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i think one thing that people don't understand about synthetic video and images is that the weird shrink-wrapped ultra-glossy aesthetic is an intentional modeling choice which can be altered by fine-tuning and not a property of all synthetic media

submitted 4 hours ago • 10 comments

Right now, members of the military can't fix their OWN weapons because giant defense contractors won't let them. Imagine you're up against an enemy, your equipment breaks, and there's nothing you can do about it. Terrifying. Senator Sheehy and I are teaming up to stop this.

submitted 5 hours ago • 77 comments

From @reuters.com: President Donald Trump's trade war has cost companies more than $34 billion in lost sales and higher costs, according to a Reuters analysis of corporate disclosures, a toll that is expected to rise. www.reuters.com/business/tru...

submitted 5 hours ago • 7 comments

Redirecting federal law enforcement to focus on the lowest crime-rate subpopulation is pro-crime policy.

submitted 5 hours ago • 4 comments

I think they could both quit and it would be okay?

submitted 10 hours ago • 762 comments

The notion that private institutions need to toe the party line is so fundamentally un-American it is almost unbelievable

submitted 1 day ago • 102 comments

Dear Mr. President: Maybe if you stopped doing stuff that is so obviously, flagrantly illegal, and listened to real lawyers instead of MAGA stooges, you wouldn’t be constantly getting your ass kicked so badly in court. Just a thought.

submitted 12 hours ago • 41 comments

Miller is the most prominent member of the administration who takes it at all seriously and he may be going through some things

submitted 12 hours ago • 36 comments

It really is and unless the believer is really good at compartmentalization (and/or subscribes to the Omphalos theory like in Good Omens that the Earth was created with the appearance of age) has to be. The evidencr for an old earth and universe is overwhelming.

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

Do you need a little pick me up this morning? Have a sip of delicious Bingo Bongo whine.

submitted 12 hours ago • 19 comments

News from the world of companies using AI to cheat, lie, and steal. Share this story. It is despicable, and what’s worse, in due time it’s going to be tragically typical and unremarkable. Unless we fight them. NOW. www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

Perfect…

submitted 17 hours ago • 36 comments

Breaking news from the can't-make-this-shit-up desk: The same folks who are certain that Fauci caused COVID by funding people to study bats in a Biosafety Level 4 facility now want to import 400 ostriches with the goddamn bird flu from Canada so they can live on Dr. Oz's ranch.

submitted 21 hours ago • 125 comments

i have no particular like for this guy but i will acknowledge that he’s been consistent about this

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Trump has revoked permission for a 4-year-old Mexican girl who receives lifesaving medical care from a California hospital to stay in the country... She will die within days if care is withdrawn. Girl’s mother was notified U.S. was withdrawing the humanitarian parole. apnews.com/article/mexi...

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

🧵 Good news. But again, this is ultimately an Article I problem to fix with new laws (bsky.app/profile/did:...). Whether or not Trump keeps at it with the bad faith, idiotic tariffs, all of these current "giant loopholes for the imperial president" laws, for trade & everything else, need to go.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Three judges—appointed by Presidents Trump, Obama, and Reagan—are restoring sanity and stability to our trade policies. Instead of raising costs by nearly $3k per family, we should be working to bring relief to the American people who have faced higher costs and chaos. www.axios.com/2025/05/28/t...

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

i swear to god, if naziferatu’s wife is leaving him to go be a sister womb donor in the chief weeb for boers technocommune, i may need to find a church to go repent in

submitted 1 day ago • 68 comments

This will be one of the top ten funniest pregnancies in history.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

i want you to read the last few paragraphs and see if you're reading the same thing between these lines that i am

submitted 91 days ago • 146 comments

Think a ton of people are going to be googling the US Court of International Trade.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

there is no way to do this that does not sweep up American citizens and legal residents. Zero. None.

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

Please don’t agree to do sanctions evasion unless you are really prepared

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

"Literacy tests" weren't about determining if an applicant could read at X grade level. They enabled local registrars -- some illiterate themselves -- to turn away any applicant they wanted by pronouncing them ignorant. So ask yourself: Who would a MAGA registrar see as "informed about issues"?

submitted 2 days ago • 81 comments

So just like that MAGA hates Russia? It's just unbelievable what lemmings these people are.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

People in focus groups are definitionally highly engaged voters and unlikely to change their minds. The low- and no-info voters who decided the election do not respond to focus group invitations.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

lol

submitted 2 days ago • 93 comments

Charles didn’t mention Trump in his Speech from the Throne. Given all its references to Canada‘s independence, sovereignty and new friends, he didn’t have to Amanda Coletta reports from Toronto www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

Executive Orders don’t build big infrastructure. Skilled labor, technical expertise, and innovative financing do. With DOE DOGEd and RIFed, and the Loan Program Office on a skeleton crew, this EO isn’t worth the paper it was printed on.

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

Really doing everything they can to turn US into a pariah state

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

the white house correspondents association never tries stuff like this because many of the the correspondents, even the ones from mainstream organizations, are propagandists there to help trump and have no solidarity for their colleagues if it conflicts with that first goal.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Pete Hegseth’s Defense Department tried to bar a CNN journalist from serving as a pool reporter for an upcoming foreign trip. Other reporters threatened to boycott the trip. Guess what happened next. The Pentagon caved. Via @oliverdarcy.bsky.social www.status.news/p/pete-hegse...

submitted 2 days ago • 76 comments

1. Paul Walczak was sentenced to 18 months in prison for tax crimes 2. Walczak applied for a pardon from Trump 3. Walczak's mother, a Trump donor, attended a $1 million/person fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago 4. Trump gave Walczak a pardon See how this works?

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

as scott adams also announced he has prostate cancer, there’s going to be an entire generation of gen x that just dies younger due to trusting snake oil salesmen over real doctor practices endorsed by an entire political party designed to lie to them

submitted 3 days ago • 520 comments

We love to see it.

submitted 3 days ago • 128 comments