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Jack Smith for our next AG after 2028, please!!

Getting SNAP or Section 8 benefits isn't like living on a trust fund. Republicans seem to believe if you give a poor person a little help, you've created a wastrel (lol, I had to consult the dictionary to come up with that word)

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Bottom line: fed gov will be able to do little more than pay for wars, SS & Medicare after Project 2025 is finished. Dems w good intentions will have no budget until income tax rates increase & billionaires' pay wealth tax. Increasing tax revenue must be job #1 before any New Deal type legislation

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solidsignal @solidsignal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What about those interactive polls common on local newspaper & TV station sites? Below a story there's a multiple choice poll (4-5 questions at a time, mixing political w other stuff, then you get a bar graph of current results). I find those polls to be quite "more-ish" -- I always do >1

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Actually if you're wearing one outside to keep sun off your face & you move in close to work on something (e.g. in carpentry or gardening), there's often no choice but to swivel the cap around backwards so it doesn't interfere with your sight line. That's one of only a few good excuses for doing it.

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solidsignal @solidsignal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And the laws of thermodynamics

solidsignal @solidsignal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'd say all the modernist film scores of the 1960s owe a big debt to "Atmospheres" (1961). Well before Ligeti gained fame via Kubrick's 2001, film composers were lifting ideas from his work. E.g. Jerry Goldsmiths great dissonant '60s scores

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solidsignal @solidsignal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

That's got Steven Cheung's fingerprints all over it.

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What if Israel isn't committing genocide in Gaza?

Even if what Israel has done in Gaza doesn't meet the precise legal definition of genocide, it's still criminal, on multiple levels. The atrocities are well documented. And pictures of the devastation tell the story of Israel's war crimes quite eloquently. www.newsweek.com/what-if-isra...

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"Assume the skeptics are right and the ICJ ultimately finds that intent unproven. What changes? Very little."

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Way to sabotage the point with identity bs. Workers are white, black, queer, straight, christian, moslem, etc. It's about class: rich fuckers exploiting workers. It's not always about identity. This is why the US is screwed: poor people fight identity battles instead of unite against the owner class

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If comparing Kalshi with Wall St. is an effective tactic to claim that it's some kind of legit market & not just a slightly new form of gambling, then we need to confront the reality that Wall St financial markets are essentially games in a big, fat casino

Thiel's got a problem with the meaning of words & with logical reasoning.

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The nutjobs in IDF will drop an atomic bomb on The Hague. Not even kidding -- we know they play only by their own rules.

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Everyone knows by now all you need to do to win Trump's support is flatter him, stroke his ego. And there's no better way to do so than put his name on something. Trump got a little firm with Netanyahu for 5 minutes, but just sent Israel $2B worth of bombs... obviously, Bibi has Trump in his pocket.

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Remember, according to polls 80% of Israeli public supports the genocide. They don't necessarily like Bibi, bc he's a corrupt slimeball in bed with ultra-orthodox idiots, but they're largely united in support of turning Gaza into a parking lot.

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I had the same experience taking org chem. I approached it as rote memorization & did terrible for 3/4 of the semester bc I hated the studying. Finally, I tried looking at it more like math, 80% reasoning from principles + 20% memorization...& suddenly I could ace the tests.

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Seriously, that's a stoner's dream meal

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Goes to show Trump's capability as a con man (his only true skill?)...Given the gullibility of over a third of this country, the electoral system + social media, US presidency is ripe for a political con man's picking

2009! It's like the "fringe" kept closing in until it took over the whole thing. Or, more accurately, an authoritarian figure drew the fringe in around him like a royal robe.

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Next up: Debtor's prisons or the networked equivalent thereof. Just a matter of time before people willingly agree to become indentured servants to some gig consortium so they don't lose their gambling privileges when they lose big $.

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I've experienced various "projected" aromas from flowers, e.g. jasmine & angel's trumpet in LA...like a block away from the location of the flowers, you'll encounter a cloud of fragrance as if they're right next to you. Interesting phenomenon. Maybe the botanical nature of weed smoke enables same.

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solidsignal @solidsignal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Vanquish private equity!! Ban the carried interest loophole, restrict debt interest deductions, pass the Stop Wall St Looting Act, ban leveraged buyouts, make public pension funds divest from PE, use antitrust enforcement to thwart PE "roll-up" strategy, incentivize worker ownership of industry

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What makes me sick is that I'm tired & old...& while I will outlive Cheeto Benito, I'll probably die before this country recovers from all the damage he's done.

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solidsignal @solidsignal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

LOL...just say "moron" & keep it simple. If the average person can't comprehend your gender identity, you're doing something wrong.

solidsignal @solidsignal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It feels like the US government has been asleep for 20 years regarding meaningful tech regulation. Social media, crypto, networked surveillance, AI, prediction markets...we're just letting this shit happen until consequences bite society in the ass globalextremism.org/post/crypto-...

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Betting Your Future: Crypto Casinos Radicalizing Young Men into Hate

Crypto casinos are becoming a new pipeline into far-right radicalization. Largely unregulated gambling platforms such as Duel, Stake, and Rainbet use influencers with millions of followers, including ...

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm for keeping our money here and not using it to buy bombs to drop on other people.

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solidsignal @solidsignal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'd say the rigging in US capitalism is largely to avoid revealing the house always wins, extensive gaslighting to make people believe everyone has an equal chance to win in the "free market" casino.

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solidsignal @solidsignal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I bet he's going to try pretending that his motley crew of maga social media influencers comprise a new "TV pool." The question is whether or not micro-media sycophants' reliable ass-kissing will soothe his ego sufficiently when he realizes what he's lost with mainstream TV coverage.

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solidsignal @solidsignal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Telcos are tearing out copper lines (aka wirelines) almost everywhere bc they cost more to maintain & there's no demand. With so few remaining wireline subscribers, even if you're able to keep your old line, chances are it will be out of order half the time. Everything is going fiber/internet.

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dls100.bsky.social @dls100.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

When Trump was 20 years old in 1966, his father held a demolition party. "But ultimately, it was Fred Trump, Donald’s father, who sealed Steeplechase’s fate, going so far as to throw a demolition party when he razed the site in 1966 before it could receive landmark status."

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52 years ago, Donald Trump's father demolished Coney Island's beloved Steeplechase Park | 6sqft

Steeplechase Park was the longest lasting of Coney Island's original amusement parks, but it was Fred Trump, father to Donald, who eventually demolished it.

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dls100.bsky.social @dls100.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The rotten monster has been at it for ages. Bonwit Teller 1980 Trump just turned 34 years old. "Then they jackhammered the friezes, dislodged them with crowbars, and pushed the remains inside the building, where they fell to the ground and shattered in a million pieces."

Preservation News
July 1980
New York City trumped
Developer smashes panels
By Michael Leccese
Two irreplacable Art Deco sculptures were smashed by jackhammers last month under orders from a New York City developer who had promised them to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The 15-foot-high stone bas-relief sculprures, which depicted semi-nude goddesses, were part of the Bonwit-Teller building (Warren and Wetmore,
1929) on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue at S6th Street. Developer Donald Trump bought the structure recently and was demolishing it to build a 62-story. $100
million mixed-use glass tower.
In addition, a 15-by-25 foot nickel. plated grille that had adorned the build. ing's facade has been missing since it was supposed to have been shipped to a New Jersey warehouse. Neither the Trump Organization nor the warehouse has any idea of the whereabouts of the hefty....

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To build his skyscraper, Trump first had to knock down the Bonwit Teller building, a luxurious limestone building erected in 1929.
The face of the building featured two huge
Art Deco friezes that the Metropolitan Museum of Art wanted to preserve. The museum asked Trump to save the sculptures and donate them, and the mogul agreed-as long as the cost of doing so wasn't too high.
But then, according to journalist Harry Hurt Ill in his book Lost Tycoon, Trump discovered that taking out the sculptures would delay demolition by two weeks. He wasn't willing to wait. "On his orders, the demolition workers cut up the grillwork with acetylene torches," Hurt wrote. "Then they jackhammered the friezes, dislodged them with crowbars, and pushed the remains inside the building, where they fell to the floor and shattered in a million pieces."

In 1980, under pressure to begin construction on what would become his signature project, Donald Trump employed a crew of 200 undocumented Polish workers who worked in 12-hour shifts, without gloves, hard hats or masks, to demolish the Bonwit Teller building on New York's Fifth Avenue, where the 58-story, golden-hued Trump Tower now stands.
The workers were paid as little as $4 (£3) an hour for their dangerous labour, less than half the union wage, if they got paid at all.

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Would be interesting to see how differently "you" turn out with a different set of environmental influences. Eg. I was a very free-range kid in the 1970s-80s. My clone today would be a product of currently fashionable risk-averse parenting. I'd like to meet that version of myself when he's an adult.

Yes, for me, there's a big explanatory gap between satellites+lasers & voting apparatus (it's actually the vote tabulating machines where audits show statistical anomalies originated). I agree Musk had motives to rig the vote, but he also has motives to tell huge ego-inflating lies.

Legend in his own mind, but his ideas are dangerous -- & he's shown he can actualize many of them by spending enough money. All the "conspiracies" nowadays are right out in the open.

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I agree the guy & his enterprises need some serious looking into, not just bc of his involvement w the 2024 election. Assuming we ever have an independent, functional FTC, FEC, FCC, DOJ, EPA, etc, after Trump's gone. (& the foundational problem is, of course: billionaires...there shouldn't be any!)

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That's the problem with nailing Musk. He's the classic unreliable narrator. Talks & tweets a lot of self-aggrandizing nonsense, abuses ketamine on top of pre-existing delusions of grandeur...but he is a fucking trillionaire with a lot of smart nerds under his command. So who knows?

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solidsignal @solidsignal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In the 1950s, at events like a World's Fair they'd feature a model home stocked entirely with appliances, decor, & products of every kind, including a fridge full of food, all made in USA. Trump should do that today for magats to celebrate the New World Order. Empty house, empty fridge. Glorious!

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Self-regulating capitalism & trickle-down economics are huge fantasies that hold sway over US politics. What's so frustrating about these ideas is that anyone with access to daily news can see that they're fictions, not based in reality. A deep dive into history isn't necessary to grasp the reality

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/09/2026

It's difficult to pick apart fears about AI & data centers that are intrinsic to the technologies vs. those that are connected to the fact that giant, fateful decisions about these things are being made by a small handful of insular brain-cooked oligarch narcissists.

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solidsignal @solidsignal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Part of the Eric Adams corruption machine. Bad Dem politicians that need to be pushed out so new blood can enter the party.

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solidsignal @solidsignal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I see Grape Nuts getting much hate here. Hey, I avoided as a kid, but came to love GN as an adult & it's still my favorite (as I get old enough to worry it's too hard on my teeth). What I hated as a kid & still avoid: Corn flakes, especially off brands. Soggy the instant you add milk. Yuck!!

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12/09/2026

The “tax the rich and they’ll all leave” crowd might want to take a seat. Tax the rich opponents keep that narrative going even though data shows it’s false. NY raised taxes on the wealthy in 2021. We were told the millionaires would flee. 2021: 90,579 2022: 86,211 2023: 86,710 2024: 99,404 RECORD

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solidsignal @solidsignal.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I think there's a good argument to be made for "lapsed faith" as the most socially beneficial form of religion in any context. Exposure to all the guilt, shame, morals & ritual when you're a little kid, then a natural shedding of the underlying belief structure as you mature & acquire knowledge.