@dankmccoy.bsky.social End of an era

“Black Friday,” Stephen miller yells, getting redder and redder, “will be replaced with White Friday.”

@gregdoucette.bsky.social Chronic "NC State shit" inundation claims another victim.

New York City Councilman @chiosse.bsky.social filed paperwork today to challenge House Minority Leader @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social. "Come on in, the water is warm," responded Jeffries when I asked for his reaction. @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social

Nestlé worried AI will destroy world’s water supply before they do

Probably an unnecessary reminder, but parents: please keep your children away from creeps who know the various ages of consent of individual states.

No one will ever sum up Bari Weiss's career more succinctly than "what's the point of standards"

"what's the point of standards:" battle cry of the 21st century fascist

Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments. My response ⬇️

as a computer scientist, i am BEGGING people to realize that there is no cognition inside of an LLM no reasoning, no thought process, no self-awareness I read a lot of arguments (for AND against) LLMs, and both sides seem to think there’s a consciousness or intentionality or even a moral alignment

A ways back, @dankmccoy.bsky.social and @flophousecat.bsky.social had a li'l cameo in a movie called SNATCHERS, directed by friend of the pod John Kingman. Well, after some world delays, it's finally available VOD over on Prime Video. tinyurl.com/2up9sxzz

Wonder why this scene looks so familiar... #WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕

Oh, Dick Cheney died? Well-- *sees Bluesky mod around corner* What's really important is championing the open protocol.

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it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops

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my wife: we have to wear what we died in for eternity!? st. peter: that’s right me: [from the back end of our horse costume] what’d he say

@ginikoch.bsky.social I just had Mambo No 5 come up on shuffle and I did what I always do, which is put it on repeat and read Chapter 56 of Alien Education before going back to my normal reading. Just wanted to share my appreciation of your work.

Perfect.

If someone with a Nazi tattoo passes the smell tests I’m sorry but that means you like the smell of Nazis. And guess what that makes you

HOLY HELL!!! They ran out of colors to show how strong it is 😭 The new 2PM update now has sustained winds of 175 mph and gusts approaching 220 mph. Pressure now down to 906 mb. Catastrophic impacts coming to the Island of Jamaica later tonight. #Melissa

@questauthority.bsky.social I don't know if this has entered your consciousness at all but seems frivolous, no? arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Evergreen

The New York Times publishes a handy guide to which federal forces are terrorizing us at any moment. This is America, 2025.

It's Publication Day for SLAYERS OF OLD!!! From @dawbooks.bsky.social's official description: "Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Golden Girls in this humorous contemporary standalone fantasy about a group of former Chosen Ones coming out of retirement to save the world one last time."

Sorry to report there is a website that takes an image of a woman and uses AI to expand it so you can see her feet. Original: AI edit:

Profane Argument - Ep#455: The Rapture...again profaneargument.com/episode-455/ Israel; Rapture; Jordan Peterson; US visa revoked; Des Moines superintendent; Scammers; Ansari, Huffman, Raskin; Jane Fonda; SCOTUS; OH House bill 486; Islam; Argentina; New coin; Trump

For a change, our listening to a Brewers game is not cursing them. #brewers

Jackson Chourio is the first player to have 3 hits in the first two innings of a postseason game

1 2/3 of an inning into Game 1 of the Brewers-Cubs series and the Cubs are bringing in their 3rd pitcher. The Crew coming in hot off their wild card bye.

Did anyone ever tell you about the scented westerns?

Imagine if newspapers instead wrote something like, "According to police, the suspect tried to hit the officers with his car. In 35 out of 37 statements issued by this department over the past 5 years, police gave false initial statements, later contradicted by their own bodycam footage."

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We are prepping Linux benchmarks for the GPU suite. Wendell of Level1 Techs joined us to talk about distributions! www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O6t...

They've lost the 9yos

I don't understand how people listen to him speak regularly and (1) don't become insane; (2) don't immediately clock that there is almost no meaning to be extracted from huge parts of his public comments, it's just empty signifiers or a worldview that you can't even whitewash into concrete meaning

So many coverups. Release the Epstein files. Release the Homan tapes. Release the Venezuelan fishing boats evidence.

Reupping this today for multiple reasons theonion.com/god-angrily-...

A lot of people have called out the Republicans for their hypocrisy on Charlie Kirk's murder (and yes, I'll call it what it is), but all of them tend to focus on "so it's bad when a Republican is killed but not when it's a Democrat." And I think that's missing a more subtle but more pressing issue.

Loomer deleted the post on the left this morning

Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).

What an expertly called shot

Visa and Mastercard reportedly coming for FAIRIES and CAT EARS Get on the phone and ask them wtf is up because this even made me double take bsky.app/profile/dark...

I'm highly aware of my own sins of moral convenience (we can talk about that some other time*), but I'd think that saying no thank you to JKR-profiting work would be a relatively easy thing for anyone, especially anyone already rich and successful. *or never

Official book birthday for Shifter and Shadow, out today from Fairwood Press!

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It’s that time of year again. Back to school for the kids. This ad should run during every NFL kickoff, every college football opener, every “Friday Night Lights.” Because school shootings are as American as football now.

Hardware news is up! Lots to go over. Some quick Bloomberg takedown updates, NVIDIA's 94% domination, SteamOS growing on GPD Win 5, and more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReWx...