the Catholic Church racking up PR wins by saying shit like “we shouldn’t bring back public executions” and “your Claude app isn’t sentient”
Matt Snider
@mattsnider.bsky.social
Beer Lover. Music Fiend. OFaaS (OverFunctions as a Service) he/him/they, generally a Luddite. Formerly 15+yrs at MSFT, if you know me from there Views clearly my own
This is Nazi rhetoric, full stop. It's not only a call to instigate a race war in the United States, but it's reminiscent of historic European justifications used to incite pogroms against Jews. People who say things like this are incredibly dangerous, as there is nothing they won't eventually do.
Laura Bassett@lebassett.bsky.social · 2d agoTrump is desperately trying to incite a riot before the election so he can declare an emergency
How stupid, how dedicated to muddying the waters, how utterly blinkered do you have to be for the cause to be "unclear"?
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 2d agoYoung teenagers are less likely to identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual than a few years ago, according to a new analysis. “It really does look like a free fall,” Jean Twenge, a professor of psychology, said. “But what’s causing it is unclear.”
A+ good story. These young scientists rule www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/s...
In an $80 Motel Room, a Discovery to Shed Light on the Origins of Life (Gift Article)
A scrappy science project led to a significant discovery: two new species of a rare organism that could elucidate a fundamental transition in the history of life on our planet.
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I cannot stress enough how you should never, under any circumstances, treat the death of a neo-nazi who stoked massive amounts of violence and bigotry, resulting in many deaths over the past decade, as a joke. It is a serious and solemn event when fascists die, and shouldn't be the butt of jokes.
sending this image back to 2016 to give everyone an aneurysm
Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast@irhottakes.bsky.social · 3w agoHonestly very funny Bill Kristol himself is pretty chill on here all in all.
In Massachusetts, we have a responsibility to protect the vulnerable and stand up for those who need it. We don’t throw trans kids under the bus for political points. We protect them—and all of our neighbors—because trans rights are human rights.
She also really debunks the common justifications about religion, region, and age. Your grandparents and parents have shitty values because they have shitty values, not because of anything else. They could do better. Anyone can use their eyes to see the world and have the correct read.
rael gost pictuers@jackfeerick.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhat Dolly taught us is that it is in fact possible to be wealthy beyond your wildest dreams of avarice but still be a fundamentally good person with a strong moral compass, and the only reason more rich people aren't like that is because they don't want to be.
I don’t do a lot of TikTok but quite honestly, hats off. A masterpiece
"are spreadsheets a protected class?" you're thinking of object orientation, spreadsheets are reactive functional programming
Vouchers are scams that funnel money to schools with no public transparency, accountability, or standards www.propublica.org/article/priv...
At “Quasi-Public” Private Schools, 100% of Students Get Tuition Vouchers. There’s Almost No Accountability.
Private schools — even those that are heavily dependent on taxpayer funding — often operate without the scrutiny public schools are subject to. Following the money at one Milwaukee private school reve...
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Flyers Gritty
Alt: Image of Gritty, the mascot for the Philadelphia Flyers hockey team, a deranged orange Muppet with giant eyes. In this gif he is standing just outside the hockey rink, motionless, as the camera slowly zooms in on his face. It is unnerving as hell.
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Alex@theunorthodox.bsky.social · 2mo agoGritty ALF reboot
Crude oil being pulled out of the ground just to be put back in the ground for Strategic Oil Reserves:
My vote for Matter. Inject it directly into my veins.
Chris Kluwe@chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 2mo agoOne of Iain Banks’ Culture novels, but I don’t know how I’d choose which individual one. On Use Of Weapons, Matter, Consider Phlebas, The Algebraist, Excession, The Player of Games, The Hydrogen Sonata; I mean they’d all be stunners
@sjgames.com has a new (paid) employee holiday. I can’t believe it. Congrats to @possumcreekgames.com @jdragsky.bsky.social
this week I learned that the singularity is when a human being fails to air gap hacking software (either accidentally due to incompetence or intentionally for marketing and media exploitation purposes)
“I helped make a film, out this week, called ‘Rovina’s Choice,’ about the deaths [men] without conscience or accountability [Musk, Trump, and Rubio] caused [by dismantling USAID] — already 600,000, two-thirds of them children.” @agawande.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/agaw... bsky.app/profile/ifin...
"Rovina's Choice" Shows How The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
YouTube video by The New Yorker
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Adam Rifkin 🐼@ifindkarma.bsky.social · last yr.“More than 14 million people could die over the next five years because of the Trump [regime] dismantling USAID… Around 4.5 million would be among children under 5… 88 deaths per hour.” “It’s not left-wing rhetoric to feed the hungry, heal the sick. If this isn’t murder, I don’t know what is.” Bono
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It really doesn’t fucking matter if you say you believe in science if you then destroy scientific funding, expertise, and capacity.
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 3mo agoAs the piece admits, the second MAHA took power it started gutting basic science, promoting quack treatments and loosening health regulations. *This* is what the movement is. Yet it's up to critics not to conclude or predict anything from these actions and bend over backward to find common cause.
thunderstruck sounds like a song the gremlins from gremlins would make if you locked them in a Guitar Center
One thing I'm noticing from a lot of people here, and the media reports surrounding the arrest of the Tates, is how many are using the term "child pornography" Children cannot consent and therefore it is not pornography It is Child Sexual Abuse Material or CSAM and it's vital to call it that