Butterflyminder, keeper of fluttery thoughts
@butterflyminder.bsky.social
GenX Canadian, lover of truth, humour, beauty and chocolate. Neither as liberal nor conservative as you'd like. Often mistaken for male online; unsure whether this is a good thing or not.
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There’s something doubly grating about the pious invocation of “Western civilization” by the sort of incurious dolt who wouldn’t know a Titian canvas, a Beethoven quartet, or a Socratic dialogue if whapped them upside the head.
It has long been clear that unalloyed racism lies at the core of Trumpism, and he is becoming increasingly explicit about this.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/w...
Trump Administration Says Europe Faces ‘Civilizational Erasure’
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
There’s something doubly grating about the pious invocation of “Western civilization” by the sort of incurious dolt who wouldn’t know a Titian canvas, a Beethoven quartet, or a Socratic dialogue if whapped them upside the head.
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I really want to know the full story behind this epic hack, and yet I also hope it is never solved.
It's my favorite day! It's the 38th anniversary of the Max Headroom signal broadcast intrusion!
1st incident lasted 25s during the 9PM news on WGN-TV in Chicago; The 2nd, 2hrs later, lasted ~90s on PBS affiliate WTTW during Dr. Who.
You can watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqge...
1st incident lasted 25s during the 9PM news on WGN-TV in Chicago; The 2nd, 2hrs later, lasted ~90s on PBS affiliate WTTW during Dr. Who.
You can watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqge...
Max Headroom 1987 Broadcast Signal Intrusion Incident
YouTube video by andrew867
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November 22, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I really want to know the full story behind this epic hack, and yet I also hope it is never solved.
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Pour one out for the civ-mil experts today
September 30, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Pour one out for the civ-mil experts today
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So, thinking maybe there won't be loyalty oaths or mass purges or a Day of the Long Teaspoons or anything else.
September 30, 2025 at 2:03 PM
So, thinking maybe there won't be loyalty oaths or mass purges or a Day of the Long Teaspoons or anything else.
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“I’ve met a lot of admirals and generals in my time, and I’m not sure that a dressing-down from Pete Hegseth is going to be all that effective in either exciting them or scaring them.”
I haven’t met as many admirals & generals as @radiofreetom.bsky.social, but I’ve met a few & this take tracks.
I haven’t met as many admirals & generals as @radiofreetom.bsky.social, but I’ve met a few & this take tracks.
September 29, 2025 at 11:23 PM
“I’ve met a lot of admirals and generals in my time, and I’m not sure that a dressing-down from Pete Hegseth is going to be all that effective in either exciting them or scaring them.”
I haven’t met as many admirals & generals as @radiofreetom.bsky.social, but I’ve met a few & this take tracks.
I haven’t met as many admirals & generals as @radiofreetom.bsky.social, but I’ve met a few & this take tracks.
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This ignores the repeated situations in which Hegseth has blindsided the administration. I think this was very much his idea, and Trump was brought in at the last minute because DOD heard the rumbles from GO/FOs who wondered why they had to haul ass to Quantico to listen to a TV show host.
I don't think Hegseth would buy a new coffee mug without running it by Trump's people first.
The idea that gathering all the generals from all over the world was in any way his idea is comical.
The idea that gathering all the generals from all over the world was in any way his idea is comical.
September 30, 2025 at 2:30 AM
This ignores the repeated situations in which Hegseth has blindsided the administration. I think this was very much his idea, and Trump was brought in at the last minute because DOD heard the rumbles from GO/FOs who wondered why they had to haul ass to Quantico to listen to a TV show host.
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I'm sorry but I refuse point blank to believe that Philip Faircloth-Mutton is a real person.
September 28, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I'm sorry but I refuse point blank to believe that Philip Faircloth-Mutton is a real person.
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The Ezra Klein style of caring about political “strategy” over consistent moral principles and values of your own reminds me of how a lot of pop culture consumers obsessively track box office and chart performance rather than just evaluating based on whether things are good or if they like them
September 28, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The Ezra Klein style of caring about political “strategy” over consistent moral principles and values of your own reminds me of how a lot of pop culture consumers obsessively track box office and chart performance rather than just evaluating based on whether things are good or if they like them
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yeah i think he fell for ai lol
September 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
yeah i think he fell for ai lol
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I'll say this once more:
@kairyssdal.bsky.social, of public radio (APM vs NPR), giving daily lessons on putting things clearly and honestly.
Enough of this "falsely" and "without evidence" and "departure from norms" wiggle talk.
The man lies. Is deluded. Steals. And constantly breaks the law
@kairyssdal.bsky.social, of public radio (APM vs NPR), giving daily lessons on putting things clearly and honestly.
Enough of this "falsely" and "without evidence" and "departure from norms" wiggle talk.
The man lies. Is deluded. Steals. And constantly breaks the law
He lied. Gotta use the word
NEW: Trump falsely suggested today that rank-and-file FBI agents fomented the Jan. 6 attack that a mob of his supporters unleashed on the Capitol, leaning into conspiracy theories as he accuses a second FBI director of committing crimes
w/ @iriesentner.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
w/ @iriesentner.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
September 27, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I'll say this once more:
@kairyssdal.bsky.social, of public radio (APM vs NPR), giving daily lessons on putting things clearly and honestly.
Enough of this "falsely" and "without evidence" and "departure from norms" wiggle talk.
The man lies. Is deluded. Steals. And constantly breaks the law
@kairyssdal.bsky.social, of public radio (APM vs NPR), giving daily lessons on putting things clearly and honestly.
Enough of this "falsely" and "without evidence" and "departure from norms" wiggle talk.
The man lies. Is deluded. Steals. And constantly breaks the law
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And also: don’t mention the war!
I generally agree here, and I agree with Tom's contention that the word "fascist" has been so overused that it's hard for people to realize what it looks like.
I'm specifically reminded of the bit from Fawlty Towers where a hysterical Basil shouts, "THIS IS EXACTLY HOW NAZI GERMANY STARTED!"
I'm specifically reminded of the bit from Fawlty Towers where a hysterical Basil shouts, "THIS IS EXACTLY HOW NAZI GERMANY STARTED!"
We are not yet in a dictatorship. Trump and his claque are making a run at it. But if you want to keep a democracy, you have to actually remember that you still have one.
September 28, 2025 at 4:47 PM
And also: don’t mention the war!
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And if that doesn't get everyone to stop talking about the Epstein files, inflation, and bad job numbers, there's always the option of starting a war with Venezuela
Breaking news: President Trump announces he is sending troops to Portland, Oregon, and to immigration detention facilities around the country, authorizing “Full Force, if necessary."
Trump deploys troops to Portland, authorizing ‘full force’ if necessary
The action escalates a campaign to use the U.S. military against Americans that has little modern precedent.
wapo.st
September 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
And if that doesn't get everyone to stop talking about the Epstein files, inflation, and bad job numbers, there's always the option of starting a war with Venezuela
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This joke was just okay the first four million times
look folks. it’s not “real“ fascism unless it was grown in the fascist region of italy. everything else is sparkling authoritarianism.
September 26, 2025 at 5:35 AM
This joke was just okay the first four million times
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Of all the "sold my soul" guys in the Trump administration, Rubio might be the guy who did it the soldiest.
August 17, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Of all the "sold my soul" guys in the Trump administration, Rubio might be the guy who did it the soldiest.
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Trump's behavior is perfectly explicable if you think of him as a narcissist who is basically stuck at a child's level of development, who fears powerful people and is a walking bundle of insecurities.
You don't know, no one knows, outside of Putin and Trump, but Trump's behaviour is largely inexplicable for a sane person.
August 16, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Trump's behavior is perfectly explicable if you think of him as a narcissist who is basically stuck at a child's level of development, who fears powerful people and is a walking bundle of insecurities.
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The insistence here that Moscow has horrifying blackmail on Trump is just as nutty as MAGA world's dismissal of it.
Do the Russians know bad stuff about Trump? Of course they do.
Is it the weird stuff you guys think it is? Almost certainly not, and it's likely about money. /1
Do the Russians know bad stuff about Trump? Of course they do.
Is it the weird stuff you guys think it is? Almost certainly not, and it's likely about money. /1
August 16, 2025 at 4:13 AM
The insistence here that Moscow has horrifying blackmail on Trump is just as nutty as MAGA world's dismissal of it.
Do the Russians know bad stuff about Trump? Of course they do.
Is it the weird stuff you guys think it is? Almost certainly not, and it's likely about money. /1
Do the Russians know bad stuff about Trump? Of course they do.
Is it the weird stuff you guys think it is? Almost certainly not, and it's likely about money. /1
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Another possibility is that Russia has things that Trump worries about not on *him*, but on his family.
Not exactly a family of geniuses (except for Uncle John at MIT). But again, simple explanation is best: Trump's weak and Putin is tough.
Not exactly a family of geniuses (except for Uncle John at MIT). But again, simple explanation is best: Trump's weak and Putin is tough.
But even then he's got "fake news" and "AI gen deepfakes" etc to fall back on. The more I think about it the more I think it must be about the only thing Trump cares about; himself. So literal "we'll kill you" or "we'll bankrupt you".
August 16, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Another possibility is that Russia has things that Trump worries about not on *him*, but on his family.
Not exactly a family of geniuses (except for Uncle John at MIT). But again, simple explanation is best: Trump's weak and Putin is tough.
Not exactly a family of geniuses (except for Uncle John at MIT). But again, simple explanation is best: Trump's weak and Putin is tough.
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One of the reasons that I push back so hard on people fixated on the Fairness Doctrine (aside from the fact that history matters) is that many liberals still think that such measures are magical solutions to the crisis of democracy.
August 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
One of the reasons that I push back so hard on people fixated on the Fairness Doctrine (aside from the fact that history matters) is that many liberals still think that such measures are magical solutions to the crisis of democracy.
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It constantly blows my mind that we have elected someone so gobsmackingly uncomprehending of the gravity and responsibility of his office that he does not grasp how insanely dangerous it is to fire off comments like this on a whim.
🚨”Everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran!"
Everyone??? Tehran is a city of 9 million people…
Everyone??? Tehran is a city of 9 million people…
June 17, 2025 at 12:08 AM
It constantly blows my mind that we have elected someone so gobsmackingly uncomprehending of the gravity and responsibility of his office that he does not grasp how insanely dangerous it is to fire off comments like this on a whim.
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Prayers for an “allergic reaction.”
But mockery and hateful conspiracies for murder victims who aren’t in your tribe.
With no apology or remorse.
Fake Christian, small man.
But mockery and hateful conspiracies for murder victims who aren’t in your tribe.
With no apology or remorse.
Fake Christian, small man.
June 18, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Prayers for an “allergic reaction.”
But mockery and hateful conspiracies for murder victims who aren’t in your tribe.
With no apology or remorse.
Fake Christian, small man.
But mockery and hateful conspiracies for murder victims who aren’t in your tribe.
With no apology or remorse.
Fake Christian, small man.
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Finally watched Sinners, whose main message seems to be that Irish people appreciate good music but are not always sensitive to local norms in their desire to join a rollicking party
June 18, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Finally watched Sinners, whose main message seems to be that Irish people appreciate good music but are not always sensitive to local norms in their desire to join a rollicking party
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Tucker Carlson is an odious piece of shit.
And if this odious piece of shit can somehow rally MAGA to turn on Trump and back off from supporting Netanyahu and Israel's war with Iran then so be it.
And if this odious piece of shit can somehow rally MAGA to turn on Trump and back off from supporting Netanyahu and Israel's war with Iran then so be it.
June 18, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Tucker Carlson is an odious piece of shit.
And if this odious piece of shit can somehow rally MAGA to turn on Trump and back off from supporting Netanyahu and Israel's war with Iran then so be it.
And if this odious piece of shit can somehow rally MAGA to turn on Trump and back off from supporting Netanyahu and Israel's war with Iran then so be it.
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Was consumed all day at work by the fact that trump tweeted "UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!" at Iran, which from any normal president would be hugely consequential and it wasn't even a story because the media has just sort of deformed itself into nihilistic acceptance of the fact that he's insane
Worse, the entire media basically knows this. They incredibly low standards they display for him are obvious. And yet they rarely highlight this as the disqualifying truth it is.
June 18, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Was consumed all day at work by the fact that trump tweeted "UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!" at Iran, which from any normal president would be hugely consequential and it wasn't even a story because the media has just sort of deformed itself into nihilistic acceptance of the fact that he's insane
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the lesson of this isn't that tucker carlson is actually good but that you should ask these people basic factual questions instead of bullshit about politics
WATCH: “You’re a U.S. senator and you don’t know anything about the country you want to topple.”
Tucker Carlson embarrasses @sentedcruz as he pushes for war with Iran
Tucker Carlson embarrasses @sentedcruz as he pushes for war with Iran
June 18, 2025 at 2:52 AM
the lesson of this isn't that tucker carlson is actually good but that you should ask these people basic factual questions instead of bullshit about politics