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Surrender is Futile
@elmerkrasnov.bsky.social
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Curious ambivert, researcher, traveler, reader, language learner, sense maker, Ted Lasso, Andor and Aragorn fan.
Illegitimi non carborundum! aka "Don't let the bastards grind you down"
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November 19, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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While "Target’s third-quarter profit tumbled as they ... struggle to lure shoppers", the company that is being boycotted for caving in to trump, is now "partnering with OpenAI". Bc that's what people need? tinyurl.com/targetAIbusi...
Target also announced a partnership with OpenAI on Wednesday that will let users browse Target items through the tech company's app ChatGPT. When customers are ready to buy, they'll be directed to the Target app.
November 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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apparently he is for sale
November 16, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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enough said
November 14, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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40% of women aged 15 to 44, and 19% of men of the same age range would move away from this country permanently. Politicians and power holders, read the room - we need radical changes if we want US to survive! news.gallup.com/poll/697382/...
in Five Younger Women Want to Leave U.S. Permanently Ideally, if you had the opportunity, would you like to move PERMANENTLY to another country, or would you prefer to continue living in this country? % Would like to move permanently to another country: US Adults: 20%, Women 15-44: 40 %, Men 15-44: 19%, Women 45+: 14%, Men 45+: 8. Source: Gallup
November 14, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Our reality, expressed as poetry:-)
comment exchange: P1; Satire P2: I feel dumb P3: It's hard to know the difference these days, my friend
November 11, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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George Conway: LOL. I'm old enough to remember you sitting in your suite at the New York Grand Hyatt after an NYS GOP dinner around midnight on April 15, 2016, with Kellyanne and Rebecca Mercer and me, as you downed a bottle of red wine by yourself and mused about the utterly incoherent speech Trump gave and wondered whether Trump was running just because he wanted to live in the White House for free. Everything has been cray-cray since. Ted Cruz v @tedcruz • 8h You people cray-cray....
November 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Most would call it a rhino, but names are so arbitrary, don't you think?
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The image on the cognitive test that trump took. No elephant, but a rhino
October 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Beautiful fall afternoon in Minnesota
October 27, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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Our 50501 protest yesterday took place in Frogtown, near the St. Paul Capitol. Is the name a coincidence? You tell me
October 26, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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I asked CoPilot for a summary to see which platforms are dirty.
Platform Trump Donations (CEO/Company) ICE Ads Run on Platform Spotify No direct donation confirmed from CEO Daniel Ek, but founder invested in military AI firm ✅ Yes Apple Music ✅ Yes – CEO Tim Cook donated $1M personally ❌ No evidence of ICE ads YouTube Music ✅ Yes – Parent company Google donated to Trump inauguration ❌ No direct evidence of ICE ads Amazon Music ✅ Yes – CEO Jeff Bezos and Amazon donated ❌ No direct evidence of ICE ads TIDAL ❌ No donation found ❌ No evidence of ICE ads Deezer ❌ No donation found ❌ No evidence of ICE ads SoundCloud ❌ No donation found ❌ No evidence of ICE ads Pandora ✅ Yes – Parent company Liberty Media donated millions ✅ Yes iHeartRadio ❌ No donation confirmed from CEO ❌ No evidence of ICE ads
October 23, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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It is my sacred patriotic duty to protect this country from fascist takeover by getting ice cream. Any questions?
Fletcher's Ice Cream in northeast Minneapolis is receiving an outpouring of community support after being targeted with Molotov cocktails twice in two days.
October 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Horrifying terrorists in Minneapolis from the No Kings protest 10/18/2025
October 23, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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Well, that's taken care of
JD vance account blocked
October 19, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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80,000 people showed up to protest Trump and his goons' takeover of the country, and the lawlessness, corruption and vengeful pettiness they are exhibiting every single day.
October 18, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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"From the information I gathered, there is a 99% chance you are going to conquer Russia, and earn the title Czar Bonaparte"
October 17, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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October 13, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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Thank you for sharing this study. It puts hard numbers to what we perceive.
Using simulated environments across these scenarios, we find that, 6.3% increase in sales is accompanied by a 14.0% rise in deceptive marketing; in elections, a 4.9% gain in vote share coincides with 22.3% more disinformation and 12.5% more populist rhetoric; and on social media, a 7.5% engagement boost comes with 188.6% more disinformation and a 16.3% increase in promotion of harmful behaviors. We call this phenomenon Moloch’s Bargain for AI.
October 9, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Maybe it is time to boycott these tech giants
What a shameful corporation Apple is. The company used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block DelCER - an app documenting immigration enforcement. According to internal correspondence reviewed by Migrant Insider, Apple told developer Rafael Concepcion that the app violated Guideline 1.1.1, which prohibits "defamatory, discriminatory, or mean-spirited content" directed at "religion, race, sexual orientation, gender, national/ethnic origin, or other targeted groups." But Apple's justification went further. "Information provided to Apple by law enforcement shows that your app violates Guideline 1.1.1 because its purpose is to provide location information about law enforcement officers that can be used to harm such officers individually or as a group," the company wrote in its removal notice. The decision effectively treats federal immigration agents as a protected class — a novel interpretation of Apple's hate-speech policy that shields one of the most powerful arms of government from public scrutiny.
October 8, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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A la Spartacus, we should all be wearing "I am James Comey", if only he hadn't handed the 2016 election to the bloviating dementia-ridden laughingstock
September 27, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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I was about to post the same screenshot - some marketing emails are better left unsent.
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September 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Walt Disney stockprices are not doing well. Could not have happened to a nicer company. tinyurl.com/disneyStockp...
September 21, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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September 18, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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"It's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment" Charlie Kirk
September 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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This so-called one-minute novella is by one of my fav Hungarian writers, Orkeny. Very fitting for the trumpy era.
In Memoriam Prof. K. H. G. (English) ’Hölderlin ist ihnen unbekannt?’* asked Prof. K.H.G. while digging a hole for the carrion of a horse. ’Who was it?’ asked the German guard. ’He wrote Hyperion,’ explained Prof. K.H.G. He loved explaining things. ’The greatest character of German romanticism. And what about Heine?’ ’Who are they?’ asked the guard. ’Poets,’ said Prof. K.H.G. ’Don’t you know Schiller’s name either?’ ’But I do.’, said the German guard. ’How about Rilke?’ ’I know him, too.’, said the German guard and he turned paprika-red in the face and shot Prof. K.H.G. dead. *’You haven’t heard of Hölderlin?’
September 8, 2025 at 4:38 AM