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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's hilarious that Huang things not knowing his address, zip-code and phone number are a mark of how he is cognitively off-loading to technology and Klein doesn't seem to press him that what he's actually obviously doing is using the fact that he's rich to off-load onto other humans.

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Aarros @aarros.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Fun Roman history: Near the end of his reign, with Commodus' narcissism and delusions fully unshackled, he started renaming everything after himself. He named the months, various institutions like the senate, even the city of Rome itself. Romans sure were weird, imagine someone doing that today.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 24/08/2026

If you’re not potty trained by now you don’t get to be in the pool with the rest of us and we’re not gonna have a civilized debate about it while the water fills up with your filth.

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John Timmer @jtimmer.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

In my lifetime, I've seen segments of society lose trust in evolutionary biology, climate science, and vaccines. None of this was due to anything scientists did. All of it was because non-scientists perceived some advantage (political, cultural, financial) in attacking science's credibility.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 12/07/2026

Everyone gets fooled sometimes, but if you credulously post an image or video that people reply to tell you is fake/AI-generated and you leave it up anyway (because “it’s still funny” or whatever) you’re making the misinformation problem worse and will be blocked immediately.

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Anders Puck Nielsen @anderspucknielsen.dk · 07/07/2026

Unfortunately, there is no contradiction here. As @vladvexler.bsky.social points out, post-truth politicians are going to change their stance on the climate in the coming years, and they will use it as a new frontier of criticism against centrist technocrats who haven't solved the problem.

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IYKYK 🌮 @nisslbody.blacksky.app · 01/05/2026

I have noticed that people who think of themselves as very smart are particularly susceptible because the flattery algorithms reinforce what they already believe to be true, so they fail to view them with appropriate skepticism, and instead imagine that they have special insights.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 01/05/2026

The rich people of today only have two ideas: 1. Let’s kill everyone 2. I need a bunker so after we kill everyone I can emerge from underground, spread my wings like a peacock, and continue to be rich

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Honestly, the great crisis of our society is the unwillingness of institutions to inflict consequences. Impeach the president, fire the sex pests, expel cheating students, excommunicate an unrepentant heretic, prosecute the war criminals. Believe in your institution enough to enforce its rules.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/04/2026

textbook sanewashing

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump promises strikes on Iran’s power plants and bridges on Tuesday if the Strait of Hormuz isn't reopened.

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Kraut @derparrot.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Anyone who has supported Ukraine throughout the last 4 years already knows what Jacobin is. In the communities that raise money for Ukraine and support volunteers, that magazine and the people who write for it, are at this point seen as a part of the propaganda wing of the enemy forces.

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Lily Alexandre 🛰️ @lily-is.online · 02/04/2026

1. "Here's an extreme idea. We're platforming it, so that people can watch out." 2. "This idea is gaining traction. We're publishing an op-ed in favour, for balance." 3. "This idea is popular now. Why does the left refuse to consider it?"

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 30/03/2026

Imagine claiming to be a Star Trek fan while expressing disdain for at least 90% of what Star Trek is (and always has been)

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Micah @rincewind.run · 19/03/2026

this is unironically the best case for punitive taxation there are arguments about fairness and freedom and whatever else but at the end of the day it is self-evidently far too dangerous for society as a whole for anyone to have that much money, the end

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Katja Bego @katjabego.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Over $70 billion burned on the metaverse. Europe’s single biggest disadvantage versus the US in tech is not regulation, a lack of innovation or “grit”. It’s the fact we are not sitting on the kind of entrenched cash piles (owed to past success) that mean that this isn’t a bankruptcy event.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 16/03/2026

If I said that some of your favorite VCs lacked the ability to introspect, and that they spent close to zero time thinking about how their actions had negative impacts on the world? You'd probably say that I was being unfair, by practically calling them psychopaths. They say this about themselves!

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

"I got my PhD by writing prompts instead of doing research, I'm winning" got some bad news, there still no jobs and now you also know nothing

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Aarros @aarros.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

I am so tired of so many people constantly siding with very obvious, insane, deep evil at every opportunity.

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

University is not a business, students are not customers, education is not a product, researchers are not salespeople.

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Aarros @aarros.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I feel like the past few years have closed the case and ended the debate on a fair number of political ideologies. By which I mean that previously, I often thought that while I am confident in what I believe, I can understand why someone else can honestly believe very differently about some topic.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Can't now find it but there's a classic old tweet which said something like "Every time we're on the verge of achieving class consciousness in America a CIA sleeper agent activates and, their eyes glowing red, they just tweet out "John Brown was a white saviour"" and I think about it often.

Over an article saying that Mamdani will be raising minimum wage for grocery delivery apps in NYC someone comments with a facepalm emoji and says "So if you have ADHD and live in a food desert... you should just... starve. Got it."

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

An entire political movement founded on uncovering hidden messages in documents to discover the powerful secret pedophiles and meanwhile the powerful pedophiles out here sending gmails saying "Hi fellow pedophile when are we meeting to do pedophilia again"

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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Palantir’s founder is pro-Russian. Ukraine should not work with Palantir

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Aarros @aarros.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Already as children, we are taught basic lessons of what is good. Things like honesty, kindness, wisdom, reason, keeping your word, being polite, getting along with others. Seeking to improve yourself, your community, your country, seeking to improve humankind itself. Most of us try our best.

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Aarros @aarros.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

If we ever believed in any higher principles like justice, freedom, reason, rationality, fairness, equality, even politeness, all the positive qualities and principles that Trump and his kind entirely lack, then now is moment that we stop tolerating the replusive, deranged evil that they represent.

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Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Or Russia. Not a coincidence that dissidents from authoritarian nations and reporters that covered those places have been waving their arms over what the Trump White House has been doing since 2017 while most US opposition and media have been sedately concerned. It’s not confusing to us at all.

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Venezuela should de-escalate by trading land for peace, pledge neutrality and now choose a leader Donald approves of. That's how it was supposed to work when we do this to our neighbors.

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Seva @seva.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

an annoying thing about realists insisting they're the no-nonsense reality-based group is that few of their predictions have been based in reality

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Kraut @derparrot.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Trump demands concessions from Ukraine. Putin rejects the proposal anyway. Trump demands concessions from Ukraine. Putin rejects the proposal anyway. Trump demands concessions from Ukraine. Putin rejects the proposal anyway. Stuck in a Groundhog bog.

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Anders Puck Nielsen @anderspucknielsen.dk · 26/11/2025

True. But this theater is getting tiresome, and I am not sure it's working for Europe. Perhaps it's time to make it clear to Trump that there are no negotiations instead of leading him to think that there are—and in the process fooling a lot of Europeans into believing that peace is close.

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Anders Puck Nielsen @anderspucknielsen.dk · 20/11/2025

Helpful reminder that both Kyiv and its European partners can safely ignore Trump's pushes for a bad peace deal.

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Sarah Everett @goddammitsarah.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

takes an unbelievable level of failed skill checks to be a loser if you're rich. you have unrestrained time and resources to hone any skill in the world and to verifiably support your local community but instead you're a selfish spineless blight on society. no excuse for it

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Aarros @aarros.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

MAGA people and others like them don't actually believe in anything. They temporarily "believe" in whatever allows them to right now feel what they want to feel, like feeling superior to others, or feeling righteous anger. They have no real connection to reality, logic, consistency, etc.

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Aarros @aarros.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

It is extremely stupid to try to meet any of Trump's demands, because Trump is a lying conman who never holds onto his word. You cannot actually make a deal with that sort of person. If you cannot somehow force him to respect a deal, he feels zero reason to do so. (Incidentally, Putin is the same.)

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Kraut @derparrot.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

We have a crisis of accountability in Western democratic politics. Look how the British media almost never confronts Farage over the consequences of Brexit, how Trump got away with January 6th, how Germany bogged down legally confronting the AfD. That's why I'm so happy about what happend to Le Pen.

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Kraut @derparrot.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Honestly, Western companies that invested in Russia before 2022 and then had their assets stolen by the Russian state can suck it up and cry about it. If you are a private business, this should be a lesson on the dangers of doing business in a dictatorship.

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