Eric Linus Kaplan @ericlinuskaplan.bsky.social · 6h2034. The former Groypers are getting out of the rehabilitation centers outside Fairbanks, Alaska. They take hesitant steps into a new world. A reporter asks one - in the old days you used to be a senator? A president? "None of that matters." says the man. "I'm a human being." 0145
Eric Linus Kaplan @ericlinuskaplan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Tickled is a really prescient documentary as it describes how a rich bullying weirdo can keep offending with impunity by intimidating the press and employing immoral fixers. 020
Eric Linus Kaplan @ericlinuskaplan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026working on a connections: term, diaper, fries, gun 000
Eric Linus Kaplan @ericlinuskaplan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026ericlinuskaplan.substack.com/p/john-wick-...ericlinuskaplan.substack.comJohn Wick Revenge PicA collection of hippies capture John Wick’s pet calf and sacrifice it for one of their dirty hippie parties/barbecues. 010
Eric Linus Kaplan @ericlinuskaplan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Skeeper the Dog. He's not a dog. & he's not named "Skeeper". Coming soon to a screen near you! 010
Eric Linus Kaplan @ericlinuskaplan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026anybody want to do a zoom chat this evening? 110
Eric Linus Kaplan @ericlinuskaplan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026very beautiful. very emotional. very respectful to the reader. it will not overwhelm you without your consent. you can enjoy it while at work without risk of loss of social standing. ericlinuskaplan.substack.com/p/turbid-and...ericlinuskaplan.substack.comTurbid and Superfluous Lawyer Who Lived in an Abalone Shell in the ParkA Tale of the Universe and Its Dwellers 000
Eric Linus Kaplan @ericlinuskaplan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Who was a better Writer John Updike or Douglas Adams Some people say the better writer was John Updike. But they are wrong. Because look at Rabbit Run on the one hand and Hitchhiker on the other hand. Hitchhiker is better. It is funnier and has more good ideas. Therefore Adams is the better writer. 000
Eric Linus Kaplan @ericlinuskaplan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026has there ever been a cafe called "Better Latte than Never"? 110
Eric Linus Kaplan @ericlinuskaplan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026has there ever been a cult or human potential movement called "The Process"? 100
Eric Linus Kaplan @ericlinuskaplan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026open.spotify.com/episode/3F6F...open.spotify.comEpisode 53: Should We Fear Death?Terrifying Questions · Episode 000
Eric Linus Kaplan @ericlinuskaplan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Frank Frazetta is fine but he shouldn't get a whole museum gallery 110
Eric Linus Kaplan @ericlinuskaplan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026bodily decrepitude is wisdom, young we loved each other and were elephants 000
Eric Linus Kaplan @ericlinuskaplan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026dtonealbooking.substack.com?r=y3sl&utm_c...dtonealbooking.substack.comDylan O’Neal | SubstackFiction Writer. Click to read Dylan O’Neal, a Substack publication. Launched 6 months ago. 000
Eric Linus Kaplan @ericlinuskaplan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026when there was a peace chief and a war chief how did they get the war chief to give up power when the war ended? 020
Reposted by Eric Linus KaplanAda Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Kākāpō numbers pass 300 for the first time in 75 years. New Zealand’s flightless, nocturnal parrot now totals 325 birds, after a record 90 chicks fledged this season, built on the Department of Conservation’s recovery programme, which started with just 51 birds in 1995. DOC buff.ly/7YIOBd9doc.govt.nzKākāpō population reaches new milestoneThe official population of the critically endangered kākāpō has reached a recovery-era high of 325 birds. 9689239
Eric Linus Kaplan @ericlinuskaplan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026ericlinuskaplan.substack.com/p/should-we-...ericlinuskaplan.substack.comShould We Fear Death?“Terrifying Questions and How Not to Be Terrified By Them” the Philosophy Comedy Podcast Takes Its Maiden Video Voyage 010
Eric Linus Kaplan @ericlinuskaplan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026lolyzee.substack.com?r=y3sl&utm_c...lolyzee.substack.comLozee | SubstackClick to read Lozee, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers. 000
Eric Linus Kaplan @ericlinuskaplan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026@hntdove.bsky.social are you related to Tarski, the Polish logician, nee Turteltaub? 000
Eric Linus Kaplan @ericlinuskaplan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026ericlinuskaplan.substack.com/p/the-bold-y...ericlinuskaplan.substack.comThe Bold Yet Winsome HumanitoLong after human beings had become extinct and passed into cyborg legend there was still a role to be played by the being who would adopt the ways of the human in the triennic festival, who we called ... 010
Reposted by Eric Linus KaplanPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18/09/2026A lot of people are not well right now: physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. This is an excellent time to de-escalate conflicts and to lean into patience. This is true in our personal lives and also (maybe especially) online when it's overwhelmingly strangers crashing into each other. 131652495
Eric Linus Kaplan @ericlinuskaplan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026my father was the only man in history to be killed twice 000
Eric Linus Kaplan @ericlinuskaplan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Wallace Stevens is Better with the Smiley Face Emoji Poetry is a Destructive Force A lion sleeps with its head on its paws It can kill a man. 😀 110
Eric Linus Kaplan @ericlinuskaplan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Goofus: What should the speed of research into pesticides be? Faster? Slower? Zero because pesticides may destroy the Earth? Gallant: What pesticides cause what harms and how can we stop those from being made and sue the companies that release them out of existence? NB this is about AI. 020
Eric Linus Kaplan @ericlinuskaplan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026feeling like a copy-editor for the Pnakotic Manuscripts 000
Eric Linus Kaplan @ericlinuskaplan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026"that can't be real, it's gotta be AI (checks) huh. I guess it's real." For me the latest instance of this is adults at a MAGA rally wearing diapers. 020
Reposted by Eric Linus KaplanTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026My number one rule about culture writing is that craft cannot compensate for contempt. If you hate the people, you cannot write about their culture. Apropos of nothing. 51313159
Reposted by Eric Linus KaplanJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026for the sake of all that's holy just *let me upload my already thought-out and carefully-written letter of recommendation.* Don't give me a webform with seven different specific and slightly off-kilter essays boxes each with its own idiosyncratic word count. 1543223
Reposted by Eric Linus KaplanThomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026We have been asked the question. Now we must answer. Can we find it in ourselves to meet the far-right international’s challenge with strength, conviction, and a proud commitment to a vision of democratic pluralism that is so much grander that what the right is able to imagine? 27315
Eric Linus Kaplan @ericlinuskaplan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026on this day 25 years ago Parker and Stone were doing their jobs. 001
Eric Linus Kaplan @ericlinuskaplan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026ericlinuskaplan.substack.com/p/another-ma...ericlinuskaplan.substack.comAnother Man, Another House, Another DeckOnce I was picking up my friend Nick, a Swiss conductor, from the airport, who already thought I was a space cadet because of some experiences in college. 000
Reposted by Eric Linus KaplanKaren Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 20/05/2026On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org 4525241123
Eric Linus Kaplan @ericlinuskaplan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026@karenhao.bsky.social how do you interpet Altman quote? "Committing to having independent evaluators with employee-like access is a great idea, and we will do the same. We’ll have more to share soon.” 020
Eric Linus Kaplan @ericlinuskaplan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026counter-point; there is just the right amount of extremism 000
Eric Linus Kaplan @ericlinuskaplan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026don't have highly-processed food. and don't have highly-processed sex. 010
Eric Linus Kaplan @ericlinuskaplan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I made a pretty solid joke a few years back. the set-up was a show called "God Friended Me". And the joke was -- spoiler, the main character was actually befriended by Ialdabaoth. Unfortnately the joke is unusable because nobody remembers that show. It may have other problems as well -- not sure! 010
Eric Linus Kaplan @ericlinuskaplan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026say no to status-driven belief-signaling 011
Eric Linus Kaplan @ericlinuskaplan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026www.instagram.com/p/DdH61V8OBbP/instagram.comKAPKNAP ANIMATION on Instagram: "the complete video of the studio announcement! you can watch it here, AND YOU CAN ALSO WATCH IT ON YOU TUBE! Follow us there to watch our show My Friend Coffee. Link i...44 likes, 2 comments - kapknap.animation on September 10, 2026: "the complete video of the studio announcement! you can watch it here, AND YOU CAN ALSO WATCH IT ON YOU TUBE! Follow us there to watch o... 000
Eric Linus Kaplan @ericlinuskaplan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026if we could -- per impossibile -- swap out JD and Usha for Jack and Vivian it would be an adVANCE! 010
Eric Linus Kaplan @ericlinuskaplan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Notes Towards a Supreme Non-Fiction by Robert Louis Wallace Stevenson 000
Eric Linus Kaplan @ericlinuskaplan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026some believe it is offensive to make jokes about 9/11. others that it is offensive not to make jokes about 9/11. but as americans we can all agree on the aniversary of this unimaginable day that our capacity to make or fail to make jokes and be offended is among our most precious and useful rights. 030
Eric Linus Kaplan @ericlinuskaplan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Are Democrats Turning Against Israel - or Jews? Two Leading Jewish Voices Debate Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...open.substack.comAre Democrats Turning Against Israel - or Jews? Two Leading Jewish Voices Debate Antisemitism and Anti-ZionismJoel Rubin and Peter Beinart go head-to-head on dwindling Democratic Party support for Israel as well as the conflation of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish sentiment in this ‘Mehdi Unfiltered’ debate. 000
Eric Linus Kaplan @ericlinuskaplan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The cat wants to help out but she has become overcome with fatigue. Once it has gathered its strength the cat will pitch in with renewed public-spirited vigor, all the more vigorous for having been renewed. Dogs sleep a lot too. 061
Eric Linus Kaplan @ericlinuskaplan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026the more I see of mankind the more I love my egg-sized sapphire in all its unapproachable brilliancy, a ransom fit for one and a hundred splendid kings! 010
Eric Linus Kaplan @ericlinuskaplan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026the more I see of mankind the more I love my cat 0112
Eric Linus Kaplan @ericlinuskaplan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026she is going to spit poison on Nathan and eat him 010
Reposted by Eric Linus Kaplan🇲🇽🕷️rustbelt rebel🕷️🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 06/09/2026The way to ‘outreach’ to MAHA is to not bother. There are more of us and there are more people that haven’t thought much about any of it but heard something. Let’s talk to THOSE people. Let’s get people that already agree mobilized around good messaging and better demands. This is great video. 13910