Marksometimes

Marksometimes

@marksometimes.bsky.social

I play various instruments, some not terribly. Songs don’t suck outright. Autism dad, occasionally gets cancer, ruggedly handsome/scruffy nerfherder

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This is bafflingly dumb. Especially if you see this as a strategy for midterms. The term AI is baked into so many active products on the market and that includes endless amounts of advertising dollars let alone documentation, ancillary ecosystem businesses… and when NO ONE adopts, it looks feckless

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "The White House considers anyone that uses the term, 'Artificial Intelligence,' as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term, 'Super Intelligence,' THE ENEMY! President DONALD J. TRUMP"

“…you know you can’t trust any of the [insert religious group] because they’ll just cheat you. It’s in their religious books” always goes well. Always goes well.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Mike Johnson: "The Iranian are not trustworthy negotiating partners. They lie as part of their religion."

But MOOOOOOOOOM… everyone ELSE has a triumphal arch!…

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Beyond parody: "At the strong request of the Military, and for National Security purposes, I have agreed to convert the magnificent Triumphal Arch, into a top grade Military Complex/Triumphal Arch, to house, store, and have the rapid ability to use large numbers of drones, plus Snipers..."

You know he’s going to call you an emasculated pencil-neck dildo farmer tomorrow and try and get you arrested for jaywalking, right?

Sen. Adam Schiff@schiff.senate.gov

I am in strong agreement with the President. Congress should immediately take up and pass a federal film tax incentive to bring back these good-paying jobs that we've lost to other countries.

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i read this and shuddered

bnacker@bnacker.bsky.social

Can't stop thinking of how it would have felt if they had blown the plane out of the sky and then we found out Trump was still alive. Holy shit. Thank goodness they were just fucking with him. I'd never get over it

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The ADL has a website dedicated to attacking Mamdani staffers—including my friend Waleed Shahid. The ADL is applying a level of scrutiny to him they aren’t applying to literal neo-Nazis working in the federal government. Waleed has a Jewish wife and child. The ADL is a disgrace.

mamdanimonitor.comPersonnelWe expect the Mamdani administration to uphold a simple, non-negotiable standard: no one with a history of antisemitism or hostility toward Jews, Zionists, Israelis or Jewish institutions should be ap...

After Oct 7th, Israel has the wind at their back. The world, maybe for the first time, was firmly on their side. What did they do with that? What did they do with that?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Netanyahu: "Everybody says Israel is isolated. It's not isolated. Many, many countries in Africa, Latin America, in Asia, even in Europe are coming to us because they want to share our technology and benefit from our military prowess."

Hey, hey, Donald J…

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

🚨🚨BREAKING: CENTCOM has expanded the toll from this weekend’s Iranian attacks. Additional remains found in Jordan believed to be the missing service member (ID pending), plus a separate KIA in northern Iraq during an unexploded ordnance from a downed Iranian drone — with a second troop wounded.

See… the way I look at it? Nazi tattoos should TYPICALLY mean that your decision-making should be more strictly scrutinized. Before letting you do anything, y’know. IMPORTANT. Is all I’m saying. Here’s a cat.

“Schoolyard taunts, name-calling and insults dominate Republican messaging in TX senate race” is what you were looking for, there.

NPR@npr.org

Soon after winning the Texas Republican Senate primary runoff, Ken Paxton attacked Democratic nominee, state Rep. James Talarico as "too low-T for Texas," putting manhood front and center in the race. n.pr/4a5uElp

*detective pauses, flips open zippo lighter, lights cigarette* “…no one leaves a cake out in the rain in my burgh.” *flips lighter closed*

NPR@npr.org

The area, called MacArthur Park, is a densely populated immigrant neighborhood west of downtown LA where federal immigration authorities and the National Guard made a brief show of force last summer. n.pr/4cSn8w8

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Replying to @jilltwiss.bsky.social

"White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt called immigrants quote “foreign alien terrorists.” So here's some of the things I call Karoline Leavitt: -Elle Woods in “Legally Bland” -Ghost of Tomi Lahren Future -If Oatmeal was racist -Nellie Oleson in “Little White House on the Prairie”

“Strength Through Hubris”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Hegseth: "The dumb, politically correct wars of the past were the opposite of what we're doing here. They had vague objections with restrictive, minimalist rules of engagement. No more."

“Walk super loudly, swinging your big stick. Make sure you tell everyone how big your stick is ALL the time” - T Roosevelt

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Hegseth: "Thus far Operation Epic Fury has delivered twice the air power of shock and awe of Iraq in 2003, minus Paul Bremer and the nation building."

This is the thing every dystopian movie does to show that the leader is a despot and is executing a power grab. Frigging Harry Potter did this. It’s almost lazy writing.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Biden would’ve been instantly impeached in a bipartisan vote if he put his face on the freakin’ Department of Justice building

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DHS is shutting down because it refuses to obey the law. They are tear-gassing schools, killing American citizens, and disappearing legal immigrants. Democrats shouldn’t fund an out of control ICE.

…how is this REAL? I mean, people can hear this guy talk, right? Trump might be a con man and a mob boss but THIS dude is coo-coo for Cocoa Puffs, Rice Krispies, Alpha-bits, you name it. Just inconceivable that this dude has authority.

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social

RFK Jr: I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.

First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Homan to Minneapolis residents who are setting up ICE roadblocks: "What are you doing? Do you really think you're gonna stop ICE and CBP from doing their job? It's a joke. Stop.

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Dog documentary I'm watching w/kids: These animals can operate machines, smell cancer, & read our emotions. Their brains/physiology have evolved to mirror ours. They are perfect companions. Cat doc: Cats are murderers who, with years of training, may jump through a hoop. My kids: I WANT A CAT

Ben Franklin went to his grave kicking himself for not inoculating his son against smallpox. We’ve literally known the answer to this for over 200 years.

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social

RFK Jr. appointee Kirk Milhoan has just clearly stated, out loud, that he wants to experiment on the people of the United States by seeing what happens as vaccination coverage plummets and infectious diseases spread.

He’s playing with language. Everyone’s latching on to the “10 or 12” part of this but all he’s really trying to do is redefine what a “real estate investor” is to SOUND LIKE he’s mitigating a problem. Narrowing the scope of blame so they don’t have to actually change anything.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Bessent on institutional investors: "I's a good idea to have them out of the [housing] market. We're going to give guidance to see what is a mom & pop. Maybe your parents for their retirement bought 10 or 12 homes. We don't want to push the mom & pops out, we just want to push everyone else out"

Special Agent Voldemort.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

BRENNAN: Tell me about the officer, Jonathan Ross KRISTI NOEM: Don't say his name! I mean, for heaven's sake, we shouldn't have people continue to dox law enforcement BRENNAN: His name is public NOEM: I know, but that doesn't mean it should continue to be said

Everyone knows that to be a White House reporter you have to tie a trans swimmer for 5th place and make a career out of being mad about it. Duh.

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

Reporter: Renee Good was shot in the head and killed by an ICE Agent. Leavitt: Why was she killed? Reporter: Because an ICE agent acted recklessly and killed her unjustifiably Leavitt: You’re a left-wing hack. You’re not a reporter.

And when you’re a Shining City on the Hill, they let you do whatever you want. Grab ‘em by the President.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Rep. Carlos Gimenez: "The United States has demonstrated to the people around the world that we can touch you anywhere at any time or our choosing"

One night there was an explosion and a fire at the diner down the street and someone called us to see if we were ok. The phone was on my parents’ bed and I ran in and jumped on the bed in excitement to answer the phone and accidentally hung up the call before I got to the phone.

Teri B@tallmaschq.bsky.social

Without revealing your actual age,what's something you remember that if you told a younger person they wouldn't understand?

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I saw this video of a Vietnam vet in the fur coat yelling at ICE and thought to myself, "this is missing something," before I realized, "Ah, of course, the Ether instrumental. It's so obvious."

“HAHAHA NO see if you just subtract these numbers that make us look bad and only look at the ones that make us look GOOD then you see it’s really… not… bad… at all, um, haha…”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Hassett: "When you look at jobs numbers & see they're below 100, the below 100 thing isn't as disturbing as in the past bc a lot of it is reduced govt employment & we're deporting illegals. If you account for that, the expected jobs number for a strong month is a lot closer to what we're seeing."

Christ-onna-stick, no pun intended.

Elad Nehorai@eladn.bsky.social

On Tucker Carlson’s show, Megyn Kelly says Jews killed Jesus. She also rolled it up with some racism about Black crime and whatnot. All framed as a response to supposed anti-Catholic rhetoric. Very clearly a purposefully weak way to have plausible deniability.

Anyone who thinks we didn’t win the White House because a bunch of random “democrat” males couldn’t use the r-word anymore is staring down the barrel of defeat. Again.

Paul F. Tompkins@pftompkins.bsky.social

The text faded to the paywall at the same rate as my eyes would have glazed over anyway

‘But’ means ignore everything to the left of what I just said.

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social

From a focus group of Gen Z Republicans. (www.city-journal.org/article/manh...) Tell me again about how Zohran Mamdani is the big threat to Jewish thriving in the US today.