Ankle Moss (they/them)
@anklemoss.bsky.social
By day, a mild mannered permaculture wierdo.
But by night, a mild mannered permaculture wierdo who's asleep.
Firm believer that nearly any problem can be solved with paracord, biochar, well-facilitated discussion, and/or the fall of capitalism.
But by night, a mild mannered permaculture wierdo who's asleep.
Firm believer that nearly any problem can be solved with paracord, biochar, well-facilitated discussion, and/or the fall of capitalism.
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People talk about what should be the first-in-the-nation primary, but honestly, hard to beat Michigan:
-Union state
-Detroit has a large Black population
-Swingy suburbs
-More racially and ethnically diverse than Iowa or New Hampshire
-Union state
-Detroit has a large Black population
-Swingy suburbs
-More racially and ethnically diverse than Iowa or New Hampshire
February 11, 2026 at 10:22 PM
People talk about what should be the first-in-the-nation primary, but honestly, hard to beat Michigan:
-Union state
-Detroit has a large Black population
-Swingy suburbs
-More racially and ethnically diverse than Iowa or New Hampshire
-Union state
-Detroit has a large Black population
-Swingy suburbs
-More racially and ethnically diverse than Iowa or New Hampshire
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what makes something "vulnerable to AI" is not the capacity of machines but the credulity of management.
Of course, it is also true that historians jobs may in practice be vulnerable to AI, because a lot of people who control the money for historian jobs probably haven’t thought much about where history comes from, either.
February 11, 2026 at 8:39 PM
what makes something "vulnerable to AI" is not the capacity of machines but the credulity of management.
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Today for @theflytrapmedia.com I wrote about the (techno)fascist push to grant personhood to anything except people
Dehumanizing Humans, Personifying Computers: Why Modern Fascism Wants You to be Lonely
Welcome to fully-automated luxury fascism. Can I take your personhood?
www.theflytrapmedia.com
February 10, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Today for @theflytrapmedia.com I wrote about the (techno)fascist push to grant personhood to anything except people
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If you haven’t read Moon of the Turning Leaves yet, please do. It is the follow up to Moon of the Crusted Snow & @waub.bsky.social has gifted us a deeply moving & beautiful story filled with love, trust & resilience (+ a few moments of deep grief) within his words. A true balm for my weary heart 💙📚
February 5, 2026 at 2:33 AM
If you haven’t read Moon of the Turning Leaves yet, please do. It is the follow up to Moon of the Crusted Snow & @waub.bsky.social has gifted us a deeply moving & beautiful story filled with love, trust & resilience (+ a few moments of deep grief) within his words. A true balm for my weary heart 💙📚
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I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
February 8, 2026 at 10:23 PM
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
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Not sure why Elon is so sad. He's literally the person behind almost everything bad that's happening
February 10, 2026 at 2:55 AM
Not sure why Elon is so sad. He's literally the person behind almost everything bad that's happening
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Please don't accuse people in knitted hats of only wearing their supposed politics if all you're doing is posting, which is basically just another way of wearing your politics. It's a silly thing to attack people over in any case. Using fashion to signal support for ongoing acts of rebellion is good
February 9, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Please don't accuse people in knitted hats of only wearing their supposed politics if all you're doing is posting, which is basically just another way of wearing your politics. It's a silly thing to attack people over in any case. Using fashion to signal support for ongoing acts of rebellion is good
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I don't think you should store people in warehouses. I think you should store things like dry goods in warehouses
February 10, 2026 at 2:00 AM
I don't think you should store people in warehouses. I think you should store things like dry goods in warehouses
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starting to feel like there's a direct relationship between the growing obsession with lifestyle hygeine (no drinking, no caffeine, no sex, obsessive working out and looksmaxxing) and the inability to meaningful moral stands on issues of actual import
Cafes across the U.S. are embracing the low- and no-caffeine lifestyle, with options that are a far cry from dusty tea bags and rewarmed decaf. nyti.ms/3XKlqoj
February 9, 2026 at 5:12 PM
starting to feel like there's a direct relationship between the growing obsession with lifestyle hygeine (no drinking, no caffeine, no sex, obsessive working out and looksmaxxing) and the inability to meaningful moral stands on issues of actual import
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"we cannot change the Dem party from the inside"
we are trying to defeat someone who turned the other major political party in this country into a cult of personality in less than a decade
we are trying to defeat someone who turned the other major political party in this country into a cult of personality in less than a decade
February 6, 2026 at 7:28 PM
"we cannot change the Dem party from the inside"
we are trying to defeat someone who turned the other major political party in this country into a cult of personality in less than a decade
we are trying to defeat someone who turned the other major political party in this country into a cult of personality in less than a decade
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the tv show Silicon Valley was right on the money that the only way for these guys to make the world a truly better place is to destroy everything they cared to build professionally and then go away in shame and just shut up for a long time in obscurity
February 7, 2026 at 12:48 AM
the tv show Silicon Valley was right on the money that the only way for these guys to make the world a truly better place is to destroy everything they cared to build professionally and then go away in shame and just shut up for a long time in obscurity
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Me, tired, tapping the sign
USian trans people aren't telling you they won't vote for Gavin Newsom to cause you distress and despair.
USian trans people are telling you they won't vote for Gavin Newsom so you don't vote for his transphobic ass in the primaries.
They are giving you actionable information.
USian trans people are telling you they won't vote for Gavin Newsom so you don't vote for his transphobic ass in the primaries.
They are giving you actionable information.
February 2, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Me, tired, tapping the sign
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Here's to all the intellectuals not in the Epstein files. They're the ones the Epstein class feared. They're the ones who could spell.
virginiaheffernan.substack.com/p/toni-morri...
virginiaheffernan.substack.com/p/toni-morri...
Toni Morrison Is Not in the Epstein Files
Let's talk about the serious intellectuals, the ones not on the Lolita Express, the ones who could spell.
virginiaheffernan.substack.com
February 2, 2026 at 1:25 AM
Here's to all the intellectuals not in the Epstein files. They're the ones the Epstein class feared. They're the ones who could spell.
virginiaheffernan.substack.com/p/toni-morri...
virginiaheffernan.substack.com/p/toni-morri...
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Sight in San Francisco (from a friend)
February 1, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Sight in San Francisco (from a friend)
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Chotiner: Tell me what you found interesting about these vampires.
Documentarian: Well, it's just -- the group dynamics, I guess.
Chotiner: I can see that. I can see finding Nandor, Laszlo and Nadia entertaining.
Documentarian: Exactly.
Chotiner: So. How many people did you watch them murder?
Documentarian: Well, it's just -- the group dynamics, I guess.
Chotiner: I can see that. I can see finding Nandor, Laszlo and Nadia entertaining.
Documentarian: Exactly.
Chotiner: So. How many people did you watch them murder?
February 2, 2026 at 1:05 AM
Chotiner: Tell me what you found interesting about these vampires.
Documentarian: Well, it's just -- the group dynamics, I guess.
Chotiner: I can see that. I can see finding Nandor, Laszlo and Nadia entertaining.
Documentarian: Exactly.
Chotiner: So. How many people did you watch them murder?
Documentarian: Well, it's just -- the group dynamics, I guess.
Chotiner: I can see that. I can see finding Nandor, Laszlo and Nadia entertaining.
Documentarian: Exactly.
Chotiner: So. How many people did you watch them murder?
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Average American taxpayer when snow is not removed by the city to their satisfaction: "WHY AM I EVEN PAYING TAXES? THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE!"
Average taxpayer when their family member dies of a preventable disease after draining their life's savings: "That's just life, I guess!"
Average taxpayer when their family member dies of a preventable disease after draining their life's savings: "That's just life, I guess!"
February 1, 2026 at 11:38 PM
Average American taxpayer when snow is not removed by the city to their satisfaction: "WHY AM I EVEN PAYING TAXES? THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE!"
Average taxpayer when their family member dies of a preventable disease after draining their life's savings: "That's just life, I guess!"
Average taxpayer when their family member dies of a preventable disease after draining their life's savings: "That's just life, I guess!"
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Yall will want to read this superb local reporting from MN. So much good here.
www.minnpost.com/arts-culture...
www.minnpost.com/arts-culture...
‘Streets of Minneapolis’: 32 protest songs inspired by the city's ICE resistance
MinnPost contributor Jim Walsh compiles a playlist by songwriters who are tapping into their talent, anger, artistry and empathy to support Minnesota.
www.minnpost.com
February 1, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Yall will want to read this superb local reporting from MN. So much good here.
www.minnpost.com/arts-culture...
www.minnpost.com/arts-culture...
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I promise it is possible to talk about Epstein without slipping into antisemitism I promise all you have to do is make an effort
February 1, 2026 at 7:14 PM
I promise it is possible to talk about Epstein without slipping into antisemitism I promise all you have to do is make an effort
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Hahaha I was sexually harassed by adult men when I was very very clearly still a minor SO MUCH, noncery was ALL the rage amongst the het dudes in the 90s!
We really have come a LONG way in a pretty brief amount of time as a culture on “oh, maybe it’s actually creepy and gross to incessantly perv on teenage girls everywhere all the time.”
there were multiple different countdown clocks until the Olsen twins turned 18
reddit had its infamous 'jailbait' community online until late 2011
all of this shit was just out in the open, it was awful
reddit had its infamous 'jailbait' community online until late 2011
all of this shit was just out in the open, it was awful
February 1, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Hahaha I was sexually harassed by adult men when I was very very clearly still a minor SO MUCH, noncery was ALL the rage amongst the het dudes in the 90s!
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This shit hits like a sledgehammer right now. It's not even remotely an exaggeration.
February 1, 2026 at 12:30 AM
This shit hits like a sledgehammer right now. It's not even remotely an exaggeration.
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a party that had spent the last few years defending trans people by pointing out how weird it was republicans were obsessed with your kids genitals would probably look really smart and trustworthy and less perverted than the other party right now
February 1, 2026 at 1:26 PM
a party that had spent the last few years defending trans people by pointing out how weird it was republicans were obsessed with your kids genitals would probably look really smart and trustworthy and less perverted than the other party right now
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Friend, speaking as someone who has been organizing on the left for over 20 years...
...we absolutely have an antisemitism problem.
It's not unique to us, all of this country has an antisemitism problem.
But we are not exempt.
...we absolutely have an antisemitism problem.
It's not unique to us, all of this country has an antisemitism problem.
But we are not exempt.
Correct, I have a brain and sense and so no, I see every real leftist I know are accepting of all races and religions, etc. This shit is disgusting, and you fucking know you don't ask in good faith. Eat shit.
February 1, 2026 at 1:53 PM
Friend, speaking as someone who has been organizing on the left for over 20 years...
...we absolutely have an antisemitism problem.
It's not unique to us, all of this country has an antisemitism problem.
But we are not exempt.
...we absolutely have an antisemitism problem.
It's not unique to us, all of this country has an antisemitism problem.
But we are not exempt.
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I do believe I hear Rebecca Watson cackling from half a continent away. Man, Dawkins looks pathetic.
freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...
freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...
February 1, 2026 at 2:08 PM
I do believe I hear Rebecca Watson cackling from half a continent away. Man, Dawkins looks pathetic.
freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...
freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...
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one of the key motions of protest is that it places the adversary in zugzwang: either they abide the protest, and look weak, or attack the protest, and look cruel
February 1, 2026 at 5:49 AM
one of the key motions of protest is that it places the adversary in zugzwang: either they abide the protest, and look weak, or attack the protest, and look cruel