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Tom
@tomel.bsky.social
· Sep 17
(to the tune of “a day in the life”)
i quantum leaped today, oh boy
i quantum leaped today, oh boy
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I'm not a UX engineer, but I do feel like it's a no brainer that if I delete a suggestion made by autocorrect and proceed to retype with what I had typed originally, it should not autocorrect it again.
November 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I'm not a UX engineer, but I do feel like it's a no brainer that if I delete a suggestion made by autocorrect and proceed to retype with what I had typed originally, it should not autocorrect it again.
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
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The issue as I see: it strains credulity to assume that NYT benched then fired a reporter for unethical conduct *relating to Epstein* but somehow failed to review that reporter's email correspondence with Epstein, where they would have found a trove of evidence linking Trump to Epstein
November 13, 2025 at 3:50 AM
The issue as I see: it strains credulity to assume that NYT benched then fired a reporter for unethical conduct *relating to Epstein* but somehow failed to review that reporter's email correspondence with Epstein, where they would have found a trove of evidence linking Trump to Epstein
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A middle school boy created deepfake AI CSAM of his fellow classmate, a 13 year old girl. The girl pleaded with the school but they did nothing and instead put her on a bus with the perpetrator. She ended up hitting him and was expelled but nothing happened to the boy.
www.wsaw.com/2025/11/12/g...
www.wsaw.com/2025/11/12/g...
Girl, 13, expelled for hitting classmate who made a deepfake porn image of her, lawyers say
A 13-year-old student was expelled from a Louisiana middle school after hitting a male classmate who she said created and shared a deepfake pornographic image of her, according to her family’s lawyers...
www.wsaw.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
A middle school boy created deepfake AI CSAM of his fellow classmate, a 13 year old girl. The girl pleaded with the school but they did nothing and instead put her on a bus with the perpetrator. She ended up hitting him and was expelled but nothing happened to the boy.
www.wsaw.com/2025/11/12/g...
www.wsaw.com/2025/11/12/g...
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just a reminder this guy slashed the tires on his much younger female coworkers tires to trick her into getting in his car
he was married at the time
he was married at the time
"All they could do to distract from the Schumer shutdown cover-up is leak Epstein emails ... What a sleazy leak."
Jesse Watters attacks Democrats for releasing Epstein emails
www.mediamatters.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM
just a reminder this guy slashed the tires on his much younger female coworkers tires to trick her into getting in his car
he was married at the time
he was married at the time
FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS YOU SON OF A BITCH
JD Vance calls ibuprofen "useless medication" and implies it's not "necessary, safe and effective."
November 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS YOU SON OF A BITCH
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why the fuck are these freaks so obsessed with demonizing bog-standard over the counter drugs
JD Vance calls ibuprofen "useless medication" and implies it's not "necessary, safe and effective."
November 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
why the fuck are these freaks so obsessed with demonizing bog-standard over the counter drugs
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Here it is, from @clairewillett.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Here it is, from @clairewillett.bsky.social
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Really wild how all these Harvard scientists and mathematics guys constantly talked about how Jeffrey Epstein was this brilliant, "misunderstood" man and then you read his emails and he's clearly a barely literate lecher, extremely easy to understand
November 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Really wild how all these Harvard scientists and mathematics guys constantly talked about how Jeffrey Epstein was this brilliant, "misunderstood" man and then you read his emails and he's clearly a barely literate lecher, extremely easy to understand
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For my newsletter, I talked about the proposed teenage phone restrictions in the name of a murdered teenage trans girl.
(Noted this twice in the piece but again, I have no issue with Esther Ghey)
www.burnsnotice.com/brianna-ghey...
(Noted this twice in the piece but again, I have no issue with Esther Ghey)
www.burnsnotice.com/brianna-ghey...
Brianna Ghey's Phone Didn't Stab Her 28 Times
The trans girl murder victim's mom has turned her death into an unrelated political crusade against teenage phone use.
Note: I want to be clear upfront that I have no issue with Esther Ghey, mother o...
www.burnsnotice.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM
For my newsletter, I talked about the proposed teenage phone restrictions in the name of a murdered teenage trans girl.
(Noted this twice in the piece but again, I have no issue with Esther Ghey)
www.burnsnotice.com/brianna-ghey...
(Noted this twice in the piece but again, I have no issue with Esther Ghey)
www.burnsnotice.com/brianna-ghey...
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No one will ever sum up Bari Weiss's career more succinctly than "what's the point of standards"
“Standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She asks ‘What’s the point of standards?’
November 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
No one will ever sum up Bari Weiss's career more succinctly than "what's the point of standards"
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Siri, what's one way that I could prove the lack of basic logic inherent in transphobia with one stupid, ironic choice?
The Sun illustrates Olympics trans ban story with picture of cis athlete
UK tabloid The Sun has been widely panned for using a picture of cisgender athlete Imane Khelif in its story on an Olympics trans ban.
www.thepinknews.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Siri, what's one way that I could prove the lack of basic logic inherent in transphobia with one stupid, ironic choice?
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In eight years this lady is going to be telling her kid “it’s okay, you’re never going to use any of that algebra shit in real life, now get to football practice” and never see a hint of irony.
I think the belief by the powerful that "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing in terms of understanding How We Got Here
November 12, 2025 at 12:17 AM
In eight years this lady is going to be telling her kid “it’s okay, you’re never going to use any of that algebra shit in real life, now get to football practice” and never see a hint of irony.
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Another point is that the social/emotional stuff is actually the MOST important thing at that age, because it is largely determinative of their ABILITY TO LEARN IN THE FUTURE.
I think the belief by the powerful that "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing in terms of understanding How We Got Here
November 12, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Another point is that the social/emotional stuff is actually the MOST important thing at that age, because it is largely determinative of their ABILITY TO LEARN IN THE FUTURE.
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Paid a Colombian tea grower $1,500 for a shipment. Got billed $150 by the Trump administration at the border. *I* got billed. Not the tea growers. Not the Colombian government. Me. The American business owner. I paid the Trump tax.
November 12, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Paid a Colombian tea grower $1,500 for a shipment. Got billed $150 by the Trump administration at the border. *I* got billed. Not the tea growers. Not the Colombian government. Me. The American business owner. I paid the Trump tax.
“There’s a Boy in the Girl’s Bathroom” by Louis Sachar. It’s the first book I really remember making me identify with characters who weren’t like me, and the first time I remember being really *moved* and *inspired* by a book.
November 11, 2025 at 11:29 PM
“There’s a Boy in the Girl’s Bathroom” by Louis Sachar. It’s the first book I really remember making me identify with characters who weren’t like me, and the first time I remember being really *moved* and *inspired* by a book.
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you can't just bring back austin powers. the franchise wrote itself into a corner after he volunteered to stay behind forever in the shagadelic dimension to save foxxy and vanessa. they already brought him back once without explaining how he escaped from fembot island, the audience won't buy it
November 11, 2025 at 1:48 PM
you can't just bring back austin powers. the franchise wrote itself into a corner after he volunteered to stay behind forever in the shagadelic dimension to save foxxy and vanessa. they already brought him back once without explaining how he escaped from fembot island, the audience won't buy it
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No. No. No. Fucking No.
They are sitying in office. We have seen over the last few decades that the opposition party has the power to GRODLOCK EVERYTHING when its the Republicans.
But Dems spent the last year punching hippies and making concessions.
It us abso-FUCKING-lutely on them.
They are sitying in office. We have seen over the last few decades that the opposition party has the power to GRODLOCK EVERYTHING when its the Republicans.
But Dems spent the last year punching hippies and making concessions.
It us abso-FUCKING-lutely on them.
This is on us. Americans are all still shopping, brunching, indulging, vacationing. Still not mass boycotting, daily protesting, general striking. then pissed off dems won't act with the zero power we did not give them. Grind all but critical small biz spending to a halt then we gripe
November 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
No. No. No. Fucking No.
They are sitying in office. We have seen over the last few decades that the opposition party has the power to GRODLOCK EVERYTHING when its the Republicans.
But Dems spent the last year punching hippies and making concessions.
It us abso-FUCKING-lutely on them.
They are sitying in office. We have seen over the last few decades that the opposition party has the power to GRODLOCK EVERYTHING when its the Republicans.
But Dems spent the last year punching hippies and making concessions.
It us abso-FUCKING-lutely on them.
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In which a man responsible for the deaths of 600,000 so far, mostly children, whines about an octogenarian novelist's observation (which she says was about ultrafiche men in general, not the whiner in particular).
November 11, 2025 at 6:25 PM
In which a man responsible for the deaths of 600,000 so far, mostly children, whines about an octogenarian novelist's observation (which she says was about ultrafiche men in general, not the whiner in particular).
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the entirety of the british press talked themselves into believing this woman is trans based almost entirely on JK Rowling's judgement of the athlete's appearance.
Nothing illustrates the arseholery of the IOC and the British Press more than the use of the image of a not-Trans woman to illustrate a story about trans women being banned (because there are no current trans women competing at this level)
November 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
the entirety of the british press talked themselves into believing this woman is trans based almost entirely on JK Rowling's judgement of the athlete's appearance.
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i don't think it's responsible to let President Grandpa go out there without challenge and say that the way forward on health care are national FSAs seeded some token amount of cash and the right to buy individual health plans yourself off the retail rack. i think the stupidity should be pointed out
November 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
i don't think it's responsible to let President Grandpa go out there without challenge and say that the way forward on health care are national FSAs seeded some token amount of cash and the right to buy individual health plans yourself off the retail rack. i think the stupidity should be pointed out
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This is the greatest opportunity the skeptics movement has ever had.
Kim Kardashian slams psychics who told her she'd pass the bar exam: 'All fucking full of shit'
Kim Kardashian slams psychics who told her she'd pass the bar exam: 'All f---ing full of s---'
'All f---ing full of s---': Kim Kardashian has some choice words for the psychics who predicted she'd pass the bar exam.
ew.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
This is the greatest opportunity the skeptics movement has ever had.