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❤️ You are entitled to support, warmth, and understanding; you have done nothing and could do nothing to earn this bad faith. Hang in there and keep doing good, important work, because it’s appreciated by many more people than the few who have the time to be this impressively sophomoric.

Stop, nope, not those words please not even once I am so sorry that this is happening to you. People are dumber and louder than ever and we are all worse for it. They are not worth *waves hands at the above*

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You are laundering the reputation of a man who did more than his fair share to get us to this point, PBS

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Identified ADHD by my PC at 38 and diagnosed formally at 39 (this year). My first effort to find a psych my insurance would cover left me with a virtual-only shop that gave me a screener for children which I was too good at, then they gave up while also admitting “I don’t know anything about autism”

Tonk @brittonk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“No one has ever heard of Hasan Piker” is at this point a shibboleth for people who are proud of not caring what people under 40 think or consume. Stop repeating it. Clearly, a lot of people have heard of Hasan Piker, and once again the bad guys figured it out before you lot.

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It is impossible to maintain an attitude of “I believe that we will win” when we are talking about Ralph Nader in 2026

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Tonk @brittonk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I watched the Supreme Court steal this election in front of my eyes in middle school and I continue to wonder, as I did 26 years ago, why Ralph Nader remains the subject with you people

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Tonk @brittonk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think fighting on the internet like this is more than a little bit weird.

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Casual, unthinking cruelty is way, way more common and it sadly does a *lot* more damage than the brazenly cruel

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Gently, it is unwise to invent personal mythologies and use those mythologies as your foundation for prescriptive statements about classes of people—it is inevitable that you will be misunderstood and indeed you will certainly miss the point of criticism

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And then ask yourself whether any of that would make a queer or trans person feel at the very least suspicious of your empathy toward them

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Trash @trashxdiscourse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Folks are reacting to this in anger and I understand why—open-hearted question for you: Why do you find this to be an appealing or accurate account? Whence springs this suspicion and why is it satisfying?

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Hey man, if you're out there, if your mom wrote this letter to Abigail Shrier about you, please drop a gofundme and we will get you the fuck out of there.

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Gently, please always bear in mind the possibility that many in media are keen to get this wrong on purpose for reasons made manifest by folks’ reaction today

He actually didn’t say he read it in an interview: he said he’d go look to see if Gibney had said it publicly himself in an interview. 😊 Turns out he hasn’t or Ed hasn’t found it so until Ed interviews Gibney we do not appear to have a direct account from Gibney on this point.

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Ed, who has seen the rough doc and spoken with Gibney about it, says right here that it was CGI. So, yes, if we believe Ed, the report is recklessly drafted. In any event, though, I honed in on your question because it seemed to evince concern about deepfakes but I understand that’s not the case

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I was initially a bit puzzled by this too but the source for “it is CGI” is the person saying “it is CGI” because he has seen it himself and is reporting on it.

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Tonk @brittonk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’m still trying to understand exactly what we are all reacting to, but from this thread my understanding is that we’re talking about using CGI to render a video game avatar resembling Elon, among other game UI treatment, not a deep fake—is that a fabrication of which a viewer must be made aware?

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My “yes, and” here is I mean yeah obviously who would want to go to secular church if your church were the Democratic Party. This is like denouncing music because you were raised by a traveling polka band; your frame is fucked, love.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

really learning how many people out there have never worked in the arts, where not only are we all drinking coffee all day but it is just assumed the executive director keeps a bottle of desk whiskey

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Tonk @brittonk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In the States (2) would be the entire leaflet

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Tonk @brittonk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Context: from any federal judge this is mortifying to be on the receiving end; SDNY judge, it’s a reason to change careers. When it comes from the Hon. Colleen McMahon you have to stop and ask yourself if she just hit you with the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique and you are already dead.

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isla @demomolos.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

[seeing my intestines splayed out by another warrior’s blade] no worries if not

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Tonk @brittonk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

To your point: liberals and centrists will not even deign to look up unless the object of criticism is rhetorically positioned outside The Big Tent of Political Phantasm (D)

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Tonk @brittonk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Inspiring pedagogy, professor

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Tonk @brittonk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Glad to see this guy’s got all the answers and we can all sit down and shut up about our party

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Tonk @brittonk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A “like” is inadequate; this is one of my new foundational texts

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Tonk @brittonk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I’m in a distracted driver’s passenger seat. Someone else in the vehicle is eating cod and keeps insisting that I should try it. Everything I say is either misunderstood or ignored.

Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

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Sorry I don't think that the Democratic party is capable of leading us through the current AI bullshit. I think it should be clearly said so that community leaders emerge.

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 09/09/2026

(in the family group chat): that wont matter. without radical change all of this is meaningless in fifteen years. we have no idea how dire things are (in the communist group chat): they should make a turn based final fantasy again with the two minute summon animations

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Tonk @brittonk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Call me crazy but I think you must end the war in Iran now because it is wrong, not before the midterms because of domestic issues

Tonk @brittonk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Popular mayor turns out to be deeply disrespectful of such time-honored liberal traditions as “never message your wins” and “do your best not to be caught doing anything”

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Tonk @brittonk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

To put a point on this, Brooklyn is run by the most cynical horrible Dem operators responsible for such hits as Andrew Cuomo, Eric Adams, and many more yet to be exposed as cynical and horrible, and virtually no one here knows that seemingly because DSA is stuck in an uncomfortable detente with them

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Tonk @brittonk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Hello I’m just a leftist on the internet but I feel like @newkingsdems.bsky.social and @katmabu.bsky.social could and should have a conversation about reaching young and increasingly-motivated voters who feel unrepresented to organize using tools like this 👀

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Tonk @brittonk.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

We really need this one to penetrate the mainstream

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Update your priors, when you see "Johns Hopkins" you shouldn't think "good school" or "medical research," you should think "hedge fund that lives off taxpayer money and drops its claimed standards to collaborate with fascists" because that's what the school decided to make itself.

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Conservative Scholars Are Rare. Johns Hopkins Wants More of Them.

Ronald J. Daniels says the ideological imbalance is bad for the academy and for the country.

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Tonk @brittonk.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Israeli military and affiliated extremists are laying siege to an American citizen’s property, and if he weren’t American, he’d probably be evicted or dead by now, like his neighbors, and our government supports Israel in acting like that Repeat that one in the red states

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Tonk @brittonk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This is a sort of psychosis that I suspect can only develop among populations who find themselves waging that most uniquely hopeless war: against car culture in America

Tonk @brittonk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Not me liking and reposting this in the afternoon because I was up too fucking late pondering existence only for it to punch me in the face again in the morning

Andy Khouri @andykhouri.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

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Don’t believe in American exceptionalism, but Dolly Parton was an exceptional American.

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Tonk @brittonk.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

To put a finer point on it perhaps