the fool
@agnoster.net
Medium language model. He/him. No socialism without democracy and no democracy without socialism. Your “order” is built on sand.
Mostly here to get clowned on by the young ‘uns as part of the generational contract
Mostly here to get clowned on by the young ‘uns as part of the generational contract
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the fool
@agnoster.net
· Mar 26
Just a reminder: if you’re not enjoying an exchange with someone on social media, you can just not (or block them if you can’t control yourself otherwise)
Life is too short!
Life is too short!
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Anti-fascistic software is made possible by pro-labor licensing.
I've been trying to write this piece for years. Every time I get started I'm just overwhelmed with paralyzing visions of the FOSS commentariat accusing me of WrongThink.
But I'm tired and we urgently need to get our shit together.
I've been trying to write this piece for years. Every time I get started I'm just overwhelmed with paralyzing visions of the FOSS commentariat accusing me of WrongThink.
But I'm tired and we urgently need to get our shit together.
Open Source Power
We have to talk about open source licensing.
blog.muni.town
November 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Anti-fascistic software is made possible by pro-labor licensing.
I've been trying to write this piece for years. Every time I get started I'm just overwhelmed with paralyzing visions of the FOSS commentariat accusing me of WrongThink.
But I'm tired and we urgently need to get our shit together.
I've been trying to write this piece for years. Every time I get started I'm just overwhelmed with paralyzing visions of the FOSS commentariat accusing me of WrongThink.
But I'm tired and we urgently need to get our shit together.
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or--and stay with me here--we could have just believed the women
November 13, 2025 at 1:54 PM
or--and stay with me here--we could have just believed the women
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epstein in dozens of pieces of written documentation: the presidential candidate my best friend loves coming over to my house for the young girls i rent
reporters: we are getting closer to busting this thing wide open
reporters: we are getting closer to busting this thing wide open
November 13, 2025 at 3:05 AM
epstein in dozens of pieces of written documentation: the presidential candidate my best friend loves coming over to my house for the young girls i rent
reporters: we are getting closer to busting this thing wide open
reporters: we are getting closer to busting this thing wide open
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The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.
New “bluesky doesn’t get jokes” dropped
The fish rots from the head
The fish rots from the head
The account owner of @sarahkendzior.bsky.social was suspended for 72 hours for expressing a desire to shoot the author of an article. The post, made 11/10, stated: "I want to shoot the author of this article just to watch him die." 1/2
November 12, 2025 at 8:33 PM
New “bluesky doesn’t get jokes” dropped
The fish rots from the head
The fish rots from the head
I’m still bummed there wasn’t an evolutionary offshoot from Cardboard to let us use our phones
PS the Oculus Go, the most comfortable VR headset I've ever worn, was like $200. I think the world where tech decided "the headset should be $200, and it should weigh as much as the Go, and we ship as much power as we can each year within that constraint" is the world where VR broke out of its niche
Valve has been targeting ~$1000. That's like. Worth it for diehard VRChat furries but not for casual VRChat furries. Good Place is ~$350.
PS, I notice the Frame has no top strap. That is an incredible promise. That means EITHER this thing is shockingly light, OR it will be shockingly uncomfortable.
PS, I notice the Frame has no top strap. That is an incredible promise. That means EITHER this thing is shockingly light, OR it will be shockingly uncomfortable.
November 12, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I’m still bummed there wasn’t an evolutionary offshoot from Cardboard to let us use our phones
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Something quite beautiful about the patriarchy’s extinction burst if you look at it from the right angle, a whole swath of men’s reactions to women realising their lives are statistically better if they don’t marry or leave their husband is to go “well then we won’t date you and you’ll be miserable”
November 12, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Something quite beautiful about the patriarchy’s extinction burst if you look at it from the right angle, a whole swath of men’s reactions to women realising their lives are statistically better if they don’t marry or leave their husband is to go “well then we won’t date you and you’ll be miserable”
1000 year mortgages
Wait no, what if your family just “belongs” to the land
Wait no, what if your family just “belongs” to the land
Can't wait until we have 100 year mortgages where you sell the next 5 generations of your family into debt slavery.
November 12, 2025 at 5:09 PM
1000 year mortgages
Wait no, what if your family just “belongs” to the land
Wait no, what if your family just “belongs” to the land
So does anyone think Plur1bus is going to have a “to serve man” style twist where it turns out they’re secretly evil?
November 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM
So does anyone think Plur1bus is going to have a “to serve man” style twist where it turns out they’re secretly evil?
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Why hasn't @schumer.senate.gov resigned as minority leader yet? He has lost even the ability to control the Quislings
November 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Why hasn't @schumer.senate.gov resigned as minority leader yet? He has lost even the ability to control the Quislings
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i think the democratic party has been ideologically captured by people with deep public humiliation kinks.
November 10, 2025 at 11:56 PM
i think the democratic party has been ideologically captured by people with deep public humiliation kinks.
Look, it’s been almost 24 hours since we stabbed you in the back
Could you just
Forget about all that
Maybe turn around
Whats that over there?
Could you just
Forget about all that
Maybe turn around
Whats that over there?
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
November 11, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Look, it’s been almost 24 hours since we stabbed you in the back
Could you just
Forget about all that
Maybe turn around
Whats that over there?
Could you just
Forget about all that
Maybe turn around
Whats that over there?
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"I've gone ahead and notified Nyarlathotep's hierophants that we'll give them everything they asked for, and will also throw in a few sacrificial firstborn children for the inconvenience."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wev...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wev...
We’ve Defied President Nyarlathotep’s Psychic Siege Long Enough
Well, everyone, it was a valiant and brave endeavor. We refused to capitulate during the Dread Lord Nyarlathotep’s nationwide psychic siege for ove...
www.mcsweeneys.net
November 11, 2025 at 2:20 AM
"I've gone ahead and notified Nyarlathotep's hierophants that we'll give them everything they asked for, and will also throw in a few sacrificial firstborn children for the inconvenience."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wev...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wev...
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We caved when we shouldn’t have. We’ll do it again.
Vote for us in November.
Vote for us in November.
November 11, 2025 at 2:03 AM
We caved when we shouldn’t have. We’ll do it again.
Vote for us in November.
Vote for us in November.
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Wiping off my still warm backstabbing knife "we need to stop pointing fingers and unite with our backs all pointed towards me."
November 11, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Wiping off my still warm backstabbing knife "we need to stop pointing fingers and unite with our backs all pointed towards me."
I don't want to read any takes or opinions on Plur1bus
You beam those thoughts directly into my consciousness as we intended
You beam those thoughts directly into my consciousness as we intended
November 10, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I don't want to read any takes or opinions on Plur1bus
You beam those thoughts directly into my consciousness as we intended
You beam those thoughts directly into my consciousness as we intended
Googling "how can I use my rage for good"
November 10, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Googling "how can I use my rage for good"
Man what really sucks is that when we primary them all we're going to get a few Fettermans, too
But like Mamdani said:
“For too long, we have tried not to lose. Now, it is time that we win.”
Don't forget Tuesday. Change is possible. It'll just be over corpse of the old Democratic Party.
But like Mamdani said:
“For too long, we have tried not to lose. Now, it is time that we win.”
Don't forget Tuesday. Change is possible. It'll just be over corpse of the old Democratic Party.
November 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Man what really sucks is that when we primary them all we're going to get a few Fettermans, too
But like Mamdani said:
“For too long, we have tried not to lose. Now, it is time that we win.”
Don't forget Tuesday. Change is possible. It'll just be over corpse of the old Democratic Party.
But like Mamdani said:
“For too long, we have tried not to lose. Now, it is time that we win.”
Don't forget Tuesday. Change is possible. It'll just be over corpse of the old Democratic Party.
Capitalism will always nurture the worst parts of us, because it allows hate to align with business so the true believers and opportunists and grifters can unite in making the world shittier
The fact that there is ~industry~ around hating trans people means that we will never be free of it, unless and until we dismantle capitalism.
this stuff matters in itself, of course, but also the TERF-Industrial complex won't ever stop. Each "win" is just the new base camp for the next battle.
November 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Capitalism will always nurture the worst parts of us, because it allows hate to align with business so the true believers and opportunists and grifters can unite in making the world shittier
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just learning about the united states democratic party
November 10, 2025 at 1:41 AM
just learning about the united states democratic party
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Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
November 10, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
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i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
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today we're driving the plane from newark to savannah. i'm gonna need all you passengers sitting in window seats to check my blind spots for me
November 9, 2025 at 8:37 PM
today we're driving the plane from newark to savannah. i'm gonna need all you passengers sitting in window seats to check my blind spots for me