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you're all weird and gross
I'm also weird and gross
(He/him, je suis un maquereau tigré)
I'm also weird and gross
(He/him, je suis un maquereau tigré)
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New people! I choose to present myself as a cat here as a warning about the level of capriciousness I display.
I will hiss at you and block you for a bad vibe. I don't give a fuck. Your rug may be subjected to the full force of the Strategic Pissing Initiative.
I will hiss at you and block you for a bad vibe. I don't give a fuck. Your rug may be subjected to the full force of the Strategic Pissing Initiative.
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if only there were people out there with good ideas who needed funding
AI filmmaking is completely unserious.
You've got people with $30k begging the internet for ideas by next week because they have nothing of their own to say, it's just slop for the sake of slop. Embarrassing state of affairs.
You've got people with $30k begging the internet for ideas by next week because they have nothing of their own to say, it's just slop for the sake of slop. Embarrassing state of affairs.
February 17, 2026 at 5:01 PM
if only there were people out there with good ideas who needed funding
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He describes the process in the book in a couple places, ultimately concluding that it is racism that produces apparent racial differences in intelligence, not the other way around
February 17, 2026 at 4:59 PM
He describes the process in the book in a couple places, ultimately concluding that it is racism that produces apparent racial differences in intelligence, not the other way around
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oh god this post is popping off lmfao, let that be a lesson to you fellas: nobody can resist the allure of dad ass, put on those linen slacks and touch your toes for mommy
February 17, 2026 at 1:49 AM
oh god this post is popping off lmfao, let that be a lesson to you fellas: nobody can resist the allure of dad ass, put on those linen slacks and touch your toes for mommy
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its insane that drafting as an occupation used to just involve countless huge rooms of dads in shirts and ties, scattered all over the country, leaning over tables with their asses perked up all day as their 9-5 job
February 17, 2026 at 1:31 AM
its insane that drafting as an occupation used to just involve countless huge rooms of dads in shirts and ties, scattered all over the country, leaning over tables with their asses perked up all day as their 9-5 job
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Posting this and going to bed and seeing how many of bluesky’s most skilled tone-understanders I can snare in my mentions
February 17, 2026 at 3:12 AM
Posting this and going to bed and seeing how many of bluesky’s most skilled tone-understanders I can snare in my mentions
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It’s uhhhhh a little weird that much of the debate over the definition of “working class” in the U.S. is about what you want it to be a euphemism for and not about, say, one’s relationships to labor or capital
Again, a key problem is that we've turned "working class" from a quantifiable term to an abstract one.
It now better means "jobs I personally think are worthwhile" rather than an income or education range.
So we have people now who think 6 figure salaries after taxes are "working class".
It now better means "jobs I personally think are worthwhile" rather than an income or education range.
So we have people now who think 6 figure salaries after taxes are "working class".
February 17, 2026 at 3:10 AM
It’s uhhhhh a little weird that much of the debate over the definition of “working class” in the U.S. is about what you want it to be a euphemism for and not about, say, one’s relationships to labor or capital
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And by disability accommodations I mean it should be illegal to fire me for posting
February 17, 2026 at 1:58 AM
And by disability accommodations I mean it should be illegal to fire me for posting
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This is true for many things. Its why slow-to-update animated series develop such devoted fanbases; after spending a couple months making up their own answers, they're doubly as invested as if you'd released the thing whole.
I've nomentioned this before, but a friend had a hypothesis that to get lots of engagement it was important that a game have flaws and gaps. People arguing the rules, house-ruling it, "fixing" it, as opposed to a game that Just Works.
It's notably cynical and yet it sticks in my brain for a reason.
It's notably cynical and yet it sticks in my brain for a reason.
You can deliberately create an incomplete game and rely on the group's adherence to the promise of the game to finish it for you (don't do this).
February 17, 2026 at 12:27 AM
This is true for many things. Its why slow-to-update animated series develop such devoted fanbases; after spending a couple months making up their own answers, they're doubly as invested as if you'd released the thing whole.
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Remember: this guy admitted that started churning out right wing agitprop because he couldn’t get book contracts and work writing the serious stuff he wanted to write.
Noah Rothman on the Epstein files: "It is a witch hunt. It‘s a moral panic."
February 17, 2026 at 12:34 AM
Remember: this guy admitted that started churning out right wing agitprop because he couldn’t get book contracts and work writing the serious stuff he wanted to write.
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The reason I say 'basically' rather than 'completely' is that strange dynamic on the Internet - you see it play out on here - is the way that social media turns a load of people into 'that teenager who invents a story to scare their friend at a sleepover and scares themselves'.
February 17, 2026 at 12:35 AM
The reason I say 'basically' rather than 'completely' is that strange dynamic on the Internet - you see it play out on here - is the way that social media turns a load of people into 'that teenager who invents a story to scare their friend at a sleepover and scares themselves'.
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Guys many people really do exaggerate their relative level of poverty on the internet. Come on. Be realistic
February 16, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Guys many people really do exaggerate their relative level of poverty on the internet. Come on. Be realistic
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Frederick Douglass would not have gone on right wing podcasts
February 16, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Frederick Douglass would not have gone on right wing podcasts
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In this matter, they are as one with MAGA, who likewise are entirely addicted to the holographic reality of the internet to the point they believe it is more real than the material world. They agree on the fact the world people live in should be annihilated.
February 16, 2026 at 4:32 AM
In this matter, they are as one with MAGA, who likewise are entirely addicted to the holographic reality of the internet to the point they believe it is more real than the material world. They agree on the fact the world people live in should be annihilated.
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Left-liberals and Democrats are organizing patrols to foil ICE while the Left sits at home and says that they're pre-emptively not voting in the midterms because Newsom will be the nominee in 2028 (which he will not) and performing ~opsec concerns~ for why they'll never protest.
the american left is a lost cause, left leaning dems are the path forward, and - note to every online leftist who sees this and gets mad online - they’re toothless
February 16, 2026 at 4:29 AM
Left-liberals and Democrats are organizing patrols to foil ICE while the Left sits at home and says that they're pre-emptively not voting in the midterms because Newsom will be the nominee in 2028 (which he will not) and performing ~opsec concerns~ for why they'll never protest.
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Hasan Abi doesn't even sincerely believe in any of the politics he spouts. I don't know why people can't see that. He's just like his lovely unkie Cenk- just a vacuous well of egocentric conspiracy theories he passes off as a politic.
Hasan isn’t going to vote for any Democrat in 2028. It has nothing to do with Newsom.
February 17, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Hasan Abi doesn't even sincerely believe in any of the politics he spouts. I don't know why people can't see that. He's just like his lovely unkie Cenk- just a vacuous well of egocentric conspiracy theories he passes off as a politic.
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oh I see the incel Nick Cannon is pontificating again: "Nobody dies to defend a "multicultural economic zone"!"
yes, it's farty ethnonationalism. however, it's stupid science fiction fandom crap too.
the Jerry Pournelle version of this was, "nobody ever died for a better standard of living."
yes, it's farty ethnonationalism. however, it's stupid science fiction fandom crap too.
the Jerry Pournelle version of this was, "nobody ever died for a better standard of living."
February 16, 2026 at 11:58 AM
oh I see the incel Nick Cannon is pontificating again: "Nobody dies to defend a "multicultural economic zone"!"
yes, it's farty ethnonationalism. however, it's stupid science fiction fandom crap too.
the Jerry Pournelle version of this was, "nobody ever died for a better standard of living."
yes, it's farty ethnonationalism. however, it's stupid science fiction fandom crap too.
the Jerry Pournelle version of this was, "nobody ever died for a better standard of living."
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you obsess about not reaching your alleged youthful potential because you don't feel like an adult yet.
you don't feel complete or acknowledged as a mature member of society.
that's because you're not. you have a child's tastes and a child's attention span. the world befuddles you, little genius.
you don't feel complete or acknowledged as a mature member of society.
that's because you're not. you have a child's tastes and a child's attention span. the world befuddles you, little genius.
February 16, 2026 at 12:52 PM
you obsess about not reaching your alleged youthful potential because you don't feel like an adult yet.
you don't feel complete or acknowledged as a mature member of society.
that's because you're not. you have a child's tastes and a child's attention span. the world befuddles you, little genius.
you don't feel complete or acknowledged as a mature member of society.
that's because you're not. you have a child's tastes and a child's attention span. the world befuddles you, little genius.
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I'm never sure whether this country is more screwed up about gender or race. there'll be a run of obvious parentomachy in the Discourse™, and I'll think, wow these people sure are fucked up about their moms, but then there'll be some turd that reminds me they also think Blacks are circus animals.
February 16, 2026 at 10:55 PM
I'm never sure whether this country is more screwed up about gender or race. there'll be a run of obvious parentomachy in the Discourse™, and I'll think, wow these people sure are fucked up about their moms, but then there'll be some turd that reminds me they also think Blacks are circus animals.
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are you against respectability politics or do you just want to see politicians perform like Quentin Tarantino characters?
no, don't answer, jackass. I can smell it on you.
no, don't answer, jackass. I can smell it on you.
oh my God white guys saying they didn't like Obama because he wasn't Black enough for them
do you know what you need to do, guys? yes, that. the nice thing is, you only have to do it once and you will never worry about it again. definitionally.
do you know what you need to do, guys? yes, that. the nice thing is, you only have to do it once and you will never worry about it again. definitionally.
February 16, 2026 at 11:21 PM
are you against respectability politics or do you just want to see politicians perform like Quentin Tarantino characters?
no, don't answer, jackass. I can smell it on you.
no, don't answer, jackass. I can smell it on you.
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My opinion on the 2028 primary is that it's the midterms, be for real people. The insistence that we need to always be in Presidential campaign season is spiritually corrosive.
February 16, 2026 at 5:43 PM
My opinion on the 2028 primary is that it's the midterms, be for real people. The insistence that we need to always be in Presidential campaign season is spiritually corrosive.
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HBO did an update of Fahrenheit 451 a few years ago with Michael B Jordan and the change was "this horrible government recognized how destructive the internet was and severally limited access to it" & with the benefit of several years of hindsight I'm like "........were they wrong to tho???" lol
I think it’s awesome how cabinet secretaries take orders from anon randos on the internet
Update. It's worse than I possibly could have imagined.
February 16, 2026 at 11:45 PM
HBO did an update of Fahrenheit 451 a few years ago with Michael B Jordan and the change was "this horrible government recognized how destructive the internet was and severally limited access to it" & with the benefit of several years of hindsight I'm like "........were they wrong to tho???" lol
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They should keep making exactly this argument in exactly this way as enforcement ratchets up and it gets, somehow, less popular than this
February 16, 2026 at 11:49 PM
They should keep making exactly this argument in exactly this way as enforcement ratchets up and it gets, somehow, less popular than this
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I love all of the mouthpieces for the administration getting it on record that they think requiring warrants means their program is dead in the water out loud like letting everyone know they know they're violating civil liberties
February 16, 2026 at 11:47 PM
I love all of the mouthpieces for the administration getting it on record that they think requiring warrants means their program is dead in the water out loud like letting everyone know they know they're violating civil liberties
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Especially from people with a track record of being (in the kindest construction) indifferent between liberalism and fascism at the ballot box, “you have to earn my vote” means “my vote cannot be earned”
Hasan isn’t going to vote for any Democrat in 2028. It has nothing to do with Newsom.
February 16, 2026 at 11:52 PM
Especially from people with a track record of being (in the kindest construction) indifferent between liberalism and fascism at the ballot box, “you have to earn my vote” means “my vote cannot be earned”
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this is also what people do when they say that if people <18 get to vote, they should also be eligible for the draft
age limits exist to protect children, who are a vulnerable group. not to balance power between children and adults—that makes no sense. people do not need protection from voting!
age limits exist to protect children, who are a vulnerable group. not to balance power between children and adults—that makes no sense. people do not need protection from voting!
February 16, 2026 at 10:10 PM
this is also what people do when they say that if people <18 get to vote, they should also be eligible for the draft
age limits exist to protect children, who are a vulnerable group. not to balance power between children and adults—that makes no sense. people do not need protection from voting!
age limits exist to protect children, who are a vulnerable group. not to balance power between children and adults—that makes no sense. people do not need protection from voting!