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huizi stan account @goodoldbus.bsky.social · 38m

we were not meant to know the depths of his orchestral whistling talent

huizi stan account @goodoldbus.bsky.social · 1h

every leftie has a communist phase that ends abruptly when they look around and see who exactly is in that particular room with them

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huizi stan account @goodoldbus.bsky.social · 1h

a fun social media game to play is whenever someone with a tankie avi starts showing up among your mutuals to see how long it takes until they say something obscenely racist in the language of biological determinism

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huizi stan account @goodoldbus.bsky.social · 1h

like most conservative slang I'm assuming it's based on a half-remembered military term from a war 5 generations ago

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huizi stan account @goodoldbus.bsky.social · 2h

They Saved Hitler's Thumb

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huizi stan account @goodoldbus.bsky.social · 2h

felt compelled to write a thing on white boys in the usa, the way just about all of us white cishets experienced something like the maga youth texting scandal regardless of red or blue household, and how we need to get fucking honest as white people about this shit if we're serious about change

If you're a young white male in the US and you're in a group of other white males, it's an unspoken cue to start with the vile jokes. The stuff you're not supposed to talk about, pushing the envelope beyond decency, beyond humaneness, beyond any form of empathy, the only limit your internal disgust.

I stress the whiteness over the maleness because I don't remember this happening the same in groups of mixed ethnicity. Those had their "bros before hoes" moments, but I remember them as much more civil. I won't embarrass myself painting a rosy picture. Male identity is complicated enough by patterns of interpersonal stoicism and private post-hoc rationalization.

Nor am I going to pretend I didn't participate. After all, I was a manly future man who tested all boundaries, especially those within myself. I had the vague idea that a man must be the first line of defense against evil in their corner of existence. I have to be TOUGH against it, and nothing is more all-purpose tough than numbness.

However, the all-white settings brought a new conversational frontier: racism. Several times in my childhood, I found myself in a group of other white male peers act as if suddenly possessed by the ghost of Andrew Jackson. Listen you don't have to believe me, but this shit TERRIFIED me and made me sick to my stomach. I felt complicit.

When I see people lamenting the loss of a post-racial utopia that never existed, I feel a similar kind of sickness. I see a lot of people parroting this line who appear to have the exact same boyhood memories. How are they not feeling the same guilt I am? How is the gravity of the present not compelling them to honesty?

I don't know what the solution is, but I've tasked myself with changing the dysfunctional hearts of our dysfunctional society. I've been conscientiously backing away from the political lens. It continually brings bad faith, false dichotomies, solutions that just so happen to needle the source of the next conflict (which happens to have solutions for that ready, too). The change we need must be consensual, transparent, and accountable. We can't get there as a country if we're personally terrified of those things in our own lives.

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huizi stan account @goodoldbus.bsky.social · 2h

first time reading politico since 2016 when I decided this paper is too much about the spectacle to be a reliable source of anything relevant and it's somehow gotten to a point where THAT era looks pulitzer prize winning by comparison

huizi stan account @goodoldbus.bsky.social · 2h

wow that politico article really reads like everyone involved with it from the source to the reporter to the editor doesn't get what all the big hubbub is about a couple of overt nazis in power here and there

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huizi stan account @goodoldbus.bsky.social · 4h

I am cooking up a crackpot theory that some people just have moods they want to live in and seek out ways to have that be the Only Mood

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huizi stan account @goodoldbus.bsky.social · 5h

I know republicans are succeeding with some vile shit and have even viler shit going on behind the scenes you ever think they got so far because they don't put absolutely every half-formed idea and strategic building block on main where it can be hijacked before it goes anywhere just a thought

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huizi stan account @goodoldbus.bsky.social · 5h

the bigger the system, the lower the common denominator

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huizi stan account @goodoldbus.bsky.social · 6h

ACTUALLY the work of the marquis de sade offers a compelling look at morality inverted into an anti-morality that reveals the former for the empty form of autocracy that it is

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huizi stan account @goodoldbus.bsky.social · 6h

shoutout to all the blue magas that were earnestly calling it a russian conspiracy that a bunch of people with entire GDPs worth of resources at their command and acting paranoid as fuck in public might be building a chekhov's gun with their deluxe apocalypse survival compounds

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 9h

www.bbc.com/news/article...

"I once met a former bodyguard of one billionaire with his own "bunker", who told me his security team's first priority, if this really did happen, would be to eliminate said boss and get in the bunker themselves. And he didn't seem to be joking."

Tech billionaires seem to be doom prepping. Should we be worried?

The debate is ramping up about what happens if - or when - computer intelligence overtakes humans

www.bbc.com

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huizi stan account @goodoldbus.bsky.social · 6h

the problem with advocating for small, independent, tight-knit communities that operate by consensus as determined by the members themselves is at a certain point I realize I'm describing cults

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huizi stan account @goodoldbus.bsky.social · 6h

it hit me today that in her entire life she has only lived in ungodly hot places

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huizi stan account @goodoldbus.bsky.social · 6h

you can always tell who's a tourist very easily this time of year because they're in tank tops and shorts. us year rounders are pulling out longjohns

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huizi stan account @goodoldbus.bsky.social · 6h

daughter pitched a fit this morning refusing to go to school because "it's FREEZING" and wouldn't leave the house until I started heating the car. it was 63 degrees fahrenheit

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huizi stan account @goodoldbus.bsky.social · 6h

eh I gave up feeling that particular cringe in my 30s. I'm old and corny now, I listen to what I want

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huizi stan account @goodoldbus.bsky.social · 9h

Leto reboot into a right wing outrage grifter in 3… 2…

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huizi stan account @goodoldbus.bsky.social · 9h

I believe Finland is the nation with the most metal bands per capita

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huizi stan account @goodoldbus.bsky.social · 9h

you might like “voodoo” especially for what a haunting vibe it is. he really was his own kind of artist

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huizi stan account @goodoldbus.bsky.social · 18h

I can’t fucking believe D’Angelo is gone

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huizi stan account @goodoldbus.bsky.social · 23h

I talk a big game about leaving the internet but if I spend more than 1 hour without a semi-public quip about a long-settled conflict in an obsolete genre of music I’ll die

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huizi stan account @goodoldbus.bsky.social · 23h

I feel like this was Avril Lavigne

huizi stan account @goodoldbus.bsky.social · 1d

Żuławski is one of the best freaks my people ever let loose on this world

Spectrum Culture @spectrumculture.bsky.social · 1d

Revisit Possession, the nightmarish Polish film in which divorce breeds squishy monsters.
spectrumculture.com/2025/10/13/r...

Rediscover: Possession - Spectrum Culture

What begins as desperate, frenzied and often violent domestic conflict within a marriage in its last throes then unfurls into an intensely uncanny depiction of the psychological dissolution wrought by...

spectrumculture.com

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