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Eric Sipple

@ericsipple.com

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Author of BROKEN MAGIC, MIMESIS. Head of Engineering at Hey Jane. My brain is a beautiful rain of frogs. https://linktr.ee/saalon

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · Sep 5

On September 24th, I'll be releasing a piece with one of my bolder theses: That Glen Morgan and James Wong are the innovators of what we consider Modern Television. Their work from The X-Files, to Space: Above and Beyond, through Millennium represents the most influential-on-writers work of the era.

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 1h

This is a food slutshaming trap! I will not be food slutshamed!

(kidding there's good food in this thread)

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?

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Sam Blum @samblum.bsky.social · 2h

NEW: A company that bills itself as meme-SaaS wants to be the go-to platform for culture warriors and gov agencies like DHS. (Its founder has also been calling me the R word over on X dot com. Great people!)

www.inc.com/sam-blum/mee...

Meet the Gen-Z Founder Building the Canva of Memes

Getting attention online has never been harder. Jason Levin’s Memelord Technologies has an answer: sell memes-as-a-service.

www.inc.com

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 1h

Weird. It’s almost like making accusations generates friction which generates news which rallies your supporters.

2 Key Democrats Come Out And Say It: Trump Has 'Some Kind Of Dementia'

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 1h

a man in a green suit sits in front of a computer screen

Alt: Judomaster from Peacemaker, in a green superhero costume and mask, spins around in a chair to face the Camera, holding a bag of Flamin' Hot Cheetos in one hand, and a single red Cheeto in the other.

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 2h

“Everything bagel? Lies! Deception! It’s not everything until you add… these!”

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 3h

I have also written down this part of my social media asset sheet, I'll let the shareholders figure out if that decreases my value too much.

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 3h

The whole account really does have Op Doing Agitation energy -- what's cool about platforms like this is that there are so many people who play that game purely out of sublimated bitterness that I can never be sure!

Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 3h

[replying to no one, on their own feed] "I'm done with [x]."

[random person who saw their post] "Well, I'm not, and saying you are is privilege spoken by the cop in your head"

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 3h

It's not privilege discourse if it's just that you think someone's wrong and you're right.

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 3h

It would be good for all of us if people would stop tormenting the language of oppression and liberation into actually being about their personal, petty grudges. Writing "kill[ing] the cop in your head" in a post where you're policing someone's random, anodyne thought on online discourse is lolz.

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Dr. Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social • 5h
I'm feeling really done with conversations about conversations about the conversation. It's like social media has ejected us into this hyperreality space of associative terms no common ground. Like everyone's trying to go viral being pithy and petty in a reply. I don't want to spend my life on this.

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Warren Shadespot @warrenwp.bsky.social • 1h
Well...Dr... some people might have to take smaller bites and more passes than you. What you find annoying is probably just your lessors trying to work through
Warren Shadespot @warrenwp.bsky.social • 1h
Maybe they should have paid more attention at the "Brink of Human Creativity Symposium" or whatever cutting edge, elitist bullshit you have access that the rest of us couldnt get time off for.
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Warren Shadespot @warrenwp.bsky.social • 3m
This is a post about privilege and killing the cop in your head and if you think its about your specific poor pretty pet white doctor its really not.

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 4h

whomst amongst us saw it comingst

Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 4h

Bank of England flags risk of ‘sudden correction’ in tech stocks inflated by AI - on.ft.com/4o3RheA

Bank of England flags risk of ‘sudden correction’ in tech stocks inflated by AI

Financial Policy Committee warns equity prices are at levels comparable with dotcom bubble

on.ft.com

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 4h

Here’s the thing about social media moderation: you need to have both a provision and a practice of keeping people off your platform even if they don’t break any of your rules but are simply just a fucking asshole. And of course off-platform behavior is a legitimate reason.

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 4h

Claude 100000% "generated" this logo, didn't it?

Yo Gabapentin @yogabapentin.bsky.social · 21h

Claude AI’s logo is unironically Kurt Vonnegut’s butthole drawing

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 5h

He’s just hearing out the other side, bridging the divide by listening, calm down, it doesn’t mean anything except that he’s willing to sit down and have a conversation.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 20h

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Steven Santos @stevensantos.bsky.social · 1d

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 23h

She’s left us no choice. It’s time for Isaac Chotiner to interview Bari Weiss.

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Val 🏳️‍⚧️ @valondar.bsky.social · 17h

Dmitri Shostakovich saw Jesus Christ Superstar! He also liked it so much he considered writing a rock music themed suite (like his earlier Jazz suites) but died soon after.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 17h

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 19h

I might even reverse this and say that the Democrats won't do what Republicans do and that's why everyone just writes the meanness off as table stakes. The Deplorables thing didn't catch fire on its own, there was a full court, weeks-long press by Republicans to keep it in the public's eye.

Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 19h

it doesnt help that when trump and miller say crazy shit the leading democrats are like "um um health care costs! health care costs! this is all about health care costs!"

Robyn Pennacchia @robynelyse.bsky.social · 19h

I've seen a few people question why these sorts of comments haven't hurt Miller, Trump, etc. the way "basket of deplorables" hurt Clinton.

And I think it's just because we expect them to say and do mean shit.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h

very cool that if you are working on behalf of right-wing culture warriors, you no longer need standing to have your claim adjudicated by the supreme court

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 23h

It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 23h

One thing about American's widespread distrust and disapproval of the Supreme Court is that mainstream news coverage mostly doesn't dwell on stuff like standing, so people don't even begin to grasp how rigged the Court truly is www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 21h

I unfortunately think we've reached the point where sitting legislators need to start responding to stuff like this with, "Eat shit, just answer the question."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

SCHIFF: If a video exists of Homan taking $50k in bribe money from the FBI, will you support a request to provide it to the committee?

BONDI: You can talk to Director Patel about that

SCHIFF: I'm talking to you about it

BONDI: Will you apologize to Donald Trump?

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 22h

You could just talk about Jim Crow. I promise you, there's no need to leave America's shores to talk about life in a fascist state

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23h

Under the Third Reich, most Germans generally lived in the law-bound normative state, while Jews and other disfavored people were victims of the arbitrary and violent prerogative state.

The dual state is characterized by the facade of normalcy obscuring the fact of an authoritarian state.

The “dual state” theory was invented to describe Nazis. The Supreme Court could take us there.

Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law.

www.motherjones.com

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 21h

*looking in the mirror, sad* sorry i don't talk in an uwu voice

Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 21h

Yes, legalizing things for adults means you're saying kids should also do it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sean Duffy on marijuana: "To legalize it and to say, 'it's okay for our kids and our young people to smoke it, and it's good for them,' and then they get behind cars -- it's dangerous and it's taking lives ... this is way more dangerous stuff. And then they're lacing it with other materials."

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 21h

Incredibe, and I hope this didn't come off as doubt! It's just so weird to live in Shitpost World, reading things that should be Clickhole quotes that actually had to be said because *gestures around*.

Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 21h

Can't say I like Gallego much but... he actually said this? For realsies? Because, I guess I will hand it to him.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 21h

Ruben Gallego on whether Trump is talking to Democrats:

“Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so I think there's a he's probably talking to himself, or think he's talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that that's actually he's actually physically talking to a Democrat.“

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