sturgeonmouth
@sturgeonmouth.bsky.social
Former personal engineering advisor to Elon Musk...quit after 2 days.
Singer/songwriter/musician... wrote "Nashville Patriot" for Toby Keith.
https://m.soundcloud.com/user-528652669/nashville-patriot
Singer/songwriter/musician... wrote "Nashville Patriot" for Toby Keith.
https://m.soundcloud.com/user-528652669/nashville-patriot
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sturgeonmouth
@sturgeonmouth.bsky.social
· Dec 22
I so want to believe that me convincing Wikipedia to remove his bullshit Stanford PhD dropout story was a contributing factor.
Here's my Democratic Representative claiming it was the Democrats "holding hungry Americans hostage" during the shutdown. She should just switch parties already.
Tonight, I voted to end this partisan car crash of a shutdown. Nobody likes paying even more money to insurance companies – and the fight to stop runaway health insurance premiums won’t be won by holding hungry Americans hostage.
November 13, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Here's my Democratic Representative claiming it was the Democrats "holding hungry Americans hostage" during the shutdown. She should just switch parties already.
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Oh, ok, so Epstein advised Lavrov about how to handle Trump, which means that since early in Trump's first term, Trump has known the Russians have his child rape kompromat.
The only thing to do is to call for resignation and move forward with impeachment. There is no other option.
The only thing to do is to call for resignation and move forward with impeachment. There is no other option.
NEW: Jeffrey Epstein said in emails that he had been advising the Russian government on how to deal with Donald Trump, one of several cases in which he wielded his connections to try to influence the course of foreign affairs. w @nahaltoosi
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Oh, ok, so Epstein advised Lavrov about how to handle Trump, which means that since early in Trump's first term, Trump has known the Russians have his child rape kompromat.
The only thing to do is to call for resignation and move forward with impeachment. There is no other option.
The only thing to do is to call for resignation and move forward with impeachment. There is no other option.
Totally opposite his view when it comes to SNAP benefits
TRUMP: The ones who stayed, I'm sending them a $10,000 bonus
INGRAHAM: Where's that money coming from?
TRUMP: I don't know. I'll get it from someplace.
INGRAHAM: Where's that money coming from?
TRUMP: I don't know. I'll get it from someplace.
November 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Totally opposite his view when it comes to SNAP benefits
THIS. Durbin knows exactly his this will go. He is just OK with it as long as Democrats can use it in campaign ads against Republicans.
OH MY FUCKING GOD
First of all, why trust Thune at all? Second, WHO THE FUCK CARES IF THERE'S A VOTE THAT WILL FAIL AND NEVER GET TAKEN UP BY THE HOUSE EVEN IF IT DOES? SOMEONE FUCKING ASK DURBIN HOW HE EXPECTS THIS VOTE TO GO
First of all, why trust Thune at all? Second, WHO THE FUCK CARES IF THERE'S A VOTE THAT WILL FAIL AND NEVER GET TAKEN UP BY THE HOUSE EVEN IF IT DOES? SOMEONE FUCKING ASK DURBIN HOW HE EXPECTS THIS VOTE TO GO
Whoa -- Sen. Durbin went to up Leader Thune during the vote last night to tell him that on the shutdown vote and ACA promise that "8 of us are sticking our neck out that you're going to keep your word. I hope you will. He said 'I assure you I will,'" Durbin says just now
November 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM
THIS. Durbin knows exactly his this will go. He is just OK with it as long as Democrats can use it in campaign ads against Republicans.
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I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
Approaching human reasoning is something AI should avoid (humans too).
Read the letter:
November 10, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Approaching human reasoning is something AI should avoid (humans too).
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Blame *all* Democratic incumbents for this surrender. Not just the ones voting for it. The others could have voted to remove Schumer long ago and install a leader capable of formulating a strategy and holding his people together. They were content to stay with a proven loser.
I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
November 10, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Blame *all* Democratic incumbents for this surrender. Not just the ones voting for it. The others could have voted to remove Schumer long ago and install a leader capable of formulating a strategy and holding his people together. They were content to stay with a proven loser.
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On the two biggest contests in the past week — the NYC election and the shutdown — Chuck Schumer isn’t just voting with Republicans; he’s voting explicitly with *Donald Trump*
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 10:12 PM
On the two biggest contests in the past week — the NYC election and the shutdown — Chuck Schumer isn’t just voting with Republicans; he’s voting explicitly with *Donald Trump*
Constituent here. Dems had leverage to stop this sort of thing, but Schumer gave it up for nothing, and you are not holding him accountable.
These cuts will contnue until September when he'll have the chance to surrender yet again.
These cuts will contnue until September when he'll have the chance to surrender yet again.
November 9, 2025 at 9:17 PM
This observation describes so many oligarchs
November 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM
This observation describes so many oligarchs
Happens frequently when I post about Elon Musk...some fanboi with a fake Musk account and zero followers likes my post or follows me. Nope. Blocked. Losers.
November 9, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Happens frequently when I post about Elon Musk...some fanboi with a fake Musk account and zero followers likes my post or follows me. Nope. Blocked. Losers.
True story. I was recently parked at a mountain bike trailhead in southern Utah when a Cybertruck pulled up with a bike on the back and MARSRVR vanity plates. As he chatted up every biker in the parking lot, I hid in my camper until he left...for his benefit and mine.
can’t believe this was 2018 www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/oh-...
Oh No, It’s Me, a Guy You Just Met, and I’m Already Talking About Elon Musk
We introduce ourselves and I ask, immediately, what you think of Elon Musk. You laugh, thinking I’m making a kind of topical joke. But no, the joke...
www.mcsweeneys.net
November 8, 2025 at 6:00 PM
True story. I was recently parked at a mountain bike trailhead in southern Utah when a Cybertruck pulled up with a bike on the back and MARSRVR vanity plates. As he chatted up every biker in the parking lot, I hid in my camper until he left...for his benefit and mine.
Grok Imagine prompt:
She smiles and says "Of course you dropped out of Stanford after 2 days, even though Stanford said you never enrolled, and the enrollment deadline is a month before the start of classes."
She smiles and says "Of course you dropped out of Stanford after 2 days, even though Stanford said you never enrolled, and the enrollment deadline is a month before the start of classes."
I know people think Musk only bought Twitter to help the rise of fascism.
While that’s important, I still think it’s secondary to his primary goal, which was to own the place where his fans praise him.
With AI, Musk’s use of the platform for love and validation is only getting more transparent.
While that’s important, I still think it’s secondary to his primary goal, which was to own the place where his fans praise him.
With AI, Musk’s use of the platform for love and validation is only getting more transparent.
November 8, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Grok Imagine prompt:
She smiles and says "Of course you dropped out of Stanford after 2 days, even though Stanford said you never enrolled, and the enrollment deadline is a month before the start of classes."
She smiles and says "Of course you dropped out of Stanford after 2 days, even though Stanford said you never enrolled, and the enrollment deadline is a month before the start of classes."
Guy who launched his career by lying about dropping out of Stanford talks about being a charismatic swindler...
November 8, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Guy who launched his career by lying about dropping out of Stanford talks about being a charismatic swindler...
sounds like a DOGE process...
DHS confirmed it has stopped automatically storing officials' text messages.
Instead, officials are supposed to take a screenshot, send that to their work email, download it onto their work computer and run a text-recognition program on it. Every time.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
Instead, officials are supposed to take a screenshot, send that to their work email, download it onto their work computer and run a text-recognition program on it. Every time.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 3:48 PM
sounds like a DOGE process...
Absofuckinglutely
Yes, this too! Even if the economy was great, authoritarianism is bad! Democrats are basically arguing that the problem with fascism is that the trains aren’t running on time.
There’s also an added implication that if the economy was humming along Trump should be supported but there are about 50,000 other reasons to oppose him and it’s actually good to not think of them as distractions
November 1, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Absofuckinglutely
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"The best way to spot an idiot? Look for the person who is cruel...
when someone’s path through this world is marked with acts of cruelty, they have failed the first test of an advanced society
...I have found one thing to be universally true: the kindest person in the room is often the smartest"
when someone’s path through this world is marked with acts of cruelty, they have failed the first test of an advanced society
...I have found one thing to be universally true: the kindest person in the room is often the smartest"
Gov. Pritzker Commencement Address: Kindness is intelligence
YouTube video by Jacob Nordby
youtu.be
November 1, 2025 at 8:39 PM
"The best way to spot an idiot? Look for the person who is cruel...
when someone’s path through this world is marked with acts of cruelty, they have failed the first test of an advanced society
...I have found one thing to be universally true: the kindest person in the room is often the smartest"
when someone’s path through this world is marked with acts of cruelty, they have failed the first test of an advanced society
...I have found one thing to be universally true: the kindest person in the room is often the smartest"
My wife's flight was canceled and she's stuck at the airport in Tanzania for 2 days. Internet has been intermittently shut off. The military has been deployed. This is a preview of what our midterms could look like.
Tanzania deploys the military and imposes a curfew on election day after protests erupt
Human rights organizations have long accused Tanzania's administration of arresting, detaining and intimidating critics and opposition members.
www.courthousenews.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:19 AM
My wife's flight was canceled and she's stuck at the airport in Tanzania for 2 days. Internet has been intermittently shut off. The military has been deployed. This is a preview of what our midterms could look like.
Of course...
Found this disclaimer at the bottom of some entries on Grokipedia, the Elon Musk alternative to Wikipedia
October 28, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Of course...
Grokipedia tries to thread the needle by citing a bogus Forbes article that repeats Musk's own dropout lie.
Musk never enrolled at Stanford. His admittance was likely rescinded for failing to complete undergrad. We've been over this!
bsky.app/profile/stur...
Musk never enrolled at Stanford. His admittance was likely rescinded for failing to complete undergrad. We've been over this!
bsky.app/profile/stur...
I wonder if Grokipedia will repeat the lie that he dropped out at Stanford.
I so want to believe that me convincing Wikipedia to remove his bullshit Stanford PhD dropout story was a contributing factor.
October 28, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Grokipedia tries to thread the needle by citing a bogus Forbes article that repeats Musk's own dropout lie.
Musk never enrolled at Stanford. His admittance was likely rescinded for failing to complete undergrad. We've been over this!
bsky.app/profile/stur...
Musk never enrolled at Stanford. His admittance was likely rescinded for failing to complete undergrad. We've been over this!
bsky.app/profile/stur...
Today I learned that you can mute those loud and annoying ads at the gas pump by hitting a random button. The exact button varies, but I went 3 for 3 on my trip. You're welcome, unless I was just the last to know...
October 22, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Today I learned that you can mute those loud and annoying ads at the gas pump by hitting a random button. The exact button varies, but I went 3 for 3 on my trip. You're welcome, unless I was just the last to know...
Good job Caterpillar
October 21, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Good job Caterpillar
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“What is to stop Trump from making comparably inflated claims about the situations on the ground in other American cities as a pretextual basis for deploying troops? And what’s to stop him from making those claims not tomorrow, but next November—on the eve of the midterms?”
Me, via “One First”:
Me, via “One First”:
184. The Massive Stakes of Trump v. Illinois
The Trump administration's 29th emergency application—to let it deploy federalized National Guard troops in Chicago on a profoundly dubious factual predicate—is a make-or-break moment for the Court.
www.stevevladeck.com
October 20, 2025 at 11:29 AM
“What is to stop Trump from making comparably inflated claims about the situations on the ground in other American cities as a pretextual basis for deploying troops? And what’s to stop him from making those claims not tomorrow, but next November—on the eve of the midterms?”
Me, via “One First”:
Me, via “One First”:
Kudos to the Purdue Exponent, which operates independently from Purdue University. I am sure that Purdue University itself would have caved to the fascists just like Indiana University. This is a great example of the importance of an independent press.
Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!
October 19, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Kudos to the Purdue Exponent, which operates independently from Purdue University. I am sure that Purdue University itself would have caved to the fascists just like Indiana University. This is a great example of the importance of an independent press.
I think it would be awkward to play pickleball while a couple thousand of my neighbors protested a fascist takeover of our democracy, but that's just me.
October 19, 2025 at 2:59 AM
I think it would be awkward to play pickleball while a couple thousand of my neighbors protested a fascist takeover of our democracy, but that's just me.