Zelse
@zelse.bsky.social
Nerd, weirdo. Cooking, sci-fi and horror, IT, security, politics, all that fun stuff. (30s. He/Him. Pretty damn gay.)
It's an image of the character Wimpy from the Popeye cartoons with Trump's hair and suit photoshopped onto it. He is eating a burger from a large platter of them. The image is accompanied by the text "I will gladly pay you someday for violence today", with violence and someday in italics.
February 3, 2026 at 2:37 AM
It's an image of the character Wimpy from the Popeye cartoons with Trump's hair and suit photoshopped onto it. He is eating a burger from a large platter of them. The image is accompanied by the text "I will gladly pay you someday for violence today", with violence and someday in italics.
You just don't respect those important traits, like *checks notes* being the children of other rich people.
December 13, 2025 at 10:10 PM
You just don't respect those important traits, like *checks notes* being the children of other rich people.
100%; it's not enough that the good guys win once, they have to win every time and the (proposal) deck is stacked, especially with something like this that most people will assume is the domain of technocrats even though it erodes everyone's rights.
October 30, 2025 at 9:48 PM
100%; it's not enough that the good guys win once, they have to win every time and the (proposal) deck is stacked, especially with something like this that most people will assume is the domain of technocrats even though it erodes everyone's rights.
The paradox of tolerance unfortunately means that rooting out the problem requires a level of care, vigilance, funding, and education that it is very difficult to convince even the well-meaning parts of society to pony up. (The Preparedness Paradox awaits us even with success.)
September 24, 2025 at 2:18 AM
The paradox of tolerance unfortunately means that rooting out the problem requires a level of care, vigilance, funding, and education that it is very difficult to convince even the well-meaning parts of society to pony up. (The Preparedness Paradox awaits us even with success.)
I rarely use Twitch - though it can be fun - but have seen you stream on YT and enjoyed it, FWIW. So long as people know when and where, it's all good IMO.
September 7, 2025 at 9:31 AM
I rarely use Twitch - though it can be fun - but have seen you stream on YT and enjoyed it, FWIW. So long as people know when and where, it's all good IMO.
100%, and then they will go back to targeting other queers, where they distinguish between them at all (and many of them don't.) We're all fucked if we don't close ranks and make sure allies make their voices heard.
August 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
100%, and then they will go back to targeting other queers, where they distinguish between them at all (and many of them don't.) We're all fucked if we don't close ranks and make sure allies make their voices heard.
There's two layers of fash - the majority are indeed (useful) idiots, but at the heart of the thing there's people like Peter Thiel and Stephen Harper (of the IDU) who are very aware of what they're doing and where it's going. Maybe not as granular as this, but def a boot stepping on a human face.
August 5, 2025 at 10:51 PM
There's two layers of fash - the majority are indeed (useful) idiots, but at the heart of the thing there's people like Peter Thiel and Stephen Harper (of the IDU) who are very aware of what they're doing and where it's going. Maybe not as granular as this, but def a boot stepping on a human face.
"Could never have worked" - if you don't mind a question from a stranger, do you believe it was doomed to fail intrinsically or under (say) capitalism/the corporatized internet hellscape as it exists presently?
January 26, 2025 at 11:08 PM
"Could never have worked" - if you don't mind a question from a stranger, do you believe it was doomed to fail intrinsically or under (say) capitalism/the corporatized internet hellscape as it exists presently?
It goes a bit beyond that IMO - there's also their popularizing of "every side in every conflict is equally shitty and therefore equally legitimate, andthusallreformattemptsarefundamentallyawasteoftime".
January 26, 2025 at 10:58 PM
It goes a bit beyond that IMO - there's also their popularizing of "every side in every conflict is equally shitty and therefore equally legitimate, andthusallreformattemptsarefundamentallyawasteoftime".
Yup! "Kids can't go anywhere, but also can't do anything by themselves, and also any adult who takes an interest in providing entertainment to kids is low-key assumed to be a predator." ->
"Gee I can't figure out why all the kids are <shut ins, depressed, forming 70s dystopian sci-fi gangs, etc.>"
"Gee I can't figure out why all the kids are <shut ins, depressed, forming 70s dystopian sci-fi gangs, etc.>"
January 26, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Yup! "Kids can't go anywhere, but also can't do anything by themselves, and also any adult who takes an interest in providing entertainment to kids is low-key assumed to be a predator." ->
"Gee I can't figure out why all the kids are <shut ins, depressed, forming 70s dystopian sci-fi gangs, etc.>"
"Gee I can't figure out why all the kids are <shut ins, depressed, forming 70s dystopian sci-fi gangs, etc.>"
Evil, clever, and batshit crazy is a terrifying combination.
January 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Evil, clever, and batshit crazy is a terrifying combination.
Oh sweet lord no. And it's chocolate-adjacent.
November 15, 2024 at 11:41 PM
Oh sweet lord no. And it's chocolate-adjacent.
I once told a relative: "To you, voting for [my country's right wing party] is a matter of lower taxes, to me it's about my human rights. If you choose to prioritize a promise of lower taxes over my human rights, how do you expect me to just quietly accept that? It's like that for all queer people."
November 9, 2024 at 7:31 AM
I once told a relative: "To you, voting for [my country's right wing party] is a matter of lower taxes, to me it's about my human rights. If you choose to prioritize a promise of lower taxes over my human rights, how do you expect me to just quietly accept that? It's like that for all queer people."
Until the non-fascists unite in their absolute intolerance of intolerance, it doesn't. The US' political system is a ratchet: the GOP pulls things to the right and redefines the centre, and the Democrats' primary body, being fundamentally rightist itself, prevents any reversion to an earlier state.
November 6, 2024 at 6:50 AM
Until the non-fascists unite in their absolute intolerance of intolerance, it doesn't. The US' political system is a ratchet: the GOP pulls things to the right and redefines the centre, and the Democrats' primary body, being fundamentally rightist itself, prevents any reversion to an earlier state.
That would mean the Democrats would be serving a purpose other than "acting as the pawl to the ever-rightward ratchet that is modern American politics", though - and apparently asking them to actually fix things instead of "vaguely slowing down the decline, sometimes, maybe" is asking too much.
November 5, 2024 at 4:04 AM
That would mean the Democrats would be serving a purpose other than "acting as the pawl to the ever-rightward ratchet that is modern American politics", though - and apparently asking them to actually fix things instead of "vaguely slowing down the decline, sometimes, maybe" is asking too much.
Consequences are for poors, apparently. I remember reading somewhere a discussion how EULAs in many countries were likely unenforceable in many cases, but it almost immediately noted "of course, the only people with the means to pursue such a finding have a vested interest against it."
November 2, 2024 at 5:37 AM
Consequences are for poors, apparently. I remember reading somewhere a discussion how EULAs in many countries were likely unenforceable in many cases, but it almost immediately noted "of course, the only people with the means to pursue such a finding have a vested interest against it."
You can't just say that and not link/show off this shirt.
November 2, 2024 at 4:59 AM
You can't just say that and not link/show off this shirt.
The more you think about it, the worse it gets. Think of EULA shit or unilaterally altering deals post facto. My utility company 3xcharged me and then told me they were keeping the money for 3 months credit rather than refunding. If a consumer did that, they'd be sued AND sitting in the dark.
November 1, 2024 at 10:33 PM
The more you think about it, the worse it gets. Think of EULA shit or unilaterally altering deals post facto. My utility company 3xcharged me and then told me they were keeping the money for 3 months credit rather than refunding. If a consumer did that, they'd be sued AND sitting in the dark.
Plus even if a fan is selfish/cynical, a creator following multiple passions is less likely to suffer burnout and just quit altogether. I'd rather someone produce something I enjoy 1% of the time topic-wise than just stop producing content 100% of the time and leave us all poorer for it.
October 29, 2024 at 3:57 AM
Plus even if a fan is selfish/cynical, a creator following multiple passions is less likely to suffer burnout and just quit altogether. I'd rather someone produce something I enjoy 1% of the time topic-wise than just stop producing content 100% of the time and leave us all poorer for it.