@mothemerrier.bsky.social

Imagine doing this with your one precious life. Other people are out there teaching children and curing cancer and you decide to spend your time telling outrageous, laughably unbelievable lies about a dementia-addled rapist and fraud whose legacy will be nearly ending US democracy

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.

Leavitt: "I think it's frankly ridiculous that anyone in this room would even suggest that President Trump is doing anything for his own benefit. He left a life of luxury and a life of running a very successful real estate empire for public service."

If you want to FINALLY watch Scott Bessent get pinned down on specifics about the illegal money laundering operation being conducted by the Trump admin from someone who knows WTF he’s talking about, this clip is your chance. Bessent gets destroyed.

It's 11pm and today I've had over 125 news articles about Trump - from his cankles, to falling asleep, to his talks with Minn leaders to "affordability" which he still doesn't understand. The press is going to lose $ when Dems are in power since they can't write about crazy crap like now.

Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him. “When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."

America doesn't have a far left, unless you listen to far-right propaganda, then America has a far left. Today in America, if Ronald Regan were alive and ran for president with the policies that got him elected, he would have to run as a left leaning democrat, that is how far-right America is today.

Wave a magnet over iron shavings and they will move. Is the pattern they form permanent for all time? No. Saving items on computers is closer to moving iron shavings than putting pen to paper. You're trusting magnetic forces. Whether wedding photos or DNA, you need a plan to keep the data around.

When two years of academic work vanished with a single click

After turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts. Here’s what happened next.

nature.com

So I've just migrated from that other place, which is now a turmoil of hatred, alternative truths and madness. I may look in from time to time but this is such a pleasant and relaxing place to pass the time. I don't yet feel the need to post or comment much as the discourse is restrained and civil.