Chris K

Chris K

@chiarchfiend.bsky.social

Midwestern SF fan-thing. "Union thug". Now with 20% more snark!

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Chris K
@chiarchfiend.bsky.social

And Vucic gets dropped hard.

Jennifer Piscopo@jennpiscopo.bsky.social

Let's not forget that Serbia's student movement - like those in Nepal and Bangladesh - features women in key leadership roles. Serbian women students, like generations of women democracy activists before them, have demanded political rights *and* women's rights. www.lemonde.fr/en/m-le-mag/...

lemonde.frSerbian women are leading the frontlines of country's anti-corruption movementParticularly exposed to police violence, female students have taken a leading role in the protests against the Serbian government, which have continued unabated for nearly ten months.
Chris K
@chiarchfiend.bsky.social

There isn't a single legal payout that this ratbastard won't try to welch on, is there?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump on Camp Lejeune water contamination claims: "If we win the House and Senate, I am directing the Department of Justice to settle all remaining legitimate claims as soon as possible ... if we don't win, there's no money."

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davidrlurie
@davidrlurie.com

Can't Elon afford to add more RAM to this rickety robot?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Impersonization sche--- the schemes that they use for impersonization"

Chris K
@chiarchfiend.bsky.social

It's not that Biff merely gets things wrong; it's that he gets things wrong so badly that you wonder what drugs he took at Penn that caused this much accumulated brain damage.

Ari Cohn@aricohn.com

Chris K
@chiarchfiend.bsky.social

Meanwhile, at the 2026 Chucklefuck Bowl...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Vance just held an outrageous presser in which he defended Vivek's vile attacks on Acton, agreed w/ Witkoff's assessment of Putin as a "humanitarian," and had gall to claim "there's no person who hates people enriching themselves fraudulently over access to the govt than Donald J Trump" Supercut:

Chris K
@chiarchfiend.bsky.social

Dunno, man. Losing the entire country to a cabal of fascist conmen seems far worse than losing a hypothetical 5 grand.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "If you elect a Republican House and Senate on November 3, you'll get $5,000. And if we lose, you get nothing."

Chris K
@chiarchfiend.bsky.social

Hey, ever get the feeling he's inching closer and closer to using terms like "n*****, "k***", "sand n*****", "ch***", f*****" or "w****" at a rally and probably getting away with it? Yeah, I get that feeling too.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "This guy is a jihadist. Mohammed El-Sayed. He said 'my name is not Mohammed.' I said, 'I'm the President of the United States. I can call you whatever the hell I want.'"

Chris K
@chiarchfiend.bsky.social

I continue to be surprised that I lasted as long as November 2024 after the pile of filth took it over and enabled a bunch of Groyper pukes who would've flunked basic SA training in 1923. And their standards were hardly high-minded ones.

John Scalzi@scalzi.com

I see we're having a debate about whether it's okay to go back to "X," the site owned by a trillionaire fascist who is currently bankrolling the GOP's midterm, throttled Ukraine's war effort, and still winkingly allows vast amounts of CSAM on his service Answer: No, what the fuck is wrong with you

Chris K
@chiarchfiend.bsky.social

"Suffered"? Is Noem dipping into some of Junior's supply of blow, or what?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Kristi Noem: "That man has given up more for this country than anybody in history, has taken more persecution, his family has suffered, yet they keep stepping up and serving and doing the right thing"

Chris K
@chiarchfiend.bsky.social

What. The. Fuck.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

Horrifying: Arizona Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia was raped by a man after he knocked her out. Another man approached her to do the same. “She began swinging her foot at him. ‘Not even worth it,’ she heard the man say as he moved away.”

phoenixnewtimes.comCongressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signsEmbarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
Chris K
@chiarchfiend.bsky.social

Eventually, he's going to threaten exactly the wrong set of people and they'll take him at his word. His ending won't be a good one.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "I could've done very bad things to Hillary Clinton. I could've done very very bad things to Joe Biden. I could've done very bad things to Barack Hussein Obama ... I can do whatever I want, if I want."

Chris K
@chiarchfiend.bsky.social

EEEEEYAAAAAAAAGH Where's a pack of unexpected starving feral Rottweilers when you need it?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "There's never been anybody in the history of the Nobel Prize that deserves it more. I settled eight wars. I stopped the total obliteration of the world."

Chris K
@chiarchfiend.bsky.social

"President Biff, always makin' friends", pt. 1:

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "With the war, it's just artificial. It's a little bit high. It's a small price to pay ... let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay."

Chris K
@chiarchfiend.bsky.social

"Two completely trustworthy individuals who have never fixed an election, staged a self-coup, defenestrated a journalist and will also not invade another country for questionable political and/or economic gain, ever."

Miaganga@miaganga.bsky.social

Vintage felon 2017

Chris K
@chiarchfiend.bsky.social

Boy, the news context for this chucklefuck's AI boostering is just getting better and better by the hour, isn't it?

Justin Hendrix@justinhendrix.bsky.social

"A spiralling legal crisis threatens to engulf OpenAI after its AI agents hacked dozens of companies and governments worldwide, with the prospect of a barrage of lawsuits marking the latest test of Sam Altman’s leadership."

ft.comLegal risks pile up for Altman as OpenAI uncovers dozens of hacksCyber security incidents involving company’s AI tools leave ChatGPT maker vulnerable to wave of lawsuits
Chris K
@chiarchfiend.bsky.social

Is it early enough to say that, all things being equal, we're probably all fucked?

Jessy Edwards@jessyedwards.bsky.social

Public Advocate Jumaane Williams says OpenAI's first answer to today's NYC City Council hearing on AI risks was the "most God-awful, fantastically terrible answers I've heard to begin a hearing." Asked for her assessment of the catastrophic risk of AI, the OpenAI exec opened with, "I don't know."

Chris K
@chiarchfiend.bsky.social

I'm sure that Altman fancies himself a blunt truth teller of some sort, but like a lot of other techbros all I see is a verbally inept con man so in love with his toys that he could be huffing artificial robot farts on TV, all the while proclaiming how great it is that he can do it.

The Verge@theverge.com

Because ‘people will do tremendously orders of magnitude more good stuff…’ www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

theverge.comSam Altman says ‘some bad things’ will happen but AI is totally worth itBecause ‘people will do tremendously orders of magnitude more good stuff…’
Chris K
@chiarchfiend.bsky.social

I'd like to thank Bari Weiss for doing such a job of fucking up CBS News that they can't even be bothered to mention that Dennis Hastert was a serial pedophile who got caught primarily for making blackmail payouts with that money. Stay classy, #cbsnews

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

Wasn’t there something else that he did which was really, really evil?

Chris K
@chiarchfiend.bsky.social

Coming from a SFnal perspective, We've done a lot of rotten things to this planet and this clown is the epitome of any number of them.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump claims he's "among the highest IQs anywhere in the world"

Chris K
@chiarchfiend.bsky.social

If Bacardi For Brains would just shut up and stop his frat motivational ranting for half a second, it might occur to him that being a 2026 version of Douglas C. Neidermeyer isn't what an alleged Secretary of Defense is supposed to do.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Hegseth: "It's worth saying again so the fake news understands it. We are no longer the woke department or the weak department. Simple translation of that -- no fatties no trannies no beardos no weirdos no wimps no radicals. Just warriors."

Chris K
@chiarchfiend.bsky.social

"Photo ops are WTF", pt. 1:

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

So this story is WAY wilder than I thought The Trump post I flagged this morning because it includes Natalie Harp is actually based on the Getty photo you can see below. But there is one key difference -- MONICA CROWLEY'S FACE HAS BEEN EDITED TO LOOK LIKE NATALIE HARP'S WTF is going on here?

Chris K
@chiarchfiend.bsky.social

"How to prove you lied about your rank in business school without hardly trying."

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social

Trump: “If we stopped Trading with every country that we have a Deficit with, which is most of them, we would make, at least, 1.5 Trillion Dollars a year. The word ‘Deficit’ is nothing more than a fancy word for LOSS.”

Chris K
@chiarchfiend.bsky.social

Truth.

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social

When you go to the polls and vote for a Republican, you are voting for an escalation of preventable deaths, continued erosion of food safety, and anti-science disinformation. Not a single Republican has done a goddamned thing about the destruction being wrought by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Chris K
@chiarchfiend.bsky.social

Typical dimbulb chickenhawk rhetoric posing as patriotic fervor. I don't even go to Starbucks unless that's the only thing available (read: hotels and convention centers), but I'll gladly pay for their overpriced shit if it gets Tafoya to shut the f up.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Minnesota Republican US Senate candidate Michele Tayofa doubles down on her remarks that people should skip Starbucks to support Trump's war against Iran: "We do need to patriotic about this, so I stand by that"

Chris K
@chiarchfiend.bsky.social

Example #27, 345 (at least!) as to why we're so fucked.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump's announcement today that he's trying to make it so farmers and ranchers can "process their own food" came directly from Glenn Beck during their interview the other day. So America now has a right-wing shock jock making our agricultural policy. Good times!

Chris K
@chiarchfiend.bsky.social

I see we're entering the "time to enter the bunker" stage. Maybe if we get him in one of those airline food service thingies he'll feel more at home.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social

What a cool fascist tweet from DHS

Chris K
@chiarchfiend.bsky.social

I know that the drug Altman and his fellow TechSturmers are on in order to come off this removed from reality is "money", but every time he opens his trap I have to wonder if inhalants are involved.

Fight For A Union@fightforaunion.bsky.social

Not a single damn person feels this way, Sam. Spend a day on a short order cook line. Try a 14 hour nursing night shift. Spend a summer in a plant or warehouse without A/C. We’re tired man, all we do is work.

Chris K
@chiarchfiend.bsky.social

The last thing we need in this world is universities falling in line with a "you can have any opinion on this subject, as long as it agrees with mine" mentality. The U. of Minnesota found out the hard way what the downside to this is. As they should've.

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social

This story reflects a larger crisis in the field of Holocaust studies, about why we study the Shoah and what, if any, implications it should hold for the present. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

theguardian.comAn Israeli professor lost a prestigious US job offer after speaking out on Gaza. Now the university is paying him $250,000The University of Minnesota withdrew an offer for Raz Segal to lead its Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies after an organized campaign against his hiring
Chris K
@chiarchfiend.bsky.social

"You're a fan of George Orwell - why don't you support the government spying on us?" This is not the flex some of these bros think it is.

John Scalzi@scalzi.com

Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude

Chris K
@chiarchfiend.bsky.social

German-American Bund, circa 193... Oh. Sorry. Just reminded me of something.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "They're coming from Africa, they're coming from South America, they're coming from different parts of Asia, and they're invading Europe. They're invading Europe! It's an invasion. And the UK is a prime suspect."

Chris K
@chiarchfiend.bsky.social

They've had it in for Fauci ever since he dared contradict His Majesty in a number of 2020 press conferences. Did he do it politely? Of course he did. But the fact that he *dared contradict him* with actual research and not woo-inspired gobbledygook is why he's being targeted now.

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com

Record outbreak of diarrhea-causing parasite 20M eggs recalled due to salmonella Worst air quality in world from wildfire smoke UN says world risks HIV resurgence due to funding cuts Most measles cases in 35 years They’re going after Fauci to distract you from current public health failures

Chris K
@chiarchfiend.bsky.social

If this guy doesn't *eventually* run for President, he's missing a golden opportunity. This is for a Senste seat, and he might actually be holding back his best speech material for later.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Ossoff: "Each day his allies are fewer & even they no longer deny his corruption, the obscene self-dealing while he plunges nation deeper into reckless war while he rakes in billions & builds himself ballroom & prepares again to attack elections. Let's be clear, one man attempted fraud in GA: Trump"