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Robby Birtch @autistopheles.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Yeah. It's quite easy to become a millionaire, and only slightly harder to do ethically, but damn near impossible to become a billionaire ethically.

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Robby Birtch @autistopheles.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

#MySpace created an entire generation of web design professionals, purely by accident. And now, in 2026, it returns.

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Robby Birtch @autistopheles.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Y'all Gen Z kids don't know what it was like. The entire social hierarchy back in high school could be upended in a day. Wars were started based who was or wasn't in someone's Top 8, seemingly endless battles between #TeamJacob and #TeamEdward, hours spent studying HTML to get the profile design.

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Robby Birtch @autistopheles.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

They still have their weapon of last resort, which is to refuse to swear in the midterm winners. Johnson already did it when he blocked and delayed the swearing in of Rep. Adelita Grijalva during the 2025 shutdown.

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Robby Birtch @autistopheles.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Horrendous. In a 2-1 vote, the D.C. Circuit has restored the Trump administration's 2025 expansion of expedited removal for noncitizens, allowing the DHS to apply expedited removal nationwide to the full extent Congress authorized.

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Robby Birtch @autistopheles.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

This is the part where we say "Fuck no, don't build that data center, OR ELSE!"

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Robby Birtch @autistopheles.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

He's doing that thing that toddlers do when they don't want somebody else to take something they want where they lick it so it becomes theirs.

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Robby Birtch @autistopheles.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Like, on a personal level, if I find someone repugnant, I don't associate myself with them. I don't speak to them, I don't congregate in their spaces, I don't follow them on social media.

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Robby Birtch @autistopheles.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

We are forced to continue to pretend that they and we can exist in the same space without being at each other's throats, and nobody can explain why the pretense hasn't been dropped.

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Robby Birtch @autistopheles.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

The thing is, their side has also said the same thing to us. They find us morally repugnant, and they know the feeling is mutual. We're at an impasse. What's to be done about it? Nobody has come up with a good answer for it.

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Robby Birtch @autistopheles.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

What @adammockler.com is basically saying is what we've all said to them at one point or another, "Your boos mean nothing, we've seen what makes you cheer!".

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Robby Birtch @autistopheles.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

open.substack.com/pub/ifloz/p/...

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Robby Birtch @autistopheles.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Okay guys, I did it! I own $1 of PLTR! Now, who's got a question to ask? They'll be doing an investor Q&A during their Q1 Earnings Call livestream on May 4th, and I can ask them anything! So, reply to this with your questions!

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Robby Birtch @autistopheles.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

If you have a question, what would you want me to ask?

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Robby Birtch @autistopheles.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

They've got their Q1 earnings call coming up on May 4th. They're taking questions from investors on the Robinhood app for leadership to answer during that call. I'm considering buying $1 of their stock just to ask a question. 1/2

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Robby Birtch @autistopheles.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

For anyone who is unfamiliar, the "Disney Look" is the appearance policy for employees of Disney parks. No tats, no piercings, cleanshaven, cheerful and bright demeanor at all times, etc.

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Robby Birtch @autistopheles.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

What's next, they'll just consider anyone dissatisfied with the status quo as a threat? Will they make the "Disney Look" a national policy?

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Robby Birtch @autistopheles.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

This should prove to Americans that elections should never be rejected as a positive force. If Hungary could vote out its autocrat, then so can we!

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Robby Birtch @autistopheles.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

This is literally an anti-trans bill.

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Robby Birtch @autistopheles.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

"We're completely *sure* the people who attempted to turn America into a hostile dictatorship have learned their lesson and have even told us they're sorry and double pinky swore never to do that again, so there's no need to punish them, at all!"

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Robby Birtch @autistopheles.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

"Let's not worry about pointless things like, *prosecuting anyone from the previous administration*, and get back to focusing on the Kitchen Table Issues™, like healthcare access, and affordability!"

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Robby Birtch @autistopheles.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

If they win, all that's going to happen is they'll say, "Well, that was terrifying, America. But you're safe, we're safe, and everything is okay, now."

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Robby Birtch @autistopheles.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Disgusting. This is not going to look good for the future. The GOP needs to be punished. *Severely*. This indicates that will not happen if Democrats should win in the midterms and beyond.

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Robby Birtch @autistopheles.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

So then, why do the Dems insist, not only on pretending otherwise, but also on telling *us* to pretend along with them? What purpose does it serve?

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Robby Birtch @autistopheles.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

But worse than that, is the fact that they expect *us* to play along with the farce. They know who MAGA is, they know who Trump and his cronies are, they know what they stand for. We know who MAGA and Trump are. We know what they stand for. MAGA and Trump know who they are and what they stand for.

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Robby Birtch @autistopheles.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

It consists mostly of people who have a rapist's worldview; the strong have the right to dominate the weak, and the weak have no right to resist.

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Robby Birtch @autistopheles.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

I really wish the Dems at the Federal level would stop acting as though MAGA and the Trump Regime is made up of people who believe in and support the rule of law, because it's not.

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Robby Birtch @autistopheles.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

My point is, if you're that scared shitless of MAGA and Trump, then maybe, just maybe, you shouldn't be in Congress.

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Robby Birtch @autistopheles.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I say this, fully aware that I have never been on the receiving end of a MAGA death threat, but then again I'm not high profile enough to be a valid target, but I digress.

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Robby Birtch @autistopheles.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

It's not hard, just say "We are scared of Trump and his mob.", then step down, and let people with actual courage take your place. It's quite literally that simple, understand?

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Robby Birtch @autistopheles.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Like, why are Dems such cowards when it comes to ICE? Are you that scared of fascists and of fighting them, @schumer.senate.gov, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social? Then just come out and say it! I could at least respect the honesty!

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Robby Birtch @autistopheles.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

> Most of the lawmakers I spoke with refrained from describing it in that way, opting instead to strongly criticize the agency without specifying what legislative action they might be willing to take to address the problems.

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Robby Birtch @autistopheles.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

> I asked a number of Senate Democrats if increasing ICE funding is a red line for them in the upcoming budget negotiations.

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Robby Birtch @autistopheles.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

While I might argue that the losers don't have the right to decide that, the second I do, they respond "AHA! What gives you the right to decide that? Who's the real fascist here, anyway?".

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Robby Birtch @autistopheles.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Take the soldiers who fought the Nazis in WW2, as an example. While most cultures and historical accounts in the West paint them as heroes, the survivors who escaped called them villains.

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Robby Birtch @autistopheles.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

For today's lamentation, I submit that we live in a world with no heroes. The saddest thing is that heroes never truly existed. Heroes and villains alike are cultural constructs. One culture's heroes are the villains of others.

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Robby Birtch @autistopheles.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

What saddens me is that not only can this administration openly lie to Congress, and everyone, and even though penalties exist, and Congress has the power to enforce them, and the mechanisms exist, but the only thing missing is the will to actually enforce them.

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Robby Birtch @autistopheles.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Indeed. In such a politics, power flows not upward in response to facts, but downward as an emanation from Dear Leader Strongman. Trump isn't trying to dominate *reality* reality, just *political* reality. He's trying to make people not care about objective reality.

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Robby Birtch @autistopheles.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

We all know which one the GOP has chosen.

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Robby Birtch @autistopheles.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

These are THE moves! Especially the one about enlarging the House, the 435 cap was set back in 1929. US Population has tripled since then. Either the number of Representatives and districts need to increase or the population needs to decrease to what it was in the 1920s.

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Robby Birtch @autistopheles.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Why do you think @mcuban.bsky.social avoids Bluesky, even though he has an account? He doesn't like the criticism he gets from ordinary people, whom he views as peasants. It's the impertinence of it all.

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Robby Birtch @autistopheles.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Why do y'all think they love Curtis Yarvin's Neo-Monarchist claptrap? Imagine being a noble in the feudal era and you're just strolling through a town, and some peasant you've never met before walks up to you and criticizes you! The gall! The nerve! The impertinence!

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Robby Birtch @autistopheles.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Exactly. They want people to like them, desperately. But they want to be liked in the way that a noble might have been adored by the peasantry back in the feudal era. Adored, but from afar. Never approached, never challenged.

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Robby Birtch @autistopheles.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

You ever seen one of these guys go try to do an open mic night at a comedy club? They go and tell the same jokes they tell at the office in front of a crowd of real people, and get booed off the stage.

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Robby Birtch @autistopheles.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

That's exactly what it is. Imagine being born into wealth. Nobody ever tells you no. Nobody tells you your ideas are stupid. You are completely isolated from ever living in the real world.

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Robby Birtch @autistopheles.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

"This time, for sure!" -Republican voters as they spin the wheel one more time.

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Robby Birtch @autistopheles.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

When all this is over, are the people who survive going to learn anything? My biggest fear is that they won't. Republican voters are like gamblers at a roulette table. They go all in on red every spin, every election day, hoping to hit the jackpot, but it never pays out and the House always wins.

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