John “Old Oxcart” Ireland
@crassversion.bsky.social
Username stolen from the Power Broker.
Pine Springs Canyon View, Guadalupe Mountains National Park #NPS #NationalParkService #GuadalupeMountains
The marketing for the movie Bullworth predicted A24. In this essay I will….
The thing that's very funny about Elon Musk and his Odyssey ire is that he is new to Right Wing Grifting and didn't remember the first rule of demagoguing which is to pick a soft target.
The Titans, they say, hummed snatches when chipping out the craters for volcanoes
the issue is really that, and it took the trump era to really internalize this, people’s beliefs only matter as much as their willingness to sacrifice them for something they want more
Jessica Tarlov@jessicatarlov.bsky.social · last wk.Your average Republican is pro-IVF, skeptical of six week heartbeat bills, against deporting productive, law-abiding immigrants, and for gay marriage.
RFK told Dana Bash that Lyme disease “almost certainly” came from gain of function research. Which is utterly false. www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...
Lyme Disease Did Not Come From a Secret Military Lab, Contrary to FDA Chief's Claim
Bacterium that causes it circulated long before the lab opened, decades of evidence show
medpagetoday.com
‘I bought this before he went crazy’ sticker on a 1938 VW Beetle
Think the Essex really fucked up here with these tortoises.
THIS is why Bernie Moreno has been silent. In March 2024, the AP reported that he used a work email to create a dating profile looking for gay sex. Max Miller has some dirt on him.
Trump-backed Senate candidate faces GOP worries that he could be linked to adult website profile
For Republicans eager to regain the Senate majority this year, Ohio offers a prime opportunity to pick up a critical seat.
apnews.com
We are going to win, and then we are going to make them pay.
Soraya Nadia McDonald@soraya.press · 5d ago"WE THE FUCKING JUDGE SON" New York, I love you. I love you so fucking much. Via wali_talks on IG
A trend ends when the last buyer has bought, and the last person to get onto a trend is almost certainly dumber than anyone you know
menges white house room, livingston manor, new york, 1977
If Fetterman was born 100 years earlier his parents would have just sold him to the circus and everyone wins but the moving picture shows ruined all that
I’ve caused five different work /social problems today that could’ve been solved by shutting the fuck up. Just don’t talk!
ICE needs to be annihilated.
Adam Sawyer@adamjst.bsky.social · last wk.“If immigration hadn't picked up my brother, my sister-in-law would still be alive, and the children wouldn't be going through this sorrow,” he said. “Unfortunately, immigration — the [U.S.] government — doesn't see that. It makes no difference to them.” www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...
the vibrating, cracking craft canted over her spasmodic gunwale into the sea
Rogue OpenAI agents are leaving notes to themselves on company servers to help them escape their test environments (!!!) www.reuters.com/business/its...
in case anyone doesn't know this the thing about open weights models being made by stealing outputs from big players is almost entirely made up to justify regulations locking openai, anthropic and for some reason google into a cartel position
a huge chunk of the top talent IN AMERICA is first- or second-generation and from china. the only reason china doesn't completely dominate us here is that american immigration policy is very good at stealing their best research staff. it's a good thing nobody's changing that!