Untold Folktale
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The trouble of reading a lot is it can get you mistaken for a smart person.
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It’s genuinely baffling to me how the GOP has managed to maintain a reputation in basically all media as the “law and order“ party and the party of “fiscal responsibility“ in contradiction to all readily available facts
August 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM
It’s genuinely baffling to me how the GOP has managed to maintain a reputation in basically all media as the “law and order“ party and the party of “fiscal responsibility“ in contradiction to all readily available facts
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Outcry grows after multiple trans users were targeted for mild criticisms of the anti-trans billionaire.
Bluesky silenced trans voices over J.K. Rowling, here’s why
Outcry grows after multiple trans users were targeted for mild criticisms of the anti-trans billionaire.
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August 20, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Outcry grows after multiple trans users were targeted for mild criticisms of the anti-trans billionaire.
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To the job counselors whose first suggestion is for me to use AI to write my resume:
You are only making me regret coming to you for help.
You are telling me there is nothing to learn from you.
You are only making me regret coming to you for help.
You are telling me there is nothing to learn from you.
August 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
To the job counselors whose first suggestion is for me to use AI to write my resume:
You are only making me regret coming to you for help.
You are telling me there is nothing to learn from you.
You are only making me regret coming to you for help.
You are telling me there is nothing to learn from you.
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Athena: I am the goddess of wisdom and war. I care not for the frivolities of other women.
Paris: Good to hear because the fairest ain’t you.
Athena: It wasn’t wise to tell the goddess of war she’s not as pretty as some dumb slut.
Paris: Good to hear because the fairest ain’t you.
Athena: It wasn’t wise to tell the goddess of war she’s not as pretty as some dumb slut.
August 20, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Athena: I am the goddess of wisdom and war. I care not for the frivolities of other women.
Paris: Good to hear because the fairest ain’t you.
Athena: It wasn’t wise to tell the goddess of war she’s not as pretty as some dumb slut.
Paris: Good to hear because the fairest ain’t you.
Athena: It wasn’t wise to tell the goddess of war she’s not as pretty as some dumb slut.
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When the dust settles, and if universities have meaningfully survived, it will be worth asking how institutions usually so resistant to thoroughgoing change chose to leap with both feet into an untested technology they didn't understand and didn't know how to use.
Universities doubling down as public sentiment shifts away from dependence upon AI. This is the problem with the buy-in.
The University of Michigan is now claiming that students have an ‘ethical responsibility’ to use AI.
August 21, 2025 at 6:51 AM
When the dust settles, and if universities have meaningfully survived, it will be worth asking how institutions usually so resistant to thoroughgoing change chose to leap with both feet into an untested technology they didn't understand and didn't know how to use.
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it is genuinely maddening to see pundits and reporters say things like “well trump has an advantage on crime” while the public consistently says “we think this guy sucks on crime”
Trump and Stephen Miller's military occupations are UNPOPULAR.
Pew: 56% don't trust Trump to manage law enforcement
Reuters: Only 42% approve his handling of crime
WaPo: 79% of DCers oppose invasion
On the pod, @monicapotts.bsky.social and I urge Dems to engage:
newrepublic.com/article/1993...
Pew: 56% don't trust Trump to manage law enforcement
Reuters: Only 42% approve his handling of crime
WaPo: 79% of DCers oppose invasion
On the pod, @monicapotts.bsky.social and I urge Dems to engage:
newrepublic.com/article/1993...
Stephen Miller Erupts in Manic Fascist Rant—and Reveals a Big Weakness
As Miller unleashes a wild tirade about Trump’s D.C. takeover, a sharp observer of his military occupations explains how he’s ominously consolidating power right before our eyes—and how Dems must figh...
newrepublic.com
August 21, 2025 at 12:09 PM
it is genuinely maddening to see pundits and reporters say things like “well trump has an advantage on crime” while the public consistently says “we think this guy sucks on crime”
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it is a solid tell that people aren’t thinking they are just mindlessly repeating narrative, conventional wisdom and spin
August 21, 2025 at 12:11 PM
it is a solid tell that people aren’t thinking they are just mindlessly repeating narrative, conventional wisdom and spin
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Not them removing the cracker and barrel
August 20, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Not them removing the cracker and barrel
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I’ve talked about this before.
You’ll see, on TV and in films, men wracked with guilt about having killed another man. . .
You never see them experiencing the same guilt about sexually assaulting a woman.
You’ll see, on TV and in films, men wracked with guilt about having killed another man. . .
You never see them experiencing the same guilt about sexually assaulting a woman.
August 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I’ve talked about this before.
You’ll see, on TV and in films, men wracked with guilt about having killed another man. . .
You never see them experiencing the same guilt about sexually assaulting a woman.
You’ll see, on TV and in films, men wracked with guilt about having killed another man. . .
You never see them experiencing the same guilt about sexually assaulting a woman.
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I try to be understanding, but jesus christ, the whole story is about how infiltration (which I’ve also covered for years) is not necessary when agencies are openly recruiting them, and they’ve volunteering, and their missions are now the same
The "new" Proud Boys? Um… hate to break it to you, but many of these federal agents are literally Proud Boys, as are many local police officers. Proud Boy infiltration of law enforcement is no secret.
Federal Agents Are the New Proud Boys
It used to be far-right groups who flooded cities wearing masks and military gear, looking for a fight. Now it’s anonymous federal agents who are violently attacking people on the street.
newrepublic.com
August 20, 2025 at 12:06 PM
I try to be understanding, but jesus christ, the whole story is about how infiltration (which I’ve also covered for years) is not necessary when agencies are openly recruiting them, and they’ve volunteering, and their missions are now the same
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This is the inside story of how Tea's male founder convinced millions of women to share their most intimate secrets on his app, then exposed those secrets in devastating security breaches www.404media.co/how-teas-fou...
How Tea’s Founder Convinced Millions of Women to Spill Their Secrets, Then Exposed Them to the World
A 404 Media investigation reveals how the man who started Tea, the ‘women dating safety’ app, tried to hire a female ‘face’ for the company and then hijack her grassroots community.
www.404media.co
August 19, 2025 at 2:08 PM
This is the inside story of how Tea's male founder convinced millions of women to share their most intimate secrets on his app, then exposed those secrets in devastating security breaches www.404media.co/how-teas-fou...
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As an anthropologist, I'm inclined to try to understand stuff that looks like magical thinking rather than mock it, but proposing to build a God and then expecting him to tell you how to get rich is really testing all of my professional training...
From the replies (bsky.app/profile/dasb...) here's Sam Altman doing what the quoted post described. He seems serious about it.
August 19, 2025 at 8:35 AM
As an anthropologist, I'm inclined to try to understand stuff that looks like magical thinking rather than mock it, but proposing to build a God and then expecting him to tell you how to get rich is really testing all of my professional training...
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it is like central casting with these guys lol
The Independent has identified Eric Lendrum as the DHS PR officer responsible for a relentless flood of social media posts on DHS pages using Nazis memes, slogans and images. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
DHS speechwriter linked to hateful social accounts
‘They are not migrants. They are not ‘undocumented.’ They are an invading army. The largest invasion in American history,’ DHS speechwriter writes on X
www.independent.co.uk
August 18, 2025 at 11:17 PM
it is like central casting with these guys lol
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Just think about the kind of person who, today, with everything going on, thinks "I want to be an ICE officer." What are the chances of that being a decent human being?
August 18, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Just think about the kind of person who, today, with everything going on, thinks "I want to be an ICE officer." What are the chances of that being a decent human being?
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So many people have been ringing the alarm bell about this for ages and I would not be shocked if the entire thing crumbled.
Law firms across the country are working together to file hundreds of lawsuits against Roblox accusing the company of facilitating the sexual exploitation and grooming of kids. One lawyer tells WIRED their firm alone already has 300 cases on its hands www.wired.com/story/is-rob...
![“I would assume by the end of September there should be about 100 to hundreds of these [lawsuits] pending, and I would assume by this time next year you'll probably be looking at over 1,000 of these filed,” Matt Dolman from Dolman Law Group tells WIRED. “We alone already have about 300 of these cases.” Dolman says the vast majority of his clients are under the age of 16 and estimates around 60 percent of the cases involve girls.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2m6tkysz7fjmfpc3vdqmhwu4/bafkreieej5yhtawv64mfrvxyewh2gp7pdiksresvntdf5bmk36ww3ocbe4@jpeg)
August 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
So many people have been ringing the alarm bell about this for ages and I would not be shocked if the entire thing crumbled.
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Resourceful Man Able To Cobble Together Bad Mood From Handful Of Minor Annoyances theonion.com/resourc...
August 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Resourceful Man Able To Cobble Together Bad Mood From Handful Of Minor Annoyances theonion.com/resourc...
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Yeah I wish more people had seen “Hangmen Also Die!” to get a visceral depiction of what this arbitrary and deceitful process looks like for people dealing with the state at the extreme end.
If the police in your state are above the law, you're living in a police state.
August 17, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Yeah I wish more people had seen “Hangmen Also Die!” to get a visceral depiction of what this arbitrary and deceitful process looks like for people dealing with the state at the extreme end.
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I was talking about the 1900s. This is from this week.
August 17, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I was talking about the 1900s. This is from this week.
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it’s my right to eat as many rat droppings as I want. government regulations are stifling small business owners who want to innovate in the rat dropping space. also if I get sick from eating rat droppings it is not my fault
August 17, 2025 at 6:40 PM
it’s my right to eat as many rat droppings as I want. government regulations are stifling small business owners who want to innovate in the rat dropping space. also if I get sick from eating rat droppings it is not my fault
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And Turning Point USA CEO Charlie Kirk is taking this a step further, calling for all Western countries to bar people from Gaza while sharing a clip from fucking Betar. Profoundly evil people.
August 17, 2025 at 7:23 PM
And Turning Point USA CEO Charlie Kirk is taking this a step further, calling for all Western countries to bar people from Gaza while sharing a clip from fucking Betar. Profoundly evil people.
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This has been an ongoing problem for years. The real estate industry has been directly behind this. They benefit from the sale of these homes so they can later gentrify these neighborhoods.
They purposely don’t give ppl the information needed so they can pay their bills.
They purposely don’t give ppl the information needed so they can pay their bills.
Filmore Brown worked 7 days a week for over two decades to pay off his Brooklyn house.
Now, he's losing his home over an unpaid water bill that he says he knew nothing about. “It was stolen from me”
Now, he's losing his home over an unpaid water bill that he says he knew nothing about. “It was stolen from me”
Brooklyn homeowner losing house over unpaid water bill
Filmore Brown worked seven days a week for more than two decades to pay off his Brooklyn house. Now, he's losing his home over an unpaid water bill that he says he knew nothing about.
abc7ny.com
August 17, 2025 at 5:50 PM
This has been an ongoing problem for years. The real estate industry has been directly behind this. They benefit from the sale of these homes so they can later gentrify these neighborhoods.
They purposely don’t give ppl the information needed so they can pay their bills.
They purposely don’t give ppl the information needed so they can pay their bills.
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If you’re poor CPS will come take your kids because they believe you’re endangering your child. If you’re rich and prefer to give your baby ham bones you get a write up in the Wall Street Journal.
With the carnivore diet rising in popularity among adults, babies and toddlers are getting in on it, too. Some pediatricians are very concerned.
🔗: on.wsj.com/45xoDuG
🔗: on.wsj.com/45xoDuG
August 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
If you’re poor CPS will come take your kids because they believe you’re endangering your child. If you’re rich and prefer to give your baby ham bones you get a write up in the Wall Street Journal.
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the short of it is that him and his fellow travelers are incapable of evaluating something on its own, without worrying whether it is tied to people on the internet you don't like
August 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
the short of it is that him and his fellow travelers are incapable of evaluating something on its own, without worrying whether it is tied to people on the internet you don't like
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it is incredible to see the extent to which the Sensible Centrists are simply incapable of grasping the very simple and obvious fact that the president's concern with crime is a pretext, and that to deny claims of a sudden epidemic in crime is not to say that crime is nonexistent.
August 16, 2025 at 10:03 PM
it is incredible to see the extent to which the Sensible Centrists are simply incapable of grasping the very simple and obvious fact that the president's concern with crime is a pretext, and that to deny claims of a sudden epidemic in crime is not to say that crime is nonexistent.
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unless you enjoy seeing DHS and ICE hurt people, this administration is giving you nothing, actively taking away your treats, and making your life worse in a myriad of ways both small and large
all stick, no carrot
I just don’t think it’s sustainable long term
all stick, no carrot
I just don’t think it’s sustainable long term
August 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
unless you enjoy seeing DHS and ICE hurt people, this administration is giving you nothing, actively taking away your treats, and making your life worse in a myriad of ways both small and large
all stick, no carrot
I just don’t think it’s sustainable long term
all stick, no carrot
I just don’t think it’s sustainable long term