William Rockwood

I am here. My twitter account seems not to exist anymore (twas @wjr) and I deleted all facebook apps from my phone (though I do still check it on my computer sometimes). To be fair, I never really posted on twitter, and only post on FB when I'm travelling so I can share cool photos. We'll see.

the washington free beacon is trying to october surprise abdul by revealing his comms chief used to post bangers

Ursula Le Guin American Masters tonight.

Solid metaphor for the entire administration, honestly

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Q: Will you disavow the Muslim Brotherhood? El-Sayed: Yes. Why are you asking the question? Do you assume that I wouldn’t? Q: Yes, because I have not heard you disavow them yet. El-Sayed: Have you disavowed them? I have not heard you disavow them yet.

El-Sayed: JD Vance called me a little weasel today. No, what you’re talking about is a fucking wolverine.

That this bot, which posts random stills and clips from the thousands of hours of VHS transfers on archive.org, landed on *this specific frame* feels like finding the monkey at the typewriter that managed to write Hamlet.

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

FYI

Umm, *I was the “somebody”! www.c-span.org/clip/house-c...

I’m willing to compromise and call it SI — Stupid Intelligence.

Narrator: service was interrupted.

Set record for longest serving GOP Speaker of the House✅ Went to prison for sexually abusing teenage boys✅ Highest ranking elected U.S. official to serve a prison sentence✅ Would love to see that last record broken soon🌅🇺🇸

lol one of our website designers used our organization's entire monthly claude credits yesterday and now half the company doesn't know how to do their jobs. it's october 2nd.

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit

Looks like Trump’s new “steel plant” in IA, announced to shore up support in midterms from people his policies have crushed, where he said construction has already begun, is nowhere close to happening and contingent on Iowans giving tax breaks & incentives to a company in India.

A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.

"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...

"Ava" says, "I’ve worked in the broccoli fields since early 2000. I enjoy every part of my job from cutting to packaging. I can do it all w/my eyes closed. I have years of experience, but I'm not paid for it. I don’t get incentives, benefits & just earn minimum wage." #WeFeedYou

Can the migrant caravan give me a ride to work?

"why would I deceive you?"

Try to live the kind of life that will make war criminals hate you.

So this story is WAY wilder than I thought The Trump post I flagged this morning because it includes Natalie Harp is actually based on the Getty photo you can see below. But there is one key difference -- MONICA CROWLEY'S FACE HAS BEEN EDITED TO LOOK LIKE NATALIE HARP'S WTF is going on here?

So ICE agents are getting fired before their probationary periods are up and are having to repay the $50,000 signing bonus. I love this for them.

I’d highly recommend that nobody download this app. At best, it’s unfiltered propaganda. At worst, it’s spyware.

When you're ticked off and a friend sends you something to make you feel better. 🐑🔊

People aren’t buying what Trump’s selling on his own social media platform these days. Brutal.

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I'm seeing that chart everywhere now

He's fashionably late. They call him the Late Mitch McConnell.

Look, intellectually I understand there are situations that call for unsalted butter instead of salted butter, but emotionally there is never a time I want to be in one of those situations.

I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.

I still don't actually know what this app does

you might not like it but this is what peak, not-AI-written commit messages look like

If a news organization does not cover this as a clear case of: “president Trump tells story of 9/11 that glorifies himself but has no basis in fact” they are not worth listening to. Yes, I’m talking about you, @nytimes.com