Ross Thompson (50ᵗʰ anniversary edition)
@wintermute115.bsky.social
Owner of a world-class dice collection.
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Look, I know we're all sick of hearing "if this had happened with any other president ..." but it's absolutely true and absolutely can't be forgotten.
For some reason, this nation gives this idiotic spoiled brat a free pass from things that would destroy the administration of any other person.
For some reason, this nation gives this idiotic spoiled brat a free pass from things that would destroy the administration of any other person.
When asked if there was anything "incriminating" in Epstein's emails, Trump pointed a finger in a female reporter's face and snapped. 'Quiet. Quiet, Piggy.'
people.com/donald-trump...
people.com/donald-trump...
Donald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: 'Quiet Piggy'
Donald Trump Says 'Quiet Piggy' to Female Reporter Asking About Epstein Files
people.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Look, I know we're all sick of hearing "if this had happened with any other president ..." but it's absolutely true and absolutely can't be forgotten.
For some reason, this nation gives this idiotic spoiled brat a free pass from things that would destroy the administration of any other person.
For some reason, this nation gives this idiotic spoiled brat a free pass from things that would destroy the administration of any other person.
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#3157 A helpful tutorial
November 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
#3157 A helpful tutorial
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Reminds me of the time I asked a judge why she had signed off on a bunch of no-knock warrants that all used identical cut-and-paste language. She told me I didn’t know what cops had told her about those cases that wasn’t in the affidavits.
Which . . . that’s worse.
(And then nothing happened.)
Which . . . that’s worse.
(And then nothing happened.)
I’m not a lawyer but I’m pretty sure you’re not allowed to tell the jury to “vote assuming we actually have a whole bunch more secret evidence”
November 17, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Reminds me of the time I asked a judge why she had signed off on a bunch of no-knock warrants that all used identical cut-and-paste language. She told me I didn’t know what cops had told her about those cases that wasn’t in the affidavits.
Which . . . that’s worse.
(And then nothing happened.)
Which . . . that’s worse.
(And then nothing happened.)
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it’s been several months and I’m still thinking about this
November 17, 2025 at 6:23 PM
it’s been several months and I’m still thinking about this
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we're used to it now and it's sort of just become background noise but honestly not remembering when you were president should be immediately disqualifying to continue in the job
As @mcopelov.bsky.social is known to say, "Who actually was president in 2020?" continues to be the central cleavage of American politics in 20205.
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November 17, 2025 at 4:47 PM
we're used to it now and it's sort of just become background noise but honestly not remembering when you were president should be immediately disqualifying to continue in the job
We're reinventing physiognomy? Again?
This is the kind of thing that ought to make even AI boosters realize it's just wrong.
Unless they happen to have swum in the more racist pools in the internet, I guess.
This is the kind of thing that ought to make even AI boosters realize it's just wrong.
Unless they happen to have swum in the more racist pools in the internet, I guess.
"The research built on some other ethically dubious scholarship, which posits that personality traits can be sussed out just based on a person’s facial features."
futurism.com/future-socie...
futurism.com/future-socie...
Scientists Say Their AI System Can Scan Your Face to Detect Whether a Company Should Hire You
New research suggests that an algorithm which scans your face could accurately predict financial, academic, and job success.
futurism.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
We're reinventing physiognomy? Again?
This is the kind of thing that ought to make even AI boosters realize it's just wrong.
Unless they happen to have swum in the more racist pools in the internet, I guess.
This is the kind of thing that ought to make even AI boosters realize it's just wrong.
Unless they happen to have swum in the more racist pools in the internet, I guess.
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You know what size is the true "fun size"? What they call family-size, king size, or shareable size. Because it's fun for me to consume far more of the delicious thing than a single person should have in a day. Gluttony is where the real fun is
November 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM
You know what size is the true "fun size"? What they call family-size, king size, or shareable size. Because it's fun for me to consume far more of the delicious thing than a single person should have in a day. Gluttony is where the real fun is
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OH WOW
YOU'RE TELLING ME ALL THE PROPAGANDA CALLING THE YOUNGEST ADULT GENERATION IDIOTS MAY HAVE BEEN AN ATTEMPT TO DISCREDIT THE LEAST RACIST AND MOST LEFT LEANING PORTION OF THE ADULT POPULATION
SAY IT AIN'T SO
YOU'RE TELLING ME ALL THE PROPAGANDA CALLING THE YOUNGEST ADULT GENERATION IDIOTS MAY HAVE BEEN AN ATTEMPT TO DISCREDIT THE LEAST RACIST AND MOST LEFT LEANING PORTION OF THE ADULT POPULATION
SAY IT AIN'T SO
“Gen Z has the lowest racial resentment of any generation ever studied.”
Important work from @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social that offers a clear explanation of why there is an intense push to change school curricula to make them more white supremacist
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
Important work from @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social that offers a clear explanation of why there is an intense push to change school curricula to make them more white supremacist
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
The Shocking Truth About Gen Z Voters Is That They’re Pretty Great
Stop panicking: They are the most progressive generation ever, especially on race. If that surprises you, you’ve been listening to the wrong story.
newrepublic.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:25 PM
OH WOW
YOU'RE TELLING ME ALL THE PROPAGANDA CALLING THE YOUNGEST ADULT GENERATION IDIOTS MAY HAVE BEEN AN ATTEMPT TO DISCREDIT THE LEAST RACIST AND MOST LEFT LEANING PORTION OF THE ADULT POPULATION
SAY IT AIN'T SO
YOU'RE TELLING ME ALL THE PROPAGANDA CALLING THE YOUNGEST ADULT GENERATION IDIOTS MAY HAVE BEEN AN ATTEMPT TO DISCREDIT THE LEAST RACIST AND MOST LEFT LEANING PORTION OF THE ADULT POPULATION
SAY IT AIN'T SO
Top five film genres:
Nothing happens, but it looks beautiful
The three English language movies the video rental place had when we lived in Norway
Robots discovering they have emotions
Overly elaborate heists
Time travellers make their lives far more complicated
Nothing happens, but it looks beautiful
The three English language movies the video rental place had when we lived in Norway
Robots discovering they have emotions
Overly elaborate heists
Time travellers make their lives far more complicated
Top 5 Film Genres
SPACE!
SPACE! and also terrors!
This cost 11p and only our mums have watched it
If only we had a group of brilliant weirdos to save us! Occasionally in space!
OR DID I?
SPACE!
SPACE! and also terrors!
This cost 11p and only our mums have watched it
If only we had a group of brilliant weirdos to save us! Occasionally in space!
OR DID I?
Top 5 film genres
You don't know what this is but it's definitely going to kill you all
Something is deeply wrong with this place and it's definitely going to kill you all
You should definitely not have done that and now he's going to kill you all
Everything is sad. Desert
What the actual fuck
You don't know what this is but it's definitely going to kill you all
Something is deeply wrong with this place and it's definitely going to kill you all
You should definitely not have done that and now he's going to kill you all
Everything is sad. Desert
What the actual fuck
November 17, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Top five film genres:
Nothing happens, but it looks beautiful
The three English language movies the video rental place had when we lived in Norway
Robots discovering they have emotions
Overly elaborate heists
Time travellers make their lives far more complicated
Nothing happens, but it looks beautiful
The three English language movies the video rental place had when we lived in Norway
Robots discovering they have emotions
Overly elaborate heists
Time travellers make their lives far more complicated
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This is what genAI "guardrails" are, and why they are inherently insufficient.
genAI inherently outputs the statistically most likely sequence of words, and "guardrails" are basically just a list of words to filter from that output to the user.
And they stole literally all the words to train on.
genAI inherently outputs the statistically most likely sequence of words, and "guardrails" are basically just a list of words to filter from that output to the user.
And they stole literally all the words to train on.
One way of thinking about genAI is:
Suppose you steal every English word on the internet, and then look up what words are most likely to follow the word "throbbing."
And then whenever you see "throbbing" you slap on a likely word
You're gonna end up talking about throbbing dicks in weird contexts
Suppose you steal every English word on the internet, and then look up what words are most likely to follow the word "throbbing."
And then whenever you see "throbbing" you slap on a likely word
You're gonna end up talking about throbbing dicks in weird contexts
November 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM
This is what genAI "guardrails" are, and why they are inherently insufficient.
genAI inherently outputs the statistically most likely sequence of words, and "guardrails" are basically just a list of words to filter from that output to the user.
And they stole literally all the words to train on.
genAI inherently outputs the statistically most likely sequence of words, and "guardrails" are basically just a list of words to filter from that output to the user.
And they stole literally all the words to train on.
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This report is absolutely shocking.
A barbaric & dystopian system enjoys almost total impunity for killing and mistreating Palestinians in detention. No trial, nothing, just taken for being Palestinian.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
A barbaric & dystopian system enjoys almost total impunity for killing and mistreating Palestinians in detention. No trial, nothing, just taken for being Palestinian.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
At least 98 Palestinians have died in custody since October 2023, Israeli data shows
Exclusive: Real toll likely substantially higher as hundreds of detainees from Gaza are missing, says NGO Physicians for Human Rights - Israel
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:57 AM
This report is absolutely shocking.
A barbaric & dystopian system enjoys almost total impunity for killing and mistreating Palestinians in detention. No trial, nothing, just taken for being Palestinian.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
A barbaric & dystopian system enjoys almost total impunity for killing and mistreating Palestinians in detention. No trial, nothing, just taken for being Palestinian.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
OK, but then why vote? The Executive could just release them.
I can only assume he's still strenuously bullying people into voting no behind the scenes.
I can only assume he's still strenuously bullying people into voting no behind the scenes.
Trump now says House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files “because we have nothing to hide”
November 17, 2025 at 1:24 PM
OK, but then why vote? The Executive could just release them.
I can only assume he's still strenuously bullying people into voting no behind the scenes.
I can only assume he's still strenuously bullying people into voting no behind the scenes.
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They kidnapped a mayors daughter to stop police reforms
This piece makes it sound totally normal that the police gets to decide whether or not to "work with" Mamdani as mayor, and it continues, as nearly all the paper's coverage, to wield normative terms like "moderate" and left" in a prejudicial way. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/n...
The N.Y.P.D. Prepares for Mayor Mamdani and a New Era in Public Safety
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:28 AM
They kidnapped a mayors daughter to stop police reforms
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Hey the Nazis did this to my grandparents so this sounds cool @teamlabouruk.bsky.social
The Sun has been told Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will on Monday propose confiscating jewellery, watches, necklaces from asylum seekers to meet asylum costs
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
November 17, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Hey the Nazis did this to my grandparents so this sounds cool @teamlabouruk.bsky.social
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the Daetra class warbird
#StarTrekOnline
#StarTrekOnline
November 17, 2025 at 3:10 AM
the Daetra class warbird
#StarTrekOnline
#StarTrekOnline
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It would be helpful if American schools taught kids that Hitler admired US racism and patterned many of his antisemitic laws on our anti-Black laws. Instead, we're teaching the Holocaust less altogether.
Hitler also admired American antisemites like Henry Ford. Bigots attract each other. . . .
Hitler also admired American antisemites like Henry Ford. Bigots attract each other. . . .
Racism is fascism practiced on Black people first.
Hitler based the Nuremberg laws on US Jim Crow. He invaded Russia because he wanted his own California.
The US shifting from a racist country to a fascist country basically means "Start treating everyone like you've always treated Black people."
Hitler based the Nuremberg laws on US Jim Crow. He invaded Russia because he wanted his own California.
The US shifting from a racist country to a fascist country basically means "Start treating everyone like you've always treated Black people."
November 17, 2025 at 1:50 AM
It would be helpful if American schools taught kids that Hitler admired US racism and patterned many of his antisemitic laws on our anti-Black laws. Instead, we're teaching the Holocaust less altogether.
Hitler also admired American antisemites like Henry Ford. Bigots attract each other. . . .
Hitler also admired American antisemites like Henry Ford. Bigots attract each other. . . .
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as someone who really thought there wasn’t much there for the longest time I cannot draw any conclusion other than “they are monumentally terrible” at this point
man, what the fuck is in these files that would a) be worse than anything we have ever learned about him, b) make him willing to risk a maga civil war over it, and c) have him desperately calling half of the republicans in the house and begging them to vote against their release
Trump on Epstein Files: I don’t want to talk about it because fake news like you—you’re a terrible reporter—fake news like you just keeps bringing up to deflect from the tremendous success of The Trump Admin
November 17, 2025 at 1:09 AM
as someone who really thought there wasn’t much there for the longest time I cannot draw any conclusion other than “they are monumentally terrible” at this point
"I'm not bad; I'm just drawn that way."
November 17, 2025 at 1:29 AM
"I'm not bad; I'm just drawn that way."
Every so often I remember that Steve Gutenberg's autobiography is called The Gutenberg Bible and that always makes me smile.
November 17, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Every so often I remember that Steve Gutenberg's autobiography is called The Gutenberg Bible and that always makes me smile.
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anyway ludicrous to think the right question is “how did DHS lose its way??” and not “why did we build a domestic security super agency in the first place, and who has that power served”
November 16, 2025 at 1:56 PM
anyway ludicrous to think the right question is “how did DHS lose its way??” and not “why did we build a domestic security super agency in the first place, and who has that power served”
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Chemists discovered a powerful hidden antibiotic that’s 100 times stronger than existing ones and effective against deadly superbugs.
The study has been published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED.
• pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
🧪🧵⬇️
The study has been published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED.
• pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
🧪🧵⬇️
November 16, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Chemists discovered a powerful hidden antibiotic that’s 100 times stronger than existing ones and effective against deadly superbugs.
The study has been published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED.
• pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
🧪🧵⬇️
The study has been published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED.
• pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
🧪🧵⬇️
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This idea that #metoo was a temporary piece of insanity that happened because America was too woke...
Fuck you. It was a temporary moment in time when people decided, for the first time, that 20 women were finally equal to one man.
Fuck you. It was a temporary moment in time when people decided, for the first time, that 20 women were finally equal to one man.
November 16, 2025 at 9:50 PM
This idea that #metoo was a temporary piece of insanity that happened because America was too woke...
Fuck you. It was a temporary moment in time when people decided, for the first time, that 20 women were finally equal to one man.
Fuck you. It was a temporary moment in time when people decided, for the first time, that 20 women were finally equal to one man.
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the idea that not taking sides and posing as if you're above it all is the most sensible and correct position should have been left buried back in the 90s.
November 16, 2025 at 9:36 PM
the idea that not taking sides and posing as if you're above it all is the most sensible and correct position should have been left buried back in the 90s.
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Amazing, no notes, I do not desire to learn anything else about this story, for it would only detract from the perfection on this headline.
November 16, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Amazing, no notes, I do not desire to learn anything else about this story, for it would only detract from the perfection on this headline.
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this one is layered like an Impossible Pie
November 16, 2025 at 2:38 PM
this one is layered like an Impossible Pie