/(Garret)t?/ Wirka
@garrettwirka.bsky.social
AI stock photo enthusiast, striving to lower the bar for the Turing test. ML PhD student at UNL. Not even explicit endorsements are endorsements. he/him
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17 strikes and you’re out. 💀
November 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
17 strikes and you’re out. 💀
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
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He’s the guy who helped set your crypto company up for you, helped secure major foreign “investors,” and made you and your sons over a billion dollars. bsky.app/profile/atru...
O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
November 3, 2025 at 1:01 AM
He’s the guy who helped set your crypto company up for you, helped secure major foreign “investors,” and made you and your sons over a billion dollars. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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📣 I am hiring a postdoc! aial.ie/hiring/postd...
applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome
pls share with your networks
applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome
pls share with your networks
October 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM
📣 I am hiring a postdoc! aial.ie/hiring/postd...
applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome
pls share with your networks
applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome
pls share with your networks
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sure, you might not be able to eat or go to the doctor, but check out how nice Trump's new marble shitter is
October 31, 2025 at 5:04 PM
sure, you might not be able to eat or go to the doctor, but check out how nice Trump's new marble shitter is
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Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”
October 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”
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Trump Says He Won’t Rule Out Third Reich
October 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Trump Says He Won’t Rule Out Third Reich
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Characterizing the technically alive half of a skunk pancaked on the road as increasingly mercurial in the hopes that the barely breathing skid mark rises to the stature of the office
October 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Characterizing the technically alive half of a skunk pancaked on the road as increasingly mercurial in the hopes that the barely breathing skid mark rises to the stature of the office
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Once again, the main day of Tea Party protests had about 300,000 nationwide, but saw endless coverage.
The No Kings protests had about 7,000,000 nationwide, and many media outlets reacted with a yawn.
No Kings was nearly 25x as big as the Tea Party but the Tea Party got 25x the attention.
The No Kings protests had about 7,000,000 nationwide, and many media outlets reacted with a yawn.
No Kings was nearly 25x as big as the Tea Party but the Tea Party got 25x the attention.
Ask yourself this: How would the New York Times have covered the protests if it had been seven million MAGA supporters flooding the streets? We don’t even have to guess: We know how they and other mainstream outlets covered the Tea Party protests during Obama’s first term.
October 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Once again, the main day of Tea Party protests had about 300,000 nationwide, but saw endless coverage.
The No Kings protests had about 7,000,000 nationwide, and many media outlets reacted with a yawn.
No Kings was nearly 25x as big as the Tea Party but the Tea Party got 25x the attention.
The No Kings protests had about 7,000,000 nationwide, and many media outlets reacted with a yawn.
No Kings was nearly 25x as big as the Tea Party but the Tea Party got 25x the attention.
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When Trump said he would bring on a "New Golden Age," he was talking about his wallet.
October 26, 2025 at 5:31 PM
When Trump said he would bring on a "New Golden Age," he was talking about his wallet.
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Some of the details may be disputed but this man’s cause of death was determined to be dehydration. It takes over a week without water for an adult to die of dehydration. One officer’s suggestion he needed medical attention was ignored. There’s no plausible situation where this wasn’t intentional.
Lamont Mealy, a mentally ill man, was locked in solitary confinement in a Maryland prison. Guards shut off water to his cell. A fellow prisoner says guards taunted him. He died of dehydration after 8 days. His family's lawsuit asserts officials covered it up.
How a Maryland prisoner died an ‘excruciating’ death from dehydration
Lamont Mealy died of dehydration in an isolation cell at Western Correctional Institution in 2023. A lawsuit claims state officials covered it up.
www.thebanner.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Some of the details may be disputed but this man’s cause of death was determined to be dehydration. It takes over a week without water for an adult to die of dehydration. One officer’s suggestion he needed medical attention was ignored. There’s no plausible situation where this wasn’t intentional.
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The criminality here has so many layers it should be a wedding cake.
October 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The criminality here has so many layers it should be a wedding cake.
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If we are to avert "grossly tyrannical conduct," Illinois v Trump is a "make-or-break" moment for SCOTUS, per @stevevladeck.bsky.social
www.stevevladeck.com/p/184-the-ma...
www.stevevladeck.com/p/184-the-ma...
October 20, 2025 at 12:31 PM
If we are to avert "grossly tyrannical conduct," Illinois v Trump is a "make-or-break" moment for SCOTUS, per @stevevladeck.bsky.social
www.stevevladeck.com/p/184-the-ma...
www.stevevladeck.com/p/184-the-ma...
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So the president of the United States plans to meet with Putin in Hungary, and when a reporter asked where that plan came from, this was the reply of the United States government www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
October 17, 2025 at 1:23 PM
So the president of the United States plans to meet with Putin in Hungary, and when a reporter asked where that plan came from, this was the reply of the United States government www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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A handful of billionaires now have unprecedented control over banking, the food we eat, our healthcare, and the information we receive. Many are now currying favor with Trump to both avoid accountability and maintain their power. This is what oligarchy looks like.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
Salesforce Offers Its Services to Boost Trump’s Immigration Force
www.nytimes.com
October 17, 2025 at 3:26 PM
A handful of billionaires now have unprecedented control over banking, the food we eat, our healthcare, and the information we receive. Many are now currying favor with Trump to both avoid accountability and maintain their power. This is what oligarchy looks like.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
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Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy
Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...
Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job
US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board
www.telegraph.co.uk
October 11, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy
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BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
October 11, 2025 at 2:10 AM
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.
October 11, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.
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Nobody needs the abusive and debunked “treatment” known as conversion therapy—and LGBTQ+ youth need to know they are loved and accepted as they are. As long as I’m in the legislature I’ll be working to ban it in Nebraska.
October 7, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Nobody needs the abusive and debunked “treatment” known as conversion therapy—and LGBTQ+ youth need to know they are loved and accepted as they are. As long as I’m in the legislature I’ll be working to ban it in Nebraska.
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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
October 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
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Trump hates to be the object of humor. He understands that humor can be a more powerful antidote to tyranny than any other form of criticism.
I'm sure he'd hate it if you shared this cartoon. [Cartoon by Jon Adams/The New Yorker]
I'm sure he'd hate it if you shared this cartoon. [Cartoon by Jon Adams/The New Yorker]
October 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Trump hates to be the object of humor. He understands that humor can be a more powerful antidote to tyranny than any other form of criticism.
I'm sure he'd hate it if you shared this cartoon. [Cartoon by Jon Adams/The New Yorker]
I'm sure he'd hate it if you shared this cartoon. [Cartoon by Jon Adams/The New Yorker]
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A lot of tech bros who were upset about pronouns want to confer them on their computers now that they’re dating
Can we stop calling an artificial representation of a person by a human-coded name? "She" does not exist. "She" is a reflection of someone's ingenue dreams, but "she" is pixels and code.
Tilly Norwood raises the question of who will be the first to win an Oscar for best AI in a leading role
October 3, 2025 at 12:02 PM
A lot of tech bros who were upset about pronouns want to confer them on their computers now that they’re dating
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Lavender scare is back.
EXCLUSIVE: FBI Director Kash Patel fired an agent in training for displaying a gay pride flag on his desk while appointed to a field office in California last year, according to three people familiar with the matter and a dismissal notice reviewed by MSNBC.
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/k...
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/k...
Kash Patel fires FBI agent trainee for displaying gay pride flag
The FBI employee was fired on the first day of the government shutdown as President Trump threatened more terminations.
www.msnbc.com
October 3, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Lavender scare is back.
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A lot of us know what this is, but for the average person on here: circa 2015 the Alt Right (the explicitly NeoNazi wing especially) appropriated the obscure McDonald’s mascot from the 80s, and made it into a NeoNazi ridden meme.
So yes, this is straight NeoNazism being posted.
So yes, this is straight NeoNazism being posted.
October 3, 2025 at 3:43 AM
A lot of us know what this is, but for the average person on here: circa 2015 the Alt Right (the explicitly NeoNazi wing especially) appropriated the obscure McDonald’s mascot from the 80s, and made it into a NeoNazi ridden meme.
So yes, this is straight NeoNazism being posted.
So yes, this is straight NeoNazism being posted.