Sign in

That Guy in that Place

@whitefluffydog.bsky.social
1.3K followers 1.2K following 631 posts

Lurker, poster, some guy

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by That Guy in that Place
mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 23m
Even hotter take: the fact that ebikes let teens in the suburbs suddenly have freedom to move around the public realm unsupervised is precisely why many older people are trying to ban them (using safety as a pretext)
714618
Reposted by That Guy in that Place
Paul Cox @paulcox.bsky.social · 17m
Not to mention that the withdrawal from Afghanistan that Trump mentioned was set up by… Trump. So the actual scorecard: 1-Afghanistan withdrawal went bad right at the end, set up by Trump 2-Iraq withdrawal, went pretty well, set up by Biden 3-Iran quagmire, set up by Trump
051
Reposted by That Guy in that Place
Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 24m
Setting aside the fact that Trump has now singlehandedly mired the United States in a separate quagmire in Iran, it was Joe Biden that struck this withdrawal agreement with Iraq in 2024 and Trump was forced to meet the September 30 deadline. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/w...
912944
Reposted by That Guy in that Place
will @kernelmethod.bsky.social · 20m
to answer all ongoing questions about this (a) this is not the LLM, this is hardcoded behavior written up by whomever developed this: america.gov/_astro/block... (b) the text here is a play on Minecraft’s “End Poem”: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_Poem bsky.app/profile/chri...
en.wikipedia.org
End Poem - Wikipedia
111
Reposted by That Guy in that Place
Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 21m
Gizmodo solved this mystery gizmodo.com/trumps-new-a...
gizmodo.com
Trump's New America.gov Chatbot Seems to Drop Acid When You Tell It to Play Minecraft
We know why.
2172
Reposted by That Guy in that Place
Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 30m
Uhhhhhhhh
8665
Reposted by That Guy in that Place
Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 27m
WTAF? This is a real thing (just type "play Minecraft" at America.gov
america.gov
America.gov
Find answers from official government sources and clear next steps for the services you need with America.gov.
4115
Reposted by That Guy in that Place
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 23m
Sir you should rename data centers TRUMP centers. They should emit a sinister glow and a deafening screeching sound at all times. Local communities should be required to sacrifice an innocent life to them. For your glory sir. It'll help with the election
1364882
Reposted by That Guy in that Place
Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 22m
The important thing to keep in mind is that laws are fake for people in power so it doesn't actually matter. Trump could scrawl some tree bark with his own feces that he's renamed California as Commiefornia and there would still be people arguing it was legally binding.
1452
Reposted by That Guy in that Place
Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 50m
1. DOGE dividend. 2. Tariff dividend. 3. Midterms dividend. 4. Data center dividend.
105414140
Reposted by That Guy in that Place
Leon Simons @leonsimons.com · 17h
A +5.34°C Sea Surface Temperature anomaly for the Niño 1 + 2 region! 🌊🌡📈 🤯
47947
Reposted by That Guy in that Place
Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 52m
Climate change: ‘sup it’s really hot all the time Men’s designers: now introducing suffocation chic
1612310
Reposted by That Guy in that Place
emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 22m
let them cook
2172
Reposted by That Guy in that Place
Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 21m
Part of being an adult and having adult relationships is being able to accept that your partner is a different person form you and that you aren't always going to be the only focal point of their attention and that's okay. Getting worried about that seems really immature and insecure.
1323
Reposted by That Guy in that Place
Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 3h
climate change, hoax covid, hoax affordability, hoax checks out
1309
Reposted by That Guy in that Place
Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 5h
Hegseth, for example, can get a separate murder indictment for each boat strike. We should also encourage other countries to charge them as well where justified, and be open to extradition.
731757
Reposted by That Guy in that Place
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h
Rick Scott: "Obamacare has been a disaster, so what we gotta do is we gotta go back to let the private sector work. Give you the choices ... treat it like a cell phone. You know what plan to buy."
391596120
Reposted by That Guy in that Place
e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 3h
with apologies to Einstein, authors do not play dice with their creations
211510
Reposted by That Guy in that Place
Theo Landsman @ordinalandsman.bsky.social · 3h
She pays him child support! People forget that unless you are a megachurch guy the median salary for a pastor is like $0.
1511
Reposted by That Guy in that Place
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 3h
it doesn't get more Alpha Male than that, folks bsky.app/profile/ordi...
01141
Reposted by That Guy in that Place
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 3h
always strikes me that if a woman genuinely believes in this tradwife bullshit, what you obviously want is a lib husband with some cushy emails job www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/s...
nytimes.com
Her Brand Was Tradwife. Now She’s Divorced.
What happens when a trad influencer leaves her husband, questions her beliefs, stops selling anti-feminism T-shirts — and still needs to make a living online?
1126917
Reposted by That Guy in that Place
Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 3h
New: Through a series of complex agreements with cities, the White House built a massive license plate camera database accessible to the feds. The program aggregates data across license plate companies (Flock, Axon, more) & is searchable by many agencies: www.404media.co/how-cities-a...
404media.co
How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program
How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.
8156114
Reposted by That Guy in that Place
Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 3h
this would genuinely hit much better if he hadn't chosen to throw trans kids under the bus
612821
Reposted by That Guy in that Place
Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 9h
Most TV is just this now.
12651271493
Reposted by That Guy in that Place
Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 3h
What this looks like in SEC filings. Companies love the research tax credit -- it's the second biggest corporate tax break in America -- but Meta really loves it.
1225
Reposted by That Guy in that Place
Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 5h
Meta is using a radical interpretation of a tax credit for “research and experimentation” to get billions of dollars off GPUs for its A.I. data centers. My latest with Jesse Drucker, @elitan.bsky.social and @mikeisaac.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
nytimes.com
How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes (Gift Article)
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
817290
Reposted by That Guy in that Place
public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 6h
i genuinely forgot how bad this was
buzzfeednews.com
Nobody Believed Neil deGrasse Tyson's First Accuser. Now There Are Three More.
No one believed Tchiya Amet when she said Tyson had raped her in the 1980s. Now, three other women tell BuzzFeed News that he harassed them, including one who’s sharing her story publicly for the firs...
23842242
Reposted by That Guy in that Place
Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 3h
Smith chose to stay away from Willis because he's smart and she's an idiot. He was managing the unusually sensitive optics. But it's not a rule. There's nothing wrong as such with state and federal prosecutors talking to each other about related cases. It wouldn't be scandalous even if he had.
413821
Reposted by That Guy in that Place
Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 4h
It's a fascinating mistake bc it is rooted in the 100% GOP confidence that there was a coordinated legal attack on Trump from Biden/Garland etc. It follows that Smith must have been colluding with Willis to help her out. The idea that he has integrity and wouldn't do that is off the board.
2958259
Reposted by That Guy in that Place
Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 6h
CODA: @mattgertz.bsky.social catches Rs revving up the old migrant caravan again. This makes it more urgent for Dems to speak to the fact that immigrants are getting viciously demonized and subjected to cruelty/injustice all around us. Let's not get inured to it: www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...
mediamatters.org
Fox News is running its midterms migrant caravan playbook again
16485112
Reposted by That Guy in that Place
Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 6h
“Most Americans are pro-immigrant,” Talarico says. “Throughout US history, immigrants have always made us richer and stronger.” Trump's barbarities have opened the way to a new consensus. Talarico is giving voice to it in moral language that Dems can learn from. 5/5 newrepublic.com/article/2160...
7681114
Reposted by That Guy in that Place
Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 6h
Talarico has an immigration plan that in its broad strokes is very humane and pro-immigrant. He says our border should be like a "front porch" with a "lock" and a "welcome mat." Both of those are important. The "welcome mat" in his plan deserves more attention. 4/ newrepublic.com/article/2160...
4632105
Reposted by That Guy in that Place
Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 6h
I've obtained new data showing that in 3 House districts in South Texas, big majorities of Latinos are swinging hard against Trump on immigration. This is where the "multiracial working-class realignment" behind Trump restrictionism was said to be happening. 3/ newrepublic.com/article/2160...
6695107
Reposted by That Guy in that Place
Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 6h
The other day, Talarico leaned hard into the case for immigration as a positive good for our country in a way you rarely hear from Dems. He has a real theory of the case: Trump's cruelty and barbarism have opened space for new moral arguments, a new consensus. 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2160...
10943169
Reposted by That Guy in that Place
Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 7h
Something remarkable is happening: James Talarico is running an expansively pro-immigrant campaign in Texas, a state Trump won by 14 points, speaking in Biblical terms about our duty to "the stranger." And it's resonating. That's seismic. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2160...
newrepublic.com
In Texas, Something Seismic Is Happening—and It’s All Trump’s Fault
Thanks to the economy and ICE, Trump has lost Texas Latinos. And James Talarico is developing a humane pro-immigrant message that’s resonating—even in this ultra-Trumpy state.
722889738
Reposted by That Guy in that Place
Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 14h
This isn’t a joke, by the way. You can see the misspelling of United States on the document Trump pushed out on Truth Social:
truthsocial.com
Truth Social
Truth Social is America's "Big Tent" social media platform that encourages an open, free, and honest global conversation without discriminating on the basis of political ideology.
865358
Reposted by That Guy in that Place
Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 14h
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia “Unites States”
37961131688
Reposted by That Guy in that Place
Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 4h
bro are you five
Greg Brockman’s signature. Imagine if a kindergartener wrote the letters “gdb.”
81273165
Reposted by That Guy in that Place
Fats Falafel @fatsfalafel.bsky.social · 3h
Ok.
Same Times cover but the head has been replaced with a slop sandwich in a styrofoam container and the article is now credited to Guy Fieri
2434
Reposted by That Guy in that Place
Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 3h
I'm glad we're finally outsourcing the horrible bits of life like making plans with friends so we can have more time to consume ads.
429352
Reposted by That Guy in that Place
Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) @kleinman.bsky.social · 3h
1782
Reposted by That Guy in that Place
Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3h
The US military has many types of institutions within it. In addition to the armed services, it also has a media and educational wing. Hegseth's assault on all these institutions shows how authoritarians operate. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/which-stor...
19419
Reposted by That Guy in that Place
Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3h
Pete Hegseth removing tenure protections shows precisely why they are needed. He wants to silence dissent by being able to fire anyone who questions his vision of the military. www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...
militarytimes.com
Hegseth halts tenure appointments for civilian faculty at military academies
Military academies will no longer appoint civilian faculty to tenured positions as Hegseth says it can contribute to “academic stagnation.”
20424176
Reposted by That Guy in that Place
Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 3h
The Jonathan Chatterton Friedersdorfs will be so very upset at this latest assault on American higher education. Hegseth is completely unprepared for the thousands of long-form words and high-profile declarations from these extremely good faith defenders of free speech.
2486
Reposted by That Guy in that Place
Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 4h
I also think about Elon saying Biden's DOJ wouldn't prosecute Sam Bankman-Fried because he was a Dem donor... followed by Biden's DOJ nailing SBF, who now posts about how awesome Trump is so he can get a pardon.
8715114
Reposted by That Guy in that Place
Casey Michel @cjcmichel.bsky.social · 4h
I can think of a certain someone who would be a *great* candidate for investigations from both a future Congress and a future administration! bsky.app/profile/dave...
0387
Reposted by That Guy in that Place
Casey Michel @cjcmichel.bsky.social · 4h
This is similar to the big lesson of Russia's war in Ukraine: you can't worry about what dictators claim are things that "humiliated" them. They're going to claim they were "humiliated" no matter what, as with Putin. You have to act in your own national interests—and in the interests of democracy.
16310
Reposted by That Guy in that Place
Casey Michel @cjcmichel.bsky.social · 4h
The big lesson from the Biden era is that you can't be worried about what people will claim is politicized/weaponized/etc. They will claim that no matter what. None of that should stop you from targeting all of the corruption, and all of the enemies of American democracy.
411624
Reposted by That Guy in that Place
Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 4h
I think a lot about Biden/Garland keeping David Weiss on as US Attorney, because they didn't want to meddle with the Hunter probe. And then Garland elevating Weiss to special counsel so he could convict Hunter. And this having ZERO IMPACT on the GOP certainty that Biden was rigging the DOJ
19770104
Reposted by That Guy in that Place
Casey Michel @cjcmichel.bsky.social · 4h
Or the fact that it was Biden's DOJ that oversaw the prosecution of **Bob Menendez**—or launched the investigation of Eric Adams! None of that mattered. People screaming about the politicization of the DOJ under Biden continued screaming the same thing.
1131348