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Dr. Problems @askdrproblems.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"Information Transit got the wrong man. I got the right man. The 'wrong man' was delivered to me as the 'right man.' I accepted him on good faith as the 'right man.' Was I wrong?" (Listen to @bloodwork.show)

Michael Palin as Information Retrieval functionary Jack Lint in Brazil. It wasn't his fault that Buttle's heart condition didn't appear in Tuttle's file.

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Dr. Problems @askdrproblems.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

The opening of Rights of Man has Paine dunking upon Edmund Burke relentlessly and without mercy. A masterpiece

There is scarcely an epithet of abuse to be found in the English language, with which Mr. Burke has not loaded the French Nation and the National Assembly. Everything which rancour, prejudice, ignorance or knowledge could suggest, is poured forth in the copious fury of near four hundred pages. In the strain and on the plan Mr. Burke was writing, he might have written on to as many thousands. When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a phrenzy of passion, it is the man, and not the subject, that becomes exhausted.

Dr. Price had preached a sermon on the 4th of November, 1789, being the anniversary of what is called in England the Revolution, which took place 1688. Mr. Burke, speaking of this sermon, says: "The political Divine proceeds dogmatically to assert, that by the principles of the Revolution, the people of England have acquired three fundamental rights.

1. To choose our own governors.
2. To cashier them for misconduct.
3. To frame a government for ourselves."
Dr. Price does not say that the right to do these things exists in this or in that person, or in this or in that description of persons, but that it exists in the whole; that it is a right resident in the nation. Mr. Burke, on the contrary, denies that such a right exists in the nation, either in whole or in part, or that it exists anywhere; and, what is still more strange and marvellous, he says: "that the people of England utterly disclaim such a right, and that they will resist the practical assertion of it with their lives and fortunes." That men should take up arms and spend their lives and fortunes, not to maintain their rights, but to maintain they have not rights, is an entirely new species of discovery, and suited to the paradoxical genius of Mr. Burke.

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Dr. Problems @askdrproblems.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

www.rogerebert.com/reviews/high...

From Roger Ebert's review:

Now about the Immortals. They led a rebellion on Zeist, and were banished to Earth, under a sentence of eternal life. They cannot die. In a sense. Actually, they can, but it depends. Or, as one of the characters explains it more helpfully, “You will live forever here, until you return to Zeist, where you can die, or, under certain circumstances, you can die here, but not on Zeist.” The immortals are played by

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Dr. Problems @askdrproblems.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

This does indeed appear to be the case

The screenshot I took earlier today. The upscaled text looks smeared and several instances of the letter e look like o. The stitching on the football is fucked

A screenshot I took just now. The text is low-res but legible. The stitching on the football looks like stitching on a football

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Dr. Problems @askdrproblems.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Oh god, all the strips on the Achewood site got put through some kind of AI upscaling. All the text looks like shit

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Dr. Problems @askdrproblems.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Took this picture in 2015. As far as I know the Reddit Slayer is still at large

Graffiti scratched into a divider between seats on a bus. The word "REDDIT" and below that the word "SLAYER"

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Dr. Problems @askdrproblems.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Sun Tzu had a whole chapter about this, but it's one of the boring ones everyone skips over

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Dr. Problems @askdrproblems.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

This guy's whole timeline is like the Achewood arc with the magic underpants

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Dr. Problems @askdrproblems.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Israeli historian Ilan Pappé on the messianic Zionist theme of Israel's war on Iran. Israel's seeming impunity is being taken by some as evidence of divine approval. newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Here is a conundrum. While stock exchanges across the world react nervously to the onslaught on Iran, the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange is booming. Here is another: while millions of people in the region dread the US-Israeli military operation and its consequences, Israeli society is jubilant. According to the latest polls, 93 per cent of the Jewish population support the war. Writing in Yedioth Ahronoth, one journalist captures the euphoric mood:

"While we are getting rid of the monstrous Iranian Octopus, I walk down the street, the shops are open, Wolt couriers are rushing to deliver sushi, shawarma and overpriced chocolate cakes to Israeli citizens, people are jogging in the park, and at home I have electricity, hot water and..."

"...people are jogging in the park, and at home I have electricity, hot water and internet. The Pilates studio is open, and the Israeli stock exchange is breaking records. And at this very moment, over my head in the lowlands, Air Force fighter jets take off for another sortie . . . They destroy with impossible precision another home of a mid-ranking officer in the Revolutionary Guards . . .

"This is what the most critical war since the founding of the state looks like? This is what it looks like because the State of Israel is a miracle that cannot be explained."

He goes onto suggest that Israel has the great leadership of Netanyahu to thank, along with the exceptional qualities of its people and divine assistance.

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Dr. Problems @askdrproblems.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Captain Triumph, the superhero whose powers come from his dead twin brother's ghost

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Dr. Problems @askdrproblems.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

From CBC News. Forget the Davos speech. When it comes down to it, the Great Satan will always be able to count on the support of its Little Satan

Prime Minister Carney says he supports U.S. efforts to stop Iranian nuclear program
John Paul Tasker
In his first statement since the joint U.S.-Israel airstrikes on Iran, Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada supports American efforts to stop that country from developing a nuclear weapons program.

The statement includes no criticism of what American and Israeli forces have carried out today.

"Canada supports the United States acting to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to prevent its regime from further threatening international peace and security," Carney said in the written statement just sent to reporters travelling with him in India.

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Dr. Problems @askdrproblems.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Norbert Weiner, the mostly forgotten mathematician who coined the term "cybernetics", turns out to have been a real one links.org.au/socialism-no...

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Dr. Problems @askdrproblems.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Superior choice of photo on this story, probably not the image Lecornu wanted to present on day one

Screenshot of a Politico.eu story about the Block Everything protest, with the new French PM Sébastien Lecornu peering cautiously from inside a building, looking like he's about to dodge a thrown brick

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Dr. Problems @askdrproblems.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

We've known it for years, but this is another example of how Silicon Valley isn't capable of inventing anything new. Ask them to rethink transit and they invariably reproduce some form of bus; ask them to imagine a future for humanity and the best they can imagine is the Reapers from Mass Effect

Philosopher Derek Shiller develops this perspective in arguing that

...our resources are finite, and the same resources that might allow human beings to live … could be more effectively spent on creating and sustaining artificial creatures. When that becomes the case, the beneficent thing to do is to choose that our children be artificial, rather than natural.

He concludes that we should then “engineer our extinction so that our planet’s resources can be devoted to making artificial creatures with better lives.”

We must call this out for what it is: pro-extinctionism. The biological transhumanism of Thiel and the digital eugenics of Altman, Faggella, Yudkowsky, and the others—all of these views aim to supplant the human species with some kind of successors, which would then proceed (on the most popular view) to plunder Earth’s remaining resources and launch itself into space to conquer the universe. This is overtly pro-extinctionist, and given that some of the most powerful people in one of the most powerful centers of society—Silicon Valley—accept it, we must conclude that pro-extinctionism is not a fringe ideology, but closer to the mainstream.

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Dr. Problems @askdrproblems.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

When you eugenics so hard that you wind up removing yourself from the gene pool:

In a recent interview with Vox, the virtual reality pioneer and tech critic Jaron Lanier said that he meets many people working in AI “who believe … that it would be good to wipe out people and that the AI future would be a better one.” He adds that some of these people don’t want to have a “bio baby” because they worry that it would make them feel attached to the biological world. “It’s much more important to be committed to the AI of the future,” he continued, “and so to have human babies is fundamentally unethical.”

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Dr. Problems @askdrproblems.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

A tweet I think about every now and then

@mkupperman tweets on 10 April 2021:

My biggest vaccination fear was that Gov Cuomo would be prancing around the vaccination sitebagain. He'd probably be doing sexual harassment, and be playing up his Italianness as a smokescreen, possibly even to the point of wearing a ludicrous costume

Governor Cuomo, I say this with the deepest respect: i need a vaccine shot. I don't need you in curly mustache and Mario costume, getting all gropey, shouting "I honka da booba" in a high-pitched voice. Enough.

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Dr. Problems @askdrproblems.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Best account I've followed recently? @oocbiffo.bsky.social, of course! Just look at these testimonials!

A series of horrified replies to yet another harrowing Biffo panel:

"oh this is the worst one yet"
"My life got worse ever since I met Biffo"
"god he just looks like this"

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Dr. Problems @askdrproblems.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

My 6yo once got a book from the library called King Pig, about a pig who rules over a flock of sheep but is sad that the sheep don't like him. But why? Doesn't he do a good job ordering the sheep around from his tower? Doesn't he look beautiful in the costumes he makes from their looted wool?

The cover illustration of King Pig, a children's book by Nick Bland

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Dr. Problems @askdrproblems.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I assume Pugliese's departure had something at all to do with Jesse Brown's recent softball interview with the Israeli ambassador, and/or his decision to edit out @parismarx.bsky.social's mention of the ongoing genocide in Gaza

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Dr. Problems @askdrproblems.bsky.social · 14/10/2024

These, we are told, are our allies, the good guys

Again he was taken out in the morning, but this time, he says, he was dressed as a civilian and told to film an abandoned military tank.

He realized he'd be scoping it out for explosives and other dangers.

"My heart sank, and I was terrified — fear in every sense of the word."

He wondered why this time he was searching a tank instead of a building and why he wasn't in uniform. He was never told the reason.

Saad says he refused multiple times to go near the tank. But the troops he was with beat him on the back with their guns, he said, and threatened to shoot him if he didn't.

He says he walked about 10 metres toward the vehicle when IDF soldiers began shooting at him.

"A bullet went through my back and came out from the front," he said. "I bled for 30 minutes until I lost consciousness."

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Dr. Problems @askdrproblems.bsky.social · 06/10/2024

My god, some people are easy to impress So excited about the idea of doing cynical realpolitik by cozying up to GWBush era fascists. Masterful gambit, good sir! That proves they're real grownups

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Dr. Problems @askdrproblems.bsky.social · 28/08/2024

Price and Cooper chomping cigars and shaking hands, celebrating a successful merger. Waterhouse is the last one sitting at the boardroom table, fists clenched, fuming over his name getting comically squished

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Dr. Problems @askdrproblems.bsky.social · 29/07/2024

Canada technically has a temporary resident program for people trying to get out of Gaza, but it's so onerous that almost no applicants have been admitted. In practice, it's basically a way the government can say they're helping without actually letting anyone in. theindependent.ca/news/palesti...

An IRCC spokesperson told the Independent in an emailed statement that the federal government implemented a multi-step process, including the exhaustive questionnaire, because Canada does not have an office in Palestine and is unable to collect biometric information — fingerprints and photographs — at the application stage.

“The amount and degree of information being requested is beyond unprecedented,” says Jafari, adding it’s “impractical to even come up with for any person, much less ones who are starved due to famine, bombed daily and fearing for their own life.”

Jafari says immigration lawyers are cancelling an unprecedented number of visa applications because the applicants in Palestine are dying before their process can be completed.

“Their clients have died, one after another after another after another, which most lawyers have never experienced in their entire career,” she said.

“While they are fleeing and living in a tent and trying to survive bombardments, they’re also expected to be sending headshots for their visa application and photographs of their birth certificate,” Gray-Cosgrove says.

Immigration Refugee Citizenship Canada is making exceptions for some documents, but Jafri says that documents like birth certificates should not be required in such circumstances. “Despite knowing the reasons why someone wouldn’t have access to them, the government persists in asking families to explain why on a case-by-case basis.”

Jafri says the federal government must ensure those entering Canada do not pose a criminal or security risk to Canadians, and that the government has systems in place to screen for those concerns.

“These systems have been relied on for standard and humanitarian streams alike for decades,” Jafri explains. “Other populations with similar security risks—such as the risk of Taliban agents or sympathisers among Afghan applications—were not requ

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Dr. Problems @askdrproblems.bsky.social · 17/07/2024

The funniest possible outcome to the Bouie kerfuffle has occurred. In all seriousness, I wish him the best of luck on a social network that works for him.

Hughster.bsky.social skeets:

"Bouie is on Threads now and it's becoming common knowledge there as to why. Almost overnight the reputation of this place there has become "the bullying site" and I'm not entirely surprised."

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