Bill Cole

Bill Cole

@scconsult.com

I am much more present as @grumpybozo@toad.social on the truly open Fediverse, which is bridged via @grumpybozo.toad.social.ap.brid.gy * I BLOCK PEOPLE WHO BRING X CONTENT HERE * * I BLOCK FOLLOWERS WHO SEEM TO BE HERE TO COLLECT MONEY *

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if you never used llm coding tools, you should know: this is either manufactured for bait, or this person is the "holding-it-wrongest" user on the planet there's simply no benefit to not knowing the actual state of the thing you want to fight against. it is, in fact, a detriment.

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Lourdes beat me 6-0 6-0 and she’s an awesome lady Our ball girl was named Abby too It was a fun match in the noontime heat and I did it, I did it, I did it, something I wouldn’t have thought possible just 3 years ago.

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B just said "mamamama" (which means "more" when he's in the high chair) AND DID THE SIGN FOR MORE This is huginormous

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Replying to @jamellebouie.net

the thing about wave elections is that they hit unevenly and can produce crazy outcomes

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Replying to @amyhoy.bsky.social

i don't even think llm text output is like molded plastic, which has a lot of genuine use cases, in some cases superior to other materials there are probably a few places where llm text output is better than nothing but i don't think there are any where it's better than human

Just confirmed: the MO-2 of 2026 is *supposed* to be solid GOP/Dixiecrat/Neo-Nazi. Everywhere I ever lived in and around St. Louis is now MO-1, one of the bluest districts in the country. But I had a bunch of family & friends in those hinterlands & I'm tickled pink that they may get a Democrat.

Fred Wellman@fpwellman.bsky.social

Nate Silver is showing my race as the most competitive in the United States today. We have steadily grown our race and now we are 8 days away. Would love your help to take us across the finish line.

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Nate Silver is showing my race as the most competitive in the United States today. We have steadily grown our race and now we are 8 days away. Would love your help to take us across the finish line.

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I think the lesson from Lula is not never talk about the opposition; it's articulate a positive vision that's basically, We Can Just Do Things. That's why Mamdani-ism is so popular - voters have an intrinsic sense that their electeds have agency they're not using

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Replying to @amybrown.xyz

this is maybe the hardest anyone's ever fucked up in the history of ohio

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in ohio this is basically like being shunned

Kirsten Bladh@kerstanley.bsky.social

Over 2,000 alumni from Vivek’s all-boys catholic high school in Cincinnati have signed and circulated a petition demanding that he pull the ad and issue a public apology for “ignoring the moral responsibilities” of his Jesuit education. I think he’s pretty cooked.

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A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

helenwebberley.comAre transgender sports bans really about protecting women? | Dr Helen WebberleyThe data says no. Those most hostile to women are most in favour of banning trans athletes.

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Replying to @davekarpf.bsky.social

Roose does a very nice job signaling in the second paragraph what sort of book this will be. He decided to write it the night after partying with ketamine-snorting effective accelerationists. He isn’t e/acc himself, but he hangs with that crowd and accepts their premises as newsworthy,

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My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

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Not only an incredible talent, but a rare talent who also thought it was funny to just voice random memes every once in a while

Ken Plume@kenplume.bsky.social

Unbelievable loss. An amazing talent, and just a really, really good person. www.instagram.com/p/De8RFy4pyov/

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let's fucking go

Rafa Sales Ross@rafiews.com

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

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This isn't hyperbole or a joke. Parents actually called the cops and got the black boy and his family removed and the league claimed they were trespassing because he was "putting on a show" and wasn't playing "fair."

They called the cops on this 3-year-old Black boy because he was kickin the white kids' ass on the soccer field.

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🧵Yesterday, British Columbia elected a Conservative majority government that ran on a platform of tax cuts and accelerating the pillaging of nature, or what the party calls “natural resources exploitation.” They also ran on attacking Indigenous sovereignty and trans rights.

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The literal next sentence out of his mouth was that he doesn’t want boys in girls bathrooms. The literal sentence that had gotten people up in arms for months. The thing about being a good politician is who you get to clip which part of your answer.

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"You don't turn the Titanic around overnight" has been really bugging me because a) yes you can and b) you definitely should, that was the main problem

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#Wiktionary #WOTD for 26 October 2026: “intersex”—“of an individual: having any of a variety of inherent conditions in which one’s sex characteristics differ from those of a typical male or female; (uncountable) the condition of being intersex; (countable) one with such a condition; […]” w.wiki/ewwh

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Replying to @enwiktionary.bsky.social

Today is #IntersexAwarenessDay and the 30th anniversary of the first major public intersex demonstration in North America.

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People don’t understand why I keep noting that BlueSky is not a bubble, it is a counterpublic. It serves its own organizational function: you can see in realtime in January 2025, on multiple types of social media, shouting that an executive order is instruction to an agency. This one stuck.

Rafa Sales Ross@rafiews.com

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

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Seriously fellow gringos, do y’all not grasp what’s happening in Latin America? You should. If you follow me you’re probably even someone who can find South America on a map.

Bruno Dies@brunodias.dev

Many Americans reacting to this with "I hope this doesn't happen to us in November" and like, no you dumb fucks he's saying this shit because he wants to give YOUR GOVERNMENT cover to interfere further.

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Samantha Brennan@samanthabrennan.bsky.social

A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...