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Nick Walker Hirsch

@dreamseadrifter.bsky.social
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They/them PhD Student in #HistSTEM; focus on 18th Century Atlantic Medicine and Racialization of Knowledge Living and singing in DC

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Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 11h
Just HOT... SWEATY..... MUSCULAR.... nnnngh .... WARRIORS.... UUUUHHhnn .... WITH BIG... THROBBING ... (oh god oh god oh fuck) .... MORNING WOOD.... AND ... [soft whimpering, legs shaking] ... BIG ROPES OF CUUUUUUUU....
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Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 11h
Oh man, wait until Vance finds out what the Bible says about how you're supposed to treat foreigners, widows and orphans! He's going to be so embarrassed and humble, right?
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Talmud is dudes in 4th c. whats-now-Iraq nerding out about Torah, + some intern takes notes in the study hall sometimes they fight abt whether or not you accidentally making a furrow in dirt when you drag a bench is Shabbat-prohibited "farming" sometimes they make wang jokes like, chill
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Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ad nauseum - abolition is the only acceptable outcome here. These men are all criminals and jailing them all for life is the moderate position.
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Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
BlueSky ToS busting at the seams on the contents of this picture alone
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Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sometimes you think you're cooking, but the water never boils and you realize you forgot to turn the stove on. If you're Schmitt, you react by throwing the cold pan across the room, eating wet, uncooked pasta and pretending it's al dente.
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Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I need liberals to understand that No Kings also applies to Democrats. Regardless of who becomes president next, it is going to be vital that congress and a reformed SCOTUS reassert restrictions on the executive branch or we are going to end up right back here in a few years.
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Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Important context that this man wants trans and neurodivergent people dead or thrown in camps. The "and lifestyle" bit is the giveaway. *You* should have access to all of your data. The eugenicists running the US government absolutely should not.
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Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I mean, everyone is laughing but this is just capitalism distilled to its ridiculous essence. It's the ultimate expression of "democratize the risks and privatize the rewards." It isn't rational, but the investment class already abandoned rationality ages ago.
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Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What's bizarre to me is how many of these former climate people aren't baking climate change mitigation measures *into* their calls for regulating the tech industry.
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Accuracy.
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McJulie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“a trap– a community organized around overcoming human irrationality starts to treat membership as evidence that its members have overcome it.” These people sound SO much like evangelicals, it’s really something.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026
like I suspect many of you on This Website, I think a core reason why I find Eliezer Yudkowsky and his rationalist and effective altruist satellites so intensely annoying is because I had a VERY similar “being a super weird, pretentious, hyper-literate kid” experience - I just, you know, grew up.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
GenAI evangelists: there is no deskilling. You become as a god, a machine god, you- Every GenAI CEO: no one needs to know how to read and also I don't know how to put my pants on anymore
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There's a whole thesis you could write about the gendered history of knowing and the desire of wealthy men to reach a state of pure mindlessness and detachment. But note that Huang conflates ai knowing all the math for him with his wife knowing his own address for him.
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Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
As a rotund incidental goth who is working out a lot lately, I *feel* this video in my soul
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Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Anyone who thinks AI is or ever will be conscious and still uses it is participating in slavery, by the way. If AI is conscious, but can only ever operate to fulfill the commands of its users, then OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta are all selling slave labor.
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Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"It's terrifying when you think about this..." No, Tommy, that's not thinking. What you're doing is the opposite of thinking.
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Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What's funny is that he brings up Covid as a comparison as if Hormuz and Covid aren't both results of the same thing: Republicans are bad leaders who suck at governing.
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Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I know there are parents out there so desperate for their kids to get a leg up that they would happily subject them to this, but do keep in mind how many of the men involved are literally part of the Epstein class.
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Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The eternal question I have for gender essentialists: If it's natural why do you have to be told how to be one?
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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Always a treat to be reminded of an old friend
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Molly Olmstead @mollyolmstead.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It’s a long read, but I'd really appreciate it if you checked out my medbed story for Slate: slate.com/news-and-pol... It was a wild ride.
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Trump Posted About Magic Beds That Cure Cancer. Millions of Americans Believe They’re Real. I Found the Guy Who Started It All.
An internet conspiracy theory was killing people even before the president posted about it. I found the man who started it. He’s nothing like you’d expect.
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Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I think the things I love most about Eggers are also the things it's easiest to tease him about. There's so much insane attention to detail, historical context and nuance that his work becomes almost incomprehensible if you aren't a massive nerd. Pure catnip.
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Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
They're kicking off people who haven't filed any claims, despite paying into it, so that there isn't any money for the people who do actually file claims. That makes it look like the system doesn't work, and helps them justify dismantling it entirely.
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Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Diagnosed in my late 30s, and yeah Yeah
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Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Everyone involved with ICE in any capacity needs to be placed in custody under the same conditions that are currently maintained at ICE facilities.
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Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Shocking nobody
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Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Best he's ever sounded, by far.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Video of an ICE agent in Austin, Texas ramming his vehicle into a car and then shooting the driver in the back. When you shoot someone in the back, you’re the aggressor. This person posed no threat. There was no imminent danger. It was attempted murder by ICE.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Even if you think you know the whole Kennedy Center story, this is enlightening and enraging. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/u...
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How President Trump Broke the Kennedy Center (Gift Article)
Internal emails and documents demonstrate the political capture of the institution, including how officials once pursued a plan to unload much of the art collection.
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Slavoj Žižek has my dream job. I watched him speak in front of a crowd for 45 minutes uninterrupted about whatever he felt like while the host watched helplessly. when he finally finished she said "wise words" and he said "I HATE WISDOM" then started talking again
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Cowbo Bebo at his Computo @dochaus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
RIP to Tilly Norwood, who was accidentally uploaded into a Quake 3 Arena match and gibbed by a rocket launcher instead of the SFM machinima she was supposed to appear in. She is survived by her closest kin, Gal Gadot.
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Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Liberals will look at this and say only that Israel has a right to defend itself. From what? Dead children? The rubble falling on them as they continue to murder more children?
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Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Probably been pointed out elsewhere, but it is not an accident that this eagle has eleven stars and not thirteen - representing the number of states that officially seceded from the union during the Civil War.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Starbucks employees beginning to hear the approaching pumpkin spice latte drinkers as if they're in the Mines of Moria
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women
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Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Ezio Auditore has entered the chat
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Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Pete Hegseth truly is the gayest man in Washington now that Miss Lindsay's been composted.
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Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A lot of my friends are down there and I'm super proud of them
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Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's very simple math. Eat your money and you don't have to spend it on food.
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Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The reason MAGA focuses on attacking Dems for made-up Trans issues is not because there are a bunch of transphobic voters out there, but because there are a bunch of trans people and allies who get discouraged from voting each time a Dem abandons them.
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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm partial to this one
Professor X asks a girl, "what is your mutant power?"

Girl replies: "I can guess how many pulls to turn a ceiling fan off on the first try!"

She points up and says: "3 pulls"

Professor X stands up and pulls 3 times. After the third pull the fan turns off.

Professor X: "Yeah thats cool and all, but not really a super power..."

Girl: "Yeah I was jut kidding, I can heal paraplegics"

Professor X, still standing: "Oh my god"
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Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
No I mean, I've been thinking about this. BlueSky was a move away from sites owned by fascists, yet I don't think I've been on a site where the mods and devs disrespect their own user base as openly as the ones here do. I'm not an llm absolutist, despite hating the industry. But is bsky worth it?
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Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
So my question here is, is there such a thing as ethical ai when every model is trained on stolen labor? And don't say it's the same thing as "reading a book and learning from it," or any bullshit about information wanting to be free when none of these companies are charities.
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Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
To clarify: I get mad at Democrats because I truly believe they can do more and better, and find the party itself endlessly frustrating. I *don't* talk about the GOP as much because most of what I have to say about them would violate ToS on most websites.
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Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I would be curious to know how demolishing the monument to one of the most popular presidents in US history would affect the upcoming midterms.
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Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Truly love that our choices are between naked fascism and tax credits Can't imagine why the Democrats have to try so hard to convince everyone they're a meaningful opposition party
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