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Buttadeus

@thewanderingjew.bsky.social

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He/him Threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain A heathen, conceivably, but not, I hope, an unenlightened one. Loafer and gentleman of the fancy. Intermittent NSFW (42, over 18 for a long, long time)

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Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · Jun 6

Paul Frazee: "Why did you destroy the app" I was just following Buttadeus

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Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 1m

RAD

UAW @uaw.org · 24m

🧵 The United Auto Workers have endorsed Graham Platner for the United States Senate in Maine.

As a U.S. military veteran, oyster farmer, and proud lifelong Mainer, @grahamformaine.bsky.social is a true fighter for the working class.

Photo of Graham Platner, candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine. Photo courtesy of grahamformaine.com.

Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 5m

She's not a troll or a wrecker, I think, which is who we're kinda used to arguing with on these things.

Instead, I think she's just *wrong*, and coming from a perspective that doesn't really apply.

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Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 7m

yeah, fair. She's muddling up the message whatever it is.

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Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 8m

Yeah, that's where it falls down, anyway. But in Talia Jane's defense: she's not doing the 'this pales to my strategy of firebombing a walmart and then not firebombing a walmart' thing.

She is genuinely doing the thing she promotes, and it's not violence.

Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 10m

yeah - though I mean, she does emphasize know-your-rights training and monitoring ICE. Those aren't violent.

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Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 11m

lmao this fucker

Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 12m

I am opposed to anyone having sex with RFK Jr. under any circumstances tbf

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Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 12m

This is at least, a more measured response - it's not "do violence and cool crimes" but "do practical things rather than demonstrative ones" but idk

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Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 14m

I don't even really GET it, tbh. Like, what is being advocated for here and how would it happen?

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 2h

Nuzzi is in the club and when you’re in the club the other club members boost you no matter what

🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 9h

I don't understand what it is about Olivia Nuzzi that makes people think "Olivia Nuzzi should continue to attempt to use language to convey ideas," much less "...and I should pay her to do it."

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 12h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

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Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 19m

they're saying it!

Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 16h

Sickening. Revolting. Vile. This makes you want to throw up.

This is the kind of garbage that the worst kind of people say when they think nobody is watching.

And where are Republican leaders from Trump on down condemning these comments swiftly and unequivocally!?

I’m waiting to hear it.

A headline from POLITICO reads: "‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat"

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Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 20m

Theory is not doing itself any good when this is the face of anti-theory.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 2h

Carole Malone, "Youu can't say what women's rights are because you're not a woman"

Zack Polanski, "You're not trans are you. We can all say you're not that thing so you can't have an opinion" 🔥

"You can still have an opinion from listening to people"

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Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 20m

Talia's done a ton of good stuff too, but this shit ain't it.

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Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 24m

This is where theory gets you

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 45m

This is exactly backwards, the no kings protests are a mass movement of regular people that have every republican politician in the country raging about "hate America rallies," and the online protest industry weirdos who say shit like "radlib" to each other are the ones skimming off the top of them

it is no wonder that 50501, a movement of radlibs who are very upset but don’t want to get in trouble, would be boosting superficial activism.

superficial activism has its place, but if that place is front and center, it kills whatever movement it is skimming off the top of.

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Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 26m

oh COME THE FUCK ON Ezra

David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 32m

jfc... now klein is platforming yud.

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Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 28m

"This thing that's happening sucks, we should do something about it" is all you need in office.

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Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 30m

theory is interesting in like - predicting what might emerge from a current society, and why, and on occasion, how to prompt it to go faster.

But like, for a politician or a voter? Who gives a shit?

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 33m

here's cory booker @booker.senate.gov absolutely crapping the bed when given mild and correct criticism over his votes for trump nominees while claiming to be a leader of the opposition against fascism. kudos to the @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social podcast

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 1h

In 2010, a scientist argued that 2.1 billion-year-old African specimens showed complex life appearing 500 million years ahead of schedule. His critics say they are — literally — fool's gold. At stake? The question of when and how complex life arose at all.

My cover story (!) for @sciam.bsky.social!

These Enigmatic ‘Fossils’ Could Rewrite the History of Life on Earth

Controversial evidence hints that complex life might have emerged hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously thought—and possibly more than once

www.scientificamerican.com

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Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 1h

man

Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 2h

It seems unlikely that they’ve killed a million Russian soldiers but hey

MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 2h

‼️👀 Update from General Staff:

"Due to the receipt of updated intelligence data, there was a need to clarify the total enemy losses in armored combat vehicles. The total figure has already been updated, and losses per day will be reported in the usual mode."

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Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 2h

The horrible little boy is strong and mean. My only friend is a *ptooo* English clock man. I detest him.

Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 2h

Huh. Weird motherfucker