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Joyce Carol (p)Oa(s)tes 😱 @basicchunnel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

God I fucking hate these people. Here’s my whole spiel again defector.com/a-blue-wave-...

When I was coming up through undergrad as a poli sci major (ended up switching to IT for grad school and career, thank god) in the first Obama term, we - and I mean liberal staffers-in-training - were taught to view American politics as unfailingly stable and basically liberal, with three facts offered as proof. Not even proof! They were, you must understand, clearly articulated, immutable laws of political physics:
1.) The federal bureaucracy was vast, heavily unionized, and basically permanent below the cabinet level. This ensured continued function of government even after big election swings.
2) Voters would actively revolt with tremendous force against any party which threatened, even obliquely, to cut entitlements — Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP. Once you gave people a treat you couldn't take it away without consequences.
3.) The Supreme Court would never overturn its precedents (could you imagine the disrespect to history?), and would slowly over time only serve to enshrine more and greater civil protections as constitutional guarantees.

was the resilient machine of government, these things would never change, and not only was it absurd but it was kind of dangerous to act as though they might - because of the gerontocratic systems of seniority and patronage in professional politics, the Democratic leadership was rife (and still is rife) with people who were present to get their asses kicked so hard by Ronald Reagan, they came to believe his basic perspective on America and government had to become the starting point for any position. If you wanted better funded public works, higher taxes, less policing, whatever, you were insane, and you were going to get schooled again by the right. You had to go a third way: Government that does more with less.
It has been the great grim spectacle of my life to see each of those assumed laws - the fundamental safety nets beneath neoliberal governance - systematically, directly, completely destroyed. The precision and thoroughness has been breathtaking. The Democrats are in their version of hell, now.
And I believe the Democratic Party drummed out all capacity to even imagine a world beyond those tenets long ago. They still cannot believe that what is happening is happening, and they're more hostile to the suggestion that it is than they are to fascists (history, here, repeating itself. They - congressional Democrats - see themselves essentially as customer service managers; they do not lead and they do not build. Their job is to make sure the government works without voters ever having to think about how or why. They certainly don't want to be noticeable.

I think a lot about why Schumer remains Democratic leader. The bleak probability is that nobody else wants the position; you could say that's because it's a thankless one, but I think the more plausible reason is because leadership in the legislature necessarily implies a forfeiture of any ambition to be POTUS.
If the party thinks you have juice as a leader, the legislature serves as a finishing school first and foremost: You'll be funneled toward a senate seat for one or two terms and be given important committee assignments to lend your presidential campaign some legitimacy (pure shitheel Elisa Slotkin is in the middle of this process currently). But if you're still there after 12 years, you've probably fucked up. No self-respecting model UN geek who went through the party's pipeline is going to throw in that towel unless they are well and truly washed.
And Schumer is the most washed of them all.
It's ironic, one of the romantic ideas they sold us about American politics was that, unlike parliamentary systems in Europe and elsewhere, we're supposedly quite stable - but only in the sense that in the UK, for example, the parties are far more willing to give leadership the boot if they fuck up (because the PM is meaningfully the executive as well as legislative party leader).
What's clear now, obviously, is that American liberalism wasn't more stable, it was just more complacent, more willing to buckle.
And it has.

Anyway as sympathetic as l am to calls for "no amnesty", the prosecution of all these Nazi ghouls, and the packing of the SCOTUS, I am no fool. Chuck Schumer would literally lay down his life before he admitted, through impeachment and legal proceedings, that his grand and amiable Team of Rivals dream has died.
His Democratic Party already ushers through Nazi federal judges regularly, they will Respect The Court and bow to its legitimacy.
He will absolutely keep the chairs warm for the next fascists. The fascists we have will go on to make lavish amounts of money on TV and speaking circuits. He and his leadership will continue to yearn for bonhomie with them, more than anything else. Impunity, impunity, impunity. They cannot and will not be part of any forward motion in this country.

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Darren M. A. Calvert @dmacalvert.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s coming… 🎃

A marker drawing of the “Dancing Pumpkin Guy” in a small Moleskine sketchbook. To the right are two Copic markers.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The Mummy (1999)

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Harvey Smith @harvey1966.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

episode 7 #dishonored bsky.app/profile/rafc...

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Harvey Smith @harvey1966.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

the 6th episode: MONTE AND DINGA bsky.app/profile/rafc...

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Kurbs @kkurbs.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Please Use AI

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Harvey Smith @harvey1966.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

ok, part 4 is up bsky.app/profile/rafc...

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Harvey Smith @harvey1966.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

third part! bsky.app/profile/rafc...

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Harvey Smith @harvey1966.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

PART DEUX bsky.app/profile/rafc...

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AaronMacK @aaronmack.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

As many peers have recognized.

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Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Greg Bovino will speak at a white nationalist conference in Portugal tomorrow. He will share the stage with no fewer than five people who idolize Hitler, including one who joined a group created by two Nazi SS members. Another guy is a self-described racist who refers to women as "cockroaches."🧵

a bunch of white supremacists looking like dogs

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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

i genuinely can't think of a time a major tech company has fucked up this badly and they actually just expect us to eat shit

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no brain, only alison @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

humanity's enduring desire to make Little Guys is truly wonderful This is a clay pig. It has an angry little face with furrowed brows, pointing down and a huge curved back that leads seamlessly into the top of the head (no neck) like it's rearing up to charge. A very round piggy.

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Sargoth (gyromantically haberdashing iamb) @longersky.com · 26/12/2025

"AI is powerful. Scientists have used advanced models to invent a new drill variant which allows dentists to be 13.4% more efficient in routine interventions" neat what does this specialized advance within a specific subfield have to do with the chatbots you are marketing?

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AaronMacK @aaronmack.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I would watch this several times.

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

[working at the swastika factory named after a notoriously unreliable crystal ball used by evil forces to conceal true threats] this place is starting to smell like fascism

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/04/2026

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

This is (I think) a Greater Blue-Eared Starling (Lamprotornis chalybaeus) & the amazing chrome job is their super-power. They've evolved to manipulate light in VERY specific ways, attracting mates, intimidating rivals. Let's look at the nanostructures that bring this bling into being.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Billionaire Marc Andreessen says he has "zero" introspection, and that the idea itself is a modern invention.

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POTUS Speedrun Record Holder @theradiostar.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

somebody had a good post on here the other day about how AI Psychosis, triggered by the bots' endless fawning sycophancy and willingness to follow any command, is now giving normal people a taste of the deranging social environments that usually only the hyper-wealthy can afford

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TBSkyen @tbskyen.com · 15/03/2025

the senators recoil in horror as a wounded Caesar rises from the floor and a second health bar appears on the screen

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Dan Jordan @danjordan.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Work dumber not harder

A 3D environment featuring a wolf head mounted for display above a fireplace.

Surprise! I didn't bother making a separate asset for just the head. The rest of the wolf's body is actually squished up real good like an accordion and hidden inside the fireplace wall.

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Sargoth (gyromantically haberdashing iamb) @longersky.com · 14/03/2026

He might have left our lifeworld, but he has yet to clear the system

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AaronMacK @aaronmack.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit.

Pictured is the sea passage to Kirkwall in Dragon Age 2, a narrow stone pass adorned with enormous bronze statues of weeping slaves. The Waking Sea is so narrow at this pass that the city needed only to raise an enormous boom chain across it to blockade all movement, as many cities of the real world (most notably the Great Chain of the Golden Horn in Istanbul) have in the past.

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404 Media @404media.co · 12/03/2026

This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org

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Marie Enger @ LBX26 Table 409 @soengery.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

How is it a publisher with millions of dollars and a large staff can't pay me on time ever but the indie TTRPG crews have paid out invoices in less than 48 hours?

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 03/03/2026

When you click the "beautify slide" AI feature in Google Slides. NOT A JOKE

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ToonHive @toonhive.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

AI-generated artwork is officially not eligible for copyright protection after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the appeal. The court ruled that a work must have a human creator in order to qualify for copyright. (Link: www.reuters.com/legal/govern...)

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Kim Myatt⁷ @ysvyri.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I need another 2000 views on my videos in the next week to remain monetised after I took time off to grieve for my dad. Here's a link to my most popular video, so you might enjoy it if you give it a watch; youtu.be/n-mCCaaxQH8

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

If Reform had won, Labour's statement would be that this result is a stark reminder we need to listen and learn from voters who rightly feel betrayed by modern politics. But the Greens won by a comfortable margin, so it's: these voters are stupid and also sinister and, ugh, Muslims

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 19/02/2026

Rather than ascribing agency to machines that are built by other humans getting rich off of doing that, we should ascribe the agency to those humans and talk about what they're doing via their companies: stealing data, killing the environment, exploiting labor, and deceiving the public.

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

it’s pretty funny to make a world where everything is based on computer. and then fuck that part up specifically

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Chatgpt! Is! Not! Confidential! Do! Not! Do! This! For! Fuck's! Sake!

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

TEETH. TEETH. TEETH.

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Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 14/02/2026

With more people getting the opportunity to play Metal Gear Solid 4, it means more people will understand one of my favorite posts online

Tweet from @TheOmegaVirus

Mgs4 boss: *Tries to give Snake a lapdance and dies*
Drebin: "That was Angry Armadillo, she was forced to eat cement as a child"

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libby watson @libbycwatson.com · 10/02/2026

if im being wheeled into the operating room and there's some fuckass AI scalpel gameboy in there you can go ahead and kill me normal style instead

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Absolutely incredible sequence from CNN. "Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."

It remains to be seen how the Venezuelan people will respond to a more overt CIA presence in the country post-Maduro. For years, Maduro cast the CIA as a convenient boogey man, repeatedly accusing the agency – without evidence – of attempting to topple his regime as he clung to power despite US opposition.

Now, the CIA has helped supplant Maduro and is poised to help actively manage the Trump administration’s dealings with Venezuela’s new leadership.

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