Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I think there are plenty of games where you do, the question is if the game mechanic includes vampire-ness. 000
Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It's really tough to be in higher ed when two existential threats of fascism and AI are hitting at the same time. Either one is overwhelming on its own. We just want to teach and do science and scholarship to expand human knowledge. And they are trying to make that impossible. 000
Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Do you know how much money the next administration could raise for charity by charging people to go in and each remove one of those awful fake gold blobs? 131
Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 02/10/2026At least in the middle ages if the attempt was botched you could argue God spared you and be on your way. 030
Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 01/10/2026His mouth open and closes like a ventriloquist dummy's. Flap flap flap flap. What an exhausting loser. How does a person end up like this. 000
Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Absolutely. I, at 47, getting just as much enjoyment out of gaming and being just as good at it, if not better, is always confused by this. Maybe I'm just lucky. Or maybe some people really need to consider the possibility that they are dealing with depression in midlife. 010
Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 30/09/2026They believed. They just didn't care. Which is so much worse. 031
Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 28/09/2026And it allows for momentum to build towards conviction, it forces congress to defend their votes to their constituents, and public opinion can exert its pressure. 060
Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The threat of impeachment deterred all previous presidents, and will do so in the future. We shouldn't let the current psychopath's behavior define how we govern. That's just another way he destroys institutions. 100
Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Right. Impeachment needs to be a consequence for actions, not a strategic political tool. That is the only way it provides deterrence. Regardless if conviction is likely or not. The process itself is part of the consequence. 2162
Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 28/09/2026What increasingly keeps me up at night is that Trump's pattern of "If I can't have it, I will destroy it" likely applies to the whole world. 000
Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I find myself pointing this out to people again and again. 000
Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Yes, the entire point of the MAGA regime is that the rules are for other people. Having rules, and having them not apply to you, is the signifier of power they covet the most. 040
Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Yeah. Unnecessary surgery where the surgeon is a clown in a room full of other people screaming as they are cut open. 001
Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 23/09/2026But that is peaceful politics. Criminal justice and accountability is peaceful politics. It is the only legitimate use of force under the rule of law. 000
Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This still happens to me now and then with clothes in storage, from a cat I lost in 2007 😞 010
Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This. They are multiplying that number in their heads. 180
Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 22/09/2026That would seem to absolve them of responsibility for their actions. 120
Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 22/09/2026And if this deal goes through they will have us by the throat. This is madness. How can everything be this catastrophically stupid?? 010
Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 21/09/2026It can also mean he just doesn't care about the fate of the Republican party or even MAGA. He will continue to grift as long as he can, when he can. He believes he will always evade justice and responsibility no matter the circumstances, and doesn't need to fix elections to do it. Hubris. 020
Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Even the most evil dictators in history try to keep up the fig leaf that its "The People" or "The Volk" or "The Party" that they represent. This kind of naked, singular one person rule is unheard of in the modern era in the western world. Its shocking, pre Magna Carta barbarism. 010
Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 20/09/2026What more could they have done over the efforts they actually made against him and his policies? They basically already acted as if all this was true. 001
Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I say we change the anniversary to another date, like when the British left and we won the war. And we have a celebration then! 000
Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Some might be leaving Fox because they are disillusioned with Trump and MAGA, but others might be leaving because they feel Fox hasn't kept up with Trump's fascist project. And there also is likely a demographic shift away from this kind of legacy cable TV media in general. I hope they are done for. 040
Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The only thing I have found to still be sanely priced are prepared foods at grocery stores. An Italian sub at Market Basket is still only around $5, and is much higher quality than a fast food sub shop. 000
Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Its true at college cafes and dining halls too. Prices for sandwiches or anything off the grill have more than doubled since COVID. And the quality and selection has gone way down. 120
Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Modern authoritarianism needs elections for the appearance of legitimacy and to prevent being toppled by force. So they will never try to cancel elections, they will try cheat, suppress the vote, misreport results, or create a false reality that they won. But they need "elections". 1101
Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Most Americans aren't stupid. They became resigned after decades of learned helplessness, and began to think that who was in charge of our country didn't matter. That they could treat politics like a reality show and indulge their worst impulses. That there wouldn't be REAL consequences. 010
Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 18/09/2026And unnecessary. They could easily pay for it themselves with all their grift money. But they are too deep in the Russian corruption ecosystem, this is just how stuff works for them now. 000
Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 17/09/2026That would make Canada a unique lynchpin between the Commonwealth Nations and the EU. Exciting! 042
Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Because all the parts of the fascists' plan to corrupt and co-opt every lever of power over four decades finally came to fruition, Trump was one of the final missing ingredients. At any other time in our history, there were key checks still in place to prevent this. No longer. 000
Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The goal is to transfer as much of the population into the private prison system as possible, since that is the new de facto slave population. 000
Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 14/09/2026First of all we don't normalize the idea that this will happen. Second, Dem legislators must show up to conduct business anyway, they have the majority and speakership, ceremony comes second. Who is "they", when the majority can elect a speaker to seat the elected? 010
Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I'm pretty sure that is not at all how communication for rescue works from behind enemy lines. There are very specific protocols for that. 2101
Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Ignore him. The elections do not depend on whether or not he accepts or rejects them. If he rejects the elections he loses legitimacy, the elections don't. 120
Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Nobody can do anything because the DoJ and FBI have been compromised, they now exist only to serve him. There is no longer a system of accountability for him under the current regime. 000
Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 12/09/2026When are we going to remake the Mona Lisa? It needs an update for today's art museum audiences. 160
Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 11/09/2026There is going to be a TV movie about her one day. 001
Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 10/09/2026My cat is obsessed with shoes. But it doesn't seem to matter if they are stinky or not. He's just as into brand new shoes right out of the box. 000
Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 10/09/2026static.klipy.comJoker's Money Parade with Jack NicholsonALT: Joker's Money Parade with Jack Nicholson 070
Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 08/09/2026They all know they have an audience of exactly one person. 000
Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Nature has never once hurt my mood or contributed to my anxiety or despair. 010
Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 07/09/2026More and more I wonder if this isn't a major goal of the whole industry: to massively devalue humanity to the point that concepts like rights and dignity can be redefined or made "quaint", so much so that slavery and even genocide are just de facto on the table. 030
Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 07/09/2026When I confront AI zealots with this they sometimes respond that humans are no different, and our self awareness and "understanding" are illusory and no different than an LLM. If they aren't allowed to raise up AI they will lower humanity accordingly, as long as the result puts it equal or above us. 3242
