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dog medicine lover @soronder.bsky.social · Feb 27

I'm putting dog medicine all over my hands to make them rough and gnarled. My callous-crusted mitts are flipping burgers on the grill without utensils and digging a bomb shelter like a mole. I'm building a home for my beautiful white American family - a deep hole in the earth dug by unfeeling hands.

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dog medicine lover @soronder.bsky.social · 1h

people should read replies from people they don't follow (me) because sometimes they're making a big mistake (wrong on the internet) someone else can correct (bloviate about)

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☭ Nora Hikari / Sizhen System ☭ @systemwires.bsky.social · 2h

I’m so moved by how earnestly people from all around the world are participating in my project 😭😭😭

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dog medicine lover @soronder.bsky.social · 3h

Yes, our current overlords and castes and ideologies stretched over a long time would be bad, but that's irrelevant. They're also bad now over short time spans because our forebears tolerated their flaws to achieve goals that we now understand are impossible or undesirable.

dog medicine lover @soronder.bsky.social · 3h

Functional immortality already exists in religions, companies, governments, all these systems that span multiple human lives. They already rule over us. The ones that last are mostly allowed indefinite life by their subjects because they're not (yet) inconsistent with human flourishing.

dog medicine lover @soronder.bsky.social · 3h

"It would be bad if Musk or Thiel or Hitler lived for 1,000 years" is pretty incoherent to me - it's bad they're living for 10. Conceiving of a natural death as the "check" on humans misusing the life they're given seems as foolish as a political system where poor rulers can't be voted out of power.

dog medicine lover @soronder.bsky.social · 3h

Everybody focuses on getting more joy and meaning out of the unknown time we're each given, but the insistence that death is what provides the meaning seems wrong. For most of us now it's a horrific decline where everything is taken away. I think our history of fighting that is noble actually.

dog medicine lover @soronder.bsky.social · 3h

I wrestle with this every day. Acting like it's easy or that it's naive to seek novel fronts in the battle against oblivion we are all meaningfully engaged in just by continuing to putz around is incredibly cynical to me. More time seems as rational a quest as more meaning in the time we're given.

dog medicine lover @soronder.bsky.social · 3h

If life is worth living then it's worth living longer, otherwise we'd just kill ourselves as soon as we realize it's inevitable. I had a friend as a kid who always said she'd kill herself at 25. She made it to 37, a small sad life that I hope maybe 10 other people remember.

dog medicine lover @soronder.bsky.social · 3h

I have nuanced opinions about this that no one wants to hear. Dying sucks, dying young sucks worse, what is "young" is an arbitrary yardstick against our current society, and technology to make us live longer has existed forever. They just made a religion out of it, which is what "religionists" do.

Bane Jirkin @parochialnimrod.bsky.social · 7h

I hate that I've now learned a new thing our tech overlords have bestowed on incredibly dumb people to toss into the discourse but here's some funny tweets about it

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dog medicine lover @soronder.bsky.social · 1d

Ton, if ya toilet was sentient, would ya rather it crave ya bodily waste or hate ya for it?
I can't have this conversation again.

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dog medicine lover @soronder.bsky.social · 1d

Gelsomina (Giulietta Masina) in La Strada

Old Dolio (Evan Rachel Wood) in Kajillionaire

dog medicine lover @soronder.bsky.social · 1d

Tom (Thomasin McKenzie) in Leave No Trace

Casey (Anna Cobb) in We’re All Going to the World’s Fair

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Aaron King @aaronmfking.bsky.social · 28d

This has been pretty difficult for me to write (I don't think I've ever taken this long to finish a game), but when I saw this amazing art, I was instantly reinvigorated. bsky.app/profile/adeg...

Ａ．Ｄｅｇｅｎ　Ａｒｔ @adegenart.bsky.social · 28d

Taste of a thing coming from @aaronmfking.bsky.social and me

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dog medicine lover @soronder.bsky.social · 3d

Every time people said "nuclear energy is clean and good and we should build more of it" I don't think they considered the real ramifications of the current corporate systems our government and the market encourage.

dog medicine lover @soronder.bsky.social · 4d

whatever. going to delete these posts. i need to stop being baited by twitter screenshots.

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Hyde Park Trish @pmorse.bsky.social · 4d

For those saying, SNAP people should just go to a food bank, Trump has already gutted those programs. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

'Going to be a lot of hungry people': Food banks, farmers across US decry federal cuts

Cuts to U.S. Department of Agriculture programs that provide food for schools and food banks have communities across the country worried about hunger.

www.usatoday.com

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dog medicine lover @soronder.bsky.social · 5d

anyway, now that i spent my morning getting mad and looking at tables for an hour I'm going to watch horror movies with my friends for the rest of the day

dog medicine lover @soronder.bsky.social · 5d

also - fucking lol

a chart from https://www.brookings.edu/articles/census-shows-pervasive-decline-in-2016-minority-voter-turnout/ showing Black people in Wisconsin with steadily increasing turnout from 65% in 2000 to 75% in 2012 dropping to sub-50% in 2016.

Hillary Clinton never visited Wisconsin during her campaign.

dog medicine lover @soronder.bsky.social · 5d

I've always heard jokes about Reagan destroying Mondale and I only learned last year (because I am not a political scientist and the way all this shit gets talked about is extremely irritating) that his running mate was a woman, and I simply do not believe that was NOT a huge factor in that sweep.

dog medicine lover @soronder.bsky.social · 5d

They avoid discussing something interesting after making this point of AOC being -15 net favorability compared to Bernie, by avoiding talking about AOC at all while talking about 2 Presidential elections where women lost. It's begging followup about misogyny, but they only talk about authenticity.

Jared: You’ll notice that a guy like Dan Osborn or Graham Platner — they’re not going out there and promoting the suite of trillions and trillions of dollars of the progressive wish list. They’re doing some of that —

Klein: They’re not Green New Deal candidates.

Jared: Absolutely not.

Klein: Which is to say nothing against the Green New Deal. But that gets to something else interesting that I’ve been thinking about a bit. It’s pretty clear that in 2028, if A.O.C. runs, which I think she’s certainly considering, she’s very likely to inherit the Bernie Sanders lane.

Jared: Yes.

Klein: And if you look at Sanders and A.O.C. polling, they look actually quite different. Sanders’s last poll I saw was something like +11 in his net favorabilities, and A.O.C. was –4 or –5. So they have a 15-point-ish gap between them. And their policies are not very different at this point. They’re very unified. They’re doing the anti-oligarchy tour together.

But what they have come to represent in American politics — Bernie Sanders with his mittens, A.O.C. at the Met Gala — reads very differently, completely separate from how unified they are on issues.

dog medicine lover @soronder.bsky.social · 5d

The main demographic groups Trump really did make significant in-roads with in 2024 is Black men and Hispanic voters. There's probably two very specific stories there but I don't think it's the one Klein and Jared are selling. You can see among Latinx voters Kerry's +10 overall comparable to Harris.

tables showing Gender Gap By Latinx Voters from polls in the last 4 presidential elections, taken from https://cawp.rutgers.edu/gender-gap-voting-choices-presidential-elections

2024 results
Survey Harris - Men Harris - Women Trump - Men Trump - Women Gender Gap Women's Vote
Edison 44% 58% 54% 39% 15 +19 Harris
VoteCast 49% 59% 48% 39% 9 +20 Harris
BSP Research (formerly Latino Decisions) 56% 66% 43% 32% 11 +34 Harris

2020 results
Survey Biden- Men Biden- Women Trump- Men Trump- Women Gender Gap Women's Vote
Edison 59% 69% 36% 30% 10 +39 Biden
VoteCast 59% 66% 38% 32% 7 +34 Biden
CES 60% 67% 36% 30% 7 +37 Biden
Latino Decisions 67% 73% 31% 23% 6 +50 Biden

2016 results
Survey Clinton- Men Clinton- Women Trump- Men Trump- Women Gender Gap Women's Vote
Edison 63% 69% 32% 25% 7 +44 Clinton
CES 60% 68% 31% 27% 4 +41 Clinton
Latino Decisions 71% 86% 24% 12% 12 +74 Clinton

2012 results
Survey Obama- Men Obama- Women Romney- Men Romney- Women Gender Gap Women's Vote
Edison 65% 76% 33% 23% 11 +53 Obama

table showing Gender Gap By Latinx Voters from polls in the 2004 presidential election, taken from https://cawp.rutgers.edu/gender-gap-voting-choices-presidential-elections

Survey Kerry- Men Kerry- Women Bush- Men Bush- Women Gender Gap Women's Vote
Edison 50% 57% 47% 41% 6 +16 Kerry

dog medicine lover @soronder.bsky.social · 5d

Read this characterization and then look at the chart in my first post again. Does Trump, let alone Republicans, really deserve credit for "a multiracial working-class coalition"?Here's numbers on white non-college-educated voters, is he making gains here?

Jared: That really touched a chord. And it set off dealignment to a much greater extent in 2016, starting with primarily white working-class folks. But then it moved toward Latinos and some Black men in 2020, and then to a much greater extent — roughly half of Latinos voted for Trump in 2024 and a quarter of African American men.

So now this is a multiracial movement away from the Democratic —

Klein: Multiracial working-class coalition — the thing Democrats wanted to build.

Jared: [Laughs.] Exactly. The hugely ironic aspect of this is that the Republicans now have that multiracial working-class coalition that the Democrats promised was their permanent majority.

Klein: I want to push on a couple of pieces of this story that I always think are complicated.

Klein: So politics is always a choice. Democrats didn’t just lose working-class voters — they went somewhere, right?

Jared: For sure.

Klein: They went to Republicans.

tables showing Gender Gap By Non-College-Educated White Voters from polls in the last 4 presidential elections, taken from https://cawp.rutgers.edu/gender-gap-voting-choices-presidential-elections

2024 results
Survey Harris - Men Harris - Women Trump - Men Trump - Women Gender Gap Women's Vote
Edison 29% 35% 69% 63% 6 +28 Trump
VoteCast 30% 37% 69% 62% 7 +25 Trump

2020 results
Survey Biden- Men Biden- Women Trump- Men Trump- Women Gender Gap Women's Vote
Edison 28% 36% 70% 63% 8 +27 Trump
VoteCast 34% 39% 64% 60% 5 +21 Trump

2016 results
Survey Clinton - Men Clinton - Women Trump- Men Trump- Women Gender Gap Women's Vote
Edison 23% 34% 71% 61% 10 +27 Trump

2012 results
Survey Obama - Men Obama - Women Romney - Men Romney - Women Gender Gap Women's Vote
Edison 33% 39% 64% 59% 6 +20 Romney

dog medicine lover @soronder.bsky.social · 5d

Pundits might say it's elitist to think this way, but losing a few percentage points with poor, uneducated people is because poor people can less afford ideological red lines and uneducated people are less able to untangle the propaganda saturating our horrible fake news media landscape.

from this stupid Ezra Klein thing a bunch of people are reading because they're masochists - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-jared-abbott.html

It doesn’t matter if you define the working class by income, by education or both — Democrats have been losing ground among these voters for years now. In 2024, Donald Trump won both voters making less than $50,000 a year and voters without a college degree. And the way Trump won these voters wasn’t just to rack up a giant majority among the white working class.

dog medicine lover @soronder.bsky.social · 5d

The latest Ezra Klein ragebait and frankly a lot of discussion around it is stupid. 20% of voters changed position in 2024. Harris lost a few points, after years of significant inflation while Democrats almost universally lied that "the economy is doing great". That's not some big ideological shift.

chart taken from https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/06/26/behind-trumps-2024-victory-a-more-racially-and-ethnically-diverse-voter-coalition/

it shows the makeup of Trump's coalition in 2024 being 8% less white - 1% more Black, 3% more Hispanic, 2% more Other. The makeup of Harris's coalition was 3% more White, 3 percent less Black, and 2% more Other.

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Zach Mason @zachfmason.bsky.social · 7d

We all like to think (hope? pretend?) we’re the kind of people who would build a robot army and then just send them out into the world to follow their bliss. I’m not going to condemn this man for being honest about his feelings, his truth, that he wants (needs?) to have influence over his robot army

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