A Flock Of Black Swans

3799 twitter impressions to 5k+ followers in 7 days

Think it’s finally time to quit Twitter. No point in posting if I’m getting less than 1 impression per follower per week (and even that number is almost certainly fraudulent)

Just got an email from the CEO that started with “I suggest you feed this article into ChatGPT” and ended with a fake Winston Churchill quote.

Perfection. Cinema. 10/10, no notes

Things are so bleak I almost just retweeted Neera Tanden

Screenshot of a search result the title of the page is the wild ending of Alf explained, but the preview is about the shooting death of Charlie Kirk

Go home Yahoo! you’re drunk

Centrists be like “we stand for nothing but winning!” and then lose

Sometimes I’ll get cheese fries from somewhere else and get a cup of Cajun gravy from Popeyes and voila: NAFTA poutine

I’ve done this at Popeyes

Immigrants with no criminal record now largest group in Ice detention Government data shows 16,523 people with no record, versus 15,725 with a record and 13,767 with pending charges

According to data from Ice, we passed a significant milestone. Immigrants with no criminal record now make up the largest group arrested and booked into detention by Ice.

Guy who thinks it’s Norm Chomsky

Every single Republican should be considered a pedophile until proven otherwise

I wish I loved anything as much as Democratic leadership loves sending strongly worded letters to fascists

dont mind me, I'm just destroying anything I don't understand because it makes me afraid

What College Students Really Think of Charlie Kirk New data from Generation Lab undercuts Trump’s mythmaking about his murdered ally, who was unquestionably a savvy organizer, even if he wasn’t at all popular on the campuses he loved to visit.

This is fascinating, 94% of college students had heard of Charlie Kirk - and 70% of those who heard of him disagreed with him puck.news/what-college...

something to keep in mind is that everything the right is currently doing to trans people is just what they have wanted for decades to do to gay people; they just can’t get away with doing the latter right now

They are going to criminalize our healthcare and then try to throw us into camps.

Prepare, prepare, prepare.

Let's all to take a deep breath & understand that we have reached the phase in fascism where if they want to declare you a criminal, you are a criminal. You can not magically avoid it, or do exactly the right thing to stay off the list. Fascism must always have enemies, and one day you will be one.

OK, not even getting into the ethics or the existential issues around AI: Have some goddamn self-respect. If you're a writer and you do this I don't know how you look at yourself, but I know exactly how I look at you.

The reason liberals are so eager to give Nazis legitimacy by debating them is that debate gives liberals the opportunity to do their favorite thing in the world: demonstrate that they’re The Smartest Person In The Room

Born to dilly dally, forced to circle back

It’s not a double standard this *is* their standard.

Speech for them not for us.
Violence for us not for them.

The sooner we understand this the better.

Don’t forget to make a 9/11 wish

A dead fascist

Maybe now we can finally get some gum control

It’s so funny that LLM’s are trained in the same sense that literal parrots are

The piss tape seems like such a tame hypothetical scandal in hindsight

Mr. Mamdani must find common ground with the police to avoid the tensions that plagued Mr. de Blasio, said Mitchell Moss, a professor of urban policy at New York University. Mr. de Blasio tried to bring changes to the department, but he angered the rank and file. He defended a staffer who had ridiculed the police on social media and gave a speech describing how he had warned his biracial son that he could have problems with the police. The tension culminated in a painfully public protest in 2015 by officers who turned their backs on Mr. de Blasio at a police funeral. “You can’t be mayor of New York without having the support of the Police Department,” Professor Moss said. “De Blasio never recovered from the loss of respect police gave him.” Mr. de Blasio balanced calls for reform with his choice for commissioner: William Bratton, a well-established leader whose experience running the department in the 1990s comforted many police unions.

This is such a terrible and anti-democratic idea. The mayor of NYC should not need the support of the NYPD. There are pragmatic reasons why the mayor needs to have a working relationship with the police, but the NYPD doesn't get a veto over what voters want. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/n...

Some loser thinks AI has emotions

Genuinely the dumbest people to ever sip air

Everybody in America should get one wish on 9/11

Tweet from House Republicans with the department of war graphic the tweet says that’s the sound of freedom

Sound of freedom? Isn’t that the movie about sex trafficking made by a pedophile?

It’s 2025, why did I just get an ad for Pokémon Go?