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Morituri Nolumus Mori.

A wizard of the old magiks, wielder of the sacred cables.
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drewcurtis.bsky.social
Fark.com yo :) 27 in Februrary
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Humorous views on interesting, bizarre and amusing articles, submitted by a community of millions of news junkies, with regular Photoshop contests.
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November 19, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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mikebarthelauthor.com
Fish have committed credit card fraud
Credit card fraud Black neon tetras committed credit card fraud during a 2023 livestream by "Mutekimaru Channel" on YouTube. The owner was using motion-tracking software to turn the fish's movements into Nintendo Switch inputs, letting them "play" video games. 8 In 2020, the fish beat Pokemon Sapphire after 3,195 hours, a feat that takes about 30 hours for a typical human. 9/ 181 On January 14, 2023, Pokémon Violet crashed at 1,144 hours, giving the fish free access to the main menu. They entered inputs that opened Nintendo eShop, added 500 yen ($3.85 USD) to their owner's account, and exposed his credit card details on the livestream. 10) 11) Mutekimaru later requested a refund of the 500 yen from Nintendo. l12) "Fish eagerly read the terms and conditions. Many of us humans don't read the terms of service, but fish are smarter than we are" - caption from Mutekimaru in a video about the incident 12) The fish also downloaded an N64 emulator, set up PayPal, used reward points to buy an avatar, and changed Mutekimaru's Nintendo account name to "ROWAWAWA*". 13, After about seven hours, their movements shut down the Switch. 14)
November 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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razorgirl.diy
my tv station is now broadcasting from a raspberry pi in my garage, and being controlled from a little webapp I hacked together that lets anyone on my network schedule videos off my media server or YouTube or whatever

It's basically a homemade analog chromecast as a UHF tv broadcast
The entirety of lain being broadcast to the TV, and the webapp used to schedule the transmission
November 19, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
Kinda shows the level of elite capture in this country when the guy with the lowest approval ratings in history is going “hey you fat pig! I’m going to hamburger conference to say fish sandwich! Also not a sex offender!” and the news is just starting to be like huh wonder if this guy is unpopular
November 19, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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eliothiggins.bsky.social
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
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jakepaulsartre.bsky.social
WHAT ANNOYING GUYS THINK SUN TZU'S ART OF WAR SAYS: show everyone in every single situation you're the big dog, literally bark in your bosses face to assert dominance

ACTUAL SUN TZU: no but seriously you do have to feed your army
November 18, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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irhottakes.bsky.social
The reason why socialism is no longer taboo in America is that our elites have successfully rebranded it as “any attempt by the state to function beyond semi-random violence“ while trying to combat it.
November 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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ohrobin.bsky.social
The opioid crisis the Sackler family intentionally began costs the United States roughly $4 trillion a year.
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — Judge formally approves Purdue Pharma opioid settlement, with Sacklers paying up to $7B and some funds going to victims.
November 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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anthonymoser.com
sam altman only has three looks: i see a ghost, processing bad news, and jackass
sam altman, a middle aged white guy in a blue suit, holds a microphone in one hand while his other makes a kind of claw-like gesture. his face looks like he's just seen a ghost seated on a red couch, sam altman leans pensively and stares off into the distance as if processing bad news sam altman in a black hoodie holds two cups of probably coffee, he has short spiky hair and is looking off to the side with a jackass smile
November 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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catacalypto.bsky.social
i—
Olivia Nuzzi tweeting “why does Hollywood think female reporters sleep with their sources?” in 2015
November 18, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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marbleliberal.bsky.social
It actually wasn't, all societies have codes. I've written a number of papers on 17th century mercenaries and they spent most of their time suing each other. That's in the middle of the worst war in Europe. You have to be "a sheep" within your own society or nothing functions
rachael-the-hobbit.bsky.social Rachael the Hobbit @rachael-the-hobbit.bsky.social · 2d
Revenge/physical combat was how people settled things for literally millions of years, it's normal human behavior, we're wolves not sheep, the government project trying to social engineer us and domesticate us into sheep has been unsuccessful
November 17, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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dfarnitano.bsky.social
“I’ll fight until hell freezes over and then I’ll cut the ice and fight on”
post by @jamellebouie.net from chandra manning's wonderful book "what this cruel war was over" Nothing made slavery's toxicity more obvious to Union troops than its effect on the fundamental unit of society, the family. For one thing, slave sales separated families. In the Upper South, where many Union soldiers were stationed in 1861, about one in three first marriages was broken by sale, and about half of all slave children were separated from at least one parent. 129 With their own eyes, soldiers saw slavery snap bonds between parents and children. The men of the Seventh Wisconsin were awakened by gunshots one November night. The following day, soldiers "learned, and saw the cause of the alarm in the form of two negro women—a mother and a daughter." The pair had fled to Union lines to avoid the proposed sale of the "goodlooking" daughter into the so-called fancy trade, which soldiers viewed as a form of concubinage. Outraged by the plight and moved by the vulnerability of the mother and daughter, "every private in the ranks" cursed "that system which tramples on the honor of man, and makes merchandise of the virtue of women," according to one member of the regiment. 130 When an Iowan encountered a young child about to be sold by her own father, who was also her master, he vowed, "By G-d I'll fight till hell freezes over and then I'll cut the ice and fight on."
November 17, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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notalawyer.bsky.social
women are always saying “lord grant me the confidence of a mediocre man.” ok well he did. now what. is the world a better place? look at what you’ve wrought.
Olivia Nuzzi's 'American Canto': Read the Exclusive Excerpt
She flamed out and she faded away. 'Vanity Fair'’s West Coast Editor returns to the written word to survey scorched earth.
www.vanityfair.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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maxkennerly.bsky.social
Going back to Summers' talk about how women don't want to work hard and don't have high end aptitude, we could ask:

What fraction of young men must deal with a creep with substantial power over their career hitting on them using tips from an infamous pedophile? 🤔
www.thecrimson.com/article/2005...
There are three broad hypotheses about the sources of the very substantial disparities that this conference’s papers document and have been documented before with respect to the presence of women in high-end scientific professions. One is what I would call the—I’ll explain each of these in a few moments and comment on how important I think they are—the first is what I call the high-powered job hypothesis. The second is what I would call different availability of aptitude at the high end, and the third is what I would call different socialization and patterns of discrimination in a search. And in my own view, their importance probably ranks in exactly the order that I just described. Another way to put the point is to say, what fraction of young women in their mid-twenties make a decision that they don’t want to have a job that they think about eighty hours a week. What fraction of young men make a decision that they’re unwilling to have a job that they think about eighty hours a week, and to observe what the difference is. And that has got to be a large part of what is observed.
November 16, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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shaunvids.bsky.social
one function of capitalism is to funnel these types into positions of power, because if competent & kind people get into power they start taking from the rich and giving to the poor. capitalist leaders must be either evil or ignorant or both, only by mistake does anyone else get near power
internethippo.bsky.social Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 5d
What if we could have leaders who aren't either evil monsters or spineless weenies
November 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM
biohazardous.bsky.social
Me logging in every day
November 15, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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otsumamiboy.bsky.social
I think it’s about how everyone is being nudged towards superficially individualized pre-curated personal realities that may provide immediate comfort but ultimately rob us of opportunities to engage in critical thought, shared truth & eventually choice… which poses an existential danger to us all.
November 14, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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dennycarter.bsky.social
Jamelle was cooking.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...
If they win, Democrats will have to use their newfound authority to rethink, even dismantle, agencies like U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. They may need to walk back the Bush-era decision to consolidate those agencies and others under a single department, given the wild abuses perpetrated under this administration and its predecessors. It will need to give serious thought to major political and social reform, including D.C. statehood, a federal ban on partisan gerrymandering, a new voting rights act and federal protections for reproductive rights and bodily autonomy, including the rights of gender and sexual minorities. Democrats will also need to embrace the legislature’s constitutional authority to structure the executive branch and the judiciary, up to and including Supreme Court reform. If they win next year, Democrats will need to treat the next Congress not as a return to the status quo ante but as the beginning of a new era in which the principal task is to roll back the president’s effort to create and consolidate a personalist dictatorship. They’ll need to fortify the American political system against future attempts to play dictator and lay out a project of genuine democratic renewal. None of this is possible without a willingness to use power rather than just hold it. What we’ve seen this week is that there are still too many Democrats whose instinct is to retreat to normalcy rather than face the conflict at hand.
November 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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leahmcelrath.bsky.social
If the NYT told the story of the homeless teenager exploited by Matt Gaetz with even half as much empathy as it tells the story of Olivia Nuzzi, it would be in danger of committing journalism.
November 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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jamellebouie.net
my takeaway from this letter is that glenn youngkin, rector sheridan and their flunkies on the board are deeply dishonest people who are engaged, with the trump administration, in a mob-style shakedown against the university of virginia
joefore.bsky.social Joe Fore @joefore.bsky.social · 5d
Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.

It's a surreal--and troubling--read.

drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
November 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
So old I remember when it was considered a political liability to hand out a presidential pardon to your son in law’s drug dealer buddy who went on to commit crimes of violence and sexual offenses. nypost.com/2025/11/11/u...
LI drug dealer freed by Trump now convicted of molesting his kids’ nanny and threatening synagogue congregant
Braun was first busted in 2010 for orchestrating a major cannabis distribution ring, smuggling millions of dollars worth of weed from Canada to New York.
nypost.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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getwired.com
If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
November 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
The thing about cruelty and inhumanity is that the limits of who is affected keep expanding and expanding until we shove it back the other way
November 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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dom911.bsky.social
Whoa! Immigrants come here with nothing and the next thing you know they’re buying houses that established citizens cannot afford? Those enterprising newcomers sound like just the sort of folks we need. Never mind that JD’s premise is as BS as his 30M number.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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esqueer.net
A middle school boy created deepfake AI CSAM of his fellow classmate, a 13 year old girl. The girl pleaded with the school but they did nothing and instead put her on a bus with the perpetrator. She ended up hitting him and was expelled but nothing happened to the boy.

www.wsaw.com/2025/11/12/g...
Girl, 13, expelled for hitting classmate who made a deepfake porn image of her, lawyers say
A 13-year-old student was expelled from a Louisiana middle school after hitting a male classmate who she said created and shared a deepfake pornographic image of her, according to her family’s lawyers...
www.wsaw.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM