Carol Oates, Menswear Guy, and Isaac Chotiner are the Voltron of People You Don't Want Focusing on You
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Anyway one of the populations this place is aimed at is TAY, Transition-Aged Youth, young people aging out of the foster system, and you can imagine how THAT is going over. Most of the people there are going to be, like, teachers teaching the younger kids.
Nothing like a proposal for a modest amount of lower-income housing nearby to find out who your neighbors are.
November 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Anyway one of the populations this place is aimed at is TAY, Transition-Aged Youth, young people aging out of the foster system, and you can imagine how THAT is going over. Most of the people there are going to be, like, teachers teaching the younger kids.
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Lmfao I'm a day late but I found the PERFECT meme for this 😆
November 11, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Lmfao I'm a day late but I found the PERFECT meme for this 😆
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Here is my Bond idea: I'm imagining a Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead treatment, where the Bond movie is background to two hapless MI5 newbies.
November 11, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Here is my Bond idea: I'm imagining a Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead treatment, where the Bond movie is background to two hapless MI5 newbies.
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to be fair “what’s the point of standards” is the motto of the free press
“I’ve been hearing that standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She also asked openly, ‘What’s the point of standards?’” one CBS source said.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Bari Weiss wants to take down ‘too much power’ CBS News Standards unit: sources
EXCLUSIVE: Internal rumblings within the newsroom come after the S&P head resigned and the network disbanded its vaunted Race and Culture unit.
www.independent.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 3:34 PM
to be fair “what’s the point of standards” is the motto of the free press
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“finally it will be clear to americans that republicans dont like obamacare”
will you listen to yourself man, listen to the actual words coming out of your mouth
will you listen to yourself man, listen to the actual words coming out of your mouth
November 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
“finally it will be clear to americans that republicans dont like obamacare”
will you listen to yourself man, listen to the actual words coming out of your mouth
will you listen to yourself man, listen to the actual words coming out of your mouth
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The extremely, ugly public turn against trans rights, especially among prominent liberals and centrists, doesn't fully make sense until one realizes that it's elites attacking overwhelmingly working class demographics to punish us for our defiance and try to crush any hopes for autonomy.
November 11, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The extremely, ugly public turn against trans rights, especially among prominent liberals and centrists, doesn't fully make sense until one realizes that it's elites attacking overwhelmingly working class demographics to punish us for our defiance and try to crush any hopes for autonomy.
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The class war also explains the ridiculously conciliatory to outright traitorous behavior of the smattering of trans gentry in the face of these attacks. Their main goal is to reassure the other elites they're not like the rest of us (especially those angry, radical poor transes) to save themselves.
November 11, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The class war also explains the ridiculously conciliatory to outright traitorous behavior of the smattering of trans gentry in the face of these attacks. Their main goal is to reassure the other elites they're not like the rest of us (especially those angry, radical poor transes) to save themselves.
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Having no reason to hire qualified faculty is a feature, not a bug.
www.texastribune.org/2025/11/10/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/11/10/t...
November 10, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Having no reason to hire qualified faculty is a feature, not a bug.
www.texastribune.org/2025/11/10/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/11/10/t...
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🧵The president & his regime have murdered, at latest count, 70 people off the coast of Venezuela, which is horrific.
He & nascent trillionaire Elon Musk & the regime they built & with which they took a chainsaw to USAID are responsible for killing
88
people
around the world
every
single
hour.
He & nascent trillionaire Elon Musk & the regime they built & with which they took a chainsaw to USAID are responsible for killing
88
people
around the world
every
single
hour.
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 7:37 PM
🧵The president & his regime have murdered, at latest count, 70 people off the coast of Venezuela, which is horrific.
He & nascent trillionaire Elon Musk & the regime they built & with which they took a chainsaw to USAID are responsible for killing
88
people
around the world
every
single
hour.
He & nascent trillionaire Elon Musk & the regime they built & with which they took a chainsaw to USAID are responsible for killing
88
people
around the world
every
single
hour.
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no thank you JPMorgan
"JPMorgan on Monday said building AI infrastructure will cost more than $5tn and 'will likely require participation from every public capital market as well as private credit, alternative capital providers and even government involvement.'" www.ft.com/content/d2bf...
Investor angst over Big Tech’s AI spending spills into bond market
Debt issued by groups building data centres has been hit in recent weeks
www.ft.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
no thank you JPMorgan