Reposted by Erik WalleniusBeverly Tweetmaker @bvrlytweetmaker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Can't believe they included the below picture uncensored, but I fixed it 181
Erik Wallenius @erikwallenius.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Old enough to remember “duck and cover” drills in school. So yeah I’m pretty set of existential threats and global paradigm shifts, thanks 010
Reposted by Erik WalleniusUndead in Chicago (municipal boundary) @mosermostly.bsky.social · 29/07/2026That's just a dwarf with ADHD, this is my entire family 032
Erik Wallenius @erikwallenius.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Sorry, catching up on all the names and personalities. Is Tristan a baddie?personalities.is 000
Reposted by Erik WalleniusSecond Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 05/07/2026I honestly don't think FIFA was influenced by trump so much as they changed a decision for their own reasons and trump is inserting himself into it as if he actually changed anything. It's just that they're both so fucking shitty that no one will ever give either of them benefit of the doubt. 511629
Erik Wallenius @erikwallenius.bsky.social · 04/07/2026“O! had I the ability, and could reach the nation’s ear, I would, to-day, pour forth a stream, a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke. For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder.” 000
Reposted by Erik Walleniusdan sinker @dansinker.com · 03/07/2026real battle for asgard situation happening here tonight. 58810
Reposted by Erik WalleniusBeverly Tweetmaker @bvrlytweetmaker.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Where are the Husband Gals at? 431
Erik Wallenius @erikwallenius.bsky.social · 17/06/2026As an aside: please stop using the label “GOP.” They love to dodge their universally shitty brand name. Not conservatives, not GOP, these fuckers are Republicans. Shorthanding that deeply unpopular word lets them off easy 000
Reposted by Erik Walleniusjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/06/2026i have been obsessed with this for years. allowing manufacturers to sell direct to consumers would be good for consumers and also destroying the car dealership would be an existential crisis for republicans 20681251518
Reposted by Erik WalleniusJack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 04/06/2026Among the wild things about this: Unitarian Universalists (4, albeit separate groups at the time) and Deists (arguably 2) were represented among the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Those are among the groups reportedly now excluded from faith codes. www.military.com/dod-official... 21264122
Reposted by Erik WalleniusMayor of Haunted Trails and Fright Fest @thedazzlingone.bsky.social · 21/05/2026No thank you!!! 182
Reposted by Erik WalleniusHeather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Ald. O'Shea says a number of restaurants in his ward are weighing whether to leave the city for the suburbs. "Every one is owned by a Latino or a Black," O'Shea says, his voice rising in anger. "Person," someone yells. "Black person." I could not tell who it was, but it prompted shocked looks. 13210
Reposted by Erik WalleniusUndead in Chicago (municipal boundary) @mosermostly.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Another classic from local alderman/ sweaty potato Matt O'Shea, who apparently hasn't gotten the memo on saying "Blacks". Which restaurants, I wonder... 031
Reposted by Erik WalleniusJess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 20/05/2026I'm not a plumber. But I'm pretty sure that's not how sinks work. 53764961226
Erik Wallenius @erikwallenius.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Fucking cottonwood season again! I’m not an Isley Brother, but I am brother with an eyes-leak 000
Reposted by Erik WalleniusMayor of Haunted Trails and Fright Fest @thedazzlingone.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Bleak 242
Reposted by Erik WalleniusMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Me reading the 87th anecdote about a rich person who says they earned it through hard work 221590145
Reposted by Erik WalleniusAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 19/04/2026What’s interesting here is they say “culture” when they mean “people” but they think that this maintains a veneer of deniability about what they’re really saying. In any case it’s true that the “culture” of the tech billionaires is morally and intellectually depraved rot bsky.app/profile/elio... 461673320
Reposted by Erik Walleniusjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/04/2026this is just a warmed over david duke speech from 1990 13470871179
Reposted by Erik Walleniusjohnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 19/04/2026pope tweets good 251125283
Reposted by Erik Walleniusmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 19/04/2026The plot to enslave America. The plot to enslave humanity. They are announcing it because they think we can no longer stop them 261083366
Reposted by Erik WalleniusEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement 43693273077
Reposted by Erik Walleniuselia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed. We must get rid of Palantir altogether. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...twitter-thread.comBecause we get asked a lot. by @PalantirTech(Palantir) | Twitter Thread ReaderBecause we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affir... 19074622011
Reposted by Erik WalleniusThomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 16/04/2026I hate every single senator who allowed this to happen. Hate, with all the venom of my heart. May they never know peace. The Boundary Waters is a truly magical place. Twin Metals are such incredible bastards for seeking this. May they live in fear of the consequences of their actions. 717065
Reposted by Erik WalleniusDeadeyefox @deadeyefox.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Perfect. Risk a environmentally sensitive area for foreign interests, putting 4500 jobs at risk to create 250 jobs that only last 20 years. Absolutely brilliant 👍 012
Reposted by Erik WalleniusJake @brehlol.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Inhabitants of the only known planet with life on it hellbent on destroying it so that 6 people can earn a currency that could lose value at any moment 0185
Erik Wallenius @erikwallenius.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Spoiler free question: have you yet watched “The Studio” 100
Erik Wallenius @erikwallenius.bsky.social · 19/04/2026YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO LET THE FLAG TOUCH THE GROUND!!! 010
Erik Wallenius @erikwallenius.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Remind me of this any time I feel bad about not going to an Ivy League school 000
Reposted by Erik WalleniusSecond Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 08/04/2026One of many reasons I switched e-reader platforms 3114
Reposted by Erik WalleniusGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 08/04/2026It is hard to capture what a sweeping strategic defeat the war in Iran has been for the United States. I’m going to thread here some of the posts today that try to capture those effects. Here’s the first: 6327991110
Reposted by Erik WalleniusArchPundit @archpundit.bsky.social · 08/04/2026And another President refuses to explain to Netanyahu who the superpower is 172
Reposted by Erik WalleniusDaniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 07/04/2026I hate having to do the "look, they're normal just like us" post, but sometimes you have to do that when American propaganda tries to convince everyone Iranians are "animals". 20102013782
Reposted by Erik WalleniusRonan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 06/04/2026The reporting on OpenAI and Sam Altman I've been working on for the past year and a half, for @newyorker.com, with Andrew Marantz: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...newyorker.comSam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI. 1482611871
Reposted by Erik WalleniusMike Quigley @quigley.house.gov · 07/04/2026The economy is in shambles, House Republicans have still not agreed to the common-sense DHS deal, and now the President is threatening to "kill a whole civilization" in Iran. Speaker Johnson, please call the House back into session. The world can not wait till Tuesday! 73814
Reposted by Erik Walleniuskottke.org @kottke.org · 07/04/2026The best time to impeach Donald Trump was 9 years ago. The second best time is now. 637975
Erik Wallenius @erikwallenius.bsky.social · 07/04/2026I was on the floor of the Chicago Board of Options Exchange when news broke that the U.S. had killed Saddam Hussein’s two sons. The outpourings of cheer that ensued were loud, widespread, and deeply unsettling. 010
Reposted by Erik WalleniusPuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 07/04/2026All of that said, I do think gathering matters. Protest matters. Being among people who believe as you do and want this to stop matters. The best way to hold onto our humanity is to hold onto each other. So, if you can march or even light a candle in the company of others, I would do so. 116733
Reposted by Erik Walleniusdan sinker @dansinker.com · 07/04/2026Hell yeah, these are both important, let's go. 0203
Reposted by Erik WalleniusJohn Amdor @johnamdor.bsky.social · 07/04/2026April 7, 2000: Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie grew weary of debating Cook County real estate assessment legislation. 021
Reposted by Erik WalleniusKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/04/2026#Artemis II lunar flyby images are showing up! 😍 A crescent Earth setting behind the Moon. 353791876
Reposted by Erik WalleniusScientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 07/04/2026NASA's first image from the Artemis II close flyby of the moon shows "Earthset," with a crescent Earth seen over the moon's cratered surface. 223156