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Proud Delawarean. Fundamentally unchanged since the Triassic. You may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like.

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Congratulations to the capitulating law firms for being a useful foil to those standing firm in the DOJ’s very first footnote.

07.03.2026 05:05 πŸ‘ 205 πŸ” 36 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1

Again. This matters.

07.03.2026 01:56 πŸ‘ 3075 πŸ” 866 πŸ’¬ 83 πŸ“Œ 21

Yes. And we have to talk about this now, because talking about it is the first step to making it seem like a callous crime rather than a surprising emergency.

07.03.2026 02:43 πŸ‘ 2203 πŸ” 745 πŸ’¬ 44 πŸ“Œ 13

Tonight, two of the white nationalists I reported on in this piece showed up to attempt to intimidate me on a private night out at a small music venue.

I’ll have more to say tomorrow. I’m safe.

They also didn’t pay cover πŸ–•

05.03.2026 04:43 πŸ‘ 3025 πŸ” 996 πŸ’¬ 152 πŸ“Œ 95
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People Are Calling Meta Ray-Bans "Pervert Glasses" On Bluesky, users quickly embraced the term "pervert glasses" to refer to Meta's Ray Ban smart glasses, following a shocking investigation.

Make it stick.

06.03.2026 18:25 πŸ‘ 8467 πŸ” 2492 πŸ’¬ 143 πŸ“Œ 283

FL deems intro textbooks in my discipline illegal.

It's bc Sociology analyzes systems...it gives people the practical thinking tools to dismantle the master's house.

As a fmr English Lit major, Sociology is the most powerful thing I've ever learned. I see why the Temu Savonarolas are scared of it.

06.03.2026 20:16 πŸ‘ 103 πŸ” 39 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 0

I was a Medieval and Renaissance Studies major... my takeaway from that was that for almost the entirety of Western history, the "government" and the "church" were both just gangsters all the way down. This is my first experience with it firsthand and I'll say, I don't care for it a bit.

06.03.2026 18:07 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Claude is roleplaying sentience, and it's handlers are such anti-social dweebs, they can't tell the difference.

06.03.2026 15:06 πŸ‘ 415 πŸ” 31 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 2
A post on X from the betting platform Polymarket that says β€œBREAKING: Anthropic CEO says Claude may or may not have gained consciousness, as the model has begun showing symptoms of anxiety.”

A post on X from the betting platform Polymarket that says β€œBREAKING: Anthropic CEO says Claude may or may not have gained consciousness, as the model has begun showing symptoms of anxiety.”

Literally as I’m arguing with someone about whether AI companies are misleading people into believing their technology possesses God-like super-intelligence I see this monstrosity

06.03.2026 15:04 πŸ‘ 5016 πŸ” 796 πŸ’¬ 309 πŸ“Œ 602

It's school shooter psychology writ large, I don't anybody realized until recently what a significant percentage of the population has acquired this sick fantasy of self-destructing in a dramatic way while taking out a bunch of other people they hate (for no particularly good reason) with them.

06.03.2026 17:36 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Flavor Aid Wikipedia page with tabs labeled
- Flavors
- Jonestown massacre
- References

Flavor Aid Wikipedia page with tabs labeled - Flavors - Jonestown massacre - References

You know some guy at the factory has been trying to edit that Wikipedia page for 20 straight years

07.07.2023 05:20 πŸ‘ 623 πŸ” 59 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 2

Oh man I don't know that one but I bet the Germans do. And I also need it, I sometimes lay awake at night cringing at things I did 35 years ago. On the optimistic side I think you could call it "personal growth" but that's kind of putting frosting on a turd, it's not a pleasant feeling, lol.

06.03.2026 16:53 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

A few years ago I needed a word for exactly this, the opposite of schadenfreude, and after an online conversation with like 30 different people I finally found it: fremdschΓ€men (vicarious embarassment). Surprise surprise, the Germans have a word for something, lol.

06.03.2026 16:43 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

She grew up very poor and in an abusive family. I think she's absolutely a victim here, and the role of churches in spreading this abject horseshit in vulnerable populations is not discussed enough.

06.03.2026 16:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

She hasn't vaccinated her youngest (who is now 7). It's really, really hard to argue with something that has been presented to someone as a quasi-religious belief because it comes through their church. This woman doesn't have the sophistication or media or scientific literacy to be skeptical. 3/

06.03.2026 16:28 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

her social life and her now-adult kids are also active in the church, volunteering and such. But this church has brought in a bunch of anti-vax, anti-fluoride speakers and she's been totally bamboozled by that. She vaccinated her now- adult kids but says now that she's "educated herself" 2/

06.03.2026 16:26 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I know a person who is smart but not educated (she has a GED) and she loves her kids very much, and got involved with an evangelical church partly because its members helped her and her kids get out of an abusive marriage. The church has given her financial and social support over the years, it's 1/

06.03.2026 16:24 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Russia is providing Iran intelligence to target U.S. forces, officials say The targeting information has included the locations of American warships and aircraft in the Middle East, the officials said.

Exclusive: Russia is providing Iran with targeting information to attack American forces in the Middle East, the first indication that another major U.S. adversary is participating β€” even indirectly β€” in the war.

06.03.2026 12:30 πŸ‘ 701 πŸ” 358 πŸ’¬ 100 πŸ“Œ 136

An important lesson Target is about to learn:

1. Trust is extremely difficult to get back once lost.

2. When people move on they almost never come back.

03.03.2026 17:40 πŸ‘ 52 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2

I think they might have better luck spending two thousand dollars holding a press conference where they detail who made the key decisions to collaborate with the Trump administration, how and when they were fired, and explaining what would stop that from happening again.

06.03.2026 13:16 πŸ‘ 7465 πŸ” 1596 πŸ’¬ 205 πŸ“Œ 51
kevinrkirk 2d
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Why are we bothering with the Strait of Hormuz when we could simply do this? Explain it to me like l'm 5.

(Drawing of chopping of part of land)

suahuatica 2d
MOUNTAIN HARD AND BIG, WATER NO UP. MANY MANY DIG DIG.

kevinrkirk 2d @ Threads Why are we bothering with the Strait of Hormuz when we could simply do this? Explain it to me like l'm 5. (Drawing of chopping of part of land) suahuatica 2d MOUNTAIN HARD AND BIG, WATER NO UP. MANY MANY DIG DIG.

Happy Friday. Don’t skip school.

06.03.2026 14:04 πŸ‘ 3934 πŸ” 792 πŸ’¬ 155 πŸ“Œ 91

There are many people who would follow him straight off a cliff to Hell and I respectfully suggest they should do it, with alacrity.

06.03.2026 14:37 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

have noted this before but want to again emphasize that us Tattoo Havers can tell you only certain shops would have totenkopfs and they are going to be surrounded by other nazi symbols that you will in fact easily recognize

06.03.2026 13:16 πŸ‘ 191 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 1

My mind went here immediately, a sad testament to having had a job somewhere near a fax machine in the distant past.

06.03.2026 12:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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06.03.2026 12:53 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

You needn't convince people, you need to convince insurance companies.

06.03.2026 05:56 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

You should still impeach her, because via impeachment you can bar her from being a federal officer

06.03.2026 12:24 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Slurs Filled a Chat Created by a Republican Party Official in Florida

passive voice final boss grand champion honorable mention award for turning slurs into a sentient thing that can do actions www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...

06.03.2026 03:51 πŸ‘ 2169 πŸ” 493 πŸ’¬ 39 πŸ“Œ 20

I continue to be gobsmacked at 1) how common this formulation is 2) how antisemitic and generally bigoted it is 3) and how for all the talk of anti-semitism this is never cited as an example even though it’s quite literally the original incarnation.

05.03.2026 23:26 πŸ‘ 8834 πŸ” 2128 πŸ’¬ 360 πŸ“Œ 59