Materialist Gnostic
@walmsley.bsky.social
Programmer. Trying to enjoy arguing on the Internet less. He/Him.
Sometimes post pictures of food or thoughts on books I read.
Sometimes post pictures of food or thoughts on books I read.
imo probably not a lot of guys who want to rape someone but not if it costs $3
"The more-than-300 comments responding to that anonymous post are full of mothers looking for property in New Jersey or Florida, predicting that Mamdani’s promise to make buses free will lead criminals to rape and kill innocent passengers."
LMAO @ UES mommies crashing out
LMAO @ UES mommies crashing out
Upper East Side Moms Are Melting Down Over Mamdani
A 35,000-person Facebook group devolved into panic and infighting after the mayoral election.
www.thecut.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:17 PM
imo probably not a lot of guys who want to rape someone but not if it costs $3
humanity in StarCraft is descended from people on some prison/colony ships that were sent to a distant part of space and lost most of their culture and contact with earth
November 12, 2025 at 7:45 PM
humanity in StarCraft is descended from people on some prison/colony ships that were sent to a distant part of space and lost most of their culture and contact with earth
conservative and rock climber having a conversation about "looking for a trad partner" composed entirely of misunderstandings
November 12, 2025 at 6:27 PM
conservative and rock climber having a conversation about "looking for a trad partner" composed entirely of misunderstandings
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they really did just destroy liberalism because liberalism started meaning you couldn’t abuse women
"Larry Summers believed he was oppressed by the American elite" is both ridiculous and deeply revealing about how these men see the world
You have to be astonishingly full of yourself to think that INSIGHT is the word you were looking for here
November 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
they really did just destroy liberalism because liberalism started meaning you couldn’t abuse women
something really strikingly pathetic about how he's going out of his way to explain his little sexist joke here, you can tell how clever he thinks he was
November 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
something really strikingly pathetic about how he's going out of his way to explain his little sexist joke here, you can tell how clever he thinks he was
this is just antisemitism. there are reasonable criticisms of Israel's behavior you can make, but none of them have anything to do with the ancestry of Israelis
Ancestry DNA is now manipulating and changing DNA results to push Zionism and Zionist tropes.
It is now owned by Blackrock. Sooooo….yeah.
No longer reliable data.
Be very wary of that service.
It is now owned by Blackrock. Sooooo….yeah.
No longer reliable data.
Be very wary of that service.
November 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
this is just antisemitism. there are reasonable criticisms of Israel's behavior you can make, but none of them have anything to do with the ancestry of Israelis
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"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.
November 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.
post liberalism? how about you post less and go touch grass
November 11, 2025 at 11:38 PM
post liberalism? how about you post less and go touch grass
if your kid is in regular school they are not the kind of superlative math genius who gets away with not having social skills
I think the belief by the powerful that "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing in terms of understanding How We Got Here
November 11, 2025 at 10:26 PM
if your kid is in regular school they are not the kind of superlative math genius who gets away with not having social skills
if you had magical anti-crime robots wouldn't you just use them to prevent crime in the first place?
in a long life filled with saying stupid shit this is may be the stupidest shit he's ever said
November 11, 2025 at 8:09 PM
if you had magical anti-crime robots wouldn't you just use them to prevent crime in the first place?
look it's very simple, and there's established precedent for it in British cinema: James Bond is a Time Lord
what did they think was happening in casino royale exactly, was that the same Bond that went to space in Moonraker
just have the new Bond shoot someone with a PP7 and kiss a pretty lady and we’re good here
just have the new Bond shoot someone with a PP7 and kiss a pretty lady and we’re good here
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 6:29 PM
look it's very simple, and there's established precedent for it in British cinema: James Bond is a Time Lord
the cool thing about written documents is that access to their meanings does not vary by country of origin
Trump on Ilhan Omar: "I look at somebody who comes from Somalia...and she comes in and tells us how to run our country. 'The Constitution says this, the Constitution says that.' The whole thing is crazy."
November 11, 2025 at 5:28 PM
the cool thing about written documents is that access to their meanings does not vary by country of origin
some people say that because most crimes against children are committed by people they know, the focus on "stranger danger" this misguided. this is incorrect, because by talking to a stranger you turn them into someone you know, vastly increasing the risk of their victimizing you
November 11, 2025 at 3:23 PM
some people say that because most crimes against children are committed by people they know, the focus on "stranger danger" this misguided. this is incorrect, because by talking to a stranger you turn them into someone you know, vastly increasing the risk of their victimizing you
on some level it's bad that twitter is encouraging them but if you can get this mad about not getting fake twitter kudos your brain is broken
Twitter created an official account that features posts that got lots of high quality engagement, and this guy is going absolutely Nasim Aghdam mode over his post not being included. They sent him something like $10k over it originally
November 11, 2025 at 5:14 AM
on some level it's bad that twitter is encouraging them but if you can get this mad about not getting fake twitter kudos your brain is broken
I think what is going to happen is that lab-grown meat will gradually catch up with real animals and when that happens we will all quietly admit that the vegans were right about factory farming
i'm convinced if we ever tried to touch the rail of meat politics in America (something that's going to eventually need to happen in order to reduce CO2 emissions), it would lead to a huge right-wing shock
remembering the time a random catholic priest got mad at me about a hypothetical about the government restricting meat production on the other site
meat politics is going to be insane for the next Dem administration which takes climate change seriously, imo
meat politics is going to be insane for the next Dem administration which takes climate change seriously, imo
November 11, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I think what is going to happen is that lab-grown meat will gradually catch up with real animals and when that happens we will all quietly admit that the vegans were right about factory farming
conservatives can create great art. but every single one of these "we're the new rebels" movements produces the least interesting slop you can imagine
meanwhile, the fiume avant-garde lady of the NYC New Right thinks Mamdani is going to cause an artistic revolution for reactionaries
November 10, 2025 at 11:16 PM
conservatives can create great art. but every single one of these "we're the new rebels" movements produces the least interesting slop you can imagine
may have spoken too soon when I said I would be able to fly home for Christmas
TRUMP: US TO LAUNCH NEW AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEM WITHIN 2–3 WEEKS
November 10, 2025 at 10:34 PM
may have spoken too soon when I said I would be able to fly home for Christmas
telling the passengers I have "changed the course of their Uber ride" as we plummet over the edge of the Golden Gate Bridge and in to the icy waters of the San Francisco Bay
Pirro: "Mr President, there is in this room a group of people who love you, who believe in you, and who are so proud to be in this Oval Office and to be part of this amazing day because you have changed the course of America."
November 10, 2025 at 10:10 PM
telling the passengers I have "changed the course of their Uber ride" as we plummet over the edge of the Golden Gate Bridge and in to the icy waters of the San Francisco Bay
Israel discourse is cursed because on the one hand people absolutely are antisemitic about Israel and lobbying but on the other hand it is literally true that AIPAC describes themselves as lobbying for Israel
November 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Israel discourse is cursed because on the one hand people absolutely are antisemitic about Israel and lobbying but on the other hand it is literally true that AIPAC describes themselves as lobbying for Israel
YouTube is engaging in what I can only describe as a terror campaign to get me to pay for their ad-free tier
November 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM
YouTube is engaging in what I can only describe as a terror campaign to get me to pay for their ad-free tier
how is he this bad at posting. you can't say anything about *why* you like these movies? somehow makes you look worse than if you just ignored the issue
Joyce Carol Oates owned Elon so hard he's spent the last day posting about movies he hasn't seen in 15 years
November 10, 2025 at 8:44 PM
how is he this bad at posting. you can't say anything about *why* you like these movies? somehow makes you look worse than if you just ignored the issue
I'm rereading A Practical Guide to Evil now that it's coming out on kindle unlimited and man I forgot how good the epigraphs are
November 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I'm rereading A Practical Guide to Evil now that it's coming out on kindle unlimited and man I forgot how good the epigraphs are
there is a distinct moment I remember in my political awakening where I identified as a liberal but was not yet terminally online, and Lena Dunham was the conservative hate target of the week
the hipsters, they’re ordering double frufru mocha soy frappuccino. doesn’t anybody order a black coffee anymore
November 10, 2025 at 5:14 PM
there is a distinct moment I remember in my political awakening where I identified as a liberal but was not yet terminally online, and Lena Dunham was the conservative hate target of the week
Nadu finally joins Oko in the pantheon of "three mana Simic legends banned from every format but Vintage because WotC choose to turn exactly none of the extremely obvious balance nobs they gave them"
November 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Nadu finally joins Oko in the pantheon of "three mana Simic legends banned from every format but Vintage because WotC choose to turn exactly none of the extremely obvious balance nobs they gave them"
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musk's extwitter was a failure by any quantitative metric of business or technical performance. he and his stans ended up revising the goal to make it an ideological performance, and that had a much bigger impact
OpenAI "proved" that LLMs are a viable product and X "proved" that you can fire large numbers of employees
(and, for that matter, Trump 2024 "proved" that wokeness was over and you didn't need to put up with any lip from your workers)
(and, for that matter, Trump 2024 "proved" that wokeness was over and you didn't need to put up with any lip from your workers)
November 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
musk's extwitter was a failure by any quantitative metric of business or technical performance. he and his stans ended up revising the goal to make it an ideological performance, and that had a much bigger impact