Emma Thomas
@threefirstnames.bsky.social
PhD in Neuroscience. She/they.
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related to this a lot of people in the pundit class need to learn how to just be annoyed by someone or something without turning it into What’s Wrong With America
i am fascinated by how nate silver turns everything he doesn’t like into a bespoke ideology. it’s not that he is annoyed by HCR, it is that she is a dreaded “ism” responsible for everything he doesn’t like about the democratic party. same with bluesky.
what the fuck are you talking about man
December 13, 2025 at 11:38 PM
related to this a lot of people in the pundit class need to learn how to just be annoyed by someone or something without turning it into What’s Wrong With America
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i’ll add that what substantively seems to annoy silver is the existence of people with principles
December 13, 2025 at 11:01 PM
i’ll add that what substantively seems to annoy silver is the existence of people with principles
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The thread is great it really is, people have superbly and supremely weird ideas about why unsafe speeds make safe driving. My current leader is all the white people who say they need to drive fast to, it seems, outrun ICE
It is not a "surveillance state" for your car to know that the speed limit is 25 miles per hour.
December 14, 2025 at 1:16 AM
The thread is great it really is, people have superbly and supremely weird ideas about why unsafe speeds make safe driving. My current leader is all the white people who say they need to drive fast to, it seems, outrun ICE
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The reason you defend civil liberties is not because it is popular (it is never popular) but because if the government can deport you to a foreign gulag without trial then it doesn't matter how popular the rest of your policy platform is.
December 14, 2025 at 1:24 AM
The reason you defend civil liberties is not because it is popular (it is never popular) but because if the government can deport you to a foreign gulag without trial then it doesn't matter how popular the rest of your policy platform is.
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If what he's alleging is true (Nuzzi hasn't denied any of the accusations about her ethics as far as I'm aware), he should have come forward with it *sooner.* It's an extremely big deal that a national news reporter was actively aiding the campaign of an anti-vaxxer!
December 12, 2025 at 6:44 PM
If what he's alleging is true (Nuzzi hasn't denied any of the accusations about her ethics as far as I'm aware), he should have come forward with it *sooner.* It's an extremely big deal that a national news reporter was actively aiding the campaign of an anti-vaxxer!
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If you’re not white make sure you carry your fucking freedom papers with you bsky.app/profile/radl...
Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.
December 13, 2025 at 4:50 PM
If you’re not white make sure you carry your fucking freedom papers with you bsky.app/profile/radl...
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This is a true & effectively irrefutable argument ... which is why it's so fun to read the absolute cosmic nonsense in the comments.
"I need to go higher than the speed limit when I'm passing/avoiding something/driving in snow/feel like it!"
"I need to go higher than the speed limit when I'm passing/avoiding something/driving in snow/feel like it!"
My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area.
(15 in Manhattan btw)
(15 in Manhattan btw)
There is no possible justification for limiting e-bikes to 15mph but not cars.
December 13, 2025 at 8:16 PM
This is a true & effectively irrefutable argument ... which is why it's so fun to read the absolute cosmic nonsense in the comments.
"I need to go higher than the speed limit when I'm passing/avoiding something/driving in snow/feel like it!"
"I need to go higher than the speed limit when I'm passing/avoiding something/driving in snow/feel like it!"
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Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.
December 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.
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It is important to promise, now, that whatever Trump builds at the White House will be torn down as soon as he leaves.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/if-he-buil...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/if-he-buil...
If He Builds It, Tear It Down
Pendulums must swing.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:16 PM
It is important to promise, now, that whatever Trump builds at the White House will be torn down as soon as he leaves.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/if-he-buil...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/if-he-buil...
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seriously though, there is very clearly pent up demand for rail options and every reason to build out as much new rail as possible.
December 12, 2025 at 9:17 PM
seriously though, there is very clearly pent up demand for rail options and every reason to build out as much new rail as possible.
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Propaganda. We thought that it was gauche and problematic to have government propaganda about public accomplishments and so people forgot about them. People consistently like the military more than ‘the government’ and you know what a large part of that is? They have an advertising budget.
I think about this, also in terms of vaccines, and really struggle with how you have a free society that doesn’t fall into this trap in one way or another. solved problems become invisible and the solutions become the source of conspiracy theories.
This seems logical but Dems solved* the whole problem of old-age health care costs in the mid-1960s and then they lost five of the next six presidential elections because by 1968 it was a solved problem and no one cared about it.
*Yes oversimplifying here and the rest of course.
*Yes oversimplifying here and the rest of course.
December 13, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Propaganda. We thought that it was gauche and problematic to have government propaganda about public accomplishments and so people forgot about them. People consistently like the military more than ‘the government’ and you know what a large part of that is? They have an advertising budget.
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Now now
Who amongst us *hasn’t* put millions of people’s health in jeopardy because we were horny
Who amongst us *hasn’t* put millions of people’s health in jeopardy because we were horny
December 13, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Now now
Who amongst us *hasn’t* put millions of people’s health in jeopardy because we were horny
Who amongst us *hasn’t* put millions of people’s health in jeopardy because we were horny
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To give you a sense of how big a departure this year, the government doesn't do this for wanted criminals.
SCOOP: The Trump administration is providing the names of all travelers passing through U.S. airports to immigration officials in search of people with deportation orders, a substantial expansion of government efforts to draw on data to hunt down immigrants.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:19 PM
To give you a sense of how big a departure this year, the government doesn't do this for wanted criminals.
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They like Trump and want to help him. They have pre-written "THE COMEBACK KID" narratives ready to break out of he crosses back over 40% approval for a couple polls, not to report a narrative but to try and change it
AP on Trump now, and Biden in June 2022.
For Trump, declining to 36 percent approval is “good news.”
For Biden, holding steady at 41% is “a source of concern.”
For Trump, declining to 36 percent approval is “good news.”
For Biden, holding steady at 41% is “a source of concern.”
December 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
They like Trump and want to help him. They have pre-written "THE COMEBACK KID" narratives ready to break out of he crosses back over 40% approval for a couple polls, not to report a narrative but to try and change it
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woo woo brain rot isn't some amusing character quirk, it's not harmless, it's literal child murder
December 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM
woo woo brain rot isn't some amusing character quirk, it's not harmless, it's literal child murder
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The most crucial thing about this scandal remains that Nuzzi wanted to suppress damaging information to both help Trump *and* to protect Kennedy's chances of becoming the Secretary of Child Murder should he win, and it worked: www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/12/a-ma...
December 11, 2025 at 8:44 PM
The most crucial thing about this scandal remains that Nuzzi wanted to suppress damaging information to both help Trump *and* to protect Kennedy's chances of becoming the Secretary of Child Murder should he win, and it worked: www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/12/a-ma...
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it is also just hilarious to insist that eight months of rush job “scholarship” outweighs decades of settled history and 140 years of settled law
Giving the game away. he has more “scholarly ammunition” than he did in January because a bunch of professional bootlicks and liars who have never had real jobs started lying about birthright citizenship in January.
December 12, 2025 at 1:35 PM
it is also just hilarious to insist that eight months of rush job “scholarship” outweighs decades of settled history and 140 years of settled law
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i want to be clear about this: worker’s rights also includes the right to be free from racist or sexist or gendered abuse at your job.
December 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM
i want to be clear about this: worker’s rights also includes the right to be free from racist or sexist or gendered abuse at your job.
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the thing is there really is a epochal tech revolution happening, it’s called renewables and green industry
Really refuse to let the worst people have ownership of techno-optimism
December 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
the thing is there really is a epochal tech revolution happening, it’s called renewables and green industry
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This is just some ordinary dude no one had ever heard of, quietly getting by, and the administration has decided in a fit of pique to hound him for the rest of his life because otherwise they'd have to tacitly admit they're capricious incompetent villains. Just let him live, ffs
BREAKING: At 7am ET, in response to the emergency overnight filing, Judge Xinis issued a TRO barring the Trump administration from re-detaining Abrego Garcia.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71191...
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71191...
Memorandum and Order – #114 in Abrego Garcia v. Noem (D. Maryland, 8:25-cv-02780) – CourtListener.com
MEMORANDUM ORDER granting 112 Motion for Temporary Restraining Order; Respondents are enjoined from re-detaining Petitioner in ICE custody until this Court can receive further briefing from the partie...
www.courtlistener.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:22 PM
This is just some ordinary dude no one had ever heard of, quietly getting by, and the administration has decided in a fit of pique to hound him for the rest of his life because otherwise they'd have to tacitly admit they're capricious incompetent villains. Just let him live, ffs
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These ridiculous mega-projects like "datacenters in space" (doomed by thermodynamics) make a LOT more sense when you realize they're massive Ponzi schemes designed to transfer wealth from pension funds to VC's through "fee stacking."
It's the old Assets Under Management con. It should be illegal.
It's the old Assets Under Management con. It should be illegal.
“.. Skeptics believe the technical risks are being underestimated and say space-based data centers won’t be competitive on cost, especially if power and other constraints ease on the ground.”
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/tech/bezos-a...
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/tech/bezos-a...
December 11, 2025 at 9:29 AM
These ridiculous mega-projects like "datacenters in space" (doomed by thermodynamics) make a LOT more sense when you realize they're massive Ponzi schemes designed to transfer wealth from pension funds to VC's through "fee stacking."
It's the old Assets Under Management con. It should be illegal.
It's the old Assets Under Management con. It should be illegal.
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so, this right here? this is one of the absolutely most lawless, brazenly unconstitutional impeachable offenses ever committed by any president other than trump in the history of our country.
like, this is an open and shut case. and it's a case which targeted *republicans.*
like, this is an open and shut case. and it's a case which targeted *republicans.*
This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him.
I don’t know how else to say it…
I don’t know how else to say it…
December 12, 2025 at 4:55 AM
so, this right here? this is one of the absolutely most lawless, brazenly unconstitutional impeachable offenses ever committed by any president other than trump in the history of our country.
like, this is an open and shut case. and it's a case which targeted *republicans.*
like, this is an open and shut case. and it's a case which targeted *republicans.*
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You might think from the headline that this is a story about a trans kid suffering medical consequences from a large drug dose but nope! It is just an interview with an estranged father who is angry that his child happily transitioned.
archive.ph/Tmthz
archive.ph/Tmthz
December 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
You might think from the headline that this is a story about a trans kid suffering medical consequences from a large drug dose but nope! It is just an interview with an estranged father who is angry that his child happily transitioned.
archive.ph/Tmthz
archive.ph/Tmthz
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If you want a primer on the Network State, I spent some time with a group hoping to make one this summer:
www.wired.com/story/tech-b...
www.wired.com/story/tech-b...
December 10, 2025 at 8:46 PM
If you want a primer on the Network State, I spent some time with a group hoping to make one this summer:
www.wired.com/story/tech-b...
www.wired.com/story/tech-b...
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Venezuela's just the first of many, and they're hoping other places will just fold instead of getting into a protracted air and ground war after this one.
And I know what you're thinking: Didn't the creation of Dubai require slaves? Yes! Good point! Noodle on that for a minute.
And I know what you're thinking: Didn't the creation of Dubai require slaves? Yes! Good point! Noodle on that for a minute.
December 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Venezuela's just the first of many, and they're hoping other places will just fold instead of getting into a protracted air and ground war after this one.
And I know what you're thinking: Didn't the creation of Dubai require slaves? Yes! Good point! Noodle on that for a minute.
And I know what you're thinking: Didn't the creation of Dubai require slaves? Yes! Good point! Noodle on that for a minute.