Reposted by Maurice MeilleurEd Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 6hThis is a thing I find people alarmingly slow to realize: the goal is not to have a country without immigrants. The goal is to have a country full of immigrants who have no legal rights or personhood whatsoever and who any citizen can blow a whistle and have deported. 413929
Maurice Meilleur @mauricemeilleur.bsky.social · 6hAt this point I don’t put it past Hegseth to raffle off assignments to the squad detail 000
Maurice Meilleur @mauricemeilleur.bsky.social · 16hAcademics: Find yourself someone in your life who you wants you as badly as Cognella wants you 000
Reposted by Maurice MeilleurChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 20hYou guys fantasize, a lot, about not having to pay for labor or be responsible for treating the labor source with dignity. So much of GenAI discourse is about a desire for ethical enslavement. And that does not exist. 10730170
Reposted by Maurice MeilleurRusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 07/10/2026I’d pay anything to be this comfortable on a flight, can you imagine 2311
Reposted by Maurice Meilleurjustjokes247.bsky.social @justjokes247.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I wrote about John McPhee's nature writing. And about slowness, detail, and a kind of literary journalism that is disappearing along with the natural world it describes. thebaffler.com/latest/up-a-...thebaffler.comUp a Creek | David Schurman WallaceThe Library of America completes John McPhee’s canonization as this country’s most important nature writer. 0123
Maurice Meilleur @mauricemeilleur.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Where should I start reading China Miéville? 000
Maurice Meilleur @mauricemeilleur.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Raise your hand if you can think of something else you’d let Iran take outtheguardian.comTrump suggests he would let Iran ‘take out’ Los Angeles or San DiegoGavin Newsom calls comments ‘deranged and dangerous’ after president tells Nebraska rally: ‘They can take out a city’ 000
Reposted by Maurice MeilleurMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/10/2026“Watson’s 1968 book, amid other slights & sexist language directed at Franklin, implied the flash of insight was his. Popular accounts still routinely suggest Franklin missed the significance of the photo. She never had a chance to challenge Watson’s dismissive narrative; she died of cancer in 1958” 18633
Reposted by Maurice Meilleurjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026i also read his op ed on originalism in the WSJ and i would love to know how presidential criminal immunity emerges from the structure of the constitution, especially when the literal authors of that constitution insisted that a president could he tried and even straight up executed 472174285
Reposted by Maurice MeilleurAaahh!!! bstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social · 05/10/2026can't spell "gaius baltar" without "ai" 4665
Reposted by Maurice MeilleurLettError Type @letterror.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Fuck AI. In other news, the glyphset for LTR Kosmik has been extended to almost 3000 glyphs total. Apparently a great typeface for campsites, petting zoos, farmer’s markets, oatsy diary and all the delicious organic foods. LTR Kosmik is also an excellent alternative for bloody Papyrus in any design. 042
Reposted by Maurice Meilleurjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026someone call up will smith we need him to do something 189101571131
Reposted by Maurice MeilleurBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint. 308122332244
Maurice Meilleur @mauricemeilleur.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Why do they still let him in front of a live camera anymore, they could use a cardboard box skewered on a pool cue with a toilet-paper tube taped to one side and ‘CAMERA’ written on it with a Sharpie 010
Maurice Meilleur @mauricemeilleur.bsky.social · 03/10/2026This smells like a divorce settlement condition. Paxton’s a piece of shit but honestly, fuck them both. 001
Reposted by Maurice MeilleurA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious. 5162681732
Maurice Meilleur @mauricemeilleur.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Feels like not a day goes by that I don’t think of the distinction @timothysnyder.bsky.social made between the ‘gamers’ and the ‘breakers’ in the GOP. Rove is a gamer wringing his hands about the breakers—about their speed and methods, not their values and goals. 010
Reposted by Maurice MeilleurJay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"Polarization Is Not the Problem" This paragraph says more about "both sides" journalism than just about anything I have read. Read the rest here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... By @lilymasonphd.bsky.social via @brizzyc.bsky.socialmuse.jhu.eduProject MUSE -- Verification required! 1215236
Reposted by Maurice MeilleurRazzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit 467144792896
Reposted by Maurice Meilleurcaroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Nancy 9/8/26 4379881425
Reposted by Maurice MeilleurNiko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 03/12/2025This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves 19474891753
Reposted by Maurice MeilleurLettError Type @letterror.bsky.social · 30/09/2026On process, criteria and generative AI letterror.com/ailetterror.comOn generative AI at LettError.com 153
Maurice Meilleur @mauricemeilleur.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I don’t condone violence, but it’s foolish to deny its existence and I think it might benefit Hegseth to consider how difficult it would be to eat solid ‘warrior’ food without, for example, teeth www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comHegseth confirms plan to cut 20% of US top military brass and rails at ‘beardos, weirdos and wimps’Pentagon head hails military with ‘no fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals’ in anti-DEI rant 000
Reposted by Maurice MeilleurRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Maybe time for those who don't experience this directly to return to this thread (which I posted when PTSD was being weaponized to relieve Graham Platner of responsibility for his actions). 6726224
Reposted by Maurice MeilleurArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social 178124942677
Maurice Meilleur @mauricemeilleur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026‘Live your life so that you wouldn’t get shouted down at your child’s memorial’ is a maxim 000
Reposted by Maurice MeilleurA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026To people who don’t believe that Kermit the Frog is real: What is the basis for your morality? Where does your moral standard come from? 963632664
Maurice Meilleur @mauricemeilleur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Guess the checks didn’t clear? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comSamuel Alito steps aside in a major climate case amid scrutiny over oil stock holdingsDecision from conservative justice comes before court hears case on whether fossil-fuel firms deceived US public 011
Reposted by Maurice MeilleurTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“Friction” is humans. There is nothing else to build systems for but humans. They mean a system built for human flourishing won’t survive and they might be right. But not because the agents are so good but because AI is politics. 510527
Reposted by Maurice MeilleurIngrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 27/09/2026I think choosing Texas should be left up to the states 833957
Maurice Meilleur @mauricemeilleur.bsky.social · 27/09/2026As Selina Meyer would say: as useless as a marzipan dildo. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/b...nytimes.comTV Networks to Resume Trump Coverage, Even as White House Excludes CNNThe White House TV pool went dark this past week amid a standoff between CNN and the president. Network leaders, however, believe an indefinite suspension may be untenable. 010
Reposted by Maurice MeilleurAdrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Opa war ein richtiger Freigeist -- der hatte keine demokratischen Scheuklappen, der konnte frei über den Rand der Republik hinaus denken. Du siehst ihn dort links im Bild neben den 8000 Männern, die genauso gekleidet sind wie er. 410816
Maurice Meilleur @mauricemeilleur.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Ventriloquist acts must wreck these devs’ brains 010
Reposted by Maurice MeilleurRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Lynchings and burning witches at the stake are just another face of crime that witches and people liable to be lynched should take precautions about. Here's a stylish iron collar to protect your neck and some flattering fire-retardant dresses. 324323
Reposted by Maurice MeilleurSara Gibbs is Scary Enough Already @sararoseg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026He imposed Shania Law 14875471457
Reposted by Maurice MeilleurLuke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all 7359802001
Reposted by Maurice MeilleurCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure. 5843441194
Reposted by Maurice MeilleurGremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Every week, the Muppets have to put on a show to salvage a new institution: the Kennedy Center, the Supreme Court, the No-Mask Lesbian Bar, the Wonka Experience, Kozmo Dot Com (this has a time travel dimension, à la Quantum Leap), Cafe Loup in the West Village, democracy, the third season of GLOW 311070182
Reposted by Maurice MeilleurMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Two lives that shine as one Morning glory and midnight sun Tiiiiiiiime we've learned to sail above Tiiiiiiiime wont change the meaning of One love Ageless and ever eveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeergreen 2291094127
Reposted by Maurice MeilleurMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 24/09/2026"While Charlie Brown did once again accelerate toward the ball, miss it entirely as Lucy pulled it away, flip backward through the air, and land violently with a disquieting crunch, we do not believe that now is the time for a dramatic change in kicking strategy." buff.ly/X2RjqP5buff.ly“Charlie Brown Must Stay the Course”: A Football Kick Autopsy Report by the Democratic Party“While Charlie Brown did once again accelerate toward the ball, miss the ball entirely as Lucy pulled it away, flip backward through the air, and land violen... 11655246