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gregjenner.bsky.social
Someone on Threads noticed you can type any random sentence into Google, then add “meaning” afterwards, and you’ll get an AI explanation of a famous idiom or phrase you just made up. Here is mine
• Al Overview The idiom "you can't lick a badger twice" means you can't trick or deceive someone a second time after they've been tricked once. It's a warning that if someone has already been deceived, they are unlikely to fall for the same trick again. Here's a more detailed explanation: • Licking: "Licking" in this context means to trick or deceive someone. • Badger: The badger is a wild animal, and the phrase likely originates from the historical sport of badger baiting where dogs were used to harass
April 23, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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edwinhayward.com
What an epic journey! Still, at least he got paid at every stage of his trek along Hypocrisy Way...
April 9, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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matthewfacciani.bsky.social
Scientist loses their grant funding because they briefly mentioned the word "hesitancy" in their grant.
March 18, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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eladn.bsky.social
Hostage family member Gil Dickman speaks out after finding out his cousin was murdered, saying that the Israeli government threatened him and other hostage family members that if they spoke out against the government, they wouldn't save their family members.

Video edited by UnXeptable.
March 17, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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bluser12.bsky.social
One of the “gang members” that was disappeared and deported is a queer tattoo artist
March 16, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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illdottore.bsky.social
I dunno man, if the WH can point to people from Latin America and say "gang member," and point to people from the Arab world and say "terrorist" or "antisemite," and those designations lead directly to detention or worse, I think we have to acknowledge we're in a pretty bad place.
March 16, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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brandonfriedman.bsky.social
This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position.

Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
Wikipedia image of Major General (Ret.) Charles C. Rogers Defense.gov google return: Medal of Honor Monday: Army Maj. Gen. Charles Calvin Rogers Defense.gov 404 - Page Not Found https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/Story/Article/2824721/deimedal-of-honor-monday-army-maj-gen-charles-calvin-rogers/
March 16, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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localnotail.bsky.social
"Big Trig"
kernowmad.bsky.social Wonko the Sane @kernowmad.bsky.social · Mar 15
2025 be like...
March 16, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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jdcmedlock.bsky.social
We can laugh at the incoherence of the median voter, but the smart people who talked themselves into supporting all of this are much dumber than the stupid people who went along for the ride
March 13, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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mrjamesob.bsky.social
Naturally…
adamjschwarz.bsky.social Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · Mar 12
Trump is asked who his favourite Irish person is and names Conor McGregor, who was found by the Irish High Court to have assaulted and raped a woman in December 2018.
March 12, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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battalio.com
Mars climate scientist here. The oceans won't just return. We don't have a good explanation for how Mars had oceans when it did have a thick atmosphere in the paleo record billions of years ago. Everything in the last few months should prove that Musk is an idiot and knows nothing about anything.
keptsimple.bsky.social m @keptsimple.bsky.social · Feb 28
he's really so stupid and I can't stand it. if you warmed up mars and melted the water, the water would evaporate into space. Mars can't have a habitable atmosphere in its current state bc it has no magnetic field. solar winds strip away everything that isn't stuck to the surface.
musk on twitter: Mars probably had liquid oceans a long time ago, before it cooled. Now, there are vast fields of ice covered by red dust. If we warm up the planet, the oceans will return and the atmosphere will densify, making it possible to extend life to Mars.
February 28, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
Jeff Bezos will be censoring progressive opinions at the Washington Post. He says so himself today.

So ditch the Post and support independent journalism:

Zeteo.com/subscribe
February 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
This is why I keep talking about the last ten years as a metastasizing misinformation crisis. Why on EARTH would you think Trump would do anything thoughtfully or strategically? If the media is giving people this impression, it is lying to them
aterkel.bsky.social Amanda Terkel @aterkel.bsky.social · Feb 21
Laid-off IRS employee said he had voted for Trump: "I thought that someone with his business acumen would have come in with a fine-tooth comb and actually found it instead of coming in with a wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason."

www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/p...
February 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
An hourly reminder that DOGE is not about Elon Musk cutting government money waste, it is about wasting more government money on Elon Musk.

Here is Elon cutting NASA, a government agency that his private company competes with for federal funding.

They aren't even bothering to hide the corruption.
February 17, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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shaunvids.bsky.social
can't decide if they are knowingly trying to reduce US influence abroad or if they're just so averse to academic language that they can't read between the lines of the program titles. are they confused that they don't see programs titled like "spies" & "bribes" & so on lol
juliagiantrat.bsky.social Uncut Femmes @juliagiantrat.bsky.social · Feb 17
It's so extremely wild to see that in less than 3 months Elon single-handedly is shredding decades of work the CIA did to build economic soft-power bases throughout Africa and Asia.

bro actually is ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of the American Empire in real time
US taxpayer dollars were going to spent on the following items all of which have been cancelled 10m for mozambique volunary medical male 9.7m for uc berkeley to develop a cohort of cambodian youth with enterprise driven skills 32m to the prague civil society centre 40m for gender equality and woman empowerment hub 14m for improving public procurement in serbia 486m to the consortium for elections and political process strengthening, including 22m for inclusive and participatory political process in moldova and 21m for voter turnout in Inida 29m to strengthening political landscape in bangladesh 20m for fiscal federalism in nepal 19m for biodiversity in nepal
February 17, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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daviddunning6.bsky.social
How Dunning-Kruger works...
and travels.
February 14, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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kylekulinskishow.bsky.social
20 minutes apart. On top of being a fascist this is door knob IQ shit.
February 17, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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carolinejmolloy.bsky.social
As Wes Streeting trumpets the role of the private sector in “saving the NHS”, it’s worth remembering what happened the only time a whole NHS hospital was handed to the private sector to run.

The care failings - gaining the worst CQC rating ever - were *chilling* (& barely reported at the time):
Circle's medical services were found to be delivering "poor emotional and physical care which was not safe or caring... people were not treated with dignity and respect... some patients were afraid of certain nursing staff'". Some of the examples witnessed by the CQC in their two-day inspection were chilling "We heard the staff member say to the patient 'don't misbehave, you know what happens when you misbehave'. We later asked the patient what they thought the staff member meant by this; the patient became withdrawn and was unable to provide us with an answer." "A patient on Apple Tree Ward, who required support during the night to go to the toilet told us that staff were 'often too busy'. They said 'they tell me to go in my bed and they will change me when they have time'." after they were seen in A&E, they then waited far too long - up to 12 hours - to be admitted to hospital. On this measure (so-called 'trolley waits') Hinchingbrooke had one in 5 patients waiting between 4 and 12 hours, compared to a national average of only one in 20 patients. So much for key targets. And whilst waiting in A&E, an unusually high number of patients (double the national average) left before being seen, fed up of waiting - and presumably unimpressed by the waiting-management computer system Circle had boasted was modelled on the Argos tills. (Circle's senior management team had been hired from Argos, Avon, Faberge, Tesco and fashion-website Asos, bragged Ali Parsa in an article entitled "Government should not be running hospitals"). Dangerously sloppy procedures were everywhere at privately-run Hinchingbrooke, the inspectors found. Incomplete patient notes, missing care plans, infected catheters, unwashed hands, broken clinical guidelines. Fluids were repeatedly out of reach of patients despite the inspectors' intervention. On other wards, call bells were placed out of reach. Diabetic patients were left without food. Patients missed vital medication rounds. Lifesaving resuscitation equipment was not checked regularly. Many post-surgical patients were waiting over 30 minutes for a response to a call bell (Circle's own figures claimed the maximum wait was 8 minutes). Many patients were being moved between wards in the middle of the night. "One patient on the acute surgical and trauma ward said that they had been on seven wards in the first three days of admission, and had been moved at 12.45am, 3am and 5am on different days." The CQC was keen not to blame the permanent staff themselves - though it did note an over-reliance on bank and agency staff (a problem Circle repeatedly promised to fix) who were involved in many of the most worrying failings. "All nursing staff told us the trust had difficulty recruiting and retaining staff... one nurse told inspectors "we can't keep staff". The report reflects the recent staff survey which found morale amongst the lowest in the country. Staff told the CQC that shortages also meant little time for training. For example, "Staff at ward level were not competent in caring for people at the end of their life, because they had not received the training required to enable them to undertake this role."
February 16, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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ariiscomics.bsky.social
Incompetence in Washington
February 15, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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henrymance.ft.com
Presented without comment. www.ft.com/content/a7c9...
February 15, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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mmasnick.bsky.social
See here's how to do a headline.

fortune.com/2025/02/13/e...
Some federal workers are ‘getting wealthy at taxpayer expense,’ says Elon Musk, whose companies have received at least $20 billion from the government
February 13, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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pickardje.bsky.social
this was definitely a new low for Kemi Badenoch at PMQs yesterday - via Tom Peck in Times
With her final flourish, Badenoch brought up the case of John Tuckett, the government's preferred candidate for a new role of chief inspector of borders, but who, she said, "lives in Finland and wants to work from home. This is not serious." Starmer rose again. Human rights lawyers aren't a natural fit for acts of wanton cruelty, but what choice did he have? "The individual in question was appointed in 2019 by the last government to a senior position," he said. "He then worked for five years from Finland. We've changed that and he will now be working from the UK full time." Badenoch sunk further into her seat. In boxing, this would have been stopped in round one. At least in politics you don't have to wait long for a rematch.
February 13, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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February 13, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
PSA: They’re killing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau because it protects you from them.
February 8, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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explaintrade.com
Nothing surprises me less than Mario Nawfal not being able to recognize actual journalism.
Two tweets Tweet by Mario Nawfal: "Woke Jouranlist Katherine Long who Doxxed Doge Staffer has ties to USAID. Katherine Long, a WSJ reporter with connections to USAID, just doxxed DOGE team member Marko Elez and got him fired - conveniently targetting him as DOGE audits her former agency. This isn't journalism. - Tweet is a quote tweet of Elon Musk calling her "a disgusting and cruel person." Elon Musk replies: She should be fired immediately
February 7, 2025 at 3:22 PM