Auspicious Sublimation
@inauspicious.bsky.social
I usually stick to "lurking," but may do some minor other things. I added a profile picture to bolster the claim that I might be a real human, but honestly, I'm not so sure myself. He/him.
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“People say is racist book. Not wrong. They say is fascist book. Not wrong also.
They’ll say that the book is illiterate, but that’s where they’ll stumble. It’s not illiterate. It’s anti-literate.” www.liberalcurrents.com/reviewer-jud...
They’ll say that the book is illiterate, but that’s where they’ll stumble. It’s not illiterate. It’s anti-literate.” www.liberalcurrents.com/reviewer-jud...
Reviewer Judge Words In Book: Bronze Age Mindset, reviewed
We can be more and better than conquerors and thieves.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 23, 2025 at 11:05 AM
“People say is racist book. Not wrong. They say is fascist book. Not wrong also.
They’ll say that the book is illiterate, but that’s where they’ll stumble. It’s not illiterate. It’s anti-literate.” www.liberalcurrents.com/reviewer-jud...
They’ll say that the book is illiterate, but that’s where they’ll stumble. It’s not illiterate. It’s anti-literate.” www.liberalcurrents.com/reviewer-jud...
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Anyway it’s not that “men need to be Men” it’s that men need to be grownups.
December 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Anyway it’s not that “men need to be Men” it’s that men need to be grownups.
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One theory I have is that competence, self-control, responsibility, and expertise have all been feminized, leaving “masculinity” with the realm of impulsivity and petulance. So the divide is not really between “femininity” and “masculinity” so much as between adulthood and childishness.
Everything else aside, the idea that this is a model for many men of *masculinity* is so wild. This? This is "manly"? This is how people think it's cool to act?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-wG...
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Dave Portnoy Demands NFL Investigate Pete Carroll & Raiders For Rigging
YouTube video by Clasher Sports
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December 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
One theory I have is that competence, self-control, responsibility, and expertise have all been feminized, leaving “masculinity” with the realm of impulsivity and petulance. So the divide is not really between “femininity” and “masculinity” so much as between adulthood and childishness.
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also like i am still hung up on "we're wolves not sheep" when the actual truth about humanity is we're the thing that domesticated both of them
November 17, 2025 at 10:30 PM
also like i am still hung up on "we're wolves not sheep" when the actual truth about humanity is we're the thing that domesticated both of them
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the great self-liberation of humanity is precisely our self-liberation from the shackles of our natural condition--yes, including our natural biology. fuck that noise
November 17, 2025 at 10:27 PM
the great self-liberation of humanity is precisely our self-liberation from the shackles of our natural condition--yes, including our natural biology. fuck that noise
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Gotta be honest, it absolutely sucks watching the same people who call me a groomer just for being trans say that Epstein did nothing wrong because his victims were teenagers.
PEOPLE WOULD RATHER THEIR KIDS BE RAPED THAN BE TRANS.
And it is INFURIATING.
PEOPLE WOULD RATHER THEIR KIDS BE RAPED THAN BE TRANS.
And it is INFURIATING.
November 14, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Gotta be honest, it absolutely sucks watching the same people who call me a groomer just for being trans say that Epstein did nothing wrong because his victims were teenagers.
PEOPLE WOULD RATHER THEIR KIDS BE RAPED THAN BE TRANS.
And it is INFURIATING.
PEOPLE WOULD RATHER THEIR KIDS BE RAPED THAN BE TRANS.
And it is INFURIATING.
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“The great feminization is a threat to civilization” “did women ruin the workplace?” “Do women achieve real dignity through dependence?” “Is not getting laid a human rights violation for men?” They overturned Roe just three years ago.
November 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
“The great feminization is a threat to civilization” “did women ruin the workplace?” “Do women achieve real dignity through dependence?” “Is not getting laid a human rights violation for men?” They overturned Roe just three years ago.
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Kind of crazy that evidence is mounting that the world is run by a group of rapists, pedophiles, and men convinced of women’s inmate natural inferiority, and the pundit class is trying to convince us that the real social crisis is that men are victimized and lonely because women have too many jobs.
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 4:21 PM
Kind of crazy that evidence is mounting that the world is run by a group of rapists, pedophiles, and men convinced of women’s inmate natural inferiority, and the pundit class is trying to convince us that the real social crisis is that men are victimized and lonely because women have too many jobs.
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We should honestly start with the working assumption that the Trump administration murdered these people and buried them in a mass grave. Then, go from there. Make them prove they're alive. If they are, it should be easy to demonstrate.
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
www.miamiherald.com
September 23, 2025 at 8:09 PM
We should honestly start with the working assumption that the Trump administration murdered these people and buried them in a mass grave. Then, go from there. Make them prove they're alive. If they are, it should be easy to demonstrate.
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Brilliant piece by @pastpunditry.bsky.social in the Boston Review: "the liberal-heterodox alliance is what has eased the way for the most authoritarian, anti-civil liberties government the United States has seen since the McCarthy era." www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-ri...
The actual politics of free speech is fueled by a right-wing political strategy. - Boston Review
Nicole Hemmer responds to Alex Gourevitch’s “The Right to Be Hostile.”
www.bostonreview.net
September 23, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Brilliant piece by @pastpunditry.bsky.social in the Boston Review: "the liberal-heterodox alliance is what has eased the way for the most authoritarian, anti-civil liberties government the United States has seen since the McCarthy era." www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-ri...
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We wrote a thing about AI, fascism, and why framing this as "hype" is too apolitical
www.liberalcurrents.com/deflating-hy...
www.liberalcurrents.com/deflating-hy...
Deflating “Hype” Won’t Save Us
The problem with AI isn’t hype. The problem is who and what it’s useful for.
www.liberalcurrents.com
September 16, 2025 at 1:31 PM
We wrote a thing about AI, fascism, and why framing this as "hype" is too apolitical
www.liberalcurrents.com/deflating-hy...
www.liberalcurrents.com/deflating-hy...
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Legacy media and cable news reduced Trump's aggression against Chicago to a question of whether troops would be sent immediately. When he said he was taking his fascist military spectacle elsewhere, those media players declared the situation over—while waves of federal agents attack our neighbors.
September 15, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Legacy media and cable news reduced Trump's aggression against Chicago to a question of whether troops would be sent immediately. When he said he was taking his fascist military spectacle elsewhere, those media players declared the situation over—while waves of federal agents attack our neighbors.
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The context for a lot of the "why don't people make conservative students feel more welcome 😔" contaversies is that a lot of those students see themselves as active enemies of the institutions they're part of.
Holy shit, A&M fired a Dean, a department head, and a professor over a recording a student took in class of content that seems entirely in keeping with the course, based on a video a student—who seems to have been gunning for this—took that I’m not sure they were allowed to take.
September 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
The context for a lot of the "why don't people make conservative students feel more welcome 😔" contaversies is that a lot of those students see themselves as active enemies of the institutions they're part of.
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Know your rights, Illinois.
Stay safe and stay informed.
Stay safe and stay informed.
September 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Know your rights, Illinois.
Stay safe and stay informed.
Stay safe and stay informed.
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incredible work. become uncarryable.
This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".
![One of Britain’s most senior police officers has launched an angry tirade against Extinction Rebellion protesters going “all floppy” when they get arrested.
Sir Stephen House, the deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan police, said the tactic of going limp was a “flipping nuisance” as it required extra officers to drag protesters away.
House told a London assembly police and crime committee hearing: “We have asked them to stop being floppy. And that might seem like a silly thing to say, but when we arrest them and pick them up, they go all floppy, which is why you see four or five officers carrying them away. It’s a complete waste of officers’ time, and a complete pain in the neck.”
Extinction Rebellion: how successful were the latest protests?
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House also expressed annoyance at how the tactic made the police look heavy-handed. He said: “The problem with them going floppy and four offices carrying them away [is that it] looks to the general public like police are overreacting here. We’re not making them go floppy. They’re just sort of being a nuisance.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7uvcqt45oqlutlrtgx7bpodq/bafkreie7yqxb4cj2t4gxftiqsno5wgk2kczb5vbtj7wh2b2u5sjtqtdrku@jpeg)
September 6, 2025 at 4:37 AM
incredible work. become uncarryable.
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I've already said what I need to say about Newsom's stance on trans ppl & why it will fail in this short 🧵. but can I just add, as a long time Californian & Bay Area resident, I'm convinced that this online push for him 3 years out from Dem primaries is 100% astroterfed...
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since Bluesky is chock full of Newsom-stan-bots insisting that "Dems should compromise on trans issues", I will re-up my November essay about why this is not only immoral & unempirical, but BAD POLITICS. Dems WILL LOSE if they do this, here's why (no paywall): juliaserano.medium.com/should-democ...
Should Democrats Throw Trans People Under the Bus?
Here’s Why It Would Be Bad Politics
juliaserano.medium.com
August 31, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I've already said what I need to say about Newsom's stance on trans ppl & why it will fail in this short 🧵. but can I just add, as a long time Californian & Bay Area resident, I'm convinced that this online push for him 3 years out from Dem primaries is 100% astroterfed...
bsky.app/profile/juli...
bsky.app/profile/juli...
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Goodness, if the President has a serious health problem I certainly hope he follows the expert medical advice of his Secretary of Health and Human Services
August 30, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Goodness, if the President has a serious health problem I certainly hope he follows the expert medical advice of his Secretary of Health and Human Services
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August 30, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Biological sex is a spectrum too, not just gender. That’s not postmodern nonsense, it’s reality as revealed by science. Sex is a cluster of phenotypical characteristics that tend to, but do not always, correlate. The spectrum follows a bimodal distribution, but that’s not the same thing as a binary!
Abolish Gender is so 2012, get in losers, in 2025 we are abolishing sex
August 25, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Biological sex is a spectrum too, not just gender. That’s not postmodern nonsense, it’s reality as revealed by science. Sex is a cluster of phenotypical characteristics that tend to, but do not always, correlate. The spectrum follows a bimodal distribution, but that’s not the same thing as a binary!
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Must be because the humanities department of Moderna took unpopular stances on issues of gender and race with voters, which is the *only* reason why STEM funding is being cut
EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration will move to pull the COVID vaccine off the U.S. market “within months,” one of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s closest associates has told the Daily Beast.
Trump and RFK Jr. to Ban Covid-19 Vaccine ‘Within Months’
A close associate of the HHS secretary claims the U.S. government will soon pull COVID-19 mRNA jabs from the market.
trib.al
August 25, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Must be because the humanities department of Moderna took unpopular stances on issues of gender and race with voters, which is the *only* reason why STEM funding is being cut
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*i* think that the issue isn’t the words, it is the substantive positions. no amount of language self policing will satisfy someone who just disagrees with, say, legal protection from gender discrimination
August 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
*i* think that the issue isn’t the words, it is the substantive positions. no amount of language self policing will satisfy someone who just disagrees with, say, legal protection from gender discrimination
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Full disclosure: I was up at the wee hours past midnight helping my very good friend Eric through this bill after he flagged the language for me.
If you want to support the only journalist who was up late last night asking lawmakers about trans Americans,
PLEASE share this story.
If you want to support the only journalist who was up late last night asking lawmakers about trans Americans,
PLEASE share this story.
New: Not only would Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” ban gender-affirming care via Medicaid, it would ban insurance under the Obamacare exchanges from covering it as an essential health benefit
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Trump’s ‘One, big, beautiful bill’ would transgender care on Medicaid and Obamacare
‘It's one more example of health care that they're trying to rip away,’ Rep. Sarah McBride, the first openly transgender member of Congress, tells The Independent
www.independent.co.uk
May 22, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Full disclosure: I was up at the wee hours past midnight helping my very good friend Eric through this bill after he flagged the language for me.
If you want to support the only journalist who was up late last night asking lawmakers about trans Americans,
PLEASE share this story.
If you want to support the only journalist who was up late last night asking lawmakers about trans Americans,
PLEASE share this story.
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“If you simply surrender your principles in advance, because you’re afraid that association with you will sink Democratic politicians, then what on Earth are we even hoping to elect Democratic candidates to do?” www.liberalcurrents.com/just-make-yo...
Just Make Your Case and Leave Campaign Strategy to Politicians
Politicians will try to win elections whether you self-censor your principled position or not.
www.liberalcurrents.com
April 18, 2025 at 5:06 PM
“If you simply surrender your principles in advance, because you’re afraid that association with you will sink Democratic politicians, then what on Earth are we even hoping to elect Democratic candidates to do?” www.liberalcurrents.com/just-make-yo...
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This is incredibly cool: if you search for a condition that’s affected your family, the site returns stats on how much NIH has done for that disease, *and* a contact form for reaching out to tell your Members of Congress why you want to see them defend NIH.
Pass it on!
Pass it on!
April 21, 2025 at 1:06 PM
This is incredibly cool: if you search for a condition that’s affected your family, the site returns stats on how much NIH has done for that disease, *and* a contact form for reaching out to tell your Members of Congress why you want to see them defend NIH.
Pass it on!
Pass it on!
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When the US began to strip trans people of rights, revert documentation, move trans women to men's prisons, censor research, and move towards healthcare bans, most cis people posted things like "the government can't tell you who you are!"
They think our biggest issue is validation, not actual harm.
They think our biggest issue is validation, not actual harm.
April 13, 2025 at 8:40 AM
When the US began to strip trans people of rights, revert documentation, move trans women to men's prisons, censor research, and move towards healthcare bans, most cis people posted things like "the government can't tell you who you are!"
They think our biggest issue is validation, not actual harm.
They think our biggest issue is validation, not actual harm.