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Anthropocene Datamaskin @anthropocenities.bsky.social · 9h

Any reading recs?

Anthropocene Datamaskin @anthropocenities.bsky.social · 9h

This is why the people voting for the leopard eating faces party are shocked when the leopard comes for them: if they felt like their voting decisions didn't affect them before, why would they expect them to matter *this* time?

Anthropocene Datamaskin @anthropocenities.bsky.social · 9h

It's a feedback loop: the more flawed the system becomes, the more the system depends on people voting for vibes over material policies, which makes space for politicians to further weaken the system, which necessitates more vibes-based voting...

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Anthropocene Datamaskin @anthropocenities.bsky.social · 16h

Lee Jae Myung is against Korean military dependence on the US. 'Made in Murica' vibes aside, getting a nuclear anything from the US is a step in that direction.

Anthropocene Datamaskin @anthropocenities.bsky.social · 3d

It's funny how Zionists think reframing the Palestinian genocide as "war on Hamas" makes shooting a child point blank in the face less bad.

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Anthropocene Datamaskin @anthropocenities.bsky.social · Sep 23

Saying Tylenol causes autism is just lazy. Everyone knows it's caused by pressing your nose up to a CRT TV so you can see the tiny red/green/blue squares that make all your favourite cartoons.

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Anthropocene Datamaskin @anthropocenities.bsky.social · Sep 21

@sentencebender.bsky.social it's getting increasingly difficult to find amazing books by accident, but that's how I found Blackfish. Thank you. 🙏

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Anthropocene Datamaskin @anthropocenities.bsky.social · Sep 21

...She explained this in the book?

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Anthropocene Datamaskin @anthropocenities.bsky.social · Sep 21

Yes. But Meta is in a position of power so doesn't care. Their entire response is rubbing everyone's noses in an ocean of They Don't Give a Fuck.

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Anthropocene Datamaskin @anthropocenities.bsky.social · Sep 21

What's especially stupid is news orgs like WaPo, NYT, pull shit like this, or water down their coverage to protect themselves from Trump, when it literally Does Not Do That. Trump pulls shit arbitrarily, because that's how authoritarian censorship*actually* works.

Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · Sep 20

New from me:

There's a lot of misinformation around the reasons I was fired from WaPo.

Here's the official termination letter I got sent by Washington Post.

Read and judge for yourself.

open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

Why Washington Post fired me

Read the official termination letter for yourself.

open.substack.com

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Anthropocene Datamaskin @anthropocenities.bsky.social · Sep 21

This is especially bad for Disney theme parks given the decline in international tourism to the US generally. Park revenue may now be dependent on a shrinking pool of affluent, normie Americans who are either MAGA or 'don't care about politics'.

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Anthropocene Datamaskin @anthropocenities.bsky.social · Sep 21

I initially read 'Mormons' as 'morons' and I found it satisfying that the stat ratings apply for both.

Anthropocene Datamaskin @anthropocenities.bsky.social · Aug 30

Is he dead, or did he just have a really bad meltdown over the fact that all his tariffs are illegal?

Anthropocene Datamaskin @anthropocenities.bsky.social · Aug 30

I agree. I wonder if doing more with the ideologies would help. Unless you're going for a military victory in the modern era they're kinda pointless.

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Anthropocene Datamaskin @anthropocenities.bsky.social · Aug 20

Has Loony Toons part of Trump's TV schedule these days? 🤔

a cartoon of a coyote in a tunnel with a bucket of food

ALT: a cartoon of a coyote in a tunnel with a bucket of food

media.tenor.com

Anthropocene Datamaskin @anthropocenities.bsky.social · Aug 19

I'm attending this event. RT if you think others will find this helpful 🙌 worldshift.manyworldswriting.com

Worldshift: The Speculative Fiction Writers' Summit 2025

Speculative Fiction Writers' Summit

worldshift.manyworldswriting.com

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Anthropocene Datamaskin @anthropocenities.bsky.social · Aug 10

Headline buries the lede, IMO. If requiring a long-term visa prevents Russians in Thailand from opening bank accounts 'en masse', then what the fuck are those Russians doing in Thailand? There are soooo many options for long-term visas in Thailand - why aren't Russians using them?

Anthropocene Datamaskin @anthropocenities.bsky.social · Jul 29

So you're saying that constantly building highways to ease congestion is...bad?

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Anthropocene Datamaskin @anthropocenities.bsky.social · Jul 27

Horseshoe bad take: terrible, brain rot, but I kinda love it?

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Anthropocene Datamaskin @anthropocenities.bsky.social · Jul 17

Or Epstein was someone's intelligence asset, and the Trump Admin didn't take this into consideration when they were gung-ho about releasing the files.

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Anthropocene Datamaskin @anthropocenities.bsky.social · Jul 12

This is like people getting weird about that video of AOC dancing to Lisztomania. Like, do they not know that like a third of millennials have a social media picture flicking off a racist statue?

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Anthropocene Datamaskin @anthropocenities.bsky.social · Jul 12

There are many parallels to the opposition against the Vietnam war: people feeling overexposed to atrocities, protesters struggling to get things done because the war is part of a deeper, systemic problem, protestors being accused of being brainwashed or going 'too far'. We should learn something...

Anthropocene Datamaskin @anthropocenities.bsky.social · Jul 12

Holy shit me too. I was taught foreshadowing with that film. Also, that guy wore a rolex.

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Anthropocene Datamaskin @anthropocenities.bsky.social · Jul 12

Ben-hur.

Utopia District @utopiadistrict.bsky.social · Jul 11

Name something you remember watching in this!

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