Rhetoric4people
@rhetelrick.bsky.social
Social media cynic, feminist ironist, and all around nice Midwesterner. Roasts cauliflower and journalists for fun. Views = own
Actor Ralph Bellamy died this day in 1991. His namesake winter storm is now snarling traffic. Sounds about right for a curse.
November 29, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Actor Ralph Bellamy died this day in 1991. His namesake winter storm is now snarling traffic. Sounds about right for a curse.
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zoomers are ruining the planned obsolescence industry
November 29, 2025 at 3:20 AM
zoomers are ruining the planned obsolescence industry
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NYPD wrapped up the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade by driving a bearcat remarkably similar to the one they used for the Hind’s Hall raid at Columbia University last year.
(still via @neilconstantine.bsky.social)
(still via @neilconstantine.bsky.social)
November 27, 2025 at 5:10 PM
NYPD wrapped up the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade by driving a bearcat remarkably similar to the one they used for the Hind’s Hall raid at Columbia University last year.
(still via @neilconstantine.bsky.social)
(still via @neilconstantine.bsky.social)
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Bringing Native dances to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Native Pride Productions will take the stage at one of the largest parades in America on Thanksgiving morning featuring nine dancers from different tribes from the U.S. and Canada ictnews.org/news/bringin...
Native Pride Productions will take the stage at one of the largest parades in America on Thanksgiving morning featuring nine dancers from different tribes from the U.S. and Canada ictnews.org/news/bringin...
Bringing Native dances to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade - ICT
Native Pride Productions will take the stage at one of the largest parades in America on Thanksgiving morning featuring nine dancers from different tribes from the U.S. and Canada
ictnews.org
November 27, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Bringing Native dances to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Native Pride Productions will take the stage at one of the largest parades in America on Thanksgiving morning featuring nine dancers from different tribes from the U.S. and Canada ictnews.org/news/bringin...
Native Pride Productions will take the stage at one of the largest parades in America on Thanksgiving morning featuring nine dancers from different tribes from the U.S. and Canada ictnews.org/news/bringin...
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Tired: The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is a long consumerist advertisement for a corporation-based American hegemony that peaked before the forever wars.
Wired: Shaggy and Busta Rhymes are dad rock now.
Wired: Shaggy and Busta Rhymes are dad rock now.
November 27, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Tired: The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is a long consumerist advertisement for a corporation-based American hegemony that peaked before the forever wars.
Wired: Shaggy and Busta Rhymes are dad rock now.
Wired: Shaggy and Busta Rhymes are dad rock now.
unsung hero(s) of tonight: crescent rolls. and the mushroom soup (never made it to gravy, but damn it's tasty)
November 28, 2025 at 12:29 AM
unsung hero(s) of tonight: crescent rolls. and the mushroom soup (never made it to gravy, but damn it's tasty)
I'd say instead of giving thanks, consider giving reflection on the state of things from the point we're at. Acknowledge your privilege, see what you lack.
November 27, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I'd say instead of giving thanks, consider giving reflection on the state of things from the point we're at. Acknowledge your privilege, see what you lack.
Today is a harvest holiday. It is a marker of an ongoing genocide on Turtle Island. It is a day when people are forced to work overtime in a terrible economic climate. It is a day where people are still trying to work through family traumas. It is a day where lakes are shoved to another state.
November 27, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Today is a harvest holiday. It is a marker of an ongoing genocide on Turtle Island. It is a day when people are forced to work overtime in a terrible economic climate. It is a day where people are still trying to work through family traumas. It is a day where lakes are shoved to another state.
I don't give thanks to techbro fascists.
November 27, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I don't give thanks to techbro fascists.
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Reminder of who the real threat was, and who the threat has never been.
Maybe today should be a day of atonement.
Maybe today should be a day of atonement.
November 27, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Reminder of who the real threat was, and who the threat has never been.
Maybe today should be a day of atonement.
Maybe today should be a day of atonement.
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at the risk of sounding redundant, the examples of ICE agents detaining Indigenous Americans & handwaving their legit govt identity papers as "fake" really tells loudly on the core value of the white supremacist ethnic cleansing program
November 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
at the risk of sounding redundant, the examples of ICE agents detaining Indigenous Americans & handwaving their legit govt identity papers as "fake" really tells loudly on the core value of the white supremacist ethnic cleansing program
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Wannabe cops cosplaying as brown shirts used the bullshit generator to describe their fascist behavior.
Judge Says ICE Used ChatGPT to Write Use-of-Force Reports
Judge Says ICE Used ChatGPT to Write Use-of-Force Reports
ChatGPT for Fascists.
gizmodo.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Wannabe cops cosplaying as brown shirts used the bullshit generator to describe their fascist behavior.
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ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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"If Big Tech has the budget to put data centers 400 miles above the Earth’s surface, it absolutely has the budget to adequately compensate its workers on the ground. Big Tech cannot claim to be building the future while exploiting those who keep it running."
theopinionpages.com/2025/11/the-...
theopinionpages.com/2025/11/the-...
The Human Cost of Big Tech’s Cosmic Dreams | The Opinion Pages
Imagine looking up at the night sky and noticing new constellations, only to find out they are made up of data centers. This may sound like science fiction, but Google has announced plans to make this...
theopinionpages.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:34 PM
"If Big Tech has the budget to put data centers 400 miles above the Earth’s surface, it absolutely has the budget to adequately compensate its workers on the ground. Big Tech cannot claim to be building the future while exploiting those who keep it running."
theopinionpages.com/2025/11/the-...
theopinionpages.com/2025/11/the-...
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>PJM is considering proposing to allow data center loads that it cannot serve reliably and that will require periodic blackouts for data centers and other customers, Monitoring Analytics, the grid operator’s market monitor, said.
If you are in OH, PA,VA, WV, NJ, DE, MD this impacts you
If you are in OH, PA,VA, WV, NJ, DE, MD this impacts you
November 27, 2025 at 3:04 AM
>PJM is considering proposing to allow data center loads that it cannot serve reliably and that will require periodic blackouts for data centers and other customers, Monitoring Analytics, the grid operator’s market monitor, said.
If you are in OH, PA,VA, WV, NJ, DE, MD this impacts you
If you are in OH, PA,VA, WV, NJ, DE, MD this impacts you
Cranberry pie. Two of them. Vegan pecan pie not pictured.
November 27, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Cranberry pie. Two of them. Vegan pecan pie not pictured.
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Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
www.404media.co
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
A windy day calls for a hot mug of blended sweet potatoes and pecans.
November 26, 2025 at 6:23 PM
A windy day calls for a hot mug of blended sweet potatoes and pecans.
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Ironic this Thanksgiving week, no?
November 24, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Ironic this Thanksgiving week, no?
This week brought to you by Big Parsley.
November 23, 2025 at 6:27 PM
This week brought to you by Big Parsley.
Dear Manwha translators - if you have a dominating villain in a romance fantasy genre and he has some sort of debt, don't ever translate it as student debt. I ended up flipping on the protagonist.
November 22, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Dear Manwha translators - if you have a dominating villain in a romance fantasy genre and he has some sort of debt, don't ever translate it as student debt. I ended up flipping on the protagonist.
any time someone says "we can make ai greener" I have yet to see evidence of doing anything but pulling in money for green
November 16, 2025 at 8:29 PM
any time someone says "we can make ai greener" I have yet to see evidence of doing anything but pulling in money for green