Tad Suiter
@retius.bsky.social
Comics, History, and Media Studies.
Confused as to why so many people refuse to just be nice to one another.
Confused as to why so many people refuse to just be nice to one another.
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DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
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It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
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If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
So does Trump have compromat on MTG or is she angling for a presidential run or what?
November 22, 2025 at 4:55 AM
So does Trump have compromat on MTG or is she angling for a presidential run or what?
How often do you suppose Sean Duffy thinks about the fact that everyone in the nation knows his wife as "that horrible girl who slept with Puck"?
November 21, 2025 at 9:19 PM
How often do you suppose Sean Duffy thinks about the fact that everyone in the nation knows his wife as "that horrible girl who slept with Puck"?
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Ellis repeatedly accuses multiple CBP and ICE officials of lying (under oath) and says their "widespread misrepresentations call into question everything" they "say they are doing in their characterization of what is happening." She broadly discredits their testimony as objectively false.
U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis just handed down the written opinion version of her preliminary injunction order, regarding use of force by federal agents in Chicago.
It's the one already put on hold by the 7th Circuit.
It's 233 pages.
Here you go: cst.brightspotcdn.com/49/34/daecfb...
It's the one already put on hold by the 7th Circuit.
It's 233 pages.
Here you go: cst.brightspotcdn.com/49/34/daecfb...
November 20, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Ellis repeatedly accuses multiple CBP and ICE officials of lying (under oath) and says their "widespread misrepresentations call into question everything" they "say they are doing in their characterization of what is happening." She broadly discredits their testimony as objectively false.
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Perjury should be a crime maybe
Judge Ellis derides Greg Bovino as a serial fabulist who brazenly lied on the stand and seemingly considered it funny to perjure himself. cst.brightspotcdn.com/49/34/daecfb...
November 20, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Perjury should be a crime maybe
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Spineless speaker does it again
November 21, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Spineless speaker does it again
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All of us from the post-2008 era (and before, no doubt) have traumatic memories of the academic job market, but I don't think the real problem was the hotel rooms (or the ballroom!), & I think it should be noticed that the real problem (no jobs, ridiculous power disparities) is now worse
November 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
All of us from the post-2008 era (and before, no doubt) have traumatic memories of the academic job market, but I don't think the real problem was the hotel rooms (or the ballroom!), & I think it should be noticed that the real problem (no jobs, ridiculous power disparities) is now worse
"Is that linebacker a pregnant woman?"
--Troy Barnes
--Troy Barnes
November 17, 2025 at 3:26 AM
"Is that linebacker a pregnant woman?"
--Troy Barnes
--Troy Barnes
I teach a business writing class and the students start every email they write as homework with "I hope this email finds you well" and I just can't.
Remember before COVID when that wasn't a normal way to start an email unless you were writing a friend with health issues?
Remember before COVID when that wasn't a normal way to start an email unless you were writing a friend with health issues?
November 16, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I teach a business writing class and the students start every email they write as homework with "I hope this email finds you well" and I just can't.
Remember before COVID when that wasn't a normal way to start an email unless you were writing a friend with health issues?
Remember before COVID when that wasn't a normal way to start an email unless you were writing a friend with health issues?
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“Quiet! Quiet!” 😬
November 15, 2025 at 4:56 AM
“Quiet! Quiet!” 😬
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beef steak, roasts, brisket, and ribs are still under $8/lb if you buy from a local farmer. cut out the middleman, pay the people who grow your food
November 14, 2025 at 10:19 PM
beef steak, roasts, brisket, and ribs are still under $8/lb if you buy from a local farmer. cut out the middleman, pay the people who grow your food
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The IRS raising 401(k) limits means more imaginary money and less actual money lol
November 14, 2025 at 11:16 PM
The IRS raising 401(k) limits means more imaginary money and less actual money lol
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Fewer profiles of journalists continuing a genteel kind of work despite their abject disgrace, more interest in journalists forced to leave the field in dejected poverty
November 14, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Fewer profiles of journalists continuing a genteel kind of work despite their abject disgrace, more interest in journalists forced to leave the field in dejected poverty
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Prison staff fired after leaks about Ghislaine Maxwell's special treatment: lawyer
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Prison staff fired after leaks about Ghislaine Maxwell's special treatment: lawyer
Leah Saffian, an attorney for convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, said that staff at Federal Prison Camp Bryan were fired after details about special treatment for her client were leaked to Re...
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November 14, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Prison staff fired after leaks about Ghislaine Maxwell's special treatment: lawyer
www.rawstory.com/ghislaine-ma...
www.rawstory.com/ghislaine-ma...
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you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
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If you think this is badass, wait until we win.
katforillinois.com/legal
katforillinois.com/legal
November 14, 2025 at 1:24 AM
If you think this is badass, wait until we win.
katforillinois.com/legal
katforillinois.com/legal
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We (the world at large) are making enough fucking babies. We're cool on the babies. We need to start FEEDING the babies and VACCINATING the babies and WELCOMING the babies to various places, but we have babies out the wazoo. They just might have different melanin levels
November 13, 2025 at 10:18 PM
We (the world at large) are making enough fucking babies. We're cool on the babies. We need to start FEEDING the babies and VACCINATING the babies and WELCOMING the babies to various places, but we have babies out the wazoo. They just might have different melanin levels
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Yes, I think it’s that.
Also, it positions you for a manageable claim. If you claimed that the technology was entirely bad, you might need to explain how it can be wholly rejected. And no one has a concrete proposal to do that.
Also, it positions you for a manageable claim. If you claimed that the technology was entirely bad, you might need to explain how it can be wholly rejected. And no one has a concrete proposal to do that.
November 12, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Yes, I think it’s that.
Also, it positions you for a manageable claim. If you claimed that the technology was entirely bad, you might need to explain how it can be wholly rejected. And no one has a concrete proposal to do that.
Also, it positions you for a manageable claim. If you claimed that the technology was entirely bad, you might need to explain how it can be wholly rejected. And no one has a concrete proposal to do that.
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Really I just find myself reading things & exclaiming—to myself, in my mind—"you don’t actually believe that!" because the whole build up in the article/talk/etc. has been contra that claim—is this just a move people feel they have to make to not seem too critical/pessimistic/whatever?
November 11, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Really I just find myself reading things & exclaiming—to myself, in my mind—"you don’t actually believe that!" because the whole build up in the article/talk/etc. has been contra that claim—is this just a move people feel they have to make to not seem too critical/pessimistic/whatever?
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I’m increasingly noting the rhetorical turn "of course AI has enormous potential" or some variation thereof—especially in papers/talks/etc. where the argument is essentially "this technology is deeply flawed, perhaps entirely broken"—is this a concession to the dominant inevitability narrative?
November 11, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I’m increasingly noting the rhetorical turn "of course AI has enormous potential" or some variation thereof—especially in papers/talks/etc. where the argument is essentially "this technology is deeply flawed, perhaps entirely broken"—is this a concession to the dominant inevitability narrative?
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Tonight was a very bad night.
November 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Tonight was a very bad night.