Cy Klone
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Cy Klone
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· Mar 27
Whenever a politician says, "Common sense," they are virtually always actually saying, "This is a complicated issue or process, but I don't want you to think too much about it and instead choose this reactionary response to it."
Watched Die Hard tonight.
Struck by how William Atherton’s reporter is clearly depicted as an asshole. When Holly punches him, there’s laughter accompanying the punch.
One of the proof points the film uses to paint him this way? He threatens to call immigration on a Hispanic woman.
Struck by how William Atherton’s reporter is clearly depicted as an asshole. When Holly punches him, there’s laughter accompanying the punch.
One of the proof points the film uses to paint him this way? He threatens to call immigration on a Hispanic woman.
December 25, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Watched Die Hard tonight.
Struck by how William Atherton’s reporter is clearly depicted as an asshole. When Holly punches him, there’s laughter accompanying the punch.
One of the proof points the film uses to paint him this way? He threatens to call immigration on a Hispanic woman.
Struck by how William Atherton’s reporter is clearly depicted as an asshole. When Holly punches him, there’s laughter accompanying the punch.
One of the proof points the film uses to paint him this way? He threatens to call immigration on a Hispanic woman.
Don’t know if they’d succeed, but the attempt would be worth watching for certain.
December 24, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Don’t know if they’d succeed, but the attempt would be worth watching for certain.
Nerd alert: There’s a set of Star Wars novels about a character named Darth Bane and I constantly think about how accurately it’s depiction of the Sith maps to the Republican Party.
From the White House to the conspiracy media-verse, MAGA simply cannot stop both constant covert sniping and the occasional outright brawl.
MAGA is eating itself alive
From TPUSA to the White House, the feuds are spiraling out of control.
www.motherjones.com
December 20, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Nerd alert: There’s a set of Star Wars novels about a character named Darth Bane and I constantly think about how accurately it’s depiction of the Sith maps to the Republican Party.
Trayon White also sees how RCV could kick his ass to the curb in the future.
NEWS: The D.C. Council has rejected a bill that would have delayed the rollout of ranked-choice voting next year, both for the June primary and November general. RCV is now a go.
Only votes for the bill came from Bonds, Felder, McDuffie, Mendelson, and Trayon White.
Only votes for the bill came from Bonds, Felder, McDuffie, Mendelson, and Trayon White.
December 16, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Trayon White also sees how RCV could kick his ass to the curb in the future.
The establishment in DC has always benefits from challengers splitting opposition to them.
Of course, Bowser Jr.'s got concerns.
Of course, Bowser Jr.'s got concerns.
"It's important that any changes we make to our system of voting are done thoughtfully with the priority of increasing voter participation," says Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie. "I am concerned... [with] the preparedness of the [elections board]."
December 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM
The establishment in DC has always benefits from challengers splitting opposition to them.
Of course, Bowser Jr.'s got concerns.
Of course, Bowser Jr.'s got concerns.
I know I’m very late to this party but like…
This isn’t news. CNN is just doing Target marketing.
Also a Target in SoHo, what are we doing, NYC?
This isn’t news. CNN is just doing Target marketing.
Also a Target in SoHo, what are we doing, NYC?
The chain unveiled its first-ever concept store in SoHo this week, adorned with stylish apparel, designer collaborations, and beauty products — all key areas that its incoming CEO hopes will revive its former "Tar-zhay" glory.
https://cnn.it/48W8CAk
https://cnn.it/48W8CAk
December 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I know I’m very late to this party but like…
This isn’t news. CNN is just doing Target marketing.
Also a Target in SoHo, what are we doing, NYC?
This isn’t news. CNN is just doing Target marketing.
Also a Target in SoHo, what are we doing, NYC?
Sitting on a plane and notice someone watching the Super Girl trailer on social media, but it’s a video of someone else reacting to it.
And I wonder if this type of stuff has been the field being tilled toward handing over our thought to LLMs.
And I wonder if this type of stuff has been the field being tilled toward handing over our thought to LLMs.
December 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Sitting on a plane and notice someone watching the Super Girl trailer on social media, but it’s a video of someone else reacting to it.
And I wonder if this type of stuff has been the field being tilled toward handing over our thought to LLMs.
And I wonder if this type of stuff has been the field being tilled toward handing over our thought to LLMs.
Once again, heckuva job Doctor Senator Bill Cassidy.
NEW: HHS is contemplating a men's health initiative, a source tells @emilymullin.bsky.social; indications of what that might entail come from an FDA panel held yesterday at which an expert on penis curvature held forth on the "men's health crisis" while others called for easier access to steroids.
RFK Jr.'s Health Department Is Pondering a National Men's Health Initiative
At an FDA discussion of testosterone replacement therapy, a top official called for special health centers to address a “men’s health crisis.” Others called to ease men's access to hormones.
www.wired.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Once again, heckuva job Doctor Senator Bill Cassidy.
Disney just put a billion dollars into this company and intends to feed its slop to your kids.
A lawsuit filed by Suzanne Adams’s estate alleges that ChatGPT-maker OpenAI bears responsibility for her death because the company rushed out “a defective product that validated a user’s paranoid delusions about his own mother.”
A former tech executive killed his mother. Her family says ChatGPT made her a target.
A new lawsuit against OpenAI alleges that ChatGPT encouraged a man’s delusional thinking, leading him to kill his 83-year-old mother and take his own life.
wapo.st
December 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Disney just put a billion dollars into this company and intends to feed its slop to your kids.
"Wait... Soak my baby in glue? Well, if ChatGPT says it, it must be true! Thank you, OpenAI!"
FALLON: “And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
ALTMAN: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
@moreperfectunion.bsky.social
ALTMAN: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
@moreperfectunion.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
"Wait... Soak my baby in glue? Well, if ChatGPT says it, it must be true! Thank you, OpenAI!"
Christ, we are so doomed.
Chatbots can help plan vacations and offer advice. Can they also sway your politics? A brief conversation with a trained chatbot proved roughly four times as persuasive as a traditional political ad on television, one study found.
Chatbots Can Meaningfully Shift Political Opinions, Studies Find
A brief conversation with a trained chatbot proved roughly four times as persuasive as a traditional political ad on television, one of the studies found.
nyti.ms
December 5, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Christ, we are so doomed.
But seriously, I was an art major kid who took business classes in college and the sociopathic tendencies of the b school kids will live with me forever.
Businessmen drink my blood
Like the kids in art school said they would
Like the kids in art school said they would
Soon, CNN will run live odds on world events where its viewers can gamble on them in real time on their smartphones. One recent Kalshi betting market that allowed people to bet on whether Palestinians in Gaza would suffer mass starvation.
December 5, 2025 at 9:01 PM
But seriously, I was an art major kid who took business classes in college and the sociopathic tendencies of the b school kids will live with me forever.
Businessmen drink my blood
Like the kids in art school said they would
Like the kids in art school said they would
Soon, CNN will run live odds on world events where its viewers can gamble on them in real time on their smartphones. One recent Kalshi betting market that allowed people to bet on whether Palestinians in Gaza would suffer mass starvation.
CNN Partners With a Gambling App That Lets You Wager on Starvation in Gaza
The app company’s two biggest investors are also heavily invested in the Israeli military.
buff.ly
December 5, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Businessmen drink my blood
Like the kids in art school said they would
Like the kids in art school said they would
As futile as I know the exercise is, this is another one of those, "Any Democrat would be drawn and quartered by the media," if they ever suggested that American Football be renamed to accommodate soccer.
Trump: "When you look at football in the US, soccer -- we seem to never call it that, because we have a little bit of a conflict with another thing that's called football. But when you think about it, shouldn't it really be called football? We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff."
December 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
As futile as I know the exercise is, this is another one of those, "Any Democrat would be drawn and quartered by the media," if they ever suggested that American Football be renamed to accommodate soccer.
I'd like to announce that President Donald J. Trump will be the inaugural recipient of the Sigh Clone Foundation's first annual Very Good Boy Who Totally Didn't Rape Children award.
It is an honor to bestow this highly coveted, prestigious award that heretofore did not exist on such a deserving man
It is an honor to bestow this highly coveted, prestigious award that heretofore did not exist on such a deserving man
December 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I'd like to announce that President Donald J. Trump will be the inaugural recipient of the Sigh Clone Foundation's first annual Very Good Boy Who Totally Didn't Rape Children award.
It is an honor to bestow this highly coveted, prestigious award that heretofore did not exist on such a deserving man
It is an honor to bestow this highly coveted, prestigious award that heretofore did not exist on such a deserving man
One aspect of the Trump-era that is underdiscussed is just how much of it is powered by decades-long failure of institutions to call out scams and snuff them out. This allowed them to accrue vast sums of ill-gotten money which they then used to buy elections and turn our society into a grift machine
December 5, 2025 at 4:27 PM
One aspect of the Trump-era that is underdiscussed is just how much of it is powered by decades-long failure of institutions to call out scams and snuff them out. This allowed them to accrue vast sums of ill-gotten money which they then used to buy elections and turn our society into a grift machine
Because it just cosplays as a political film and completely amputates any original political connections that Pynchon made - One Battle After Another says nothing. It's a bad movie.
Looks good. Fine cast. Meaningless waste of time and money.
Looks good. Fine cast. Meaningless waste of time and money.
The movies you’re watching probably aren’t as politically motivated as you think.
Take One Battle After Another, for example. Paul Thomas Anderson’s epic depicts past and present revolutionaries fighting against a heavily militarized, white-supremacist regime that seemed to mirror the current U.S.
Take One Battle After Another, for example. Paul Thomas Anderson’s epic depicts past and present revolutionaries fighting against a heavily militarized, white-supremacist regime that seemed to mirror the current U.S.
December 4, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Because it just cosplays as a political film and completely amputates any original political connections that Pynchon made - One Battle After Another says nothing. It's a bad movie.
Looks good. Fine cast. Meaningless waste of time and money.
Looks good. Fine cast. Meaningless waste of time and money.
As their policy increases the likelihood of climate disasters, such as wildfires, they tout making cars more flammable.
Sean Duffy on slashing fuel economy standards: "This rule will actually allow you to bring back the 1970s station wagon. Maybe a little wood paneling on the side. We can bring back choice to consumers."
December 4, 2025 at 2:09 PM
As their policy increases the likelihood of climate disasters, such as wildfires, they tout making cars more flammable.
Just another day in the United States of scAmerica.
Trump pardons real estate developer indicted under his own DOJ
Trump pardons real estate developer indicted under his own DOJ
Tim Leiweke was charged with conspiring to rig a bid to build a Texas sports arena.
dlvr.it
December 4, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Just another day in the United States of scAmerica.
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I take Wikipedia for granted. Reading this Jimmy Wales interview reminded me in our Fantasyland age what a remarkable and important creation it is. True pillar of civilization. Runs on only $200 million a year. Requires our support. So I’m finally donating. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/m...
The Culture Wars Came for Wikipedia. Jimmy Wales Is Staying the Course.
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I take Wikipedia for granted. Reading this Jimmy Wales interview reminded me in our Fantasyland age what a remarkable and important creation it is. True pillar of civilization. Runs on only $200 million a year. Requires our support. So I’m finally donating. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/m...
Had a feeling this would happen when I initially saw the governor’s tweet.
Such irresponsible behavior is just par for the course for Republican electeds.
Such irresponsible behavior is just par for the course for Republican electeds.
The governor of West Virginia is now walking back his initial post, where he stated two National Guard members died after being shot
November 26, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Had a feeling this would happen when I initially saw the governor’s tweet.
Such irresponsible behavior is just par for the course for Republican electeds.
Such irresponsible behavior is just par for the course for Republican electeds.
Sweet lord, Donald Trump is the weakest motherfucker on the planet and that so many conservatives line up to lick his boots and call him daddy is just amazing. "Please don't offend this gentleman who murdered an American resident by referencing said murder."
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Sweet lord, Donald Trump is the weakest motherfucker on the planet and that so many conservatives line up to lick his boots and call him daddy is just amazing. "Please don't offend this gentleman who murdered an American resident by referencing said murder."
Will all the folks who think Schumer controls his caucus with an iron fist also be up in arms here that Jeffries is facing a "jailbreak" on this, or can we all finally admit that there are limits to caucus leader's mystical powers?
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez's motion against Chuy García is probably going to pass.
Rs have no incentive to vote w/ Dems to table. Reps. Golden & Landsman signaled they agree w/ MGP.
A House Dem told @axios.com there could be a "jailbreak" on the vote tonight. www.axios.com/2025/11/17/m...
Rs have no incentive to vote w/ Dems to table. Reps. Golden & Landsman signaled they agree w/ MGP.
A House Dem told @axios.com there could be a "jailbreak" on the vote tonight. www.axios.com/2025/11/17/m...
House Democrats face internal conflict over "incredibly stupid" forced vote
Lawmakers are "very pissed" about the vote to denounce Chuy Garcia, one senior House Democrat said.
www.axios.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Will all the folks who think Schumer controls his caucus with an iron fist also be up in arms here that Jeffries is facing a "jailbreak" on this, or can we all finally admit that there are limits to caucus leader's mystical powers?
Bullshit - from the idea that a sophisticated text predictor "panicked" and blackmailed a researcher to Anthropic claiming they want regulation they offer zero details on.
But even taking it at face value - why the fuck would anyone want to pay for this product?
www.cbsnews.com/news/anthrop...
But even taking it at face value - why the fuck would anyone want to pay for this product?
www.cbsnews.com/news/anthrop...
Anthropic CEO warns that without guardrails, AI could be on dangerous path
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei centered his artificial intelligence brand around safety and transparency. He's determined to figure out the ways AI can be misused to try to mitigate the risks as best Anth...
www.cbsnews.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Bullshit - from the idea that a sophisticated text predictor "panicked" and blackmailed a researcher to Anthropic claiming they want regulation they offer zero details on.
But even taking it at face value - why the fuck would anyone want to pay for this product?
www.cbsnews.com/news/anthrop...
But even taking it at face value - why the fuck would anyone want to pay for this product?
www.cbsnews.com/news/anthrop...
The funny thing about this is that with all this effort for someone so not worth it, she still comes across as a grifter/insane person. The details about RFK, who she "loved" - his stinky car and his habit of yelling at dogs.
But seriously, can we get her an interview with @ichotiner.bsky.social ?
But seriously, can we get her an interview with @ichotiner.bsky.social ?
November 14, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The funny thing about this is that with all this effort for someone so not worth it, she still comes across as a grifter/insane person. The details about RFK, who she "loved" - his stinky car and his habit of yelling at dogs.
But seriously, can we get her an interview with @ichotiner.bsky.social ?
But seriously, can we get her an interview with @ichotiner.bsky.social ?