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Augustine Merganser Flournoy

@augustinemerganser.bsky.social
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This is my birth name; if you know me IRL, i go by something else. It's not really safe to have a social media bio right now. Neurodynamic or whatever we're calling ourselves. ♂️⚧️♀️ He/They Trans rights are human rights.

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Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Punishable by a fine means legal if you're rich
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Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Children are a marginalized population, and too many otherwise "woke" people tolerate anti-child bigotry in the form of childfree discourse
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Lux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 14/11/2025
I think Matt Gaetz sucks and yet I also think that making him the central villain in a story of a homeless teenage sex worker is missing the point. This is a girl — now a woman — who was so colossally failed at every point that Matt Gaetz himself is almost incidental to the story. Which is not…
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I'm attending a workshop hosted by @techpolicypress.bsky.social tomorrow. They invited me to write a "provocation" about the state of technology and democracy right now. I think I wrote something appropriately dark and foreboding. www.techpolicy.press/the-dance-wi...
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The Dance with Big Tech is Different under Trump 2.0 | TechPolicy.Press
If we are going to repair democratic institutions, we are going to have to do it ourselves, writes Dave Karpf.
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Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Maugustine, the new disaster bi he/they lieutenant stepped on the the promenade of Deep Space Nine....
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Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
If you see this, post a bird
A green heron on a branch in a lake
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Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
I've been waiting my whole life for this
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Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Everyone once in a while, I'll be having a pretty good day, then I'll remember that the movie Duce Bigalow Male Gigollo exists
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Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Cooking With Titus Andronicus
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Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
This exactly
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/11/2025
you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
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Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Minnie Pearl Jam
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Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
We should have never ceded November to "The Holidays." The dominoes will continue to fall and your children will sing "all i want for Christmas" in June.
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Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
See also Xander Harris never facing consequences for his gross behavior (because he was a Whedon self-insert)
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Every ad now
[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]

JANET:
Ugh...

LIZ:
What's up?

JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!

LIZ:
Have you tried...

AI peas?

JANET:
AI peas?

LIZ:
They're peas with AI!

[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].

LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas

JANET:
What

LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]

Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?

[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]

LIZ:

Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine

[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]

LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!

JANET:
What

LIZ:
Shut up

LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow

From opening the bag of peas

to boiling the peas

to eating the peas

To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.

JANET:
Is it really necessary to-

LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET

[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:

AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.

[Ends]
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justfara @justfara.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Epstein spent Thanksgiving with Trump during president's first term in office: emails www.rawstory.com/trump-epstei...
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Epstein spent Thanksgiving with Trump during president's first term in office: emails
President Donald Trump's relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein continued into his first term in the White House, so much so that Epstein spent Thanksgiving with Trump while the pres...
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Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I want to say Hamilton as rage bait, but the real answer is Hadestown, and it's not even remotely a close contest.
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Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Without downloading any new pics, describe your gender
The cover of They Might Be Giants' 1992 album Apollo 18. The band name and album title are in white, all-caps text on a black background. A giant squid grapples a sperm whale, incongruously next to what appears to be an Apollo program lunar lander.
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Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Socially Engineering the AI
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Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
So what is the line, Megyn? 9? 14?
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Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
45 and yeah. I would feel weird and gross dating someone who can't remember hugging goodbye at the airport gate then watching the plane fly away.
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Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Three Novembers in a row I've gone to see a country rock band: Drive By Truckers in 2023, Old 97s in 24, and Murder By Death this year. I wonder who will be in town next year.
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Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
CW suicide I hate to be this guy, but I just saw a meme of Jar Jar Binks holding a gun to his own head. I hate the character as well, but Ahmed Best was actually suicidal over the criticism of his performance, so i think there are better ways to express dislike of the character.
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Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
"Did MeToo go too far," asked the chauvinist to the nonce
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Todd Alcott @toddalcott.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Well, he's certainly stayed consistent on that point!
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Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
MeToo did not go far enough.
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Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Wolff should be in jail.
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CoastersPaul @coasterspaul.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
why's Mnuchin catching a stray here? say what you will about him, Larry Summers could never have produced the Lego movie. DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT
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Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Jeffrey Lebowski with a speech bubble
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Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
I've officially reached the age where I have to literally put my shit in a box and mail it.
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Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Wolff is a piece of shit who should be shunned forever, as should every journalist who sits on critical info.
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Eric Replatformed @21stcenturyeric.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
I am the King of Blame, I got throne under the bus.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
The Joyce Carol Oates and “books written between 1890-1930 are so ALPHA” thing struck home because it showed how many elites nowadays lack the ability to be moved or find meaning in art beyond what we did watching John Wick and going fuck yea this rules and that explains why they believe in AI art
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Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Is there a genre term for all the crappy adult contemporary music from the '00s and '10s that all sounded like beige wallpaper? Stuff that would inevitably end up on Gray's Anatomy?
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Emma™ @cockremover.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
its always funny to me when people say college brainwashed their kids, considering it's the only place that actively taught me what critical thinking is and that you shouldnt just blindly trust stuff
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Shannon Drake 🌒🌕🌘🇺🇸🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @shannondrake.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Dehumanizing propaganda surgically removed their empathy and humanity over time. That’s why basic human rights are now “silly” to them. They don’t even realize that they are also human, and not immune from the fallout. Whoops, there go your rights to privacy and bodily autonomy!
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Unlike you, I can read and that’s why I know what the constitution says.
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
The difference in time between now and I can has cheezburger Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling
The legendary cat meme that started an era
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Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
On the plus side, they did manage to make nicotine consumption look incredibly uncool
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Daniel Schuman @americalabs.org · 10/11/2025
Some thoughts on the CR/minibus. 1 The Dems negotiating with Rs were not freelancing. They coordinated with Sen Schumer. A few were ready to give in on day one, others worked to maximize appropriations wins. Those voting for the 'deal' are the ones furthest away from electoral consequences.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I Want You to Understand Chicago
Politics Chicago
2025-11-08

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st.

Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
But I cannot support a deal that still leaves millions of Americans wondering how they are going to pay for their health care or whether they will be able to afford to get sick.
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Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Zohran poster but it says "I didn't expect to see a Salesman drinking coffee this late in the morning
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Governor Tony Evers @govevers.wisconsin.gov · 09/11/2025
Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments. My response ⬇️
No.
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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
I think a number of press outlets badly want there to be a groundswell of anti-trans feeling, because the ownership/senior editorial of those papers have absolutely cooked their own brains on transphobia. It seems to be largely an elite psychosis!
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Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Finally got the website to work
A man holds a computer next to a sick monkey on the ground. Caption:   (gasps ) MOJO! WHAT HAVE
 THEY DONE TO YOU?!Pray for Mojo
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Patrick Johanneson 🚀👻 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 08/11/2025
also
Mamdani-style poster reading I Voted for Kodos
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Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
"Employees shall wear yellow stockings, cross-gartered"
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Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Fire everyone at Disney and hire @jamellebouie.net to head up Star Wars
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