McJulie
@mcjulie.bsky.social
Ruining your workplaces since the early 1990s. Former journalist. Current data scientist. For fun I write books about Cajun werewolves https://www.gothhouse.org/tales-of-the-rougarou/
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McJulie
@mcjulie.bsky.social
· Apr 14
Reporter: And a sense of helplessness because there's nothing you can do about it.
Marche: Oh, we're not helpless. There's lots we can do. It's you guys that are helpless. You have a political system that can't respond to reality.
THIS WAS SUCH AN AMERICAN COMMENT BY THE REPORTER HOLY GOD.
Marche: Oh, we're not helpless. There's lots we can do. It's you guys that are helpless. You have a political system that can't respond to reality.
THIS WAS SUCH AN AMERICAN COMMENT BY THE REPORTER HOLY GOD.
“We’re not helpless… it’s you guys that are helpless”
That hits HARD
That hits HARD
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Like 30% of the country is absolutely enraged because they thought they were going to be able to be utter shitbirds without anyone being allowed to call them shitbirds, but here we are, calling them shitbirds.
November 29, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Like 30% of the country is absolutely enraged because they thought they were going to be able to be utter shitbirds without anyone being allowed to call them shitbirds, but here we are, calling them shitbirds.
This is particularly wild when you consider it in the context of AI use being higher the more up the corporate ladder you go.
The markets are staying afloat right now on the hope that AI will destroy American workers. What a bleak thing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
November 30, 2025 at 3:13 AM
This is particularly wild when you consider it in the context of AI use being higher the more up the corporate ladder you go.
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The markets are staying afloat right now on the hope that AI will destroy American workers. What a bleak thing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
November 28, 2025 at 5:15 PM
The markets are staying afloat right now on the hope that AI will destroy American workers. What a bleak thing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
Reminds me: got slightly obsessed trying to figure out where Hal Lindsey/The Late, Great Planet Earth really come from and couldn’t find any kind of deep dive on the dude who is almost single-handedly responsible for the fact that we all think we know what the “Antichrist” is gonna be like
Sitting in my local NoVa bar listening to the evangelicals discuss the end times and how the Antichrist is supposed to be a really really smart guy and that Trump can’t possibly be it because of that
November 30, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Reminds me: got slightly obsessed trying to figure out where Hal Lindsey/The Late, Great Planet Earth really come from and couldn’t find any kind of deep dive on the dude who is almost single-handedly responsible for the fact that we all think we know what the “Antichrist” is gonna be like
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Sitting in my local NoVa bar listening to the evangelicals discuss the end times and how the Antichrist is supposed to be a really really smart guy and that Trump can’t possibly be it because of that
November 30, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Sitting in my local NoVa bar listening to the evangelicals discuss the end times and how the Antichrist is supposed to be a really really smart guy and that Trump can’t possibly be it because of that
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I just think more women should be werewolves and also do werewolf carnage! Let her maul, your honour.
November 29, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I just think more women should be werewolves and also do werewolf carnage! Let her maul, your honour.
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It’s so hilarious how Mamdani has broken the brains of the Chamber of Commerce crowd. My grandfather was a small business owning Eisenhower Republican and he would have been 100% in favor of all of this.
Soon small businesses won’t have to wait for Small Business Saturday to get attention from their Mayor.
Some changes that they can look forward to:
Some changes that they can look forward to:
November 29, 2025 at 10:32 PM
It’s so hilarious how Mamdani has broken the brains of the Chamber of Commerce crowd. My grandfather was a small business owning Eisenhower Republican and he would have been 100% in favor of all of this.
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“Here I am in Arcadia”
rip Tom Stoppard
rip Tom Stoppard
November 29, 2025 at 5:51 PM
“Here I am in Arcadia”
rip Tom Stoppard
rip Tom Stoppard
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Years ago, my colleagues at Business Insider and I tracked YouTuber “cancellation” arcs. What we found is that for many entertainers, “cancellation” actually sets the stage for a redemption arc, one that can raise their profile higher than ever. It wasn’t career-ending. It was fuel.
November 29, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Years ago, my colleagues at Business Insider and I tracked YouTuber “cancellation” arcs. What we found is that for many entertainers, “cancellation” actually sets the stage for a redemption arc, one that can raise their profile higher than ever. It wasn’t career-ending. It was fuel.
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The Half Price Books in Berkeley closes at the end of the month, which means there are two days left for some lucky soul to get these OG Narbonic books that must've been in the back room for 20 years.
November 30, 2025 at 12:33 AM
The Half Price Books in Berkeley closes at the end of the month, which means there are two days left for some lucky soul to get these OG Narbonic books that must've been in the back room for 20 years.
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One of the issues the far right proponents of "Americanism" glommed on to in the post-WWII era was fluoridation. Here's a card that was distributed in Redmond, OR sometime in the late 1940s or early 1950s. It is in the papers of Grace Wick, one of Oregon's most outspoken, antisemitic fascists.
August 16, 2025 at 2:55 PM
One of the issues the far right proponents of "Americanism" glommed on to in the post-WWII era was fluoridation. Here's a card that was distributed in Redmond, OR sometime in the late 1940s or early 1950s. It is in the papers of Grace Wick, one of Oregon's most outspoken, antisemitic fascists.
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The term "Americanism" was then embraced by the KKK that was resurgent in the 1920s. A group called the "Americanist Educational League" was founded in 1927 (it still exists, btw) by a guy who would go on to be the leading voice for Japanese internment in WWII
encyclopedia.densho.org/John_R._Lech...
encyclopedia.densho.org/John_R._Lech...
John R. Lechner | Densho Encyclopedia
encyclopedia.densho.org
August 16, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The term "Americanism" was then embraced by the KKK that was resurgent in the 1920s. A group called the "Americanist Educational League" was founded in 1927 (it still exists, btw) by a guy who would go on to be the leading voice for Japanese internment in WWII
encyclopedia.densho.org/John_R._Lech...
encyclopedia.densho.org/John_R._Lech...
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Looks like it’s time to re-up this thread on the fascist genealogy of the seemingly pablum term “Americanism.”
November 29, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Looks like it’s time to re-up this thread on the fascist genealogy of the seemingly pablum term “Americanism.”
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Yesterday, Roger Stone announced his partnership with a menswear company, where together they've released a collection of tailored clothing items.
Here is my review of those pieces. 🧵
Here is my review of those pieces. 🧵
November 29, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Yesterday, Roger Stone announced his partnership with a menswear company, where together they've released a collection of tailored clothing items.
Here is my review of those pieces. 🧵
Here is my review of those pieces. 🧵
New theory: when right wingers take pictures of their food it always looks terrible because of the mid-century aesthetic they're emulating.
Karoline Leavitt's Thanksgiving spread. Please dissect.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
November 29, 2025 at 7:25 PM
New theory: when right wingers take pictures of their food it always looks terrible because of the mid-century aesthetic they're emulating.
Nooooo not Tom Stoppard that means we'll never get another Arcadia
RIP Tom Stoppard.
Hardly his most important work, but I remember having my mind blown by learning he had rewritten most of the dialogue on INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE, one of the funniest movies ever made
Hardly his most important work, but I remember having my mind blown by learning he had rewritten most of the dialogue on INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE, one of the funniest movies ever made
November 29, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Nooooo not Tom Stoppard that means we'll never get another Arcadia
The essay is very, very badly written and poorly thought out, even for a right winger.
Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough
November 29, 2025 at 7:20 PM
The essay is very, very badly written and poorly thought out, even for a right winger.
I've always had a LOT of problems with the "patriarchy happens because men are bigger/stronger/meaner" argument, starting with the fact that women who can kick your butt and men who can't are not, in fact, exempt from the overall social systems of patriarchy.
it was once a commonplace among feminists--the mills, mayreder, de beauvoir--that the origin of patriarchy was men's physical strength. today a strong social constructionism is common--indeed, one that at times appears to deny that physical differences matter at all.
www.patreon.com/posts/chapte...
www.patreon.com/posts/chapte...
Chapter 4.2: The Strong Fist's Dominion | Samantha Hancox-Li
Get more from Samantha Hancox-Li on Patreon
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November 29, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I've always had a LOT of problems with the "patriarchy happens because men are bigger/stronger/meaner" argument, starting with the fact that women who can kick your butt and men who can't are not, in fact, exempt from the overall social systems of patriarchy.
Back when this stuff was first happening, @daveon.bsky.social and I were complaining about it over drinks and we agreed it seemed like they were pretty literally "looking for the machine that generates woke" so they could turn it off.
Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2
November 29, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Back when this stuff was first happening, @daveon.bsky.social and I were complaining about it over drinks and we agreed it seemed like they were pretty literally "looking for the machine that generates woke" so they could turn it off.
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Did you really read this whole long thread? Wow! Go spread the word: DOGE isn't actually over.
The "DOGE is gone" articles are clickbait but this one gets it closer to the truth: DOGE is not gone, it just claims to have "no centralized leadership" anymore -- in other words, its leadership is hiding in an attempt to avoid blame.
DOGE no longer has ‘centralized leadership’ under White House tech team, personnel head says
The team that was altered to house DOGE — formerly the U.S. Digital Service — is also still doing its own technology work across agencies.
www.nextgov.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Did you really read this whole long thread? Wow! Go spread the word: DOGE isn't actually over.
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They're not esoteric. Any of the conspiracy theories that shaped DOGE's mission can be found easily by browsing Twitter or Facebook for a few minutes. Apparently billionaire brains get cooked by social media in exactly the same way poor people brains do.
November 26, 2025 at 4:15 AM
They're not esoteric. Any of the conspiracy theories that shaped DOGE's mission can be found easily by browsing Twitter or Facebook for a few minutes. Apparently billionaire brains get cooked by social media in exactly the same way poor people brains do.
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Anyway, this is just my experience as a software engineer; I haven't even touched the stuff DOGE did to public health or foreign aid. But from a distance it looks pretty clearly motivated by the same swirl of anti-government, anti-minority conspiracy theories.
November 26, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Anyway, this is just my experience as a software engineer; I haven't even touched the stuff DOGE did to public health or foreign aid. But from a distance it looks pretty clearly motivated by the same swirl of anti-government, anti-minority conspiracy theories.
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DOGE stole the phrase "waste, fraud, and abuse" from government regulations, where it is used to prohibit corrupt contracts, and inverted its meaning:
They use it to mean a leftist conspiracy imagined to engage in the financial corruption that DOGE is actually doing by self-dealing gov contracts
They use it to mean a leftist conspiracy imagined to engage in the financial corruption that DOGE is actually doing by self-dealing gov contracts
November 26, 2025 at 4:03 AM
DOGE stole the phrase "waste, fraud, and abuse" from government regulations, where it is used to prohibit corrupt contracts, and inverted its meaning:
They use it to mean a leftist conspiracy imagined to engage in the financial corruption that DOGE is actually doing by self-dealing gov contracts
They use it to mean a leftist conspiracy imagined to engage in the financial corruption that DOGE is actually doing by self-dealing gov contracts
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Everything that DOGE touched, they added visible evidence of their assumption that there is a real live DEI conspiracy which can be fought with lawyers and funding cuts
Here it is at the top of the DOJ Civil Rights Division website
Here it is at the top of the DOJ Civil Rights Division website
November 26, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Everything that DOGE touched, they added visible evidence of their assumption that there is a real live DEI conspiracy which can be fought with lawyers and funding cuts
Here it is at the top of the DOJ Civil Rights Division website
Here it is at the top of the DOJ Civil Rights Division website
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They also hunted down all grants that went to any purpose containing "LGBTQ" or similar words. I think it is pretty clear this is the brainchild of a conspiracy theorist who wants to "follow the money" to find out how the imaginary cabal of perpetually triggered leftists gets funded.
The majority of DOGE's "work" is to use LLMs to search federal grants for the keywords "LGBTQ," "BIPOC," and similar, and then to cancel those grants.
They are targeting minorities in the most literal, automated way. The outcomes of this are all over their own website:
They are targeting minorities in the most literal, automated way. The outcomes of this are all over their own website:
November 26, 2025 at 3:44 AM
They also hunted down all grants that went to any purpose containing "LGBTQ" or similar words. I think it is pretty clear this is the brainchild of a conspiracy theorist who wants to "follow the money" to find out how the imaginary cabal of perpetually triggered leftists gets funded.