Dash Rantic
@jackc.bsky.social
Programmer, bassist, things&stuff+etc.
He/him.
He/him.
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When Tom Homan says
“Your rhetoric’s a disgrace”
We HEIL [FART] HEIL [FART}
Right in Tom Homan’s face
To defy poor Tom
Would surely be disgrace
So we HEIL [FART] HEIL [FART]
Right in Tom Homan’s face
/1
“Your rhetoric’s a disgrace”
We HEIL [FART] HEIL [FART}
Right in Tom Homan’s face
To defy poor Tom
Would surely be disgrace
So we HEIL [FART] HEIL [FART]
Right in Tom Homan’s face
/1
Homan: "We gotta stop the hateful rhetoric. Saying this officer is a murderer is dangerous. It's just ridiculous. It's gonna infuriate people more which means there's gonna be more incidents like this."
January 11, 2026 at 9:50 PM
When Tom Homan says
“Your rhetoric’s a disgrace”
We HEIL [FART] HEIL [FART}
Right in Tom Homan’s face
To defy poor Tom
Would surely be disgrace
So we HEIL [FART] HEIL [FART]
Right in Tom Homan’s face
/1
“Your rhetoric’s a disgrace”
We HEIL [FART] HEIL [FART}
Right in Tom Homan’s face
To defy poor Tom
Would surely be disgrace
So we HEIL [FART] HEIL [FART]
Right in Tom Homan’s face
/1
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This is a very, very good concise refutation of both the dishonest right and the grifty centrist people who make the temperature point.
WELKER: Do you bear any responsibility to bring down the temperature?
FREY: Of course. But I dropped an F bomb and they killed somebody. I think the killing somebody is the inflammatory element here and not the F bomb.
FREY: Of course. But I dropped an F bomb and they killed somebody. I think the killing somebody is the inflammatory element here and not the F bomb.
January 11, 2026 at 4:55 PM
This is a very, very good concise refutation of both the dishonest right and the grifty centrist people who make the temperature point.
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To a lot of people the statemrnt "Grok creates CSAM" will read as a "tech headline" they bypass.
"Grok creates child porn" is a much more visceral statement that will grab someone's attention and THEN you can explain why we don't use that term anymore.
"Grok creates child porn" is a much more visceral statement that will grab someone's attention and THEN you can explain why we don't use that term anymore.
January 11, 2026 at 3:43 PM
To a lot of people the statemrnt "Grok creates CSAM" will read as a "tech headline" they bypass.
"Grok creates child porn" is a much more visceral statement that will grab someone's attention and THEN you can explain why we don't use that term anymore.
"Grok creates child porn" is a much more visceral statement that will grab someone's attention and THEN you can explain why we don't use that term anymore.
That actually is quite soothing...
Here is a video of a frozen creek that had begun to thaw, and the water was flowing beneath the thin ice on top. I took this because it was soothing and wonderfully bloopy and I wanted to listen to it for hours. You are all welcome to enjoy it, too. Let your brain settle here and rest for a moment.
January 10, 2026 at 7:29 PM
That actually is quite soothing...
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Here is a thread about a true police-shooting incident that I'm going to use to pose a fun little thought problem for anyone anywhere who think there ia a single justifiable reason to ever allow a law enforcement officer to use force on a citizen and remain anonymous. From my back pages:
January 9, 2026 at 11:56 PM
Here is a thread about a true police-shooting incident that I'm going to use to pose a fun little thought problem for anyone anywhere who think there ia a single justifiable reason to ever allow a law enforcement officer to use force on a citizen and remain anonymous. From my back pages:
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Exactly.
It's not to show the ICE officer was in danger—the video he took himself shows he obviously isn't—but to show their supporters that the victim deserved to be murdered.
And to show their opponents they can and will murder them in cold blood and with impunity.
It's not to show the ICE officer was in danger—the video he took himself shows he obviously isn't—but to show their supporters that the victim deserved to be murdered.
And to show their opponents they can and will murder them in cold blood and with impunity.
they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.
In the video that the shooter took, which I believe was leaked to be exculpatory, he appears to yell “fucking bitch” after he shoots Renee Good.
January 9, 2026 at 9:10 PM
Exactly.
It's not to show the ICE officer was in danger—the video he took himself shows he obviously isn't—but to show their supporters that the victim deserved to be murdered.
And to show their opponents they can and will murder them in cold blood and with impunity.
It's not to show the ICE officer was in danger—the video he took himself shows he obviously isn't—but to show their supporters that the victim deserved to be murdered.
And to show their opponents they can and will murder them in cold blood and with impunity.
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rightwingers always call women “too emotional” but renee good states she’s not mad in a calm voice while the agitated emotional ICE agent unloads his gun umprompted and calls her a “fucking bitch” after she’s dead
January 9, 2026 at 9:51 PM
rightwingers always call women “too emotional” but renee good states she’s not mad in a calm voice while the agitated emotional ICE agent unloads his gun umprompted and calls her a “fucking bitch” after she’s dead
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Look, people, let’s stop being so judgmental about folks who stay on Twitter/X. There are fewer Nazis here, sure, but if a woman gets murdered by an ICE agent and you want to see her corpse in a bathing suit, where are you on Bluesky? Out of luck, that’s where.
January 9, 2026 at 7:57 PM
Look, people, let’s stop being so judgmental about folks who stay on Twitter/X. There are fewer Nazis here, sure, but if a woman gets murdered by an ICE agent and you want to see her corpse in a bathing suit, where are you on Bluesky? Out of luck, that’s where.
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In case you missed it last night:
No, it is definitively not defamation to call Jonathan Ross a murderer, and people who say it is are liars or ignorant or both.
No, it is definitively not defamation to call Jonathan Ross a murderer, and people who say it is are liars or ignorant or both.
Expect to see a surge of proud ignorance and proplawganda about what you can say about ICE agent Jonathan Ross, identified by local media as the person who shot and killed Renee Good.
In particular, expect a repeat of Rittenhouse-era “accusing him of murder is defamation” rhetoric.
It’s not.
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In particular, expect a repeat of Rittenhouse-era “accusing him of murder is defamation” rhetoric.
It’s not.
/1
January 9, 2026 at 6:31 PM
In case you missed it last night:
No, it is definitively not defamation to call Jonathan Ross a murderer, and people who say it is are liars or ignorant or both.
No, it is definitively not defamation to call Jonathan Ross a murderer, and people who say it is are liars or ignorant or both.
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wow really helpful, thank you new york times
October 24, 2025 at 2:57 PM
wow really helpful, thank you new york times
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No I said don’t tread on *me*. You can get treaded on.
January 9, 2026 at 3:17 PM
No I said don’t tread on *me*. You can get treaded on.
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As a principled libertarian, I believe that anyone who doesn't immediately do what ICE says should be shot dead. And as a principled states' rights advocate, I believe that the federal government should not allow states to prosecute these shootings.
January 9, 2026 at 1:57 PM
As a principled libertarian, I believe that anyone who doesn't immediately do what ICE says should be shot dead. And as a principled states' rights advocate, I believe that the federal government should not allow states to prosecute these shootings.
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there needs to be a sex offender registry but for ice guys. you should have to go door to door when you move to a new area and inform your neighbors that you used to be an ice guy. they shouldn't be allowed with 500 feet of a school
January 9, 2026 at 12:24 AM
there needs to be a sex offender registry but for ice guys. you should have to go door to door when you move to a new area and inform your neighbors that you used to be an ice guy. they shouldn't be allowed with 500 feet of a school
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Notable w/ DHS falsely claiming people are “weaponizing” vehicles is that since George Floyd uprisings GOP lawmakers have pushed laws legalizing plowing over protesters w/ cars
Also MAGA/alt-right memes were rife w/ fantasies abt doing just that, portending neo-Nazi car attack in Charlottesville
Also MAGA/alt-right memes were rife w/ fantasies abt doing just that, portending neo-Nazi car attack in Charlottesville
January 9, 2026 at 1:36 AM
Notable w/ DHS falsely claiming people are “weaponizing” vehicles is that since George Floyd uprisings GOP lawmakers have pushed laws legalizing plowing over protesters w/ cars
Also MAGA/alt-right memes were rife w/ fantasies abt doing just that, portending neo-Nazi car attack in Charlottesville
Also MAGA/alt-right memes were rife w/ fantasies abt doing just that, portending neo-Nazi car attack in Charlottesville
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I can't stop thinking about anthropologist Michael Taussig's book about the terror of the rubber trade in Colombia. In it, he describes how colonizers wantonly tortured Putumayo workers, with violence becoming a culture in itself, for its own sake. Like it was a sunk cost they couldn't escape
January 8, 2026 at 10:03 PM
I can't stop thinking about anthropologist Michael Taussig's book about the terror of the rubber trade in Colombia. In it, he describes how colonizers wantonly tortured Putumayo workers, with violence becoming a culture in itself, for its own sake. Like it was a sunk cost they couldn't escape
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Another popular MAGA snuff video . . .
Thanks @badiucao.bsky.social.
Thanks @badiucao.bsky.social.
January 8, 2026 at 12:56 PM
Another popular MAGA snuff video . . .
Thanks @badiucao.bsky.social.
Thanks @badiucao.bsky.social.
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I checked out his timeline, and guy Musk is promoting (someone with >100k followers) is just posting straight up Stormfront ca. 2005 material, or White Aryan Resistance material ca.1989. The world’s richest man and the GOP’s most important funder has turned X into Stormfront.
checking in on elon musk, the guy who absolutely did not give a nazi salute last year
January 8, 2026 at 2:53 PM
I checked out his timeline, and guy Musk is promoting (someone with >100k followers) is just posting straight up Stormfront ca. 2005 material, or White Aryan Resistance material ca.1989. The world’s richest man and the GOP’s most important funder has turned X into Stormfront.
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I want to see a liberal politician come out with a statement saying "Stay strapped out there, we have the 2nd amendment to protect us from a tyrannical government" just to see how MAGA reacts
January 8, 2026 at 3:16 PM
I want to see a liberal politician come out with a statement saying "Stay strapped out there, we have the 2nd amendment to protect us from a tyrannical government" just to see how MAGA reacts
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A while back I was describing these events to someone a little younger than me who had never heard about them. One thing that’s striking to me is that there were Congressional hearings about this standoff. That federal law enforcement screwed up massively was a bipartisan position
When FBI agents killed white separatist Vicki Weaver while trying to take her criming husband into custody, it fueled the anti-government militia movement that formed one tributary into today's MAGA right, which is shrugging off today's state murder of Renee Good.
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Ruby Ridge standoff - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 8, 2026 at 4:33 AM
A while back I was describing these events to someone a little younger than me who had never heard about them. One thing that’s striking to me is that there were Congressional hearings about this standoff. That federal law enforcement screwed up massively was a bipartisan position
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The party that waves the Gadsden Flag and yells about freedom is cheering the murder of a woman who did more to uphold and defend those values than they ever have.
January 8, 2026 at 12:31 AM
The party that waves the Gadsden Flag and yells about freedom is cheering the murder of a woman who did more to uphold and defend those values than they ever have.
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The Spanish version is “the left liberates, the right oppresses” and once I learned that, both screws and politics made more sense
the single line that has saved me the most hassle in my life is "lefty loosey righty tighty"
January 7, 2026 at 3:47 PM
The Spanish version is “the left liberates, the right oppresses” and once I learned that, both screws and politics made more sense
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it is the seventh day of the new year and we've got ICE murdering civilians, X gleefully producing CSAM/non consensual porn, the kidnapping of a foreign leader, the bluster around Greenland and the potential destabilization of NATO, and I'm sure you all will add more in replies..
January 7, 2026 at 5:53 PM
it is the seventh day of the new year and we've got ICE murdering civilians, X gleefully producing CSAM/non consensual porn, the kidnapping of a foreign leader, the bluster around Greenland and the potential destabilization of NATO, and I'm sure you all will add more in replies..
I know the US and anything US-related is in what feels a permanent state of utter chaos right now, but I'm still really surprised to not be hearing about this in the media more!
The Iranian protests have now spread to 120 cities.
January 7, 2026 at 1:17 AM
I know the US and anything US-related is in what feels a permanent state of utter chaos right now, but I'm still really surprised to not be hearing about this in the media more!
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Microsoft's CEO Nadella is right that AI is like a multiplier for your mind—it's just that the multiplier is 0.7
January 7, 2026 at 12:03 AM
Microsoft's CEO Nadella is right that AI is like a multiplier for your mind—it's just that the multiplier is 0.7
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Not sure how to summarize this one. Wrote about the podcaster-occupied government invading for content, how the algorithmic internet is governed by the logic of reaction videos, and how it has contributed to a very nihilistic illiterate politics and culture of performance for imagined audiences
Everything Reacting to Everything, All at Once
Why the Trump administration is posting messages like “THIS IS OUR HEMISPHERE” after the attack on Venezuela
www.theatlantic.com
January 7, 2026 at 12:42 AM
Not sure how to summarize this one. Wrote about the podcaster-occupied government invading for content, how the algorithmic internet is governed by the logic of reaction videos, and how it has contributed to a very nihilistic illiterate politics and culture of performance for imagined audiences