Nate Thatcher
@nthatcher.bsky.social
Composer. Multihyphenate quintessence of dust. He/him
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An 82-year-old permanent resident who survived torture under Pinochet was arrested at a Philadelphia immigration office where he'd gone to get his green card replaced, and deported to Guatemala—which was not his country of birth.
We are at the "deporting green card holders with no criminal records" stage, and it will get lost amidst DHS's other scandals.
July 20, 2025 at 11:35 AM
An 82-year-old permanent resident who survived torture under Pinochet was arrested at a Philadelphia immigration office where he'd gone to get his green card replaced, and deported to Guatemala—which was not his country of birth.
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TRUTH BOMB 💣 this guy is a Pedophile. I also made him President
June 5, 2025 at 7:38 PM
TRUTH BOMB 💣 this guy is a Pedophile. I also made him President
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In between the stories of horrific human rights abuses and trade war insanity I remember that they have also destroyed all our research and data infrastructure and effectively ended any environmental, health, or labor regulation.
May 2, 2025 at 12:19 PM
In between the stories of horrific human rights abuses and trade war insanity I remember that they have also destroyed all our research and data infrastructure and effectively ended any environmental, health, or labor regulation.
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Federal spending is *up* under Trump according to the Wall Street Journal. Chaos is not actually the same as cost savings.
Actual budgeting is a kind of actual policy-making and takes real work spread over real time. Running around breaking stuff isn't that.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Actual budgeting is a kind of actual policy-making and takes real work spread over real time. Running around breaking stuff isn't that.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
April 11, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Federal spending is *up* under Trump according to the Wall Street Journal. Chaos is not actually the same as cost savings.
Actual budgeting is a kind of actual policy-making and takes real work spread over real time. Running around breaking stuff isn't that.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Actual budgeting is a kind of actual policy-making and takes real work spread over real time. Running around breaking stuff isn't that.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Is anyone even bothering to contend that this isn't a genocide anymore?
Israel has bombed one of Gaza’s only operational water desalination plants, which was supplying clean drinking water. Many Palestinians now fear dying of thirst before being killed by Israel's air attack. www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe...
Gaza residents share fears of thirst after Israel destroys water resources
Israel has bombed one of Gaza’s only operational water desalination plants that was supplying people with clean water.
www.aljazeera.com
April 11, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Is anyone even bothering to contend that this isn't a genocide anymore?
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THEM: You just want to have an echo chamber!
ALVIN LUCIER: I am sitting in a room different from the one you are in now. I am recording the sound of my speaking voice and I am going to play it back into the room again and again until the resonant frequencies of the room reinforce themselves
ALVIN LUCIER: I am sitting in a room different from the one you are in now. I am recording the sound of my speaking voice and I am going to play it back into the room again and again until the resonant frequencies of the room reinforce themselves
March 2, 2025 at 3:11 PM
THEM: You just want to have an echo chamber!
ALVIN LUCIER: I am sitting in a room different from the one you are in now. I am recording the sound of my speaking voice and I am going to play it back into the room again and again until the resonant frequencies of the room reinforce themselves
ALVIN LUCIER: I am sitting in a room different from the one you are in now. I am recording the sound of my speaking voice and I am going to play it back into the room again and again until the resonant frequencies of the room reinforce themselves
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Thanks to @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social for reminding me of this Ursula K. le Guin quote.
February 22, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Thanks to @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social for reminding me of this Ursula K. le Guin quote.
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"Sorry, we can't make this technology that sucks and nobody wants and that uses enough power to blow up the moon unless we *also* steal people's shit to throw into our content woodchipper in order to produce mediocre digital particleboard out of the cumulative artbarf."
futurism.com/the-byte/ope...
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OpenAI Pleads That It Can’t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free
OpenAI is begging Parliament to allow it to use copyrighted works because it's "impossible" for the company to make money without them.
futurism.com
December 20, 2024 at 2:05 PM
"Sorry, we can't make this technology that sucks and nobody wants and that uses enough power to blow up the moon unless we *also* steal people's shit to throw into our content woodchipper in order to produce mediocre digital particleboard out of the cumulative artbarf."
futurism.com/the-byte/ope...
futurism.com/the-byte/ope...
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The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.
February 6, 2025 at 12:31 PM
The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.
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Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt.
Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.
Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.
February 5, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt.
Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.
Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.
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In the early COVID-19 pandemic, the Chinese government censored scientific research for 6 days; this is frequently called out by US elected officials. Now, US scientists have been prohibited from speaking with the public for 17 days and counting.
February 6, 2025 at 12:40 PM
In the early COVID-19 pandemic, the Chinese government censored scientific research for 6 days; this is frequently called out by US elected officials. Now, US scientists have been prohibited from speaking with the public for 17 days and counting.
I need to just earnestly revel in the good of something. Can we have a little thread of what we feel are the best line readings in the LoTR Jackson trilogy? I'll start. Boromir: "Give them a moment, for pity's sake!" Such a small moment but perfectly delivered.
@bythebywater.bsky.social
@bythebywater.bsky.social
January 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I need to just earnestly revel in the good of something. Can we have a little thread of what we feel are the best line readings in the LoTR Jackson trilogy? I'll start. Boromir: "Give them a moment, for pity's sake!" Such a small moment but perfectly delivered.
@bythebywater.bsky.social
@bythebywater.bsky.social
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I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike
January 24, 2025 at 10:56 AM
I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike
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The job of media commentators is to respond thoughtfully to how people feel, not to tell them how to feel. Which is why the editorials deploring the reaction to the healthcare CEO slaying are such failures of curiosity and understanding, such triumphs of obliviousness and elite panic.
The brazen murder of a CEO in Midtown Manhattan—and the cheering reaction to his execution—amounts to a blinking-and-blaring warning signal for a society that has become already too inured to bloodshed, @adriennelaf.bsky.social writes. theatln.tc/ZRcsrreK
December 13, 2024 at 5:01 AM
The job of media commentators is to respond thoughtfully to how people feel, not to tell them how to feel. Which is why the editorials deploring the reaction to the healthcare CEO slaying are such failures of curiosity and understanding, such triumphs of obliviousness and elite panic.
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At this point it’s been said in a hundred different ways, so I think people are being intentional about not getting it.
December 1, 2024 at 8:42 PM
At this point it’s been said in a hundred different ways, so I think people are being intentional about not getting it.
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The state doesn’t have the right or the legitimacy to kill anyone, innocent or guilty, but the state-sanctioned slaughter of the innocent, here and across borders, should evacuate any remaining illusions.
September 24, 2024 at 11:32 PM
The state doesn’t have the right or the legitimacy to kill anyone, innocent or guilty, but the state-sanctioned slaughter of the innocent, here and across borders, should evacuate any remaining illusions.
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the death penalty is one of the most evil things in this country. it must be abolished and it is a deep, horrible nauseating rot on the fabric of all that we should hold dear that it still exists.
September 24, 2024 at 11:34 PM
the death penalty is one of the most evil things in this country. it must be abolished and it is a deep, horrible nauseating rot on the fabric of all that we should hold dear that it still exists.
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i truly hate this guy apnews.com/article/jd-v...
JD Vance says school shootings are a 'fact of life,' calls for better security
Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance says school shootings are a “fact of life" and the U.S. needs to harden security to prevent more carnage.
apnews.com
September 6, 2024 at 12:51 AM
i truly hate this guy apnews.com/article/jd-v...
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It's Causal Friday. Every action I take has far reaching implications.
August 2, 2024 at 7:34 PM
It's Causal Friday. Every action I take has far reaching implications.
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Well, this is gonna go over well with the GOP base.
"In a discussion on the TRIGGERnometry YouTube channel..."
Billionaire GOP Donor Peter Thiel Blames Christianity for ‘Wokeness’: ‘It Always Takes the Side of the Victim’
Billionaire GOP donor Peter Thiel blamed Christianity for the proliferation of "wokeness" in a recent interview, lamenting that it takes the side of victims.
www.mediaite.com
August 1, 2024 at 6:58 PM
Well, this is gonna go over well with the GOP base.
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[P] Only one person whose op-ed on the "weird" discourse I would care to read
July 31, 2024 at 1:31 PM
[P] Only one person whose op-ed on the "weird" discourse I would care to read
I'm honestly still working on this and it's...tough.
the most freeing thing you can do as an american man is consciously decide that you don't give a shit if people think you're tough
August 2, 2024 at 3:30 AM
I'm honestly still working on this and it's...tough.
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I think Snoop Dogg is our next Ben Franklin
August 2, 2024 at 1:07 AM
I think Snoop Dogg is our next Ben Franklin