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Ian Hungerford @gronkular.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

“tried to destroy our community” do they mean “made fun of our silly ideas”? maybe “criticized our silly ideas”? the melodrama is amazing Lightcone Infrastructure?! overestimating our significance in the universe as much as any religion this was an amusing read, singular lack of self-awareness

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Ian Hungerford @gronkular.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

I think this is entirely reasonable, esp. when you realize that it’s really not different from ordinary long division because the numbers we write are polynomials in disguise

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Ian Hungerford @gronkular.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

even if they’re legitimate quotes, it’s at least suggesting ‘not the word I would have used’

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Ian Hungerford @gronkular.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

this ambiguity is something I’ve been thinking about lately. I’ve seen examples where context suggests the use of quotes is not intended to stigmatize, but isolated single words like this read strongly as scare quotes, especially on social media

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Ian Hungerford @gronkular.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

definitely puts me at sixes and sevens

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little lamb @puddleofbrain.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Healthy relationships need one person who smokes weed all day every day and one person who can never ever smoke weed again even once. Sometimes there are a bunch of other people too, no judgment

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Ian Hungerford @gronkular.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

I love the tattered remnants, a sort of midden in what it reveals

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Ian Hungerford @gronkular.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

means testing is actually wasteful, and just exists so a certain type of person can feel like the undeserving are being denied

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Ian Hungerford @gronkular.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

indeed, like UBI, these kinds of benefits have repeatedly been shown to have positive economic return, even when you don’t account for hard to quantify things like quality of life I shudder to think of what will happen to grocery prices with the revenue stores get from SNAP being withheld

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Ian Hungerford @gronkular.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

this article made my day it’s going to take me a long time to get “finger pinching theorists” out of my head

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Kait Richardson 🥔 @thryse.com · 30/10/2025

The typical billionaire would rather pay $100 million to oppress people than $10 to help them.

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human scary bean @humanbean.net · 29/10/2025

Another Gritty costume

an orange cat sitting on a ledge by a window. Cat is wearing long tattoo sleeves on its front legs, triangular shaped reflective glasses, a black top and a denim vest.

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human scary bean @humanbean.net · 28/10/2025

My friend's cat Gritty, who she adopted when he randomly showed up at her place a few years ago, is going as batman for halloween if you wondered

a ginger cat on a windowsill, wearing a black batman mask and a cape.

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Anders Hagman @ahagman.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Redan för 3 år sedan visste Sigge vad han gillade.

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Ian Hungerford @gronkular.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

our illustrious leadership up here in Canada still seem to be operating under the mistaken assumption that such a thing is remotely possible I figured the latest tantrum over the Reagan ad would cement what should have been obvious a long time ago apparently they’re just gonna pretend harder

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Ian Hungerford @gronkular.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

I’m halfway through the preface and am out of ink on my big red CITATION NEEDED stamp

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Dylan Horrocks @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

This is the way

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Ian Hungerford @gronkular.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

yes, all the processes and mechanisms of oppression and control are proven in the colonies and dominions, then brought home to the core I fear for our future if this does not become more widely understood

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Ian Hungerford @gronkular.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

knapsack problems should be optional, even if they’re kinda fun sometimes

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Ian Hungerford @gronkular.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

I thought to check on AOL after writing this and they shut down dial up access in September yes, September of this year

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Ian Hungerford @gronkular.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

I feel like online folks used to be able to keep this shit relatively marginalized, and then came the eternal September, and all was lost certainly oversimplified, and I’m not sure what could have been done differently, but it seems like shame used to work and it just doesn’t now

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Ian Hungerford @gronkular.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

it’s important these days to frame everything as a battle, so that the little boys can understand the pivotal nature of the latest batch of slop and become suitably excited advocates

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Ian Hungerford @gronkular.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

to paraphrase Mark Twain, these people say they want to create, but what they really want is to have created to be recognized, to enjoy the fruits, without doing any of the work

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Ian Hungerford @gronkular.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

this is a massive overreach, intended to permit professionals to spread misinformation and hate nothing whatsoever to do with legitimate free expression, they want legitimization of antivax, climate change denial, transphobia, etc. scary stuff

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Ian Hungerford @gronkular.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

this has rounded the sharp corners off of my afternoon

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Ian Hungerford @gronkular.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

he should articulate his ass right out the door

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Ian Hungerford @gronkular.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

I’d like to think that’s what you get for presiding over atrocities, but if that were true, they’d all look like this

dried out Donovan from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

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Ian Hungerford @gronkular.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

weird catholics make me think of these guys they’re just the types to adopt something like this if it was presented in the right way

flagellant monks from Monty Python and the Holy Grail

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Ian Hungerford @gronkular.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

scrolling a feed, reading a book, watching a movie, listening to music – all involve the absorption of the information or experience conveyed by the media, and it’s this analogous aspect that motivates the use of the term and other related ones, e.g. media diet

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Ian Hungerford @gronkular.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

proper marginalization of stuff like this (the only just kind of marginalization) would have gone a long way towards helping to inoculate our society against fascism hard to force the corporations to do this, though, even with broader awareness and less tolerance we might still have been screwed

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Ian Hungerford @gronkular.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

this is an aspect I had not considered that kind of confrontation is easier when you know you’re going to be solidly backed by the folks around you, which is exactly what has gone wrong

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Ian Hungerford @gronkular.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

so many weasel words in this video, and I only made it halfway through I’m still having some trouble buying that nobody said anything over all that time, but even if his lack of awareness is real, there’s no excuse for not speaking plainly now

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Ian Hungerford @gronkular.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

it’s the only proven treatment for the societal disease we’re currently afflicted with – complete, utter marginalization, and punching can be an important part of this for those in a position to do it this marginalization needs to be an instinctive reaction for society to be inoculated

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Ian Hungerford @gronkular.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

“Socialism is when the government does stuff. And it's more socialism the more stuff it does. And if it does a real lot of stuff, it's communism.” Richard D. Wolff

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Ian Hungerford @gronkular.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

used to joke in the machine shop about coming in and finding machines lying on their side due to rookie operators I feel like washing machines running MCP may actually be able to achieve this feat

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E.B. Hutchins @ Hiatus @ebhutchins.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

I made these. Turn them into posters/stickers/etc. May we all be good Samaritans this holiday season.

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Ian Hungerford @gronkular.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

I enjoyed this video from Angela Collier last year, about the Zoom CEO’s Big Ideas for their AI-first platform. It seems they’re a little behind on implementation. No worries, though, the problems will be solved “down the stack” www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKmA...

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the malicious optimism of AI-first companies

YouTube video by Angela Collier

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Ian Hungerford @gronkular.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

somebody’s running an air die grinder around 50m away and it’s resonating in my dryer exhaust I thought there was a trapped animal in my basement 😧

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Ian Hungerford @gronkular.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

their vision, “to create a better everyday life for the many people”

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Ian Hungerford @gronkular.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

I’m sure these were always in my feed, but I didn’t really notice them until I saw this thread, so thanks for that he’s in your neighbourhood now, talking to lawyers

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Ian Hungerford @gronkular.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

also, I’ve seen some of those convos and I think ‘wild’ is most charitable 😄

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