metacat | standup philosopher
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Ungovernable
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to keep functioning, a society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
BREAKING: Human rights and anti-war organizations are launching a campaign to demand the top Biden officials who promoted or lied about the Gaza genocide be boxed out from future Democratic administrations and other liberal spaces.
Rashida Tlaib & Chris Rabb signed on.
More expected to join.
Rashida Tlaib & Chris Rabb signed on.
More expected to join.
EXCLUSIVE: Biden’s Genocide Accomplices Targeted by New Accountability Campaign
#DroptheGenocide20 demands Biden admin aides who enabled the Gaza genocide not be given roles in liberal spaces – like the role it turns out JD Vance pursued in 2016, when he ‘hated’ Trump.
zeteo.com
September 17, 2026 at 5:24 PM
to keep functioning, a society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
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the orange man is bad and he does bad things and you should not have elected him and you should not elect people who support him
September 17, 2026 at 5:27 PM
the orange man is bad and he does bad things and you should not have elected him and you should not elect people who support him
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"I wrote the piece and Claude found the links relevant to my claims" is, even without the AI, such an admission of poor thinking and argumentation. your claims should emerge from the evidence!
Less shocking to me was reading this bit at the end, where Erickson - whose entire day-to-day job is just wanking out a bit of punditry once or twice a week - has handed much of that over to AI.
September 16, 2026 at 4:45 PM
"I wrote the piece and Claude found the links relevant to my claims" is, even without the AI, such an admission of poor thinking and argumentation. your claims should emerge from the evidence!
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promise kept
Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem
A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.
www.thehandbasket.co
September 16, 2026 at 11:08 PM
promise kept
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tfw you're so unpopular that people are disgusted by your attempt to bribe them
September 16, 2026 at 3:49 AM
tfw you're so unpopular that people are disgusted by your attempt to bribe them
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The Irish musician Aaron Rowe has said he is withdrawing as a support act on Ed Sheeran’s tour.
September 15, 2026 at 6:42 PM
The Irish musician Aaron Rowe has said he is withdrawing as a support act on Ed Sheeran’s tour.
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AI doom or not, something has shifted with AI recently. The guardrails that kept AI sitting in a chatbox are gone, the models are better, there's more compute.
AI agents are everywhere. They are annoying as hell. IMO the situation is going to get much worse
www.404media.co/theres-a-100...
AI agents are everywhere. They are annoying as hell. IMO the situation is going to get much worse
www.404media.co/theres-a-100...
There’s a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Already Ruining the Internet
“AI agents” now have enough power and permission to be extremely annoying online.
www.404media.co
September 15, 2026 at 2:38 PM
AI doom or not, something has shifted with AI recently. The guardrails that kept AI sitting in a chatbox are gone, the models are better, there's more compute.
AI agents are everywhere. They are annoying as hell. IMO the situation is going to get much worse
www.404media.co/theres-a-100...
AI agents are everywhere. They are annoying as hell. IMO the situation is going to get much worse
www.404media.co/theres-a-100...
Mariska Hargitay is amazing doing everything. #emmys #lifeisshortlaughalittle
September 15, 2026 at 12:09 AM
Mariska Hargitay is amazing doing everything. #emmys #lifeisshortlaughalittle
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Banned: Macklemore's powerful statement deserves reading.
www.instagram.com/p/DdRdsy0m2H...
www.instagram.com/p/DdRdsy0m2H...
September 14, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Banned: Macklemore's powerful statement deserves reading.
www.instagram.com/p/DdRdsy0m2H...
www.instagram.com/p/DdRdsy0m2H...
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The bird was watching and the reaction was fun 🤣
September 13, 2026 at 8:29 PM
The bird was watching and the reaction was fun 🤣
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It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.
September 13, 2026 at 11:54 PM
It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.
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"Hi there! I'm the Secretary of Agriculture in a nation where just about every single kind of food has been recalled because it will give you explosive shits and then kill you dead. Well, I'm here to tell you about how government regulation and oversight is baaaaaaaad."
Brooke Rollins: "Do you remember, especially the moms out there, when they told us what light bulbs that we could screw into our light fixtures, which washing machines we could use, and which toilets we could flush?"
September 9, 2026 at 11:02 PM
"Hi there! I'm the Secretary of Agriculture in a nation where just about every single kind of food has been recalled because it will give you explosive shits and then kill you dead. Well, I'm here to tell you about how government regulation and oversight is baaaaaaaad."
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I’ll add also that as always, the resources available to you through any library are there because of human labor, a lot of it. We review contracts, we review what we do and don’t get access to, we review individual purchase requests, we review products that claim to make access easier.
September 9, 2026 at 12:55 AM
I’ll add also that as always, the resources available to you through any library are there because of human labor, a lot of it. We review contracts, we review what we do and don’t get access to, we review individual purchase requests, we review products that claim to make access easier.
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This is definitely good news but I confess more than a bit of annoyance that these are people who have buyer's remorse after ordering a plate of shit with bits of broken glass in it.
This (from Tom Wood) suggests more than just the typical thermostatic backlash is happening right now. In sixteen months, Trump and Republicans have turned the GOP’s largest party ID advantage this century into a tie for its biggest deficit
September 2, 2026 at 12:26 PM
This is definitely good news but I confess more than a bit of annoyance that these are people who have buyer's remorse after ordering a plate of shit with bits of broken glass in it.
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As our president tries to paint Canada as an enemy during the 25th anniversary of 9/11, it might be a good time to see "Come From Away," the story of a small Canadians town embrace of Americans stuck there after the terror attack. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af77...
Come From Away — Official Trailer | Apple TV
YouTube video by Apple TV
www.youtube.com
September 1, 2026 at 4:22 PM
As our president tries to paint Canada as an enemy during the 25th anniversary of 9/11, it might be a good time to see "Come From Away," the story of a small Canadians town embrace of Americans stuck there after the terror attack. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af77...
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in 1989 francis fukuyama invented the clickbait title and has been punished for his sins ever since
August 31, 2026 at 10:12 PM
in 1989 francis fukuyama invented the clickbait title and has been punished for his sins ever since
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I am in strong agreement with the President. Congress should immediately take up and pass a federal film tax incentive to bring back these good-paying jobs that we've lost to other countries.
August 31, 2026 at 11:47 PM
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Perhaps it would be better morally & electorally to make the people you're running against, who are assaulting, abducting, murdering, stealing, putting kids into concentration camps, starting wars & destroying our lives, your opposition. Instead of some streamer dude voters have never heard of.
August 26, 2026 at 10:31 PM
Perhaps it would be better morally & electorally to make the people you're running against, who are assaulting, abducting, murdering, stealing, putting kids into concentration camps, starting wars & destroying our lives, your opposition. Instead of some streamer dude voters have never heard of.
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NEW: In response to ProPublica’s investigation of a 1980s rape crisis at Syracuse University, the school said it supports victims “every step of the way.”
Now, it’s blocking a student’s request for many police records surrounding another 1980s assault.
Now, it’s blocking a student’s request for many police records surrounding another 1980s assault.
Syracuse University Seeks to Prevent Campus Rape Victim From Obtaining Police Records
The university, whose 1980s rape crisis figured prominently in a ProPublica article, committed to support survivors at “every step of the process.” Now it’s in court to stop police from sharing many r...
www.propublica.org
August 28, 2026 at 1:02 PM
NEW: In response to ProPublica’s investigation of a 1980s rape crisis at Syracuse University, the school said it supports victims “every step of the way.”
Now, it’s blocking a student’s request for many police records surrounding another 1980s assault.
Now, it’s blocking a student’s request for many police records surrounding another 1980s assault.
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Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops
August 27, 2026 at 10:13 PM
Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops
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i know that there are valuable use cases. that is not why it is being shoved into everything and it is not good faith to argue that the tool you use productively at work is what i should be thinking about instead of gmail suggesting i say "i know" to someone telling me about a death in the family.
August 26, 2026 at 9:59 PM
i know that there are valuable use cases. that is not why it is being shoved into everything and it is not good faith to argue that the tool you use productively at work is what i should be thinking about instead of gmail suggesting i say "i know" to someone telling me about a death in the family.
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Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.
August 26, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.
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Just a reminder that there's a Will Shakespeare miniseries from the heyday of BBC historicals starring Tim Curry as Shakespeare and Ian McShane as Marlowe, and it's on youtube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpxC...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpxC...
December 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Just a reminder that there's a Will Shakespeare miniseries from the heyday of BBC historicals starring Tim Curry as Shakespeare and Ian McShane as Marlowe, and it's on youtube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpxC...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpxC...
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"the old world is dying. let the new world be born anew from their sacrifice, kermie"
Two of Miss Piggy's most iconic co-stars gone, this world is trash.
August 26, 2026 at 5:11 PM
"the old world is dying. let the new world be born anew from their sacrifice, kermie"