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I refuse to deplore "political violence" when it is made so explicit that it is the adjective, not the noun, that troubles the people so openly weeping and rending their garments right now. Either we all have a ticket in the Victim of Gun Violence Lotto or none of us do.
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September 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I refuse to deplore "political violence" when it is made so explicit that it is the adjective, not the noun, that troubles the people so openly weeping and rending their garments right now. Either we all have a ticket in the Victim of Gun Violence Lotto or none of us do.
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my boyfriend, Scam Likely, calls me everyday 🥰
August 26, 2025 at 1:47 PM
my boyfriend, Scam Likely, calls me everyday 🥰
b) is such an under-emphasized point
Online age verification is not like "showing ID to buy alcohol" because
a) the liquor store doesn't get to scan your ID and store a digital copy of it forever in a database that will inevitably get hacked
b) you don't have to show ID to go to the library because they have cocktail recipe books
a) the liquor store doesn't get to scan your ID and store a digital copy of it forever in a database that will inevitably get hacked
b) you don't have to show ID to go to the library because they have cocktail recipe books
August 26, 2025 at 12:20 AM
b) is such an under-emphasized point
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Just to say that every age-verification is an identity verification.
This creates the long held, never-possible dream of surveillance agencies everywhere of a full, Govt-backed record of Internet habits linked to ID.
This creates the long held, never-possible dream of surveillance agencies everywhere of a full, Govt-backed record of Internet habits linked to ID.
Anyhow, it's even worse it turns out. If you don't age-verify, they'll delete your account.
www.howtogeek.com/spotify-will...
www.howtogeek.com/spotify-will...
Spotify Will Delete Accounts That Fail Age Verification Tests
Seemingly only in the UK for now, but it could roll out to other regions.
www.howtogeek.com
August 4, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Just to say that every age-verification is an identity verification.
This creates the long held, never-possible dream of surveillance agencies everywhere of a full, Govt-backed record of Internet habits linked to ID.
This creates the long held, never-possible dream of surveillance agencies everywhere of a full, Govt-backed record of Internet habits linked to ID.
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Who could have predicted? ... Except for basically everyone who has written on internet intermediary liability for the last two decades.
Age verification debates are not just about kids, and they're not just about porn.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Age verification debates are not just about kids, and they're not just about porn.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Tech giants blocking some Ukraine and Gaza posts under new online rules
Tech companies are restricting debates of public interest to comply the Online Safety Act, analysis shows.
www.bbc.com
August 2, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Who could have predicted? ... Except for basically everyone who has written on internet intermediary liability for the last two decades.
Age verification debates are not just about kids, and they're not just about porn.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Age verification debates are not just about kids, and they're not just about porn.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Hello Bluesky. What's going on my "guys" and, in some cases, my "gals?"
July 13, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Hello Bluesky. What's going on my "guys" and, in some cases, my "gals?"
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Not enough people are angry about online age verification. The gov’t just gave ICE billions to expand surveillance and detention. Age checks give them a new attack vector to track what you read, watch, and say.
🧵Time to unpack this paper by @ericgoldman.bsky.social share.google/hVRvIPq4d1M8...
🧵Time to unpack this paper by @ericgoldman.bsky.social share.google/hVRvIPq4d1M8...
July 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Not enough people are angry about online age verification. The gov’t just gave ICE billions to expand surveillance and detention. Age checks give them a new attack vector to track what you read, watch, and say.
🧵Time to unpack this paper by @ericgoldman.bsky.social share.google/hVRvIPq4d1M8...
🧵Time to unpack this paper by @ericgoldman.bsky.social share.google/hVRvIPq4d1M8...
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It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins
June 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins
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me: in cheers frasier said his dad was dead but then when sam visited him in seattle he had to explain that he was lying because their relationship was strained but to me the weirder thing is he never mentioned niles to anyone at cheers
the federal soldier being unlawfully quartered in my home: ok
the federal soldier being unlawfully quartered in my home: ok
June 10, 2025 at 10:36 PM
me: in cheers frasier said his dad was dead but then when sam visited him in seattle he had to explain that he was lying because their relationship was strained but to me the weirder thing is he never mentioned niles to anyone at cheers
the federal soldier being unlawfully quartered in my home: ok
the federal soldier being unlawfully quartered in my home: ok
I hear Ro Khanna is in the market
“White House officials said Friday that Mr. Trump was considering selling the bright red Tesla he got in March as a show of support for Mr. Musk”
Buildup to a Meltdown: How the Trump-Musk Alliance Collapsed
www.nytimes.com
June 7, 2025 at 12:23 AM
I hear Ro Khanna is in the market
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this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake
June 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake
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Yikes.
You wanna see something really scary? open.substack.com/pub/amandagu...
June 4, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Yikes.
The movement to employ Aaron Rogers is actually anti-winning
more proof that the trans rights movement is morally just
May 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The movement to employ Aaron Rogers is actually anti-winning
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God, what have you done?
You're a WOKE MARXIST POPE
And you preach at the Vat
Oh Papa, I'm just having fun
On the balcony in my mitre
It's where I belong down at the
WOKE MARXIST POPE
I'm gonna keep on preaching at the
WOKE MARXIST POPE
You're a WOKE MARXIST POPE
And you preach at the Vat
Oh Papa, I'm just having fun
On the balcony in my mitre
It's where I belong down at the
WOKE MARXIST POPE
I'm gonna keep on preaching at the
WOKE MARXIST POPE
May 8, 2025 at 8:34 PM
God, what have you done?
You're a WOKE MARXIST POPE
And you preach at the Vat
Oh Papa, I'm just having fun
On the balcony in my mitre
It's where I belong down at the
WOKE MARXIST POPE
I'm gonna keep on preaching at the
WOKE MARXIST POPE
You're a WOKE MARXIST POPE
And you preach at the Vat
Oh Papa, I'm just having fun
On the balcony in my mitre
It's where I belong down at the
WOKE MARXIST POPE
I'm gonna keep on preaching at the
WOKE MARXIST POPE
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"Hello, Secretary Rubio? Yes, great, so, listen, I have to report that a number of my coworkers appear to have been mocking my religion by serving money and not God, in direct violation of Matthew 6:24.
I have a list of names here, to you have the next 7 or 8 hours free?"
I have a list of names here, to you have the next 7 or 8 hours free?"
State tells employees to report on one another for ‘anti-Christian bias’
“It’s very ‘Handmaid’s Tale’-esque,” one official said.
www.politico.com
April 11, 2025 at 9:14 PM
"Hello, Secretary Rubio? Yes, great, so, listen, I have to report that a number of my coworkers appear to have been mocking my religion by serving money and not God, in direct violation of Matthew 6:24.
I have a list of names here, to you have the next 7 or 8 hours free?"
I have a list of names here, to you have the next 7 or 8 hours free?"
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The moment in the movie where Lindsay Lohan realizes she swapped bodies with the FBI director
March 25, 2025 at 4:25 PM
The moment in the movie where Lindsay Lohan realizes she swapped bodies with the FBI director
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everyone should listen to this in its entirety but journalists should listen to it multiple times. this is how you ask questions. you just keep asking simple, easily answerable stuff and the evasiveness becomes that much more glaring
In which the Department of Homeland Security struggles to answer a very simple question: "Is any criticism of the United States government a deportable offense?"
(From NPR here: www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...)
(From NPR here: www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...)
March 13, 2025 at 11:52 PM
everyone should listen to this in its entirety but journalists should listen to it multiple times. this is how you ask questions. you just keep asking simple, easily answerable stuff and the evasiveness becomes that much more glaring
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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
March 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
Has @aoc.bsky.social seem this one? I know she was taking suggestions at one point
I actually think the dems should attend the SOTU, wait till the 2nd sentence, and then walk out en masse, that'll do it, there'll be no address, he'll just have a meltdown on national Tv
March 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Has @aoc.bsky.social seem this one? I know she was taking suggestions at one point
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has a single mainstream journalist acknowledged that it was a massive media failure to treat project 2025 as a closed issue just bc trump lied a couple of times about not supporting it
February 20, 2025 at 6:46 PM
has a single mainstream journalist acknowledged that it was a massive media failure to treat project 2025 as a closed issue just bc trump lied a couple of times about not supporting it
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Trump: "There's a map on the back of the Constitution. We're going to be looking at it very closely. We've been talking about it from the day I got in, and we're looking at that very, very strongly."
Trump on DOGE: We’re going to go into Fort Knox to make sure the gold is still there. You know that? We’re going to go into Fort Knox. You know about that? We hope everything is fine with Fort Knox. But we’re going to go to Fort Knox and make sure the gold is still there.
February 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Trump: "There's a map on the back of the Constitution. We're going to be looking at it very closely. We've been talking about it from the day I got in, and we're looking at that very, very strongly."
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Donald Trump, that notoriously brillilant dealmaker, is giving his courtiers concessions worth tens of billions of dollars from the U.S. government, in exchange for personal bribes worth tens of millions.
Again, Twitter WON this case (decisively) at the district court level. The 9th Circuit made it clear that Twitter would win on appeal at oral args. And now it decided to just hand over $10 million to Trump.
www.cnbc.com/2025/02/12/e...
www.cnbc.com/2025/02/12/e...
Elon Musk's company X settles Trump lawsuit over account suspension
Facebook and Instagram owner Meta recently said it would pay $25 million to settle a similar lawsuit by President Donald Trump.
www.cnbc.com
February 13, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Donald Trump, that notoriously brillilant dealmaker, is giving his courtiers concessions worth tens of billions of dollars from the U.S. government, in exchange for personal bribes worth tens of millions.
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