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Reader of SF/F, history, politics. Intermittent writer, engineer, Quaker. GameDev-adjacent-ish.

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Yes, and between the press and the administration, they've destroyed trust in public health for a generation.

11.03.2026 02:38 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Trump and the Coronavirus

I wrote a lot about the coverage of Trump’s response to the pandemic, and here is what was clear all along: He had no real plan to restore the country to health other than to peddle false hope, predict a quick end, adopt fake deadlines and shift the blame to others. The most urgent need was to test, test, test, and either he didn’t get it or he didn’t want to know the results because they would β€œlook bad”. The media blew its coverage by letting political reporters lead instead of health and science reporters. Political reporters paid way too much attention to whatever Trump said, such that whatever it was made headlines. They let Trump set the agenda instead of letting knowledgeable people do it. Political reporters also gave Trump way too much credit for trying. They covered up for his incoherence,  ignorance,  cluelessness,  gaslighting, and yes, just plain stupidity. They failed to properly exploit their rare access to him by confronting him with facts and piercing his bubble. They remained complacent in the face of a massive death toll, instead of relentlessly demanding more forceful action.

Trump and the Coronavirus I wrote a lot about the coverage of Trump’s response to the pandemic, and here is what was clear all along: He had no real plan to restore the country to health other than to peddle false hope, predict a quick end, adopt fake deadlines and shift the blame to others. The most urgent need was to test, test, test, and either he didn’t get it or he didn’t want to know the results because they would β€œlook bad”. The media blew its coverage by letting political reporters lead instead of health and science reporters. Political reporters paid way too much attention to whatever Trump said, such that whatever it was made headlines. They let Trump set the agenda instead of letting knowledgeable people do it. Political reporters also gave Trump way too much credit for trying. They covered up for his incoherence, ignorance, cluelessness, gaslighting, and yes, just plain stupidity. They failed to properly exploit their rare access to him by confronting him with facts and piercing his bubble. They remained complacent in the face of a massive death toll, instead of relentlessly demanding more forceful action.

History repeats itself. Remember how devastatingly incompetent Trump was during Covid? How he had no plan? And how news outlets didn’t call him on it? Let me refresh your memory: presswatchers.org/category/tru...

11.03.2026 02:05 πŸ‘ 328 πŸ” 122 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 6

-Takes effect July 1 this year
-1st offense = police warning
-Must move within 48 hours of police warning
-Can be charged with a Class C misdemeanor, punishable by fines up to $500/up to 60 days in jail
-Defense includes known lack of avail shelter beds in 5mi radius & recent involuntary MH hold

10.03.2026 22:01 πŸ‘ 82 πŸ” 48 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 10
The Massage That Nearly Finished Me
The Massage That Nearly Finished Me YouTube video by Josh Johnson

Share this so more people can see it Friends. New stand up out in 3 hours on YouTube youtu.be/-P8--AN_bn8?...

10.03.2026 21:48 πŸ‘ 266 πŸ” 90 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 4

thats fucking bot output

10.03.2026 21:25 πŸ‘ 64 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0
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Please Say Sike Eric Andre GIF Alt: A short GIF of Eric Andre saying "Please say sike".

I'm calling it now, "thats fucking bot output" is the "please say sike" of 2026.

11.03.2026 01:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

In fairness every one of them deserves to wear shitty uncomfortable shoes

11.03.2026 01:08 πŸ‘ 1770 πŸ” 211 πŸ’¬ 118 πŸ“Œ 7

I'm so curious to see how this plays out. The US military experts are of course correct.

The Iranian military doesn't only want to attack oil tankers. The Iranian military attacks oil tankers to lure the US military ships into the straits.

Ideally, they want a carrier.

Yes, they can sink it.

11.03.2026 00:37 πŸ‘ 47 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2

The LDS are gonna have a freak when AI resurrects dead people that the church has post-death baptized into Mormonism and they go right on chatting people up through the AI portal to the realm of the dead as if Moroni never existed and neither did the gold plates.

11.03.2026 00:31 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's funny, he plays exactly the sorts of games I'm involved with, but none of the ones I actually watch. Come on, @northerniion.bsky.social, let's see some Dwarf Fortress! Some Caves of Qud!

11.03.2026 01:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Benny Johnson gives Rand Paul an open mic to make the case against Trump's war-mongering and fiscal irresponsibility.

(this is an extremely rare thing on Johnson's show, which is as safe of a space as there is for Trumpers)

10.03.2026 18:20 πŸ‘ 855 πŸ” 193 πŸ’¬ 35 πŸ“Œ 9
Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists. Character traits.

Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists. Character traits.

Every good heist needs a team of experts!

Use character traits to your advantage to handle anything hell throws at you: store.steampowered.com/news/app/379...

10.03.2026 18:05 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes! John Brown and Jayhawks stole from slave owners.

If you thought it was OK to steal Black people from Africa and keep them as slaves? Then they thought it was OK to steal them from you and set them free, and to steal all your other stuff and keep it.

If you didn't like it? They took you out.

10.03.2026 01:04 πŸ‘ 1842 πŸ” 403 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 11
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09.03.2026 23:07 πŸ‘ 444 πŸ” 98 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 6
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Colossal suckers and gullible chumps, all of them

09.03.2026 22:33 πŸ‘ 528 πŸ” 149 πŸ’¬ 30 πŸ“Œ 8

My apes!

09.03.2026 16:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If you’re roughly my age, it’s wild to reflect on the optimism for the future Americans felt when Obama was elected β€” young Americans spontaneously took to the streets to celebrate! β€” and contrast with what we face today. The falloff over the past 18 years is hard to process.

09.03.2026 15:56 πŸ‘ 30269 πŸ” 5124 πŸ’¬ 1721 πŸ“Œ 472

We are live now answering your Dwarf Fortess questions:

09.03.2026 15:40 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Who remembers last time gas hit $5.00 a gallon, and people started targeting big trucks at night to siphon all $250 of gas out of them?🀑

And some thieves that couldn't figure out how to siphon, just drilled holes in gas tanks?🀑🀑

No? Just me? I'm the only one that remembers that?

Cool!

09.03.2026 01:24 πŸ‘ 65 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 2

This raises the obvious question of what kind of thing the Trump admin might need the National Transportation Safety Board to do that a conscientious Board member would reject.

09.03.2026 00:33 πŸ‘ 1648 πŸ” 550 πŸ’¬ 34 πŸ“Œ 9

I can’t believe a bunch of my friends almost died covering a fucking Jake Lang event.

09.03.2026 00:30 πŸ‘ 468 πŸ” 74 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 2

🀣🀣🀣

08.03.2026 20:29 πŸ‘ 118 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Great Crime Decline Is Happening All Across the Country Even cities with understaffed police departments have made record gains.

"Few experts endorse the idea that the police β€œhad nothing to do with it🀑"

Wrong.

All of the experts endorse it. Anyone that doesn't endorse it, is not an expert on crime reduction.

Because the data on this has been clear and consistent for ~50+ years.

08.03.2026 19:00 πŸ‘ 111 πŸ” 30 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1

Based on my training (having cops put a CI in my house for months) & experience (for trying to do too much anarcho-communist Black liberation with my friends), I have reasonable suspicion to believe cops everywhere on Earth constantly fuckin engage in a criminal pattern of disgusting creep behavior

08.03.2026 15:46 πŸ‘ 170 πŸ” 39 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 0

Crypto remains the safest way to store your wealth unless of course an ex cop decides to break into your house and handcuff you and beat the information out of you to transfer himself $200k of your funny money and also steal your jewelry & cash

08.03.2026 13:04 πŸ‘ 152 πŸ” 45 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 3
Kitfox Games
AMA r/dwarffortress
Monday, March 9th
8am PT/ 11am ET/ 4pm GMT

Kitfox Games AMA r/dwarffortress Monday, March 9th 8am PT/ 11am ET/ 4pm GMT

We are hosting an AMA on r/dwarffortress tomorrow! You can submit your questions now: www.reddit.com/r/dwarffortr...

08.03.2026 14:02 πŸ‘ 38 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

People of conscience are horrified. (Journalists don’t talk to them.)

08.03.2026 03:42 πŸ‘ 179 πŸ” 55 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

08.03.2026 00:29 πŸ‘ 5975 πŸ” 3459 πŸ’¬ 285 πŸ“Œ 237
The HARDAC Batman, which is an AI powered android of Batman, with his face half peeled off (he did it himself) realizing he ain’t shit but a moderately sophisticated program

The HARDAC Batman, which is an AI powered android of Batman, with his face half peeled off (he did it himself) realizing he ain’t shit but a moderately sophisticated program

Watching people do the AI consciousness conversion as if it’s something worth having and once again realizing you can arm your child with all of the defenses they need against Most Of Today’s Discourses by showing them the entirety of Batman TAS

07.03.2026 19:48 πŸ‘ 234 πŸ” 47 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 7

They've now killed four people -- three U.S. citizens and a Mexican national. They've shot several more.

They've lied about all of them. They haven't shaded the truth. They haven't "misled" us. They've brazenly, knowingly lied while in possession of the evidence disproving their lies.

07.03.2026 17:12 πŸ‘ 4762 πŸ” 1920 πŸ’¬ 69 πŸ“Œ 30