SubGothius
banner
subgothius.bsky.social
SubGothius
@subgothius.bsky.social
Webmaster in Tucson, Arizona
Schooled in Green Bay & Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Born & raised in Lincoln, Nebraska
Pinned
In the days to come, remember who you are & what you stand for—your values, principles & ideals. As an abiding, born & raised Unitarian Universalist, this is what matters to me:
Reposted by SubGothius
This is so so good
November 26, 2025 at 12:34 AM
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear."
~Nemik's manifesto, Andor
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 25, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Reposted by SubGothius
And I do think, to anticipate a Q, that the general sense of social dislocation & uncertainty is increasing. In large part this is what reactionary politics is reacting to. It promises a return to clearly defined hierarchies, to clarity, to *certainty*. "In our world, you'll understand your place."
November 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Reposted by SubGothius
NEW data I've received: Just 5% of people detained by ICE since October 1 have had violent criminal convictions, 3/4 had no criminal convictions at all. Most "criminals" had immigration, traffic, and vice offenses. Not the "worst of the worst"...
November 24, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Reposted by SubGothius
what was it that you did here exactly?
A DOGE Exit Interview
It’s the agency’s turn to send a pointless, time-consuming email explaining its accomplishments.
www.theatlantic.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Reposted by SubGothius
November 25, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Reposted by SubGothius
November 25, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Reposted by SubGothius
Some of us have been advocating this going back since chatGPT launched. It also has other benefits: correcting someone else's work is actually a really good way to learn something yourself.
November 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Reposted by SubGothius
European counter plan to the Russian authored Trump Ukraine surrender plan.
November 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Because of course they are, so of course he did.
American minds were poisoned and conned by propaganda on Twitter.
November 23, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Fascinating 🧵👇
In March of 1945, the US Army issued this "fact sheet" to guide conversations with soldiers on the topic of fascism, paying particular attention to the ongoing threat that domestic fascist movements posed to the US. Their analysis of what a homegrown US fascism would look like is interesting.
November 22, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Reposted by SubGothius
November 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Reposted by SubGothius
Bear in mind also that this is just snapshot data, the number of people in these facilities on any given date. If this was the total number of people who had cycled through these facilities, the arrows would be even higher.
The change in ICE detentions over the past year. From the newsletter: www.howtoreadthisch.art/r/f48ddd93?m...
November 22, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Reposted by SubGothius
LLMs like Grok are inherently bullshitters. They can be better or worse on occasions, but not in precisely controllable ways. They can still be useful despite that flaw, but the widespread expectation of truthfulness or reliability is mistaken.

systemsoflife.substack.com/p/the-bullsh...
November 21, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Click thru on that one 👇
He actually did ask and got an answer 😆
somebody should ask Grok who the top court eunuch of all time is, Elon Musk or Wei Zhongxian.
Musk's ego was mortally wounded by Joyce Carol Oates and he's been on a narcissistic supply bender since
November 21, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Reposted by SubGothius
Cast your mind back a few presidents and remind yourself how INSANE this question is.
A real question asked at the White House press briefing: Does the president want to execute members of Congress?
November 20, 2025 at 8:57 PM
🧵👇
When they say Trump calling a reporter "piggy" is "just being honest," they are revealing a key feature of the reactionary mind: it believes, at a deep brainstem level, that *everyone* is awful & selfish & ugly on the inside. Everyone just suppresses it out of fear of social disapproval. Not Trump!
November 21, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Reposted by SubGothius
This is the best plot twist. I cannot wait to hear the FBI somehow defend flying a flag and firing someone for displaying it later.
Kash Patel's personal firing of the Pride flag-displaying employee was always absurd and unconstitutional, so I'm glad David Maltinsky is suing, but, wait.

It was a flag FLOWN BY THE FBI that was given to him BY THE FBI?! Come on.

Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 20, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Reposted by SubGothius
This is a man whose wife was SHOT IN THE HEAD having to act even-keeled when the President of the United States tries to incite violence against him. Trump has to go, right now.
I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought I'd see a President call for my execution.

Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
November 20, 2025 at 11:10 PM
😄😆😂🤣
November 21, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Reposted by SubGothius
Yeah, I have been chewing on similar thoughts.

There is Something There in fascism drawing in creepy weirdos drafting behind the a strangely charismatic figurehead. It overlaps with Ganz’ thesis, but is not quite the same thing.
The Jock/Creep Theory of Fascism
It's Real and It Works
www.unpopularfront.news
November 21, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Correct answer.

"That which can be destroyed by the truth, should be."
~P.C. Hodgell, Seeker's Mask (1994)
CNN: What if there are more names connected to the Democratic Party that come out in the files?

CHRIS MURPHY: So what?
November 20, 2025 at 8:20 PM
"The ending of worlds has become the business model"
Silicon Valley Apocalypse Capitalism
“Maybe if you aren’t trying to destroy the world, you’re not trying hard enough.”
www.thenerdreich.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Maybe not true
Funnier if it were tho'
November 17, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Reposted by SubGothius
As biologist EO Wilson observed: “The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology.”
The last frontier of empathy: why we still struggle to see ourselves as animals | Megan Mayhew Bergman
Champions of exceptionalism say humans hold a unique moral status. Yet there’s only one species recklessly destroying the planet it needs to survive
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:59 AM