Tab Atkins-Bittner
@tabatkins.com
Previously 🐦@tabatkins. https://tabatkins.com
Gender, like genre, is a social construct. "they"
Base 6, kpop (VIVIZ/MAMAMOO/HIGHLIGHT/many others), CSS, board games. #foodposting
Sonabat facilius.
VIVIZ posting: @daily-viviz.bsky.social
Gender, like genre, is a social construct. "they"
Base 6, kpop (VIVIZ/MAMAMOO/HIGHLIGHT/many others), CSS, board games. #foodposting
Sonabat facilius.
VIVIZ posting: @daily-viviz.bsky.social
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I wrote my college thesis on Jean Baudrillard and the hyperreality of Applebee's chicken tenders. This article is the Platonic Ideal of that thesis. My god it is beautiful.
When I first saw Applebee's advertisement for the O-M-Cheeseburger, I was terrified. I trembled. I cowered. Then I opened my heart to it. Here is what it revealed to me. johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/god-cheese...
God. Cheese. Burger.
An exercise in ecstatic American theology
johnpaulbrammer.substack.com
January 23, 2026 at 4:29 PM
I wrote my college thesis on Jean Baudrillard and the hyperreality of Applebee's chicken tenders. This article is the Platonic Ideal of that thesis. My god it is beautiful.
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I honestly wonder how much of this is deeply psychological for Vance, the inability to reconcile that people can love their neighbors so much when his own mother abandoned him.
Vance in MN: "It's really cold outside. We in the Trump administration want to deport criminal aliens who are sex offenders. It takes a certain level of committed to sex offender criminal aliens to stand outside in -40 temperatures and attack the vice president, but they're committed to the bit."
January 23, 2026 at 3:02 PM
I honestly wonder how much of this is deeply psychological for Vance, the inability to reconcile that people can love their neighbors so much when his own mother abandoned him.
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Google won’t stop replacing our news headlines with terrible AI
Google won’t stop replacing our news headlines with terrible AI
“This feature performs well for user satisfaction,” claims Google.
buff.ly
January 23, 2026 at 12:10 PM
Google won’t stop replacing our news headlines with terrible AI
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While the article is still being a litle weird, here are the promos. Horse shenanigans abound!
January 23, 2026 at 4:17 PM
While the article is still being a litle weird, here are the promos. Horse shenanigans abound!
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Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step.
1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish.
2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.
1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish.
2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.
January 23, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step.
1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish.
2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.
1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish.
2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.
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They really thought "all asshole, all the time, no off switch" was the cheat code to win every social battle, with no downsides or opportunity costs, all of us NPCs who could reprogrammed to treat them like normal despite their track records, because It Was Always A Joke
bsky.app/profile/mc-h...
bsky.app/profile/mc-h...
If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times
You live by the "Fuck Your Feelings" official campaign merchandise sold through three consecutive presidential elections, you die by the "Fuck Your Feelings" official campaign merchandise sold through three consecutive presidential elections
You live by the "Fuck Your Feelings" official campaign merchandise sold through three consecutive presidential elections, you die by the "Fuck Your Feelings" official campaign merchandise sold through three consecutive presidential elections
There's so many of these btw, NoVa right wingers realizing that their neighbors genuinely hate them
January 23, 2026 at 3:21 PM
They really thought "all asshole, all the time, no off switch" was the cheat code to win every social battle, with no downsides or opportunity costs, all of us NPCs who could reprogrammed to treat them like normal despite their track records, because It Was Always A Joke
bsky.app/profile/mc-h...
bsky.app/profile/mc-h...
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"My husband complains about the cold," the man said. "Can you teach me a spell to keep him warm?"
"I can teach you to bind hair into a net to catch heat," the wizard said, "using arcane counting and a pair of fine wands."
After a while, the man said "Isn't this knitting?"
"This, too, it's magic."
"I can teach you to bind hair into a net to catch heat," the wizard said, "using arcane counting and a pair of fine wands."
After a while, the man said "Isn't this knitting?"
"This, too, it's magic."
January 23, 2026 at 4:54 PM
"My husband complains about the cold," the man said. "Can you teach me a spell to keep him warm?"
"I can teach you to bind hair into a net to catch heat," the wizard said, "using arcane counting and a pair of fine wands."
After a while, the man said "Isn't this knitting?"
"This, too, it's magic."
"I can teach you to bind hair into a net to catch heat," the wizard said, "using arcane counting and a pair of fine wands."
After a while, the man said "Isn't this knitting?"
"This, too, it's magic."
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It's STFU Friday.
Refresh the script 👇
Refresh the script 👇
January 23, 2026 at 10:36 AM
It's STFU Friday.
Refresh the script 👇
Refresh the script 👇
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Full comic here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/trad #smbc
January 23, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Full comic here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/trad #smbc
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Yesterday my youngest son sent me an AI youtube short of charlie kirk's face on like 30 different celebrities' bodies with the words "A forest died for this"
just thinking again about how MAGA’s attempt to suppress all criticism of Charlie Kirk created a backlash so intense that he is now probably the most abjectly Internet-defiled person in human history
genuinely Charlie Kirk may have been more degraded and demeaned by the Internet at this point than anyone else in human history
the universe is not always unjust
the universe is not always unjust
January 23, 2026 at 3:38 AM
Yesterday my youngest son sent me an AI youtube short of charlie kirk's face on like 30 different celebrities' bodies with the words "A forest died for this"
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possible new concept, akin to the Streisand Effect. The Kirk Effect: when forced veneration under threat backfires into widespread contempt
just thinking again about how MAGA’s attempt to suppress all criticism of Charlie Kirk created a backlash so intense that he is now probably the most abjectly Internet-defiled person in human history
genuinely Charlie Kirk may have been more degraded and demeaned by the Internet at this point than anyone else in human history
the universe is not always unjust
the universe is not always unjust
January 23, 2026 at 4:55 PM
possible new concept, akin to the Streisand Effect. The Kirk Effect: when forced veneration under threat backfires into widespread contempt
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we should expel the ambassador for this, not even joking
Bessent pushes Albertan independence from Canada: "Albertans are very independent people. There's a rumor they may have a referendum on whether they want to stay in Canada or not. People are talking. People want sovereignty. They want what the US has got."
January 23, 2026 at 3:43 PM
we should expel the ambassador for this, not even joking
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This is not materially different from Josef Mengele. The concept is to deliberately expose people to serious harm so you can gather more data on what you already know will hurt them. It's not some big coincidence the Nuremberg Code expressly prohibits everything resembling this kind of "science."
RFK Jr. appointee Kirk Milhoan has just clearly stated, out loud, that he wants to experiment on the people of the United States by seeing what happens as vaccination coverage plummets and infectious diseases spread.
January 23, 2026 at 2:59 PM
This is not materially different from Josef Mengele. The concept is to deliberately expose people to serious harm so you can gather more data on what you already know will hurt them. It's not some big coincidence the Nuremberg Code expressly prohibits everything resembling this kind of "science."
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I keep seeing leftists from outside of Minneapolis say they’ve seen all this before, and no, you haven’t. I’ve been at this for 30+ years and I haven’t either. It’s not what you’re picturing. This is something else
I know people keep saying this but it’s hard to communicate the depth of active resistance here. Like, I’m on random cafes and people are checking in for observation shifts. Signs everywhere. Folks in visibility vests on the corners. It’s wild. Absolutely wild.
January 22, 2026 at 6:18 PM
I keep seeing leftists from outside of Minneapolis say they’ve seen all this before, and no, you haven’t. I’ve been at this for 30+ years and I haven’t either. It’s not what you’re picturing. This is something else
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if taking hormones goes against god then it means god wanted me dead at 15 when my body stopped making insulin. don't pull that "god made you perfect the way you are naturally" crap if you cant explain why i need insulin shots to live
January 23, 2026 at 6:15 AM
if taking hormones goes against god then it means god wanted me dead at 15 when my body stopped making insulin. don't pull that "god made you perfect the way you are naturally" crap if you cant explain why i need insulin shots to live
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Not exaggerating when I say that the collective action in Minnesota will be studied for generations if not centuries to come
January 23, 2026 at 12:03 AM
Not exaggerating when I say that the collective action in Minnesota will be studied for generations if not centuries to come
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Corollary to @faineg.bsky.social's discourse on "good tech needs no begging to adopt": when the humble web browser has become so encumbered by AI features that an article about using the command line to run GitHub scripts to shut them off is viral news amongst normies, it's a full repudiation of AI.
January 22, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Corollary to @faineg.bsky.social's discourse on "good tech needs no begging to adopt": when the humble web browser has become so encumbered by AI features that an article about using the command line to run GitHub scripts to shut them off is viral news amongst normies, it's a full repudiation of AI.
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They’re giving He-Man pronouns????
January 22, 2026 at 9:12 PM
They’re giving He-Man pronouns????
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oh no, are publishers getting squeamish about buying queer books right now for some impossible-to-guess reason??
sounds like our books need to get even more queer, relentlessly queer, battle-axe queer, cackling queer
sounds like our books need to get even more queer, relentlessly queer, battle-axe queer, cackling queer
January 16, 2026 at 5:01 PM
oh no, are publishers getting squeamish about buying queer books right now for some impossible-to-guess reason??
sounds like our books need to get even more queer, relentlessly queer, battle-axe queer, cackling queer
sounds like our books need to get even more queer, relentlessly queer, battle-axe queer, cackling queer