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Hal @adaptable.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Excellent book. I did The Monkey Wrench Gang and became an environmentalist nerd. Started with a protest to save the Ballona Wetlands, then within the year it was protesting Bush v Gore and I was also a politics nerd.

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Hal @adaptable.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I still identify as 38.

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Hal @adaptable.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Got in a fight with a riot control water cannon in a foreign country. No Nazi tattoos though.

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Hal @adaptable.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Got so drunk I fell off a balcony onto my face, then escaped the ambulance and had a friend come get me to take me back to the party. No Nazi tattoo though.

Hal @adaptable.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Willem van Spronsen was before his time.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

If I told you ten years ago all of the Jeopardy winners, doctors, lawyers, stat-focused sports nerds, and premium shitposters escaped Twitter on a pirate ship to a website that was completely inhospitable to Nazis and phrenologists……. I don’t know, man, I’d be pretty excited.

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Tanay Katiyar @adigitaltanay.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

My first paper, out in PsychReview!! Along with @orbenamy.bsky.social, Nik & @jaeggiadrian.bsky.social, @realadamhunt.bsky.social & I revisit an old theoretical question using concepts from evo psychiatry and anthro: Why do mixed associations exist b/w social media & mental health? A 🧵

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 24/04/2026

we're gonna need a larger sickos_yes. the largest sickos_yes ever commissioned

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

My latest. I’ve been watching the media coverage of the murders of Dr. Cerina Fairfax and Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer. One way media can fight back against male violence: If you kill your wife, you don’t get to be called a “husband” any more. You’re her killer. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

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If you kill your wife, you don't get to be a husband anymore

Some lessons from the media coverage of Dr. Cerina Fairfax and Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer's murders.

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Hal @adaptable.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I see those, raise you this: bsky.app/profile/adap...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Loooool. Looks like I called it. I mean, if you're Iran, tou know Trump is an idiot who will do whatever he can to exit the conflict and give you everything you want. All you have to do is offer him a way to make it look good to others, and a share of the action. Government by mob boss.

Tweet from Jonathan Karl: Trump "told me there may be a Joint US-Iran venture to charge tolls."

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some people you can recruit, other people you have to simply defeat. politics makes more sense when you accept this

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Lol I mean looks like it.

Trump post: "A big day for World Peace! Iran wants it to happen, they’ve had enough! Likewise, so has everyone else! The United States of America will be helping with the traffic buildup in the Strait of Hormuz. There will be lots of positive action! Big money will be made. Iran can start the reconstruction process. We’ll be loading up with supplies of all kinds, and just “hangin’ around” in order to make sure that everything goes well. I feel confident that it will. Just like we are experiencing in the U.S., this could be the Golden Age of the Middle East!!! President DONALD J. TRUMP"

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Yup. What's funny is that I actually expected Trump to personally profit somehow more from this. Maybe Oman will cut him in on their share. bsky.app/profile/adap...

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They do not appear to be giving up control of the Strait- i.e. their main leverage. So this is less "trust" and more "let Trump give in to all their terms and declare victory."

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Both. Well, with the caveat that "opening the Strait" seems to mean throttled, restricted passage.

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NY Times now reporting Iran has agreed. We'll see how that plays out, particularly with the Israelis.

NY Times now reporting Iran has agreed. We'll see how that plays out, particularly with the Israelis.

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Hal @adaptable.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

It's not over. He agreed to a ceasefire *if Iran opens the strait*. No mention of Israel also doing a ceasefire. Iran hasn't agreed, because a rational state would probably decline to be bombed by Israel for 2 weeks while giving up their leverage over the Strait under threat.

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Thank you. Now please also stop voting for unanimous consent.

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Hal @adaptable.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

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Hal @adaptable.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Jesus coming out of the tomb, seeing these, turning around and heading back in.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

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People don’t wanna put two and two together with what he did to usaid and him putting up those maps of global birthrates and saying white people are being replaced

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The anger is justified, yes. And the misdirection of that anger has practical consequences. I've watched it kill activism groups and undermine movements. So it's the part I'm focusing on. That is not to take away from the fact that the anger is very real and justified.

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You're right. A healthy dose of empathy would go a long way for everyone. Honestly, my organizer brain is also just frustrated that the anger is (in my view) being wasted here rather than channeled into action elsewhere. And generally the "circular firing squad" effects of misdirected anger.

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I don't disagree. At the same time, I put the onus on the person replying to wait on wishing harm to someone until they're *certain* of their interpretation. The responsibility lies with the person assuming bad faith to prove why bad faith exists.

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Hal @adaptable.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Right, but the parenthetical doesn't mean what people seem to believe it means. bsky.app/profile/vimo...

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Gotta appreciate the AI State Seals. Just seem to be like, an average of the seals they find online.

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Hal @adaptable.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Oh nice we got this for "California"

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Kay Whitlock @kwhitlock.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

The horrific brutality of US prisons has always been with us. It's a structural feature, not a "bad apple" issue. I work for ICE (and prison) abolition; have for a long time. It's important to recognize that the bloodlust didn't start with ICE. ICE just made it more visible to more folks. #ICEout

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Trump gets to claim victory like he did in Venezuela- that he's bringing the US oil & making the US money. Iran formalizes real power over the Strait/world oil supply, drives wedge between US/Israel. Guessing the rest of any deal would look a lot like the JCPOA.

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What's funny is some version of this seems like the most likely outcome if this ends anytime soon. Iran keeps control of the Strait (and the implied threat of the ability to cut off the oil supply whenever). They pay the US/Trump some share of revenue.

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