πSo this 79-year-old pervert does not have a starring role in the Epstein Files ...
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@no-dice.bsky.social
Old school Unreal Tournament player; voracious reader, humanist and skeptic; with a strong dislike of grifters and narcissists.
πSo this 79-year-old pervert does not have a starring role in the Epstein Files ...
OK
Alex on twitter writes: "Someone on Twitter writes: "Youβre a menswear writer. You donβt know anything about manufacturing in America, or steel mills, or metallurgy, or CNC machining, or how anything is produced from raw material into a finished product in this country or anywhere. Stick to writing about βmenβs fashion."" I reply: "i actually had a career in knifemaking before this. the reason why you can't avoid tariffs in knifemaking is because everyone relies on Gobelin machinery. are you aware of this?" Alex replies: "Gobelin machinery? What exactly are you referring to?" I reply: "you Gobelin DEEZ NUTS!"
"stick to menswear"
04.08.2025 16:08 β π 14592 π 1699 π¬ 415 π 237Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."
03.08.2025 15:16 β π 34256 π 10606 π¬ 1249 π 623BREAKING: I am suing the Department of Justice for the training videos instructing FBI personnel to flag mentions of Donald Trump in the Epstein files. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/i-am-suing...
02.08.2025 17:47 β π 18108 π 4949 π¬ 482 π 186And the health care apocalypse might only be 6 months away
03.08.2025 02:27 β π 16 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0btw, we shouldn't let the firing of the BLS commissioner and the Epstein scandal distract from the fact that yesterday's job report really was bad. Outside of health care, the economy LOST jobs over the last three months.
02.08.2025 14:39 β π 507 π 129 π¬ 22 π 5Sigh. Here we go again. So once more, to add to the "myths that do not die," the older voters who are the mainstay of Trump's support were educated during the supposed golden age of public education. People my age, who went to good public schools and cheap colleges. /1
03.08.2025 02:04 β π 579 π 77 π¬ 31 π 17NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context β
30.07.2025 20:38 β π 3874 π 1915 π¬ 66 π 99Of course the President who lies as he breathes pressures the Smithsonian to lie about American history. Next, Trump will pressure them to hold an exhibit showing he won the 2020 election. Every @smithsonian.bsky.social employee shouldβve refused to make the change and resigned in protest.
31.07.2025 23:50 β π 159 π 38 π¬ 9 π 3Headline of the Day: The Boy Genius Who Killed 14 Million Poor People.
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-boy-ge...
#ProudBlue
The official White House account posted this video.
I am sickened by their lack of humanity & basic decency. This is who is leading our country.
They are mocking a horrific event in peopleβs lives. These immigrants at HUMAN BEINGS with loved ones & they treat them worse than animals
Discworld QOTD, from Equal Rites
ββThatβs one form of magic, of course.β
βWhat, just knowing things?β
βKnowing things that other people donβt know.ββ
There really ought to be some part of the government consisting of a bunch of people who decides how much we spend on stuff and writes it all up in documents they vote onβwe could call the documents, I donβt know, βlawsβ?
28.07.2025 00:17 β π 2600 π 635 π¬ 56 π 21genai is a fascist project. this is what i mean when i say these "tools" are being created to destroy and distort knowledge and reality. that is why they are being forced on us. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
24.07.2025 00:27 β π 279 π 114 π¬ 4 π 6Wired rules. Just an incredible group of journalists who are completely meeting the moment. And you can subscribe for $2 a month, which is insane www.wired.com/story/a-new-...
23.07.2025 13:48 β π 3316 π 849 π¬ 51 π 61The whole story is extremely illuminating and you basically can't stop reading it. It's like that Donald Sterling "but sir, the question was, is this your handwriting?" meme but for roughly 11 pages.
23.07.2025 02:32 β π 1244 π 185 π¬ 55 π 24UnitedHealthcare is raising premiums for policyholders in New York and Washington after spending $9B on stock buybacks last year.
Healthcare companies are robbing you blind to enrich their executives and shareholders.
This is why we need Medicare for All.
Apparently, it is now normal for the top regulator to gloat over a show's cancellation days after meeting with the network's incoming owner -- who promised "unbiased" programming after the administration approves the merger.
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
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21.07.2025 17:55 β π 1480 π 762 π¬ 28 π 36History tells us that people like Trump have always been rewarded in this country without necessarily proclaiming we βdeserveβ him. This is the country of PT Barnum and snake oil salesmen and slavery and the KKK and gullible gold rush migrants and persecution complex Puritans and on and on and on.
20.07.2025 16:34 β π 7 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0The Washington βWhateverβsβ should IMMEDIATELY change their name back to the Washington Redskins Football Team. There is a big clamoring for this. Likewise, the Cleveland Indians, one of the six original baseball teams, with a storied past. Our great Indian people, in massive numbers, want this to happen. Their heritage and prestige is systematically being taken away from them. Times are different now than they were three or four years ago. We are a Country of passion and common sense. OWNERS, GET IT DONE!!!
The mad king demands the return of racist sports team names
20.07.2025 14:27 β π 5939 π 1215 π¬ 1261 π 498We must never accept or get used to the fact that this is happening in America.
20.07.2025 02:53 β π 161 π 61 π¬ 1 π 0Thatβs not a blanket absolution of responsibility. I donβt see how the arguments around this are much different than the ethics questions surrounding doctors disclosing child abuse. The evidence shows that what youβre alluding to allows for church leaders to cover up, or even perpetuate, abuse.
20.07.2025 03:24 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0This has been making the rounds and the only counterpoint I can think of is - do we know this isn't AI? I'm actively checking now
19.07.2025 17:31 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Thank you for taking a moment to explain that. I follow Ken and was genuinely curious since on the surface this seemsβ¦ badβ¦
18.07.2025 19:53 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Iβm asking a good faith question. Why should religious figures be exempt from reporting abuse?
18.07.2025 19:50 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I think either case necessitates helping the victim once youβre aware
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