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Luke Bretscher

@luciusvoltaic.bsky.social
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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Woody Guthrie: *incisive pro-worker, anti-fascist commentary* Also Woody Guthrie: Oouuwwhh I'm a good ole Cowboy Hobo, I been eaten by Two Hunnerd Rattlesnakes, pow pow chicky chicky whack a doodle dilly
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026
SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:
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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The excesses of the Woke 1 era mostly amount to cringe public statements, harmless vocabulary updates and loss of prestige for public figures. The backlash to Woke 1, on the other hand, is imprisoning dissidents, dismantling public education and eroding democracy. That's what needs reckoning
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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Finally the IRL politicians are starting to catch up to BlueSky
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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
King 👑
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
In the realm of questions posed during Senate hearings, this one from Ossoff -- "Isn't it humiliating to be unable to answer this?" -- ranks right up there with "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?"
Isn't it humiliating to be unable to answer this question, to have MR. KELLY

MR OSSOFF
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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Refusing to let the robot teacher fuck is a coward's move. Consider: George Lucas didn't give C-3PO a massive brass schlong* and the poor guy ended up neurotic and scared constantly. R2-D2 meanwhile has an electric dick and is the swaggeringest droid alive. *except on that one trading card
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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Come on bro just one more offensive it will definitely work this time
Tobias: Many leaders have tried to break the morale of civilian populations by strategic bombing.
Lindsay: Well, did it work for those people? 
Tobias: No, it never does...but it might work for us.
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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Minced oaths are objectively so wild. Like wdym certain words are prohibited but you can use similar words as simulacra to get some of the fun without the shame
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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
PRES. BUSH: So do y'all think we should invade Iraq? THE DELPHIC ORACLE: If you make the wrong decision, then in 25 years the people who hate us for our freedom will rule America.
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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Was just listening to a 2024 ep of BtB (about Peter Thiel IIRC). Hosts joked about dick pills before going to ads, then about trying to get Hims to advertise after the break. The first ad served in the intervening break was for...Hims. A cosmic joke played on @iwriteok.bsky.social 's past self
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HELL WIZARD @pyramidmaster.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
I like doing old timey bdsm. that’s where I burn you with torches and stab you with my sharpened stones tied roughly to crooked branches
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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 25/03/2026
OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚
photograph or a poster on cream colored paper. "Dear President Ambar,
we are writing to you on a typewriter that is over 70 years old. This is a
machine that we all know well. With it, we misspell words without the crutch of spell check or generative AI and we think intently about every phrase we pound out. As we force ourselves, for once, to slow down, we engage in a cognitive dialogue with ourselves. We do not seek perfection because we know that education is about the growing and challenging of our young minds' potential, not the chasing of institutional 'gold-star' approval. We do not believe that your so-called 'Year of AI Exploration; providing enterprise ChatGPT and Google Gemini subscriptions to every Oberlin student aligns with our college's founding principles. You claim that this year will be one of experimentation, not adoption. But even just one semester of accepted (encouraged even) chat bot use will jettison our student body down a lazy and irredeemable tunnel of intellectual destruction. We are a college grounded in learning and labor, which now risks straying from these rooted ideals. With ChatGPT at the helm, our emails, essays,and discussion posts will be generated for us, not by us. And let's not fool ourselves. This is precisely what these platforms will be used for by our busy, anxious student body. We see your vision for this year as.advancing the college's 'businessification'--an alarming trend also seen in the takeover of our beloved library cafe by a 'bookstore' with no books in stock and an app replacing customer service. In one instance, the college assumes we want efficiency at all costs through automated rather than hand pulled coffee. In the other lies the false belief that we simply desire to turn in an essay, regardless of how little we've written of it." there's more that doesn't fit in the 2000 character limit :(
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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Some cops more than others
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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
This came into my head and would not leave
ROBERT BARATHEON: What about Aerys Trogdoryen? What did the Mad King say when you stabbed him in the back?
JAIME LANNISTER: He said the same thing he had been saying for hours...
AERYS TROGDORYEN: Burninate them all.
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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
"President controls gas prices" factoid actually just statistical error. Inflations Georg, who starts over 10,000 trade wars every day, is an outlier and should not have been counted
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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
This is genuinely one of the best reasoned pieces of writing on US-Taiwan relations by anyone running for Congress I’ve seen in recent years. Even as someone who believes that strategic ambiguity has value in 2026. Everyone, go check out @katmabu.bsky.social!
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Matthew Highton @matthighton.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
If Bilbo had Chat GPT
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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Well this is unsettling but I don't think I can poke any holes in it
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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
I know which of these two guys I would say is doing real art here www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
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Alaska Art Student Arrested for Eating Another Student’s AI-Generated Art in Protest
A University of Alaska student was charged with a misdemeanor for eating another student's AI-generated art in protest.
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 15/01/2026
Demonstrators apparently retrieved from the cars belonging to ICE these "challenge coins" that ICE mercenaries receive when they carry out arrests. This one is decorated with a skull wearing a crown. ICE mercenaries serve king death. They are evil incarnate.
A "coin" with a skull on it, held in a gloved hand.
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
THUCYDIDES: In my book I described the Sicilian Expedition where you invade a basically random and sort of distant country to try to loot it as a cautionary tale DIPSHITS: At long last, we have done the Sicilian Expedition from the classic of military history Don't Do The Sicilian Expedition
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 03/01/2026
if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live
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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
The funny side of this nightmare scenario is that he's dumb enough to just admit that it's all for oil
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
I'm glad that Congress isn't alive to see this
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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Wenceslas's corollary: Ye who now will airstrike the poor, shall yourselves have an uncomfortable time in the hereafter.
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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Merry Christmas to all
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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Blinded by the light Quirked up with the sauce, A white boy goated in the night
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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Me as a kid: Ha ha Bob and Larry Me now: Wait, was "The Yodeling Veterinarian of the Alps" taking a swing at anti-vaxxers?
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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Please I'm begging
Trade offer! US receives: walkable cities. UK receives: street signs.
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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
An omen, an omen, send for the javamancer at once
Cup of coffee wherein has fallen a small box of Milk Duds
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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Why isn't noon at 1:00. Shouldn't the 12th hour of the morning be in the morning
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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Yeah bro you gotta read this book, it's called uhhhh, The Protocols of the Elder Queers of something or other
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Antonio @antonio442.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
The Liberal Project spans centuries and is larger than any one country! The fight for individual liberties and true social virtue is not lost we have to reclaim our Truth!!!!
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Incredible image. Also incredible that the vast majority of white Christians in this country align with the men in camo.
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Abbie Richards @abbierichards.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
THE HYPOCRISY IS THE POINT!!
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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
It keeps happening 😅
The Good Place cactus meme template.
Janet ("Rumor Mill"): I got the liberal transgender murderer.
Michael ("Media"): Is it actually a right-wing weirdo?
Janet: I don't understand.
Michael: You have a liberal transgender murderer, not another right-wing weirdo?
Janet: That is correct. I have a liberal transgender murderer, not a right-wing weirdo.
Michael: Alright, let's see them.
Janet: *hands him the word "GROYPER"*
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Talia al Ghoul 🏳️‍⚧️ @usili.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
visenyaism:

Had to ban the phrase "tricky dick" from my classroom during watergate lesson because saying the word dick in front of 30 fifteen year olds is like lighting a bomb and throwing it through the doorway but now they're just calling him Richard the Treacherous like they're all medieval peasants. gonna lose it.

visenyaism:

an image that shows the man pulling the date meme with the woman saying "Richard the Treacherous has attempted usurpation and must be stopped at all costs" with the calendar date showing it ripped from 1972 to reveal the actual date of June 1483.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 11/09/2025
Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus
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Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus
OREM, UT—As law enforcement officials search for a person of interest in the assassination of 31-year-old Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk, witnesses on the scene at Utah Valley University ad...
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
This sort of ties into another idea I’ve been kicking around, that if I was an actual theorist I’d take a shot at writing up coherently: we have freedom of the id, when we need freedom of the superego. We live in the tyranny of revealed preferences, totally disregarding expressed ones as legitimate.
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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Pritzker khan pritzker khan
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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/08/2025
Bowser: "I think I speak for all Americans -- we don't believe it's legal to use the American military against American citizens on American soil."
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
🧵🧵🧵 In this thread, I lay out more than a dozen facts about Trump and his child-molester friends Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. I challenge you to read the whole thread and then decide what the odds are that Trump did not abuse girls or tolerate his pals Epstein and Maxwell doing so.
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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
RIP to a true legend
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University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk · 16/07/2025
After 130 years, Cambridge #scholars have decoded a Chaucerian mystery – the frequently referenced Song of Wade was not a monster-filled epic but a chivalric romance. Drs James Wade and @sebfalk.com from‬ @girtoncollege.bsky.social reveal all: www.cam.ac.uk/stories/song... #Latin #English
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Lost English legend decoded, solving a Chaucerian mystery and revealing a medieval preacher’s meme
Decoding a lost English legend, solving a Chaucerian mystery, and revealing a medieval preacher’s meme
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