Matt
@tiredgenerally.bsky.social
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How dare my body catch up with months of stress and depression, I get to say when I break down
November 24, 2025 at 2:09 AM
How dare my body catch up with months of stress and depression, I get to say when I break down
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Hot take your love for your country should be kind of conditional on who it chooses to lead it, especially if it chooses an exceptionally stupid and evil person
November 24, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Hot take your love for your country should be kind of conditional on who it chooses to lead it, especially if it chooses an exceptionally stupid and evil person
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interesting fact: noah smith is part of an ongoing experiment designed to see how much you could smooth a person’s brain out before they can no longer function
November 24, 2025 at 4:01 AM
interesting fact: noah smith is part of an ongoing experiment designed to see how much you could smooth a person’s brain out before they can no longer function
not my wheelhouse here but i suspect the scenario where he pulls off a regime change, the likes of which nominally competent and popular governments have been failing at for my entire life, still involves a nonzero number of US soldiers dying. i do not know how he sells that to the public
I don't think these results show what people think they show. Lots of lefty wishful thinking about this being a Vietnam for Trump. Handled right, it could be his biggest success. Not likely but possible, and people need to be aware of that.
Trump had found an issue more unpopular than his handling of inflation - attacking Venezuela:
www.cbsnews.com/feature/cbs-...
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November 24, 2025 at 4:21 AM
not my wheelhouse here but i suspect the scenario where he pulls off a regime change, the likes of which nominally competent and popular governments have been failing at for my entire life, still involves a nonzero number of US soldiers dying. i do not know how he sells that to the public
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I don't know what even the point of arguing with these people is anymore, but the idea that "the crime gene" had been weeded out by 19th-20th century Europe is something you have to be a genuine imbecile to believe.
November 24, 2025 at 2:39 AM
I don't know what even the point of arguing with these people is anymore, but the idea that "the crime gene" had been weeded out by 19th-20th century Europe is something you have to be a genuine imbecile to believe.
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I made this point in my “myth of allied technology article”
secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com/p/the-myth-o...
secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com/p/the-myth-o...
November 24, 2025 at 12:50 AM
I made this point in my “myth of allied technology article”
secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com/p/the-myth-o...
secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com/p/the-myth-o...
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Ravid isn't that great of a journalist, more often than not he simply is a stenographer for the WH, but he doesn't seem to have gotten it wrong. The US tried to co author a peace plan with Putin to impose onto Zelenskyy. The US does this literally all the time with Israel against the Palestinians.
November 23, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Ravid isn't that great of a journalist, more often than not he simply is a stenographer for the WH, but he doesn't seem to have gotten it wrong. The US tried to co author a peace plan with Putin to impose onto Zelenskyy. The US does this literally all the time with Israel against the Palestinians.
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War nonprofiteer
November 23, 2025 at 9:29 PM
War nonprofiteer
it is verifiably not false? its on their website
Mamdani said a synagogue in NY was violating international law when it had Nefesh B'Nefesh providing information to members who were considering moving to Israel (Aliyah). He said they were selling "occupied Palestinian property in the West Bank" to Jews, which is 100% totally false.
November 23, 2025 at 8:59 PM
it is verifiably not false? its on their website
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yep, it genuinely is racist to implicitly assume that Chinese people or Indians or some indigenous group are incapable of rigorous, reproducible science! Like it unironically is the soft bigotry of low expectations.
Reflecting further on this point: all cultures have produced revelationist (woo) and systematic-observational knowledge traditions. Any association in between woo and nonwestwern ideas is an artifact of western revelationists invoking nonwestwern traditions to appeal to secular westerners
This will be a battle because there’s a lot of well meaning anthropologist types who really do believe it‘s racist to say that eg: traditional chinese medicine is mostly bullshit, but it’s a fight well worth having.
November 23, 2025 at 7:10 PM
yep, it genuinely is racist to implicitly assume that Chinese people or Indians or some indigenous group are incapable of rigorous, reproducible science! Like it unironically is the soft bigotry of low expectations.
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This will be a battle because there’s a lot of well meaning anthropologist types who really do believe it‘s racist to say that eg: traditional chinese medicine is mostly bullshit, but it’s a fight well worth having.
I'm all for woke 2 as long as we agree woo-woo is out, I want aggressively pro-science and medicine thanks
November 23, 2025 at 3:58 AM
This will be a battle because there’s a lot of well meaning anthropologist types who really do believe it‘s racist to say that eg: traditional chinese medicine is mostly bullshit, but it’s a fight well worth having.
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"Never trust woo woos" has been my guiding principle in life and has literally never once let me down lol
“‘We are in this magical, unique time,’ Sinema said of Trump’s health department, led by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.”
Kyrsten Sinema Is Ready for Her MAHA Turn
In a new interview, the one-time Democrat says the movement for psychedelic medicine should capitalize on the Trump administration.
www.politico.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
"Never trust woo woos" has been my guiding principle in life and has literally never once let me down lol
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Although the scale of this is still to be assessed, this is the inevitable outcome of the monetization of the algorithm. Rage-bait becomes a personal revenue model. Nothing about this should be a surprise.
NEWS: I spent the past 24 hours going through major MAGA accounts on Twitter, and a bombshell development has become clear: most of the right-wing ecosphere is being fed propaganda from foreign actors.
This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
NEWS: Major MAGA Accounts on Twitter Exposed as Foreign Actors
A stunning development over the past 24 hours.
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Although the scale of this is still to be assessed, this is the inevitable outcome of the monetization of the algorithm. Rage-bait becomes a personal revenue model. Nothing about this should be a surprise.
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Oh lol they're using the prop 65 baseline numbers www.vox.com/future-perfe...
No, your protein powder isn’t poisoning you
New testing finds two-thirds of popular protein powders exceed lead limits — especially plant-based brands. What you need to know before your next scoop — and why the reality is different.
www.vox.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Oh lol they're using the prop 65 baseline numbers www.vox.com/future-perfe...
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Wow they made Will Stancil the SecTres
Bessent: "You know the best way to bring your inflation rate down? Move from a blue state to a red state. Blue state inflation is half a percent higher."
November 23, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Wow they made Will Stancil the SecTres
is trump still “wont someone rid me of this meddlesome priest” posting
November 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
is trump still “wont someone rid me of this meddlesome priest” posting
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this thing always got my back
November 23, 2025 at 2:12 AM
this thing always got my back
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parsimony is the principle of assuming as few things as possible, or equivalently, that the shorter your explanation is the more likely it is
"donald trump is a homo romantic bisexual" is much shorter than alternatives for explaining many of his actions, which otherwise need one explanation each
"donald trump is a homo romantic bisexual" is much shorter than alternatives for explaining many of his actions, which otherwise need one explanation each
It’s more of a Graeco-Roman “martial homoromantic bisexuality”. Women are for producing heirs, men are for actual love and companionship.
November 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
parsimony is the principle of assuming as few things as possible, or equivalently, that the shorter your explanation is the more likely it is
"donald trump is a homo romantic bisexual" is much shorter than alternatives for explaining many of his actions, which otherwise need one explanation each
"donald trump is a homo romantic bisexual" is much shorter than alternatives for explaining many of his actions, which otherwise need one explanation each
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AARRGH. CHIROPRACTIC IS NOT MEDICINE, IT’S DANGEROUS BULLSHIT CREATED BY A FUCKING GROCER WHO THOUGHT HE COULD HEAL WITH MAGNETS. WHAT THE FUCK, AMERICA
Oh good, they left Chiropractors as professionals but not Nurses, NPs, PA’s or physical therapists
That’s infuriating
That’s infuriating
November 21, 2025 at 7:36 AM
AARRGH. CHIROPRACTIC IS NOT MEDICINE, IT’S DANGEROUS BULLSHIT CREATED BY A FUCKING GROCER WHO THOUGHT HE COULD HEAL WITH MAGNETS. WHAT THE FUCK, AMERICA
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fucking the source and doing catch and kill for him for 2 years was cool but cheating on a guy who is friends with people in the building requires ethics enquiry, the press is so cooked they should be a Raos product
nypost.com/2025/11/21/m...
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Vanity Fair reviewing Olivia Nuzzi’s conduct after ex Ryan Lizza accused her of cheating on him with Mark Sanford: report:
The Condé Nast-owned publication is reportedly taking another look at its decision to hire Nuzzi.
nypost.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:28 PM
fucking the source and doing catch and kill for him for 2 years was cool but cheating on a guy who is friends with people in the building requires ethics enquiry, the press is so cooked they should be a Raos product
nypost.com/2025/11/21/m...
nypost.com/2025/11/21/m...
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It's kinda interesting that in many ways the less ideological moderate democrats (eg Newsom, Hochul) have been rising to the moment more than the more ideological ones, because the ideology of the moderate wing of the democratic party is heavily wrapped up in being a huge loser
The Hochul campaign is out with a statement regarding President Trump's disagreement with Rep. Elise Stefanik calling Zohran Mamdani a "jihadist." Comms Director Sarafina Chitika says Trump "nuked her opening argument" in Stefanik's bid for governor
November 22, 2025 at 8:10 AM
It's kinda interesting that in many ways the less ideological moderate democrats (eg Newsom, Hochul) have been rising to the moment more than the more ideological ones, because the ideology of the moderate wing of the democratic party is heavily wrapped up in being a huge loser
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lmfao she’s dropping black pills on her entire constituency, literal and metaphorical, across the GOP base. This fucking *rules*
In her resignation statement, MTG breaks very dramatically with the secret-plan conspiracy theorists about what’s happening in DC.
November 22, 2025 at 2:08 AM
lmfao she’s dropping black pills on her entire constituency, literal and metaphorical, across the GOP base. This fucking *rules*