Captain Beeftwat
@captainbeeftwat.bsky.social
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autistic, trying hard
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How's everyone's gyre today? Still turning and turning and widening and whatnot? Have we figured out whether that's good or not?
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if you are upset, confused, and feeling betrayed about the democrats caving like Howe Caverns, may I suggest what I did when they failed to get a public option in the ACA back in dickitynine: read Marx, get radicalized, and devote your life to the immortal science of Marxist-Leninism
November 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
if you are upset, confused, and feeling betrayed about the democrats caving like Howe Caverns, may I suggest what I did when they failed to get a public option in the ACA back in dickitynine: read Marx, get radicalized, and devote your life to the immortal science of Marxist-Leninism
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That the Democrats aren't still wailing about Elon Musk's murderous DOGE reign kind of illustrates how much fealty to immense wealth is the one truly bipartisan position in Washington.
November 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
That the Democrats aren't still wailing about Elon Musk's murderous DOGE reign kind of illustrates how much fealty to immense wealth is the one truly bipartisan position in Washington.
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It’s absolutely terrific.
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:38 PM
It’s absolutely terrific.
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In less than half a minute, I went from working some $9/hr job building fancy homes for rich people to being disabled for life at the age of 33.
I just stepped backwards and OOPSY. 🤷♂️🙃
I just stepped backwards and OOPSY. 🤷♂️🙃
“Humans can just go get manual labor jobs if desk jobs are repaired with AI” is both not going to suffice to provide enough jobs and is also going to result in massive societal anger because manual labor jobs often *are terrible*, which is why people have worked hard to avoid them for generations.
Even if society provided the food/shelter level needs for everyone, humans also need to perform useful work just for basic fulfillment. The vast majority of people cannot sit around all day letting AI and robots do everything.
(The definition of “useful work” here is malleable but still essential)
(The definition of “useful work” here is malleable but still essential)
November 3, 2025 at 1:57 PM
In less than half a minute, I went from working some $9/hr job building fancy homes for rich people to being disabled for life at the age of 33.
I just stepped backwards and OOPSY. 🤷♂️🙃
I just stepped backwards and OOPSY. 🤷♂️🙃
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The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.
“Following his lecture, Yarvin will debate the legendary British historian David Starkey on history and the future of conservatism.” Everything about this is so cursed. Masks off at the University of Oxford.
October 20, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.
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Tell em Abe msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa...
October 17, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Tell em Abe msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa...
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I just want to be very clear here. This is the Vice President of the United States saying it’s a regular practice among white people to enthusiastically endorse slavery, Hitler, and rape.
October 15, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I just want to be very clear here. This is the Vice President of the United States saying it’s a regular practice among white people to enthusiastically endorse slavery, Hitler, and rape.
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labour/democrats/whoever are not losing because they’re discussing supporting trans people. they’re losing because they agreed, by engaging in the argument at all, with the premise that some minority groups can be blamed for social problems.
it’s only ever going to be a question of who is blamed.
it’s only ever going to be a question of who is blamed.
October 8, 2025 at 6:06 PM
labour/democrats/whoever are not losing because they’re discussing supporting trans people. they’re losing because they agreed, by engaging in the argument at all, with the premise that some minority groups can be blamed for social problems.
it’s only ever going to be a question of who is blamed.
it’s only ever going to be a question of who is blamed.
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It’s so annoying that we all have to just continually point out how rules around/between decorum and violation are applied asymmetrically to vulnerable groups versus the people who are always hassling them, and it’s extra insulting that the people in charge are trying to lol it away.
October 2, 2025 at 8:08 PM
It’s so annoying that we all have to just continually point out how rules around/between decorum and violation are applied asymmetrically to vulnerable groups versus the people who are always hassling them, and it’s extra insulting that the people in charge are trying to lol it away.
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Between this, the epstein list, obsession with trans kids playing sports, & neverending conspiracy theories about what's going on in schoolsin general, you realize that the primary concern of the Republican party and its supporters is their deep desire to abuse children
The inhumanity is accelerating.
There are multiple reports of ICE agents laughing as kids scream and cry, and one in this raid saying literally “fuck them kids.”
There are multiple reports of ICE agents laughing as kids scream and cry, and one in this raid saying literally “fuck them kids.”
My god.
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
October 2, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Between this, the epstein list, obsession with trans kids playing sports, & neverending conspiracy theories about what's going on in schoolsin general, you realize that the primary concern of the Republican party and its supporters is their deep desire to abuse children
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Please read this essay. Especially if you feel alone and need your pain recognized, shared. Especially if you aren't deep into the transgender spheres & experiences.
An essay about death threats, censorship, loss, and the silence of cis people. All of these events happened in one week. I'm exhausted.
www.rosalarian.com/post/transge...
www.rosalarian.com/post/transge...
Transgender Dystopia Blues
One especially dystopian week in the life of a trans person in 2025 USA. Things are getting worse.
www.rosalarian.com
September 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Please read this essay. Especially if you feel alone and need your pain recognized, shared. Especially if you aren't deep into the transgender spheres & experiences.
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hi, federal judge expert here! this is not funny. conservative, Reagan-appointed district judges only use epistolary framing devices in their opinions when they are in extreme distress.
the postcard cited in judge young's ruling isn't just at the top, it's a framing device. the whole opinion is a letter to the postcard writer. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![I hope you found this
helpful. Thanks for writing.
It shows you care. You
should.
Sincerely & respectfully,
Bill Young
P.S. The next time you’re in
Boston [the postmark on the card
is from the Philadelphia area]
stop in at the Courthouse and
watch your fellow citizens, sitting
as jurors, reach out for justice.
It is here, and in courthouses
just like this one, both state and
federal, spread throughout our land
that our Constitution is most vibrantly
alive, for it is well said that “Where a
jury sits, there burns the lamp of
liberty.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:maiw2rfujepnphhrejytvuu5/bafkreidbrekbkq3duu4ev7w4wmiamoiupplzgmu5nj5np4yyjze2svfyoy@jpeg)
September 30, 2025 at 5:52 PM
hi, federal judge expert here! this is not funny. conservative, Reagan-appointed district judges only use epistolary framing devices in their opinions when they are in extreme distress.
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Now might be a good time for Democrats to remind people that when they return to power they will not hesitate to prosecute people who murder civilians.
September 30, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Now might be a good time for Democrats to remind people that when they return to power they will not hesitate to prosecute people who murder civilians.
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Pretty fascinating that Klein describes Coates’ perspective as fatalistic, when Klein is the one arguing for the accommodation of fascism.
September 28, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Pretty fascinating that Klein describes Coates’ perspective as fatalistic, when Klein is the one arguing for the accommodation of fascism.
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It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.
September 27, 2025 at 1:02 AM
It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.
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The wounded knee thing is really Trumpism distilled to its essence. It’s not enough to be able crush people who can’t fully defend themselves, it’s not enough to actually crush them, you also have to love and admire those who do the crushing otherwise the Trumpists’ delicate feelings are injured
September 26, 2025 at 12:43 PM
The wounded knee thing is really Trumpism distilled to its essence. It’s not enough to be able crush people who can’t fully defend themselves, it’s not enough to actually crush them, you also have to love and admire those who do the crushing otherwise the Trumpists’ delicate feelings are injured
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it's don't kill yourself thursday. repost to don't kill yourself
November 21, 2024 at 9:44 PM
it's don't kill yourself thursday. repost to don't kill yourself
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The white supremacist conceit that everyone in antiquity was living under some kind of global jim crow segregation is just complete bullshit news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
Pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no. — Harvard Gazette
Geneticist explains recent analyses made possible by tech advances show human history to be one of mixing, movement, displacement.
news.harvard.edu
September 25, 2025 at 10:13 AM
The white supremacist conceit that everyone in antiquity was living under some kind of global jim crow segregation is just complete bullshit news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
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Y'all want so badly for autism to be something new when it was there the entire time, you just had a shitty way of describing it and chained us to radiators.
September 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Y'all want so badly for autism to be something new when it was there the entire time, you just had a shitty way of describing it and chained us to radiators.
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hello, i made this bot. i am a trans autistic anti-fascist. you are following a work of trans autistic anti-fascist art. that is why it is screaming
September 23, 2025 at 8:38 PM
hello, i made this bot. i am a trans autistic anti-fascist. you are following a work of trans autistic anti-fascist art. that is why it is screaming
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Glue traps are indiscriminate & inhumane!
This #CommonYellowthroat was southbound when she spotted a buffet of bugs. Little did she know that beneath was a deadly trap.
Several of her primary feathers & her tail are destroyed.
She will not be able to complete migration. 💔
#birds #nature
This #CommonYellowthroat was southbound when she spotted a buffet of bugs. Little did she know that beneath was a deadly trap.
Several of her primary feathers & her tail are destroyed.
She will not be able to complete migration. 💔
#birds #nature
September 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Glue traps are indiscriminate & inhumane!
This #CommonYellowthroat was southbound when she spotted a buffet of bugs. Little did she know that beneath was a deadly trap.
Several of her primary feathers & her tail are destroyed.
She will not be able to complete migration. 💔
#birds #nature
This #CommonYellowthroat was southbound when she spotted a buffet of bugs. Little did she know that beneath was a deadly trap.
Several of her primary feathers & her tail are destroyed.
She will not be able to complete migration. 💔
#birds #nature
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Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...
September 23, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...