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Batwingdings

@batwingdings.bsky.social
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Anti-fascist first, wide-tent progressive second. Star trek fan. 🏳️‍🌈 he/him

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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
adding to the folder of karen bass initiatives alongside “banning street vendors in the street vendor city” and “i would fix this pothole but a car illegally parked here today and as mayor, i cant do anything about that”
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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
On the one hand, I am constantly aghast that Grokku, The Destroyer, is ravaging our lands with his atomic fire-breath On the other hand, I am compelled to collect data on Grokku to forecast where next he will turn his three-eyed gaze
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Batwingdings @batwingdings.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
brings a new meaning to white people tacos
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 09/10/2026
it is too late, for i have portrayed myself as the smiling young man and yourself as the seething florida retiree
el-seyed smiling at the camera while the other guy looks mad about some shit
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Batwingdings @batwingdings.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I, for one, think it's hilarious that Karen Bass seems to have spent 80% of her campaign budget on Threads influencers
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Pem @pembiklimon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
X and Zero should have winning poses that look like this
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Batwingdings @batwingdings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
guy who's anti-m4a bc he's anti gerentocracy
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OrcGirlBoss 🐇🏹 @orc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Gas high
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Batwingdings @batwingdings.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Among other education reforms, I'd to nationalize the public school system and abolish private schools. They'd hang me from the rafters like Mussolini for the latter.
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Batwingdings @batwingdings.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Minor gripe I have, but I know it's a big talking point online, is she also conflates "homework is necessary for good academic results" with "my child was not ready for the level of homework at elite high schools," which are 2 separate things!
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Batwingdings @batwingdings.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A lot of opinions on this one, but one gripe is NHJ vacillates between "this is a systematic problem" and putting the onus on individuals. She says "we believed we could be saviors," confronts middle-school principals, etc fully knowing individually addressing a structural problem doesn't work!
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Batwingdings @batwingdings.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I have so many feelings about NHJ'S piece, but this is a big one. I guarantee every teacher who works there knows what's up - They're reminded 5 times a week (more, if they do extracurricular events)!
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Batwingdings @batwingdings.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Nimbys are often just so ignorant of the basic geometry of cities, worshipping the wrong Euclid smh smh
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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
helicopters are used for essentially two things in LA: 1) responding to crimes and providing aerial visibility of an area (a drone could do this better for a fraction of the cost) 2) ferrying VIPs around LA congestion (this is a frankly offensive use of taxpayer dollars)
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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
okay look, the last thing this website needs is users who are *more* averse to conflict
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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
the american people seem agnostic on the campaign of ethnic cleansing against hispanics, the gutting of foreign aid, the overt corruption, and the bellicose attitude towards our allies so its good he made fuel too expensive for f-150 owners to avoid having to make more sensible life choices
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Batwingdings @batwingdings.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Me when I commit welfare fraud
Old comic of Daffy Duck: when I move in on the free food handouts I should act like a wild creature... not the gay sophisticate I really am!
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Batwingdings @batwingdings.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Increasingly think the only reason he hasn't is because of some kind of latent homo-erotic admiration
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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
this is not actually the same thing as giving specific preferences to non-white people. what these firms did what increase outreach to underrepresented groups. their hiring criteria did not actually change bsky.app/profile/griz...
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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 12/09/2026
saudi arabia calling the US to help them with the houthis is so funny like buddy theyre already overstretched to shit, only an absolute moron would agree to open yet another fro—oh i get it now
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Casaubon @zas.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Nobody’s done a good job of explaining why equally intelligent Chinese researchers aren’t tweaking about this - and “they’re not allowed to” isn’t sufficient explanation given the degree of psychosis among American AI people.
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Senator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
If your notion of civic participation is "show up to the polling place to cast a ballot for the fascist you liked on the teevee", I'm sorry, but you lack the responsibility to be allowed to vote.
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Batwingdings @batwingdings.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Why did they use the delta for the lid knobs when the UFP logo is right there 😭
United federations of planets logo. A circle with a star field inside, enshrined by a wreath of olives
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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
dems to rurals: “this is real america, not the dirty cities (ew). football, cornfields, county fairs. here’s a trillion dollars” GOP to rurals: “these degenerate druggy hill people will learn the dignity of work once we defund their schools and hospitals” rural elections: [dem🟦] 7% [rep🟥] 91%
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
There's this weird version of like, r/neoliberal messaging around social democracy that's like, social democracy without redistribution, we here the gains are largely due to improved efficiency and like, do not let these people determine how you conceptualize it they have 0 political instincts
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The issue with a non disruptive protest on the weekend for the general concept that trumpism is evil is all it really establishes is that liberals exist, which isn't really news
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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
its cool that we’re all trapped on an island that is 49% superstitious peasants
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Weiss started her activist career in college going after a Muslim professor and decades later she is sticking with it.
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Batwingdings @batwingdings.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
When it happened, I called Trump ripping apart the JCPOA w/ Iran the most impactful foreign policy decision he'd make during his presidency, and even I didn't think things would get to where we are now
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
i’d like to report a mass murder
Perhaps it has been his guilty conscience regarding his position at MIT along with a hubristic overestimation of his own capacity for individually grasping the essence of any global matter that led Chomsky to saddle himself with the task of producing counter-propaganda rather than searching for truth; perhaps it was the idea of himself as an American statesman trying to advise policy rather than an international organizer that led him to prioritize a friendship with someone who could provide access to figures like Ehud Barak and Steve Bannon over consideration for his victims. Whatever the case, Chomsky's lasting legacy will be the impressive feat of having combined the worst aspects of just about every leftist and progressive tendency: anarchists' lack of economic theory and class analysis, Marxist-Leninists' defense of state atrocities and insistence on viewing politics as a global chessboard, and liberals' elitist disdain for the masses' ability to be trusted with interpreting information.
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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
trump: it is possible i am the reincarnated spirit of william mckinley. voters: look, this guy was a businessman
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Batwingdings @batwingdings.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Oh I hadn't thought of that. Yeah...
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Batwingdings @batwingdings.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
admittedly I'm also overstating my case, under the assumption other things I take for granted are accounted for (east coast bias in the media, California is a very blue state, there's more ink spilled on Hollywood and entertainment, etc)
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Batwingdings @batwingdings.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I mean in terms of the city core 😭 not so much the entire area. Maybe what I'm trying to communicate is sprawl vs a dense downtown idk
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Batwingdings @batwingdings.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
even before NUMTOT I attributed this to how much ground there is to cover, and how little return you get for doing so bc of density reasons. Lots of neighborhoods that are really just suburbia where nothing of national interest happens.
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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The major allies in WW2 were a decaying global empire led by a professional racist, a Leninist autocracy led by a guy who could barely string a sentence together and an apartheid state led by the most libbed up man alive. They were still clearly the good guys
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Batwingdings @batwingdings.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
why isn't anyone from Kingdom Hearts fat
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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
If you are desperate to call it ethnic cleansing instead of genocide that is fine. Ethnic cleansing is bad enough. American weapons should not go to the state of Israel. Humanitarian aid should go to the people of Gaza. Israel should stop being an apartheid state.
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Batwingdings @batwingdings.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
oh definitely
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Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Flock takes their privacy very seriously. But the ethical gray area in surveillance technology works both ways. Under no circumstances should elected officials or public servants enjoy an expectation of privacy when spending tax dollars to attend a surveillance lobbying event.
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collie.bsky.social @collie.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
2024: Trump 2 will be bad but the tariffs will make people mad 2026: how do I offer CSIS a safe house in US
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Batwingdings @batwingdings.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
One degree away from "being anti-AI is eugenics"
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Maria BOO!stillos @mariabustillos.com · 14/08/2026
I wrote this in the LA Times in 2015, the year before Peter Thiel succeeded in shuttering Gawker. Our colleagues in the corporate press behaved not just shamefully but suicidally in failing to defend Gawker. Rude speech is the ramparts of a free press.
With journalism increasingly controlled by corporate entities that want to avoid offending advertisers and their readers’ sensibilities, we need Gawker most desperately. Maybe the escort story was worth publishing, and maybe not, but it’s a positive thing for our society that Gawker cuts it close. Recent history shows that shameless gossip is good.

On July 6, the Associated Press persuaded a judge to unseal court records in which Bill Cosby admitted to drugging multiple women and having sex with them. The grotesque callousness with which Cosby describes these “relationships” has forever shattered the actor’s genial, gentle, tough-but-fair father-figure image.

Who set Cosby’s downfall in motion? Gawker did.
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Batwingdings @batwingdings.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
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Batwingdings @batwingdings.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This diva
George Santos
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
In general, the media just uses "the troops" as synecdoche for the war, they were upset at what happened to "the troops" in the Afghanistan withdrawal because they supported the war and were upset it was ending, in this context, "the troops" are not being mistreated, because the operation continues
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