Rules Don't Work
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LIFE GOAL: GAMING STUPID SYSTEMS
Regulation, justice, climate - are among things I work on.
Science fiction, Baroque music, Frank Zappa are things I don't work on and enjoy very much.
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Neurodivergent and bipolar (FTW!)
Irredeemably woke
Regulation, justice, climate - are among things I work on.
Science fiction, Baroque music, Frank Zappa are things I don't work on and enjoy very much.
Support
🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Neurodivergent and bipolar (FTW!)
Irredeemably woke
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your avi...let us see it
I may have gone a little overboard on the alt-text
I may have gone a little overboard on the alt-text
January 24, 2026 at 10:20 AM
your avi...let us see it
I may have gone a little overboard on the alt-text
I may have gone a little overboard on the alt-text
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I’m seeking photos and videos of drones used by ICE, like these. Please send any you have my way - trying to better understand the patterns.
There are numerous reports across the Twin Cities on ICE monitoring pages of drones circling apartment buildings. What valid law enforcement reason could there be for this?
January 20, 2026 at 4:39 AM
I’m seeking photos and videos of drones used by ICE, like these. Please send any you have my way - trying to better understand the patterns.
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Kill a mother in cold blood, kidnap the cutest little kid I have seen all week in a fucking pokemon hat, the cutest possible hat, then arrest a bunch of clergy members?! Of multiple kinds of faith practices? Do they have a comeuppance kink or something? like wtf do they think is going to happen??
January 23, 2026 at 9:22 PM
Kill a mother in cold blood, kidnap the cutest little kid I have seen all week in a fucking pokemon hat, the cutest possible hat, then arrest a bunch of clergy members?! Of multiple kinds of faith practices? Do they have a comeuppance kink or something? like wtf do they think is going to happen??
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It is sort of interesting how utterly infantilized so many of these countries are now. Israel can't be held to account on the basis of the words of its cabinet ministers. The US can't be held to account on the basis of the words of its cabinet ministers. Russia can't be held to account on the basis
In a normal world, "US treasury secretary endorses American annexation of Canadian territory" should be front page news
January 23, 2026 at 9:18 PM
It is sort of interesting how utterly infantilized so many of these countries are now. Israel can't be held to account on the basis of the words of its cabinet ministers. The US can't be held to account on the basis of the words of its cabinet ministers. Russia can't be held to account on the basis
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Oui boycottons
Boycott de la Coupe du monde : l’idée fait du chemin en Europe – RDS
Boycott de la Coupe du monde : l’idée fait du chemin en Europe
Un membre du comité exécutif de la fédération allemande de football estime qu’il est temps d’envisager un boycott de la Coupe du monde
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January 23, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Oui boycottons
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Show your papers.
Kavanaugh stops.
Your gender? We decide.
ICE doesn't need a warrant.
Abortion is our choice not yours.
Immigrants don't deserve due process.
State universities can't teach Plato.
Civil rights protections are racist.
But vaccination requirements threaten our freedom.
Kavanaugh stops.
Your gender? We decide.
ICE doesn't need a warrant.
Abortion is our choice not yours.
Immigrants don't deserve due process.
State universities can't teach Plato.
Civil rights protections are racist.
But vaccination requirements threaten our freedom.
January 23, 2026 at 9:23 PM
Show your papers.
Kavanaugh stops.
Your gender? We decide.
ICE doesn't need a warrant.
Abortion is our choice not yours.
Immigrants don't deserve due process.
State universities can't teach Plato.
Civil rights protections are racist.
But vaccination requirements threaten our freedom.
Kavanaugh stops.
Your gender? We decide.
ICE doesn't need a warrant.
Abortion is our choice not yours.
Immigrants don't deserve due process.
State universities can't teach Plato.
Civil rights protections are racist.
But vaccination requirements threaten our freedom.
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I have been on KamchatkaTok all week, it is absolutely crazy
January 23, 2026 at 2:04 PM
I have been on KamchatkaTok all week, it is absolutely crazy
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You don’t know your role yet maybe, but we are all finding out just what we have to offer.
In Minneapolis, one man knew immediately what he could offer and said “Bring me your clothing”.
In Minneapolis, one man knew immediately what he could offer and said “Bring me your clothing”.
January 23, 2026 at 2:57 AM
You don’t know your role yet maybe, but we are all finding out just what we have to offer.
In Minneapolis, one man knew immediately what he could offer and said “Bring me your clothing”.
In Minneapolis, one man knew immediately what he could offer and said “Bring me your clothing”.
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"The exercise involved NATO ground, air, and maritime units operating in subzero temperatures, deep snow, and limited daylight (...) Finnish reservists, who train regularly in such environments, were assessed as outperforming U.S. units in mobility, endurance, and tactical coordination."
#Finland
#Finland
“Exercise commanders had to ask Finnish reservists, the most formidable Arctic warriors, who were playing the role of invaders in the war games, to go easy on the Americans,” the source said. “The Finns had to be told to stop beating the Americans as it was embarrassing and demoralising for them.”
January 23, 2026 at 9:23 PM
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The United States of America let go of their position in the world on Wednesday in Davos, augmented by what the new regime wrote in their strategy earlier.
It is a bigger change than the fall of the Soviet Union. Treat it similarly, and find new alliances and ways of organizing society.
It is a bigger change than the fall of the Soviet Union. Treat it similarly, and find new alliances and ways of organizing society.
I did visit the U.S. once on climate mitigation business, and made observations about their society.
Shiny and big things are alluring, but real work for people and nature is often closer by. Just like defence.
Shiny and big things are alluring, but real work for people and nature is often closer by. Just like defence.
January 23, 2026 at 9:15 PM
The United States of America let go of their position in the world on Wednesday in Davos, augmented by what the new regime wrote in their strategy earlier.
It is a bigger change than the fall of the Soviet Union. Treat it similarly, and find new alliances and ways of organizing society.
It is a bigger change than the fall of the Soviet Union. Treat it similarly, and find new alliances and ways of organizing society.
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Man, that's crazy, you're really telling me that this big ass 30 year old oil tanker owned by the most corrupt old man in Greece that's heading from Primorsk to Mundra (Gujarat) is carrying russian oil from russia to India???
January 23, 2026 at 9:21 PM
Man, that's crazy, you're really telling me that this big ass 30 year old oil tanker owned by the most corrupt old man in Greece that's heading from Primorsk to Mundra (Gujarat) is carrying russian oil from russia to India???
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Kushner holds no current office or title in the United States government.
January 23, 2026 at 9:23 PM
Kushner holds no current office or title in the United States government.
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And by admirers of Simo Häyhä
Simo Häyhä - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_Häyhä
January 23, 2026 at 8:53 PM
And by admirers of Simo Häyhä
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Old joke truer then ever
A large russian patrol is marching through the snowy woods near the border when they hear a voice shouting from behind a nearby snowbank:
"One Finnish soldier is better than ten russians!"
A large russian patrol is marching through the snowy woods near the border when they hear a voice shouting from behind a nearby snowbank:
"One Finnish soldier is better than ten russians!"
Exercise commanders had to ask 🇫🇮 reservists, the most formidable Arctic warriors, who were playing the role of invaders in the war games, to go easy on the Americans. “The Finns had to be told to stop beating the Americans as it was embarrassing and demoralising for them,” a mil source said.”
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January 23, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Old joke truer then ever
A large russian patrol is marching through the snowy woods near the border when they hear a voice shouting from behind a nearby snowbank:
"One Finnish soldier is better than ten russians!"
A large russian patrol is marching through the snowy woods near the border when they hear a voice shouting from behind a nearby snowbank:
"One Finnish soldier is better than ten russians!"
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There's similar joke of 🇪🇪 Forrest brothers. 3 are sent against 100 NKVD goons.
Whats the plan? Asks one
You'll go left, I'll go right and we will surround them!
What about Karl?
Karl can stay here, two is more than enough
Whats the plan? Asks one
You'll go left, I'll go right and we will surround them!
What about Karl?
Karl can stay here, two is more than enough
Old joke truer then ever
A large russian patrol is marching through the snowy woods near the border when they hear a voice shouting from behind a nearby snowbank:
"One Finnish soldier is better than ten russians!"
A large russian patrol is marching through the snowy woods near the border when they hear a voice shouting from behind a nearby snowbank:
"One Finnish soldier is better than ten russians!"
Exercise commanders had to ask 🇫🇮 reservists, the most formidable Arctic warriors, who were playing the role of invaders in the war games, to go easy on the Americans. “The Finns had to be told to stop beating the Americans as it was embarrassing and demoralising for them,” a mil source said.”
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January 23, 2026 at 9:07 PM
There's similar joke of 🇪🇪 Forrest brothers. 3 are sent against 100 NKVD goons.
Whats the plan? Asks one
You'll go left, I'll go right and we will surround them!
What about Karl?
Karl can stay here, two is more than enough
Whats the plan? Asks one
You'll go left, I'll go right and we will surround them!
What about Karl?
Karl can stay here, two is more than enough
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really cannot emphasize this enough. the best way to get rid of the "appearance of disorder" is just to dramatically increase the throughput of the system. and that would also be good for many other reasons!
You create a path to citizenship and dramatically loosen policies for formal legal migration, thus regularizing and regulating the immigration flows that otherwise happen under the wire or through the asylum process. The sense of disorder is the central problem people have with the system as it is.
The solution here, again, is to pass a major reform bill that includes a path to citizenship for the undocumented. There may well be a backlash against it. But you do it and hope that the political and economic costs of a reversal are too great for its opponents. That's how major legislation works.
January 23, 2026 at 9:11 PM
really cannot emphasize this enough. the best way to get rid of the "appearance of disorder" is just to dramatically increase the throughput of the system. and that would also be good for many other reasons!
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So many bangers!
Imagine a bill featuring:
transsexual cyber lenin’s perfect labia
Visibly Sweating Internet Lesbians
big pink weather dildo
Virtue Signaling Cheerleaders for Satan
and
TransSexual Elliot and the OnlyFans Poets
😈
Imagine a bill featuring:
transsexual cyber lenin’s perfect labia
Visibly Sweating Internet Lesbians
big pink weather dildo
Virtue Signaling Cheerleaders for Satan
and
TransSexual Elliot and the OnlyFans Poets
😈
January 23, 2026 at 8:51 PM
So many bangers!
Imagine a bill featuring:
transsexual cyber lenin’s perfect labia
Visibly Sweating Internet Lesbians
big pink weather dildo
Virtue Signaling Cheerleaders for Satan
and
TransSexual Elliot and the OnlyFans Poets
😈
Imagine a bill featuring:
transsexual cyber lenin’s perfect labia
Visibly Sweating Internet Lesbians
big pink weather dildo
Virtue Signaling Cheerleaders for Satan
and
TransSexual Elliot and the OnlyFans Poets
😈
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Julie burchill is worried about trans women in women's spaces but not about cis men sexually harassing women.
This week, an X user created an AI video of me being chloroformed and prepared for rape.
Victims are told it's not real and they're getting offended for no reason.
But nudification tools are weapons of sexual assault, and the harm they cause is real 👇
jessasato.substack.com/p/ai-nudific...
Victims are told it's not real and they're getting offended for no reason.
But nudification tools are weapons of sexual assault, and the harm they cause is real 👇
jessasato.substack.com/p/ai-nudific...
AI nudification: the latest weapon of violence against women and girls
In Julie Burchill’s recent article in the Spectator, Does it really matter if Grok undresses us all?, she makes the argument that those who, like me, have repeatedly had their clothes removed by socia...
jessasato.substack.com
January 23, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Julie burchill is worried about trans women in women's spaces but not about cis men sexually harassing women.
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Emphasizing that ICE is deliberately arresting people who are in the asylum process precisely because they are easy pickings; after all, they're complying with the government!
Amazingly, it's likely legal; but cruel, unjust, and very counterproductive by discouraging compliance!
Amazingly, it's likely legal; but cruel, unjust, and very counterproductive by discouraging compliance!
The parents of a 7 year old, all of whom are in the process of applying for asylum, took their daughter to the ER when her nose wouldn't stop bleeding. ICE picked them up near the hospital and they are now in detention in Texas, presumably awaiting deportation. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
ICE detains family seeking emergency care for child at Portland hospital
The Venezuelan parents and their 7-year-old daughter entered the U.S. legally.
www.oregonlive.com
January 23, 2026 at 8:34 PM
Emphasizing that ICE is deliberately arresting people who are in the asylum process precisely because they are easy pickings; after all, they're complying with the government!
Amazingly, it's likely legal; but cruel, unjust, and very counterproductive by discouraging compliance!
Amazingly, it's likely legal; but cruel, unjust, and very counterproductive by discouraging compliance!
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1) Quand j’ai chadopté l’humaine la spéciation m’avait appelé Lhine et mon humaine elle a changé en Sütterlin et après comme c’était excessivement intello elle a dit Scat que ça exprime mon moi profond rapport aux performances lardistiques occasionnelles
January 23, 2026 at 9:08 PM
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I've been expecting the dollar to fall of a cliff at some point for 1 year (and I made sure to move the one contract I had in USD to EUR, even at a lower daily rate at the time...)
It was obvious what would happen
It was obvious what would happen
☑️ Dismantle rule of law and (though who knows if markets care) democracy if you’d like a catalyzer.
(Also, where have all the optimists gone? 🫣)
(Also, where have all the optimists gone? 🫣)
January 23, 2026 at 9:06 PM
I've been expecting the dollar to fall of a cliff at some point for 1 year (and I made sure to move the one contract I had in USD to EUR, even at a lower daily rate at the time...)
It was obvious what would happen
It was obvious what would happen
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I've posted about this before, but it's worth repeating. What's happening is very abnormal. And the more it happens, the more likely it is signal, not noise.
& it's 100% predictable given how the Trump administration has upended so many assumptions about the US/dollar
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& it's 100% predictable given how the Trump administration has upended so many assumptions about the US/dollar
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bsky.app/profile/dani...
The🌎economy is in a crisis, & yet the dollar is falling. Investors are turning up their noses at US debt, instead snapping up gold & German bunds as "safe assets"
The Trump admin's policies are, to borrow from Bob Gilpin, tarnishing the "prestige" of the US economy & the 💵🧵1/
The Trump admin's policies are, to borrow from Bob Gilpin, tarnishing the "prestige" of the US economy & the 💵🧵1/
January 23, 2026 at 7:44 PM
I've posted about this before, but it's worth repeating. What's happening is very abnormal. And the more it happens, the more likely it is signal, not noise.
& it's 100% predictable given how the Trump administration has upended so many assumptions about the US/dollar
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bsky.app/profile/dani...
& it's 100% predictable given how the Trump administration has upended so many assumptions about the US/dollar
2/
bsky.app/profile/dani...
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Yet another data point supporting the view that there is change afoot in the global financial system.
I know it's trite, but this is all "how to dismantle a reserve currency."
The dollar as the go-to haven in times of crisis, well, that appears (again) to be shaky.
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I know it's trite, but this is all "how to dismantle a reserve currency."
The dollar as the go-to haven in times of crisis, well, that appears (again) to be shaky.
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January 23, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Yet another data point supporting the view that there is change afoot in the global financial system.
I know it's trite, but this is all "how to dismantle a reserve currency."
The dollar as the go-to haven in times of crisis, well, that appears (again) to be shaky.
1/
I know it's trite, but this is all "how to dismantle a reserve currency."
The dollar as the go-to haven in times of crisis, well, that appears (again) to be shaky.
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I wouldn't be surprised if they start using these lists to put people on the no-fly lists, audits by the IRS, etc. as retribution. Once a government starts making lists of its citizens like this, the abuses will inevitably follow.
🚨 ICE is creating a watchlist of anyone and everyone who films them, DHS sources tell me:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-making...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-making...
ICE Making List of Anyone Who Films Them
“We have a nice little database and now you’re considered a domestic terrorist.”
www.kenklippenstein.com
January 23, 2026 at 8:05 PM
I wouldn't be surprised if they start using these lists to put people on the no-fly lists, audits by the IRS, etc. as retribution. Once a government starts making lists of its citizens like this, the abuses will inevitably follow.