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Ian Against the Machine

@alkalinian.bsky.social
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Writer, editor, North American scum. Remember this: Try.

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Ian Against the Machine @alkalinian.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Slothrust @ Riot Fest. This is a Leah Wellbaum stan account
Leah Wellbaum of Slothrust on the Radical Stage at Riot Fest (Chicago 2026)
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DougExeter @dougexeter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
*cake doing play-by-play of a football game* hes torn his meniscus
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Ian Against the Machine @alkalinian.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Called out
OBI-WAN: Obi-Wan Kenobi…now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time. A long time…
LUKE: …ago, in a galaxy far far away?
OBI-WAN: …
LUKE: That’s what you were going to say, right?
OBI-Wan: …
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Ian Against the Machine @alkalinian.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Watching Independence Day (1996), and the best line-read in the movie is still the one grunt in the ruins of Houston who goes, “Target remains…”
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Ian Against the Machine @alkalinian.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
At 250 years old, the Declaration of Independence remains a fundamentally radical document, and one that is fundamentally incompatible with American movement conservatism.
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Ian Against the Machine @alkalinian.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Our grandchildren will never believe we had to go to school and work on Prime Day.
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Ian Against the Machine @alkalinian.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Animated Animorphs TV show done in the style of Invincible or X-Men ‘97.
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Ian Against the Machine @alkalinian.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
*Steve Perry voice* 🎶 The meal in the sky keeps on turnin’ 🎶
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Ian Against the Machine @alkalinian.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
THERAPIST: try writing longhand to help with focus and executive function ME: *laughs maniacally surrounded by a dozen empty bottles of white-out*
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Ian Against the Machine @alkalinian.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
History nerd achievement unlocked: saw where they did the (second (third)) Defenestration of Prague
Window at Prague Castle (exterior)Window at Prague Castle (interior - yeetees’ POV)Artists’ rendering: two lords regent are yeeted through a window at Prague Castle, 1618
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Ian Against the Machine @alkalinian.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
introduce yourself with 10 bands you've seen live: Metallica The Flaming Lips Alkaline Trio Foxy Shazam Gogol Bordello GWAR Haim Jimmy Eat World Ludo Tegan and Sara
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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
"the maga party is the last breath of the confederacy, and i'll be happy to see gen z and millennials bury y'all."
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Ian Against the Machine @alkalinian.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Resurrect him and give him a Battlemech.
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Ian Against the Machine @alkalinian.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
As is tradition 🎶✊🚫👑
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Ian Against the Machine @alkalinian.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
As a committed ASOIAF nerd, I’d campaign on an “Hour of the Wolf” presidency. Stay in the job for like two weeks future-proofing and dispensing justice, then resign and fuck off back home.
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Ian Against the Machine @alkalinian.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Getting closer! 🙏
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
it’s giving crusades it’s giving Avignon papacy
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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 11/05/2024
Are you a writer? Do you own: *Piles of notebooks that you'll never throw out or open again *A book on how to write a book a family member gave you *Mug of pens with the clips broken off *An oxford comma hot take *Rejection collection *Trauma over an unrecoverable lost project *Imposter syndrome
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Nuremberg 2.0. go nurembrrrrrrrrr
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Ian Against the Machine @alkalinian.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The people who voted for this are the most irresponsible people on the planet.
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Adriel Wallick @msminotaur.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
technically, this is a selfie
Screenshot from the stream of the Artemis II with Orion, the moon, and the earth
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
A+ headline.
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 18/03/2026
they literally renamed the entire company after this
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
He was certainly afraid of Vietnam-style combat in Vietnam.
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Ian Against the Machine @alkalinian.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Gonna try and get SCOTUS to declare that I’m excused from on-camera meetings. I think I have a good 8th amendment case that they constitute cruel and unusual punishment for the ADHD folks.
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Ian Against the Machine @alkalinian.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
🎶Where have you gone, Marcus Junius Brutus? Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you🎶
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Ian Against the Machine @alkalinian.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
It’s not just tech. “What if instead of [fill in blank], you could pay a new form of rent, forever?” is basically the only sales pitch capitalism has left.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Sounds familiar.
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Ian Against the Machine @alkalinian.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Triangle man, triangle man Triangle man hates
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Ian Against the Machine @alkalinian.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
THERAPIST: have you made *any* of the changes we’ve talked about? ME: no but I did start using serifs in my handwriting THERAPIST: jfc ME: that would be more legible with some little feets on those letters
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
This is true in rougly the same sense that a guy on the subway reeking of urine, screaming, and waving a knife around is “feared.”
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Ian Against the Machine @alkalinian.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
American Exceptionalism (TM)
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curmudgely.bsky.social @curmudgely.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
This piece is quite something.
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Ian Against the Machine @alkalinian.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
MY GOV TEACHER IN 2004: So according to the Strauss-Howe theory, you are the Hero Generation. It will be up to you to lead our nation through its next great crisis. ME IN 2026: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
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Ian Against the Machine @alkalinian.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
This is, of course, all that’s left of conservatism once you really boil it down: “I can do whatever I want, and you can also do whatever I want.”
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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Liam himself is five goddamned years old and should be at home with an adult he trusts right now no matter who his parents are. It would not matter if they were literal criminal masterminds, Liam Ramos is a baby and babies do not belong in prison.
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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 24/01/2026
Everyone from the trust-the-process center to the far right has been lying to us all our lives about what they purport to value and we never need to take a single thing they say seriously ever again
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city. If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.
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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 24/01/2026
Abolish DHS. Prosecute ICE.
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Thomas Leeper @thosjleeper.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Note how there's no violence or chaos when the cops aren't rioting.
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Ian Against the Machine @alkalinian.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
“The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil.”
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Ian Against the Machine @alkalinian.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Adding this to the agenda for Woke 2
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Chris Dunker @chrisdunker.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
An armed gang has occupied and is terrorizing an American city.
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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 13/01/2026
Goldfish repeatedly shocked to find resin castle in bowl
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Kind of feel like a lot of politicians, even in Minnesota, are misreading the implications of this moment. I feel like the past three days have been tremendously radicalizing for so many people. I have witnessed it even in my own small communities, it goes beyond just incandescent rage.
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