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Sea Monkey Denier @ersatzverite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Do not, and I repeat, do not buy the ones for girls.

Someone who does not have Google is selling a kinderegg like product under the name "Cosby Fun Gold."

Sea Monkey Denier @ersatzverite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Lack of empathy is a rampant problem in our political system. Justice Kavanaugh cannot imagine being stuck in a Salvadoran prison while the courts figured out he was deported improperly, and AOC cannot imagine what it would be like to be a hundred millionaire and have a 3% higher tax rate!

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Sea Monkey Denier @ersatzverite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Lethal injection is incredibly painful. They don't use that cocktail on animals bc it is too cruel. The victims are paralyzed so that the viewers and executioners aren't traumatized by the cocktail's effects. Firing squad or hanging are both more humane, cut it offends the viewers and executioners.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026

The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The lone woman on Tennessee's death row was still alive after she was administered two lethal injections, her lawyer said in a motion seeking to halt her execution Wednesday night, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.
At 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said
"executioners had injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals and Pike is still alive and snoring," her lawyers said in a federal court filing.
They said Pike "has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat," and that curtains to the death chamber "have gone down twice."

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Sea Monkey Denier @ersatzverite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is a great thing to keep in mind. The amount of abuse (probably far) exceeds the amount of happy ends.

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Sea Monkey Denier @ersatzverite.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Political candidates who I hope win are texting me asking me for money after buying my number from some other candidates I donated too many cycles ago. You will not get my money. If a business or individual emails, calls, or texts me unsolicited they get nothing. To quote Logan Roy, "Fuck off!"

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Sea Monkey Denier @ersatzverite.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

An underrated thing about AI is that it will likely promote a lot of uniformity among ppl with no taste or style -- which will hopefully raise the cache of ppl who have individual taste or style -- which AI will then replicate -- increasing the cache of the next person with tas.... etc etc.

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Luis Villa @lu.is · 30/09/2026

Taps yet again the “so far society has a vastly better track record of holding autonomous vehicle companies responsible for injury and death than holding human drivers responsible” sign

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Sea Monkey Denier @ersatzverite.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Talk to me when you are a Forbes 30 Under 30 which at least comes with a future indictment and extended jail sentence. (Congrats)

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My take is that Hunter is a failson and overall bad person but that he clearly was lawfare'd to hurt his dad.

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Sea Monkey Denier @ersatzverite.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ppl go on about how Putin and the Iranian gov't will let their citizens suffer as a sign of how corrupt or bad they are .. but that's what every country does. Trump is doing it now, FDR did it before. The question is not the willingness to let ppl suffer but why you are making them suffer.

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Sea Monkey Denier @ersatzverite.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My mother observed that young people are so much ruder than they were in the past .. which I disputed bc old ppl always think young ppl are assholes. But, COVID (and I would argue the Trump Presidency) made most of society a lot ruder in a really terrible way .. so she wasn't exactly wrong.

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Sea Monkey Denier @ersatzverite.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

George W Bush was an all-timer bad President. Ranking near Hoover and Johnson (not LBJ, the other one) as among the worst. He royally fucked up the world and diminished America for all time. We will be lucky to see an R presidential nominee as good as him in the next 20 years.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 28/09/2026

So-called “inclusionary zoning,” the practice of requiring home builders to rent new apartments at a loss to low-income tenants, is a tax on new housing that worsens the housing shortage and raises rents overall in exchange for a handful of means-tested units. It’s bad policy!

thecooldown.com

Greater Boston builders say affordable-unit rules stall housing, but Boston won't budge

Developers and city leaders across Greater Boston are clashing over whether affordable-housing requirements are helping address the region's housing shortage.

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Sea Monkey Denier @ersatzverite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Whatever your politics, this is a good ad .. although I do wonder how it will appeal to the average Michigander who probably hasn't seen I Think You Should Leave.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We could also just let them freely sell their water rights, which effectively isn't allowed. Same result: growing cheap alfalfa stops making sense when someone will pay several times more for the water. Let them have their windfall if that's what it takes. It's literally cheaper to buy them off.

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Sea Monkey Denier @ersatzverite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ppl dog on Noah Smith, but guest blogger Ramez Naan does a great job looking at the likelihood we are not going to get (broad) AI superintelligence because of diminishing returns. open.substack.com/pub/noahpini...

open.substack.com

Where’s the “intelligence explosion”?

Ramez Naam gives a skeptic’s take on Recursive Self-Improvement.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My wife and I spend a surprising amount of time worrying about how to protect our children from rich kids

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Sea Monkey Denier @ersatzverite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Is there ever any follow-up about what numbers he means?

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

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Sea Monkey Denier @ersatzverite.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Breaking Bad should be much lower on the list. The main character turns out to not be very interesting, and the tension comes from incredibly contrived moments. #s 2, 3, and 4 are much better on both accounts.

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Sea Monkey Denier @ersatzverite.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If Fidelity is correct and all AI investment is now dead money, we are heading for quite a recession!

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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There is no psychiatric treatment powerful enough to break the right's collective hallucination about 2020. Like, literally none of this even came close to happening.

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Sea Monkey Denier @ersatzverite.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I was talking to some ppl about the question of "when is someone stupid vs. just having such terrible values they appear stupid" last night (wrt to Putin). I don't think Kavanaugh is dumb by most normal normal ways of rating intelligence (both formal and informal) ....

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Sea Monkey Denier @ersatzverite.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I don't want to shame anyone for their taste, but if you like reading One Piece -- how do you have time to do anything else? Luffy et al are fun, but ... it's so long. It's like if I tried to watch Coronation Street from the start, but in manga form.

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Sea Monkey Denier @ersatzverite.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hey, I'm one of the other regulators!

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Sea Monkey Denier @ersatzverite.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I was watching a video talking about AI solving one of the millenium problems, and I was struck by the possibility that the model adapted ideas taken from math researchers who used AI to work on solving the hard part of the problem. Everything you feed to AI can be stolen ...

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Sea Monkey Denier @ersatzverite.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I often wonder what to do about long-term commercial vacancies as commercial real estate owners have low holding costs and can wait for a "perfect" renter. It may just be that the threat of competition from new builds is enough.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

NEW: In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump was reelected and eviscerated the FBI and DOJ teams handling public corruption probes.

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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way

After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Narnia books as Isekai Manga

1. My Sweet Tooth Made Me The Villainess’ Slave
2. In Another World, The Dwarves Picked Me To Lead The Revolution
3. All At Sea With My Level 0 Sailing Skills
4. On A Mission In Another World And I Can’t Remember The Cheat Codes
5. That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Horse
6. Help! My Uncle’s In Love With The Demon Queen!
7. Reincarnated In Another World Just As The Game’s Ending

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/09/2026

RNC Chair Joe Gruters: "If you think Havana and Caracas and Moscow is the way to go, then vote for the left" (Trump is occupying one of those cities, trying to occupy a second, and loves the third more than the American cities he's constantly calling "dirty" and crime-infested)

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Sea Monkey Denier @ersatzverite.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

31% net in favor of a military coup seems bad.

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Sea Monkey Denier @ersatzverite.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is salacious fun, but I would really like the public to be concerned that a lot of elected and appointed officials are treating public monies as slush funds and not as line items in a budget with a purpose.

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Sea Monkey Denier @ersatzverite.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Was reminded of the period when weird incels complained that Lola Bunny was too thicc in the Space Jam sequel. I wonder if that is now a question on the job application for ICE agents?

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Sea Monkey Denier @ersatzverite.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

For those who question my sexuality, I'm buying two George Michael LPs and some vanilla chai. I am heterosexuality personified!!

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Sea Monkey Denier @ersatzverite.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I said that Mamdani would probably be a bad mayor simply bc it is a hard job and few are good at it. I have a vague sense I was wrong, and I am pleased as punch.

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Sea Monkey Denier @ersatzverite.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Obsession is a really interesting movie, and I can see why it is a crossover hit. I wouldn't say I "enjoyed" it, but I am glad I saw it and I would recommend it to horror fans. (SPOILERS BELOW)

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Sea Monkey Denier @ersatzverite.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I oppose the honor culture that underlies things like Japanese samurai culture, but there is a part of me that thinks ritually disemboweling myself would be better than going before Congress to argue in support of dogfuckers.

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Sea Monkey Denier @ersatzverite.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

With the exception of Elon Musk, is there any other well known billionaire who would run this country as poorly as Trump? I am not saying most, if any, would run it well, I'm just saying that Trump is self-interested in the most myopic, idiotic way, and is a truly awful manager.

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Sea Monkey Denier @ersatzverite.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If you only focus on the fact that NC is nowhere near the worst state in the country -- probably in the top half of states in the country -- this becomes stranger.

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Sea Monkey Denier @ersatzverite.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Last Week's Reacher Spoiler: The bad guys use AI to analyze a picture to figure out a toxin's formula and then seek to sell it. But, the AI now has that data and will probably give it out to anyone who is like, "What is the chemical formula of an airborne toxin I can use to .. hug unicorns."

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Sea Monkey Denier @ersatzverite.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Trump's musing about his mortality and worrying about going to hell shows WAY more self-awareness of his actions than GWB putting out a book of paintings of political prisoners. It's shocking that anyone could be less introspective than Trump ...

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Sea Monkey Denier @ersatzverite.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I hope there is a huge Gitmo, Abu Gharib and black site section!

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

You can be unhappy with Talarico's statements, you can even vocally criticize him for it. But I've spoken with the families that Ken Paxton has terrorized and I'm amazed at anyone who would avoid the opportunity to throw him in the metaphorical dustheap of our politics

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Sea Monkey Denier @ersatzverite.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is a very funny take because: 1) A successful AI program "should" be breaking the boundaries put around it; but 2) laziness, incompetence, and general failures to deliver do seem like a much more likely explanation for breeches.

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Sea Monkey Denier @ersatzverite.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I think he: 1. Earnestly believes the risk; 2. Thinks that if they don't do the research, someone else will, but they are the good guys so they should do it; 3. believees that 2 > 1 bc of a huge paycheck. Nothing more complicated. He needs his avarice to be a virtue.

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