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.
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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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.
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
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.
All of the 80 people killed thus far are wanton murders slain under illegal orders. All of them.
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.
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
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.
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.
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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, 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.”
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
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, 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
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.
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
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.
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.
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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.
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
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.
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.
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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.
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
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.
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.
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MSP Whistle Hubs, rolling out this week!
Do you want to host a whistle hub for your neighborhood? Or are you a 3D printer hobbyist who wants to donate whistles to hubs?
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December 1, 2025 at 7:54 PM
MSP Whistle Hubs, rolling out this week!
Do you want to host a whistle hub for your neighborhood? Or are you a 3D printer hobbyist who wants to donate whistles to hubs?
Find out more and sign up here:
Do you want to host a whistle hub for your neighborhood? Or are you a 3D printer hobbyist who wants to donate whistles to hubs?
Find out more and sign up here:
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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-...
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
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-...
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
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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
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"
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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.
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
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.
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.
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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
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'
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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.
-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
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.
-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.
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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
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
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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
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
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
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
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.
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
www.erininthemorning.com/p/dem-senato...
www.erininthemorning.com/p/dem-senato...
December 1, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I'm going to need everybody to view the Gallago texts and understand that he's merely the one who got caught.
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.
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
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.
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.
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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
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.
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A personal update: I have been unemployed long enough to finally follow through on a project I've long toyed with. For years, I've been following Minnesota's appellate dockets and posting about notable or interesting cases and decisions.
Now, I've spun that off into @minnappct.watch
Now, I've spun that off into @minnappct.watch
December 1, 2025 at 5:32 PM
A personal update: I have been unemployed long enough to finally follow through on a project I've long toyed with. For years, I've been following Minnesota's appellate dockets and posting about notable or interesting cases and decisions.
Now, I've spun that off into @minnappct.watch
Now, I've spun that off into @minnappct.watch
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You actually don’t deserve to win an election if you are telling people they will have to give up some of their human rights to win and that they should be happy to do so.
December 1, 2025 at 5:42 PM
You actually don’t deserve to win an election if you are telling people they will have to give up some of their human rights to win and that they should be happy to do so.
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it’s World AIDS Day, so you should donate to my Red Undie Run fund to encourage me to run naked in freezing weather through the streets of minneapolis. it’s for a good cause and i wouldn’t run naked through the streets normally. but we’re trying to save the world here people
i am dropping my anonymity for a few days to raise money for the aliveness project!
i’m doing the red undie run and will be nearly-nude in the cold next week running a mile so please send some donations my way!
thank you to @dbrauer.net for getting me to my $200 goal! (that was my #mplswins prize)
i’m doing the red undie run and will be nearly-nude in the cold next week running a mile so please send some donations my way!
thank you to @dbrauer.net for getting me to my $200 goal! (that was my #mplswins prize)
Red Undie Run 2025
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December 1, 2025 at 5:24 PM
it’s World AIDS Day, so you should donate to my Red Undie Run fund to encourage me to run naked in freezing weather through the streets of minneapolis. it’s for a good cause and i wouldn’t run naked through the streets normally. but we’re trying to save the world here people
Believe it or not, I *DID* already imagine a day when I'd be blocking Anthony Michael Kreis.
Congratulations on your latest (and last for me) Fell For It Again Award!
Congratulations on your latest (and last for me) Fell For It Again Award!
December 1, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Believe it or not, I *DID* already imagine a day when I'd be blocking Anthony Michael Kreis.
Congratulations on your latest (and last for me) Fell For It Again Award!
Congratulations on your latest (and last for me) Fell For It Again Award!
@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social @thebulwark.com
I have grown to respect the hell out of Bill Kristol in recent years. This is the final piece that I need him and folks at places like The Bulwark to understand, articulate, and act upon. Being welcome in the Big Tent doesn't make you the ringmaster.
I have grown to respect the hell out of Bill Kristol in recent years. This is the final piece that I need him and folks at places like The Bulwark to understand, articulate, and act upon. Being welcome in the Big Tent doesn't make you the ringmaster.
I understand that the policy role former conservatives such as myself will have in the Big Tent, which is absolutely zero. That's completely fine and fair. It's not policy that interests us at this point.
December 1, 2025 at 2:27 PM
@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social @thebulwark.com
I have grown to respect the hell out of Bill Kristol in recent years. This is the final piece that I need him and folks at places like The Bulwark to understand, articulate, and act upon. Being welcome in the Big Tent doesn't make you the ringmaster.
I have grown to respect the hell out of Bill Kristol in recent years. This is the final piece that I need him and folks at places like The Bulwark to understand, articulate, and act upon. Being welcome in the Big Tent doesn't make you the ringmaster.
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It is exquisitely painful to say all of this. But given that the Republican Congress has no desire to stop the spread of vaccine disinformation coming from the U.S. government, and in many cases are aiding and abetting it, this will not stop until there is a massive and catastrophic outbreak.
November 29, 2025 at 6:08 PM
It is exquisitely painful to say all of this. But given that the Republican Congress has no desire to stop the spread of vaccine disinformation coming from the U.S. government, and in many cases are aiding and abetting it, this will not stop until there is a massive and catastrophic outbreak.