Reposted by @jasparargus.bsky.socialExplicitly Anti-Vaxx @bellamyj.blacksky.app · 20hI expect these people to always talk about the training being inadequate but I truly hope that people have evolved enough to see that a lack of LEO training isn't and never was the problem. 0134
Reposted by @jasparargus.bsky.socialJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 14/10/2026This bad boy can fit so many nationalized space companies inside it you wouldn’t believe it 544734726
Reposted by @jasparargus.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Our internet, how we get all of our information, now has banned using the word "sex" without writing it like "s*x" but our kids are being inundated with people falling off rollercoasters, being mauled by Tigers, and jumping off buildings. It creates a culture afraid of people but in love with death. 251441207
Reposted by @jasparargus.bsky.socialRev. Poppy Haze 𓅋 @poppyhaze.bsky.social · 15/08/2025every “ancient tradition” was invented between 1848-1870 and every “modern perversion” is so ancient as to predate writing 70132164942
Reposted by @jasparargus.bsky.socialSarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 11/10/2026We've lived for so long with this mythology that sure, the wealthy can be cruel. But at least the cruelty has a point. Profit! I'd like us to open our hearts to other possibilities. Power doesn't just corrupt! It can also breed truly reality-distorting levels of incompetence. 9923177
Reposted by @jasparargus.bsky.socialDave Palfrey @01factory.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Under a corrupt or authoritarian leader, wealth concentration incentivises the crazy-rich, with widespread business interests, to make loss-making media acquisition. By currying political favor, they gain rents - whether with enthusiasm (Musk) or more reluctance (Bezos). Here's the economic model. 025565
Reposted by @jasparargus.bsky.socialshaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 10/10/2026israel has the same right to exist that apartheid south africa and rhodesia had, which is none whatsoever 232868435
Reposted by @jasparargus.bsky.socialThe Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Repeating my sotto voce refrain that I think we are very soon going to have to deal with the plain (but seldom spoken) fact that police are simply not under the control of the political leadership who command them on paper. 191210222
Reposted by @jasparargus.bsky.socialKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities 208126173131
Reposted by @jasparargus.bsky.socialBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The AI backlash is completely the fault of the dishonest hype merchants whose only talent is innovating new ways of lying. You pissed people off, now everyone hates you (justified) and your tech (less justified, but again, your fault) 311634180
Reposted by @jasparargus.bsky.socialSarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Hot take: I don't think social media made people dumber. We've been dumb this whole time. It's just that you used to have to have a job that people sent their dumb letters to, to notice. This made "Engaging with fools" an occupational hazard rather than the 24/7 experience it is presently. 612436440
Reposted by @jasparargus.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob." —FDR, 1936 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.comHow A.I. Super PACs Are Trying to Influence the MidtermsSee how groups aligned with Anthropic and OpenAI have funneled major money into the fight for control of Congress. 5025451031
jasparargus.bsky.social @jasparargus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026static.klipy.comRemember The Titans: Attitude Reflects LeadershipAlt: Remember The Titans: Attitude Reflects Leadership 011
Reposted by @jasparargus.bsky.socialSarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 28/09/2026If that sounds familiar, yep that was literally the birth of laissez-faire economics. It led directly to the bread riots that ended the French monarchy. Funny how that part keeps getting left out of econ 101. 416014
Reposted by @jasparargus.bsky.socialBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Humoring conservatives & acting like they make good points over the last 30 years brought us here. You never have to listen to them for the rest of our lives. It's time to treat career arsonists with the contempt they've earned instead of imagining a fake world where they're reasonable interlocutors 81901409
jasparargus.bsky.social @jasparargus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The March of War: An exploration on the optimal number of legs for medium to heavy armor and combat automata 0190
Reposted by @jasparargus.bsky.socialRxanadu @rxanadu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026More accurate headline: "After killing Bungie's cash cow out of spite and seeing Marathon's dwindling player base, Sony allows Bungie to perform necromancy on Destiny 2 with not enough necromancers" 429123
jasparargus.bsky.social @jasparargus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026To anyone wondering why people seem crueler and more willing to scam each other here’s the reason.static.klipy.comRemember The Titans: Attitude Reflects LeadershipALT: Remember The Titans: Attitude Reflects Leadership 000
Reposted by @jasparargus.bsky.socialthe babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 23/10/2023wikipedia shows what's possible when accessibility is prioritized over profit and the principles of free speech are buttressed by strict moderation. its very existence proves that the techbrocracy is both wrong and entirely unnecessary, so color me shocked that they're circling it like sharks. 131445309
Reposted by @jasparargus.bsky.socialA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Same people who seem to think it’s bad for China to beat us at AI are perfectly fine with China beating us at high speed rail, solar energy, wind energy, shall we go on 8685412212
Reposted by @jasparargus.bsky.socialThe Spectre Of Communism 👻 @cyberstalin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026As a trans person I really can't stress enough how little I trust journalists. They've always seemed to be working for capital but now it's so clear what class most journalists side with. 0251
Reposted by @jasparargus.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/09/2026oh we should regulate the supplement industry out of existence. we’d knock out half of right wing podcasts in the process. bsky.app/profile/hamm... 402457230
Reposted by @jasparargus.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/09/2026crypto, car dealerships and MLMs. ripe targets for political and policy reasons. 1035971950
jasparargus.bsky.social @jasparargus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This is how Odysseus would have beaten Polyphemus if he was actually a genius 010
Reposted by @jasparargus.bsky.socialDr. Sean Munger @seanmunger.com · 11/09/2026“Never forget” is absolutely the worst message on the anniversary of 9/11, but we’ve spent the last 25 years making it politically impossible to say anything else. 041
Reposted by @jasparargus.bsky.socialBig Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I know I’ve been tweeting a lot about AI doom lately, and dismissing it a bit. But just to be fair and balanced I want to say. If you’re working at an AI company and you say “I’m really worried that the thing I’m building will extinct humanity” and you keep building it, you should surely go to jail 201153111
Reposted by @jasparargus.bsky.socialgrapesmoker @grapesmoker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026we actually have to destroy the alt-health industry in its entirety, much like we also need to destroy car dealerships 362886497
Reposted by @jasparargus.bsky.socialIfy Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 03/09/2026I promise you, if these features were as great and in demand as they are trying to say they are, THEY WOULD BE CHARGING US FOR IT. (And don’t worry, when they’ve bullied everyone into using it, they will. The current price is just your information.) 637332
Reposted by @jasparargus.bsky.socialVeronica R.A. Le'Peltér Esq.🌹₊˚🪻 @sigmanerd.bsky.social · 21/08/2026That idea underlies the entire constitution. It's in the persistent paranoia of mob rule to the point we justify why electoral equality is dangerous 071
Reposted by @jasparargus.bsky.socialLuce Northstar 🔞 YCON NOV 7-8 @lucezozzerie.bsky.social · 20/08/2026tumblr is having a great one about this, little masterpiece of a post I'd say 14113634508
Reposted by @jasparargus.bsky.socialOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026if you tell me "A is a bully on social media(/in print, in whatever specific scenario) but very pleasant elsewhere" you are roughly 50x likelier to convince me that they have the additional vice of cowardice than you are to convince me that they have a hidden virtue of kindness 704050810
Reposted by @jasparargus.bsky.socialJustNeedaBreak... @homerophile.bsky.social · 15/08/2026"Unions, the people who brought you weekends." I always remember this bumper sticker from a faculty office door at the university I used to teach at. 1363
jasparargus.bsky.social @jasparargus.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Either the majority of your wealth come from “rent” from your assets or it comes from “wages” for your labor. What you are dependent on decides you side in the class war 010
jasparargus.bsky.social @jasparargus.bsky.social · 15/08/2026The middle class is a fiction. You are either someone who uses capital to exploit labor or someone who exploits their labor to gain capital. The idea of the middle class is propaganda in class warfare to differentiate white collar workers from blue collar when all are exploited by the owner class 110
Reposted by @jasparargus.bsky.socialshaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 15/08/2026like he obviously didn't kill some guy at random, did he. also i'd say that if you can find breath to condemn him but also to support politicians facilitating an actual genocide, as OP has wrt biden & harris, it is your moral compass that is warped 16181869
Reposted by @jasparargus.bsky.socialMeowloween @queerkitty.bsky.social · 09/08/2026I’m really hoping more places catch on to putting up bat boxes, at least in the northeast!newjersey.news12.comBats are feasting on invasive spotted lanternflies, Rutgers researcher saysAs it turns out, New Jersey residents can help the situation by installing a bat house. 411329
Reposted by @jasparargus.bsky.socialshaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 09/08/2026it is callous to arm a genocide and act polite about it. not respecting people who do that is good actually, fuck 'em. the US keeps blowing up schools and assassinating foreign leaders, but the important thing is to talk about a rude tweet hasan posted 4 years ago or whenever. who fucking cares 10805100
Reposted by @jasparargus.bsky.socialMariana Colín @themorbidzoo.bsky.social · 04/08/2026The fact that everything the tech industry has been doing for the past 20 years is the only tech people are allowed to care about and nothing in material sciences, medicine, ecology, or energy matters societally is literal child shit, it's pathological and I can't wait for us to grow the fuck up 2392
Reposted by @jasparargus.bsky.socialEvan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 01/08/2026To be clear, the claims: 1. Successful movements have used violence, including armed self-defense 2. Claiming otherwise is indefensible 3. The resistance owes its existence to movements like 1. 4. don’t fucking parrot prosecutors 316521
Reposted by @jasparargus.bsky.socialMariana Colín @themorbidzoo.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Jay Graber and Elon everyone else responsible for twitterlike microblogging build-out knows this, and is currently elevating any clown that will agree to the public humiliation to CEO to continue the grift until governments start telling them they can’t continue doing this. 3/4 1211
Reposted by @jasparargus.bsky.socialEvan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 01/08/2026abolitionists were armed. The Panthers were armed. You do not need to flatten movement history to make a prudential point and then demonize anyone who criticizes you as a walmart arsonist 545572
Reposted by @jasparargus.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/08/2026"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob." —FDR, 1936 292115713698
Reposted by @jasparargus.bsky.socialDan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 31/07/2026A certain type of person always wants slaves, and just can't understand why wanting slaves is in of itself morally wrong. I had a fascinating conversation with a robotics guy who basically talks to these people all the time and it has heavily informed the ethics of his work. 317445
Reposted by @jasparargus.bsky.socialdr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 29/07/2026"oh no, don't do socialist things! you'll play right into their hands" - the people playing right the fuck into their hands 111732253
Reposted by @jasparargus.bsky.socialGwen @gwen-deer.bsky.social · 22/07/2026To this point I wish Nolan would stop writing his movies. As a director he’s whatever take or leave him imo. But as a writer he’s a bit of a hack. His best movie was pretty much his least written one (Tenet) where he just kinda directs the hell out of it not worrying about the narrative as much. 2161
Reposted by @jasparargus.bsky.socialDisinterested @disinterested.bsky.social · 21/07/2026I think the most underestimated source of elite radicalisation is that ordinary people can call you a moron directly when you say stupid shit online. Sends wealthy and powerful people in to spirals every time. 10916135
Reposted by @jasparargus.bsky.socialcastawayfarmtoo.bsky.social @castawayfarmtoo.bsky.social · 09/07/2026The President of the United States is a traitor. 1113541650