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Critical Raccoon @ereallin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Hyperreal simulacrum as described by Elephant Graveyard. These people live in worlds of representations of things, not of the things, themselves. They’ve divorced “Classic reality.” Mass delusion, pretty much.

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Critical Raccoon @ereallin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Word jazz. Is another fever dream.

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Critical Raccoon @ereallin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

His domestic policy is austerity, pipelines, data centers, selling public assets, surveillance state. I like what he has to say on the world stage, but for us living in the place… he’s more like Margret Thatcher than I like.

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Critical Raccoon @ereallin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Did a light burn out or trip a circuit? He’s in the dark. Maybe that’s appropriate.

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Critical Raccoon @ereallin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Looks ungainly. Their website doesn’t seem to show people actually holding the thing while folded. It looks ok sitting on a desk or folded up like a laptop, but I’m gonna have that in my pocket?

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Critical Raccoon @ereallin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Right, so it’s actually much more offensive than it appears at first.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

John Roberts and the SCOTUS Republicans have allowed Trump to proceed with his egregious mail-in voting restrictions. 21 years ago, I warned at Roberts' confirmation hearing he would be a dangerously right-wing Chief Justice. I have sadly been proven right, over and over.

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Critical Raccoon @ereallin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

93.2%. It’s not “a quarter are at risk,” it’s a far far higher proportion “are actively getting lifelong damage.” The sport isn’t ethical and everyone knows it. No equipment or rule changes are gonna change that.

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Critical Raccoon @ereallin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Over 90% of the donated brains studied had CTE, so the likelihood of “1 in 4” is laughably low. Maybe the donated brains were more often those with signs of dementia, so the rate is somewhat below 90%, but not by much.

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Critical Raccoon @ereallin.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

If this tech is wildly capable and many many billions are spent on it, a school shooting might go from having 12 victims, to having 6. Problem solved! Oh… Maybe school shooters will see the limitations of this and just build that into their shooting plans… back up to 12…

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Wondering why data centers are as unpopular as nuclear waste? It's not the data centers. The problem is both more obvious and more fundamental: The daily lived experience of the AI boom sucks. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ai-is-maki...

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AI is making everything worse

The political problem isn't the data centers — it's that AI is a turd mountain looming over daily life.

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Critical Raccoon @ereallin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I don’t think anyone actually believes that. Is doublethink, and part of self indoctrination. I think a lot of the climate change denial is similar.

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Critical Raccoon @ereallin.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

It’s the customer service. And the “two-buck chuck.”

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Critical Raccoon @ereallin.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Crypto/NFTs seem more like a grift and waste, while AI is being leveraged into something more destructive, used to confuse, mask, and rationalize a flood of awfulness. That said, what’s been developed has some utility, whereas crypto… I haven’t heard of a good use of it.

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Critical Raccoon @ereallin.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

As usual, the far majority of Dem primary voters will vote for the Dem in the general. A handful won’t, and that’s normal. I’m saying that Dems would do better to engage the vast sea of disaffected non-voters than sell out their principles for a mythical middle. Keep messaging simple and principled.

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Critical Raccoon @ereallin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

40% of eligible voters in Michigan didn’t vote in 2022. It’d be best to court them than the sliver of moderate Dems would might not show up or actually pull the lever for Rogers.

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Critical Raccoon @ereallin.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

There may be some reason having to with short notice or something. But yeah, campaigns should be ready for this stuff. She’s good, deserves better, and can’t afford potentially viral gaffs. Wisconsin (my state) has elected some real dumbasses, and they tend to look like Tom Tiffany.

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Critical Raccoon @ereallin.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I do think she tacked very slightly to the center from Obama, and this was integrated with her “experience” sales pitch. Obama was more vague and aspirational and people could project progressive stuff onto him, as they still do. PoliticalCompass made this graphic

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Conservatives on X are now claiming that The Odyssey, which had the most profitable live-action opening of the year so far with $264 million, is a box office flop. Just as I suspected, they are incapable of admitting they were wrong. This is the election denialism of pop culture.

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Critical Raccoon @ereallin.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

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Critical Raccoon @ereallin.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

The wheels on my hope fell of on December 12, 2000, with Bush v. Gore. I think that indicated what could happen with Republican willingness to vote for incompetence, a total lack of Democratic Party courage or strategy, and the capsizing of Supreme Court integrity.

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 23/01/2026

A reminder that not all labor unions are good. The building trades would sign up to build the Death Star if it promised to shit a few jobs their way.

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Critical Raccoon @ereallin.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Dodgers have a team payroll of about $100 more dollars. MLB doesn’t have a salary cap like the NFL. Is very unbalanced throughout.

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Critical Raccoon @ereallin.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Stone’s throw away from a Macho Man Randy Savage Speech.

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Critical Raccoon @ereallin.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Scale is right. Point made. Well done.

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Critical Raccoon @ereallin.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

“The left”… a lot of smart lefties have said a lot about Biden. It’s hard to follow you when so many of your posts just seem like bait.

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Critical Raccoon @ereallin.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

The origin of mecha-this and mecha-that.

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Critical Raccoon @ereallin.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

It was blown apart in Bush v Gore.

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Critical Raccoon @ereallin.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Passed a stone. Overwhelming majority.

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Critical Raccoon @ereallin.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

But not a zero chance of being part of a coalition minority government. The Liberals have done some of their better things with NDP pressure. I understand not wanting to split districts, but PC runs a distant third in some ridings.

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Critical Raccoon @ereallin.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

A little over 3 million voted third party. Around 90 million eligible voters didn’t vote. I think we should focus on the larger group.

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Critical Raccoon @ereallin.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

There was a contingent of Bernie supporters who were/are rather toxic, but it’s partly a function of his broad appeal across a lot of traditional left right lines. There’s also a group of socialists who are kinda “smart guys” who like to talk a lot and are serial mansplainers. Minority.

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Critical Raccoon @ereallin.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

I don’t think it matters where the virus came from. All these labs leak from time to time.

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Critical Raccoon @ereallin.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I found both drugs to help, but I had some more side effects with adderall. I found the effect of Ritalin to be simpler and more consistent. Adderall gave me a slightly queasy out-of-body feeling. Ritalin made me jittery at first, but I acclimated after a while (few weeks) and that went away.

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Critical Raccoon @ereallin.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

No ambiguity there. I’m sure that’s not creating a fat loophole that can be abused again and again.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Joe Biden should pardon and release from prison the 3,000 people behind bars for ridiculous federal marijuana offenses.

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Critical Raccoon @ereallin.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Based on the Ancient Greek Anabasis by Xenophon

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