Cuddles_the_destroyer

I was reading @zitron.bsky.social 's articles and this google search i did perfectly encapuslates the points he has been making about big tech in general and AI implementation specifically. There's layers to this.

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Here’s the monthly data with a 12-month trailing average, so we don’t “look ahead” of the time series. We can see that visits from Canada are substantially down. Like, a *lot*. And if we looked at the French series by itself we’d see something too. But it’s not on the scale of Covid. Yet.

I went and got the data. Here’s the raw series, which is noisy because tourism is highly seasonal. The catastrophic effect of Covid is obvious, followed by a recovery to lower levels. There’s also evidence of a substantial Trump effect from Canada. We can apply a more sensible smoother to see.

It’s like the DSCC got to decide what states would have the greatest price increases.

I would buy this specifically so my kids can color the shit out of this This is a blank canvas

Seeing a lot more Republicans break with Trump on his dumb shit then we’ve seen in a long time

fuck it

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Fast and Furious series. Imagine, the western answer to initial d and speed racer.

In attempting to add a cartogram to our maps, I have accidentally created an art masterpiece

@ringwiss.bsky.social How did Luna manage to pull off killing 2 weeks of legislative time? CNN is light on the details: www.cnn.com/2026/06/25/p...

I'm not convinced there's any kind of Dem "Tea Party" going on, other than New York. For the most part, Dem incumbents have done very well, and the few who lost outside of New York had some amount of baggage.

Food Blogging i think is liberal coded. Meanwhile what's conservative/non-political coded I think is watching network cable TV (at this point).

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This may be flawed logic, but there are clear comparisons between the turnout in the General Election for Governor in 2018 and the Primary for this year. So we decided to map each county by how much vote is in in 2026 compared to 2018... In theory, a lot of vote left!

Susan Collins is pictured here with members of the “Maine Militia,” a far-right group accused of racist and antisemitic rhetoric.

The ‘socialists’ that are picking MTG over AOC were always just republicans. they had plausible deniability in the ‘10s but Everyone that is shocked and/or handwringing over this stuff should just get over themselves. dog bites man. The real socialists are outside knocking doors right now

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Good things are possible

Last night’s #ThePitt included ICE agents in the ER, prompting patients and staff to flee. The episode “mirrors the real experiences of health care workers around the country” @judyberman.bsky.social

Both docs, one was a revolutionary but fell out of it hard after winning his war (and it was a shooting war).

Set the Nazi stuff aside for a minute. I'm curious a.) why this stuff isn't common knowledge (if it wasn't already) and b.) if it is, why Platner's supporters in the left wing chatter-sphere give him a pass on it. Track AIPAC attacks other Dems for literally less, and yet they endorse Platner.

Who does Seth Frantzman happen to be? An adjunct fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, which is a pro-Israel, anti-Iranian think tank with close ties to Likud.

@schnorkles.bsky.social How weird is this? (CNBC also has a bit more information, here: www.cnbc.com/2026/02/10/m... )

americans hate it when they're shown on tv doing something cool

Even the med student exam prep account is dunking on ICE

But when I asked an organizer what they wanted to see out of press coverage, they told me they wanted people to see the beautiful things they are building here, and not just the worst stories of the worst of ICE's crimes. What people are doing here is beautiful. It's a tragic beauty, but a real one

I've been here 24 hours, but already with what I've seen, well, I genuinely believe we're going to win. People here are well aware that what happens here impacts the entire country, that it sets the tone for resistance. ICE is angry, ICE is terrified, of how deeply unpopular it is.

Hiding in the woods like bitches People from North Carolina don’t play; they’ll find out about North Carolina very soon.

Weird how at some point the ACA subsidies went from meaningless technocrat babble that it was obviously incredibly stupid for Democrats to try protecting to being incredibly important for helping people avoid suffering. And Democrats managed to get it wrong both times!! What were the odds?

axios reporter: a deal to end the shutdown, that the dems are willing to sign off on, in this legislative climate, under these electoral conditions? gop staffer: um. yes. axios reporter: can i see it? gop staffer: no

Just to add onto this, we took a look at the major polls for the VA and NJ Elections, and ranked them by how accurate they were. On the left is VA Gov, and on the right is NJ Gov. (1/2)

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Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

the ketchup banchan is fucking destroying me

Gonna talk in entomology class today about how Jewish scientists forced to work in Nazi concentration camps secretly sent fake vaccines to the eastern front and managed to kill 4,000 Nazis with typhus.

Yeah so about that bsky.app/profile/esgh...

hey so for once there's an actual happy update to something our local ice cream guy came home and he's getting a green card

lmao

The family fortune is buried in this random beach in Hawaii, whomever finds it it's all yours, I'm fucking off to El Salvador I hear good things about how it's run.

Life Sized Gundam, fully working and movable.

By a vote of 55-45, the Senate did not pass H.R. 5371, the Republican Appropriations and Extensions Act, upon reconsideration. (60-votes needed) Senators Cortez Masto, Fetterman, and King (I) voted aye. Senator Paul voted no.

The Free State of Florida is now trying to ban *sidewalk chalking*