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Erik Wallenius

@erikwallenius.bsky.social
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Eagle Scout, Army vet, @BarackObama ‘08 alum. Interests include data/tech, board games, epiphenomenalism. Deliberative anti-foundationalist. Don’t mistake my kindness for weakness. ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ he/him

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Beverly Tweetmaker @bvrlytweetmaker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Can't believe they included the below picture uncensored, but I fixed it
Picture of a man captioned "man spreading nuts in Lincoln Park this spring." I have pixelated his midsection.
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Erik Wallenius @erikwallenius.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Old enough to remember “duck and cover” drills in school. So yeah I’m pretty set of existential threats and global paradigm shifts, thanks
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Undead in Chicago (municipal boundary) @mosermostly.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
That's just a dwarf with ADHD, this is my entire family
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Erik Wallenius @erikwallenius.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Sorry, catching up on all the names and personalities. Is Tristan a baddie?
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Erik Wallenius @erikwallenius.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
This is correct.
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Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I 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.
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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.”
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 03/07/2026
real battle for asgard situation happening here tonight.
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Beverly Tweetmaker @bvrlytweetmaker.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Where are the Husband Gals at?
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Erik Wallenius @erikwallenius.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
As 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
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/06/2026
i 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
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Erik Wallenius @erikwallenius.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Abhorrent. Absolutely monstrous.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 04/06/2026
Among 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...
He added that members will not be limited to the list of “religious affiliation codes” when selecting information for their dog tags. The revised list, according to documents obtained by Military.com, include Agnostics, Buddhists, Hindus, Islam (Muslims), Judaism, Sikh, and a wide range of Christian-based groups like Baptists, Catholics, Lutherans and Methodists.

This restructuring of faith codes, which help identity service members as well as the military in planning for appropriated religious coverage to include them, has now excluded minority faith/worldview groups including Atheists, Asatru, Deists, Druids, Eckankar, Heathens, Humanists, Magick, New Age churches, Pagan, Rosicrucianism, Shaman, Spiritualists, Troth, Unitarian Universalists and various Wiccans.
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Erik Wallenius @erikwallenius.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
👀
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Mayor of Haunted Trails and Fright Fest @thedazzlingone.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
No thank you!!!
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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Ald. 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.
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Undead in Chicago (municipal boundary) @mosermostly.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Another classic from local alderman/ sweaty potato Matt O'Shea, who apparently hasn't gotten the memo on saying "Blacks". Which restaurants, I wonder...
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 20/05/2026
I'm not a plumber. But I'm pretty sure that's not how sinks work.
US Department of Education Facebook post saying SKILLS THAT PAY OFF, showing an AI image of a White man and a brown-skinned woman wearing blue coveralls and tool belts. He's pointing off into the distance and she's working on a sink that has way too many exposed copper pipes in all the wrong places
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Erik Wallenius @erikwallenius.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Fucking cottonwood season again! I’m not an Isley Brother, but I am brother with an eyes-leak
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Mayor of Haunted Trails and Fright Fest @thedazzlingone.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Bleak
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Me reading the 87th anecdote about a rich person who says they earned it through hard work
Ahhh
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
What’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...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/04/2026
this is just a warmed over david duke speech from 1990
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johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 19/04/2026
pope tweets good
When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment.  As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality.  We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another.  Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue.  In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread.  What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
The plot to enslave America. The plot to enslave humanity. They are announcing it because they think we can no longer stop them
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement
21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful.

22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Palantir 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...
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Because we get asked a lot. by @PalantirTech(Palantir) | Twitter Thread Reader
Because 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...
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Erik Wallenius @erikwallenius.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Oh man. You’re gonna love the final 2 eps
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
I 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.
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Deadeyefox @deadeyefox.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Perfect. Risk a environmentally sensitive area for foreign interests, putting 4500 jobs at risk to create 250 jobs that only last 20 years. Absolutely brilliant 👍
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Jake @brehlol.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Inhabitants 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
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Erik Wallenius @erikwallenius.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Spoiler free question: have you yet watched “The Studio”
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Erik Wallenius @erikwallenius.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO LET THE FLAG TOUCH THE GROUND!!!
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Erik Wallenius @erikwallenius.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Remind me of this any time I feel bad about not going to an Ivy League school
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Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
every time
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Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
One of many reasons I switched e-reader platforms
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
It 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:
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ArchPundit @archpundit.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
And another President refuses to explain to Netanyahu who the superpower is
Kate McKinnon as Hillary, He Will Kill Us All
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Erik Wallenius @erikwallenius.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
So like the future is Hobbiton?
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 07/04/2026
I 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".
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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
The 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...
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Sam 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.
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Mike Quigley @quigley.house.gov · 07/04/2026
The 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!
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 07/04/2026
The best time to impeach Donald Trump was 9 years ago. The second best time is now.
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Erik Wallenius @erikwallenius.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I 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.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
All 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.
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 07/04/2026
Hell yeah, these are both important, let's go.
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John Amdor @johnamdor.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
April 7, 2000: Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie grew weary of debating Cook County real estate assessment legislation.
STATE OF ILLINOIS
91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE
118th Legislative Day
April 7, 2000
Mulligan: "Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Will the Sponsor yield?"
Speaker Hartke: "Sponsor will yield."
Currie: "Reluctantly..."
Speaker Hartke: "Reluctantly." 
Currie: "There have been a lot of questions and very little light has been added to this topic."
Speaker Hartke: "Representative Mulligan."
Mulligan: "Representative, when did you put this Amendment on, wasn't it April 4th?"
Currie: "I think it was two days ago, but every day here seems like a year, so it could have been eons ago."
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/04/2026
#Artemis II lunar flyby images are showing up! 😍 A crescent Earth setting behind the Moon.
Earthset captured through the Orion spacecraft window at 6:41 p.m. EDT, April 6, 2026, during the Artemis II crew’s flyby of the Moon. A muted blue Earth with bright white clouds sets behind the cratered lunar surface. The dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime. On Earth’s day side, swirling clouds are visible over the Australia and Oceania region.  In the foreground, Ohm crater has terraced edges and a flat floor interrupted by central peaks. Central peaks form in complex craters when the lunar surface, liquefied on impact, splashes upwards during the crater’s formation.
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
NASA'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.
A crescent Earth seen setting behind a vast lunar landscape of craters.
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