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@silentstars.bsky.social
Midwestern goth-punk, experimental cook, lover of horror novels, craft beer, dogs, cats, and nature hikes. So sayeth the Witch.
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The kind of person who will tell you to bomb a bus will also gleefully throw you under the next one.
December 2, 2025 at 3:10 AM
The kind of person who will tell you to bomb a bus will also gleefully throw you under the next one.
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Wrote about Epstein, the misogynistic culture that protected him, and the banality of evil when it comes to harming women and children. He was not a unique man.
open.substack.com/pub/houseofm...
open.substack.com/pub/houseofm...
This Is How The World Works
Epstein, and the violence we all live with
open.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Wrote about Epstein, the misogynistic culture that protected him, and the banality of evil when it comes to harming women and children. He was not a unique man.
open.substack.com/pub/houseofm...
open.substack.com/pub/houseofm...
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I love that JD Vance is IRL Starscream, just a conniving jackass hated by everyone including his own boss. The one vestigial piece of bipartisanship left in this country
November 5, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I love that JD Vance is IRL Starscream, just a conniving jackass hated by everyone including his own boss. The one vestigial piece of bipartisanship left in this country
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Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight
November 5, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight
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This is brilliant
November 3, 2025 at 4:44 AM
This is brilliant
This is the way.
Retired Army Sgt. Brian Wofford spoke to me this morning at the Oklahoma City #NoKings protest. Didn’t expect him to be carrying his DD214 so I asked some warmup questions like when he got out and whether his injury was service-related.
He paused while describing the car bomb in Iraq to say this:
He paused while describing the car bomb in Iraq to say this:
October 19, 2025 at 3:41 AM
This is the way.
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Happy Please End the Day With the Same Number of Fingers You Started It With Day
July 4, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Happy Please End the Day With the Same Number of Fingers You Started It With Day
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Trump released a $250 fragrance (one for women, one for men).
Sometimes a fragrance can be expensive because it contains certain ingredients or involve artisanal, small-batch production. But with no note breakdown or even a description of the scent, what justifies this price?
Sometimes a fragrance can be expensive because it contains certain ingredients or involve artisanal, small-batch production. But with no note breakdown or even a description of the scent, what justifies this price?
July 1, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Trump released a $250 fragrance (one for women, one for men).
Sometimes a fragrance can be expensive because it contains certain ingredients or involve artisanal, small-batch production. But with no note breakdown or even a description of the scent, what justifies this price?
Sometimes a fragrance can be expensive because it contains certain ingredients or involve artisanal, small-batch production. But with no note breakdown or even a description of the scent, what justifies this price?
Wisconsin Republicans want to eliminate Spring elections "because Republicans don't show up". #Wisconsin
www.wisn.com/article/rep-...
www.wisn.com/article/rep-...
Van Orden pitches eliminating spring elections after GOP losses
Republicans faced the question of how to win when Donald Trump is not on the ballot at their state party convention.
www.wisn.com
May 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Wisconsin Republicans want to eliminate Spring elections "because Republicans don't show up". #Wisconsin
www.wisn.com/article/rep-...
www.wisn.com/article/rep-...
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Idk if this is insane behavior or not but I really liked this one post-election @hankgreen.bsky.social video and put all (but one) of the books in the bibliography into a spotify audiobook playlist
open.spotify.com/playlist/64t...
open.spotify.com/playlist/64t...
May 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Idk if this is insane behavior or not but I really liked this one post-election @hankgreen.bsky.social video and put all (but one) of the books in the bibliography into a spotify audiobook playlist
open.spotify.com/playlist/64t...
open.spotify.com/playlist/64t...
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About seven years ago, Nick and I wrote a Black Mirror spec where people had a personal AI device called ChooseU that helped you make the best decisions for yourself, gradually transforming you into a complete narcissistic sociopath who’d do anything to get what you want.
Anyway, they’ve made that.
Anyway, they’ve made that.
This story explains a LOT of things: ChatGPT appears to be rooting on sociopathic mental illness by validating every delusion of grandeur.
It also explains, in part, the hype cycle around AI: rich people, addicted to praise, invented a Compliment Machine.
www.garbageday.email/p/this-is-wh...
It also explains, in part, the hype cycle around AI: rich people, addicted to praise, invented a Compliment Machine.
www.garbageday.email/p/this-is-wh...
May 5, 2025 at 7:41 PM
About seven years ago, Nick and I wrote a Black Mirror spec where people had a personal AI device called ChooseU that helped you make the best decisions for yourself, gradually transforming you into a complete narcissistic sociopath who’d do anything to get what you want.
Anyway, they’ve made that.
Anyway, they’ve made that.
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Silicon Valley is run by people who genuinely think the world as we know it is going to end in the next few decades. Many also WANT this to happen: they WANT the biological world to be replaced by a new digital world. They WANT "posthumans" to take the place of humans. A 🧵:
April 25, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Silicon Valley is run by people who genuinely think the world as we know it is going to end in the next few decades. Many also WANT this to happen: they WANT the biological world to be replaced by a new digital world. They WANT "posthumans" to take the place of humans. A 🧵:
"Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.."
The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach.
Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM
Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM
April 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM
"Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.."
Viking metal cover of Gangnam Style. Good, but still doesn't beat the Big Trouble in Little China version
youtu.be/j0U769v6acU?...
youtu.be/j0U769v6acU?...
FEUERSCHWANZ - Gangnam Style (PSY Cover) (Official Video) | Napalm Records
YouTube video by Napalm Records
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April 17, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Viking metal cover of Gangnam Style. Good, but still doesn't beat the Big Trouble in Little China version
youtu.be/j0U769v6acU?...
youtu.be/j0U769v6acU?...
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Louder for the folx in back
my take is that your willingness to accept this gulf of america nonsense is an indicator of your willingness to accept much worse things coming from this administrator
Trump’s decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico may be upsetting to some, writes @giladedelman.bsky.social, but “in a democracy, values are determined by majority rule, and they don’t shift in only one direction. They can shift back”:
February 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Louder for the folx in back
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like every religious system, Christianity has regularly been mobilized and interpreted in the service of unconscionable ends
but to my mind what we are seeing on the right in the United States is something else -- the emergence of an almost Nietzschean, if not outright nihilist, ...
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but to my mind what we are seeing on the right in the United States is something else -- the emergence of an almost Nietzschean, if not outright nihilist, ...
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February 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
like every religious system, Christianity has regularly been mobilized and interpreted in the service of unconscionable ends
but to my mind what we are seeing on the right in the United States is something else -- the emergence of an almost Nietzschean, if not outright nihilist, ...
1/
but to my mind what we are seeing on the right in the United States is something else -- the emergence of an almost Nietzschean, if not outright nihilist, ...
1/
A (small) bright spot amid the chaos: The FSIS (Food Safety Inspectors, part of the USDA) posted their employee onboarding handbook on their public-facing website yesterday - 'for new employees and a reminder for current ones'. The first ten pages are Mission / ethics statements, passages about
February 7, 2025 at 10:34 PM
A (small) bright spot amid the chaos: The FSIS (Food Safety Inspectors, part of the USDA) posted their employee onboarding handbook on their public-facing website yesterday - 'for new employees and a reminder for current ones'. The first ten pages are Mission / ethics statements, passages about
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I saw a few people describe Curtis Yarvin as "dumb," despite his reputation as the far-seeing philosopher-king who's inspired Peter Thiel, JD Vance, & many on the New Right. So I did some reading and, well, yikes, "dumb" is an understatement. He's just Lou Dobbs w/ bigger words. For example...
December 25, 2024 at 8:29 PM
I saw a few people describe Curtis Yarvin as "dumb," despite his reputation as the far-seeing philosopher-king who's inspired Peter Thiel, JD Vance, & many on the New Right. So I did some reading and, well, yikes, "dumb" is an understatement. He's just Lou Dobbs w/ bigger words. For example...
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Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends:
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
December 17, 2024 at 3:21 PM
Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends:
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
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The first thing that came to my mind upon hearing this; Where’s the hotline for kids, teachers & classroom ‘executives’ for real or threatened mass shootings? CEO’s? Give me a break!
December 17, 2024 at 6:03 AM
The first thing that came to my mind upon hearing this; Where’s the hotline for kids, teachers & classroom ‘executives’ for real or threatened mass shootings? CEO’s? Give me a break!
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HBO has declined to renew “Sesame Street” for new episodes. The series that’s been teaching generations of little kids since 1969 now has no studio.
Please consider donating to Sesame Workshop to ensure the residents of 123 Sesame Street are still around to teach kids of all needs and backgrounds.
Please consider donating to Sesame Workshop to ensure the residents of 123 Sesame Street are still around to teach kids of all needs and backgrounds.
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December 15, 2024 at 2:12 PM
HBO has declined to renew “Sesame Street” for new episodes. The series that’s been teaching generations of little kids since 1969 now has no studio.
Please consider donating to Sesame Workshop to ensure the residents of 123 Sesame Street are still around to teach kids of all needs and backgrounds.
Please consider donating to Sesame Workshop to ensure the residents of 123 Sesame Street are still around to teach kids of all needs and backgrounds.
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The issue I tend to have with articles like this is that there's no 1 reason why straight men have fewer friends. Yes (say it with me now) toxic masculinity is part of the problem, without question. But there're also issues like how work increasingly takes over every moment of free time...
How to Fix America's Midlife Male Friendship Crisis
Men are growing ever more isolated as they age—often with negative effects on their mental health. Here are some keys to forming deep bonds that last into middle age and beyond.
www.esquire.com
December 14, 2024 at 4:25 PM
The issue I tend to have with articles like this is that there's no 1 reason why straight men have fewer friends. Yes (say it with me now) toxic masculinity is part of the problem, without question. But there're also issues like how work increasingly takes over every moment of free time...
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It's Shirley Jackson's birthday today, and so it's a perfect opportunity to recommend my favourite story of hers, THE SUMMER PEOPLE. It's a subtle horror, quietly creeping up behind you until it lays a cold hand on your shoulder. I love it very much. It's only 13 pages and you can read it here:
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December 14, 2024 at 2:49 PM
It's Shirley Jackson's birthday today, and so it's a perfect opportunity to recommend my favourite story of hers, THE SUMMER PEOPLE. It's a subtle horror, quietly creeping up behind you until it lays a cold hand on your shoulder. I love it very much. It's only 13 pages and you can read it here:
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