Ds00n
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“In the instance of mass harassment and bullying, it's not really consoling to know there's a silent majority supporting you.”
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· Dec 4
You want to understand people who vote for Trump: He’s Palpatine. They’re Darth Vader.
They know what Trump is. They know what he’s done to them and will do to them again. They don’t care.
PS You’re not Luke Skywalker. You don’t have to save any of them.
They know what Trump is. They know what he’s done to them and will do to them again. They don’t care.
PS You’re not Luke Skywalker. You don’t have to save any of them.
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I just rewatched SHATTERED GLASS (and reread the article, which being by Buzz Bissinger is great) and it's really a portrayal of a very specific moment - that brief period when people didn't realize that the internet let everyone factcheck, but before rampant shamelessness.
Honestly the combination of the alleged source betrayals and secret recordings and the way this has rolled out has just fundamentally fucked us all in a way that’s bigger than the Stephen Glass scandal by a significant margin, and I think everyone is grappling with that in real time
November 27, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I just rewatched SHATTERED GLASS (and reread the article, which being by Buzz Bissinger is great) and it's really a portrayal of a very specific moment - that brief period when people didn't realize that the internet let everyone factcheck, but before rampant shamelessness.
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Lots of respect for Ken Jeong who must get used to the disappointed faces of thousands of children when he's introduced as "star of K-Pop Demon Hunters"
November 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Lots of respect for Ken Jeong who must get used to the disappointed faces of thousands of children when he's introduced as "star of K-Pop Demon Hunters"
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I don’t know how else to say this but Lil Jon doing Turn Down For What on a Toys R Us float in 2025 is such a recession indicator.
November 27, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I don’t know how else to say this but Lil Jon doing Turn Down For What on a Toys R Us float in 2025 is such a recession indicator.
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I am a software developer (well, a senior technical analyst these days) and AI slop code is the bane of my existence.
November 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I am a software developer (well, a senior technical analyst these days) and AI slop code is the bane of my existence.
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I monitored these same sorts of white supremacists for years (to fight them), and let me tell you.
You have to CONSTANTLY, aggressively deprogram yourself.
Even just, the language. We are social creatures and we absorb the language we're around. Guess what words enter your mental vocabulary
You have to CONSTANTLY, aggressively deprogram yourself.
Even just, the language. We are social creatures and we absorb the language we're around. Guess what words enter your mental vocabulary
This is the correct take. Stewing in white supremacist propaganda is bad for your thinking. And if think you are so savvy that it won’t impact you, you are the exact kind of mark they are slowly converting (I’m looking at you, centrist pundits).
It’s really funny how a generation will roll its eyes at parents who watch Fox News but doesn’t see why being immersed in Twitter is having the same effect. Lots of serious people show up on Fox News too but that shouldn’t be your primary source on the news.
November 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I monitored these same sorts of white supremacists for years (to fight them), and let me tell you.
You have to CONSTANTLY, aggressively deprogram yourself.
Even just, the language. We are social creatures and we absorb the language we're around. Guess what words enter your mental vocabulary
You have to CONSTANTLY, aggressively deprogram yourself.
Even just, the language. We are social creatures and we absorb the language we're around. Guess what words enter your mental vocabulary
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My nephew: Are you a girl or a boy?
Me: a boy, I used to look more like a girl but then I turned into a boy
Nephew: How???
Me: I went to the doctor and they gave me some medicine
Nephew: …
Nephew, bragging now: I’M a boy and I didn’t even HAVE to go to the doctor
Me: a boy, I used to look more like a girl but then I turned into a boy
Nephew: How???
Me: I went to the doctor and they gave me some medicine
Nephew: …
Nephew, bragging now: I’M a boy and I didn’t even HAVE to go to the doctor
November 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM
My nephew: Are you a girl or a boy?
Me: a boy, I used to look more like a girl but then I turned into a boy
Nephew: How???
Me: I went to the doctor and they gave me some medicine
Nephew: …
Nephew, bragging now: I’M a boy and I didn’t even HAVE to go to the doctor
Me: a boy, I used to look more like a girl but then I turned into a boy
Nephew: How???
Me: I went to the doctor and they gave me some medicine
Nephew: …
Nephew, bragging now: I’M a boy and I didn’t even HAVE to go to the doctor
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Yeah, generally I would expect the real problem of hyperrealistic pictures is more that people can simply live in worlds that conform their priors and now will have videos and pictures and voice that correspond with that.
As a Philosopher of Technology would put it, it makes reality totally opaque
As a Philosopher of Technology would put it, it makes reality totally opaque
sorta coming around to the view that the social danger of genAI images is less that they'll make people believe fabricated things are real and more that they'll make people believe real things are fabricated
November 27, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Yeah, generally I would expect the real problem of hyperrealistic pictures is more that people can simply live in worlds that conform their priors and now will have videos and pictures and voice that correspond with that.
As a Philosopher of Technology would put it, it makes reality totally opaque
As a Philosopher of Technology would put it, it makes reality totally opaque
This is correct 👍
There are, in fact, virtually no obligate herbivores in the modern higher animal world like there are obligate carnivores - almost everything you think of as a "plant eating" animal does so strictly because it's easier for them.
There are, in fact, virtually no obligate herbivores in the modern higher animal world like there are obligate carnivores - almost everything you think of as a "plant eating" animal does so strictly because it's easier for them.
deer are not vegetarians, one of my favorite fun facts
November 28, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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They like Trump and want to help him
“Biden Asylum Cases” is NYT’s framing for a story pegged to a man who got asylum 3 months into the Trump administration
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
November 27, 2025 at 11:32 PM
They like Trump and want to help him
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As I keep saying, the liberal left should be less defensive about the culture war. You're goddamn right we started the war, it's a holy war against millennia of oppression and we damn well mean to finish the job
The only major faction which does not believe it is the far right, which understands itself to be in a cultural battle for hearts and minds which is only glancingly correlated with economic anything. It’s worked out wonderfully for them
November 27, 2025 at 6:54 PM
As I keep saying, the liberal left should be less defensive about the culture war. You're goddamn right we started the war, it's a holy war against millennia of oppression and we damn well mean to finish the job
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I'm so happy for everyone who worked on this movie, it's what she deserves 🥲🥲🥲
Okay, the crowd going nuts like someone just scored a touchdown at the Super Bowl all *through* the KDH performance is a hell of a thing to see hear/see:
November 27, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I'm so happy for everyone who worked on this movie, it's what she deserves 🥲🥲🥲
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Loving the final Season of Stranger Things promo
November 27, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Loving the final Season of Stranger Things promo
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RFK Jr. is neither a joke nor a well-intentioned proponent of public health with a few kooky beliefs. He's a menace, evil even by the standards of Trump's inner circle, and the failure of the political press to convey this is maddening
I actually think it’s okay to take a ridiculous scandal seriously when it involves a wingnut conspiracy theorist in charge of things like vaccine policy and pandemic preparedness
Sorry to be a wet blanket 🤷🏻♀️
Sorry to be a wet blanket 🤷🏻♀️
She never misses a beat, of course, but Marina's first paragraph this week is *chef's kiss*
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 25, 2025 at 11:44 PM
RFK Jr. is neither a joke nor a well-intentioned proponent of public health with a few kooky beliefs. He's a menace, evil even by the standards of Trump's inner circle, and the failure of the political press to convey this is maddening
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Which is certainly true for THIS COUNTRY AS A WHOLE.
But I guess what I'm trying to say is, if you were taught that your activism/organizing was going to prevent all this?
Be gentle on yourself.
We are not in hell just because you played hooky on a phone bank shift once back in 2014.
But I guess what I'm trying to say is, if you were taught that your activism/organizing was going to prevent all this?
Be gentle on yourself.
We are not in hell just because you played hooky on a phone bank shift once back in 2014.
November 26, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Which is certainly true for THIS COUNTRY AS A WHOLE.
But I guess what I'm trying to say is, if you were taught that your activism/organizing was going to prevent all this?
Be gentle on yourself.
We are not in hell just because you played hooky on a phone bank shift once back in 2014.
But I guess what I'm trying to say is, if you were taught that your activism/organizing was going to prevent all this?
Be gentle on yourself.
We are not in hell just because you played hooky on a phone bank shift once back in 2014.
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And yes, we should feel bad about serious fuck ups.
But we should also be clear that fuck ups are a part of being human and will happen.
And that often fuck ups are a shared responsibility. And that usually they speak to a GROUP lack of training or preparedness.
But we should also be clear that fuck ups are a part of being human and will happen.
And that often fuck ups are a shared responsibility. And that usually they speak to a GROUP lack of training or preparedness.
November 26, 2025 at 2:01 AM
And yes, we should feel bad about serious fuck ups.
But we should also be clear that fuck ups are a part of being human and will happen.
And that often fuck ups are a shared responsibility. And that usually they speak to a GROUP lack of training or preparedness.
But we should also be clear that fuck ups are a part of being human and will happen.
And that often fuck ups are a shared responsibility. And that usually they speak to a GROUP lack of training or preparedness.
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And not for nothing, if a campaign lives or dies by *you personally as an organizer,* it is not a good campaign.
Effective large-scale campaigns (and orgs, and movements) have to be resilient. That means some level of redundancy in leadership, in case of incapacitation, death, arrest, vacation, etc
Effective large-scale campaigns (and orgs, and movements) have to be resilient. That means some level of redundancy in leadership, in case of incapacitation, death, arrest, vacation, etc
November 26, 2025 at 1:57 AM
And not for nothing, if a campaign lives or dies by *you personally as an organizer,* it is not a good campaign.
Effective large-scale campaigns (and orgs, and movements) have to be resilient. That means some level of redundancy in leadership, in case of incapacitation, death, arrest, vacation, etc
Effective large-scale campaigns (and orgs, and movements) have to be resilient. That means some level of redundancy in leadership, in case of incapacitation, death, arrest, vacation, etc
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The truth is, organizers are not magical people whisperers, and we can't indulge that fantasy in the name of empowerment or motivation.
Some places and people are ready to be approached, some places and people aren't.
Some places and people are ready to be approached, some places and people aren't.
November 26, 2025 at 1:54 AM
The truth is, organizers are not magical people whisperers, and we can't indulge that fantasy in the name of empowerment or motivation.
Some places and people are ready to be approached, some places and people aren't.
Some places and people are ready to be approached, some places and people aren't.
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Or more accurately, the model(s) wrote organizers checks that reality just couldn't cash.
The Alinsky model in particular underestimates how much people will sometimes disregard their own self-interest, and how much they may resent it when you remind them of it.
The Alinsky model in particular underestimates how much people will sometimes disregard their own self-interest, and how much they may resent it when you remind them of it.
November 26, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Or more accurately, the model(s) wrote organizers checks that reality just couldn't cash.
The Alinsky model in particular underestimates how much people will sometimes disregard their own self-interest, and how much they may resent it when you remind them of it.
The Alinsky model in particular underestimates how much people will sometimes disregard their own self-interest, and how much they may resent it when you remind them of it.
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It feels REALLY BAD when you've been told you can save Tinkerbell if you just believe and clap loudly enough, and then she dies anyway.
You will always wonder. Did I believe hard enough? Did I clap loudly enough?
You will always wonder. Did I believe hard enough? Did I clap loudly enough?
November 26, 2025 at 1:45 AM
It feels REALLY BAD when you've been told you can save Tinkerbell if you just believe and clap loudly enough, and then she dies anyway.
You will always wonder. Did I believe hard enough? Did I clap loudly enough?
You will always wonder. Did I believe hard enough? Did I clap loudly enough?
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The reality is, there are sometimes areas and communities that simply are not ripe for organizing, or at least organizing around liberatory values.
Sometimes they're just too hate pickled.
Sometimes they just haven't lost enough, yet.
Sometimes they've recently been burned by organizing.
Sometimes they're just too hate pickled.
Sometimes they just haven't lost enough, yet.
Sometimes they've recently been burned by organizing.
November 26, 2025 at 1:39 AM
The reality is, there are sometimes areas and communities that simply are not ripe for organizing, or at least organizing around liberatory values.
Sometimes they're just too hate pickled.
Sometimes they just haven't lost enough, yet.
Sometimes they've recently been burned by organizing.
Sometimes they're just too hate pickled.
Sometimes they just haven't lost enough, yet.
Sometimes they've recently been burned by organizing.
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The youth really need to get on making anti-corporate authenticity cool again
November 26, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The youth really need to get on making anti-corporate authenticity cool again
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Billionaire "philanthropy" follows the whims of unelected oligarchs, often contradicting experts.
www.latimes.com/nation/la-na...
www.latimes.com/nation/la-na...
Unintended victims of Gates Foundation generosity
Donations to fight AIDS, TB and malaria in Africa have inadvertently put many of those with other basic healthcare needs at risk.
www.latimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Billionaire "philanthropy" follows the whims of unelected oligarchs, often contradicting experts.
www.latimes.com/nation/la-na...
www.latimes.com/nation/la-na...
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Gates insistence on prioritizing intellectual property rights before distributing the COVID vaccine definitely resulted in unnecessary deaths of children.
www.wired.com/story/opinio...
www.wired.com/story/opinio...
The World Loses Under Bill Gates’ Vaccine Colonialism
As many countries wait for Covid vaccines, the world needs a patent-free “People’s Vaccine”—not more of Gates’ intellectual property stubbornness.
www.wired.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Gates insistence on prioritizing intellectual property rights before distributing the COVID vaccine definitely resulted in unnecessary deaths of children.
www.wired.com/story/opinio...
www.wired.com/story/opinio...
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If I was this woman's lawyer i would advise her not to stop suing until she owned Glenn Beck's house
www.cbsnews.com/news/jan-6-p...
www.cbsnews.com/news/jan-6-p...
How an innocent woman's name was tied to the Jan. 6 pipe bombs
The FBI has ruled the woman out as a suspect in the 2021 plot, sources said, but only after her name circulated on social platforms and a conservative news site.
www.cbsnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 AM
If I was this woman's lawyer i would advise her not to stop suing until she owned Glenn Beck's house
www.cbsnews.com/news/jan-6-p...
www.cbsnews.com/news/jan-6-p...
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A new page of The Red Muscle Ch5 is up early for patrons:
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November 25, 2025 at 12:26 AM
A new page of The Red Muscle Ch5 is up early for patrons:
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