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Abba Irik

@lamproterotatos.bsky.social
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Classics and IR guy, don't mind me

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Abba Irik @lamproterotatos.bsky.social · 6h
Some say that this country became too spoiled from the prosperity of the policies of the past. It’s more appropriate to see the median voter as vindictive rather than complacent.
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Abba Irik @lamproterotatos.bsky.social · 21h
The onion really never recovered after Bernie lost in 2020.
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Abba Irik @lamproterotatos.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I dare a professor to make their reading list from this but only with polemics about Christianity.
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Abba Irik @lamproterotatos.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The reason these are the same people who also think that AI could kill us all is because they have zero idea how to extrapolate second-order consequences.
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Abba Irik @lamproterotatos.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I think we should qualification-shame more often.
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Abba Irik @lamproterotatos.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We can’t keep no-not-like-that’ing alternatives.
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Abba Irik @lamproterotatos.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Great now I miss Wisconsin again.
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Abba Irik @lamproterotatos.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Men who speak like this get put in the Device.
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Abba Irik @lamproterotatos.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
static.klipy.com
Da Fuck The Fuck
ALT: Da Fuck The Fuck
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Abba Irik @lamproterotatos.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Oh, well, shit.
nytimes.com
Hackers Say They Stole Thousands of Sensitive F.B.I. Personnel Records (Gift Article)
The compromise, if confirmed, would be the latest in a string of cybersecurity failures at the F.B.I., which said it was investigating the matter.
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Abba Irik @lamproterotatos.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Underrated reason
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Abba Irik @lamproterotatos.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
How the fuck is this timeline real?
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Abba Irik @lamproterotatos.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The people yearn for propiska.
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Abba Irik @lamproterotatos.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Yeah, there’s no winning here. I don’t think this is at all necessary, but at the same time I recognize that Bluesky is well out of step with the rest of the country on this, as infuriating as that is.
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Abba Irik @lamproterotatos.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I’m tired
DOD X post saying, “Last Thursday, we welcomed Logan and Jake Paul to the Pentagon to meet with our warriors.”
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Abba Irik @lamproterotatos.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
People are saying that he’s doing this because of military coup reasons. He’s not that deep. He just likes the guns and stuff. He’s a senile old man who likes looking cool.
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Abba Irik @lamproterotatos.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It’s incredibly cute to see apologists for Stalin and Mao to think this kind of attack line is meaningful in any way.
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Abba Irik @lamproterotatos.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
In 1922, Ukraine had 28 million people. In 1953, it had 38 million. You have to be fundamental, deeply stupid to overlook Stalin saving all those lives versus those he deliberately starved and insist that those saved lives can’t even be taken into account.
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Abba Irik @lamproterotatos.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“Complicated” is how we’re going to call a guy who killed tens of millions out of sheer incompetence and then sic’d a bunch of fanatics to roam the country rather than retire.
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Abba Irik @lamproterotatos.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Well, she already betrayed Armenians by joining the Young Turks, so why not another group?
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Abba Irik @lamproterotatos.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The UK is a long running experiment of what happens when the neighbourhood watch runs the national government. We thank all observers for their attendance.
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Abba Irik @lamproterotatos.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“I’m sorry, but my pocketbook is more important than you not going to debtor’s prison.”
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Abba Irik @lamproterotatos.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
So many posters stop their reading by 1980.
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Abba Irik @lamproterotatos.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
So basically now that the Post’s editorial page is identical to WSJ, you might as well read the latter because at least it takes itself more seriously.
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Abba Irik @lamproterotatos.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I am watching Ancient Aliens, because I hate myself. Unfortunately it’s not on a subject I’m particularly informed about, so I’m just mad knowing they’re insane without being able to say anything.
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Abba Irik @lamproterotatos.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Or, as a thought, just return to the status quo from just ten years ago.
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Abba Irik @lamproterotatos.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Buckle up, we’re relitigating 2016.
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Bill Murray as Phil Connors: ...AGAIN
ALT: Bill Murray as Phil Connors: ...AGAIN
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Abba Irik @lamproterotatos.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“but I imagine people would be squeamish about that stuff.” I’m not squeamish about it; it’s just not going to happen. It’s not a such a clever boy move to give a false dichotomy of two scenarios that don’t have a snowball’s chance in hell.
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Abba Irik @lamproterotatos.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Ngl not so great that much for the democratic cadre are openly contemptuous of *checks notes* democratic politics.
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Abba Irik @lamproterotatos.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It is simultaneously true that the left is a smaller slice of the pie than the center and much more fickle. It’s not entirely irrational for political strategists to pick and choose.
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Abba Irik @lamproterotatos.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The most traditional variants of country are dominated by the very people this man despises.
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Abba Irik @lamproterotatos.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Am I the only one who thinks that it isn’t actually that bad?
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Abba Irik @lamproterotatos.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
English have been Christian for almost as long as the concept of Englishness has existed.
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Abba Irik @lamproterotatos.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Erin makes her position very clear that she’s willing to sink Dems and put trans folk at risk, even if she must lie about it. I’m glad my sibling is getting kicked out of the military because I’m sure Third Way has learned their lesson.
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Abba Irik @lamproterotatos.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I get it’s fun to be to browbeat academics The Right Way, but maybe we should listen to their reasonings first. terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/11/a...
terrytao.wordpress.com
A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics
I am proud to be among the list of 25 initial signatories — all Fields Medallists — to the declaration below, which grew out of discussions between ourselves over the last week. We have…
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Abba Irik @lamproterotatos.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
My general impression is that if you’re a young Republican cadre, you’re probably at least Nazi-adjacent. And if not, well it clearly hasn’t bothered you.
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Abba Irik @lamproterotatos.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It’s amazing how whiny they are, given they have the institutional backing of the UK government. It goes for most bigotries that the bigot can’t accept that they’re the asshole. It must be the subject of their bigotry.
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Abba Irik @lamproterotatos.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
:/
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Abba Irik @lamproterotatos.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
There are a lot of cases where 4 10 works well. Education is not one of them.
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Abba Irik @lamproterotatos.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Abba Irik @lamproterotatos.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
We’ve really entered a conspiratorial age, haven’t we.
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Abba Irik @lamproterotatos.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
8 years of Barack HUSSEIN Obama would have been sufficient explanation for US pundits, but regardless.
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Abba Irik @lamproterotatos.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
As always:
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Abba Irik @lamproterotatos.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Stefan Molyneux seems to be doing well.
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Abba Irik @lamproterotatos.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I would not have become who I am without reading Tom Clancy’s batshittery as a 12 year old.
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Abba Irik @lamproterotatos.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Protestant: work yourself to death Confucian: work yourself to the brink of death so that you can work others to death
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Abba Irik @lamproterotatos.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Decades of alternativlos coming home to roost.
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Abba Irik @lamproterotatos.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I’ve worked in a pediatric clinic in a pretty wealthy area. It’s the same nonsense by educated people. They are not being dismissed; they are actively pushing back on doctors for the smallest of things.
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Abba Irik @lamproterotatos.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is what flirting looks like.
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Abba Irik @lamproterotatos.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
For Germany’s next trick, they will do absolutely fucking nothing about it.
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