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dennis hastert and jim bakker in the same day feels like an apology for dolly and tim curry
October 6, 2026 at 3:22 AM
dennis hastert and jim bakker in the same day feels like an apology for dolly and tim curry
My dedication to blue and blue only is saving me.
October 6, 2026 at 3:41 AM
My dedication to blue and blue only is saving me.
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The problem is not that we believe we can do it.
The problem is that too many people get excited it will happen but don't do any work to make sure it does, and then they have to perform extra cynicism to get past their embarrassment at acting like they believed in something.
The problem is that too many people get excited it will happen but don't do any work to make sure it does, and then they have to perform extra cynicism to get past their embarrassment at acting like they believed in something.
October 6, 2026 at 12:58 AM
The problem is not that we believe we can do it.
The problem is that too many people get excited it will happen but don't do any work to make sure it does, and then they have to perform extra cynicism to get past their embarrassment at acting like they believed in something.
The problem is that too many people get excited it will happen but don't do any work to make sure it does, and then they have to perform extra cynicism to get past their embarrassment at acting like they believed in something.
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I think the polls are absolute bullshit because I have no idea what anyone in this country will do in the next 12 hours much less in November.
But I also am gonna run at these midterms screaming with 100% conviction that we can win.
Not that we will. But we can!
But there's a trick to that.
But I also am gonna run at these midterms screaming with 100% conviction that we can win.
Not that we will. But we can!
But there's a trick to that.
October 6, 2026 at 12:55 AM
I think the polls are absolute bullshit because I have no idea what anyone in this country will do in the next 12 hours much less in November.
But I also am gonna run at these midterms screaming with 100% conviction that we can win.
Not that we will. But we can!
But there's a trick to that.
But I also am gonna run at these midterms screaming with 100% conviction that we can win.
Not that we will. But we can!
But there's a trick to that.
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[car dealership waiting room]
Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs-
Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS
Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!
Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs-
Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS
Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!
Knobs Returning To Some Automakers’ Vehicles, To The Relief Of Many
Auto companies are listening to the complaints of consumers, who want their knobs and buttons back.
www.forbes.com
October 5, 2026 at 7:45 PM
[car dealership waiting room]
Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs-
Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS
Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!
Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs-
Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS
Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!
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Sorry this is just wrong and is the logic of Jim Crow. Do we disenfranchise people in abusive relationships? What about old people in a nursing home? People getting mental health treatment? People serving in the military?
This take actually seems pretty popular on Bluesky but I don't think anyone living in a coercive environment like prison has the ability to cast a free and fair ballot.
All prisoners should have the right to vote while in prison
October 5, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Sorry this is just wrong and is the logic of Jim Crow. Do we disenfranchise people in abusive relationships? What about old people in a nursing home? People getting mental health treatment? People serving in the military?
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The entire and complete reason why Every Investment Dollar is getting poured into this genAI shit is so that they no longer have to care what you think about it
Your labor isn't needed, your spending isn't needed, your vote isn't needed, and neither is your life.
They want you as vermin.
Your labor isn't needed, your spending isn't needed, your vote isn't needed, and neither is your life.
They want you as vermin.
A whole political movement should be stood up against this arrogant and sociopathic bullshit www.politico.com/newsletters/...
October 5, 2026 at 3:44 AM
The entire and complete reason why Every Investment Dollar is getting poured into this genAI shit is so that they no longer have to care what you think about it
Your labor isn't needed, your spending isn't needed, your vote isn't needed, and neither is your life.
They want you as vermin.
Your labor isn't needed, your spending isn't needed, your vote isn't needed, and neither is your life.
They want you as vermin.
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Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job.
Think about that in context of
Think about that in context of
AI is now the biggest investment in all of US history as a percentage of GDP.
Datacenter construction is up, all other construction is down.
"AI Is Squeezing Out the Rest of the Stock Market," reported WSJ 2 days ago.
We basically bet the whole economy on the most optimistic visions panning out.
Datacenter construction is up, all other construction is down.
"AI Is Squeezing Out the Rest of the Stock Market," reported WSJ 2 days ago.
We basically bet the whole economy on the most optimistic visions panning out.
Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.
October 4, 2026 at 10:04 PM
Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job.
Think about that in context of
Think about that in context of
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we are watching a massive transfer of wealth during an era of massive wealth creation (however much it might be just paper money it’s powerful) — reinscribing gender during this moment is a choice about who will be a citizen for the next three hundred years.
October 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
we are watching a massive transfer of wealth during an era of massive wealth creation (however much it might be just paper money it’s powerful) — reinscribing gender during this moment is a choice about who will be a citizen for the next three hundred years.
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It’s just that it’s taking everyone too long to catch up and I try to be patient but I’m tired.
October 5, 2026 at 12:11 PM
It’s just that it’s taking everyone too long to catch up and I try to be patient but I’m tired.
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Fact that despite the fact that someone qualifying for student loans pretty clearly shows they don’t come from generational wealth people have still been able to be negatively polarized against student loan holders because in general we have a large population of petty vituperative people.
October 4, 2026 at 5:44 PM
Fact that despite the fact that someone qualifying for student loans pretty clearly shows they don’t come from generational wealth people have still been able to be negatively polarized against student loan holders because in general we have a large population of petty vituperative people.
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The pundit view of the world is skewed by many things, one of which is a refusal/inability to understand geographic spaces that exist outside their own neighborhoods. It's all based on stereotypes and conjecture—even when they go to other places, and their columns are essentially bad travel writing.
October 4, 2026 at 7:56 PM
The pundit view of the world is skewed by many things, one of which is a refusal/inability to understand geographic spaces that exist outside their own neighborhoods. It's all based on stereotypes and conjecture—even when they go to other places, and their columns are essentially bad travel writing.
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Stray thought:
A lot of USA political/pundit discourse seems like it's based on a second-ring suburban point of view.
It's based on inaccurate stereotypes about demographics and everyday life in cities AND small towns AND the working-class, first-ring suburbs found in many metro areas.
A lot of USA political/pundit discourse seems like it's based on a second-ring suburban point of view.
It's based on inaccurate stereotypes about demographics and everyday life in cities AND small towns AND the working-class, first-ring suburbs found in many metro areas.
October 4, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Stray thought:
A lot of USA political/pundit discourse seems like it's based on a second-ring suburban point of view.
It's based on inaccurate stereotypes about demographics and everyday life in cities AND small towns AND the working-class, first-ring suburbs found in many metro areas.
A lot of USA political/pundit discourse seems like it's based on a second-ring suburban point of view.
It's based on inaccurate stereotypes about demographics and everyday life in cities AND small towns AND the working-class, first-ring suburbs found in many metro areas.
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I’ve seen dunks on this, pro and con. Both are fine, whatever.
I’m just out here to say that I can’t imagine having this kind of free time to leisurely pursue one-on-ones to preserve the culture of civility or what have you.
That is all.
I’m just out here to say that I can’t imagine having this kind of free time to leisurely pursue one-on-ones to preserve the culture of civility or what have you.
That is all.
The best cure for ideological bias is find someone on the other side and go to lunch with them.
Sometimes we disagree about facts. Sometimes we disagree about values. Figuring out which is which is fun part. https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/my-libertarian-friends-were-right
Sometimes we disagree about facts. Sometimes we disagree about values. Figuring out which is which is fun part. https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/my-libertarian-friends-were-right
October 4, 2026 at 7:31 PM
I’ve seen dunks on this, pro and con. Both are fine, whatever.
I’m just out here to say that I can’t imagine having this kind of free time to leisurely pursue one-on-ones to preserve the culture of civility or what have you.
That is all.
I’m just out here to say that I can’t imagine having this kind of free time to leisurely pursue one-on-ones to preserve the culture of civility or what have you.
That is all.
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*stares DIRECTLY into camera*
October 4, 2026 at 11:27 PM
*stares DIRECTLY into camera*
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Life sucked. We suffered. Only a sniveling petty little bitch wants innocents to suffer because they once did.
October 4, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Life sucked. We suffered. Only a sniveling petty little bitch wants innocents to suffer because they once did.
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As someone who struggled to pay students loans let me be clear that I do not give a flying **** who has their loans forgiven and I think all state and community colleges and universities should be free.
October 4, 2026 at 7:35 PM
As someone who struggled to pay students loans let me be clear that I do not give a flying **** who has their loans forgiven and I think all state and community colleges and universities should be free.
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If you get kidnapped we will set you free if you can garner enough public sympathy is a shit position on principle and politics.
October 4, 2026 at 8:47 PM
If you get kidnapped we will set you free if you can garner enough public sympathy is a shit position on principle and politics.
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This is why El Salvador is still housing people while the wider attention around extraordinary rendition has moved on.
It turns a state duty into a popularity contest: the person with the most compelling story gets protection, while everyone else gets treated as a harder case to justify.
October 4, 2026 at 9:00 PM
This is why El Salvador is still housing people while the wider attention around extraordinary rendition has moved on.
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Please, for the love of God, leave me behind with all the books because you don’t read. I want to be left behind!
“GOTTA LEARN AI OR BE LEFT BEHIND.” Good. Fuck off! Leave me behind! Enjoy your artbarf rapture, your janky Temu future. I’ll be back here looking at real birds and writing weird, also real, books.
October 4, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Please, for the love of God, leave me behind with all the books because you don’t read. I want to be left behind!
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Country rube stuff 101: if they talk fast, they got their hands in your pocket.
Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.
October 4, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Country rube stuff 101: if they talk fast, they got their hands in your pocket.
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someone call up will smith we need him to do something
Chris Rock Compares ‘Woke 1’ to the Old Testament and Salem Witch Trials: ‘No Forgiveness’
Chris Rock Compares ‘Woke 1’ to the Old Testament and Salem Witch Trials: ‘No Forgiveness’
Chris Rock dished the big "problem with wokeness" is it turned its true believers into coldhearted prudes who are unwilling to forgive people for mistakes
The post Chris Rock Compares ‘Woke 1’ to the Old Testament and Salem Witch Trials: ‘No Forgiveness’ first appeared on Mediaite.
dlvr.it
October 4, 2026 at 5:20 PM
someone call up will smith we need him to do something
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i remain so alarmed by all the discourse about how people can use AI to get good deals / fight wage theft / counteract extractive insurance practices that doesn’t acknowledge that — if you accept this works — the companies on the other side … also can use it to do the opposite?
Bizarrely, this is one of the six graphs illustrating "just how much we need A.I.".
October 4, 2026 at 4:11 AM
i remain so alarmed by all the discourse about how people can use AI to get good deals / fight wage theft / counteract extractive insurance practices that doesn’t acknowledge that — if you accept this works — the companies on the other side … also can use it to do the opposite?
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Where does ACTUAL power reside? How do people build more of it? These are the key questions of this moment and not raising them ALL OF THE TIME is malpractice.
October 4, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Where does ACTUAL power reside? How do people build more of it? These are the key questions of this moment and not raising them ALL OF THE TIME is malpractice.
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You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday?
I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.
I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.
October 4, 2026 at 3:29 PM
You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday?
I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.
I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.