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.
Jonthan Bates argues that the "tragic flaw" of tragic fiction, the inner thing that makes causes the hero to fail, is not an innate, inherent, and personal thing. It is, instead, a single fatal mistake, an act that leads the hero down the wrong path: jonathanbate.substack.com/p/aristotle-...
Aristotle and the so-called Tragic Flaw
The History of a Misreading
jonathanbate.substack.com
February 12, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Jonthan Bates argues that the "tragic flaw" of tragic fiction, the inner thing that makes causes the hero to fail, is not an innate, inherent, and personal thing. It is, instead, a single fatal mistake, an act that leads the hero down the wrong path: jonathanbate.substack.com/p/aristotle-...
The Family Research Council celebrates the end of "treating people who are different with respect," and is positively enraptured with the idea that our culture is coarsening and growing in hate and rejection: www.joemygod.com/2026/02/frc-...
FRC Cheers "Downfall" Of Corporate LGBTQ Support - Joe.My.God.
From the Family Research Council’s website: Life hasn’t exactly been kind to the peddlers of wokeness since 2023. But no one’s taken a bigger hit than the organization that masterminded this extremism...
www.joemygod.com
February 12, 2026 at 7:59 PM
The Family Research Council celebrates the end of "treating people who are different with respect," and is positively enraptured with the idea that our culture is coarsening and growing in hate and rejection: www.joemygod.com/2026/02/frc-...
The gun is so revered by Americans that, even if one is made poorly or is inherently unsafe, you may not be able to sue the manufacturer for liability: floridapolitics.com/archives/779...
Bill shielding gun makers from lawsuits filed due to ‘consumer choice’ clears first Senate Committee
The gun manufacturer has faced a number of lawsuits over allegations one of its weapons discharges without a trigger pull.
floridapolitics.com
February 12, 2026 at 7:58 PM
The gun is so revered by Americans that, even if one is made poorly or is inherently unsafe, you may not be able to sue the manufacturer for liability: floridapolitics.com/archives/779...
Republican county chairman in Utah has been arrested and charged with felony assault after waterboarding his own daughter because she didn't clean her room.
www.fox13now.com/news/crime/5...
www.fox13now.com/news/crime/5...
Wasatch County Republican Chair arrested for allegedly waterboarding teen daughter
A 54-year-old Heber City man is facing aggravated child abuse charges after his 16-year-old daughter told police that he waterboarded her.
www.fox13now.com
February 12, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Republican county chairman in Utah has been arrested and charged with felony assault after waterboarding his own daughter because she didn't clean her room.
www.fox13now.com/news/crime/5...
www.fox13now.com/news/crime/5...
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holiday sisters music headcanons HEHEHE
February 12, 2026 at 6:05 PM
holiday sisters music headcanons HEHEHE
It never ceases to amaze how much of the "context engineering" advice given about using Claude is "You have to be an above-average developer to write good contexts," and I'm wondering where they're going to get above-average devs in ten years.
February 12, 2026 at 7:34 PM
It never ceases to amaze how much of the "context engineering" advice given about using Claude is "You have to be an above-average developer to write good contexts," and I'm wondering where they're going to get above-average devs in ten years.
They keep saying things like "Are you sure you want to open this can of worms?" and we're like, "Hell, yeah!" To the shock of the powerful, most of us have not committed violent or sexual crimes.
Good. Bring it all down. Drag all of these abusive monsters out into the daylight and destroy them.
Like, come on. We're waiting.
Like, come on. We're waiting.
Bring it on.
February 12, 2026 at 7:32 PM
They keep saying things like "Are you sure you want to open this can of worms?" and we're like, "Hell, yeah!" To the shock of the powerful, most of us have not committed violent or sexual crimes.
Epstein started as an extortioner & procurer, leveraging billionaires into giving him money, and then used that to further push himself into the reach of the rich, acting as a concierge, arranging meetings, trips, travel and "tall blondes." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/o...
Opinion | Now We Know What All Those People Got From Epstein
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Epstein started as an extortioner & procurer, leveraging billionaires into giving him money, and then used that to further push himself into the reach of the rich, acting as a concierge, arranging meetings, trips, travel and "tall blondes." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/o...
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I frankly don’t love how Media Matters has historically made it a practice to just be like “look at this insane shit some right wing asshole said” without much deeper analysis or context but it IS worth taking note of this for one very specific reason
As usual the extremity of the language is cover
As usual the extremity of the language is cover
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 4:37 PM
I frankly don’t love how Media Matters has historically made it a practice to just be like “look at this insane shit some right wing asshole said” without much deeper analysis or context but it IS worth taking note of this for one very specific reason
As usual the extremity of the language is cover
As usual the extremity of the language is cover
Would "American Himmler" sound any better?
Fetterman: "I met with Secretary Noem. I've always treated her with respect. I refuse and never will engage in the kinds of sexist terms like 'ICE Barbie' that the left media will use."
February 12, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Would "American Himmler" sound any better?
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It’s not too late to resist.
February 8, 2026 at 4:35 PM
It’s not too late to resist.
"The powerful skirt justice to gather more power… A state that adheres to a policy of justice weakens itself… it makes enemies of the unjust, who are powerful, but those who benefit from justice will not express gratitude for it, as they believe justice is already their right." - Machiavelli
February 12, 2026 at 4:06 AM
"The powerful skirt justice to gather more power… A state that adheres to a policy of justice weakens itself… it makes enemies of the unjust, who are powerful, but those who benefit from justice will not express gratitude for it, as they believe justice is already their right." - Machiavelli
It isn't Jeffery Epstein that makes women mistrust men. The men around him knew, if not about the pedophilia, they knew he went through vulnerable women like skittles. They tacitly approved of and wished to emulate him. They didn't care about the girls at all.
goodmenproject.com/featured-con...
goodmenproject.com/featured-con...
Deepak Chopra (Not Jeffrey Epstein) Is Why Women Don't Trust Men
This is not just about individual abusers and their victims.
goodmenproject.com
February 12, 2026 at 3:54 AM
It isn't Jeffery Epstein that makes women mistrust men. The men around him knew, if not about the pedophilia, they knew he went through vulnerable women like skittles. They tacitly approved of and wished to emulate him. They didn't care about the girls at all.
goodmenproject.com/featured-con...
goodmenproject.com/featured-con...
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… and then what???
What happens to all the detainees of each background once they’ve been… sorted according to “perceived” immigration status?*
Mind you, the first 1/2 of the story @chrislhayes.bsky.social is quote skeeting is horrific enough, even before they sorted anyone.
*next skeet
What happens to all the detainees of each background once they’ve been… sorted according to “perceived” immigration status?*
Mind you, the first 1/2 of the story @chrislhayes.bsky.social is quote skeeting is horrific enough, even before they sorted anyone.
*next skeet
February 12, 2026 at 3:27 AM
… and then what???
What happens to all the detainees of each background once they’ve been… sorted according to “perceived” immigration status?*
Mind you, the first 1/2 of the story @chrislhayes.bsky.social is quote skeeting is horrific enough, even before they sorted anyone.
*next skeet
What happens to all the detainees of each background once they’ve been… sorted according to “perceived” immigration status?*
Mind you, the first 1/2 of the story @chrislhayes.bsky.social is quote skeeting is horrific enough, even before they sorted anyone.
*next skeet
This is absolutely terrifying.
I called up one of the White House's "special government employees" involved in the Fulton County FBI raid.
I ended up on the phone for almost two hours hearing about the "deep state" "cabal," "Satanists," poison soda, and the "pure evil" of "gay pride." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/meet-th...
I ended up on the phone for almost two hours hearing about the "deep state" "cabal," "Satanists," poison soda, and the "pure evil" of "gay pride." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/meet-th...
February 12, 2026 at 3:16 AM
This is absolutely terrifying.
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The one thing I'm getting from this presentation is that rich people are utterly insulated from the human part of the political world and they like it that way.
Depressing: my financial advisor is expecting the Democrats to do well but then not fight Republican filibustering, resulting in gridlock, "corporate unleashing and a mid-term miracle."
Fuck.
Fuck.
February 12, 2026 at 3:08 AM
The one thing I'm getting from this presentation is that rich people are utterly insulated from the human part of the political world and they like it that way.
Depressing: my financial advisor is expecting the Democrats to do well but then not fight Republican filibustering, resulting in gridlock, "corporate unleashing and a mid-term miracle."
Fuck.
Fuck.
February 12, 2026 at 2:48 AM
Depressing: my financial advisor is expecting the Democrats to do well but then not fight Republican filibustering, resulting in gridlock, "corporate unleashing and a mid-term miracle."
Fuck.
Fuck.
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"It is totally inappropriate and against the separations of powers for the DOJ to surveil us as we search the Epstein files. (US Attorney General) Bondi showed up today with a burn book that held a printed search history of exactly what emails I searched." - Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA).
February 12, 2026 at 12:43 AM
"It is totally inappropriate and against the separations of powers for the DOJ to surveil us as we search the Epstein files. (US Attorney General) Bondi showed up today with a burn book that held a printed search history of exactly what emails I searched." - Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA).
Since the invention of the scientific method and mrdicine that actually works, for-profit health care is literal hostage-taking: pay up or die.
This is insane because the HOSPITAL WANTS THOSE ORGANS and therefore should not CHARGE FOR THIS SERVICE
February 12, 2026 at 2:40 AM
Since the invention of the scientific method and mrdicine that actually works, for-profit health care is literal hostage-taking: pay up or die.
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Amazing. ✊
February 11, 2026 at 11:52 PM
Amazing. ✊
Unhealthy obsessions.
Fox News produces more trans articles than any other outlet – including LGBTQ+ ones https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/10/fox-news-trans-articles/?utm_content=1770862800&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
Fox News produces more trans articles than any other outlet
Fox News, a right-wing media empire, produces more articles referencing trans people than any other outlet, research suggests.
www.thepinknews.com
February 12, 2026 at 2:36 AM
Unhealthy obsessions.
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The Spirits Within isn't a great movie. It's essentially "The Space Marines from Aliens learning about Gaia Theory"
And yet I'd give a kidney to see a major studio attempt a high concept Sci-fi film like that again.
And yet I'd give a kidney to see a major studio attempt a high concept Sci-fi film like that again.
I'm at a Book Off, and I can't justify $30 for this, but it's a neat find that I wish to document.
February 10, 2026 at 11:05 PM
The Spirits Within isn't a great movie. It's essentially "The Space Marines from Aliens learning about Gaia Theory"
And yet I'd give a kidney to see a major studio attempt a high concept Sci-fi film like that again.
And yet I'd give a kidney to see a major studio attempt a high concept Sci-fi film like that again.