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pierce @inverarity.bsky.social · 1h

“Trump 2.0 also ending with a respiratory viral pandemic” is just bad writing, I’m sorry.

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pierce @inverarity.bsky.social · 4h

One of those days where it really feels like we could use some show trials.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

these little freaks love playing dress up

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. He is starting to suspect Kras Mazov *fucked him over* personally with his socio-economic theory.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A Rufus & Chaka Khan billboard on Sunset Boulevard in 1974.

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brent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

remarkable thing to admit

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thicc husband and father @lukeisamazing.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

thinking about this again and smiling

“james hennessy: it's sad reading like 14th century Christian theologians who spent an inordinate amount of time writing "OK there are exactly 3,892 demons and these are their names and these are their powers"... man, you would have loved Dragonball Z
Sep 27, 2023 at 9:32 pm”

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Honestly if you did go to a February Atlanta Hawks home game you should have to tell congress why you did that.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If the AI era has taught us anything, it’s this: it’s fine to judge people based on their aesthetic preferences

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Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You can feel the irritation in this article. This pop-country song should be loved because of how hard it's been pushed! But there's a hard upper limit to its popularity when 1) country music is fash-coded now, 2) ad buys don't work like they used to and 3) it sucks

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ceej @ceej.online · 25/09/2026

Be serious. Bert and Ernie are not “in love.” Maybe they used to be, once

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending.

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I will never forgive hunter s thompson for making some people think they could write

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 24/09/2026

Mass lesbian bar masking story is getting Oberlin cafeteria levels of coverage, meaning it will define reactionary and reactionary-fearing centrist politics for the next 15 years

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Recent Developments have led me to believe it's time to Get Off the Internet for a few days. It's a simple thing to do! More people should try it every once in a while

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ceej @ceej.online · 21/09/2026

See here how The Stance has entered his body and his mind. The Stance infests him. The metamorphosis is complete

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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 21/09/2026

you gotta start bluelightmaxxing. get those numbers up to 17, 18 hours a day. no physical activity, as little water as possible. the results speak for themselves

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 20/09/2026

This thing I made two years ago continues to hold up pretty well

AI and consciousness political 2D grid.

Authoritarian
Al is not conscious and neither am I
Authoritarian
Left
Al is conscious but l am not
Authoritarian
Right
Economic-
Left
Economic-Right
Libertarian
Left
I am conscious but Al is not
Libertarian
Right
I am conscious and so is Al
Libertarian

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

its fun to watch the physicalism vs dualism debate play out in real time, but I don't think bsky is going to resolve this 3000+ year old debate

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

you do have to respect will stancil's utterly dogged determination to teach philosophy of mind 101 to bluesky

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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 20/09/2026

things could be worse. at least we're not de facto ruled by a sex cult of guys who worship the computer and think its going to make them immortal if they feed enough poor people to it

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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 20/09/2026

going back in time to tell my teenage secular atheist self that when the war comes i am fighting on the side of the pope against the libidinous rationalist forces

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play by post @playbypost.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In 1987, Bob Altemeyer found a large pool of students to do a series of model NATO sessions, an experiment he replicated frequently thereafter. He gave attendees tests to find out who was a Right Wing Authoritarian (RWA). When the team was all RWAs they frequently caused the end of the world.

High RWAs tend to feel more endangered in a potentially threatening situation than most people do, and often respond aggressively. In 1987 my colleague Gerry Sande and I had five-man teams of male introductory psychology students role-play NATO in an “international simulation” involving (they thought) another team of students playing as the Warsaw Pact. Some of the NATO teams were composed entirely of low RWA students, and other NATO teams were stocked entirely with highs. (We experimenters secretly played the Warsaw Pact.) The simulation began with a couple of ambiguous moves by the Warsaw Pact, such as holding military exercises earlier than anticipated, and withdrawing divisions to rear areas (possibly for rest, or--as Dr. Strangelove might argue--possibly for redeployment for an attack). The NATO teams could respond with nonthreatening or threatening moves of varying magnitudes. But if they made threats, the Warsaw pact responded with twice as much threat in return, and the NATO team would reap what it had sown as an escalation of aggressive moves would likely result.

The low RWA teams did not interpret the ambiguous moves at the beginning of the game as serious threats and thus seldom made threatening moves. The high RWAs on the other hand usually reacted to the opening Warsaw Pact moves aggressively, and sowed a whirlwind. Over the course of the simulation, the high RWA teams made ten times as much threat as the low teams did, and usually brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.19

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Lmao zionists on Threads leaving their ChatGPT response headers in their slop revealing they asked it to make them sound like Andrew Tate, scum attracts scum

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I can make it more swagger-heavy, cutting, and confrontational without copying Tate's exact voice.
Ed Sheeran didn't build a $400 million career by hijacking somebody else's stage.
He is the headliner.
His tour.
His audience.
His crew.
His production.
His risk.
Macklemore was invited into a machine Ed spent years building.
That invitation was not ownership.

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pierce @inverarity.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

And we haven’t even hit $10/gallon in most places yet.

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Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We've been trending this way for decades now. Worthless $100m toys that fall out of the sky. "Elite operators" running drugs out of every military base. Trump and Hegseth are morons, but they're the same kinds of morons who have been running the extortion and graft racket we call the US military.

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Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

When the Russian/Ukraine war really kicked off, no one liked my central thesis, which was "you must frame any plans for involvement around the fact that the US military cannot win a war."

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Now that everyone has turned on Ed Sheeran I finally feel comfortable saying this: you shouldn’t be allowed to get a bunch of tattoos if you’re a musician who makes wuss music

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pierce @inverarity.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Oh, so it's actually quite bad then. Like, worse than we're hearing.

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turtle @turtle.labeledrude.online · 11/09/2026

green day managed to stick the landing on a second act career resurgence and pivot that's kept them beloved to this day just by doing a rock opera with some cool hooks and a general kinda unfocused, allegorical-at-best message of "damn this kinda sucks huh"

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Bobson Dugnutt @literallytho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I wonder if this guy loves 9/11 or if he hates it bc it’s the one day when everyone pretends to care about it as much as he does

A black pickup truck with a picture of the New York skyline including the twin towers on the side with “Don’t Ever Forget” written below

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pierce @inverarity.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

oooh nooo our foreign enemies are using the tools we developed to help kill them against us oh nooo who could have predicted this would happen

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 11/09/2026

I think Hunter S. Thompson's column in the immediate aftermath pretty much nailed it www.espn.com/espn/page2/s...

The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are At War now -- with somebody -- and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives.

It will be a Religious War, a sort of Christian Jihad, fueled by religious hatred and led by merciless fanatics on both sides. It will be guerilla warfare on a global scale, with no front lines and no identifiable enemy. Osama bin Laden may be a primitive "figurehead" -- or even dead, for all we know -- but whoever put those All-American jet planes loaded with All-American fuel into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon did it with chilling precision and accuracy. The second one was a dead-on bullseye. Straight into the middle of the skyscraper.

This is going to be a very expensive war, and Victory is not guaranteed -- for anyone, and certainly not for anyone as baffled as George W. Bush. All he knows is that his father started the war a long time ago, and that he, the goofy child-President, has been chosen by Fate and the global Oil industry to finish it Now. He will declare a National Security Emergency and clamp down Hard on Everybody, no matter where they live or why. If the guilty won't hold up their hands and confess, he and the Generals will ferret them out by force.

Good luck. He is in for a profoundly difficult job -- armed as he is with no credible Military Intelligence, no witnesses and only the ghost of Bin Laden to blame for the tragedy.
OK. It is 24 hours later now, and we are not getting much information about the Five Ws of this thing.

The numbers out of the Pentagon are baffling, as if Military Censorship has already been imposed on the media. It is ominous. The only news on TV comes from weeping victims and ignorant speculators.

The lid is on. Loose Lips Sink Ships. Don't say anything that might give aid to The Enemy.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 11/09/2026

Pretending the days after Sept. 11, 2001 were some kind of gauzy Hallmark special when we came together as a country is nauseating and ahistorical. The country went completely insane and has not recovered

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pierce @inverarity.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We are rapidly approaching a “lines at the gas stations >> some stations out of fuel >> alternating fuel days based on registration” situation here and, after COVID, I do not think the American Psyche can take that right now.

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Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I mean, what's more likely, that Donald Trump would lie for attention, or that it's actually still 9/11 and this entire reality we've lived in for the last 25 years is his dying brain as he suffocates under the rubble of the North Tower?

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pierce @inverarity.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Fun fact about me, I really enjoyed watching the video of it happen. A lot of people, even people who celebrated it, were like, "Don't watch it, it's awful to see, no one should have to see that," but I found it reifying.

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tranna scarenina @einegeniesserin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

like this, for example. these are people who have never been capable of recognising any constraint on their actions from people outside of their class or the earth's ecology. they cannot imagine ever losing anything and see no distinction between reality and their own psycho-sexual neuroses

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tranna scarenina @einegeniesserin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

this is most acute in america, which has been using the structural advantages it has inherited since the end of the war to defy economic gravity for 80 years, and which i think everyone senses cannot actually handle a return to the earth without breaking apart politically and psychologically

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