Kalil
@kalilchernov.bsky.social
Queer jewish leftist; professional sailor, unrepentant otaku, obsessive gaymer. I think Biden is a bad president, and also the best president since FDR.
I mostly just made a profile so I can read those 'sign in required' posts and chat with cool people.
I mostly just made a profile so I can read those 'sign in required' posts and chat with cool people.
On the last impeachment resolution, my represenative, @ross.house.gov , voted to table. I called and wrote, demanding an explanation, and did not receive one.
Today, however, she bucked Jeffries to support the new one. Maybe she wasn't ignoring me as much as I felt!
Today, however, she bucked Jeffries to support the new one. Maybe she wasn't ignoring me as much as I felt!
And now, the 47 cowardly Democrats who were whipped by leadership to vote 'present' on the impeachment resolution today:
Pete Aguilar of CA
Wesley Bell of MO
Ami Bera of CA
Don Beyer of VA
Janelle Bynum of OR
Ed Case of HI
Sean Casten of IL
Kathy Castor of FL
(cont'd)
Pete Aguilar of CA
Wesley Bell of MO
Ami Bera of CA
Don Beyer of VA
Janelle Bynum of OR
Ed Case of HI
Sean Casten of IL
Kathy Castor of FL
(cont'd)
December 12, 2025 at 9:03 AM
On the last impeachment resolution, my represenative, @ross.house.gov , voted to table. I called and wrote, demanding an explanation, and did not receive one.
Today, however, she bucked Jeffries to support the new one. Maybe she wasn't ignoring me as much as I felt!
Today, however, she bucked Jeffries to support the new one. Maybe she wasn't ignoring me as much as I felt!
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The one part of our government that has worked well the last couple days have been juries - the one part of our government based on sortition!
August 29, 2025 at 2:24 AM
The one part of our government that has worked well the last couple days have been juries - the one part of our government based on sortition!
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There's joke about Jason's wife on viral on facebook, but I don't do social Medea.
December 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM
There's joke about Jason's wife on viral on facebook, but I don't do social Medea.
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My Senator told me FedSoc judges keep ignoring his unambiguous laws so I asked how many laws he has and he said he just goes to the Congress and gets a new law afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding unambiguous laws to FedSoc judges and then his chief of staff started crying.
December 7, 2025 at 8:20 PM
My Senator told me FedSoc judges keep ignoring his unambiguous laws so I asked how many laws he has and he said he just goes to the Congress and gets a new law afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding unambiguous laws to FedSoc judges and then his chief of staff started crying.
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Star wars? The one where it is heroic and just to blow up a spaceship with over a million people on board, but it would be an irredeemable sin to kill the man who commissioned it and used it to explode a planet?
October 4, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Star wars? The one where it is heroic and just to blow up a spaceship with over a million people on board, but it would be an irredeemable sin to kill the man who commissioned it and used it to explode a planet?
SMAC had a lot of amazing content, but this video clip in particular I think about near-daily:
"Beware of he would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master."
"Beware of he would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master."
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri Secret Project: The Planetary Datalinks
YouTube video by matsku84
www.youtube.com
September 24, 2025 at 6:24 AM
SMAC had a lot of amazing content, but this video clip in particular I think about near-daily:
"Beware of he would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master."
"Beware of he would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master."
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No. This replaces a deleted post to be less openly eugenicist and misogynistic.
September 23, 2025 at 9:31 PM
No. This replaces a deleted post to be less openly eugenicist and misogynistic.
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Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again
September 22, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again
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The reaction Disney fans are having makes think maybe the Harry Potter fans are just bigots who don’t care after all.
just saw a tiktok from a disney adult reading from On Tyranny and asking their followers to cancel their d+ and disney trips omg
September 21, 2025 at 1:13 AM
The reaction Disney fans are having makes think maybe the Harry Potter fans are just bigots who don’t care after all.
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if you have infinite monkeys typing on infinite typewriters one of them will eventually produce the entire works of shakespeare. but you don't have that kind of start up capital. start with 10 monkeys writing steven king's Christine. soon you'll be turning a profit and can start scaling your monkeys
September 17, 2025 at 1:27 AM
if you have infinite monkeys typing on infinite typewriters one of them will eventually produce the entire works of shakespeare. but you don't have that kind of start up capital. start with 10 monkeys writing steven king's Christine. soon you'll be turning a profit and can start scaling your monkeys
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being trans is awesome and trans people are amazing and gender is a dumb box and anyone who makes their own crowbar to smash it from inside is a hero actually.
September 16, 2025 at 7:19 AM
being trans is awesome and trans people are amazing and gender is a dumb box and anyone who makes their own crowbar to smash it from inside is a hero actually.
My principal got arrested for CSAM. Does that count?
Who’s the most famous person you went to high school with?
For me, it's the actress Izabela Vidovic! 🎬🎞️
Pic from the 2017 film Wonder 🚌
For me, it's the actress Izabela Vidovic! 🎬🎞️
Pic from the 2017 film Wonder 🚌
September 16, 2025 at 3:20 AM
My principal got arrested for CSAM. Does that count?
In light of the rioting yesterday, I'm reupping this.
Also - is there a reason why they can't crack down on these groups the way they've gone after Palestine Action? Seems this is /actually/ the type of terrorist activity 'proscription' was intended for. (Not that it isn't still a horrifically totalitarian law, but... These are actual terrorists!)
September 16, 2025 at 1:00 AM
In light of the rioting yesterday, I'm reupping this.
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"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
September 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
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Can’t emphasize this enough. It sounds weird, but gamergate is a tipping point of modern American politics. It’s the mixing bowl for the particular stew of racism and misogyny that is a defining characteristic of this moment.
Yes it is. I’ll keep banging the ‘to understand what is happening, you have to understand gamergate’ drum forever.
As a colleague mentioned yesterday, Gamergate is one of the five most significant developments in US politics since the Cold War
September 13, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Can’t emphasize this enough. It sounds weird, but gamergate is a tipping point of modern American politics. It’s the mixing bowl for the particular stew of racism and misogyny that is a defining characteristic of this moment.
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Update: Feeling pretty smug about the above take right now.
September 13, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Update: Feeling pretty smug about the above take right now.
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He is survived by, idk, a wife and kids or something but primarily by the hatred, fear, distrust, and disgust he stoked in his most devoted followers.
He was predeceased by others of his ideological ilk: Joseph Goebbels, D.W. Griffith, Leni Riefenstahl, Charles Coughlin, Edward Bernays, etc.
He was predeceased by others of his ideological ilk: Joseph Goebbels, D.W. Griffith, Leni Riefenstahl, Charles Coughlin, Edward Bernays, etc.
September 11, 2025 at 4:52 AM
He is survived by, idk, a wife and kids or something but primarily by the hatred, fear, distrust, and disgust he stoked in his most devoted followers.
He was predeceased by others of his ideological ilk: Joseph Goebbels, D.W. Griffith, Leni Riefenstahl, Charles Coughlin, Edward Bernays, etc.
He was predeceased by others of his ideological ilk: Joseph Goebbels, D.W. Griffith, Leni Riefenstahl, Charles Coughlin, Edward Bernays, etc.
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Okay you know what? Charlie Kirk obituary.
Take two because BSky seems to have lost the first one but have no fear: I saved most of it.
Take two because BSky seems to have lost the first one but have no fear: I saved most of it.
September 11, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Okay you know what? Charlie Kirk obituary.
Take two because BSky seems to have lost the first one but have no fear: I saved most of it.
Take two because BSky seems to have lost the first one but have no fear: I saved most of it.
Charlie Kirk maintained throughout his career that "Guns save lives." For the first time, he has actually provided some evidence for his thesis.
September 11, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Charlie Kirk maintained throughout his career that "Guns save lives." For the first time, he has actually provided some evidence for his thesis.
"You can't policy your way out of a propaganda problem!" is the snappiest and most succinct explanation I've heard of the severe misunderstanding our 'technocratic' center-left types have with immigration, crime, etc.
I'm kind of shocked that anyone is still proposing technocratic solutions to the "debate" over immigration. Even if this were a good idea (and it is not), Republican elites and media will never tell their base about it. You can't policy your way out of a propaganda problem!
September 7, 2025 at 2:19 AM
"You can't policy your way out of a propaganda problem!" is the snappiest and most succinct explanation I've heard of the severe misunderstanding our 'technocratic' center-left types have with immigration, crime, etc.
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ffx: the older generation is ruining the world by forcing everyone to conform to their traditionalist standards when they need to accept change and let the newer generation take their place
September 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
ffx: the older generation is ruining the world by forcing everyone to conform to their traditionalist standards when they need to accept change and let the newer generation take their place
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And *that* is why comp-sci is dominated by furries and queer folk!
August 31, 2025 at 6:40 PM
And *that* is why comp-sci is dominated by furries and queer folk!
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I got into a seriously humiliating argument with a summer camp roommate about how to pronounce his name. "Sean" is obviously homophonous with 'seen' and 'scene', right? If it was pronounced 'Shawn' it would be spelled 'Shawn'!
August 31, 2025 at 2:56 AM
I got into a seriously humiliating argument with a summer camp roommate about how to pronounce his name. "Sean" is obviously homophonous with 'seen' and 'scene', right? If it was pronounced 'Shawn' it would be spelled 'Shawn'!
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Sortition fans unite! Government by lottery babee
If I was God-King and had the opportunity to reshape our government (before honorably resigning my crown), I'd go with sortition instead of democracy; random dudes off the street would be /at least/ as competent as the collection of nepobabies and con-men our current system consistently elevates.
August 29, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Sortition fans unite! Government by lottery babee