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Hildegard E. Heinrich @hildegardeheinrich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Social Reckoning Con: Social Network as a piece disproves entire worldview of lead creative as Facebook has since proven to cause problems because of systemic forces instead of one man, this one only exists because that's embarrassing Pro: That is an undeniably crisp Zuckerberg impression

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Hildegard E. Heinrich @hildegardeheinrich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am learning that there are apparently still people who listen to "the radio," as in the device that tells you what song you will be hearing, instead of the other way around. Apparently what plays on the waiting room noise generator is of some consequence, culturally. Or, so they say

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Good writing in my view - while some commentary on here has framed Sheeran's justification as a demonstration of the hollowness of "neutrality", as a professional moral philosopher it is also what we in the business refer to as a "lie" and it may be helpful to refer to it as such

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 01/09/2026

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This report is totalitarian pseudo-science, aka corrupted science in the service of far-right authoritarianism. Who commits most of the political violence in this country has been clear for decades. It's not the left. It's not those of us who support trans rights and realities.

https://health.gov/hhs-releases-study-finding-individuals-who-associate-left-wing-authoritarian-beliefs-and-radical

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Hildegard E. Heinrich @hildegardeheinrich.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

You can always tell when you're having a discussion with someone who thinks that interpreting art is mostly about figuring out what literally happened in the story

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

every time some 'race realist' prick brings up african IQs they're always talking about richard lynn's apartheid stats which were debunked at the time & debunked when the bell curve used them & have been debunked 100 times since. is there no limit on how many times that conversation needs to be held

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026

here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.

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cozy @bimbotheory.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

If you are skipping parts of books because you don’t sufficiently “relate” to something (whether it be a plot line or a character), you are doing yourself and the book a huge disservice—such a gross consumerist way of understanding / engaging with novels (or any storytelling)

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Eight months ago, This American Life sent reporters from Chicago to cover the protests and counter-protests outside the ICE facility in Portland. They chose Karlyn Borsynko to be their local guide to the world of Antifa. What they failed to mention is that KB self-identifies as a fascist.

This American Life
877 | December 19, 2025
The Making Of
How one block in Portland, Oregon became a movie-set war zone that lots of people think is a real war zone.

Karlyn Borysenko, anti-comm... • X.com @DrKarlynB
I'm not actually fucking around when I say I'm a fascist.
Most people are not willing to do what is required to defeat the left.
Karlyn Borysenko, anti-communist cu... • .2h Fascist. By which I mean I would put communists in a concentration camp until I can deport them to a third world country, and ban the publication of their ideas.
1:47 PM • 8/10/26 • 1.4K Views

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Hildegard E. Heinrich @hildegardeheinrich.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

It's hard to tell if we live in a golden age or a dark age of curation. I guess that, like with a lot of things, there are more people than ever doing it, but the people who do it for the masses are worse than ever

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Hildegard E. Heinrich @hildegardeheinrich.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

It's really something how so many of our richest people got that rich from being lucky only once or twice. Elon Musk was along for the ride on Paypal and turned an EV company into a stock scheme and offsets clearing house, and now we all have to watch him whine about us not liking him forever

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Hildegard E. Heinrich @hildegardeheinrich.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Also, thinking of hyper-gendering, what is the deal with the term "warfighter"? When did that come in? It's so comically macho that it sounds like satire, à la Verhoeven's Starship Troopers (though perhaps Heinlein might have kicked himself for not thinking of it first)

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Hildegard E. Heinrich @hildegardeheinrich.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Hegseth's bizarre testosterone obsession is just proof that we are a nation run by, among other things, gym bros. Testosterone equals masculinity equals power... Never mind how our current imperial misadventure is going. It's bro science applied to the nation. It's an empire experiencing tren rage

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Hildegard E. Heinrich @hildegardeheinrich.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I don't entirely understand what caused the hyper-gendering of contemporary romance covers. Of course, there has always been plenty of romance with derivative covers, but I can't remember a time before now when you could tell you were in the romance aisle because everything suddenly turned hot pink

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RJ BaHarker @rjbarker.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Were I an incredibly rich author I would simply live my life in a way that meant I did not have to send legal threats to Amnesty International.

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Hildegard E. Heinrich @hildegardeheinrich.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Every now and then I think of getting back into photography but 1) there are too many beautiful women who are too good at film photography and 2) if I took a bunch of lo-fi photos with old DSLRs that would make me look like one of those weird fascist nostalgia accounts. No one has yet solved this

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 13/07/2026

1. There are LOTS of blatantly anti-Catholic Chick tracts - I remember seeing these as a kid in Georgia in the mid-90s, and my parents were atheists/agnostics. 2. If you don’t know what a Chick tract is, you may be very sheltered from the reality of how insane most American evangelicals are.

Offensive chick tracts on Catholics and Muslims

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The Hotdog Pope @hotdogpope.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I think that many people don't understand that Evangelicals consider Catholicism to be essentially a pagan religion.

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Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

As far as "books for kids" go I do sometimes wonder if the existence of a YA shelf robs young folks of the joys of early unsupervised exposure to the ranting of depraved communists and libertarian sex-weirdos in the SFF section, an important inoculation when it doesn't destroy 3-10 years of yr life

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I’ve seen lots of people resorting to genteel little euphemisms—“sexual assault,” “forced himself on her”—and I wonder who this kind of semantic softening is meant to serve.

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Kallidora Rho @kallidorarho.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Jesus Christ.

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Hildegard E. Heinrich @hildegardeheinrich.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

The fact that every Google search tells an AI to pretend that I've just prompted a chat bot may be the thing that puts me onto Duck Duck Go for good. I am not talking to you. I was not asking you to guess whether the title I was looking up was the song that I was trying to find. Stop it.

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Hildegard E. Heinrich @hildegardeheinrich.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I think my problem with a lot of contemporary horror is that it's too obvious what the thing is a metaphor for. In my opinion great horror imagery is basal, abstract, hard to exactly pin down. I feel like with a lot of the contemporary horror I've read I'm going "I get it already!" by page fifty

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Blake ™ @neilnevins.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

This was slapped on a bus station and I’ve been laughing at it all morning

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Hildegard E. Heinrich @hildegardeheinrich.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

The thing about the Supreme Court is that any time you point out its lengthy history of being a nakedly ideological and anti-democratic institution there is a legal scholar who will say no that was a deviation from the norm. Not 300 years old and it already has Borgia Popes who you can't count

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Hildegard E. Heinrich @hildegardeheinrich.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

If we continue to insist that the Lochner era was a one-time aberration, then we're going to continue to be baffled as courts repeatedly deliver results that ought to be anomalies. But the judiciary has always been a weapon against social change, as any liberation or anti-war movement can tell you

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Cliff PervoSCARY @pervocracy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

for #makeaterriblecomicday2026, some history and culture

The oldest ones in the book: ancient greek jokes from 300 CE.
1. Do you ever look up at the full moon, and wonder... do they have this in other cities too?
2. They call this guy the Rooster. Because when he starts singing, everyone gets up.
3. This honey is really good! Thanks! I think so too. Matter of fact, I would've kept it for myself, if that mouse hadn't fallen in.
4. Are you married? Nah, man, I'm a eunuch. We don't get married. Oh, sorry... so do you have any kids?
5. I heard that onions give you wind. So I take them when I go sailing.

(Very loosely translated from Philogelos, attributed to Hierocles and Philagrias, circa 4th century CE)

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Happy Pride to this Caravaggio self-portrait that made one man so gay he had to go to the hospital

Caravaggio's Baccus painting, featuring a lush fruity spread and leaves bedecking a pasty twink who only works out his arms

Article screenshot that says:

The most extreme examples of
Stendhal syndrome share a sensation of
self-fragmentation. Magherini
describes the case of a 53-year-old
German man who was hospitalized
after repeatedly viewing Caravaggio's
Bacchus at Uffizi Gallery. The patient
felt "an attraction closer and closer to
an intimate sexual arousal of
ambiguous nature that invaded him
and made him feel good and bad."
Unmoored and distressed, he sought
medical attention. After treating the
subject's initial episode, Magherini
writes that he came to recognize his
latent homosexuality. Another case...

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Since PTSD is being invoked to excuse any and all abuse and misconduct, let us acknowledge where it is most common. .... From my book Recollections of My Nonexistence.

The former Marine David J. Morris, author of a book on post-
traumatic stress disorder, notes that the disorder is far more com-
mon and far more rarely addressed among rape survivors than
combat veterans. He wrote me, “The science on the subject is pretty
clear: according to the New England Journal of Medicine, rape is about
four times more likely to result in diagnosable PTSD than combat.
Think about that for a moment— being raped is four times more psy-
chologically disturbing than going off to a war and being shot at and
blown up. And because there are currently no enduring cultural nar-
ratives that allow women to look upon their survival as somehow he-
roic or honorable, the potential for enduring damage is even greater.”

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Hildegard E. Heinrich @hildegardeheinrich.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Every few years we have some kind of grand political debate over whether we're going to accept sexual abusers in public office, and every time, we do. What's interesting is that, despite the scoreboard, every time this happens we have to hear the same lectures about how overbearing HR mommy says no

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Hildegard E. Heinrich @hildegardeheinrich.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

You know, maybe I would be more fond of Pride Month if we could do it not during the summer when it's miserable out. A nice March Pride Month, maybe October

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Wake me when it’s Shame Month.

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Hildegard E. Heinrich @hildegardeheinrich.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I don't care that the Pope hates AI. I hate AI. But the Pope hates AI because the Church has used a notion of "humanity" to justify opposition to abortion and trans rights, and I hate AI because I hate the idea that Eliza the therapy chat bot is going to provide all knowledge and art from now on

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Maria W. Norris @mariawnorris.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Hi, expert on far-right extremism here, a history of domestic violence and misogyny is one of the strongest predictive variables for violent extremism, especially on the right. We've been raising the alarm on this for DECADES but no one cares.

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Hildegard E. Heinrich @hildegardeheinrich.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Jack Antonoff and Taylor Swift have pioneered a kind of performance art wherein instruments are played and vocals are sung but no music happens. Not melodic enough to be pop, too melodic to be folk, too watery to be rock, and played with real instruments, so not noise, it just sort of happens at you

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 16/05/2026

hey Kendrick we're going to need you over here

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Hildegard E. Heinrich @hildegardeheinrich.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Designating pro-transgender activism as "terrorism" continues a long lineage of the state criminalizing minority liberation struggles (often but not exclusively around race). There is no such thing as "terrorism," and the term exists solely to add stigma to things a minority does, violent or not

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Hildegard E. Heinrich @hildegardeheinrich.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

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c.e. @asl3333p.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

jane delynn, "don juan in the village"

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Hildegard E. Heinrich @hildegardeheinrich.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

In a free society, children must have the right to choose their own guardians

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Hildegard E. Heinrich @hildegardeheinrich.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I don't know how it's possible for the Democrats to signal less interest in climate change as an "issue." Obama pushed "energy independence," Harris promised not to ban fracking, years of Dem Congressional control and no Green New Deal. There's no further right to go except full climate denial

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Hildegard E. Heinrich @hildegardeheinrich.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

"Cyberpunk" is an interesting genre because it is frozen in time. You read a work in it from 2000 and it's a direct riff on Gibson. You read a work in it that's brand new and it's a direct riff on Gibson. In the Cyberpunk 2077 video game, the Soviet Union still exists. There's just no forward motion

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Hildegard E. Heinrich @hildegardeheinrich.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

It is twenty-five degrees Fahrenheit above the average for a day this year. Coolest summer of the rest of my life indeed

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Hildegard E. Heinrich @hildegardeheinrich.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

I simply do not understand what anyone gets out of these Villeneuve Dune movies. The only real comparison for them I can think of is Logan (2017), a joyless waste of time deeply embarrassed by the source material it worships. The foremost aesthetic preoccupation is with making a Serious Movie

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Hildegard E. Heinrich @hildegardeheinrich.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Happy May Day. No matter what they do to try to stop it, a better world is out there

Walter Crane's etching "A Garland for May Day 1895"

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Hildegard E. Heinrich @hildegardeheinrich.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I truly do not understand why people who are not even Catholic find themselves so attached to the idea of a Good Pope. The Catholic Church is the world's largest and wealthiest anti-abortion, anti-LGBT, anti-feminist organization. Epic feuds with Donald Trump do not figure in my estimation of it

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Hildegard E. Heinrich @hildegardeheinrich.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Cannot stop thinking about that one Iranian diplomat who said that most people in this country have read Alexis de Tocqueville over the past few days. The exact dictation of the translator saying, "Which I am sure most Americans have read," is haunting me

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Hildegard E. Heinrich @hildegardeheinrich.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

I don't think you can understand this whole dance of back and forth between strikes on Iran and Venezuela and back again without understanding it as producing two things: the feeling of control in a few specific men, and images for consumption by what are essentially their fan bases

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