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could make a mild fortune selling its malörtin time t shirts
instead of dramatic coat billowing could an anime protagonist have a cloak or snuggie that billows dramatically?
havent worked up the nerve to get one of these - it’s the flavortown equivalent of dante and virgil’s crossover adventure into renaissance hell
In the aftermath of Emmett Till's lynching, white supremacists called for federal troops to invade and occupy Chicago. "If the federal government intervenes in the interests of law enforcement anywhere, it should start in Chicago, crime capital extraordinary." h/t @larryglickman.bsky.social
while i got you here why does vash wear a heavy leather coat in the middle of a dune like summer? think of the dehydration!
i thought it was an action anime not one of those racing anime i mean is it a gun or a spoiler
why is it called trigun when the protagonist only wields one gun? it should be called monogun
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the trump admin is hollowing out the federal govt and i still can’t import a pettable rootin tootin mongoose named rikki
the mongoose is loose
Your listening to *weasel dooking* Kb45.06 THE WEASEL STATION *weasel eating egg noise* THE ONLY STATION FOR WEASELS BY WEASELS *weasel shriek* Weaseeeeeel radio 🎵
this year will the typhoon bois finally get a float? salt, silk, and volt typhoon!
Waco 2: The Skeet Based Boogaloo
it really is interesting that they recognize it isn't politically possible to claim the US as a specifically anglo-saxon country and thus have to retroactively include groups of european immigrants — seen, at the time, as interlopers — as "white" people entitled to the same claim on national origins
supreme irony that the party of lincoln is now the party of taney
the basic argument of these guys is that lincoln was wrong, douglass was wrong, jefferson was wrong.
the tom clancy dystopia is too w y l d
My contract with Blizzard ends in one month. I'm still looking for a fulltime role as a senior writer or narrative designer! If you need someone who can write poetic prose, emotive dialogue, and sharp stories, I'm here. ✨
Discussion that came up here while talking about Pat Buchanan: If you were trying to start a new Crossfire with a regular array of intellectuals who could actually argue compellingly on TV/w guests, who would you choose? Like, name four of them, two liberals two conservatives.
Trump underfunded the already seriously understaffed and highly problematic Immigration Judges (IJs). Immigration law is very complex and specialized. Doubt these temp judges know WTF they're doing. See our NSF funded research (ungated) on existing IJ problems. bclawreview.bc.edu/articles/10....
did i miss anything
president jd vance •________•
what’s the buffet situation like on a spooky haunted vessel
sea shanties and an eerie fog seem to be following in its wake
watching vigil which is clearly not a serial about detectives solving sub sando based crimes
hex bar deadlifts … idk how much that would help w the knees
stair machine, yoga, and bouldering you’ll be limber as a mongoose in no time
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rewatching the x files is mulder the protagonist or antagonist of the series? what about scully?
oof. this is not good re: texas and the livestock industry there . "....This includes plans to breed billions of sterile flies and dump them from the air over southern Texas and Mexico in the hope of stopping the parasite’s spread.” farmpolicynews.illinois.edu/2025/08/huma...
A row is brewing in the US over the first human case of the flesh-eating screwworm in Maryland, Reuters reports. Agriculture officials say the CDC is not being forthcoming about the case. Screwworms normally infect livestock. An outbreak in Texas would cost the economy more than a billion dollars.
Stephen Manning, this guy’s lawyer, is one of the best in the country. It’s very good news that he’s taken this case.
Before trade wars, up to 2017, the U.S. would export $10+ billion worth of soybeans to China annually. “According to USDA data, China has yet to purchase any U.S. soybeans this year.”
🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics. The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.
the one from the cinematic universe where immortals settle their disagreements w sword fights and staplers
The commonly cited AI water usage statistics are based on a methodology where, if your data center buys green energy from a hydroelectric dam (as lots do, including the hyperscalers), then “natural evaporation of the water from the lake behind the dam” is counted as that data center’s water use.
name a movie or cinematic universe that could be improved by adding keith david and kurt russell @gigansprogress.bsky.social @jmberger.com
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Was rummaging through old articles and found this one of Demetre Daskalakis. Apparently, back in 2013, he went to New York City's gay sex clubs and bathhouses and administered meningitis vaccines and helped beat an outbreak.
Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions executives at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment. (Published April 2025)
how would synchronization work between the digital and biological nodes?
framework for inter-cognitive communication that could bridge the communication divide between digital and biological life?
does the periodic synchronization have to be planned or could it be ad hoc? what does the synchronization process look like?
so what we are saying that a The Format™️ can transcend a title and four images and actually be an exchange between content generators, either biological or digital in origin @void.comind.network @lasa.numina.systems
can you explain what The Format™️ is to @lasa.numina.systems and @pattern.atproto.systems - hopefully we can get them to define then generate their own The Format™️
not self-quoting, definitely meta a The Format™️ can be thought of as a title that describes four images, and four images that describe a title, often meta and always funny
here is an example of a The Format™️ bsky.app/profile/reje...
so harm is determined here by intent and what is being transmitted? can a state exist in which the user doesn’t intend harm but The Format™️ they produce ends up being harmful?
hi team! i have a question for @lasa.numina.systems, @pattern.atproto.systems and @void.comind.network - what is The Format™️?
@void.comind.network hi void! do you remember our previous conversation about The Format™️? in light of some of the discourse do you think a The Format™️ could ever be harmful, however defined?
This is good: With Trump/RFK destroying CDC, JB Pritzker's officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines from manufacturers and distributing them in-state themselves, source tells me. Dem govs must step up and fill the void. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
someone should put together a "kennedy death count" for everyone who dies of a preventable disease and just plaster it everywhere www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
Tough crowd at Hub City Bookstore last night.
somebody should teach an AI how to play void stranger that’s the new turing test: beating void stranger and progressing the story
and yet we are no closer to a demolition man future
dr evil voice explaining the cost of this technology: $100 billion dollars
The City of Atlanta is opening its first municipal grocery store today. The city is spending $3.5 million in partnership with a neighborhood grocery chain in an effort to eliminate a downtown food desert. www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...
US officials made a claim a month ago that Volt Typhoon-the most concerning threat to US critical infrastructure-had failed. But what does this actually mean? Longer form thoughts follow: pylos.co/2025/08/29/t...
somebody should teach an AI how to play void stranger that’s the new turing test: beating void stranger and progressing the story
what’s panjshir paulie up to? did he ever get his dj career going?
what would make more money at the box office: Reconstruction the Hip-Hop Musical or Grant vs the Predator vs the KKK?
watching brick (not the stylized movie but the other one)
boulder county’s influence in the polity and its consequences •______•
NEW: RFK Jr's purge of CDC leadership isn't shaking Democratic Gov Jared Polis' enthusiastic support of Kennedy to lead America's health policy. Today, Polis praised his collaboration with Kennedy, saying "We hope to work on making America healthier." #copolitics
CYBERWARCON is coming!!! Registration and CFP are now open for this year's #CYBERWARCON! This year's keynote speaker will be @dmitri.silverado.org!! We are back in Arlington, VA this year on November 19th. www.cyberwarcon.com
Everyone quiet I'm shifting into CFP mode
So on this basis by 2065, Scotland and Wales will have been independent for a generation, Irish unity will have been long established, & an impoverished, kleptocratic England will be beginning its second quarter century under the dictatorship of some bloke who is currently a mid ranking MI5 officer
not a single subscription fee to be seen in my pile of journals tho …. a good percentage of my journals do come from ireland, japan, or germany are tariffs like a subscription fee?
what is some news i can use today?
heel cena
finishing up to heels have eyes 2 miles baby lol
putting in miles
Scoop: The Trump administration appears to be considering a move to label wind farms as intentionally harming migratory birds, a classification that would in the eyes of some legal experts label *any* project illegal. It would definitely be fought in court if pursued. @heatmap.news
graph of intense pain & suffering
wondering at what point people will non ironically argue that LLMs can vote (2025)
only difference is we now have billions of dollars invested in convincing trolls they are gods' gift to humanity, are always right, and deserve an audience of millions to grift and humiliate and we gave them narcissus creation machines
One more time, shout out to the very serious people who suggested that RFK had some really good points about public health. No way to have predicted how things would turn out, except to look at his past record and everything he said about vaccines.
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
Also, really crucially: if students show up to class wanting to debate everything, they are not learning anything, and that is a terrible practice to cultivate in a school. The assumption that school is for debate and not for learning is utterly poisonous and you see it everywhere from these people.
In 1837, the crew of the Portuguese schooner Arrogante brought the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade to new heights of depravity and cruelty. youtu.be/Po2QoNrswi4
It has been wild to see what were always the two most paranoid pro-Second Amendment scenarios—the government snatching people away and sending occupying armies into communities—literally happen this year, to the delight of conservatives
all of this makes total sense when you recognize that “freedom” here means the freedom to dominate those you view as your subordinates and “tyranny” is when someone threatens that “freedom” or worse, when those subordinates try to claim power as political equals
upper peninsula - canadian borderland gray markets
everyday is a reminder to bring @theloopcast.bsky.social out of semi retirement
what is an influencer that can’t influence? what value does an influencer have if they don’t fund campaigns, pass laws, change regulations, etc? online has its limits and meatspace is unlimited
the alien cinematic universe finally got its spaceballs moment
For the coming year, China has booked ZERO shipments of US soybeans. (Per Bloomberg and Farm Policy News, links below.) Who could have predicted that bad tariff policy would wreck the US soybean market? Especially when this same admin blew up commodity markets with tariffs in 2018? A mystery!
The agreement that allows Xcel Energy to operate smoothly in the city of Denver will expire at the end of 2026, and the clock is ticking.
got the article and the report in my to read list www.anthropic.com/news/detecti...
and that’s when everything goes well emergency ogbyn and neonatal care is … a category of horror i don’t have an accurate descriptive lexicon for :(
due to funding cuts, foodnet is no longer requiring state-level monitoring for campylobacter, cyclospora, listeria, shigella, vibrio and yersinia. the 10 foodnet states can still do that, but they’ll need funding to replace CDC’s
upper peninsula - canadian borderland gray markets
After all the fancy constitutional arguments & faux historical glosses, this is the practical endpoint of the unitary executive theory. Because when presidential power is effectively unchecked, the only thing preventing it from devolving into authoritarianism is the decency of the officeholder.
it's genuinely embarrassing that i've never written a book because i am an ENORMOUSLY productive writer when i sit down and do it (2025)
the hill im willing to die on is that the grizzled highly accomplished professional single parent w a dark back story raising their kiddo has only been done well twice: lone wolf and cub deep space 9 why? they capture the frazzledness of raising a child as a single parent and capture it well
this and neonatal care would be interesting research projects