John Skiles Skinner
@skiles.blue
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This kind of thing always reminds me of when @skiles.blue said, "Wait... did Bill O'Reilly ACTUALLY say that no one knows how tides work??"
November 10, 2025 at 9:36 PM
This kind of thing always reminds me of when @skiles.blue said, "Wait... did Bill O'Reilly ACTUALLY say that no one knows how tides work??"
Distressing to learn that Nick Fuentes and Ben Shapiro are two different people, and that neither of them is Charlie Kirk
November 9, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Distressing to learn that Nick Fuentes and Ben Shapiro are two different people, and that neither of them is Charlie Kirk
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Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
November 8, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Wikipedia HERO
A guy discovered a faked photo of a rare blue gas on Wikipedia. So he SYNTHESIZED THE GAS HIMSELF so that he could photograph it. Yesterday he updated the article with this real photo of trifluoronitrosomethane:
A guy discovered a faked photo of a rare blue gas on Wikipedia. So he SYNTHESIZED THE GAS HIMSELF so that he could photograph it. Yesterday he updated the article with this real photo of trifluoronitrosomethane:
November 8, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Wikipedia HERO
A guy discovered a faked photo of a rare blue gas on Wikipedia. So he SYNTHESIZED THE GAS HIMSELF so that he could photograph it. Yesterday he updated the article with this real photo of trifluoronitrosomethane:
A guy discovered a faked photo of a rare blue gas on Wikipedia. So he SYNTHESIZED THE GAS HIMSELF so that he could photograph it. Yesterday he updated the article with this real photo of trifluoronitrosomethane:
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It's about ethics in entomology etymology
I love how slow Wikipedia moves during controversy. For YEARS after the "GamerGate" harassment campaign, editors refused to give up the URL of the *original* meaning of the word: A gamergate is a kind of ant.
Without a consensus to the contrary, the ants keep it.
Without a consensus to the contrary, the ants keep it.
Gamergate - Wikipedia
web.archive.org
November 8, 2025 at 4:24 AM
It's about ethics in entomology etymology
As of today I have been a Wikipedia editor for 20 years
🧵of my favorite things I've seen and done in my two decades on the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit
🧵of my favorite things I've seen and done in my two decades on the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit
November 8, 2025 at 3:41 AM
As of today I have been a Wikipedia editor for 20 years
🧵of my favorite things I've seen and done in my two decades on the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit
🧵of my favorite things I've seen and done in my two decades on the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit
The ritual is complete
November 8, 2025 at 3:01 AM
The ritual is complete
How did we ever let this man pretend to be a genius
Musk claimed Optimus robots “will eliminate poverty,” “give everyone amazing medical care,” and will be “bigger than cell phones...” He also said they’d be used for “containment of future crime” by following criminals around and stopping them from “doing crime.” www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/t...
Tesla says shareholders approve Musk's $1 trillion pay plan with over 75% voting in favor
Tesla shareholders approved CEO Elon Musk's historic pay package at the company's annual shareholders meeting in Austin, Texas.
www.cnbc.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:29 AM
How did we ever let this man pretend to be a genius
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And 2) If you're trying to find the "mole" who's "leaking" information to the press, you've already lost the plot. People at well-functioning organizations are not flooding reporters' inboxes with inside information. And it's almost NEVER "one disgruntled employee" (btw, we can tell the difference)
November 7, 2025 at 3:43 AM
And 2) If you're trying to find the "mole" who's "leaking" information to the press, you've already lost the plot. People at well-functioning organizations are not flooding reporters' inboxes with inside information. And it's almost NEVER "one disgruntled employee" (btw, we can tell the difference)
ICE is moustache-twirling villainy. Next they will be foreclosing on a orphanage and tying a woman to the train tracks.
Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning.
This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.
This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.
November 6, 2025 at 2:01 AM
ICE is moustache-twirling villainy. Next they will be foreclosing on a orphanage and tying a woman to the train tracks.
I just got $35 dollars in the Facebook class action lawsuit.
Meaning Facebook and Cambridge Analytica used my data to psychologically manipulate voters, turn our country fascist, end public health, end antitrust enforcement, & drown us in scams. They get an enshittifed forever-empire and I get $35.
Meaning Facebook and Cambridge Analytica used my data to psychologically manipulate voters, turn our country fascist, end public health, end antitrust enforcement, & drown us in scams. They get an enshittifed forever-empire and I get $35.
November 1, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I just got $35 dollars in the Facebook class action lawsuit.
Meaning Facebook and Cambridge Analytica used my data to psychologically manipulate voters, turn our country fascist, end public health, end antitrust enforcement, & drown us in scams. They get an enshittifed forever-empire and I get $35.
Meaning Facebook and Cambridge Analytica used my data to psychologically manipulate voters, turn our country fascist, end public health, end antitrust enforcement, & drown us in scams. They get an enshittifed forever-empire and I get $35.
Nuremberg was chosen for the trails in part because the Nazis built propaganda architecture there
They should hold Nuremberg-style trials in the Epstein ballroom once this is all over.
October 23, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Nuremberg was chosen for the trails in part because the Nazis built propaganda architecture there
How long until the misogynist subtext of demolishing the East Wing becomes text?
Feels like a statement from a bipartisan group of former first ladies about the destruction of the east wing could capture some attention ...
October 22, 2025 at 10:15 PM
How long until the misogynist subtext of demolishing the East Wing becomes text?
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The Inspector General system is basically broken now. Most IGs have been fired, most positions remain vacant. Those who remain or would take the job pose no risk to holding the regime accountable.
Congress added more barriers to Trump firing IGs after his first term. He just ignored them.
Congress added more barriers to Trump firing IGs after his first term. He just ignored them.
October 21, 2025 at 10:09 PM
The Inspector General system is basically broken now. Most IGs have been fired, most positions remain vacant. Those who remain or would take the job pose no risk to holding the regime accountable.
Congress added more barriers to Trump firing IGs after his first term. He just ignored them.
Congress added more barriers to Trump firing IGs after his first term. He just ignored them.
"The building unjustly remains in the federal government's hands—and the people have a right to know exactly how that happened."
NEW — I'm suing DC Metro Police for the full body cam footage from the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace back in March.
The public deserves to know why MPD chose to sell out the people they’re tasked with protecting in order to bend to Trump's will. I'm repped pro bono by @rcfp.org.
Details:
The public deserves to know why MPD chose to sell out the people they’re tasked with protecting in order to bend to Trump's will. I'm repped pro bono by @rcfp.org.
Details:
I'm suing DC Metro Police for body cam footage of US Institute of Peace raid
The Handbasket is represented pro bono by lawyers from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.
www.thehandbasket.co
October 22, 2025 at 5:29 AM
"The building unjustly remains in the federal government's hands—and the people have a right to know exactly how that happened."
This revenge working group apparently targets mainly members of Trump's own prior administration. Trump once shared a podium with Anthony Fauci and boasted about his ratings; now Fauci is an enemy. The current working group members probably are its future targets.
Exclusive: A group of dozens of officials from across the federal government, including US intelligence officers, has been helping to steer President Trump's drive for retribution against his perceived enemies reut.rs/3IXEVG9
reut.rs
October 21, 2025 at 5:52 AM
This revenge working group apparently targets mainly members of Trump's own prior administration. Trump once shared a podium with Anthony Fauci and boasted about his ratings; now Fauci is an enemy. The current working group members probably are its future targets.
The wealthy worldwide are trying to wriggle out of the social contract and all the rest of us are slowly learning hardball contract negotiation
And they are grappling with what scholars call "staggered collapse." This is where a storm destroys a whole region and FEMA doesn't exist to rebuild it. It's what happen when women of color are driven out of the economy in drove through DOGE cuts. Or when all of the rural hospitals close in a state.
October 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The wealthy worldwide are trying to wriggle out of the social contract and all the rest of us are slowly learning hardball contract negotiation
Once when canvassing I asked a voter his #1 concern and it was "yard sales are not enforcing sales tax"
Actual Voters have takes so much wilder than anyone online could imagine
October 20, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Once when canvassing I asked a voter his #1 concern and it was "yard sales are not enforcing sales tax"
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Roughly 100-150k said it loud and with joy and determination. Thank you for being one of them!!
October 20, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Roughly 100-150k said it loud and with joy and determination. Thank you for being one of them!!
To punish them for complaining about extrajudicial murder
"President Donald Trump announced Sunday he would end all US payments and subsidies to Colombia, marking a dramatic escalation in his back-and-forth with the country’s president, Gustavo Petro."
wild that the admin keeps managing to find new lows
www.cnn.com/2025/10/19/p...
wild that the admin keeps managing to find new lows
www.cnn.com/2025/10/19/p...
Trump escalates back-and-forth with Colombia’s president, announcing end of US payments to country | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump announced Sunday he would end all US payments and subsidies to Colombia, marking a dramatic escalation in his back-and-forth with the country’s president, Gustavo Petro.
www.cnn.com
October 19, 2025 at 8:27 PM
To punish them for complaining about extrajudicial murder
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This is absurdly bad PR. These are the images that need amplified. If you're online, think strategically about which images need to go viral to tell the story of the horrors of this moment. RT and share the shit out of them.
October 19, 2025 at 2:21 AM
This is absurdly bad PR. These are the images that need amplified. If you're online, think strategically about which images need to go viral to tell the story of the horrors of this moment. RT and share the shit out of them.
My mom too
My mom texted me with a picture of her at one of the No Kings protests. Her first protest ever. The normies have awakened.
October 19, 2025 at 12:57 AM
My mom too
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I like how they are carrying American flags, but not attacking police with them.
October 18, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I like how they are carrying American flags, but not attacking police with them.
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Nurses care for all people
October 18, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Nurses care for all people