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AthosOnArakis

@athosonarakis.bsky.social
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people are stupid and bad at things

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Love this 👇
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My greatest frustrating has been with policy wonks who persist in thinking we can just keep doing normal policy analysis ("calling balls and strikes") in this situation. The President of the United States is both lawless and out of his mind. That preempts all normal discussion.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.
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AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Isn’t the thing they’re really after an intelligence that doesn’t have a free will?
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AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Politicians greatly misunderstand the incentives for any individual to vote. I think a lot of this voter fraud non-sense is the result.
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AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
If you find yourself suffering, just remember that we suffer so our betters can live rich fulfilling lives that only seem decadent and glutinous because we don’t know how hard it is to have that much money. #DonJr
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Downton Abbey: Lord Grantham's Amused Reaction
ALT: Downton Abbey: Lord Grantham's Amused Reaction
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AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I don’t want AI to wipe out the human race either. But could we maybe use it to solve spam calls?
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AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Got a feeling the Kennedy Center’s gonna “accidentally” burn down and Trump will be the only name on the fire insurance.
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Woman Talks About Arson and Insurance
ALT: Woman Talks About Arson and Insurance
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
pls find my edits attached thx
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AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Flailing desperate Trump tries to bribe electorate into endorsing him. Will the people buy it? #BetterHeadlines
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AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
An unqualified Republican president, utterly uninterested in the actual job wreaks havoc on the Middle East destroying American’s reputation abroad and strengthening Iran’s position. Thus setting the stage for Trump to become president. #9/11
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LadyBlue4evr💙Radical Liberal Scum @ladyblue4evr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Well, there you have it.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
social media overcame a lot of coordination problems for stupid people with bad ideas and allowed them bypass gatekeepers who knew better. now they're viable constituencies that can actually hold elected officials to account. this may kill us all.
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AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Why don’t we have anyone on the left who trolls the right?
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Don Comer @doncomer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
There's a derangement syndrome alright:
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AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"controlling for unexpected behavior are default modes of interaction...this is how computers must be treated: adversarially, with constant suspicion, and armored with plans and backup plans and alarms to be triggered when things go awry." buttondown.com/apperceptive...
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"AI" is bad UX
teapot from the cover of Don Norman’s “The Design of Everyday Things” clumsily ‘shopped by me "AI" means bad UX There is an emergent strain of thought in...
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AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Starting to suspect Republicans aren’t good at economy?
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AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Outlook search!!!! That’s the whole post.
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Joseph Brassey @josephbrassey.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I think about this at least a dozen times a day.
people end up unable to see depiction as anything other than endorsement when their entire cultural diet is escapist fun and reassurance. they see something make them uncomfortable and can only assume people are watching horrible shit as vicarious pleasure and are horrified.
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AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
It’s obvious to all that Trump’s negotiations are just the tactics of an abuser trying to get compliance right?
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AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Maybe we should just rid of all national taxes. Just like all them. And then impose a service fee for all government services. The fees could even be on a sliding scale based on income.
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Absolute Pinnacle @absolutepinnacle.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Trump 2 is just the tweet about Musk ripping cables out of the walls at Twitter HQ in the belief that he's right about reality and just needs to find the evil device that makes him seem wrong and hated instead. The same arrogant, doomed delusion, over and over again.
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AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
So The Last House on Netflix is about homeschooling right?
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Spencer McDaniel @spencermcdaniel.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I have a master's degree in Ancient Greek and Roman Studies, I've studied the 'Odyssey' in Ancient Greek, and I've been writing about the ancient world for over a decade. This is my exhaustive review of Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey'. #Odyssey #classics talesoftimesforgotten.com/2026/07/23/a...
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An Ancient Historian's Breakdown of Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' - Tales of Times Forgotten
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is perhaps the most highly anticipated new film of the 2020s. It has already received near-universal acclaim from film critics and earned more at the box office in its ...
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 24/07/2026
The last time measles cases were this high was in 1991—and the past 18 months have seen more cases than the last 25 years combined. trib.al/InOPLjk
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
NO 👇 LIES DETECTED.......
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Catincognito skeeting since 07/3/2023 @catincognito.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
We already did
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Humiliating: Trump gets booed at the World Cup final. SAD!
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AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Did my Fernet-Branca go bad or is supposed to taste like that?
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AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
So I guess “youth + urban = graffiti” to all graphic designers?
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T. Thorn Coyle they/them @thorncoyle.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
It’s another good day to show up for our neighbors. F*ck r^cist authoritarianism. #photography
Bumper sticker reads: I want for you what you want for immigrants
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AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Power attracts pathological personalities. Which is why we must constrain it thru term limits, rule of law, and strong enforceable institutional norms.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
“Culture of impunity” is right. The demand is to never hold public figures accountable for wrongdoing, not even verbally when they’re already beyond the reach of human accountability and won’t hear the criticisms and jokes. The legacy must be sanitized, or current elites might feel less impunity.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
He never deleted it.
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AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Feel like a smart politician would capitalize on “coastal majority” to counter the coastal elite narrative.
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AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
People read the princess and the frog all wrong. For starters chillin’ as a frog sounds pretty good right about now.
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Frog Jumps from Wall
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
PASTOR LORAN LIVINGSTON (@CentralChurchNC): “There has never been a Christian nation, and never will be. You don’t live in one now. A Christian nation wouldn’t have killed and displaced 20 million Native Americans, or thought owning slaves was pleasing to God.”
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AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Is it absurdly hot out? Yes. But at least we have all these parking lots in the desert.
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
On Birthright Citizenship: “The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.” -Justice Ketanji Brown 💅💕
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Heather Anne Campbell @heathercampbell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool
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AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I’m on team algae
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Canadian In Alberta @canadianinalberta.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Conservatism is the scourge of our time For 50 years successive conservative governments in western democracies have made the rich richer while they destroyed public healthcare, education and social services All the while using propaganda to convince regular people that they were good at the economy
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AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Biden sure is jacking up inflation during Trump’s second term huh?!
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Thanks Biden! Neon Sign for Joe Biden
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AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
We have always been at war with Iran and always will have been.
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Governor Newsom Press Office @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov · 09/06/2026
Hey DOGE and NEWSMAX, can we get an update here?   Turns out preventing a flesh-eating parasite from invading U.S. livestock wasn’t government waste…
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AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
I thought you had to win a war before you got a triumphal arch 🤷‍♂️
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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Tech guys think LLMs can model consciousness because reaching into a catalog of things they’ve already heard and piecing words together in a way they think will impress whomever they’re talking is how they do it too.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/06/2026
exactly the right response
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AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Is the AI panic a particularly American phenomenon because we are so taken with salesmanship here? It talks pretty to us so it must be powerful?
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Their Devil @iamdevil.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Where’s Jerry Springer when you need him?
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