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@insaanity.bsky.social
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Still convinced that we can make the world a better place because we absolutely must. End capitalism before it ends us.

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epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I love that all these have the Ctrl key in the right place. Even the original IBM PC keyboards put Ctrl directly to the left of the home row, where you can reach it easily with your left pinky. Ever since they started putting Caps Lock there the first thing I do on a machine is change it to Ctrl.
An early IBM PC keyboard, with the Ctrl key just to the left of the A key. It also has the function keys on the left in two columns by five rows.
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epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Looking at 1980, can you explain how the left had anything to do with Reagan's win?
1980 presidential election map showing Carter with 49 electoral votes to Reagan's 489.
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epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Serious question: are you completely unaware that presidential elections in the US are decided by the electoral college? Or are you just a scumbag grifter making shit up to fool gullible voters? Looking at 1968, could you explain how the left had anything to do with Nixon's win?
1968 presidential election map showing Humphrey with 191 electoral votes to Nixon's 301, with far-right third-party candidate George Wallace winning 46.
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epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
We Are Lady Parts
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epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Elon Musk doing the Nazi salute superimposed with the words "The road to fascism is lined with people telling you to stop overreacting"
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epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Still from a Community episode: a poster on a door shows a man (creator and show runner Dan Harmon) with the Greendale Human Being with the text "Welcome to Greendale: You're Already Accepted!" There are splatters of paint everywhere from an ongoing paintball fight.
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epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A wise man once said:
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epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
With his battle pug!
Patrick Stewart in David Lynch's Dune (1984) in the middle of battle surrounded by soldiers, with a rifle in one hand and holding a pug to his chest with the other. The pug looks pretty chilled considering the situation.
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epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Damn, Bluesky doesn't animate .webp files. Here are gifs:
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epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It looks pretty cool. In the meantime can we all appreciate the incredibly weird aesthetics of Lynch's version:
Gif from David Lynch's Dune (1984): the massive jet black tank of a Guild navigator glides into the emporer's palace, steam pouring out of it near the floor, with a crew of bald men in long black shiny coats. Gif from David Lynch's Dune (1984): the Guild navigator's tank from behind and to the left, its crew in the foreground, the emperor looking very small in the background, as the massive panels of the tank slide back to reveal its transparent walls.
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epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Clem Fandango and Danny Bear in the control room
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epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Got nothing to add but wanted to contribute to the vibe
Brave Sir Robin running away
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epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Leonard likes this post
Leonard from Community giving a thumbs up
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epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
He's managed to go beyond Tim and Eric
Tim and Eric's Chrimbus special, looking very very tan
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epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Close second
Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It: ”Dont ever, ever call me a bully. I'm so much worse than that.”
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epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A list that finally gets the #1 spot right?
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epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Close up of Super Hans in Peep Show saying YOU'VE BEEN THINKING THOUGHTS YOUR WHOLE LIFE. LOOK WHERE THAT GOT YOU.
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epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Convinced he can figure everything out from 10 minutes of browsing or just completely unconsidered thoughts, with a supreme and unshakeable sense of self-importance that means the world must absolutely be subjected to his constant stream of consciousness.
Will Stancil @whstancil

people get mad at me for not engaging with the literature, and it's true, I rarely do, but it's because I trust myself to be able to think relatively soundly about the world from a clean slate but I do not trust myself not to mangle any kind of academic field I'm not an expert in

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epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Nice. I've been rewatching TPB myself for a few days now
Mr Lahey in Trailer Park Boys holding a giant liquor bottle marked "Ricky" and saying "Hello, Ricky!"
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epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Logs are incredibly useful members of the team
The Log Lady holding her log and telling Agent Cooper, "My log saw something that night."
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epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My beverage of choice for all my job interviews.
A bottle of red soda called LENINADE under a large hammer and sickle. The neck of the bottle has a star with the words "Join the party!"
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epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Personally I'd go with a row of these
A bottle of red soda called LENINADE under a large hammer and sickle. The neck of the bottle has a star with the words "Join the party!"
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epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
And if they are rude enough to interrupt you while setting up, just raise one finger like this and keep going
Matt Berry in Community, sitting at a desk, talking on the phone, smiling, with a drink in one hand and the other held up with one finger extended. The universal sign saying "do not interrupt me while I'm doing something far more important than whatever it is you want."
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epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Me in this morning's interview
Dave Foley in Kids in the Hall: Girl Drink Drunk
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epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The school board guys from Community may have only been a slight exaggeration. Yes, I'll have a couple of yards of margarita for lunch please.
The school board guys from Community. Caption reads "Yard margs at Skeepers"
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epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Yes, that is the actor Kevin Eldon
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epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Sounds like you could use some cheering up. How about a little drink?
Dave Foley in Kids in the Hall: Girl Drink Drunk
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epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
They're complicit
For a long time, I thought the Democrats were fighting valiantly but just overwhelmed by the oligarchy and the Republicans. Then I saw that the Democrats keep losing fights they should win and figured they must be just weak and ineffectual. Then I kept seeing them backing off without putting up any fight at all and decided they were gutless cowards. Finally, I noticed that enough of them keep voting with the Republicans to always ensure that the Republicans more or less win almost every fight, and that they start by bargaining from the Center position and moving Right – and eventually, after enough of that, it became impossible to ignore the only conclusion that actually fits the facts: The Democrats are not overmatched, they aren't weak, they aren't cowards ... they're complicit.
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epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Joe Biden shaking Donald Trump's hand in the Oval Office
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epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
He's so dense that light bends around him.
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epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
We must not allow a Skynet gap!
Scene from Dr Strangelove: General Turgidson in the War Room announcing to the president "We must not allow a mineshaft gap!"
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epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
> Would unwanted children be better off if there were a market in adoption rights, with babies going to the highest bidder? Murray Rothbard has entered the chat.
Quote from Murray Rothbard's "The Ethics of Liberty", excerpted as "Children and Rights" at https://mises.org/mises-daily/children-and-rights

"... to someone else. He may give the child out for adoption, or he may sell the rights to the child in a voluntary contract. In short, we must face the fact that the purely free society will have a flourishing free market in children. Superficially, this sounds monstrous and inhuman. But closer thought will reveal the superior humanism of such a market. For ..."
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epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Oof
Excerpt from the Wikipedia article on Steve Sailer:

Sailer's January 2003 article "Cousin Marriage Conundrum", published in The American Conservative, argued that nation building in Iraq would likely fail because of the high degree of consanguinity among Iraqis due to the common practice of cousin marriage. This article was selected for The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004, edited by Steven Pinker. In 2008, Sailer published his first book, America's Half-Blood Prince, a critical analysis of Barack Obama's 1995 biography Dreams from My Father[18] that argued Obama was a black nationalist.
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epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Babylon 5
Close-up of G'Kar in Babylon 5 speaking with Londo Mollari in the background. Caption reads "Though it take a thousand years..."Close-up of G'Kar in Babylon 5 speaking with Londo Mollari in the foreground. Caption reads "... we will be free."
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epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Man I miss those idiots. Might be time for a rewatch.
Ricky in Trailer Park Boys driving while holding a bottle in one hand and a stick of pepperoni in the other. Caption reads "HOLY FUCK THAT'S GOOD PEPPERONI."
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epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The world seemed so much simpler then.
Jacob Wohl @JacobAWohl 13m

I just left a hipster coffee shop in downtown LA. There was a group of young Democrats murmuring to each other that they know the "Suspicious Packages" were an inside job to make Republicans look bad

Jacob Wohl @JacobAWohl Jul 16

I just a left a hipster coffee shop. It was packed with liberals, whispering amongst each other about what a commendable job President Trump did with Vladimir Putin this morning in Helsinki - America is PROUD!

Jacob Wohl @JacobAWohl Jan 12

I was in a hipster coffee shop (safe space) here in LA and the libs were whispering to each other how @realDonald Trump is doing great for the economy, got them a raise at work and will definitely be re-elected in 2020

Jacob Wohl @JacobAWohl Oct 5

I was sitting in a hipster coffee shop in Downtown LA this morning and couldn't help but overhear the 6 college age women seated at a table who were clamering with excitement and joy over the confirmation of Judge Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court

Jacob Wohl @JacobAWohl Jul 19

Are hipster coffee shops the new secret hotbed of Trump fans?
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epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Who could resist?
Wallace Shawn and André Gregory in My Dinner With Andre
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epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Soon all words will be replaced with "America", like the scene in "Being John Malkovich" when he goes into his own head and all the people are Malkovich saying "Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich".
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epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Tim Curry, 'nuff said
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epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
He was a lot more relaxed when he was younger
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epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Solve crimes?
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epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Scene from Game of Thrones: Arya's fencing teacher asking "What do we say to the god of death?" changed to "What do we say to the Wall Street Journal?" Arya in a second panel answering "Not today"
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epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Getting swarmed by radical centrists for three hours for saying communism and fascism are completely different things, and yet this latest reply is so astonishgly braindead that I can't imagine this person being able to feed themselves.
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@insaanity.bsky.social

And still absolutely not either far-right or ethnonationalist.

Calling Stalin authoritarian is one thing, but saying "same shit" to imply communism and fascism are in any way similar is sheer idiocy

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Big Black Magic
@sorcererdezmar.bsky.social

Communism and Facism are not mutually exclusive. Stalin was both a facist dictator and a communist. Now that doesn't mean that the two things are inherently connected that would be a rediculous claim. But Stalin was absolutely no different than the likes of Hitler. Just as facist
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