Shawn Fuller
@zeppelinbend.bsky.social
If I new what two and two really was, I would say four!
Is every male on bsky getting lots of fembot followers, or is just my fairly grim middle-age man photo that makes me a target? @moderation.bsky.app
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May 26, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Is every male on bsky getting lots of fembot followers, or is just my fairly grim middle-age man photo that makes me a target? @moderation.bsky.app
E.g.
E.g.
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No just or decent society allows this sort of cruelty, this evil.
ICE pretended to arrest a 21 yo in order to force her to call her undocumented mother to come leave the house (where she was safe from ICE arrest) to care for her baby. When the mother came, she was abducted and the daughter was suddenly of no interest to ICE.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
May 15, 2025 at 2:51 PM
No just or decent society allows this sort of cruelty, this evil.
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Of course, protecting the inflated values financial assets is classist.
Gregor Robertson still doesn’t get it
The Liberals were given one stay of political execution on their poor handling of the housing file, both because of Justin Trudeau’s resignation and Donald Trump’s menacing threats. They will not get ...
www.nationalobserver.com
May 15, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Of course, protecting the inflated values financial assets is classist.
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Germs
~~~~~
“The body will destroy the germs of a physical illness within a week; but the mind will preserve germs of morbidity or fear for a lifetime.”
~ Colin Wilson, The Mind Parasites.
Image: Staphylococcus Bacteria / www . scientificanimations . com / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0.
~~~~~
“The body will destroy the germs of a physical illness within a week; but the mind will preserve germs of morbidity or fear for a lifetime.”
~ Colin Wilson, The Mind Parasites.
Image: Staphylococcus Bacteria / www . scientificanimations . com / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0.
April 11, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Germs
~~~~~
“The body will destroy the germs of a physical illness within a week; but the mind will preserve germs of morbidity or fear for a lifetime.”
~ Colin Wilson, The Mind Parasites.
Image: Staphylococcus Bacteria / www . scientificanimations . com / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0.
~~~~~
“The body will destroy the germs of a physical illness within a week; but the mind will preserve germs of morbidity or fear for a lifetime.”
~ Colin Wilson, The Mind Parasites.
Image: Staphylococcus Bacteria / www . scientificanimations . com / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0.
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This. The DC US Attorney is a direct and immediate threat to the rule of law and an obvious partisan hack.
It *is* annoying that this NATO ambassador thing is getting more attention--from smart people!--than the fact that Adam Schiff(!) seems to be picking a wiser fight on the DC US Attorney.
April 2, 2025 at 1:04 AM
This. The DC US Attorney is a direct and immediate threat to the rule of law and an obvious partisan hack.
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According to Trump’s executive order, Commander Shilling —because she is trans — is not
“honorable, truthful, and disciplined” and lacks “the humility and selflessness required of a service member.”
So much for her 60+ combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
“honorable, truthful, and disciplined” and lacks “the humility and selflessness required of a service member.”
So much for her 60+ combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
March 28, 2025 at 1:06 AM
According to Trump’s executive order, Commander Shilling —because she is trans — is not
“honorable, truthful, and disciplined” and lacks “the humility and selflessness required of a service member.”
So much for her 60+ combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
“honorable, truthful, and disciplined” and lacks “the humility and selflessness required of a service member.”
So much for her 60+ combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
You THINK that you’re going to the grocery store for just 1 or 2 needed items, but you’re NOT.
How long will hope triumph over experience?
How long will hope triumph over experience?
March 22, 2025 at 5:20 PM
You THINK that you’re going to the grocery store for just 1 or 2 needed items, but you’re NOT.
How long will hope triumph over experience?
How long will hope triumph over experience?
Wealth extraction is an existential risk to America.
A LA-based company that owns more than a dozen hospitals in four states filed for bankruptcy
Prospect Medical relied on the value of their hospital real estate to help finance massive payouts for their private equity investors, diverting funds away from direct patient care
Prospect Medical relied on the value of their hospital real estate to help finance massive payouts for their private equity investors, diverting funds away from direct patient care
Prospect Medical Holdings files for bankruptcy after owners took hundreds of millions in payouts
Bankruptcy comes days after scathing Senate report on private equity impact on hospitals.
www.cbsnews.com
January 13, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Wealth extraction is an existential risk to America.
Hey google. I’m not making a U-turn on f#*!%?$ Willingdon drive, even when it’s not rush hour!
November 26, 2024 at 2:48 AM
Hey google. I’m not making a U-turn on f#*!%?$ Willingdon drive, even when it’s not rush hour!
I feel that Biden built a bucket list, over his whole career, of what he would do if he became president. Finally he became the sole survivor and he has been quietly fulfilling it.
April 25, 2024 at 3:49 PM
I feel that Biden built a bucket list, over his whole career, of what he would do if he became president. Finally he became the sole survivor and he has been quietly fulfilling it.
Canadian waiter: Do you need the machine?
CDN customer: Yes
US customer: Umm. (Gulp) What is the machine?
US waiter: (Takes card away to back room)
CDN customer: Whoa! where are you going with my card?!
CDN customer: Yes
US customer: Umm. (Gulp) What is the machine?
US waiter: (Takes card away to back room)
CDN customer: Whoa! where are you going with my card?!
April 25, 2024 at 3:38 PM
Canadian waiter: Do you need the machine?
CDN customer: Yes
US customer: Umm. (Gulp) What is the machine?
US waiter: (Takes card away to back room)
CDN customer: Whoa! where are you going with my card?!
CDN customer: Yes
US customer: Umm. (Gulp) What is the machine?
US waiter: (Takes card away to back room)
CDN customer: Whoa! where are you going with my card?!
Need to upvote these stories.
Now that OJ is gone, her NDA is no longer valid. This is her personal account of OJ’s lawyers paying off USC to keep mum and why that spurred her to change her major in college.
April 15, 2024 at 1:58 AM
Need to upvote these stories.
This is a serious loss
There’s a famous illustration of how four generations lost the right to roam, covering 1926 to 2007. Even with the rise of radio, TV and video games it seems kinda hard to blame too much time on screens or even social media — a thing that didn’t exist for kids until very recently — for the change.
April 14, 2024 at 9:28 PM
This is a serious loss
If not by intention, certainly in effect this is destroying Oklahoma public schooling. It is at the very least wilful neglect.
oh this made my blood boil kfor.com/news/local/s...
She couldn’t wait to work for Ryan Walters’ administration. Now she’s worried public schools won’t survive the rest of his term.
For the first time, someone once chosen by State Superintendent Ryan Walters to be a leader in his administration – only to later resign — is speaking out, telling News 4 she’s greatly concerned fo…
kfor.com
April 13, 2024 at 1:02 AM
If not by intention, certainly in effect this is destroying Oklahoma public schooling. It is at the very least wilful neglect.
This paper helped me re-think TickToc and how we attempt to control the other platforms and end up just centralizing power to the US and to authoritarian actors. A broadside in all directions.
📢NEW FROM ME!
On the TikTok ban, the danger of abandoning defense of speech to extremists, & how the liberal tendency to assume a just state "outside the scope of this paper" leads to confused law/policy that can exacerbate the problems platforms pose.
lpeproject.org/blog/social-...
On the TikTok ban, the danger of abandoning defense of speech to extremists, & how the liberal tendency to assume a just state "outside the scope of this paper" leads to confused law/policy that can exacerbate the problems platforms pose.
lpeproject.org/blog/social-...
Social Media, Authoritarianism, and the World As It Is
Disagreement over recent TikTok legislation reveals a deep divide about our current political moment. Should we, like many of the bill’s proponents, assume the existence of a functional…
lpeproject.org
March 30, 2024 at 12:39 AM
This paper helped me re-think TickToc and how we attempt to control the other platforms and end up just centralizing power to the US and to authoritarian actors. A broadside in all directions.
And sometimes the good wins.
This is Thomas Cox. He was a miserable bank lawyer, then he retired and did pro bono work.
From this dinky little corner in his house, he forced a halt to robo-signer foreclosures in 23 states which quickly spread nationwide. A true paperwork hero.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2010/10/15/b...
From this dinky little corner in his house, he forced a halt to robo-signer foreclosures in 23 states which quickly spread nationwide. A true paperwork hero.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2010/10/15/b...
March 27, 2024 at 11:43 PM
And sometimes the good wins.
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Great news everyone! There's now a form of artificial meat that's extruded in a continuous, undead tube, and it grows by itself because scientists gave it cancer.
freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...
freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...
Perpetually growing meat!
This is mildly interesting: scientists have modified muscle cells in culture so that they produce their own growth factors. This is a major cost reduction, because now you won’t need to const…
freethoughtblogs.com
March 5, 2024 at 4:30 PM
Great news everyone! There's now a form of artificial meat that's extruded in a continuous, undead tube, and it grows by itself because scientists gave it cancer.
freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...
freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...
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This is Nobel Prize right here.
February 24, 2024 at 11:30 PM
This is Nobel Prize right here.
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How did I spend this past weekend?
Narrowly avoiding dying in my sleep. Signal boost appreciated. @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com @colleendoran.bsky.social @pattonoswalt.bsky.social
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Narrowly avoiding dying in my sleep. Signal boost appreciated. @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com @colleendoran.bsky.social @pattonoswalt.bsky.social
gofund.me/97f9caa3
What Doesn't Kill Me Leaves Me With Medicals Bills, organized by Nancy Collins
Hi, my name is Nancy A. Collins.
Some of you might know me as the c… Nancy Collins needs your support for What Doesn't Kill Me Leaves Me With Medicals Bills
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February 7, 2024 at 1:16 AM
How did I spend this past weekend?
Narrowly avoiding dying in my sleep. Signal boost appreciated. @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com @colleendoran.bsky.social @pattonoswalt.bsky.social
gofund.me/97f9caa3
Narrowly avoiding dying in my sleep. Signal boost appreciated. @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com @colleendoran.bsky.social @pattonoswalt.bsky.social
gofund.me/97f9caa3
Freudian slip
January 28, 2024 at 7:05 PM
Freudian slip