Pierce Presley
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Raconteur|muckraker|Introverted attention whore|Writer|editor|photographer|Arkansawyer|former Marine|footballer| http://piercepresley.com he/him/his
Generative AI is catnip to the men who miss female sycophants katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...
A Culture Hooked on Generative AI is a Culture that Misses Female Sycophants
And we have missed a central reason why AI is a feminist issue
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Devastatingly important work on a devastatingly fascist platform. So many: @anildash.com @karlbode.com @molly.wiki have let you know why and how to leave. It's time to go @mrdtjames.bsky.social.
Substack Still Has A Nazi Problem (And Doesn't Care)
For several years Substack has been accused of coddling white supremacy and fascist ideology for cash. And despite several major scandals and a mass defection of ethical authors, there's little seriou...
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The smell of death surrounds you, Donald Trump Deportees slain in Guatemala. A Haitian woman abandoned at a PGH bus stop. The bomb striking a family in Iran. Detainees in the ICE gulag. Lorenzo Salgado. Renee Good. USAID Dehumanization, then death. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
The smell of death surrounds Donald Trump’s regime from Guatemala to Pittsburgh | Will Bunch
In just a year and a half, Donald Trump’s warped agenda is killing innocent people at home and around the world.
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Trump's fascism is a boot, stomping on a garden rake, forever: "The timing is nothing short of ironic. Open enrollment for Medicare Part D coverage begins on Oct. 15. Less than 3 weeks before the midterm elections, America’s most reliable voting bloc will receive notice of higher healthcare costs."
Opinion | Trump’s Medicare change comes at a curious time
Less than three weeks before the midterm elections, America’s most reliable voting bloc will receive notice of higher healthcare costs.
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I worry that most cynical among us, hopped up on 30 years of law and order rhetoric, will say "this is the system working: he didn't do anything wrong and now he's free." As if the terror and wide-scale publicity of an arrest and federal prosecution is not a horrible punishment in and of itself.
CNN@cnn.com · 5d agoThe Justice Department is admitting that a $14 million renovation on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, was flawed, and is dropping the criminal case against a former Olympian that accused him of damaging the pool, according to a new court filing. https://cnn.it/3RJJnwj
UEFA spokesperson Dietmar Fumm said to reporters "This decision effectively signals that Gianni Infantino is an enemy of world football". tl;dr: FIFA "foe" - Fumm
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@hankgreen.bsky.social you magnificent bastard. July 16, 2026 205 points • No mistakes 🌟🟪🟪 🌟🟦🟦 🌟🟩🟩 🌟🟨🟨 4x3.fun www.hankgreen.com/fourbythree/...
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An FDA advisory committee has voted to recommend wider access to BPC-157, the peptide beloved of "folk pharmacologists" So what exactly is it, and what research convinced the @US_FDA panel that it should be more widely available?
I see that Fauci has wisely invoked his right to shut the f*ck up, remember you can too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWEp...
NLG Know Your Rights reminder: Shut the f*** up!
YouTube video by National Lawyers Guild, Detroit & MI
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This is a massive failure. The Swedish Natural History Museum could make bank with an AirBnB in this thing.
jordan@jordantyranny.bsky.social · last wk.The only taxidermied blue whale in the world, 1865 CE, now housed at the Natural History Museum in Sweden. The public was allowed to enter the whale up until a couple was found having sex inside it. Now the whale’s jaws are opened only for special occasions, such as Swedish election days.
Dr. Anita Patel speaks about the conditions she witnessed at the Dilley detention facility: “I am not here as a politician or an activist. I am here as a doctor… We are not just harming the children inside detention. We are traumatizing an entire generation of children.” #SheShed
one thing that infuriates me so much about this shit is that they act as if the women making the allegations are being massively rewarded for their actions when in fact most of what they face for coming forward is being called liars and harassed by assholes like them
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · last wk.matt stoller fully embracing his role as sexual assault denialist
Your body has kidneys, a liver, intestines, the lymphatic/ circulatory systems, and they're ALL designed to "cleanse" any toxins or foreign substances that can harm you. So all you have to do to cleanse is stop putting the toxins *in* your body and give the organs time (and water) to do their work
An excellent deep dive by @gregsargent.bsky.social and @polphilpod.bsky.social into Musk’s Economist interview and the fascist worldview behind his claims newrepublic.com/article/2135...
coffee shop doodle. Dr Grumpy Cat says take some me time. 💚
The Orion@gettheorion.bsky.social · 3mo agoCoffee shop doodle. Moopsy from memory. ✌🏻💚
This take is incredibly stupid. MAHA is Ye Olde Patent Medicine Show. Complete with all the traditional conspiracy theories, evangelical religion only when convenient, woo, retrograde gender roles, and grifts.
The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 2w agoA lot of people in public health believe that MAHA is “nothing more than a subversive anti-vaccine, anti-science syndicate,” but the movement is an opportunity that the public-health sector “cannot afford to squander,” Craig Spencer argues:
The whole thread is a wonderful jeremiad on MAHA's coprophagia, but this is a summation for the ages.
Lindsay Beyerstein@beyerstein.bsky.social · 2w agoMAHA are like children, but meaner and less curious.
Republican strategists fear the White House missed a golden opportunity to stage another assassination attempt last night
Spaceballs: The Extended Universe graphics from yesterday's SDCC panel, reformatted into one poster-sized image
It’s never too late to return a library book... even after 60 years. This book recently came back to the library after six decades out in the wild! Just graduated and forgotten to return a book? If you can’t make it back to Cambridge, use our freepost returns service: https://loom.ly/wf0LwIs
interesting to me that as the administration treats democratic-voting states like conquered or occupied territories, you don’t have pundits demanding the president respect “half the country”
tony romm@tonyromm.bsky.social · 2w agoNEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
If there were justice in this world, this song would play at every pool and beach this summer.
charjaebug@jael.bsky.social · 2w agothe new altamira is out. listen to the song, watch the video, and it’ll hit you why she’s such a special new artist worth your time
There's dead and then there's mostly dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. However in this case there's only one thing to do, which is to go through his clothes and look for loose change.
Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social · 2w agoIt's been 39 days since anyone has publicly seen Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). I asked his office for any updates on his mysterious health condition or his plans to return to the Senate, and got... a statement from 11 days ago. www.huffpost.com/entry/live-u...
It was not the first time the old man had encountered such a setback. His entire life had been beset by similar misfortune. That is the wrong word, he thought. It was something worse than bad luck. The Strait was rigged.
The Old Man and the Strait
“The old man thought about how everyone was constantly rigging things against him. The Strait must be another one of those things. There could be no other lo...
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