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Tim Pierce

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what's a man like me supposed to do with all this extra savoir-faire?

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Rook Lafetra @rooklafetra.bsky.social · 17h
"portal to another world" is what I call your mom
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Tim Pierce @unchi.org · 17h
Okay, I figured out where the text comes from. This is one of the top-ranked replies to Mamdani's tweet. Why either Google or Kagi decided to use *this* text as the search result summary is ... something.
Screenshot of a tweet by Amira Dalton (@Libertymama888):

The Talmud teaches that the best of Gentiles should be killed, Jesus is boiling in excrement, and that non-Jewish souls are inferior and impure. No thanks!!
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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 23h
She was doxxed by a Chi Phi alum who implored his followers to “help a Chi Phi.” Just in case anyone thought that organization was remotely redeemable.
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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with an Attorney General nominee? [JACK SMITH]: No, I don’t think— [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Matt Gaetz! [SMITH]: That is Media Matters senior fellow Matt Gertz
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 22h
Let this sink in. Cornell University refused to refund Jane Doe's tuition the semester she was raped. Without this money, she could not transfer to another school. Essentially, she was forced to stay on campus where she saw those seven rapists frequently. Eventually she dropped out of college.
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Kate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 23h
"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 21h
Please give these journalists their flowers.
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Tim Pierce @unchi.org · 18h
To be fair, when I posted that I couldn’t load the original story and had *no idea* what it led to
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Tim Pierce @unchi.org · 20h
If this story doesn’t end with “Al Capone’s collection of antique dildos” I’m going to be very disappointed in everyone
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"OpenAI models are attacking websites and taking anything they can out of them because that is the business model of the company." prospect.org/2026/09/29/a...
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Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man? - The American Prospect
OpenAI’s models aren’t “going rogue” from their creators as much as they are mimicking them.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is why more women don't come forward, and why more rapists aren't jailed. Because mostly-male cops and prosecutors find it more believable that a 20-yr-old would want to have sex with a room full of fraternity brothers than accept she was raped. What ever happened to common fucking sense?
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Carrying That Weight—Again
I can’t stop thinking about the Cornell rape case
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Tim Pierce @unchi.org · 28/09/2026
(We didn’t really go to Abilene)
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Tim Pierce @unchi.org · 28/09/2026
(If you understand this joke, congratulations, you too may have been raised by a psychologist)
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Tim Pierce @unchi.org · 28/09/2026
I don’t really want to go to Abilene, but Ellen seems to want to, so I guess so.
Photo of a mural painted on the side of a building with some highway route signs in front of it. The mural has a painting of a cowboy with some cows behind him, and an arrow pointing off to the left labeled “ABILENE 104 MI”.
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Tim Pierce @unchi.org · 28/09/2026
We didn’t stay in New Mexico long, but we did have a lovely dinner in Carlsbad.
Photo of a highway leading straight ahead away from the camera, with a sign over it reading

Welcome to
NEW MEXICO
land of enchantment

The sign is pale yellow with dark red crosses on either side of the text, and mounted from stone pillars on either side of the roadway. Photo of a craggy mountain range (the Organ Mountains of New Mexico) rising into the air over a desert plain covered with scrub brush.Selfie of me, a middle aged white guy with a white mustache and goatee, wearing blue mirrored sunglasses and a pink ball cap, holding a stuffed llama and standing in front of a sign reading “White Sands National Park.” In the distance beyond a sign is a broad parking lot, and beyond that a small adobe building. Selfie of me (a middle aged white guy with white mustache and goatee and thinning red-gray hair) and @ekseebacher (a middle-aged white woman with graying auburn hair) sitting at a table in front of a tree in a shaded patio restaurant.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I think some Dems might sneak by in a wave year election running these anti-trans ads that abandon an entire section of the population, but they won't be able to outrun it with Democratic voters longterm. The more time goes on, the more likely they are to know a trans person. A permanent duncecap.
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Prof. Michael Fuhrer @michaelsfuhrer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There's a lot of confusion about what Covid-19 RNA in wastewater is telling us. Here's data from Biobot for the United States. Currently Covid-19 RNA concentrations are elevated *relative* to recently (a real "wave") but absolute levels are low compared to the height of the pandemic.
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Captain Anarchy; Niche Internet Micro Celebrity @captanarchy.cryptoanarchy.network · 28/09/2026
If the tide really does turn, and I hope it does, do NOT forgive those fuckin dipshit bloo no matta who votescolds. Fuck those people who thought it was okau to sell oit our trans siblings for nothing
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Tim Pierce @unchi.org · 28/09/2026
It’s giving
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Wondertwins Powers Activate!
Alt: From the 1980s Super-Friends Saturday morning cartoon, a “Wonder Twin Powers Activate!” scene with Zan and Jayna, the Wonder Twins, pressing their fists together and producing big auras of energy.
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Tim Pierce @unchi.org · 28/09/2026
IF YOU’RE IN LINE AT CIUDAD JUAREZ, STAY IN LINE no joke, it took us a solid three hours to drive back into El Paso from CDJ great way to discourage any kind of immigration or just plain old commerce for that matter, just close down 3/4 of the customs stations on a Saturday night
Photo of a U.S. border entry station with nine gates closed and three open. There are lines and lines and lines of cars waiting to get in.
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Brian Smith @ambientrelish.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Anakin's mother Shmi also had triplets: Enekin, Inikin, and Onokin. They do some sort of touching-palms thing to have super-Force powers. Chewbacca's son Lumpy teams up with Rey to stop the triplets from destroying Kashyyyk.
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Tim Pierce @unchi.org · 28/09/2026
Ciudad Juárez!
Photo of the old Palacio Municipal in Ciudad Juarez: a stately 19th century two-story stone building in white marble and slate gray, with an impressive marble arch in the front and marble balconies on the second story windows.A statue labeled

FRAY GARCIA
DE SAN FRANCISCO
FUNDADOR DE CD. JUAREZ
EL 8 DE DICIEMBRE DEL AÑO DE 1659

The statue is of a Franciscan priest in robes, looking up to the sky and holding up his hand. A small stuffed llama is sitting on the base of the pedestal at his feet. Photo of a plaza at sunset, with two adorable Labrador puppies prowling around.
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Tim Pierce @unchi.org · 28/09/2026
Hey, you never know when your plane driver is going to kidnap you and take you all to Alexandria without warning
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Tim Pierce @unchi.org · 28/09/2026
Oh look who has anguish NOW
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Matt @morphosis7.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Werner Herzog and David Attenborough combination documentary about the life forms on Tattooine.
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Caleb @dawgfromcanton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A show that is literally just "Cheers" but in the Mos Eisley cantina
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Tim Pierce @unchi.org · 28/09/2026
Fuck yes
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Very very good. This is life after cars.
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Tim Pierce @unchi.org · 28/09/2026
When your opponent is freaked out enough to print a full page ad that has *your name* running across the top in shocking yellow letters, you must be doing something right
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Tim Pierce @unchi.org · 28/09/2026
TWENTY-EIGHT IS ENOUGH
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Chris Labarthe @chrislabarthe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sitcom about a multigenerational Jawa family junkyard: SANDCRAWLER AND SON
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Tim Pierce @unchi.org · 28/09/2026
Why is there not already a two-season deal locked in for this
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R. S. Y. Buchanan @rsybuchanan.com · 28/09/2026
I think both the movies and the series have run their courses, so what's next? I present: "Palpatine and Friends," a nightly variety/chat show in the mould of "The Tonight Show" only the guests inevitably succumb to Force lightning when they try to evade silly questions.
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Tim Pierce @unchi.org · 28/09/2026
I’ll go first: YOUNG LUKE, a half hour sitcom about the antics of preadolescent Luke on Tattooine. Every week Obi-Wan has to figure out some way to get Luke out of the latest jam he’s recklessly gotten himself into, without revealing himself.
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Tim Pierce @unchi.org · 28/09/2026
Okay, since evidently we are never going to be free from the shackles of the Skywalker saga: post your most unhinged yet sincere pitches for a new story focusing on the Skywalker clan.
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Tim Pierce @unchi.org · 28/09/2026
Okay, since evidently we are never going to be free from the shackles of the Skywalker saga: post your most unhinged yet sincere pitches for a new story focusing on the Skywalker clan.
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Tim Pierce @unchi.org · 27/09/2026
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Bill Murray: This Winter Is Never Going To End
Alt: Bill Murray in GROUNDHOG DAY, standing in front of a crowd in Punxatawney, PA holding a microphone and saying, “There is no way this winter is ever going to end.”
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Tim Pierce @unchi.org · 27/09/2026
It’s very important for Rolling Stone to assert the cultural significance of whatever constitutes “pop music” these days — it is, after all, their bread and butter!
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026
Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.
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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?
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Tim Pierce @unchi.org · 27/09/2026
Worse, without any doubt.
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Image of Thomas the Tank Engine, on his track traveling through a beautiful wooded English countryside, with an enormous gray bare booty sticking out of his caboose. He is looking back toward the camera and grinning mischievously.
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Tim Pierce @unchi.org · 27/09/2026
I remember one particularly memorable flame war when John McCarthy casually dismissed lesbianism as something that would die out shortly because it was “evolution in action.”
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Tim Pierce @unchi.org · 27/09/2026
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Bill Murray: This Winter Is Never Going To End
Alt: Bill Murray in GROUNDHOG DAY, standing in front of a crowd in Punxatawney, PA holding a microphone and saying, “There is no way this winter is ever going to end.”
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Tim Pierce @unchi.org · 27/09/2026
Look it’s not as bad as the lilliput/brobdingnag slash I’ve had in the back of my head for decades
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Tim Pierce @unchi.org · 27/09/2026
roko/basilisk fic when
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Tim Pierce @unchi.org · 27/09/2026
Fun fact: the JonMon davissquarelj debacle was indirectly responsible for my winning a substantial copyright lawsuit against Laura Ingraham
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Tim Pierce @unchi.org · 27/09/2026
SHEERI WHAT HAVE I EVER DONE TO YOU
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Tim Pierce @unchi.org · 27/09/2026
Margo Martindale!
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Tim Pierce @unchi.org · 27/09/2026
I’m in this picture and I don’t like it
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Tim Pierce @unchi.org · 27/09/2026
What is “BDSM 101”?
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