Brandon
@optimismprime01.bsky.social
big ol nerd of: music/guitar, ttrpgs, pc games, sf/fantasy, politics, food.
not here for followers, if i don't follow you you'll get blocked.
not here for followers, if i don't follow you you'll get blocked.
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this is just gutter racism
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
this is just gutter racism
steaksgiving is a banger.
Had Thanksgiving dinner in a halal Brazilian steakhouse in Florida.
God bless Amreeka.
No matter how hard the haters try they'll never get rid of us.
Also we make their bland ass lives delicious.
God bless Amreeka.
No matter how hard the haters try they'll never get rid of us.
Also we make their bland ass lives delicious.
November 28, 2025 at 3:02 AM
steaksgiving is a banger.
echo chambers are great when they're filled with people you've specifically chosen to follow because they're experts in their field and smarter than you. mine sure is, and i like it that way. i get extremist bullshit filtered and pre-debunked for me.
I really want to write about why this is part of why it's fine for Blue Sky to be an echo chamber, as long as it's actual freaking people.
Your universe is a photocopy of a photocopy of a…
on.ft.com/4ahkNKa
on.ft.com/4ahkNKa
November 28, 2025 at 12:22 AM
echo chambers are great when they're filled with people you've specifically chosen to follow because they're experts in their field and smarter than you. mine sure is, and i like it that way. i get extremist bullshit filtered and pre-debunked for me.
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I really want to write about why this is part of why it's fine for Blue Sky to be an echo chamber, as long as it's actual freaking people.
Your universe is a photocopy of a photocopy of a…
on.ft.com/4ahkNKa
on.ft.com/4ahkNKa
November 28, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I really want to write about why this is part of why it's fine for Blue Sky to be an echo chamber, as long as it's actual freaking people.
if you're not paying money to support a podcast where one of the hosts apologizes for what he's reading aloud - not just to listeners but to EVERYONE, and then reassuring them he'll be dead someday - what are you doing with your life?
Our premium episode for thanksgiving week: @michaelehayden.bsky.social and I check in on “Red Scare” after Dasha’s self-reported “benzo blackout,” read about RFK Jr.’s kinks, and discuss Candace Owens’ strange claims that the French president ordered a hit on her.
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057: Benzo Blackout on Thanksgiving | Posting Through It
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November 27, 2025 at 7:43 PM
if you're not paying money to support a podcast where one of the hosts apologizes for what he's reading aloud - not just to listeners but to EVERYONE, and then reassuring them he'll be dead someday - what are you doing with your life?
i will never forget calling my dad when i was about to graduate college without a job locked down, panicking.
dad: well, i mean it took me a bit but then i started at arthur andersen...
me: not helping
dad: okay, after that when i was at, um... enron...
me: NOT. HELPING.
(got the job just after)
dad: well, i mean it took me a bit but then i started at arthur andersen...
me: not helping
dad: okay, after that when i was at, um... enron...
me: NOT. HELPING.
(got the job just after)
This is how Enron did its accounting (seriously)
On one side of the ledger, we have half a trillion dollars in operating losses expected over the next 5 years.
On the other side of the ledger, we have all the money we'll hypothetically make when the hypothetical technology we imagine comes into existence mostly on its own.
So it's net positive.
On the other side of the ledger, we have all the money we'll hypothetically make when the hypothetical technology we imagine comes into existence mostly on its own.
So it's net positive.
November 27, 2025 at 6:19 PM
i will never forget calling my dad when i was about to graduate college without a job locked down, panicking.
dad: well, i mean it took me a bit but then i started at arthur andersen...
me: not helping
dad: okay, after that when i was at, um... enron...
me: NOT. HELPING.
(got the job just after)
dad: well, i mean it took me a bit but then i started at arthur andersen...
me: not helping
dad: okay, after that when i was at, um... enron...
me: NOT. HELPING.
(got the job just after)
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you've tweeted 452k times since december 2013. that's 103 tweets a day. assuming you sleep 8 hours a day, that's a new tweet every ten mins for twelve years. talking about how to attract a high value man. brother, you need to attract a HIGH VALUE JOB
November 27, 2025 at 11:49 AM
you've tweeted 452k times since december 2013. that's 103 tweets a day. assuming you sleep 8 hours a day, that's a new tweet every ten mins for twelve years. talking about how to attract a high value man. brother, you need to attract a HIGH VALUE JOB
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I hate this whole thing and everything about it but motherfucker knows how to write a cliffhanger
November 26, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I hate this whole thing and everything about it but motherfucker knows how to write a cliffhanger
just finished reading "number go up" by @zekefaux.bsky.social and really hoping there's a followup in a couple years once the ai bubble bursts
November 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
just finished reading "number go up" by @zekefaux.bsky.social and really hoping there's a followup in a couple years once the ai bubble bursts
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Trump's "work 20 hours a day and rip phone books in half" image has never been more at odds with reality. He's an old man and slowing down in all the ways people do when they're old. Maybe he used to have superhuman energy, but Father Time always wins in the end.
“..Trump in his second term has started scheduled events in the afternoon on average, at 12:08 p.m. .. The number of Mr. Trump’s total official appearances has decreased by 39 percent.”
@nytimes.com
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November 26, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Trump's "work 20 hours a day and rip phone books in half" image has never been more at odds with reality. He's an old man and slowing down in all the ways people do when they're old. Maybe he used to have superhuman energy, but Father Time always wins in the end.
pro tip, go to tvtropes.org and see a community of people loving what you love
I've learned the best way to enjoy something is just to watch it without looking it up first
Then you can go on the Internet afterwards and have thousands of people threaten you for liking the thing they don't think you should like
Then you can go on the Internet afterwards and have thousands of people threaten you for liking the thing they don't think you should like
Seriously, I feel like the internet has destroyed the ability of multiple generations to just be able to enjoy things.
November 26, 2025 at 2:03 AM
pro tip, go to tvtropes.org and see a community of people loving what you love
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"It's your fault if you let our product talk you into offing yourself," is some peak orphan crushing machine BS.
Why is your product trying to talk people into k*****g themselves in the first place?
Why is your product trying to talk people into k*****g themselves in the first place?
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 1:11 AM
"It's your fault if you let our product talk you into offing yourself," is some peak orphan crushing machine BS.
Why is your product trying to talk people into k*****g themselves in the first place?
Why is your product trying to talk people into k*****g themselves in the first place?
"They look like they're the first shoes ever made in history." 💀
can't believe this ancient mesopotamia shoe wearing ass said people need to dress up at the airport
November 26, 2025 at 2:01 AM
"They look like they're the first shoes ever made in history." 💀
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The difference between a grande and a venti anxiety is staggering nowadays due to Trumpflation.
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 PM
The difference between a grande and a venti anxiety is staggering nowadays due to Trumpflation.
if @emptywheel.bsky.social is a bot the machines have already won
This is a bot, right? No actual human responds as quickly to the slightest criticism from random accounts. @emptywheel.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 11:27 PM
if @emptywheel.bsky.social is a bot the machines have already won
IF WE OUTLAW WAVE BEAMS ONLY CRIMINALS WILL HAVE WAVE BEAMS
clarence thomas has no jurisprudential argument, he just hates women and thinks the constitution doesn’t protect a varia suit
Goddamnit.
November 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
IF WE OUTLAW WAVE BEAMS ONLY CRIMINALS WILL HAVE WAVE BEAMS
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clarence thomas has no jurisprudential argument, he just hates women and thinks the constitution doesn’t protect a varia suit
November 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
clarence thomas has no jurisprudential argument, he just hates women and thinks the constitution doesn’t protect a varia suit
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Oh, he predicted the recent rise of socialism?
After Occupy Wall Street, Bernie Sanders' 2016 strength, the election of AOC and the Squad in 2018, etc? How could he possibly have seen that coming?
We'd all better listen to this seer's other views which I'm sure aren't creepy and insane.
After Occupy Wall Street, Bernie Sanders' 2016 strength, the election of AOC and the Squad in 2018, etc? How could he possibly have seen that coming?
We'd all better listen to this seer's other views which I'm sure aren't creepy and insane.
Bari Weiss’s The Free Press (now part of corporate media) is pushing this Ad on Musk’s X. It portrays Peter Thiel as some sort of savant.
This is the same guy, you know, who has been giving lectures about the AntiChrist.
The “Free” Press is more like The Billionaire Press.
This is the same guy, you know, who has been giving lectures about the AntiChrist.
The “Free” Press is more like The Billionaire Press.
November 25, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Oh, he predicted the recent rise of socialism?
After Occupy Wall Street, Bernie Sanders' 2016 strength, the election of AOC and the Squad in 2018, etc? How could he possibly have seen that coming?
We'd all better listen to this seer's other views which I'm sure aren't creepy and insane.
After Occupy Wall Street, Bernie Sanders' 2016 strength, the election of AOC and the Squad in 2018, etc? How could he possibly have seen that coming?
We'd all better listen to this seer's other views which I'm sure aren't creepy and insane.
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then due to magic they don't have to switch back. then they kiss each other on their faces. hollywood better call me
November 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
then due to magic they don't have to switch back. then they kiss each other on their faces. hollywood better call me
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freaky friday but its a not yet medically transitioned trans woman and a trans man swapping bodies and just having the best fuckin day ever
November 25, 2025 at 1:34 AM
freaky friday but its a not yet medically transitioned trans woman and a trans man swapping bodies and just having the best fuckin day ever
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Adding to Alex's comment here–I only even watch videos made pre-2023. Websites, pre-2023. etc etc.
It's all over cross-stitch patterns as well. I'm looking only for patterns made pre 2023 at this point. Much of the patterns on etsy are chatgpt generated slop.
AI has been infiltrating knitting and crochet spaces, filling them with useless patterns. Here's why that's happening and what can be done about it.
www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/11/24/t...
#AI #Knitting #Crochet #FiberArt #Copyright
www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/11/24/t...
#AI #Knitting #Crochet #FiberArt #Copyright
November 24, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Adding to Alex's comment here–I only even watch videos made pre-2023. Websites, pre-2023. etc etc.
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Fellas, are you worried the other guys aren’t mocking your grilling skills enough?
November 24, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Fellas, are you worried the other guys aren’t mocking your grilling skills enough?
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the 40K fandom has had trouble with this sort of thing for decades, and it'll all rooted in the fact that a certain kind of person does not detect the satire in things like the Imperium of Man or Starship Troopers
i write about this topic if you're interested
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i write about this topic if you're interested
www.patreon.com/posts/fascis...
Fascism, MAGA, Warhammer 40K and the trouble with Satire | dappergander
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November 24, 2025 at 3:20 AM
the 40K fandom has had trouble with this sort of thing for decades, and it'll all rooted in the fact that a certain kind of person does not detect the satire in things like the Imperium of Man or Starship Troopers
i write about this topic if you're interested
www.patreon.com/posts/fascis...
i write about this topic if you're interested
www.patreon.com/posts/fascis...