Tim Lesle
@telesle.bsky.social
Writer, editor, etc. Formerly Wired, USGS, et al.
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A lot of you don’t realize this, but the gist of the Hanukkah story is that the Maccabees thought they had only enough concrete for a $50 million ballroom, but through a miracle, they built one worth $400 million
Trump now says his ballroom will cost $400 million (it was supposed to cost $250 million less than two months ago)
December 17, 2025 at 2:49 AM
A lot of you don’t realize this, but the gist of the Hanukkah story is that the Maccabees thought they had only enough concrete for a $50 million ballroom, but through a miracle, they built one worth $400 million
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Right-wing influencers made up that Democrats celebrated Charlie Kirk’s murder, and tried an up-is-down lie that they’d never celebrate political violence, then Trump smashed though that Kool Aid Man style—as per his wont—so the influencers are now pretending that’s unusual and that they dislike it.
December 15, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Right-wing influencers made up that Democrats celebrated Charlie Kirk’s murder, and tried an up-is-down lie that they’d never celebrate political violence, then Trump smashed though that Kool Aid Man style—as per his wont—so the influencers are now pretending that’s unusual and that they dislike it.
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It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
December 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
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once again i propose that the culture on x is simply just...there's a gas leak in my home but i refuse to leave/will just wait it out
December 10, 2025 at 11:34 PM
once again i propose that the culture on x is simply just...there's a gas leak in my home but i refuse to leave/will just wait it out
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These are good moments to remember that the CEOs of all the biggest companies in America are happy to go to White House dinners and slap this guy’s back. They do not care about this. Remember this, years from now, when they want you to forget.
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 4, 2025 at 12:13 AM
These are good moments to remember that the CEOs of all the biggest companies in America are happy to go to White House dinners and slap this guy’s back. They do not care about this. Remember this, years from now, when they want you to forget.
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Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.
November 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.
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I just think it would be neat if turkeys used the same technique to draw us
November 25, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I just think it would be neat if turkeys used the same technique to draw us
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when its definitely not a hostage situation
November 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
when its definitely not a hostage situation
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It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 AM
It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
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I literally could not stop myself from inappropriately laughing out loud for real
November 21, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I literally could not stop myself from inappropriately laughing out loud for real
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Amazing. Dude is just winking at Cassidy and telling him what a schmuck he is while he kills children.
Apparently RFK Jr. promised Senator Bill Cassidy that he wouldn’t remove the statement
“Vaccines do not cause autism” from the CDC website.
So what RFK Jr. did instead is spit in his face by leaving the statement there and adding this:
“Vaccines do not cause autism” from the CDC website.
So what RFK Jr. did instead is spit in his face by leaving the statement there and adding this:
November 20, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Amazing. Dude is just winking at Cassidy and telling him what a schmuck he is while he kills children.
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Wow is this real??????
November 20, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Wow is this real??????
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Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
November 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
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Just in the past 3 days, I happened to speak to an academic, a US politician and a former Biden official who had all received death threats and severe harassment from the MAGA movement. It's now a common experience. I am sorry MTG has to live through the same thing, but she can't be surprised
MTG: “.. “I am now being contacted by private security firms with warnings for my safety as a hot bed of threats against me are being fueled and egged on by the most powerful man in the world. .. The man I supported and helped get elected.”
@mediaite.com #GA14
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@mediaite.com #GA14
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November 15, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Just in the past 3 days, I happened to speak to an academic, a US politician and a former Biden official who had all received death threats and severe harassment from the MAGA movement. It's now a common experience. I am sorry MTG has to live through the same thing, but she can't be surprised
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Bird friends! Data friends! Design friends!
I made a tool that turns lists of bird species into generative collages of feathers, colored by wikipedia descriptions.
It'll work with your eBird lifelist! Or local birds.
Download images, or buy art (5% goes to bird rescue)
ofafeather.binstobins.com
I made a tool that turns lists of bird species into generative collages of feathers, colored by wikipedia descriptions.
It'll work with your eBird lifelist! Or local birds.
Download images, or buy art (5% goes to bird rescue)
ofafeather.binstobins.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Bird friends! Data friends! Design friends!
I made a tool that turns lists of bird species into generative collages of feathers, colored by wikipedia descriptions.
It'll work with your eBird lifelist! Or local birds.
Download images, or buy art (5% goes to bird rescue)
ofafeather.binstobins.com
I made a tool that turns lists of bird species into generative collages of feathers, colored by wikipedia descriptions.
It'll work with your eBird lifelist! Or local birds.
Download images, or buy art (5% goes to bird rescue)
ofafeather.binstobins.com
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These batshit wockaflockas are really ready to make middle schoolers fair game rather than holding the Walking Circus Peanut accountable and whatnot.
November 13, 2025 at 10:22 PM
These batshit wockaflockas are really ready to make middle schoolers fair game rather than holding the Walking Circus Peanut accountable and whatnot.
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you can tell bsky is a viable social media platform the way clouds of NYT contributors are crashing out on the timeline today
November 13, 2025 at 9:50 PM
you can tell bsky is a viable social media platform the way clouds of NYT contributors are crashing out on the timeline today
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We were looking for a good quote to set up the satire here, but nothing clicked. Then Douthat’s op-ed dropped late morning, and well, thank you New York Times yet again.
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/yea...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/yea...
Yeah, He Won, but He Was Up Against a Deeply Flawed Candidate
“I’m skeptical. The odds are that Mamdani’s victory is actually less significant than you think.” — Ross Douthat, New York Times
- - -I was as surp...
www.mcsweeneys.net
November 5, 2025 at 11:49 PM
We were looking for a good quote to set up the satire here, but nothing clicked. Then Douthat’s op-ed dropped late morning, and well, thank you New York Times yet again.
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/yea...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/yea...
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Racist Stefon voice:
New York’s hottest club is ZOHRAN.
New York’s hottest club is ZOHRAN.
November 5, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Racist Stefon voice:
New York’s hottest club is ZOHRAN.
New York’s hottest club is ZOHRAN.
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Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.
November 5, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.
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Head in hands wondering how this could happen to me, the popular president who posted a video of myself shitting on everyone 2 weeks ago
November 5, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Head in hands wondering how this could happen to me, the popular president who posted a video of myself shitting on everyone 2 weeks ago
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In case you don’t recall the reference, here it is. You can 100% certain the New York Times is not going to run the equivalent editorial tomorrow, because we only do this stuff for Democrats:
November 5, 2025 at 1:08 AM
In case you don’t recall the reference, here it is. You can 100% certain the New York Times is not going to run the equivalent editorial tomorrow, because we only do this stuff for Democrats:
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"If Republicans want a return to political influence in America's dynamic economic and cultural powerhouses, they're going to have to learn how to appeal to the complex folkways of urban dwellers"
Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.
November 5, 2025 at 2:08 AM
"If Republicans want a return to political influence in America's dynamic economic and cultural powerhouses, they're going to have to learn how to appeal to the complex folkways of urban dwellers"
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I gotta give it up to the writers tho. If NYC elects a Muslim mayor on the day Dick Cheney died, that is one hell of a slow played story arc. Every time you want to fire 2025's writers room they give you a little narrative resolution as a treat.
November 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I gotta give it up to the writers tho. If NYC elects a Muslim mayor on the day Dick Cheney died, that is one hell of a slow played story arc. Every time you want to fire 2025's writers room they give you a little narrative resolution as a treat.