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Dog lover, amateur chef, bento enthusiast, science fiction nerd.
I work in tech and use words for a living.
I work in tech and use words for a living.
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They did this today www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/t...
November 14, 2025 at 8:20 PM
They did this today www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/t...
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No one demanded the market distorting effects of personalist dictatorship more than capital, they should be happy with their choice. bsky.app/profile/carl...
YELLEN: “.. businesses feel paralyzed by the uncertainty about policies that represent the strong but really personal whims of a single individual.”
@bloomberg.com
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@bloomberg.com
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November 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
No one demanded the market distorting effects of personalist dictatorship more than capital, they should be happy with their choice. bsky.app/profile/carl...
When they say "quick" couscous, they are not counting the time you spend sweeping up the stray bits of couscous that go absolutely everywhere when you're cooking, serving, storing, and reheating the stuff.
November 14, 2025 at 5:14 PM
When they say "quick" couscous, they are not counting the time you spend sweeping up the stray bits of couscous that go absolutely everywhere when you're cooking, serving, storing, and reheating the stuff.
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There's a lot we have not visualized in a useful way.
One of the big ones is the SHIFT in govt employment from "people who cure cancer" and "people who make sure your Social Security comes on time" and "people who care for veterans" to "people who kidnap your neighbors."
One of the big ones is the SHIFT in govt employment from "people who cure cancer" and "people who make sure your Social Security comes on time" and "people who care for veterans" to "people who kidnap your neighbors."
The fascist's unemployment solution: hiring some people to terrorize and cage others
www.huffpost.com/entry/us-hir...
www.huffpost.com/entry/us-hir...
U.S. Hires 50,000 Federal Workers Under Trump, Boosting Immigration Roles
The bulk of the new hires, reported first by Reuters, work at Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
www.huffpost.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:20 PM
There's a lot we have not visualized in a useful way.
One of the big ones is the SHIFT in govt employment from "people who cure cancer" and "people who make sure your Social Security comes on time" and "people who care for veterans" to "people who kidnap your neighbors."
One of the big ones is the SHIFT in govt employment from "people who cure cancer" and "people who make sure your Social Security comes on time" and "people who care for veterans" to "people who kidnap your neighbors."
Mayor Daniel Lurie appointed this extremely unqualified and inexperienced person and immediately had to walk it back. Nobody can figure out why he appointed her other than "vibes." It does not seem like a good sign.
????????? www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/s...
San Francisco’s newest supervisor agrees to resign amid pet store controversies
Beya Alcaraz agreed to resign at Mayor Daniel Lurie's request. Leaked text messages showed she paid for her business by paying employees under the table and writing off personal expenses.
www.sfchronicle.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Mayor Daniel Lurie appointed this extremely unqualified and inexperienced person and immediately had to walk it back. Nobody can figure out why he appointed her other than "vibes." It does not seem like a good sign.
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Remembering how Biden revived the practice of releasing visitors logs and was rewarded by the press for his transparency with a front page story at his weakest possible moment about how he had Parkinson's based on a Parkinson's expert visiting the WH.
(Turns out, Biden did not have Parkinson's)
(Turns out, Biden did not have Parkinson's)
Would we? www.courthousenews.com/white-house-...
White House, Mar-a-Lago Visitor Logs Off-Limits for Public
The Second Circuit upheld a ruling Monday that records of who has visited President Donald Trump’s White House and private Florida resort are exempt from government watchdog groups’ Freedom of Informa...
www.courthousenews.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Remembering how Biden revived the practice of releasing visitors logs and was rewarded by the press for his transparency with a front page story at his weakest possible moment about how he had Parkinson's based on a Parkinson's expert visiting the WH.
(Turns out, Biden did not have Parkinson's)
(Turns out, Biden did not have Parkinson's)
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New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
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What sick dogshit place are we living in where "child sex trafficking and pedophilia" is an "issue" and not a "put everyone in jail and throw away the whole jail" situation
Enten: "Trump is 39 below water on the Epstein case. 39 points in the negative! My goodness gracious. What Trump has been selling on the Epstein files, the Epstein case, the American people have not been buying at all ... less than half of Republicans are buying it. This is his worst issue by far"
November 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM
What sick dogshit place are we living in where "child sex trafficking and pedophilia" is an "issue" and not a "put everyone in jail and throw away the whole jail" situation
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if you wanna blame somebody I think Mark Warner is a pretty good choice. also I think a lot of the Biden Go drama was because Warner thought he could and should be President.
he's on the ballot in 2026 and does not afaik have a primary challenger
he's on the ballot in 2026 and does not afaik have a primary challenger
November 10, 2025 at 5:05 AM
if you wanna blame somebody I think Mark Warner is a pretty good choice. also I think a lot of the Biden Go drama was because Warner thought he could and should be President.
he's on the ballot in 2026 and does not afaik have a primary challenger
he's on the ballot in 2026 and does not afaik have a primary challenger
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Shutting down the government is a big deal. People have been hurt in big ways as a result of the decision. To have that suffering be for nothing—to re-open the government without actually having protected people’s health insurance and economic well-being—is unconscionable.
November 9, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Shutting down the government is a big deal. People have been hurt in big ways as a result of the decision. To have that suffering be for nothing—to re-open the government without actually having protected people’s health insurance and economic well-being—is unconscionable.
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i’m just so fucking tired of living through crisis after crisis and feeling like we have to beg for and negotiate with our own representatives to address the crises seriously. they shouldn’t have to be disciplined by the base into mustering an appropriate response to a fucking coup!
October 20, 2025 at 2:21 PM
i’m just so fucking tired of living through crisis after crisis and feeling like we have to beg for and negotiate with our own representatives to address the crises seriously. they shouldn’t have to be disciplined by the base into mustering an appropriate response to a fucking coup!
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I’m not sure they’ve lost interest. This is kind of like saying people stranded on the moon lose interest in playing volleyball.
breaking: if people can’t get paid they don’t want to spend. who would have thought!
November 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I’m not sure they’ve lost interest. This is kind of like saying people stranded on the moon lose interest in playing volleyball.
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SNAP cuts hit families hard—but pets go hungry too. You can help: search #petfoodbank in your state, ask shelters.
In NJ, Bergen County SPCA’s No Empty Bowls feeds cats & dogs—and they have an Amazon wishlist: 🐾
#SNAP #NoEmptyBowls
In NJ, Bergen County SPCA’s No Empty Bowls feeds cats & dogs—and they have an Amazon wishlist: 🐾
#SNAP #NoEmptyBowls
November 8, 2025 at 10:03 PM
SNAP cuts hit families hard—but pets go hungry too. You can help: search #petfoodbank in your state, ask shelters.
In NJ, Bergen County SPCA’s No Empty Bowls feeds cats & dogs—and they have an Amazon wishlist: 🐾
#SNAP #NoEmptyBowls
In NJ, Bergen County SPCA’s No Empty Bowls feeds cats & dogs—and they have an Amazon wishlist: 🐾
#SNAP #NoEmptyBowls
Yes, this will do the trick.
The terrifying rictus of an employee's fake smile, their anxious eye-measurements of whether they're close enough to trigger the mandatory interpersonal interaction, those are the missing ingredients. Those are the things I was looking for.
The terrifying rictus of an employee's fake smile, their anxious eye-measurements of whether they're close enough to trigger the mandatory interpersonal interaction, those are the missing ingredients. Those are the things I was looking for.
"Store employees are now required to smile if they are within 10 feet of a shopper.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
Target is now requiring its employees to smile more
As the holiday season fast approaches, Target is urging its employees to add a little more “jolly” to their work routine.
www.wilx.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Yes, this will do the trick.
The terrifying rictus of an employee's fake smile, their anxious eye-measurements of whether they're close enough to trigger the mandatory interpersonal interaction, those are the missing ingredients. Those are the things I was looking for.
The terrifying rictus of an employee's fake smile, their anxious eye-measurements of whether they're close enough to trigger the mandatory interpersonal interaction, those are the missing ingredients. Those are the things I was looking for.
The BBB really is an onion: layers and layers of kicking ordinary people and poor people in the teeth. A neverending gobstopper of awful.
Buried in the Big Beautiful Bill were changes to food assistance that demanded “any future change be cost-neutral. Translation: no more benefit increases, even if food prices skyrocket.”
The result was “institutionalized hunger.”
@kristencrowell.bsky.social
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The result was “institutionalized hunger.”
@kristencrowell.bsky.social
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
November 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The BBB really is an onion: layers and layers of kicking ordinary people and poor people in the teeth. A neverending gobstopper of awful.
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Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.
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one of the top 5 sitcom characters of all time. the world lost a lot when we lost andre braugher.
November 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
one of the top 5 sitcom characters of all time. the world lost a lot when we lost andre braugher.
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So there’s a website called Deer Of St Nicholas which posts Christmas wish letters from Ukrainian children who had their childhood stolen by the war, anyone can pick a child and get them their present and it’s that time of the year again to achingly scroll it for hours again
November 7, 2025 at 8:21 AM
So there’s a website called Deer Of St Nicholas which posts Christmas wish letters from Ukrainian children who had their childhood stolen by the war, anyone can pick a child and get them their present and it’s that time of the year again to achingly scroll it for hours again
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bobby thought he was dead, he was going to get the dry rub
The head of the American Healthcare System saw someone collapse and immediately ran out of the room, and the president waited to see how long he could go without looking at the guy lol
November 6, 2025 at 7:57 PM
bobby thought he was dead, he was going to get the dry rub
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More proof oh how Facebook's business model is knowingly predatory
Quite the business model// Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show - www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.
www.reuters.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM
More proof oh how Facebook's business model is knowingly predatory
😍
No interiors, though...
No interiors, though...
NEW — LEGO finally unveils their long-rumored 3600pc, $400 STAR TREK: TNG Enterprise-D brick set and limited-availability shuttlepod kit, coming in late November
#StarTrek #Lego
blog.trekcore.com/2025/11/lego...
#StarTrek #Lego
blog.trekcore.com/2025/11/lego...
LEGO Unveils New 3600-Piece STAR TREK: TNG Enterprise-D Brick Set
LEGO finally unveils their long-rumored 3600pc, $400 STAR TREK: TNG Enterprise-D brick set and limited-availability Shuttlepod kit, coming in late November
blog.trekcore.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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No interiors, though...
No interiors, though...
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Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.
November 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.
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If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit
Defense says that the officer's testimony was "very questionable" because he said the sandwich both exploded in spray of mustard and onions and also landed in its wrapper on the ground.
November 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit
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It would be nice if the sheer scale of the wipeout made a lot of people in government and around government pause and think to themselves “what happens to me if Democrats get subpoena power next year” when faced with illegal directives from a rotting administrative corpse
November 5, 2025 at 1:06 PM
It would be nice if the sheer scale of the wipeout made a lot of people in government and around government pause and think to themselves “what happens to me if Democrats get subpoena power next year” when faced with illegal directives from a rotting administrative corpse
I actually believe this has just dawned on him, because he's surrounded himself with a sycophantic information bubble so thick that it took these results to penetrate it.
But he's outsourced too much to fanatics, and the GOP is too invested in seizing power through autocracy, to course correct now.
But he's outsourced too much to fanatics, and the GOP is too invested in seizing power through autocracy, to course correct now.
Trump to Republican senators: "I thought we'd have a discussion after the press leaves about what last night represented and what we should do about it and also about the shutdown and how that relates to last night. If you read the pollsters, the shutdown was a big factor, negative for Republicans."
November 5, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I actually believe this has just dawned on him, because he's surrounded himself with a sycophantic information bubble so thick that it took these results to penetrate it.
But he's outsourced too much to fanatics, and the GOP is too invested in seizing power through autocracy, to course correct now.
But he's outsourced too much to fanatics, and the GOP is too invested in seizing power through autocracy, to course correct now.