SubGothius
@subgothius.bsky.social
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Schooled in Green Bay & Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Born & raised in Lincoln, Nebraska
Schooled in Green Bay & Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Born & raised in Lincoln, Nebraska
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SubGothius
@subgothius.bsky.social
· Jan 20
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:
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Koyaanisqatsi sped up by 1552% so that you can watch the whole thing in about 5 minutes. [kottke.org]
Koyaanisqatsi In Five Minutes
Wyatt Hodgson took Koyaanisqatsi and sped it up 1552% so you can watch the whole movie in about five minutes.
Reggio uses time lapse in the film to great effect — you notice different things at different playback spee
kottke.org
January 20, 2026 at 9:32 PM
Koyaanisqatsi sped up by 1552% so that you can watch the whole thing in about 5 minutes. [kottke.org]
And frankly, I think Turnip DGAF about history or his legacy, cos he won't be around for that anyway. He only cares about what he can enjoy right now: whatever he wants moment by moment, & total impunity for anything he does & has ever done in his entire life.
"History will not look kindly upon______"
Damn history ... i don't look kindly upon it... we aint gotta wait
Damn history ... i don't look kindly upon it... we aint gotta wait
January 21, 2026 at 6:18 AM
And frankly, I think Turnip DGAF about history or his legacy, cos he won't be around for that anyway. He only cares about what he can enjoy right now: whatever he wants moment by moment, & total impunity for anything he does & has ever done in his entire life.
Been thinking about this lately in terms of Planck's Principle, summarized as, "Science progresses one funeral at a time." This time, the funeral is for the US Science Community writ large. When we rebuild, there won't be nearly as many tenured Old Heads obstructing breakthroughs from the New Heads.
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
January 21, 2026 at 5:38 AM
Been thinking about this lately in terms of Planck's Principle, summarized as, "Science progresses one funeral at a time." This time, the funeral is for the US Science Community writ large. When we rebuild, there won't be nearly as many tenured Old Heads obstructing breakthroughs from the New Heads.
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“[To be fair], if crows were cognizant of human politics they'd be doing this without training anyway.”
Man 'trains' crows to attack MAGA hats after saying there's 'no longer a moral option'
Man 'trains' crows to attack MAGA hats as there's 'no longer a moral option'
A man has gone viral after training a murder of crows to swoop down and snatch MAGA hats from unsuspecting Trump supporters, documenting his months-long experiment
www.dailystar.co.uk
January 21, 2026 at 12:55 AM
“[To be fair], if crows were cognizant of human politics they'd be doing this without training anyway.”
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It's also that more people making decisions about what's covered agree with him than are willing to admit openly. www.aaronrosspowell.com/3m5ee5raios2r
Why Elites Believe in Racial IQ Differences and Evolutionary Psych - Aaron Ross Powell's Blog
Both help deflect critiques of elite status being less earned than elites want to think.
www.aaronrosspowell.com
January 21, 2026 at 2:43 AM
It's also that more people making decisions about what's covered agree with him than are willing to admit openly. www.aaronrosspowell.com/3m5ee5raios2r
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Time and again, successful resistance to Trump’s authoritarianism comes from ordinary Americans putting their actual bodies on the line, when institutional leaders can’t even deign to use strong language.
Watch that. And then tell me how we replace Schumer with her
January 21, 2026 at 2:08 AM
Time and again, successful resistance to Trump’s authoritarianism comes from ordinary Americans putting their actual bodies on the line, when institutional leaders can’t even deign to use strong language.
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this is the most ridiculous thing
we could make life enormously less stressful and awful by simply Not Doing Any Of This
call off the ICE goons, rescind the tariffs, stop threatening Greenland
just stop it! problem(s) solved!
we could make life enormously less stressful and awful by simply Not Doing Any Of This
call off the ICE goons, rescind the tariffs, stop threatening Greenland
just stop it! problem(s) solved!
every single goddam crisis happening right now is self imposed
January 19, 2026 at 5:54 PM
this is the most ridiculous thing
we could make life enormously less stressful and awful by simply Not Doing Any Of This
call off the ICE goons, rescind the tariffs, stop threatening Greenland
just stop it! problem(s) solved!
we could make life enormously less stressful and awful by simply Not Doing Any Of This
call off the ICE goons, rescind the tariffs, stop threatening Greenland
just stop it! problem(s) solved!
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#Technology #writers have a responsibility to call out technologies that are immature or flawed.
It seems we see less than less of this in the age of #AI.
It seems we see less than less of this in the age of #AI.
Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
January 18, 2026 at 9:23 PM
#Technology #writers have a responsibility to call out technologies that are immature or flawed.
It seems we see less than less of this in the age of #AI.
It seems we see less than less of this in the age of #AI.
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“don’t GIVE him what he wants just let him DO whatever he wants!” - half the Democratic Party and also the ghost of Neville Chamberlain, probably
January 16, 2026 at 7:25 PM
“don’t GIVE him what he wants just let him DO whatever he wants!” - half the Democratic Party and also the ghost of Neville Chamberlain, probably
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Jesus. This is just devastating. The entire generative AI field is going to destroyed in court.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
AI’s Memorization Crisis
Large language models don’t “learn”—they copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry.
www.theatlantic.com
January 17, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Jesus. This is just devastating. The entire generative AI field is going to destroyed in court.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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Great thread. The state terror practiced in the post-reconstruction South was the impetus for passing the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, which Trump is ironically now talking about using against Minneapolis to enforce state terror.
Brief operational term of art 🧵 to help better define what we're experiencing. What we're experiencing is state terror. I've seen a lot of terms thrown around for what the Trump admin is doing w/ICE, CBP, & other federal law enforcement (LE). The now largely out of use term is state terror. 1/
January 18, 2026 at 2:03 AM
Great thread. The state terror practiced in the post-reconstruction South was the impetus for passing the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, which Trump is ironically now talking about using against Minneapolis to enforce state terror.
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one of the best things about this whole nightmare has been watching a whole bunch of folks who have clearly never been seriously political in their lives standing up and going, no, absolutely the fuck not, we’re not letting this happen
ICE and MAGA really did bet the farm on all of Minneapolis’s white people going “oh yes, please take away our disgusting, evil non-white-foreigner neighbors, oh thank you so much.”
it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.
it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.
January 18, 2026 at 2:47 AM
one of the best things about this whole nightmare has been watching a whole bunch of folks who have clearly never been seriously political in their lives standing up and going, no, absolutely the fuck not, we’re not letting this happen
Not to mention, so many citizens been getting snared in their dragnets that even a citizen might reasonably flee ICE out of fear for their own safety & freedom
Pro-tip:
If someone is running from ice and runs into your house, you don’t KNOW their citizenship status. So you can’t KNOWINGLY harbor someone who is “unlawfully present in the US.”
More-pro-tip: Don’t say shit. Get comfortable being completely silent ASAP.
If someone is running from ice and runs into your house, you don’t KNOW their citizenship status. So you can’t KNOWINGLY harbor someone who is “unlawfully present in the US.”
More-pro-tip: Don’t say shit. Get comfortable being completely silent ASAP.
January 18, 2026 at 4:09 AM
Not to mention, so many citizens been getting snared in their dragnets that even a citizen might reasonably flee ICE out of fear for their own safety & freedom
Because of course. Put a bunch of superficial media personalities, influencers & bullshit artists in charge, & they'll think politics is nothing more than messaging, posting & optics
January 16, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Because of course. Put a bunch of superficial media personalities, influencers & bullshit artists in charge, & they'll think politics is nothing more than messaging, posting & optics
"He understood trump after our conversations. it is not complex. he must be seen to get something its that simple."
~Jeffrey Epstein
~Jeffrey Epstein
January 16, 2026 at 7:33 AM
"He understood trump after our conversations. it is not complex. he must be seen to get something its that simple."
~Jeffrey Epstein
~Jeffrey Epstein
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January 16, 2026 at 2:36 AM
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White people using whiteness to combat white supremacy is key to defeating white supremacy.
A big part of why the Right is furious at White women right now is because they're increasingly using their Whiteness as shield and a weapon and it's honestly fucking great.
what a legend lmao
January 15, 2026 at 10:49 PM
White people using whiteness to combat white supremacy is key to defeating white supremacy.
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He really is doing all of it.
January 15, 2026 at 4:36 AM
He really is doing all of it.
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We must all have ways to hold, release, some of the devastation and fury in these times of terror and rage.
When we do, we may have more capacity for useful action.
Because we must take action.
But we must have capacity.
Some words, and some resources:
When we do, we may have more capacity for useful action.
Because we must take action.
But we must have capacity.
Some words, and some resources:
how to face the horrors of now
feel, then do
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
January 15, 2026 at 2:20 PM
We must all have ways to hold, release, some of the devastation and fury in these times of terror and rage.
When we do, we may have more capacity for useful action.
Because we must take action.
But we must have capacity.
Some words, and some resources:
When we do, we may have more capacity for useful action.
Because we must take action.
But we must have capacity.
Some words, and some resources:
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I take a day off the internet and ICE is pulling the ol’ throw a flash bang at the baby move?
You can’t reform this.
These are the actions of people who are too far gone to contribute to society. And anyone who supports this? Well…
You can’t reform this.
These are the actions of people who are too far gone to contribute to society. And anyone who supports this? Well…
His 6 month old stopped breathing!
HIS SIX MONTH OLD STOPPED BREATHING!
A father was getting his kids out of the neighborhood because it was unsafe & ICE threw flash bangs & tear gas at his car with children & a baby inside!
His 6 month old stopped breathing & all the children were hospitalized!
HIS SIX MONTH OLD STOPPED BREATHING!
A father was getting his kids out of the neighborhood because it was unsafe & ICE threw flash bangs & tear gas at his car with children & a baby inside!
His 6 month old stopped breathing & all the children were hospitalized!
January 15, 2026 at 5:56 PM
I take a day off the internet and ICE is pulling the ol’ throw a flash bang at the baby move?
You can’t reform this.
These are the actions of people who are too far gone to contribute to society. And anyone who supports this? Well…
You can’t reform this.
These are the actions of people who are too far gone to contribute to society. And anyone who supports this? Well…
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People often ask why Democrats don’t have something like TurningPoint USA — so before the year ends, let me introduce you to Voters of Tomorrow.
We’re on campuses across the country, organizing over 10,000 Gen Z members to engage our generation.
🧵THREAD
We’re on campuses across the country, organizing over 10,000 Gen Z members to engage our generation.
🧵THREAD
January 15, 2026 at 5:22 AM
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We live not only in #crisis, but in #polycrisis. A thoughtful look at why our #human brains are struggling.
We are living in a time of polycrisis. If you feel trapped – you’re not alone
We are living in a time of polycrisis. If you feel trapped – you’re not alone
I hadn’t fully grasped how the idea of a better future sustained me – now I, like many others, find it difficult to be productive
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:51 PM
We live not only in #crisis, but in #polycrisis. A thoughtful look at why our #human brains are struggling.
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ICE was sent in record force* to Minneapolis to carry out collective punishment* against a city held by the opposition party* to openly scapegoat a Black Muslim minority* & blamed a concerned citizen for her own murder* before threatening to prosecute her surviving spouse*
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*indicator of fascism
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*indicator of fascism
January 14, 2026 at 2:03 AM
ICE was sent in record force* to Minneapolis to carry out collective punishment* against a city held by the opposition party* to openly scapegoat a Black Muslim minority* & blamed a concerned citizen for her own murder* before threatening to prosecute her surviving spouse*
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*indicator of fascism
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*indicator of fascism