Reposted by TomEric Harris Bernstein @ehbinmn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026They started texting with a 16-year-old. After two years, they offered to sell him a gun. They consider that "stopping a terrorist attack." And they are calling it heroic. What an absolute embarrassment. 511903483
Reposted by TomMike Masnick @masnick.com · 23hAll these guys spent all this effort to get "fuck you" money and can't even bring themselves, even once, to use it to say "fuck you" to Trump. Pathetic. 553142474
Tom @saudagg18.bsky.social · 07/10/2026static.klipy.comTina Fey's Oh Brother Eye Roll ReactionALT: Tina Fey's Oh Brother Eye Roll Reaction 010
Reposted by TomMatt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026the tech industry is about to invent books 572214234176
Tom @saudagg18.bsky.social · 06/10/2026It also that these fucking goons love to attack people's appearances! So they can take it right back. Clay Travis attacking trans people for being who they are means I can absolutely mock Clay having a robust set of B-cups 010
Tom @saudagg18.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Fucking do it. Throw this shitbag in the garbage dump of history 110
Reposted by TomJonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Once again: If Dems do well in November, absolutely everyone should interpret it as a definitive statement that the US electorate rejected a disgusting smear campaign against trans people. 1417134
Reposted by TomRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.ms.nowOutgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump. 25797293025
Reposted by TomBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Yes, computers do everything at our company but don't worry, there's always a human reviewer. Nothing goes out the door without one of our highly trained shruggers briefly glancing at it and clicking Approve 405106696
Reposted by TomCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Exactly. This is such a lie. Email had a purpose. The internet had a purpose. Search had a purpose. Everybody loved Silicon Valley in the 90s because they made shit that did what it promised. Now 3 guys who never made SHIT have ALL the money in SV. They're scam artists. Not engineers. 382720610
Reposted by TomBen 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. 308122302242
Tom @saudagg18.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Hey, he was on the team for a bit and basically irrelevant to their history. That definitely means they need to post about an accused creep 010
Tom @saudagg18.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I hear ya. Planes are the international waters of parenting. "You want to play candy crush and drink coke? Sure, whatever, as long as you stay quiet" 011
Tom @saudagg18.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Sorry, didn't mean to backseat parent and oh man, that's a tough go 120
Tom @saudagg18.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Flights were (are) the only places we allow unlimited screen time 🫠 110
Reposted by TomPop Crave @popcrave.com · 03/10/2026Country singer Zach Bryan wore a “Free Palestine” shirt at his Gillette Stadium show in Massachusetts. 774929542
Reposted by TomProject True North @projtruenorth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026During the ICE surge, Lisa Demuth signed a letter thanking ICE and praising Kristi Noem for her "steady leadership." 4255148
Reposted by TomAnchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Every day “do I disengage or do I exist in a state of constant rage/despair?” is the first question of the morning. Surely I can be the only person that feels this way? 8323
Reposted by TomJames Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026A forgotten media moment from earlier this year was that Olivia Reingold embedded with ICE agents in Minnesota and never wrote about what it was like because doing so would turn Free Press readers into No Kings marchers. 101135178
Reposted by TomMatthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media. 9734671081
Reposted by TomAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firingstime.comRead TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview TranscriptThe U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections. 66366262562
Tom @saudagg18.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I think I've ended up on a couple of those lists. I worked at AWS when the AI craze fully it - it's just a massive scam for the most part 000
Reposted by TomMark Schofield @markschofield.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Mike Tomlin is currently giving a tour of his boutique hotel in Minecraft, which has a multipurpose conference room and an appropriate number of public restroom and I’m losing MY MIND 221744219
Tom @saudagg18.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I dunno if this is really him, but here's a guy who loves rape and defending rapists! 030
Reposted by Tommtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026leave aside the GOP, it also did not stop the political news media from covering the Hunter story as if it were a corrupt scandal rather than Biden bending over backwards to let a Republican fuck his son over. 869388
Reposted by TomAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/09/2026Look who's in the Oval Office today! #MeetingsWithNatalie (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque) 2801501247
Reposted by TomFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026The bizarre culture that’s sprung up around Silicon Valley AI companies - which overlaps hugely with rationalist and effective altruist circles - appears to be seriously pressuring some women into attending sex parties for the sake of networking. This is, needless to say, horrifying. 422443352
Tom @saudagg18.bsky.social · 27/09/2026My son discovered this song as a 6yo and I have heard it roughly 1 million times 070
Reposted by TomDan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life. 14195402208
Reposted by TomPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison. 7879031407
Reposted by TomPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The Free Press has been pushing this lady since the election. they published six of her "why I left the Democrats" pieces since then, three since this May. 501244111
Tom @saudagg18.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I watched 1 episode, saw it was a boring show about awful people, and bailed 010
Reposted by TomMicah @rincewind.run · 25/09/2026this is the story of the midterms I am not sure I have ever seen a more demoralized republican electorate, and the more irregular trump voters we can get to disconnect from the political system entirely the better 312020235
Reposted by TomWhitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English. 42103654411
Tom @saudagg18.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Sure, they do, but we're looking at a roughly 250k vote advantage in the metro in the primary. That's a massive gap that this poll is assuming somehow basically gets washed out in November 000
Tom @saudagg18.bsky.social · 24/09/2026There were almost 250k votes in the Dem primary in Hennepin county compared to ~55k GOP votes. There were 90k Dem votes in Ramsey compared to less than 20k GOP votes. There a quiet giant cache of GOP voters holding their water for the general? Or they expecting all the Craig voters to go for Tafoya? 110
Tom @saudagg18.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Yeah, there's no way MN is close in this environment and after the ICE bullshit 151
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The purpose of SlutCon is to help ease men who are scared of approaching women, and for women who simply enjoy flirting to be in an environment where that happens a lot, since there's generally a dearth of that
At the same time, many - probably most! - women do Not want to be flirted with or propositioned by men they don't know. When a small scene only has a handful of large, well-known events, each one has disproportionate impact on everybody's ideas of acceptable behavior among other members of their milieu.
Attending the same events = specific shared context. Means
you're somewhat on the same page.
I suspect that the men who publicly raised concerns about SlutCon's impact on the scene are being megaphones for private objections and distresses they've heard from women in the scene who would NOT be comfortable at an event like that, but who don't voice it publicly because they suspect they'd suffer socially for doing so. That going to SlutCon to be flirted with gives women social cachet, and squirming at the idea means you're [not cool, can't get with the program, are probably a wokescold or a prude etc etc other pejoratives] and therefore, that you'll be excluded or held at a distance
Now, if this scene were purely a social scene, that'd be perfectly fine. Don't go to parties that don't suit you!! The issue arises because it's NOT purely a social scene. This scene is inarguably tied up with Al safety, research, and the SF tech scene in general.
When consistently being invited to the right parties is professionally advantageous, and when SlutCon itself **is** going to be an excellent networking opportunity for people in those fields, it's not neutral that {sexual proclivities} are the filtering mechanism that determines who's in the room. It means that promiscuity & forwardness is explicitly professionally advantageous.
And, if the norms of SlutCon influence the norms of that milieu outside of the e…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qiknc4t5rq7yngvz7g4aezq7/bafkreibofbhecabcfimcooqfmhfkw5ycfc2adnfedemupo7aihs5fb7voy)
