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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 52m

Shouldn't it be "Bullets Strike ICE Agent in Civilian-Involved Shooting"

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Victory Over the Sun @hrtraulsen.bsky.social · 1h

tangential bit: what's the cost of EVA-01 in F-35's?

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Victory Over the Sun @hrtraulsen.bsky.social · 1h

Idk this is question-begging too the evidentiary requirement is on the definition/nature of consciousness - e.g., <consciousness is definitionally a biological phenomenon -> computers arent bioorganisms -> AIs aren't conscious> (idk what to say if you contest that computers aren't bioorganisms)

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Victory Over the Sun @hrtraulsen.bsky.social · 2h

sure the closest thing to a secret off the top of my head would be shmurah matzah but you'd have no cause to eat it, there's plenty of good pastrami/brisket the lack of spice is on eastern europe not the jews - and our zwetschgen kniedel(sp) is better than gentiles

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 8h

The term everyone is dancing around is "secret police", a hallmark of totalitarian regimes.

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Bridget O’Brien @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 11h

We don't have to do this. Media coverage could focus on Navi Pillay and why she was awarded the prize, and not his emotions.

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Skrrt Vonnegut @skrrtvonnegut.bsky.social · 8h

"I shot myself in the penis and balls. Next time i use a gun i will instead aim at my feet"

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 15h

So, happy 89th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians—and someone concussed him with a brick

A man in a suit, standing on top of a van with loudspeakers on it, flinches as projectiles are hurled at him

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 10h

“Dumpling!” “Dumpling can’t come to the phone right now.” I have been laughing at this “farming while beige” Highland Cow revolt commentary video all week. “WAFFLES!” “Waffles can’t come to the phone right now.” “WAFFLES!” “Bye bye waffles.”

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Cow rebellion… this video gave me horrible flashbacks (via Bre Boyette)

YouTube video by Farming While Beige

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12h

New open-access paper: Direct File showed that govt could build its own user-centered platform without relying on contractors. But the product was killed after a DOGE lead spoke with the private tax preparation industry lobbying against a private option. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The ability of governments to build and sustain public interest capacity partly depends upon the position of private interests, and the ability and willingness of a government to resist private interest opposition.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) built a digital tax reporting service, Direct File, that created significant public value for users.
Direct File depended upon the creation of internal capacity: a government digital service team that could build digital platforms, rather than procuring a product from private vendors. Government control of the process allowed agile development and iterative improvement that would have been impossible under a traditional outsourcing model.
Long-standing opposition to Direct File by the private tax preparation industry, combined with Trump-era downsizing by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led to the elimination of the tool.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/10/2026

Ossoff is one of the very few people adequately channeling Evelyn Normielib these days the base doesn't want to hear entreaties to our better natures, they don't want to go high while the other side goes low, they want someone to come on the TV and go "these people are garbage" he's good at it

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026

Ossoff: "I think Pete Hegseth is frankly a deeply unwell person who seems to relish this kind of brutality all the while he's running a department that is falling into chaos. The guy cannot run the military competently and is spending his time with this kind of obscene medieval spectacle."

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Will Weldon @oldmanweldon.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Top ten most foreboding sentence I've ever read.

She had bought raw goat milk from a farm recommended to her in a Facebook group run by her chiropractor

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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Obviously isn't going to happen before unified Dem government, but the time to push for it is now and soon - Dems should be making DC statehood (and PR if they want it) a key plank in the democracy agenda and a litmus test for presidential candidates.

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Victory Over the Sun @hrtraulsen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

surely "Trump unilaterally suspends Russian petroleum sanctions to bolster his political allies and avoid the consequences of his massively corrupt and politically maleficent governance" will be the straw the breaks the camel's back and disprove the @mtsw.bsky.social thesis... right?

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DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is clearly not acceptable

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Victory Over the Sun @hrtraulsen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Voltaire, angrily banging out a Letter To The Times: "First"

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Kevin @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

the parents of both of these children should be able to press charges for assault and I'm not even joking.

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Victory Over the Sun @hrtraulsen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

having watched a lot of comedy central at a certain age I distinctly remember the ron white texas "we're putting in an express lane" joke and who's doing that now... Florida, after having flipped and increasingly become A Red State

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The discourse on antisemitism in the country is such that Mike Rogers can simultaneously attack Abdul El-Sayed *as* antisemitic, as a scary foreign Muslim critic of Israel, and also *with* antisemitism, as a tool of the foreign-born Jewish puppeteer.

"LEAKED: Footage of Abdul El-Sayed fundraising last night in the California home of the far-left Soros family.

Abdul’s education was paid for by the Soros family and NOW they are funding his campaign to make him a U.S. Senator

The Soros family is funding Abdul because he will carry out their agenda of:

➡️ defunding the police
➡️ emptying prisons, and letting violent criminals & sex offenders back onto the streets
➡️ gender transition surgeries for minors
➡️ allowing illegals to vote in American elections

Abdul is too extreme for Michigan."

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

the well known shape of deterrence response btw— that certainty of punishment is a much greater deterrent than severity of punishment to the extent that a very rare but incredibly severe punishment is basically not a deterrent at all— explains a lot about our rape culture problem

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Victory Over the Sun @hrtraulsen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

He knows inflation Is Bad. Ok. But he's doing his tariff thing bc (whatever soup of dumb reasons) but sure. Does that mean he eases up on lowering interest rates - which will also increase inflation? no! He considers each in turn unconnected to anything else

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Victory Over the Sun @hrtraulsen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The inability to grasp this fact is evident throughout the media and chattering classes, but isn't constrained to the US: e.g., "The Rest Is Politics" guys - who have no love for trump try to impose some kind of rational framework on his decisionmaking but there's no there there!

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Victory Over the Sun @hrtraulsen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Trump's total inability to conceive of complexity - how one decision might affect a separate priority, of overlapping or interacting outcomes with minimal or no administrative guardrails is - im pretty sure is without precedent in the modern era

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Victory Over the Sun @hrtraulsen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

that's rarely the result of an individual leader's irrationality, for a nation as central as the US in the global order. Trump never had a firm grasp of, let's say the complexity of the political and economic realities of the world, but whatever limited understanding that was is fading fast

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Victory Over the Sun @hrtraulsen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

this is a perfect distillation of whats so difficult about trump, specifically. Nations take self contradictory actions sometimes - the world's a big place, and internal/factional politics can lead to self defeating/contradictory policy outcomes but...

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Victory Over the Sun @hrtraulsen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

So if you're "Europe" (broadly construed) rn gonna be pretty tempting to issue a similar action w/r/t iran

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Victory Over the Sun @hrtraulsen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

not even to "lib-out" or "russiagate" it but just to say it's an indication of who agreed to who's primary condition set

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Victory Over the Sun @hrtraulsen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

this is a minor point in the scheme of things but I'll note this is denominated in tons rather than gallons

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is stupid for more reasons than I can get into, but the UFC is a fight promotion and does not employ fighters or trainers. This isn’t like contracting the Dodgers to teach you how to play baseball, it’s like contracting the Dodgers’ front office to do so.

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FBI Is Angling to Hand the UFC a No-Bid Contract to Train Agents

The contract would expand an existing partnership between the Trump administration and the UFC.

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Notorious RBMK @comraderobot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

lmao go off king

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

We interacted only once and it still was uncomfortable

Ken Bone @kenbone18 • Jun 10, 2022
Replying to @Brendelbored
Umm...thanks?

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

i've identified the Dockers store where Michael Tracy bought and then subsequently returned these pants after wearing them. i will be pursuing criminal prosecution.

Michael Tracey in a light blue sport coat and tan chinos.

A close up of the chinos show the sizing sticker is still on the pants.

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spooky halloween txt @metaltxt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Hey remember when the entire world lost their minds about the Taliban blowing up the Buddha statues in Afghanistan? This carving is at least 6,000 years older than those www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Trump’s border wall construction cut into an ancient ground carving older than Stonehenge

The Las Playas Intaglio carving of a huge fish is at least 2,000 years older than the first Egyptian pyramid, according to researchers’ estimations.

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Victory Over the Sun @hrtraulsen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

and given the change the composition of wealth ownership by age and the natural imbalance in public funds spent towards it's eldest population cohort, I do wonder at what point a kind of novel break in traditional policy commitments among a faction of the left becomes viable

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Victory Over the Sun @hrtraulsen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

as far as I can remember has been that the FDR style "I've paid in, so I should get what I'm owed" was politically useful screen to mask the fact that (absent a norway style sovereign wealth fund), it's much closer to a straight tax and transfer - which is good for left political goals

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Victory Over the Sun @hrtraulsen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Apropos of today's the daily (which unsurprisingly, and infuriatingly misrepresents melenchon's platform and leaves out any mention of his tax policy) I was reading paulkrugman.substack.com/p/whats-the-... and seeing the protests do wonder if we'll ever see *real* explicit age based politics

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What’s the Matter With France?

Is Europe’s #2 economy too big to save?

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Victory Over the Sun @hrtraulsen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

this has been kicking around in a tab for a minute while I keep forgetting to read it but if any technology were my only friend it'd be the Wuppertal Schwebebahn defector.com/the-wupperta... (potentially also the Shonan Monorail)

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The Wuppertal Schwebebahn Is Real And It Is My Friend | Defector

WUPPERTAL, Germany — When my friend in Cologne asked me if I might want to take a day trip, thanks to Cologne’s proximity to various other notable cities (Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Bonn, among others), I ...

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Victory Over the Sun @hrtraulsen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Describing asmongold as "Twitch’s cockroach king of alt-right chuds." is chef kiss perfect

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joycecaroloates.bsky.social @joycecaroloates.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

ironically, treason is a capitol crime punishable by firing squad; in an alternate universe in which Merrick Garland had never been born, an aggressive AG would have pursued an investigation into the (treasonous) insurrection to nullify the results of the 2020 election...

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Victory Over the Sun @hrtraulsen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

s/o melissa clark's recipe it's a banger every time

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Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is just an I Think You Should Leave bit at this point.

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

absolutely terrible, stupid framing. DOGE could have *only* been a "missed opportunity" if it had been conceived, planned, & implemented exactly opposite of how it was, by people who did not think like they did, for goals antithetical to their actual goals.

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Thomas Leeper @thosjleeper.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Meanwhile the Department of Homeopathy and Health Scams is soliciting 5G conspiracy ideas and related hysteria.

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David Lebo @leboism.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Blue state Democrats: maybe if we say the magic words the Republicans will be reasonable again (loses primary) Red state Democrats: yeah these guys are all creeps you shouldn’t allow near children (ahead by 11)

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Rogers suggested that El Sayed’s calls for regulating Flock cameras might be because “your family might be on the watch list.”

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

lol - being an utter fool is great until your friends see you doing it

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