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Quando omni flunkus, moritati I look at spreadsheets & decide things for a living. Self-professed crazy cat dude. Devoted husband, DIYer, lefty, tinkerer + I cook & I think I’m pretty funny. Big sci-fi nerd. Also, I believe blocking is self-care.
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Melissa Harris-Perry. Tiffany Cross. Alex Wagner. Joy Reid. I'm sure there's a pattern here but I can't quite put my finger on what it could be. (/s)

As much as I loathe Musk, I refuse to advocate for the use of Harper’s worst police-state blunder to punish him. Revocable citizenship is an utterly contemptible concept & I’d much rather see that law abrogated than Musk’s citizenship revoked.

I have been violently attacked

Reminder that when he had the same delusion about Twitter and wasted everyone’s time and resources on it, zero “ghost employees” were found Everything is fucking stupid now, huh

Technically body horror, sure.

We are still not going to Target

“More than a quarter of the contracts listed by DOGE were actually already paid, the Journal found, saving no money. For instance, DOGE listed $168,000 in savings for terminating a contract with HHS for an Anthony Fauci museum exhibit. It had already been fully paid.” Beyond parody.

This is tangential, but it reminds me of the whole “respect has to be earned” thing - no, respect is the default. It can be lost, but if you go around making everyone in your life prove they deserve your respect, you’re an asshole.

ballsack sports is speaking the compelling truths that America needs to hear right now

These are Kremlin talking points, now parroted by US public officials

This. It's not hard to say this. And if you KNOW they voted for Trump, you can say, "I'm sorry that his plans weren't made clear to you and that you've been hurt by this. Hopefully the next president can restore the Biden price caps."

This is the first part of Character Limit that made me laugh so hard I had to put my phone down

Drugs had nothing to do with this. This is how you think when you know you, personally, didn't do any actual work to become disgustingly wealthy, and furthermore consider the very act of *being* wealthy a zero-sum game that you have to stay on top.of, like Saturn devouring his children.

Hé @lapresse.ca - la semaine dernière c’était du chialage sur le filet social, cette semaine c’est demander aux citoyens de payer à la caisse pour voir un médecin? C’est quoi cette bullshit de polémique pro-austérité?! Inacceptable!

La Presse qui essaie de nous faire avaler du nonsense conservateur encore

This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”. This is a manifesto against disability. This is the language of eugenics.

So @skywatch.blue has a label for the blue heart emoji and the various follow-farming hashtags in addition to the hashtag for MAGA and various symbols along with associated blocklists. They’re not perfect but they do help.

DOGE’s accounting of its “savings” is riddled with sloppy mistakes. The five largest cuts that it listed on its website earlier this week were all incorrect — making the savings look far larger than they were in reality.

Cis people are really underestimating the satisfaction and effectiveness of looking a transphobe dead in the eyes and asking why they care about other people’s genitalia. Stop ceding ground and start getting REAL petty.

Due to legal technicalities, Luigi Mangione is now the mayor of new york city

They did him dirty in Stardust City Rag

Elon Musk is attacking another astronaut (and other person smarter and more talented than he is).

Look, I’m not saying it can’t be true, but 1) even if it was: USSR collapsed, it’s been 40 years & he’s obvs barely able to comprehend words anymore & 2) He has plenty of nefarious intent w/out needing this on top of it. Most important, though: conspiracy bullshit broke the right. We don’t need it.

This is quite significant in many ways: the overt thuggery, Trump’s barely suppressed fury at being contradicted by a woman, the governor’s standing up, the total abandonment of the pretense of federalism, the continuing use of trans Americans the way Hitler used Jews.

all of central Brooklyn is playing a game of Egg The Cybertruck with this one guy who keeps street parking in the hood

I mean this is supposed to be a caricature, but it’s not even that far off - well done!

My child doesn’t have a raincoat and it’s raining in my state. Any suggestions for how to keep her dry would be very appreciated. I dunno man buy a fucking raincoat

We at the Internet Society are deeply disappointed that Apple has had to stop offering end-to-end encryption in the UK. The following can be attributed to Dr. Joseph Lorenzo Hall, Distinguished Technologist at the Internet Society: 1/

You're right. Where are they staying right now. I'm having nightmares of fleeing, they shouldn't sleep either.

The French have a word for people who work with Nazis. It’s a worse epithet than any other in the French language: Collaborator. Doesn’t matter that Vichy France was 80 years ago, there’s not a French person on planet earth who wants to be labeled a collaborator.

The Daily Beast: What is this Elon Salute what can it mean French Nazis: too Nazi for us

“How can you be a remotely competent historian if you reject a largely discredited 19th century Theory of History?” is a hell of a take from someone I have been assured for 17 years is Very Smart™️

This is the sort of confidently wrong person who is extremely useful to fascists