Rafi
@rafil.bsky.social
Not a journalist anymore. Not big on bluesky. Nothing of note to say. Recent Canadian.
this is going to end up banal but what a world it would have been if the people who YOLO'd consumer LLMs with the pitch "this can automate the boring shit you don't want to do" had a definition of "boring shit" that was "set up AWS creds" instead of "art, music, socializing, raising children"
Eugene Vinitsky 🍒@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 5h agoI actually configure AWS correctly now due to embedded chatbots
I mean this sincerely: I think pro Israel people really need to begin internalizing that this is not a fringe opinion anymore and in fact is very statistically likely to be the average view of any brown Democratic candidate for office or any candidate under the age of 50
This story is horrific on its own. Also, to my eye, it seems like we’re getting stories like this more and more often. Never makes national news though.
Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 5h agoA trans couple has been brutalized by a mob, and then the trans woman ended up being arrested afterwards, at a public bathroom in Louisiana. EITM writer S Baum investigates this horrible act of violence in our latest piece. www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-coup...
In other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname
The recent hysteria over bike and ebike regulation is infuriating, dumb, and counter-productive.
I didn’t get a nose job but they used my nose to access the inside of my head so I extremely look like someone gave me a nose job with Milwaukee power tools
Rafi@rafil.bsky.social · 17h ago*face absolutely caked with dried blood and gauze* I lived bitch
I think this headline kind of undersells it tbh. He referred to specific, identifiable children as “cum trophies” as part of pornographically lewd harassment of their mother.
Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 2d agoEarlier tonight, @michellegoldberg.bsky.social read *another* quote from this weirdo that reflected the same general sentiment. www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...
I honestly cannot believe this. The TV trope of Feds Showing IDs exists because real Feds did that shit so you knew they were actual law enforcement officials and not some random person there to kidnap you or kill you. We know this has literally happened with Fake ICE! And yet.
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d agoJudge rules New York can’t ban federal agents from wearing face coverings
Getting an extremely common, safe surgery performed by an overqualified leading surgeon in the field tomorrow, so of course I’ve read everything about one exceedingly rare, edge case negative outcome that sounds like a horror story.
You should be embarassed to be in middle age and doing this “my dad could beat up your dad” type shit. Unfortunately this seems to be the majority of American middle aged men bsky.app/profile/down...
Dan of the Year@downwithdan.bsky.social · 2d agoHe will never understand that being "the fat guy from Superbad" is infinitely better than being "the martial arts chud nobody likes"
Solidarity is not synonymous with or contingent upon total approval. Solidarity recognizes that in their poor preparation and dangerous behavior, they were still acting with a shared goal, and they're still being persecuted disproportionately to their crimes.
someone needs to tell him that even the israelis have started using the "hamas-run health ministry" numbers because they know the real number is hundreds of thousands higher
29 U.S.C. § 157@organizingpower.bsky.social · 3d agoThis guy has 20,000 followers and is using his platform to do Gazan holocaust denialism
as somebody who has been doing anti-ICE work in the presence of armed federal agents for the last 8 months, I'd ask any of you that, if I was caught in a situation like this, you'd wait to find out all the facts before condemning me and my comrades to a cautionary tale.
It's rarely ever said so outright but basically the thesis of the Stevens surrogates as of today is that Arab Americans cannot possibly have any legitimate grievances about someone who is openly and proudly supportive of a country that kills their families lol
Asked a question on bluesky dot com and all I got were several tedious non-answers from four different types of smug stranger
is there any actual legal reason that a DA hasn’t charged one of these guys with aggravated assault yet?
Latina Immigrant🐸 #NoKings🚫👑@jasmine29.bsky.social · 6d agoICE in Inwood, NY
Whenever a Democrat wins statewide in a swing state people begin fantasizing about their presidential bid potential— Abdul rejects this idea outright and says that his ambition is to leverage his position to influence the primary as an endorser.
Are we all aware that LaMelo Ball named his son LaOne www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...
LaMelo Ball, girlfriend Ana Montana reveal birth of son — and his unique name
There’s another Ball in the bunch.
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i'm sorry what the fuck. gillibrand attends a church which teaches that COVID was God's punishment for permitting gay marriage?
Jonathan Larsen@jonathanlarsen.bsky.social · 4d agoNEW: Corporate media zero in signs of antisemitism on the left. Meanwhile, one of Rep. Haley Stevens's most powerful backers in her Senate race attends a Bible study that teaches that the Jews killed Jesus...
Jimmy Carter, once upon a time the most powerful man on the planet for four years, was in 05 uniformly tarred as an antisemite when he released his book saying Israel was committing apartheid. Jayapal was implicitly censured in 2023 for saying Israel is racist. This era is over for good.
#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 4d agoThe conventional wisdom that you had to be ironclad in support of Israel and even genuflect to a series of absurd, exceptional demands like "right to exist as a Jewish state" and "right to [offensively] defend itself" is dead. A lot of people are just mad that it's dead. Sorry.
The conventional wisdom that you had to be ironclad in support of Israel and even genuflect to a series of absurd, exceptional demands like "right to exist as a Jewish state" and "right to [offensively] defend itself" is dead. A lot of people are just mad that it's dead. Sorry.
I will be recovering from anesthesia and probably actively bleeding from my face after having my skull angle-grinded when the results come in from the michigan primary, which feels appropriate
abolitionists were armed. The Panthers were armed. You do not need to flatten movement history to make a prudential point and then demonize anyone who criticizes you as a walmart arsonist
It sounds glib but it’s true that conservatives only appeal to liberal values in bad faith. They think it’s a gotcha, something they can exploit. There’s no principles there.
The Athletic@theathletic.com · 4d agoSpeaking for the first time since ralliers began assembling in support of her stance against transgender participation in women’s sports, Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham said this was an opportunity for the WNBA to uphold its values of diversity and inclusion. nyti.ms/4fHr4Qn
