Tim Murphy

no spoilers!

just going through and doing the Leo pointing meme whenever I get to one of the famous quotes. we've got "I propose to move immediately upon your works" and "I cannot spare this man. He fights" within just a few pages of each other in here.

the societal contagion in which someone mentions to someone else that they are reading "battle cry of freedom," and then they have to read "battle cry of freedom"

Love a good normiecore Sanders post.

Great moments in Verge background policy here btw - @tinanguyen.bsky.social nailed this one

The Republicans are standing up to the power of Big Emergency Brake

www.wsj.com/business/aut...

What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality

"OpenAI is now seeking the optimal setting that will attract more users without sending them spiraling." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...

even when it's a fake investigation for a fake crime, remember: the only word you should ever say to a fed is "lawyer"

AI Meets Aggressive Accounting at Meta’s Gigantic New Data Center Favorable treatment off the balance sheet hinges on some convenient assumptions.

"a holding company called Beignet Investor" www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ai...

tough break for Portugal

when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean

William F. Buckley Sr.:

Trump administration reprising the celebrated 2022 Republican strategy of "reminding people that Mark Kelly is a Navy veteran who went to space"

for all I know these are too! but i don't skip the line.

landed in new york after a week in an extremely non-nyc place and felt such a pang of affection for the place as soon as I saw people trying to hustle travelers into line-skipping taxis at laguardia, while also being rude about it

it's like that old Reagan line, "I'm from the government, and I'm here to [slips on a banana peel, loud screeching sound, silence]"

again i think this like once or twice a day but it's so funny to see authoritarianism crash against the rocks of "not a real government lawyer"

prepares them for the real-world by making them pretend to concentrate for two days when their minds are elsewhere

love soccer but there are just too many club breaks interrupting the calendar

reminder that the three days of the work-week before thanksgiving are not real

there's a whole generation of young people who don't remember the Sarah Palin turkey video

the rage that reading this makes me feel. just full 'need to stare into the middle distance because we are so, so lost' stuff.

theonion.com/this-war-wil...

"Kanawha" is an obviously better name than "west virginia." that was a mistake right there.

people are reading "catch-and-kill" in the journalistic sense but she was probably just finding raccoons for him to eat

a person holding a bag with a note that says dead dove do not eat Alt: a person holding a bag with a note that says dead dove do not eat

All of Bluesky this morning:

retiring on january 5th is such a nice touch

for senior citizens it can mean so much to spend quality time with a young person, even if it's just a few minutes

we've come so far from "Barack Obama's Facebook Page" at Slate