Software engineer at the Wikimedia Foundation. I'm not the director. OR AM I? (I'm not.) I do make a bunch of WoW addons, though. That’s probably a point of divergence. This account is very much my own opinions. (he/him)
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A lot of the big complainers about Bluesky are basically describing Threads but their real issue with Bluesky is that they specifically dislike around 12 people who they could ratio on Twitter if it still existed. It’s basically niche influencer drama pretending to be about policy
In the coming days, we expect to see what's playing out in LA and DC happen in Chicago. These efforts are not about fighting crime or making communities safer. This is about Donald Trump testing his power and producing political drama to cover up his own corruption.
getting everyone on the internet to watch your press conference so they can see if you’re dead is one way to expand attendance
Like, EVERYONE knows this press conference is basically the potus equivalent of a pinky toe in a box. He's not doing this for any other reason than to prove he ain't dead. Right now, he's failing to prove he's alive.
“my 20 minute and counting delay is answering lots of questions about how healthy I am”
Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.
Even a former 8 year old can't keep up with the never-ending hundreds of books a year in the Horus Heresy series, though.
The next Democratic president should declare that the National Emergencies Act and Article II of the Constitution allow him to: •admit D.C. and Puerto Rico as states •abolish ICE •grant citizenship to any immigrant •disband the 5th Circuit •expand the Supreme Court Seriously: Why the hell not?
Having been long-term successful on twitter primes people to act in engagement-bait ways, because the algorithm rewards you for saying provocative things. This comes across a lot weirder on a site like bluesky where that’s not how to get seen.
He is not ok and the decision to not report it as such is a choice: www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-heal...
We’re still in a continuation of the first incident, really. And hey, it’s fun.
Good night. Sleep well. He’ll most likely go in the morning.
Washington's speculation about Trump's health is at a fever pitch. We've seen multiple reasons this summer to ask questions — and the media doesn't seem to care. What's really going on? www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-...
I’m pretty sure it’s “people being mean to me when I tried to join”.
Your pants have dedicated pockets for snippers and several grades of file.
[CUE MUSIC: “IN THE ARMS OF AN ANGEL” PLAYING SOFTLY] [FADE IN BACKGROUND SOUND: A solemn voice reads names] Nate Silver. Matthew Yglesias. Megan McArdle. Mark Cuban. [FADE IN: SALLY STRUTHERS sits on a stool in a pool of light on a minimalist set. She looks SAD.] /1
Anyone else remember when the media went on a full-press rampage about presidential health when then-President Biden gave a particularly shitty debate performance while recovering from a cold?
i also don't need to know the model is 6'2" and weighs 165lbs! this is useless info. i need to know his chest size and waist size.
Look, those are some really threatening six year olds, okay? What are they supposed to do, *not* starve them?
Who's the worst cartoon character? I vote Henry, the dad from Dennis the Menace. He's a mask deliberately invented to whitewash the identity of his creator, Hank Ketcham, one of the worst men to ever make comics. It's gonna take a thread.
The “British person” in this instance was me; I do find it deeply amusing that, as well as being extremely racist about British Indians and their role in British food culture, this America has managed to name the curry that was most famously created in Britain
Oh, so they’re like, ACTUALLY, Weekend at Bernie’sing this.
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Fixed it.
(I hate road trips, and would be completely fine owning an EV with a 100 miles or so of range entirely for local travel. But my spouse would *never* go along with that kind of range.)
It’s a different calculation because gas is easily available and extremely quick to refill. When a charge requires you to find a less-common charger and then spend at least 30 minutes to fill up, vehicles that can make much longer round trips start to appeal.
deeply infuriating to see the extent to which they are doing the opposite of the successful authoritarian consolidation playbook and having remarkable success anyway
Ideally they would be a direct representative of LinkedIn.
Look, that post correctly used a comma. There’s no way he wrote it.
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
former kids who read too many books and didnt know how to pronounce the words you learned gang say hey
Maybe a hot take but this really does feel like the worst, most egregious ex of news media legitimacy collapse as an institution, even worse than their pre-Iraq War boosting, bc *literally the thing they said was the most impt thing* is actually happening w this president now & they cant be arsed
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
Donald Trump’s rumored death raises new questions about Joe Biden’s health
If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you
Goodness, if the President has a serious health problem I certainly hope he follows the expert medical advice of his Secretary of Health and Human Services
look, think of it this way: he’s probably not dead, but he is in bad enough shape that we will almost certainly get to run this back a number of times over the next 3.5 years and maybe one of them it’ll actually happen
Theres really no point to scrolling your phone waiting to hear about the day it happens, if you are a Real American and live in a decent sized city you'll know from horns honking, fireworks, people spontaneously hollering, passing out drinks, etc
It could be time to pull out the “I haven’t seen the tweet” line that Rs got so much mileage from.
"This would kill a Victorian child on contact" buddy, that kid grew up with heroin in their cough syrup and arsenic in their wallpaper. A Victorian child would probably kill YOU on contact.
Live your life such that everyone doesn’t spend ten solid years planning the rager they’re going to throw when you die.
Probably good if people just have to say The Event and everyone knows exactly what they mean
He always did want a really fancy parade with people cheering.
This is a poorly framed question. Lots of conservatives would cut off a family member for being LGBT, for example, but that doesn’t clock as a ‘political view’ to them. Also, the narrative that leftists cut off their conservative family members too easily is extremely widespread on the right.
GOP Gov. Mike Kehoe just called a special session of the Missouri legislature to start on Wednesday. He also released a new congressional map aimed at gerrymandering the Dem-held #MO05 so that Republicans can flip it. Press release: governor.mo.gov/press-releas... Via: x.com/RedistrictNe...
Sums up America in 2025 pretty well I’d say
Trump is weak. He is weak on this issue. Anyone who acts otherwise isn't paying attention.
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There’s a lot of them which make me think “okay, violence is wrong, buuuuuuuut”.
Doomers: The 2026 election doesn't matter, Republicans are just going to rig the whole thing anyway Various red state republican incumbents: I'm just going to quit now because if I run in 2026 I'm going to get absolutely killed
He sincerely craves power?
Hey, Ted Cruz sincerely likes porn and Cancun.
For what it’s worth, I generally don’t use it as a passive aggressive gesture. It’s there for sincere “I dunno” moments.
"For the Oval Office, we asked, 'What if Liberace and Marie Antoinette had a baby? And what if that baby projectile-vomited all over the room?' Empty space was our enemy. The clearance aisle at HomeGoods was our answer." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/tru...
It’s the Samsung moon thing at a wider scale…
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
Have you considered spending an entire mortgage payment at the Container Store? It will solve your problems. In exchange for different problems of ever-chasing perfection.
That’s because conservatives tell each other it’s not cutting you off to say you can’t bring your same-sex partner to Christmas
Couldn’t think of the word for kale so I ordered a “plate of green sadness” and they knew exactly what to bring.
People using "bby", presumably as a spelling of "baby", underestimate my ability to read Star Wars into *everything*
I’ve been waiting for one of these.
The median voter isn't a pureed balance of elite centrist takes, they're somebody who has a passionate opinion about vehicle registration fees but couldn't name the current vice president.
It is kinda cringe, but them keeping on talking about it does suggest it’s working. Much like the sadly abandoned “weird” of the campaign.
I don't think we're lucky enough for him to bite it during this term, because fuck us, but if he did I really wonder if the media would be willing to run the same cover for JD Vance as it is for him as fucked as it is I don't think they see Vance as the embodiment of the Volk the same way
The whole “Dems lost *less* than other governing parties in 2024” thing is definitely a pain to keep in mind.
Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users. While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.
James Dobson dying is a staring into the middle distance type of event. You have likely directly suffered bc of him. Few have done more to harm humanity at large in the past few decades. A principal architect of our current nightmare. No redeeming aspect. He was a rat made entirely out of plague.
Presidents are supposed to be like your underwear. If you’re thinking about them at all over the course of a normal day, they’re either fabulous or something has gone terribly wrong.
Discworld QOTD, from Going Postal
The authoritarian shit is bad on its own, but let's not lose sight of the fact that this Texas law enforcement officer couldn't keep up with a 61-year-old out for her morning walk. Like the Nazis, these people are evil and pathetic at the same time. Don't miss any chance to mock them as losers.
I love to show up every day for my job, which is standing around holding the front of my tactical vest and getting told to choke to death by thousands of passers-by while 11 of my coworkers handcuff a roofer on his way to work. Every night I drive 80 minutes home, thinking about nothing at all.
"One was an open paramilitary wing of an openly fascist political party, the other is an unaccountable government force operating without clear uniforms, identification, or transparency... for an openly fascist political party."
Let's be generous, here, and assume that by the solar system Altman wants to put the sphere outside the orbit of Neptune, and we'll just exclude the kuiper belt entirely. That would be a sphere with a diameter of 6 billion miles. Let's assume that it has the thickness of an eggshell: .3mm thick.
Frankly, "Let's invade Faerieland and build our data centers there" is more reasonable, because we've at least got some cultural history on where we might start with that. Like, mushroom circles exist. Mounds in the woods exist. That's a project we could start today, which is more likely to work.
Best I can say is, as a Missouri resident, good riddance.
The ongoing “damnit national democrats, don’t make me have to root for *Gavin Newsom* of all people” era.
New in PN: Gavin Newsom's moment "Newsom and other Dems joining this battle are right to fight. And by fighting, they are demonstrating just how weak Trump is. When you bend the knee, MAGA looks invincible. As soon as you stand up, though, the orange god starts to look like a fetid bag of wind."
Aw, I had paid so little attention to their site that I didn't realize it wasn't going to keep the neon green after the initial splash screen. The Beigest Argument You Know is so much less exciting.
I know, I know, it's a shade off from Brat Summer... but it was literally the first thing that jumped to mind.
It does help to warn us that the arguers are just going to be brats, I guess.
(Removing my work-hat, since I have nothing to do with Legal.) It's not ideal, but getting court rulings forbidding things before they actually happen is generally a lot harder. The ruling explicitly says we can go back if the classification actually does happen later.
Don't worry, I'd already reported everything within 15 seconds of getting the notification. :D
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Someone must have done the weird incel "drawing the angle you're leaning at" thing on this one already, right?
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I know that the hypocrisy is the point I know it's all about raw exercise of power I know but I still want to go back to every Republican who ever lectured me about "states rights" and punch them in the face
Keep in mind that EVERYTHING he says or does going forward is to distract from the EPSTEIN files. E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G.
What a Way for that to go, huh?
This DOES NOT turn the AI off, only hides it, you need to do method 2 here: www.askvg.com/how-to-disab...
One thing Trump is good at is demonstrating which bits of law and burearucracy need fundamental overhauls. "If I want to do something illegal I just declare an emergency" might need a look.
The adamant elite refusal to call bullshit is a big part of How We Got Here. The prevailing cultural attitude for years is you must not, under any circumstances, treat anything as bad faith. You are obligated to find some reasonable idea and engage with that, even if you distort to get there.
“Crime stats in big red cities are bad, so obviously the blue cities are much worse and are just lying to us about it” is a very sane take.
With all this talk of “the sub”, I was surprised by where that video went.