ivysorta
@ivysorta.bsky.social
leftist, not anti-liberal
trans, not transpessimist
Jewish, post-zionist and anti-ethnonationalism
Cynicism poses as rebellion while upholding the status quo.
trans, not transpessimist
Jewish, post-zionist and anti-ethnonationalism
Cynicism poses as rebellion while upholding the status quo.
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go support liberal currents, seeing new media rise from their decline makes the nyt and atlantic very sad
November 26, 2025 at 8:05 PM
go support liberal currents, seeing new media rise from their decline makes the nyt and atlantic very sad
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This is the type of hater energy that will fuel us in the years ahead.
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
This is the type of hater energy that will fuel us in the years ahead.
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To be blunt, most people's lesson from "listen to marginalized voices" was "find the first person who claims to be marginalized and agrees with my priors and use it as a permission structure to call the ones who disagree with me uncle toms"
I genuinely do not think it is possible for non marginalized people to uplift marginalized voices at least through something as crude as social media shares. I Basically never see someone share a marginalized perspective they disagree with, so then all you are doing is amplifying your own view.
But people like MRO are doing the whole "Listen 👏 to 👏 Palestinians" and presenting their most deranged poasters, kinda like the weird Hasbarah accounts who do the same thing with Jews, and the Jewish Voice you should Listen to ends up being Meir freaking Kahane ימ"ש
November 25, 2025 at 10:27 PM
To be blunt, most people's lesson from "listen to marginalized voices" was "find the first person who claims to be marginalized and agrees with my priors and use it as a permission structure to call the ones who disagree with me uncle toms"
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I love juries but they shouldn't be the ones judging the cost-benefit analysis on safety measures.
If money is spent on accessible elevators instead of screen doors, a jury gets to punish the city?
And why isn't city paying out billions for far more car deaths from unsafe street design?
If money is spent on accessible elevators instead of screen doors, a jury gets to punish the city?
And why isn't city paying out billions for far more car deaths from unsafe street design?
MTA has started to pay the price for procrastinating on the three-station pilot for platform screen doors, first announced in 2022. ny1.com/nyc/brooklyn...
MTA ordered to pay $81.7 million to woman struck by subway in Brooklyn
The jury determined that the MTA had failed to install safety barriers or other protective devices.
ny1.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I love juries but they shouldn't be the ones judging the cost-benefit analysis on safety measures.
If money is spent on accessible elevators instead of screen doors, a jury gets to punish the city?
And why isn't city paying out billions for far more car deaths from unsafe street design?
If money is spent on accessible elevators instead of screen doors, a jury gets to punish the city?
And why isn't city paying out billions for far more car deaths from unsafe street design?
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seeing a lot of people try to cram the Venezuela thing into their left-populist framework of "elite interests" or "resource extraction"
no, it's literally just because Trump and Hegseth want to blow stuff up
there is no ulterior motive other than killing people for fun
no, it's literally just because Trump and Hegseth want to blow stuff up
there is no ulterior motive other than killing people for fun
November 25, 2025 at 3:11 AM
seeing a lot of people try to cram the Venezuela thing into their left-populist framework of "elite interests" or "resource extraction"
no, it's literally just because Trump and Hegseth want to blow stuff up
there is no ulterior motive other than killing people for fun
no, it's literally just because Trump and Hegseth want to blow stuff up
there is no ulterior motive other than killing people for fun
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When I say Waymo "doesn't scale," this is what I mean.
Waymo privatized another public street:
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
November 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
When I say Waymo "doesn't scale," this is what I mean.
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it's "how dare you say Christmas is a Christian holiday" time of year again
November 24, 2025 at 1:21 AM
it's "how dare you say Christmas is a Christian holiday" time of year again
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nothing will radicalize you against zoning quite like engaging with zoning
November 24, 2025 at 4:52 PM
nothing will radicalize you against zoning quite like engaging with zoning
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Lots of people are calling out the fact that X is filled with fake MAGA influencers from far away countries, but I wanted to point out that this, not "ideological censorship," is why companies have trust & safety teams that work on stopping inauthentic behavior.
X’s New Feature Reveals Why Trust & Safety Work Was Never About The ‘Censorship Industrial Complex’
For the last few years, Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, and their allies have spent considerable energy attacking both academic researchers studying disinformation and the trust & safety teams…
For the last few years, Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, and their allies have spent considerable energy attacking both academic researchers studying disinformation and the trust & safety teams…
X’s New Feature Reveals Why Trust & Safety Work Was Never About The ‘Censorship Industrial Complex’
For the last few years, Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, and their allies have spent considerable energy attacking both academic researchers studying disinformation and the trust & safety teams at social media platforms working to identify and remove coordinated inauthentic behavior—particularly foreign influence operations. They've insisted that any attempt to study and limit such operations is actually just "censorship" with various forms of cover, whether academic or operational.
www.techdirt.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Lots of people are calling out the fact that X is filled with fake MAGA influencers from far away countries, but I wanted to point out that this, not "ideological censorship," is why companies have trust & safety teams that work on stopping inauthentic behavior.
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My infantry Bn had a really hard time parsing the gender and sexuality issues of Southern Helmand.
When people say, "you wouldn't want a 'purple haired gender studies major' in the Marines" I reply "YES we desperately needed them!" We had teams of anthropologists who published studies for us.
When people say, "you wouldn't want a 'purple haired gender studies major' in the Marines" I reply "YES we desperately needed them!" We had teams of anthropologists who published studies for us.
November 24, 2025 at 11:24 AM
My infantry Bn had a really hard time parsing the gender and sexuality issues of Southern Helmand.
When people say, "you wouldn't want a 'purple haired gender studies major' in the Marines" I reply "YES we desperately needed them!" We had teams of anthropologists who published studies for us.
When people say, "you wouldn't want a 'purple haired gender studies major' in the Marines" I reply "YES we desperately needed them!" We had teams of anthropologists who published studies for us.
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also not only CAN you build your way out of climate change, it's the only way out, and not building our way out of climate change dooms hundreds of millions to misery and displacement.
November 24, 2025 at 1:37 AM
also not only CAN you build your way out of climate change, it's the only way out, and not building our way out of climate change dooms hundreds of millions to misery and displacement.
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The Scooby Doo Theory of Housing states that we can arrest housing price inflation if we only some clever kids are able to unmask the evil villain responsible for making rent go up.
I think this is mostly San Francisco finally shrugging off the pandemic, but it is *really* funny that rent prices in San Francisco shot up *immediately* after the city banned RealPage and other algorithmic price setting software.
My pre trends are incredible!
My pre trends are incredible!
November 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The Scooby Doo Theory of Housing states that we can arrest housing price inflation if we only some clever kids are able to unmask the evil villain responsible for making rent go up.
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Maybe the real sky fairy is the naive delusions about the causes of war and genocide that you met along the way
November 23, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Maybe the real sky fairy is the naive delusions about the causes of war and genocide that you met along the way
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Hard for me to say how this is different from Fox News's entire business model, except that it's less sophisticated. This is transparently and obviously bad — and Elon should ban these accounts — but the spirit here of trading rage for money is pretty much a lot of right-wing media.
November 23, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Hard for me to say how this is different from Fox News's entire business model, except that it's less sophisticated. This is transparently and obviously bad — and Elon should ban these accounts — but the spirit here of trading rage for money is pretty much a lot of right-wing media.
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you will never understand politics if you cannot accept that *some people want bad things*. not because they've been tricked, not because Capital has manipulated them, because they *have bad values*
November 21, 2025 at 5:06 PM
you will never understand politics if you cannot accept that *some people want bad things*. not because they've been tricked, not because Capital has manipulated them, because they *have bad values*
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I'm so tired of spineless centrists appropriating the term liberal.
Do you hold these truths to be self evident all men are created equal? If not then as far as I'm concerned you have nothing to do with liberalism
Do you hold these truths to be self evident all men are created equal? If not then as far as I'm concerned you have nothing to do with liberalism
Obviously, we want more immigrants, it’s one of our founding principals, but we also don’t want things to happen that will set support for more immigration back in the long term
All that said, Twitter only allows editing in the 1st hour, so not easily done.
All that said, Twitter only allows editing in the 1st hour, so not easily done.
November 20, 2025 at 10:00 AM
I'm so tired of spineless centrists appropriating the term liberal.
Do you hold these truths to be self evident all men are created equal? If not then as far as I'm concerned you have nothing to do with liberalism
Do you hold these truths to be self evident all men are created equal? If not then as far as I'm concerned you have nothing to do with liberalism
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Fun Fact, the Guillotine became such a powerful symbol of bourgeois terror that the Paris Commune banned it
November 20, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Fun Fact, the Guillotine became such a powerful symbol of bourgeois terror that the Paris Commune banned it
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"female reporters sleep with sources" factoid actually just statistical error. Average female reporter sleeps with 0 sources per year. Olivia "Old Man Hunter" Nuzzi is an outlier and should not have been counted
November 18, 2025 at 1:43 AM
"female reporters sleep with sources" factoid actually just statistical error. Average female reporter sleeps with 0 sources per year. Olivia "Old Man Hunter" Nuzzi is an outlier and should not have been counted
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Libertarianism invariably boils down to some combination of:
1) Assume a strong theory of property, 2) assume a distribution of all existing property
3) declare that any derogation from those (1) and (2) is violence
4) pedophilia
1) Assume a strong theory of property, 2) assume a distribution of all existing property
3) declare that any derogation from those (1) and (2) is violence
4) pedophilia
November 17, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Libertarianism invariably boils down to some combination of:
1) Assume a strong theory of property, 2) assume a distribution of all existing property
3) declare that any derogation from those (1) and (2) is violence
4) pedophilia
1) Assume a strong theory of property, 2) assume a distribution of all existing property
3) declare that any derogation from those (1) and (2) is violence
4) pedophilia
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MEESA PROUD TO BE ACCEPTIN THE NOMINATION OF DE GREEN PARTY FOR PRESIDENT OF THESE-A UNITED STATES
November 17, 2025 at 5:10 AM
MEESA PROUD TO BE ACCEPTIN THE NOMINATION OF DE GREEN PARTY FOR PRESIDENT OF THESE-A UNITED STATES
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don't think i've forgotten about you steven pinker
November 16, 2025 at 7:26 PM
don't think i've forgotten about you steven pinker
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"housing is a human right and that's why it should be illegal to build more of it"
It's just... we're debating "for people to have housing you have to build housing" versus "no you don't?" Like, what are we doing here?
November 16, 2025 at 7:55 PM
"housing is a human right and that's why it should be illegal to build more of it"