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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 2h

and of course, we all know FRANK. franklin. frankandstein—they made him german! the franklinstein mobster, who's gonna believe it? it's ridiculous. they gave him the chair, but it didn't work. happens right at the start ZAP! so we're calling him francesco now or frankalini ok, you pick, i don't care

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balrog bongcloud @balrogbongcloud.silmarillionaire.moe · 23h

What do you considering calling trans women men to be

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balrog bongcloud @balrogbongcloud.silmarillionaire.moe · 23h

Perhaps deep south Dems should start peppering antiBlack racial epithets into their campaigning?

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balrog bongcloud @balrogbongcloud.silmarillionaire.moe · 09/10/2026

It's remarkable how many times the argument ends up at "1 Jewish Israeli life is worth X>1 (sometimes much greater) of any other kind of lives"

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balrog bongcloud @balrogbongcloud.silmarillionaire.moe · 08/10/2026

we've never interacted but i felt the same way and it came out well and i hope the same will be true for you

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balrog bongcloud @balrogbongcloud.silmarillionaire.moe · 08/10/2026

good advice for anxious people is to become somewhat famous- then your ruminations will be justified true beliefs and you won't be mentally ill anymore

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balrog bongcloud @balrogbongcloud.silmarillionaire.moe · 07/10/2026

if "a world in which every person can live with freedom, safety, and dignity" is an attack on Israel, well, NYMag said it not me.

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balrog bongcloud @balrogbongcloud.silmarillionaire.moe · 06/10/2026

you think you've seen all the furry versions of the sickos guy but it just keeps fucking going lmaooo

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balrog bongcloud @balrogbongcloud.silmarillionaire.moe · 05/10/2026

when the dinner conversation is about to go somewhere so bad for you that have to propose a toast. i'd call it seinfeldian but everyone here is of age

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balrog bongcloud @balrogbongcloud.silmarillionaire.moe · 05/10/2026

*incredibly pissed off voice* mamdani loves fetishizing shofar because it makes him happy to see jews with horns

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balrog bongcloud @balrogbongcloud.silmarillionaire.moe · 05/10/2026

An interesting and common dynamic here, where the center-left intellectual worries about center-right intellectuals hobnobbing with fascists and the center-right intellectual responds not by responding substantially, but by assuring "you're my friend, we're both in-group!"

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balrog bongcloud @balrogbongcloud.silmarillionaire.moe · 05/10/2026

zionism is about the actually-existing, actually-fascist state of Israel not an imaginary counterfactual state

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balrog bongcloud @balrogbongcloud.silmarillionaire.moe · 05/10/2026

i think this is right, with caveats that theophite also expresses elsewhere in the thread: brad lander types call themselves 'liberal zionists', but are incorrect to do so, and it isn't worthwhile or wise to try and convince them to stop

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balrog bongcloud @balrogbongcloud.silmarillionaire.moe · 03/10/2026

everyone knows the correct method is to go "c'mon, though. c'mon! really? c'mooooon" until he begrudgingly admits it

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balrog bongcloud @balrogbongcloud.silmarillionaire.moe · 03/10/2026

imagine being the guy who tries to convince the Pope not to be Catholic via reasoned debate, and getting so mad when it doesn't work the first try that you threaten to storm out

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George @georgem.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

while I will grudgingly concede there are men on bluesky I refuse to support them

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balrog bongcloud @balrogbongcloud.silmarillionaire.moe · 02/10/2026

i thought we agreed you weren't going to call bluesky that

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balrog bongcloud @balrogbongcloud.silmarillionaire.moe · 02/10/2026

Forced secularization of catholic hospitals btw

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hyperlexuality @baphomet.male.manipulat.org · 01/10/2026

there is only one interaction that makes getting the entire rightoid Internet sicced on you worth it and you already know what it is and if you're not in driving distance to jersey and willing to do the needful shut the fuck up. this is part of the humiliation ritual of rape culture stop it.

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balrog bongcloud @balrogbongcloud.silmarillionaire.moe · 01/10/2026

Cannot overstate that this stuff is why I no longer give to EA-related causes, because it KEEPS HAPPENING. If I give $20 to a local feelgood it does very little good for the world-in-total but much lower chances that my money will go to EvolaHitler420 or a guy ideologically dedicated to rape

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balrog bongcloud @balrogbongcloud.silmarillionaire.moe · 01/10/2026

this is kind of wrong depending on whether you think 'i hate this and want to get rid of it' constitutes a 'real answer'

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Aria Winningson @aria.labeledrude.online · 01/10/2026

ai use in art is criticized on principle while ai use in software is criticized on quality. this is because making art is good and making software is bad.

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balrog bongcloud @balrogbongcloud.silmarillionaire.moe · 01/10/2026

alan wake would definitely write a book *called* 'seize the night'

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balrog bongcloud @balrogbongcloud.silmarillionaire.moe · 01/10/2026

i mainly remember dean koontz as "the guy who gets made fun of in comparisons to stephen king", so

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balrog bongcloud @balrogbongcloud.silmarillionaire.moe · 30/09/2026

Nonsense. Why would a company screaming to make it illegal to compete with them benefit from a cyber 9/11 they could blame on their competitors? 🤔

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 29/09/2026

Indeed. This point can't be stressed enough. "Sex-based" is a term we've always used to describe *discrimination*, and its sudden mainstreaming as pseudo-feminism in the UK reveals it as a poison that unravels the entire liberal democratic architecture of civil rights. I wrote about it here.

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The Potemkin Feminism of "Sex-Based Rights"

"Sex-based rights" are a Potemkin feminism that commit us to a theory of objective sex where there is something special about your very biology that entitles you to special treatment not deserved by o...

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balrog bongcloud @balrogbongcloud.silmarillionaire.moe · 30/09/2026

I keep thinking maybe I hate the whole ratsphere too much based on some elements of it but it keeps turning out I hate them, if anything, too little

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Had a lovely conversation with @brennan.computer yesterday about what a non-booster non-anti tech-friendly left could look like, and for me it centers a few things: - media piracy and other anticorporate uses of tech - who we valorize - eg, scihub, anna's archive, pirates and shadow librarians

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balrog bongcloud @balrogbongcloud.silmarillionaire.moe · 30/09/2026

Getting head from a swan beak must feel INSANE

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shambibble @shambibble.com · 28/09/2026

i should note that much of the time this is a feint. scott alexander is not a "high-decoupler" on race; he views flippant racism in the sailer/hanania style as such a positive epistemic signal that a schizophrenic nut permabanned from his own discord for slurs is liable to turn up on his links page

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balrog bongcloud @balrogbongcloud.silmarillionaire.moe · 28/09/2026

The term of art for rolling the exact number you need for success, without going over, is "player skill"

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 26/09/2026

Have I played “Control Resonant”? Sorry…I’m too busy reading the story of a man who “Controls Rocinante”…that’s right, Miguel Cervantes’ immortal tale “Don Quixote de La Mancha”. So you enjoy your strange “Federal Bureau”…I’ll be delighting in the adventures of Sancho Panza and his “Friendly Burro”

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balrog bongcloud @balrogbongcloud.silmarillionaire.moe · 26/09/2026

Or, I guess, stays where they are but becomes as right-wing as Ben-Gvir

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balrog bongcloud @balrogbongcloud.silmarillionaire.moe · 26/09/2026

They've folded settler orgs directly into IDF "regional defense units", I don't claim to know anything but I don't see how they don't end up in an Israeli Years of Lead unless everyone left of Ben-Gvir voluntarily emigrates

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balrog bongcloud @balrogbongcloud.silmarillionaire.moe · 25/09/2026

One of the more troubling things about natalists is that they appear to be floridly insane. "Bro, bro, the human population tripled in seventy-five years, we're not doing that anymore so We Will All Die"

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balrog bongcloud @balrogbongcloud.silmarillionaire.moe · 24/09/2026

There's an episode of Columbo where he goes to a high-end tailor and takes off the trenchcoat and straightens his posture to briefly reveal the 'Trawling for slizz with Cassavetes' Falk

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balrog bongcloud @balrogbongcloud.silmarillionaire.moe · 24/09/2026

When he got to the bit that was like "I intend this to be read as a statement of fact, I intend for [named individuals] to be personally and financially harmed by this" i was like oh either he's got his ducks in a row and is baiting them into discovery or, alternatively,

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balrog bongcloud @balrogbongcloud.silmarillionaire.moe · 24/09/2026

broooo i just wanted to give money to the poorest people so they could have water and roofs and bicycles and whatnot and now i gotta worry the people managing that stuff are fucking eighth graders or literally caroline ellison or god knows what, this fucking sucks so bad

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balrog bongcloud @balrogbongcloud.silmarillionaire.moe · 24/09/2026

Is it even possible for the UK to rejoin the EU in ten years, irrespective of public support? Like don't new members require a debt-to-GDP ratio that Britain will need more than a decade to reach, if it ever does? Not to mention having to give up cherished antitrans rules for compliance w/ECHR

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🏴‍☠️commadork69🏴‍☠️ @commadork69.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

dsa actually stands for dangerous sinister arabs

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