No Thank You Computer @cryingoflot.bsky.social · 13/10/2026This is like opening a high school history textbook from Texas and seeing it reframed as the War of Northern Aggression 0100
Reposted by No Thank You Computerhikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 02/10/2026(confused) I believe LLMs are conscious, but only Deepseek LLMs, because of the Chinese Room theory 361871275
No Thank You Computer @cryingoflot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"Gork, my approvals are falling, but the war was suppose to raise them -- what happened" "You're so right, and that's on me." 020
Reposted by No Thank You ComputerLauren Tackle @unlox.bsky.social · 21/09/2026ME WITH A TIME MACHINE: even accounting for inflation, we’re talking about the most expensive diesel ever. the proximate cause is Trump starting a war in Iran- 2024 MEDIAN VOTER: hawk tuah! ME: yeah pure adventurism, quickly getting bogged down in- what 2024 MEDIAN VOTER: spit on that thang! 10921110
Reposted by No Thank You ComputerStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots. 15786472563
Reposted by No Thank You Computerlauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 17/09/2026(me, an absolute fool, skimming some weird blogger's embarrassingly tedious harry potter fan fiction in 2010): I can safely say no one who reads this will ever become important 271859157
Reposted by No Thank You ComputerSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026i'm gonna head off everyone who thinks this is sex negative by noting: 1) they are largely working together at a doomsday nonprofit while doing this, and 2) they recruit young idealists into this via literal harry potter fan fiction 684754
Reposted by No Thank You Computerjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026the sum total of Sam Alito’s jurisprudence on voting adds up to “You have the right to vote for a Republican and if you aren’t likely to vote for a Republican, then Republicans are allowed to disenfranchise you.” 312657439
Reposted by No Thank You ComputerStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Donald Trump is their emotional support character. It’s basically the male equivalent of women on Tumblr obsessed with a cartoon or video game character they have a crush on except the Tumblr girlies didn’t blow up the Persian Gulf. 1034445
No Thank You Computer @cryingoflot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Mother 3 is such an interesting game, as it's clearly a product of a big heart who openly wants greater inclusivity-- e.g. Duster's walk animation--but then also you have the kind-hearted gender non-conforming characters who are designed like a Ben Garrison strip and literally include a Romani slur 111
Reposted by No Thank You ComputerLiberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 03/09/2026"If you believe that your two-year-old's future will be 'secured or ruined' by whether or not he gets into the most fancy private preschool, the problem is not actually our system, it is your delusion. And more fundamentally, it is the peer group in which you have found yourself."liberalcurrents.comEditor's Notes: The Culture of Elite Conformism Enabled the Capitulations of the Second Trump TermWe need a Reconstruction not only of our institutions but of our system of producing elites. 415649
Reposted by No Thank You Computerjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/08/2026perhaps because of their own media diet, pundits saw the 2024 election as an overwhelming rebuke of "woke." but ACTUAL VOTERS were not thinking in those terms. their calculation was overwhelmingly, "biden/harris is responsible for inflation, trump will make me rich." 91106138
Reposted by No Thank You Computerjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/08/2026the retconning is to support the argument that "trump won in 2024 because of anti-woke." but other than some nebulous "vibe shift" and the prominence of a few podcasters, there is vanishingly little hard evidence for this claim. 582682467
Reposted by No Thank You ComputerAaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 31/08/2026The mass retconning of 2020 is largely targeted at media figures who are still on Twitter and it’s so frustrating to see it work, especially if you were involved in politics that year. 61361220
No Thank You Computer @cryingoflot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Given that the base of this is some 1948 Life Magazine bullshit, it's darkly funny that he appears to have added post-FDR presidents himself, limited to the ones he remembers: Biden and Obama (his enemies) in "Failures", along with Carter (the dead one). Then Clinton in average (??) 020
No Thank You Computer @cryingoflot.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Made for a great music video location at the very least: m.youtube.com/shorts/hxGNc...m.youtube.comPlanet of the Bass (feat. DJ Crazy Times & Ms. Biljana Electronica)YouTube video by kylegordonisgreat 010
Reposted by No Thank You ComputerMike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 23/08/2026When it comes to signing open letters about academic freedom, “We have to take a principled stand!” doesn’t work if there have been loads of other much more obvious and serious instances of violations of academic freedom to which you said absolutely nothing. 4458105
Reposted by No Thank You ComputerReconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 23/08/2026The median American voter, voted for it be 2019 again and for Trump to make them rich, under the very mistaken belief that Worse Things Aren't Possible, and quite literally everyone is paying for it 171728249
Reposted by No Thank You ComputerStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Nobody will remember tomorrow and then in 2029 it will be a weeks-long scandal when President Normielib forgets to capitalize the “M” in “Marine.” 9917125
No Thank You Computer @cryingoflot.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Odyssey Review: The Cyclop's dong shouldn't have been obscured by shadows, instead be given a shot establishing its two urethras 100
Reposted by No Thank You ComputerQuinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 14/08/2026The main difference between 2016 and 2024 in terms of cultural response to Trump's victory was *elite* reaction (in 2016, horror; in 2024, delight bc of microwaved brains) 548779
No Thank You Computer @cryingoflot.bsky.social · 13/08/2026For the inverse, freaky sicko moments are so plentiful in Pynchon's work that the occasional subdued vanilla scenes become genuinely shocking and oddly earnest 050
Reposted by No Thank You ComputerMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026The excesses of the Woke 1 era mostly amount to cringe public statements, harmless vocabulary updates and loss of prestige for public figures. The backlash to Woke 1, on the other hand, is imprisoning dissidents, dismantling public education and eroding democracy. That's what needs reckoning 242891604
Reposted by No Thank You ComputerNute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 10/08/2026It's a sibling of "Why should I have to fund public services when The Billionaires pay nothing?" and ultimately a close relative of "Why should I have to pay taxes while my useless neighbour is on welfare?" It is *deeply* corrosive and fundamentally reactionary 112617
No Thank You Computer @cryingoflot.bsky.social · 06/08/2026President Clinton addresses the nation after vetoing the One Night Only law: "😏" 000
No Thank You Computer @cryingoflot.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Going to solitary confinement after fucking my way through my prison sentence (for all the sex I was having outside prison) 010
No Thank You Computer @cryingoflot.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Emphasizing "Richard 'Milhous' Nixon" like Fox dropping the Hussein 000
No Thank You Computer @cryingoflot.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Tim Pool being outperformed by a 10-month decayed corpse is incredibly funny www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u... 000
Reposted by No Thank You Computersundiego2015.bsky.social @sundiego2015.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Joe Biden would not consume Hentai. Because he was a real man. 296
Reposted by No Thank You ComputerAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Despite the whining about “ historical accuracy,” the racist backlash to the casting in Nolan’s Odyssey is about the right wanting to justify racial hierarchy by projecting it into a past where it did not actually exist. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... 993793805
Reposted by No Thank You ComputerLauren Tackle @unlox.bsky.social · 24/07/2026in hindsight Depp v. Heard feels like a scale-model preview of Trump vs. Harris, where a bunch of horrible and powerful people think they’ll be able to go “HE WON YOU HAVE TO RESPECT ME NOW” and find out that no, structures tilting in your favor doesn’t mean we have to pretend you’re young and cool 36513
No Thank You Computer @cryingoflot.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Dem 2028 is shaping to be like Rep 2024, with Newsom as the Dem. DeSantis, a sauceless governor popular with a certain consultant class quickly flames out against the past (losing) nominee; like Dem 2020, where the past VP may cruise to nomination despite the collective discourse and succeed 000
No Thank You Computer @cryingoflot.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Losing my mind to the fact that this the son of the woman interviewed: m.youtube.com/watch?v=KHmc... Some folks just have too much moneym.youtube.comI Started A Religion Based Off My WaifuYouTube video by Tobyn Jacobs 2134
No Thank You Computer @cryingoflot.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Got an early copy of Biden's memoir, and man, it's kind of wild how the book is dedicated "to all the etherial bisexuals I successfully pulled, unlike other presidents" 000
No Thank You Computer @cryingoflot.bsky.social · 02/07/2026At first, I thought the fears of AI taking my job was overblown, but now it's coming for the pregnancy fan-fiction authors arxiv.org/abs/2606.22748 100
No Thank You Computer @cryingoflot.bsky.social · 28/06/2026I think it's cool that, at any moment on this site, you may be subject to the political analysis of the Foreskin Restoration guy from HBO's "How To with John Wilson" 000
No Thank You Computer @cryingoflot.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Etsy witch didn't even need to ask for names after ordering six spells to be cast 000
Reposted by No Thank You Computerdisc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 22/06/2026we vape bath salts in this web zone 1438
Reposted by No Thank You ComputerKatherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 22/06/2026Neo-fascism is not a materialist response to anything. It is a revolt of the privileged, so bored by their prosperity that they are reigniting world-historical ideological struggle just to feel something for once in their miserable, empty lives. 6383112
Reposted by No Thank You ComputerPride Ott 🦦 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Has anyone written about how Trump is a phenomenon of an aging society where the median voter no longer wants a brighter future but for the world they remember from being 23 to remain frozen in amber forever 1246166
Reposted by No Thank You ComputerSchnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Blaming Biden lets Democrats avoid dealing with the more complicated issue, which is that we appear to be in a thermostatic opinion cycle driven by inflation where no party can 'make the prices go down' and we're going to careen back and forth because the 20m people who decide elections are furious 1514731
No Thank You Computer @cryingoflot.bsky.social · 10/06/2026It is always funning reading these exclusive reports from NYT because it's so obvious Vance is one of their sources as he uses them to plant seeds to help distance himself from the admin's least popular positions for his 2028 run 010
No Thank You Computer @cryingoflot.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Had Kamala won, all of these damning "own goals" would have been avoided, and yet, she'd almost certainly be hovering around a similar net negative approval rating, as her "Iran War" and "tariffs" would have been, I don't know, wearing sneakers in the Oval Office or saying "hella" on hot mic 100
Reposted by No Thank You Computererin balconyskeletons @balconyskeletons.bsky.social · 04/06/2026 0101
Reposted by No Thank You Computerjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/05/2026a lot (most?) people understand racism as “being a meanie” and if you aren’t a meanie then you can’t be racist, even if you believe in, say, the biological inferiority of entire groups of people based on phenotype 12964581237
No Thank You Computer @cryingoflot.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Nintendo Direct Voice: "In this dark, twisted version of 'Yoshi and the Mysterious Book', piece together pages torn apart to resemble the flight logs towards Yoshi's Island and expose the depraved elites ruling the Mushroom Kingdom" 031
No Thank You Computer @cryingoflot.bsky.social · 23/05/2026A lot of people primarily view others as porn categories, and it's hard to call that out without sounding like you're yucking someone's freaky yums. How can you treat others with dignity when part of the thrill for many is the removal of it? 140
No Thank You Computer @cryingoflot.bsky.social · 22/05/2026There is a lot here I agree with, though I'm not sold on the "primary" solution. It was unreasonable to expect a historical anti-incumbency wave, and there was a primary, and at the time, it made sense that Democratic voters wanted to keep the incumbent president who previously defeated (1/3) 100
