“Leftist Terror Cells in Texas” sounds a lot more made up than “card carrying members of the communist party” ever did.
07.10.2025 23:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@dystopos.bsky.social
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“Leftist Terror Cells in Texas” sounds a lot more made up than “card carrying members of the communist party” ever did.
07.10.2025 23:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The “Bill of Traditions” was an excellent addendum to the Constitution.
07.10.2025 14:31 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A couple of times I’ve come across references to companies that specialize in offering independent medical opinions to insurers.
For money.
Which to me suggests that their independence also includes some dependence.
Heaven have mercy on us all—Presbyterians and Pagans alike—for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending
They ought to consider paying them more.
07.10.2025 03:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Reagan and the whole damned Koch network and everybody who sided with it.
07.10.2025 03:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I’d say that the big deal is he’s doing it and we should all have taken note by now and impeached him already.
06.10.2025 23:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I feel like if you used to struggle to summarize long emails in dactylic hexameter, that AI can really help boost your productivity.
06.10.2025 23:13 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I’ll concede that the ACA was originally a Republican proposal for MA, but all they’ve done since it was passed in 2010 is complain about it, lie about it, undermine it, sue to overturn it, and try to repeal it.
…& talk about replacing it with “something better,” without ever showing the something.
There are men out there making way more money playing video games than I make as a professional architect.
06.10.2025 19:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Alabama graduates rank extremely high, for example, when the rankings are alphabetized.
06.10.2025 19:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Never settle for less.
06.10.2025 19:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Twice in one week the president stood in front of the military and called for their aid in eliminating his political opposition.
Twice in one week.
Jared Kushner is going to the Middle East to negotiate a deal on behalf of the U.S. government days after Kushner announced a $55 billion deal between his private equity fund and the Saudi government
One of the most brazen conflicts in history.
Let’s go stop him right now, and then I’ll buy the first round at the bar where we hash out the nomenclature afterward.
06.10.2025 04:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious"
I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.
We know exactly how LLMs work.
Miller’s apparent elevation to shadow president and his seeming intent to declare an end to the constitutional order would, in any other administration, be treated as a executive branch meltdown that was immensely embarrassing for the president and requiring Miller’s immediate removal
05.10.2025 04:03 — 👍 6969 🔁 2103 💬 356 📌 169I like the transitions from 4 to 5 on each side.
05.10.2025 12:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0If they’re scared they could leave?
05.10.2025 03:52 — 👍 19 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0When was our last military campaign that involved long marches with rucksacks?
04.10.2025 16:54 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I’m at Oak Hill Cemetery volunteering for the history tours. The announcer can be heard very clearly, but no crowd noise.
04.10.2025 16:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0This year is beginning to seem endless.
04.10.2025 14:25 — 👍 289 🔁 61 💬 8 📌 3Sounds very Pro-Death.
04.10.2025 14:35 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The mostly-empty bookshelves are kind of on-the-nose.
04.10.2025 14:29 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I think about Limbaugh every so often. I think of his is progenitor of a lot of damaging attitudes and gleeful ignorance.
04.10.2025 14:25 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Give how brazen the war crimes are, it’s remarkable that it’s so low.
04.10.2025 13:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Who’s paying Karoline Leavitt to fume, bluster and lie?
04.10.2025 12:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This thing is taking up two spaces at the drug store.
03.10.2025 19:08 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0How are leaf-blower sales?
03.10.2025 18:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Also, I think whenever one of these “commitments” is restated, it just gets added to the running total.
Like when I count 45 cents in my piggy bank every morning and casually round it up to $14 at the end of the month.