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I do wonder if the Department of Defense's plan to livestream the execution of Nidal Hasan is actually Hegseth and company invoking the Old Testament judicial system—specifically the use of public punishments to purge communal evils

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eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 14h

“…YOUR kids are another matter”

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eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 14h

Last three times I’ve tried to go to LGM, I’ve gotten this malware redirect. @drfarls.bsky.social

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eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

My guess is that changing the names of things like this, AI, the Gulf of Mexico, Lake Ontario, appeals to him because it allows him to exercise power over people. Much like how his tariffs allow him to exercise power over foreign entities, since they must come to him for a “deal.”

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

One of the first things Trump did in Feb. 2017 was set up an office in DHS to *exclusively* publicize crimes committed by immigrants — just as the Nazis used Der Stürmer to publish a special section only highlighting “Jewish crimes.” See this article from 2017: www.thewrap.com/der-sturmer-...

& thewrap.com
But mass-slander-by-anecdote has a long tradition. As The Atlantic explains:
In The Nazi Conscience, Duke historian Claudia Koonz notes that the Nazi newspaper Der Sturmer ran a feature called "Letter Box," which published readers' accounts of Jewish crimes. When the Nazis took power, the German state began doing something similar.
Frustrated by the failure of most Germans to participate in a boycott of Jewish businesses in April 1933, Adolf Hitler's government began publicizing Jewish crime statistics as a way of stoking anti-Semitism.
Trump introduced a new government entity Tuesday that will similarly flag and highlight crimes by illegal immigrants - without, of course, providing any context about how many crimes they commit compared to U.S. citizens, or how illegal immigrants as a group might contribute positively to American society.
"The office is called VOICE - Victims Of Immigration Crime Engagement," Trump explained. "We are providing a voice to those who have been ignored by our media, and silenced by special interests."

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The media's dilemma: should we cover that a guy contemplating how to dispose of Jews is cited by the VP as an intellectual influence or write another piece about vague connections between Democrats and Hassan Piker? 🤔

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eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Curious as to how many Klansman @justinwolfers.bsky.social has gone to lunch with. I suspect the answer will be something like, “Obviously not *those people*. Those ideas are beyond the pale and shouldn’t be included.”

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TAINT Gaming Community @taintgaming.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

<TAINT> is having an IN REAL LIFE costume contest. For the XIV players, you must be holding a sign or sheet of paper that says "FFXIV 2026" to qualify. First place will be awarded an item from the Final Fantasy XIV Store (up to a $25 value).

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eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Look, I get why you don’t want 98 pound weaklings in the military. But “beardos”? As in people with beards? When did they become a class of people to be hated? Is that even a thing people say? I swear, the psychosexual hangups of MAGA will be the subject of many a dissertation.

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eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Not necessarily. AI chatbots do not give repeatable answers. That’s just part of how they work

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eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I can’t wait until a Democratic President starts undoing the damage Trump has caused. I just hope they wait long enough to deport Rubio.

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eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Also, it shows you exactly where to punch.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This isn't an AI thing, but it explains why executives think AI is great. They *already* live like they have been kicked in the head by a horse. They already have a group of people making sure they've wiped their ass. They already don't have exposure to negative consequences.

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eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This has nothing to do with AI. This has to do with the fact that he’s obscenely rich and his assistant usually handles this stuff. I am even doubtful that he pumped his own gas and his driver didn’t actually do it.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Tough competition of course, but the Trump admin deciding that white South Africans are the only group of people on earth currently worthy of refugee status has to be the most overtly racist thing any administration has done in decades

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eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Halfway through day one of #ICCUnleashed and I think my brain is full.

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eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

At “Avoiding Million-Dollar Mistakes in Automation Projects” at #ICCUnleashed and holy cow, it’s standing room only

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yes having our fertilizer shipped from a Russian proxy dictator half the world away is surely a better way to arrange things than getting it from our democratic, once-friendly neighbor here in the North America

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eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It looks like the @nytimes.com has outsourced nutritional information to Edamam, an #LLM driven AI service that is wildly incompetent. All the nutritional details for this recipe are wrong by several-fold. cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1026...

Nutritional information for the NYT Cooking recipe Sizzled Scallion Rice, where all the nutritional information is wrong.

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eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Prediction: if it looks like Trump's attempts to put his name on the Kennedy Center have failed with no route forward, he will demolish it.

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eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

So I was bored and started watching Creature Commandos on HBO Max. (It’s meh, not sure I’ll continue.) I don’t know what I went in expecting from an animated series, but one of the characters seriously packing would not have been on the list.

A screenshot from creature, commandos, with the main protagonist smuggling something in his boxer briefs

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eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The next Dem administration has better shut thus shit down. Bring these people back and fast track them for citizenship as repayment. Just not before deporting Marco Rubio and his parents.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The casual politicization of law enforcement is a huge blow to democratic norms - and like so many other blows, will be ignored because it’s easier to dismiss it as low-stakes Trump trolling.

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eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If Anthropic really thinks AI has a greater than 10% chance of making the human species extinct in the next 10 years, it is a threat larger than anything we’ve ever seen before and should be dealt with accordingly. www.axios.com/2026/09/09/a...

axios.com

Anthropic insiders warn AI could kill all humans

Their warnings came just days after top OpenAI leaders, including CEO Sam Altman, said AI is speeding into a scary, uncontrollable phase.

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I don’t remember whose insight this is, but it blew my mind when I first read that to understand American history you have to get that race law was designed to increase the number of enslavable people (one-drop rule) and decrease the number of claimants to indigenous land (blood quantum)

Jamelle Bouie writes: yeah this is a separate conversation but one of the things that hasn’t quite bubbled up from scholarship into mainstream thinking is that american slavery was a system centered principally on reproduction. forced birth for capital accumulation is what it was

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Jensen Huang just claimed the Singularity hit and we have achieved AGI. So two years from now, when we don't have fusion power and intergalactic travel etc because The Singularity is a fantasy, I assume everyone will admit they've been had.

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eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Mrs. Röhm deserves everything she will get when they inevitably turn on her.

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eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I may need someone to come talk me out of buying a $200 rice cooker.

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eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

“People are what they appear to be” offer not valid in the state of Gender.

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Ben Gvir posted this video on twitter today which shows fat and happy Palestinians on a conveyer built going through the Israeli "prison" (torture camp) system and coming out emaciated and maudlin. This is textbook genocidal content.

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eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I do kind of wish @jamellebouie.net had pushed back a bit on this. Asked Cottle what, specifically, has “half of America decided what woke is”? Also that it’s not “half of America but specifically white conservatives.

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eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

As ye sow, so shall ye reap. This tweet is about Milo Y. Also #AbolishICE

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.

Homeland Security 7
@DHSgov
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Haiti TPS has been TERMINATED.
Those with terminated TPS are in our nation Illegally. They have two options: LEAVE IMMEDIATELY or be DEPORTED.
DHS.GOV/CBРНОМЕ

Underneath is a screenshot of a video showing two Haitian men in chains being led to the aircraft. I didn’t post the video, but it’s vile.

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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Republicans have spent the last year trying to defund Dolly Parton

article about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Indiana

article about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Kentucky

article about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Missouri

iarticle about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Washington

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026

[Exit Queen.]

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eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I’m not entirely sure who any of these people are (something about sportsball) but isn’t this basically Beckwith calling the transphobic guy a pussy?

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

OK everybody remember, this "debate me on racism" thing has been tried before and people actually did debate the racists and all it ended up doing was elevating racist messaging. Also, that message was sown on Twitter to be bait for journalists in 2016 so maybe don't fall for it this time around 🥰

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eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Jesus fucking Christ this is where like half of the most educated people in our workforce come from. How many American-born STEM grad students do these people think there are?

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eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

My man looks like someone replaced his head with a Shar Pei.

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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

It just means faggot

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eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Pete Hegseth, in fact, did not remember that his soldiers need food.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Two months ago, tomorrow: Congratulations to all. Let the oil flow.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

This cruelty has no need but cruelty. Haiti remains deeply dangerous; a country in the throes of anarchy. Hundreds of thousands of people are SAFE. They are safe. They are safe here and the nation has decided to make them unsafe. We are embarking on a tragedy and we cannot look away. We cannot.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

the argument against Mamdani attending the 9/11 anniversary, as far as I can tell, is literally just that he’s Muslim, and reposting it is just reporting rank racism

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eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

There’s no planet where “men gravitate toward books like Crime and Punishment.” I’d guess fewer than 1% of men have read it outside of college.

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eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Obviously I’ve been hearing a lot about @abdulelsayed.bsky.social in the political news. What hasn’t come up in the coverage is that he’s kinda fucking hot. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTAndmd1F/

tiktok.com

Happy Taylor wedding…err, July 4th weekend!

TikTok video by Abdul El-Sayed

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