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Samuel Pflugrath
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Well, I'm 33 now.
Selfie of myself, with long hair and a mustache, and wearing a hat and glasses.
October 26, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Context: The lawyer she's calling out here was arguing that all domestic violence accusations under capitalism are illegitimate, and that women who try to use the legal system to seek justice and protection from their abusive partners are willing beneficiaries of unjust state violence.
A screenshotted tweet of Burger Stalinist, their handle "at primary cat dad," saying, "All domestic violence prosecutions by the state are useless and illegitimate. These people who support prison and prosecution for 'abusers' aren't our allies." in response to a quoted tweet asking him, "Do you always have the assumption that any accusation of domestic violence is false regardless of prosecution or that it's in the interest of the 'working class' and the proletariat to not do anything about it and to let your bros beat their wives/girlfriends/mistresses?" A tweet response chain featuring Burger Stalinist, their handle "at primary cat dad", which reads: Person 1: "Guy who thinks domestic violence accusations originate from prosecutors and not from the victims" Burger Stalinist: "Oh I didn't realize I was in the presence of the One True Tryer of Domestic Violence Fact, who Alone Can Determine What Is a True Prosecution" Person 2: "Do you think publicly speaking about a man in the first world benefiting from imperialism is capitalistic state violence and imperialism?" Burger Stalinist: "Silence Carceral Feminist" A screenshotted tweet of Burger Stalinist, their handle "at primary cat dad," saying, "Domestic violence prosecutions are like all capitalist state prosecutions, imperialist pig" in response to a quoted tweet asking him, "isn't this the cunt who was defending that canadian leftist men's right's activist by claiming that the domestic violence accusations made against him by his ex were actually accusations by the carceral state or something. isn't that you, you hideous scum" Two sequential screenshotted tweets of Burger Stalinist, their handle "at primary cat dad," saying, "The division of sex doesn't establish a firm class divide between the sexed because the immediate interests of a woman in the ruling class are not coincident with those of a woman in the working class" "It is in this regard that proletarian feminism is an advancement from petty bourgeois radical feminism or bourgeois imperialist feminism"
August 12, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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Yikes.
A paragraph from the Wikipedia article for Swedish director Ingmar Bergman. It reads: In 1934, aged 16, he was sent to Germany to spend the summer holidays with family friends. He attended a Nazi rally in Weimar at which he saw Adolf Hitler. He later wrote in Laterna Magica (The Magic Lantern) about the visit to Germany, describing how the German family had put a portrait of Hitler on the wall by his bed, and that "for many years, I was on Hitler's side, delighted by his success and saddened by his defeats". Bergman commented that "Hitler was unbelievably charismatic. He electrified the crowd. ... The Nazism I had seen seemed fun and youthful." Bergman did two five-month stretches of mandatory military service in Sweden. He later reflected, When the doors to the concentration camps were thrown open, at first I did not want to believe my eyes … When the truth came out it was a hideous shock for me. In a brutal and violent way I was suddenly ripped of my innocence.
July 12, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Biffo just doesn't feel real--it's like he's an especially deranged Pendog Creative Library character who broke free from unfiction and retroactively entered reality.

Even the talk page of his Wikipedia article has a vaguely unnerving, "found notes in a horror story" feel to it:
A snippet of the talk page of Biffo the Bear's Wikipedia article. The relevant section is, appropriately enough, "Untitled." It reads: "I have just added some external links to this article, which provide a means for readers to see what Biffo looks like - the article contains no pictures, and I am sure that any suitable images would be copyrighted. "I wonder whether we could upload at least a low-resolution picture under "fair use"? We could certainly never find a free picture, since the character itself is copyrighted. Anyone want to add some input?" Leevclarke 19:08, 21 July 2007 (UTC) "I dunno. This is a notable cartoon character who is proving to be a sourcing nightmare, unless anyone else can provide sources." --h i s s p a c e r e s e a r c h 13:19, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
May 5, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Trump wants his own Tiananmen Square.
It was March 1990, and Trump was being interviewed by Playboy magazine about his life as a real estate mogul. At one point, Trump was asked about a trip he'd taken to Moscow a few years prior. Trump said he'd been "very unimpressed" with the Soviet Union. "Their system is a disaster," Trump said. "What you will see there soon enough is a revolution; the signs are all there with the demonstrations and picketing. Russia is out of control and the leadership knows it. That's my problem with [former Soviet President Mikhail] Gorbachev. Not a firm enough hand." Trump was then asked if he meant "firm hand as in China." "When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it. Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength," Trump replied. "That shows you the power of strength. Our country is right now perceived as weak...as being spit on by the rest of the world." On June 4, 1989, after several weeks of pro-democracy and pro-reform demonstrations, Chinese troops entered Tiananmen Square in Beijing and fired on unarmed people. Hundreds, possibly thousands, were killed. The above is quoted from the Business Insider article "Trump's praise for China over Tiananmen Square years ago was a preview of his support for military crackdowns on the George Floyd protests" (July 1, 2020) https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-praised-china-tiananmen-foreshadowing-response-to-george-floyd-protests-2020-6
April 29, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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If you've ever wondered what I'd look like with a horrible, hideous goatee, well, today's your lucky day, I guess?

(For the rest of you, sorry)
A selfie showing off my horrible, hideous goatee from one angle. A selfie showing off my horrible, hideous goatee from a different angle. A selfie showing off my horrible, hideous goatee from yet another angle.
February 8, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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Happy Eve of All What's Hallowed.
November 1, 2024 at 2:05 AM
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Huh, I was Bluesky user #1,004,022, apparently.

Thanks @gothmusiclatam.bsky.social for the invite.
September 18, 2024 at 11:03 AM
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Happy Halloween
November 1, 2023 at 4:04 AM
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A Far Side comic strip by Gary Larson depicting two spiders who have built a web at the bottom of a playground slide, with one spider saying to the other, "If we pull this off, we'll eat like kings."
October 19, 2023 at 7:58 AM