Ernest 🇺🇸 @earnestlib.bsky.social · 1hYou hear authors say it with a bit of a joking tone all the time 010
Ernest 🇺🇸 @earnestlib.bsky.social · 1hPretty much a copyright maximalist. It's not that rare among authors. 110
Reposted by Ernest 🇺🇸Charles Xavier Van Damme @charlesxavier.bsky.social · 2hComplaints about imaginary violence against them while defending actual violence against real people *is* the heart of the project though. 11285
Ernest 🇺🇸 @earnestlib.bsky.social · 2hSometimes it's about winning elections, sometimes it's about ensuring you're allowed to win future elections. 000
Reposted by Ernest 🇺🇸Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 11hIf your newscast says Hastert was 'tied to' a child sex abuse scandal, you're failing your listeners. 351776217
Ernest 🇺🇸 @earnestlib.bsky.social · 11hSuspended Palm Beach County Clerk of Courts Mike Caruso said he still “intend[s] to win” the November election and has not abandoned his campaign — nor has the local Republican Party abandoned him — even after his August arrest on allegations he molested a small child.miamiherald.comPalm Beach GOP endorses candidate accused of child sex abuse“I maintain my innocence and remain a candidate for Clerk of the Circuit Court and Comptroller,” Mike Caruso, facing child sex abuse charges. 111
Reposted by Ernest 🇺🇸Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 13hThere's a case to be made against impeachment, but the alternative should be a scorched-earth effort to destroy and discredit the Trump administration and everything the Republican Party stands for. If you think "passing an ethics reform package" is the answer, my god what is wrong with you? 4426262
Reposted by Ernest 🇺🇸Laurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 12h“ICE was met with mass resistance in Democratic, denser areas and not very much resistance in Republican, rural areas. This really says something about liberals’ level of concern about ICE.” C’mon. 0111
Reposted by Ernest 🇺🇸Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 13hI’d argue Republicans have become more staunchly supportive of pedophiles since Hastert’s reign 26310
Ernest 🇺🇸 @earnestlib.bsky.social · 13hPointing out (correctly!) that LLMs are not conscious should not cause you to somehow invent the soul. Souls are not required for consciousness. Computers are not currently conscious. Those two facts sit together just fine. 100
Reposted by Ernest 🇺🇸Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 14hIn case you weren't aware, the only competent Republican speaker of the House in the modern era was also a child molester 1224075
Reposted by Ernest 🇺🇸TheMoxinator @themoxinator.bsky.social · 16hThere's also Xitter blocking account of National Conference of Bishops of Brasil as Catholics back Lula, and Facebook blocking Lula's page and campaign ads. The same people who cry about free speech and "town square" ya know. 1145
Ernest 🇺🇸 @earnestlib.bsky.social · 15h😶motherjones.comReports of a plague outbreak in Russia follow the death of a researcherSeveral hospitals in the Irkutsk region have been shut down and up to 200 workers have been quarantined. 000
Reposted by Ernest 🇺🇸Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I often think about how the rise of the neo-fascist right corresponds to the declining numbers of WW2 vets around to slug them right in the face. 825850
Reposted by Ernest 🇺🇸jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026feels like at least part of what is happening is that a lot of people want politics to solve the "my life feels empty" problem and the populist right is directly appealing to them 973619422
Reposted by Ernest 🇺🇸William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I do think this should put some of the hand-wringing over the uniquely sinful American electorate, uniquely feckless institutions, etc in perspective. The truth is that there is a large trans-national constituency of people who actively want this. They aren’t deceived. They want this. 532430366
Ernest 🇺🇸 @earnestlib.bsky.social · 05/10/2026We had Fantasia on vhs and I scared myself many times watching night on bald mountain. I eventually got so I knew to turn it off when that song started. 010
Ernest 🇺🇸 @earnestlib.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I didn't mind the hippos, but did you ever watch Fantasia all the way to the end? 😳 110
Reposted by Ernest 🇺🇸Tampa Bay Bugle @tampabaybugle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Former Hillsborough County Commissioners Kevin Beckner and Mariella Smith are urging voters to reject County Charter Amendment 2, arguing that eliminating countywide commission seats would reduce voter influence and increase the potential for partisan gerrymandering.baybugle.comFormer Commissioners Urge Hillsborough Voters to Reject Charter Amendment 2 — Tampa Bay BugleTAMPA, FL — Former Hillsborough County Commissioners Kevin Beckner and Mariella Smith are urging voters to reject County Charter Amendment 2, arguing that eliminating countywide commission seats ... 001
Reposted by Ernest 🇺🇸Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 04/10/2026A new lawsuit by journalist @bubbaprog.xyz shows the DOJ secretly searched his digital accounts for a wide range of materials. And prosecutors failed to tell judges about a federal law protecting the press from search warrants… again.freedom.pressDOJ’s secret search of journalist’s accounts omitted press lawJournalist Tim Burke’s new lawsuit challenges the government’s search of months of emails, messages, files, and other information from his Google and Twitter accounts 1314135
Reposted by Ernest 🇺🇸Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Trump defends the men in the Cornell gang rape case, saying he “feels bad” for them and they won't get a “fair shake” 144506238
Ernest 🇺🇸 @earnestlib.bsky.social · 04/10/2026He could drag the legislature into special sessions repeatedly until they gave him a map he liked. He could tell them he would line item veto every project carried by reps who voted against the map or fought him about it. 030
Ernest 🇺🇸 @earnestlib.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Donalds is not likable, but he doesn't have negative charisma like Ramaswamay 160
Reposted by Ernest 🇺🇸the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 04/10/2026BEAST. MODE. 516716
Ernest 🇺🇸 @earnestlib.bsky.social · 03/10/2026This is absolutely what the average AI argument sounds like 010
Reposted by Ernest 🇺🇸Bartek Wołek @bartosh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026paxton ripping down missing persons posters 1331
Reposted by Ernest 🇺🇸ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026its because bringing in people from outside the cult turns it into a normal systems safety problem 131029
Reposted by Ernest 🇺🇸The Great Pumpkinsquatch - Scott Kelley Ernest 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ @mxscottkernest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026BOMBSHELL: WaPo reports Trump's ads were funded with money meant for slain officers' funerals youtu.be/GwqOZ0eaoDI?...youtu.beBOMBSHELL: WaPo reports Trump's ads were funded with money meant for slain officers' funeralsYouTube video by MS NOW 17023541110
Reposted by Ernest 🇺🇸Guido X Jansen @gui.do · 01/10/2026It's always important to read what the graph axes say 1027343
Ernest 🇺🇸 @earnestlib.bsky.social · 01/10/2026That was not my anecdotal experience with Nader voters. 010
Reposted by Ernest 🇺🇸Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 01/10/2026A new lawsuit by journalist @bubbaprog.xyz reveals that the DOJ secretly searched his digital accounts for a wide range of materials. And prosecutors failed to tell the judges who signed off on it about a federal law that protects the press from search warrants… again.freedom.pressDOJ’s secret search of journalist’s accounts omitted press lawJournalist Tim Burke’s new lawsuit challenges the government’s search of months of emails, messages, files, and other information from his Google and Twitter accounts 423288
Reposted by Ernest 🇺🇸amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It’s extremely down to the wire here. If you know of a FOIA attorney in Idaho, please connect us. The Boise airport has told me they do not have any video of an ICE detainment that I know for a fact happened. 512671
Reposted by Ernest 🇺🇸Partisan @partpartisan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Something nice about education polarization and selection bias is that the group, [Regular People Who Can Recognize John Roberts], is an almost proper subset of [People Who Hate John Roberts], so he is NEVER getting recognized by random people being like "thank you for the work you do, Mr. Roberts." 052
Reposted by Ernest 🇺🇸James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.) 9853362186
Ernest 🇺🇸 @earnestlib.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Yes. Reminds you of the most insufferable person you knew in high school. Smart, but not a tenth as smart as they thought they were. 010
