Kevin J. Maroney, he/him
@womzilla.bsky.social
A dilettante in the old sense.
"We are all us."-Greg Stafford
"It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting."--Stoppard
"We are all us."-Greg Stafford
"It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting."--Stoppard
Pinned
We must be a nation that welcomes refugees, immigrants, sojourners, and fellow travelers or we are nothing.
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Our love of hoodies with pouches just shows the innate human desire to become a marsupial
November 16, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Our love of hoodies with pouches just shows the innate human desire to become a marsupial
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Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.
'Noem should resign over this': Fury over alleged DHS 'child kidnapping and trafficking'
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.ProPublica recently reported on the DHS raid on an apartment building that was al...
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November 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
Wordle 1,611 6/6*
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November 16, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Wordle 1,611 6/6*
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Double bogie, lost to the 'bot by 3. Gah.
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Okay, I’ve now read this and feel even more insane. I assume I’m about to say triggering shit.
I’m going to be honest with you: The headline is appalling, but the piece, which indeed has an absolutely bizarre tone of nostalgia, is worse.
Jesus fucking Christ
November 16, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Okay, I’ve now read this and feel even more insane. I assume I’m about to say triggering shit.
Connections
Puzzle #889
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Solve order blue-green-yellow-purple, I think.
Puzzle #889
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November 16, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Puzzle #889
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Puzzle #889
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Solve order blue-green-yellow-purple, I think.
Wordle 1,610 3/6*
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November 16, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Wordle 1,610 3/6*
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Birdie, lost to the 'bot by 1.
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JD Vance, talking like a Nazi
vice president groyper
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
youtube.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
JD Vance, talking like a Nazi
Connections
Puzzle #888
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November 15, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Puzzle #888
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I worked for internet startups before, during, and briefly after the 2000 boom and crash. These dudes are those dudes and the level of “let’s make money off of people we don’t like” is exactly the same.
And they waste huge amounts of time explaining our business and our art to us.
And they waste huge amounts of time explaining our business and our art to us.
November 15, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I worked for internet startups before, during, and briefly after the 2000 boom and crash. These dudes are those dudes and the level of “let’s make money off of people we don’t like” is exactly the same.
And they waste huge amounts of time explaining our business and our art to us.
And they waste huge amounts of time explaining our business and our art to us.
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lately i've been thinking about how LLMs must feel really amazing to use if you're a dumbass, but incredibly frustrating if you're just basically competent in life.
Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...
November 14, 2025 at 12:55 PM
lately i've been thinking about how LLMs must feel really amazing to use if you're a dumbass, but incredibly frustrating if you're just basically competent in life.
Josh Johnson delivers the best punchline I've ever heard about ephebophilia hairsplitting. (The bit starts where I started the video and runs a little over a minute.)
Epstein-Trump Saga Gets 20K Pages Longer & Megyn Kelly Splits Hairs on Pedophilia | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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November 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Josh Johnson delivers the best punchline I've ever heard about ephebophilia hairsplitting. (The bit starts where I started the video and runs a little over a minute.)
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One thing that always bugged me about the complaints about Clinton and Democrats is that Democrats didn't actually re-elect Clinton after the media reported on his abuse, but Republicans voted for a known sexual predator three times in a row
November 13, 2025 at 11:03 AM
One thing that always bugged me about the complaints about Clinton and Democrats is that Democrats didn't actually re-elect Clinton after the media reported on his abuse, but Republicans voted for a known sexual predator three times in a row
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I can't remember the precise wording but someone on here said that the Republican threat to expose Bill Clinton too isn't so much a threat as it is a "buy one, get one free" promotion.
"This could take down Democrats, too."
I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office.
Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.
I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office.
Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.
November 13, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I can't remember the precise wording but someone on here said that the Republican threat to expose Bill Clinton too isn't so much a threat as it is a "buy one, get one free" promotion.
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November 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Reminder that Elliot Spitzer was forced to resign the NY governorship for consensual commercial sex with adult women. All republicans play politics on cheat mode.
'Beyond horrific': Observers aghast as teen at center of Gaetz sex scandal comes forward
www.rawstory.com/matt-gaetz-t...
www.rawstory.com/matt-gaetz-t...
'Beyond horrific': Observers aghast as teen at center of Gaetz sex scandal comes forward
Reactions mounted Thursday after a woman sharing her story for the first time said that then-Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) sexually abused her when she was just 17, while she was living in a homeless shelter...
www.rawstory.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Reminder that Elliot Spitzer was forced to resign the NY governorship for consensual commercial sex with adult women. All republicans play politics on cheat mode.
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Puzzle #887
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Actual solve order blue-yellow-purple-green. (V unq serdhrapl va gur checyr tebhc hagvy V jbexrq bhg gur qrgnvyf bs gur terra tebhc--n tbbq cbylfrzl.)
November 14, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Actual solve order blue-yellow-purple-green. (V unq serdhrapl va gur checyr tebhc hagvy V jbexrq bhg gur qrgnvyf bs gur terra tebhc--n tbbq cbylfrzl.)
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"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.
November 13, 2025 at 5:58 AM
"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.
What a pathetic mewling infant, using words he barely understands to whine out his feeble pleas.
“Epstein was a Democrat, and he is the Democrat's problem, not the Republican's problem!”
November 14, 2025 at 2:57 PM
What a pathetic mewling infant, using words he barely understands to whine out his feeble pleas.
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ha ha he thinks we care about clinton, summers, and hoffman
PLEASE TAKE THEM ALL
PLEASE TAKE THEM ALL
“Epstein was a Democrat, and he is the Democrat's problem, not the Republican's problem!”
November 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
ha ha he thinks we care about clinton, summers, and hoffman
PLEASE TAKE THEM ALL
PLEASE TAKE THEM ALL
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"Being overweight is unhealthy."
"You can't be an athlete if you're fat."
"You should eat less and exercise more."
"Being fat is a sign of laziness and a lack of willpower."
Meanwhile, last night Audi Crooks dropped 43 points (making 18 of 23 shots) on the other team--in only 20 minutes of play.
"You can't be an athlete if you're fat."
"You should eat less and exercise more."
"Being fat is a sign of laziness and a lack of willpower."
Meanwhile, last night Audi Crooks dropped 43 points (making 18 of 23 shots) on the other team--in only 20 minutes of play.
November 13, 2025 at 2:38 PM
"Being overweight is unhealthy."
"You can't be an athlete if you're fat."
"You should eat less and exercise more."
"Being fat is a sign of laziness and a lack of willpower."
Meanwhile, last night Audi Crooks dropped 43 points (making 18 of 23 shots) on the other team--in only 20 minutes of play.
"You can't be an athlete if you're fat."
"You should eat less and exercise more."
"Being fat is a sign of laziness and a lack of willpower."
Meanwhile, last night Audi Crooks dropped 43 points (making 18 of 23 shots) on the other team--in only 20 minutes of play.
Wordle 1,608 2/6*
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November 14, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Eagle, beat the 'bot by 1. Back-to-back lucky moves.
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
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Puzzle #886
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November 13, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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I had zero knowledge of or interest in JEM AND THE HOLOGRAMS when @kellylink.bsky.social and Sophie Campbell* started this series, but it ended up being one of my favorite comics of the 2010s. You might want to check it out.
*And other great artists like @giselelagace.bsky.social. Love them all.
*And other great artists like @giselelagace.bsky.social. Love them all.
Jem and the Holograms: Truly Outrageous Comic Collection
For the first time, the complete Jem and the Holograms saga shines in four oversized deluxe hardcovers!
www.kickstarter.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I had zero knowledge of or interest in JEM AND THE HOLOGRAMS when @kellylink.bsky.social and Sophie Campbell* started this series, but it ended up being one of my favorite comics of the 2010s. You might want to check it out.
*And other great artists like @giselelagace.bsky.social. Love them all.
*And other great artists like @giselelagace.bsky.social. Love them all.
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This is a story of a massive Trump cover up but it’s also a story about total elite impunity, how the wealthy and powerful operate with a set of rules totally unrecognizable to the rest of us
The Jeffrey Epstein emails are astonishing not so much for the chumminess he enjoyed with elites even after he’d served time for soliciting prostitution with a minor but for their flagrantness, their casual disregard, and their indifference to consequence.
talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
The Corrupt Roots of America’s Elite Run Deep
It’s the Impunity, Stupid In reviewing a portion of the 20,000-plus Jeffrey...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:07 PM
This is a story of a massive Trump cover up but it’s also a story about total elite impunity, how the wealthy and powerful operate with a set of rules totally unrecognizable to the rest of us