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Scabby Don't @generalmonkey.bsky.social · 2h

Permission is the root of power. Politics is the art of getting and withdrawing permission. Government is the permission structures our political system currently supports. Liberty is those permissions all may presume without process. Justice is those permissions none shall presume without process.

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Scabby Don't @generalmonkey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Allowing an 'edit' button could open up unexpected cans of worms - for example, you could make a series of posts that link to one another and then edit the first to link to the last, making a loop of what ought be a linear experience.

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Scabby Don't @generalmonkey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

An alien overlord that feeds on our stress would be a better president.

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Scabby Don't @generalmonkey.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

@etymonline.bsky.social 'Optimum' and 'optimize' need antonyms, as in '[to solve for] the worst combination of a set of parameters'. I coin today, 'pessimum' and 'pessimize'!

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Scabby Don't @generalmonkey.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Permission is the foundation of power, which is the ability to pay opportunity cost. Politics is the art of getting (or withdrawing) permission; government is the permission-structures our political system currently sponsors. Government is collective management of the risk of impossibility.

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Scabby Don't @generalmonkey.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Hyperior Rip Imagine Earth as a hypersphere - the surface of the hypersphere is Earth's volume, Earth's surface is a small region of the hypersphere's surface, as is the Earth's core, directly opposite the surface, and the rest is a gradient between those. The hypersphere's volume is Earth's mass.

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Scabby Don't @generalmonkey.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I've a well-polished craze, which I finally elucidated in 300-character increments - ~3 of them.

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Scabby Don't @generalmonkey.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

All of human history is a planchette scribbling on a blank canvas, everyone's hand is pushing, everyone struggling to make sense of all the scribbles that came before, barely aware of the faded scribbles beneath and around it all.

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Scabby Don't @generalmonkey.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

A Great Con Make transportation so affordable for enough generations that society is built around the ability to casually pass a day's walk in half an hour, then price most people out of casual travel and watch the tapestry fall to loose threads.

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Scabby Don't @generalmonkey.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

We need social media that serves as an engine of local party creation and an organizing framework by which those parties can coordinate political action at the state and national levels. Define parties by ranking the priorities listed in the Preamble. Leaders prove residence, vouch other members in.

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Scabby Don't @generalmonkey.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Schrodinger's Catanglement Put a cat in a box and close it. Divide the box with a pair of adjacent blades into two boxes with blades for lids. Distribute the boxes to parties which part ways. Now either party can open their own box and have a pretty good idea whether or not the cat is still alive.

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Scabby Don't @generalmonkey.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Godzilla does not wipe his feet and has poor table manners. Trying to drive him into the sea is a waste of missiles - let's just focus on calling out the effect his attack has on prices. Vote for us or he'll eat your city next!

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Scabby Don't @generalmonkey.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Invest early in the mining frenzy that will ensue during the million years or so following our transit through the galactic plane - the solar system is doing most of the work for us! Also, though, it'll prevent all those new planetesimals from becoming new waves of mass extinction as they shatter.

eurekalert.org

Different meteorites, same birthplace

In the early days of the Solar System, the region just beyond Jupiter’s orbit was a breeding ground for planetesimals, the precursors of planets, asteroids, and comets. As new simulations show, ...

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Scabby Don't @generalmonkey.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

To call them a kakistocracy is to identify the surface - this is the current that drives those overt waves of incompetence and cartoonish corruption:

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Scabby Don't @generalmonkey.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

My bet for Colbert's number: eleventy-seven

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Scabby Don't @generalmonkey.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

That the settlement can be described as theft from us all, and also as criminals benefiting from their crime, are very salacious points; the salient point is that we are now a nation purely of Executive fiat, prison or riches at whim - Congress's power and the court's power are both utterly usurped.

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Scabby Don't @generalmonkey.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

The old tug-of-war between Democrats and Republicans has been hijacked by Russia tugging Republicans and Israel tugging Democrats, and they don't pull against each other, they drag us to the tar pit they prepared for us: Iran; for decades Israel was their cause to fortify and Russia was their means.

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Scabby Don't @generalmonkey.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Any line you imagine the regime won't cross is something they will definitely transgress just to see the look on your face. I've heard it said they respect nothing, but they go far beyond that: anything that anyone respects becomes a target to transgress unto destruction for depraved schadenfreude.

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Scabby Don't @generalmonkey.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

It's transducers all the way down. Free will is an illusion, proof of the supernatural, or both to varying degrees. If anyone has ever experienced the divine then anyone can - accept no substitutes for your own experience, nor tempt anyone to accept your story as a substitute for having their own.

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Scabby Don't @generalmonkey.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

It's not too late for the Democratic Party to split into Progressives and Traditionalists, draw all the Republicans who wish they weren't fascists into the Traditionalists, and present a decisive majority to scrub the fascists out of power by impeachment and expulsion. No need to wait for elections!

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Scabby Don't @generalmonkey.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

America is exporting credibility in exchange for lessons in reality-based planning.

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Scabby Don't @generalmonkey.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

In another universe, the latest Bondi hearing started with a statement from the Democratic Chair: "We saw how you treated the Senate Democrats, so we didn't bring our good faith today. We brought zingers. You are going to sit there while we make fun of you until we get tired of it. You may resign."

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Scabby Don't @generalmonkey.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

'Double-You' deserves its own name. Helpful context: Tee-You-Vee-*___*-Ex-Why-Zee Options: Wee Woo Wah Way Wih Woe Ow Ew Aw Oo Dub Oui Oui! Dubya Choose! (Or propose another.)

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Scabby Don't @generalmonkey.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Most look a the sea and have already seen, but some peer into the depths - they'd be called fools if not for the timely warnings they sometimes give. False Enlightenment ensues when one, wishing to emulate the wise, finds in the depths their own reflection and, this being superior to most, settles.

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Scabby Don't @generalmonkey.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

One of the root dysfunctions of our Union is the belief/expectation that our federal legislators should try to get federal resources into their states, but that makes a pathological institution. Our federal legislators should be focused on what's best for the Union.

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Scabby Don't @generalmonkey.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

It is not enough to refuse illegal orders: those who gave illegal orders should be immediately taken into custody, the chain of command rolled up like a criminal organization by the soldiers on the spot, up to the order's origin.

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Scabby Don't @generalmonkey.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

We are, no doubt, going to primary all the feckless Democrats. However, the ballot access belongs to the DNC, and they are going to tell the Secretaries of State to put the incumbents and the feckless on the ballots. That is when violence will begin, and it is the shed toward which they herd us.

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Scabby Don't @generalmonkey.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Looks like we have a new de facto party leader.

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Scabby Don't @generalmonkey.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

The Quaternion of Inauthenticity: Cringe, Irony, Sarcasm To be sarcastically ironic is cringe, to be ironically sarcastic is anticringe. (I think the point of diminishing returns in fun to be had from this has been reached before the other rotations are considered, but go ahead 😶 )

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Scabby Don't @generalmonkey.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

It has been established by law enforcement that a moving vehicle constitutes a deadly weapon - it is thus the practice of bad cops to stand in front of a vehicle so that if it moves they can respond with deadly force. This is not the first time, just ICE's first time.

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Scabby Don't @generalmonkey.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Venezuela is cause to Impeach Trump, Vance, Hegseth, Rubio, and Bondi, but not urgent. The urgent cause to Impeach is to prevent them from attacking our NATO allies, starting in Greenland - that is an unmistakable betrayal of American interests, and stating intent to that effect is cause to Impeach.

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Scabby Don't @generalmonkey.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Better for all the conservatives in politics to be replaced with historians, the liberals with science fiction authors, and the moderates with teachers and comedians, but the historians, authors, teachers, and comedians would never seek the job because of the politicians they'd have to work with.

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Scabby Don't @generalmonkey.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Justice denied is worse than injustice applied. Justice denied will perpetuate until sufficient injustice is applied that everyone will settle for justice again - Justice for All, and no being picky about 'All'. We'll soon be hearing that 'tainted wells' of evidence result in unjust prosecutions.

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Scabby Don't @generalmonkey.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

The failure of narrative reasoning - analysis by analogy to stories - is in mistaking the salacious for the salient. General intelligence is the ability to correctly identify the salient, resulting in analysis that is relevant. Propaganda sabotages analysis through salaciousness and convenience.

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Scabby Don't @generalmonkey.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

@bsky.app Your puerile defense of the hamfisted application of your policy against @sarahkendzior.bsky.social is an utter failure of your responsibility to be good stewards of the community, a failure of the leadership of your team, and a shameful display of smug, arrogant imperialism. Bad Caesars.

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Scabby Don't @generalmonkey.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

@bsky.app The harms you've committed against @sarahkendzior.bsky.social and the decent society that values her can no longer be repaired without identifying those who've abused their positions and will never again be a part of your organization. It's not policy anymore - people are choosing this.

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Scabby Don't @generalmonkey.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Any senator unwilling to serve as Minority Leader should resign and let their states replace them. They should also apologize for being useless and abusing their constituents' trust for their own aggrandizement, but that's too much to expect.

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Scabby Don't @generalmonkey.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

I think the Senate Democrats folded because they wanted to squander the momentum - it was for the wrong side of their party, the side they've always repressed. The establishment will protect itself no matter the cost in the People's lives or the nation's honor.

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Scabby Don't @generalmonkey.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

@bsky.app The suspension of @sarahkendzior.bsky.social should be a blaring signal that your current approach to moderation has jumped the rails of ethics. You are doing it very, very wrong; don't justify it, change yourselves.

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Scabby Don't @generalmonkey.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Televised political debates should include roasters. You have journalistic moderators questioning candidates, candidates giving their responses... with Louis Black and Leslie Jones able to, at any time, mute all the other microphones and call out whatever needs calling out.

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Scabby Don't @generalmonkey.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

"Every man's home is his castle" was a good start to ethical reform of monarchic feudalism, but it definitely made a wrong turn when it implicitly twisted into "Every man's family is his colony." I think we might have to decolonize the idea of family concurrently with decolonizing our communities.

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Scabby Don't @generalmonkey.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

To consume information responsibly does not ever mean identifying trustworthy sources. All claims must be verified by checking multiple sources that have cause to care about their credibility and by checking that the context that gives the claim meaning is both true and appropriately inclusive.

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Scabby Don't @generalmonkey.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Reagan championed human centipede economics.

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Scabby Don't @generalmonkey.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

The General Strike/Boycott will have to maintain production and issue its own currency. The protests of mass expression will have to become demonstrations of mass intimidation until our insurrectionist, treasonous federal government engages in mass resignation. Displace The Establishment

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Scabby Don't @generalmonkey.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

We should establish a web site that assembles and publishes a list of all Executive officials who have used their authority illegally or in defiance of court orders, given, passed along, or carried out an illegal order, and make it clear that when Liberty is restored, these guys are due for Justice.

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Scabby Don't @generalmonkey.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

I'm sorry Charlie Kirk died by violence. If we could have found out that was a micrometeorite, that would've been awesome. That it was violence, though, is bad for our nation. That anything depends on the ideology of the shooter is a (fake) hysteria, and incentive to would-be shooters everywhere.

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Scabby Don't @generalmonkey.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

It's not just Brian Kilmeade: the lack of reaction (for four days!) demonstrates that this is how they all feel - they've all either said this or nodded along while they heard it countless times before for it to be so normal to them in front of a camera. This is not an apology away from being okay.

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