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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 09/10/2026

Productivity as an adult is just an endless process of applying new psychological tricks and operant conditioning to yourself until an acceptable number of tasks are completed.

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Disappointed But Not Surprised @heliocide.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You never see cops arresting nazis for the exact same reason you never see Clark Kent interviewing Superman

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Disappointed But Not Surprised @heliocide.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Ok so obvious follow up question to Sam: "Exactly how many dead people are you ok with? How many dead children are enough to usher in the the benefits of AI?"

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Disappointed But Not Surprised @heliocide.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” - H.L. Mencken

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Disappointed But Not Surprised @heliocide.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The future continues to be both stranger and stupider than I ever imagined

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Disappointed But Not Surprised @heliocide.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I love this one. I had this as my desktop wallpaper like 25 years ago.

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Disappointed But Not Surprised @heliocide.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“Why is that toy on your head?” “Because, if I wear it anywhere else, it chafes.”

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Disappointed But Not Surprised @heliocide.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Nobody ever lost any money by underestimating the intelligence of the American public

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Disappointed But Not Surprised @heliocide.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Constantly. What a perfectly quotable movie.

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Exxon is now expecting a 2.5 - 3C rise by 2050 But says f*ck you - we are just going to keep right on sucking up as much gas and oil as we can Because even though we know what's coming, we really don't give a sh*t www.reuters.com/business/ene...

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Exxon raises 2050 global emissions forecast, sees slower coal decline

The world is at risk of falling behind in efforts to reduce carbon emissions by 2050, ExxonMobil said in its annual energy outlook published on Thursday, as the burning of coal could decline at a slo...

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Disappointed But Not Surprised @heliocide.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Maybe it's just me, but if I owned a big AI company where the software I made was responsible for several major felonies that I have somehow avoided responsibility for by blaming the software for any wrongdoing, I would not then try to collect a prize based on that softwares "successes".

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Disappointed But Not Surprised @heliocide.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Honestly I think this is a theory of great explanatory power. It feels a bit like how Dadaism appeared in response to the horrors of two world wars, and the sense that every story about what matters and how life was supposed to work was meaningless, so art may as well be meaningless too.

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Disappointed But Not Surprised @heliocide.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Don’t think of it as Dying. Think of it as Leaving Early To Avoid The Rush.

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Disappointed But Not Surprised @heliocide.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I used to live in PKD’s old house in Berkeley, where he lived when he wrote Valis. The story I heard when moving in was that in one day, through my new mail slot, he received 17 rejection notices. The struggle was real.

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Disappointed But Not Surprised @heliocide.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The contradiction she points out resolves itself the moment you realize that when they say The Economy, they’re only referring to the stock market, I.e. the top 10%. They don’t give a shit about people who actually work for a living and never have.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Generative AI is the tool and aesthetic of fascism, and that aesthetic only appeals to middle aged divorced sex predators, billionaires, guys who drive cybertrucks, and guys who don't tip. It's the aesthetic of losers, miserable assholes, and guys with a sexual allegations section in their wiki.

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Disappointed But Not Surprised @heliocide.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

It takes a pretty dumb policeman to miss the obvious fact that the position of authority is the ideal position from which to commit crimes. - Frank Herbert

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Disappointed But Not Surprised @heliocide.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

At this point, Washington DC is just an assisted living facility for geriatric war criminals

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Disappointed But Not Surprised @heliocide.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

This is absolutely how we get another outbreak of Jakob-Creutzfeld Disease

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

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Disappointed But Not Surprised @heliocide.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

In a few years there will be an entirely new genre of true crime podcasts, about people who died and nobody suspected anything was amiss until they started acting strange at the same time as Anthropic outages.

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Disappointed But Not Surprised @heliocide.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Too bad, it really is a perfect premise. Shame they couldn’t commit to the bit.

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Disappointed But Not Surprised @heliocide.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

It’s like if MC Escher made a painting called The Eternal Recursive Jackass

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

President Obama once delivered a speech in an open field for four hours during a thunderstorm while leaning against a very tall, pointy metal pole. President Trump should do the same, but for six hours, to demonstrate his strength.

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Disappointed But Not Surprised @heliocide.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Not to be confused with the Thin Blue Line flag, also known as the Coward’s Swastika

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Disappointed But Not Surprised @heliocide.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Just landed at SFO. Pretty sure that’s not supposed to be on fire.

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Jana H-S (she, like a knife) @jana-aych-ess.bsky.social · 02/06/2024

a common debate that happens every pride is whether cops should be allowed at pride events. and I know this might be controversial, but I want to propose a compromise: One Cop At Pride

the wicker man from The Wicker Man (1973)

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

It continues to be perverse that those with the least power to murder millions are at most risk of the barbarism of the death penalty, while those with power to murder millions are entirely immune not only from that penalty, but even any discontinuance of reward. www.the-reframe.com/the-cost-of-...

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The Cost of Doing Business

A modest proposal: Abolish the death penalty for humans. Institute it for corporations.

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Disappointed But Not Surprised @heliocide.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Sadly, and much to his chagrin, I think only Warren Ellis could imagine a future this stupid. I would have settled for a future like Neuromancer, but no, we have to live in Transmetropolitan.

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Disappointed But Not Surprised @heliocide.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Reading The Watchmen post covid, for example, it’s hard to escape the awful conclusion that Alan Moore of all people was too optimistic about human nature.

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Disappointed But Not Surprised @heliocide.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I’ve read a lot of dystopian fiction in my lifetime, and almost nobody had the courage to imagine a future this stupid.

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Disappointed But Not Surprised @heliocide.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

“Love is for the ones who love the work”

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 08/06/2026

"I first left legacy media when a new, disturbing consensus emerged in the press: that I was bad at my job. So I did what any rational journalism-averse person would do. I blamed everything on woke. On cancel. On not listening enough to diverse voices, like fascists."

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The Press Has Finally Been Freed from Journalism

“The truth is, at best, inconvenient and, at worst, a threat to my bottom line. I have always believed it is the job of the news to write a rough draft of hi...

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Disappointed But Not Surprised @heliocide.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

He is playing the Dirty Harry soundtrack, in what I can only describe as a profound commitment to the bit.

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Disappointed But Not Surprised @heliocide.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Lyft driver on route to airport is a die hard trumper, trying to explain how Trump is fixing everything. And his response to very reasonable pushback on any of his assertions was to threaten to drop me off on the side of the freeway. So, now we are listening to music and not talking.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 23/05/2026

The Marketplace of Ideas people immediately forcefully shut down all dissent, bought all media, sued & fired all critics & arrested & caged journalists reporting on their heinousness as soon as they got control & all of this was entirely predictable & people who warned of it were called overreactors

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 20/05/2026

on my birthday I took to the newsletter to write about the AI commencement address backlash, and how growing anger at AI is now irreversibly tethered to justified rage at the extraction class -- whether AI boosters like it or not

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AI Rage Is Inextricably Fused With Justified Loathing Of The Extraction Class. 'Deal With It'

Commencement AI booing reflects growing class revolt now tightly tethered to AI -- whether the technology's biggest proponents like it or not.

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 21/05/2026

Really sobering discussion with my 4th-year students as they contemplate post-graduate employment. They talked about "overwhelming anxiety," disappearing career ladders, fake job ads, no safety net, massive uncertainty, desperation... I really don't understand what we're doing.

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Disappointed But Not Surprised @heliocide.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

It’s true, there is a great deal of diversity of thought on the right. You got the Nazis, the pedophiles, the pedophile Nazis, the racists, the ultra-racists, and of course the bag-holders and marks for every dumbass fraud you can imagine. Truly a rich tapestry of human experience.

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Disappointed But Not Surprised @heliocide.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this.

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Disappointed But Not Surprised @heliocide.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I'm very excited to be at OSHWA next week in Berlin, talking about open-source supply chain mesh networks for disaster resilience and response.

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