So that's why Bluesky servers have been robust as of late 😒

a map showing a Mississippi where all 82 counties are shades of red

A map showing Mississippi's 82 counties, many shaded red and pink, many shaded blue and purple.

Left: How people think Mississippi votes

Right: How Mississippi actually votes

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Reporter: What do you make of Republicans saying that Virginia—

AOC: Wah wah wah.

We have asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no.

What they’re just mad at is that they have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over.

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Oh for fuck's sake.

Dude is blocking via list and it's not just petty, it'll break functionality?

Dear bluesky staff: SEPARATE YOUR PERSONAL AND PRO ACCOUNTS.

republicans will yowl and piss and moan and that to my mind is all the reason to do it

Reminder that the WaPo and most legacy newspapers are owned by right wing billionaires and serve Republican agendas.

Alternatives in the thread!

::taps mic::

Fred from Scooby-Doo unmasking the bad guy at the end of a mystery, in two frames. First frame: Left side: a tied up man in a white featureless mask with eye holes. The caption over him in impact font reads, "SOMETHING I USED TO LOVE SUCKS NOW" Right side of frame, Fred has his hand on the mask, about to pull it off. The caption on him reads, "LET'S SEE WHO'S BEHIND THIS." Second frame: The unmasked bad guy has a pencil thin curling mustache, a pointy nose, and dark hair, with a widow's peak. The caption on him reads, "PRIVATE EQUITY"

Evergreen

maybe it'll happen tonight

The YES has won in Virginia; voters approved the constitutional amendment to adopt Dems' congressional gerrymander.

This is likely to deliver a 10-1 (Dem) congressional delegation in November, compared to 6-5 (Dem) now.

The remaining obstacle: State supreme court will be weighing in still.

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is not something i could have possibly imagined tbh

*specifically thinking of ones folks actually requested in March like How High (2001), Half Baked (1998), Cheech and Chong's Next Movie (1980), and Friday After Next (2002)

Script Hive Script Hive is the world’s largest free library of professional film and TV scripts, created for screenwriters to study and learn for educational purposes.

It'd be cool on this 4/20 to have stoner screenplays to be among the 59 needed to hit 26,000 total screenplays and related production materials... but alas they aren't in the zero dollar wilds of the internets.

One of the Sandy Hook families lives in hiding 1500 mi away from their baby’s grave due to people stalking them.

The graves of multiple children have been defaced.

One of the fathers had to submit DNA evidence to prove his son was a REAL HUMAN BEING after Alex Jones’ book said he never existed.

The Infowars news is funny, yes. But more importantly, it is an outright rebuke of Alex Jones' evil.

It's testament to the strength and resilience of the Sandy Hook families who survived this bullshit for more than a decade as well as the Onion, which didn't give up on this for the last 18 months.

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Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed.

We must get rid of Palantir altogether.

twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

Link to the ruling. I am not sure I’ve seen a judicial opinion with this many tweet screenshots in it before storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

this is fucking nuts:

The FBI Director Is MIA Kash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.

LOL @ Kash Patel

(gift article and the Atlantic is being useful for a change)

🫠 so many requests for those scripts...so many 🏴‍☠️ pdfs that'll be making the rounds (e.g. stranger things, 28 years later...)

that they are freaking out this badly over a surtax on second homes worth more than five million dollars - the most excessive rich person thing imaginable, which doesn’t even affect most of them - really makes it clear how little attention you need to pay to the freak outs

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit

Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here

Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse

Media and universities: AI is here to stay

Pardoned Jan. 6 rioter to plead guilty in child sexual abuse case, adding to pattern Trump’s pardons for Jan. 6 rioters were already indefensible. As many of them run into fresh trouble with the law, the move continues to look even worse.

Another Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump will plead guilty in a separate case involving child exploitation of multiple victims.

David Daniel has reached a plea agreement in connection with a pending charge of sexual exploitation of a minor and possessing sexually explicit images of children.