Backtracking, side stepping, denying, obfuscating as usual?
November 8, 2026 at 10:11 AM
Backtracking, side stepping, denying, obfuscating as usual?
Legitimately, people that warned me against serial harassers (with names, witnesses & evidence) in palaeontology were predominantly women and/or minorities. Men were either silent, used vague anonymous terms, obfuscating themselves of responsibility of alerting because "it wouldn't be professional"
Historically and statistically it is women who have the biggest immediate Russell Brand problem. It’s quite easy really. Own your shit, support survivors, stand with them in deed not words, remove the enablers, clean house. Stop minimising and deflecting. Not just an occasional sports columnist.
November 8, 2026 at 7:28 AM
Legitimately, people that warned me against serial harassers (with names, witnesses & evidence) in palaeontology were predominantly women and/or minorities. Men were either silent, used vague anonymous terms, obfuscating themselves of responsibility of alerting because "it wouldn't be professional"
The art of obfuscating the details
November 10, 2026 at 1:07 AM
The art of obfuscating the details
still working through my thoughts on the Big Walk thing, but right now i’m at a place where obfuscating the act is worse than the act itself, assuming the act itself happened exactly as described
November 10, 2026 at 2:52 PM
still working through my thoughts on the Big Walk thing, but right now i’m at a place where obfuscating the act is worse than the act itself, assuming the act itself happened exactly as described
Even “hard-line agenda” is just obfuscating that he’s a Nazi
November 7, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Even “hard-line agenda” is just obfuscating that he’s a Nazi
Apols for being the 45th person to repost, but this thread demonstrates what an absolute shit show our research environment is in right now. Obfuscating, gaslighting, not addressing key points & lack of understanding what they've done all feature. If anyone sees Sam, he needs a coffee
I am in Wellington at a meeting at the Royal Society of New Zealand and it's starting up with a presentation from the Ministry of Business, Innovation, & Employment about "the transforming research environment"
mate the research environment wasn't transforming until you fucked it up #nzpol
mate the research environment wasn't transforming until you fucked it up #nzpol
November 10, 2026 at 1:35 AM
Apols for being the 45th person to repost, but this thread demonstrates what an absolute shit show our research environment is in right now. Obfuscating, gaslighting, not addressing key points & lack of understanding what they've done all feature. If anyone sees Sam, he needs a coffee
The obfuscating is the piece of this that doesn’t really sit right with me :/
November 10, 2026 at 4:47 PM
The obfuscating is the piece of this that doesn’t really sit right with me :/
Forgot obfuscating saves, this makes me wanna add decoy save files!
November 6, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Forgot obfuscating saves, this makes me wanna add decoy save files!
PSA: all those restaurants that charge a ton of money for food, that food contains the same exact ingredients as what you get in your local supermarket! They just use a series of obfuscating preparation techniques and temperature treatments to make you think that its different. dont be tricked!
November 8, 2026 at 1:33 PM
PSA: all those restaurants that charge a ton of money for food, that food contains the same exact ingredients as what you get in your local supermarket! They just use a series of obfuscating preparation techniques and temperature treatments to make you think that its different. dont be tricked!
The "fix/solution" would be to stop involving WaterWolf/EUFuria and their ilk in any of your events, and moreso, not deliberately obfuscating their involvement in the execution of your event from your DJs and friends. You can't use WW infrastructure and staff onsite and claim it's "unaffiliated".
November 9, 2026 at 9:00 PM
The "fix/solution" would be to stop involving WaterWolf/EUFuria and their ilk in any of your events, and moreso, not deliberately obfuscating their involvement in the execution of your event from your DJs and friends. You can't use WW infrastructure and staff onsite and claim it's "unaffiliated".
it's weird that you equate Trump's gutter populism that appeals to bigotry and fear and greed with the Blue Wave which appealed to our better instincts. equality, justice, community. these are not the same things and you use the same word for it then you're not communicating. you're obfuscating.
November 8, 2026 at 5:57 PM
it's weird that you equate Trump's gutter populism that appeals to bigotry and fear and greed with the Blue Wave which appealed to our better instincts. equality, justice, community. these are not the same things and you use the same word for it then you're not communicating. you're obfuscating.
And, by the way, anarchists are also very guilty of this. It's a very lazy way of side-stepping reasonable criticisms or obfuscating problematic aspects of earlier thinkers. That's not helpful, and it's dishonest.
November 10, 2026 at 3:34 PM
And, by the way, anarchists are also very guilty of this. It's a very lazy way of side-stepping reasonable criticisms or obfuscating problematic aspects of earlier thinkers. That's not helpful, and it's dishonest.
back in the wii days i remember team twiizers obfuscating all their code by hand to avoid burning exploits by making it hard to reverse-engineer them. now the entire homebrew scene is full of people who lack the technical skill to even do that. sad how times have changed
November 6, 2026 at 7:43 PM
back in the wii days i remember team twiizers obfuscating all their code by hand to avoid burning exploits by making it hard to reverse-engineer them. now the entire homebrew scene is full of people who lack the technical skill to even do that. sad how times have changed
Oh right JD Vance
Going to be very curios to see his response to this. He’s much more transparent than Trump, worse at obfuscating, you can kind of always see him sweating even though he thinks he’s smoov
So seeing him try to maneuver around this will be… informative
Going to be very curios to see his response to this. He’s much more transparent than Trump, worse at obfuscating, you can kind of always see him sweating even though he thinks he’s smoov
So seeing him try to maneuver around this will be… informative
Some big consequences of Dem rout:
*Dems cracked the code on winning the South
*Ohio/Iowa back to swing state status
*Democratic Party reborn
*JD Vance bet on MAGA's cultural ascendance in ruins
On the pod, @mjtoma.bsky.social and I take you through all of this:
newrepublic.com/article/2175...
*Dems cracked the code on winning the South
*Ohio/Iowa back to swing state status
*Democratic Party reborn
*JD Vance bet on MAGA's cultural ascendance in ruins
On the pod, @mjtoma.bsky.social and I take you through all of this:
newrepublic.com/article/2175...
Trump Presidency on Life Support after Blue Tsunami’s Reach Shocks GOP
As Democrats win all over the country in an extraordinary rebuke of Trump, we parse the results with New Republic editor Michael Tomasky—and ponder how this seismic outcome will change our politics.
newrepublic.com
November 4, 2026 at 1:33 PM
Oh right JD Vance
Going to be very curios to see his response to this. He’s much more transparent than Trump, worse at obfuscating, you can kind of always see him sweating even though he thinks he’s smoov
So seeing him try to maneuver around this will be… informative
Going to be very curios to see his response to this. He’s much more transparent than Trump, worse at obfuscating, you can kind of always see him sweating even though he thinks he’s smoov
So seeing him try to maneuver around this will be… informative
caveat being the control board thing might still be obfuscating another expensive issue but i still feel a little less like im gonna do something that will change the fundamental nature of what it means to be human forever
November 10, 2026 at 12:31 AM
caveat being the control board thing might still be obfuscating another expensive issue but i still feel a little less like im gonna do something that will change the fundamental nature of what it means to be human forever
I can’t watch these two. Trump’s schtick is old and pathetic and Douthat is just a wet-assed academic running cover for right-wing assaults on humanity by obfuscating it in a fog of pedantic misdirection. He’s a tool, who believes he’s more Catholic than the pope. And this is all Weiss’s 🤡 circus.🎪
November 9, 2026 at 2:41 PM
I can’t watch these two. Trump’s schtick is old and pathetic and Douthat is just a wet-assed academic running cover for right-wing assaults on humanity by obfuscating it in a fog of pedantic misdirection. He’s a tool, who believes he’s more Catholic than the pope. And this is all Weiss’s 🤡 circus.🎪
there will be an obfuscating miasma of comorbid potential causes
November 4, 2026 at 8:54 PM
there will be an obfuscating miasma of comorbid potential causes
It can't be done without carefully and deliberately obfuscating a goal of eliminating Israel 'cause Jews.
November 4, 2026 at 5:25 PM
It can't be done without carefully and deliberately obfuscating a goal of eliminating Israel 'cause Jews.
His claim about BDS was false. You're obfuscating, as with all hasbara.
November 7, 2026 at 4:54 PM
His claim about BDS was false. You're obfuscating, as with all hasbara.
Gotta feed the mills and keep the steel price down. When it breaks, blame it on an act of God. The most recent book on the topic spreads misinformation on impossible wave heights further obfuscating the companies and complicit Gov regulators responsibility for the disaster.
November 10, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Gotta feed the mills and keep the steel price down. When it breaks, blame it on an act of God. The most recent book on the topic spreads misinformation on impossible wave heights further obfuscating the companies and complicit Gov regulators responsibility for the disaster.
she/her because she's not actually a boy, it's intentionally obfuscating and based on other assumptions
Sheik being purely a disguise and not an actual identity exploration makes it more of a convenience than an actual desire, at least when talking canonically
Sheik being purely a disguise and not an actual identity exploration makes it more of a convenience than an actual desire, at least when talking canonically
November 7, 2026 at 12:39 AM
she/her because she's not actually a boy, it's intentionally obfuscating and based on other assumptions
Sheik being purely a disguise and not an actual identity exploration makes it more of a convenience than an actual desire, at least when talking canonically
Sheik being purely a disguise and not an actual identity exploration makes it more of a convenience than an actual desire, at least when talking canonically
*if* people are arguing MTL should completely rework the sentences, as a default, then I think that's probably problematic and long-term harmful because it's gonna end up obfuscating & over or under interpreting things into formulas/phraseology that the traditionally awful 'word-by-word' MTL could
November 10, 2026 at 11:37 AM
*if* people are arguing MTL should completely rework the sentences, as a default, then I think that's probably problematic and long-term harmful because it's gonna end up obfuscating & over or under interpreting things into formulas/phraseology that the traditionally awful 'word-by-word' MTL could
Find someone who loves you as much as the NYT loves obfuscating the truth to push a bullshit bothsides narrative
![NYT headline and subhead reading:
Inside the Abdul El-Sayed-Haley Stevens Meltdown in Michigan
The relationship shattered in part because of Israel, but also because of [highlight] their [/highlight] sensitive egos and hurt feelings. The split had been months in the making.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u45hqzk7counfbwyg5edhmvi/bafkreibyaiz7il4xvnivc6djzxvrmdd42hi3ei2ofvx66ob4wf3fumejni)
November 2, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Find someone who loves you as much as the NYT loves obfuscating the truth to push a bullshit bothsides narrative
tbc the scope of this is not the labs
The scope is (to use a beaten down example) an airline's website or Domino's pizza.
I don't need an MCP. I need an API. We've always needed only the API. MCPs only value is obfuscating the API.
The scope is (to use a beaten down example) an airline's website or Domino's pizza.
I don't need an MCP. I need an API. We've always needed only the API. MCPs only value is obfuscating the API.
November 9, 2026 at 10:53 PM
tbc the scope of this is not the labs
The scope is (to use a beaten down example) an airline's website or Domino's pizza.
I don't need an MCP. I need an API. We've always needed only the API. MCPs only value is obfuscating the API.
The scope is (to use a beaten down example) an airline's website or Domino's pizza.
I don't need an MCP. I need an API. We've always needed only the API. MCPs only value is obfuscating the API.
"Missed" is extremely generous and obfuscating to legacy media capitulating to Trump fascism and tech oligarchs, try "suppressed"
November 8, 2026 at 5:49 PM
"Missed" is extremely generous and obfuscating to legacy media capitulating to Trump fascism and tech oligarchs, try "suppressed"