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Perfidious Bear @kathemenos.bsky.social · 22h

AOC specifically is extremely sexualized by the right in a weird, gross, rapey way, and has been since she first came to prominence

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 23h

Literally all these dudes

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Larry Jackson @ljlawyers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is really good, and accurate. They ain’t your Danbury Baptists anymore. “Those of us who follow white evangelicalism will tell you until we are blue in the face that our current political crisis is actually a religious one.”

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.

, it's
and I
have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.

As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end

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Andrew (🎃) @athomashemlock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If Abbot and Paxton both lose we get to turn The Alamo into a gender neutral bathroom and Jerry Jones gets put in that box that box that Cris Angel lived in for a month.

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Perfidious Bear @kathemenos.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Herzog is so versatile for it, too

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David @crookedknight.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I think this one is my favorite I haven't already seen here

Original post: "happy earth day! fuck off mars, you piece of shit!!!"

An attached screenshot has Chrisjen Avasarala from The Expanse (played by the inimitable Shohreh Aghdashloo) saying this

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

this is my favorite genre of social media post and I am soliciting links or screenshots to your favorites

Jesse Raub @jesseraub.online
King Darius looking down at Daniel in the pit:
Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan....
Man, what are the Lions doing?

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Perfidious Bear @kathemenos.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Laura and Carmilla are "lonely because we live in a castle" rich

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Perfidious Bear @kathemenos.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I.e. don't talk about the themes because that scares away the people I want to engage with them. It's not that challenging even relative to a lot of genre fiction, it's just weirdly funny seeing it presented as an exemplar of junk food when he's very unsubtle about inserting vegetables from book 3.

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Perfidious Bear @kathemenos.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Dungeon Crawler Carl is kind of a weird example, given that it's a frog boiler political tract. Dinniman has explicitly banned political discussions in the series subreddit because he's using the Talking Cat Video Game books to get guys who won't engage with leftwing politics to think about them

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kevinwglass.bsky.social @kevinwglass.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The difference between the progressive coalition and the conservative coalition in America is that pro-life groups see this news and say "you got it, throw us under the bus, do what you need to do to win, we're still turning out for you like loyal soldiers"

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Sam Weller @samwellerauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is the most remarkable story Ray Bradbury ever shared with me. He told it to me late one night, sitting in his den of antiquities and mementos. Take five minutes to read this. It’s pure magic. #Writing #Living #Creativity #RayBradbury #BookSky

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Perfidious Bear @kathemenos.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

When you adjust for anti-AI backlash, I think the entire issue comes down to very boring technocratic zoning and development regulation issues, like any other new development. That's easy to do badly, hard to do well, subject to a lot of corporate pressure, and way too boring for voters to get into

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Perfidious Bear @kathemenos.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

there's just not a lot of trust that continued development is going to make sense. And the residential developers, who are putting more pressure on the water table than the data centers are, are glad they have somebody to shift the blame to.

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Perfidious Bear @kathemenos.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We're dealing with this in Loudoun. Our wells are running dry. And yeah, you *can* build data centers that draw effectively no water, but when the state and county keep telling developers they can build loud data centers right next to neighborhoods and powerlines through historic cemeteries

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Perfidious Bear @kathemenos.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Because it's true that some data centers do consume huge amounts of water, or use and release water in a way that's ecologically disruptive. It's not "made up," it's people hearing about the worst case and assuming it applies every time. It's a bad faith assumption but it didn't appear from nothing

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Perfidious Bear @kathemenos.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Anyway that's a long winded way to say that yes, I think most AI takes are pretty uninformed both because the tech is new, complex, and rapidly changing but even moreso because people overextend their opinion of one capability to paint with too broad a brush

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Perfidious Bear @kathemenos.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yeah, LLMs hallucinate. We should not use them a general purpose right answer generators. But you can scope them and instruct them properly for specific projects. The more foundational problem is that people blow off expertise and double down on whatever answer was most convenient to get

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Perfidious Bear @kathemenos.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

But you can't even talk about that if somebody is hung up on the ocean of slop. Yeah, that's bad. Most of what it was replacing was also garbage, but I would like an internet with less garbage regardless of if the content farm is using AI or paying somebody in India chump change

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Perfidious Bear @kathemenos.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There are still problems with the industry, the ethics of model training, and keeping agents on the leash. But some of those are very solvable, like Pleias is a working LLM trained only on verified public domain data. It's not quite ready to compete with frontier models but we're not far off

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Perfidious Bear @kathemenos.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What Claude does here is more like being an API for me. It's an easy way for all these existing, public-facing computer systems to interact with me in an easy, scalable way instead of me having to go to them.

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Perfidious Bear @kathemenos.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Recruiter pitches are so bad they're not even comparable. None of that is slop. Technically, if I put enough time into scripting and learning APIs and crafting structure queries, I could probably have built this in Python and run it as a scheduled task. Maybe by next year.

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Perfidious Bear @kathemenos.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Once a week, it'll expand that to a list of like forty companies I've given it to check on, many of which don't post on Indeed or whatever. I set all this up in less time than it takes me to do that sweep myself once. The results are way way better than my automated alerts from Indeed or LinkedIn

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Perfidious Bear @kathemenos.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So I'm hunting for jobs. It sucks and it's a massive time sink. But I fed Claude two copies of my resume, some parameters, and connections to more job sites than I have the energy to check. Every morning, it checks all of those and tells me about any new ones, how well they fit my resume, any gaps

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Perfidious Bear @kathemenos.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

But agentic use? That shit is awesome. The LLM bit provides a good enough use of language to enable some other really helpful tasks. It doesn't need to be conscious or creative for that.

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Perfidious Bear @kathemenos.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A small part of that has been the chatbot aspect, but that's effectively a rubber duck use case. I'm thinking out loud and it's bouncing my own thoughts back at me in a way that helps clarify them. That's useful but it's not worth $20/month when I can use a rubber duck or just bore my friends

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Perfidious Bear @kathemenos.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

For me, the bigger issue is that we've gotten hung up on LLMs with a side of image/video generation. I have been a chatbot hater since the days of Markov chains but I've found Claude to be *incredibly* useful in the few days that I've been using it

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Perfidious Bear @kathemenos.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sliwa is a world class hater and Mamdani ruining Cuomo's mayoral bid probably earned him a lot of points. But yeah, I agree a lot of it comes down to that old school NYC mentality of 'I take care of my block, I respect anybody who takes care of his, I love anybody who takes care of mine'

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Perfidious Bear @kathemenos.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That's beautiful. Hoping for further recovery

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𝕃𝕦𝕔𝕒𝕧𝕚 ⓘ Rude 🐈 @lucavi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It is too late, I have already depicted myself as the άνθρωπος ίσχυρός and you as the άνθρωπος παρθένος 🫵

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Perfidious Bear @kathemenos.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I guess the endemic corruption and political instability in Ukraine probably led to our current level of investment

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Perfidious Bear @kathemenos.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Oh and Somalia. I forgot about the pirates

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Perfidious Bear @kathemenos.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That was only true of Afghanistan. And Iraq. And Syria. And Yemen. Maybe Central America if you're factoring in refugees and asylum seekers putting pressure on the southern border. Or Russia if state tolerance of organized crime counts. But other than all that, what has global stability done for us?

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Perfidious Bear @kathemenos.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I know at some point, somebody explained that the different assemblies existed and had different voting systems and I was taught the cursus honorum. I got little tidbits about law and citizenship as relevant to Cicero

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Perfidious Bear @kathemenos.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Your blog series on the structures of the Republic is *substantially* more detail than I got in undergrad, between a 300-level Roman history and a 3/400-level Latin course on Livy. It's more on par with grad seminars, though of course then you're expected to get that info from the reading list

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Shola Hoon @sholahoon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

popping this up on top of your feed because it's a seriously fucking great read and call-to-action

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Perfidious Bear @kathemenos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I just want to point out that the guy you're arguing with dedicated his username to defending one of the least competent generals of WW1, and that is a fiercely contested title

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Perfidious Bear @kathemenos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I installed Mandrake in 2004, couldn't get X to work. I installed Ubuntu in 2008, there were no drivers for my WiFi card. I installed Mint in 2019, fell out of use because I had to maintain Windows for gaming As of 2025, I'm full-time Ubuntu

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Perfidious Bear @kathemenos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm hopeful Valve keeps throwing their weight behind it. I don't know if the Steamdeck is ever going to be big enough to force the issue, but it just needs to be big enough, and developing for Proton cheap enough, to tip the scales

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Perfidious Bear @kathemenos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

That said, I've been a Linux dabbler since 2004 and I think this is the first time it's really been frictionless. But only Ubuntu; OpenSUSE and even Zorin, which is aimed at Windows converts, still had the classic problem of having to find some weird hack to get my display/wifi/audio working

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Perfidious Bear @kathemenos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I am about at the point where I'll start soft pitching my wife and in-laws on Ubuntu but if gaming is your primary/only hobby, I think it might be not quite there. Filthy casuals like me, though? I think we're good

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Perfidious Bear @kathemenos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We're at the point where gaming as a whole works fine on Linux but individual developers are still hit or miss. The games I play run as well on Ubuntu as they did on Windows, but friends wanted to drag me into Marvel Rivals. That updates like every week and they're infamous for breaking Proton

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