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Katie @ktbobaytee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

There goes any chance I was going to do something productive tonight

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Katie @ktbobaytee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I can't stop laughing at this.

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Katie @ktbobaytee.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I liked your reply, but this works too.

Screenshot of darth's post from 3 months ago saying "please tell the algae is not still a news story" under a post of a New Yorker caption contest showing Mr. Met at a bar drinking and reading a newspaper while saying something to the person on his right. A baseball game is on television.

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Katie @ktbobaytee.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I also don't think either the Pod Save guys or "be quiet, Mika, the men are talking" Joe think misogyny is disqualifying.

Pod Save America's Jon Favreau grabbing the breast of a cardboard cutout of Hillary Clinton while another man hold a beer bottle to her face and pretends he's trying to kiss her.

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Katie @ktbobaytee.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Significantly funnier when you combine it with the footage of it being deployed

Several guys standing around the Reflecting Pool with the Washington Monument in the background. They've got poles attached to hoses stuck into the green, algae filled water.

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Katie @ktbobaytee.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Why didn't you post this one? Aren't you proud of it? I'm counting the days until I can vote you out.

Picture posted by Amy Klobuchar showing her, Schiff, Maggie Hassan, Lisa Blunt Rochester, Kirsten Gillibrand, and Raphael Warnock posing with Republicans Susan Collins, Roger Wicker, Cindy Hyde-Smith, Bill Cassidy, and Shelley Moore Capitol. They're all grinning and looking chummy.

It's captioned "Happy National Seersucker Day! Great to join my colleagues from both sides of the aisle in kicking off summer with this time-honored tradition."

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Katie @ktbobaytee.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

$Question: How many ps are in google Google AI response: There are 2 "p"s in the word Google.If you are asking about the mathematical number googol, it is $10^{100}$, which is a 1 followed by 100 zeros. It is where the search engine got its name!$ Question: are the ps in the word google silent
Google AI response: No, the "p"s in the word "Google" are not silent because there are no "p"s in the word "Google." It is spelled G-o-o-g-l-e.You might be thinking of "ps" words borrowed from Greek (like psychology or psalm) where the "p" is completely unvoiced!

Question: are the ps in the word google silent
Google AI response: No, the "p"s in the word "Google" are not silent because there are no "p"s in the word "Google." It is spelled G-o-o-g-l-e.You might be thinking of "ps" words borrowed from Greek (like psychology or psalm) where the "p" is completely unvoiced!

Question: but you just said there are 2 ps in the word google
Google AI response: You are entirely right, and I apologize for that mistake! The word Google is spelled with two "O"s and no "P"s (G-O-O-G-L-E).

Question: so how many ps are in the word google
Google AI response: There is only 1 "p" in the word Google.It is the very last letter in the word! G-o-o-g-l-e.

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Katie @ktbobaytee.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

This isn't the first time Kash has used his office to get an all-expenses paid vacation filled with VIP experiences. Starting to look like that's a requirement for his travel. www.esquire.com/news-politic...

Every May, there’s a Five Eyes conference with the head of every intelligence agency. This year it was in the U.K. Kash Patel is going. In the lead-up to that, his detail starts making crazy requests. He’s got special requirements on everything. And the Brits are getting pissed. Before the conference, his staff says he’s unhappy because he doesn’t like meetings in office settings. What he wants is social events. He wants Premier soccer games. He wants to go jet skiing. He’d like a helicopter tour.
Everyone who heard about this was like: Hold on. Is he really going to ask the MI5 director to go jet skiing instead of meeting? The schedule is set, and every Five Eyes partner is doing this. They can’t just say that he’s not participating and instead he wants to go to a Premier soccer game. This is a job, guys. His staff only cared about three things: what his meals were, when his workouts would be and what his entertainment would be. The biggest plan is how he’s going to get his girlfriend in there so she can go to Windsor Castle. He’s got Nicole Rucker as his assistant, like a true executive concierge. And when she’s not getting the food or the workout she wants, she’ll just start screaming at people, Make it happen.

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Katie @ktbobaytee.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I want to reread Anathem because two aspects of it are front of mind for me all the time now. One is how the avout (intellectuals) who'd isolated themselves in monasteries periodically came out and noped right back in because things outside were off the rails. Two is the reticulum

“Early in the Reticulum—thousands of years ago—it became almost useless because it was cluttered with faulty, obsolete, or downright misleading information,” Sammann said. “Crap, you once called it,” I reminded him. “Yes—a technical term. So crap filtering became important. Businesses were built around it. Some of those businesses came up with a clever plan to make more money: they poisoned the well. They began to put crap on the Reticulum deliberately, forcing people to use their products to filter that crap back out. They created syndevs whose sole purpose was to spew crap into the Reticulum. But it had to be good crap.” “What is good crap?” Arsibalt asked in a politely incredulous tone. “Well, bad crap would be an unformatted document consisting of random letters. Good crap would be a beautifully typeset, well-written document that contained a hundred correct, verifiable sentences and one that was subtly false. It’s a lot harder to generate good crap. At first they had to hire humans to churn it out.”
― Neal Stephenson, Anathem

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Katie @ktbobaytee.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Not just Fox, Bell Melugin, who clawed his way to Fox's attention by pushing risible bullshit for LAPD. Like the time he pushed the story that a cop found this "tampon" in his Frappuccino.

A long, thin, soggy wad of something that is definitely not a tampon dangling from a straw.

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Katie @ktbobaytee.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

OK, but did you know Jurassic Park lied and velociraptors were less than 2 ft tall and had feathers? Furious murder turkeys.

A small feathered dinosaur with little wings and an incredibly long tail. It has teeth instead of a beak.

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Katie @ktbobaytee.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

he's always been shitty, he just keeps finding new ways to punctuate it

A much younger Jon Favreau grinning as he gropes the breast of a life-sized cardboard Hillary Clinton while another of Obama's staffers holds his beer to her face and pretends to kiss her.

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Katie @ktbobaytee.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

The cats finally accepted Murphy

A floppy-eared brown and white dog sleeps on a sofa with his head on a pillow surrounded by two sleeping cats.

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Katie @ktbobaytee.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Twelve whole hours. Wow. That's almost 5 minutes for each of the maybe 175 maybe kids killed by (according to you) could be anyone before you memory holed it. We know what it looks like when you think a story matters. Or at least when you want it to. There are at least a dozen more like this.

Headlines from NYTimes stories all published in the same week about Hillary Clinton getting pneumonia when she was running against Trump.

Hillary Clinton Has Pneumonia: What That Means
What Pneumonia Experts Say About Clinton's Case
Hillary Clinton's Doctor Says Pneumonia Let to Abrupt Exit from 9/11 Event
Hillary Clinton Is Set Back By Decision to Keep Illness Secret

Headlines from NYTimes stories from a single week about Hillary Clinton getting pneumonia when she was running against Trump.

Hillary and Me: A Tale of Two Pneumonias
How Healthy is Hillary Clinton? Doctor's Weigh In
Video: Clinton Loses Balance at 9/11 Memorial
Pneumonia, Polyps and Gunshots: A Short History of Presidential Health

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Katie @ktbobaytee.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I guess every accusation really is a confession.

“The two incompetent people running our country — and I don’t think they’re even running it — are leading us to the brink of World War III, a war like no other,” Trump told a raucous crowd in Waunakee, Wisconsin, claiming without evidence that the nation’s first and second in command are not in fact in charge of the administration.

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Katie @ktbobaytee.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Even in their PR effort to undo some of the damage, the mask slips. There's not a WOMAN on the roster under 20. But to the men, they're just girls.

"I'm glad you mentioned the women's team again; we're extremely happy for them. There's a lot going on with social media right now surrounding our team and their team. But in the last couple of summers, we did a lot of training with them and got to know a lot of those girls really well," Quinn Hughes said.

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Katie @ktbobaytee.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Cops know to call Melugin if they need a reporter willing to run whatever nonsense story they feed them without risking even a cursory effort at fact checking. He built his career on it.

Tweet from June 22, 2020, during the George Floyd protests, from Bill Melugin who still with Fox KTLA then:
"BREAKING: Sources tell me an off duty LAPD officer allegedly found a tampon halfway thru his Frappuccino at a Starbucks in Diamond Bar on Friday. I’m told he used his police credit union debit card. Sheriff’s Dept. confirms they took a report & they’re now investigating."
It features a picture of something that is not remotely a tampon.

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Katie @ktbobaytee.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

I've been laughing at her outfit all day. Is she trying to look like a barrister hoping people will take her seriously? Please let someone convince her she needs to adopt the wee wig too.

Jeanine Pirro at this morning's briefing wearing a black suit and white blouse, the blouse has a voluminous tied neckline.

British barrister wearing a black coat with a white blouse. the blouse has a tied neckline slightly less voluminous than Pirros. He's also wearing a little wig that covers only the very top of her head.

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Katie @ktbobaytee.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Just a little redecorating, Bari making sure CBS is on trend.

A picture of Pantone's 2026 Color of The Year, Cloud Dancer, which is just white.

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Katie @ktbobaytee.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

When I saw this quote from a former Seal about Mitch Bradley my reaction was that he clearly means it as a complement, that if Bradley is the best of them, it's really just an indictment of the Seals as a whole.

“If there has ever been a SEAL who is above reproach, it’s Mitch,” Mr. Cooper added. “I have yet to meet a finer person, much less a finer SEAL.”

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Katie @ktbobaytee.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Engardio was an engaged and effective supe. I pass things every day that he got fixed, or improved, or added. This is who Lurie thought should replace him? He’s dead to me. I found this bit from Joe Eskanazi’s story on it telling: missionlocal.org/2025/11/the-...

"She was, in fact, the only supervisor appointee in at least the last 30 years to come with zero experience in either government or politics. Alcaraz’s first hire as an aide was not a deeply experienced wrangler of government to hoist her up a legislative mountain — someone like Mike Farrah, Bill Barnes, Sunny Angulo or Jen Low — but a city staffer who formerly produced videos for the mayor’s office.

This is unfortunate. This indicates a belief on the part of the mayor and his appointee that the purpose of government is not to do things but just to sell them."

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Katie @ktbobaytee.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Yes, what's missing in this conversation is nuance and respect for the methodical process needed to vet information and flesh out stories before rushing to print

Collage of NYTimes covers with the stories about Hillary Clinton's emails highlighted, several have more than one story on the same front page.

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Katie @ktbobaytee.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Ahhh, I had a Corolla FX that I still miss all the time. I negotiated them down an absurd amount by refusing to budge from my principled stance that it seemed like a good car, but it was funny looking. It was, but it was indestructible and you gotta love a hatchback.

1987 Toyota Corolla FX. It's a hatchback, the front looks like a normal Corolla of the era, the back looks like someone got drunk and lopped part of it off at an angle. The tires are comically small.

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Katie @ktbobaytee.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

One of the historic cars in San Francisco's street car fleet is an open air "boat tram" which is cool both because it's an open air boat tram, and because they don't allow standing passengers so they never get crowded. They only run them on the rare nice days and special occasions though.

A green and white street car with no roof, so the 20 or so passengers have a wonderful view of the city and they can enjoy the sun.

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Katie @ktbobaytee.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

2024 presidential vote by county in UT. Trump got 75% or more of the vote in won 17 of 29 counties .

Map of UT showing that with the exception of Salt Lake, Grand, And Summit counties, all of UT voted very strongly for Trump. In almost half the counties he got more than 80% of the vote.

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Katie @ktbobaytee.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Oh no. Are Carly Fiorina's demon sheep back?

A creepy "demon sheep" from a Carly Fiorina ad when she was running for CA Senate.

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Katie @ktbobaytee.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Sorry, I'm unable to reconcile the idea of Jeffries and a "forceful response."

"404 error: oops... page not found"
with a picture of a robot holding tools and surrounded by springs and bolts, trying to repair itself

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Katie @ktbobaytee.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Unlike the NYTimes, @sfchronicle.com calls it like they see it and doesn't fall back on weak "some people say" framing.

The Chronicle's post about Newsom's even where they say "Immigration agents reportedly made arrests outside the event, in an overt attempt to intimidate Democratic officials and citizens who'd gathered for the launch of the redistricting campaign."

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Katie @ktbobaytee.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Skywatch has windyguy's number

screenshot showing that skywatch flags this as a Troll account

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Katie @ktbobaytee.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

I interpreted this to mean they just going to lie about their purpose if it's immigration.

from the article, one of the DEA officers in one of the reviewed communications says "apparently someone who has access to his account may have been running plates and maybe have placed the search bar 'immigration'.. which maybe brought undue attention..."

and from another communication, the officer who was sharing his password offering to search for plants asks "What's the plate? And confirming it is NOT for immigration purposes..."

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Katie @ktbobaytee.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

As the actual label saying it's AI generated didn't tip him off, I'm not surprised the content failed to.

Screencap of the video Cuomo posted showing it's captioned at the top of the screen with "Clonos.io (parody 100% made with AI)"

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Katie @ktbobaytee.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

You led? Don't make me laugh. Here you are grinning with your GOP pals while Bibi starves children. We could have had Katie Porter.

Picture of the Senators meeting with Netanyahu two weeks ago with Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Adam Schiff (D-California), Jackie Rosen (D-Nevada), Cory Booker (D-New Jersey), Maria Cantwell (D-Washington), Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana), Chris Coons (D-Delaware), Steve Daines (R-Montana), Jon Husted (R-Ohio), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minnesota), Dave McCormick (R-Pennsylvania), and Jim Risch (R-Idaho).

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Katie @ktbobaytee.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Any time Bill Melguin pops up I'm compelled to mention he's the reporter who pushed the "cop 'assaulted' by tampon in his Frappuccino" story during the George Floyd protests which was obviously BS as 1) the barista had no way to know it was for a cop and 2) this is laughably not a tampon.

A picture of a soggy something, but certainly not a tampon as it's way too long, hanging from a green Starbucks straw.

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Katie @ktbobaytee.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

I'm not sure how long they're going to leave this form up, but I'm making the most of it while it's there.

NYTimes webform on Census and Racial Categories, this question asks "What do you think about the race and ethnicity categories you’re confronted with?"

Reply: I think you need to stop thinking criticism means you're good.
If I start cultivating a festering mound of dogshit in front of my place and my neighbors get angry about it, that anger does not mean I'm right. My neighbors are 100% right, I am 100% wrong.

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Katie @ktbobaytee.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Hey, tell us more about what your secret source has to say about "I.Q. and race." Also, were you part of the coordination with Rufo to push this story, or is just a happy coincidence for you?

included in a database of millions of student applicati ns to Columbia going back decades. The data was shared with The Times by an intermediary who goes by the name Crémieux on Substack and X. He provided the data under condition of anonymity, although his identity has been made public elsewhere. He is an academic who opposes affirmative action and writes often about I.Q. and race.
The data included information on applicants' citizenship status, national
included in a database of millions of student applicati ns to Columbia going back decades. The data was shared with The Times by an intermediary who goes by the name Crémieux on Substack and X. He provided the data under condition of anonymity, although his identity has been made public elsewhere. He is an academic who opposes affirmative action and writes often about I.Q. and race.
The data included information on applicants' citizenship status, national

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