Hail The Duke Baby
@guineaduke.bsky.social
Aspiring journalist, pre-hrt trans woman. Will infodump about Pokemon for no reason.
Reposted by Hail The Duke Baby
ok ngl reading imperialism the highest stage of capitalism makes me feel insane cause how the fuck does a man 100 years ago perfectly describe what the capitalist system is trending towards (advanced economies that through the export of capital alone subjugate the less advanced nations of the world)
October 25, 2025 at 9:38 PM
ok ngl reading imperialism the highest stage of capitalism makes me feel insane cause how the fuck does a man 100 years ago perfectly describe what the capitalist system is trending towards (advanced economies that through the export of capital alone subjugate the less advanced nations of the world)
Reposted by Hail The Duke Baby
![4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiby6can6k76yzfmv2czxs4pu2l7zie7bqbrpswi7h3ifmiadkuqvu@jpeg)
Reposted by Hail The Duke Baby
Reposted by Hail The Duke Baby
I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.
November 14, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.
Reposted by Hail The Duke Baby
My industry has been pushing hard to Al-ify everything. It’s seen as a necessary evil to win budgets.
At a recent trade show my team was singled out as a shining example of improving workflows.
The catch?
We used 0 AI. Our whole product was deterministic matching rules with a very polished UX.
At a recent trade show my team was singled out as a shining example of improving workflows.
The catch?
We used 0 AI. Our whole product was deterministic matching rules with a very polished UX.
this goes right along with my theory that the AI obsession in *users* is often bc…
1. they were never educated (esp "ipad generation") & don't know how computers work
2. our tools and services are all SO AWFUL NOW, degraded at best, actively user-hostile at worst
1. they were never educated (esp "ipad generation") & don't know how computers work
2. our tools and services are all SO AWFUL NOW, degraded at best, actively user-hostile at worst
November 15, 2025 at 7:41 PM
My industry has been pushing hard to Al-ify everything. It’s seen as a necessary evil to win budgets.
At a recent trade show my team was singled out as a shining example of improving workflows.
The catch?
We used 0 AI. Our whole product was deterministic matching rules with a very polished UX.
At a recent trade show my team was singled out as a shining example of improving workflows.
The catch?
We used 0 AI. Our whole product was deterministic matching rules with a very polished UX.
Reposted by Hail The Duke Baby
"well capitalism works with human nature"
"why do companies put out bad products and get away with it"
"well humans are irrational and don't make good decisions"
"and how do we fix that"
"changing human nature to make everyone logical and good with money"
"...uh huh..."
"why do companies put out bad products and get away with it"
"well humans are irrational and don't make good decisions"
"and how do we fix that"
"changing human nature to make everyone logical and good with money"
"...uh huh..."
November 15, 2025 at 10:49 PM
"well capitalism works with human nature"
"why do companies put out bad products and get away with it"
"well humans are irrational and don't make good decisions"
"and how do we fix that"
"changing human nature to make everyone logical and good with money"
"...uh huh..."
"why do companies put out bad products and get away with it"
"well humans are irrational and don't make good decisions"
"and how do we fix that"
"changing human nature to make everyone logical and good with money"
"...uh huh..."
Reposted by Hail The Duke Baby
you can literally just say "reverend" and you'll be right most of the time.
This is your regular reminder that not everyone who wears a clerical collar is referred to as a "priest," but, instead, often referred to as "pastor" or "minister," and that this has been true — and, in the heavily-protestant U.S., the *literal norm* — for centuries.
November 15, 2025 at 10:40 PM
you can literally just say "reverend" and you'll be right most of the time.
Reposted by Hail The Duke Baby
It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.
November 15, 2025 at 5:10 AM
It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.
Reposted by Hail The Duke Baby
Angelica’s love interest is non-binary, which most write-ups are good about, but I think the occasional uncertainty around their pronouns and identifiers outside of the book also kinda feels true to life.
November 15, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Angelica’s love interest is non-binary, which most write-ups are good about, but I think the occasional uncertainty around their pronouns and identifiers outside of the book also kinda feels true to life.
Reposted by Hail The Duke Baby
if you’re a journalist who wants to talk about how embarrassing this week has been for our profession (the michael wolff, landon thomas jr, nuzzi/bernstein of it all) message me on signal
November 15, 2025 at 12:25 AM
if you’re a journalist who wants to talk about how embarrassing this week has been for our profession (the michael wolff, landon thomas jr, nuzzi/bernstein of it all) message me on signal
Reposted by Hail The Duke Baby
It’s interesting watching Buttigieg go full stubble-and-denim to court the 8-9 moderate Republicans who would absolutely switch parties and vote for a gay man if only that man were slightly more traditionally masculine and also disliked trans people.
November 15, 2025 at 4:59 AM
It’s interesting watching Buttigieg go full stubble-and-denim to court the 8-9 moderate Republicans who would absolutely switch parties and vote for a gay man if only that man were slightly more traditionally masculine and also disliked trans people.
Reposted by Hail The Duke Baby
November 15, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Reposted by Hail The Duke Baby
Most people just don’t know what “defund” means. In large part because a bunch of Democratic Party operatives made a point of constantly lying about it and equivocating it to an abolish position
Every single person who thinks "defund the police is bad and stupid" should have to explain exactly how they plan to enact their 12-step list of US police reforms to demilitarize and weed out "the bad cops" that somehow preserves all the same infrastructure and funding at the same time
Okay, enlighten the class then, what levers of power do you expect to use in order to coerce the domestic right-wing paramilitary gang of rapists, robbers, and murderers to submit to these reforms? What is the stick that is expected to be used in order to enact these changes?
November 15, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Most people just don’t know what “defund” means. In large part because a bunch of Democratic Party operatives made a point of constantly lying about it and equivocating it to an abolish position
Reposted by Hail The Duke Baby
Reposted by Hail The Duke Baby
Nick Fuentes, a white nationalist social media personality, seems to be everywhere in the press these days. A lot of coverage suggests his audience is growing, but our read of the data is giving us some serious doubts whether that’s really the case.
openmeasures.io/nick-fuentes...
openmeasures.io/nick-fuentes...
Flash Report: Claims of Nick Fuentes’ Growing Popularity Are Unsupported by Data - Open Measures
Open Measures builds accessible and transparent products to contextualize the spread of harmful online information that impacts public discourse and global events.
openmeasures.io
November 14, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Nick Fuentes, a white nationalist social media personality, seems to be everywhere in the press these days. A lot of coverage suggests his audience is growing, but our read of the data is giving us some serious doubts whether that’s really the case.
openmeasures.io/nick-fuentes...
openmeasures.io/nick-fuentes...
Reposted by Hail The Duke Baby
I know exactly who this is just from the avatar and tone LMAO
Not to be one of those "quotepost to yell at this guy" but holy fuck lmao
November 14, 2025 at 4:37 AM
I know exactly who this is just from the avatar and tone LMAO
Reposted by Hail The Duke Baby
A lot of people don't understand, or are obtuse about the idea of youth liberation existing alongside protection and guidance because that requires consistent first principles instead of hard, mechanical rules.
leftists who mock youth liberation end up sounding indistinguishable from reactionaries very quickly because opposition to youth liberation *is* reactionary
(see also: anarcha-feminism backlash)
most people who consider ourselves on the left are just playing a team sport with no deeper principles
(see also: anarcha-feminism backlash)
most people who consider ourselves on the left are just playing a team sport with no deeper principles
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
A lot of people don't understand, or are obtuse about the idea of youth liberation existing alongside protection and guidance because that requires consistent first principles instead of hard, mechanical rules.
Reposted by Hail The Duke Baby
This is so funny, the house style of this AI generation is so incongruous with the macho CoD cryptofascist operator thing. Like having minions sell you an AR-15 and a bag of Black Rifle.
Call of Duty isn't even hiding the fact that loads of its calling cards and other unlockables are AI generated this year.
For one of the biggest video game franchises in the world this is pretty disgusting...
For one of the biggest video game franchises in the world this is pretty disgusting...
November 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
This is so funny, the house style of this AI generation is so incongruous with the macho CoD cryptofascist operator thing. Like having minions sell you an AR-15 and a bag of Black Rifle.
Reposted by Hail The Duke Baby
Sorry but it's extra funny the NYT is running a glamour profile on RFKs mistress/reporter the day after people were going to the mattresses defending their ethics surrounding the Epstein cover up
November 14, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Sorry but it's extra funny the NYT is running a glamour profile on RFKs mistress/reporter the day after people were going to the mattresses defending their ethics surrounding the Epstein cover up
Reposted by Hail The Duke Baby
bluesky banned the rat from ratatouille
patton oswalt has been suspended from bluesky for saying that megyn kelly should be fed to a woodchipper for justifying the sexual abuse of minors
November 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
bluesky banned the rat from ratatouille
Reposted by Hail The Duke Baby
if u don't know SWITCHED-ON BACH is insane because the Moog synth is monophonic. meaning every single note of every single chord in every song had to be overdubbed separately. she had to be extremely precise & meticulous to make that album work
[Happy 86th birthday to solar eclipse photographer and composer Wendy Carlos, known for "Switched-On Bach," A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, THE SHINING, TRON, and “Peter and the Wolf” with Weird Al Yankovic. Listen to “Switched-On Bach” below.]
archive.org/details/wend...
archive.org/details/wend...
November 14, 2025 at 7:15 PM
if u don't know SWITCHED-ON BACH is insane because the Moog synth is monophonic. meaning every single note of every single chord in every song had to be overdubbed separately. she had to be extremely precise & meticulous to make that album work
Reposted by Hail The Duke Baby
I do really wish I had a better threat model for this admin. This could be "trying to act tough on State Department website to own the woke libs" and amount to nothing, or it could be a signal of a genuine legal and administrative nightmare for like a million people, and there's no way to know
1. The Trump administration has just quietly updated the State Department website to indicate that it may invalidate transgender people's passports.
This comes a week after a SCOTUS ruling blocking lower rulings allowing trans people to update them.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
This comes a week after a SCOTUS ruling blocking lower rulings allowing trans people to update them.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Trump Admin Quietly Changes State Department Page To Indicate It May Invalidate Trans Passports
The change comes after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the administration and lifted a temporary injunction.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I do really wish I had a better threat model for this admin. This could be "trying to act tough on State Department website to own the woke libs" and amount to nothing, or it could be a signal of a genuine legal and administrative nightmare for like a million people, and there's no way to know
Reposted by Hail The Duke Baby
Asked for "Swan Boy but make it 90s bootleg Bart" & this is what I got. Can't recommend enough, 5 popcorn bags
🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿
🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿
November 14, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Asked for "Swan Boy but make it 90s bootleg Bart" & this is what I got. Can't recommend enough, 5 popcorn bags
🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿
🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿
Reposted by Hail The Duke Baby
Sending this to all my friends to see how approving/mad they get.
November 14, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Sending this to all my friends to see how approving/mad they get.
Reposted by Hail The Duke Baby
this makes her running against trump so absolutely insane. All the "she warned us" comments after he did all those terrible things. No. No she didnt.
November 14, 2025 at 10:09 PM
this makes her running against trump so absolutely insane. All the "she warned us" comments after he did all those terrible things. No. No she didnt.