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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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Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
"We should've had an administration that wasn't bound by rules, but one that was on our side, since thar means they would never turn on us"
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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'm intrigued
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Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
It's true: I have never had malaria
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Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
This gin and tonic I'm having right now
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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
Siri set a reminder to give a shit oh wait this is an android
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Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
I'm mad but you're not wrong
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Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
You need to stop eating cheese right before bed
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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 · 14/11/2025
It looks like you're handling the argument pretty well on your own, so I'll just let you go on.
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Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
What an odd thing to say.
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Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
This exactly
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Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I teach teenagers. I find them to be a fascinating population, capable of great insight as well as extreme insolence. But hanging out with them is such an unappealing prospect.
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Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
False information. Name a hero that doesn't eat crepes.
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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
Yeah I get what you mean
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Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Lunchtime!
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Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
"Stop the Planet of the Apes, I Wanna Get Off" is a masterpiece for sure
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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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Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Thanks, I needed a good laugh!
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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
The cause was accepting a "donation" from Epstein.
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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
And I'm old enough to remember the NYT drumming up support for the war in Iraq, then a few years later going "Wow, we sure did screw up that time, but you've got to trust us now..."
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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
It's true and you should say it.
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Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I don't know her movie takes but I hate them already
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Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
The cows, they long for the whites
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Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I don't disagree with what you're saying, but you're asking us to give the NYT a benefit of the doubt that it has not earned, to put it mildly.
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Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Accurate, but also very "I'm 19 and so deep"
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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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Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
We're probably both on the list of "joined November 2024"
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Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
They Got Lost could also count, since I think most of those tracks are from the 90s
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Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
For sure, and it leaves out the single mixes of the album tracks, so Misc T is an essential album
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