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20,000 years of this, seven more to go @uhhhclem.bsky.social · 26m

Once your empire starts eating the seed corn collapse is well on the way.

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The Luddites WERE right. It’s the people who think they were opposed to technology who aren’t.

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20,000 years of this, seven more to go @uhhhclem.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I do worry a lot that these guys are going to try to invalidate the election when their attempts at intimidation fail. On the other hand, these are the guys that planned a strike on Yemen with the editor of the Atlantic in the room, and couldn't paint the bottom of the Reflecting Pool.

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20,000 years of this, seven more to go @uhhhclem.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

God damn is that penultimate graf a thing of beauty.

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20,000 years of this, seven more to go @uhhhclem.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I feel like maybe we should be circulating the idea that refusing to accept the results of an election (including refusing to seat elected members of Congress) is treasonous, that treason is punishable by the death penalty, and that live-streaming firing squads is on the table.

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Y'all denied her tenure

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20,000 years of this, seven more to go @uhhhclem.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I sure didn't have William S. Burroughs and Pete Hegseth seeing eye-to-eye on public executions on my 2026 bingo card.

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20,000 years of this, seven more to go @uhhhclem.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Richard Grenier wrote, of a televised execution by firing squad in Morocco, “It was like a sporting event, except you knew in advance who was going to lose.”

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20,000 years of this, seven more to go @uhhhclem.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I love watching movies like Hana-Bi and going, "Hey, it's Vic Romano!"

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I want to hear more about the second of these writing sessions

Jeffrey Archer, former
Conservative politician and novelist, dies aged 86
Publisher says author died peacefully at home
'between writing sessions'

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 07/10/2026

The cops should give in on this one. The extra sales tax will make it more expensive for the firemen to buy the condoms they use when they fuck the cops' wives

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20,000 years of this, seven more to go @uhhhclem.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Even “tedious busywork” is an opportunity to learn if you take it. Every assignment is practice. It’s how you get good.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.

, it's
and I
have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.

As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end

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20,000 years of this, seven more to go @uhhhclem.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I feel like the problem with this post is so obvious that it should be visible from space, but apparently not.

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20,000 years of this, seven more to go @uhhhclem.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Marvin Minsky defined artificial intelligence as “anything computers can’t do yet.”

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20,000 years of this, seven more to go @uhhhclem.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I’ve seen Antigravity write and run a Python program to read a file so that it didn’t have to stop and ask my permission to run a cat command.

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20,000 years of this, seven more to go @uhhhclem.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The natural joint is embodiment. That’s a gap that von Neumann machines will never bridge.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just 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.

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Outgoing 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.

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20,000 years of this, seven more to go @uhhhclem.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There have been no traffic fatalities on my street ever, too. I guess we can wrap this up as a solved problem.

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20,000 years of this, seven more to go @uhhhclem.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You can prevent all road deaths by banning cars. Until then, as long as there are cars on the road, they will kill people.

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20,000 years of this, seven more to go @uhhhclem.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's not "balanced," it's an accurate description of Rowling's utterances.

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Howard A. Rodman @rodman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I believe it was Bernadette Devlin McAliskey who said, if you want to know which side you're on, look at which way the police are facing.

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20,000 years of this, seven more to go @uhhhclem.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Obviously, my little epiphany about not making assumptions hadn't quite sunk in yet. On the other hand, it's still a little hard for me to believe I actually saw this happen.

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20,000 years of this, seven more to go @uhhhclem.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Instead, he reached into his blouse and pulled out a glass jar with a candle in it. He went down on one knee, set it down in the shrine, lit the candle, closed his eyes, and prayed. Then he got up, without a word, went back to his cruiser, and drove away.

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20,000 years of this, seven more to go @uhhhclem.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

He walked slowly towards the group, who glanced up at him and then glanced away. I watched him cross the street and waited to see exactly how he was going to tell this group, okay, show's over, it's time to go home. But that's not what he did.

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20,000 years of this, seven more to go @uhhhclem.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This was not just "a cop." He was easily 6'3", Black, with a smooth-shaved head and not an ounce of fat on him. He looked like he'd been sitting in the cruiser ironing his uniform, too. He was stone-faced. He was, canonically, the Man.

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20,000 years of this, seven more to go @uhhhclem.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

As I was walking home a couple hours later, they were still there. But there was a new player. An SFPD cruiser had parked on 24th across Shotwell from the group. As I neared, a cop got out.

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20,000 years of this, seven more to go @uhhhclem.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There's a lesson here, I thought (this kind of introspection being new to me at the time, as I was, I remind you, getting sober) about making assumptions about other people. I went on to my meeting feeling like I might possibly have learned something.

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20,000 years of this, seven more to go @uhhhclem.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

As I got closer, they didn't look any less sketchy. But they were hanging out on this corner because it's where they'd made a shrine to their dead friend. These were some pretty hard-looking men and women, but they were also very much in their own movie. They did not give one shit about me.

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20,000 years of this, seven more to go @uhhhclem.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A few nights earlier, a gang member was eating pizza at a place on Potrero when a rival gang walked in and shot him dead. On _this_ night, as I was walking down 24th, I saw a pretty sketchy crew of people hanging out on the corner of 24th and Shotwell. So I crossed 24th to get some distance.

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20,000 years of this, seven more to go @uhhhclem.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I lived in the Mission and, nearly every day, went to the last meeting of the day at 2900, which is a grim, essential little room at 24th and Alabama. Being, you know, a guy, I never worried about how safe it was to be walking around the Mission at midnight. Except for this one night.

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20,000 years of this, seven more to go @uhhhclem.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Okay, Gail has reminded me of a a short but - well, not adorable exactly, but I think uplifting - story to tell. This is from close to 20 years ago, when I was living in San Francisco and getting sober.

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20,000 years of this, seven more to go @uhhhclem.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"People are more interested in money than more meaningful things" is another way of saying, "People aren't making enough money to readily meet their basic needs."

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20,000 years of this, seven more to go @uhhhclem.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If you think being interviewed by Isaac Chotiner is bad, wait till he reviews your book.

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20,000 years of this, seven more to go @uhhhclem.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This reminds me of a guy I knew who used a false name on his Safeway loyalty card so that every time he shopped there the checkout clerk said, "Did you find everything you were looking for today, Mr. Fancypants?" Some were happier about it than others.

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20,000 years of this, seven more to go @uhhhclem.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I love that he said that Cuomo lived in a town where even the lawn jockeys are white. That is a fantastic burn.

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20,000 years of this, seven more to go @uhhhclem.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just another normal day at work, queueing up tasks for my agents so that I have free time to read the papal encyclical explaining why they're not human.

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20,000 years of this, seven more to go @uhhhclem.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There was only one man in Los Angeles sensitive enough to wear that scent, and I had to find out who he is.

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20,000 years of this, seven more to go @uhhhclem.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I do like that the Superior Intelligence behind america.gov will tell you that there's no evidence that there was any voter fraud during the 2020 general election and that Joe Biden was the winner.

america.gov

America.gov

Find answers from official government sources and clear next steps for the services you need with America.gov.

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20,000 years of this, seven more to go @uhhhclem.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A friend of mine was crushed against a bank wall in this exact scenario. Keeping her leg required 17 surgeries. She’s a badass, though, and she did so much physical therapy and exercise that she now does an annual distance swim in Lake Tahoe.

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20,000 years of this, seven more to go @uhhhclem.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I bet that if you set the A record to 0.0.0.0 they'll contact you again.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You have to wait until the sixth paragraph of this piece before you learn, in the New York Times reporting on the murder of THEIR OWN EMPLOYEE, that the victim was a trans man who had been abused for being trans by the in-laws who murdered him. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...

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Couple Accused of Killing Their Son-in-Law in Bay Area Park (Gift Article)

Jonathan McKinsey, an engineer who worked in the games department for The New York Times, was fatally shot Saturday in a San Francisco suburb. The police have accused his parents-in-law, both 76.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the hypothesis behind "call it out when you see it" is that there are lots of close, long-term relationships between men (bad thesis already) where one party is constantly implying they'd like to commit sex crimes and the other party is constantly angry at them about it for years at a time

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20,000 years of this, seven more to go @uhhhclem.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's not "artificial intelligence," it's "superior intelligence." Superior to what, you might ask, and I think the answer is self-evident.

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20,000 years of this, seven more to go @uhhhclem.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sure, but how many women can there ever have been in Michael Tracey's life?

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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026

Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...

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