Bruce R McF (etc.)
@brucermcf.bsky.social
Obscure development & regional economist, teaching in South Carolina and living in both South Carolina and Tennessee. He/him
Excellent piece.
NB. Faye Knox scored against Llandudno in the Genero Adran Trophy, not in the Welsh Cup ... the first round proper of the Welsh Cup is this coming Sunday.
NB. Faye Knox scored against Llandudno in the Genero Adran Trophy, not in the Welsh Cup ... the first round proper of the Welsh Cup is this coming Sunday.
November 20, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Excellent piece.
NB. Faye Knox scored against Llandudno in the Genero Adran Trophy, not in the Welsh Cup ... the first round proper of the Welsh Cup is this coming Sunday.
NB. Faye Knox scored against Llandudno in the Genero Adran Trophy, not in the Welsh Cup ... the first round proper of the Welsh Cup is this coming Sunday.
Shhh, don't tell anybody, but I'm awake.
See, it's got an "a" in front, hiding the "w", and the "o" pretends that it's another "a".
It's like wearing camo during office hours ... totally invisible.
#KITM @kagrox.bsky.social
See, it's got an "a" in front, hiding the "w", and the "o" pretends that it's another "a".
It's like wearing camo during office hours ... totally invisible.
#KITM @kagrox.bsky.social
Trump on AI: "You can't go through 50 states. You have to get one approval. 50 is a disaster. Because you'll have one woke state and you'll have to do all woke. You'll be back in the woke business. We don't have woke anymore in this country. It's virtually illegal. You'll have a couple of wokesters"
November 19, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Shhh, don't tell anybody, but I'm awake.
See, it's got an "a" in front, hiding the "w", and the "o" pretends that it's another "a".
It's like wearing camo during office hours ... totally invisible.
#KITM @kagrox.bsky.social
See, it's got an "a" in front, hiding the "w", and the "o" pretends that it's another "a".
It's like wearing camo during office hours ... totally invisible.
#KITM @kagrox.bsky.social
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This is a really interesting article about a horrifying distortion of sign language happening in the UK, and which its creators are now trying to export to other countries and their sign languages
Learn actual sign languages from Deaf people, not from hearing people making their own weird versions!
Learn actual sign languages from Deaf people, not from hearing people making their own weird versions!
I will not fight with people on Threads about Makaton. I will not fight with people on Threads about Makaton. I will not thebaffler.com/outbursts/si...
Signed Away | Sara Nović
The hearing world continues to pillage and caricature the deaf community—most recently with the proprietary, sign-based system Makaton.
thebaffler.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:18 PM
This is a really interesting article about a horrifying distortion of sign language happening in the UK, and which its creators are now trying to export to other countries and their sign languages
Learn actual sign languages from Deaf people, not from hearing people making their own weird versions!
Learn actual sign languages from Deaf people, not from hearing people making their own weird versions!
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i find it so off-putting when you watch journalists interviewing politicians and you can tell they’re friendly, all in a big club that doesn’t serve the public’s interests. access journalism is the opposite of accountability journalism.
November 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
i find it so off-putting when you watch journalists interviewing politicians and you can tell they’re friendly, all in a big club that doesn’t serve the public’s interests. access journalism is the opposite of accountability journalism.
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Life under the new DOJ/K:
JUDGE: So, I’m looking at your grand jury transcript, and I’m not seeing the part where they agreed to indict the defendant. What happened to that part?
PROSECUTOR: Oh, yeah. We didn’t do that part this time, Your Honor.
JUDGE: So, I’m looking at your grand jury transcript, and I’m not seeing the part where they agreed to indict the defendant. What happened to that part?
PROSECUTOR: Oh, yeah. We didn’t do that part this time, Your Honor.
November 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Life under the new DOJ/K:
JUDGE: So, I’m looking at your grand jury transcript, and I’m not seeing the part where they agreed to indict the defendant. What happened to that part?
PROSECUTOR: Oh, yeah. We didn’t do that part this time, Your Honor.
JUDGE: So, I’m looking at your grand jury transcript, and I’m not seeing the part where they agreed to indict the defendant. What happened to that part?
PROSECUTOR: Oh, yeah. We didn’t do that part this time, Your Honor.
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This is the first story I ever did that got more than a million views
November 19, 2025 at 5:16 PM
This is the first story I ever did that got more than a million views
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So it turns out the mendacity is actually exceeded by the incompetence. Good to know.
NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court.
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
November 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
So it turns out the mendacity is actually exceeded by the incompetence. Good to know.
#KITM @kagrox.bsky.social
"The laws of Thermodynamics means Energy is intrinsically valuable! And AI uses energy! Checkmate!"
"And so you are saying that AI slop is valuable because it *consumed* instrinsically valuable energy to produce it?"
"The laws of Thermodynamics means Energy is intrinsically valuable! And AI uses energy! Checkmate!"
"And so you are saying that AI slop is valuable because it *consumed* instrinsically valuable energy to produce it?"
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What
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What
November 19, 2025 at 7:20 PM
#KITM @kagrox.bsky.social
"The laws of Thermodynamics means Energy is intrinsically valuable! And AI uses energy! Checkmate!"
"And so you are saying that AI slop is valuable because it *consumed* instrinsically valuable energy to produce it?"
"The laws of Thermodynamics means Energy is intrinsically valuable! And AI uses energy! Checkmate!"
"And so you are saying that AI slop is valuable because it *consumed* instrinsically valuable energy to produce it?"
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You're not imagining it: NYC's Citi Bike system costs more to ride than any other major bike-share system in the United States, Canada or Europe — despite astronomical geographic and ridership growth raking in more and more money for Lyft, which operates the program.
Lyft Hoses Citi Bike Riders Compared to Bike-Share in Other Cities: Report - Streetsblog New York City
New York City's Citi Bike system costs more to ride than any other major bike-share system in the United States, Canada or Europe.
buff.ly
November 19, 2025 at 2:15 PM
You're not imagining it: NYC's Citi Bike system costs more to ride than any other major bike-share system in the United States, Canada or Europe — despite astronomical geographic and ridership growth raking in more and more money for Lyft, which operates the program.
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Republicans always pretend they're just responding to mean old Democrats. Secure in playing the victim, they attack wantonly, without fear of reprisal beyond scattered attacks they can then use as evidence of how mean Democrats are.
So, when Democrats finally DO hit back hard... oh lordy!
So, when Democrats finally DO hit back hard... oh lordy!
one thing i think is true is that republicans assumed that democrats would not respond in kind and that the forceful pushback spooked them (a lesson to learn here, perhaps)
Trump's corrupt scheme to rig 2026 is suddenly falling apart:
*Court strikes down Texas GOP gerrymander
*Indiana GOP lacks votes to redraw map
*Big Dem win in Virginia could give Ds more seats
On the pod, DLCC head Heather Williams is informative on what's next:
newrepublic.com/article/2033...
*Court strikes down Texas GOP gerrymander
*Indiana GOP lacks votes to redraw map
*Big Dem win in Virginia could give Ds more seats
On the pod, DLCC head Heather Williams is informative on what's next:
newrepublic.com/article/2033...
November 19, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Republicans always pretend they're just responding to mean old Democrats. Secure in playing the victim, they attack wantonly, without fear of reprisal beyond scattered attacks they can then use as evidence of how mean Democrats are.
So, when Democrats finally DO hit back hard... oh lordy!
So, when Democrats finally DO hit back hard... oh lordy!
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Q: "What do you think of Western Civilization?"
Gandhi: "It would be a good idea."
Gandhi: "It would be a good idea."
In a civilized country, Trump's treatment of women reporters would drop his approvals so low that he'd be forced to leave office.
November 19, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Q: "What do you think of Western Civilization?"
Gandhi: "It would be a good idea."
Gandhi: "It would be a good idea."
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Like every time you think, we’re selling F-35s to the bone saw guy, you gotta remember we’re also selling F-35s to the 9/11 guys. Same guys.
November 18, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Like every time you think, we’re selling F-35s to the bone saw guy, you gotta remember we’re also selling F-35s to the 9/11 guys. Same guys.
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"Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: 'Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications.'"
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
November 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
"Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: 'Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications.'"
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
"in 2030, Trump won't be around" was in part a note to the Senators next up in 2030 that voting no could be shooting themselves in the foot, and then once they all let their colleagues they were voting their self-interest, any inclination to be on the losing side of the Senate vote evaporated.
After all the Trump Administration fuss and pressure and lying about the Epstein Files, the vote to release them just slid through the Senate by unanimous consent! Talk about a whimper.
November 19, 2025 at 12:18 AM
"in 2030, Trump won't be around" was in part a note to the Senators next up in 2030 that voting no could be shooting themselves in the foot, and then once they all let their colleagues they were voting their self-interest, any inclination to be on the losing side of the Senate vote evaporated.
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🧵😲 A DANGEROUS CRIMINAL is loaded onto an Avelo jet (N803XT) at Seattle's Boeing Field 👀
November 18, 2025 at 9:39 PM
🧵😲 A DANGEROUS CRIMINAL is loaded onto an Avelo jet (N803XT) at Seattle's Boeing Field 👀
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When my hometown of Sumter, SC is mentioned, I need to set the record straight.
1. That plant was initiated under Biden, not Trump.
2. It's tied to EVs, which Trump calls a hoax.
3. Trump's "big, beautiful bill" will kill thousands of EV jobs.
Facts matter.
1. That plant was initiated under Biden, not Trump.
2. It's tied to EVs, which Trump calls a hoax.
3. Trump's "big, beautiful bill" will kill thousands of EV jobs.
Facts matter.
November 14, 2025 at 1:42 PM
When my hometown of Sumter, SC is mentioned, I need to set the record straight.
1. That plant was initiated under Biden, not Trump.
2. It's tied to EVs, which Trump calls a hoax.
3. Trump's "big, beautiful bill" will kill thousands of EV jobs.
Facts matter.
1. That plant was initiated under Biden, not Trump.
2. It's tied to EVs, which Trump calls a hoax.
3. Trump's "big, beautiful bill" will kill thousands of EV jobs.
Facts matter.
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The best use of pennies is to drill holes in them and use them as washers, which typically cost 10 cents each.
Pennies Are Trash Now
The government has no plan for America’s 300 billion pennies.
www.theatlantic.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The best use of pennies is to drill holes in them and use them as washers, which typically cost 10 cents each.
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Prometheus stole fire from the gods to give to the people.
Techbros, through AI, are stealing fire from the people and using it to warm themselves.
What precious fucking irony that is.
Techbros, through AI, are stealing fire from the people and using it to warm themselves.
What precious fucking irony that is.
Jeff Bezos will be co-CEO of AI startup Project Prometheus
Jeff Bezos will be co-CEO of AI startup Project Prometheus
Jeff Bezos has a new job.
buff.ly
November 17, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Prometheus stole fire from the gods to give to the people.
Techbros, through AI, are stealing fire from the people and using it to warm themselves.
What precious fucking irony that is.
Techbros, through AI, are stealing fire from the people and using it to warm themselves.
What precious fucking irony that is.
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theres a whole bunch of cultures that don't do rings to mark marriage but do do necklaces for the purpose, so do only Christians get to keep wedding jewelry or
Ministers now appear to be confirming in broadcast interviews that they would audit and could confiscate assets (including jewellery) excepting wedding rings from the jewellery that they could confiscate.
November 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM
theres a whole bunch of cultures that don't do rings to mark marriage but do do necklaces for the purpose, so do only Christians get to keep wedding jewelry or
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“Many law-abiding immigrants who followed the rules in their applications for visas, green cards or asylum are being taken into ICE detention centers.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...
Opinion | We Came Here Legally. ICE Locked Us Up Anyway.
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:27 PM
“Many law-abiding immigrants who followed the rules in their applications for visas, green cards or asylum are being taken into ICE detention centers.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...
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This piece is important. It is also a great (annoyingly great) example of what a properly resourced team of journalists can do. There are five bylines and almost 20 additional reporting credits on this piece. I've wanted to write this story for months but... do not have that many colleagues
The cost of Trump's immigration surge: Stalled investigations into child sexual abuse, Iranian oil smuggling and human trafficking, among others. My latest piece is a big team effort on how DHS has been transformed into the Department of Deportation.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
Homeland Security Missions Falter Amid Focus on Deportations
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:28 PM
This piece is important. It is also a great (annoyingly great) example of what a properly resourced team of journalists can do. There are five bylines and almost 20 additional reporting credits on this piece. I've wanted to write this story for months but... do not have that many colleagues
It also doesn't hurt the whole enterprise that the works centering African culture and perspectives are great books to read, wonderful escapes from long-recycled tropes in SF.
This line 💎->: "Throughout her career, she has resisted narrow categorizations, coining the term 'Africanfuturism' to describe speculative work that centers African culture and perspectives rather than simply placing Black characters in Western futurist frameworks." brittlepaper.com/2025/11/nned...
Nnedi Okorafor's Death of the Author Named TIME Must-Read Book of 2025
Nnedi Okorafor's latest novel Death of the Author has been selected as one of TIME Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2025, adding another major recognition to Okorafor's growing list of honors. The me...
brittlepaper.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:22 PM
It also doesn't hurt the whole enterprise that the works centering African culture and perspectives are great books to read, wonderful escapes from long-recycled tropes in SF.
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This line 💎->: "Throughout her career, she has resisted narrow categorizations, coining the term 'Africanfuturism' to describe speculative work that centers African culture and perspectives rather than simply placing Black characters in Western futurist frameworks." brittlepaper.com/2025/11/nned...
Nnedi Okorafor's Death of the Author Named TIME Must-Read Book of 2025
Nnedi Okorafor's latest novel Death of the Author has been selected as one of TIME Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2025, adding another major recognition to Okorafor's growing list of honors. The me...
brittlepaper.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
This line 💎->: "Throughout her career, she has resisted narrow categorizations, coining the term 'Africanfuturism' to describe speculative work that centers African culture and perspectives rather than simply placing Black characters in Western futurist frameworks." brittlepaper.com/2025/11/nned...
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"Imagine how much more aware people would be about White House corruption if news stories stopped saying 'Trump said…' and instead said, 'Trump, a convicted felon, said…'"
As @markjacob.bsky.social notes here the conventions of political reporting are helping obfuscate Trump/MAGA criminality:
As @markjacob.bsky.social notes here the conventions of political reporting are helping obfuscate Trump/MAGA criminality:
It’s the media’s version of a “pardon” when news outlets fail to remind the public of past crimes by Trump and his mischief makers such as Steve Bannon.
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How the media ‘pardon’ political criminals
News outlets paper over the ugly pasts of right-wing extremists
www.stopthepresses.news
November 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
"Imagine how much more aware people would be about White House corruption if news stories stopped saying 'Trump said…' and instead said, 'Trump, a convicted felon, said…'"
As @markjacob.bsky.social notes here the conventions of political reporting are helping obfuscate Trump/MAGA criminality:
As @markjacob.bsky.social notes here the conventions of political reporting are helping obfuscate Trump/MAGA criminality:
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Spammers attempting to convince one to use their "author services" via negging don't work when one's most recent book is a New York Times bestseller
November 17, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Spammers attempting to convince one to use their "author services" via negging don't work when one's most recent book is a New York Times bestseller