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Frater AE -The Arbiter

@karmicarbiter.bsky.social
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Professional, Occultist, Maker, and Nerd living in Nashville, TN. I think for myself. Intellectual purity is oppression, as is prejudice. Think for yourself, question authority. “Be the balance, work the science, be diligent, moderate the middle”.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 23/07/2024
Scientists say we basically have an HIV vaccine, but Gilead is charging over $40,000 a year for it and won’t yet allow a generic version that could be made for as little as $40 (which still includes a 30% profit).
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HIV ‘vaccine’ could be made for just $40 a year for every patient
Generic version of a drug already on the market, which can suppress and prevent HIV, would still yield 30% profit if the current price was slashed, researchers say
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Rik Worth 👻 @rikworth.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
If you’re an Author whose work has been pinched by Meta to feed AI, the Authors Guild has a really excellent and quick tool to send a complaint. actionnetwork.org/letters/auth...?
actionnetwork.org
Tell AI Companies They Do Not Have the Right to Use Your Work
I just sent a letter telling AI companies they do not not have the right to use my work. Use the Authors Guild's letter template to send your own.
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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
School Bully Shocks Nerds With Further Lunch-Money Demands
"I will tell you right now that Columbia has not in my opinion - and the opinion of the Department of Justice - has not cleaned up their act," Mr. Terrell said. "They're not even close, not even close to having those funds unfrozen."
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
The stage of capitalism where people who protest against a failing car company are sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
This is Nazism.
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Frater AE -The Arbiter @karmicarbiter.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
This is a Nazi. This logic is what is used to carry out cultural cleansing. It’s not the protection of culture, it’s the permission to use any means to preserve cultural supremacy. This is the 14 words as espoused by the vice president of the US. Do not be deceived.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 16/03/2025
The 1st Amendment dies in deafening silence. apnews.com/article/colu...
apnews.com
After Columbia arrests, international college students fall silent
International students and faculty have watched the growing crackdown on pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University with apprehension.
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Frater AE -The Arbiter @karmicarbiter.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
He does, but he’s in the same corporate pockets. Fire them all. ALL!
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Just a quick observation that amid all the turmoil created by the Zelensky meeting, this got completely ignored: A Chinese citizen paid Trump $50 million for the SEC to drop its charges against him.
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Uzza @uzzamodea.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
I have a little context to add to this outstanding reporting. ICE lawyer James Rodden is a devout white christian nationalist who has appeared in the network built around the Lutheran nazi podcast Stone Choir. He has promoted it & has regularly interacted w co-host Ryan Dumperth aka Treblewoe. 1/
White guy with a shaved bald head in a suitJames Rodden's GlomarResponder twitter account retweets Treblewoe and says, "Both treblewoe and Corey Mahler are criminally under followed. They're doing yeoman's work trying to bring the LCMS back from being overrun by demons."
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 10/02/2025
I'm sure that'll bring down the price of eggs. www.cnbc.com/2025/02/10/t...
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Trump to pause enforcement of law banning bribery of foreign officials
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act became law in 1977. In 2024, the Department of Justice announced 24 cases related to the anti-bribery statute.
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WIRED @wired.com · 07/02/2025
It feels like no one should have to say this, and yet we are in a situation where it needs to be said, very loudly and clearly, before it’s too late to do anything about it: The United States is not a startup. If you run it like one, it will break. 🔗 www.wired.com/story/the-us...
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Frater AE -The Arbiter @karmicarbiter.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Follow the money with this administration. The outrage is in failing to deliver on promises to the working class. Remember but ignore the rest as it is a distraction from the real issue, which is the pandering to corporate interests over working people.
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Hermetic Library @hermetic.com · 10/01/2025
Apropos of nothing, if you've got rare or unique historical items in your possession, personally or organizationally … two words: digital preservation. Two more words: offsite backup.
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Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
You should definitely watch this video if you haven’t Solid solid advice
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Rolling Stone gets it. #DepartmentOfGreedAndExcess www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 18/12/2024
Americans have really never seen how corruption has worked in much of the world for a long time. Except there, it's often "grease the skids by slipping them a little extra", and this is the U.S., so the dollars and scale of payoffs are gonna be breathtaking and shameless and brutally exploitative.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
The culture wars, the race wars, the gender wars...all smoke screens for the war they don't want you to fight. The class wars.
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Daniel Martin @fizbin.bsky.social · 22/03/2024
I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases) projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
projects.propublica.org
Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim
You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 04/12/2024
Hearing Amy Coney Barrett say there's no history of du jour discrimination against trans people is MIND BOGGLING when I had to sue the state of Illinois for the right to be a lawyer whilst trans
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
"United decided that if we’re going to deny claims the best people to deny them to are alcoholics, drug addicts and the mentally ill.They’re not real good at following up on their options.The chances of getting an appeal from one of them is close to zero" www.welcometohellworld.com/this-is-the-...
Is that something they said explicitly in documents that were uncovered or are you just characterizing their general way of thinking?

That didn’t come out in the trial, but I do a lot of this stuff, representing health care providers with insurance companies all over the country and I see that a lot. They’re weighing risks. They’re like this is low risk for us to deny this because the odds of getting dinged on it… They also have death tables, and they say, you know what, in two or three years this person isn’t insured anymore. In two or three more years they’re probably not alive. Dead people can’t make claims.

This is the most ghoulish cynical capitalistic nightmare shit I’ve heard in a long time!

You know what’s amazing about it? Think about how much money is involved. Behavioral healthcare and psych treatment is really only about 5-10% of the entire medical expenses in the U.S. 90% is medical-surgical, cancer, heart stuff, broken bones, whatever. It would be like a rounding error for them to fix this. United is not going to lose money because they’re suddenly covering all this stuff. They’ll still make a profit. They may make less, but this is not a huge sector of the claims they pay every year.
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NOT GREAT, BOB @existentialistist.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
this is such an evil sentence and it’s just one example
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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Star gazers in ancient Mesopotamia focused on recurring stuff like planetary motion, but sometimes they wrote about meteors. Watching from Babylon, one wrote: “Night of the 7th, last part of the night, a meteor which was very bright in the middle of the sky” oracc.museum.upenn.edu//adsd/adart1...
Two broken tablets pieced together to make up a joined-up fragment that is photographed from the front, back, and sides. One fragment is lighter beige than the other which is more of a light brown. The tablets are covered in partly damaged cuneiform script. At the bottom, a multicoloured ruler with the British Museum watermark shows it to be 5cm wide. Below the screenshot photo is the credit: “Photography by Ivor Kerslake (LMU Munich), copyright The Trustees of the British Museum”
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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
1/6 So one of the BIGGEST ad agencies in the world, got a giant project by the US GOVERNMENT to design it’s website. The agency used Midjourney. So is the US government now into the business of displacing artists and elevating a tech that stole from artists and is terrible for the environment?
The Federal Goverment teamed up with Pentagram to redesign their website performance.gov

Pentagram on of the world’s leading ad agencies used Midjourney, rather than hire actual artists. Pentagram, one of the leading ad agencies in the world, displaced artists on a huge project for the US Federal Government, and used Midjourney all throughout the website.The image depicts the media Midjourney generated, plastered all over the new US government website.
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Dr Crom @doccrom.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
"Can I interest you in the message of Sobek?"
A reasonably-sized crocodilian resting its forelimbs on the side of a red boat, looking as if it's about to ask a question.
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Reader of Banned Books @readerofbannedbook.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
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Frater AE -The Arbiter @karmicarbiter.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Without question, tarot. I prefer the Harris-Crowley Thoth deck and any deck by M.M. Meleen! Tabula Mundi and Telos are just superb modern decks!
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
So let me get this straight. If you apply for a job at a grocery store, you have to undergo a background check. But, if you apply to be Director of National Intelligence, you don't? Got it.
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
"The frustrated and humiliated intellectual, the rich and scared speculator, the spoiled son, the labor tyrant, the fellow who has achieved success by smelling out the wind of success—they would all go Nazi in a crisis." harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
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Frater AE -The Arbiter @karmicarbiter.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Certainly. With the amount of bots on other platforms, I completely understand.
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Frater AE -The Arbiter @karmicarbiter.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
No, I do not personally know you. I’m an attorney in Nashville TN who also happens to be an occultist & have moved to this platform to follow other occultists. I’m building a feed that was more art and occult based than news, politics, & propaganda. And contains less toxic masculinity.
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