Materialist Gnostic
@walmsley.bsky.social
Programmer. Trying to enjoy arguing on the Internet less. He/Him.
Sometimes post pictures of food or thoughts on books I read.
Sometimes post pictures of food or thoughts on books I read.
whether it's college students protesting or the federal government arresting journalists, both sides have made troubling moves on free speech
January 30, 2026 at 2:47 PM
whether it's college students protesting or the federal government arresting journalists, both sides have made troubling moves on free speech
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This is a popular misconception. People think that because it’s gay to have straight sex, it means it’s straight to have gay sex. Gay sex doesn’t make you straight. Having a job does.
fellas is it straight to have gay sex?
January 30, 2026 at 3:11 AM
This is a popular misconception. People think that because it’s gay to have straight sex, it means it’s straight to have gay sex. Gay sex doesn’t make you straight. Having a job does.
look, you have to admit: you can bonesaw way more of your critics to death in Saudi Arabia than you can here. and, ultimately, isn't that what we're all looking for? well, all of us who haven't been bonesaw'd to death
Tucker Carlson: "Saudi Arabia [...] is kind of a weirdly free place.”
Hillary Clinton: "The example that the kingdom is setting for the right kind of development [...] that is a very strong model for other parts of the world"
Quotes from a real estate conference in Riyadh
Hillary Clinton: "The example that the kingdom is setting for the right kind of development [...] that is a very strong model for other parts of the world"
Quotes from a real estate conference in Riyadh
Hillary Clinton and Tucker Carlson Walk Into a Saudi Real Estate Forum
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 2:41 AM
look, you have to admit: you can bonesaw way more of your critics to death in Saudi Arabia than you can here. and, ultimately, isn't that what we're all looking for? well, all of us who haven't been bonesaw'd to death
probably shoulda locked in flights for a couple more trips, huh?
January 30, 2026 at 2:17 AM
probably shoulda locked in flights for a couple more trips, huh?
people are saying Elon is the most divorced guy in history, and yet he doesn't even have an X
January 29, 2026 at 8:38 PM
people are saying Elon is the most divorced guy in history, and yet he doesn't even have an X
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The goal should not be to get some small-bore stuff passed before the pendulum swings again. It should be to break the pendulum once and for all.
January 29, 2026 at 4:15 PM
The goal should not be to get some small-bore stuff passed before the pendulum swings again. It should be to break the pendulum once and for all.
man I was the least interesting 23 year old in the world and this just seems like an incredibly depressing way to be 23 to me
January 29, 2026 at 2:54 PM
man I was the least interesting 23 year old in the world and this just seems like an incredibly depressing way to be 23 to me
I know it's objectively scary but my main emotional response to the fulton county thing is that it's just so fucking *stupid*. it is insulting to be governed by people who are chasing conspiracy theories from half a decade ago
January 29, 2026 at 4:58 AM
I know it's objectively scary but my main emotional response to the fulton county thing is that it's just so fucking *stupid*. it is insulting to be governed by people who are chasing conspiracy theories from half a decade ago
"he has queer kids" and "he attacked a left-wing congresswoman" does not seem like a fact pattern I would want to draw attention to as a conservative
The right never misses a chance to smear queer kids for something they have nothing to do with. It’s basically a provocation to violence.
And in reality the guy who assaulted Omar was a pro Trump nut
And in reality the guy who assaulted Omar was a pro Trump nut
January 29, 2026 at 4:48 AM
"he has queer kids" and "he attacked a left-wing congresswoman" does not seem like a fact pattern I would want to draw attention to as a conservative
something to bear in mind is that they were quiet about the "51st state" bullshit until the Alberta stuff came up again, so the fact that they've slunk off from their attempt to annex Greenland should be seen as a reprieve rather than a victory
January 29, 2026 at 12:45 AM
something to bear in mind is that they were quiet about the "51st state" bullshit until the Alberta stuff came up again, so the fact that they've slunk off from their attempt to annex Greenland should be seen as a reprieve rather than a victory
guy so fascist he can only conceive of an opposition that's other kinds of fascist
This is a response to Serwer’s article and it’s just completely divorced from any way a mentally well-adjusted person would think.
January 29, 2026 at 12:14 AM
guy so fascist he can only conceive of an opposition that's other kinds of fascist
tbh this does seem low for Putin, the only leader on this list who is currently at war with another country
January 28, 2026 at 11:19 PM
tbh this does seem low for Putin, the only leader on this list who is currently at war with another country
wait was she not
Nicki Minaj has received Donald Trump’s Gold Card, which grants her U.S. residency.
January 28, 2026 at 10:28 PM
wait was she not
American Psycho but with conservative influencers is a movie waiting to win like 10 Oscars
notwithstanding that the guy sucked and deserved exactly this wife this is legitimately a little chilling lol
Candace Owens released leaked audio from Turning Point USA in which Erika Kirk is heard giggling and cheerfully discussing attendance figures, merchandise sales, and performance metrics from Charlie Kirk’s memorial event just 11 days after his death...
January 28, 2026 at 9:23 PM
American Psycho but with conservative influencers is a movie waiting to win like 10 Oscars
LBJ is a cool topic for presidential rankings because on the one hand he did a bunch of incredibly important and good domestic policy and then on the other hand Vietnam
January 28, 2026 at 7:18 PM
LBJ is a cool topic for presidential rankings because on the one hand he did a bunch of incredibly important and good domestic policy and then on the other hand Vietnam
lyman stone is cool because he believes something that a significant percentage of American Christian believe implicitly but unlike them he's just smart enough to be stupid enough to say it in a way that's explicit enough to be incredibly creepy
"I hope Americans are inspired by three of the most overtly evil people in the administration having babies!"
January 28, 2026 at 7:14 PM
lyman stone is cool because he believes something that a significant percentage of American Christian believe implicitly but unlike them he's just smart enough to be stupid enough to say it in a way that's explicit enough to be incredibly creepy
I'm not going to stake out a position as a huge Online Dating Defender or anything but I don't think bars are particularly better, it just shifts the marginal person not getting a date from "can't hold a conversation by text" to "thinks bars are too loud"
I see a lot of visualizations of one year of a person's online dating (a 21M from London in this case). Seems miserable. Is getting drunk in a bar or club making a comeback as a dating strategy? Source: buff.ly/ZvAbOdz
January 28, 2026 at 2:32 PM
I'm not going to stake out a position as a huge Online Dating Defender or anything but I don't think bars are particularly better, it just shifts the marginal person not getting a date from "can't hold a conversation by text" to "thinks bars are too loud"
why can't poison oak just be spikey like normal asshole plants. you know what happens with the spikey plants? they poke me and then I stop touching them. I've been itching for a week and I don't even remember touching poison oak
January 28, 2026 at 4:59 AM
why can't poison oak just be spikey like normal asshole plants. you know what happens with the spikey plants? they poke me and then I stop touching them. I've been itching for a week and I don't even remember touching poison oak
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I’m going to urge caution with the “targeted killing” language here. DHS has been clearly filming and IDing observers, and we’ve all assumed they’re making some kind of list of us. If Pretti had been regularly observing in any capacity, there’s a decent chance he’d been documented.
CNN is reporting that federal authorities may have been collecting information and "documenting details" about Alex Pretti before killing him on Saturday, and that officers tackled him a week earlier. www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/u...
Alex Pretti was in earlier confrontation with federal agents who tackled him, broke his rib, sources say | CNN
Federal immigration officials have been collecting information on protesters and agitators, sources told CNN.
www.cnn.com
January 27, 2026 at 10:54 PM
I’m going to urge caution with the “targeted killing” language here. DHS has been clearly filming and IDing observers, and we’ve all assumed they’re making some kind of list of us. If Pretti had been regularly observing in any capacity, there’s a decent chance he’d been documented.
it does seem fair to draw a distinction between "casualties of WWII" and "victims of the Holocaust" (not least because the former includes a bunch of Nazis), but it is straightforwardly disrespectful of e.g. gay men who died in the camps to assert their experience was fundamentally different
The banality of evil: how dare you suggest that people other than Jews perished in the Holocaust.
January 28, 2026 at 12:15 AM
it does seem fair to draw a distinction between "casualties of WWII" and "victims of the Holocaust" (not least because the former includes a bunch of Nazis), but it is straightforwardly disrespectful of e.g. gay men who died in the camps to assert their experience was fundamentally different
it's so cool that Trump's single most consistent belief is an absolute need to press the "make the economy explode" button
Trump: We have to use tariffs for world peace. It will be more inconvenient if SCOTUS strikes down tariffs.
January 27, 2026 at 9:44 PM
it's so cool that Trump's single most consistent belief is an absolute need to press the "make the economy explode" button
inncel (person who can't get laid because they're too busy running a business that sells beer and beds to weary travellers)
January 27, 2026 at 8:57 PM
inncel (person who can't get laid because they're too busy running a business that sells beer and beds to weary travellers)
people frequently hallucinate that Trump is in some secret way "less conservative" than he appears. that's nonsense, but he is politically a New Yorker in ways that occasionally clash with conservative orthodoxy
Trump: "With that being said, you can't have guns. You can't walk in with guns. You just can't. You can't walk in with guns. You can't do that. But it's just a very unfortunate incident."
January 27, 2026 at 8:23 PM
people frequently hallucinate that Trump is in some secret way "less conservative" than he appears. that's nonsense, but he is politically a New Yorker in ways that occasionally clash with conservative orthodoxy
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trump wants to kill you. whether it’s an ICE agent shooting you, a cancer drug trial being defunded, increased air pollution, or defunding safe streets funding, the one universal thread in all of their policies is that they think the very idea of making the world a better place is a liberal hoax
Moderna CEO says Trump’s policies have so curtailed vaccine market they won’t be investing in new research. So that’s awesome. Good luck when the next pandemic hits. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8fWErMy/
Bloomberg Business on TikTok
Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel said the company doesn’t plan to invest in new late-stage vaccine trials because of growing opposition to immunizations from US officials. #health #business #medicine #US #government
www.tiktok.com
January 27, 2026 at 5:24 AM
trump wants to kill you. whether it’s an ICE agent shooting you, a cancer drug trial being defunded, increased air pollution, or defunding safe streets funding, the one universal thread in all of their policies is that they think the very idea of making the world a better place is a liberal hoax
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Statler and Waldorf, jointly and severally.
Because they are clearly a pair of retired law partners, using the seats their firm got for making an endowment to the community theater.
Because they are clearly a pair of retired law partners, using the seats their firm got for making an endowment to the community theater.
Okay, everyone, you heard this beauty of a human!
Who is your favorite muppet and why?
Who is your favorite muppet and why?
I’m going to ask! (Mine is a toss up between Animal and the Swedish Chef.)
January 27, 2026 at 2:30 AM
Statler and Waldorf, jointly and severally.
Because they are clearly a pair of retired law partners, using the seats their firm got for making an endowment to the community theater.
Because they are clearly a pair of retired law partners, using the seats their firm got for making an endowment to the community theater.