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Diogenes Fawkes @diogenesfawkes.bsky.social · 2d

The cessation of pain has the impression of pleasure.

From a certain state of mind, you can see the bird that the birdcage implies it exists to contain.

Diogenes Fawkes @diogenesfawkes.bsky.social · 2d

Does anyone else see the parallel between politics today and The Neverending Story or is it just me?

We need to speak the name of the future we want to see. We need the courage to do so. We are all spending too much time waiting out the clock on our lives, hoping for a stable status quo coffin.

Diogenes Fawkes @diogenesfawkes.bsky.social · 2d

"I fully understand how depressing it can be to constantly be aware that only the pretty ones make it out of the crab bucket"

From what I've heard, this is the cis experience as well; People imagine a sisterhood, but at best, it's a collective bulwark against the spectre of male abuse.

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Diogenes Fawkes @diogenesfawkes.bsky.social · 3d

2015-2025 Everyone let perfect be the enemy of the good, and once both perfect and good proved impossible, they went straight for delusion that would ensure the worst outcomes instead.

Diogenes Fawkes @diogenesfawkes.bsky.social · 3d

Oh no

Sam Seder

what a fucking nightmare

Diogenes Fawkes @diogenesfawkes.bsky.social · 3d

Damnit. New Hasan drama about being too controlling with his dog via a shock collar. Looks like I'm down to Vaush and Mockler now for commentary.

I can see it. It's really frustrating when you have a pet interfering with your work. But a pet is an opportunity to learn how to show more grace.

Diogenes Fawkes @diogenesfawkes.bsky.social · 3d

"Fascist!? We aren't fascist, we just want to use the authoritarian threat of govt violence to enforce top-down cultural homogeneity. In fact, for labeling us fascists, you should be violently persecuted by the state for attempting to ruin our reputation."

^ how the fascists try to argue in 2025 🤷‍♂️

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Diogenes Fawkes @diogenesfawkes.bsky.social · 3d

If you haven't yet, it's a good time to learn zen meditation.

The AI delusions you see in your internet feed are no different from the delusions of mind that come up in our own discursive rumination.

Diogenes Fawkes @diogenesfawkes.bsky.social · 3d

What we are seeing is the assumption of total informational control: Through Facebook, X, and Fox News, they presume that they can create a perfect disinformation space where what's real doesn't matter, because they can just dictate the facts to those they need to believe them. It's obvious as day.

Diogenes Fawkes @diogenesfawkes.bsky.social · 3d

Diogenes Fawkes @diogenesfawkes.bsky.social · 4d

Good morning America.

Time to Wake Up - DOOM Edition

YouTube video by noteasybeinwheezy

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Diogenes Fawkes @diogenesfawkes.bsky.social · 5d

Ernest is a minstrel show of the poorly educated white North American.

Diogenes Fawkes @diogenesfawkes.bsky.social · 5d

God laughed when he gave ADHD people executive dysfunction and rejection sensitive dysphoria at the same time.

Diogenes Fawkes @diogenesfawkes.bsky.social · 5d

Honestly, the government should not re-open unless Trump resigns first.

Then we will nail Vance, Miller, etc to the wall (politically).

Diogenes Fawkes @diogenesfawkes.bsky.social · 5d

There are over 300 million people living in the United States.

The revolution will not be doom scrolled.

Reposted by Diogenes Fawkes

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 7d

Attn Black people, stop scrolling.

This is not a drill: Chicago

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Diogenes Fawkes @diogenesfawkes.bsky.social · 7d

The kind of distrust we have to encourage towards reality in the age of generative AI and simulation has me changing my opinion on the utility of Platonic ideas.

500 lives as a wild fox.

Diogenes Fawkes @diogenesfawkes.bsky.social · 7d

SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY!

EVERY AMERICAN GETS DOWN IN THE DIRT AND MUD WRESTLES!

DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS, SPITTING AND CALLING EACH OTHER DUMBFUCKS!

"NOTHING CHANGES"! "NOTHING EVER CHANGES"!

EPSTEIN? EPSTEIN WHO?!

THE BAR IS IN HELL!

a man with a feather boa around his neck says wooooooo

ALT: a man with a feather boa around his neck says wooooooo

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Diogenes Fawkes @diogenesfawkes.bsky.social · 7d

Even worse: Who is the authority that you rely on to qualify that you are an expert?

It's fallible minds all the way down.

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Diogenes Fawkes @diogenesfawkes.bsky.social · 7d

I find names to be really interesting, particularly with FOX 'News'. On one hand, a very clever animal with a good theory of mind about its predators and prey. On the other hand, a crepuscular creature who hunts at dawn and dusk.

Targeting people who are impressionable, naive, and/or sundowning.

Diogenes Fawkes @diogenesfawkes.bsky.social · 7d

They will fold as soon as a General Strike becomes a realistic option for most people.

How far from now that will be, it's hard to say. But the government should not continue operations as it is.

We're going to need a few more constitutional amendments drafted after all of this.

Diogenes Fawkes @diogenesfawkes.bsky.social · 7d

It's all a form of soft eugenics in service of producing a better human product for the whims of country and capital to instrumentalize.

Diogenes Fawkes @diogenesfawkes.bsky.social · 7d

They've created a race to the bottom because their true ideology is not national love, it's nihilism in the form of spiritual materialism. What they are doing is handing us a shovel and asking us to dig our own graves. Are you going to kill yourself with compliance or with resistance? 2025

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