🏳️🌈 Iris the Mystic 🏳️🌈
@tetrogamersurvival.bsky.social
She/her
Just a girl looking to make friends. I block extremists and people who make me uncomfy.
Just a girl looking to make friends. I block extremists and people who make me uncomfy.
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this term is a blight
starbucks didn't get worse, your standards rose. you got pickier and decided the world was rotting
starbucks didn't get worse, your standards rose. you got pickier and decided the world was rotting
Starbucks absolutely is the gold standard of enshitification
January 6, 2025 at 5:27 PM
this term is a blight
starbucks didn't get worse, your standards rose. you got pickier and decided the world was rotting
starbucks didn't get worse, your standards rose. you got pickier and decided the world was rotting
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I’d just like to add that part of what makes this important is that while economic anxiety can’t be transmitted by watching a bunch of TikTok videos, cultural and status anxiety absolutely can
"economic anxiety" as a theory of the electorate has such staying power because it's *convenient* for so many. it suggests strategies for political success that politicians know how to implement; it exonerates people of the worst outcomes; most of all it is *intelligible* to educated cosmopolitans
January 5, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I’d just like to add that part of what makes this important is that while economic anxiety can’t be transmitted by watching a bunch of TikTok videos, cultural and status anxiety absolutely can
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What many zoomers do not understand, because they’ve never experienced an actual bad economy or food markets characterized by anything less than extreme choice and diversity, is that being able to rotate cuisines nightly is a ludicrous modern luxury inconceivable for many Americans even 20 years ago
i think part of this is you are not always going to have something new and exciting to eat everyday? yeah, you will have to eat your leftovers! or freeze for a later date.
January 4, 2025 at 11:43 PM
What many zoomers do not understand, because they’ve never experienced an actual bad economy or food markets characterized by anything less than extreme choice and diversity, is that being able to rotate cuisines nightly is a ludicrous modern luxury inconceivable for many Americans even 20 years ago
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It's not like young people don't have plenty to worry about - fascism and climate change, plus just the usual human condition stuff - and of course there could always be some future collapse. But currently there's really no sense in which US youth are materially worse off than preceding generations
January 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
It's not like young people don't have plenty to worry about - fascism and climate change, plus just the usual human condition stuff - and of course there could always be some future collapse. But currently there's really no sense in which US youth are materially worse off than preceding generations
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For the most part we evaluate the truth and falsehood of these things based on how often we hear them and whether we've heard them from sources we trust, and we've been hearing this line a lot from a lot of pretty respectable sources. It just... ceased being accurate, and no one noticed.
January 6, 2025 at 4:35 PM
For the most part we evaluate the truth and falsehood of these things based on how often we hear them and whether we've heard them from sources we trust, and we've been hearing this line a lot from a lot of pretty respectable sources. It just... ceased being accurate, and no one noticed.
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"Young people have it hard" feels right to a lot of people because it became a well-worn claim in the wake of the 2008 recession when it was sort of true - I mean, it wasn't 1932 but a lot of trends were headed the wrong way - but it has persisted for decades after when it's no longer true at all.
January 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM
"Young people have it hard" feels right to a lot of people because it became a well-worn claim in the wake of the 2008 recession when it was sort of true - I mean, it wasn't 1932 but a lot of trends were headed the wrong way - but it has persisted for decades after when it's no longer true at all.
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It is exhausting to keep up the pretense that the richest generation of the richest society in history, which has grown far richer even over the last decade, is constantly suffering in ways older folks can’t understand. They aren’t, sorry. Can we just be real here
January 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
It is exhausting to keep up the pretense that the richest generation of the richest society in history, which has grown far richer even over the last decade, is constantly suffering in ways older folks can’t understand. They aren’t, sorry. Can we just be real here
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I’m sorry that “Kids today have to grow up in a terrible world stalked by precarity” is a cliche that has bored into your brain but it is simply not true by almost any conceivable measure. They’re richer, they consume more and better, they have better leisure time, better health care, fewer wars.
January 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I’m sorry that “Kids today have to grow up in a terrible world stalked by precarity” is a cliche that has bored into your brain but it is simply not true by almost any conceivable measure. They’re richer, they consume more and better, they have better leisure time, better health care, fewer wars.
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By the way, a lot the (minor) decline in homeownership likely comes from the fact that households are smaller now than in the past.
January 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM
By the way, a lot the (minor) decline in homeownership likely comes from the fact that households are smaller now than in the past.
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That’s not true, homeownership rates are pretty much normal among young adults. The point here isn’t that zoomers are spending irresponsibly, it’s that zoomers are living extremely materially affluent lives.
January 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
That’s not true, homeownership rates are pretty much normal among young adults. The point here isn’t that zoomers are spending irresponsibly, it’s that zoomers are living extremely materially affluent lives.
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By the way, people are saying “At least this will hurt Trump too!”
Maybe, but I wouldn’t count on it. Remember, this isn’t natural law, it’s a product of our own rhetorical choices. Biden was unpopular because people yelled at him. But the attitude towards Trump so far is “Let’s give him a chance.”
Maybe, but I wouldn’t count on it. Remember, this isn’t natural law, it’s a product of our own rhetorical choices. Biden was unpopular because people yelled at him. But the attitude towards Trump so far is “Let’s give him a chance.”
For the first time in history, each governing party in developed countries with elections saw a decline in vote share.
Inflation is a big factor, but I wonder if the rise of negativity as the go-to attention-grabber in today's social media ecosystem might also play a role.
Inflation is a big factor, but I wonder if the rise of negativity as the go-to attention-grabber in today's social media ecosystem might also play a role.
January 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
By the way, people are saying “At least this will hurt Trump too!”
Maybe, but I wouldn’t count on it. Remember, this isn’t natural law, it’s a product of our own rhetorical choices. Biden was unpopular because people yelled at him. But the attitude towards Trump so far is “Let’s give him a chance.”
Maybe, but I wouldn’t count on it. Remember, this isn’t natural law, it’s a product of our own rhetorical choices. Biden was unpopular because people yelled at him. But the attitude towards Trump so far is “Let’s give him a chance.”
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Not one school shooter has ever been given the death penalty.
Not one.
U.S. government is seeking the death penalty for Luigi Magione.
Proving that one rich CEO is worth so much more in this country than any child.
Disgusting.
Not one.
U.S. government is seeking the death penalty for Luigi Magione.
Proving that one rich CEO is worth so much more in this country than any child.
Disgusting.
January 1, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Not one school shooter has ever been given the death penalty.
Not one.
U.S. government is seeking the death penalty for Luigi Magione.
Proving that one rich CEO is worth so much more in this country than any child.
Disgusting.
Not one.
U.S. government is seeking the death penalty for Luigi Magione.
Proving that one rich CEO is worth so much more in this country than any child.
Disgusting.
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Trump lost even Steve Bannon. 🤷
Though, I thought this crowd wasn’t big on reparations?
Though, I thought this crowd wasn’t big on reparations?
January 1, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Trump lost even Steve Bannon. 🤷
Though, I thought this crowd wasn’t big on reparations?
Though, I thought this crowd wasn’t big on reparations?
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"The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him."
Niccolo Machiavelli
Niccolo Machiavelli
January 1, 2025 at 4:38 AM
"The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him."
Niccolo Machiavelli
Niccolo Machiavelli
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The FBI seized the largest cache of homemade explosives ever, including 150 pipe bombs labeled "lethal," from extremist Brad Spafford's farm. Advocating far-right "No Lives Matter" nihilism, he allegedly plotted violence, targeting Biden for practice. A judge released him on bond.
FBI seizes its largest ever cache of homemade explosives from alleged extremist's farm
The Justice Department is fighting to keep an anti-government extremist in custody after the FBI allegedly seized the largest cache of "finished explosive devices" in its history from a farm outside o...
www.rawstory.com
January 1, 2025 at 5:00 AM
The FBI seized the largest cache of homemade explosives ever, including 150 pipe bombs labeled "lethal," from extremist Brad Spafford's farm. Advocating far-right "No Lives Matter" nihilism, he allegedly plotted violence, targeting Biden for practice. A judge released him on bond.
Happy new year
January 1, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Happy new year
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This one always cracked me up.
January 1, 2025 at 2:13 AM
This one always cracked me up.
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How Worried Should We Be About Bird Flu?
So far, the H5N1 virus isn't transmitted between people — but the CDC has found a mutation in a human case "concerning."
Read more: rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
So far, the H5N1 virus isn't transmitted between people — but the CDC has found a mutation in a human case "concerning."
Read more: rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
How Worried Should We Be About Bird Flu?
So far, the H5N1 virus isn't transmitted between people — but the CDC has found a mutation in a human case "concerning."
rollingstone.com
January 1, 2025 at 3:39 AM
How Worried Should We Be About Bird Flu?
So far, the H5N1 virus isn't transmitted between people — but the CDC has found a mutation in a human case "concerning."
Read more: rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
So far, the H5N1 virus isn't transmitted between people — but the CDC has found a mutation in a human case "concerning."
Read more: rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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Some don't know it's a long ongoing story so I compiled all the previous years!
It began in 2017, will see how long I can keep this going!
It began in 2017, will see how long I can keep this going!
December 31, 2024 at 10:45 PM
Some don't know it's a long ongoing story so I compiled all the previous years!
It began in 2017, will see how long I can keep this going!
It began in 2017, will see how long I can keep this going!
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“kids keep living past the age of 5, because of woke” - a substantial chunk of the american public
December 31, 2024 at 7:33 PM
“kids keep living past the age of 5, because of woke” - a substantial chunk of the american public
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A LOT of extremely online leftism comes from the exact same place as extremely online rightism: the internet propping up a permission structure for adherents to indulge in whatever makes them angry, which, wouldn't you know it, is often "Things were better in the good old days and we must retvrn"
it’s fascinating to see supposed “leftists” exhibit the exact same reactionary nostalgia as conservative boomers
(these trains are 50 years old and on their last legs, the new trains have slightly less seating so they can hold more people and have more wheelchair space)
(these trains are 50 years old and on their last legs, the new trains have slightly less seating so they can hold more people and have more wheelchair space)
December 31, 2024 at 5:55 AM
A LOT of extremely online leftism comes from the exact same place as extremely online rightism: the internet propping up a permission structure for adherents to indulge in whatever makes them angry, which, wouldn't you know it, is often "Things were better in the good old days and we must retvrn"