mjfgates
@mjfgates.bsky.social
Retired. Widower. Formerly "that FC with the voice." One of the most ancient shitposters on the internet.
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Not doing Black Friday because I'm against the creeping Americanisation of Irish life and can't afford to as a small artist, but WILL be doing Vengeful Hag Friday where for every piece of art you purchase from www.ciaraioch.com/artprints I will fervently wish bad cess to your enemies
November 28, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Not doing Black Friday because I'm against the creeping Americanisation of Irish life and can't afford to as a small artist, but WILL be doing Vengeful Hag Friday where for every piece of art you purchase from www.ciaraioch.com/artprints I will fervently wish bad cess to your enemies
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@choochoobear.bsky.social My brother found a Popeye for you. We both hope you love to be disturbed by it.
November 27, 2025 at 10:59 PM
@choochoobear.bsky.social My brother found a Popeye for you. We both hope you love to be disturbed by it.
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Aaaaaand that's enough aviation internet for the day.
November 27, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Aaaaaand that's enough aviation internet for the day.
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I get that you feel embarrassed to talk about porn but if you come at it from "they're censoring PG games and ASMR" maybe you can like... get over yourself?
this is hurting so many people and it's just going to keep getting worse?
this is hurting so many people and it's just going to keep getting worse?
would be really cool of any indie journalists who want to like.... talk about this massive form of censorship since it's a byproduct of the fascism we are all dealing with?
A couple times I see people say “UGH I wish I didn’t have to keep Ana unblocked, but she’s the only source I have on paypros censorship stuff…” and honestly I am really sympathetic to that kind of person
I think it is a major failing of the contemporary journalism industry that people feel like
I think it is a major failing of the contemporary journalism industry that people feel like
November 28, 2025 at 12:56 AM
I get that you feel embarrassed to talk about porn but if you come at it from "they're censoring PG games and ASMR" maybe you can like... get over yourself?
this is hurting so many people and it's just going to keep getting worse?
this is hurting so many people and it's just going to keep getting worse?
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Fascinating and chilling exploration of how an initially peaceful culture once imagined to have been Edenic apparently devolved into an orgy of violence—and then disappeared.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished
Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
www.science.org
November 28, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Fascinating and chilling exploration of how an initially peaceful culture once imagined to have been Edenic apparently devolved into an orgy of violence—and then disappeared.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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If you are in the National Guard and fear you may be deployed to violate the rights of US citizens, there is help. Call the GI Rights Hotline at 1-877-447-4487
Visit girightshotline.org for more information
Visit girightshotline.org for more information
November 28, 2025 at 3:18 AM
If you are in the National Guard and fear you may be deployed to violate the rights of US citizens, there is help. Call the GI Rights Hotline at 1-877-447-4487
Visit girightshotline.org for more information
Visit girightshotline.org for more information
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It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors.
$53M is 575 assistant professors. Or more than thirty percent of the total number of full-time faculty at LSU.
$53M is 575 assistant professors. Or more than thirty percent of the total number of full-time faculty at LSU.
November 28, 2025 at 3:38 AM
It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors.
$53M is 575 assistant professors. Or more than thirty percent of the total number of full-time faculty at LSU.
$53M is 575 assistant professors. Or more than thirty percent of the total number of full-time faculty at LSU.
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ChatGPT’s signature writing style is everywhere now, and I hate it. It reminds me of when we tried mixing all the beverages at the soda fountain in middle school. We didn’t actually create the perfect drink, we just made a cloying monstrosity that lost everything good about its constituent parts.
November 19, 2025 at 5:17 PM
ChatGPT’s signature writing style is everywhere now, and I hate it. It reminds me of when we tried mixing all the beverages at the soda fountain in middle school. We didn’t actually create the perfect drink, we just made a cloying monstrosity that lost everything good about its constituent parts.
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For at least a year, I've been returning to the question, how would you know when it's time to leave the US? For this piece, I asked trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer Americans who, with their families and partners, have recently fled the country, about how they made this decision and how they left.
When Is It Time to Flee?
Trans people and their families are facing hard questions and choices as threats to their safety and rights proliferate.
newrepublic.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
For at least a year, I've been returning to the question, how would you know when it's time to leave the US? For this piece, I asked trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer Americans who, with their families and partners, have recently fled the country, about how they made this decision and how they left.
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Oh, yeah, NPC writing is the best. You can do worldbuilding, add a gameplay tip, or just invent a memorable weirdo. Or a whole city of weirdos. It's great.
November 27, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Oh, yeah, NPC writing is the best. You can do worldbuilding, add a gameplay tip, or just invent a memorable weirdo. Or a whole city of weirdos. It's great.
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you can't change the world but you can make a dent.
November 27, 2025 at 6:08 PM
you can't change the world but you can make a dent.
My most-used words list, from anisota.net/harvest . I see "fuck" and, in much smaller print, "fucking."
This obviously means that I need to use more versions of the word "fuck." Fucktastic! Fucktonian! Fuckeroonie! I will need to contemplate possible uses for these.
This obviously means that I need to use more versions of the word "fuck." Fucktastic! Fucktonian! Fuckeroonie! I will need to contemplate possible uses for these.
November 28, 2025 at 2:20 AM
My most-used words list, from anisota.net/harvest . I see "fuck" and, in much smaller print, "fucking."
This obviously means that I need to use more versions of the word "fuck." Fucktastic! Fucktonian! Fuckeroonie! I will need to contemplate possible uses for these.
This obviously means that I need to use more versions of the word "fuck." Fucktastic! Fucktonian! Fuckeroonie! I will need to contemplate possible uses for these.
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"Conservative groups, funded by fossil fuel magnates, spend $1B/yr interfering with public understanding of what is happening to our world. Few investments rival the return they've gotten from evangelicals."
An oldie but goodie makes the link between fossil fuels, climate denial, and U.S. religion.
An oldie but goodie makes the link between fossil fuels, climate denial, and U.S. religion.
How Fossil Fuel Money Made Climate Change Denial the Word of God
Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.
www.splinter.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:59 AM
"Conservative groups, funded by fossil fuel magnates, spend $1B/yr interfering with public understanding of what is happening to our world. Few investments rival the return they've gotten from evangelicals."
An oldie but goodie makes the link between fossil fuels, climate denial, and U.S. religion.
An oldie but goodie makes the link between fossil fuels, climate denial, and U.S. religion.
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The Ottawa-Alberta MOU is nothing more than a pipedream - Coastal First Nations
"We have zero interest in co-ownership or economic benefits of a project that has the potential to destroy our way of life and everything we have built on the coast," says Heiltsuk Nation elected Chief Marilyn Slett
"We have zero interest in co-ownership or economic benefits of a project that has the potential to destroy our way of life and everything we have built on the coast," says Heiltsuk Nation elected Chief Marilyn Slett
November 27, 2025 at 6:46 PM
The Ottawa-Alberta MOU is nothing more than a pipedream - Coastal First Nations
"We have zero interest in co-ownership or economic benefits of a project that has the potential to destroy our way of life and everything we have built on the coast," says Heiltsuk Nation elected Chief Marilyn Slett
"We have zero interest in co-ownership or economic benefits of a project that has the potential to destroy our way of life and everything we have built on the coast," says Heiltsuk Nation elected Chief Marilyn Slett
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when you could have this? www.etsy.com/shop/artolog... #sciart
November 26, 2025 at 5:08 PM
when you could have this? www.etsy.com/shop/artolog... #sciart
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In the richest city in the richest country on the planet, the thing we can’t afford is to forget those who are left hungry.
November 27, 2025 at 9:50 PM
In the richest city in the richest country on the planet, the thing we can’t afford is to forget those who are left hungry.
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@shengokai.blacksky.app Has anyone sent you this yet?
November 26, 2025 at 12:23 AM
@shengokai.blacksky.app Has anyone sent you this yet?
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In the era of AI it’s more crucial than ever that social media sites add a serif to the lower case L
November 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM
In the era of AI it’s more crucial than ever that social media sites add a serif to the lower case L
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I heard a story about a female academic giving a paper at the IHR who, after receiving a long and aggressive question from a senior male professor, simply leaned back with her hands behind her head and replied “Oh, do fuck off.”
One of my colleagues went to a seminar at Berkeley and when someone asked a question Derrida brushed it off saying ‘what you ask may be important but it is not interesting’.
This path leads to chaos.
November 27, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I heard a story about a female academic giving a paper at the IHR who, after receiving a long and aggressive question from a senior male professor, simply leaned back with her hands behind her head and replied “Oh, do fuck off.”
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The poem was read aloud
Gathering around the Thanksgiving table, so the most online friend can catch us up on the Nuzzi/Lizza/RFK debacle
November 27, 2025 at 6:55 PM
The poem was read aloud
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Even the the damn twitter card for this Nature Scientific Reports is clearly AI Slop.
November 27, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Even the the damn twitter card for this Nature Scientific Reports is clearly AI Slop.
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The greatest Thanksgiving special ever made by any TV show in history.
There is no debate. Don’t even bother.
There is no debate. Don’t even bother.
WKRP Turkey Drop
YouTube video by Brian Henigin
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
The greatest Thanksgiving special ever made by any TV show in history.
There is no debate. Don’t even bother.
There is no debate. Don’t even bother.
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Today is many things but I do give thanks today and every day that Stanislav Petrov saved the world when I was a child. so I wrote him a poem and @utopiascifi.bsky.social published it.
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Thanks to Stanislav Petrov for Fairy Tales about Birds by Elizabeth R. McClellan
February 2021 | Utopia Science Fiction Magazine
utopiasciencefiction.medium.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Today is many things but I do give thanks today and every day that Stanislav Petrov saved the world when I was a child. so I wrote him a poem and @utopiascifi.bsky.social published it.
utopiasciencefiction.medium.com/thanks-to-st...
utopiasciencefiction.medium.com/thanks-to-st...
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November 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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I monitored these same sorts of white supremacists for years (to fight them), and let me tell you.
You have to CONSTANTLY, aggressively deprogram yourself.
Even just, the language. We are social creatures and we absorb the language we're around. Guess what words enter your mental vocabulary
You have to CONSTANTLY, aggressively deprogram yourself.
Even just, the language. We are social creatures and we absorb the language we're around. Guess what words enter your mental vocabulary
This is the correct take. Stewing in white supremacist propaganda is bad for your thinking. And if think you are so savvy that it won’t impact you, you are the exact kind of mark they are slowly converting (I’m looking at you, centrist pundits).
It’s really funny how a generation will roll its eyes at parents who watch Fox News but doesn’t see why being immersed in Twitter is having the same effect. Lots of serious people show up on Fox News too but that shouldn’t be your primary source on the news.
November 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I monitored these same sorts of white supremacists for years (to fight them), and let me tell you.
You have to CONSTANTLY, aggressively deprogram yourself.
Even just, the language. We are social creatures and we absorb the language we're around. Guess what words enter your mental vocabulary
You have to CONSTANTLY, aggressively deprogram yourself.
Even just, the language. We are social creatures and we absorb the language we're around. Guess what words enter your mental vocabulary