mtraven
@mtraven23.bsky.social
knowledge plumber, metacognitive engineer, dada scientist, anarchitect, investigative pataphysician, certified subgenius saint, professional amateur.
Agency Made Me Do It: https://hyperphor.com/ammdi
Agency Made Me Do It: https://hyperphor.com/ammdi
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Person who actually deserves a trophy is the artist who made the FIFA peace prize trophy look like everyone in the entire world holding their head in their hands out of secondhand embarrassment
December 5, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Person who actually deserves a trophy is the artist who made the FIFA peace prize trophy look like everyone in the entire world holding their head in their hands out of secondhand embarrassment
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Crikey, imagine reading this 2025 sentence from a major-media publication back in 1996
December 6, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Crikey, imagine reading this 2025 sentence from a major-media publication back in 1996
I just completed "Trash Compactor" - Day 6 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/6
Day 6 - Advent of Code 2025
adventofcode.com
December 6, 2025 at 6:01 AM
I just completed "Trash Compactor" - Day 6 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/6
"A PhD in Magic and Occult Sciences opens the door to an exceptionally diverse range of careers, both within and beyond academia."
The @universityofexeter.bsky.social now has a PhD in Magic and Occult Sciences open for applications, check out the website www.exeter.ac.uk/study/pg-res...
December 3, 2025 at 6:22 PM
"A PhD in Magic and Occult Sciences opens the door to an exceptionally diverse range of careers, both within and beyond academia."
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This is Mr. Paworotti. His favorite Christmas song is Howl-lelujah. If you'll excuse him, his solo is coming up. 13/10 (TT: therealpaworotti)
December 2, 2025 at 11:36 PM
This is Mr. Paworotti. His favorite Christmas song is Howl-lelujah. If you'll excuse him, his solo is coming up. 13/10 (TT: therealpaworotti)
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This is akin to torturing-small-animals levels of sociopathy.
December 2, 2025 at 3:25 AM
This is akin to torturing-small-animals levels of sociopathy.
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Tom Stoppard, and only Tom Stoppard, could make a laugh line out of Fermat’s last theorem.
RIP to a true master.
RIP to a true master.
November 29, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Tom Stoppard, and only Tom Stoppard, could make a laugh line out of Fermat’s last theorem.
RIP to a true master.
RIP to a true master.
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Oof. He was truly a master, from Rosenkrantz & Guildenstern to Arcadia to Leopoldstadt—just a lifetime of tremendous, thought-provoking, hilarious work. RIP. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard dies at 88
www.bbc.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Oof. He was truly a master, from Rosenkrantz & Guildenstern to Arcadia to Leopoldstadt—just a lifetime of tremendous, thought-provoking, hilarious work. RIP. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
November 27, 2025 at 2:30 AM
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
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i’m not sure how but this is real antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/10...
November 26, 2025 at 3:18 AM
i’m not sure how but this is real antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/10...
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The thing about Trump stories is that they always have that extra layer of stupidity that you’re not expecting. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
November 26, 2025 at 12:59 AM
The thing about Trump stories is that they always have that extra layer of stupidity that you’re not expecting. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
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At this point X is like 1950s Vienna, a whole place made up entirely of spies, running ops against other spies, with no non-spy people. Or maybe like a 1971 Black Panthers convention where 3/4 of the attendees are conintelrpo.
November 24, 2025 at 3:50 AM
At this point X is like 1950s Vienna, a whole place made up entirely of spies, running ops against other spies, with no non-spy people. Or maybe like a 1971 Black Panthers convention where 3/4 of the attendees are conintelrpo.
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If the government won't bail out my crypto losses, I'm going to become an even bigger libertarian.
November 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
If the government won't bail out my crypto losses, I'm going to become an even bigger libertarian.
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Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand
In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.
Le Monde has a long article describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.
Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.
He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund
and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.
Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic
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It is tragic to see what figures like Mamdani are doing to a once great Democratic Party.
by Andrew Cuomo, Larry Summers, Alan Dershowitz, Bob Menendez, and Rod Blagojevich
by Andrew Cuomo, Larry Summers, Alan Dershowitz, Bob Menendez, and Rod Blagojevich
November 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
It is tragic to see what figures like Mamdani are doing to a once great Democratic Party.
by Andrew Cuomo, Larry Summers, Alan Dershowitz, Bob Menendez, and Rod Blagojevich
by Andrew Cuomo, Larry Summers, Alan Dershowitz, Bob Menendez, and Rod Blagojevich
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Epstein and Nuzzi highlighting the sex demon caste that rules us in the run-up to what could be a historic financial meltdown feels like turning on your bathroom light at 3 AM to find bloody finger painting on the mirror
November 18, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Epstein and Nuzzi highlighting the sex demon caste that rules us in the run-up to what could be a historic financial meltdown feels like turning on your bathroom light at 3 AM to find bloody finger painting on the mirror
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Donald J Trump is committing TREASON,. repeatedly!
November 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Donald J Trump is committing TREASON,. repeatedly!
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This is a real flight school, teaching people to fly planes!!! Like????
November 14, 2025 at 12:17 AM
This is a real flight school, teaching people to fly planes!!! Like????
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Jeffrey Epstein, the notorious child sex trafficker, says that Donald Trump is the worst person he has ever met
It's probably not fully possible for you to understand the full meaning of that sentence
It's probably not fully possible for you to understand the full meaning of that sentence
Jeffrey Epstein to Lawrence Summers (both of whom are very bad people):
“i have met some very bad people , none as bad as trump. not one decent cell in his body. so yes- dangerous”
“i have met some very bad people , none as bad as trump. not one decent cell in his body. so yes- dangerous”
November 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Jeffrey Epstein, the notorious child sex trafficker, says that Donald Trump is the worst person he has ever met
It's probably not fully possible for you to understand the full meaning of that sentence
It's probably not fully possible for you to understand the full meaning of that sentence
Unusual for CACM to publish articles praising Nietzsche but we live in strange times cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/why...
Why Nietzsche Matters in the Age of Artificial Intelligence – Communications of the ACM
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November 12, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Unusual for CACM to publish articles praising Nietzsche but we live in strange times cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/why...