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Today I received a PhD supervision-request email that was pretty clearly AI generated- including bullshit rhetoric and hallucinating what I've worked on. Pro-tip for candidates: you've got to be fucking kidding me.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Hard to believe they’re talking about the same event.

submitted 4 days ago • 373 comments

It's like if the commanders in The Handmaid's Tale were the dumbest, trashiest people imaginable.

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They cannot make up non-horrifying use cases for their shitty technology even if they grant themselves complete poetic license, they really love the Torment Nexus

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

Speaker Pro Tempore: You are to direct your comments to the chair. Jeffries: You know what's interesting? Every time I come on this floor, I can use sharp language, he can use sharp language, you choose to admonish me. I don't work for you sir. I work for the American people.

submitted 7 days ago • 668 comments

@jvl.bsky.social and I go deep. #Secretpod

submitted 11 days ago • 16 comments

many perfectly shit people will never do even one thing in their whole lives half as shameful as the job Marc Tracy did here defector.com/the-new-york...

submitted 13 days ago • 7 comments

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

submitted 13 days ago • 361 comments

STYLE GUIDE: groceries (define on first usage)

submitted 14 days ago • 492 comments

This entire administration

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“So what do you think Democrats can learn from somebody who, like you, targets the most vulnerable among us?” said Newsom theonion.com/gavin-n...

submitted 15 days ago • 44 comments

But remember, you can only have two dolls and five pencils

submitted 18 days ago • 141 comments

Silicon Valley is run by people who genuinely think the world as we know it is going to end in the next few decades. Many also WANT this to happen: they WANT the biological world to be replaced by a new digital world. They WANT "posthumans" to take the place of humans. A 🧵:

submitted 34 days ago • 130 comments

No, we are not going to live on other planets. Bullshit artists like Musk might as well be the leaders of death cults. arstechnica.com/culture/2025...

submitted 19 days ago • 135 comments

Kash Patel is the living definition of waste, fraud, and abuse—all on the taxpayer’s dime. Flying private to see his girlfriend, skipping critical meetings, and totally unfit for the job he was never qualified for in the first place. But hey… playing FBI Director is rough work.

submitted 19 days ago • 278 comments

Sorry for all the Star Wars posting lately, but the conclusion of Mon Mothma's monologue from ANDOR so2e09 is giving me strength right now and I want to share it (I added captions) Fuck the American Empire, fuck the Gaza Genocide, fuck the Disney Corporation Someday, there will be a New Republic

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

All of the Democratic heads of the Consumer Product Safety Commission have just been abruptly fired by the White House. The commissioners say it's punishment for speaking out against staff cuts and threats to the agency's independence. New from me at @consumerreports.org today:

submitted 20 days ago • 11 comments

What ICE has done in Newark is unacceptable. The Newark Mayor was doing his job. Arresting him is an alarming escalation that cannot be allowed to stand. We stand firmly with Mayor Baraka and his right to do his job . The Trump administration’s actions are an abuse of all we believe in America

submitted 20 days ago • 14 comments

NEW — I’ve obtained audio of new acting FEMA head David Richardson threatening staff in an all hands meeting this morning. As first reported by Reuters, he told those who resisted change in the agency, “Don’t get in my way…I will run right over you.” Listen to the clip here:

submitted 20 days ago • 469 comments

i am explicitly pro-technocrat because we are seeing the alternative

submitted 21 days ago • 17 comments

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

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I'm sorry but if you don't have enough fully functional neurons firing in your brain to have seen this coming from the beginning, I refuse to believe you can be trusted with any task or objective that requires more than a third-grade intellect. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/w...

submitted 23 days ago • 60 comments

No paywallThe story starts with teachers pleading for empathy for 3 immigrant students. It ends with a border patrol agent pleading for empathy for 3 other students at the school — his own. Might be a theme here. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

submitted 25 days ago • 17 comments

> @iansams.bsky.social

submitted 27 days ago • 276 comments

Trump's threat to arrest Governor Evers is a chilling attempt to normalize fascism & silence dissent. They want to bully & intimidate anyone who doesn't conform to their ideology. We will NOT be intimidated. We will NOT be silenced. We will DEFEND our freedom.

submitted 26 days ago • 122 comments