David Rolfe

My pt is yes we can pick out fake news videos today. We can trust our experience today. We’re going to rely on companies to be trustworthy even when lies are cheaper? Where will trustworthy news come from? Freelancers we know? Through what channel? How will they eat and travel? With whose money?

In other words: we have a year to resist and then these Epstein class bros will take their enshittifying machines and sod off. Good to know.

This is literally right out of the Lord of the Rings

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there’s no such thing as “strategic bigotry.” I know this because there is no amount of money you could pay me to become a bigot. the democrats who do this agree to do it because they’re bigots

i can see an argument that at some point mass prosecutions of these guys might actually engender a backlash effect. i think you can just start with a peace deal with iran that involves turning over hegseth to them to answer for the children he killed and then going from there. it will have an effect

In a functional country, we would just regulate who could send us text messages or commercial phone calls, and at what times with laws that had consequences for violations. While we’re hypothesizing—enforcement mechanisms could also be made to be just and uncorrupt. It’s just choices. 

The solution is pretty clear, just convict the pardoned individuals maybe even in absentia, and then murder them, and then pardon the murderers in an ongoing cycle forever. At some point, the leftovers will see this is bad and stop. 

Sure theres concentration camps where people are being caused to die, ie killed, ie death camps, BUT I’m not in one and I’m not dead. I guess that IS a relief!

What’s “fun” about this is a big enough abuse of power might lead to real pardon reform. Or the next damn president can just say they’ll pardon everyone that murders a Congress person and see how far limitless pardons goes. 

Scifri didnt make the cut. Sgu didnt make the cut. Startalk is the only science show on here.

Maybe it shouldn’t be legal to have a trillion dollars. We could just decide that. That’s all laws are.

Wonder how much money you need to just buy everyone who might say something bad about you? Clearly less than $1,000,000,000,000.

We live in a time of deep epistemic crisis, and everything we have depended on to make meaning and certify consensus reality is either suspect or in peril. It didn't have to be this way, and it doesn't have to stay this way.

One story that may be huge that's around, but quiet: last month, the Governing Body of Jehovah’s Witnesses changed their blood transfusion policy to 'it's up to you'. Anecdotally, it's very possible half of Jehovah's Witnesses have quit the church since. www.jw.org/en/global-co...

“Playing at bigotry creates an environment for it, whatever our intentions may be.”

The “every accusation is a confession” thing is maybe overstated but when it comes to Republicans and “sharia” it is unquestionably the case that the people trying to impose their religion on others through the legal system in the US are not Muslims bsky.app/profile/qasi...

a fairly new type of brazen lie is to post a lie with a link to a video that categorically disproves your lie. this was pioneered by terfs who would post like "watch me get ASSAULTED by trans radicals" and the video just shows people milling about at a protest.

Again, the scandalous thing about Elon Musk spending $276 million on the 2026 midterms is NOT how *much* money it is. The scandal is how *little* money this is *to him.* Compared to his net worth, this is roughly equal to the median American my age spending $40.

I will be eternally grateful to have been born in a literate culture where literacy was valued and expected and I still had the time, attention, and freedom to develop a literacy practice. Understanding context, inference, vocabulary, perspective, affect — all powerful, useful skills and values.

If I understand Xenomorph biology correctly, don't they explode on contact with baking soda?

🥳🥳🥳 Happy 3rd anniversary to: •Twttr announcing 4,000-character twetes. •Me instantly getting perma-ban-hammered for making light of this upgrade with a SMASHMOUTH joke. And I haven’t Tweted since!

Part of the answer to "how did we get here?" is that many major journalists—since 1998, Crawford has covered SCOTUS for PBS, ABC, and CBS—are lying bigots. Here Crawford is praising a guy who asked a dumb racist question, glitched out when asked why, then admitted he wanted a Christian theocracy.

If and when we have a proper liberal democratic restoration, do you seriously think that the people who've lent Elon Musk billions upon billions of dollars in spite of his open white nationalism are going to suddenly bend the knee to President AOC just because she has the nuclear football?

How do we let open white supremacists live in the White House?? It's fucking wild. This is not fed posting. Congress could do something about this. Republicans in congress, if they gave a shit. If they weren't fans of this shit. Cowards or nazis, I guess.

Only heated if you consider Tommy got burned.

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

John Roberts will be hated by history. 

I would tip people a quarter for good skeets and easily spend $20 a month on here. News sites included.

Katie Zacharia is about to receive the first ever FIFA Law License.

Hard not to notice that Democrats who are doing the best are the ones who are leaving this whole civility-and-norms, we-go-high, we-need-a-strong-Republican-Party bullshit behind and are simply giving Republicans exactly what they all ought to get at all times, which is undisguised contempt.

here’s why i got ban-hammered……. bsky.app/profile/plun...

My name is not the reason we're paying $5/gallon for gas. My name is not the reason you can't afford your groceries. My name is not the reason you can't afford your mortgage or rent. My name is not the reason you can't see a doctor. Their policies are the reason.

This was such a great answer from Abdul El-Sayed about his previous criticisms of President Obama.

Talarico refusing to immediately release the evidence debunking our idiotic conspiracy theories made us look ridiculous, and we cannot afford to be made to look ridiculous

I realised I'd left money on the table when there was the perfect meme template for this whole wretched ugly display bsky.app/profile/grae...

my sources are telling me that ken paxton just checked into the Ligma Center

They're going to kill us all to build a beach resort.