Disaster Cat
@disaster-eli.bsky.social
A guy with a very silly cat
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I am a believer in electoralism. I work for Dem victory every chance I get. But I also work closely on OTHER organizing projects with people who DON'T believe in electoralism, and I think their views are too often too facilely rejected.
I am a believer in electoralism. I work for Dem victory every chance I get. But I also work closely on OTHER organizing projects with people who DON'T believe in electoralism, and I think their views are too often too facilely rejected.
December 29, 2025 at 9:36 PM
CONSULT STIPULATIONS IN PREVIOUS POSTS BEFORE REPLYING
I am a believer in electoralism. I work for Dem victory every chance I get. But I also work closely on OTHER organizing projects with people who DON'T believe in electoralism, and I think their views are too often too facilely rejected.
I am a believer in electoralism. I work for Dem victory every chance I get. But I also work closely on OTHER organizing projects with people who DON'T believe in electoralism, and I think their views are too often too facilely rejected.
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Bluesky is a lefty safe space until you say exactly one thing critical of the Democrats, which is not permitted under the terms of service and makes you Hitler.
December 29, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Bluesky is a lefty safe space until you say exactly one thing critical of the Democrats, which is not permitted under the terms of service and makes you Hitler.
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the problem with dedicating campaign funds toward charitable endeavors is what if you lose and then all you’ve done is helped people in need in your community?
December 27, 2025 at 9:38 PM
the problem with dedicating campaign funds toward charitable endeavors is what if you lose and then all you’ve done is helped people in need in your community?
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I understand Will’s hesitancy. This is a really scary moment and it’s even scarier if you’re deviating from the familiar. I don’t want to trivialize that fear.
But also a lot of the familiar *isn’t* winning us elections. If it was, we wouldn’t be in this position. So I say let’s try something new.
But also a lot of the familiar *isn’t* winning us elections. If it was, we wouldn’t be in this position. So I say let’s try something new.
December 27, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I understand Will’s hesitancy. This is a really scary moment and it’s even scarier if you’re deviating from the familiar. I don’t want to trivialize that fear.
But also a lot of the familiar *isn’t* winning us elections. If it was, we wouldn’t be in this position. So I say let’s try something new.
But also a lot of the familiar *isn’t* winning us elections. If it was, we wouldn’t be in this position. So I say let’s try something new.
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Not for nothing, but men using tampons as a joke to dismiss a program as "not serious" is a really classic misogynist trope. We can all see what's happening here.
December 27, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Not for nothing, but men using tampons as a joke to dismiss a program as "not serious" is a really classic misogynist trope. We can all see what's happening here.
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love that software developers are advertising AI functionality in every single app now and it's up to you to try to figure out if they mean "this has spellcheck" or "everything you create in this app will sync in real-time to sam altman's personal laptop" or something in between
December 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
love that software developers are advertising AI functionality in every single app now and it's up to you to try to figure out if they mean "this has spellcheck" or "everything you create in this app will sync in real-time to sam altman's personal laptop" or something in between
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Like come on y’all. I need you to have a single standard other than Trump Bad. You can elect an actual Democrat in NY 12.
December 23, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Like come on y’all. I need you to have a single standard other than Trump Bad. You can elect an actual Democrat in NY 12.
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one lesser awful thing about the Epstein files is that genuine crimes against a huge number of children are being morphed into fuel for the influencer industrial complex who don't care about truth or accuracy and just want grist for the content mills
December 23, 2025 at 8:43 PM
one lesser awful thing about the Epstein files is that genuine crimes against a huge number of children are being morphed into fuel for the influencer industrial complex who don't care about truth or accuracy and just want grist for the content mills
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political media on all sides is defined by disdain for its audience. “liberal” media believes that its audience is too insular and must be confronted with opposing views. conservative media just feeds its audience propaganda slop.
December 22, 2025 at 5:52 AM
political media on all sides is defined by disdain for its audience. “liberal” media believes that its audience is too insular and must be confronted with opposing views. conservative media just feeds its audience propaganda slop.
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If you want to take the fastest route to not understanding anything, you definitely want to use AI.
Otherwise, nope.
Otherwise, nope.
December 21, 2025 at 8:50 PM
If you want to take the fastest route to not understanding anything, you definitely want to use AI.
Otherwise, nope.
Otherwise, nope.
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Not just one- the racist messages too were awful. Like pure distain for non-white people 🤢
Scratch a 'Gender Critical' and a Transphobic, Racist, Misogynist bleeds. People don't tend to be just ONE kind of bigot.
Scratch a 'Gender Critical' and a Transphobic, Racist, Misogynist bleeds. People don't tend to be just ONE kind of bigot.
December 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Not just one- the racist messages too were awful. Like pure distain for non-white people 🤢
Scratch a 'Gender Critical' and a Transphobic, Racist, Misogynist bleeds. People don't tend to be just ONE kind of bigot.
Scratch a 'Gender Critical' and a Transphobic, Racist, Misogynist bleeds. People don't tend to be just ONE kind of bigot.
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“Politicians should do what wins elections” is asinine for moral reasons but also, no one knows what will win an election! Yglesias et al keep acting like there’s some obvious set of policies or words that will guarantee victory but Harris basically did what they wanted and she lost.
4. Yglesias instead seems to implicitly argue that politicians should only do what wins elections, virtue be damned. One wonders what he thinks of those foolish 1850s abolitionists. As Condleeza Rice once said, politics is the art of making the impossible inevitable. That ain't this.
December 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
“Politicians should do what wins elections” is asinine for moral reasons but also, no one knows what will win an election! Yglesias et al keep acting like there’s some obvious set of policies or words that will guarantee victory but Harris basically did what they wanted and she lost.
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This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Does. Why Don’t Democrats?
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
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Gavin Newsom is Mitt Romney for the Democrats, a department store mannequin who will lose in a general election
December 17, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Gavin Newsom is Mitt Romney for the Democrats, a department store mannequin who will lose in a general election
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There's this constant discourse about how "the left" (whoever that is) has to stop being condescending and speak directly to men's issues. But these gurus are, without fail, more condescending to men than any feminist or SJW I've ever met.
December 3, 2025 at 6:12 PM
There's this constant discourse about how "the left" (whoever that is) has to stop being condescending and speak directly to men's issues. But these gurus are, without fail, more condescending to men than any feminist or SJW I've ever met.
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As an author, I don't make a whole lot of money, but at the same time I need to read a lot of books to stay aware of trends and support my fellow authors. Obviously if I spend all my profits on other people's books, I'm not coming out ahead!
So: ways to read lots of indie books for cheap.
So: ways to read lots of indie books for cheap.
November 25, 2025 at 1:18 AM
As an author, I don't make a whole lot of money, but at the same time I need to read a lot of books to stay aware of trends and support my fellow authors. Obviously if I spend all my profits on other people's books, I'm not coming out ahead!
So: ways to read lots of indie books for cheap.
So: ways to read lots of indie books for cheap.
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The issue isn’t cost. It’s that the entire infrastructure in this country has been put into cars. Parking lots everywhere and bus stations nowhere. Light rail that comes every half an hour and isn’t synchronized so it takes forever if you have to switch lines.
November 24, 2025 at 1:58 AM
The issue isn’t cost. It’s that the entire infrastructure in this country has been put into cars. Parking lots everywhere and bus stations nowhere. Light rail that comes every half an hour and isn’t synchronized so it takes forever if you have to switch lines.
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How do you land Vanity Fair west coast editor at age 32 after having affairs with two presidential candidates you were covering as a journalist. That is some prime white lady shit.
November 18, 2025 at 12:51 PM
How do you land Vanity Fair west coast editor at age 32 after having affairs with two presidential candidates you were covering as a journalist. That is some prime white lady shit.
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Honestly we are much more sheep than wolves - intensely political, terrified of anything new in the environment, and extremely hostile to outgroup sheep who arrive as newcomers and try to join the flock.
November 18, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Honestly we are much more sheep than wolves - intensely political, terrified of anything new in the environment, and extremely hostile to outgroup sheep who arrive as newcomers and try to join the flock.
As a reluctant Kamala voter, it's strange to be told I have to get behind Newsom now so he can run in 2028. It's giving "The beatings will continue until morale improves"
November 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
As a reluctant Kamala voter, it's strange to be told I have to get behind Newsom now so he can run in 2028. It's giving "The beatings will continue until morale improves"
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
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the idea is that moral clarity or certainty is somehow dangerous. of course, everyone who argues this is also morally certain, just about different things. this is just a way of devolving the debate into abstraction.
November 14, 2025 at 12:08 AM
the idea is that moral clarity or certainty is somehow dangerous. of course, everyone who argues this is also morally certain, just about different things. this is just a way of devolving the debate into abstraction.
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Democrats were overwhelmingly united on their shutdown demands.
Americans understood that Trump and Republicans were to blame.
Voters made it known last Tuesday that they'll elect leaders who stand up to Trump.
Democrats held the cards — and folded for no reason.
Americans understood that Trump and Republicans were to blame.
Voters made it known last Tuesday that they'll elect leaders who stand up to Trump.
Democrats held the cards — and folded for no reason.
November 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Democrats were overwhelmingly united on their shutdown demands.
Americans understood that Trump and Republicans were to blame.
Voters made it known last Tuesday that they'll elect leaders who stand up to Trump.
Democrats held the cards — and folded for no reason.
Americans understood that Trump and Republicans were to blame.
Voters made it known last Tuesday that they'll elect leaders who stand up to Trump.
Democrats held the cards — and folded for no reason.
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What is the argument for voting for Democrats for harm reduction if the harm is not fucking reduced
November 10, 2025 at 1:12 AM
What is the argument for voting for Democrats for harm reduction if the harm is not fucking reduced
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even when the democratic party has leverage and one of the craziest election swings the party intentionally self immolates it’s just so exhausting what is even the point of these people
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM
even when the democratic party has leverage and one of the craziest election swings the party intentionally self immolates it’s just so exhausting what is even the point of these people