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adventures in flippancy at janedotx.wordpress.com motivated by snacks, status, and spite

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zap @zapdotx.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
excellent argument for punching nazis. plenty of them are the sheltered little fuckers who don't believe that real pain and trauma exist
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zap @zapdotx.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
@b0rk.jvns.ca i love your choose your own adventure networking game
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zap @zapdotx.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
we need to raise taxes so this library can afford better AC
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zap @zapdotx.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
new job on the commune just dropped: sterile screwworm breeder
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zap @zapdotx.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
i have a theory for improving society. the richer you get, the more rights you should lose. EG launching lawsuits against public transit over the right to keep your nice views: peninsulaforeveryone.org/blog/atherto...
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Atherton spent ~$145K to delay Caltrain electrification. The rest of us paid $400 million and waited 3 extra years
The Town of Atherton's lawsuit against Caltrain electrification is the clearest case study we have of how a tiny, wealthy minority can hijack a regional public project — and stick everyone else with t...
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zap @zapdotx.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
to the extent that mathematical literacy is necessary for a strong left (which is a lot if we want to preserve the benefits of technology and a big population), i despair, and this thread is evidence why
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zap @zapdotx.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Think I’d press red just to escape living with sanctimonious ppl
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zap @zapdotx.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
@rechelon.bsky.social not sure how to reach out to you, so doing it here. i recall you saying a while ago that leftists are often too obsessed with maintaining the integrity of the group over addressing injustice and people splitting can be good. thanks for saying that
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zap @zapdotx.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
if you really think america's falling into fascism, today is the easiest it will ever be to fight it. won't get easier later.
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LA Star @lastar.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Current status of the fundraisers for those killed by ICE: Renee Good: $1,499,580 Alex Pretti: $1,289,249 Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423 Parady La: $45,848 Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991 Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640 Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538 Geraldo Lunas: $2,260 Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935
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zap @zapdotx.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
very funny republicans care more about confederate statues than bulldozing part of the White House
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zap @zapdotx.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
I remember a senior engineer at Twitter once commenting on how sf was lacking in strangers who would do you a random kindness. Glad to see it hasn't changed 🥰
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zap @zapdotx.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Would love to blame solely situation bad republican governance, but unfortunately it is human nature to discount rare events and underprepare for disasters
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zap @zapdotx.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Lmao republican cuts to healthcare cause voters to swing right, does this mean the Texas floods could cause a rightward swing too link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The Politics of Rural Hospital Closures - Political Behavior
Who do citizens hold responsible for outcomes and experiences? Hundreds of rural hospitals have closed or significantly reduced their capacity since just 2010, leaving much of the rural U.S. without a...
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zap @zapdotx.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Reminds me of how potato graham said that we're going to fail the turing test not because computers get that smart, but because humans get that stupid
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zap @zapdotx.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
UH OH... ate an apple and found half a worm... time to drink bleach...
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zap @zapdotx.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
lmao zohran won with a wealthier whiter coalition and Cuomo had the unions and working class, Leninist vanguard theory remains undefeated www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
nytimes.com
The Most Detailed Map of New York City Mayoral Primary Results
See neighborhood-level election results from the first round of the mayoral race.
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zap @zapdotx.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
The chenoweth stat makes no sense. So if 3.5% is militantly for something and 94% very against, how does the 3.5% win? Does the side supporting 1/6 not count as a 3.5% movement?
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zap @zapdotx.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Revolting that students are cheating this much, but understandable. I remember one of the first books I had to read was De rerum natura, by Lucretius, and so obviously irrelevant to the messages I’d gotten about college being a ticket to a middle class life.
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zap @zapdotx.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Amazing that Aaron Swartz caught a federal charge and committed suicide after downloading JSTOR’s archive, and OpenAI can scrape the whole internet and get away with it
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zap @zapdotx.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
This is pretty much the opposite of what happened during the Cold War, which was an outpouring of funding into fields like anthropology, so the us could better court allies against the Soviet Union. More proof America is currently ruled by idiots
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zap @zapdotx.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
First fruit fly of the season! Spring is here!!!
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zap @zapdotx.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Can't believe orson Scott card was right about taking over the world by blogging
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zap @zapdotx.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
this is all very interesting in the same way that getting cancer is interesting
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 03/04/2025
America voting for Trump… AGAINo mm
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 03/04/2025
Guess where they got their weird trade deficit math from?
A tweet by "rohit" discusses the application of AI in geopolitics, specifically focusing on tariffs, and includes a table comparing tariff rates between China and the US.
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
it's been years upon years of labored "campus culture" op-eds from salaried writers hectoring students about free speech, and now the state is kidnapping students for their speech in broad daylight
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Monica Marks @monicamarks.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Yesterday & today’s anti-Hamas protests *in Gaza* have barely made a dent on news coverage. But they should be covered seriously & noted by every publication & person working on 🇮🇱🇵🇸. Here’s my best guess on why virtually every commentator on 🇮🇱🇵🇸 is ignoring this: 🧵
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DaveAnthony @daveanthony.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Huh
The New York
 Times 
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1936
COLUMBIA HEARS PLEA FOR EXPELLED STUDENT
Burke and Two Other Speakers
Demand His Reinstatement at Gathering of 500.
Three members of the American Student Union, including Robert Burke, who was expelled in June for leading the anti-Nazi demonstration last May, addressed a gathering of 500 students of the college and the various schools of Columbia University in front of Hamilton Hall yesterday noon, appealing to
them to sunport the vouth in hig
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
My daughter's daycare just sent out an email about potentially needing to layoff staff because new babies about to start withdrew because of parental job losses. So if you're wondering how government layoffs and mass contract cancellations will affect the economy, here's an example
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William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
I have many strident critiques of Signal (primarily around Moxie's decision to embrace centralized infrastructure that wasn't designed to be resilient and survive), but if you share that fucking Yasha Levine / Counterpunch drelk about Signal being a honeypot you're a fucking fool and doing cop work.
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Pride Ott 🦦 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I feel the thing people don't get is that primaries are dumb but Democratic primary voters in high-salience elections are basically the optimal high-information voters in public choice theory. They will make the best decision possible, whether or not that's good enough is a different question lol.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
B of A: “.. 2025 tax refunds are running 53% below 2024 levels through week 4 of tax season, per Treasury data." 🇺🇸
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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
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zap @zapdotx.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
apparently the monsters in A Quiet Place are actually herbivores. so they kill humans just because they find us loud and annoying. relatable
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zap @zapdotx.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Why are we talking so much about trump regretters? Why don't we talk more about ppl who voted for Biden, stayed home, and regret that decision instead? And why do organizers who should know better persist in mistaking shitposting online for campaign strategy?
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Crow @crowpotkin.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Zelenskyy stayed in Kyiv while Russia was bombing the city and sending in hit squads to kill him. J.D. Vance fled to an undisclosed location because some peaceful protesters yelled at him while he was on vacation. This is why I believe victory over these people is still possible.
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
someone put their pronouns in their email signature in 2017 and now the world's most irksome Boer has my social security number
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Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
During Kendrick's halftime show a man unfurled a Palestinian flag and was chased off stage and eventually tackled and removed by security.
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Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
On senators falling in line because of death threats: My mom worked as a cook at a hospital where abortions are performed. People regularly tried to shoot her for "killing babies". She still went and did her job because it needed doing and she had agreed to do it. That's how it works.
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 08/02/2025
True decadence looks like people who are three generations removed from the cultural memory of polio refusing to vaccinate their children against deadly communicable diseases because they don’t like needles and don’t think there will be any real consequences, not sexy queer goth dance parties.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 07/02/2025
I don't know how to say this beyond standing up to authority is a muscle and some of you have never exercised it
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