Elf M. Sternberg
@elfsternberg.bsky.social
Husband to a gorgeous wife, father to two great kids, greying leatherfairy, infamous furry, and world-class software engineer. If you can read this, you're running code I wrote.
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Fun fact: In addition to everything else wrong with him, JD Vance and the techno-fascists who like him are the literal embodiment everything I got into my research to unmask and fight against.
newrepublic.com/article/1839...
newrepublic.com/article/1839...
Where J.D. Vance Gets His Weird, Terrifying Techno-Authoritarian Ideas
Yes, Peter Thiel was the senator’s benefactor. But they’re both inspired by an obscure software developer who has some truly frightening thoughts about reordering society.
newrepublic.com
July 23, 2024 at 5:37 PM
Fun fact: In addition to everything else wrong with him, JD Vance and the techno-fascists who like him are the literal embodiment everything I got into my research to unmask and fight against.
newrepublic.com/article/1839...
newrepublic.com/article/1839...
When you're at the symphony, you know the opening piece was pretty weird when you think the second piece, Shostakovitch's Symphony No. 5 in D minor, will be a welcome, relaxing change.
February 13, 2026 at 4:31 AM
When you're at the symphony, you know the opening piece was pretty weird when you think the second piece, Shostakovitch's Symphony No. 5 in D minor, will be a welcome, relaxing change.
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If a Black man said he'd done cocaine off toilet seats everyone would call him a thug and demand he spend the rest of his life in prison.
If a trans person said they'd done cocaine off toilet seats everyone would say this was proof trans people are unstable and need to be institutionalized.
If a trans person said they'd done cocaine off toilet seats everyone would say this was proof trans people are unstable and need to be institutionalized.
February 13, 2026 at 1:37 AM
If a Black man said he'd done cocaine off toilet seats everyone would call him a thug and demand he spend the rest of his life in prison.
If a trans person said they'd done cocaine off toilet seats everyone would say this was proof trans people are unstable and need to be institutionalized.
If a trans person said they'd done cocaine off toilet seats everyone would say this was proof trans people are unstable and need to be institutionalized.
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Bunmaxing
February 13, 2026 at 1:07 AM
Bunmaxing
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i can remember how in the 80s and the 90s, imelda marcos’ shoe collection was a shorthand for comically naked thievery and corruption and now we have a first family who literally shat in golden toilets
one of the things that’s harder to see while we are in it, but will jump off the page at future historians, is how deeply corrupt *the entire trump family* is, and how they abused and and manipulated every lever of the federal government they could grab to steal everything that isn’t nailed down
News: The top-secret whistleblower complaint against Tulsi Gabbard is related to a conversation intercepted last spring in which two foreign nationals discussed Jared Kushner, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
February 12, 2026 at 9:18 PM
i can remember how in the 80s and the 90s, imelda marcos’ shoe collection was a shorthand for comically naked thievery and corruption and now we have a first family who literally shat in golden toilets
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it's not easy breeding deer for gigantism, but that's why I make the big bucks
February 12, 2026 at 8:48 PM
it's not easy breeding deer for gigantism, but that's why I make the big bucks
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Was this supposed to make MN AG Ellison look like a badass patriot? Because that’s what I’m taking from it 🤷🏻♂️😂
RON JOHNSON: Did you ever encourage people to go out there and exercise their First Amendment rights?
KEITH ELLISON: I freely admit being in favor of the First Amendment
KEITH ELLISON: I freely admit being in favor of the First Amendment
February 12, 2026 at 11:04 PM
Was this supposed to make MN AG Ellison look like a badass patriot? Because that’s what I’m taking from it 🤷🏻♂️😂
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NBC repeatedly misgenders trans Winter Olympic skier Elis Lundholm https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/nbc-repeatedly-misgenders-trans-winter-olympic-skier-elis-lundholm/?utm_content=1770938400&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
NBC misgenders trans Winter Olympic skier Elis Lundholm
Commentators for NBC Sports misgendered trans skier Elis Lundholm throughout its women’s moguls coverage shared on Peacock.
www.thepinknews.com
February 12, 2026 at 11:20 PM
NBC repeatedly misgenders trans Winter Olympic skier Elis Lundholm https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/nbc-repeatedly-misgenders-trans-winter-olympic-skier-elis-lundholm/?utm_content=1770938400&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Not going to read them all because jesus fucking christ but this is nasty work from Friedersdorf
February 12, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Not going to read them all because jesus fucking christ but this is nasty work from Friedersdorf
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The Atlantic is Atlanticking extremely hard this morning
February 12, 2026 at 4:21 PM
The Atlantic is Atlanticking extremely hard this morning
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okay basically what this means is that, in the game of ecclesiastical chicken currently being played between the Vatican and this trad cult over whether there's gonna be a right-wing schism, the Vatican did not blink first
things might get spicy from here, guys
things might get spicy from here, guys
February 12, 2026 at 11:07 PM
okay basically what this means is that, in the game of ecclesiastical chicken currently being played between the Vatican and this trad cult over whether there's gonna be a right-wing schism, the Vatican did not blink first
things might get spicy from here, guys
things might get spicy from here, guys
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So...today I read @braddelong.bsky.social's repost of John Warner's indictment of David Brooks as a career long embodiment of suckitude and that drove me back to my old blogging days to see what I had written to make that same case back in the day.
It was...a lot: (the index covers several pages)
It was...a lot: (the index covers several pages)
Search Results for “david brooks” – The Inverse Square Blog
science and the public square -- by thomas levenson
inversesquare.wordpress.com
February 12, 2026 at 9:53 PM
So...today I read @braddelong.bsky.social's repost of John Warner's indictment of David Brooks as a career long embodiment of suckitude and that drove me back to my old blogging days to see what I had written to make that same case back in the day.
It was...a lot: (the index covers several pages)
It was...a lot: (the index covers several pages)
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Actual footage of Vince Guaraldi performing "Linus and Lucy". I'm gobsmacked that this exists, but utterly thrilled too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EMf...
Vince Guaraldi - earliest television recording of "Linus and Lucy"
YouTube video by Lee Mendelson Film Productions, Inc.
www.youtube.com
February 12, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Actual footage of Vince Guaraldi performing "Linus and Lucy". I'm gobsmacked that this exists, but utterly thrilled too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EMf...
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"You said it feels like there's a barrier between you two, can you build on that?"
February 13, 2026 at 12:16 AM
"You said it feels like there's a barrier between you two, can you build on that?"
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I imagine this being spoken by Columbo to the villain
February 12, 2026 at 11:56 PM
I imagine this being spoken by Columbo to the villain
The leadership has shown repeatedly that it doesn't care what we want. It will take a lot of non-status quo elections to change that.
“Democrats are afraid of what they’ll find in the Epstein Files. They don’t want full accountability.”
I will burn the Democratic Party to the ground and piss on the ashes if I find out our leaders were involved in a massive child sex trafficking operation. Every Democrat I know feels the same.
I will burn the Democratic Party to the ground and piss on the ashes if I find out our leaders were involved in a massive child sex trafficking operation. Every Democrat I know feels the same.
February 13, 2026 at 2:45 AM
The leadership has shown repeatedly that it doesn't care what we want. It will take a lot of non-status quo elections to change that.
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my anti-ICE song broke containment on Instagram and now guys in cowboy hats are making videos about how my haircut is a sign of western moral decline
so, all in all a pretty successful week
so, all in all a pretty successful week
February 13, 2026 at 12:36 AM
my anti-ICE song broke containment on Instagram and now guys in cowboy hats are making videos about how my haircut is a sign of western moral decline
so, all in all a pretty successful week
so, all in all a pretty successful week
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BREAKING: in lieu of unsafe vaccines the FDA now requires all babies to snort cocaine off a toilet seat
RFK Jr: I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.
February 13, 2026 at 12:34 AM
BREAKING: in lieu of unsafe vaccines the FDA now requires all babies to snort cocaine off a toilet seat
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30 countries use mail voting
February 12, 2026 at 9:21 PM
30 countries use mail voting
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I was trying to figure out the vibe I was getting from the Minneapolis pic and then it hit me (with a slipper).
Status: Badass.
Status: Badass.
February 12, 2026 at 10:57 PM
I was trying to figure out the vibe I was getting from the Minneapolis pic and then it hit me (with a slipper).
Status: Badass.
Status: Badass.