David Ralin, Cognitive Amplifier
@davidralin.bsky.social
juman with volvo 240 Stockholm syndrome, anarchisht, macaroni art peacenik, ellipsometry tinkerer
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Pressure and temperature dropped, cloud cover moved in, if I don’t leave the house seeya at 5am tomorrow
February 15, 2026 at 9:09 PM
Pressure and temperature dropped, cloud cover moved in, if I don’t leave the house seeya at 5am tomorrow
So worried I’m on a “techno pessimists” list like I gaf about the music I hear pouring out of your 2nd-Gen WRX.
February 15, 2026 at 8:19 PM
So worried I’m on a “techno pessimists” list like I gaf about the music I hear pouring out of your 2nd-Gen WRX.
Guy who makes a list called “Alt Text Nags”
February 15, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Guy who makes a list called “Alt Text Nags”
I’m still jarred seeing the second generation of yaroslavskys in public records.
The City of LA is about to give back millions of dollars of previously won money for active transportation projects because it can’t build things in any reasonable amount of time.
February 15, 2026 at 7:09 PM
I’m still jarred seeing the second generation of yaroslavskys in public records.
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Why bother with elections and office terms if they don't need to re-earn our vote through demonstrated competence?
February 15, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Why bother with elections and office terms if they don't need to re-earn our vote through demonstrated competence?
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Imagine when The Terminator came out if you told someone that in 40 years the world’s richest weirdo would fill the sky with a communications net, embrace AI, and now promise to build an army of robots, and nobody seems inclined to stop him.
February 15, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Imagine when The Terminator came out if you told someone that in 40 years the world’s richest weirdo would fill the sky with a communications net, embrace AI, and now promise to build an army of robots, and nobody seems inclined to stop him.
Toad For Congress
February 15, 2026 at 1:54 AM
Toad For Congress
“It takes a good pedo to… umm it takes one to know one… wait can we just forget about messaging and keep this a covert war?”
This is the closest we have to confirmation of a secret war between white-hat and black-hat pedophiles.
I just saw a headline that said 'Steven Bannon sought Epstein's help to take down Pope Francis.' These people are redefining what it means to be cartoonishly evil. That's a headline you would see in the Daily Planet.
February 15, 2026 at 1:07 AM
“It takes a good pedo to… umm it takes one to know one… wait can we just forget about messaging and keep this a covert war?”
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I'd like to think this wine wouldn't ever have a grape anywhere near it.
February 14, 2026 at 8:13 AM
I'd like to think this wine wouldn't ever have a grape anywhere near it.
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Much of my youth revolved around the website ZineLibrary. It went down around Occupy in a massive loss for a movement whose ideas and knowledge mostly doesn't circulate online but in person.
Anyway I've put it back online with a *thousand* anarchist zines:
zinelibrary.org
Anyway I've put it back online with a *thousand* anarchist zines:
zinelibrary.org
ZineLibrary
zinelibrary.org
February 14, 2026 at 12:53 AM
Much of my youth revolved around the website ZineLibrary. It went down around Occupy in a massive loss for a movement whose ideas and knowledge mostly doesn't circulate online but in person.
Anyway I've put it back online with a *thousand* anarchist zines:
zinelibrary.org
Anyway I've put it back online with a *thousand* anarchist zines:
zinelibrary.org
Falling Skies: what if two opposing species of galaxy-crossing aliens were both bogglingly stupid?
February 14, 2026 at 8:24 AM
Falling Skies: what if two opposing species of galaxy-crossing aliens were both bogglingly stupid?
Genocide there and fascism here and economic & climate sabotage all over and one missing elderly lady is half the news.
February 14, 2026 at 7:20 AM
Genocide there and fascism here and economic & climate sabotage all over and one missing elderly lady is half the news.
This is a farked up mess.
But on the other hand mylar balloons really do need to be burned out of the sky asap by any means necessary.
But on the other hand mylar balloons really do need to be burned out of the sky asap by any means necessary.
Man, I didn’t think there was a way for this story to get dumber but…
“DoD loaned the high-energy laser weapon to DHS, who promptly shot down some mylar balloons with it without telling anyone, resulting in the FAA closing airspace and disrupting air travel nationwide”
…sure did the trick
“DoD loaned the high-energy laser weapon to DHS, who promptly shot down some mylar balloons with it without telling anyone, resulting in the FAA closing airspace and disrupting air travel nationwide”
…sure did the trick
What is going on???
February 14, 2026 at 5:29 AM
This is a farked up mess.
But on the other hand mylar balloons really do need to be burned out of the sky asap by any means necessary.
But on the other hand mylar balloons really do need to be burned out of the sky asap by any means necessary.
Most divorced album ever
February 14, 2026 at 12:47 AM
Most divorced album ever
Is curling just shuffleboard with a huge facility capital expenditure?
February 13, 2026 at 10:24 PM
Is curling just shuffleboard with a huge facility capital expenditure?
Where do you see yourself in five years?
“Firing guys for not keeping track of my blanket”
“Firing guys for not keeping track of my blanket”
MAGA is a cult of personality who worship celebrity and ostentatious wealth and all its vulgar trappings. Every Trump appointee is living out a jet-setter fantasy, traveling around the world on private jets with a retinue of bodyguards and valets carrying their shopping bags.
February 13, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Where do you see yourself in five years?
“Firing guys for not keeping track of my blanket”
“Firing guys for not keeping track of my blanket”
“Fadel” me through her on-air name pronunciation the years:
Falden
Fahddle
Fahl-din
Fah-dih
Falden
Fahddle
Fahl-din
Fah-dih
Leyla shifted the way she sars her name. Again!
February 13, 2026 at 5:42 PM
“Fadel” me through her on-air name pronunciation the years:
Falden
Fahddle
Fahl-din
Fah-dih
Falden
Fahddle
Fahl-din
Fah-dih
Leyla shifted the way she sars her name. Again!
February 13, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Leyla shifted the way she sars her name. Again!
If I’d grown up in a Southern California beach town I’d no doubt be a snow sports champion.
February 13, 2026 at 7:10 AM
If I’d grown up in a Southern California beach town I’d no doubt be a snow sports champion.
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If Moderna is no longer bringing vaccine trials for Epstein-Barr virus (good evidence that EB causes Multiple Sclerosis), herpes, and shingles because of Trump appointees, I want prison time for those appointees.
This might be dooming millions to disease they don’t have to experience.
This might be dooming millions to disease they don’t have to experience.
February 13, 2026 at 1:04 AM
If Moderna is no longer bringing vaccine trials for Epstein-Barr virus (good evidence that EB causes Multiple Sclerosis), herpes, and shingles because of Trump appointees, I want prison time for those appointees.
This might be dooming millions to disease they don’t have to experience.
This might be dooming millions to disease they don’t have to experience.
Zero.
Haven’t had snails or oysters or limas yet this year.
Haven’t had snails or oysters or limas yet this year.
February 12, 2026 at 11:27 PM
Zero.
Haven’t had snails or oysters or limas yet this year.
Haven’t had snails or oysters or limas yet this year.
The freeze on his smile after “white culture is simply better” is priceless.
Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.
February 12, 2026 at 11:11 PM
The freeze on his smile after “white culture is simply better” is priceless.
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Was looking for info on one of my all time favorite noise rock bands and found this - enjoy if you love Scratch Acid like I do! www.austinchronicle.com/music/the-gr...
The Greatest Gift
When Scratch Acid scorched the earth, an oral history
www.austinchronicle.com
February 10, 2026 at 1:10 AM
Was looking for info on one of my all time favorite noise rock bands and found this - enjoy if you love Scratch Acid like I do! www.austinchronicle.com/music/the-gr...
Torn between staying informed and blocking the “Iran’s gov is good, actually, the riots are western imperialism” guys.
February 12, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Torn between staying informed and blocking the “Iran’s gov is good, actually, the riots are western imperialism” guys.
Nick’s mom is still proud of her little man.
Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”
www.mediamatters.org
February 12, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Nick’s mom is still proud of her little man.