Tulpa King (aka Admiral Snackbar)
@elliotghoul.bsky.social
Sensory Overlord. Beer maker. Disc golfer. Friend to dogs. Vibe curator. Flippant and uncouth. BFA from a University that no longer exists. MKE. He/him
This is 1 of 3 stories this morning about Paxton lol
Lauren McGaughy@lmcgaughy.bsky.social · 1h agoScoop: In 2014, Ken Paxton sat for a deposition where federal lawyers quizzed him about his growing wealth and investment tactics. The depo has never been made public. We got a copy. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/u...
I’m sure the folks in Minnesota are gonna get right on that Don, after all you’ve done for them
Laura Bassett@lebassett.bsky.social · 12h agoTrump is desperately trying to incite a riot before the election so he can declare an emergency
Watching stupid people be stupid is a weird thing to find entertaining
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
Billy Squier’s “In the Dark” is an insane banger And that’s how you spell ”Squier?”! What?
When evaluating the future impacts of AI, one of the most important things to do is to try to separate the investment dollars from the technology itself.
Jason Furman@jasonfurman.bsky.social · yesterdayThis is what crowd out looks like.
Sign of the times to see a Politico newsletter for tech policy insiders blandly reporting the rantings of a cranked-up billionaire psycho in which he speculates that Metternich was a katechon sent by God to delay the coming of the Antichrist www.politico.com/newsletters/...
Peter Thiel's new Antichrist warnings
politico.com
Think about how intolerable ICE arrests are right now Then nearly double it
CNN@cnn.com · yesterdayImmigration and Customs Enforcement leadership told agents nationwide to increase immigration arrests by 1,000 more people daily, returning to a previous goal of 3,000 daily arrests, according to two sources familiar with the verbal directive. https://cnn.it/4zgcsQc
Fuck Trump and Musk forever, sideways and in hell
Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · 3d agoNEW: In March the White House released an FY27 budget request that zeroed out the National Science Foundation's directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). For months it was unclear what would happen. Now, with FY26 over, the damage to SBE is coming to light. My reporting:
Motherfucker dresses like Bender from The Breakfast Club
Justin Hendrix@justinhendrix.bsky.social · 2y agoToday the New York Times has ~4,000 words from Curtis Yarvin. "I’m an outsider, man. I’m an intellectual."
NEW: Historic Trees Demolished, Land Defenders Arrested and New Treesit at US-Mexico Border
Historic Trees Demolished, Land Defenders Arrested and New Treesit at US-Mexico Border - UNICORN RIOT
In the early hours of October 5, Border Patrol agents raided the anti-border camp on the U.S.-Mexico Border, arrested land defenders and cut down historic trees before a treesit was re-established the...
unicornriot.ninja
Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/apps
Crafting Apps: open-source creative tools
Image editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout: seven native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use.
getartcraft.com
There are so many people, so many, that love film and want to dedicate their whole lives to making films, in front of the camera, behind it, in editing suites and casting rooms and makeup trailers. And that these locusts can come in and just devour the industry, take it from us all, is devastating.
Ray Pride@raypride.bsky.social · 2d ago“Workers change the sign on the Warner Bros. water tower to say ‘A Skydance Corporation’ on Tuesday” GETTY IMAGES
Diesel futures fell after Trump announced a “massive” European oil release. Then traders read the actual G7 statement, and the entire price move vanished. Turns out the massive release was mostly a PR stunt. https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/an-agreement-to-agree-about-an-earlier
An Agreement to Agree About an Earlier Agreement
Read the G7 communiqué closely and the "new" 100 million barrels turns out to be leftovers from March.
newsletter.platypuseconomics.com
Democrats working hard on precisely how much they should pull their punches against the corporate oligarchy after the election. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
‘We don’t want to turn into a banana republic’: Dems preview rift on Trump corporate crackdown
Democrats are united by the idea of aggressive oversight of the administration but at odds over how far to go after corporate America.
politico.com
ironically enough a NC man was also once at the center of the Napster case that, in many ways, set us on the course for today’s techno infrastructure Also, it’s wild to punish one man and it’s this guy and not, like, Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg.
Forbes@forbes.com · 2d agoThe North Carolina man earned more than $8 million in royalties from streaming platforms after using thousands of bot accounts to stream his AI-generated songs billions of times.
Unclench your jaw. Relax your brow. Go get a drink of water. See if you've taken your meds Eat something. Doesn't matter what you look like right now, i think you look amazing. Because you do. You're a wonderful person. And have this. 🫂🖤 you did great today. You made it through
Reminder: When you feel overwhelmed, you will choose a healthy way to cope. Your body & mind need to rest & recharge. So, you will let yourself rest without judgment. When you're struggling, you will ask for help. Your feelings wont last forever. You're stronger than you think I'm proud of you
Up to 243 measles cases in Wisconsin...
46 years ago "Kill the Poor" is a song by the Dead Kennedys, released in October 1980 as the band's third single, and re-recorded for the band's first album, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables #punk #punkrock #hardcorepunk #deadkennedys #killthepoor #history #punkrockhistory
SCOOP: Nearly $9 million in federal family planning funds will go to organizations with anti-abortion ties. One org, which received almost $4.3 million, has never taken in more than $50k in a single year. Read more @autonomynews.co:
Nearly $9 Million in HHS Grants Go to Groups With Anti-Abortion Ties
Millions in family planning funds are earmarked to create training centers, including one dedicated to infertility. The recipients have links to crisis pregnancy centers, the Heritage Foundation, and ...
autonomynews.co
lol no one talks about the white kids who don't abide by merit. The conversation is ALWAYS about the Black and Brown kids who do.
Study finds 43 percent of Harvard's white students are legacy, athletes, related to donors or staff
The number drops dramatically for black, Latino and Asian American students with less than 16 percent each coming from those categories, the study said.
nbcnews.com
All of these people fear death and want to reign over us from the grave because they won’t grapple with the inevitable.
Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 4d ago“Even if I got hit by a truck tonight. HHS will never go back to what it was before.”
