Richard Doom
@richarddoom.bsky.social
Be good strangers to each other. he/him
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Now if only they allowed a historian to give his opinion that Trump is the most corrupt US president, ever….. Historian criticises BBC for removing Trump line from Radio 4 lecture www.bbc.com/news/article...
November 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Now if only they allowed a historian to give his opinion that Trump is the most corrupt US president, ever….. Historian criticises BBC for removing Trump line from Radio 4 lecture www.bbc.com/news/article...
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If it saves lives, Republicans oppose it.
Exclusive: Republicans plan to challenge vehicle-safety mandates, such as automatic emergency braking and alarms that remind drivers a child is in the back seat.
Senate Committee to Challenge Auto-Safety Mandates That Hurt ‘Affordability’
Republicans are questioning the value of some features, such as automatic braking and rear-seat reminders.
on.wsj.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:52 PM
If it saves lives, Republicans oppose it.
I went into academia in 2008 and could not find a job. So I've worked in tech ever since and I am now stuck in this field as everyone in this industry is either the moron CIO brother-in-law of the owner or the sentient Linux distro.
It’s so cool to have hitched your wagon 20 years ago to an industry that was booming beyond anyone’s expectations and have it turn out to be stripmined and utterly hollowed out by Shareholder Value, and every other industry you could slot into has been, surprise, hollowed out by Shareholder Value
November 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I went into academia in 2008 and could not find a job. So I've worked in tech ever since and I am now stuck in this field as everyone in this industry is either the moron CIO brother-in-law of the owner or the sentient Linux distro.
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My microwave sings a little song when my Hot Pocket is done. Should it have the right to vote?
November 25, 2025 at 8:44 PM
My microwave sings a little song when my Hot Pocket is done. Should it have the right to vote?
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It’s so cool to have hitched your wagon 20 years ago to an industry that was booming beyond anyone’s expectations and have it turn out to be stripmined and utterly hollowed out by Shareholder Value, and every other industry you could slot into has been, surprise, hollowed out by Shareholder Value
November 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM
It’s so cool to have hitched your wagon 20 years ago to an industry that was booming beyond anyone’s expectations and have it turn out to be stripmined and utterly hollowed out by Shareholder Value, and every other industry you could slot into has been, surprise, hollowed out by Shareholder Value
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The New York Times, where the popular mayor-elect of their city is a fringe figure, but the QAnon podcaster who asked him a racist question comes out as a "winner"
This newspaper hates its readers as much as Republicans hate their voters. And if you're still supporting either, you deserve it.
This newspaper hates its readers as much as Republicans hate their voters. And if you're still supporting either, you deserve it.
What a strange framing and characterization. How does one describe his blatantly dishonest, racist question about taxes as “press[ing] the Mayor-elect on his policy proposals”? In what way does this lying troll emerge as a “winner“?
November 24, 2025 at 12:39 PM
The New York Times, where the popular mayor-elect of their city is a fringe figure, but the QAnon podcaster who asked him a racist question comes out as a "winner"
This newspaper hates its readers as much as Republicans hate their voters. And if you're still supporting either, you deserve it.
This newspaper hates its readers as much as Republicans hate their voters. And if you're still supporting either, you deserve it.
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Nvidia’s ‘I’m Not Enron’ memo has people asking a lot of questions already answered by that memo
Nvidia’s ‘I’m Not Enron’ memo has people asking a lot of questions already answered by that memo
The Streisand Effect strikes again
buff.ly
November 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Nvidia’s ‘I’m Not Enron’ memo has people asking a lot of questions already answered by that memo
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the appetite for comics has literally never been greater, the profile has never been higher, and the talent has never been as varied and as interesting and we still don't pay people what their labor is worth!
"Let’s say 20 years ago the rate for a page of pencils was $150. People still get paid that."
My work is largely in the book market, buuuut yeah.
BOOM! recently reached out to offer an IP gig with the following rates:
script $50/page, pencils&inks $150/pg, colors $50/pg
My work is largely in the book market, buuuut yeah.
BOOM! recently reached out to offer an IP gig with the following rates:
script $50/page, pencils&inks $150/pg, colors $50/pg
The one about comic book page rates – again. News flash: Comic book page rates are STILL stagnant, after all these years, and for indie cartoonists it's even harder
November 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
the appetite for comics has literally never been greater, the profile has never been higher, and the talent has never been as varied and as interesting and we still don't pay people what their labor is worth!
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I mean obviously this is deranged madness.
But I will also add it’s extremely funny to be like “don’t believe me? Ask the most prolific liar in human history!”
But I will also add it’s extremely funny to be like “don’t believe me? Ask the most prolific liar in human history!”
November 25, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I mean obviously this is deranged madness.
But I will also add it’s extremely funny to be like “don’t believe me? Ask the most prolific liar in human history!”
But I will also add it’s extremely funny to be like “don’t believe me? Ask the most prolific liar in human history!”
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It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
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oh so nvidia is cooked for real for real
November 25, 2025 at 4:50 PM
oh so nvidia is cooked for real for real
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Here's how Greg Bovino denies tackling Scott Blackburn, while watching a video showing him tacking Scott Blackburn.
legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
![A 5-question exchange in which Greg Bovino is asked if he sees an older gentleman, "expressing his disagreement with [Bovino's] presence in Chicago [who] doesn't like the fact that you are instructing him to move down, right?"
Bovino responds, no, "That individual is failing to follow instructions to vacate the area."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/bafkreibxlni2hq5i7mycqssosneb3ahdrtvw3ullnbi6y66dtomevhyhh4@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Here's how Greg Bovino denies tackling Scott Blackburn, while watching a video showing him tacking Scott Blackburn.
legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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People were gaining a language, sense of history and set of conceptual tools that delegitimised both white supremacy *and the wider systems of capitalism and colonialism-imperialism* that it's bound up with.
The 2020 racial reckoning threatened the legitimacy of *the entire social order*.
The 2020 racial reckoning threatened the legitimacy of *the entire social order*.
"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
November 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
People were gaining a language, sense of history and set of conceptual tools that delegitimised both white supremacy *and the wider systems of capitalism and colonialism-imperialism* that it's bound up with.
The 2020 racial reckoning threatened the legitimacy of *the entire social order*.
The 2020 racial reckoning threatened the legitimacy of *the entire social order*.
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lol the poster Ify screencapped has real "pot stirrer in Portland who became poly explicitly to create drama" vibes
AHT! AHT! We not deleting after you finally got me to address this. You got your statement. Live with it.
November 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
lol the poster Ify screencapped has real "pot stirrer in Portland who became poly explicitly to create drama" vibes
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AHT! AHT! We not deleting after you finally got me to address this. You got your statement. Live with it.
November 25, 2025 at 12:47 AM
AHT! AHT! We not deleting after you finally got me to address this. You got your statement. Live with it.
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Amazing to learn that Isaac Chotiner can apparently just come for you in your replies. Like suddenly realizing you're swimming in open ocean
November 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Amazing to learn that Isaac Chotiner can apparently just come for you in your replies. Like suddenly realizing you're swimming in open ocean
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CHOTINER: so, you don’t have to go to work tomorrow
ME: that’s correct
CHOTINER: but you’re sending me to school
ME: yeah
CHOTINER: i’m just trying to get something clear here. if you have the day off-
ME: listen, can we go off record?
ME: that’s correct
CHOTINER: but you’re sending me to school
ME: yeah
CHOTINER: i’m just trying to get something clear here. if you have the day off-
ME: listen, can we go off record?
November 25, 2025 at 6:09 AM
CHOTINER: so, you don’t have to go to work tomorrow
ME: that’s correct
CHOTINER: but you’re sending me to school
ME: yeah
CHOTINER: i’m just trying to get something clear here. if you have the day off-
ME: listen, can we go off record?
ME: that’s correct
CHOTINER: but you’re sending me to school
ME: yeah
CHOTINER: i’m just trying to get something clear here. if you have the day off-
ME: listen, can we go off record?
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isaac chotiner came to my house and tricked me into admitting we weren’t out of ice cream in front of my five year old daughter
November 25, 2025 at 2:33 AM
isaac chotiner came to my house and tricked me into admitting we weren’t out of ice cream in front of my five year old daughter
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We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions.
#ScienceUnderSiege
#ScienceUnderSiege
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:59 AM
We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions.
#ScienceUnderSiege
#ScienceUnderSiege
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ben smith’s take from last year when the nuzzi/rfk story first broke aged like cheese on a dashboard
November 18, 2025 at 3:47 AM
ben smith’s take from last year when the nuzzi/rfk story first broke aged like cheese on a dashboard
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here is the full clip, which they haven't posted here yet. i am grateful they summarized it b/c ... oof. the clip is worse than the summary. it takes her almost 4 minutes to get through this. x.com/DropSiteNews...
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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November 25, 2025 at 4:05 AM
here is the full clip, which they haven't posted here yet. i am grateful they summarized it b/c ... oof. the clip is worse than the summary. it takes her almost 4 minutes to get through this. x.com/DropSiteNews...
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The Chotiner
He destroyed his cage
Yes
YES
The Chotiner is out
He destroyed his cage
Yes
YES
The Chotiner is out
A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.
November 25, 2025 at 4:51 AM
The Chotiner
He destroyed his cage
Yes
YES
The Chotiner is out
He destroyed his cage
Yes
YES
The Chotiner is out
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A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.
November 25, 2025 at 1:09 AM
A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.
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Very grateful to have been part of this wonderful show over the years! ❤️
Today in 1988 Mystery Science Theater 3000 premiered on KTMA in St. Paul Minnesota. #MST3K
November 25, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Very grateful to have been part of this wonderful show over the years! ❤️