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Looks like Trump will not get the peace prize after all

"I hope your beeper doesn't go off."

A year ago today, a racist tried to make a 'joke' about me being killed by Israel. It was the 1st time I've ever walked off of live TV. That night CNN said they'd ban the racist from their air. But in the year since, I myself haven't been invited back on CNN.

Map of Gaza showing the area controlled by Israel and not laid over a map of Rochester, NY and Monroe County.

Good stuff once again from The Beacon rochesterbeacon.com/2025/10/27/t...

A photo that sums up 2025: a man in body armor and a helmet wets himself as he shoots an unarmed and unarmored man in the face with a flashbang grenade.

UPDATE: Turns out the survey questions go out of their way to specify that M4A would be paid for by a 17 percent tax hike.

The legislation calls for a tax hike of 7.5 percent.

Also, at least for Americans, chemo is inanely expensive

That looks amazing

& What's happening: Elon Musk confirmed that X will delete all heuristics from its recommendation system within six weeks. In other words, the familiar logic of likes, replies, and reposts that shaped Twitter for years is about to disappear. In its place, Grok, the platform's in-house Al model, will read and watch more than one hundred million posts and videos every day to decide what users see. At the same time, X is testing a new interface that keeps users inside the app even when they open external links.

How this hits reality: This marks the first time a major social platform has handed full control of content discovery to an Al model. Engagement farms, trend-hacking accounts, and traditional growth tactics may soon lose their edge. The new winners will be those who write in ways that Grok interprets as engaging, turning social media optimization into a new form of prompt engineering. This shift could reshape influencer strategies, ad targeting, and even political communication in a matter of weeks. • Key takeaway: X did not just change its algorithm; it replaced it with an Al reader. Your reach will soon depend on how fluently you can speak Grok.

Brace for another wave of x refuges

Who says the Dems aren’t a big tent? We’ve got dementia lady, nazi tattoo guy, sexual harasser and netenyahu defense lawyer, corruption guy who cut a deal with trump, a pro genocide ogre, etc. We got em all!

It's freeing!

My hot take for the day is that whatever is happening to the white house is at the bottom of the list of things to be pissed about.

From Graham Platner's first town hall since the tattoo story broke:

"The establishment is spooked. If they thought that ripping my life to pieces, trying to destroy it, was going to make me think that I shouldn't undertake this project, they clearly have not spent a lot of time around Marines."

CHOTINER: So this movie, you already had it on bluray?
ME: That's correct.
CHOTINER: And you've bought it again.
ME: Not exactly. I bought a 4K bluray of it.
CHOTINER: Superior?
ME: Yes.
CHOTINER: Perceptibly superior?
ME: The resolution is...look, on an OLED-
CHOTINER: Do you have an OLED?

Got the brain of a dinosaur!

Platner's 1919 Tattoo

True, but looks like the 1919 tattoo is part of a larger tattoo that has nothing to do with nazis (I hope!) www.amctca.com/history/

I was giving this guy some grace with the skull thing b/c *I* didn't know. That he has another one? Yeah - he's gotta go.

What about the celtic knot? I was at a wedding in VA on Saturday and the wedding party used this to signify their marriage. It was said the phrase "tied the knot" comes from this. Is this too a far-right/ nazi symbol? Because I can tell you, I know for sure the bride is not far-right nor a nazi.

Maine, you have 7 months to find another candidate.

screenshot of a post that says "1. Celtic knot and ancient wolf don't make it any better. 2. Now everyone has seen the 1919 on his right arm."

What's the deal with the celtic knot? What does 1919 mean?

TattBuddy -- the only AI app that scans your body to check for nazi tattoos before you launch a Senate campaign. gimme like $250k and ill do this. or at least pretend to try

I knew they co-opted the swastika. Some of the other iconography I knew as biker shit without realizing it was nazi shit.

How many gotdamn symbols did the nazis have? bsky.app/profile/phat...

Have to admit that I had no clue that that version of a skull and crossbones is a nazi sign. I know of the swastika, the iron cross, the ss symbol, but had no clue on that one.

Which comes first: Adelita Grijalva’s swearing-in or Dem leadership finally endorsing Mamdani?

Quote this with the first four horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

King Friday XIII from Mister Rogers Neighborhood

No Kings includes this asshole

pilgrimage: No Expectations put me on a train.

64 years ago today, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards met on a train platform and the cosmos noticed : jukeboxgraduate.com/no-expectati...

I feel like Ben Gvir personally being in the room when Greta Thunberg was being tortured should be bigger news

Probably no one! And they're running City Newspaper too. I remember when that was an alt-weekly and not just an arts rag.

Between this story and the one from yesterday, it's fair to say the GOP has a nazi problem.