Joe Flaherty
@joef-3.bsky.social
Ní neart go cur le chéile. He/him.
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A real news outlet publishing the phrase "Grok apologized" should result in like a week-long timeout. Think about what you've done.
January 2, 2026 at 10:31 PM
A real news outlet publishing the phrase "Grok apologized" should result in like a week-long timeout. Think about what you've done.
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Hey everyone! The fourth book (first in the second trilogy) of the powder mage universe is on sale for just $2.99 in the US today. Good time to grab it! amzn.to/3Yo0cgd
January 2, 2026 at 8:50 PM
Hey everyone! The fourth book (first in the second trilogy) of the powder mage universe is on sale for just $2.99 in the US today. Good time to grab it! amzn.to/3Yo0cgd
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Ireland, you have the chance to do the funniest thing ever.
Under Irish law Musk can be jailed for 12 months for being a director of a company distributing CSAM. Section 9 of the Child Trafficking and Pornography Act 1998. 'X' is a company registered in Ireland.
January 2, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Ireland, you have the chance to do the funniest thing ever.
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I don't recall off hand who made the point about AI being, more than anything else, a machine for displacing responsibility. That increasingly looks like its most reliable feature
This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc)
#1: Reuters
#1: Reuters
January 2, 2026 at 8:11 PM
I don't recall off hand who made the point about AI being, more than anything else, a machine for displacing responsibility. That increasingly looks like its most reliable feature
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so basically our rich oligarchs launched a racist propaganda media campaign to demonize taxpayer-funded childcare, our garbage oligarch press parroted the attack, and now they're going to steal that money to put into their assorted cryptocurrency grifts
‘Scorched-Earth Attack’: Trump Admin Cuts Off Childcare Funds to All States | Common Dreams
"My team and I are exploring all our legal options to ensure that critical childcare services do not get abruptly slashed based on pretext and grandstanding," said Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ell...
www.commondreams.org
January 2, 2026 at 3:18 PM
so basically our rich oligarchs launched a racist propaganda media campaign to demonize taxpayer-funded childcare, our garbage oligarch press parroted the attack, and now they're going to steal that money to put into their assorted cryptocurrency grifts
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Obviously, many have done this already but at some point the rest of you really need to make the pivot from “why is Twitter doing this” to the more appropriate question which is of course “why is everyone letting Twitter do this”
January 2, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Obviously, many have done this already but at some point the rest of you really need to make the pivot from “why is Twitter doing this” to the more appropriate question which is of course “why is everyone letting Twitter do this”
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New in PN: The blame for alleged fraud in Minnesota belongs to conservatives
"Republican policies have created a perfect vicious cycle: Privatize services, let private companies run amok, then declare that the government is the problem. And the Trump administration is turbo-charging it."
"Republican policies have created a perfect vicious cycle: Privatize services, let private companies run amok, then declare that the government is the problem. And the Trump administration is turbo-charging it."
The blame for alleged fraud in Minnesota belongs to conservatives
Privatization and a lack of oversight creates a vicious cycle.
www.publicnotice.co
January 2, 2026 at 2:58 PM
New in PN: The blame for alleged fraud in Minnesota belongs to conservatives
"Republican policies have created a perfect vicious cycle: Privatize services, let private companies run amok, then declare that the government is the problem. And the Trump administration is turbo-charging it."
"Republican policies have created a perfect vicious cycle: Privatize services, let private companies run amok, then declare that the government is the problem. And the Trump administration is turbo-charging it."
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STOP. PUBLISHING. STORIES. LIKE. THIS.
Grok says safeguard lapses led to images of 'minors in minimal clothing' on X reut.rs/498SoUk
Grok says safeguard lapses led to images of 'minors in minimal clothing' on X
Elon Musk's xAI artificial intelligence chatbot Grok said on Friday lapses in safeguards had resulted in "images depicting minors in minimal clothing" on social media platform X and that improvements were being made to prevent this.
reut.rs
January 2, 2026 at 3:00 PM
STOP. PUBLISHING. STORIES. LIKE. THIS.
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You don’t need to know a single fact about Somali Americans to know the campaign against them is morally hideous. Either you can recognize that these campaigns are wrong a priori, or you are in your heart a racist.
I was wondering why their is so much random racist discourse on Somalis on the TL rn but oh it’s election season for governor rn lol
January 2, 2026 at 5:55 AM
You don’t need to know a single fact about Somali Americans to know the campaign against them is morally hideous. Either you can recognize that these campaigns are wrong a priori, or you are in your heart a racist.
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new years thoughts
January 1, 2026 at 11:09 PM
new years thoughts
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Criminals fleeing New York as Mamdani takes charge
Some news — George Santos has fled NYC due to Zohran Mamdani.
January 2, 2026 at 5:27 AM
Criminals fleeing New York as Mamdani takes charge
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the trump asprin thing is so funny to me because he basically gave himself hemophilia. like oh if you can't get it from inbreeding in the european monarchy because you are new money, storebought is also available
January 1, 2026 at 8:31 PM
the trump asprin thing is so funny to me because he basically gave himself hemophilia. like oh if you can't get it from inbreeding in the european monarchy because you are new money, storebought is also available
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deeply, sincerely, from the bottom of my heart i say fuck the new york times.
stop giving them your money. cancel your subscription. drop their crosswords. move on from wordle.
trans people have been saying for years this was an organized campaign of bigotry and disinformation. well here it all is
stop giving them your money. cancel your subscription. drop their crosswords. move on from wordle.
trans people have been saying for years this was an organized campaign of bigotry and disinformation. well here it all is
In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry
In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...
transnews.network
January 2, 2026 at 2:57 AM
deeply, sincerely, from the bottom of my heart i say fuck the new york times.
stop giving them your money. cancel your subscription. drop their crosswords. move on from wordle.
trans people have been saying for years this was an organized campaign of bigotry and disinformation. well here it all is
stop giving them your money. cancel your subscription. drop their crosswords. move on from wordle.
trans people have been saying for years this was an organized campaign of bigotry and disinformation. well here it all is
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This is amazing and I want every government to adopt it!
If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free.
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
January 2, 2026 at 4:50 AM
This is amazing and I want every government to adopt it!
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The automated sexual abuse that Musk is doing right now should be national news. People should be going to prison for this shit. The logical conclusion to generative image creation and the internet, pure public automatic violence. Every Pizzagate fear just out in the open.
January 2, 2026 at 12:44 AM
The automated sexual abuse that Musk is doing right now should be national news. People should be going to prison for this shit. The logical conclusion to generative image creation and the internet, pure public automatic violence. Every Pizzagate fear just out in the open.
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This is the thing I'll never understand. If I were as provably, publicly, chronically bad at my job as so many in the centrist pundit industrial complex are, I would simply pursue a different career.
How many times do you need to screw up a filling before you go "maybe I should not be a dentist"?
How many times do you need to screw up a filling before you go "maybe I should not be a dentist"?
There are multiple national political commentators who earnestly predicted that Eric Adams would be a legitimate presidential candidate and a national figurehead of the Democratic party by now and those commentators still have careers somehow.
January 2, 2026 at 5:03 AM
This is the thing I'll never understand. If I were as provably, publicly, chronically bad at my job as so many in the centrist pundit industrial complex are, I would simply pursue a different career.
How many times do you need to screw up a filling before you go "maybe I should not be a dentist"?
How many times do you need to screw up a filling before you go "maybe I should not be a dentist"?
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Once you look for, "does this [article / op-ed / claim by a politician] consider the 80% of Americans who live in urban areas to be real Americans?" you will see it everywhere, because the answer is usually "no."
I'm entirely serious about this: until you internalize the view that urban America is Real America, you won't see the urgency of structural reform of an American government whose fundamental structures so disadvantage its population centers—the great engines of its prosperity, progress, & culture.
Another good practice for the New Year would be for all the non-fascists in America who want to opine about politics to really begin believing that urban America is Real America & that its denizens are The Authentic People. Get some self-respect & drop the volkish nationalist view that they're not
January 1, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Once you look for, "does this [article / op-ed / claim by a politician] consider the 80% of Americans who live in urban areas to be real Americans?" you will see it everywhere, because the answer is usually "no."
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Aka, The Portman Principle
January 1, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Aka, The Portman Principle
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We have American problems which require American solutions. Some will be trivial, some will require us to remember the great undertakings of our past. We can, we have – we will – do great things. It takes but a leader to arouse the patriotic spirit.
It's striking that progressives like Tim Walz and Zohran Mamdani evoke the middle American attitude that, "Yes, we can fix these social problems because we're Americans and it's the right thing to do!" While the "America first" right only emulates failed and failing nation-states elsewhere.
January 1, 2026 at 11:06 PM
We have American problems which require American solutions. Some will be trivial, some will require us to remember the great undertakings of our past. We can, we have – we will – do great things. It takes but a leader to arouse the patriotic spirit.
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2026 needs to be the year of Fuck You, Make Me as a lifestyle and a philosophy.
It's amazing how so fucking many institutions complied with fascism when pretty much every time someone goes "fuck you, make me" the government goes "oh no we made an oopsie, we didn't mean to say that, birthday boy did a lil poopsie oopsie"
December 31, 2025 at 11:13 PM
2026 needs to be the year of Fuck You, Make Me as a lifestyle and a philosophy.
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Featuring a trans woman so prominently at his inauguration like this was an absolutely baller move by Zohran
Nice touch - the trans announcer from the subway (“Stand clear of the platform edge”) is doing the announcing
January 1, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Featuring a trans woman so prominently at his inauguration like this was an absolutely baller move by Zohran
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What do you mean "but" - the people who warned about it were telling the truth and the outlets like Axios who helped Trump distance himself from it were lying.
The Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 was a campaign trail boogeyman for President Trump, but much of it became reality during his first year back in office.
Trump enacted dozens of Project 2025 goals. Here's what's left
Project 2025 has dozens more action items awaiting Trump's attention in 2026.
www.axios.com
January 1, 2026 at 11:00 PM
What do you mean "but" - the people who warned about it were telling the truth and the outlets like Axios who helped Trump distance himself from it were lying.
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unfortunately we don’t live in a society that recognizes this on a legal level, but: a threat to deport 100 million people objectively justifies active and even pre-emptive self-defense
January 1, 2026 at 10:18 PM
unfortunately we don’t live in a society that recognizes this on a legal level, but: a threat to deport 100 million people objectively justifies active and even pre-emptive self-defense
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In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing.
You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics.
That is all.
You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics.
That is all.
January 1, 2026 at 10:30 PM
In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing.
You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics.
That is all.
You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics.
That is all.