Hieronymous Kölsch

Early this year, I visited Ingram, a TX town of ~1,900, to check out a tip. The area was starting to recover from its worst flood in a century. But as Latino workers drove to jobsites to help rebuild, the tipster said, a cop in a black Dodge Charger kept stopping them ... 🧵

I like to think that the AI business question is "if I have a never-ending stream of 1st year PhD students who have no background in your business, can you use that?" And some problems that's a yes and some problems, that's a no.

There was a fucking hole in our planet’s *atmosphere* Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines As a species we decided, “we will survive” Let’s do that some more

Primer but they're all Nathan Fielder

JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

I don't understand. The WH made very clear that they're not going to accelerate the war until after the elections so that oil prices can go down and antiwar voters can support Republicans. How did that clever manuever fail? Must have been Soros.

Good ad.

if you ever write an article about a guy saying hes done with politics and then a month or so later hes making the largest political donation in history then you need to quit and find another line of work

"big guys, great asses, tears in their eyes "sir...sir" they pleaded "please take this cognitive test again sir" and what am i going to do refuse have u seen their asses"

The president of the united states comes out in favor of a mother helping their husband indicted for child sex abuse abscond from justice and then trash their daughter as a liar after the fact bsky.app/profile/atru...

➡️ I feel as though my emotional reserves are running out—or perhaps they ran out long ago, and I’m just moving forward mechanically, like a zombie, out of sheer inertia, while inside, everything is already empty

it took me a time to pull myself together today. A strike hit the store I visited before. I sow fire hoses laid out on the floor, ready for use and fire extinguishers. I thought that if an attack were to happen, none of that would be enough to save anything.➡️ 5 deliveries 🅿️ subbotinawed@gmail.com

the routine, pay for play pardons are all by themselves one of the worst corruption scandals in american history!

"There's zero difference between Pete Buttigieg and Donald Trump" is one of those takes that sounds knowledgeable and spicy but it's actually just stupid.

I cannot think of a more disgusting and disqualifying thing to say. Betraying literally millions of people around the world. Go. Fuck. Yourself.

The continued indignities Trump keeps trying to force onto Ukraine and Zelenskyy are just so enraging. This is a five alarm fire, but people just do not care. The press is reporting on it, but there isn’t really that clear, red letter “U.S. has abandoned Europe for Russia” headline that’s needed.

USN having to go "fuck it we ball" with its two fast capital ships in the Pacific in torpedo magnet waters is very emblematic of the vibes

i don't think we can come to a reasonable compromise with this

Even if this were viable as a concept (that there's an afterlife; that it allows conversations with others; that enslavers are going the same place as you), who cares? Oh, are you mad at me, Ben Franklin? Tough shit.

i miss when Biden had that dog that would bite everyone

You know what big feet mean folks

BREAKING WSJ: Elon Musk ordered the slowdown of the military-grade version of Starlink that Ukraine relied on.

I wish Biden had been a war hawk who shipped thousands of Bradleys to Ukraine. I wish our entire stockpile of 155mm rounds were used on Russian soldiers. There isn’t a single escalatory act NATO members could commit against Russia that I wouldn’t support.

There's a lot of absurd things here, but the naive ignorance of the idea that putting economic pressure on Russia would drive them *away* from the bargaining table is perhaps the most detached from reality. Real genius stuff from President Deals here.

“.. Once the money comes to the company here, I will arrange the donation to Kennedy Centre [sic], and you'll be joining the VIP events and get close with the administration, even with POTUS," the May 3, 2025, text says. @axios.com www.axios.com/2026/10/19/k...

Humiliating and dangerous: Trump has now finally just made America an ally of the Kremlin and is aiding Putin in his war against an American friend and partner. Shameful betrayal of a US friend, and pathetic submission to a US enemy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

Another Russian data center has migrated to the cloud.

The main difference between the right-wing Russophiles who think that Russia is a vanguard against liberal equality in defense of inequality and left-wing Russophiles who think that Russia is a vanguard against liberalism in defense of global socialism is that the right-wing Russophiles are correct

some of these people get so locked into a labyrinth of Rationalist thought experiments that they are no longer really capable of interacting with reality

Truly the most anti-American president in history.

Slightly bemused by "Elizabeth Holmes shouldn't be in prison, she did nothing wrong, it was all the evil men" takes. She is a fraudster. You are a mark.

The idea that the US deliberately humiliated Russia in the 1990s is a bizarre myth. We were overtly solicitous and supportive of them and their hurt feelings. We just didn’t accept their claim that the nations or Eastern Europe could never seek their own destiny.

What’s astounding to me is how “the president builds himself a palace with money given directly to him in secret by the richest people in America,” literally the most straightforward and worst executive-branch corruption story in US history, just gets shrugged at because Trump is unapologetic

The US and the West welcomed Russia into the community of nations after the Cold War. Investment poured in. The G7 turned into G8. The idea that Poland, Estonia, etc. forming their own foreign relations was so unfair to Moscow that Russia is entitled to murder Ukrainians 20 years later is insane.

I can’t believe POG is my mother-in-law.

Real quick on the M4A debate for everyone, I want to be clear: the solution is called a public option and Joe Lieberman can rot for killing it. Let people buy into the systems that are already established and work.

i think if you want to make the world better you have to start by understanding it, and that means--to be blunt--fucking charts, because large data sets and careful studies are one of the ways you escape the mind-prison known as "my gut tells me this is true, shut the fuck up"

It would’ve taken homegirl longer to say the alphabet backwards.

never seen someone adhering to our Enemies more closely, or giving them more lavish Aid and Comfort www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/7a210b0...

Russian satellite targeting aid has helped Iran wreck how many hundreds of millions of dollars of U.S. military infrastructure, or even billions? Yet the president attempts to lift sanctions on Moscow — while denying satellite intelligence to the Ukrainians who could get our licks back.

Slavery was and is a real thing that has brutalized hundreds of millions of people over the course of human history, if someone tells me a fucking chatbot is enslaved I'm immediately throwing hands. It's not cute, it's not intriguing, it's an insult to real people who suffered and suffer now.