ptarnation
rarely capitalized. i repost a lot, often about dogs, psychiatry, psychedelics but critical of the hypefest, large event medical, good books, low-key knitting, privacy
- Reposted by ptarnationLook out, Tom Homan. This is you soon. Making the entire hospitality industry hate you is likely to have consequences. You’re going to need to start accepting Cava bags with actual food in them.
- hey fbx, are there military exercises at eielson right now? i thought those were usually more in the spring friend is there for work & can’t rent a car because ”they’ve all been rented by the military”
- Reposted by ptarnationPeople will often come close to directly stating this, such as their disbelief that Trump could order a nuclear strike. I remember in autumn 2016 people telling me that republicans would never let Trump be elected
- Reposted by ptarnationChild at the podium: “A woo woo woo.” Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
- Reposted by ptarnationAs I was saying. Trump airport and Trump tunnel This is Turkmenistan-level stuff.
- Trump offered to unfreeze funding for NYC tunnel if Dulles airport, train station renamed for him, source says reut.rs/4ac0nRa
- Reposted by ptarnationThis is some straight-up monarchy shit. Naming buildings after himself while he's alive, making his birthday a national holiday....
- Reposted by ptarnationSo…TrumpRx is powered by GoodRx. Interesting. (Your GoodRx screenshot made me do a double-take) www.reuters.com/business/hea...
- Reposted by ptarnationHey so trumprx actually went live and it's got the same cost savings as goodrx. Exactly the same. However it's worse because it doesn't include generics. Generic protonix is about $6. This literally does nothing. What a joke.
- Reposted by ptarnationWhy go to all the trouble of getting someone from e.g. Central America, someone who moreover probably wants to avoid coming to the attention of the authorities, to register to vote when you could just invent someone?
- Reposted by ptarnation“military-grade intelligence tactics” “Pattern-of-life” intelligence Bro, you are eating microwaveable Campbell’s Soup for every meal and crashing out in front of the Home2Suites while you’re geared up like you’re in Fallujah
- Reposted by ptarnationHe’s barking mad and mouth-frothing dangerous www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...
- Reposted by ptarnationi swear to god i do not want to have to consider it possible that jeffrey epstein personally caused the 2008 financial crisis
- Reposted by ptarnationAt this point I'd believe that he's responsible for undefined behavior in C++
- Reposted by ptarnationI encourage the anti-woke right to lean real hard into the 'pedophilia ... good?' angle.
- Reposted by ptarnationA special corps of health care workers have been called in to work with detained immigrants and many feel deeply conflicted about the assignment, saying they're not able to provide good care.
- Reposted by ptarnationSometimes a document comes along that distills a matter to its sordid essence, like this email from Epstein to a young Russian woman: "you are 22, --only ask questions of men. they are not really intersted (sic) in your opinions until you are 30. and then only marginally"
- Reposted by ptarnationNew MACPAC data show the highly effective Medicaid Drug Rebate Program reducing gross Medicaid drug costs by 54.9% in FY 2024. Earlier Congressional Budget Office research found that Medicaid gets the lowest net prices of other federal programs/agencies even the VA: www.macpac.gov/publication/...
- Reposted by ptarnationImagine training your whole life and making it to the Olympics and then finding out you have to hang out w JD Vance while you’re there
- Reposted by ptarnationNEW: since last year, a pair of "highly trained" feds have been involved in an array of incidents attacking crowds with chemical weapons. We used public records and open source analysis to identify Edgar Vazquez and Michael Sveum, alongside some other members of their tactical team. Read more:
- Reposted by ptarnationReally wild to see this termed as a "rival" situation because Novo is a pharma company that actually developed and manufactures the drug in question for highly regulated distribution to the public and Hims & Hers is a uhhhh telehealth company selling unauthorized gray market versions of Novo's drug
- Novo Nordisk rival Hims & Hers launches cheaper weight-loss pill ft.trib.al/DBF61eT
- Reposted by ptarnationlike, this was last night. you are not "seeing vampires and galactic parasites" you are schizophrenic. today i got one proving that the feds were collaborating with Yugoslavia(?) to 'gangstalk' a person. thousands of likes!
- Reposted by ptarnationThis is gonna be cool!
- Reposted by ptarnationCAMAI coming up! Candidates, note the airfare discount!
- Reposted by ptarnationhowever insane the pressures in the American entertainment industry it has nothing on the Asian ones.
- Reposted by ptarnationhonestly if OpenAI were my client and they tried to sign the deal they have with Microsoft i would consider resigning just so that no one would think i advised them to do it
- Reposted by ptarnationAbsolutely right! We got Flock surveillance cameras canceled in our county by basically annoying our sheriff into submission. Never forget: they're trapped in here with YOU, not the other way around.
- Reposted by ptarnationThe moment I learned Ben Franklin would play chess into the wee hours while his French mistress, Anne Louise Brillon de Jouy, luxuriated in a bathtub next to him was the same moment I realized my mortal life is filled with all kinds of unmet goals.
- Reposted by ptarnationFact-checks can’t stop political deepfakes from circulating — but teaching about deepfakes before people see them shows promise in helping viewers spot the fakes when they show up. buff.ly/Moy28dw
- Reposted by ptarnationI do not regret to inform you we are going to win
- JUSTIFIED “FUCK ICE” CHANTS #AEWDynamite
- Reposted by ptarnationHoly shit. Hard to think of anything lower than embezzling from the public defender queenseagle.com/all/2026/2/3...
- Reposted by ptarnationNancy Mace has an auto responder for comments containing the word “drugs”.
- Reposted by ptarnation“For what”
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- Reposted by ptarnationWhen she's right, she's right.
- Reposted by ptarnationWyden was doing the same “hey, over here!” routine about the §215 bulk phone program long before anyone heard the name Edward Snowden.
- This is how Sen. Ron Wyden clues the public into activity that he finds extremely alarming. He does a press release about a letter he sent to the director of the CIA that basically says, 'I want to make sure you saw the classified letter I sent early today.' www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
- Reposted by ptarnationThe state of Alaska spent $29 million paying executive-level officials last year, an increase of roughly 9% compared to the year before, according to recently released data. www.adn.com/politics/ala...
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- Reposted by ptarnationSo there was just a very loud and sustained "Fuck ICE" chant during a pro wrestling show on live primetime television, if you wanna get a sense of the vibe shift. (One of the wrestlers, Brody King, is an outspoken prigressive and wore an "Abolish ICE" shirt at a Mexico show in June.)
- Reposted by ptarnationI have this argument that slop is not necessarily contiguous with “ai” but can also describe human made stuff, and I think it’s REALLY interesting as that broad category
- Reposted by ptarnationBhattacharya testified that he's taking this issue seriously, but I just spoke with a researcher who had completed all the screening and was disinvited from NIAID's council *today*. NIAID's council is set to run out of voting members in October. No grants can be funded without Council.
- Reposted by ptarnationSubstack data breach.
- Reposted by ptarnationTrump: I hate even talking about ICE. 2 people out of tens of thousands and you get bad publicity. Host: But it was 2 Americans who died— Trump: We have the smallest trucks. We've been very tough on the waters Host: The waters? Trump: The waters where we knock out boats
- Reposted by ptarnation#AlaskaSky : mt edgecumbe high school athabascan dance group needs regalia! this is all they got if you could help source/make some regalia for the students—let me know!
- Reposted by ptarnationerowid dot org should be an internet state park. preserve its majesty for future generations
- Reposted by ptarnationthis looks like a concept drawing for a lost coen bros movie
- Reposted by ptarnationIt was @asharangappa.bsky.social who first put this idea in my head, but really starting to feel like they're gonna try to get Maduro to cop to some insane 2020 election conspiracy in exchange for leniency www.reuters.com/world/americ...
- Reposted by ptarnationLawmakers advance bill to add state felony charges for AI-generated child sexual abuse material, writes @corinne-smith.bsky.social for the @alaskabeacon.com alaskabeacon.com/2026/02/04/l...
- Reposted by ptarnation*BREAKING: Rubio is out as acting Archivist, and has illegally named an ineligble political appointee to "to serve and perform the functions of archivist"—which he did not have the authority to do. My reporting expands on @federalnewsnetwork.com's scoop: 🧵 lastcampaign.substack.com/p/rubio-out-...
- Reposted by ptarnationAnchorage judge dismisses defamation lawsuit against Anchorage Daily News, Alaska Public Media, writes @alaska.bsky.social for the @alaskabeacon.com alaskabeacon.com/briefs/ancho...
- Reposted by ptarnationamong other things, this means no more OSINT analysis of events like the Good and Pretti homicides in MN
- Reposted by ptarnationmehs students when it’s announced the akutaq is ready! they come RUNNING to the culture room 😋 sheet’ka kwaan (sitka community) care about this kids—i promise you that and the community is stepping up to ask how they can help these students during this challenging time
