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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · -2958s

The complicity of Vanity Fair conflating these people on their Sam Altman cover, as if all are just co-stars in an entertaining little drama to gossip about at the Oscar party

Vanity Fair cover has a photo of Sam Altman and an asterisk about The Future, 'feat. everyong from Dario Amodei to the DSA, The Kushners to Kalshi, MacKenzie Scott to Mayor Mamdani, [RAN OUT OF ALLITERATIONS?!] Pope Leo to Bad Bunny, Ryan Coogler to Matthieu Blazy'

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · -1608s

titantic liars, also incredibly dumb and boring flaminghydra.com/movie-review... p.s. remember this, from last May?? I wonder how their super ultra revolutionary product development is going

Jony Ive and Sam Altman, the happy couple announcing their partnership to make some kind of a thing that they aren't telling anybody what it is, last May

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 4h

The U.S. might be the most successfully propagandized place on earth. Political imagination is rooted right out of the people at like North Korean levels before they hit 20

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 03/10/2026

Scientists who comprehend the pleasures of discovery—the human part of science—are the bringers of progress, as Nobel biologist P.B. Medawar showed so entertainingly and well, back in 1969 Had a lot of fun revisiting this favorite writer for @flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/issue-661/

“Critical reasoning, considered alone, is barren.” One might go farther still and say that critical reasoning considered alone is not in fact reasoning at all, but a mere simulacrum of reasoning—the thinking a machine would do—empty, directionless, asphyxiatingly meaningless calculation.

Medawar’s imagination reaches beyond science with an easy, graceful consideration of Aristotle’s “poetic truth,” which “enriches or replaces scientific truth by truth of a higher kind, that which represents the testimony of a deeper and more privileged insight—a truth so lofty that, if nature does not conform to it, why then, so much the worse for nature.”

Sir Peter Medawar in 1969, immaculate in a soft sack suit, he is elegantly greying, with very dark intense eyes, he is wearing a white shirt, slim tie, and a lovely watch

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 12h

The biggest democratic/liberal mistake of the last 50+ years has been operating like the right has anything to offer America. It was the fundamental problem with Bill Clinton to Obama and everyone in between

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 5h

Money speaks all languages, it's a very small global cabal ripping off the whole world

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 8h

Organic social media, where you choose what you read, is great, a powerful force for democracy When Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg et al. control your feed, it's bad and dangerous... social platforms and AI should be nationalized and regulated

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 10h

Really curious to know every detail of how it came about

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Kirk Murphy @kirkmurphy.bsky.social · 10h

I’m very grateful for @48hills.bsky.social continuing @https://www.sfbg.com/ excellent history of covering SF’s intricate, all too often politically incestuous power structures: and these power centers’ immense consequences for San Francisco now - and in the last few decades as well as the next.

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 10h

So the grieving truck driver who struck and killed a 20-year-old Haitian man was a J6-cheerleading Trump supporter, whom the Atlantic saw fit to characterize as a "lifelong Democrat"?

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 11h

well said, though in some countries they are real powerful still

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 11h

good project to raise money for and revive: alt-weeklies

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 11h

beautiful news on a bad news day

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 11h

The far right power grab is global and entirely organized, moneyed & interconnected. No matter where it happens, every pillar of free society that falls has been and will continue to be everyone’s problem. It’s a domino effect.

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 11h

one good thing would be a global movement to quit Facebook and Twitter

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 11h

they got hold of the media, twitter, facebook, and kept right on going, the fash will never stop but then neither will we

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 12h

There are seven more hours of it evidently, that she is trying to get released... it's all going to go on for a long time

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 12h

Sam Altman's sister has released part of her deposition in one of the lawsuits she filed against her brother, she is knitting while being deposed

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onion person @junlper.beer · 14h

bleak future ahead for brazil. something must be done with the growing global fascistic movement if we want any future worth anything

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 15h

The tech bros turned out to be a hundred times more pathetic, and destructive, than my wildest imaginings. Harry Potter fanfic orgy cult! Studio Ghibli deportation AI slop!! Everyone will DIE! maybe! unless you give us all the money! but we can't turn it off!! so hurry!!!

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 17h

amazing (ugh! the worst, so sorry) Imagine Tucker Carlson or Joe Rogan trying this ridiculous shtick. "Have lunch with your leftist cousin! who has 'differing views'" !!!!!!!!!!

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 18h

Refusal to lunch!!! I might make a sticker for my laptop

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 18h

Same... I will literally never even begin to recover from the grief these people have caused me personally. All they need to know from me is just no. Go away until you figure out how to be a human being again

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 18h

I cut off my Trump-voting family in 2016. My unvaccinated brother, an extreme right-winger, died of covid in 2021. His dying wish was for his kids to get vaccinated And you're asking me to have LUNCH with these people. to UNDERSTAND their DIFFERENT VIEWS got news for you bub, I DON'T LIKE THEM

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 20h

it's so fuckin' weird!!!!! 🥂

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 04/10/2026

It has to come from us, and it absolutely can. The Hungarians got rid of the fash even after 16 years of entrenched authoritarian rule.

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 04/10/2026

Finally!! only throwing the book at the Trumpists will even begin to start this process. Release the Epstein files, support Ukraine and EU, and impeach the hell out of the Republicans nonstop

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 04/10/2026

extremely cool, congratulations!!!

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

What everyone has to prepare for is the constitutional crisis to accelerate if the Democrats take the House and the Senate. Vought has been allowed by the Republicans to act with impunity, so have he will continue to ignore Congress. This is why you have to impeach him immediately.

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 04/10/2026

Galactic block stops them from spreading! it really works

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Also, more and more reports are confirming what should have been admitted for years. The Trump administration has business deals ready to go with Putin, once they can bully the Ukrainians into surrendering more of their land and people. This is the real Trump/Kushner win-win.

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 04/10/2026

Crazy hearing people talk as if this were business as usual... in two years the Trumpists have killed and abducted innocent citizens, wrecked the military, alienated allies, smashed the global economy, sabotaged science and universities, and more The people won't stand for half measures this time

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 04/10/2026

Hi government employee here, who has visibility into how things worked before 2025 and since: This is correct. Rebuild government, prosecute DOGE and Trump officials, and think about contracting reform later.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

What is failure in impeachment? You know what Russ Vought can’t do when he is sitting an impeachment trial: f**k with the budget. He will busy being under the white hot lines of impeachment.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm not naive enough to actually believe this will happen, but Democrats could be preparing, right now, lists of impeachment charges against (at a bare minimum) Hegseth, Kennedy, Mullin, Patel, Blanche, & Trump, as well as Bondi, Bovino, & Noem (still worth doing!) that rely purely on public facts,

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 04/10/2026

His most popular move so far was beating Cuomo and the Dem machine, and then maybe putting the Knicks games on at the bus stops Trying to belittle this man is so comical, New York is suddenly the envy of the world because the mayor is trying to help his constituents instead of billionaires

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David W. Congdon @dwcongdon.com · 03/10/2026

Alan Moore & Zach Rabiroff have a great line in this interview where they compare the work of history to laying bathroom tiles. Just as we use grouting to connect these tiles together, so too the historian tells a story to connect otherwise disconnected facts. flaminghydra.com/issue-619/

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Crouching in the long grass

Alan Moore on the invention of history, interviewed by Zach Rabiroff

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I felt the presence of my phone in my pocket whispering to me to try to take a picture of it all to alert the world to what the world actually is but then snapped to my senses and stood down. I cannot translate this for any of you. Cannot break this news. flaminghydra.com/what-it-has-...

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What it has always looked like

October 18, 2025 The four of us stumbled out across the sand in the dark toward where the tongue of the water lapped at the high tide line and stood silently for some time listening to the collected ...

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 03/10/2026

well... I am a pterodactyl and I can tell you it is another world, in general, from how things were when I was coming up, like in workplaces the stuff that was just 'normal' to say to women, to subordinates, in an office! sometimes I remember and I can't even believe it

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 01/10/2026

did you know that @katewagner.wehwalt.net writes wonderful and quite scary short fiction (that would be so great as a film)?? she does you can read it at @flaminghydra.com

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