Reposted by Lenoxusbranewave.bsky.social @branewave.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Originalism argues that we should follow the interpretive methodology of the Founders (not Originalism) 021
Reposted by LenoxusRafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 03/10/2026It drives me insane to see apparent progressives and leftists conflating ugliness and evil both because it’s wrong and because it’s nazi shit! That is one of their famous things! Stop it!! 327326
Reposted by LenoxusZoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Which makes me wonder to what extent the SCOTUS Republicans are just doing a more genteel version of Trump's core fuckup: they think they are now our Guardian Council and have no idea how to actually build legitimacy for authoritarian rule, ignorantly leaping off a bridge thinking they can fly. 731829
Reposted by Lenoxusjosh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Good news, I cured the problems we've been having 121728
Reposted by LenoxusJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I am the house motherfucker (I slide 4 billion dollars into T bills and bond yields immediately explode, its not clear what kind of move I was trying to do) 1047738
Reposted by LenoxusLiberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 28/09/2026"The evidence continues to grow. Social media, as it is currently constructed, redounds to the net benefit of illiberal regimes and their allies in democracies. The question is what to do about it." www.liberalcurrents.com/social-media... 13394119
Reposted by LenoxusAndrew Bennett @larthallor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Lot of ink being spilled over what is almost certainly just a quirk of how Trump talks. Trying to downplay the significance of selling arms to Taiwan he points out that we sell to lots of people. Very on brand for him to keep running his mouth and “offer” to sell to Xi just to reinforce his point. 021
Reposted by LenoxusThe Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Take every farmer’s land, sell it and use the proceeds to fund housing for asylum seekers. Just weeping a gnashing of teeth shit. Absolutely find a way to liberate HBO and stick Ellison with the debt. Liberate WaPo, liberate the Times, make them employee coops with three board seats for subscribers. 1391
Reposted by Lenoxusweeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't. 63107082532
Reposted by LenoxusNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Computer crimes are already illegal. I do not think “we knowingly deployed software we can’t control” is a legitimate defense against break those laws. 321013161
Reposted by LenoxusChatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Everyone loves promising lower taxes & voters love demanding lower taxes but they just don't do much politically for a country where taxes are already too low. The novelty is all off 0162
Reposted by LenoxusWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I think ‘rote memorization’ is underrated. Having a ton of shit laying around in your head leads to connections and being able to more precisely describe things. 2963552
Reposted by LenoxusMatt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I'm reminded of one of my favorite passages in Banerjee and Duflo's "Good Economics for Hard Times". "The goal of social policy, in these times of change and anxiety, is to help people absorb the shocks that affect them without allowing those shocks to affect their sense of themselves.." 213223
Reposted by LenoxusRobert Yang @radiatoryang.bsky.social · 01/10/2023AI-generated Garfield comics: good, the more monstrous the better AI-generated Calvin and Hobbes comics: sad, depressing AI-generated Family Circus: indistinguishable, passes the turing test 101153219
Reposted by LenoxusWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Never forgive them for what they did. Don’t let them do it to anyone else. Bring back all the stolen neighbors 114916
Reposted by Lenoxuseek @eke.bsky.social · 27/01/2026 i remember reading someone suggest that we smuggle effective open borders into the appearance of Order by just physically requiring presentation at checkpoints where you stand in a big line. i'm not sure this is the right idea but i think necessity of the theatre to sell it is weirdly accurate 041
Reposted by LenoxusCameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 01/02/2026all of the following are true: -99% open borders is the best immigration policy for the US and the world -voters will never allow this to happen -open borders or ICE gestapo is a false dichotomy -general amnesty is the only possible solution for current illegal immigrants 1540159
Reposted by LenoxusDisheveldYoshi @disheveledyoshi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I *think* what’s going on is the West has a threefold conception of the self: mind, body, soul While “soul” has fallen out of favor, people intuitively think about “the mind” as being separate from “the body,” and that becomes internalized as “the mind isn’t a physical thing” 3613
Reposted by LenoxusCadence “Not A Coffee Civet” Andrysiak @supportourpoops.bsky.social · 19/09/2026but that’s my emotional support defeatism 1963
Reposted by LenoxusEAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It's often a lot of work to explain, in your own words, how a position has been established. People, knowing this, will ask that of their interlocuters in bad faith trying to exhaust them so they can use the absence of a response to suggest they're right. So... 1142
Reposted by Lenoxusskáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026you almost tricked me with that hidden column of data but unfortunately for you i know there's a letter between E and G 1392
Reposted by LenoxusWill @thealpacalypse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026this is "boss baby tweet" material but I really cannot unsee how much the american ai debate is rooted in evangelical ideas about work, pain, and the unique human soul 0409
Reposted by Lenoxusshambibble @shambibble.com · 16/09/2026capabilities are now to where if you let "machine god" bullshit polarize you into "mechanical parrot" bullshit, you will be at best useless and at worst actively manipulable into things like unending screeching at people who still believe in aggressive regulation, just for different reasons 26310
Reposted by LenoxusARinSF @arinsf.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Ugh, used to listen to his podcast for a spell in the 2010s—Rogan’s, too—now they’ve all turned into the worst caricatures of themselves. Btw, Ana, this was excellent. newrepublic.com/article/2137...newrepublic.comThe Endless, Maddening Wait for a Woman PresidentWhy does the prospect of a female president just seem to get further and further away? 181
Reposted by LenoxusZach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Slight elaboration: a huge amount of poverty reduction in the last 50 years has been entirely down to China and India being better-run. But once you pick that fruit you're left with a lot of African countries still living in the fallout of the worst type of colonialism. 12279
Reposted by LenoxusDjinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 12/09/2026One thing that I've come to realize is that, thanks to the OpenAI boys, the "Doom Talk" seems to focus on physical human extinction, when the far more likely apocalypse is the DataKrash. 1012311
Reposted by LenoxusThe People Mover Who Was Promised @pmwwp.givesky.social · 09/09/2026We are returning to the days of Thomas Paine and Adam Smith when business deregulation and lower trade barriers was the left position and it was liberals vs feudalists/mercantilists. 0111
Reposted by LenoxusLucy @leftliblucy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Going to create "fascism is the cultural liberalism of fools" theory People get frustrated when centrist politicians refuse to deliver on trans rights and open borders, and so out of disillusionment with the establishment, they turn to people like Donald Trump and Nigel Farage 1111
Reposted by LenoxusMaterialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 05/09/2026you, foolish, nationalistic: free movement is bad because it reduces the wage premium I command for living somewhere with a labor shortage me, wise, socialist: free movement is good because it enables workers to exploit a labor shortage anywhere to bargain for higher wages locally 1373
Reposted by LenoxusDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/09/2026People have a lot of hazy nostalgic romantic nonsense notions about "farmland" in their heads. In reality it's just a different kind of big polluting industry. 31257
Reposted by LenoxusRichard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Write it on the blackboard a thousand times: they will have to demolish the ballroom, the arch and so forth. They will have to make a show of it. You will get the usual sons of bitches saying we don’t do that in this country. We do now. That is not emotion, it’s politics. To do less is dereliction. 1162958672
Reposted by LenoxusMikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Euro intelligence services really need to start intervening in our politics more 630344
Reposted by LenoxusGlonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I need to pay more taxes. You need to pay more taxes. Billionaires need to be taxed until they don't exist anymore. Then we use that revenue to pay for Medicare for All and a mass social housing construction program. 126428
Reposted by Lenoxusae @aelkus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026bsky is the place where an account called "Pisschrist Pikachu" does the Khmer Rouge "anyone with glasses should be shot" thing and then posts a link to their OnlyFans sexy Homestar Runner cosplay 741665
Reposted by LenoxusThe Real Chips McCoy @mylittlebluesky.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Don’t siege court reform, take it immediately 0202
Reposted by Lenoxusangus mcdrangus @hamdangus.bsky.social · 31/08/2026keep circulating the tapes 😢 0361
Reposted by LenoxusOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026"Besides being deeply cynical, Chomsky’s supposed pragmatism has not stood the test of time...We may have manufactured consent once upon a time, but America has long since transitioned to a post-manufacturing economy." Very harsh but worthwhile read. strangematters.coop/noam-chomsky...strangematters.coopChomsky After Epstein - Strange MattersNoam Chomsky – friend of Epstein, defender of dictatorships – was no model anti-imperialist. Can we do better? 561578357
Reposted by LenoxusWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Large portions of the data center backlash are based on moral panic, but the the tech right VC types upset by it are very funny considering how gleeful they were about the demise of ‘legacy’ media. What’s that? You’re missing epistemic gatekeepers who would place complex facts in context? Tough shit 391765322
Reposted by LenoxusSiobhán @shibbi.me · 30/08/2026Wait, I’m confused. You’re saying that there are valid structural critiques… of a system that was nevertheless good? This is a structure of argument I have never seen before, and it scares me. 2412
Reposted by LenoxusWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 27/08/2026God help the GOP if "Nazi infiltration of the Republican Party" ever becomes an obsessive media discourse object the same way "antisemitism on the left" has. Even the world's laziest reporter could find three of these guys on every campaign. It'll be shooting gallery. 19754122
Reposted by LenoxusMemento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 23/07/2026I would be giggling so bad hiding inside that trojan horse 1960367
Reposted by LenoxusTyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 21/07/2026All these places were outlawed or made inaccessible largely because they attracted 'bad elements', which is to say 'poor people'. That's the secret. They want the poor erased from existence, not by giving them anything but by marginalizing them to death 121112
Reposted by LenoxusComic Books Danny @comicbooksdanny.bsky.social · 17/07/2026"I'm on a 'sea people' diet… I see people, and I eat them!!" — Polyphemus 16913
Reposted by LenoxusShambling Corpse of Randy Herman @randyhermanlaw.com · 10/07/2026Monday you can make a peace Tuesday Wednesday trade and fleece Thursday maybe it will cease It's Friday I'm at war 528966
Reposted by LenoxusWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 20/07/2026when I hear someone say something like this I generally assume it’s just vibe history, an endorsement of an imagined version of a historical figure they have substituted in their head for the real one. like when Italians are excited for Columbus it’s for the mythical figure not for the genocide 1818915
Reposted by LenoxusJim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 16/07/2026Fascinating. Obviously I’m not clicking the link and scrutinising whether Gavin’s summarised it correctly because I’ve got more scrolling to do. 37613