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As Theodore Sturgeon famously said about science fiction, 90% of it is crap, but then 90% of everything is crap.

I once was the only passenger on a flight. (The flight wasn't cancelled because the plane + crew had to get to the destination regardless.) The stewardess told me her name, so I introduced myself back, and when the pilot spoke on the intercom he addressed me directly. It was so cool!

Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

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Sleepy Hollow only had 1 season. That's my story and I'm sticking to it

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 06/10/2026

In 1939, the U.S. denied entry to over 900 Jewish refugees who were on board the MS St. Louis., fleeing Nazi Germany. Ultimately the ship had to return to Europe. It is unknown how many of them were murdered by Nazis. Our government today would also refuse them.

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BREAKING: For the first time in 10 months, the U.S. admitted a refugee who is not a white South African. In September, the U.S. admitted 3,386 white South Africans and two Afghans (in D.C.) In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 16,287 white South Africans, five Afghans, and nobody else.

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Lots of Americans enduring Kavanaugh stops. And at least 12 U.S. citizens have been deported. Most of them are children accompanying their non-citizen parents. One, however, is an adult:

One American adult in Texas was also deported this spring.

The car Brian Morales Garcia was in was pulled over earlier this year in central Texas. Officers didn't believe him when he said he was a citizen. And they wouldn't let him get his birth certificate. Morales Garcia was held for four days without being able to call his lawyer or anyone else. Then he was deported to Mexico.

After suing, Morales Garcia was allowed back into the country just last month using his birth certificate.

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Nope. American cheese grilled cheese sandwiches are fine plain, but the ones with Swiss cheese need mustard.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 05/10/2026

We also need a Supreme Court that wouldn't immediately overturn it to protect their Special Boy. With alt text:

Black & white portrait of a glowering Donald Trump with this text:

We need a law called the "Donald J. Trump Act" that makes it clear that a sitting president CAN be indicted for crimes. By naming the law after Trump, it will remind people for generations to come of Trump's corruption and ensure the name Trump will forever be associated with criminality.

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The SPEAKER implies. The LISTENER infers. The DUDE abides.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I agree, but I do have concerns: 1. How do we guarantee a secret ballot? 2. How do we ensure the prisoners can vote without coercion? 3. Do they count their prison as their place of residence, or their address? At minimum, they should be able to vote once they are released.

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This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives

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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was genuinely frightening to my small child self, all those scenes of the child kidnapping villain. 😬

(This may be earlier: I remember seeing Green Slime in the theater & turning around to hide my face in the back of my seat.)

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The Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz. We had a babysitter who made us sit down & watch it on TV. Ugh. (I did become a fan of the books later, but not so much the movie.)

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Cats domesticated themselves, so they are crafty little buggers

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My mother told me that my brother Robert & I were both conceived while she was wearing a diaphragm. After her 2nd unplanned pregnancy she switched to an IUD instead. But hey, at least I knew that I shouldn't choose a diaphragm for birth control, & she always said she loved us both very much.

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Reminds me of John Cole's tire rims & anthrax analogy (from balloon-juice.com/2009/02/05/y...)

"I really don’t understand how bipartisanship is ever going to work when one of the parties is insane. Imagine trying to negotiate an agreement on dinner plans with your date, and you suggest Italian and she states her preference would be a meal of tire rims and anthrax. If you can figure out a way to split the difference there and find a meal you will both enjoy, you can probably figure out how bipartisanship is going to work the next few years."

Source: https://balloon-juice.com/2009/02/05/youll-never-get-this-21-minutes-of-your-life-back/

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Also, calling Planned Parenthood "part of the establishment" didn't help matters either

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

FFS. 🤦🏻‍♀️ Hey Tad, the Democrats screwed Bernie by inexplicably voting for Hillary in larger numbers. 🙄

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No could possibly have predicted that Trump calling Democrats “sons of bitches” would not be on today’s front page of the NYT, & Jake Tapper would be platforming Kevin Hassett to lie with impunity on the Sunday shows. 🧐🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

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Daniel Sloss is an ally of women. ❤️

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1980s headline from the Weekly World News: "Famed Psychic's Head Explodes"

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Only throw grocery store tomatoes (they strip mine them down in Texas, you know) & give me the home grown tomatoes. 😋

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Anyway, the U.S. under the Trump regime is a poorer, meaner country. I don't like what we've become, and I hope we can change it.

On top of the humanitarian reasons to accept refugees, immigration is a net positive: immigrants commit less crime and pay more in taxes than they receive in benefits. They also widen our cultural horizons. (Imagine the food scene if we didn't have tacos and pizza and General Tso's chicken!)

Refugees from the MS St. Louis died because we wouldn't grant them sanctuary. Refugees today will die because we're turning them away, and we will be a poorer country for it.

I was devastated when I first read about this when I was in high school: we were supposed to be the good guys, we were supposed to help the people the Nazis were targeting. Decades later, we're back to saying we won't help, you're on your own. It's gutting.

The only refugees we're currently accepting are white South Africans, which means that we are once more the country who denied entry to the Jewish refugees on board the MS St. Louis. The ship & passengers had to return to Europe where the Nazis were increasing power en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_St._...

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MS St. Louis - Wikipedia

Going Postal is my absolute favorite Discworld novel, hands down.

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The only lesson a losing candidate learns is that the voters preferred the winner.

SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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There is no such thing as a protest vote, and refusing to vote isn't protesting, it's surrendering. Anyone trying to convince you not to vote is trying to manipulate you for their own ends, to use your gullibility to profit off of. Do not listen to them, do not trust them. Vote. Always. Period.

Not voting is not a statement.

It's rendering yourself invisible.
It is silencing your own voice.
It is self-marginalization.
It's allowing your future to be
determined by other people and
pretending that's a victory.
Register.
Vote.
Make a statement.

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As a Cardinals fan, I admit that some of us are morons. (However, our team never brought on an apocalypse by winning the World Series for the 1st time in over 100 years. 🤷🏻‍♀️)

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This is nuts. Incapable of giving consent is incapable of giving consent, regardless of how the victim got that way. The rapist doesn't get a freebie just because the victim starting drinking or doing drugs. It's still rape, and should be prosecuted accordingly.

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Sitting in the band next to Michelle, who also played clarinet. She was allergic to mosquitoes, and the bites on her arms would swell up to the size of a half dollar.

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That's absolute crap. Jobs which can be done sitting down should give workers the option of sitting down. Making employees stand for hours to greet the public or run a cash register is sheer performative cruelty

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FYI, don't do interviews with USA Today or other Gannett newspapers: (I have an enduring grudge against Gannett because their purchase of the Arkansas Gazette was the beginning of the end for that once proud & Pulitzer prize winning paper.)

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If we'd gone down the correct leg of the Trousers of Time, we'd have taco trucks on ever corner. Instead, we're going to see the end of abundant chips & salsa. 😢

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I got my flu shot & my Covid shot yesterday. Easy peasy! Vaccines are a miracle, and as many people as possible should get them. ❤️

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Apparently this is fake? bsky.app/profile/fire...

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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I just need Ezra Klein to weigh in on whether his buddy that he has so much admiration for is doing politics the right way

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Most of the replies were insightful, but a couple gave me new entries for my block file. 😒

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