23 Squidoo
23squidoo.bsky.social
23 Squidoo
@23squidoo.bsky.social
Anti-imperialist, guinea pig enthusiast, old-timey cartoon fan. Undercover Brella main in Splatoon.
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Stuff I'm into for algorithm purposes
- video games (mainly old Nintendo and Sega stuff)
- reggae and electronic music
- guinea pigs and rabbits
- cartoons (mainly Golden Age animation)
- justice and human rights
- Y2K aesthetics
- Bauhaus design
- history and social sciences
- urban planning
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Kirby Air Riders has the same problem that Mario Kart World has, in that it is a racing game for a console that also has F-Zero GX
November 21, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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The military has a duty to refuse unlawful orders, but Congress has a duty to remove from office a president and secretary who would issue such orders. There is something off about members of Congress talking about the former while refusing to say the latter, the part that's actually their job here.
November 25, 2025 at 6:38 AM
I'm so tired of having to entertain the idea of "debate" with fascist ideology as a necessity of democratic society. We agreed their ideas are bad a long time ago. They already lost. Debate should be about what color to paint our libraries, not whether or not people should have rights.
November 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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"If your country opens a Department of War and closes the Department of Education then you live in a shithole."
-𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝟿𝟾%
November 25, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Any economy that requires me to constantly buy shit I don't want or need is an economy that deserves to collapse.
"Device hoarding" lol. Do you have any idea how much phones cost? Upgrading is expensive and produces a ton of e-waste!

If you want to talk about hoarding, the conversation should be around billionaires hoarding wealth!
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing economy
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever before, and while it may be consumer smart, it comes at a cost to work productivity and the U.S. economy.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Kind of want to play Kirby Air Riders, but not badly enough to spend $70 on it. I generally think most Nintendo games are worth their asking price, but there's the occasional title that makes me wish they'd go on sale at some point. Kirby games I especially struggle to justify paying full price for.
November 21, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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The ugly secret is that AI is a narcissist machine that’s programmed by people who desperately need validation for a lonely, isolated population that desires an increasingly frictionless existence.
In a world in which people with too much power and influence desperately need to be told and to understand when they are wrong, we are suddenly all inescapably drowning in sycophancy machines.
November 21, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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The President of the United States is publicly calling for the political prosecution of his political opponents, urging the death penalty because they urged soldiers to uphold the rule of law.

This should be front page news everywhere. It is not, which tells much about how we got to this point.
November 20, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Just a reminder that Trump had his attorney general preempt the Mueller Report with a self-serving “summary” and the media ran with it and it defined everything that came after.

Something to remember as we wait for a probably doctored and scrubbed “Epstein Files” report.
November 20, 2025 at 1:39 AM
The Spongebob movie? But that came out in 2004.
November 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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I'm an Open Borders true believer. I think we should replace the entire DHS with a New American Welcoming Department that hands out Social Security numbers and green cards to new arrivals right at points of entry and helps them find places to live and work.
"my least woke opinion is---"

That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.

Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The presidency of Donald Trump should not only destroy the pernicious mindset that "government should be run like a business" once and for all, it should also expose the reality that *businesses* should not be run the way they are.
November 19, 2025 at 2:30 AM
My favorite console of all time, edging out the Dreamcast. This stupid purple box and its bizarre library of games have had far too much influence on what I enjoy and value in video games.
Happy 24th Birthday, Game Cube! Making its way outside Japan to the USA in November 2001!

Let's celebrate with some GCN eye-candy: very high resolution and quality from a press disc.

What games would you recommend to someone wanting to get into its library, peeps? What are your faves?
November 19, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Me: "You're not going to take over the Dems. You can't reform the party. We've been through this before."

DemSocs: "Yes, we will! We'll run candidates, primary the establishment, and kick them out of office!"

AOC: "Nah."
Exclusive: AOC says Chi Ossé primary challenge against Jeffries not a "good idea"
Ocasio-Cortez is one of several prominent progressives breaking with the 27-year-old DSA member.
www.axios.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:17 AM
It's been raining for like 3 days now (my ideal weather) and man, seasonal depression is gonna hit me like a freight train when the sun finally decides to show up again.
November 18, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Realizing I've only played two new games this whole year. That's a step down from my usual three.
November 18, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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One of the strangest aspects of aging that they don't warn you about is watching as history gets rewritten right in front of your face and people 20 years younger than you confidently tell you about something you lived through and get it completely wrong.
November 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
I refuse to believe anyone with a fully functioning adult brain can look at the kind of transparent, childlike opportunism Trump operates on and not understand it for what it is. I refuse to believe his supporters aren't entirely aware of his corruption and aren't just feigning ignorance.
Yesterday, Trump ugly broke up with MTG because she supports the release of the Epstein files.

Last night, Trump claims he now supports the release of the Epstein files.

Today, nobody is questioning Trump’s mental state.
November 17, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Universities never indoctrinated anyone. It’s simply that right wing views don’t survive critical thought or serious scrutiny.
And it’s really easy to call everything a conspiracy when you don’t know how stuff works.
November 17, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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that people use AI technologies in their work and explain that it saves them precious time that they can devote to other more urgent tasks tells me less about the wondrousness of the technologies and more about the overextension and immiseration of workers.
November 15, 2025 at 11:29 PM
"Peace Through Strength" is the slogan of a schoolyard bully. The US military operates with the "Stop hitting yourself!" mentality.
November 16, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Republicans breaking from Trump isn't going to tank the administration. They'll defect to the Democrats, where they'll be welcomed with open arms, and simply push that party further to the right as usual, weakening any potential opposition in the long run.
November 16, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Reflexively defending the powerful in the face of damning allegations and revelations is bad, actually.

Your operating assumption should always be that the social, cultural, economic, and political elites are the worst people in the world and don't deserve the benefit of the doubt.
November 15, 2025 at 10:31 PM