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OκULTRA XP🧿, writer for The Economist

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OκULTRA XP🧿, writer for The Economist @0kultra.bsky.social · Feb 26

I have come to accept a simpler and more general argument against billionaires: by their very nature they impose centralized planning over economy they infest, becoming de-facto communist planners, and thus impose upon their habitat all the pathologies that rise from impossibility of planned econ

Boo Jank @billjank.bsky.social · Feb 25

It may be finally sinking in that a world of radical wealth inequality is unstable, actually.

There should be reward for good work, yes. There should not be outsize reward for being born rich.

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AdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 2h

First Democrat that promises retribution and legally going after this lawless administration gets my money in the 2028 primary

Tim Lambert @timlambert-pa.bsky.social · 3h

"One of the fired FBI employees, a combat veteran who was months away from becoming eligible for retirement, was called back to the office after having left for the day and informed of the dismissal, a person familiar with the matter told NBC News."

Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 9h

FBI fires special agents who worked on Jack Smith's probe into Trump

www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

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Silvia VNL @vinylstore.bsky.social · 2h

Gloves yes?

hoo.be/vinylstore

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hailey @hailey.at · 2h

my body is a machine that turns ai posts into annoying users blocking me

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Kaban (BangDacy) 🔞 @bangdacy.bsky.social · Apr 1

College AU Zelbosa for the March exclusive! Check it out here! ❤️

#TLOZ #Zelbosa #yuri #AgeGap #TeacherxStudent #NSFWart #KabanArt

"Ms. Z, please see me after class. I'll be in my offfice. "

"Of course, professor"

Urbsa and Zlda embracing each other and kissing passionately.

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 3h

Anyway, the attorney general of the United States has placed herself outside the protection of the law.

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OκULTRA XP🧿, writer for The Economist @0kultra.bsky.social · 3h

I'll take that if it takes out those treacherous rats

Lurks-no-More @lurks-no-more.bsky.social · 1d

Also, depending on what exactly happens, the AI bubble bursting is going to hurt the venture capital industry; there's even a small but real chance that it will kill it as we know it.

In many ways this would be a good thing. But it would disrupt a lot of things, too, and hurt start-ups very badly.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h

I *teach* on an Ivy League campus and I don't care as much about the day-to-day happenings at Harvard as the New York Times.

But the middle-aged white guys who run the paper are obsessed with the campus, almost to the point of creepiness. Harvard ought to get a restraining order.

foofahrah.bsky.social @foofahrah.bsky.social · 5h

ive said this before but I cancelled my times subscription when I realized I frankly don’t give a shit about what’s happening on Ivy League campuses

James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 7h

Shocked, just shocked, by this important scoop on front page of today's NYT. /s/

Based on report that came out ... nine months ago

And behavior long predating that

("Skip a class? Perish the thought!!" Says anyone who ever worked on a college newspaper, which covers a lot of people in the media.)

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onion person @junlper.beer · 5h

if every democrat doesn’t use the “we took freedom of speech away” on every messaging apparatus they have every single day for the next 4 years assume they want to lose

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 3h

The frog suit completely neuters the lie the admin wants to tell of violent resistance. Want to see so much more of it.

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James (another one) 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @priznat.bsky.social · 3h

It's amazing that these pathetic losers, with the power of the state behind them (horribly corrupt, but still the state) can be absolutely stymied by a dude in an inflatable frog costume.

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 3h

the weak should fear the strong

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 2d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 3h

the weak should fear the strong

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 2d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 5h

Christ, even the access crew at Axios are dumping on Johnson and GOP

Things have to be really bad for Republicans when their pals at DC gossip outlets are piling on

Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 5h

At this point Democrats in Congress shouldn't concede an inch unless Johnson and Thune meet all their demands.

Republican rank and file members know it - majority of public are siding with Dems over healthcare and tired of giving Trump blank checks. www.axios.com/2025/10/08/m...

AXIOS HEADLINE with Mike Johnson reading a folder:

"Mike Johnson faces growing internal revolt over shutdown

Kate Santaliz,Andrew Solender "

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OκULTRA XP🧿, writer for The Economist @0kultra.bsky.social · 3h

I dunno, I am of opinion they were always Like That but at a certain life junction they read Dworkin instead of I dunno, moldbug or whatever is closest rightoid slop to dworkin-style bullshit

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OκULTRA XP🧿, writer for The Economist @0kultra.bsky.social · 3h

They have a very rich pathological internal experience that is distorted in a particular way and it makes them what they are.

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dame @dame.is · 5h

reminder: ACAB includes the follow police

dame @dame.is · Nov 28

reminder: “follow policing” is not cool, there’s a lot of reasons why someone might follow an account… don’t treat it as an endorsement 🦋

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OκULTRA XP🧿, writer for The Economist @0kultra.bsky.social · 3h

I do think that there is a certain particular peculiar pattern of delusion that bridges TERFs, SWERFs, tenderqueers, qanon, "typical sociocons", assorted freudian-adjacent CRT/p-CRT types and generic undifferentiated pixel peril believers

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OκULTRA XP🧿, writer for The Economist @0kultra.bsky.social · 3h

Oh, I don't think they have no internal experience or anything like that, quite the contrary even :3

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FURRY GENOCIDAIRE @bsky.app.darkwo.ke · 3h

i call tenderqueers tenderfascists for a reason no offense

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bree speech absolutist 🇨🇦 @goose.ski · 4h

some of you just got lucky and didn’t end up on r/thedonald or 4chan at the right time to have a completely different life trajectory and i’ve been thinking about the implications of that more and more recently

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OκULTRA XP🧿, writer for The Economist @0kultra.bsky.social · 3h

Difference between these guys and Qanon is basically same as between an American atheist schizophrenic raving about CIA and a religious MENA schizophrenic raving about djinn or shaitan

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OκULTRA XP🧿, writer for The Economist @0kultra.bsky.social · 3h

I think there is as of yet undescribed psychiatric syndrome which is basically "this pattern" and like many psychiatric syndromes it has a cross-culturally stable intrinsic internal arc/pattern/"skeleton" and layer of cultural enrichment which determines certain plot elements and secondary features

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 4h

it wasn't losing, it was being defeated on the battleground of awesomeness, to her

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 4h

idk I'm gonna be honest i exactly understand how she could walk into this

you just have to understand she is a supervillain, mentally

would you think lex luthor would not say this from prison?

soul nate @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social · 5h

love your work mrs theranos but how do you walk into this

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OκULTRA XP🧿, writer for The Economist @0kultra.bsky.social · 4h

That thinkpiss is probably one of the worst arguments for magical meat sentience I've read. It's "everyone is twelve now" applied to magic meat anticomputationalism

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Key 🗝 🦊✅ @keytryer.net · 5h

I feel like every article like this is sophistry product of its time, but if I didn't believe that there'd be a movement that'd relish in creating digital minds just to torture them, I kind of believe it now

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