David Shankle
@davidshankle.bsky.social
Southern leftie. Des Moines transplant. Cloud-based product.
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Arrakis, a desert, planet, can you believe it? Some people call it Dune, I call it Arrakis. The SPICE must flow, and quite frankly, it will be flowing much faster than under the failed DUKE LETO. Maybe he was a nice guy, maybe not,I think he was jealous of me! We're looking into that very strongly.
November 27, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Arrakis, a desert, planet, can you believe it? Some people call it Dune, I call it Arrakis. The SPICE must flow, and quite frankly, it will be flowing much faster than under the failed DUKE LETO. Maybe he was a nice guy, maybe not,I think he was jealous of me! We're looking into that very strongly.
Fear not brethren, Jesus Christ died for these spins 🙏
Watch: Pope Leo Goes Viral After Blessing the Dancefloor at Slovakian Rave
The Pope's surprise virtual sermon brought new meaning to having a "religious experience" at the rave.
edm.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Fear not brethren, Jesus Christ died for these spins 🙏
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"Forged from the same crushed fossil remains of dinosaurs and long dead forests that brought the droughts and bushfires that birthed this desert, it’s rejected by every passing human scavenger for its singular lack of utility." www.vice.com/en/article/t...
The Funko Pop! Is the Mascot of Nerd Imperialism That Will Outlive Us All
Everyone is a fan of something: How Funko Pops! became a physical manifestation of the internet.
www.vice.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM
"Forged from the same crushed fossil remains of dinosaurs and long dead forests that brought the droughts and bushfires that birthed this desert, it’s rejected by every passing human scavenger for its singular lack of utility." www.vice.com/en/article/t...
Droves of Nazi sympathizers claiming that anything approaching actual consequences is "taking it too far" but let's be clear..
so long as Nazis feel safe advertising their hate and expecting civilization to tolerate them, it's not far enough. To any that undermine that aim, isolate and quarantine.
so long as Nazis feel safe advertising their hate and expecting civilization to tolerate them, it's not far enough. To any that undermine that aim, isolate and quarantine.
November 3, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Droves of Nazi sympathizers claiming that anything approaching actual consequences is "taking it too far" but let's be clear..
so long as Nazis feel safe advertising their hate and expecting civilization to tolerate them, it's not far enough. To any that undermine that aim, isolate and quarantine.
so long as Nazis feel safe advertising their hate and expecting civilization to tolerate them, it's not far enough. To any that undermine that aim, isolate and quarantine.
Can you even imagine being the most obnoxious person in this lineup?
October 30, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Can you even imagine being the most obnoxious person in this lineup?
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If you see an otter steal a surfboard, no you didn’t.
Sea Otters Are Stealing Surfboards in California. Again.
www.nytimes.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:18 AM
If you see an otter steal a surfboard, no you didn’t.
Oh.
A 155-mm shell fired during a live-fire demonstration for the 250th anniversary of the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton on Saturday prematurely detonated, dropping fragments of the shell on a California Highway Patrol vehicle and motorcycle that were part of Vice President JD Vance’s detail
A 155-mm shell fired during a live-fire demonstration for the 250th anniversary of the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton on Saturday prematurely detonated, dropping fragments of the shell on a California Highway Patrol vehicle and motorcycle that were part of Vice President JD Vance’s detail
Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say
www.nytimes.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:16 PM
The complete destruction of our national mythos and libertarian bravado as utterly fraudulent and empty will be Trump's greatest and objectively impressive achievement. He accomplished in nine months what foreign adversaries have been attempting for generations.
“When our heroic law enforcement officers conduct operations, they clearly identify themselves as law enforcement,” DHS’ Tricia McLaughlin asserted, “while wearing masks to protect themselves from being targeted by highly sophisticated gangs.”
By @davidmcswane.bsky.social @hannahallam.bsky.social
By @davidmcswane.bsky.social @hannahallam.bsky.social
How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force
Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challeng...
www.propublica.org
October 20, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The complete destruction of our national mythos and libertarian bravado as utterly fraudulent and empty will be Trump's greatest and objectively impressive achievement. He accomplished in nine months what foreign adversaries have been attempting for generations.
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In May, 13 ex-Palantir engineers signed a letter saying the firm's leadership had "abandoned its founding ideals" and become complicit in "normalizing authoritarianism." They cited the crystal-ball-like "seeing stones" that gave Palantir its name.
Palantir: The all-seeing tech giant
The company's data-mining tools are used by spies and the military. Are they now being turned on Americans?
theweek.com
August 6, 2025 at 8:25 PM
In May, 13 ex-Palantir engineers signed a letter saying the firm's leadership had "abandoned its founding ideals" and become complicit in "normalizing authoritarianism." They cited the crystal-ball-like "seeing stones" that gave Palantir its name.
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A St. Louis ordinance lets courts banish people from huge swaths of the city as a punishment for petty crimes.
These neighborhood orders of protection often prevent people from accessing the services they need and raise constitutional questions.
(Published 2022)
By @jeremykohler.bsky.social
These neighborhood orders of protection often prevent people from accessing the services they need and raise constitutional questions.
(Published 2022)
By @jeremykohler.bsky.social
St. Louis Can Banish People From Entire Neighborhoods. Police Can Arrest Them if They Come Back.
A St. Louis ordinance lets courts banish people from huge swaths of the city as a punishment for petty crimes. These neighborhood orders of protection often prevent people from accessing the services ...
www.propublica.org
October 19, 2025 at 11:40 PM
A St. Louis ordinance lets courts banish people from huge swaths of the city as a punishment for petty crimes.
These neighborhood orders of protection often prevent people from accessing the services they need and raise constitutional questions.
(Published 2022)
By @jeremykohler.bsky.social
These neighborhood orders of protection often prevent people from accessing the services they need and raise constitutional questions.
(Published 2022)
By @jeremykohler.bsky.social
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Russell Vought: The Shadow President
YouTube video by ProPublica
youtu.be
October 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Samuel Alito preparing to raise absolutely the craziest flag you've ever seen at his Long Beach Island compound.
BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.
This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei
If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.
open.substack.com
October 17, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Samuel Alito preparing to raise absolutely the craziest flag you've ever seen at his Long Beach Island compound.
You've wounded me for the last Chobani. You're dead to me.
October 16, 2025 at 4:57 PM
You've wounded me for the last Chobani. You're dead to me.
So American farmers get devastated by Chinese restrictions on American soybeans. China immediately starts buying from Argentina, to whom Trump is awarding a $40B bailout because his buddy is floundering.
Trying to imagine what French farmers would've done if Macron pulled some shit like this 😳
Trying to imagine what French farmers would've done if Macron pulled some shit like this 😳
Another $20 billion. That is the face you make when you heist the US taxpayers for $40 billion two weeks before your midterm elections from the most corrupt America Last regime in history.
October 16, 2025 at 7:43 AM
So American farmers get devastated by Chinese restrictions on American soybeans. China immediately starts buying from Argentina, to whom Trump is awarding a $40B bailout because his buddy is floundering.
Trying to imagine what French farmers would've done if Macron pulled some shit like this 😳
Trying to imagine what French farmers would've done if Macron pulled some shit like this 😳
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I recently talked to Henry Shevlin (Uni of Cambridge) about artificial intelligence and consciousness: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rvw...
AI Sessions #2: Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness - A Deep Dive
YouTube video by Conspicuous Cognition
www.youtube.com
October 14, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I recently talked to Henry Shevlin (Uni of Cambridge) about artificial intelligence and consciousness: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rvw...
Radiologists thought they were doing real "work" but were they? Real work means using your hands. To build sprawling data centers. Radiologists though, meh?
don't worry, Sam Altman is confident that his efforts to eliminate vast numbers of jobs will all just sort of work out for the unemployed, eventually, possibly after they starve to death, which is technically a form of having it work out
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren't Even "Real Work" to Start With
Worried that AI will destroy work? Well, Sam Altman asks if you've considered what a farmer from half a century ago thinks of your job, first.
futurism.com
October 14, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Radiologists thought they were doing real "work" but were they? Real work means using your hands. To build sprawling data centers. Radiologists though, meh?
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"There is, however, one big difference between Trump’s trade policy and China’s. Namely, the Chinese appear to know what they’re doing."
How Trump Is Making China Great
Why we’re going to lose the trade war, and much more besides
paulkrugman.substack.com
October 13, 2025 at 8:35 PM
"There is, however, one big difference between Trump’s trade policy and China’s. Namely, the Chinese appear to know what they’re doing."
This is one of those people I hope I never see in person. I do not have that much control over my face 😳
Stunning South Sudanese-American model and visual artist Anok Yai
October 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
This is one of those people I hope I never see in person. I do not have that much control over my face 😳
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The frog is fine, btw, hes had spicier. 🇲🇽
#portlandfrog
#portlandfrog
October 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The frog is fine, btw, hes had spicier. 🇲🇽
#portlandfrog
#portlandfrog
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Found the account of the artist Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social that made the pic above and he made also a video by now!🤩 #Frogtober #Portland #ICE #ICEprotests #StopICE #FuckICE #Portland #PortlandFrog bsky.app/profile/4nik...
October 11, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Found the account of the artist Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social that made the pic above and he made also a video by now!🤩 #Frogtober #Portland #ICE #ICEprotests #StopICE #FuckICE #Portland #PortlandFrog bsky.app/profile/4nik...
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Art will save us. And Portland frogs
Poignant art by @4nikkolas.bsky.social
#portlandfrog #secretpolice #gestapo #nokings
Poignant art by @4nikkolas.bsky.social
#portlandfrog #secretpolice #gestapo #nokings
October 11, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Art will save us. And Portland frogs
Poignant art by @4nikkolas.bsky.social
#portlandfrog #secretpolice #gestapo #nokings
Poignant art by @4nikkolas.bsky.social
#portlandfrog #secretpolice #gestapo #nokings
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Some police brutality in Austin, Texas on 6th street this weekend: APD officer Garcia (looks like badge number 10338 or similar) appears to sucker punch a man.
October 12, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Some police brutality in Austin, Texas on 6th street this weekend: APD officer Garcia (looks like badge number 10338 or similar) appears to sucker punch a man.