@thegatelessgate.bsky.social
programmer, reader, gamemaster, 3rd place in freestyle sarcasm in the northeast regionals
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Again, the illegality of firing on shipwrecked mariners is so absurdly well established that it is used in the manual training material as the example of an order *so obviously illegal* that no further information would be required for a servicemember to be obligated to refuse it.
December 7, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Again, the illegality of firing on shipwrecked mariners is so absurdly well established that it is used in the manual training material as the example of an order *so obviously illegal* that no further information would be required for a servicemember to be obligated to refuse it.
I think we should all take a moment to appreciate just how incompetent you have to be as an administration to be screw up tricking the modern US into a war.
December 3, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I think we should all take a moment to appreciate just how incompetent you have to be as an administration to be screw up tricking the modern US into a war.
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Well, someone went out and made the song, and it is *chef's kiss* www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbGw...
Ballad of Tom Bombadil
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November 28, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Well, someone went out and made the song, and it is *chef's kiss* www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbGw...
Fluffy murderfeets
November 19, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Fluffy murderfeets
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If you said this a month ago about Charlie Kirk, Trump's FCC would move to remove your broadcast license and every right winger in America would be calling your boss to get you fired.
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 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
If you said this a month ago about Charlie Kirk, Trump's FCC would move to remove your broadcast license and every right winger in America would be calling your boss to get you fired.
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I've written about "disordered counterpublics" groups that reinforce shared delusions Here, the LLM becomes a 1 person counterpublic. It mirrors assumptions, absorbs contradictions, & provides the sense of a responsive, confirming audience.
It is the architecture of disordered discourse, automated.
It is the architecture of disordered discourse, automated.
November 19, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I've written about "disordered counterpublics" groups that reinforce shared delusions Here, the LLM becomes a 1 person counterpublic. It mirrors assumptions, absorbs contradictions, & provides the sense of a responsive, confirming audience.
It is the architecture of disordered discourse, automated.
It is the architecture of disordered discourse, automated.
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I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.
November 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.
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lol
November 6, 2025 at 4:47 AM
lol
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The American who cannot be at least a little moved by its sentiment has, I think, something deficient in their patriotism, either an excess of hate or an absence of right feeling.
November 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The American who cannot be at least a little moved by its sentiment has, I think, something deficient in their patriotism, either an excess of hate or an absence of right feeling.
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It's interesting that wise conservative business guys implicitly understand "return on investment" except when it comes to this. It's better for YOU if your neighbor gets enough to eat so he can become your community's mechanic, accountant, dentist--whatever!--instead of lying dead in a ditch
The welfare state is about dignity, equality, and making people not poor, but as @itsafronomics.bsky.social says/cites here, it’s often also an investment that more than pays for itself
Why should you 🫵🏿 care about SNAP? SNAP recipients saw:
- Improved life expectancy
- Lower chance of incarceration
- Lowers chance of poverty
- Lived in better neighborhoods
- Higher human capital
SNAP keeps our neighbors fed, communities safer, and kids educated. Also people are HUNGRY. DUH!
- Improved life expectancy
- Lower chance of incarceration
- Lowers chance of poverty
- Lived in better neighborhoods
- Higher human capital
SNAP keeps our neighbors fed, communities safer, and kids educated. Also people are HUNGRY. DUH!
November 2, 2025 at 5:02 PM
It's interesting that wise conservative business guys implicitly understand "return on investment" except when it comes to this. It's better for YOU if your neighbor gets enough to eat so he can become your community's mechanic, accountant, dentist--whatever!--instead of lying dead in a ditch
I'm on a tech industry chat and if I see a dumb take 3/4 of the time when I check the poster's profile it will say C*O or VP.
Except about LLMs, dumb AI takes are all over the org chart.
Except about LLMs, dumb AI takes are all over the org chart.
November 2, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I'm on a tech industry chat and if I see a dumb take 3/4 of the time when I check the poster's profile it will say C*O or VP.
Except about LLMs, dumb AI takes are all over the org chart.
Except about LLMs, dumb AI takes are all over the org chart.
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I am the very model of an ancient trunkless leg of stone,
My shattered visage lies half buried with a sandy sneering frown,
The sculptor carved my arrogance upon these broken lifeless things,
My name is Ozymandias, the self-describèd King of Kings!
My shattered visage lies half buried with a sandy sneering frown,
The sculptor carved my arrogance upon these broken lifeless things,
My name is Ozymandias, the self-describèd King of Kings!
October 30, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I am the very model of an ancient trunkless leg of stone,
My shattered visage lies half buried with a sandy sneering frown,
The sculptor carved my arrogance upon these broken lifeless things,
My name is Ozymandias, the self-describèd King of Kings!
My shattered visage lies half buried with a sandy sneering frown,
The sculptor carved my arrogance upon these broken lifeless things,
My name is Ozymandias, the self-describèd King of Kings!
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Sort of incredible that we live in a world where the vice president of the United States is just spewing the sort of horseshit that literal children are traditionally taught is wrong
October 29, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Sort of incredible that we live in a world where the vice president of the United States is just spewing the sort of horseshit that literal children are traditionally taught is wrong
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The poll watchers are back
October 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The poll watchers are back
Since "he's literally knocking down your house to put up something corrupt and ugly" is not an obvious enough sign for the faithful Pharaoh's ability to ignore frogs and locusts starts to make sense.
October 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Since "he's literally knocking down your house to put up something corrupt and ugly" is not an obvious enough sign for the faithful Pharaoh's ability to ignore frogs and locusts starts to make sense.
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We’re not dealing with brilliant strategists cleverly laying traps, we’re dealing with impulsive whiners whose advantage is contempt for laws, norms, and morality.
They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.
They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.
October 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
We’re not dealing with brilliant strategists cleverly laying traps, we’re dealing with impulsive whiners whose advantage is contempt for laws, norms, and morality.
They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.
They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.
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A traveler from an antique land--great guy--said to me with tears in his eyes "Sir, two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert." And I said wow, that's really something. But we'll be building a big beautiful statue to my hubris and it will stand for eternity
October 5, 2025 at 6:13 PM
A traveler from an antique land--great guy--said to me with tears in his eyes "Sir, two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert." And I said wow, that's really something. But we'll be building a big beautiful statue to my hubris and it will stand for eternity
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My dearest wife,
It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee in their camps, where loud ukulele songs of resistance even now drift in on the breeze.
It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee in their camps, where loud ukulele songs of resistance even now drift in on the breeze.
Letter from the Portland War Front (humor about something deadly serious)
My dearest wife,
It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee ...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
September 28, 2025 at 5:06 AM
My dearest wife,
It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee in their camps, where loud ukulele songs of resistance even now drift in on the breeze.
It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee in their camps, where loud ukulele songs of resistance even now drift in on the breeze.
If Congress including my representatives doesn't get to say how the money is spent, why should I keep sending the government my money?
September 27, 2025 at 12:35 PM
If Congress including my representatives doesn't get to say how the money is spent, why should I keep sending the government my money?
🤔 In the future only learned etymologists will know that "trumped-up" did not originate as a way to describe Trump accusing people of fake things.
September 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
🤔 In the future only learned etymologists will know that "trumped-up" did not originate as a way to describe Trump accusing people of fake things.
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Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...
September 23, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...
What part of thou shalt not kill is hard for this administration of alleged Christians to understand? Do they think because thou is a pronoun this commandment is woke?
September 21, 2025 at 1:01 AM
What part of thou shalt not kill is hard for this administration of alleged Christians to understand? Do they think because thou is a pronoun this commandment is woke?
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9/ But we're now here among the living and the bigger reality is what the right is doing with his death. They are making a cataloguing of his civic sins not only fine, entirely within people's right, but really obligatory. Because doing anything else is lining up behind MAGA's cult of obedience.
September 15, 2025 at 12:50 PM
9/ But we're now here among the living and the bigger reality is what the right is doing with his death. They are making a cataloguing of his civic sins not only fine, entirely within people's right, but really obligatory. Because doing anything else is lining up behind MAGA's cult of obedience.
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The CEOs are all really excited about AI being people because that means they can own them again
CEO’s love ai because they see themselves in the tech that regurgitates sentence shaped utterances.
September 9, 2025 at 7:12 PM
The CEOs are all really excited about AI being people because that means they can own them again