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.
now I assume China and India have their own dipshits, but I personally would not extol the virtues of a system that elevated Helen Andrews to prominence
I'm not saying anything new here but the rapid normalization of open extreme racism, thuggery, & general idiocy on the American right is really astonishing! This has been the case for a while now but has become notably worse in the last year, w/ these people increasingly just sounding like
February 3, 2026 at 2:42 AM
now I assume China and India have their own dipshits, but I personally would not extol the virtues of a system that elevated Helen Andrews to prominence
groundhog fall survival
February 3, 2026 at 2:39 AM
groundhog fall survival
leftist-MattY anti-newsom coalition
February 2, 2026 at 11:18 PM
leftist-MattY anti-newsom coalition
while self-immolation is most famous by it's use in Tibetan protests, there was a case in India of a man who self-immolated in protest of (the local version of) affirmative action
‘Isn’t it interesting how protestors are always vindicated 20 years later?’ was such irritating smug midwit shit. Protestors are wrong all the fucking time.
this was also when people were doing 'students are always on the right side politically throughout the whole of history' a lot.
February 2, 2026 at 10:15 PM
while self-immolation is most famous by it's use in Tibetan protests, there was a case in India of a man who self-immolated in protest of (the local version of) affirmative action
Elon Musk promises to "unearth the Black Garden from beneath the sands of Mars", says he will "bring about the end of flesh" and "instantiate the Godmind"
February 2, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Elon Musk promises to "unearth the Black Garden from beneath the sands of Mars", says he will "bring about the end of flesh" and "instantiate the Godmind"
"crime is way down, because of our sexy, sexy soldiers. all the criminals are too horny for our smoking-hot soldiers to do any crime"
Trump: "Crime is way down in DC. The reason for it is we have very big, strong, good-looking soldiers standing around, and I think they make the place look better."
February 2, 2026 at 10:01 PM
"crime is way down, because of our sexy, sexy soldiers. all the criminals are too horny for our smoking-hot soldiers to do any crime"
"offensive player" is funny to say in this particular context
February 2, 2026 at 9:37 PM
"offensive player" is funny to say in this particular context
an alternative strategy we could consider is allowing people to go to college and retire and just having some immigration
Dr Oz: "If we could get the average American to start working a year earlier, right out of high school, or a year later -- not retire -- or work better during their lifetime because they're healthy, it would generate about $3 trillion to the US economy. That would more than remove the debt."
February 2, 2026 at 9:24 PM
an alternative strategy we could consider is allowing people to go to college and retire and just having some immigration
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if you are committed to lighting dumpsters on fire the best thing you can do for a movement is to allow someone visibly associated with it to stop you from lighting a dumpster on fire
February 2, 2026 at 9:12 PM
if you are committed to lighting dumpsters on fire the best thing you can do for a movement is to allow someone visibly associated with it to stop you from lighting a dumpster on fire
it always gets so fucking weird when the racists start talking about Asians
We only want the good immigrants who study hard and don't commit crimes, unless they try to take little Brayleigh's (28 ACT, 1350 SAT) God-given slot at an Ivy away by being smarter, in which case Korematsu didn't go far enough
February 2, 2026 at 6:21 PM
it always gets so fucking weird when the racists start talking about Asians
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I should add that revoking TPS for Haitians (and others) is another clear sign that none of this is about "immigration enforcement." As stated above, this is an attempt at carrying out ethnic cleansing. And it should be reported as such.
February 2, 2026 at 3:10 PM
I should add that revoking TPS for Haitians (and others) is another clear sign that none of this is about "immigration enforcement." As stated above, this is an attempt at carrying out ethnic cleansing. And it should be reported as such.
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Every story I read about the revocation of TPS for Haitians makes me shake with rage. I am no longer surprised at the cruelty of this regime, but it is deeply shameful that our country is doing this. This is simply ethnic cleansing.
‘I’m dead.’ As Haitian temporary protected status ends tomorrow, it’s unknown how people will survive. - The Boston Globe
TPS, a legal status reserved for those fleeing countries in upheaval, is slated to end for Haitians on Tuesday.
www.bostonglobe.com
February 2, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Every story I read about the revocation of TPS for Haitians makes me shake with rage. I am no longer surprised at the cruelty of this regime, but it is deeply shameful that our country is doing this. This is simply ethnic cleansing.
deskilling America but the skill is "being able to function as an adult"
"adam tooze comes out as a treatler"
You bolt awake in the shores of Little St James. You are not online. It is 1997 AD. You are the Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. The financial industry must not be deregulated
You bolt awake in the shores of Little St James. You are not online. It is 1997 AD. You are the Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. The financial industry must not be deregulated
February 2, 2026 at 5:33 PM
deskilling America but the skill is "being able to function as an adult"
I guess the way to look at Kash is that while he is a fascist grifter, he is a grifter first and a fascist second
the fact that Rubio has ended up doing more evil than Patel is genuinely surprising measured against my expectations going in
February 2, 2026 at 5:12 PM
I guess the way to look at Kash is that while he is a fascist grifter, he is a grifter first and a fascist second
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i genuinely think opsec schizoids believe that the point of a protest is to physically overpower cops
February 2, 2026 at 3:10 AM
i genuinely think opsec schizoids believe that the point of a protest is to physically overpower cops
many people are going to be tempted to say this proves the weakness of peaceful protest. this is incorrect because it assumes this happening is a failure of peaceful protest rather than the mechanism by which it succeeds
It's hard to overstate how ell-organized the portland march that got gassed was... organizers made the crowd promise to be peaceful, said the march would slow in front of the ICE building but not stop, that we would stick to one chant (ICE Out). They did absolutely everything right and got gassed.
February 1, 2026 at 5:46 AM
many people are going to be tempted to say this proves the weakness of peaceful protest. this is incorrect because it assumes this happening is a failure of peaceful protest rather than the mechanism by which it succeeds
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It's hard to overstate how ell-organized the portland march that got gassed was... organizers made the crowd promise to be peaceful, said the march would slow in front of the ICE building but not stop, that we would stick to one chant (ICE Out). They did absolutely everything right and got gassed.
February 1, 2026 at 3:10 AM
It's hard to overstate how ell-organized the portland march that got gassed was... organizers made the crowd promise to be peaceful, said the march would slow in front of the ICE building but not stop, that we would stick to one chant (ICE Out). They did absolutely everything right and got gassed.
trying to figure out who I need to post on the good side of to end up coming out on top in the purges when we depose vichy Twitter
NGL this description of Bsky in Vulture cracked me up
February 1, 2026 at 5:11 AM
trying to figure out who I need to post on the good side of to end up coming out on top in the purges when we depose vichy Twitter
I'm willing to overlook a lot from a recipe but I'm sorry: you cannot call for "3/4 of an egg". that is illegal.
food52.com
February 1, 2026 at 5:09 AM
I'm willing to overlook a lot from a recipe but I'm sorry: you cannot call for "3/4 of an egg". that is illegal.
ngl seeing the name "wambsganss" my first thought was "like from Succession?"
February 1, 2026 at 4:57 AM
ngl seeing the name "wambsganss" my first thought was "like from Succession?"
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“Trumpism is Israeli, Trumpism is Peronist, Trumpism is Nazi.” You are all wrong. Trumpism is Dubai
Stephen Miller's ideal America is one with a migrant worker model of a Gulf State
Translated "it's fine if they're slaves or indentured servants"
January 31, 2026 at 9:02 PM
“Trumpism is Israeli, Trumpism is Peronist, Trumpism is Nazi.” You are all wrong. Trumpism is Dubai
waow
Translated "it's fine if they're slaves or indentured servants"
January 31, 2026 at 8:11 PM
waow
the epstein stuff is disturbing not just morally but epistemically. how much of the random stuff that is happening now that seems kind bad is, in fact, the work of one rich pervert I'm going to find out about in 30 years?
January 31, 2026 at 5:55 AM
the epstein stuff is disturbing not just morally but epistemically. how much of the random stuff that is happening now that seems kind bad is, in fact, the work of one rich pervert I'm going to find out about in 30 years?
taken with Ariely's academic fraud, this is indicative to me of an absolute indifference to morality within a large swathe of our elite
January 31, 2026 at 1:29 AM
taken with Ariely's academic fraud, this is indicative to me of an absolute indifference to morality within a large swathe of our elite