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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 17h
an aspiring art student could never have bad politics
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 18h
I have noticed that the obnoxious STEM-lord shit has lead to an equally stupid negative polarization among some humanities types about how the brutish crypto-fascist ape-robots of STEM could never hope to understand the true subtleties of art or theory or whatever
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Nied [5'7"] @nied.bsky.social · 21h
Biden literally did the mythical One Phone Call that would stop Israel in it's tracks, &... it didn't stop Israel in it's tracks.
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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So you want Bruce Wayne. That's - That's Bruce Wayne. Textually.
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E-Hoe in the 47th Skyfang Logistics Brigade (郊狼) 🇹🇼🇵🇸🇺🇦 @coyotestail.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
leftists who say "magneto was right" are just supporting kahanism.
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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 28/09/2026
Oh my god, it looks like a Russian bot forgot to pay their Claude bill but was still configured to reply to posts about Putin
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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Remember earlier today when some guy on here said "engineering education isn't essential to republican government?" LOL. LMAO.
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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It is, strangely, an anti-patriarchy. No elders would ever choose these men to succeed them. They are a postmodern accident in ill-fitting suits
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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 27/09/2026
I mean there is an aggressive effort from the humanities side of culture right now to assert that nothing good comes from engineering/science. And, while they love to deflect this critique by pointing to various things wrong with the current AI/tech industry, this vastly predates that
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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 27/09/2026
Not having knowledge of engineering leads to people pursuing absurd unviable policies
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
my feeling about this is that if you reframe "engineering" into "how to responsibly build, manage, and maintain large scale systems essential to public welfare" then it is really obvious why it is essential to a republican model of government
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Ostrich and 12.5k others @justostrich.com · 27/09/2026
Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts has a B.A. in History, a M.A. in History, and a Ph.D. in American History.
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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"My education in theater has made me both a good person and immune to far-right politics. Now to take a big drink of water and see what Joseph Goebbels' PhD was in."
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Doll @dollspace.gay · 27/09/2026
Peter Thiel studied philosophy and law. You were saying?
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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
No, sorry, this is wrong. Engineering education is in fact essential to a republican model of government, too.
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hailey @hailey.at · 27/09/2026
eventually people will realize most of the people they consider evil actually are very well read in the humanities, but for now we are still blaming stem
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bigfresh.bsky.social @bigfresh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Humanities education doesn't inoculate people against doing evil and the engineers of the past weren't ignorant of what their work was used for.
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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
it honestly kinda rules how every single franchise is getting hamstrung by nostalgia bait and this idiotic belief that you have to keep bringing back the same characters in a vast universe
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Marc Normandin @marcnormandin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Every few months we get people extrapolating from a sports clip to determine some guy in the stands needs to get dumped and his wife/girlfriend to upgrade, and every time there's a post-din reveal that says quite a few of you need to touch grass
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Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
whenever people say “cancel culture isn’t real, it’s just facing the consequences of your actions” I think about all the people who were the target of the internet’s hate for things they didn’t do, or for things that had much more nuance. it can ruin lives, over things that often do not matter
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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
i bring an iced coffee to the interview. only it’s not for me, it’s for the interviewer. and it’s laced with a sedative. when she comes to, she’s wearing my clothes and i’m in her office. her car keys don’t work. i’m with her husband. her kids don’t recognize her. coming soon from A24.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
persistently referring to Richard Nixon as if he was alive and a possible future GOP candidate
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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 24/09/2026
“You can’t say a statistical model has bias without anthropomorphizing it” from a tenured information science professor is just the end of seriousness, I cannot comprehend how she says that with a straight face
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Anyway, long story short, biased estimators actually are a 'fact of nature' as far as machine learning is concerned, and aren't inherently the result of malice or incompetence on the part of the humans building the models.
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Ray Baker @bigbabyray.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
An underdiscussed part of the modern cultural environment is how good some bullies have gotten at playing the victim and getting swaths of society as a whole to take that as a fact. The Last Ditch Bar story is a great example. How do you respond to bullies when everyone tells you they are righteous?
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"You're making fun of queer people" I think most people are pretty sympathetic to the queer woman living out of her truck, $50k in debt, abandoned by her business partners, who thinks she is obligated to sit through 3.5 hour accountability sessions for the crime of wanting to keep the business open.
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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 21/09/2026
I also just think that it's real bad how much the left has, in the past fifteen years and especially the past five, gone in hard on "blood and soil and ancestry are all super important and certain kinds of people should only live in the places they Belong" across multiple areas
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eggnog slut @deus01.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Literally says it's only the entry point
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
even among those that didn't go Trump, it just became clear what was happening. that this wasn't just about abstract principles but also just a crude social mobility mechanism, and it would not just come at your expense but also end with your ritualized humiliation.
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
meanwhile, in spite of how much right-wing people claimed to be radicalized by it, it mostly spared *them* while exhausting and dispiriting their enemies -- *us* -- in layers of infighting so pointless that many accounts of its fights are largely self-censoring due to how absurd they sound
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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Yet another example of "the politics sickos need to read more military theory" is the fact that so many politics sickos seem to be wedded to the idea that a decisive battle is the One Simple Trick that will result in eternal victory
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Winterink @winterink.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Basically every single pedagogical debate is like this: “Let’s move away from phonics, multiplication tables and testing because they leave kids behind” “Aren’t those the only things that work” “Yes” “And won’t it be less equitable in the end because rich parents can pay for tutors” “Also yes”
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Yeah education policy is indirectly one of the areas where we’re most fucked by having an insane and evil right wing party because the liberal education establishment is in many ways extremely bad.
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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It is genuinely baffling how Western Marxist historiography just refuses to grapple with the fact that the victims of communist dictatorships were often other communists within their own borders
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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
You want the morally complicated guys who “modernized China”, you want Zhou Enlai and Deng Xiaoping, the two men who Mao repeatedly went to to fix all of his batshit insane mistakes and then punished for it when they did Mao himself was, most generously, a sucking abyss of irredeemable stupidity
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Luke @realluke1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
a big part of it is that most don’t really read too much actual history unless it’s theory or leftist-coded like Zinn so they don’t get exposed to counterexamples. A perhaps bigger part is that, frankly, a lot of these people don’t travel, and have never left the United States.
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Stancil doesn't live rent-free in people's heads, he is actually the landlord now
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This post is only 21 words long but it is an extremely rich text for helping understand one of the phenomena underlying why we are where we are.
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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I appreciate the thing anarchists do where they assume the reason you’re not one of them is that you just haven’t heard their slogans repeated enough Must go hard as fuck when you’re 17
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AdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It's really bizarre that people think Dems will take a lesson from Talarico losing as "we need to be more pro trans" when the entire attack on him is his positive voting record on those issues. Like I'm sorry the lesson learned is not going to be what you think when he loses to a top 0.0001% bigot
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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 13/09/2026
The idea that the way you influence politicians is by withholding your votes for them is just a completely incoherent view that reveals the truth, which is that nobody advocating it thinks electoral politics can possibly succeed *obviously* you lobby politicians *after electing them*
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I don’t really think that logic describes the real world in any way. Why is a GOP victory only a temporary setback? Why is a bad Democratic shift permanent?
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Vibecession Forever @ghazelleberner.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The “endemic despair” is because everyone is addicted to the endemic despair app they post on all day, not because of one interview James Talarico gave to a deranged television network.
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I am in fact extremely angry about Bush v. Gore and have written about it often. But that's the side Ralph Nader was on. Bush winning wasn't an incidental byproduct of Nader's campaign -- it was the outcome he sought to achieve and did (by, for example, refusing to stop running in swing states)
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412th Man @unlox.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“Democrats will be pushed left if they lose and pushed right if they win, but Republicans won’t be validated by a win or pushed in any direction by a loss” is just murc’s law again
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Doll @dollspace.gay · 13/09/2026
Her central claim “a Republican victory costs the community one seat for one term” is simply false. Republicans learn that anti-trans politics wins elections. Her tactic could therefore manufacture the very Labour-style collapse she says she is preventing.
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"i protest the ones that i can influence" has mostly turned out to be a recipe for misery
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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Every time someone talks about the merits of "community focused justice systems" I keep coming back to how basically every internet affinity group devolves into factional beefing over the imagined crimes of someone they think is annoying
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It’s like clockwork: three months before a critical election, people start up with the “don’t for Dems! Teach them a lesson by NOT voting” lunacy.
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