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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Republican candidate: I think for myself. I don't have to do what the president says, I can disagree with him-- Trump (tweeting): Everyone has to call Congress "Toilet" now! Republican candidate: --and that's why I'm running to be your next Toiletman

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Jacob Wolman @wolmania.com · 08/10/2026

It's simple, really. "Socialism" is anything that isn't smurfy.

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Jacob Wolman @wolmania.com · 08/10/2026

With any luck, this is going to result in an epic (npi) Emily Wilson Bluesky thread

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Jacob Wolman @wolmania.com · 08/10/2026

Classic tragic Microsoft to release what sounds like a very credible MacBook Pro competitor like 3 weeks before Apple is rumored to be announcing a revolutionary next-gen MacBook Pro.

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The Surface Laptop Ultra finally has a release date — and a starting price of $2,599

The Surface Ultra is designed to handle creative workloads, gaming, and AI.

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Jacob Wolman @wolmania.com · 05/10/2026

Dems can add this to the List of Crimes to Investigate and Punish

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Jacob Wolman @wolmania.com · 05/10/2026

Ordinarily I'd say "perhaps he doesn't want to scare off swing voters who just want bipartisanship, and he'll actually go after Trump once Dems have power". But swing voters want Trump in the Hague – equivocating or blathering about "looking forward, not back" = stay home, both parties are the same.

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Jacob Wolman @wolmania.com · 05/10/2026

I can't believe we will spend the rest of our lives dealing with idiotic nonsense because full-grown adults don't understand that the computer is not alive.

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Jacob Wolman @wolmania.com · 02/10/2026

"I lost friends over this. Probably because the decision was… too good?"

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Jacob Wolman @wolmania.com · 02/10/2026

They couldn't wait a month? Really?

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 01/10/2026

I have seen many of you say "Donald Trump's brain is mush" and I was not prepared for how bad this is.

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Jacob Wolman @wolmania.com · 01/10/2026

What ever happened to that load of kompromat Fetterman's former staff was going to unload last week? Did they just decide it was less damning than his continuing efforts to telegraph that his party allegiance is for sale?

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Jacob Wolman @wolmania.com · 30/09/2026

Second order effect of having a habitual, unrepentant tax fraud in charge of the federal government is that everyone knows that tax fraud is okay to do now.

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Jacob Wolman @wolmania.com · 30/09/2026

What, respectfully, the fuck is he talking about? www.theverge.com/policy/10024...

The US executive branch is no longer acknowledging the existence of “artificial intelligence.” Going forward, official policy websites, policy documents, and press releases will refer only to “Super Intelligence,” thanks to a new executive order signed by President Donald Trump.

“The word super is the best word of all, and it’s the simplest,” Trump said at an event announcing the launch of America.gov earlier on Tuesday, and said Chinese President Xi Jinping, who visited the White House last week, “loves it” too. “We don’t want to hear artificial. Because it’s not artificial. It’s very powerful, it’s very brilliant. It’s going to mostly be put to good use and we’ll stop the bad use.” Artificial, he added, “is like the news. Fake news.” He first mentioned plans for the rebrand in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly last week, aiming to quell fears over AI advancing too quickly and posing a safety risk.

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Jacob Wolman @wolmania.com · 29/09/2026

Bumping this because initial reviews appear to support my prediction.

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Somil Trivedi @somilbtrivedi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

SCOTUS just agreed that Trump is *irreparably harmed* by not being able to disappear folks without a hearing to places like South Sudan, even though they’re already locked up & argument is in a couple months. A friendly bonus scoop of cruelty, from the Justices to their favorite little boy.

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Jacob Wolman @wolmania.com · 29/09/2026

Nice preview of class actions yet to come.

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Jacob Wolman @wolmania.com · 28/09/2026

America! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/us...

“Name ID is not everything,” said Drew Thompson, Mr. Husted’s campaign manager. Ohioans, he said, “are familiar” with Mr. Brown’s record “and they rejected it two years ago.”

The approach has reached some voters, including Ted Hull, who on Wednesday night was watching a “wiener dog race” at the Delaware County Fair. He said he planned to vote for Mr. Husted. Mr. Hull, 72, said that Mr. Brown, whom he thought was still in office, seemed to have “become lazy” on the job.

“There should be term limits,” Mr. Hull said.

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Jacob Wolman @wolmania.com · 27/09/2026

Perhaps they shouldn't do this.

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Jacob Wolman @wolmania.com · 26/09/2026

It's been a year or two, so I think it's time to rererelease Stop Making Sense in IMAX.

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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

JFC Sheri Mecklenberg's resignation letter says USA Boutros made her charge the Broadview 6 as a felony conspiracy, when she wanted to charge them as misdemeanors. "you cannot buy my silence by dangling continued leave" s3.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

This decision to keep me and my attorneys in the dark was consistent with your handling of this
matter from the outset. No one consulted me about any transcript redactions. I had nothing to hide
and in fact demonstrated quite the opposite in memorializing brief and incidental interactions with
two grand jurors. You declined to notify me about the May 21, 2026 Court hearing, which I had
the indignity of learning about after-the-fact from the media. I would have expected the leadership
of the Office to ensure that a career prosecutor whose conduct and reputation were about to be
publicly condemned received notice and an opportunity to be heard. Had I been afforded that basic
fairness at the outset, I believe matters would not have reached this point.
Since I was not present, I was a convenient target to be scapegoated and publicly vilified. You
recklessly agreed in court that I had committed misconduct without even asking for my account,
fully reviewing the record or briefing the law. That evening, you sent an office-wide email laying
responsibility at my feet for a felony prosecution that you personally directed over my objection
that the case was better suited to misdemeanor charges. You then publicly announced an
investigation of my conduct spanning twenty years. These inexplicable actions severely damaged
a reputation I worked hard to build over decades and have damaged my prospects for future
employment and income.
Throughout all of this, I remained silent. But now the defense has leveled additional false and
inflammatory accusations against me that the Office has not rebutted and apparently has no
intention of rebutting. At the same time, you have threatened to terminate me if I attempt to rebut
the false allegations and bring additional matters to the Court’s attention. You remind me that I
am still a DOJ employee when you want to silence me, but you have not treated me as a DOJ
employee throughout this matter, including when, in May, you placed me on leave and…

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Jacob Wolman @wolmania.com · 25/09/2026

We shouldn't call them "deviled eggs" because, in my opinion, they're absolutely heavenly.

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Jacob Wolman @wolmania.com · 24/09/2026

Yeah we are pretty clearly at the "open defiance of clear court orders" stage of the attempted fascist coup d'état. Should be interesting.

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Jacob Wolman @wolmania.com · 23/09/2026

Can't shake the feeling that this is going to be one of the worst films of this young century.

A movie poster with a man in a red suit holding a shovel. The man is sitting on a red surface against a green background. The title of the movie is "DIGGER" and the man's name is "TOM CRUISE". The poster is in black and white with a red and green background. The man is looking at the viewer.

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Jacob Wolman @wolmania.com · 23/09/2026

This absolutely looks like a guy whose supervillain plan involves strip-mining the world's precious oceans.

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Jacob Wolman @wolmania.com · 23/09/2026

I simply love living in a free market economy.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Now this is my kind of foreshadowing

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Jacob Wolman @wolmania.com · 22/09/2026

Brought to you by the same deep thinkers who insisted on letting healthy young people opt out of the ACA.

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Jacob Wolman @wolmania.com · 22/09/2026

"Don't know much about science book" is a great lyric in a song about how a guy is pretty much dumb as a post

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Jacob Wolman @wolmania.com · 20/09/2026

Good lord the riffing going on in the replies to this perfect joke that doesn't need riffing on…

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I actually came up with the idea of filling the triumphal arch with "sniper ammunition" and drones. My thought was, since it's going to be hollow inside (?) there's a lot of great storage space in there that would otherwise be going unused. Simply put the sniper ammunition and drones in there.

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Jacob Wolman @wolmania.com · 19/09/2026

See now this is how you pander, people!

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Jacob Wolman @wolmania.com · 18/09/2026

I enjoy The Big Picture podcast but the obsession with practical effects is annoying (and surprising because I think the hosts are generally open-minded and not dogmatic).

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Jacob Wolman @wolmania.com · 18/09/2026

@gruber.foo I think everyone knew (or basically knew) the plain 18 is a 2027 thing, but it's not true that no one mentioned it. The Tom's Hardware guys asked Ternus and Joz, and they didn't bother denying it's upcoming (without explicitly confirming): www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJKt4...

This year, it's not quite so obvious. Apple made no mention of the plain no-adjective iPhone 18 last week, and, now that I think about it, no one in the media wondered where it was. Apple never said "It's coming early next year" and no one asked. Nor did Apple mention the year-old iPhone Air or offer even a hint that a sequel is coming alongside the 18 and 18e in early 2027.

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Jacob Wolman @wolmania.com · 18/09/2026

Probably getting attention like this

A smiling person wearing a graduation cap and gown stands in front of a leafy background, with bright light highlighting their face. A caption at the bottom reads, “12 DEGREES AND COUNTING.”

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