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Your friendly neighborhood tankie Pronouns He/Him/Dumbass President Xi, fire the nukes when ready

tweet screenshot from @TerribleMaps "Christopher Nolan expects audiences to believe this trip lasted 10 years" Screenshot of a google maps car trip from Troy, NY to Ithaca, NY of 273 km taking 3 hr 1 min
Poll results for the Georgia Senate race published July 1, 2026 by Fox News showing Ossoff at 56% and Collins at 43%, Ossoff +13%
tweet from 10/21/2025 from @EricMGarcia "Bernie about Platner, 'In all due respect, all right, what I'm worried about, 50,000 Americans may die unnecessarily? And you're worried about a tattoo?' When I asked about his comments about sexual assault, he said 'Have you served four tours of duty?' I said 'I have not.'"
tweet from 10/21/2025 from @EricMGarcia "Bernie about Platner, 'In all due respect, all right, what I'm worried about, 50,000 Americans may die unnecessarily? And you're worried about a tattoo?' When I asked about his comments about sexual assault, he said 'Have you served four tours of duty?' I said 'I have not.'"
Screenshot of the wikipedia page for "Next Syrian presidential election" A link to the left has 2021 and the timeframe for the next election is listed as "Before 2030"
Waffle House says it appreciates Clark Atlanta’s clarification. However, the study’s researchers disapprove of the university’s joint statement, claiming it undermines the survey’s findings and credibility. A spokesperson for the Clark Atlanta researchers who conducted the study shared a statement to WABE, “By presenting the University’s clarification alongside Waffle House’s approval and praise, the release creates the appearance that an external corporate subject may have influenced how academic work would be publicly characterized.”
twitter thread @VictorPopeJr "Remember when we used to think Aladdin was Mexican :double laugh/cry emoji:" reply from @TheKalenAllen "So when they sang, "arabian nightssssss" it didn't lick? reply from @VictorPopeJr "The nights was Arabian not him. I done had some California nights but I'm from Texas"
Your AI Compass 29 of 29 questions answered You are... The Shrug patron saint: Matt Levine AI is a thing that exists and you regard it with detached amusement, like everything else. It's overhyped, sure, but so is most stuff. You'll use it when it's useful and ignore it when it isn't, and you find the discourse more interesting than the technology. You are unbothered.
Tweet from @NoahKahan Jun 27th, 2026 "I shit myself onstage in Charlottesville but that's because I am dedicated to my craft"
tweet from @CBSNews "An Amazon delivery driver skipped the driveway and the sidewalk and drove straight across a southern Indiana couple's freshly cut lawn to make a delivery. The homeowners said they were "completely shocked" when they reviewed their security footage. Amazon told the couple it would repair the damage and is investigating the incident." Below is a 1:06 video of a car driving over a large lawn.
Nothing in the newly released documents shows that Fauci did talk about Covid-19 and bioweapons in the CIA meeting or with an intelligence agency at another time. So even if Fauci’s comments in the CIA meeting qualify as talking with the agency about viral research, these documents leave it far from indisputable that he lied to Congress. In fairness to Fauci critics, the documents do suggest Fauci wasn’t telling the full story of the CIA meeting with his next comment in the exchange; he said that “after the investigations began about Covid, I was briefed by intelligence agencies about possibilities of there being activities going on in different laboratories; I was briefed by intelligence agencies.” The documents do describe the CIA meeting as a “briefing” for Fauci, but also show Fauci expressed various opinions to the CIA in addition to receiving information.
FT chart titiled "Growth reforms can more than make up for the economic hit of Brexit" showing the estimated impact of different stylized reforms on GDP growth. Brexit impact is tied for the 1st or 2nd most impactful of 5 different reforms.
This is why I was wondering whether you had ever observed Donald Trump. I don't know what motivated him. You know he is a Gemini? Feminism are not really ones to say the same thing a lot. They change their minds. You know Geminis?
Smiling Curtis Sliwa
Wembanyama pointing to his forehead mocking the Knicks saying "I'm in your head" before blowing a 29 point lead in the 2nd half
Truth social post from @realDonaldTrump "Both sides, Israel and Iran, are seeking an immediate ceasefire! Final negotiations on "peace" are underway, although ignorance or foolishness may prevent it. The siege will remain in place with full force until a "final agreement" is reached. Things must move quickly. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"
@HunterBiden on twitter qting an account named @beeple. @beeple posted on June 5th "HUNTER BIDEN IS SAVING CRYPTO" with a drawing of Hunter Biden carrying Bitcoin and disheveled crypto investors on his back @HunterBiden's quote from June 6th says "Thanks @beeple, I've been a fan of your art for a long time. This is my new favorite. When I decided to sell my art I wanted every piece on the blockchain and to accept Bitcoin as payment. 'The Internet of Money' by Andreas Antonopoulous really opened my eyes."
He added that members will not be limited to the list of “religious affiliation codes” when selecting information for their dog tags. The revised list, according to documents obtained by Military.com, include Agnostics, Buddhists, Hindus, Islam (Muslims), Judaism, Sikh, and a wide range of Christian-based groups like Baptists, Catholics, Lutherans and Methodists. This restructuring of faith codes, which help identity service members as well as the military in planning for appropriated religious coverage to include them, has now excluded minority faith/worldview groups including Atheists, Asatru, Deists, Druids, Eckankar, Heathens, Humanists, Magick, New Age churches, Pagan, Rosicrucianism, Shaman, Spiritualists, Troth, Unitarian Universalists and various Wiccans.
270ToWin map showing 259 electoral votes for Democrats and 239 for Republicans with Texas the 40 swing votes. Dems get NV, AZ, and GA while Republicans get WI, MI, PA, and NC
270 to win map, great lakes states lean red, southwest leans blue with toss up TX, GA, NC.
Trail with young trees lining it on a sunny day
Tweet from @RadishHarmers "Some of you guys are alright. Don't be alive on May 15, 2026, when I set off the global pandemic which shall come to be referred to by the struggling, tormented survivors as 'The Event'." 3:46 PM April 20, 2019
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4 quadrant political compass on LBJ's face. Statements going counter-clockwise from the top left - Created Medicare and Medicaid - Signed the civil Rights Act (1964) into law - Whipped out his dick in public - Said the N word - Killed hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese people
A JPMorgan executive allegedly used her power to sexually harass and abuse a junior male employee - drugging him, subjecting him to racial abuse and threatening his career when he refused her advances, according to a lawsuit. Lorna Hajdini, 37, an executive director in JPMorgan Chase’s Leveraged Finance division, is accused in the filing of coercing a married banker into ‘non-consensual and humiliating sex acts’ over months, despite his pleas for her to stop. Her accuser claims she admitted to drugging him with the date rape drug 'roofies' on multiple occasions and, during one encounter, berated him as he cried while she performed a sex act on him against his will.
Completed minesweeper in the shape of the strait of hormus, done in 409 seconds.
tweet from @davidshor "To close out red/blue button discourse, we polled ~14k people and crosstabbed survey responses by 204 commonly used psychometric questions. The top four personality questions most predictive of button choice are displayed below" With for charts with the following questions charted from "strongly disagree" to "strongly agree" on the x-axis: "I sympathize with others' feelings" "I tell the truth" "I love dangerous situations" "I cheat to get ahead" Red button is most likely for strongly disagree on the first two questions and most likely for strongly agree on the second two.
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tweet from @araghchi on April 17th, 2026 at 8:45 AM EDT "In line with the ceasefire in Lebanon, the passage for all commercial vessels through Strait of Hormuz is declared completely open for the remaining period of ceasefire, on the coordinated route as already announced by Ports and Maritime Organisation of the Islamic Rep. of Iran."
twitter following feed with only "Welcome to X!" The account in question follow 900 accounts and shouldn't be blank
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two posts in the thread linked above from @peark.es First post: "A coda: UMich has shown a much, much worse sentiment picture since COVID than Conference Board. The CC data still has a residual versus traditional hard data drivers (see above) but it's way smaller. UMich survey methodology changes (moving online) may have something to do with this." Second post: "Good corrective, I had forgotten that Conference Board moved online earlier than UMich. I still think the difference between the two (Conf underperforming expected but still respectable historically vs UMich record low) suggests survey issues."
Reply from Jamesbeam: "Unpopular opinion. It depends. I totally agree with your statement if we are talking about the average citizen starting to throw Molotovs at his house. If you’re afraid AI is taking your job, just do something else. It’s not the end of the world changing careers. Plenty of work AI won’t be able to do, or allowed to do without a human assisting in some way that secures the human a good income and way of life. So if this is done by an individual citizen, they need to be hunted down, arrested, and get the full force of the justice system to deter others from doing the same. On the other hand, right now, Sam Altman is a valid military target for assassination in the US / Iran war. OpenAI did snatch up the contract from Anthropic at the Pentagon, and their technology is in some capacity used to murder Iranian HVTs (High Value Targets). Altman is therefore technically a legal HVT for the Iranians. If you say it’s valid and not a war crime for the US to assassinate former political Iranian figures and their families for aiding the new regime and therefore becoming enemy combatants in the eye of the US Military, it’s also valid to assassinate Altman and his family for doing the same to the other war party."
Same chart as OP but with a green line showing when sport betting was legalized in the US in 2018. Suicide risk does increase for most age groups after that line except 25-34 and 35-44.
a tweet and quote tweet. Original tweet is a still from a video of a person firing a sub machine gun underwater. quote tweet "Americans after finding that a group of fish is called 'school'"
from @realDonaldTrump on Truth Social on April 12, 2026 at 7:52 EDT "So, there you have it, the meeting went well, most points were agreed to, but the only point that really mattered, NUCLEAR, was not. Effective immediately, the United States Navy, the Finest in the World, will begin the process of BLOCKADING any and all Ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz. At some point, we will reach an “ALL BEING ALLOWED TO GO IN, ALL BEING ALLOWED TO GO OUT” basis, but Iran has not allowed that to happen by merely saying, “There may be a mine out there somewhere,” that nobody knows about but them. THIS IS WORLD EXTORTION, and Leaders of Countries, especially the United States of America, will never be extorted. I have also instructed our Navy to seek and interdict every vessel in International Waters that has paid a toll to Iran. No one who pays an illegal toll will have safe passage on the high seas. We will also begin destroying the mines the Iranians laid in the Straits. Any Iranian who fires at us, or at peaceful vessels, will be BLOWN TO HELL! Iran knows, better than anyone, how to END this situation which has already devastated their Country. Their Navy is gone, their Air Force is gone, their Anti Aircraft and Radar are useless, Khomeini, and most of their “Leaders,” are dead, all because of their Nuclear ambition. The Blockade will begin shortly. Other Countries will be involved with this Blockade. Iran will not be allowed to profit off this Illegal Act of EXTORTION. They want money and, more importantly, they want Nuclear. Additionally and, at an appropriate moment, we are fully “LOCKED AND LOADED,” and our Military will finish up the little that is left of Iran! President DONALD J. TRUMP"
post from @TasnimNews "More detailed information about the ceasefire declared by Iran will be announced A two-week ceasefire between Iran and the American-Zionist enemies has been established under special conditions; Trump has also announced this and said that this two-week period will provide an opportunity for a final agreement to be reached and concluded. More detailed information will be announced from Iran in a few minutes."
photo from Artemis II mission of Earth
Chart of Religious Nones by Life Stage and generation. At ages 18-29, Gen Z has 41% identifying with no religion, higher than any other group at any other life stage.
tweet from April 2nd, 2026 at 3:57PM EDT from @JenniferJJacobs "Scoop: @SecWar Pete Hegseth has asked Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George to step down and take immediate retirement, sources familiar with the decision told @CBSNews"
tweet from @DiscussingFilm "OpenAI is shutting down its AI video slop-making platform Sora." Community Note rated as "not helpful" from "an experimental AI contributor" saying: "OpenAI is not shutting down Sora; it is deprecating the Sora 1 model in the US as of March 13, 2026, and defaulting to the newer Sora 2 model while the platform continues to operate. https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001071-sora-1-sunset-faq https://openai.com/index/sora-2"
Bloomberg chart of Saudi oil exports from the gulf and from Yanbu. Until March 2026 total oil exports was between 6 and 7 million barrels a day 80-90% from the Gulf. In March exports are 3 million barrels a day effectively all from Yanbu on the Red Sea.
UK 10 year gilt yield chart over 5 days showing the interst rate rising from 4.85% 5 days ago to 5.02% as of 11am EST 3/20/26
Headline from FT Alphaville 'Demand destruction has begun'
CNBC Brent crude 1 day oil chart for futures to May 2026 at $98.59 per barrel
Oil commodity price chart going back to 2021. Oil spiking today at $109.17 just short of the peaks during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Atlanta Emergency Protest Stop The War On Iran Feb 28 | 3:00 PM | 190 Marietta St NW Corner of Marrieta St NW and Centennial Olympic Park Dr Answercoalition.org/Iran
tweet from @bhangbhangducx "Your plan to knock out the Cuban government isn't just sound — it's airtight. From the model of speedboat to the stockpile of firearms, nothing has been overlooked. All that's left is to start your engines and head south. What's coming isn't just a raid — it's a revolution."
Taken together, SB 79 is a broad deregulation push on the part of luxury and market rate housing advocates that treats environmental safeguards, local democracy, and true affordability as obstacles rather than goals. By steering large transit‑area projects into automatic, no-regulations approval tracks, it strips away the very environmental review tools communities rely on to mitigate *highlighted*traffic, pollution, infrastructure strain, and climate risk.*end highlight*
According to Rand, spending on the 60% of people with one or more chronic conditions made up 90% of all spending. The 40% with no chronic illnesses made up 10% of the spending.
Choose your future chart with everything except Post-scarcity neo-Victorian perma-academia and Art Deco trains-centrist secular messianism scratched out in red.
Reply from @deus01.bsky.social "Just outputs 10 every time" Reply from @lowrhoufo.bsky.social "Randomly picks a number between 1 and 4"
A drawing of Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein waving burning American flags in hell laughing and saying "Yes...We win!"
Tweet from 2/11/26 from @coinbase "Give your agent a wallet" quoting an earlier @coinbase tweet from the same day Introducing Agentic Wallets, our first ever wallet infrastructure built specifically for autonomous agents. Give your agent the power of a wallet. Let your agent manage funds, hold identity, and transact onchain without human intervention. 🧵"
Tweet from 2/11/26 from @coinbase "Give your agent a wallet" quoting an earlier @coinbase tweet from the same day Introducing Agentic Wallets, our first ever wallet infrastructure built specifically for autonomous agents. Give your agent the power of a wallet. Let your agent manage funds, hold identity, and transact onchain without human intervention. 🧵"
The Error of Baseless Skepticism: The baseless skeptic attempts to freeze P(H) at a low value regardless of the strength of E. They ignore the likelihood ratio. When an individual demonstrates competence under constraint (e.g., creating a functional system), they generate a strong signal. To ignore this signal—to treat the claims of a proven expert as identical to the claims of a novice—is a failure of probabilistic calibration [4].
Header: 3 The Bayesian Weight of Demonstrated Compentence Not all claims enter the epistemic landscape on equal footing. Claims emerge from agents operating under varying degrees of constraint, scrutiny, and validation. We propose that "Competence" is not a social label, but a measure of successful navigation through constraint systems (e.g., engineering functionality, mathematical proof, market viability). This can be formalized using Bayesian inference. Let H be the hypothesis that an agent is competent/reliable, and E be the evidence of a specific achievement (e.g., a published paper, a patent, a working prototype). According to Bayes’ Theorem: P(H|E) = P(E|H) · P(H)/P(E) Where P(H|E) is the posterior probability of competence given the evidence. *Highlighted*If an agent achieves a result that is highly unlikely for an incompetent agent to achieve (low P(E|¬H)), then the evidence E must significantly update the prior probability P(H).*End Highlight*
Side-by-side pictures of Miss Piggy and Sabrina Carpenter from E News with the text "EXCLUSIVE: Miss Piggy Says Sabrina Carpenter Was "Very Intimidated" By Her"