Rajiv Moté
@rajivmote.bsky.social
Chicago. SFFH writer (Codex, ex-SFWA), software professional, Dragonmount contributor, shiftless dreamer. Views expressed are my own and do not reflect my employers or anybody else.
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To fully appreciate how perfect this post was, I had to look up the lyrics to Insane Clown Posse's song "Miracles":
"Fucking magnets, how do they work?
And I don't wanna talk to a scientist
Y'all motherfuckers lying, and getting me pissed"
THIS IS PRESIDENTIAL NOW.
"Fucking magnets, how do they work?
And I don't wanna talk to a scientist
Y'all motherfuckers lying, and getting me pissed"
THIS IS PRESIDENTIAL NOW.
if you told 17 year old me how thoroughly, world-historically vindicated ICP would be within a couple decades...
Trump: "Nobody knows what magnets are."
November 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
To fully appreciate how perfect this post was, I had to look up the lyrics to Insane Clown Posse's song "Miracles":
"Fucking magnets, how do they work?
And I don't wanna talk to a scientist
Y'all motherfuckers lying, and getting me pissed"
THIS IS PRESIDENTIAL NOW.
"Fucking magnets, how do they work?
And I don't wanna talk to a scientist
Y'all motherfuckers lying, and getting me pissed"
THIS IS PRESIDENTIAL NOW.
I get kind of offended that Potbelly doesn't chop its onions for its "loaded" chili, it just takes the sandwich-cut rings and puts them in, leaving each spoonful hanging with stringy masses.
November 11, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I get kind of offended that Potbelly doesn't chop its onions for its "loaded" chili, it just takes the sandwich-cut rings and puts them in, leaving each spoonful hanging with stringy masses.
OMG, @maureenthorson.bsky.social delivers line after incredible line. "What's religion but everyone knowing the words?" will tumble around in my brain for quite a while.
today's small prose poem from Maureen Thorson is a marvel, but that first sentence — "It’s nearly Christmas." — just about gave me a panic attack.
https://www.havehashad.com/fm8m7
https://www.havehashad.com/fm8m7
November 11, 2025 at 5:56 PM
OMG, @maureenthorson.bsky.social delivers line after incredible line. "What's religion but everyone knowing the words?" will tumble around in my brain for quite a while.
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The “Syncretic Vader“ hypothesis explains why various documents purporting to depict the ”individual” inside the armor vary so widely in physical characteristics
“Darth Vader” was an amalgamation of various Imperial Era generals and cyborgs that were combined in histories written centuries after the fact
November 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
The “Syncretic Vader“ hypothesis explains why various documents purporting to depict the ”individual” inside the armor vary so widely in physical characteristics
I'm going to a Belly concert tonight and bracing myself for a swell of youthful feelings and memories jogging loose my rusted-over emotional apparatus.
Tanya Donelly, what you're doing is cruel, but I'd still rather suffer you than suffer the fools.
Tanya Donelly, what you're doing is cruel, but I'd still rather suffer you than suffer the fools.
November 10, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I'm going to a Belly concert tonight and bracing myself for a swell of youthful feelings and memories jogging loose my rusted-over emotional apparatus.
Tanya Donelly, what you're doing is cruel, but I'd still rather suffer you than suffer the fools.
Tanya Donelly, what you're doing is cruel, but I'd still rather suffer you than suffer the fools.
Smarter minds than mine may be able to determine if @wikipedia.org is flagging LLM content for removal, or flagging LLM content that it will let stand.
right, like I saw at least one history entry being "removed some AI content", so I think it's trying to identify pages with AI content?
(which would be good?)
(which would be good?)
November 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Smarter minds than mine may be able to determine if @wikipedia.org is flagging LLM content for removal, or flagging LLM content that it will let stand.
I did a knee-jerk outrage post about @wikipedia.org using LLMs even as they fundraise under a "Knowledge is human" slogan. (Screencap from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerryma...)
As soon as I did, the post that alerted me to it was deleted, and I started to wonder if there was something more insidious...
As soon as I did, the post that alerted me to it was deleted, and I started to wonder if there was something more insidious...
November 10, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I did a knee-jerk outrage post about @wikipedia.org using LLMs even as they fundraise under a "Knowledge is human" slogan. (Screencap from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerryma...)
As soon as I did, the post that alerted me to it was deleted, and I started to wonder if there was something more insidious...
As soon as I did, the post that alerted me to it was deleted, and I started to wonder if there was something more insidious...
I tried to read near a cat, and the cat decided otherwise.
November 9, 2025 at 10:42 PM
I tried to read near a cat, and the cat decided otherwise.
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
I know "right-wing" has become synonymous with "white supremacist" but we should consistently use the more descriptive epithet lest people continue to believe our country actually needs a "right wing" to fly.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I know "right-wing" has become synonymous with "white supremacist" but we should consistently use the more descriptive epithet lest people continue to believe our country actually needs a "right wing" to fly.
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Let me guess: They then asked him if they were related
Indian Illinois Department of Transportation employee stopped by ICE agents, questioned if he was 'aware' of NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani
Indian IDOT employee stopped by ICE agents, questioned if he was 'aware' of NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani
Gov. JB Pritzker is speaking out about the incident, which happened Friday morning, calling it another example of President Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem "continuing to question U....
chicago.suntimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Let me guess: They then asked him if they were related
If you were as mystified as me why Justice KBJ would put a stay on the lower court order for Trump to fund SNAP, this helps.
November 8, 2025 at 4:36 AM
If you were as mystified as me why Justice KBJ would put a stay on the lower court order for Trump to fund SNAP, this helps.
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The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
November 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
And they say these concentration camps are non-punitive, that they're mere "processing centers." ICE must be dismantled completely, as even the concept of immigration enforcement has been perverted irredeemably.
Her husband told her that detainees at Broadview had to get up at 5am to get in line for one bathroom. He often peed himself. One time he had to wait until 2pm to use the bathroom. You could only use the bathroom once a day. He said the agents would beat you if you used the bathroom on yourself.
November 7, 2025 at 5:35 PM
And they say these concentration camps are non-punitive, that they're mere "processing centers." ICE must be dismantled completely, as even the concept of immigration enforcement has been perverted irredeemably.
It was permissible for Madonna to completely reinvent herself because each reinvention manifested in the music she created. Her reinvention was through her actions.
Don't trust that Marjorie Taylor Greene is doing the same.
Don't trust that Marjorie Taylor Greene is doing the same.
November 7, 2025 at 5:25 PM
It was permissible for Madonna to completely reinvent herself because each reinvention manifested in the music she created. Her reinvention was through her actions.
Don't trust that Marjorie Taylor Greene is doing the same.
Don't trust that Marjorie Taylor Greene is doing the same.
So what I'm hearing is, definitely watch Pluribus on AppleTV.
November 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
So what I'm hearing is, definitely watch Pluribus on AppleTV.
If the punditry is to be believed, that the majority of voters vote on the economy, it feels like a problem if a majority of the electorate has a shallow-to-nonexistent understanding of how policies affect the economy, and on what time scale.
November 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
If the punditry is to be believed, that the majority of voters vote on the economy, it feels like a problem if a majority of the electorate has a shallow-to-nonexistent understanding of how policies affect the economy, and on what time scale.
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Word of the Day is ‘catchfart’ (17th century): an obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind.
November 7, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Word of the Day is ‘catchfart’ (17th century): an obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind.
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B A N G E R ALERT
Every South Asian child in New York City should do a dance to this song at the next wedding they go to
Singer is Salma Kausar and turns out I love her vibes
src: www.instagram.com/reel/DQMjwOo...
Every South Asian child in New York City should do a dance to this song at the next wedding they go to
Singer is Salma Kausar and turns out I love her vibes
src: www.instagram.com/reel/DQMjwOo...
October 25, 2025 at 12:25 AM
B A N G E R ALERT
Every South Asian child in New York City should do a dance to this song at the next wedding they go to
Singer is Salma Kausar and turns out I love her vibes
src: www.instagram.com/reel/DQMjwOo...
Every South Asian child in New York City should do a dance to this song at the next wedding they go to
Singer is Salma Kausar and turns out I love her vibes
src: www.instagram.com/reel/DQMjwOo...
I'm alarmed to realize I've lost the capacity to dream about freedom from the constraints of financial necessity. My mind just refuses to game that out. Huh.
What's a risk you'd be more comfortable taking if Universal Basic Income (UBI) provided a floor of income you could never fall below?
November 6, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I'm alarmed to realize I've lost the capacity to dream about freedom from the constraints of financial necessity. My mind just refuses to game that out. Huh.
Sandwich up, Chicago. The courts have spoken.
The D.C. man accused of assaulting a U.S. Border Patrol agent with a Subway sandwich was found not guilty by a jury
DC ‘Sandwich Guy’ Found Not Guilty After Defense Successfully Highlights Absurdity Of It All
Jeanine Pirro tried to make an example of Sean Dunn. She ended up delivering a hero to Washington, D.C.
www.huffpost.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Sandwich up, Chicago. The courts have spoken.
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It's a wrap!
BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy' charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent
Sean Dunn faced single misdemeanor offense after federal grand jurors refused to indict him on the felony charge sought by prosecutors.
www.nbcnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
It's a wrap!
I'd enjoy a Phantom Menace edition where the droid army was basically this. And the battle against the Gangans was *still* a close call.
November 6, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I'd enjoy a Phantom Menace edition where the droid army was basically this. And the battle against the Gangans was *still* a close call.
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If you haven’t seen our first ad of the campaign, here it is:
November 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM
If you haven’t seen our first ad of the campaign, here it is:
"THAT," an entity that haunts a small town, but instead of preying on fear, like IT, it manifests people's wildest hopes, showing them dreams and possibilities they'd never dared pursue.
Alas, THAT eventually does devour the people it inspires.
Alas, THAT eventually does devour the people it inspires.
November 6, 2025 at 2:21 PM
"THAT," an entity that haunts a small town, but instead of preying on fear, like IT, it manifests people's wildest hopes, showing them dreams and possibilities they'd never dared pursue.
Alas, THAT eventually does devour the people it inspires.
Alas, THAT eventually does devour the people it inspires.