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@florian23.bsky.social
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In my opinion Powder and Artillery are the most efficacious, Sure, and infallibly conciliatory Measures We can adopt. - John Adams.

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John Castiglione @johncastiglione.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think any phenomenon that has a noticeable change in trend or direction in roughly 2010-2012 should be considered to be phone or SM-related until proven otherwise (as a lay heuristic, not as replacement for actual data and analysis)
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Oh yeah, that's my point, I will be fucking thrilled as long as we're not setting new records for GOP margins in Miami-Dade for the tenth time in a row.
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 28/09/2026
"The evidence continues to grow. Social media, as it is currently constructed, redounds to the net benefit of illiberal regimes and their allies in democracies. The question is what to do about it." www.liberalcurrents.com/social-media...
Social Media Has Not Brought Liberation

Social media has been a boon to autocratic regimes and their allied movements in democracies.
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Wannabe Apparatchik @apparatchikwannabe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
there is no opinion so strange, absurd, or nonsensical that someone, somewhere, doesn’t hold it with 100% dead seriousness
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
that said, it is bad when people are not embarrassed to say horrifying reactionary shit in public
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florian23.bsky.social @florian23.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I talked to a coworker yesterday and discovered that they have only ever played one video game, and that was overwatch, and they did so quite intensely but never played anything else. Thats such a funny game to have as your only video game.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So we've now discovered the magic new technology of ::checks notes:: patriarchy...in allowing wealthy male elites to seem super-productive by also appropriating the cognitive labor of women who remain mostly uncredited. 🎉 Everything is Gender, Exhibit Eleventeen Billion.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
basic summary of the essay:
Tommie Shelby of Peaky Blinders two panel meme of him aggressively pointing at his fellow gang members. in the original scene he is yelling "no fighting, no fighting, no fucking fighting". in the image the caption replaces the word "fighting" with "amnesty"
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Theo Landsman @ordinalandsman.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
A lot of people on here also struggle with the inverse, if your political orbit is suddenly filled with people with dogged intensity and clarity of purpose and all of the losers and posers who used to make it harder to do things have showed their true colors, you are losing very badly.
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florian23.bsky.social @florian23.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I hope no one minds if I steal the "text elemental" framing.
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florian23.bsky.social @florian23.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Sometimes I think its not great that we've all cognitively offloaded say, navigation, but it sure is much quicker and easier to get around unfamiliar places now. It's that phenomenon on steroids and the impacts are hard to predict.
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florian23.bsky.social @florian23.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Clearly "deliverism" had flaws as a political strategy, but it beats the hell out of doing the opposite and claiming you delivered.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 23/09/2026
and now these trumpheads are crying crocodile tears about the terror they've unleashed on the american body politic. the coup party "party of coups" is having a big sad that their opponents are also now coup-curious. sow the wind, reap the whirlwind. you stupid fucking children.
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Amateur Expert Opinions @amateurexpertop.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
they got you with Gandalf's trick on Beorn with the 12 dwarves (and a hobbit), lol
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florian23.bsky.social @florian23.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Just gonna note that this is essentially a confession
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OrcGirlBoss @orc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Gas high
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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"whoever pays the most gets the water" is an understandably unpopular idea but it is significantly better than "whoever's great-great-grandpappy was the first white man to farm the land gets the water"
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 21/09/2026
I believe that all people should be free to live and work where they want to, irrespective of legal and cultural borders. This includes people who I personally do not want to hang out with.
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
in fact much of the time its better that you don't
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
oh fuck off, this whole 'if only you had learnt an incredibly time-consuming skillset you have no particular interest in to do this one task that took ten minutes' bullshit is increasingly weak. I wish for automation to *do the things I don't want to do.*. Is that a hard fucking concept?
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andy @woodwost.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Incredible stuff
'Perhaps while the Emperor ordered, for whatever reason, that only men should be made Space Marines, there's nothing actually stopping it, and in the millennia since some Chapters have opened up recruiting and others haven't.

The Space Wolves make an obvious candidate for this take; not only does this dovetail beautifully with the historical Shieldmaiden concept, but the Emperor's 'No Girls Allowed' sign cannot stop Space Wolves because they cannot read.'
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Clear Shakespeare @clearshakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Pete Hagueseth
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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 18/09/2026
dudes rock www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/w...
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Can Two Friends Complete a Game No One Has Ever Finished? (Gift Article)
The Campaign for North Africa, a staggeringly complicated World War II board game, has stymied players for decades. Now two guys in England are giving it a serious go.
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Sophie E. Hill @sophieehill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I'm a Meta-Effective Altruist™️ I believe that Effective Altruism needs to be redistributed from where it is least effective (Silicon Valley sex cultists) to where it would be most effective (British pensioners who leave their life savings to the Donkey Sanctuary).
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florian23.bsky.social @florian23.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Most of it is insane, but he does have a pretty aggressive rhetorical style and will simply never stop keeping up his end of the conversation, so all the most insane people have found someone to fight with who will reliably fight back instead of blocking.
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Sunsette / Cynthia Skye @sunderedmarches.com · 28/08/2026
He is offended and insecure at the fact that someone¹ might be² morally his superior. He must remove any evidence it was there and trample the benefactor underfoot. ¹ basically everyone ² is
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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 16/09/2026
To be clear - I don’t think this is a sign that voters understand second order effects, I think they’re looking at Trump and going “that guy is clearly full of shit”, which is way worse for him
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Jón Frímann @jonfr500.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The most interesting thing about this. It doesn't seems to have gone into the thought of this people that not everything is connected to the internet and things can be disconnected from the internet too.
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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The reason why online discourse places so much value on saying the right things rather than doing the right things is because if you're exclusively online, the only thing you can do is say (poast) the right things
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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I for one am grateful to the Trump administration for (a) quickly decarbonizing our economy and (b) enabling the world’s greatest reenactment of the plot of “Dune”
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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Fortunately actual politicians don’t really care about niche website posts by non-voters with untreated anxiety disorders
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Lukewarm take: I feel a lot of pessimism about the present is built on not realizing just how bad the past was. Like if you just read a book about poverty in a first-world country in the 1950s it's staggeringly worse than now.
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florian23.bsky.social @florian23.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The shady Russian is named *Kremlev*?! Can we get some new writers? These ones are hacks and I'm sick of it.
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Brittany @sameoldstory.co · 13/09/2026
You can tell this is true because of how people talk about boycotts they’re in. Nobody is interested in how/if it’s actually impacting the companies, it’s all about feeling dirty for having slipped up once or judging people who didn’t commit to the cause and are still shopping on Amazon or whatever
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Kent Lind @camasonian.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
No Democratic legislature has ever voted to restrict trans rights. It is entirely a GOP project. That these two maps match is no coincidence.
2025 state partisan control of state legislaturesAnti-trans legislative risk map
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DEI Speedwagon @myrrlyn.net · 12/09/2026
at some point we gotta collectively remember that individual senators are basically not agents in any government, and that they matter primarily in terms of which caucus drives the chamber
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Coming Up Violets 🎨commissions open🖌️ @comingupviolets.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
That’s a good disclaimer, since we are all clearly seeing each new thing and thinking, “ok what fresh new f**ery is this?”
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Also, worth noting that at the time I could have a dinner made of oreos and surge, play Ultima Online until 3am, wake up bright-eyed and guilt-free, and with a plan to do it all again the next night. Someone should bring that back, too.
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Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Doesn't help that around the time a tech guy starts to gain breakthrough levels of notoriety into being a household name, is usually around the same time the brainworms start to set in.
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Siobhán @shibbi.me · 10/09/2026
Tweak: maximalist copyright sucks because, being maximalist and therefore untenable, it tends to accumulate unprincipled exceptions.
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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Sometimes it seems like actual investment capital is so concentrated in the USA these days that we're recapitulating the failures of central planning without either a formal central committee or an ideological aversion to markets.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 08/09/2026
i hate these stupid fucking morons so much
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Wannabe Apparatchik @apparatchikwannabe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
the median jewish-american zionist is sincere in their preference for a liberal solution, they’re just usually lying *to themselves* about the reality of what Israel actually is, which is, while not great, still a very different viewpoint than “mamdani is hamas”
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florian23.bsky.social @florian23.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Reading this stuff from 2026, the tone is uncomfortably familiar tbh.
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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I'm constantly frustrated that people always seem to lean into the "it's all fake" or "we're months away from the sky robots eating your children", both of which are very substantially deranged and deflect a ton of attention away from the real harms and benefits that society needs to be focusing on
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новаясара @skc703.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
oh ok so everything is just going to be stupid forever i see
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Military Unintelligence Expert 🇨🇦 @voltageanddoltage.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
There is a huge mass of apathetic voters *loud correct ding* Who can be rallied around an egalitarian/progressive/socialist cause *ear shatteringly loud incorrect buzzer*
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florian23.bsky.social @florian23.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I have said before that tightening the definition of fraud in advertising would be surprisingly close to a silver bullet to a whole host of our problems. And by tightening I mean "put your most curmudgeonly pensioner in charge of deciding what is a scam"
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florian23.bsky.social @florian23.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"Social media mobilizes habitual nonvoters to turn out for fascists" Might be the skeleton key to understanding politics post 2016. Will Stancil is probably exactly right about this unfortunately.
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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I think MAHA is very straightforwardly the triumph of the snake oil salesmen and the way we beat it is the same way you always beat snake oil salesmen: regulate their claims
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