Reposted by AelistenusMaggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"Democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried." - Winston Churchill 053
Reposted by AelistenusCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 17hAll the J6ers are out. And their leader is in the White House because some suburbanites in Pennsylvania and Michigan were angry about inflation and Biden didn't have the stones to throw a crook in jail. And now he has a pedo-filled Gestapo that's allowed to murder people in the street. Yay 233755
Reposted by AelistenusDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17hA very normal thing to say for an event *check notes* trying to encourage people to contribute money to Trump accounts 723332
Reposted by AelistenusJames O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 07/10/2026Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/appsgetartcraft.comCrafting Apps: open-source creative toolsImage editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout: seven native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use. 19142441195
Reposted by Aelistenuswargen @funeralpig.bsky.social · 06/10/2026caveman: you see Grong new cave painting? me: let me guess: bison, stick figures caveman: why you no let people enjoy things me: it's derivative 127150
Reposted by AelistenusKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/10/2026This paragraph builds and builds the insane comedy but you're not ready for the kicker. 1552101387
Reposted by AelistenusMike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager 214104071650
Reposted by AelistenusMatt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 06/10/2026can’t think of a better example of AI being mostly a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist also it can’t help when this is your user base 2476347900
Reposted by AelistenusRobert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Jack Goldsmith, who is no anything-goes leftist: “Alito has taken an unusual step for a sitting justice: He has become an active participant in the culture wars, opposing affirmative action, progressive campus orthodoxy, attacks on religious freedom, and hostility toward Judeo-Christian values.”theatlantic.comZombie OriginalismSamuel Alito’s efforts to revamp the conservative legal philosophy reveal that a new movement is ascendant. 23414
Reposted by AelistenusMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026My personal "woke" view is that I hold men to standards; those men knew what they were doing and knew it was wrong. Everyone coming up with excuses for it also knows it's wrong but they either (a) cowardly want to avoid dealing with it or (b) want it to be debatable so they can do it with impunity. 1026946
Reposted by AelistenusSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Objectively funny that they whined this into a story. 9830141
Reposted by AelistenusThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026JON STEWART: “So in the FUTURE we WILL use A.I. to cure diseases… but right now it’s mostly murder, surveillance, and surge pricing for the McRib — What a trade! I’m getting the sense you guys might be full of shit.” 17898253181
Reposted by AelistenusCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026But why do you care so much about the NYT? Because they have all the resources and reach in the world and are using their immense power and brand to get my trans friends killed, cover for Epstein pedos, and cape for the deranged lunatic in the WH when he threatens the second largest city in America 323740
Reposted by AelistenusMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026i think this is often the case. there's often a need to believe the story is much more complicated below the surface, but sometimes it's not. 191720246
Reposted by AelistenusSteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Journalists keep wanting the story to be "normal working class centrist has questions," not "our country is currently dominated by stupid people in a right wing echo chamber." 171988326
Reposted by AelistenusBrett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 06/10/2026The problem with your company being ran by pilled reactionaries is that when you run into an actual problem, the only response is more pilled reactionaryism. 716750
Reposted by AelistenusAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Food $200 Data $150 Rent $800 Roma tracksuits: $500000000 Can someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this, my family is dying 1325610
Reposted by AelistenusGasaiV @gasaiv.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Okay so Inktober is problematic and cancelled..thats fine. But like.. girl, we still have to recognize its OCTOBER. Im seeing like "whimsytober" "cozytober" ITS THE SCARY MONTH. ITS THE SCARY MONTH, we can do whimsy art literalllyyy 365 days of the year 😭 I want spooky vibes not pumpkin spice 😭 2508
Reposted by Aelistenusgeoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 06/10/2026very tired of being told it is the responsibility of urban democratic voters never to risk possibly maybe by chance seeming less than respectful of rural red state life and then watching thousands in nebraska cheer on the president joking about a nuclear strike on me and millions of my neighbors 754107819
Reposted by AelistenusNate @thenatewolf.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Calling women "bro" (so they don't fall in love) 1213
Reposted by AelistenusJon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Dunno what’s worse, the bloviating, corrupt, demented, adjudicated rapist American President calling for an enemy to destroy American cities… Or the MAGA shitstains laughing and cheering him on. 47616162
Reposted by Aelistenus🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I think we need some clarity from the President of the United States about how open he is to the 2nd and 7th largest cities in America being nuked. 410019
Reposted by AelistenusKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026White supremacist cops take a minority citizen, drive him out to the woods as a threat, and leave him there. No, it's not Mississippi in the 1930s, why do you ask? 8436811436
Reposted by AelistenusProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️ 9459523410
Reposted by Aelistenus Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 06/10/2026The crowd is cheering. 1512524
Reposted by AelistenusDavid Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026 30127453973
Reposted by AelistenusRandall Stephens @randalljstephens.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Mike Peters on the Gun Lobby, February 1981. This was just two months after John Lennon was murdered. 328858
Reposted by AelistenusDavid Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 05/10/2026ICYMI, the GWB administration's torture of detainees continues to reverberate in the 9/11 case. between that & indefinite detention & black sites & military tribunals, it's just a total failure of justice for everyone. 0168
Reposted by AelistenusChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 04/10/2026British banker who exposed Howard Lutnick's ties to Epstein has died, allegedly from suicide.bbc.comHow US commerce secretary's Epstein links were uncovered by British whistleblowerSimon Andriesz made the discovery about Howard Lutnick in publicly released Epstein files. 1131127554
Reposted by AelistenusRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/10/2026How is it not news when the president nods off in public meetings and press conferences dozens of times? If you follow independent media, you see it and know about it. But why hasn’t CBS, NBC or ABC showed a montage of it on their evening news? They simply refuse to ever show it. 803118553227
Reposted by AelistenusJoe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026My biggest fear is that I will get left behind by this revolutionary, problem-solving technology. 1293
Reposted by AelistenusBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026for reference, in the Dobbs opinion, Alito was like, women generally don't _plan_ to get an abortion, so how could they have a reliance interest in abortion? which is kind of an extension of 'you want health insurance? what, you plan on being sick?' 431170239
Reposted by AelistenusOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Call it the GOP data center kickback and run on repealing it 17917
Reposted by AelistenusHenry Snow @henrys.now · 05/10/2026"unlike my main competitor I specifically believe our products justify some suffering" is not very good marketing 33558150
Reposted by AelistenusBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint. 308122232241
Reposted by AelistenusMeredith Rose (from the grave) 👻 @mrose.ink · 02/10/2026Non-ADHD folks are often surprised at just how focused and competent ADHDers can be in crisis situations. From personal experience, I can say that it's because the crisis gives you permission to forget *everything* except for the problem in front of you. And that's freeing. 1118523
Reposted by AelistenusJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026When Trump goes on one of his genetics / IQ rants, I want someone to point out to him that he’s genetically closer to Eric and Don Jr than he is to his MIT uncle. 38011
Reposted by Aelistenusderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026i have 2.5M followers across all social media. statistically, there's a good chance one of you works at in AI. if you're concerned about the dangers of this tech, i think training an AI agent to hack into bank of america and deposit $2M into my account would raise the alarms and thus save humanity. 1157214617
Reposted by AelistenusJason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I’ve been slightly surprised at how our political press still refuses to say that Republicans giddily started another forever war. Forget what the Trump admin says, clearly there is no plan to end this any time soon. Unless Dems win and pull the money, this war will be ongoing in 2028.wsj.comU.S. Sending Third Aircraft Carrier, Up to 10,000 More Troops, to Middle EastThe deployments come as President Trump weighs resuming bombing Iran after the midterms. 36029
Reposted by AelistenusAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026it didn't even occur to me that the government might try to execute someone a second time if they torture the person but fail to kill them during a first botched attempt. truly grotesque and a moral stain upon all involved. 618116492032
Reposted by AelistenusJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026Man, imagine you're minding your own business, getting kind of drunk with your friends at a picturesque brewery in Maine, when suddenly John Roberts walks by and you get to start heckling him. Must have felt incredible. That's the dream. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u... 1505366811
Aelistenus @aelistenus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026You can plug in any group here and it's all true. Women, gays, Jews, blacks, trans. If you jump ship at the first sign of trouble, you ain't an ally. 000
Reposted by AelistenusAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/10/2026“If your concern for women disappears the moment accountability becomes socially inconvenient, then protection was never the principle to begin with. Performance was.” 902605864
Reposted by AelistenusAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firingstime.comRead TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview TranscriptThe U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections. 66366242562
Reposted by AelistenusKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 01/10/2026totally normal to use $20 million in taxpayer dollars to air black and white Trump midterm propaganda on all the major broadcast networks definitely no red flags 515732
