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wrybutterfly.bsky.social
Poet, photographer, designer, amateur mycologist, book club member DIY level: mage Location: PNW 🎓: SFAI
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The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place): 1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."

submitted 3 days ago • 111 comments

Years ago, after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, I interviewed a former fb employee, and I remember her continually emphasizing that these tech bros weren't evil geniuses, but were, in fact, dangerous because they were utterly clueless, totally reckless, and had too much power.

submitted 3 days ago • 294 comments

I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

submitted 6 days ago • 186 comments

I repeat…

submitted 6 days ago • 1040 comments

Fascinating profile of a park ranger in San Francisco who works with unhoused residents and has adopted the novel tactic of treating them like human beings, building relationships, and helping them access resources on their own timeline.

submitted 6 days ago • 147 comments

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

submitted 7 days ago • 382 comments

sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-miners

submitted 10 days ago • 19 comments

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau doesn’t just benefit consumers. It benefits every single business that follows the law. Trump’s destruction of the CFPB is bad for our entire economy.

submitted 11 days ago • 26 comments

New: Musk and his minions have illegally installed a commercial server to control federal HR databases that contain sensitive personal information, including SSNs, home addresses, and medical histories, according to an OPM staffer www.muskwatch.com/p/musk-assoc...

submitted 19 days ago • 107 comments

Federal employee with a data role told me that a document was removed from employee access because it had the word "inclusion" in it. As in, "inclusion of data in our estimates."

submitted 11 days ago • 200 comments

www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

submitted 11 days ago • 388 comments

For the libertarians in the back: elevating malware and loyalty tests and the abdication of responsibility in favor of a blitz on safety methodology and crypto gains isn't exactly proving your theorem.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Someday, someone will write about how the conflation of university speech with “censorship” was used to mobilize actual government censorship.

submitted 11 days ago • 9 comments

Great point.

submitted 13 days ago • 1225 comments

I just want to say again how much fun I'm having here and how much I enjoy meeting you, my fellow creative people. Drawing inspiration from each other will be vital in the coming months — I'll keep going if you will.

submitted 14 days ago • 7 comments

Stand fast, We have as many friends as enemies.

submitted 15 days ago • 72 comments

He's not a "kid." He's an adult, with an important govt job. The posts weren't "stupid." They were hatefully racist. His life isn't "ruined." He lost a job. Holding a govt employee accountable is not a "reward" for a journalist. The reporter doesn't get a cookie.

submitted 15 days ago • 418 comments

Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt. Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.

submitted 17 days ago • 807 comments

A reminder that I'm collecting #photography organizations and photo media feeds on my Photo Orgs list. Feel free to pin this to your timeline. Please tell me what I'm missing! bsky.app/profile/flak...

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Any four Republican Senators could stop this at any time.

submitted 17 days ago • 4 comments