@valavir.bsky.social
Hey, I'm just here to look at cool stuff, mostly just lurking.
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so, so often this isn't 'blue team good, red team bad', exactly, it's "*i'm* a good person BECAUSE i'm a democrat", and that kind of self-definition having to torture itself into all kinds of shapes to accommodate what people with actual power in their party do
January 6, 2026 at 12:12 AM
so, so often this isn't 'blue team good, red team bad', exactly, it's "*i'm* a good person BECAUSE i'm a democrat", and that kind of self-definition having to torture itself into all kinds of shapes to accommodate what people with actual power in their party do
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the strategy never fucking works and even they can see this but they have to keep reassuring themselves that all of this is fine because their personal sense of morality is so tied up in identifying as a democrat that any sort of skepticism would make them shatter
January 6, 2026 at 12:11 AM
the strategy never fucking works and even they can see this but they have to keep reassuring themselves that all of this is fine because their personal sense of morality is so tied up in identifying as a democrat that any sort of skepticism would make them shatter
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it's all self soothing stuff, it always is. it's not even political fandom half the time, it's grasping onto whatever they can find to reassure themselves the system works and smart, moral people are in charge. "they don't ACTUALLY support any of this stuff, it's just strategy"
January 6, 2026 at 12:10 AM
it's all self soothing stuff, it always is. it's not even political fandom half the time, it's grasping onto whatever they can find to reassure themselves the system works and smart, moral people are in charge. "they don't ACTUALLY support any of this stuff, it's just strategy"
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this fucking bullshit internal political math that the republicans are terrible for the right wing immigration bill they introduced that would violate international treaties on asylum, but simultaneously, democrats supporting it, campaigning for it, and voting for it were okay
January 6, 2026 at 12:06 AM
this fucking bullshit internal political math that the republicans are terrible for the right wing immigration bill they introduced that would violate international treaties on asylum, but simultaneously, democrats supporting it, campaigning for it, and voting for it were okay
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god it really is just so fucking funny though. we're supposed to hate republican ideas, republican bills, republicans goals, but when dems agree with or vote for any of these, we're supposed to pretend we didn't see that or actually support it while simultaneously still hating republicans for it
January 6, 2026 at 12:04 AM
god it really is just so fucking funny though. we're supposed to hate republican ideas, republican bills, republicans goals, but when dems agree with or vote for any of these, we're supposed to pretend we didn't see that or actually support it while simultaneously still hating republicans for it
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a sense of helplessness to affect electeds combined with a desperation to maintain faith that the party - particularly its leadership - really does care and is trying their best results in excusing them for not hating republicans while bashing critics for supposedly not hating republicans enough
January 6, 2026 at 12:02 AM
a sense of helplessness to affect electeds combined with a desperation to maintain faith that the party - particularly its leadership - really does care and is trying their best results in excusing them for not hating republicans while bashing critics for supposedly not hating republicans enough
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ultimately what you've got are a bunch of people who desperately want some fucking basic partisanship from the dems, but they have to hold this desire at the same time with the dems they're constantly defending always wanting bipartisanship. to square this circle, they focus on randos instead
January 6, 2026 at 12:00 AM
ultimately what you've got are a bunch of people who desperately want some fucking basic partisanship from the dems, but they have to hold this desire at the same time with the dems they're constantly defending always wanting bipartisanship. to square this circle, they focus on randos instead
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one of the 'funniest' results of this is anytime immigration is involved, because of those bipartisan bills that are just terrible for immigrants. the position you are expected to take by these types is to hate republicans for introducing the bills but be neutral-to-supportive of dems voting for it
January 5, 2026 at 11:58 PM
one of the 'funniest' results of this is anytime immigration is involved, because of those bipartisan bills that are just terrible for immigrants. the position you are expected to take by these types is to hate republicans for introducing the bills but be neutral-to-supportive of dems voting for it
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you getting mad at dems for being conciliatory towards republicans, friendly towards republicans, voting with republicans, confirming republicans, etc. = helping republicans
those elected dems talking about republicans are their trustworthy pals = this is okay for some reason
those elected dems talking about republicans are their trustworthy pals = this is okay for some reason
January 5, 2026 at 11:56 PM
you getting mad at dems for being conciliatory towards republicans, friendly towards republicans, voting with republicans, confirming republicans, etc. = helping republicans
those elected dems talking about republicans are their trustworthy pals = this is okay for some reason
those elected dems talking about republicans are their trustworthy pals = this is okay for some reason
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people think dems shouldn't even do this, either, or that there's no point to doing so. and it makes for a funny thing, because the same people going on like this will also berate others for not focusing their hatred on republicans enough. while excusing electeds talking about the GOP as their pals
January 5, 2026 at 11:54 PM
people think dems shouldn't even do this, either, or that there's no point to doing so. and it makes for a funny thing, because the same people going on like this will also berate others for not focusing their hatred on republicans enough. while excusing electeds talking about the GOP as their pals
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you know one thing dems do not need and have never needed overwhelming majorities to do is to stop talking about republicans as their respectable colleagues who they hope will do the right thing and the fever will break any minute now, and to start talking about them as enemies who must be defeated
A lot of people are mad at Schumer for saying this. But he's right. Democrats don't control a single branch of government and they can't pass anything. Only Republicans can rein in Trump because they control both chambers of Congress. Democrats have no cards to play here.
Schumer: "Republicans must -- if there was ever a time, they must step up to the plate. This is the time. And if they don't, they're gonna feel the heat from their constituents."
January 5, 2026 at 11:52 PM
you know one thing dems do not need and have never needed overwhelming majorities to do is to stop talking about republicans as their respectable colleagues who they hope will do the right thing and the fever will break any minute now, and to start talking about them as enemies who must be defeated
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people talk about how certain issues just aren't popular enough for politicians to support them yet but gee golly there are certain things where unpopularity doesn't seem to matter one fucking bit in electeds being gung-ho for it. funny how that works.
January 3, 2026 at 8:43 AM
people talk about how certain issues just aren't popular enough for politicians to support them yet but gee golly there are certain things where unpopularity doesn't seem to matter one fucking bit in electeds being gung-ho for it. funny how that works.
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insanely unpopular, these wars, voters don't want this shit, but boy does that not matter one fucking bit to the bloodthirstiness from politicians, be it loud and overt or feigning at being mild and 'reasonable'
January 3, 2026 at 8:40 AM
insanely unpopular, these wars, voters don't want this shit, but boy does that not matter one fucking bit to the bloodthirstiness from politicians, be it loud and overt or feigning at being mild and 'reasonable'
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yet again remembering senator chris murphy admitting right in public on twitter that we tried to coup venezuela in trump's first term and he was talking about this not to condemn it but to bemoan how trump bungled the job and embarrassed the US
January 3, 2026 at 8:38 AM
yet again remembering senator chris murphy admitting right in public on twitter that we tried to coup venezuela in trump's first term and he was talking about this not to condemn it but to bemoan how trump bungled the job and embarrassed the US
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GOOD NEWS! Researchers have shown Alzheimer’s disease can be REVERSED- not just prevented. Using a potent neuroprotective compound called P7C3-A20, they found RESTORING balance to a central cellular energy molecule (NAD+) not only PREVENTED disease features but REVERSED them, EVEN at late stages.
December 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have shown Alzheimer’s disease can be REVERSED- not just prevented. Using a potent neuroprotective compound called P7C3-A20, they found RESTORING balance to a central cellular energy molecule (NAD+) not only PREVENTED disease features but REVERSED them, EVEN at late stages.
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Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt
December 24, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt
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“He raped me.”
“Donald J Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein.”
“She was found with her head ‘blown off’… there was no way it was a suicide.”
Now we’re starting to see why Trump was hiding the Epstein files, and it probably gets much worse.
“Donald J Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein.”
“She was found with her head ‘blown off’… there was no way it was a suicide.”
Now we’re starting to see why Trump was hiding the Epstein files, and it probably gets much worse.
December 23, 2025 at 2:13 PM
“He raped me.”
“Donald J Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein.”
“She was found with her head ‘blown off’… there was no way it was a suicide.”
Now we’re starting to see why Trump was hiding the Epstein files, and it probably gets much worse.
“Donald J Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein.”
“She was found with her head ‘blown off’… there was no way it was a suicide.”
Now we’re starting to see why Trump was hiding the Epstein files, and it probably gets much worse.
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the president of the united states has raped countless children, people were killed routinely to cover this up, and absolutely fuck all will be done about it by anyone in power
“He raped me.”
“Donald J Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein.”
“She was found with her head ‘blown off’… there was no way it was a suicide.”
Now we’re starting to see why Trump was hiding the Epstein files, and it probably gets much worse.
“Donald J Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein.”
“She was found with her head ‘blown off’… there was no way it was a suicide.”
Now we’re starting to see why Trump was hiding the Epstein files, and it probably gets much worse.
December 23, 2025 at 9:23 PM
the president of the united states has raped countless children, people were killed routinely to cover this up, and absolutely fuck all will be done about it by anyone in power
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This is some utter bullshit. They aren't able to control the narrative thanks to the free internet so they are short of calling the Internet a WMD in order to kill it.
The letter, signed by most of the S230 repeal bill sponsors, claims the following:
- S230 causes the grooming of US children and deepfake porn
- S230 means “drug traffickers are selling fentanyl-laced pills to teenagers”
- S230 caused body dysmorphia in youth
- S230 allows for terrorist recruitment
- S230 causes the grooming of US children and deepfake porn
- S230 means “drug traffickers are selling fentanyl-laced pills to teenagers”
- S230 caused body dysmorphia in youth
- S230 allows for terrorist recruitment
December 19, 2025 at 9:13 PM
This is some utter bullshit. They aren't able to control the narrative thanks to the free internet so they are short of calling the Internet a WMD in order to kill it.
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Love em or hate em, they're here to stay: laserdiscs, crt screens, beta tapes, gas street lamps, floppy disks, palm pilots, c-band satellite, rotary phones, radiators, mercury fillings, manual typewriters, carbon paper, the juicero, the segway, the Sega channel, bbs systems, telegrams, dialup inter-
December 19, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Love em or hate em, they're here to stay: laserdiscs, crt screens, beta tapes, gas street lamps, floppy disks, palm pilots, c-band satellite, rotary phones, radiators, mercury fillings, manual typewriters, carbon paper, the juicero, the segway, the Sega channel, bbs systems, telegrams, dialup inter-
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Look, Claire Obscur may be a good game and all, but I support it being stripped of all awards for using genAI. We cannot let game studios think they can get away with it.
December 21, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Look, Claire Obscur may be a good game and all, but I support it being stripped of all awards for using genAI. We cannot let game studios think they can get away with it.
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Both the House & Senate officially introduced bills to sunset or repeal section 230.
- H: www.govtrack.us/congress/bil...
- S: www.govtrack.us/congress/bil...
Please call your reps. Tell them to vote NO on these bills & the other 18 #savespeech #protectsection230
www.congress.gov/members/find...
- H: www.govtrack.us/congress/bil...
- S: www.govtrack.us/congress/bil...
Please call your reps. Tell them to vote NO on these bills & the other 18 #savespeech #protectsection230
www.congress.gov/members/find...
December 18, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Both the House & Senate officially introduced bills to sunset or repeal section 230.
- H: www.govtrack.us/congress/bil...
- S: www.govtrack.us/congress/bil...
Please call your reps. Tell them to vote NO on these bills & the other 18 #savespeech #protectsection230
www.congress.gov/members/find...
- H: www.govtrack.us/congress/bil...
- S: www.govtrack.us/congress/bil...
Please call your reps. Tell them to vote NO on these bills & the other 18 #savespeech #protectsection230
www.congress.gov/members/find...
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We’re at the point now where people are calling being anti-LLMs as “outrage” as a convenient way to characterise it as unreasonable, and it’s annoying. I’m not outraged, I’m repulsed. I don’t want your stolen shit. It’s gross. You are a fucking loser to me
December 17, 2025 at 8:02 PM
We’re at the point now where people are calling being anti-LLMs as “outrage” as a convenient way to characterise it as unreasonable, and it’s annoying. I’m not outraged, I’m repulsed. I don’t want your stolen shit. It’s gross. You are a fucking loser to me
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“Here’s your meal, full of delicious lead” I don’t want it. No thank you. “Well, what about if we just use lead in the cooking process? You can’t even taste the lead in the final meal” I’m leaving. “You’re being childish. Soon everyone will be cooking with lead” have you fucking listened to yourself
December 17, 2025 at 7:51 PM
“Here’s your meal, full of delicious lead” I don’t want it. No thank you. “Well, what about if we just use lead in the cooking process? You can’t even taste the lead in the final meal” I’m leaving. “You’re being childish. Soon everyone will be cooking with lead” have you fucking listened to yourself