Peter
Peter
@peter1592.bsky.social
I like cats and sci fi/fantasy stuff and gay stuff and I’m here because I’m very online
That’s… a new definition of refugee 🤨
Q: There are many people who fit the criteria of fleeing persecution. Afghans for example. But they're being denied refugee status. So why such an exception for the Afrikaners?

TRUMP ADMIN OFFICIAL: One of the criteria is making sure they can be assimilated easily into our country
May 12, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I feel like OpenAI techbros know the gig is up because their lobbyists wouldn’t be trying to force this through for ten years unless they knew trouble was coming soon
This is insane. Republicans have inserted language into the budget reconciliation bill that would ban states from regulating AI in any capacity for 10 years.

from @404media.co

www.404media.co/republicans-...
May 12, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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It’s actually insane that there’s an argument happening here over whether the plane grift is “corruption”

What are we even doing?
May 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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“Should die.”

“Should die”

“Should die.”

Completely unnecessarily, from a preventable disease.

(Also, some of the “healthy” survivors will wind up sick or disabled, and I suppose falling into Kennedy’s basket of disposable people).
RFK Jr talking about the need for doctors to know how to treat measles for those who are unvaccinated.

“Only very sick kids should die from measles.”

No. They shouldn’t. That was the point of the vaccine. We eradicated the virus so children didn’t die.

Sick & disabled kids are not expendable!
May 12, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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Lab director: Hey so, you guys haven't been doing anything to piss off the gods, right?

Me: no

LD: nothing Forbidden.

Me: no!

LD: because I don't know how often you read the news lately,

Me: *nervous* haha yeah the Chicago Pope

LD: No? I mean the-

*13 solid gold pebbles fall out of my pocket*
ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the Large Hadron Collider
In a paper published in Physical Review C, the ALICE collaboration reports measurements that quantify the transmutation of lead into gold in CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
phys.org
May 12, 2025 at 5:01 AM
I was about to post something foolish and then I just had to remind myself of the wonderful advice I first learned from Kara Brown on Twitter years ago -

You can always just say nothing.
May 12, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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so now i guess the left wants to make it illegal for your friend to give you a little gift just to say they were thinking of you
May 11, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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interesting how when these people have power it is no longer about your choice. they will decide if you can get a vaccine or not.
May 12, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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May 12, 2025 at 1:43 AM
None of this is okay
The president has covered the Oval Office in gold, is planning a massive military parade for his birthday, and is now accepting $400,000,000 luxury planes from foreign powers as personal presents.

What the fuck are we doing here?
May 12, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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“Many still consider”— bullshit!! It is a slur! This is not a real argument you have to give both sides to!
May 12, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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It’s not just academic for that person. How many people might die if foreign governments can surveil the president and his spaces? How exposed is the president to actual physical threats? And yet…anyone who says “no” gets expelled from government.
May 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Imagine being the Air Force person tasked with signing off on “this plane is now secure enough for the President to use as a mobile command center.” You *have to*, at cost of your professional life. But you *can’t*—at cost of your professional life.
May 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Surely the concerns here are not merely “ethical” but, you know, “legal” and “blatant corruption” and “an immeasurably vast security threat”?

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/u...
Trump Is to Accept a Luxury 747 From Qatar for Use as Air Force One
www.nytimes.com
May 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
But her emails! But Hunter Biden’s laptop!
It’s especially galling that AG Pam Bondi personally wrote the memo approving the gift of the Qatari airplane. Her last job was as a lobbyist for Qatar! efile.fara.gov/docs/6415-Ex...
May 11, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Since I administered the WH emoluments rules, let me explain why this is forbidden

Trump expressed interest in it before it was offered

He is going to use & benefit from it a while in office

And he's going to keep using it after he leaves!

Functionally, it's a gift to him & so it's illegal
Overseeing the presidential gift rules was among my duties as White House Ethics Czar -- so I know how it's supposed to work

The gift of this plane to Trump is illegal & unconstitutional

The AG & the WH Counsel oughtta be ashamed of themselves for allowing it

abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
Trump administration poised to accept 'palace in the sky' as a gift for Trump from Qatar: Sources
President Trump poised to accept "palace in the sky" as a gift from Qatar: Sources
abcnews.go.com
May 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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May 10, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Pope Leo spotted on the 2005 World Series broadcast
May 9, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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No person in the history of the US has made more money off being president and running for president. Not even close. Trump testified in his NY deposition that the value of “his brand” went from $3B to $10B the day he got elected in 2016. That was BEFORE most of his grifts. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Leavitt: "I think it's frankly ridiculous that anyone in this room would even suggest that President Trump is doing anything for his own benefit. He left a life of luxury and a life of running a very successful real estate empire for public service."
May 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Look, I know that Catholics and ex-Catholics from Chicago are being insufferable about the new pope. But just think, it could have been worse, he could’ve been from Boston!
May 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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He went to HS with a friend's family in Chicago. We got yearbook shots of Bob Prevost!
May 8, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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In this Ohio diner, Leo still means DiCaprio. But they do know this: If the new pope won't declare that the 2020 election was stolen, it will be time to convert from Catholic to Eastern Orthodox.
May 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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> new pope loves snoopy

WE'RE SO BACK
May 8, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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“The pope will be from Chicago” sounds like an 1880s Republican’s dire prediction for if we don’t stop Irish immigration
May 8, 2025 at 5:26 PM