Rod McGuinness
@rodmcg.bsky.social
Comrade at ABC, runner, hardcore dad. Accepts all cookies
Unsurprisingly stupid
FBI boss Kash Patel gave New Zealand officials 3D-printed guns illegal to possess under local laws
On a visit to New Zealand, FBI Director Kash Patel gave the country’s police and spy bosses gifts of inoperable pistols that were illegal to possess under local gun laws and had to be destroyed.
apnews.com
October 2, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Unsurprisingly stupid
Meanwhile on RedNote
August 6, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Meanwhile on RedNote
OK....
Family uses AI to create video for deadly Chandler road rage victim's own impact statement
Christopher Pelkey was killed in a road rage incident in Chandler in 2021, but last month, artificial intelligence brought him back to life during his killer’s sentencing hearing.
www.abc15.com
May 7, 2025 at 11:07 PM
OK....
Terrifying www.propublica.org/article/insi...
Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time”
Current and former flight attendants for GlobalX, the private charter airline at the center of Trump’s immigration crackdown, expressed concern about their inability to treat passengers humanely and t...
www.propublica.org
April 1, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Terrifying www.propublica.org/article/insi...
SC half swipers are miserable archive.md/3IhER
March 18, 2025 at 10:28 PM
SC half swipers are miserable archive.md/3IhER
Will there be a funeral for the now deceased robot? 🙄
March 7, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Will there be a funeral for the now deceased robot? 🙄
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Everything is shit, but Pam Bondi publicly reaming out Kash Patel because The Epstein Files turned out to have been significantly oversold is darkly hilarious.
Blink twice if the "source" is in the room with you, Pam!
www.justice.gov/ag/media/139...
Blink twice if the "source" is in the room with you, Pam!
www.justice.gov/ag/media/139...
February 28, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Everything is shit, but Pam Bondi publicly reaming out Kash Patel because The Epstein Files turned out to have been significantly oversold is darkly hilarious.
Blink twice if the "source" is in the room with you, Pam!
www.justice.gov/ag/media/139...
Blink twice if the "source" is in the room with you, Pam!
www.justice.gov/ag/media/139...
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Trump: This country has gotten bloated and fat and disgusting
February 26, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Trump: This country has gotten bloated and fat and disgusting
Genderqueer bellydancers for Gaza. Really Donnie?
February 27, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Genderqueer bellydancers for Gaza. Really Donnie?
Gen Z prefers influencers over experts—"not because they are wrong, but because they are inconvenient."
Gen Z teens tell us why they stopped trusting experts in favor of influencers on TikTok
It’s not that Gen Z doesn’t believe in experts. Rather, it’s that social media has rewired the way they think about credibility.
fortune.com
February 19, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Gen Z prefers influencers over experts—"not because they are wrong, but because they are inconvenient."
How much longer until the ‘white people can use the N word’ Executive Order?
February 19, 2025 at 8:38 PM
How much longer until the ‘white people can use the N word’ Executive Order?
Apparently Elon killed a program for disabled kids because it included the word “transition.” Program helped transition from high school to work. (Weirdly, the tweet on the Nazi message board which made this claim, is now unavailable...so weird).
February 18, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Apparently Elon killed a program for disabled kids because it included the word “transition.” Program helped transition from high school to work. (Weirdly, the tweet on the Nazi message board which made this claim, is now unavailable...so weird).
Resistance is futile...
February 13, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Resistance is futile...
This seems bang on
MAGA: Make Apartheid Great Again
Apartheid 2.0? Elon Musk’s PayPal Broligarchy seeks to remake America like their beloved Apartheid childhood.
thelefthook.substack.com
February 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
This seems bang on
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there is currently an undetermined amount of djs, at least two, perhaps three, they are rotating
February 10, 2025 at 3:13 AM
there is currently an undetermined amount of djs, at least two, perhaps three, they are rotating
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Unquestionably, major policy changes, edicts and directives handed down by the new Trump administration will upend lives. But I've also been struck by the widespread efforts to erase/whitewash history. Stick with me for a pretty shocking series of events from just the past few weeks.
February 8, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Unquestionably, major policy changes, edicts and directives handed down by the new Trump administration will upend lives. But I've also been struck by the widespread efforts to erase/whitewash history. Stick with me for a pretty shocking series of events from just the past few weeks.
'All communication now is near-instantaneous, and too much input may be too much for our brains. A new book argues for inserting more friction into the process.'
The Case for Kicking the Stone | Los Angeles Review of Books
Philip Ball finds Nicholas Carr’s “Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart” disturbingly compelling.
lareviewofbooks.org
February 4, 2025 at 3:30 AM
'All communication now is near-instantaneous, and too much input may be too much for our brains. A new book argues for inserting more friction into the process.'
Things I think about weekly: Why isn't there a Trent Reznor biography?
NINE INCH NAILS Announces Peel It Back World Tour metalinjection.net/tour-dates/n...
NINE INCH NAILS Announces Peel It Back World Tour
It's time to peel it back.
metalinjection.net
January 23, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Things I think about weekly: Why isn't there a Trent Reznor biography?
NYMag is doing some cracking reporting, stories lately. Always good but top shelf atm
Speaker Johnson is all about looking forward, which is why the House is reinvestigating the assault on the Capitol.
Actually, Republicans Want to Talk About January 6 After All
Speaker Johnson is all about looking forward, which is why the House is reinvestigating the assault on the Capitol.
nymag.com
January 22, 2025 at 10:17 PM
NYMag is doing some cracking reporting, stories lately. Always good but top shelf atm
Moderating social comments can be disheartening but fuck me they are beyond toxic at the moment 🥺
January 22, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Moderating social comments can be disheartening but fuck me they are beyond toxic at the moment 🥺
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This Cybertruck did not crash. It made a heartfelt and perhaps ill-advised gesture that, in the moment, might have been misinterpreted as a crash, but we should not rush to judgement.
January 22, 2025 at 12:15 AM
This Cybertruck did not crash. It made a heartfelt and perhaps ill-advised gesture that, in the moment, might have been misinterpreted as a crash, but we should not rush to judgement.
