The Embodiment of The Paradox of Tolerance
seltsamerweise.bsky.social
The Embodiment of The Paradox of Tolerance
@seltsamerweise.bsky.social
Minnesota transplant. Beard appreciator (moustache envier).

I HAD A DOCTORATE IN INDUSTRIAL/ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY BUT ON JULY 1ST 2024 I BARGAINED AWAY MY KNOWLEDGE FOR MADNESS AND A VARIETY OF SILLY COSTUMES AND I HAVE YET TO REGRET THIS EXCHANGE.
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The entirety of the left/liberal friction in Democratic Party politics is summarized by how one looks at basically anything Hakeem Jeffries says and if your reaction is "Jesus fucking Christ we could do so much better than this" or "I like the way he's not Donald Trump"

That's it. That's all of it.
December 3, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Minnesota, here's a sign to show your support for Somali neighbors. Share it, print it, pass it on.

PDF here >> www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/s89ru...
December 3, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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An easy way to explain luddites:

Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.

And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.

That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
December 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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People who won't do the easy thing will really NEVER EVER do the hard things.
December 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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December 3, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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The boat strikes are illegal. Dope couriers are not military combatants. So killing them with air strikes instead of arresting them is murder. It’s that simple.
December 3, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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I am begging one, JUST ONE, congressional reporter to follow up with Mike Johnson by asking, "What are the American people to make of a Speaker of the House who tells us daily that he's not aware of what's happening on Capitol Hill and the White House?"
December 2, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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We are not at war with Venezuela, yet. The boats are civilian craft. The U.S. criminal code does not maintain a death penalty for drug smuggling. Due process is required before conviction or sentence.

All of the 80 people killed thus far are wanton murders slain under illegal orders. All of them.
December 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I don't enjoy any of the mainline Star Wars movies after the original trilogy.

I don't like them because I don't want to keep following the repetitive adventures of the same group of entitled Special Boys and Special Girls.

I don't really like dynasties.

I bring this up for no particular reason.
December 2, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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LIBERALS: If only we'd elected Hillary Clinton none of this would have happened

HILLARY CLINTON, APPEARING AT AN EVENT SPONSORED BY A RIGHT-WING BILLIONAIRE TRUMP MEGADONOR: People who have sympathy for Palestinians getting genocided are dumb kids duped by communist propaganda
Hillary Clinton blames TikTok and “totally made up” videos for young people’s views on Israel and Palestine.

She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
December 2, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Hey, @jvl.bsky.social.

I just saw the first two minutes of a recent video and wanted to offer you an opportunity to discuss psychology as a scientific discipline.

I'm a former assistant professor of psychology and would be willing to put on my robe again to clarify some things for you.
December 2, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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I know it is going to sound strange, but I am entering this holiday season with such relief.

Everything reminds me of what I was feeling after the election last year, and what I was feeling was the possibility of successfully totalitarian fascism and sudden collapse.

I'm celebrating their failure.
December 2, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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We are in a bad place, but we have the tools and the opportunity and the courage to find our way out.

A year ago, I feared that would not be the case.

We still have to DO it, of course.

But now, I have faith and belief that there's a path.
December 2, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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December 1, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry

girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
December 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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It's great that reporting on the double tap has spotlighted the abject criminality of this Administration.

But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants.

The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.
December 2, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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the first thought that comes to your mind when you see nazis saying 'destroy the trans people who give us bad grades on our homework' should not be 'what was the homework'
December 1, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Two facts:

-Accessibility and walkability are as strong as their weakest links.

-Uncleared sidewalks are a moral statement (even if it is just the curb cuts)

If grandma can't roll over the snow to catch the bus, it isn't good enough.

📸 at 38th and Hiawatha. A major transit hub.
December 1, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
December 1, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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we are well past the point at which anyone who cannot identify bad faith like this is disqualified from commenting on it

the girl and her mother are basically screaming THIS IS A BAD FAITH ATTACK ON TRANS PEOPLE at the top of their lungs and if you can't see that you're stupid or lying
a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
December 1, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I'm going to need everybody to view the Gallago texts and understand that he's merely the one who got caught.
What do you know Gallego is a fascist. Weird if only someone had been pointing that out for months only to be called a conspiracy theorist and a doomer….

The democrats are fundamentally broken and must be destroyed and replaced.
Turns out when you spend a bunch of time with David's Sack and the Crypto Bros, you end up absorbing a whole lot more than their dirty money
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December 1, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Okay, as a former psychology professor, I would have no problem failing this reaction paper.

It's a statement of intolerance directed right at my trans TA, thus violating syllabus.

And PSY 101 isn't a religion class. Nothing about this essay engages with the instructional material. That's a fail.
December 1, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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giving more attention to whether the student's shitty paper was graded too harshly instead of the suspension of the graduate instructor is falling into the Fake Outrage of the Day trap, designed to crush trans rights and academic freedom. i did a chalkboard post to stop myself from falling for it.
December 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM