Daniel
@daniel-86.bsky.social
Language, politics, games. Watching the other site crash and burn from a safe distance.
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We’ve created the self-regarding allegedly erudite child-molesting monsters from Vladimir Nabokov’s novel “Don’t Create The Self-Regarding Allegedly Erudite Child-Molesting Monster”
Not going to repost the images, but the first few feature the first paragraph of Lolita written in ink on the skin of a woman (or girl, impossible to tell)
See the newly released photos here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/cl62l...
December 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
We’ve created the self-regarding allegedly erudite child-molesting monsters from Vladimir Nabokov’s novel “Don’t Create The Self-Regarding Allegedly Erudite Child-Molesting Monster”
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Dear Republicans,
No one has ever asked you to apologize for being white. They have asked you to apologize for being racist.
Love,
Non-Racist White Guys Who Are Weirdly Never Asked to Apologize for Being White Despite Republicans Thinking That's an Inescapable Everyday Occurrence
No one has ever asked you to apologize for being white. They have asked you to apologize for being racist.
Love,
Non-Racist White Guys Who Are Weirdly Never Asked to Apologize for Being White Despite Republicans Thinking That's an Inescapable Everyday Occurrence
December 21, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Dear Republicans,
No one has ever asked you to apologize for being white. They have asked you to apologize for being racist.
Love,
Non-Racist White Guys Who Are Weirdly Never Asked to Apologize for Being White Despite Republicans Thinking That's an Inescapable Everyday Occurrence
No one has ever asked you to apologize for being white. They have asked you to apologize for being racist.
Love,
Non-Racist White Guys Who Are Weirdly Never Asked to Apologize for Being White Despite Republicans Thinking That's an Inescapable Everyday Occurrence
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"Why did God let Trump be president?"
He gave us two thousand years advance warning of the antichrist, made him the individual with the most readily accessible, up-to-date public information about his multiple shortcomings ever, and gave us a mulligan the first time.
We were given an out.
He gave us two thousand years advance warning of the antichrist, made him the individual with the most readily accessible, up-to-date public information about his multiple shortcomings ever, and gave us a mulligan the first time.
We were given an out.
December 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
"Why did God let Trump be president?"
He gave us two thousand years advance warning of the antichrist, made him the individual with the most readily accessible, up-to-date public information about his multiple shortcomings ever, and gave us a mulligan the first time.
We were given an out.
He gave us two thousand years advance warning of the antichrist, made him the individual with the most readily accessible, up-to-date public information about his multiple shortcomings ever, and gave us a mulligan the first time.
We were given an out.
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it is a little funny that after all the very deep thoughts about what's going on the city journal of all places is just like "yeah these guys are just bored like fukuyama predicted"
December 19, 2025 at 8:15 PM
it is a little funny that after all the very deep thoughts about what's going on the city journal of all places is just like "yeah these guys are just bored like fukuyama predicted"
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There is quite a lot of polsci that finds that people do consistently perceive ethnic minorities as being more leftwing than they are, and yeah, I do sort of think it is just a 'well, you must be ultra-woke and economically leftwing, I mean *look* at you' kinda thing.
December 15, 2025 at 10:59 PM
There is quite a lot of polsci that finds that people do consistently perceive ethnic minorities as being more leftwing than they are, and yeah, I do sort of think it is just a 'well, you must be ultra-woke and economically leftwing, I mean *look* at you' kinda thing.
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People who criticise fantasy novels for merging medieval technology and aesthetics with modern moral norms are quite frankly missing the point which is that that is exactly what people like about it and that it is good
December 15, 2025 at 10:01 AM
People who criticise fantasy novels for merging medieval technology and aesthetics with modern moral norms are quite frankly missing the point which is that that is exactly what people like about it and that it is good
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You guys realize the Jacquard machine is just a statistical trick, right? Power looms can't truly "weave"; they're just stealing patterns from real weavers and regurgitating them as hallucinogenic loom slop.
December 11, 2025 at 5:46 PM
You guys realize the Jacquard machine is just a statistical trick, right? Power looms can't truly "weave"; they're just stealing patterns from real weavers and regurgitating them as hallucinogenic loom slop.
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we should take in 500,000 refugees from around the world and instill in them a fighting spirit to defend the new home they have been welcomed to with everything they have. this is my doctrine
December 9, 2025 at 9:48 AM
we should take in 500,000 refugees from around the world and instill in them a fighting spirit to defend the new home they have been welcomed to with everything they have. this is my doctrine
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if i have to be nonchalant about the prospect of Russia levelling my home city to build an abstract 'progressivism', a thing they CONSTANTLY VOCALLY THREATEN TO DO, then I simply do not wish to collaborate with you on anything because you are literally a danger to my life.
December 9, 2025 at 9:16 AM
if i have to be nonchalant about the prospect of Russia levelling my home city to build an abstract 'progressivism', a thing they CONSTANTLY VOCALLY THREATEN TO DO, then I simply do not wish to collaborate with you on anything because you are literally a danger to my life.
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What is this high school debate shit?
Everyone wants peace!
Adults just realize that any peace which lasts beyond a Russian re-arming / recruitment cycle has to be on terms that don't reward Russia's initial invasion with land and legitimacy, and which meaningfully deter future aggression.
Everyone wants peace!
Adults just realize that any peace which lasts beyond a Russian re-arming / recruitment cycle has to be on terms that don't reward Russia's initial invasion with land and legitimacy, and which meaningfully deter future aggression.
December 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
What is this high school debate shit?
Everyone wants peace!
Adults just realize that any peace which lasts beyond a Russian re-arming / recruitment cycle has to be on terms that don't reward Russia's initial invasion with land and legitimacy, and which meaningfully deter future aggression.
Everyone wants peace!
Adults just realize that any peace which lasts beyond a Russian re-arming / recruitment cycle has to be on terms that don't reward Russia's initial invasion with land and legitimacy, and which meaningfully deter future aggression.
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The Argentinian claim to the Falklands is basically exactly the same stylistically as the Israeli claim to the Golan Heights: "lol i want it"
November 30, 2025 at 11:45 AM
The Argentinian claim to the Falklands is basically exactly the same stylistically as the Israeli claim to the Golan Heights: "lol i want it"
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Once again tapping my "it really melts people's brains to consider that, despite generally being absolutely heinous, in the three major territorial disputes in the Americas that can be traced back to the British Empire, the UK is in fact on the morally right side" sign
every time Argentineans post their little crybully rants about the Falklands it's a reminder of the mentality that resulted in their incompetent fascist junta getting hundreds of their own conscript soldiers killed in an unprovoked invasion.
December 2, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Once again tapping my "it really melts people's brains to consider that, despite generally being absolutely heinous, in the three major territorial disputes in the Americas that can be traced back to the British Empire, the UK is in fact on the morally right side" sign
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no Argentinean has ever been born on the Falklands, no Argentinean has ever been raised there, the people of the land have no connections to them, they have literally no connection to the land other than an artificial nationalist mythology juked up by successive governments.
December 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
no Argentinean has ever been born on the Falklands, no Argentinean has ever been raised there, the people of the land have no connections to them, they have literally no connection to the land other than an artificial nationalist mythology juked up by successive governments.
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irredentist fantasies are bad, irredentist fantasies about territory you never controlled and have no actual connection to are worse, irredentist fantasies about territory you never controlled where the locals despise you that you lost a fascist-led war over are despicable.
December 2, 2025 at 5:12 PM
irredentist fantasies are bad, irredentist fantasies about territory you never controlled and have no actual connection to are worse, irredentist fantasies about territory you never controlled where the locals despise you that you lost a fascist-led war over are despicable.
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me normally: yeah the UK needs to take a second look at their international history in 20th century politics, especially during the Suez Crisis
me on the Falklands: RULE BRITANNIA
me on the Falklands: RULE BRITANNIA
every time Argentineans post their little crybully rants about the Falklands it's a reminder of the mentality that resulted in their incompetent fascist junta getting hundreds of their own conscript soldiers killed in an unprovoked invasion.
December 2, 2025 at 1:14 AM
me normally: yeah the UK needs to take a second look at their international history in 20th century politics, especially during the Suez Crisis
me on the Falklands: RULE BRITANNIA
me on the Falklands: RULE BRITANNIA
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I have seen mutuals who flirt with a support of a possible American intervention in Venezuela.
Let me remind you we are currently supporting Ukraine, a country that is being illegally invaded. The Maduro regime is an awful communist dictatorship. But it doesn't make illegal invasions ok.
Let me remind you we are currently supporting Ukraine, a country that is being illegally invaded. The Maduro regime is an awful communist dictatorship. But it doesn't make illegal invasions ok.
December 1, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I have seen mutuals who flirt with a support of a possible American intervention in Venezuela.
Let me remind you we are currently supporting Ukraine, a country that is being illegally invaded. The Maduro regime is an awful communist dictatorship. But it doesn't make illegal invasions ok.
Let me remind you we are currently supporting Ukraine, a country that is being illegally invaded. The Maduro regime is an awful communist dictatorship. But it doesn't make illegal invasions ok.
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No, you genuinely have no idea how wide this gulf is. Even with, say, Louis XIV's France.
The resistance put up by local aristocratic parlements to Louis' decrees would have been unthinkable in Russia at nearly any time under the Tsars (brief, swiftly crushed exceptions aside).
The resistance put up by local aristocratic parlements to Louis' decrees would have been unthinkable in Russia at nearly any time under the Tsars (brief, swiftly crushed exceptions aside).
Russia starting out as a hypercentralized, absolutist state that could withstand the Khanate *does* have a lot to do with its continuation as, well, a hypercentralized, absolutist state, but our other states were typically also centralized and absolutist prior to the 19th century
November 29, 2025 at 1:45 AM
No, you genuinely have no idea how wide this gulf is. Even with, say, Louis XIV's France.
The resistance put up by local aristocratic parlements to Louis' decrees would have been unthinkable in Russia at nearly any time under the Tsars (brief, swiftly crushed exceptions aside).
The resistance put up by local aristocratic parlements to Louis' decrees would have been unthinkable in Russia at nearly any time under the Tsars (brief, swiftly crushed exceptions aside).
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again, the great paradox of all this is that ukraine is a country where the guilty get punished, being judged by two countries where the guilty do not
Ukrainian media report that Andriy Yermak submitted a resignation letter from his position as Presidential Office Head.
November 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM
again, the great paradox of all this is that ukraine is a country where the guilty get punished, being judged by two countries where the guilty do not
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Olivia Nuzzi did more than violate journalistic ethics to help RFK Jr's campaign. She assisted an apostle of pestilence. In humanity's struggle against disease, fought since the beginning of history, she sided with the enemy. She betrayed the species. She betrayed us for her own gratification.
November 27, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Olivia Nuzzi did more than violate journalistic ethics to help RFK Jr's campaign. She assisted an apostle of pestilence. In humanity's struggle against disease, fought since the beginning of history, she sided with the enemy. She betrayed the species. She betrayed us for her own gratification.
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roko's basilisk is basically pentecostalism for guys who think grok passes the turing test
November 25, 2025 at 1:42 PM
roko's basilisk is basically pentecostalism for guys who think grok passes the turing test
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listen to me. listen to me right now. if you don't know what this tweet means, just close your device. don't look anything up. go for a walk. return in a week. if you don't listen to me, your life will be ruined and i can't be held accountable
November 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
listen to me. listen to me right now. if you don't know what this tweet means, just close your device. don't look anything up. go for a walk. return in a week. if you don't listen to me, your life will be ruined and i can't be held accountable
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On one side of my family we have zero knowledge of our lineage before my grandpa. There was just nobody left to ask. He wasn’t even sure if his last name was real or made up. And there’s a story like this in almost every Ukrainian household.
Today is Holodomor Remembrance Day
Today is Holodomor Remembrance Day
🕯 Eternal memory to all victims of Holodomor. A moment of silence.
November 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
On one side of my family we have zero knowledge of our lineage before my grandpa. There was just nobody left to ask. He wasn’t even sure if his last name was real or made up. And there’s a story like this in almost every Ukrainian household.
Today is Holodomor Remembrance Day
Today is Holodomor Remembrance Day
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If you're not willing to die for freedom you don't actually really want to be free.
November 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
If you're not willing to die for freedom you don't actually really want to be free.
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in fact i'm not being funny when i say that the /only/ scenarios where the state of israel is likely to come to an end in some shape or form basically all go through the continued insanity of one benjamin netanyahu. in a sense, he is the world's most active anti-zionist
November 21, 2025 at 8:09 PM
in fact i'm not being funny when i say that the /only/ scenarios where the state of israel is likely to come to an end in some shape or form basically all go through the continued insanity of one benjamin netanyahu. in a sense, he is the world's most active anti-zionist
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Looking the financial indices out of the UK and apologies if this has ever come up before, but have they considered reviving the economy by joining a large economic and political consortium of countries nearby, say in Europe?
November 21, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Looking the financial indices out of the UK and apologies if this has ever come up before, but have they considered reviving the economy by joining a large economic and political consortium of countries nearby, say in Europe?