Saul Aliasky (he/him/his)
@saulvents.bsky.social
Zavl Epstein Warnock de Clavijo: Milena's dad; Litvak Jew, racialized white; cishet male, queer for all that; snarko-communist. We're all at each other's mercy. Uninvited guest of Wažáže/Kã́ːze — Kansas. City. Missouri. 🖖
Pinned
The key, which you think freed you, is of no similar use to your children. Either they are not prisoned as you were, or you still are.
Senator, you're late for your bagel-baking appointment in hell.
Hillary Clinton blames TikTok and “totally made up” videos for young people’s views on Israel and Palestine.
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
December 3, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Senator, you're late for your bagel-baking appointment in hell.
Conversely, the latter formulation ("The Bible says X.") can very effectively be refuted with "No, it doesn't. 😝"
Begging reporters to make this distinction. She did not "cite" the Bible, she *invoked* the Bible.
"Citing" is this: "According to the Genesis account, 'In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth'" (Genesis 1:1, KJV)."
Just saying "the Bible says" before your claim isn't citing.
"Citing" is this: "According to the Genesis account, 'In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth'" (Genesis 1:1, KJV)."
Just saying "the Bible says" before your claim isn't citing.
There literally wasn't a single citation given. Even when she referred to the Bible--the ONLY text she refers to by name--she couldn't even cite which verses she quoting.
I was an English student at OU. I can fuckin guarantee that any one turning in an essay like this--Bible or no--would get a 0.
I was an English student at OU. I can fuckin guarantee that any one turning in an essay like this--Bible or no--would get a 0.
December 3, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Conversely, the latter formulation ("The Bible says X.") can very effectively be refuted with "No, it doesn't. 😝"
Fun fact*: 80-90% of your favorite 20th century Christmas songs were written, composed or famously performed by Jews. They were re-writes of Chanukah songs and they were all angry, tired, or sad. (Some of the sadness crossed over.) This is why everyone thinks there are no Chanukah songs.
🎼Judah Macc is GOING to town! 🎶
Hanukkah already has a mascot: Judah Maccabee, the friendly violent religious extremist
December 1, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Fun fact*: 80-90% of your favorite 20th century Christmas songs were written, composed or famously performed by Jews. They were re-writes of Chanukah songs and they were all angry, tired, or sad. (Some of the sadness crossed over.) This is why everyone thinks there are no Chanukah songs.
🎼Judah Macc is GOING to town! 🎶
Hanukkah already has a mascot: Judah Maccabee, the friendly violent religious extremist
December 1, 2025 at 2:12 PM
🎼Judah Macc is GOING to town! 🎶
Jeffries: SFNC!
Me: STFU. The longer you go with no ceiling, the sooner and harder the topmost take an axe to the floor. Some of them even mean well when they do it. This is a law of social reproduction.
btw, ACAB; BGDC; NGNM
Me: STFU. The longer you go with no ceiling, the sooner and harder the topmost take an axe to the floor. Some of them even mean well when they do it. This is a law of social reproduction.
btw, ACAB; BGDC; NGNM
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
November 30, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Jeffries: SFNC!
Me: STFU. The longer you go with no ceiling, the sooner and harder the topmost take an axe to the floor. Some of them even mean well when they do it. This is a law of social reproduction.
btw, ACAB; BGDC; NGNM
Me: STFU. The longer you go with no ceiling, the sooner and harder the topmost take an axe to the floor. Some of them even mean well when they do it. This is a law of social reproduction.
btw, ACAB; BGDC; NGNM
Regarding Louis CK, whom apparently too many people don't agree should be consigned to public oblivion. It's good to be able to laugh at oneself, but it would be nice to think people would learn to spot proactively some ways things might be retroactively unfunny and shun them earlier.
And that's why his new stuff isn't funny, and that's why his new stuff makes so much of his old stuff retroactively unfunny.
November 29, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Regarding Louis CK, whom apparently too many people don't agree should be consigned to public oblivion. It's good to be able to laugh at oneself, but it would be nice to think people would learn to spot proactively some ways things might be retroactively unfunny and shun them earlier.
I don't think this undermines Graeber's position, but some of us do resist work at least some of the time - more than just as a matter of rest. And that's ok! Marginal failure to contribute is sustainable, nothing like the social cost of ambitious exploitation for private gain.
There are a lot of misconceptions about peoples' desire to work and to contribute.
November 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I don't think this undermines Graeber's position, but some of us do resist work at least some of the time - more than just as a matter of rest. And that's ok! Marginal failure to contribute is sustainable, nothing like the social cost of ambitious exploitation for private gain.
I had the advantage of hating #RogueOne the first time I saw it, partly for reasons that are unfair. I still despise most of what should be important abt it but, after Andor (and Clone Wars), it's much easier to enjoy the fun incidentals: mainly, the Temple Guardians and Saw Guerrera.
rogue one is bad folks. i have believed this since i saw it in theaters and no subsequent rewatch has changed my mind. basically a chop job until the final sequence, which is good (for star wars)
November 25, 2025 at 1:35 AM
I had the advantage of hating #RogueOne the first time I saw it, partly for reasons that are unfair. I still despise most of what should be important abt it but, after Andor (and Clone Wars), it's much easier to enjoy the fun incidentals: mainly, the Temple Guardians and Saw Guerrera.
People always admire my patience, but the truth is I'm just completely time-blind.
November 24, 2025 at 11:15 PM
People always admire my patience, but the truth is I'm just completely time-blind.
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Materially, a bear claw IS a croissant and an amaretto cinnamon roll. So the outer layer should be citrus cake doughnut.
A turducken,
but it’s croissant, bear claw, cinnamon roll.
but it’s croissant, bear claw, cinnamon roll.
November 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Materially, a bear claw IS a croissant and an amaretto cinnamon roll. So the outer layer should be citrus cake doughnut.
He's checking it twice.
Isaac Chotiner staring at a list of names right now.
November 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
He's checking it twice.
Trump: "At this point, thanks to me, the shock value's worn off, so we might as well all be honest about it. Fascism is good, actually. It just says whatever you can take away from someone was meant to be yours - what's more beautifully American than that?"
A reporter asks if Mamdani stands by calling Trump a fascist. Mamdani starts to give a delicate answer.
Trump (smiles, pats Mamdani's arm): "That's OK, you can just say yes. It's easier. I don't mind."
Trump (smiles, pats Mamdani's arm): "That's OK, you can just say yes. It's easier. I don't mind."
November 21, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Trump: "At this point, thanks to me, the shock value's worn off, so we might as well all be honest about it. Fascism is good, actually. It just says whatever you can take away from someone was meant to be yours - what's more beautifully American than that?"
Trump's Transportation secretary: "remember when only rich white people could fly on planes? Let's try that again"
November 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Trump's Transportation secretary: "remember when only rich white people could fly on planes? Let's try that again"
If EU / NATO want a peace in Ukraine which is not a Russian victory, they must recognize that what they need is a Russian defeat - with all that implies.
November 21, 2025 at 8:50 PM
If EU / NATO want a peace in Ukraine which is not a Russian victory, they must recognize that what they need is a Russian defeat - with all that implies.
In very next skeet, Rothkopf makes his no a yes, so I'm going to make my yes a no. Load which "bigger" is carrying here needs better managed; items being put on opposite sides of scale are inseparable from each other. You can't say any part is bigger w/o diminishing the whole; rape is esp integral.
Just as a reminder: Trump's doing Putin's bidding on Russia, his attacks on science at HHS and with regard to the environment, his corruption, his ICE army attacking US cities, his gutting of the DoJ and attacks on the rule of law and democracy are all much, much, much bigger scandals than Epstein.
November 21, 2025 at 7:58 PM
In very next skeet, Rothkopf makes his no a yes, so I'm going to make my yes a no. Load which "bigger" is carrying here needs better managed; items being put on opposite sides of scale are inseparable from each other. You can't say any part is bigger w/o diminishing the whole; rape is esp integral.
Yall gonna make me watch this Sarah Hurwitz clip huh.
November 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Yall gonna make me watch this Sarah Hurwitz clip huh.
wants to publish zines
and rage against machines
and rage against machines
post like it’s fb statuses in 2009!
November 20, 2025 at 1:18 PM
wants to publish zines
and rage against machines
and rage against machines
I would absolutely support abolition in favor of "criminals" stalked by Optimus robots - provided these were the present actually existing Optimus robots, without any remote operators.
Elon Musk’s proposal to have criminals stalked by Optimus robots is significantly less stupid than the position of actually existing abolitionists
November 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I would absolutely support abolition in favor of "criminals" stalked by Optimus robots - provided these were the present actually existing Optimus robots, without any remote operators.
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Good morning.
This is your reminder to get to the gym so that you can beat up racists if you have to.
This is your reminder to get to the gym so that you can beat up racists if you have to.
November 15, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Good morning.
This is your reminder to get to the gym so that you can beat up racists if you have to.
This is your reminder to get to the gym so that you can beat up racists if you have to.
This is a devastating short 🧵, and points up a potential interpersonal divide emerging that I didn't anticipate, but probably should have. 🧵 focuses on legit psych problems given how bots are programmed, but there are so many other problems. Mainly we have unresolved questions of who gets to own...
November 15, 2025 at 10:11 PM
This is a devastating short 🧵, and points up a potential interpersonal divide emerging that I didn't anticipate, but probably should have. 🧵 focuses on legit psych problems given how bots are programmed, but there are so many other problems. Mainly we have unresolved questions of who gets to own...
This is a thoughtful thread. I do think there are 2 things in it worth challenging. The obvious one is the step @lastpositivist.bsky.social makes from achieving contempt for his opponents to "resist[ing] ameliorative measures [aimed at those opponents?] that seem too kind." The challenge...
With genuine shame, recent years in politics have given me my first taste for what it is to have moralised contempt for my opponents. Not hatred, not fear; contempt. There's some core element of the right wing coalition at the moment which seems to me best described as a revolt of the loser men...
November 13, 2025 at 9:37 PM
This is a thoughtful thread. I do think there are 2 things in it worth challenging. The obvious one is the step @lastpositivist.bsky.social makes from achieving contempt for his opponents to "resist[ing] ameliorative measures [aimed at those opponents?] that seem too kind." The challenge...
Megyn Kelly: "l think there is a difference. There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
Me:
Me:
November 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Megyn Kelly: "l think there is a difference. There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
Me:
Me:
ONE OF US
all of you are very annoying but i also am very annoying
November 12, 2025 at 3:38 AM
ONE OF US
We have just folded space from Ix. Many machines on Ix.
I have a mental illness called “commenting ‘many such cases’ on every bsky post I see”
November 12, 2025 at 3:37 AM
We have just folded space from Ix. Many machines on Ix.