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Tuxedo Catfish

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evaluated? buddy they keep me in a temperature-controlled vault so they can measure all autism accurately against mine

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · Jan 1

this was my old pinned post on Twitter, Fran Lebowitz is one of the best to ever do it, just the clearest and most powerful articulation of my beliefs about the arts and their relationship with criticism i've ever seen from another person

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On Ballet: Fran Lebowitz and Nick Mauss | Live from the Whitney

YouTube video by Whitney Museum of American Art

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 5h

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Plague!! Starcraft

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 19h

it conveniently overlaps with making it difficult to even imagine, let alone implement, things like union organization or other forms of collective action. morality and politics become completely personal dimensions, almost a form of spirituality rather than anything actually useful.

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 19h

this is one of the purposes of American culture's insane individualism; rather than clumsily trying to whitewash the past you sever the intellectual link between the criminal and the crime. people see something bad, go "wow that sucks" and completely fail to draw material conclusions from it.

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 19h

like today under Trump is another story but 30 years ago it wasn't about denying that we'd ever done anything wrong. it was about constructing a way of looking at the world where people can't even conceive of the US as an international political actor and draw conclusions from what it does.

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 19h

and when it comes to war and the military they were clearly walking on eggshells. for example we were introduced to the idea that dropping the atom bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was *controversial*, that it was a "hard decision" and that some nebulous people thought it was unnecessary or overkill

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 19h

ditto for stuff like women's suffrage or the civil rights movement; they got favorable treatment, even explicitly for going against social norms, but they're treated like they were correcting a deviation and restoring America to its true spirit. anything evil is a corrosion of the national spirit.

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 19h

a lot of this has to do with American public school education. there's a lot of variety but if you weren't in an insanely conservative district you WOULD have learned about slavery in the 90s, McCarthyism presented as a bad thing, my school even covered Sacco and Vanzetti for that matter

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 19h

some years ago i basically got myself exiled from my main internet community for saying there was no ethical way to serve in the U.S. military and doubling down (pretty aggressively ngl, but i was in the right lol) when challenged on it. lost a ton of friends, but it clarified some things for me.

Evie Corwell | Lowtax speedrun is my passion @eviecorwell.etheirys.social · 20h

Americans actually believing this breaks my brain.

Do you have ANY idea how many fascist regimes the US sponsored during the Cold War alone?

Or hell, I'll just let Smedley Butler speak:

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 20h

you'd still need a lot of fine-tuning to prevent gaming the directory structure but that's getting more into "eliminate the profit motive" which is a more extreme but simultaneously less niche belief lol

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 20h

this is basically how Google worked before it turned completely to shit and it was unironically one of the greatest technological achievements of my lifetime

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 20h

If someone wants to find a lawyer in my area there's a directory where you basically describe to a middleman what you need help with and they give you a list. I don't mind stuff where the person in need initiates it, basically what I'm against is the psychic pollution and creation of new "needs."

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 21h

see that's just ethics. this is why i eventually ended up gradually swinging back towards atheism, everyone who tries to define religion in a sympathetic way just removes the religion from it

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 21h

armor class. in older editions of D&D it was roll-under, so lower was better.

Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 21h

"We live in a primitive time -- don't we, Mike? -- neither savage nor wise. Half measures are the curse of it. Any rational society would either have reverse AC, or let me have my Warlord."

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 21h

Advertisements should be illegal. You can put your name and business on the front of your actual place of business so people can find it, anything beyond that, straight to jail.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 1d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I’d strike the sun if it insulted me.

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 3d

not in the sense of "just deserts" exactly but, like, proof of concept

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 3d

COVID is the price society paid for collectively shrugging about AIDS for decades

potatum @pot8um.bsky.social · 3d

"Both [the HIV/AIDS pandemic and the current covid] pandemics exhibit failures in global solidarity and reveal inequities in healthcare access."

American Journal of Preventative Medicine,
October 13, 2025

Infographic with three windows, horizontally aligned.

Top text reads
COVID-19 is "Airborne AIDS": provocative oversimplification, emerging science, or something in between?

Left blue window reads
Two viruses, two pandemics
HIV: Sexually & blood transmitted; decades-long progression to AIDS
SARS-CoV-2: An airborne virus & highly contagious; result in Long COVID weeks to months after acute disease recovery

Center light pink window reads
Shared outcomes
Immune dysfunction & exhaustion
Viral persistence & vulnerability to (opportunistic) infections
Systemic inflammation & damage
Associated with neurological disorders

Right magenta window reads
Public Health & Call to Action
Both pandemics marked by stigma, inequities, delayed response
Lessons from HIV could inform Long COVID strategies; prevention, recognition, causal treatments

Bottom left window reads
Conclusion: Both pandemics exhibit failures in global solidarity and reveal inequities in healthcare access

ALT TEXT CONTD IN THREAD

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 3d

damn what kind of yellow mold are you fighting, the Elden Beast?

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julia 🦄 @hypv.bsky.social · 9d

it is beautiful that burger and bourgeois come from the same root word

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 3d

incredible set of interests. really paints a picture

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 4d

where's my "Aspect of the Crucible: Frogge" Miyazaki

i see what you've done for Black Knight Garrew

Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 4d

i have not, i'll take a look

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 4d

Ludwig in particular because someone fighting in a bestial rage one minute and then having a moment of clarity and pulling out their sword is exactly the vibe i'm shooting for