Gabriel
@b1uecruz.bsky.social
“Bastard grant us, in our direst need, the smallest gifts: the nail of the horseshoe, the pin of the axle, the feather at the pivot point, the pebble at the mountain’s peak, the kiss in despair, the one right word. In darkness, understanding.”
This honestly has not occurred to me before and really ought to have.
I’ve definitely seen people rush to declare victory if they don’t get some kind of immediate response on here and on the other site, and it always seemed ridiculous, but only now do I see why.
I’ve definitely seen people rush to declare victory if they don’t get some kind of immediate response on here and on the other site, and it always seemed ridiculous, but only now do I see why.
yeah i was wondering about the constant objections to "async" communication and then i realized it is harder to gish gallop or 'alpha' your way to getting someone to agree just to shut you up asynchronously
December 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
This honestly has not occurred to me before and really ought to have.
I’ve definitely seen people rush to declare victory if they don’t get some kind of immediate response on here and on the other site, and it always seemed ridiculous, but only now do I see why.
I’ve definitely seen people rush to declare victory if they don’t get some kind of immediate response on here and on the other site, and it always seemed ridiculous, but only now do I see why.
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it might seem surprising that the people who said “look, let trans people live their lives, but i have Reasonable Concerns about sports and toilets” aren’t up in arms about this, but what you have to remember is that those people who said that are liars who were lying
December 6, 2025 at 12:40 PM
it might seem surprising that the people who said “look, let trans people live their lives, but i have Reasonable Concerns about sports and toilets” aren’t up in arms about this, but what you have to remember is that those people who said that are liars who were lying
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“Who can I sacrifice to maintain my material conditions” explains guys like Yglesias and Klein 100%
December 6, 2025 at 6:13 PM
“Who can I sacrifice to maintain my material conditions” explains guys like Yglesias and Klein 100%
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gonna just start using this as a meme i guess
December 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
gonna just start using this as a meme i guess
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I can’t stop thinking about the “maybe build up to a chaste kiss at the end of the season” review and just laughing
what if at the Red Wedding instead of being murdered everyone was just lightly bonked on the head
what if at the Red Wedding instead of being murdered everyone was just lightly bonked on the head
December 6, 2025 at 6:24 AM
I can’t stop thinking about the “maybe build up to a chaste kiss at the end of the season” review and just laughing
what if at the Red Wedding instead of being murdered everyone was just lightly bonked on the head
what if at the Red Wedding instead of being murdered everyone was just lightly bonked on the head
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As an author I think it's important we push ourselves away from being horny about domineering billionaires and towards horny about intense but skilled workers.
December 5, 2025 at 7:35 PM
As an author I think it's important we push ourselves away from being horny about domineering billionaires and towards horny about intense but skilled workers.
I need a Gus to insist I get a full 8 hours each night
Gus: Mother, you have not been sleeping and as your Certified Support Animal I—
Me: you’re not a certified anything, lil buddy and I do what I want
Gus: —think you should go to bed early
Me: no
Gus: As your doctor, I really must—
Me: no
Gus: AS YOUR LEGAL GUARDIAN I MUST INSIST
Me: you’re not a certified anything, lil buddy and I do what I want
Gus: —think you should go to bed early
Me: no
Gus: As your doctor, I really must—
Me: no
Gus: AS YOUR LEGAL GUARDIAN I MUST INSIST
December 5, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I need a Gus to insist I get a full 8 hours each night
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Hey, do my fellow GenXers remember how a lot of our childhood books had plotlines about a boy who was flunking school and was angry for no reason, and the parents sent him to live on his uncle's farm for the summer where he learned Important Life Lessons from the animals?
Yeah, that kid had autism.
Yeah, that kid had autism.
December 5, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Hey, do my fellow GenXers remember how a lot of our childhood books had plotlines about a boy who was flunking school and was angry for no reason, and the parents sent him to live on his uncle's farm for the summer where he learned Important Life Lessons from the animals?
Yeah, that kid had autism.
Yeah, that kid had autism.
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I feel like he’s probably a big pushover with children tho
December 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I feel like he’s probably a big pushover with children tho
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This is EXACTLY who i want as the face of the military
December 4, 2025 at 2:27 PM
This is EXACTLY who i want as the face of the military
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He got kicked out of kindergarten because the teacher said its recess time and he said I dont play
December 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
He got kicked out of kindergarten because the teacher said its recess time and he said I dont play
Downside to my wfh days: I have unfettered access to all my snacks.
I had no idea how much self control was just distance.
I had no idea how much self control was just distance.
December 4, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Downside to my wfh days: I have unfettered access to all my snacks.
I had no idea how much self control was just distance.
I had no idea how much self control was just distance.
Oh no. USPS discourse is starting again.
I’d better just log all the way off before all the well-meaning but misinformed takes make me explode.
I’d better just log all the way off before all the well-meaning but misinformed takes make me explode.
December 4, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Oh no. USPS discourse is starting again.
I’d better just log all the way off before all the well-meaning but misinformed takes make me explode.
I’d better just log all the way off before all the well-meaning but misinformed takes make me explode.
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I keep seeing frustration (this is just the latest) over media only covering the horrors, not what to do about them—but they seem to miss stories about what people *are* doing.
I report on that expressly because I want people to know there are people fighting back, and learn how they could, too.
I report on that expressly because I want people to know there are people fighting back, and learn how they could, too.
I cover what people *are* doing (their work is harder than mine, but my work is not easy).
From the last 12 months:
newrepublic.com/article/1988...
newrepublic.com/article/1946...
newrepublic.com/article/1917...
newrepublic.com/article/1916...
newrepublic.com/article/1895...
From the last 12 months:
newrepublic.com/article/1988...
newrepublic.com/article/1946...
newrepublic.com/article/1917...
newrepublic.com/article/1916...
newrepublic.com/article/1895...
The Los Angeles Protests Are an Act of Self-Defense
Residents of L.A. aren’t merely protesting ICE; they’re attempting to protect their communities from ICE’s raids.
newrepublic.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I keep seeing frustration (this is just the latest) over media only covering the horrors, not what to do about them—but they seem to miss stories about what people *are* doing.
I report on that expressly because I want people to know there are people fighting back, and learn how they could, too.
I report on that expressly because I want people to know there are people fighting back, and learn how they could, too.
Telling the most loyally right-wing Latino populations that you don’t want them in your country couldn’t possibly have consequences, nope.
Well, I guess they already enraged Korean-Americans and Vietnamese-Americans, why not keep going?
Well, I guess they already enraged Korean-Americans and Vietnamese-Americans, why not keep going?
South Floridians from Cuba, Haiti and Venezuela expecting to become U.S. citizens this week learned instead that their naturalization ceremonies had been canceled after the Trump administration issued a sweeping directive aimed at halting immigration from so-called high-risk countries.
South Florida immigrants on cusp of citizenship told to wait as DHS changes policy
The cancellations, confirmed by multiple immigration attorneys, came after the Trump administration paused immigration from 19 nations and froze all asylum claims.
www.miamiherald.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Telling the most loyally right-wing Latino populations that you don’t want them in your country couldn’t possibly have consequences, nope.
Well, I guess they already enraged Korean-Americans and Vietnamese-Americans, why not keep going?
Well, I guess they already enraged Korean-Americans and Vietnamese-Americans, why not keep going?
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A robot is only an OTA away from a behavior change, good, bad, or weird.
Waymo robots have always violated some traffic laws. For >year they have been getting noticeably more aggressive as I've shown in a variety of videos. Apparently, on purpose per Ludwick who's been on this project for 15 years.
Waymo robots have always violated some traffic laws. For >year they have been getting noticeably more aggressive as I've shown in a variety of videos. Apparently, on purpose per Ludwick who's been on this project for 15 years.
“They’re bending traffic laws, getting impatient with pedestrians and embracing the idea that when it comes to city driving, politeness doesn’t pay… Waymo has been trying to make its cars “confidently assertive,” says Chris Ludwick, a senior director of product management with Waymo”
Self-driving Waymo cars are suddenly driving way mo like “an aggressive, New York taxi driver.”
www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...
www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...
December 3, 2025 at 6:08 AM
A robot is only an OTA away from a behavior change, good, bad, or weird.
Waymo robots have always violated some traffic laws. For >year they have been getting noticeably more aggressive as I've shown in a variety of videos. Apparently, on purpose per Ludwick who's been on this project for 15 years.
Waymo robots have always violated some traffic laws. For >year they have been getting noticeably more aggressive as I've shown in a variety of videos. Apparently, on purpose per Ludwick who's been on this project for 15 years.
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People ragging on him for singling out young men, but even in the age of 2 income families, boys are socialized to be the primary breadwinner. They get a ton of media tying financial success directly to self worth. The same way girls get the BS beauty standards and carrying the mental load.
When buying a house is unattainable and jobs are disappearing, it's no surprise young people think they can’t succeed, especially young men.
It's not their fault. It’s Washington’s fault for allowing the middle class to be hollowed out just to make rich people richer.
It's not their fault. It’s Washington’s fault for allowing the middle class to be hollowed out just to make rich people richer.
December 3, 2025 at 5:25 PM
People ragging on him for singling out young men, but even in the age of 2 income families, boys are socialized to be the primary breadwinner. They get a ton of media tying financial success directly to self worth. The same way girls get the BS beauty standards and carrying the mental load.
“Queer is a slur” discourse is unduly annoying to me. A dude on threads is trying to argue with me, saying that queer didn’t start being reclaimed until the 2000s and wasn’t accepted until the 2010s
December 3, 2025 at 5:16 AM
“Queer is a slur” discourse is unduly annoying to me. A dude on threads is trying to argue with me, saying that queer didn’t start being reclaimed until the 2000s and wasn’t accepted until the 2010s
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I love that she landed between the trash can and the toilet, ah memories
Raccoon gets drunk at a Virginia liquor store and passes out in bathroom
Raccoon gets drunk at Ashland ABC store and passes out in bathroom
Talk about a trashed panda.
www.axios.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I love that she landed between the trash can and the toilet, ah memories
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A twelve year old can make AI porn of his teacher but cannot see the movie Before Sunrise in theaters. Does that not feel completely insane.
November 29, 2025 at 4:23 AM
A twelve year old can make AI porn of his teacher but cannot see the movie Before Sunrise in theaters. Does that not feel completely insane.
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Don’t let consumerism erase the true meaning of the holiday 🙏
Did you know? Black Friday is named in honor of Rebecca Black, who invented Friday in 2011.
November 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Don’t let consumerism erase the true meaning of the holiday 🙏
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Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.
November 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.
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They're also responsible for one of the best emails I've ever received, when the college office sent out a plea for sightings of Professor Biscuit while conveniently forgetting to mention that he was a cat...(I won't comment on how often a similar email might have gone out about human Professors...)
November 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
They're also responsible for one of the best emails I've ever received, when the college office sent out a plea for sightings of Professor Biscuit while conveniently forgetting to mention that he was a cat...(I won't comment on how often a similar email might have gone out about human Professors...)
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Every chair is a weird chair if you put enough cranberry sauce on the seat
It's almost Thanksgiving! Got an ICE member coming for dinner at your house? No you don't! Can't stop them because you're not the one hosting? No problem. You can shun them, mock them, shame them, cough in their food. They get the weird chair. No weird chair? Make a weird chair.
November 20, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Every chair is a weird chair if you put enough cranberry sauce on the seat