Thomas Most
@thomasmost.bsky.social
writer, software developer in Brooklyn ~ technopagan is the term ~ play D&D & support your local mutual aid
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if nearchus of elea has a million haters, then i am one of them. if he has ten haters, then i am one of them. if he has only one hater then that is me. if nearchus of elea has no haters, then that means i am no longer on earth. if the world loves nearchus of elea, then i am against the world.
"Captain" Kelly — god what a despicable creature
November 25, 2025 at 10:02 PM
"Captain" Kelly — god what a despicable creature
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Lord I see what you have done for others
November 25, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Lord I see what you have done for others
goes hard
“Camera doorbells are social cancer as a technology, breaking down social solidarity and further encouraging people to see strangers with suspicion.”
Christmas is coming, and the Black Friday sales signal we’re in peak gift-buying season.
When you’re picking out gifts for friends and family this year, there’s a whole slew of tech products that are better to avoid. I put together a guide to help you through it.
When you’re picking out gifts for friends and family this year, there’s a whole slew of tech products that are better to avoid. I put together a guide to help you through it.
November 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
goes hard
okay I'll accept that Phantom Menace is proper bad but I would rather break a sweat trying to understand galactic trade federation polity than have an Imperial customs agent force-feed me a backstory for the name 'Han Solo'
Probably pay 1 to 4 and 11 belongs further down. TROS is the only legitimately bad SW.
But R1 below TFA? TPM above Solo?
But R1 below TFA? TPM above Solo?
November 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
okay I'll accept that Phantom Menace is proper bad but I would rather break a sweat trying to understand galactic trade federation polity than have an Imperial customs agent force-feed me a backstory for the name 'Han Solo'
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I'll acquiesce to the reality that 2001 made a lot of people, very much including many Democrats, go out of their fucking minds. And further that said mass insanity was the deciding factor in the 2024 election. I'm not prepared to acquiesce that he _deserved_ his role as sin eater for that era.
November 25, 2025 at 5:26 AM
I'll acquiesce to the reality that 2001 made a lot of people, very much including many Democrats, go out of their fucking minds. And further that said mass insanity was the deciding factor in the 2024 election. I'm not prepared to acquiesce that he _deserved_ his role as sin eater for that era.
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holy shit
Mark Kelly: "My wife, Gabby Giffords, meeting with her constituents, shot in the head. Six people killed around her, a horrific thing. She spent six months in the hospital. We know what political violence is and we know what causes it too, The statements that Donald Trump made incites others."
November 25, 2025 at 2:43 AM
holy shit
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You have to keep giving money to avoid collapse and if there’s collapse you have to give more money. It’s called the free market.
November 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM
You have to keep giving money to avoid collapse and if there’s collapse you have to give more money. It’s called the free market.
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Utterly ludicrous framing from @nytimes.com here, treating Pete Hegseth's arguments as if they're legitimate. The casual reader will be left with no inkling whatsoever of how unusual and corrupt an abuse of the process this truly is:
November 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Utterly ludicrous framing from @nytimes.com here, treating Pete Hegseth's arguments as if they're legitimate. The casual reader will be left with no inkling whatsoever of how unusual and corrupt an abuse of the process this truly is:
My ranking:
1. Empire Strikes Back
2. Star Wars
3. Return of the Jedi
4. Revenge of the Sith
5. Attack of the Clones
6. The Last Jedi
7. The Phantom Menace
8. Solo
9. Force Awakens
10. Rogue One
11. TROS
Everything south of RotS is questionable, but Clones is more fun than TLJ. Solo down is bad
1. Empire Strikes Back
2. Star Wars
3. Return of the Jedi
4. Revenge of the Sith
5. Attack of the Clones
6. The Last Jedi
7. The Phantom Menace
8. Solo
9. Force Awakens
10. Rogue One
11. TROS
Everything south of RotS is questionable, but Clones is more fun than TLJ. Solo down is bad
November 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
My ranking:
1. Empire Strikes Back
2. Star Wars
3. Return of the Jedi
4. Revenge of the Sith
5. Attack of the Clones
6. The Last Jedi
7. The Phantom Menace
8. Solo
9. Force Awakens
10. Rogue One
11. TROS
Everything south of RotS is questionable, but Clones is more fun than TLJ. Solo down is bad
1. Empire Strikes Back
2. Star Wars
3. Return of the Jedi
4. Revenge of the Sith
5. Attack of the Clones
6. The Last Jedi
7. The Phantom Menace
8. Solo
9. Force Awakens
10. Rogue One
11. TROS
Everything south of RotS is questionable, but Clones is more fun than TLJ. Solo down is bad
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One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.
November 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.
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I cannot imagine what could possibly go wrong in trying to court-martial an astronaut and pilot decorated multiple times for valor and exceptional service, who is also a sitting senator, for correctly making the point that service members are obliged not to follow unlawful orders
Hegseth is now threatening to recall Sen. Mark Kelly to active duty in order to court martial him.
November 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I cannot imagine what could possibly go wrong in trying to court-martial an astronaut and pilot decorated multiple times for valor and exceptional service, who is also a sitting senator, for correctly making the point that service members are obliged not to follow unlawful orders
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Trump essentially said loyalty to the Constitution is punishable by death. Those are dangerous words coming from the President of the United States, but I’m not going to be intimidated.
November 23, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Trump essentially said loyalty to the Constitution is punishable by death. Those are dangerous words coming from the President of the United States, but I’m not going to be intimidated.
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“Even if fossil fuel emissions were eliminated immediately, emissions from the global food system alone would make it impossible to limit warming to 1.5°C and difficult even to realize the 2°C target…major changes in how food is produced [and consumed] are needed…”
November 22, 2025 at 2:09 PM
“Even if fossil fuel emissions were eliminated immediately, emissions from the global food system alone would make it impossible to limit warming to 1.5°C and difficult even to realize the 2°C target…major changes in how food is produced [and consumed] are needed…”
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As Charlie notes, so many of America's top assignment editors still rely on Twitter to get and share their ideas. Here's reason # 735879374985783478509 why that is fucking nuts.
I wrote about the fake account blowup on X this weekend. A genuine post-truth nightmare and proof that these companies have polluted their platforms so thoroughly and traded reality for profit that they've undermined the very idea of what the internet is supposed to be.
That MAGA Account Might Be a Troll From Pakistan
How X blew up its own platform with a new location feature
www.theatlantic.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
As Charlie notes, so many of America's top assignment editors still rely on Twitter to get and share their ideas. Here's reason # 735879374985783478509 why that is fucking nuts.
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Amazing story, state legislator and Turning Points USA leader who crusaded against bogus voter fraud claims pleads guilty to attempted election fraud. azmirror.com/briefs/turni...
Turning Point leader, former GOP Rep pleads guilty to attempted election fraud | Arizona Mirror
Austin Smith election fraud guilty plea: Former GOP Rep admits forging 100+ signatures on ballot petitions in Arizona
azmirror.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Amazing story, state legislator and Turning Points USA leader who crusaded against bogus voter fraud claims pleads guilty to attempted election fraud. azmirror.com/briefs/turni...
Look at me, Charlie Brown! It's all for you!!!
You cannot kill me in any way that matters, Charlie Brown.
I did it 35 minutes ago, Charlie Brown.
November 24, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Look at me, Charlie Brown! It's all for you!!!
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I really did not have “Kathy Hochul understands this political moment better than almost anyone else in the Democratic Party” on my bingo card but here we are
Governor Hochul on Elise Stefanik doubling down on her claims that Mamdani is a “jihadist.”
Video: Kathy Hochul via X (@KathyHochul)
Video: Kathy Hochul via X (@KathyHochul)
November 23, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I really did not have “Kathy Hochul understands this political moment better than almost anyone else in the Democratic Party” on my bingo card but here we are
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Been driving for a couple hours. Just got online. Lemme see if I understand. US has been pushing a Ukraine plan for a few days. After some pushback, US Secy of State reveals that in fact it's a Russian plan that was presented to the US. Helluva a misunderstanding.
November 23, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Been driving for a couple hours. Just got online. Lemme see if I understand. US has been pushing a Ukraine plan for a few days. After some pushback, US Secy of State reveals that in fact it's a Russian plan that was presented to the US. Helluva a misunderstanding.
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A major tragedy of Martin never finishing the series is that many people will essentially come to see the story as the Grimdark Fantasy Saga where you’re supposed to hate all the characters when the books are clearly more oriented towards making you understand and suffer with all the characters
November 23, 2025 at 12:43 AM
A major tragedy of Martin never finishing the series is that many people will essentially come to see the story as the Grimdark Fantasy Saga where you’re supposed to hate all the characters when the books are clearly more oriented towards making you understand and suffer with all the characters
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this is white supremacy as governance
This spring, Missouri adopted a law that ends St. Louis’ ability to run its own police, transferring control to the GOP-run state government. The law also requires St. Louis to commit 25% of its budget to policing.
Missouri Officials Seize Control of St. Louis Police, in Latest Bid to Shutter Local Reforms
The takeover returns St. Louis to a Civil War-era arrangement of state control. A local official calls the move "a clear gesture of white men wanting to control urban areas."
boltsmag.org
November 23, 2025 at 12:34 AM
this is white supremacy as governance
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a good day online 👍🏻
Grok Claims Elon Musk Is More Athletic Than LeBron James -- and the World's Greatest Lover
Grok, the AI chatbot developed by Elon Musk's xAI, keeps declaring that he's a peak physical specimen and one of the most brilliant minds in history.
www.rollingstone.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:07 AM
a good day online 👍🏻
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Idk the D&D scale bc literally the one time I played my little brother and his friends killed me off, a sign of things to come, but whatever MAXIMUM charisma level is, ZM has it
November 21, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Idk the D&D scale bc literally the one time I played my little brother and his friends killed me off, a sign of things to come, but whatever MAXIMUM charisma level is, ZM has it
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Extremely good long read on how prisons shape local economies and politics. So many moments of clarity where the absurdity of the prison-as-industry proposition just slaps you in the face
The construction of prisons in rural areas can create relationships in which residents ultimately become engulfed by incarceration. “The prison almost begins to imprison the community in a way,” says a prison researcher.
The Prison Next Door
How Arkansas’ secretive plan for a new state lockup angered people in a deep red corner of rural America—and changed how some see incarceration.
boltsmag.org
November 21, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Extremely good long read on how prisons shape local economies and politics. So many moments of clarity where the absurdity of the prison-as-industry proposition just slaps you in the face
Just got out of WICKED — everyone's humming the new bubble song ... they're singing and dancing out of the theater, that's how much they love the new song about Ariana Grande wanting her bubble to pop
November 21, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Just got out of WICKED — everyone's humming the new bubble song ... they're singing and dancing out of the theater, that's how much they love the new song about Ariana Grande wanting her bubble to pop
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earnest protest music is a Good Sign for Non-Fucks in my book where I write down all the omens I see
Wow! Jesse Welles performed his song “Join ICE” on the Colbert Show last night. 🏆
November 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
earnest protest music is a Good Sign for Non-Fucks in my book where I write down all the omens I see