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we just treat it as normal now that an official government account would post some nakedly partisan bullshit like this. we all just forgot that this is illegal too

TheCybersmith @thecybersmith.bsk... • 1d • Joined May '23 Birth of a Nation is a misunderstood film, IMO, depiction is not endorsement, and DW Griffith's contributions to cinematography shouldn't be overshadowed by the fact that some people decided to interpret his film as supporting controversial political agendas. O1 cartoon dog gf @jazzpomegranate.c... • 1d • Joined Jul '23 @ Bard @2 Cleric have you seen it? 0312 17 •~... TheCybersmith @thecybersmith.bsk... • 3h • Joined May '23 Wait, I just found some clips online. That's... look, I'll take Griffith at his word that he wasn't trying to seem borderline-fanatically bigoted, but really man; this could have used a second draft. 03

■ TheCybersmith @thecybersmith.bsk... • 3h • Joined May '23 Oh, fuck. 0 4 91104日日. TheCybersmith @thecybersmith.bsk... • 3h • Joined May '23 Yes, I can see why people thought he was promoting intolerance here. • 1 TheCybersmith @thecybersmith.bsk... • 3h • Joined May '23 Was it just impossible to find mixed-race extras back then? All of these half-breed northern soldiers are played by white actors in makeup!

目 TheCybersmith @thecybersmith.bsk... • 2h • Joined May '23 Huh. The film's treatment of Lincoln is surprisingly sympathetic. I think I can see what Griffith was going for, but some of the choices he made really detract from the more nuanced ideas he wanted to put across (why do the black characters speak like that?) 031 04 TheCybersmith @thecybersmith.bsky.social • Joined May '23 THAT'S NOT A TRIAL! THAT@S JUST MURDER WITH EXTRA STEPS! 3:07 PM • Mar 8, 2026

friends, I have brought you a gift

Does it have to be a real story?

The vaudeville song Casey Jones ends with the revelation that Mrs. Jones has a secret second husband

And in A Song of Ice and Fire lore, Florys the Fox is the founding mother of 3 noble families, which she kept secret from each other

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.

Are Congressional Republicans OK? Teamsters, kidneys and babies, oh my.

markwayne,
markwayne,
markwayne,
markwaaaaayne,
i’m begging of you please don’t fight this man.

Oh good, they're a European studio

Is this actually illegal?

Asking because it would make me feel slightly better if it's illegal and not completely allowed in our surveillance capitalism hellscape

Since July, more than a dozen pregnant children have been moved to a single facility in the small town of San Benito, along the south Texas border. The children kept in Texas are as young as 13, and about half are pregnant because of rape, according to a joint investigation by the Texas Newsroom and the California Newsroom. In Texas, abortion is banned in nearly all circumstances, including rape and incest.

the phrase “more than a dozen pregnant children” ringing in my ears www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Have you noticed that people who spend too long chatting with chatbots, stop making any fucking kind of sense?

The reason why is that the bot will never, ever, go "what the fuck are you talking about? What are you even trying to communicate here?"

WARNING: Illinois Is About to Elect a MAGA-Aligned Senator But it's not too late -- here's what we need to do to prevent a catastrophic failure and instead elect someone whose record aligns with our values

IL is on the verge of electing a Senator far more aligned with Trump, MAGA power brokers & ICE infrastructure expansion than the values of a deep-blue state.

Here’s what Raja Krishnamoorthi hopes you don’t know about him & how we elect someone better.

*The Supreme Court in 2026: Parents obviously have a right to make important decisions about their children’s health but only if they refuse to affirm their child’s gender

(SCOTUS didn’t agree to consider a parental rights argument when hearing a challenge to the Tennessee GAC ban for trans kids)

CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar t...

SCOOP: An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations.

This surveillance can happen through all sorts of apps, such as video games, news apps, weather trackers, and dating apps.

This reminds me of an old web forum I used to frequent whose blowhard owner announced that the site was "teaming up" with Apple

By which he meant that he was using some Apple service to help with forum hosting, or web analytics, or something along those lines; I forget the details.

A) no i don't think they should do this

B) yes i think prediction market sites need to be razed to the ground

C) the "team up" is AP providing Kalshi with live election return data and nothing else

there's enough to be scared about right now. don't add this to your list.

I hope you aren’t drunk and took your staff’s advice, Rashida and I don’t know this man and feel confident he didn’t care about us. Please restrain from drinking too much as you have been warned from your staff and stay off social media when you are drunk. I pray in his holy month you find peace and respect for your self,

uhhh oh my god

okay so sounds like some of what's happening here is that he's deliberately letting the word "oysterman" do an ENORMOUS volume of misleading rhetorical work here, when in fact he's something more akin to a high-end specialty restaurant supplier??? lmao oh my god what a transparent grift

roadhouseendgame i was talking to my mom about cardassians and said something along the lines of what must it be like to be a cardassian civilian. like abstractly knowing the rest of the galaxy thinks of your species as 'the evil ones' and kinda sorta knowing your government runs labor camps and torture prisons and is a military empire, and it's a huge deal for everyone else in the galaxy, but you just like run a restaurant so it's not a big part of your daily life, so you just like, go about your day and make soup and don't think about it' and then halfway through my sentence i actually heard myself and then had to go sit down for like ten minutes. like sat down in a chair and stared at the floor for ten minutes

whoops

Press gave Biden far worse coverage for a small number of American soldiers dying while leaving a war than to Trump for a similar number dying while starting a war for no reason. It makes you think!

With alt text. I’ve…never seen a court talk like this before?

Florida just cut off HIV meds for 16,000 people.

Dems love to talk about what's legal, so good, DO it.

If you're going to fetishize the carceral and legal systems, okay, now is your fucking time to shine.

Get in front of every camera you can find and tell the world that these people are going to jail come 2029.

Stanislav Petrov - Wikipedia

The sole promise of using LLM's in war is to entirely remove a Stanislaw Petrov from the decision chain.

(Oh, remember how LLM's were found to advocate nuclear strikes in 95% of tested scenarios?)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...

Didn't Vance have a whole thing in Hillbilly Elegy about how out of touch elites were for having fancy sparkling water?

I didn't read it but I could swear an excerpt to that effect went viral ~10? years ago

When you see John Yoo in the news, remember that in 2002 Schumer, Biden, Hillary, Kerry, and Feinstein voted to militarily invade the Hague were ICC to ever prosecute the US for war crimes such as the torture his memo advocated.

John Yoo *should* have been executed decades ago.

this is extremely dangerous.

this is one of those things where i think it would be useful for more people to recognize that this is completely unrecognizable compared to republican party orthodoxy for essentially the entire history of the republican party

I've been thinking about how this has already played out in games - there was a massive push to convince the industry and world that there was this huge audience of angry reactionary gamers who weren't getting what they demanded. And it turned out there weren't that many and they don't buy games

Jerry Chen liked my post "Same in the midwest"

Are you still doing jerrification?

(I feel like this is getting in on a technicality, but I'll take it)

Same in the midwest