Abstronautica🏁
@abstronautica.bsky.social
tortured chicago sports fan | EVs, frauds and scams, politics, technology, coffee, telling engineers to pay attention in ethics
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people keep saying the reason they're focusing on trans kids is because they want to make it harder for trans people to blend into society, but I don't think that's true?
I think it's just:
- kids are an easier target
- they already see children as property and not people
I think it's just:
- kids are an easier target
- they already see children as property and not people
December 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM
people keep saying the reason they're focusing on trans kids is because they want to make it harder for trans people to blend into society, but I don't think that's true?
I think it's just:
- kids are an easier target
- they already see children as property and not people
I think it's just:
- kids are an easier target
- they already see children as property and not people
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growing up every adult on the planet was telling us that even the hint of cleavage or a red solo cup would blacklist us from the labor force forever and now we have like every powerful white man taking pictures on pedophile island and not a whisper of consequences
[At an Epstein event] Hey man can you not take a thousand pictures of me?
December 18, 2025 at 8:39 PM
growing up every adult on the planet was telling us that even the hint of cleavage or a red solo cup would blacklist us from the labor force forever and now we have like every powerful white man taking pictures on pedophile island and not a whisper of consequences
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i think its highly underappreciated the massive extent to which text-based platforms select for people who can consistently post in large volumes
short form video selects for conventionally attractive, microblogging selects for people who can post 50+ times per day
short form video selects for conventionally attractive, microblogging selects for people who can post 50+ times per day
I agree that it’s 100% true that the eyeballs are all on short form video - and man, it’s still really depressing how the necessity of Doing Video nowadays seriously disadvantages people who aren’t conventionally attractive (or who just genuinely can’t stand being on camera)
The one thing I keep thinking about is how much direct to camera stuff rewards physical attractiveness. I mean, that's gotta be part of the reason these wellness influencers are successful, right? And you're competing for eyeballs with them.
December 16, 2025 at 9:36 PM
i think its highly underappreciated the massive extent to which text-based platforms select for people who can consistently post in large volumes
short form video selects for conventionally attractive, microblogging selects for people who can post 50+ times per day
short form video selects for conventionally attractive, microblogging selects for people who can post 50+ times per day
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The fact that it at least anecdotally seems to be a semi-regular practice to tell white people a minority got the job in order to soften the blow of rejection really should put the elite woke panic into perspective.
December 17, 2025 at 4:33 PM
The fact that it at least anecdotally seems to be a semi-regular practice to tell white people a minority got the job in order to soften the blow of rejection really should put the elite woke panic into perspective.
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A thing to remember is that this happens a lot and the reason cops aren't better at this is that they very rarely have to be.
December 17, 2025 at 8:46 PM
A thing to remember is that this happens a lot and the reason cops aren't better at this is that they very rarely have to be.
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trans people shouldn’t transition beyond minor changes of social performance and they certainly shouldn’t expect to access medical forms of transition i am a very real trans person and definitely not a wrecker
December 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
trans people shouldn’t transition beyond minor changes of social performance and they certainly shouldn’t expect to access medical forms of transition i am a very real trans person and definitely not a wrecker
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joe burrow is a bisexual woman with mental health issues
December 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
joe burrow is a bisexual woman with mental health issues
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congress is voting later this week to criminalize trans care for minors and i now spend my days watching people i used to work with totally pretend like that isn’t happening
December 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM
congress is voting later this week to criminalize trans care for minors and i now spend my days watching people i used to work with totally pretend like that isn’t happening
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very interesting that the guy who wrote the “i can’t find a job because i’m white” piece zeroed in on me as responsible for the negative response on bluesky, despite the fact that i wrote a single post about the piece well after the discourse had started.
he's now on substack complaining about mccarthyism on bluesky and blaming, of course, Jamelle
December 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM
very interesting that the guy who wrote the “i can’t find a job because i’m white” piece zeroed in on me as responsible for the negative response on bluesky, despite the fact that i wrote a single post about the piece well after the discourse had started.
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One of the main themes of my account is that people in the United States, by and large, do not know how laws or the legal system work in practice. One question I get a lot is why this matters. Many leftists or progressives ask me every day why it's so important to know this stuff anyway. (cont)
December 16, 2025 at 1:29 PM
One of the main themes of my account is that people in the United States, by and large, do not know how laws or the legal system work in practice. One question I get a lot is why this matters. Many leftists or progressives ask me every day why it's so important to know this stuff anyway. (cont)
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Amazing how many articles are just “I’m a white guy who didn’t get the promotion I wanted and the only answer to this problem that concerns every single one of us is to re-segregate the workplace”
December 16, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Amazing how many articles are just “I’m a white guy who didn’t get the promotion I wanted and the only answer to this problem that concerns every single one of us is to re-segregate the workplace”
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We're all supposed to be 100% in tune with white men's feelings. We're supposed to care about them at the expense of our own. We are supposed to live in fear of them getting upset. Treating their feelings as grenades that can go off at any time. They on the other hand do not need to care about ours.
December 16, 2025 at 3:28 PM
We're all supposed to be 100% in tune with white men's feelings. We're supposed to care about them at the expense of our own. We are supposed to live in fear of them getting upset. Treating their feelings as grenades that can go off at any time. They on the other hand do not need to care about ours.
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terf ideology is a cancerous rot in our society pass it on
August 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
terf ideology is a cancerous rot in our society pass it on
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oh look a real unemployment problem
US jobless rate for Blacks and teens surges in November reut.rs/49gilCM
US jobless rate for Blacks and teens surges in November
The unemployment rate for two U.S. groups that are often the most vulnerable to job loss in a softening economy - Blacks and teenagers - surged to the highest levels in more than four years in November, Labor Department data showed on Tuesday.
reut.rs
December 16, 2025 at 8:28 PM
oh look a real unemployment problem
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I will NEVER vote for a politician who votes for anti-trans legislation. Never. I don't care who it is, it's a dead issue. Move on. If my vote is so important to the future of democracy they should have thought of that before they voted to exterminate my child.
December 16, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I will NEVER vote for a politician who votes for anti-trans legislation. Never. I don't care who it is, it's a dead issue. Move on. If my vote is so important to the future of democracy they should have thought of that before they voted to exterminate my child.
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Lower the Medicare eligibility age to zero.
Keep Medicare income-adjusted premiums.
Create a portal where employers can pay their employees' premiums.
Keep Medicaid or offer subsidized premiums for those below a certain income/wealth level.
Four steps to get from where we are today to M4A
Keep Medicare income-adjusted premiums.
Create a portal where employers can pay their employees' premiums.
Keep Medicaid or offer subsidized premiums for those below a certain income/wealth level.
Four steps to get from where we are today to M4A
Almost all of them switched decades ago or longer. Tell me how we are going to move from where we are today , to where you want to go ?
Saying you want it is easy. All I'm asking is how are we going to get there ?
If Bernie's M4A passed under Biden, RFK jr would be running M4A today.
Saying you want it is easy. All I'm asking is how are we going to get there ?
If Bernie's M4A passed under Biden, RFK jr would be running M4A today.
Every other country does it, Mark. It's not some vague thought experiment.
Lots of ways it can be imperfect, of course, but it fundamentally gives everyone access to healthcare without fear of bankruptcy.
Lots of ways it can be imperfect, of course, but it fundamentally gives everyone access to healthcare without fear of bankruptcy.
December 12, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Lower the Medicare eligibility age to zero.
Keep Medicare income-adjusted premiums.
Create a portal where employers can pay their employees' premiums.
Keep Medicaid or offer subsidized premiums for those below a certain income/wealth level.
Four steps to get from where we are today to M4A
Keep Medicare income-adjusted premiums.
Create a portal where employers can pay their employees' premiums.
Keep Medicaid or offer subsidized premiums for those below a certain income/wealth level.
Four steps to get from where we are today to M4A
genuinely one of the most important books of the past 50 years imo
was equal parts enlightening and frustrating
was equal parts enlightening and frustrating
“Stoking a desire for a restoration of masculine privilege serves many other forms of power, but it constitutes its own social project, namely, to produce an ideal past whose reanimation will target, if not eliminate, sexual and gender minorities.“
From: Who’s Afraid of Gender by Judith Butler
From: Who’s Afraid of Gender by Judith Butler
December 15, 2025 at 8:35 PM
genuinely one of the most important books of the past 50 years imo
was equal parts enlightening and frustrating
was equal parts enlightening and frustrating
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i am never again going to let a conservative get away with complaining about the liberal nanny state because these assholes actually *are* the nagging, inappropriately intrusive boogeymen conservatives have been bleating about for my entire adult life, mind your fucking business
NEW: Dr. Oz is quite literally telling his federal employees to eat less.
“You don't have to try every cookie on the holiday table,” wrote Mehmet Oz in an email to all Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services employees.
“You don't have to try every cookie on the holiday table,” wrote Mehmet Oz in an email to all Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services employees.
Dr. Oz Tells His Federal Employees to Eat Less
“You don't have to try every cookie on the holiday table,” wrote Mehmet Oz in an email to all Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services staffers.
www.wired.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
i am never again going to let a conservative get away with complaining about the liberal nanny state because these assholes actually *are* the nagging, inappropriately intrusive boogeymen conservatives have been bleating about for my entire adult life, mind your fucking business
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the true believers around nixon genuinely saw him as some kind of embodiment of the people and thought that congressional attempts to corral his authority were illegitimate on that basis. straight line from them to the executive power fetishists on the supreme court.
it is incredible that legalizing watergate has been the overriding ideological project of the american right for fifty years
December 8, 2025 at 9:27 PM
the true believers around nixon genuinely saw him as some kind of embodiment of the people and thought that congressional attempts to corral his authority were illegitimate on that basis. straight line from them to the executive power fetishists on the supreme court.
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There are people who I went to high school with who post things like “why does school not teach us taxes” despite the fact that they took home economics where we were taught taxes
December 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
There are people who I went to high school with who post things like “why does school not teach us taxes” despite the fact that they took home economics where we were taught taxes
it's so utterly Tesla that this clearly teleoperated potemkin robot is primarily a prop at events about AI, the latest of which is called called Autonomy Visualized
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 1:43 PM
it's so utterly Tesla that this clearly teleoperated potemkin robot is primarily a prop at events about AI, the latest of which is called called Autonomy Visualized
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i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.