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MrAlAnderson

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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is red meat for a white male techy constituency who is convinced educated immigrants are blocking them from the cushy tech jobs in the 2010’s
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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
*it says Counciltucky
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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I love “they may prove something like a god but certainly not the Christian God.” There’s a whole 2.5 other parts man it’s one of the world’s biggest books what do think the rest is about?
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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
11 points between Gen Z Catholics and Gen Z Mainliners is 👀
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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I mean that tracks,
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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
His struggle against Pelagius shows he is already very aware of the perfidies of the Br*tish
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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
To the moon? 🌝
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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I see people putting AI in the same bucket as NFTs (speculative technology that will go away when the bubble pops), but I think the internet is the better comp. Sure there's some early bubble-y activity, but the underlying technology is real it's going to dramatically change things.
Hand-drawn Venn diagram titled "Bubbles," with four overlapping circles: Beanie Babies, AI, NFTs, and Dot-com.

Each alone: "Gamble on plushies!" / "Gamble on LLMs!" / "Gamble on JPEGs!" / "Gamble on HTML!"

Beanie Babies + AI: "The products tend to have cutesy first names."
Beanie Babies + NFTs: "Who will own the rarest fake monkey?"
AI + Dot-com: "Genuinely important underlying technology."
NFTs + Dot-com: "This URL could be worth millions!"

Every bubble but Dot-com: "Mostly in private markets."
Every bubble but NFTs: "Good people got hurt."
Every bubble but AI: "Never threatened life as we know it."
Every bubble but Beanie Babies: "Blame Silicon Valley."

All four: "Somebody got rich, but probably not you."
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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
sometimes you cant help but feel like those who didn’t want to let anyone read the bible on their own had a point
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules.
Line chart titled "Revenue per audit," subtitled "In-person audits, 2010-2014." It plots average revenue and average cost per audit by taxpayer income percentile, poorer to richer, from the 0–5th percentile to the top 0.1%. Source: Boning et al. 2023, "A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution."

Across the bottom half of the income distribution, revenue and cost track closely, both around $3,000–$6,000 per audit. Above the median, revenue pulls ahead of cost: about $10,000 vs. $5,000 near the 90th percentile, and about $17,000 vs. $8,000 at the 95th–99th. At the top, revenue jumps to about $31,000 for the 99–99.9th percentile and about $90,000 for the top 0.1%.
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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
To be fair, it was sort of baffling for President Ford to name the theater after himself in the first place.
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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Why am I just learning now that Iowa’s idiot governor forced the UofI to hire Mark Baurlein lmfao
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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“Democrats will do better with the national debt” has been an unthinkable thought for many for decades!
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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
D+1 on foreign policy is a legit breakthrough
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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
buy the dip!!
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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
State representatives only do this when things are going very, very well
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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Try “ontologist”
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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I’d think it was more odd except we have way too many prominent examples of “this terrorist attack changes everything, especially the lessons of history” the last few decades
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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I think because the western front is way more focused on and because Austria imploded as an entity after we miss the fact that the Austrians basically went insane and did not care about the diplomatic fallout of conducting and inviting others to conduct a genocidal “punitive campaign” against Serbia
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Scorigami @nflscorigami.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🏈 GB 22 - 39 MIN FINAL ✅ That's Scorigami!! It's the 1097th unique final score in NFL history.
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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
opus dei?
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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
o tempura o mores
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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Actually the most recent translation is “you’re delulu”
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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Causing economic damage that will be hot-potatoed to the next president (if there is a peaceful transition of power)
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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Hope this keeps bond yields down!!
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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
From the same mind as: religious liberty except for catholics for some reason
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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Huh, a “let’s reconsider the ‘grind up the poor’ guy” movie from the production company owned by Larry Ellison’s failson? Huh. Weird. I wonder if Bari Weiss will get a cameo
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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Instagram Reel: What if Harry Potter didn’t go to Hogwarts at all? Today, we’re sending him to Arizona State
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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Not just Trump!
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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
And it *only* solves 80% of the problem!
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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Don’t worry, some of the increased spending will ‘trickle down’ to capitalist lowlifes. We all win
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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Hmm I think this misunderstands how redistribution and investment in public infrastructure promotes economic growth and therefore increases the tax base
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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Home of the giant flip flop
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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Think about this though— what did the Neanderthal do? what if the Neanderthal had bad vibes?
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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
It has taught me that determining truth is easy, just count the number of citations, if one published argument more than a competing argument then that’s the true one
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
passé at this point but can you imagine if obama had done this
Scarlett Johansson changed her magnesium supplement routine after a spray left her feet feeling dry
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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Otherwise all that’s being said is “I like the slaughter of the colonized and one man military rule”
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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Cromwell is such a strange avatar for this, he’s a such a non-entity among revolutionaries. He’s not a Lenin or Robespierre, he’s not even a Washington. If she means, “I like the ideal of the English Revolution” she should say that
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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Only sure sign of salvation is that the pope is against you, it doesn’t matter whether you believe in any historic Christianity or Jesus or ever do actions that aren’t gravely immoral
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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Kant’s worst trait is shared by most contemporary analytic philosophers: taking Hume way too seriously
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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Admittedly never read more than a paragraph or two of him but i always assumed that he was convenient to be made a bogeyman because scary looking name
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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Experts still disagree on whether the 60s in fact did happen
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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I think this happens *a lot* but historical memory tends to smooth out and flatter
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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Sorry for party rocking :(
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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
He was 5 ft. 6 in. tall at the start of his reign, but only 4 ft. 8 in. tall at the end
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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
they’re both related to the idea you can fully engineer your child’s experience of the world, a view shared by tons of secular people
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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
It’s strange, whenever you read 17th century guys complaining about scholastics they say they’re wrong and boring and whenever most moderns read that they think oppressive for some reason
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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I feel like the actual takeaway from studying the lives of 17th c intellectuals is not that they constantly had to dodge church authorities but that if there was the equivalent of a 21st c Index academics would be fighting tooth and claw to get their intellectual rivals’ work on there
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MrAlAnderson @kenlightement.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Put your body on the line for the game
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