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J. C. Cantwell 🌻

@segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz

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Social Justice Bard. They/them. Gay; tired. "Maybe when it happens, you'll sink deeply into your chair and sigh loose a breath you didn't know you were holding. It is a pronoun. It is an event. It is a place and a time and a certainty."

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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · Aug 1

brother, nobody calls you a fuckin dipshit because you Dared To Push Back Against Woke

they call you a fuckin dipshit because you’re a fuckin dipshit. it’s really not hard, and if you weren’t a fuckin dipshit, you’d understand it.

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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 6m

blind with rage to report that i've been getting back into doing a VR exercise routine and it actually has, in fact, been making me feel better, up to and including a persistent internal Check Engine Light i'd been chalking up to moderate-but-consistent high blood pressure being utterly absent

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shambling state machine @palecur.bsky.social · 46m

so linux is Fine if you absolutely stay to the rivers you're used to. the problem is everyone has *at least* one waterfall to chase.

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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 20h

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 38m

oh no

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craigk @craigk4.bsky.social · 57m

using the slurs invented and popularized by david duke, but leftishly

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Adam “Bluesky Says I’m Rude” Sessler 🇺🇦 @adamsessler.bsky.social · 1h

This underscores why the casual use of “Zionist” as an epithet was so concerning to me from the get go. It has a pernicious effect that goes by unnoticed until moments like this.

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 1h

Every fucking time we pointed out that the online left was harboring open antisemites and pushing antisemitic talking points, we were shouted down with "it's only a small minority of people, how dare you focus on this???"

Turns out, that causes antisemitism to fester within the left! Hmmmmm!

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 1h

What if I told you that antisemitism was at the core of Dirtbag Left 1.0 in *addition* to misogyny?

What if I told you that I first got noticed and dogpiled because I dared point out that most of the dirtbag left had horrid reactionary opinions like these?

nick @hellmode.lol · 7h

we're speedrunning dirtbag left 2.0, except instead of misogyny being at the center, it's gonna be antisemitism. everyone in the replies who immediately took this image as fact deserves to have their posting rights revoked

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 1h

The fact that someone who works for the *Onion* is sharing this openly antisemitic meme posted by a Nazi is *really fucking bad*.

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 1h

Sorry, but at this point no leftist is "falling for it", folks like Juniper actively seek out some of the most antisemitic shitstains on the net (JVGraz in this instance, who I pointed out long ago on Twitter was openly antisemitic (and was dogpiled for it)) and promote their horrid worldviews.

onion person @junlper.beer.
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ISRAELI FOOD
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Israelis have developed and continue to enjoy a delicious cuisine rooted in the uniqueness of Israeli society itself Learn how to make this
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פינחס יוסף מונד @pymundgenealogy.com.
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You are posting a Nazi meme created exactly for this reaction, genius
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פינחס יוסף מונד @pymundgenealogy.com.
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You should feel bad about this, but you won't, because you're the piece of this was made for
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פינחס יוסף מונד @pymundgenealogy.com
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You are posting a Nazi meme created exactly for this reaction, genius
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פינחס יוסף מונד @pymundgenealogy.com.
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You should feel bad about this, but you won't, because you're the piece of this was made for
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ZL (she/her) @jcw1.bsky.social.
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Do you have reason to believe that OP didn't make this image?
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פינחס יוסף מונד @pymundgenealogy.com
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Yes, it and similar ones have been going around for months and JVGraz explicitly takes credit for the genre
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פינחס יוסף מונד @pymundgenealogy.com.
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Gumbo and haggis for some reason have been going viral for the past few days
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Oh and "full Israeli breakfast" (English) and (this one's been out of vogue for the last few weeks) poutine.
@kenanperry.bsky.social has been battling the gullible and showing them what they are over on Twitter
October 12, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 1h

ma'am this is bluesky we do not ratio, we block

die alone in obscurity. breathe dust. get your psychosexual satisfaction elsewhere.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1h

there are two conditions which cause this kind of behavior, one is still being on twitter after all this time and the other is having a job from which you have no reasonable fear of ever being fired, and it's why columnists, tech founders and venture capitalists all eventually end up like this here

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 2h

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 1h

i feel like if there's anything in the world that'll make a bunch of people go "wait what the fuck" and wake the fuck up a little it'll be being *constantly, unsubtly gaslit* by previously-at-least-reputable-if-utterly-useless news media

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

BRENNAN: CBS confirmed the Trump administration rescinded the layoffs of CDC scientists. Some were involved with the federal measles response. How does a mistake like this happen?

VANCE: The govt shutdown inevitably leads to some chaos. It happened because of Schumer

B: But this was a WH decision

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 3h

whole thing is even worse than the headline when you think about what 'play' means here

“I’m just as concerned for you! Don’t worry about me! It would seem we are in this together and will have to rise above it. Otherwise keep in close touch and we’ll play some more soon!!!!”"

Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 3h

Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein ‘we’re in this together’ in 2011 email www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein ‘we’re in this together’ in 2011 email

Royal sent email after Virginia Giuffre photo emerged but later claimed he had ceased contact with Epstein in 2010

www.theguardian.com

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Ben Cates @bencates.bsky.social · 2h

The value of democracy is not, in any meaningful sense, that it selects better leaders than other systems. The chief virtue is that the metaphorical torches and pitchforks remain metaphorical noticeably more often.

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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 2h

i think that this is both a) trivially obviously the case and b) a necessary and sufficient argument against democracy in principle, i'm just not sure where that leaves us

politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 2h

This is the magic recipe of the American electorate for the 21st century so far. Roughly speaking 30% of voters are committed R, 30% are committed D, 30% are swing voters who can actually be persuaded one way or the other, and 10% are fucking random number generators.

politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 2h

Campaign as hard as you want, give as good of a debate performance as you want, run on the best record you possibly can, your fate is still always going to be in the hands of a guy who decided his vote based on the color of his belly button lint.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 4h

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

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Citizen K @citizenkryptik.bsky.social · 3h

The way folks talk of the 'Democratic Establishment' as it's some Illuminati-level cabal to both spite and persecute poor people as well as secretly exalt Republicans. They really have to bend over backwards to find ways to make Dems to blame for even Republican sins.

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Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · 3h

“Democratic establishment” doesn’t mean anything except “doesn’t agree 100% with every single thing I have been told to believe”

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Deontological Warfare But She's A Skeleton Or Something @clockworklady.bsky.social · 1d

Bluesky is a place where you can post "I like pancakes" and someone will respond "WHY AREN'T DEMOCRATS DOING ANYTHING AND WHY AREN'T YOU PERSONALLY FREEING GAZA, AMERICA IS DOOMED AND THE TIDE OF BLOOD RISES" and then maybe, if you are lucky, in four hours, they will add "also why you hate waffles"

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 16h

When someone online screams that Someone Needs To Do Something, you're seeing someone abdicate their civic responsibility within a democracy, desperately hoping some counter-force will solve their problems for them.

It's our responsibility to reject that.

It's *our* responsibility to Do Something.

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 16h

Some of y'all allowed yourselves to be taken for a ride by know-nothing commentators who repeatedly insist that electeds could simply Do Their Jobs and Stop All This.

They sold you a simple narrative about how the world works.

It was not true.

It was designed to demoralize you.

Don't let it.

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 16h

The law is nothing but a shared social contract written down so that everyone can refer to it when disputes occur.

When you hand over all the levers of power to people who actively despise *any* social contract that isn't "do what I say or else", *this is what happens*.

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 16h

*That's* why "oh so I have to vote like my life depends on it *every time*????" takes drove us all utterly mad over the last decade.

YES. YES YOU DO.

Because if you don't take democracy seriously, if you shrug your shoulders and go "well, how much worse could it be?"...

...you'll soon find out.

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