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People who know me from elsewhere who are part of a new migration wave, please don't be offended if I don't follow back. My feed is about as active as I can manage following right now.

Demanding a minority group prove their loyalty to the ruling class is a solid step on the road to pogroms. No amount of declaring such loyalty will stop the inexorable march, it will just smooth the road.

Goddammit.

I listened to "Don't Fear the Reaper" today and I don't think that's a cowbell...I think it's a wood block.

Remember, LLMs write like that because educated people write like that, and the writing of educated people figures heavily in the early training data. I'm sure LLMs could be trained to not write like that, but it serves the oligarchs' goals to make people mistrustful of the writing of the educated.

While I certainly don't put something so clumsy and transparent past our regime, these "the machine changed my votes" stories come up every October lately. I expect most (if not all) cases are fatfinger errors combined with people going in expecting chicanery and being primed to see it.

If you have an easy time picking your favorite book, you might need to read more books. Everyone should read enough (eventually, some of y'all are young) that there's more than one Really Good Book in their past.

If there were any justice in the world, every day would be #WorldWombatDay, but today is the official day to celebrate these glorious creatures that crush their enemies with their buttocks, dig burrows tens of metres long, constantly regrow their teeth, have babies called wombatlets, and poop cubes.

While I wouldn't say I'm on the far left, some days I'm on the fart left.

Bye-oWare.

Putin is a humanitarian only in the sense that some people are vegetarians.

So, what's the over/under on whether evidence of Vivek engaged in sex crimes or child abuse comes out before or after the election?

There's found family, and there's "found in a dumpster behind the Taco Bell at 3AM" family.

NOT THE ONION.

Miskatonic University, the only school where I will accept "woke" as an actual threat. Please, do not awaken anything on campus grounds.

The name of New Mexico is funny because it's one of those things that you'd think is really simple (oh, it's it used to be part of old Mexico, so we'll call it New Mexico!), but it's much more complex New Mexico as the name for the area predates Mexico by several hundred years!

"If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" "Because I have ethics."

The Muslim Brotherhood could publicly disavow El-Sayed at this point and it wouldn't stop the Tommies.

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

Update: about 4 hours later and we still don't have admin access so we still can't post to the No Kings instagram account. This isn't slowing down the the 3,000+ early vote events today. We will drive the biggest early vote in history. But this should be a flashing alarm about what's to come.

Is it still Storrowing if it happens because some idiot rocket-boosts his Tesla into the overpass?

That witch is seen, cannot be unseen.

Damascus Goats look and act like they came straight out of the Jim Henson Creature Shop.

A broken digital clock isn't right even once a day.

Telling a writer of licensed property fiction that "Your reputation will not recover from this," in reference to contradicting their fanon is, like, an absolute Karen move. "DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?" levels of fannish egocentrism.

A Cat 5.