@parkerspears.bsky.social congrats on the pope
May 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
@parkerspears.bsky.social congrats on the pope
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sometimes I feel like a dinosaur, cause no one looks anything up anymore 🦕
April 5, 2025 at 4:15 PM
sometimes I feel like a dinosaur, cause no one looks anything up anymore 🦕
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My favorite Kurt Vonnegut quote--"you are what you pretend to be"--comes from Mother Night, a novel about an American spy who pretends to be a Nazi propagandist only to realize later in life he was just being a Nazi propagandist
Think I’ll pass on the piece in which a racist creep explains why a major party embracing the Nazi salute really isn’t a big deal.
February 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
My favorite Kurt Vonnegut quote--"you are what you pretend to be"--comes from Mother Night, a novel about an American spy who pretends to be a Nazi propagandist only to realize later in life he was just being a Nazi propagandist
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It's striking the extent to which there's never any justification given for any of this beyond "it's too many people" or "it's actually fake" and no apparent planning behind any of it. It's the aesthetics of "move fast and break things" without any discernible direction or purpose. It's cosplay.
CDC source:
“We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff.
They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”
“We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff.
They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”
February 14, 2025 at 8:11 PM
It's striking the extent to which there's never any justification given for any of this beyond "it's too many people" or "it's actually fake" and no apparent planning behind any of it. It's the aesthetics of "move fast and break things" without any discernible direction or purpose. It's cosplay.
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Again, still, always: in an even halfway functional country this guy would be in prison for fraud, he's on an earnings call telling people outright lies about what his company is going to do
Musk says Tesla will manufacture several thousand Optimus robots that will be "doing useful things by the end of the year," adding that it won't be long before "we're making 100 million of these things a year"
January 29, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Again, still, always: in an even halfway functional country this guy would be in prison for fraud, he's on an earnings call telling people outright lies about what his company is going to do
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Sure missed the constant churn of terrible bonkers shit from this stupid president. Like you log off for a day and then pop back and see 15 tweets saying like "ok but as a former horse farmer this will have massive effects on our community" and "lol no more horses I guess? normal country"
January 28, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Sure missed the constant churn of terrible bonkers shit from this stupid president. Like you log off for a day and then pop back and see 15 tweets saying like "ok but as a former horse farmer this will have massive effects on our community" and "lol no more horses I guess? normal country"
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leaving the cruelty aside for just a minute it's absolutely humiliating to imagine being my age or older and getting excited because you think you've been given permission to say a bad word. what are you gonna do next, ride your tricycle past the end of the block
I guess I'm too woke because I find the proliferation of this really off-putting and gross. The fact that it's now reached the "enlightened centrists" class is depressing.
January 28, 2025 at 5:33 AM
leaving the cruelty aside for just a minute it's absolutely humiliating to imagine being my age or older and getting excited because you think you've been given permission to say a bad word. what are you gonna do next, ride your tricycle past the end of the block
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Capping how much wealth any individual could accumulate would go a long way towards solving some of our most persistent social problems and it is ridiculous that it is impossible to have a serious mainstream discussion of the idea.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/on-having-...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/on-having-...
On Having a Maximum Wealth
A small thought experiment.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
January 25, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Capping how much wealth any individual could accumulate would go a long way towards solving some of our most persistent social problems and it is ridiculous that it is impossible to have a serious mainstream discussion of the idea.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/on-having-...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/on-having-...
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Hang in there, let the lawyers deal with it.
Tatonka Tuesday
All our public lands
Should look like this
Tatonka Tuesday
All our public lands
Should look like this
January 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Hang in there, let the lawyers deal with it.
Tatonka Tuesday
All our public lands
Should look like this
Tatonka Tuesday
All our public lands
Should look like this
trying to walk the line between Posting Through It and Not Getting On A Government Watchlist
January 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
trying to walk the line between Posting Through It and Not Getting On A Government Watchlist
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DEM SENATOR: Well there’s always next time 😃 a hearty “good game” to my colleagues across the aisle as they shepherd our great nation in the spirit of collaboration and teamwork! 🦅🫡
REPUBLICAN SENATOR: Does anyone know when it’s technically legal for me to kill this [SLUR NO ONE HAS SAID SINCE 1889]
REPUBLICAN SENATOR: Does anyone know when it’s technically legal for me to kill this [SLUR NO ONE HAS SAID SINCE 1889]
January 20, 2025 at 3:16 PM
DEM SENATOR: Well there’s always next time 😃 a hearty “good game” to my colleagues across the aisle as they shepherd our great nation in the spirit of collaboration and teamwork! 🦅🫡
REPUBLICAN SENATOR: Does anyone know when it’s technically legal for me to kill this [SLUR NO ONE HAS SAID SINCE 1889]
REPUBLICAN SENATOR: Does anyone know when it’s technically legal for me to kill this [SLUR NO ONE HAS SAID SINCE 1889]
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Poetry Foundation not fucking around with today's poem of the day
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...
January 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Poetry Foundation not fucking around with today's poem of the day
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...
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Newsletter: Our digital lives are unregulated growth-hacked ecological disasters. The modern tech ecosystem's growth-at-all-costs mindset is actively harming billions of people, pushing them toward authoritarianism for profit. We must fight back.
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
Never Forgive Them
In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting wor...
www.wheresyoured.at
December 16, 2024 at 5:31 PM
Newsletter: Our digital lives are unregulated growth-hacked ecological disasters. The modern tech ecosystem's growth-at-all-costs mindset is actively harming billions of people, pushing them toward authoritarianism for profit. We must fight back.
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
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The American nightmare is a rerun: defector.com/the-american...
The American Nightmare Is A Rerun | Defector
The week before the election, for two nights in a row, I dreamt about the moon. The dreams were in sequence: two parts of a single story that were braided together. A single day of my life became the ...
defector.com
November 21, 2024 at 8:00 PM
The American nightmare is a rerun: defector.com/the-american...
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Do not accept an Unscientific American: defector.com/do-not-accep...
Do Not Accept An Unscientific American | Defector
Laura Helmuth was named editor-in-chief of Scientific American in March 2020, shortly before the magazine was set to celebrate its 175th year in print. Helmuth, who had previously directed health and ...
defector.com
November 20, 2024 at 2:30 PM
Do not accept an Unscientific American: defector.com/do-not-accep...
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All three branches of government are now controlled by a rapist who campaigned on purging the country of nonwhite immigrants and driving trans people out of public life, supported by a Nazi billionaire, I think maybe you can ease off the Has Woke Gone Too Far beat for a while
Is making a guy with a white nationalist tattoo who says diversity corrodes military fitness the Secretary of Defense one big power grab
November 16, 2024 at 4:53 PM
All three branches of government are now controlled by a rapist who campaigned on purging the country of nonwhite immigrants and driving trans people out of public life, supported by a Nazi billionaire, I think maybe you can ease off the Has Woke Gone Too Far beat for a while
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What The Fuck Is A "Vaccine Skeptic"? | Defector
At darker moments, contesting this kind of stuff in the wake of the 2024 election—and all the shameless, shameful, unforgivable work the American media did to produce that election’s outcome—feels as ...
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November 15, 2024 at 3:51 PM
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kakistocracy, noun
November 13, 2024 at 8:55 PM
kakistocracy, noun
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the trump campaign was literally bought and paid for by the wealthiest people on the planet — openly! — and dim-witted pundits are going on about how voters are tired of "elitist democrats"
November 9, 2024 at 8:35 PM
the trump campaign was literally bought and paid for by the wealthiest people on the planet — openly! — and dim-witted pundits are going on about how voters are tired of "elitist democrats"
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The fact that Trump is malevolent and corrupt has somehow buried the fact that he fully demonstrated he was incredibly shitty at the job of being president, like even the stuff he wasn't trying to ruin got wrecked because he's a dipshit who doesn't know how anything works, can't learn, and won't try
November 8, 2024 at 2:21 AM
The fact that Trump is malevolent and corrupt has somehow buried the fact that he fully demonstrated he was incredibly shitty at the job of being president, like even the stuff he wasn't trying to ruin got wrecked because he's a dipshit who doesn't know how anything works, can't learn, and won't try
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Trump voters are one of the most studied and understood political movements in US history. At what point are we allowed to say, "we understand these people's concerns, we just don't agree with them"?
November 7, 2024 at 10:36 PM
Trump voters are one of the most studied and understood political movements in US history. At what point are we allowed to say, "we understand these people's concerns, we just don't agree with them"?