there really is a bible verse for everything huh

for them to be saying this, they must be planning to plant false flags at some No Kings protests this weekend. stay vigilant, no fedposting, and remember that you could be on camera at any time

a lot of people ask me "Ezra, what do you expect billionaires to do, give all their money away? become destitute?" and I always tell them "no, Bari Weiss, but I'm glad you asked. here's what I would do if I somehow got a billion dollars tomorrow:" 🧵

christ

given that he can't be president, I'm hopeful that he will still become the leader of the Democratic Party and focus on local elections and leading the party rhetorically, while the president leads the government itself through custom implementation of Mamdani's/the people's vision

I miss when everyone on this site was gay, not milquetoast liberal

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

hey Taylor uh, about that new album

god this is dystopian. I don't want apps inside the walled garden of one LLM. I want to be able to use whatever model makes sense for the task. I don't want MCP servers added to just my ChatGPT account, I want to be able to use any MCP server with any model.

if your human reviewers are making decisions in under 30 seconds, are they really using their humanness to make a decision? or are they essentially forced to act robotic? the answer here is to hire more people. there's no way to get around it.

Okay I hate to reluctantly defend Jay again but I think it's weird that people are assuming Jay knows who Laurelai Bailey is and is boosting her new project as some kind of intentional signal rather just thinking her new project is cool

I feel like the nuclear block is a bit too restrictive. blocking someone should certainly block someone from seeing your content on feeds, but if you're going directly to a post either through a link or notifs you should still see everything. interacting should always be disabled tho when blocked

some of my favorite things my partner has documented me say in my sleep: “i’m doing this so the doctor doesn’t ask more questions” “shut up and tell me how to spell it” “butonium… it’s a new type of chicken” “fuck you, lame ass!” “you should hear it ding” cont...

sometimes I feel like life is just interesting people trying to find other interesting people and NPCs trying to become interesting people (and usually failing). idk is this elitist I feel like it might be lol

okay Taylor you had your fun, it's time to make a rock album (i.e. Hauntedx13)

NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats. Version of original on left, updated on right:

NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka. I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws. Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”

the political policy cure for “male loneliness” is - more time to hang with the fellas (4 day work week) - more money to spend with the fellas (higher wages) - more things to do with the fellas (taxing the rich and building 3rd spaces)

can you go without your medications for a full 3-4 weeks? because that's likely to happen if there's a true revolt. personally I don't think I can, and millions of other americans wouldn't either. you know the powers that be would hold people's medicine hostage if there was a general strike, too

we should have a new crack epidemic candidate. I vote for msg

Handing out Tylenol for Halloween this year. This next generation is going to build a world class high speed rail system in the US.

rapture this rapture that, all I know is rap sure is different after Kendrick ended Drake's career

fuck, man. this is so dystopian. my jaw dropped when the 19yo said "there are no innocents in gaza... there are mothers of terrorists that they support...the kids grow up to be terrorists... there are no innocents"

In 1983, 50 companies controlled 90% of the U.S. media market. That number is now down to 5.

should we shut down the government if Republicans don't make concessions? the answer is yes, mostly bc the current congress isn't doing shit anyway. guess how many bills were passed per day in Biden's term? ~0.44 bills per day (639 bills ÷ 1,461 days). since Trump took office? ~0.15. over ~66% less

Heritage Foundation has released an absolutely insane policy proposal to label all trans people as domestic terrorists. It uses completely made up instances of terrorism and made up statistics but facts don't matter to them. They want us all eradicated.

just a reminder that Kimmel would not be off the air rn if it weren't for capital capitulating to pressure from Trump. capitalism, the fact that power is with capital and not the people, means that when capital agrees with Trump there's nothing the people can do about it. capitalism must go.

*more than 50% of the electorate being left-leaning* Democrats: we should try appealing to republicans

is there a term for the idea that the public's opinions are swayed by how the see their peers and leaders respond to current events? like, I would argue that the reason the overton window has shifted to the right so much is bc Democrats (and others) haven't effectively stood against Republicans

I think the term should be either Context Server or Subnet. Context Server gets at the fact that it stores contextual info (likes, follows, blocks, etc.) about the lexicons it cares about. Subnet gets at the fact that it only cares about a specific subset of lexicons from the whole of ATproto

Looked at my data collections for state-backed activity. If the report were a picture:

the rightwing loves to be like “this is the moment we become the nazi party”

@tessa.germnetwork.com hey! how do I set a link to dm on germ in my bio?

The lack of mainstream coverage of regular huge protests reminds me of a talk from a Twitter employees who explained that they had to drop BLM off the Trending Tags section because otherwise it would have been there permanently. The modern media environment has no appetite for sustained movements.

north carolina is the north korea of the carolinas of the koreas

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Alright, so I've been afraid to say this out loud, but I think after today, I can say it: In the first Battle of Los Angeles, the good people of LA County have prevailed. We beat ICE back. 1/

I call my girl daddy cus I got vast deference, she call me daddy cus I got vas deferens

jesus never used ICE. neither should the USA

this is a great example of the conservative idea that the only *real* way to prevent crime is to make it so that you have a good guy with a gun (read: under their power) always ready to shoot someone intending to commit a crime, as the ultimate deterrent

idk that it's sunk in here on bluesky the the U.S. DoJ posted a apple notes app screenshot apology from a phone at 30% battery in airplane mode because the acting deputy chief got tinder honeypotted by james okeefe into admitting that they're going to protect Republicans on the epstein client list.

I will say, I figured Bluesky PBLLC would have built out more ways by now for users to safely own their keys and store them somewhere that Bluesky doesn't have access to

I remember playing with bubble-makers and how sometimes two bubbles would collide and instead of popping they’d merge into one larger bubble, I forget what happened next

Someone once explained that the strange behavior of some Bluesky users stems from their being Facebook expats who haven't realized they're now interacting with actual people rather than "pages." I'm reminded of the wisdom of that argument every time one of my posts gets double digit RTs.

youtube.com/watch?v=MmUO... @momtofourcats.bsky.social Share this video everywhere! We’re finally hearing from the survivors! #epstein #maxwell #releasethefiles

the current Sith Lord might be dying, and he picked his apprentice (JD Vance) because he's fundamentally worse than him at leading the fascist party (which ensures he would never be able to usurp him), but that might mean the party dies with the Sith Lord. the rule of 2 strikes again