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Ry Terran

@hereticmasked.bsky.social

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Exvangelical, atheist, DiY religious studies, cult studies, failed-apocalypse cringe-posting, weird shit, counter-extremism School of Making Poor Life Choices Only Slightly Doomed She/They/bad at gender My apologies for continuing to be relevant

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Ry Terran @hereticmasked.bsky.social · Feb 9

Thread here with articles about my personal work tracking hybrid threat networks that blend occult aesthetics with mass casualty violence

Ry Terran @hereticmasked.bsky.social · Jan 25

Phoebe did an absolutely incredible job understanding and communicating our research, even as the latest tragic events were unfolding. Give her article a read for a better understanding of the online subcultures that can drive children to violence.

Phoebe Petrovic @phoebepetrovic.bsky.social · Jan 25

I’d been speaking w/ these researchers since the night of the Madison attack. That day, they quickly located the shooter in the online network they were tracking. We were writing THAT story this week. Then Nashville happened, and the researchers realized: another one.

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 10h

Hi hello did you know that Elon Musk's third Neuralink patient (previously nonverbal) is "getting help from Grok" to communicate

and I hope -- I REALLY HOPE -- he's not stuck in his own brain listening as a robot talks for him without his input because this, to me, would be worse than death

This patient’s Neuralink brain implant gets a boost from generative AI

A patient who types with his brain thanks to a Neuralink implant is using AI chatbots to speed things up.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 12h

Extinguishing MLK's Eternal Flame is both outrageous and a hell of a metaphor for right now www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site destroyed

Police say the man also urinated in the reflective pool.

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 14h

I see Trump got *his* COVID booster

A formal memo on White House letterhead dated October 10, 2025, from Sean P. Barbabella, D.O., the Physician to the President, addressed to Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. It reports that Donald J. Trump completed a follow-up evaluation at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, showing “excellent overall health.” The memo highlights “stable metabolic, hematologic, and cardiac parameters,” claims his “cardiac age” is 14 years younger than his actual age, and notes he received “preventive health screenings and immunizations, including annual influenza and updated COVID-19 booster vaccinations.” The summary concludes that he remains in “exceptional health.” The juxtaposition of praise-filled medical language with the mention of COVID vaccination reads like unintentional satire, as though the document is trying too hard to sound reassuring while betraying its own irony.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 20h

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Ry Terran @hereticmasked.bsky.social · 18h

Hard not to contemplate about how the prepper that I was dating a number of years ago was right about a lot of the things that were about to happen (and are happening now)

I just didn't realize until it was too late that they intended to enter the upcoming collapse on the side of the collapse

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 22h

“I had previously assumed a 10-year depreciation curve, which I now recognize as quite unrealistic...Based on my conversations over the past month, the physical data centers last for three to ten years, at most.” futurism.com/future-socie...

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Ry Terran @hereticmasked.bsky.social · 19h

I've been thinking also about how much this highlights the value of great photojournalism

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 20h

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books

A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

www.pilsencommunitybooks.com

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Steve Watts @sporkyreeve.bsky.social · 1d

Dudes will be like “oh you believe in dressing up as frogs and holding dance parties? That pales in comparison to my strategy, bitching on social media”

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Ry Terran @hereticmasked.bsky.social · 1d

LOL at this

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Andy Vitek @avitek.bsky.social · 1d

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Also, Wizard Frog has done more to fight fascism in a week than the entire legion of 'read theory' posters has ever done.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 1d

This video is everywhere because it's a hilarious visual refutation of Portland being on fire. You can't get a mass movement going without convincing the masses

so yes, this does do something actually

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This literally does nothing. You are not beating fascism by dressing up in inflatable suits and dancing

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Portland is leading the way. This is how you (non violently) beat Fascism. Humor and ridicule are key.

Stillframe from a video of Portland protesters dancing in inflatable suits

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Andrew @tjsleakyroof.bsky.social · 1d

and yes, very obviously they will be happy to claim any such grandmas were dangerous antifa terrorists, and some people will believe them. but there are still limits to their control over reality.

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 1d

Tactical Performance: The Theory and Practice of Serious Play, L.M. Bogad (2016)

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Ry Terran @hereticmasked.bsky.social · 1d

It doesn't work exactly as advertised but it often does change the course of events regardless. I think recognizing that, rather than trying to argue with meticulous logic, will get progressives much further in their goals.

Ry Terran @hereticmasked.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, I agree

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

The Speaker of the House is telling the Fox News audience that a peaceful demonstration by Americans on the National Mall will actually be a gathering of organizations the administration has designated as violent terrorists.

Seems bad?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 1d

I ended this article with a section called "AltNPS Can't Change." In it, I argue that the account owes its surge in popularity to its manufactured image as a rogue government operative, and that it has trapped itself in an endless cycle of needing to maintain this image. Hence, all the plagiarism.

The "Alt National Park Service:" On Plagiarism, Part 4

A series of pivots, and a glimpse at the future.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 1d

antifa bogeyman in nutshell: label whomever opposition is "antifa" — in this case Resistance 2.0 "No Kings" folks — creating pretext to target them w/ state/vigilante violence

also sews division, w/ moderates fretting abt appearing too extreme, making them punch left, undercutting solidarity

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 1d

Meta executives are telling their workers they must use AI to "go 5x faster" and expect a "5x leap in productivity"

www.404media.co/meta-tells-w...

Meta Tells Workers Building Metaverse to Use AI to ‘Go 5x Faster’

Meta says that its coders should be working five times faster and that it expects "a 5x leap in productivity."

www.404media.co

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Ry Terran @hereticmasked.bsky.social · 2d

Thread🧵: I've been thinking a lot in recent years about the nature of faith and what it means to believe things.

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Ry Terran @hereticmasked.bsky.social · 2d

Fascists hate joy

Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 2d

Tbh I love that the carpool karaoke with bad bunny is in my algorithm

This is who the gop is melting down over

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Bad Bunny Carpool Karaoke

YouTube video by The Late Late Show with James Corden

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

"...including while she was praying with her eyes closed and hands lifted, wearing a clerical collar and stole."

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 4d

As today is World Octopus Day I’ll again mention that a Spanish equivalent to “like a fish out of water” is como un pulpo en un garaje. It means “like an octopus in a garage.”

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

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Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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