Alex Bollinger @alexbollinger.bsky.social · 14/10/2026there's an account somewhere that shows the posts that lead to blocks on bsky and i guess the point is "how did that random and friendly post lead to a block??? someone must have been in a bad mood" but i suspect it's actually this. it feels really manipulative. 000
Alex Bollinger @alexbollinger.bsky.social · 14/10/2026one of the things i like the least about bsky is how they'll insert random overly-saccharin posts into my feed which is mostly about politics and they sound so fake, so much like engagement bait. "The only datacenter I support is my local library" go away 100
Alex Bollinger @alexbollinger.bsky.social · 25/08/2026lia thomas tied for fifth with riley gaines. riley was not beaten by a trans woman, she was beaten by 4 cis women. 0271
Alex Bollinger @alexbollinger.bsky.social · 13/07/2026people get all excited about international sports competitions like the olympics or the world cup but (and i know i'm no fun) it's worrying how much jingoism and racism these competitions seem to legitimize on social media. Say the most offensive shit you want, it's ok because sports. 020
Alex Bollinger @alexbollinger.bsky.social · 10/07/2026just noticing how blue hair went from being a descriptor that signified that someone is very old to now signifying that someone is very young. 110
Alex Bollinger @alexbollinger.bsky.social · 10/07/2026It's just so lazy. "Oh, you're mad at my favorite pol for doing X? Well, they all do it! Please don't check to see if that's true." 0101
Alex Bollinger @alexbollinger.bsky.social · 09/07/2026at this point i think "he wanted to do war crimes" is a possible explanation. 050
Alex Bollinger @alexbollinger.bsky.social · 09/07/2026i'm still convinced he just covered it with a rub-on tattoo for one picture and decided he would never be shirtless in public again. 021
Alex Bollinger @alexbollinger.bsky.social · 08/07/2026seeing a lot of left-populists online disparagingly refer to non-rapist politicians as "grown in a vat to run for office," as if the idea of a person not being a rapist is just so unnatural to them. It must be hard having such a negative view of humanity. 010
Alex Bollinger @alexbollinger.bsky.social · 08/07/2026MTG is actually antisemitic so I'm not sure how this helps prove your point. 040
Alex Bollinger @alexbollinger.bsky.social · 30/06/2026OTOH meeting people and finding someone to marry might make you happy and then you'll have less time to complain that not all queer people agree with you online. 000
Alex Bollinger @alexbollinger.bsky.social · 30/06/2026He doesn't have a campaign, so it doesn't make sense to say it's equipped or not for anything, and I'm assuming that you don't know what policies he supports. "his policies" is just a weird thing to say about someone who is neither in nor running for public office. 010
Alex Bollinger @alexbollinger.bsky.social · 12/06/2026i could not possibly disagree more but also this is in the realm of "something a politician who wants votes has to say." 010
Alex Bollinger @alexbollinger.bsky.social · 08/06/2026honestly don't know how to read this, if in a few months they'll treat it like the "War on Christmas" or "war on Protein," like a war to be against.... 020
Reposted by Alex BollingerNico Agosta (Stocking the Capitol) @stockingthecapitol.org · 28/05/2026“All politicians are corrupt” is what corrupt politicians WANT you to think because then they become the average 25819170
Alex Bollinger @alexbollinger.bsky.social · 29/05/2026wait, the "Smegma King" doesn't agree with basic statistics? My worldview is so challenged! 120
Alex Bollinger @alexbollinger.bsky.social · 27/05/2026the vegan insult is basically questioning talarico's masculinity. so... do republican men have insecurities about their own masculinity? i think we know the answer to that one. 1390
Alex Bollinger @alexbollinger.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Me: We literally know nothing about this guy's financial situation. This kind of rhetoric has no correlation to any particular income. You: So you're saying you're absolutely sure he's rich!!! 🙄 100
Alex Bollinger @alexbollinger.bsky.social · 19/05/2026facts not in evidence. we have no idea how much money this influencer earns. i've heard people making over $200k/year complaining about how they might starve next month (spoiler: they never starve). the fact that he's complaining about not having money does not mean he has no money. 320
Alex Bollinger @alexbollinger.bsky.social · 19/05/2026wealthiest country in the world, very much richer than people in every other large country, sitting around telling themselves that no, they are the oppressed people, everyone else is living high on the hog, can't afford to give some cheap HIV meds to Africans. it's gross. 000
Alex Bollinger @alexbollinger.bsky.social · 13/05/2026i don't think you need a conspiracy theory beyond "they are projecting that they will need this capacity in the next 10-ish years." 010
Alex Bollinger @alexbollinger.bsky.social · 12/05/2026i kinda hate it how everyone has apparently forgotten that the reason SS, Medicare, etc. are called "entitlements" is to remind people that they are, in fact, entitled to receive them. It expresses an obligation the government has to the people! You can't cut spending people are entitled to! 000
Reposted by Alex BollingerThe French History Podcast @fhp.bsky.social · 12/05/2026A drag ball in Paris, 1931. Police had to give special permission for drag performers. While crossdressing was not illegal for men, dancing with others while dressed as a woman was. 0214
Alex Bollinger @alexbollinger.bsky.social · 12/05/2026well, technically *a* religion. they just assume that theirs will end up on top. 000
Alex Bollinger @alexbollinger.bsky.social · 12/05/2026when conservatives say they don't believe in the separation of church and state, that's just a sanitized way of saying they want the state - with its monopoly on violence - to force people to follow their religion. 111
Alex Bollinger @alexbollinger.bsky.social · 12/05/2026it's not nitpicking. under your explanation - hw is training for "when you have to do a thing" - AI can do both the homework and the task you're supposed to be learning. Under mine, AI can only do the homework, but not the task you're supposed to be learning from the homework. 000
Alex Bollinger @alexbollinger.bsky.social · 11/05/2026the point of assigning a 5-paragraph essay is to teach kids to organize their thoughts in a coherent manner and to support their argument with evidence, not to get them practiced at writing 5-paragraph essays. 120
Alex Bollinger @alexbollinger.bsky.social · 11/05/2026after covering MTG's extreme transphobia for years, it's disheartening to see anyone on the left side of the aisle say that she deserves anything but our contempt. Yes, people who change their minds should be welcomed, but no, she has not. www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/12/hous...lgbtqnation.comHouse passes Marjorie Taylor Greene's bill to criminalize gender-affirming care for trans youth - LGBTQ NationThe bill would jail doctors who provide gender-affirming care for trans youth. 010
Alex Bollinger @alexbollinger.bsky.social · 11/05/2026i remember in my 20s a few of my friends saying things like "i don't use salt or oil when cooking because they're unhealthy!" followed later by "i eat out a lot because i'm so bad at cooking, haha." 000
Alex Bollinger @alexbollinger.bsky.social · 11/05/2026i think you completely misunderstood the point of homework. 110
Alex Bollinger @alexbollinger.bsky.social · 01/05/2026i just don't see politics as a game where different politicians try to win a prize. i see it as a system of governance that produces results for everyone, and those results can be good or bad. What a politician is "entitled" to just doesn't figure into the equation. 160
Alex Bollinger @alexbollinger.bsky.social · 30/04/2026so your argument against how taking billionaires' assets isnt enough money is to say that you want to take even less? ok then. 110
Alex Bollinger @alexbollinger.bsky.social · 27/04/2026let me introduce you to Amanda Lear, who is very much still alive but whose age can't even be narrowed down to one decade. 010
Alex Bollinger @alexbollinger.bsky.social · 24/04/2026i think people should be aware that their president is losing his mind. 030
Alex Bollinger @alexbollinger.bsky.social · 23/04/2026i got into the louvre for free so many times back in the day when i was broke. the idea that it's a rich person's playground (with the implication being that poor people could never appreciate art) is silly. 010
Alex Bollinger @alexbollinger.bsky.social · 14/04/2026ah yes gay men, famously hating men who are good-looking. 010
Alex Bollinger @alexbollinger.bsky.social · 09/04/2026they could also be referring to the tech bubble recession (early 2000s), but i still don't know how they get to 4. 130
Alex Bollinger @alexbollinger.bsky.social · 09/04/2026"i've lived through three genocides" is a wild thing to say when you have not been targeted in any of them. 080
Alex Bollinger @alexbollinger.bsky.social · 08/04/2026only applies to licensed mental health professionals, while most conversion therapy is practiced by clergy or lay ministers. 020
Alex Bollinger @alexbollinger.bsky.social · 08/04/2026huh i wasn't thinking about it from that angle. that's a good point. 020
Alex Bollinger @alexbollinger.bsky.social · 08/04/2026"capital" is not a synonym for money. non-capitalist societies can still have money. 100
Alex Bollinger @alexbollinger.bsky.social · 08/04/2026part of the reason i had the word "capitalism" muted on socials before was because 90% of people have no idea what it means. Yes, local government services, famous examples of capitalism! 100
Alex Bollinger @alexbollinger.bsky.social · 08/04/2026OK there's this but also there is a little trans girl in WV who wanted to run cross country with her friends and now she'll probably be stopped and 40% of the country probably thinks it was worth it. 010
Alex Bollinger @alexbollinger.bsky.social · 07/04/2026I'm still mad that the stupidest fucking people in 2024 believed that Trump would be against war. Republicans always want more war bc that's just who they are and they will never change. 000
Reposted by Alex Bollingermtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/04/2026You know what? I'll admit it. The credible threat by a madman to wipe out a nation of 90 million people for basically no reason (presumably using nuclear weapons) successfully distracted me. I am now distracted. 6771681133
Alex Bollinger @alexbollinger.bsky.social · 01/04/2026because there are people with advanced degrees who devote their lives to measuring inflation and we trust their observations more than yours. It's like seeing an anonymous person online saying "I know someone who died from the covid vaccine, why do you keep saying it's not killing people?" 2130
Alex Bollinger @alexbollinger.bsky.social · 01/04/2026hm, i think they could double the minimum wage and most americans would still be saying that we have a bad economy. happy to be proved wrong tho. 120