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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

What’s amazing is nowhere in the story does the person in question actually outright state he doesn’t still support Trump lol

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 17/08/2026

"The social justice game has simple rules. I propose some change to society You associate me or my proposal with some real or imagined harm to a marginalized person I lose the game" www.liberalcurrents.com/in-praise-of...

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In Praise of Wokeness

Don't blame woke ideas, which have merit, for the self-defeating style of politics that is pervasive online.

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jeffery --dangerously-skip-permissions @jefferyharrell.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I'm obviously biased here, but I think this is a really good sort of tip-of-the-iceberg take on agentic AI in a traditional application. It's basically intelligent automation, like workflows but bespoke each time. The real world is catching up. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuFp...

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Deep Dive into the New AI Assistant in Adobe Premiere!

YouTube video by Kylee Peña

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 15/06/2026

Behind-the-scenes: drawing Poison Ivy fresh out of the grave, no say in her wardrobe. I wanted shorts that really clash, and the Knicks had just bounced the Hawks, so: blue & orange. Loud, mismatched, perfect. 🧡💙 Congrats NYK! (to read more about the shorts: archiveofourown.org/works/85487321)

Poison Ivy in a brown Carhartt jacket and oversized blue-and-orange basketball shorts, arms folded, long red hair loose.

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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

difficulty scheduling the follow-up session is also true to its inspirations

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

talarico is going to be forced by attack ads to spend all of his time hanging out with his hot girlfriend and eating central texas barbecue

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aron @adler.dev · 20/05/2026

You start out in 2024 by saying, "clanker, clanker, clanker." By 2026 you can't say "clanker" — that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, stochastic parrot, next-token predictor, and all that stuff, and you're getting so abstract.

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 22/04/2026

For a long time I was trying to get state CA reps to look into 4o. It's really important to understand how it happened! System prompt? Training set? Sam Altman fuckery? Also IMO, "4o toned" AI that just didn't engage in delusions of grandeur and violence - I think would be useful.

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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

The reason the Border Patrol is like this is that they have been allowed to operate outside the law for decades as marcher lords, with an ingrained and hereditary culture of brutality.

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 01/02/2026

Latest negotiations over Woke 2.0 Accords are showing progress, although diplomats caution there is still a long way to go. The mood is cautious optimism as Dave Chapelle, Bill Burr, and Jon Stewart have been tapped for the next round of negotiations, over "Permissive Use of Light Slurs."

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HBO Is Making A Police Version Of ‘The Pitt,’ ‘American Blue’

The Pitt has inspired HBO to make another series in that vein, this time a cop series called American Blue starring a big actor.

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

If you are planning to be involved in political action of any type, they have your name. The thing to do is make their lists useless by having so many names on them.

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

The whole interview is worth it

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Arin Dube @arindube.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

The TACO cycle: Markets want to price in TACO. But TACO only works if Trump sees stocks tank. So we get a loop: Trump does things → nothing happens (markets already priced in TACO) → that emboldens him to do more → until markets start to think he might not TACO → stocks fall → TACO is restored.

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 16/01/2026

Common Core significantly revised how addition, subtraction, and multiplication are taught. But bizarrely made very few changes to how kids are taught division, and here's my little rant for the night about it:

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 05/01/2026

I've said it before but as someone who is optimistic on net about LLMs as AI tools, companies grafting "AI" to consumer products has been so toxic. The average person isn't using Claude Code or even ChatGPT, all they know is that the print icon for Word has moved, replaced with a huge "AI" icon.

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 21/12/2025

It's just factually true that the spike in homelessness during the Biden admin was due to generous border policy with asylum seekers, and then Greg Abbott's buses. Some leftists here would rather insult @whstancil.bsky.social or @besttrousers.bsky.social then deal with the policy implications.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

bluesky is full of thought leaders www.youtube.com/shorts/Tod2m...

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The mathematical essence of a slur

YouTube video by Etymology Nerd

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 12/12/2025

I know a lot of people here thinks Noah Smith is a rabid right-winger now, but he still seems to hate the actual right-wingers.

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 05/12/2025

I had been trying to figure out why ICE abruptly pulled out of Charlotte, and "DHS spending/budget numbers came back for Chicago operations and freaked some people out" is as good a theory as any.

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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Mike Green is writing some amazing stuff at the moment. It's not in the delta, it's in the level and the cost structure. Read this and you will understand Angrynomics on a new level: www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...

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Part 1: My Life Is a Lie

How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 19/11/2025

Interesting thread on how YIMBY can build "back doors" to eventually build a structure for public/social housing, even as it initially relies on private developers to provide housing supply.

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 18/11/2025

Here's my theory on MTG's heel turn: she was a MAGA True Believer and never got rewarded with a cabinet position, committee chair, or Senate seat, crypto grift, or similar. She sees people much less loyal to MAGA (like JD Vance) getting those rewards, and Trump himself selling out MAGA.

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

On the whole this hasn't been a great year but imo that's all the more reason to recognize when we have wins that show we are not powerless. Right now, the Trump Administration is basically getting routed and/or in retreat on several key fronts. We are not powerless! We can do things! Consider-

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 12/11/2025

I know it's not the most important thing but it can't believe how sub-literate Epstein is in these emails. At best he's writing like an old Boomer typing an email to his grandson from his @aol email account, at worst it's like the beginning and ending chapters of "Flowers for Algernon."

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I Want You to Understand Chicago
Politics Chicago
2025-11-08

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st.

Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

The RIFs language is actually great. Not only does it rehire the people RIFed during the shutdown, it makes it an unequivocal Antideficiency Act violation to do ANY MORE RIFs through the duration of the CR (Jan 30) Completely stops Trump/Vought Phase 2 for now Would love to see this standardized

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 10/11/2025

two contradictory ideas that i hold in my head at the same time: 1) i think the threat to both SNAP recipients and federal workers is significant enough now that even bad deals are worth making to prevent further harm, and, 2) everyone who caves now should retire in shame

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.

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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

I don’t know if I agree with this but what I would agree with is that you can’t maximin vote share if the electorate thinks you’re doing it with polls and spreadsheets

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/10/2025

i don’t think you can maximin vote share with polls and spreadsheets, and i think it is a problem that the most prominent and influential political commentators right now are more devotees of data than experts in narrative

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

trump's invulnerability primarily functions through the consensus that he is invulnerable

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 25/10/2025

I like this framing, as long as you define "anti-facism" as "opposing Trump with discrete political actions, and/or winning elections." "This Dem says we need to fight fascism, but wants to give more money to fasict cops" - well, yeah. Otherwise the actual fascists will win the election?

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John David Pressman @jdp.extropian.net · 02/10/2025

I've written an essay reflecting on how I use the word slop and some theory of what distinguishes slop from spam and kitsch. minihf.com/posts/2025-1...

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On Slop

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Lovecraft Democrat @lovecraftdemocrat.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Rooted cosmopolitanism vs rootless nationalism.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Recurring gripe of mine but it is incredible how National Conservatism is supposedly built around decrying lack of community, common project etc, while turning every “hate your neighbors” dial they can access up to 11. Make your professor terrified to say anything, don’t trust your doctor, etc

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 23/09/2025

So to me the Tylenol/autism thing seemed to come out of left field. It felt like RFK Jr was gearing up to blame the MMR vaccine on autism to justify banning it, so where did this Tylenol theory even come from? Here's a good thread on X by Rachael Bedard that connected the dots IMO:

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Danielle Blake @abradacabla.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

doomers: there’s not going to be elections in America ever again me: if they can’t even cancel an entertainer due to popular pushback what the fuck makes you think they can cancel elections

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 22/09/2025

"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.

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Jimmy Kimmel Returns: ABC Ends Suspension Starting Tuesday

Jimmy Kimmel will return to late night on Tuesday

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

it's a pathetic liberal emotion, but the strongest thing i'm feeling right now is total indignity at how much they hate us despite us not doing fucking _anything_ to them

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 08/09/2025

How I'm thinking about the possible budget battle in Congress:

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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

I really need people who want Dems to filibuster the budget no matter what it contains to game out what happens, because I don’t think you’ll like either of the ways that ends: 1) enough Dems defect to break the filibuster, Dems look terrible, Rs look unified, circular firing squad continues

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Constantine @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Alright, so I've been afraid to say this out loud, but I think after today, I can say it: In the first Battle of Los Angeles, the good people of LA County have prevailed. We beat ICE back. 1/

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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

I disagree with the good doctor’s dx here: I think this is perfectly consistent with a proto-authoritarian state that has very limited but nonzero capacity to punish dissidents.

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Daniel @escargotpro.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

What if they not letting Trump speak because he had a Reverse Fetterman Stroke and hes woke now

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

like, when we are talking about Hungary, i can name like fifteen advantages orban has over trump off the top of my head

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