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Joel

@polyparadigm.bsky.social

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Materials scientist:some range and depth, interested in making arcane topics a little more accessible. Prior place photo was from the aughts; figured I should update.

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Joel @polyparadigm.bsky.social · 12d

I am noticing that even some fairly scholarly people on here don’t seem to really distinguish between “socially constructed” and “fake”

It feels important to the project of fascism that we conflate these two ideas

Most social constructs have a fake counterpart they’re constructed in opposition to

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Joel @polyparadigm.bsky.social · 1h

We need more dynamic range

Joel @polyparadigm.bsky.social · 1h

Also, extra power to the water just tends to mean faster convection and more evaporation (ie. stronger and less-predictable storms)

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Viktor 🇵🇸🍉🦘🦘🪃 @viktx.bsky.social · 22h

5 hours ago
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Second Autopsy Funded by Colin Kaepernick Shows Black Mississippi College Student Did Not Hang Himself

Police Labeled Hanging of Trey Reed in Mid-September Suicide; New Autopsy Reveals Blunt Force Trauma By Crisnel / International Business Times / October 6, 2025 When a 21-year-old Black student is fo...

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 2h

In America, sometimes your landlord SWATs you

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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 4h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

An image of Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music, twirling on an alpine meadow in a long Austrian skirt, next to an image of Christopher Plummer as Georg Von Trapp in the same movie, tearing a Nazi flag in half.

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all hallows eve-run enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 2h

tlaxcallans, 1519:

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2h

Are white Monsters any good?

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Joel @polyparadigm.bsky.social · 2h

Caffeine is addictive, not sure what else to say

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Joel @polyparadigm.bsky.social · 2h

How hard would it be to just have a feed of his DMs to cabinet members? Presumably most state actors and big investment firms have this, right?

Because it’s sent like a postcard, it should be legal for journalists to read them all (not that they wouldn’t be extralegally deported for it)

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Cas Piancey @cascoinfoundation.org · 2h

More news

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 7h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 3h

Its totally normal to get two annual check ups, its not an oversight. They're not covering for anything. Donald Trump is 6'3" and weighs 224 lbs with a blood pressure of 128/74 as his 2025 report indicates. Why would they lie to us

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Red Lori Bright Eyes Pissed Off American @redloribrighteyes.bsky.social · Jul 4

Anybody saying that America is fine with what's happening or that we don't care about it can go get fucked

That's some abuser bullshit

We don't victim blame

That's gop shit

Red Lori Bright Eyes Pissed Off American @redloribrighteyes.bsky.social · Mar 15

Everything that is wrong with the GOP can be explained in these 4 charts

The principles of Abuse

The failures of racism

The Special Snowflake chart

The Virtue/Abuse Quadrant chart

redloraine.wixsite.com/website/post...

A chart of an asshole - each pucker of the rose represents another spoke on the wheel of abuse - it includes things like abuse, exploitation, transphobia, misogyny, sexual assault

n The inability to tolerate discomfort
n No self awareness
n A lack of a strong internal sense of self that isn’t rooted in hate
n Which creates a lack of selfactualization outside of racist tropes

n Not being able to selfsoothe
n An inability to sort out general information using a basic logic familiarity
n No distinction between external fears & internal biases
n A difficulty in changing perspective which translates into being trapped

n Which all creates
a self identify rooted in the persecution
of others
n Internally understanding
these actions as wrong means that they will always doubledown because to do otherwise
would dismantle
their entire self

Repeating this process is unsustainable.
Come away from racism. Work on all of these faults
within yourself. Learn how to change your brain.

1. Always distort the truth to make you seem favorable and frame the target of abuse as unfavorable.
2. Always misrepresent your motives to be beneficial while hiding the principles of abuse that are being used in whatever action is taken.
3. Frame any call to responsibility or consequences as invalid, and deny, deflect, distract, and attack the source of those calls.
4. Always promise what the targets of manipulation want, frame what you are doing as delivering what they ask for, and then do whatever you want anyway.
5. Undermine any circumstances that stand in your way for example if a wilderness area you want to exploit is pristine, get in and make an oil spill then there is nothing left to protect; or if you want to destroy public education install an abuser, destroy the agency, point at it as a failure of government and then implement your private education plan for profit.
6. Isolate the targets of abuse by dismantling support systems, cutting off access to resources, and opposing anything that could bolster the targets of abuse.
7. Always take the best and leave the least possible for the targets of abuse such as funneling PPE dollars to military contractors while heath care workers use trash bags for protection.
8. Always use unfavorable circumstances to your advantage and if possible, turn circumstances against the targets of abuse such as allowing COVID to ravage blue states while funneling dollars to red states.
9. Always blame the victim for anything bad that happens to them or anything that you do to them.
10. Always pretend to be the victim in any situation, co-opt any symbols or methods your targets use for selfdefense.
11. Never allow scrutiny of your actions and always reject any investigations.
12. Use high control, propaganda, fear, threats, and manipulation to manage the victims of abuse.
13. Never admit to any wrong.
14. Whatever you want to do is the only thing that is important and any suffering you cause along the way is inconsequential or ev…

A quadrant chart is a type of data visualization that divides a scatter plot into four quadrants, often used to identify trends, patterns, and relationships between two variables.
THIS chart drafts the intersections of virtue and abuse - showing the most and least of each. The republican government exists in the most abuse and least virtue of the chart

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 5h

The investment firm that's raised more than $14 billion has cut staff in response to uncertainty in the clean energy investing landscape brought about by the withdrawal of US policy support.

Generate Capital Cuts Staff Amid Downturn In Climate Finance

The challenge comes as President Donald Trump dismantles policies that support renewable energy.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6h

Good lord.

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Joel @polyparadigm.bsky.social · 5h

Also, 3a says you have to sleep outdoors, not even in a tent

Sorry, I don’t write the rules, this one was James Madison

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Scare-a Anderson @magneticsara.bsky.social · 6h

Even if you don't live in Arizona, it's a good idea to know if the air is trying to kill you.

Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 6h

No joke, if you’re in Arizona be weather aware.

This has a chance to be a disaster.
Remember: new climate = new risk.

A national weather service warning about extreme rain this weekend in Arizona.

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Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 6h

Here's my grandad and his mates training for the big antifa day out on 6th June 1944

Troops from the Royal Engineers and Royal Ulster Rifles training with a machine gun in advance of D Day, (my grandad is the fella holding the magazine)

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Joel @polyparadigm.bsky.social · 5h

No, they mean the criminal organizations they have sworn fealty to

Joel @polyparadigm.bsky.social · 7h

I like to make up a dish of enchiladas and freeze them

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Cannonball Adderall @leupp.bsky.social · 8h

Note that during Trump’s fash fest with loser bloggers today, FOX News is showing b-roll of Portland protests from more than SIX YEARS AGO.
These people fucking hate us and want nothing more than to use deadly state force against us. Justifying that force is the project.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Joel @polyparadigm.bsky.social · 7h

I spent most of my childhood surrounded by almond orchards; to people growing them, the “l” is usually silent

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 8h

Anyway, if you want to know why this works—why this works viscerally, *for you*—listen to Episode Two of the aborted series I attempted to make back in 2020 about Trump and wrestling. Episode Two is about the art of the "promo," which Pritzker just cut effectively. dansinker.com/posts/2024-1...

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 11h

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 10h

the answer to the trolley problem is not to pick who to sacrifice, it’s to dismantle the system that led to an unsafe trolley crossing.

if any part of your morality strategy involves picking a group to let die on a hill, throw the entire strategy out. it’s wrong.

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Davis Bickford @davis.social · Mar 21

It’s a common misconception that ADHD is just an inability to focus. Really, it’s a struggle to control focus.

I can hyperfixate for hours on complex but pointless tasks and freeze on simple tasks.

Some days, my brain’s a Lamborghini with no brakes. Other days, a rusty bike with a stuck chain.

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