Elijah Nelson
@sintra4.bsky.social
He/Him. Autistic. 30-years-old. Oregonian. Animal lover, especially snakes. Loves games. Former hospital worker. Trying to reach *maturity*.
All angry posts and most blocked accounts are a result of PTSD. I'm sorry. Working on it.
All angry posts and most blocked accounts are a result of PTSD. I'm sorry. Working on it.
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Pew notes that never in 20 years of polling have Latinos said their situation is worse than a year before
November 25, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Pew notes that never in 20 years of polling have Latinos said their situation is worse than a year before
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Thread on how to cut through the noise and talk about the right question.
The correct answer to MAGA outrage over the Dem video is this: Are you effing kidding me? Of course it's reasonable to warn that Trump might be giving illegal orders.
The evidence is strong that he actually is giving illegal orders! I went through that evidence here:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
The evidence is strong that he actually is giving illegal orders! I went through that evidence here:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
Is Trump Giving Illegal Orders? Dems Just Blew That Question Wide Open
From the boat bombings to deportations to prosecutions, the evidence mounts. And the speaker of the House could get to the bottom of it if he wanted to. Yeah, right.
newrepublic.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Thread on how to cut through the noise and talk about the right question.
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And once you're on these people's radars, you don't leave it.
Either they keep tabs on you, or their fans do it for them, and any chance they can use your name for content (money) they do it.
Stand up for your employees.
Either they keep tabs on you, or their fans do it for them, and any chance they can use your name for content (money) they do it.
Stand up for your employees.
Two months after firing over Charlie Kirk comments, Ghost of Yotei dev blames harassment campaign, not 'bad joke'
aftermath.site/sucker-punch-c...
aftermath.site/sucker-punch-c...
November 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
And once you're on these people's radars, you don't leave it.
Either they keep tabs on you, or their fans do it for them, and any chance they can use your name for content (money) they do it.
Stand up for your employees.
Either they keep tabs on you, or their fans do it for them, and any chance they can use your name for content (money) they do it.
Stand up for your employees.
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Just goes to show how they can easily come up with reasoning to support universal basic income when they want to. Yes, UBI is a dividend for shareholders. As citizens, we are all shareholders.
Also, we ALL created the capital that AI is trained on. We should all be paid a GDP dividend EVERY MONTH.
Also, we ALL created the capital that AI is trained on. We should all be paid a GDP dividend EVERY MONTH.
Tom Emmer on tariff checks to Americans: "You gotta love this president. He looks at this like a business, and when the business is doing well, the shareholders, which are the American people, should be rewarded."
November 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Just goes to show how they can easily come up with reasoning to support universal basic income when they want to. Yes, UBI is a dividend for shareholders. As citizens, we are all shareholders.
Also, we ALL created the capital that AI is trained on. We should all be paid a GDP dividend EVERY MONTH.
Also, we ALL created the capital that AI is trained on. We should all be paid a GDP dividend EVERY MONTH.
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This is what social scientists refer to as “real fucking bad”
Republicans increasingly oppose requiring healthy kids to get MMR vaccines to attend public schools
2016 19%
2019 20%
2023 42%
2025 47%
www.pewresearch.org/science/2025... 🧪
2016 19%
2019 20%
2023 42%
2025 47%
www.pewresearch.org/science/2025... 🧪
November 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
This is what social scientists refer to as “real fucking bad”
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Its so exhausting to see the media talk about autism like this--why can't we talk about it with the complexity it deserves, instead of stigmatize the millions living with it?
What kind of journalist doesn't understand that the "shocking numbers" are simply because more people are diagnosed now??
What kind of journalist doesn't understand that the "shocking numbers" are simply because more people are diagnosed now??
November 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Its so exhausting to see the media talk about autism like this--why can't we talk about it with the complexity it deserves, instead of stigmatize the millions living with it?
What kind of journalist doesn't understand that the "shocking numbers" are simply because more people are diagnosed now??
What kind of journalist doesn't understand that the "shocking numbers" are simply because more people are diagnosed now??
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To this regime, establishing that they can go to war in violation of the law, without participation from Congress, and without the public on board (or even trying to get the public on board) is a feature, not a bug.
November 24, 2025 at 3:52 PM
To this regime, establishing that they can go to war in violation of the law, without participation from Congress, and without the public on board (or even trying to get the public on board) is a feature, not a bug.
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Really looks like the United States is about to launch a regime change war against Venezuela with:
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
November 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Really looks like the United States is about to launch a regime change war against Venezuela with:
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
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This is a hugely important reform to make. Also, Democrats should stop excluding independents from primaries, by at the very least enabling anyone to register day-of at the polls, but preferably by switching to nonpartisan primaries where the top 4 or 5 from any party advance to an RCV general.
Democratic politicians and activists are quietly lobbying to upend the way the party picks its presidential nominee by urging the use of ranked-choice voting.
Scoop: Democrats eye ranked-choice voting for 2028 primaries
It's a tool that drew national attention when it propelled New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani to a decisive primary win.
www.axios.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This is a hugely important reform to make. Also, Democrats should stop excluding independents from primaries, by at the very least enabling anyone to register day-of at the polls, but preferably by switching to nonpartisan primaries where the top 4 or 5 from any party advance to an RCV general.
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It's telling that all the "stop the infighting!" replies are directed at you and not at Newsom. Why aren't embracing transphobia, giving friendly interviews to fascist podcasters, and brutalizing the unhoused considered deliberate attempts to sow division among Democrats?
August 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM
It's telling that all the "stop the infighting!" replies are directed at you and not at Newsom. Why aren't embracing transphobia, giving friendly interviews to fascist podcasters, and brutalizing the unhoused considered deliberate attempts to sow division among Democrats?
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Y'all, there are three years to pick a better candidate than this. Three years
Three.
Years.
If you're already so all-in on newsom that you're out in these skeets fighting strangers about why we should give him a pass for hurting us and the people we love, i don't even know what to tell you. Bye
Three.
Years.
If you're already so all-in on newsom that you're out in these skeets fighting strangers about why we should give him a pass for hurting us and the people we love, i don't even know what to tell you. Bye
August 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Y'all, there are three years to pick a better candidate than this. Three years
Three.
Years.
If you're already so all-in on newsom that you're out in these skeets fighting strangers about why we should give him a pass for hurting us and the people we love, i don't even know what to tell you. Bye
Three.
Years.
If you're already so all-in on newsom that you're out in these skeets fighting strangers about why we should give him a pass for hurting us and the people we love, i don't even know what to tell you. Bye
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Like… yeah, the team of people behind this particular figurehead is doing real damage and that's good, and good on him for hiring them, and when the target is destroyed I want all of the members of that team to start working for better people & I never want to hear from that figurehead again. 🤷🏾♂️
August 17, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Like… yeah, the team of people behind this particular figurehead is doing real damage and that's good, and good on him for hiring them, and when the target is destroyed I want all of the members of that team to start working for better people & I never want to hear from that figurehead again. 🤷🏾♂️
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And if targeting trans people and the unhoused is somehow a "purity test" for you, then what the fuck are you actually fighting for and against?
I'm serious: If the literal things our enemies are doing are not bad enough for you to say "hey maybe this guy isn't actually on my side," then *What Is*?
I'm serious: If the literal things our enemies are doing are not bad enough for you to say "hey maybe this guy isn't actually on my side," then *What Is*?
August 17, 2025 at 4:00 AM
And if targeting trans people and the unhoused is somehow a "purity test" for you, then what the fuck are you actually fighting for and against?
I'm serious: If the literal things our enemies are doing are not bad enough for you to say "hey maybe this guy isn't actually on my side," then *What Is*?
I'm serious: If the literal things our enemies are doing are not bad enough for you to say "hey maybe this guy isn't actually on my side," then *What Is*?
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Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
November 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
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“Men are in trouble. Unchallenged private sphere domination over women and children is a solution.”
November 24, 2025 at 3:52 PM
“Men are in trouble. Unchallenged private sphere domination over women and children is a solution.”
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Coke looked at the overwhelming visceral disgust to the AI slop Christmas ad from last year and said "let's absolutely do that again this year!"
Corporations ragebaiting their customers for engagement is absolutely a thing.
Corporations ragebaiting their customers for engagement is absolutely a thing.
November 24, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Coke looked at the overwhelming visceral disgust to the AI slop Christmas ad from last year and said "let's absolutely do that again this year!"
Corporations ragebaiting their customers for engagement is absolutely a thing.
Corporations ragebaiting their customers for engagement is absolutely a thing.
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The other part of this is the how socialism has been conflated with communism when they are not the same thing. We have socialism in America already we just branded it differently so people weren’t scared of something that actually helps them. Social security, Medicare/medicaid, roads, bridges, etc.
November 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
The other part of this is the how socialism has been conflated with communism when they are not the same thing. We have socialism in America already we just branded it differently so people weren’t scared of something that actually helps them. Social security, Medicare/medicaid, roads, bridges, etc.
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This is spot-on.
The UVA "deal" might be the worst/most dangerous (so far). With the help of UVA's leadership, Trump coerced a leading U.S. university to foreswear all efforts (including 100% lawful measures) to achieve diversity.
A betrayal of our values.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The UVA "deal" might be the worst/most dangerous (so far). With the help of UVA's leadership, Trump coerced a leading U.S. university to foreswear all efforts (including 100% lawful measures) to achieve diversity.
A betrayal of our values.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The University of Virginia and Cornell deals with Trump set a dangerous precedent | Serena Mayeri and Amanda Shanor
The bespoke agreements are full of peril for the universities, allowing the federal government to quietly exert control
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:20 AM
This is spot-on.
The UVA "deal" might be the worst/most dangerous (so far). With the help of UVA's leadership, Trump coerced a leading U.S. university to foreswear all efforts (including 100% lawful measures) to achieve diversity.
A betrayal of our values.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The UVA "deal" might be the worst/most dangerous (so far). With the help of UVA's leadership, Trump coerced a leading U.S. university to foreswear all efforts (including 100% lawful measures) to achieve diversity.
A betrayal of our values.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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It’s not the bestiary, but I *am* working on Vampire Survivors literature currently. Some delightful items are coming.
@poncle.games @commandersterling.bsky.social just tellin ya, i'd 100% buy the bestiary/lorebook on paper
it is a book, after all, as it tells you (in the book)
deckle-egged hardback please 🧄
it is a book, after all, as it tells you (in the book)
deckle-egged hardback please 🧄
November 23, 2025 at 2:01 AM
It’s not the bestiary, but I *am* working on Vampire Survivors literature currently. Some delightful items are coming.
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Trump in a room with a very charismatic person results in like half a day of Trump agreeing with everything that person said, so this has the potential to be very, very funny.
Trump says he’s meeting with “communist” Mamdani at the White House on Friday
November 20, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Trump in a room with a very charismatic person results in like half a day of Trump agreeing with everything that person said, so this has the potential to be very, very funny.
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The smartest people you'll ever meet are the ones who know how much they DON'T know, and these chatbots are programmed specifically to assure people that there either ISN'T anything they don't know or can't easily bypass by asking the 'bot. It's a bad recipe.
I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.
November 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
The smartest people you'll ever meet are the ones who know how much they DON'T know, and these chatbots are programmed specifically to assure people that there either ISN'T anything they don't know or can't easily bypass by asking the 'bot. It's a bad recipe.
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Someone with terminal Fox News brain fuming about imaginary communists and then doing a 180 the second they meet someone in real life is honestly the perfect encapsulation of the last ten years of American politics
November 21, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Someone with terminal Fox News brain fuming about imaginary communists and then doing a 180 the second they meet someone in real life is honestly the perfect encapsulation of the last ten years of American politics
Smiling at how wrong I was to have even an inkling of doubt for Mamdani. Dude's just built different.
Genuinely curious what Mamdani's angle on this is. It must be pretty important, given what a risk he's taking. People have already pointed out he could be detained, and I don't know what would stop them if they wanted to.
November 22, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Smiling at how wrong I was to have even an inkling of doubt for Mamdani. Dude's just built different.
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watching Trump fawn over a guy who mildly stood up to him while treating every appeaser like dogshit and knowing not a single Democrat will learn a goddamn thing from it
November 21, 2025 at 11:05 PM
watching Trump fawn over a guy who mildly stood up to him while treating every appeaser like dogshit and knowing not a single Democrat will learn a goddamn thing from it