Reposted by Kathleen HailperinAnthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Found the perfect screengrab to use the next time someone tries to tell me I’m missing out on important discourse by not using Elon Musk’s mircoblog site 105047700
Reposted by Kathleen HailperinDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Impossible to understand how anyone could look at Rufo's career and conclude he was someone engaged in a "forthright defense of meritocracy." Rufo's entire career is built on the idea of purging people who don't think or look like him from positions of power. 561572348
Reposted by Kathleen HailperinRory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I really dislike self help speech being called "therapy speak" my therapist doesn't say any of those words she just says shit like "why are you doing that?" "why do you think that is?" "is there a different way you could do that?" for an hour straight 724120
Reposted by Kathleen HailperinA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious. 5162521729
Reposted by Kathleen Hailperinjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026the idea that rufo has, at any point in his public career, been a sincere advocate for “colorblind meritocracy” is brain dead 824700580
Kathleen Hailperin @khailper.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Although I could get a similar effect by changing from first to third person. 020
Kathleen Hailperin @khailper.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Gotcha, my Claude equivalent is more "directions for how to talk to me" with limited background. But the last bit should be transferable. Thanks 110
Reposted by Kathleen HailperinCameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026just checking the till here Pete, and i think you're missing a rather important one 1332638
Reposted by Kathleen HailperinSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"David Cameron's former advisor is running for CA Gov and released an ad themed like softcore porn about lesbians" do you ever think we live in hell? 2018341
Kathleen Hailperin @khailper.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Unless you just mean "I added a line in my system prompt" (not the right term, i know, but not recalling the correct term for the individual-level version) 110
Kathleen Hailperin @khailper.bsky.social · 03/10/2026You can't drop something as valuable as this without sharing documentation of the process. 120
Kathleen Hailperin @khailper.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Was unfamiliar with the game and looked it up. They clearly understand the target market. 120
Reposted by Kathleen HailperinSpooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Chat I think we’re underestimating how much the GOP consultant class has been porn brained. 4577
Reposted by Kathleen HailperinSpooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Also what’s depicted in the video constitutes voter fraud. 0373
Reposted by Kathleen HailperinChristopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026New: Chris Rufo & his co-host devoted a podcast to "The Indian Question," framing Desi people as a problem to be solved. Their "solution?" Mass expulsion. For those allowed to remain: an “assimilation hazing process” w/ instances of “vulgar, defamatory racism" talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-r...talkingpointsmemo.comChris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a ThingTo the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in... 1131338483
Reposted by Kathleen HailperinChristopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Rufo gets to position himself as "respectable." Polite sit-down interview w/ Ezra Klein. Celebrated by Substack as one of platform's "best" writers. Senior fellow at Manhattan Institute. His "Indian Question" podcast is pretty explicitly white nationalist talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-r...talkingpointsmemo.comChris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a ThingTo the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in... 24735173
Reposted by Kathleen HailperinSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Camus: Under conditions so desperate, the hard, marvelous task of this century is to create justice in the most unjust of worlds, and to protect freedom from those souls who, out of principle, choose servitude. If we fail, man will return to darkness. But at least we will have fought to find light. 121245330
Reposted by Kathleen HailperinBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time." 2349851157
Reposted by Kathleen HailperinAaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 27/09/2026If you were into TTRPGs in the late 90s and early 2000s, you might remember a website I ran called the Gaming Outpost. It was, for a time, the biggest TTRPG site out there, was the birthplace of indie RPGs, and the early home of several now prominent designers. It went offline 20 years ago.gamingoutpost.comThe Gaming OutpostArticles, reviews, and forums from the Gaming Outpost. 32711
Reposted by Kathleen Hailperinalex v @alexvalente.fyi · 26/09/2026there's a secret, horrifying magic trick at the heart of Hollows - imminent from @gshowitt.bsky.social and the @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social team - that has been gnawing at me since 15.46 on 12th december 2025, and i needed to scream it at people good thing i got a blog now huhplaypretend.fyiHollowsHollows by Chris Taylor & Grant Howitt 2278
Reposted by Kathleen HailperinVikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 27/09/2026It’s kind of worse than this thread because Rationalists hold that monogamy is a now-illogical holdover from worrying about paternity. So, if you don’t want to participate you are providing evidence of your irrationality 418531
Reposted by Kathleen Hailperinmolly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 27/09/2026there’s major media coverage of this happening to a new woman every year or so and they’re always so surprised. it won’t be different for you, babe. it never is. 18981139
Reposted by Kathleen Hailperinghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 27/09/2026just from a quality-of-industry-feedstock perspective this can't possibly be worth it. you are losing more smart women than you're gaining smart sex pests 5579595
Kathleen Hailperin @khailper.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Not to mention, you know, *gestures vaguely at gaming in the mid-2010s* (not that I need to remind you of all people) 040
Reposted by Kathleen HailperinMichael Stahlke @michaelstahlke.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Right before I left twitter for good, I got into some real humdingers because I thought it was irresponsible to detonate thousands of explosive devices when you had zero idea where they were located. 830242
Reposted by Kathleen HailperinJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Buying into a ludicrous fantasy vision of how immigration stops function in the real world is a moral choice, not a matter of cognitive horsepower. You don’t have to be terribly bright to grasp that’s not actually how things work; you just have to care. 635372
Reposted by Kathleen HailperinIsaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 23/09/2026THE STOVE BECKONS 1522329
Reposted by Kathleen HailperinLiberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 23/09/2026"James Talarico went on Fox News and publicly walked back his support for trans rights. … It is presumed as common knowledge that Talarico 'must' do this in order to have a chance of winning. A big problem for that idea is that prior to these comments Talarico was doing exceptionally well."liberalcurrents.comTalarico (D) Is Just a Letter to Me NowAfter folding on trans rights, James Talarico does not have my respect. Honestly, fuck him. And yet, Ken Paxton (R) must lose. 510125
Reposted by Kathleen HailperinKieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026A repost for Bi Visibility Day. 622940
Reposted by Kathleen HailperinOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026because the ny times wants to kneecap AOC the way they did hillary clinton. they don't do this for any other politician but her. and we must pound them into the dust for this. 271845397
Reposted by Kathleen HailperinLiberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 22/09/2026"The overwhelming instinct is to view calls for 100 million deportations in the US, civil war in the UK, arresting or executing political leaders, eliminating of trans people, rolling women's rights back centuries, legalising domestic violence, and global genocide as a sort of trolling…"liberalcurrents.comFascists Really Believe ItMillions could die because of ideas intellectually and morally equivalent to the ‘lizard people’ conspiracy theory. 28422
Reposted by Kathleen HailperinRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Just a remarkable choice, this headline. No other leader of any other country in the history of the UN would get that headline after giving an address with that quote. 451365337
Reposted by Kathleen Hailperinjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026whenever i hear some variation on "but what if trump does X or Y or Z" i think of this ulysses s. grant remark to a subordinate during the wilderness campaign. 884015697
Reposted by Kathleen HailperinReconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Woof at that straight woman number 3030919
Reposted by Kathleen HailperinDaniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 21/09/2026This is happening to my clients. Makes it impossible for me to know if they're still in Minnesota or even in America. ICE can shuttle them around without my knowledge and, unless they get word to me, I have no way to access them as counsel 1197121
Reposted by Kathleen HailperinRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Not really the point, but I'd suggest that if you own 20 "family farms," they probably aren't "family farms." 703493626
Reposted by Kathleen HailperinPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever 188136522899
Reposted by Kathleen Hailperinlauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 19/09/2026teaching myself to ask "why are you picking this fight right now" before posting has made my overall bluesky experience a lot more positive 37137578
Reposted by Kathleen Hailperinrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 17/09/2026it is genuinely fascinating to see a man who is simply blind to everything other than exploitation and brutality. he has Steppe Warlord Brain 301411147
Reposted by Kathleen HailperinAriadne Griffin @ariadnereviews.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Tremendous turn of phrase from Emma, give her the trophy tbh #SewingBee 1263
Kathleen Hailperin @khailper.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Same as if you did those things to a creature after a big enough -x/-0. IIRC the answer is "it's power is treated as 0". 030
Reposted by Kathleen HailperinThe Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 16/09/2026 32669100
Reposted by Kathleen HailperinVaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Aella is the Olivia Nuzzi of TPOT rationalists in that if you understand this you should go climb a very tall mountain and bury your phone at its peak 2759165
Reposted by Kathleen HailperinFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026I know it may seem cruel, but it is time: the normies have to be told about Aella, before it’s too late for democracy. I wish I was making a joke. 1291844191
Reposted by Kathleen HailperinGillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I don't think people really understand the psychic impact of knowing that multiple times a day every day your friends, family, coworkers, neighbors, and everyone who could ever have any power over you is being flooded with agitprop designed to make them hate you 8980982033
Reposted by Kathleen HailperinGillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Very Smart People will see these and know that literally the world'a richest man is behind them and think "gee maybe trans activists did this to themselves" 21416111
