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thereisnodog

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Childless, rootless cosmopolitan, she/her, aestivator 💙💛 Слава Українi 🇺🇦

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 5h
Quite obviously the real problem here is that *we have to ask the question* of what the President of the United States meant, exactly, when he said that Iran might nuke a major U.S. city.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8h
People too young to remember but the day after Obergefell, the gays invaded our Churches and forced them to close, as they remain today. abcnews.com/Politics/thr...
abcnews.com
Alito calls same-sex marriage a 'decisive' turn 'against religious liberty' in new book
A new book by Justice Samuel Alito presents his view of the Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the country with a focus on religious freedom.
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Chelsea M. Cameron (she/they) @chel-c-cam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If you love plucky small-town journalists going up against a corrupt police department, go RIGHT NOW to Peacock and watch Kill Bury Print. RIGHT NOW.
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Daniel Fienberg @thefienprint.bsky.social · 13h
102. And good value for those 102. A tangible connection, probably one of the very last, to a bygone era. Geez, she was great in "North by Northwest." #RIP
hollywoodreporter.com
Eva Marie Saint, Graceful Star of the Silver Screen, Dies at 102
She won an Oscar for her first film, 'On the Waterfront,' and sparkled opposite Cary Grant in 'North by Northwest.'
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I despise seeing what’s really going on stuffed into a “but critics say” clause.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Just comparing the stenographic account of fantasizing about catastrophic mass casualties with the one shot full of drama and high stakes of an obvious gaffe.
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After justifying the Iran war as necessary for "keeping the world safe," Trump suggested there could be strikes on the United States, including certain cities in California.
"They could take out a city," he said. "Let them take-Let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego."coin-toss election, where any small shift theoretically could be decisive, Mr. Biden has twice caused headaches for his vice president with ill-timed gaffes. His latest, during a video call with Latino supporters on Tuesday night, forced Ms. Harris to spend part of the last Wednesday of her campaign distancing herself.
Mr. Biden was denouncing racist comments made by a speaker at a recent Donald J. Trump rally when he appeared to call supporters of Mr.
Trump "garbage." He later explained that he meant that "the hateful rhetoric" from the Trump surrogate was
"garbage," not his supporters generally.
But Republicans, expressing umbrage, quickly pounced on what they hoped
wo be olio mc
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Any thought that ordering a hit is a line he wouldn’t cross should have gone away by the second or third boat bombing.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I view "Trump Derangement Syndrome" as he's suffering from a cognitive condition so novel they named it after him.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Part 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.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/10/2026
"Absent policy steering, AI’s modeled effects increase the carbon intensity of the global economy and reinforce fossil fuel incumbency—outcomes that current analytical and governance frameworks do not fully capture."
nature.com
AI-driven productivity gains enable more CO₂ emissions than they avoid in a global energy–economy model - npj Climate Action
npj Climate Action - AI-driven productivity gains enable more CO₂ emissions than they avoid in a global energy–economy model
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Love to see Republicans embrace automatic enrollment. Boosts participation from 5% to 100%. Now let’s just do it with actual safety net programs. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/b...
nytimes.com
Most American Children Are Being Auto-Enrolled in Trump Accounts. What to Know.
The Trump administration may have just signed up your child — and more than 60 million others — for a 530A savings account (if you haven’t already done so).
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thereisnodog @thereisnodog.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My best friend turns 14 today 🎉 #cat
Dilute tortie cat lying on gray fabric looking at camera
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Jfc this is real www.war.gov/News/News-St...
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thereisnodog @thereisnodog.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Happy #Caturday from Pixel 🐾
Brown tabby cat lying on gray fabric
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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Newest Super Group,,, FLAVOR DAVES,!! #DaveMatthews #DaveGrohl #FooFighters
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Ian @ianagp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
People are like "we can't have mob justice," and instead call a number that dispatches a paranoid domestic abuser with a badge and entitlement issues.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026
A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.
Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
For the record, the American order should go away. It was lousy and brutal. But having it bought out by dictators and oligarchs in order to further their interests that made it lousy and brutal in the first place is fucking disgusting and I'm exhausted by people pretending it's not happening.
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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It’s astounding this isn’t the only thing people are talking about. It shows how much power mainstream news, who are blacking out the climate element of this El Niño, still holds. #ClimateCrisis
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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It’s officially time to freak out.
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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 02/10/2026
I guess we can't be surprised that they don't understand the concept of consent
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Pete Hegseth pretends he’s laser-focused on “warfighting” but then focuses on a lot of stuff that’s just…. Not actually that important to modern warfighting. What he’s actually doing is performing <gasp> gender ideology.
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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever
A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 01/10/2026
Black text on white page that reads as follows:

New Yorkers who lost their SNAP benefits because of the federal government's expanded work requirements can reapply starting today, October 1.

To find out whether you're eligible to get your benefits back or qualify for an exemption, call 718-SNAP-NOW (718-762-7669), visit nyc.gov/ACCESSHRA, or use the ACCESS HRA app.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 01/10/2026
"you'll probably have to fight robots over concert tickets and booking appointments" we already have this problem?
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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Today is Julie Andrews’s birthday.
With her daughter Emma on the set of ‘The Sound of Music’
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Justice Kavanaugh, please explain to me — and Christa Pike— how this is an “interim” decision? Justice Barrett, please explain to us how this is merely a “preliminary” ruling?
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 30/09/2026
one great thing about Mamdani's brand of cheerful competence is how ridiculous it makes his conservative critics look, like nobody is buying that the Mr Rogers dude who filled all the potholes is a wild eyed America hating extremist
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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Absolutely meaningless bullshit. Stop this fetish for punishing workers in this stupid country.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Every time I see Jack Smith speak in public I remember how incredibly cautious he was about doing so during the investigation lest he appeared politically motivated or biased. And now we have the actual AG out here basically saying, “Yeah I’m team Trump, what are you bitches gonna do about it?”
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I don't even want this malignant sociopath talking about nuclear strikes on cities, much less having the authority and capacity to personally order them. Which, um, he has.
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 28/09/2026
Every day, this administration continues to target LGBTQIA+ kids. It’s incredibly harmful and does the exact opposite of what our shared goal should be: protecting kids. The LGBTQIA+ community and all our students deserve better.
thehill.com
Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students
The Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientati…
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This felt like the first sane thing written about the song
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If the AI bubble starts deflating, we need to let the market work its magic, not bail out the billionaires and trillionaires deanbaker22.substack.com/p/if-ai-is-c...
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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Speed, facility, lightness of tone. He [Coward] uses words as weapons. I really want people to sit up and listen because we don’t use language like that any more, do we?” Lovely interview.
theguardian.com
‘We could have had good fun a few decades ago’: Christine Baranski and Richard E Grant on sex scenes, parties and theatre
The actors are working together for the first time ever, in Noël Coward’s comedy Hay Fever. Backstage, there’s no stopping their tales of skinny-dipping, fat-shaming and warring co-stars
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/09/2026
Women who have been in abusive relationships understand the kind of man Trump is better than any journalist & if we had a better media system we would have heard from those women more from the beginning. Journalists often *sound* like people trapped in those relationships! Same rationalizations!
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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 28/09/2026
guy who's never thought about anything that's ever happened in human history: "who could've foreseen this? what can we possibly do?"
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thereisnodog @thereisnodog.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
everything is so f’ing stupid
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Donald Trump increased the price of gas, and now he wants you to have to buy more of it." Doesn't seem like a difficult messaging challenge for Democrats.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Very grateful that the press corps caved on the WH’s pool restrictions. Imagine how uninformed we’d be if we had only a transcript, not a video, of these remarks
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thereisnodog @thereisnodog.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“Under conditions of systematic persecution, conflict is not a pathology of democracy but one of the few remaining mechanisms through which injustice can be resisted.” 🧵
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026
"Against this backdrop, the widespread assumption of the field that polarization is inherently detrimental warrants re-examination. ... In the current moment of rising extremism, not all polarization is equivalent nor undesirable."
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thereisnodog @thereisnodog.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
ugh, this 🧵
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thereisnodog @thereisnodog.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I’m a dummy, but wtf are federal troops going to do to increase confidence? Like, what could they actually do, with their guns
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You cowards. “Network leaders believe an indefinite suspension may be untenable.” Untenable to whom?
nytimes.com
TV Networks to Resume Trump Coverage, Even as White House Excludes CNN (Gift Article)
The 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.
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thereisnodog @thereisnodog.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Imagine losing a third of a city’s firefighters and then wondering why downtown is burning.” Connecting the dots between cuts and public sector failures is often difficult, but we are seeing the damage in public health. The only category of employee growing at CDC are political appointees.
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