randog

randog

@randog.bsky.social

swampland expat and current cityboi

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i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

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The "you can't say AI doesn't work" argument doesn't hit for me. A bunch of stuff in history "worked" with perverse externalities. You CAN recover gold from circuit boards by having children barbecue them over open fires in the street but it's not worth discussing as part of the future of recycling

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Trump is BIG MAD about Obama saying the White House now looks like Saddam opened a Cheesecake Factory: "He's not a smart guy. He's not smart at all ... for you to say it's a Cheesecake Factory, that just shows why you were a lousy president"

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Samantha Brennan@samanthabrennan.bsky.social

A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

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Replying to @marisakabas.bsky.social

Will anyone—anyone at all—ask Trump about the rape allegations published in an official report by the House Judiciary Democrats? Or will he continue to escape accountability for his violence?

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NEW: Skydance Corp, the new owner of Warner Bros Games., has today informed staff that they will be required to work in-office five days a week. In the email announcing the policy, the company also rolled out a 'Voluntary Buyout Program' to let employees "move on in a way that works for them."

Vertical Slice@verticalslice.news

WB Games owner Skydance Corporation introducing five-day in-office mandate alongside 'Voluntary Buyout Program'

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NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

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My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

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Replying to @rowan.monster

like "hey, an LLM can do annoying coding tasks, that's really cool!" is in fact pretty cool, but "you have AI reading and recording everything you do so that it can steal your jobs and do them worse and less efficiently" is in fact not cool

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The number of "lol look at this crazy balloon you can use to escape" videos I'm seeing about Call of Duty's DMZ mode tells me that we're living in a world where people no longer know or care about Metal Gear and I'm just not sure how I feel about that.

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the point of cheesecake factory is it's classy AND fancy AND trashy AND goofy. staff in fresh-pressed restaurant whites but half the menu items are cheeseburgers. you look equally normal eating there in a suit or in jorts. kris jenner filmed a music video there. it's the fever dream of John Everyman

Donald Trump is an open racist piece of shit and adjudicated sex criminal

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Somalia -- 98% of the people here now from Somalia don't work. They don't have to work because they steal so much. They all have a Mercedes Benz. Low IQ and they live better than you do."

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Senate Democrats posted this the same day Josh Turek released the worst anti-trans ad of the cycle. Meanwhile, DCCC released their own anti-trans ad last week in South Carolina.

Senate Democrats@dscc.bsky.social

11 days until we elect Josh Turek as the next Senator from Iowa!

If you watch anything by Angel Studios of your own volition, I’m not letting you in my house

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At a certain point (we are past it) regular voters need to understand that our oligarchs are legitimately, actually, day in and day out, trying to kill a lot of us.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com

So in a huge surprise to absolutely no one, it turns out that NIH director Jay Bhattacharya's new journal based on the premise of letting his friends and only his friends publish essentially whatever they want is full of crackpot nonsense from retired cranks.

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WELKER: Is a vote for you a vote for the Trump agenda? MIKE ROGERS: Um, I'm apologizing. I'm having some difficultly in my earpiece. But is a vote for you? I'm not sure. I'll tell you what a vote for me is. It's a great day for the state of Michigan

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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 ... 🧵

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(Fox News chyron tomorrow) OBAMA: DON'T LET THEM EAT CHEESECAKE

Razzball@razzball.bsky.social

lol they’re really trying to make the Cheesecake Factory comment was too elitist

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i see this all as being downstream of an elephant in the room: police departments have accumulated so much power—and the consent to hold that power from most voters—that our elected officials believe their personal safety and the peaceful transfer of power depends on having their political support.

Team Talarico@teamtalaricohq.bsky.social

Ken Paxton voted against a state budget to increase the salary of police officers. Nearly every other member of the Texas legislature voted yes.

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It’s never been more clear that racism is a scam perpetrated by wealthy elites to convince working people to blame someone other than the wealthy elite.

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no matter how sure you are that these guys have broken a whole bunch of laws, you aren't nearly as certain as they are

Holly Brewer@earlymodjustice.bsky.social

“Several conservative organizations …— including the Heritage Foundation and American Moment — have pressed White House counsel to either prepare pardons or put in place funding for the legal fees necessary to defend junior staffers from criminal and congressional probes or potential lawsuits.”

I’m happy to report these are both curtains for zoosha / flipping a grunt for me. Enjoy getting older so that this kind of dross just slides right off you

This is pathetic shit. Boo this man and his headass opinions

Brad Lander@bradlander.bsky.social

I’m grieving the deaths of the two Israeli soldiers killed in Hebron today, and praying for the full & speedy recovery of those who were injured.

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These NIH institute director positions have a lot of power. Under current rules, the directors make final decisions on where billions of dollars go. So this is important.

Science Magazine@science.org

Exclusive: A physician-scientist recommended by NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya to lead the agency’s mental health institute is no longer in the running. Instead, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. favors a researcher who studies treating mental illness with diet. https://scim.ag/4BvmHlN