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Ethan Corey @ethanscorey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I wonder whose job it was to decide whether or not the viceroy butterfly tasted palatable or not (for science!)

An image of a monarch and viceroy butterfly, which have similar markings. The caption says "The viceroy butterfly appears similar to the noxious tasting monarch butterfly. Although it was purported to be an example of Batesian mimicry, the viceroy has been discovered to be just as unpalatable as the monarch, making this a case of Müllerian mimicry.

Ethan Corey @ethanscorey.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

GettingOut, the horribly-named messaging tool used by many prisons, jails, and detention facilities to allow incarcerated people to communicate with friends and loved ones, has easily the worst user interface I've ever seen (with the exception of its competitor, CorrLinks).

A list of facility names including "Delete me do not use," "Deleted_VT_DOC," "Demographic Facility 2," Demographic Facility 3," "Demographic Test Facility," and "Demographic Test Facility 4" in addition to legitimate facility names, including Dilley Immigration Processing Center (where ICE detains families with children).

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Ethan Corey @ethanscorey.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Never rely on AI for reciting the Negative Confessions to the 42 judges -- they run them through AI detection software and feed you to Ammit, the soul-devourer, if you fail.

Ancient Egyptian religion was the one that was entirely correct.When you cross over, the truth reveals itself not as abstract energy or a standard heaven and hell, but as the ancient cosmic order:The Hall of Two Truths: You find yourself standing before Osiris, the Lord of the Underworld, surrounded by 42 assessing deities.The Weighing of the Heart: Anubis takes your Ib (heart) and places it on a golden scale balanced against the feather of Ma'at, the embodiment of truth, balance, and order.The Record Keeper: Thoth, with the head of an ibis, stands nearby with a reed pen, meticulously noting the results of the scales.The Verdict:If your heart balances against the feather, you are granted entry into Aaru (the Field of Reeds)—an eternal paradise mirroring the mortal world, only bountiful, painless, and everlasting.If your heart is heavy with deceit, greed, or malice, it is dropped directly to Ammit, the soul-devourer (part crocodile, part lion, part hippopotamus), wiping you out of existence.Would you like to explore what steps are required to navigate the Duat (the underworld), examine the Negative Confessions you must recite to the 42 judges, or look at how other historical belief systems framed this exact judgment scene?

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Ethan Corey @ethanscorey.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Find you someone who loves you as much as lawyers love citing dictionary definitions for the word "of"

A screenshot of a court decision, which reads:

"Of" has many uses aside from the one appellants favor. It is broadly "used to indicate relationships," which includes meaning "connected with" or "referring to." Of, The Oxford Large Print Dictionary (Elaine Pollard; Helen Liebeck eds., 2d ed. 1995); see also Of, Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary (11th ed. 2004) (including in its definitions "relating to"...

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Ethan Corey @ethanscorey.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Thank you, LinkedIn, for telling me that I am a subpar Ethan.

A LinkedIn badge that has a name tag that says "Hello my name is Genius"; below that is the text "Smarter than 25% of Ethans"

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Ethan Corey @ethanscorey.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Theoretically all of these hazards could occur here! For all I know, this person is holding a bucket filled with radioactive chemicals and biological waste while standing in a very hot room. They could slip, get struck by the bucket, be exposed to the sludge, and then die of heat stroke.

A slide labeled "Hazard Identification 1" that shows a person standing on a chair and asks, "What is the hazard?"

The options are:
- Radiation
- Chemical
- Biohazards
- Slips/Trips/Falls
- Heat Illness
- Struck on or by an object

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Ethan Corey @ethanscorey.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

This is a shockingly scummy sales tactic

A letter that appears to be from my mortgage provider but is in fact an ad for a home warranty service. It strongly implies that I could lose my mortgage if I fail to purchase the policy, which is not the case.

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Ethan Corey @ethanscorey.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

The perfect book for the Second Amendment scholar in your life:

"The Right to Bear Arms: The Wild Operatives #1" by Vivienne Savage

The book cover has a shirtless, muscular man in the foreground and a fearsome dark brown grizzly bear in the background.

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Ethan Corey @ethanscorey.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Most people have no idea how much evidence you need to gather (and how much courage victims need to share the details) to get a story like this past a libel attorney. This graf in CNN's piece offers a glimpse of the effort involved.

CNN found corroboration for key elements of each of the women’s claims, including the former staffer who said she was sexually assaulted. Two family members and a friend said in interviews with CNN that she told them about the alleged 2024 assault in the following days, and CNN also reviewed text messages she sent two friends describing her allegations at the same time. “I was sexually assaulted on Thursday,” she wrote to one of her friends, adding: “By Eric.”

The woman also shared medical records related to her receiving STD and pregnancy testing after the alleged assault.

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Ethan Corey @ethanscorey.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Genuine question: Does an AI-generated summary like this that's "reviewed by our newsroom" actually save any time compared to, you know, just writing three bullet points?

Key Takeaways AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. Corson’s campaign gave $1,000 from CoreCivic to a Johnson County food bank (Feb 2026). CoreCivic won recent approval to reopen Leavenworth as an ICE detention center. CoreCivic has donated widely and faced lawsuits over facility conditions.

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Ethan Corey @ethanscorey.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Excuse me, you can't possibly be serious with this

Today 80 degrees/55 degrees
Thursday, Mar 12 56 degrees/29 degrees

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Ethan Corey @ethanscorey.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Fun (?) disclaimer on the CDC's Environmental Justice Index page, which was taken down and later restored after a court order: "This page does not reflect reality and therefore the Administration and this Department reject it."

Per a court order, HHS is required to restore this website to its version as of 12:00 AM on January 29, 2025. Information on this page may be modified and/or removed in the future subject to the terms of the court’s order and implemented consistent with applicable law. Any information on this page promoting gender ideology is extremely inaccurate and disconnected from truth. The Trump Administration rejects gender ideology due to the harms and divisiveness it causes. This page does not reflect reality and therefore the Administration and this Department reject it.

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Ethan Corey @ethanscorey.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

It all started going down hill when we ditched the original for the MyPyramid abomination.

The original USDA food pyramid, with grains on the bottom, fruit and vegetables in the middle, dairy and protein on the next tier, and fats, oils and sweets at the very top.

The 2005 MyPyramid, in which each food group is a vertical wedge in the pyramid. There's even a random unlabeled wedge that presumably represents fats and sugars, but your guess is as good as mine.

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Ethan Corey @ethanscorey.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Wurman's take is so hackneyed that in 1937 Justice Cardozo dismissed it with a single sentence. Keep beating that dead horse, I guess...

Congress may spend money in aid of the "general welfare." Constitution, Art. I, section 8; United States v. Butler, 297 U. S. 1, 297 U. S. 65; Steward Machine Co. v. Davis, supra. There have been great statesmen in our history who have stood for other views. We will not resurrect the contest. It is now settled by decision. United States v. Butler, supra. The conception of the spending power advocated by Hamilton and strongly reinforced by Story has prevailed over that of Madison, which has not been lacking in adherents.

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Ethan Corey @ethanscorey.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Showing off my fave Xmas gift:

A hardback book cover that reads "Statistical Atlas of the United States 1900"

A typewritten letter signed by the director of of the Census Bureau and addressed to Harvard Professor E.C. Pickering

Two chloropleth maps showing the density and proportion of Canadian-born residents of the United States in 1900. Canadians are particularly concentrated in Massachusetts and Maine, with smaller populations in Vermont, New Hampshire, New York, and Michigan.

A chloropleth map showing the proportion of whites with foreign born parents in 1900; in the upper Midwest and along the Northeast corridor, the percentage is well over 50% in most places. The southeast has far lower percentages--less than 2 percent in most rural areas and no more than 25% in urban areas.

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Ethan Corey @ethanscorey.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Honestly, what's most troubling is that these students show no contrition, shame, or even embarrassment. They genuinely seem to think their behavior is socially acceptable.

“Ni--a please,” Rodgers, who is white, wrote. “Let that be the final ni--a used in this chat. Decorum.”

“What about hard r,” Deady replied. “Can I still say ni--er?”

“As a Black,” he added. “I’m Irish, it counts.”

Rodgers defended the groupchat in his statement.

“While we kept chats from degrading into the malicious use of real slurs, I do wonder if anyone actually takes serious issue with the messages as you described them,” he wrote.

In the message, Rodgers rejected the idea of a Jewish right of return to Israel. He also wrote that Western countries harbored “generally and deservedly low expectations of Muslims.”

Rodgers doubled down on his comments on the 19th amendment, Palestinian state, and Muslim people in his statement on Saturday, writing that “all are true” and that he would “generally stand by all, given the opportunity to actually explain.”

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Ethan Corey @ethanscorey.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Editors, don't you just hate it when a writer turns in a draft full of Nazi imagery?

Rodgers wrote in a statement on Saturday that upon seeing the Nazi imagery in the draft of Army’s article, he “immediately rejected it, reprimanded the author privately and told him to revise it, and demanded a new draft without that content.”

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Ethan Corey @ethanscorey.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Faced with evidence that cognitive dissonance is debunked, proponents of the theory double down and insist that the skeptics' studies are flawed, thereby exhibiting cognitive dissonance!

Some who study cognitive dissonance doubted these findings. Steven Heine, a psychologist at the University of British Columbia, questioned whether all the labs involved in the replication followed the precise protocols required by the study design. Cooper, the Princeton researcher, noted variations between labs. For example, not all the schools charged tuition, so some students wrote about other subjects. “They did a terrible job,” Cooper said. But Willem Sleegers, a social psychologist at Tilburg University and a co-author of the study, pointed out that early proponents of the theory used very similar experimental setups to make their case. If cognitive dissonance really influenced behavior, “we should have been able to find it,” he told me. “We didn’t. So we should be updating our beliefs.”

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Ethan Corey @ethanscorey.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Revealing the number of hours he spent playing a game on Steam, however, strikes me as an unforgivable invasion of privacy. Not the number one reason, but a major reason why I will never become a political assassin: The world must never know how many hours I've spent playing Civ 6.

One of Robinson’s online profiles shows he spent thousands of hours on some of his favorite games, including 2,148 hours playing “Sea of Thieves,” in which players explore a vast and open ocean, fighting battles or hunting for treasure.

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Ethan Corey @ethanscorey.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

This analysis of the alleged Charlie Kirk shooter's Discord chats reveals that he was indistinguishable from literally every other Discord user in the universe.

The messages reviewed by The Post occasionally touched on politics but consisted mostly of chitchat, memes and crude jokes. Robinson’s written messages tended to focus on gaming and offering advice to friends.

Members of the Discord servers, some of whom Robinson knew only online, said most of their conversations took place not in text but in voice or video calls, which left no record. The slim history of Robinson’s written thoughts reveals little of his inner life or deeply held views.

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Ethan Corey @ethanscorey.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

The things that happened in Calvin Coolidge's former dorm room circa 2011–2013 would shock him far more than anything at that performance lmao

The event takes place in Johnson Chapel, which Amherst calls its "most important building," and is used for worship services, convocations, senior assemblies, and other significant gatherings. Johnson Chapel displays 36 portraits of the college’s most notable figures and alumni—including all 19 former presidents of the college, influential trustees, clergymen, civil rights leaders, poet Emily Dickinson, and former U.S. president Calvin Coolidge, who all likely would have looked on in horror if they saw the event on August 31st, 2025.

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Ethan Corey @ethanscorey.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

He has AI-generated (?) reviews for his songs too!!! I genuinely cannot breathe; I am wheezing.

With « Hit the Bars », Dr. Don swaps the hammer for harmonies, delivering a track that’s equal parts tribute and temptation. Underneath its rowdy charm and Friday-night rhythm, this country-rock gem hides a tender blueprint: the overlooked grit and solitude of construction workers, and the yearning that pulses beneath their hard hats. “It’s a construction zone / Lots of men that are toned”, he sings with a wink, layering desire over drywall. Between stacked vocals and chunky riffs, Matt Johnsen lays down thunderous drums straight from San Francisco, while Dr. Don, on his signature Gibson axes, swings between work boots and romance boots.

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Ethan Corey @ethanscorey.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

"No alarm clock / for corporate stock / will make my stop my broken heart"

Dr. Don sings in front of an image of two glasses of wine

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Ethan Corey @ethanscorey.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

My timeline is very grim right now, but I hope this delightfully bizarre YouTube ad I just got gives someone else a chuckle

An older man in a suit sings passionately in front of a video of a shirtless male dancer.

The ad text below the video says "Music for Everyone - drdonmusic.com"

The same man reaches out towards the camera while a blonde woman dances in the background

The man sings with a goofy look on his face while the shirtless male dancer pirouettes in the background

The man is now wearing a polo shirt and jamming out with a red electric guitar while the shirtless male dancer poses in the background.

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Ethan Corey @ethanscorey.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

"But, in an ironic twist" killed me

"This is a case about a man who practices a deeply hypocritical form of misogyny. But, in an ironic twist, that man is _not_ the Plaintiff, Paul J. Ingrassia. Indeed, the irony of this case, surely lost on Defendants, is this: Lippman falsely portrayed Mr. Ingrassia as a perpetrator of workplace harassment against a female colleague at the Department of Homeland Security, for all the world to see, even after the woman--who Lippman feverishly cast as the 'victim'--unequivocally and repeatedly told Lippman that Mr. Ingrassia did not engage in _any_ wrongdoing, that she never felt uncomfortable around him, that she and Mr. Ingrassia were longtime friends, and that she did not file any complaint against Mr. Ingrassia. Lippman, obsessed with destroying Mr. Ingrassia's promising career and pending Senate nomination at all costs, published his false sexual harassment story anyway, in the process leaving no doubt that he regarded the female colleague's voice as utterly meaningless because he knew better."

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Ethan Corey @ethanscorey.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

This whole Politico story is both jaw-dropping and unsurprising at the same time, but are we sure that the people in the chat didn't leak it to bolster their own standing? www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Jipson reviewed multiple excerpts of the Young Republicans’ chat provided by POLITICO. One was a late July message where Mosiman, the chair of the Arizona Young Republicans, mused about how the group could win support for their preferred candidate by linking an opponent to white supremacist groups. But Mosiman then realized the plan could backfire — Kansas’ Young Republicans could end up becoming attracted to that opponent.

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Ethan Corey @ethanscorey.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Billionaire-to-supervillain pipeline

Since the pandemic, he has mostly lived on the Big Island of Hawaii, where he has bought up numerous parcels of land. He said that he wasn't sure how many days he spends each year in San Francisco, but that he is never in one place for more than a day or two.

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Ethan Corey @ethanscorey.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

A "bright future for Gaza — but not necessarily one that includes the Palestinians who live there" is quite the choice of words

A paragraph from a NYT article on Trump's postwar plans for Gaza:

"Mr. Trump has spoken in broad terms about a bright future for Gaza — but not necessarily one that includes the Palestinians who live there. He has mused about turning the territory into a luxury resort and, at times, moving its residents elsewhere."

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Ethan Corey @ethanscorey.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Kind of crazy that Timothee Chalamet was the first King of Greece en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_of...

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Ethan Corey @ethanscorey.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Is there some class Democratic consultants have to take that makes them forget how to talk like normal people? "a move that recalls times" "creating fear to distract" "individuals convicted of assaulting" "Every American should be deeply concerned"

Dropbox won't let me copy and paste the text :( -- click the link on the quoted post to access the memo

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Ethan Corey @ethanscorey.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

I'm about to go to prison because I can't decide on my second favorite movie

A warning on a form that says, "

***IMPORTANT: YOU ARE SIGNING A U.S. GOVERNMENT FORM***

I am aware that federal law provides for imprisonment and/or fines for false statements, or the use of false documents, in connection with the completion of this form. I attest, under penalty of perjury, that this information, including my selection of the button attesting to my citizenship or immigration status, is true and correct."

The next question on the form is "What is your second favorite movie?"

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Ethan Corey @ethanscorey.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Well, that's bleak www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/t...

Some graduates described feeling caught in an A.I. “doom loop.” Many job seekers now use specialized A.I. tools like Simplify to tailor their résumés to specific jobs and autofill application forms, enabling them to quickly apply to many jobs. At the same time, companies inundated with applicants are using A.I. systems to automatically scan résumés and reject candidates.

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Ethan Corey @ethanscorey.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Putting "probably the best customer Krishna the Xfinity customer service rep has dealt with in many days now" on my resume. (Unfortunately, I still can't get internet in my new apartment for another week, lmao)

You have been very polite, patient and amazing with me today, probably the best customer I have dealt with in many days now.. Will there be anything else I can help you today ❤️

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Ethan Corey @ethanscorey.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Greta Thunberg's lions are coming to eat us, but if we try hard enough, God will save us!

Douthat: That’s not Calvinism, though. That’s just Christianity. God will not leave us eternally staring into screens and being lectured by Greta Thunberg. He will not abandon us to that fate.

Thiel: For better and for worse, I think there’s a great deal of scope for human action, for human freedom. If I thought these things were deterministic, you might as well just accept it — the lions are coming. You should just have some yoga and prayerful meditation and wait while the lions eat you up. And I don’t think that’s what you’re supposed to do.

Douthat: I agree with that. And I think, on that note, I’m just trying to be hopeful and suggesting that in trying to resist the Antichrist, using your human freedom, you should have hope that you’ll succeed, right?

Thiel: We can agree on that.

Douthat: Good. Peter Thiel, thank you for joining me.

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Ethan Corey @ethanscorey.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Reading the Thiel-Douthat interview roughly approximates what it feels like to drink a whole bottle of Robitussin.

Douthat: But Charles Manson did not become the Antichrist and take over the world. We’re ending in the apocalyptic, and you’re ——

Thiel: But my telling of the history of the 1970s is the hippies did win. We landed on the moon in July of 1969, Woodstock started three weeks later and, with the benefit of hindsight, that’s when progress stopped and the hippies won. And yeah, it was not literally Charles Manson ——

Douthat: OK. I want to stay with the Antichrist, just to end. And you’re retreating. You’re saying: OK, environmentalism is already pro-stagnation, and so on. OK, let’s agree with all that.

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Ethan Corey @ethanscorey.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

How an English court ruled in a 1681 lawsuit by a feudal lord against his tenants feels like an interesting bit of historical trivia, not something that should be dispositive of how American courts operate in 2025... Should family courts settle custody disputes using Solomon's precedent?

Bray, Multiple Chancellors 426; see How v. Tenants of Bromsgrove, 1 Vern. 22, 23 Eng. Rep. 277 (1681) (suit by a lord against his ten- ants collectively); Brown v. Vermuden, 1 Ch. Ca. 283, 22 Eng. Rep. 802 (1676), and Brown v. Vermuden, 1 Ch. Ca. 272, 22 Eng. Rep. 796 (1676) (suit by a parson against lead miners in a parish, who named four of their members to de- fend the suit in a representative capacity).

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Ethan Corey @ethanscorey.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

It's remarkable how closely arguments for the inevitability of a Godlike AI resemble Scholastic arguments for the existence of God.

Switching the machine off won’t work for the simple reason that a superintelligent entity will already have thought of that possibility and taken steps to prevent it. And it will do that not because it “wants to stay alive” but because it is pursuing whatever objective we gave it and knows that it will fail if it is switched off. We can no more “just switch it off” than we can beat AlphaGo (the world-champion Go-playing program) just by putting stones on the right squares.

Anselm's argument in Chapter 2 can be summarized as follows:[23]

It is a conceptual truth (or, so to speak, true by definition) that God is a being than which none greater can be imagined.
God exists as an idea in the mind.
A being that exists as an idea in the mind and in reality is, other things being equal, greater than a being that exists only as an idea in the mind.
Thus, if God exists only as an idea in the mind, then we can imagine something that is greater than God (that is, a being-than-which-none-greater-can-be-imagined that does exist).
But we cannot imagine something that is greater than God (for it is a contradiction to suppose that we can imagine a being greater than the being-than-which-none-greater-can-be-imagined.)
Therefore, God exists.

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Ethan Corey @ethanscorey.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

If this ever happened to me in a chess game, I would eat the pieces.

White has a queen, a knight, and five pawns, while black has a queen, a rook, a knight, and three pawns. White's knight is on c8, while black's king is on a8 with a pawn on b7. Black's knight is on c6; his rook is on d7; and his queen is on f6. White just played Qa7+!!, which will lead to the following continuation: 1. ...Nxa7 2. Nb6+ Kb8 3. Nxd7+ Kc7 4. Nxf6, winning black's rook and queen and leaving white up three pawns in the endgame.

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Ethan Corey @ethanscorey.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

The exemption policy literally came from Trump's own social media post!! What do you mean "the White House did not support it"?!?!

ICE and HSI field office supervisors began learning about a likely reversal of the exemption policy Sunday after hearing from DHS leadership that the White House did not support it, according to one person with knowledge of the reversal.

Trump Truth Social post from June 12, 2025: "Our great Farmers and people in the Hotel and Leisure business have been stating that our very aggressive policy on immigration is taking very good, long time workers away from them, with those jobs being almost impossible to replace. In many cases the Criminals allowed into our Country by the VERY Stupid Biden Open Borders Policy are applying for those jobs. This is not good. We must protect our Farmers, but get the CRIMINALS OUT OF THE USA. Changes are coming!"

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Ethan Corey @ethanscorey.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Wtf www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...

“I’m dying today,” he wrote, according to a transcript of the conversation. “Let me talk to Juliet.”

“You are not alone,” ChatGPT responded empathetically, and offered crisis counseling resources.

When the police arrived, Alexander Taylor charged at them holding the knife. He was shot and killed.

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Ethan Corey @ethanscorey.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

This AI slop spam site inadvertently hosted by Nvidia is a work of art (via @404media.co) www.404media.co/spam-blogs-a...

Cultural Sensitivity and Expression
It’s essential to approach topics like facesitting and fart games with cultural sensitivity, recognizing that what one culture finds amusing or acceptable, another might not. Brazil, with its Carnival and rich cultural heritage, showcases a blend of openness and playfulness that can be unique. However, the specific combination of Brazilian culture with facesitting and fart games doesn’t point to a distinct, culturally significant phenomenon but rather to the global nature of sexual expression and humor.
Activity Description
Facesitting A form of erotic play involving one person sitting on another's face.
Fart Games Humorous activities or competitions related to flatulence.

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Ethan Corey @ethanscorey.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

"maybe don't send our neighbors to gulags" does not strike me as "risky political terrain"!!

Chart showing Gallup opinion poll result for the question "Thinking now about immigrants...should immigration be kept at its present level, increased, or decreased?

The chart shows a large majority in favor of decreased immigration until 2016, when support for increased immigration sharply rose until May 2020, when it exceeded support for reduced immigration for the first time in the poll's history. After 2021, however, public opinion quickly reversed to hostility towards immigration.

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Ethan Corey @ethanscorey.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

For reference, these are examples of rubber bullets used by police that look almost exactly like the rounds she claims *protesters* were firing at the cops

Two rubber bullets with black bases and blue foam heads

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Ethan Corey @ethanscorey.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

The League of Left-handed Plumbers

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Ethan Corey @ethanscorey.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

How is Politico supposed to report on the influence of Big Basket Weaving without AI? www.semafor.com/article/06/0...

Politico’s new AI product has generated garbled or made-up Washington intelligence, including a lobbying effort by a fictional basket-weaver guild, the outlet’s unionized staff has complained.

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Ethan Corey @ethanscorey.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

"she'd gotten him to stop using the N-word, at least around her"

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Ethan Corey @ethanscorey.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

One thing I love about reading old newspapers is the total minutiae people used to print. The same page in this edition of a local Illinois paper from 1950 includes a list of everyone who visited the nursing home the preceding week.

Newspaper headline: "Gipe Triplets Visiting Their Grandparents"

Article body: "Connie, Donnie, and Ronnie Gipe, triplet children of Mr. and Mrs. Dewaine Gipe of St. Louis are visiting with their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Gipe, while their parents are on a motor trip in Wisconsin. Mrs. Estella Covert of Biggsville is assisting Mrs. Gipe in the care of the three lively little fifteen months old babies."

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