Nick Katsinas
@nickkatsinas.bsky.social
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Alejandra doomposts & makes enemies out of people who actually support her cause because her relevance depends on others being mad and scared.
It does her no good to tell followers that they're resilient/strong, or coalition build.
In any other context people would rightly call this manipulative.
It does her no good to tell followers that they're resilient/strong, or coalition build.
In any other context people would rightly call this manipulative.
November 24, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Alejandra doomposts & makes enemies out of people who actually support her cause because her relevance depends on others being mad and scared.
It does her no good to tell followers that they're resilient/strong, or coalition build.
In any other context people would rightly call this manipulative.
It does her no good to tell followers that they're resilient/strong, or coalition build.
In any other context people would rightly call this manipulative.
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A great way for Senate Democrats to protest what’s going on is to not have almost 40% of the caucus keep voting to advance a money laundering bill.
June 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
A great way for Senate Democrats to protest what’s going on is to not have almost 40% of the caucus keep voting to advance a money laundering bill.
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“What Senator Alex Padilla did today was political theater.”
--Kristi Noem, the Head of Costuming, Hair, and Makeup at Political Theater
--Kristi Noem, the Head of Costuming, Hair, and Makeup at Political Theater
June 12, 2025 at 10:11 PM
“What Senator Alex Padilla did today was political theater.”
--Kristi Noem, the Head of Costuming, Hair, and Makeup at Political Theater
--Kristi Noem, the Head of Costuming, Hair, and Makeup at Political Theater
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reading the phrase "the bleach community" and feeling my brain shrink
SCOOP
For years an FDA warning about the dangers of chlorine dioxide helped prevent it going mainstream.
Bleachers spent years calling for it to be removed
In May, it disappeared
Now, the bleachers think RFK will make all their dreams come true
www.wired.com/story/chlori...
For years an FDA warning about the dangers of chlorine dioxide helped prevent it going mainstream.
Bleachers spent years calling for it to be removed
In May, it disappeared
Now, the bleachers think RFK will make all their dreams come true
www.wired.com/story/chlori...
The Bleach Community Is Ready for RFK Jr. To Make Their Dreams Come True
Online communities dedicated to the use of a toxic bleach solution to treat everything from cancer to autism believe Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is interested in their cause.
www.wired.com
June 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
reading the phrase "the bleach community" and feeling my brain shrink
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There's a lot of things that are talked about in terms of frogs and boiling water today, but if you time traveled back to the year 2000 and Congress believed you about the overall impact of tech on the US, they'd probably legislatively burn Silicon Valley to the ground and salt the ashes.
incredible that, looking back to 2019, every large firm working on LLMs had the attitude that this was an enormously disruptive technology and that the rollout needed to be careful and stage-managed in order to avoid catastrophic legal and consumer backlash and then in 2022 went "lol nevermind"
June 5, 2025 at 4:53 AM
There's a lot of things that are talked about in terms of frogs and boiling water today, but if you time traveled back to the year 2000 and Congress believed you about the overall impact of tech on the US, they'd probably legislatively burn Silicon Valley to the ground and salt the ashes.
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more broadly you can't lean into 'things young men like' when those things - crypto, gambling, AI porn, online misogyny - are *bad*. you have to identify the good or at least neutral things - self-improvement, team sports - and lean into them.
I do think some left model of masculinity is necessary at least as a guide but the promise the right is making is “we will remove the people who have usurped your rightful status from competition by taking away their rights” and it’s pretty obvious why dems can’t offer that bsky.app/profile/pbum...
I have never seen any example of the left "hating" young men that doesn't distill to "refusal to coddle them/insistence on treating them like adults with agency."
May 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
more broadly you can't lean into 'things young men like' when those things - crypto, gambling, AI porn, online misogyny - are *bad*. you have to identify the good or at least neutral things - self-improvement, team sports - and lean into them.
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I'm genuinely sorry that Fetterman had a stroke and suffers from depression. But arguing that he has a free pass not to do his job in the name of destigmatizing brain injury and mental health struggles is offensive. If he can't do it, he should resign. If he doesn't want to, he should resign faster.
In which John Fetterman argues with inflamed self-righteousness that he's being bullied into doing parts of the job that he thinks are dumb. Like...showing up to vote. And serving on Senatorial committees. And meeting with constituents. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/u...
Fetterman, Often Absent From Senate, Says He Has Been Shamed Into Returning
www.nytimes.com
May 24, 2025 at 10:11 PM
I'm genuinely sorry that Fetterman had a stroke and suffers from depression. But arguing that he has a free pass not to do his job in the name of destigmatizing brain injury and mental health struggles is offensive. If he can't do it, he should resign. If he doesn't want to, he should resign faster.
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it’s so funny when people on social media feel like they have to make A Statement. why do you have to be condemning anything you’re a dental hygienist
May 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
it’s so funny when people on social media feel like they have to make A Statement. why do you have to be condemning anything you’re a dental hygienist
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An (extremely half baked) idea I’ve had for a while now is that a huge swath of people do not want to do any of the actual work of being a human being and computers in general and AI in particular gives them an excuse to do so, and it’s ripping our society apart because it’s explicitly antisocial
May 20, 2025 at 6:31 PM
An (extremely half baked) idea I’ve had for a while now is that a huge swath of people do not want to do any of the actual work of being a human being and computers in general and AI in particular gives them an excuse to do so, and it’s ripping our society apart because it’s explicitly antisocial
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Donald Trump is stealing your money to pay the family of his supporter that he killed.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
Ashli Babbitt's family to receive $5 million in settlement with Trump administration: Sources
The Trump administration is set to pay out nearly $5 million brought by the family of Ashli Babbitt,.
abcnews.go.com
May 19, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Donald Trump is stealing your money to pay the family of his supporter that he killed.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
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It is insane that company that relies on any sort of high-skilled labor whatsoever can still be based in Texas. Blue states have a golden opportunity to pick that state clean of all its high-paying jobs, but they're too worried about upsetting geriatrics who think God promised them a parking space.
Texas House advances bill that would prohibit land sales to people and entities from certain countries
The legislation had only pertained to countries the government deemed national security threats. A last-minute change would let the governor add more countries to the ban.
www.texastribune.org
May 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM
It is insane that company that relies on any sort of high-skilled labor whatsoever can still be based in Texas. Blue states have a golden opportunity to pick that state clean of all its high-paying jobs, but they're too worried about upsetting geriatrics who think God promised them a parking space.
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Blackthorne: You tell him that the prevalence of administrative burdens is simply too high!! It benefits no one, the paperwork, the redeterminations, it's the very government inefficiency you claim to despise!!
Mariko: The Ajin is displeased about the GOP medicaid plan.
Mariko: The Ajin is displeased about the GOP medicaid plan.
May 7, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Blackthorne: You tell him that the prevalence of administrative burdens is simply too high!! It benefits no one, the paperwork, the redeterminations, it's the very government inefficiency you claim to despise!!
Mariko: The Ajin is displeased about the GOP medicaid plan.
Mariko: The Ajin is displeased about the GOP medicaid plan.
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I've honestly just started blocking people who post "the cruelty is the point" in my replies. It's mindless. It's self-defeating. It's obnoxious.
“The cruelty is the point” is not a particularly useful thing to say at this time in response to someone pointing out a particular harm republicans are enacting.
May 6, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I've honestly just started blocking people who post "the cruelty is the point" in my replies. It's mindless. It's self-defeating. It's obnoxious.
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yet another example of why not to get your history from an anthropologist
As an anthropologist, if the only thing I ever did all day was remind people that before the privatization and commodification of land humans had way more free time and peace of mind, it would still not do a dent in how deep this myth has burrowed into people's colonized minds like a parasite
Liberalism is pretty good actually, it's why we have the time and peace of mind enough to even be having these discussions. Every tangible step towards civil rights is founded on the stability brought about under liberalism
April 30, 2025 at 6:31 PM
yet another example of why not to get your history from an anthropologist
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my endorsement for any democratic presidential candidate who promises to send the entire DOGE team to prison
This is insane and everyone involved needs to be sued into oblivion and then go directly to jail
April 24, 2025 at 7:37 PM
my endorsement for any democratic presidential candidate who promises to send the entire DOGE team to prison
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>reading the David Brooks Op Ed about mass strikes and seeing him quote the communist manifesto at the end
April 17, 2025 at 11:48 PM
>reading the David Brooks Op Ed about mass strikes and seeing him quote the communist manifesto at the end
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I *just* stopped posting about this, bc I don't want to be a jerk to Andrew, but people need to stop seeing a blind quote from a Dem and saying "that's what every Democrat thinks."
It's what a diaper-filling wimp who won't use his name thinks! Meanwhile a bunch of Dems are going to El Salvador.
It's what a diaper-filling wimp who won't use his name thinks! Meanwhile a bunch of Dems are going to El Salvador.
Seriously tho there’s no salvaging this party
One House Dem called deportations a “soup du jour,” telling @axios.com Trump is “setting a trap for the Democrats, and like usual we're falling for it."
“Rather than talking about the tariff policy ... we're going to go take the bait for one hairdresser.” www.axios.com/2025/04/16/d...
“Rather than talking about the tariff policy ... we're going to go take the bait for one hairdresser.” www.axios.com/2025/04/16/d...
April 16, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I *just* stopped posting about this, bc I don't want to be a jerk to Andrew, but people need to stop seeing a blind quote from a Dem and saying "that's what every Democrat thinks."
It's what a diaper-filling wimp who won't use his name thinks! Meanwhile a bunch of Dems are going to El Salvador.
It's what a diaper-filling wimp who won't use his name thinks! Meanwhile a bunch of Dems are going to El Salvador.
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*explaining to my kids why there’s a Toyota-BYD duopoly on cars* so the writers strike over DVDV residuals made NBC focus more on reality TV
April 7, 2025 at 6:39 PM
*explaining to my kids why there’s a Toyota-BYD duopoly on cars* so the writers strike over DVDV residuals made NBC focus more on reality TV
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the doge teens destroying the general services administration's magnetic tape backups because they think it's like a vhs of aladdin 2: the return of jafar might be the niche thing that kills me
April 7, 2025 at 4:33 AM
the doge teens destroying the general services administration's magnetic tape backups because they think it's like a vhs of aladdin 2: the return of jafar might be the niche thing that kills me
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It’s pretty wild watching people self-radicalize themselves against protests in real time and the best metaphor I have for it is oppositional defiance disorder combined with a tumblr version of q anon
April 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM
It’s pretty wild watching people self-radicalize themselves against protests in real time and the best metaphor I have for it is oppositional defiance disorder combined with a tumblr version of q anon
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Really really really loving this trend of Democratic politicians being like "I support pressing the stagflation button, but not this way!" We will never do well with materialist voters lmfao.
Like, sure, the population hates tariffs, but leftie activists are pretty skeptical of globalization (at least, existing capitalist globalization) and the unions really really really like them, and at the end of the day that is the side that AOC and Bernie's bread is buttered
April 4, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Really really really loving this trend of Democratic politicians being like "I support pressing the stagflation button, but not this way!" We will never do well with materialist voters lmfao.
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I think there are a lot of broad, pro-labor policies Dems can pursue that will benefit unions (e.g. full employment, building housing). I do not think there is much political case for supporting union rent seeking at this point.
people need to realize that fundamentally unions are interest groups. And for Dems there is a cold political calculus to me made about designing policy around the lobbying of industrial unions that are not even able to deliver their members votes reliably.
April 4, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I think there are a lot of broad, pro-labor policies Dems can pursue that will benefit unions (e.g. full employment, building housing). I do not think there is much political case for supporting union rent seeking at this point.
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i love seeing a million posts like "it's funny that he is suffering" and not only do we all know who he is but we all want the same thing. like who's the pronoun now dipshit
April 2, 2025 at 4:27 AM
i love seeing a million posts like "it's funny that he is suffering" and not only do we all know who he is but we all want the same thing. like who's the pronoun now dipshit