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"A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted." - HA Simon
https://adamelkus.com/ + also @ aelkus on twitter
all opinions my own but also your cat's
https://adamelkus.com/ + also @ aelkus on twitter
all opinions my own but also your cat's
you know what would *really* help men in America? getting a party that has become corrupted by crypto, gambling, and bro podcasters out of washington
November 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
you know what would *really* help men in America? getting a party that has become corrupted by crypto, gambling, and bro podcasters out of washington
cultural conservatism had comprehensively failed
November 24, 2025 at 1:22 PM
cultural conservatism had comprehensively failed
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To say the Umas are hard-driving on trainers is also a gross understatement
November 24, 2025 at 1:11 PM
To say the Umas are hard-driving on trainers is also a gross understatement
i cannot tell you how violating is to see “nude portrait of Olivia Nuzzi” and “Nuzzi visited Mar A Lago” in same paragraph
November 24, 2025 at 5:55 AM
i cannot tell you how violating is to see “nude portrait of Olivia Nuzzi” and “Nuzzi visited Mar A Lago” in same paragraph
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MASINT #73432 from SBIRS GEO-5 (ACCM)
1. Warehouse of Hyperobjects
2. Apple Tree Radar
1. Warehouse of Hyperobjects
2. Apple Tree Radar
November 24, 2025 at 5:51 AM
MASINT #73432 from SBIRS GEO-5 (ACCM)
1. Warehouse of Hyperobjects
2. Apple Tree Radar
1. Warehouse of Hyperobjects
2. Apple Tree Radar
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Mood
November 24, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Mood
“why are we still here…..just to suffer? Every night…the Gorilla I’ve lost…the Gorilla we’ve lost….won’t stop hurting. It’s like he’s all still there…i’m gonna make them give back our past. Take back everything they’ve stolen from us…..I’m already a demon.”
November 24, 2025 at 5:51 AM
“why are we still here…..just to suffer? Every night…the Gorilla I’ve lost…the Gorilla we’ve lost….won’t stop hurting. It’s like he’s all still there…i’m gonna make them give back our past. Take back everything they’ve stolen from us…..I’m already a demon.”
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Anime girls are born to backstab.
November 24, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Anime girls are born to backstab.
“the illusion of choice” meme but its my account with innocent Special Week about to get knocked over by the turnstile vs the smirking Arch Linux pepe penguin
November 24, 2025 at 5:45 AM
“the illusion of choice” meme but its my account with innocent Special Week about to get knocked over by the turnstile vs the smirking Arch Linux pepe penguin
“Sorry you got twisted up in this scene. From where you're kneeling it must seem like an 18-carat run of bad luck. But truth is... the game was rigged from the start.”
November 24, 2025 at 5:37 AM
“Sorry you got twisted up in this scene. From where you're kneeling it must seem like an 18-carat run of bad luck. But truth is... the game was rigged from the start.”
i think the problem is really bigger than this, and that its really that even the non manosphere scripts just amount to a softer version of it.
To my mind, I think the core of the problem is that greater - if still imperfect - gender equality allowed women access to more 'life scripts' as it were, but society mostly still presents men with just one script and that script poorly and incompletely.
So some men are fine and many are adrift.
So some men are fine and many are adrift.
November 24, 2025 at 4:51 AM
i think the problem is really bigger than this, and that its really that even the non manosphere scripts just amount to a softer version of it.
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Kazuo Ishiguro is the most British artist because his characters are tragic in their not wanting to make a fuss
November 24, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Kazuo Ishiguro is the most British artist because his characters are tragic in their not wanting to make a fuss
i wanna think inside that box
November 24, 2025 at 3:55 AM
i wanna think inside that box
bsky feels more and more like old Twitter in that every other day I see a dumb left wing account I’ve never heard of getting aired out. It’s not really a positive thing, IMHO…
Apropos of nothing, somebody who purposely goes by the handle “Anti-Zionist Bear Jew” with a pfp of Eli Roth in Inglorious Basterds is telling us something bad about what their idea of justice is
November 24, 2025 at 3:50 AM
bsky feels more and more like old Twitter in that every other day I see a dumb left wing account I’ve never heard of getting aired out. It’s not really a positive thing, IMHO…
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it is extremely funny that given the PPP of the dollar relative to other currencies X's payments to bluechecks have essentially made every foreign influence operation targeting MAGA from a country with a weaker currency self-funding or profitable
November 24, 2025 at 3:43 AM
it is extremely funny that given the PPP of the dollar relative to other currencies X's payments to bluechecks have essentially made every foreign influence operation targeting MAGA from a country with a weaker currency self-funding or profitable
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in the course of musk's pronatalist crusade he implemented one of the largest single policy inflicted child death events of the 21st century so this is par for the course
November 24, 2025 at 3:38 AM
in the course of musk's pronatalist crusade he implemented one of the largest single policy inflicted child death events of the 21st century so this is par for the course
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i do not want to underestimate the seriousness of the charges — if true, these men should spent long stretches in prison — but the likeliest outcome of them actually attempting this would’ve been both of them being murdered within hours of making land, based on what’s described here
Gavin Weisenburg, 21, and Tanner Thomas, 20, planned to take over Gonave Island and murder all men on the island, prosecutors alleged. n.pr/4puzyhb
Texas men indicted in plot to take over Haitian island and enslave women and children
Gavin Weisenburg, 21, and Tanner Thomas, 20, planned to take over Gonave Island and murder all men on the island, prosecutors alleged.
n.pr
November 24, 2025 at 12:50 AM
i do not want to underestimate the seriousness of the charges — if true, these men should spent long stretches in prison — but the likeliest outcome of them actually attempting this would’ve been both of them being murdered within hours of making land, based on what’s described here
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Good news: They're no longer blaming Millennials for killing any given industry.
Bad news: Now it's all of us.
Bad news: Now it's all of us.
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h... "please, buy new phone. the economy is dying" is an incredible gaslight
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 3:17 AM
Good news: They're no longer blaming Millennials for killing any given industry.
Bad news: Now it's all of us.
Bad news: Now it's all of us.
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How could support for ethno-nationalism harm my preferred minority group?
A truly baffling and surprising development.
A truly baffling and surprising development.
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Over the last six months some key figures in Trump’s coalition have been “reigning over a part of the online right that is sharply veering toward a wide variety of aggressive anti-Jewish messages,” Yoram Hazony tells Ross Douthat on this episode of “Interesting Times.”
Over the last six months some key figures in Trump’s coalition have been “reigning over a part of the online right that is sharply veering toward a wide variety of aggressive anti-Jewish messages,” Yoram Hazony tells Ross Douthat on this episode of “Interesting Times.”
Opinion | It’s Deeper Than Nick Fuentes
Understanding the Right’s antisemitic turn.
nyti.ms
November 24, 2025 at 3:17 AM
How could support for ethno-nationalism harm my preferred minority group?
A truly baffling and surprising development.
A truly baffling and surprising development.
he and Trump enjoy a form of omerta. The media does not saturate coverage with all of the bizarre and depraved things they do, in large part because the people who now own it have either passively or actively aligned themselves with Musk and Trump…..however in spite of softball, both are unpopular
It's really stupid, but it just really pisses me off that he says shit like this every day and the media won't report on it. You would really think "World's Richest Man is a Nazi" would be generate clicks.
November 24, 2025 at 3:17 AM
he and Trump enjoy a form of omerta. The media does not saturate coverage with all of the bizarre and depraved things they do, in large part because the people who now own it have either passively or actively aligned themselves with Musk and Trump…..however in spite of softball, both are unpopular
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everyone is 12 theory chugging along
A person directly familiar with the conversations tells Semafor that Donald Trump has personally pressed Larry Ellison to revive Brett Ratner's "Rush Hour" franchise.
www.semafor.com/article/11/2...
www.semafor.com/article/11/2...
Exclusive: How Trump is trying to remake American culture — starting with his favorite buddy-cop franchise
The president is offering some creative input on potential upcoming projects.
www.semafor.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:50 AM
everyone is 12 theory chugging along
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Mining preconflict is basically a 100% Taiwanese show, other than the possibility of some covert stuff at the ports proper, for that reason
A notional protracted conflict gets weird because the only way that happens is if food and energy can get to the island in mass (much less military stuff)
A notional protracted conflict gets weird because the only way that happens is if food and energy can get to the island in mass (much less military stuff)
November 24, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Mining preconflict is basically a 100% Taiwanese show, other than the possibility of some covert stuff at the ports proper, for that reason
A notional protracted conflict gets weird because the only way that happens is if food and energy can get to the island in mass (much less military stuff)
A notional protracted conflict gets weird because the only way that happens is if food and energy can get to the island in mass (much less military stuff)
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also not only CAN you build your way out of climate change, it's the only way out, and not building our way out of climate change dooms hundreds of millions to misery and displacement.
November 24, 2025 at 1:37 AM
also not only CAN you build your way out of climate change, it's the only way out, and not building our way out of climate change dooms hundreds of millions to misery and displacement.
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kittehs are sleeping
November 24, 2025 at 2:48 AM
kittehs are sleeping
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U.S. crewman did not suffer “staggering losses,” their casualty rates were comparable with other tank forces in WWII, being an infantryman was far more dangerous
November 24, 2025 at 12:38 AM
U.S. crewman did not suffer “staggering losses,” their casualty rates were comparable with other tank forces in WWII, being an infantryman was far more dangerous