Rsquared
@rsquared.bsky.social
Not speaking for my employer unless & until they pay me to. Wife Guy since before it was monetizable. Mostly harmless. He/him.
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i am fascinated by how nate silver turns everything he doesn’t like into a bespoke ideology. it’s not that he is annoyed by HCR, it is that she is a dreaded “ism” responsible for everything he doesn’t like about the democratic party. same with bluesky.
December 13, 2025 at 11:01 PM
i am fascinated by how nate silver turns everything he doesn’t like into a bespoke ideology. it’s not that he is annoyed by HCR, it is that she is a dreaded “ism” responsible for everything he doesn’t like about the democratic party. same with bluesky.
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related to this a lot of people in the pundit class need to learn how to just be annoyed by someone or something without turning it into What’s Wrong With America
i am fascinated by how nate silver turns everything he doesn’t like into a bespoke ideology. it’s not that he is annoyed by HCR, it is that she is a dreaded “ism” responsible for everything he doesn’t like about the democratic party. same with bluesky.
what the fuck are you talking about man
December 13, 2025 at 11:38 PM
related to this a lot of people in the pundit class need to learn how to just be annoyed by someone or something without turning it into What’s Wrong With America
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If I was a nativist you couldn't drag that out of me. Severely embarrassing ideology. Announcing that you're a loser with no personal accomplishments so you have to ride the coattails of ancestors you imagine yourself having. Might as well proudly claim that your dad is spider man
December 13, 2025 at 8:54 PM
If I was a nativist you couldn't drag that out of me. Severely embarrassing ideology. Announcing that you're a loser with no personal accomplishments so you have to ride the coattails of ancestors you imagine yourself having. Might as well proudly claim that your dad is spider man
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Spitting in the face of gay and black consumers/employees and then wondering why no one thinks you're "cool" anymore is the highest of comedy.
The chain unveiled its first-ever concept store in SoHo this week, adorned with stylish apparel, designer collaborations, and beauty products — all key areas that its incoming CEO hopes will revive its former "Tar-zhay" glory.
https://cnn.it/48W8CAk
https://cnn.it/48W8CAk
December 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Spitting in the face of gay and black consumers/employees and then wondering why no one thinks you're "cool" anymore is the highest of comedy.
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you cant even have a news-cycle about pedophiles anymore without some clout chasing molester crawling out of the woodwork to remind you how much of a creep they are too
December 13, 2025 at 5:52 PM
you cant even have a news-cycle about pedophiles anymore without some clout chasing molester crawling out of the woodwork to remind you how much of a creep they are too
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This week had more new measles cases than sales of “American Canto”.
Hope the media is proud.
Hope the media is proud.
December 13, 2025 at 4:33 PM
This week had more new measles cases than sales of “American Canto”.
Hope the media is proud.
Hope the media is proud.
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1. Note that the girl in this pastoral fantasy is sort of a landscape feature, like Stinky’s, not autonomous.
2. Also I am 75% sure she’s not a nice girl, she’s awful, and also she’s dead and this is her Hell
2. Also I am 75% sure she’s not a nice girl, she’s awful, and also she’s dead and this is her Hell
December 13, 2025 at 5:04 PM
1. Note that the girl in this pastoral fantasy is sort of a landscape feature, like Stinky’s, not autonomous.
2. Also I am 75% sure she’s not a nice girl, she’s awful, and also she’s dead and this is her Hell
2. Also I am 75% sure she’s not a nice girl, she’s awful, and also she’s dead and this is her Hell
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This is because the left treats feminism—and particularly feminist critiques of sexuality and sexual exploitation—with contempt, not as a serious and necessary intervention but ad a bourgeois affectation at best and as a betrayal at worst. But you’re not ready for that conversation!!!
Well, there's a photo I never expected to see in my life. Noam Chomsky palling around with Steve Bannon.
December 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
This is because the left treats feminism—and particularly feminist critiques of sexuality and sexual exploitation—with contempt, not as a serious and necessary intervention but ad a bourgeois affectation at best and as a betrayal at worst. But you’re not ready for that conversation!!!
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Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
December 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
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Everything is really shitty.
But what if we could make it even shittier?
But what if we could make it even shittier?
Sen. WHITEHOUSE: We finally are moving to file a bipartisan Section 230 repeal bill. Waiting any longer serves no useful purpose.
December 13, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Everything is really shitty.
But what if we could make it even shittier?
But what if we could make it even shittier?
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Starting to see where "the worst of the worst" comes into play in this.
December 13, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Starting to see where "the worst of the worst" comes into play in this.
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I don't want to be a "I'm not surprised" guy but covid made it clear that a substantial part of the population wants the freedom to do whatever they want even if it kills them and/or others
strangers are fighting to the death in my menchies over this pretty innocuous take and slinging devastating counterarguments like “what if I had to run away from a murderer” and “I like speeding”
one of my longstanding takes is that car manufacturers should be forced to install mandatory speed limiters in every new vehicle and people react to that like I'm advocating to strip them of their right to free speech
December 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I don't want to be a "I'm not surprised" guy but covid made it clear that a substantial part of the population wants the freedom to do whatever they want even if it kills them and/or others
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I'm really beginning to think that GOP legislators are not just indifferent to but actively detached from median consumer reality.
Their attitude has always been "fuck 'em," but I don't think they grasp the degree to which they're immediately fucking people, and the impact it will have
Their attitude has always been "fuck 'em," but I don't think they grasp the degree to which they're immediately fucking people, and the impact it will have
I do not understand why no one is talking about how much money is going to suddenly be missing from the consumer economy in starting in January. This is one of my...Am I Crazy....moments. Money sunk into higher insurance payments will not be spent on consumer goods, and this will happen quickly.
December 13, 2025 at 3:24 PM
I'm really beginning to think that GOP legislators are not just indifferent to but actively detached from median consumer reality.
Their attitude has always been "fuck 'em," but I don't think they grasp the degree to which they're immediately fucking people, and the impact it will have
Their attitude has always been "fuck 'em," but I don't think they grasp the degree to which they're immediately fucking people, and the impact it will have
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there is a very good book about transatlantic exchange of fascist, eugenicist and racist ideas in the early 20th century and how those ideas shaped the nazi government in its early years. this has been transformed in popular understanding to "the nazis copied jim crow"
If you’ve heard the “the Nazis got their ideas from the US segregationists” I beg you to please stop. This is both false and it minimizes historical European antisemitism in a misguided attempt to emphasize the nature of US anti-Black racism.
It’s horrific without comparison to Nazism.
It’s horrific without comparison to Nazism.
May I politely encourage you to reconsider this framing. It is inaccurately stated and suggests consistent and strong linkages that do not exist.
The Nazis did not “get their ideas” from confederate laws. Antisemitism and anti-Jewish laws existed in Europe long before the Confederacy…
The Nazis did not “get their ideas” from confederate laws. Antisemitism and anti-Jewish laws existed in Europe long before the Confederacy…
December 12, 2025 at 6:40 PM
there is a very good book about transatlantic exchange of fascist, eugenicist and racist ideas in the early 20th century and how those ideas shaped the nazi government in its early years. this has been transformed in popular understanding to "the nazis copied jim crow"
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Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
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17k dudes who are not emotionally mature enough to be in the workforce
December 13, 2025 at 3:42 AM
17k dudes who are not emotionally mature enough to be in the workforce
How the Grinch got his groove back.
How the Grinch saved money by switching to Geico.
How the Grinch Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
December 13, 2025 at 2:09 PM
How the Grinch got his groove back.
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Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
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Dems were in power 12 of the past 25 years with the chance to at least *attempt* to reduce the power of the police state and instead gleefully and massively expanded it at every single opportunity.
They didn't even pretend to oppose any of this shit on principle, only the aesthetics.
They didn't even pretend to oppose any of this shit on principle, only the aesthetics.
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Dems were in power 12 of the past 25 years with the chance to at least *attempt* to reduce the power of the police state and instead gleefully and massively expanded it at every single opportunity.
They didn't even pretend to oppose any of this shit on principle, only the aesthetics.
They didn't even pretend to oppose any of this shit on principle, only the aesthetics.
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Car culture is the built environment and the built environment is car culture. Would help a everything from mass transit to urban density to sustainability if adults did not see themselves primarily as drivers first, pedestrians never, and bus riders only when punished by the state.
lots of people in this thread are saying "i don't want to send people to jail but i do want to take their licenses away" which i agree with, but i also think a lot of people would genuinely rather go to jail for a couple years than never be able to legally drive again
December 12, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Car culture is the built environment and the built environment is car culture. Would help a everything from mass transit to urban density to sustainability if adults did not see themselves primarily as drivers first, pedestrians never, and bus riders only when punished by the state.
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this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw
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In periods of collapse, people are more vulnerable to cults. I think about this all the time. The human mind craves simple explanations for complex problems. Closed belief systems promise certainty, belonging, and the prospect of control.
December 13, 2025 at 3:17 AM
In periods of collapse, people are more vulnerable to cults. I think about this all the time. The human mind craves simple explanations for complex problems. Closed belief systems promise certainty, belonging, and the prospect of control.
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I have this new kind of masochistic tendency which is whenever I see a Democratic congressperson angrily berating at Trump official with all the cameras on, I look up how many Trump nominees they voted for, and friends, it’s never been good news.
December 13, 2025 at 2:21 AM
I have this new kind of masochistic tendency which is whenever I see a Democratic congressperson angrily berating at Trump official with all the cameras on, I look up how many Trump nominees they voted for, and friends, it’s never been good news.
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It's actually really funny how often I can say, "Oh I have a Cancel Me Daddy episode for that" when I see some loser shit like this video come across my timeline.
youtu.be/qNlW_kjBnTY
youtu.be/qNlW_kjBnTY
December 13, 2025 at 3:08 AM
It's actually really funny how often I can say, "Oh I have a Cancel Me Daddy episode for that" when I see some loser shit like this video come across my timeline.
youtu.be/qNlW_kjBnTY
youtu.be/qNlW_kjBnTY
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That same 30% are the unabashed fascists in the country. It's always 30 to 35%. 30% would say to bring back chattel slavery if they were sure the survey was anonymous.
December 12, 2025 at 8:07 PM
That same 30% are the unabashed fascists in the country. It's always 30 to 35%. 30% would say to bring back chattel slavery if they were sure the survey was anonymous.