Pádraic Ó Súilleabháin
@eastbaygeek.bsky.social
Writer, teacher, gamer, goober. Demi-ace, CNM. Married to a sexy librarian. Lecturer in Recent Runes at Unseen University. Intersectional Leftist.
The seven, eight, nine, and ten figure crowds love when the fives and sixes cannibalize each other.
Being forced to take on debt so you can engage in the practice of your trade and still not reap the full benefits of your labor is a long time practice.
Stop being fucking dumb about your application of Marx.
Stop being fucking dumb about your application of Marx.
December 2, 2025 at 8:56 PM
The seven, eight, nine, and ten figure crowds love when the fives and sixes cannibalize each other.
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Being forced to take on debt so you can engage in the practice of your trade and still not reap the full benefits of your labor is a long time practice.
Stop being fucking dumb about your application of Marx.
Stop being fucking dumb about your application of Marx.
December 2, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Being forced to take on debt so you can engage in the practice of your trade and still not reap the full benefits of your labor is a long time practice.
Stop being fucking dumb about your application of Marx.
Stop being fucking dumb about your application of Marx.
Those splinters are deadly.
Van Orden: "As long as there was a fraction of that boat floating, it was a viable military target"
December 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Those splinters are deadly.
This IS the bad place!
Matt Gaetz, James O’Keefe, and Laura Loomer have replaced the Pentagon press corps.
I am not kidding. Look at the thread below.
One of the military’s most critical lines of accountability is now a closed-circuit conspiracy carousel.
I am not kidding. Look at the thread below.
One of the military’s most critical lines of accountability is now a closed-circuit conspiracy carousel.
moments after Matt Gaetz asks a question at the Pentagon press briefing, Laura Loomer gets her turn
December 2, 2025 at 4:53 PM
This IS the bad place!
So the next target is Mar-a-Lago ... right? Right?
The right's now hegemonic argument that cocaine is actually a chemical weapon and that mere suspicion of having it on your boat justifies an order to kill everyone aboard is astoundingly insane
December 2, 2025 at 4:17 PM
So the next target is Mar-a-Lago ... right? Right?
You assume Mike Johnson can read.
can our journalism scientists create a form of news that Mike Johnson can read?
RAJU: If defenseless survivors were killed, would that constitute a violation of the laws of war?
MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not going to prejudge any of that. I was pretty busy yesterday. I didn't follow a lot of the news.
MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not going to prejudge any of that. I was pretty busy yesterday. I didn't follow a lot of the news.
December 2, 2025 at 4:16 PM
You assume Mike Johnson can read.
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Fascism doesn't rise to power, power lowers itself to accommodate fascism until its in the gutter
December 2, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Fascism doesn't rise to power, power lowers itself to accommodate fascism until its in the gutter
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A college student complaining about a grade on a paper is not national news. Not even close. The details have minimal import outside the class itself.
Well-funded political activists targeting profs and TAs—in this case because they're trans—with the help of elected state officials? National issue.
Well-funded political activists targeting profs and TAs—in this case because they're trans—with the help of elected state officials? National issue.
December 1, 2025 at 5:31 PM
A college student complaining about a grade on a paper is not national news. Not even close. The details have minimal import outside the class itself.
Well-funded political activists targeting profs and TAs—in this case because they're trans—with the help of elected state officials? National issue.
Well-funded political activists targeting profs and TAs—in this case because they're trans—with the help of elected state officials? National issue.
The legal theory of Double Tap?
FOX: You said the follow up strike was lawful. What law is it that allows no survivors?
LEAVITT: The strike was conducted in self defense to protect Americans
LEAVITT: The strike was conducted in self defense to protect Americans
December 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM
The legal theory of Double Tap?
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Thread.
A quick thread on the academic freedom angle to the OU situation:
First, grading is part of academic freedom b/c it involves instructors applying their disciplinary expertise - both when they set assignments, and when they grade student work
First, grading is part of academic freedom b/c it involves instructors applying their disciplinary expertise - both when they set assignments, and when they grade student work
December 1, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Thread.
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OU is in the wrong if it is treating this situation differently than it would any other grade appeal. Does OU usually suspend instructors at the outset of a grade appeal? Does it usually make statements to the media about the actions they've taken against the instructor?
December 1, 2025 at 7:07 PM
OU is in the wrong if it is treating this situation differently than it would any other grade appeal. Does OU usually suspend instructors at the outset of a grade appeal? Does it usually make statements to the media about the actions they've taken against the instructor?
Common sense is groupthink for the hegemony. See also conventional wisdom.
It’s funny because protest movements are so often discredited as instances of groupthink while movements in opposition, supported at a hegemonic level by decision makers in key institutions, why that’s just common sense.
December 1, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Common sense is groupthink for the hegemony. See also conventional wisdom.
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It’s funny because protest movements are so often discredited as instances of groupthink while movements in opposition, supported at a hegemonic level by decision makers in key institutions, why that’s just common sense.
December 1, 2025 at 2:35 PM
It’s funny because protest movements are so often discredited as instances of groupthink while movements in opposition, supported at a hegemonic level by decision makers in key institutions, why that’s just common sense.
I'm getting shock and awe vibes.
One weird trick diplomacy. You'd think we'd have learned, but you'd be wrong.
There are several Chalabi-types whispering in the eager ears of Rubio and the Miami crowd that this “one neat trick” is going to to be the thing that incite the people to rise up against Maduro. And when that doesn’t work they escalate to the next thing, like the NFZ.
December 1, 2025 at 4:58 AM
I'm getting shock and awe vibes.
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Well this is right up there with "tech hoarding" and "people are not dining out enough"
November 30, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Well this is right up there with "tech hoarding" and "people are not dining out enough"
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BREAKING: Stephen Miller Out Of Blood, Demands Yours.
October 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
BREAKING: Stephen Miller Out Of Blood, Demands Yours.
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There is literally a 20 year old West Wing episode about Molly Orchansky and exactly why the poverty line is a problem, and this is why it’s important to take humanities and the arts seriously. It is often oracular, because it’s written by research nerds with an obsession for human behavior.
This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:34 PM
There is literally a 20 year old West Wing episode about Molly Orchansky and exactly why the poverty line is a problem, and this is why it’s important to take humanities and the arts seriously. It is often oracular, because it’s written by research nerds with an obsession for human behavior.
When I first started writing, long before I knew I was ace, I tried writing sex scenes. Writing those scenes was mostly awkward fumbling.
And some people are really really bad at writing sex and just wish people would stop trying to make us do it, please, I am begging here, let me be a potluck casserole. Someone else can bring the spice.
Some people are very good at writing sex and some people are good at believing that they are good at writing sex, the first is a tremendously impressive skill and the second is what makes for deeply uncomfortable author presentations at science fiction conventions
November 26, 2025 at 6:13 PM
When I first started writing, long before I knew I was ace, I tried writing sex scenes. Writing those scenes was mostly awkward fumbling.
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Trump "mortgage fraud" law turns out to be fraudulent. Who could have guessed?
"Weeks of watching Florida insurance lawyer Lindsey Halligan flail around like a toddler trying to teach calculus should serve as a warning about the perils of crowdsourcing legal research to literal randos on the internet. *But it won’t.*" — @lizdye.bsky.social
Bill Pulte and Ed Martin's shitposting legal strategy
It's backfired so spectacularly that now *they're* the ones being investigated.
www.publicnotice.co
November 26, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Trump "mortgage fraud" law turns out to be fraudulent. Who could have guessed?
Balls suddenly not so big?
November 26, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Balls suddenly not so big?
From the juxtaposition of knives and onions, I thought for a second that this was in anticipation of Rian Johnson's next film.
Happy Feast of Sharp Knives, Onions, and Tears to those who celebrate.
November 26, 2025 at 5:48 PM
From the juxtaposition of knives and onions, I thought for a second that this was in anticipation of Rian Johnson's next film.
That's my secret, Cap. I'm always upset.
We would have been upset by this once.
BREAKING: New prosecutor dismisses charges against President Donald Trump and others in Georgia election interference case.
November 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
That's my secret, Cap. I'm always upset.
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No. The Thing is a movie about a bunch of people who all distrust and hate each other trapped in one building as the tension between them slowly builds until it reaches a breaking point. It's a Thanksgiving movie.
Should John Carpenter's THE THING be officially classified as a Christmas movie? Let your voice be heard!
Is John Carpenter’s THE THING A Christmas Movie? Have Your Say
Should John Carpenter's THE THING be officially classified as a Christmas movie? Let your voice be heard!
dlvr.it
November 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
No. The Thing is a movie about a bunch of people who all distrust and hate each other trapped in one building as the tension between them slowly builds until it reaches a breaking point. It's a Thanksgiving movie.
I like this better. The first line dehumanizes dancers. The second is a more apt analogy.
I've seen people say that getting attached to ChatGPT is like "believing the stripper really loves you", but that's not true. It's more like believing that the dryer personally composed that little jingle on a lonely sockless night just to win your affections.
November 26, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I like this better. The first line dehumanizes dancers. The second is a more apt analogy.