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@phoenixfire.bsky.social

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27 | He/Him | Aspiring writer, unfunny poster, and socialist with too many opinions | Profile picture by @mannyandbo.com

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Lucas @phoenixfire.bsky.social · Mar 19

I'm not ready to talk about the sci-fi novel I'm writing in too much detail yet, but here's a meme about what it's inspired by without any further context

Meme using the intro sequence of Powerpuff Girls Professor Utonium mixing Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice, but accidentally allowing Chemical X to enter the mixture. Each scene has something different superimposed over it to represent a different inspiration.

Sugar: The Expanse/Andor
Spice: Babylon Berlin/Disco Elysium
Everything Nice: Dune/Suzerain
Chemical X: Current Events

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Lucas @phoenixfire.bsky.social · 46m

For what it's worth, I think the best course of action is to anticipate the latter perspective, but prepare for the former.

Lucas @phoenixfire.bsky.social · 50m

Every time I see this administration threaten to do something increasungly authoritarian, half of my feed is like "they're consolidating power! We're fucked!" And the other half is like "they're getting desperate! We're gonna win!"

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Lucas @phoenixfire.bsky.social · 53m

I'm reminded of that one MAGA guy who said during Trump I that if Jesus came back and contradicted Trump, he would side with Trump

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Lucas @phoenixfire.bsky.social · 57m

THEN RAISE THE PINKISH STANDARD HIGH,
WE'LL WASTE OUR VOTES AND NOT KNOW WHY,
THOUGH LEFTIES FLINCH AND TORIES SNEER,
WE'LL KEEP THE PINK FLAG FLYING HERE

Lucas @phoenixfire.bsky.social · 1h

That's a mindset that doesn't go away no matter how far-right they go.

I once saw someone on the Other Site claim that most normal people had a positive view of *Hitler*.

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Lucas @phoenixfire.bsky.social · 1h

The fandoms yearn for the week-by-week speculation and hype for the next part

Lucas @phoenixfire.bsky.social · 1h

I mean, the costumes *are* meant to make a certain group of people involved here look less scary, it just isn't the Antifa

Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 3h

I love when Andy Ngo does one of his David Attenborough-style posts about Antifa and highlights some kid who took a bong rip and waddled into the protest dressed like a giant muppet.

My favorite flavor of his commentary by far.

Andy Ngo wants to draw your attention to Barney the dinosaur

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Lucas @phoenixfire.bsky.social · 2h

🦇 🦆 🎃 @goducks09.bsky.social · 17h

This just popped up in my Reddit feed. Hasan Piker shocking his dog for moving around too much behind him. Someone please take that poor dog away from this asshole.

Lucas @phoenixfire.bsky.social · 2h

Politics streamers if not getting into controversy was a test:

a cartoon of a man wearing a helmet and glasses

Alt: Crocker from Fairly Odd Parents giving Timmy a SUPER F on his test

media.tenor.com

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Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 1d

RVTRN

jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 1d

the wave of weaponized nostalgia for 90s-style multiculturalism and political correctness is gonna hit different

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 19h

There's a lot of people who object to this comparison but it's correct in the ways that matter

They're both people who believe they're the party's inheritor and as such can direct the ship and they're also both hyped up by talking heads as the next step for their respective parties

Mallory 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺 @sadboots.bsky.social · 19h

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, he’s the Dem DeSantiis

Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 19h

People keep dooming about how he's gonna clear the Dem primaries in 2028 but he's triangulating on issues that exactly 10 people care about, all of whom are in group chats with Matt Yglesias or Bari Weiss

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 11h

we are going to beat these people, eventually, and we are going to make a better world out of it.

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 11h

i love this fucking city, i have been here ten years and if i am lucky, i will get at least another ten or twenty, but, today, this city made a fucking fool of the entire department of homeland security.

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 12h

lmao, kristi noem wanted a black bloc fight and got an inflatable rave instead. fuck you DHS, rip city forever.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 16h

Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

A group of apparent armed agents assemble at the end of a street, as seen from the perspective of a person in inflatable frog costume, their frog’s eyes dominating the foreground. The Ice facility in downtown Portland on Monday. Photograph: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AFP/Getty Images

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Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 23h

Don't be afraid of this. Do expect extremely stupid shit to happen as a result.

Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 1d

Citing the “martyrdom” of Charlie Kirk, Texas AG Ken Paxton says his office is pursuing sweeping undercover investigations into “leftist” groups. “To those demented souls who seek to kill, steal, and destroy our country, know this: you cannot hide, you cannot escape, and justice is coming."

"Leftist political terrorism is a clear and present danger. Corrupted ideologies like transgenderism and Antifa are a cancer on our culture and have unleashed their deranged and drugged-up foot soldiers on the American people," said Attorney General Paxton. "The martyrdom of Charlie Kirk marks a turning point in America.
There can be no compromise with those who want us dead. To that end, I have directed my office to continue its efforts to identify, investigate, and infiltrate these leftist terror cells. To those demented souls who seek to kill, steal, and destroy our country, know this: you cannot hide, you cannot escape, and justice is coming."
The radical Left has incubated an environment where political violence is not only justified but celebrated and praised. In July, nearly two dozen armed leftists connected to various Texas-based Antifa-like groups ambushed an Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE") facility in Alvarado, Texas. On September 10, 2025, a leftist assassin connected to the radical transgender movement murdered Charlie Kirk because of Kirk's bold support for truth, love of country, and unshakable faith. Two weeks later, another deranged leftist opened fire at an ICE facility in Dallas.
President Donald Trump has officially designated Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization and instructed his administration to "utilize all applicable authorities to investigate, disrupt, and dismantle any and all illegal operations — especially those involving terrorist actions — conducted by Antifa." Building on President Trump's bold actions, Attorney General Paxton has instructed his office to initiate sweeping investigations into radical leftist organizations engaged in or providing support to those performing political violence.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

It’s the first point, not the second. Do most people know what Benedict Arnold did specifically? No, but they might know he’s got the name of a traitor and a pariah. The loss or failure of a cultural consensus about Nixon is what’s operating here, not the olds tripping over young people’s ignorance.

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FreeLinkophant sHELLey B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 1d

"In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. Today, still wanted by the government they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them....maybe you can hire The Pornstache Team."

Lucas @phoenixfire.bsky.social · 1d

I'm putting together a team

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I'm putting together a team

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Nikki Hessell @nikkihessell.bsky.social · 1d

These are the sorts of things you can do if you're serious about art, creativity, and growing an economy

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 1d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Lucas @phoenixfire.bsky.social · 1d

Tfw I'm tall enough to not qualify

Robert Downey Jr. looking incredibly relieved

Lucas @phoenixfire.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not even particularly tall, so imagining myself being able to do this with Stephen Miller especially makes me so happy beyond words

Lucas @phoenixfire.bsky.social · 1d

Me when I meet Stephen Miller

Evangelion screenshot of Gendo Ikari with shiny glasses staring down at Shinji

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 1d

how to deactivate torment nexus

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Lucas @phoenixfire.bsky.social · 1d

This is why the College of Winterhold banned necromancy

Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 1d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 1d

Authoritarian governments sending troops drawn from the ordinary population to repress said population and then *not paying* those troops is definitely a thing that has gone well, historically. A+ dictator performance Donny

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 1d

ok I didn't mention this in my piece on friday but one of the things the judge asked about was whether the guardsmen were going to get paid during the shutdown

the doj was like "idk"

the state of oregon was like "we looked into it and the answer is no"

Reyhan Harmanci @harmancipants.bsky.social · 1d

I keep forgetting the government is shut down bc Trump admin is so focused on sending troops to US cities

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 2d

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