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Elai

@elai.bsky.social
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Water engineer, cyclist, walker, talker, weirdo. A better world is possible 🇭🇺🇷🇺🇸🇰🇵🇸🇮🇱🇪🇹🇪🇸🇲🇦🇦🇷🇲🇽🇬🇧🇺🇲

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Elai @elai.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Professor and journalist: “lmao who cares about the truth” Embarrassing, disqualifying Just say you’re a partisan polemicist that’s fine no dishonor in that really but let’s keep it a buck shall we
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Elai @elai.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Yeah man for sure. The only thing in between AI execs and “getting Marie Atoinette’d” is some intrepid Bluesky journalist The absolute self-importance of these guys
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Elai @elai.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Rick Rubin is completely correct Punk rock was the vibe coding of music - you really don’t have to have much technical skill, you can just jam three chords, so what’s left over is your creative intent and imagination. Cool!
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Elai @elai.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Getting mad at Ken Jennings for playing the NYT Spelling Bee is maybe the most loser shit behavior I’ve ever seen
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Elai @elai.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
These people don’t want the future to get any better. They would rather do “mutual aid” forever than actually develop. This kind of Loserism is somehow offensive to both doctrinaire capitalists AND communists alike
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Elai @elai.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
unbelievable cope lmao
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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
“trying to grow my own food” when you live in an apartment in los angeles is just hilarious tryhard grifter shit
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Elai @elai.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
she's completely right
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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
how it feels to say "sprezzatura"
AOC talking to RFK Jr. Her facial and hand gesture has the spiritual energy of that Italian hand gesture where you pinch your fingers and wave your hand (the "ma che vuo" gesture).
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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
>unarmed pleasure vessel inexplicably capable of running a blockade What did he know?
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Elai @elai.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
regarding airport discourse yes it's very stupid to be overly neurotic about many things if you're a little wealthy this is good and applicable advice to many people if you're broke too bad tho but you already knew that
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Cadence “Not A Coffee Civet” Andrysiak @supportourpoops.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
but it’s my right as an american to have infrastructure that undergirds my life to never be seen nor heard nor be thought about ever unless it possibly inconveniences me in some way
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Elai @elai.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
There is such a lack of positive political visions out there that people come to their opinions via: I hate these motherfuckers -> I believe the direct polar opposite of whatever they believe Totally diseased epistemics but can you really blame them?
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Elai @elai.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
please don't lobotomize yourself about data centers even if you think it's for a good cause
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 20/04/2026
this is important to get your head around the basic shape of water use out West. farmers get the overwhelming majority of it--far more than all industry and cities put together--and pay almost nothing for it
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Brett Kavanaugh (September 2025): The facts and how they relate to the law don’t matter. Assume ICE and other federal forces always act with integrity, always respect rights, and consistently impose minimal burden. Brett Kavanaugh (December 2025): Should I not have done that? Was that wrong?
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
just for context, this appears to be a report that was generated based on a tip submitted online through a form on the FBI’s website. anyone can submit a tip. it’s illegal to submit false tips, sure, but “the president dropped my dead baby in lake michigan” sounds like someone who needs help.
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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Firing Kimmel is impotent and scary. We win by playing those facts against each other
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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by the process of law. they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by violence. the only lever by which they can obtain obedience is fear. do not offer it to them.
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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 15/09/2025
This is a very real distillation of why Charles Entertainment Kirk matters so much not just to pigs like Gutfeld but to worms like Ezra Klein. It's quite simple: They've heard of him, so he's real, in a way Hortman, trans people, Black people, immigrants, me, and/or you are not.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
I mean... minnesotareformer.com/briefs/haged...
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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Unbelievably grim account of what happens after you are hit by a car in California. sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...
sfstandard.com
Griffin Gaffney on what happens when you get hit by a car in San Francisco
The Standard’s CEO tells the story of a near-death experience — and the endless complications that followed.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
The basketball dildo affair is honestly one of the most menacing things going on right now. It's portrayed as a joke, but it really has the vibe of raptors testing fences.
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Elai @elai.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
say what you will about OpenAI, this attitude just shows a tremendous lack of imagination
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
let me throw some fuel on the fire that is the discourse about boys getting laid!!! current-day manopshere content is not good at getting boys laid and that's an effect of the incentives at play. you cannot build an audience of resentful little virgins if you succeed at helping them to have sex
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Elai @elai.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
AI would never replicate this
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Elai @elai.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Excuse me, aren't you forgetting someone?
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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 04/08/2025
CONTENT ADVISORY: PLEASE BE WARNED THAT THE DEADLINE FOR ALL POSTS ABOUT "AMERICAN EAGLE" AND "SYDNEY SWEENEY" HAS PASSED. IF YOU ARE FOUND IN VIOLATION YOU WILL BE FINED 1500 CLOUT POINTS AND A LABUBU.
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the abbot of unreason (a returned archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
a fundamental problem with the conservative movement is that because they do not know how literally anything works and resent being asked to learn, they see absolutely everything as a conspiracy *they* need to capture and use like the libs obviously are
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
This is an object lesson in the importance of force and violence in politics. ICE is able to flaunt the law because they're willing to use both. Until members of Congress start showing up with breaching teams and armed security, the law is irrelevant. Just a piece of paper.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
I don't think Ian is saying the Democratic Party needs a white paper on how dudes can get their Ds wet, but it is objectively a bad situation that teenage boys googling "how to get girls to like me" are three clicks away from the Turner Diaries
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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
On the flip side weather forecasting will be amazing in 2028 when all those FLOPs get repurposed from woke gradient descent to based and trad Navier-Stokes solvers where they belong
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
If you've been skeptical about the possibility of a Epstein conspiracy, as I have, I encourage you to read this incredible piece of reporting from CBS. They present fairly compelling evidence that someone doctored the Epstein jail footage and Trump AGs Bondi and Barr and FBI lied about it.
cbsnews.com
CBS News investigation of Jeffrey Epstein jail video reveals new discrepancies
A CBS News investigation found discrepancies between the government's description of the Jeffrey Epstein jail video and what the video shows.
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 30/07/2025
After 9/11, we successfully transformed the southern border from an ailing region to one that was floated by injecting half of its GDP with DHS funds for CBP and ICE. A major component was convincing Mexicans to police other Mexicans and now they’re all MAGA. I think the money can be very persuasive
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 30/07/2025
Once again we find ourselves laughing at a police state that is unafraid to dangle $50K payment packages in front of anyone desperate enough to take it. Once again, this is how you lock-in an economy to the financial flows of the security state turned against its own population.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 30/07/2025
Trump has a lot of quislings in the academy and such, but a lot of very powerful institutions simply can't believe what is happening. they stand there like a jacklighted deer going "buhh? guhh?" while MAGA draws a bead on their forehead bsky.app/profile/unav...
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Elai @elai.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
infohazard
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Elai @elai.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
novel class theory where the lumpenproletariat consists of people that play and spend money on mobile games
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Elai @elai.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
blueanon development continuing apace
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Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) @kleinman.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
NYU should petition the Ivy League to let them replace Columbia. Shooters shoot.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
This is, to me, the defining dyamic of everything the last six months. Any game theory notion of deterrence or the shoe being on the other foot ever is entirely gone. Either 1) They don't think they'll ever lose power again or 2) they're confident Democrats won't ever do the same things back to them
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onion person @junlper.beer · 16/07/2025
donald trump is a pedophile
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
The floods ripped through Texas on July 4. On July 5, FEMA received 3000 calls from survivors. 1% were unanswered. That night, Trump/Noem fired the people who answer the calls. On July 6, FEMA received 2,363 calls. 65% unanswered. July 7: 85%. Sick.
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FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show
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