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admin of thepit.social. writer of a newsletter on AI and other things, called Endnotes (https://www.endnotes.net/about). he/him. in Barcelona, from USA. hit your computer with a hammer.

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2026-06-02 08:37:24 GMT

the fact that **Berkshire Hathaway** is piling in to the tune of $10 billion means... something. maybe they see it as a great opportunity to get some Alphabet for cheap? i know they've had a lot of cash on the sideline recently, seems uncharacteristic for them to pile in near the top.

2026-05-25 11:43:18 GMT

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full blog post here: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/05/18/github-copilot-ai-token-charges-to-go-up-10x-100x/@[email protected]

2026-05-23 22:35:45 GMT

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https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/23/politics/white-house-area-gunshots

2026-05-23 22:34:32 GMT

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probably the Secret Service waxing some poor lady who took a wrong turn or something. but.

2026-05-23 05:08:14 GMT

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@nprofile…cgn0 I assume the same way you mute them.

2026-05-22 12:06:40 GMT

this gets worse and worse the longer you look at it.
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2026-05-08 07:55:04 GMT

i agree with William Eyelash, and i eat meat. i would prefer not to, but. https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1t6qvu1/billie_eilish_addresses_backlash_for_saying/

2026-05-07 06:58:32 GMT

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the subhead is crazy. so what is ending, exactly???
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2026-05-07 06:57:39 GMT

ah cool, thanks for the information, Reuters.
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2026-05-06 08:14:55 GMT

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i'll just go ahead and tag in @nprofile…trgk now before the Linux guys get here.

2026-05-06 08:14:13 GMT

this is all so stupid. in addition to the explicit links to crypto and crypto hype guys, a similarity i keep noticing with this late-stage AI and crypto stuff is the absolutely impenetrable jargon and Rube Goldbergian processes around it. "it's simple bro, you just [describes the equivalent of installing and maintaining Arch Linux]" https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/05/05/grok-ai-unofficial-crypto-wallet-hacked-with-an-nft-and-a-prompt-injection/

2026-05-05 11:22:45 GMT

wow, the latest edition of Endnotes is out! incredible. find it here: https://www.endnotes.net/bubble-treats/

2026-05-03 07:50:51 GMT

this i a great post. https://www.reddit.com/r/BetterOffline/comments/1t20ery/the_ossification_of_software/

2026-05-01 04:19:17 GMT

a rocket launcher, wow! i can't believe they put it in the new york times, i've been saying this for years

2026-04-30 11:28:37 GMT

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@nprofile…v240 a certain percentage of housing has to be empty at all times, or how are you supposed to move into a new place? empty for an extended period of time is a different story, punitive taxation on vacant property can fix that. but again, housing prices are rising everywhere at the same time, so it's not **just** a local issue.

2026-04-30 11:11:02 GMT

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"but there's no room in [INSERT YOUR CITY HERE]" yeah there is. there's always room. humans have been expanding cities for **thousands** of years, there's always more room.

2026-04-30 11:01:56 GMT

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i kind of wonder if we're still paying for the 2008 financial crisis. it collapsed housing prices in Europe, giving the impression that housing was abundant/accessible but it was just that a bunch of wealth was wiped out. now that economies have recovered, we're feeling the pinch of all the housing that wasn't built 2008-2022.

2026-04-30 10:57:18 GMT

it's interesting that every economically-successful place in the western world is experiencing an unsustainable surge in housing costs at the same time, and every place thinks it is for uniquely-local reasons.

2026-04-30 08:16:31 GMT

"Wallace and Gromit" where Wallace discovers generative AI and by the end, Gromit has to stop him from assassinating the Queen.

2026-04-26 11:59:15 GMT

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also wondering where the people who used to rush into software development just because it's a lucrative career end up. healthcare?

2026-04-26 08:02:10 GMT

"Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die" is fucking terrible. I do not recommend it.

2026-04-26 06:30:42 GMT

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also, why would a **journalist** be traumatized by witnessing news happening? fuck dude, if I work for a newspaper and someone tries to kill the president in front of me, I'm locking in and reporting the shit out of everything.
(of course, none of these people are that kind of journalist)

2026-04-26 06:26:38 GMT

not traumatized enough imho.
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2026-04-24 09:57:11 GMT

watching dislike of Israel and Zionism morph into dislike of Jews over the last few months has been PRETTY ALARMING and i don't like it one bit.

2026-04-24 06:13:40 GMT

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when people are like "well, it will be bad, but probably not as bad as 2008" i'm like hm, i don't know. i don't know.
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2026-04-24 05:55:51 GMT

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kinda seems like it, yeah!!
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2026-04-24 05:49:44 GMT

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what other industry makes **$7 trillion** in revenue over the course of five years??
Meta + Alphabet + Amazon + Alphabet = ~$1.8 trillion in 2025, which is $9 trillion if you multiply by five. oh ok, yeah sure, seems totally plausible, uh-huh.

2026-04-24 05:43:54 GMT

[monocle plops into my soup] SEVEN TRILLION???? https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/917380/ai-monetization-anthropic-openai-token-economics-revenue?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6Imhoc1FDS1RhQUMiLCJwIjoiL2FpLWFydGlmaWNpYWwtaW50ZWxsaWdlbmNlLzkxNzM4MC9haS1tb25ldGl6YXRpb24tYW50aHJvcGljLW9wZW5haS10b2tlbi1lY29ub21pY3MtcmV2ZW51ZSIsImV4cCI6MTc3NzM4NDQ4MiwiaWF0IjoxNzc2OTUyNDgyfQ.JdiwB5mzMrpD-cun8nXLs42bBKEawbl-27ku_hfMh2A&utm_medium=gift-link
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2026-04-23 11:26:44 GMT

this company declined to interview me for a junior Python developer position, and now they are spamming me with ads about a senior Python developer position they think i should apply for. i feel very strongly that we should publicly execute 1 of every 10 human resources professionals, just to give the rest something to think about.
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2026-04-21 15:01:31 GMT

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lmao the thing AI is **really** good at: giving American culture cheat codes to people from other countries.
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2026-04-21 14:58:57 GMT

finally, a reasonable use for AI.

2026-04-21 05:29:16 GMT

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@nprofile…qwcf i guess he's been an independent since 2024?

2026-04-21 05:02:00 GMT

child-fucker joins the child-fucker party.
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2026-04-20 17:50:32 GMT

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@nprofile…yvd2 😬

2026-04-20 14:10:51 GMT

the "oil shock will put more people on bikes" argument has to contend with the fact that most bikes and parts are made outside the US, and Trump's volatile trade policy is killing the bike business. https://www.r-m.de/en-us/press/press-releases/riese-mueller-us/

2026-04-18 21:34:04 GMT

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@nprofile…84r4 what a weird reply, I'm sending you an ice cream: 🍦

2026-04-18 21:25:35 GMT

guy on Bluesky doing a whole extended "things I overheard" dragging of some couple on a date and he can't tell the difference between a Brit and an Aussie??? bro, delete the posts.
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2026-04-18 21:05:51 GMT

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@nprofile…el3w I had a boot loop problem on my PC, and yeah, turned out it was underpowered. new PS fixed it!

2026-04-17 14:10:26 GMT

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also: the EU age verification app is good, actually. fight me. https://www.endnotes.net/melt-up-summer/#eu-age-verification-good-actually

2026-04-17 14:09:50 GMT

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i did this thing on wtf is going on with financial markets. basically, it's all a GameStop cult now, eternal optimism, the Church of Line Go Up. https://www.endnotes.net/melt-up-summer/#everything-is-hodl-now

2026-04-17 09:46:24 GMT

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the risk of age verification isn't someone physically breaking into your phone and accessing a photo of your ID. they can already do that, i have a photo of my ID in my phone. it's companies storing massive, stealable databases of people's personal information and associating it with otherwise-anonymous online activity.

2026-04-17 09:42:32 GMT

this is stupid. "hacked" the app? sure, all you need is 1) physical access, to 2) an unlocked phone, that's been 3) rooted. yeah, i mean, you can get a **lot** of stuff from a person's phone if you have all that! https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1sn437i/eu_age_verification_app_already_hacked/

2026-04-16 13:46:39 GMT

this is from three years ago. I have a feeling that, with the advent of AI psychosis, the pool of crackpot amateur physicists is now an ocean. https://youtu.be/11lPhMSulSU

2026-04-16 08:07:06 GMT

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@nprofile…gef0 the Bluesky developers specifically have been bragging in public that they use AI to develop it.

2026-04-16 08:05:41 GMT

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there is going to be a tremendous effort to gaslight us that no, this is just how software works, it was always broken, and that's not true.

2026-04-16 08:04:43 GMT

vibe-coded Bluesky is going great!
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2026-04-15 06:51:40 GMT

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ChatGPT was released to the public four years ago and today i can't think of a single software feature or product that uses it that i would miss if it disappeared today.

2026-04-15 06:49:57 GMT

i have never used an AI customer service chat that was more helpful than the previous deterministic chat bots that regurgitate the FAQ or whatever.

2026-04-13 20:24:20 GMT

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2026-04-09 18:45:10 GMT

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feels like the worst time to be alive if you are the kind of person who is passionate about learning to do things the right way.

2026-04-09 18:42:58 GMT

in a class on using AI for data analysis and i genuinely don't want to work in information technology anymore. none of this shit works and everyone is required to use it anyway. it sounds like hell. i would literally rather flip burgers or whatever.

2026-04-09 05:14:41 GMT

finally, sci-fi and fantasy for men
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2026-04-08 19:53:23 GMT

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let's go live to the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange
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2026-04-08 19:51:49 GMT

wow what a surprise.
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2026-04-07 19:40:38 GMT

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weak shit. absolutely busted.
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2026-04-07 19:30:29 GMT

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let's go, ma'am. 🫡https://bsky.app/profile/foushee.house.gov/post/3miwehrp2zc2z
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2026-04-07 19:28:30 GMT

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she said it better than me.
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2026-04-07 19:26:21 GMT

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good. good. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elissa-slotkin-military-refuse-illegal-orders_n_69caadbfe4b09eec10e0ef6c

2026-04-07 18:12:23 GMT

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it's such a safe thing to demand because these guys have no responsibility at all. i could do it, watch: I demand President Trump's cabinet invoke the 25th Amendment and replace him with Vice President JD Vance.
see? anyone can demand that, to the same effect.
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2026-04-07 18:09:42 GMT

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hm, but is there something **you** can do, Congressman??
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2026-04-07 17:01:55 GMT

men and their model trains.
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2026-04-07 16:57:18 GMT

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alright alright alright.
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2026-04-07 16:38:21 GMT

every president should have to spend four years in prison after their term is up, no matter what. they definitely did something, we just may not know what it is. and they don't get to pick the prison, it is selected at random. i think this could contribute to solving a lot of problems.

2026-04-07 16:11:46 GMT

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close but no cigar.
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2026-04-07 15:54:57 GMT

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@nprofile…q5v8 please don't tell me what to tell other people not to do.
block me if you need to. but don't suggest i am doing anything wrong. i am not.

2026-04-07 15:50:38 GMT

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another one.
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2026-04-07 13:16:38 GMT

i see people making snarky jokes about this, and you know what: stop. it's not funny.

2026-04-07 12:38:50 GMT

holy fuck. someone stop him.
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2026-04-07 06:43:34 GMT

alright, i'm doing it, i'm doing a blog/newsletter! first post here: https://www.endnotes.net/introduction/

2026-04-07 06:38:02 GMT

not a very fun thread. https://bsky.app/profile/andrewfacini.com/post/3miui2sd3p22h
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2026-04-06 16:45:09 GMT

this sounds like malware.

2026-04-06 15:22:44 GMT

my favorite thing on social media right now is when guys come over from X/LinkedIn to Bluesky or Mastodon and try to do their AI hype song and dance and everyone just shits directly in their mouths.

2026-04-03 19:32:51 GMT

very chaotic
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2026-04-02 16:51:53 GMT

this Spanish is fucking terrible. i know what they are trying to say in English, and this is not how you would say it in Spanish.
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2026-04-01 11:58:17 GMT

here's an idea to keep the costs down, what if instead of delivering each purchase directly to a customer's door, we deliver items to a central spot where customers can pick them up? oh, and maybe we can even cut wait time by predicting what customers in that area typically buy and stocking them in bulk ahead of time?? maybe we even let customers see/handle the product before buying it. and we could have product pickup spots that specialize in certain kinds of products! has anyone tried this??

2026-03-31 18:49:09 GMT

jesus fucking christ so **this** is some 2008 shit right here. "common sense might tell you the collateral for this debt is hot garbage, but Moody's rates it investment grade, so pile in everybody!!!" maybe we will get that melt-up after all. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/coreweaves-stock-rises-as-investors-cheer-unique-financing-deal-e2d44c4e?mod=home_lead
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2026-03-31 18:40:24 GMT

some people on Reddit were stunned that Claude Code is half a million lines long, and in my (very limited) experience, this is just how LLM-generated code works. it starts off fine and it ends up doing VERY WEIRD, loopy, back-flippy, counter-intuitive stuff, and it **never gets shorter**. i can't wait to see where this stuff is in ~5yrs.

2026-03-31 15:01:29 GMT

uh-oh!!
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2026-03-31 12:13:21 GMT

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@nprofile…s039 lol i'm in this image and i don't like it.

2026-03-31 06:26:45 GMT

Reuters describes this as "damaged" lol
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2026-03-30 22:01:03 GMT

I love English for this.
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2026-03-30 17:02:10 GMT

more. MORE! https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/openai-funding-fears-hit-memory-154500748.html

2026-03-30 15:56:32 GMT

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oh lastly, it's an example of Americans no longer getting the treats they are accustomed to. one of the little benefits of living in a rich country that lets tons of extra wealth slosh around: 1hrs on a plane instead of 2-3hrs on a bus, as a treat. but the middle-class treats are done. they are ending.

2026-03-30 15:48:35 GMT

this is **very** funny. my thoughts are that 1) this lady is kind of dumb if she thought a flight from South Bend to O'Hare was going to take ~2hrs; 2) AA should definitely not call it a "flight" if it's actually a bus; 3) there's nothing wrong with reliable intercity bus lines and there should be more of them, not just for people expecting a "flight"; however 4) these buses should be trains. https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2026/03/26/american-airlines-flight-bus-ride/

2026-03-30 13:16:22 GMT

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@nprofile…tcng as a person who just "learn to code"d with Python, how dare you!!
seriously tho, without AI, the non-dedicated people would have just stopped after "Hello World", and you can immediately tell what it is. now, they don't really like coding, but they're still all building MCP integrations and agent harnesses and tools for turning emails into podcasts or whatever.

2026-03-30 11:06:26 GMT

lol TIL
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2026-03-30 10:35:09 GMT

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i personally kind of think Python and open source are cooked until they figure out a way to fence themselves off from the goobers throwing AI slop into every repository. Anthropic can't collapse fast enough imo.

2026-03-30 10:33:24 GMT

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people are saying!! https://www.reddit.com/r/LLMDevs/comments/1s7gnad/found_out_scientific_python_package_id_started/
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2026-03-30 06:01:28 GMT

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"Big day in Iran" oooooof, yeah that should calm everybody down.
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2026-03-30 05:53:06 GMT

Trump was obsessed with Kharg Island way back in the 80s. he's gonna get thousands of US Marines killed because he has dementia and none of the Republicans have the guts to stop him. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/12/polly-toynbee-1988-interview-donald-trump
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2026-03-30 05:17:47 GMT

i've been saying "this is Black Monday" for a few weeks now, but this might actually be it.

2026-03-28 15:32:10 GMT

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I actually don't think it matters if Democrats win the midterms unless they can tell me what they are going to do with that power: how they are going to prosecute the MAGA criminals and traitors, what they are going to do about the Supreme Court, how they are going to rein in the armed security forces. if they can't, what they are promising is not change, but a pause.

2026-03-28 15:29:15 GMT

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look, go to these things. it's fine. rallies are important. but quit this fucking gaslighting that voting matters. for some people it does, but for a huge portion of Americans, **it fucking doesn't**. structurally, as a result of how our political system was designed and maintained over the years by both parties, in many parts of the US, **your vote doesn't count** and by insisting that it does, you are sending the message that Democrats don't intend to change anything about the status quo.

2026-03-28 15:26:04 GMT

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and what happened? we all rallied around and elected fucking **Joe Biden** who fucked everything up. and now we're back where we started, with a bunch of babyboomer resistance libs who own million dollar homed yelling at us to vote. ma'am, I can't vote, because the last place I was registered to vote is Washington, DC, and they don't have senators or a representative because when the Democrats take power, they refuse to exercise it.

2026-03-28 15:22:53 GMT

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lots of talk about "we have to stop Trump!!" and "VOTE!!" and "this is what democracy looks like" etc. let's see where have I heard this exact same thing before, oh yeah, from the **last** time Trump was president.

2026-03-28 15:20:20 GMT

I went to a "No Tyrants (Kings)" thing, and maybe it was just my particular event, but it mostly made me bitter and resentful.

2026-03-28 05:21:32 GMT

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2026-03-27 18:18:59 GMT

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2026-03-27 13:12:47 GMT

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@nprofile…vql3 i think @nprofile…04f4 has some theories on this as well.

2026-03-27 13:04:11 GMT

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@nprofile…jtkz i'm gonna expand on the stuff i write about here, and probably do what i can to contribute to a world where humans are connected with each other. so, talk about movies, books, link to other real humans, etc. i think there's a new media ecosystem finally emerging from the wreckage, and i want to join it and help it along.