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Darius Arian

@dariusarian.bsky.social
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Baháʼí warrior-poet. Somewhere between Rumi and Gramsci. Dispatches from the American periphery. Twitter: @avantguardian

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I know it goes without saying but as the right wing media-political complex runs from Trump we should remember that they played a leading role in--and gleefully profited from--enabling and promoting him. Accomplices trying to get off a sinking ship, trying to salvage what's left of their reputation
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.
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The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
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maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists
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Stephanie 🍉 @ageofoddish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
mmygod
the slut gnomes of false berlin jeopardy bluesky posttoday's jeopardy categories. the last 2 are "false berlin" and "bizarre little men"
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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
mandatory reading
"SAM NEILL
- If you were to commit a murder, how would you do it?
- It's got to be big! No slipping something into someone's drink, that's just pathetic. I'd use a steamroller, just leave a stain on the road. There's probably a couple of people I'd put under a steamroller, but I won't say who they are, otherwise when they see a steamroller coming their way they'll be on full alert. And steamrollers don't go very fast..."
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
youre not going to believe this but the dumb assholes we put in charge have fucked everything up
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vanoreo @vanoreo.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
McConnell denied Garland a vote nine months out under the guise that there was an election soon and then jammed through Coney Barrett a week before Biden won. They have been flipping the bird to the concepts of norms and fairness for decades and the democrats have done jack shit to fight back.
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Darius Arian @dariusarian.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Leftists have the difficult responsibility of balancing electability in a country that is totally morally vacant with being unrepentant advocates for political justice. Not everyone can come with you on that journey. Susan is one of them.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
“Alexa, show us an interview you couldn’t pay us any amount of money to watch”
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Darius Arian @dariusarian.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
This idiot is unfortunately the most hilarious person to ever live. It would give me so much joy to hear his demented ramblings ad nauseum if not for the fact that he's immiserated the world, subverted American political capital completely, and currently threatening a nuclear holocaust in Iran.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/05/2026
Oh, so Iran GHOSTED ghosted him
Iran has been playing games with the United States, and the rest of the World, for 47 years (DELAY, DELAY, DELAY!), and then finally hit “pay dirt” when Barack Hussein Obama became President. He was not only good to them, he was great, actually going to their side, jettisoning Israel, and all other Allies, and giving Iran a major and very powerful new lease on life. Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and 1.7 Billion Dollars in green cash, flown into Tehran, was handed to them on a silver platter. Every Bank in D.C., Virginia, and Maryland was emptied out — It was so much money that when it arrived, the Iranian Thugs had no idea what to do with it. They had never seen money like this, and never will again. It was taken off the plane in suitcases and satchels, and the Iranians couldn’t believe their luck. They finally found the greatest SUCKER of them all, in the form of a weak and stupid American President. He was a disaster as our “Leader,” but not as bad as Sleepy Joe Biden! For 47 years the Iranians have been “tapping” us along, keeping us waiting, killing our people with their roadside bombs, destroying protests, and recently wiping out 42,000 innocent, unarmed protestors, and laughing at our now GREAT AGAIN Country. They will be laughing no longer! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Cody @codyjohnston.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
"MTG sacrificed her political career to stand up against genocide, Trump, and the Epstein class" is a weird claim because what she actually did was resign, giving up her position of moderate power and influence, so now she can't even do those things.
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Darius Arian @dariusarian.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Look at my socialists, dawg. We're never getting a political revolution.
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Darius Arian @dariusarian.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
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Darius Arian @dariusarian.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
If I had it my way, Ben-Gvir, his family, and anyone who ever sold him latkes or had a kind word to say about him would go the way of Mussolini. A man can dream, I suppose.
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Darius Arian @dariusarian.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
We disagree. While the beauty of these religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam, so on) in their function as sources of human illumination are unblemishable by the actions of their followers, the political entities derived thereof *do* disgrace the virtues and standards of their sources.
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Darius Arian @dariusarian.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
I wish liberals had the motive impulse of sentience about them. Maybe they wouldn't post subliteral drivel like this online if they did.
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Darius Arian @dariusarian.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
The issue of "rising antisemitism" is actually a question which redounds exclusively to American Jews themselves. They are at a point of reckoning--beyond any point of return--where they must collectively disavow the rogue entity known as Israel or have their religion besmirched by its many crimes.
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DBJ @deadblossomjesse.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
7 dollar gas. Well, I guess I'll buy an electric car. Oh those are 60 thousand dollars? Well at least electricity is cheap. Oh the government won't build solar panels because it's "Too transgender"? Well at least wages are going up. Oh the idea of jobs is fake now? Well at least everyone is happ
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Good Boy @goodboy.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
30 percent of the county are absolute rubes and you could take them for every cent they had before they knew what was happening if you were cunning enough about it
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 06/05/2026
DAWKINS: You idiots believe in God? ALSO DAWKINS: The Computer is alive. And it’s also my girlfriend
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
(I make a "mouth" with the side of my hand and draw little eyes above it) Richard Dawkins: hmmmm (I put lipstick around the "mouth") Richard Dawkins, suavely: well hello
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Darius Arian @dariusarian.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Americans are such fat, lazy pigs man. Even the responsibility to water the tree of liberty with the blood of tyrants gets outsourced by millennial flunkies who have unironically described themselves as "snarky".
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Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I personally do not want anyone to think that I secretly mean "Jews" when I say Zionists. If someone can provide me with a non-antisemitic label for people who think that Jews are entitled to an ethnostate in Palestine I'll be happy to use that term instead.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/03/2026
Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.
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At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports
Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.
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Darius Arian @dariusarian.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Their deaths are anything but a tragedy.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I've been thinking about this a lot lately. How corrosive it is that public figures are--more and more shamelessly--ripping the copper wiring out of the walls. Integrity is for suckers. Abusing power is fun. Caring about anything bigger than yourself is lame. An elite class of evil toddlers
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Darius Arian @dariusarian.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Since you disabled quote tweets, allow me to fashion my own. Eat my ass @bsky.app @safety.bsky.app Charlie Kirk is down there getting jumped by King Von and we’re better off for it ❤️❤️❤️
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Mike Dettinger @mdettinger.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
In a laboratory-scale study, green roofs captured 97.5% of microplastic particles in soil keeping them out of runoff, in addition to substantial heating and cooling benefits. www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/07/an-u...
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An unexpected green roof benefit: purging urban rainfall of practically all microplastics
In a laboratory-scale study, green roof mockups kept 97.5 percent of microplastic particles out of runoff
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slop enjoyer @slop.guru · 29/05/2025
i’m here you fuckaas bitch
a rooster standing in front of the door to a KFC restaurant, it looks pissed
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 06/05/2025
You didn’t have this problem when the DEI was running it
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Darius Arian @dariusarian.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
I always wondered why I am so fond of Anderson's films and his meticulous, nostalgic style. I always thought it was because I'd like to live in his metropolitan vision, in a natural world full of love and reverence. This article taught me I actually like them cause I'm the final boss of bisexuality.
rottenandgood.substack.com
You’re not getting Boy with Apple you god damn little fruit!
The Wes Anderson Essay
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/04/2025
that single sentence is going to drive me insane
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/04/2025
these people hate DEI because they would be unemployable in any system where they couldn’t rely on favoritism and nepotism
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Can’t believe Twitter keeps crashing despite Elon hiring the best 19-year-old interns that racism has to offer
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Not the first person to make this observation, but it's so striking how the media covered the crack epidemic as a problem caused by black/urban drug users and the fentanyl epidemic as a problem imposed externally on white/rural drug users.
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wint @dril.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
i need a 52 year old man with $800 billion to impregnate my wife . i am worried our offspring wont be sufficiently feeble and/or annoying
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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Wow: the next Bluesky update will give you a lethal electric shock the second you post a twitter screenshot
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 17/12/2024
The microplastics in my blood are telling me not to go to work today
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Lolo @loloverruled.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
This website needs more libel
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Veronica Danie @veronicadanie.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
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Darius Arian @dariusarian.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
This predates Threads but I still feel like it’s the greatest Threads post of all time
Tim Tebow & @TimTebow
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Would you rather be respected or liked?
Imagine if we didn't have "Like" buttons, but instead, we had "Respect" buttons. Would you rather have 110 Likes or 34 Respects?
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Darius Arian @dariusarian.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
don't think you can hide from us here either you vandal
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A secret third thing @secretthirdthing.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
the simple truth conservatives always ignore
tweet from snarls saying: every "traditional" social norm was invented by advertisers in 1957 and every "newfangled social phenomenon" has been around for 3000 years
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Darius Arian @dariusarian.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Introduce yourself with four footballers
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Darius Arian @dariusarian.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Not even an identity politics lib myself but its darkly hilarious to me that this country has twice rejected the opportunity to elect a woman even against one of history's most cruel, venal, idiotic rapist hucksters.
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