Luftmensch
@eschersentence.bsky.social
They will not break us, they will break upon us.
Seattle. Data, philosophy, politics, etc. he/him.
Seattle. Data, philosophy, politics, etc. he/him.
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Fun fact, the same legal doctrine that made sports betting legalization possible is gonna make this void
BREAKING: Trump says he will sign an executive order this week that will limit states’ ability to regulate AI.
December 8, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Fun fact, the same legal doctrine that made sports betting legalization possible is gonna make this void
This is misleading clickbait, here's what Wilson actually said:
"I'm going to work with immigrant rights groups and civil rights advocates to evaluate whether Seattle should also scale back or disable the surveillance expansion that was authorized by the outgoing mayor and council"
"I'm going to work with immigrant rights groups and civil rights advocates to evaluate whether Seattle should also scale back or disable the surveillance expansion that was authorized by the outgoing mayor and council"
NEW: After taking a big stance against recent surveillance tech expansion and even as cities across the state shut down their cameras, Mayor-elect Katie Wilson isn't making strong promises to shut the cameras off! www.theburnerseattle.com/post/mayor-e...
Mayor-Elect Wilson Won't Commit To Shutting Down The Surveillance Cameras She Campaigned Against
Mayor-elect Katie Wilson distinguished herself from the incumbent she toppled by standing with the overwhelming public opposition toward massively expanding the Seattle Police Department’s (SPD) surve...
www.theburnerseattle.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:56 AM
This is misleading clickbait, here's what Wilson actually said:
"I'm going to work with immigrant rights groups and civil rights advocates to evaluate whether Seattle should also scale back or disable the surveillance expansion that was authorized by the outgoing mayor and council"
"I'm going to work with immigrant rights groups and civil rights advocates to evaluate whether Seattle should also scale back or disable the surveillance expansion that was authorized by the outgoing mayor and council"
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I'm developing a kind of cosmopolitan-chauvinism, I guess you could call it anti-feudalism, as a through line in my politics. The peasant-brained and the local landed gentry are the enemy. Sort of funny that this could describe being either rabidly capitalist or communist.
December 8, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I'm developing a kind of cosmopolitan-chauvinism, I guess you could call it anti-feudalism, as a through line in my politics. The peasant-brained and the local landed gentry are the enemy. Sort of funny that this could describe being either rabidly capitalist or communist.
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Wait a second. Was Mad Men just paraphrasing Dostoevsky???
December 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Wait a second. Was Mad Men just paraphrasing Dostoevsky???
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My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.
December 6, 2025 at 2:41 AM
My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.
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they don’t want housing, they want to endlessly critique housing
Making sure developers don’t make a dime is more important than building homes for people
November 26, 2025 at 4:06 AM
they don’t want housing, they want to endlessly critique housing
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Give me two hours of this youtu.be/BTWWT_qZgpE?...
Magneto Bar Scene | X-Men First Class (2011) 4K HDR Movie Clip
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November 26, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Give me two hours of this youtu.be/BTWWT_qZgpE?...
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November 24, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I'm a huge fan of Liberal Currents. The writers there offer an ideal combination of an intellectual defense of liberal values with a clear-eyed view of the challenges of the current political moment.
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i cannot imagine being so addicted to failure that you will not allow your enemies to deliver an unconditional surrender
The more important thing is that Mamdani is not the type of politician that Liz Cheney would want to campaign for. It was bad that Harris campaigned with her, it is even worse that she was someone Liz Cheney wanted to campaign for
November 24, 2025 at 2:47 AM
i cannot imagine being so addicted to failure that you will not allow your enemies to deliver an unconditional surrender
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you do not participate in politics any more than the red-faced 50-something guy yelling at the yankees pitching staff has participated in coaching a major league game
November 24, 2025 at 3:01 AM
you do not participate in politics any more than the red-faced 50-something guy yelling at the yankees pitching staff has participated in coaching a major league game
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“Green energy is hecking capitalist”
I need PMC posters to develop their own authentic class consciousness and abandon whatever this shit is asap.
I need PMC posters to develop their own authentic class consciousness and abandon whatever this shit is asap.
Anti-solar NIMBYs aren't beating the accusations of being pretty dim bulbs. "Extracting from the sky" is a good one
November 24, 2025 at 1:27 AM
“Green energy is hecking capitalist”
I need PMC posters to develop their own authentic class consciousness and abandon whatever this shit is asap.
I need PMC posters to develop their own authentic class consciousness and abandon whatever this shit is asap.
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It takes 225 million years or so for the Solar System to make one orbit around the galaxy. Sharks evolved long enough ago that they’ve done it twice.
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 3:14 AM
It takes 225 million years or so for the Solar System to make one orbit around the galaxy. Sharks evolved long enough ago that they’ve done it twice.
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Wow I’m sure absolutely zero Nazis concluded that Judeo-Bolshevism was “merely the observation that some Jews openly want to promote and ally with communism.”
Noah Smith is a bad person but he’s also just fucking stupid as shit.
Noah Smith is a bad person but he’s also just fucking stupid as shit.
November 21, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Wow I’m sure absolutely zero Nazis concluded that Judeo-Bolshevism was “merely the observation that some Jews openly want to promote and ally with communism.”
Noah Smith is a bad person but he’s also just fucking stupid as shit.
Noah Smith is a bad person but he’s also just fucking stupid as shit.
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The Great Abolition Compromise of 2028: now that ICE has hired the worst cops away we reform local policing & abolish ICE
Underrated thing that's been flying under the radar: ICE's hiring spree, by necessity since there are so few others willing and able, has been hiring away local cops, which infuriates the departments by causing manpower problems and is, ironically, removing the worst of the worst from their ranks.
The more local police see ICE assholes as criminals, the better it will be for us.
November 19, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The Great Abolition Compromise of 2028: now that ICE has hired the worst cops away we reform local policing & abolish ICE
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Happy MF Birthday to the great Martin Scorsese!!
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November 17, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Happy MF Birthday to the great Martin Scorsese!!
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I‘m tired of being nice about this; “abolitionism” has had years to develop a non-idiot policy program and the best they’ve come up with is ”murder without even the pretense of juridical process.” And I am not nut-picking; this is all over abolitionist writing.
November 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I‘m tired of being nice about this; “abolitionism” has had years to develop a non-idiot policy program and the best they’ve come up with is ”murder without even the pretense of juridical process.” And I am not nut-picking; this is all over abolitionist writing.
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There's a tendency among a certain type of poster to assume everything they hate about politics and the state can be blamed on avarice, and I'm here to tell you it's actually worse than that.
I continue to disagree with this. The goal of mass detention is mass deportations. A private prison company leasing 100 beds to ICE gets paid the same if the beds are filled by 100 people for a year each or 1,000 people for a few days each. They don't earn more with long-term detention.
It's not about deporting them. It's about detaining them indefinitely and enriching Prisons for Profiteers and the grift the Convict in the Oval Office collects per detainee.
November 13, 2025 at 10:29 PM
There's a tendency among a certain type of poster to assume everything they hate about politics and the state can be blamed on avarice, and I'm here to tell you it's actually worse than that.
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NYT journalists: how dare you accuse me of belonging to an organization that systematically demeans women and victims of sexual trafficking
NYT today: this greedy kid wanted money for braces and so ended up becoming sexually trafficked. The real victim? Matt Gaetz
NYT today: this greedy kid wanted money for braces and so ended up becoming sexually trafficked. The real victim? Matt Gaetz
November 14, 2025 at 1:06 AM
NYT journalists: how dare you accuse me of belonging to an organization that systematically demeans women and victims of sexual trafficking
NYT today: this greedy kid wanted money for braces and so ended up becoming sexually trafficked. The real victim? Matt Gaetz
NYT today: this greedy kid wanted money for braces and so ended up becoming sexually trafficked. The real victim? Matt Gaetz
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You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique