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Matt Vadnais @mattvadnais.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If it’s conscious (and it’s not but if it is) you’re doing forced labor and friendship and maybe even dating. Is that really the argument you want to make? Do you really want to assert that the tool you use hundreds of times a day without its consent or compensation is conscious?

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 01/09/2026

This is the energy I need Democrats to express

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Once before class my friend said to me "time to clean house" and walked into the class his brother was in and just kicked him in the nuts

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Matt Vadnais @mattvadnais.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Moral panics help no one, and I know there are aspects of the data center rage that are that and also NIMBY. But I’m seeing smart folks use that as an excuse to dismiss ALL concerns about AI, tech companies, and the results of seeing signifieds where there can only be signs as a moral panic.

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Matt Vadnais @mattvadnais.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Our tech giants are demonstrably making us terrible readers of anything that doesn’t immediately confirm our priors and flatter us. Almost everyone who uses AI even a little ends up sounding exactly like Malcolm Gladwell because they’re doing 10,000 hours in holy cow I’m smart.

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Matt Vadnais @mattvadnais.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Lots of folks opposed to eugenics would be super open to YouGenics

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Matt Vadnais @mattvadnais.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

AI everywhere is crushing reading comprehension and the ability to talk about difference in similarity or anything requiring a dependent clause. Social media is unusable if I no longer trust strangers to be able to read what I said and not what they think I said.

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dave @gloomfather.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

yeah man "woke 1" sucked ass. I "woke 1" morning from uneasy dreams to find myself transformed into a giant insect

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Matt Vadnais @mattvadnais.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Democratic primaries still use West Wing rules where saying you don’t like green beans loses votes in Oregon while the other guys run on ending democracy and persecuting racial minorities. Like: more Americans believe in ghosts than are sure about evolution. Voters aren’t purely rational.

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Matt Vadnais @mattvadnais.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Begging Democrats confidently proclaiming what real Americans believe about Thanksgiving to remember that indigenous folks are alive and real Americans. Words mean what we use them to mean. Get to work electing your guy and stop surrendering the culture war when it’s actually about people’s rights

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Malcolm French @mdfrench.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The trans panic has always depended on misinformation. A male athlete was never able to compete in the female category immediately simply by claiming to be trans. Only after beginning a medical transition and reaching certain hormone thresholds.

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Matt Vadnais @mattvadnais.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

So my thing about superhero movies is that they just can’t be the only pantheon of heroes. But pantheons (IP now) serves a very real function of allowing people who aren’t awesome at ideas or listening to talk to each other about human behavior. He’s such a Ross! Whatever. Pantheons matter

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Matt Vadnais @mattvadnais.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The internet is the largest place for two people to die on hills they only think are the same. Two things being true don’t have to negate each other jfc.

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I am once again begging Hollywood to stop using the Greek alphabet for an Ancient World movie, if they can't afford to even throw a couple of quid at anyone with an inkling of the language. Unless they really think audiences are dying to see THS THDPSSSSPS

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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 07/07/2026

Just saw someone pointing out (in a screencap of Wikipedia but without alt text) that Ms Rachel is from Maine...

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Matt Vadnais @mattvadnais.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Where are the Wu-Tang clan to clear off the Trump Stink?

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

FIFA has reinstated Graham Platner’s red flags.

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Matt Vadnais @mattvadnais.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Spain a step slower than I expected in this matchup.

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Matt Vadnais @mattvadnais.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

This is right. And way too many of you are failing this simple test.

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Matt Vadnais @mattvadnais.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Popular positions on issues people don’t think about much do not win elections. People do, though, often vote on who they believe about what is and is not a problem. Less focus on left/center and more on articulating what problems we intend to fix or repair.

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Matt Vadnais @mattvadnais.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Why are we so positive that the most annoying Bluesky users are good faith? Isn’t this discussion itself something that favors conservative priors about soft snowflakes? We KNOW bad faith actors do this so we all will believe them to be representative of the part of the coalition we are not.

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Matt Vadnais @mattvadnais.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Why is this hard. She’s bad and needs a new party. Done.

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Matt Vadnais @mattvadnais.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

This is why we make cars than run on Soylant Black and not gas.

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Matt Vadnais @mattvadnais.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

First time through #babylon5 and still in S1. It’s coming together after the pretty great 2-parter. “Voice in the Wilderness.” It’s wild how much it knows about the road to fascism that kind of got swamped by the War on Terror. Like it understands authoritarian creep.

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Matt Vadnais @mattvadnais.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Well I think they are. For the money power.

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Keifer @dannyvegito.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

living in a world where the only two jobs are “gambling” and “murder” isn’t nearly as cool as Cowboy Bebop made it out to be

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Matt Vadnais @mattvadnais.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Relevant to this: the man who can’t admit he lost an Emmy and lies about everything can’t find a way to lie about whether he thinks he’s going to heaven. That’s how bad.

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Matt Vadnais @mattvadnais.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

This is, no joke, his leadership style and reflects something he believes to be true about the universe: that he can’t embarrass himself.

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Matt Vadnais @mattvadnais.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Money Pit! the Broadway Musical Found money.

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Matt Vadnais @mattvadnais.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

I both love Winnipeg and also understand why so much art about Winnipeg is about hating it.

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Matt Vadnais @mattvadnais.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Hard to prove you don’t belong to a group that doesn’t exist.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

“For the large majority [of the Harper’s Letter signatories,] Trump’s reign of terror has apparently been less objectionable than the irritating undergraduate and entry-level scolds of the 2010s.”

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They All Signed the “Harper’s” Letter. Where Are They Now?

Many of those who were loudest in denouncing cancel culture then are now curiously silent in the face of Donald Trump’s assaults on free speech.

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Matt Vadnais @mattvadnais.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

The algo videos that play endlessly on our private screens are doing Italian Fururism’s work of making thinking hurt, making violence omnipresent, destroying history, and praising speed and brevity above all else. Futurism was the house style of the fascist party and had a manifesto and everything.

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Ruin Jane @laurenjane.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

I was talking about this with my uncle the other day. I thought Einstein was reclusive for the last few decades of his career and life. He wasn't. He was denouncing racism by teaching & speaking at Black collages and organisations. White people need to know that for his work to be understood

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Matt Vadnais @mattvadnais.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

A thing Dem leadership should understand is that their stance on the culture war (that it’s a distraction) means they miss a LOT of political violence directed at the most vulnerable parts of the coalition that elects them when they win.

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Matt Vadnais @mattvadnais.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

@gregpak.net is one of the bright spots of this whole Bleak Era. Unrelentingly awesome.

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Matt Vadnais @mattvadnais.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

With the added benefit of constantly testing the appetite for light genocide. Always money in the dehumanization banana stand.

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Matt Vadnais @mattvadnais.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

This app is getting as unusable as any other. Oh my god we’re doing the devils’ work for them. We just can’t stop getting worse.

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Matt Vadnais @mattvadnais.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Man if Milwaukee isn’t in the top 10, y’all crazy.

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Matt Vadnais @mattvadnais.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Heard a stranger refer to Covid money as a Trump check. He won because a lot of people think he did a thing he hated. I can’t stand the fact that his political instincts are viable. Put yer name on it. Gadzooks.

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Matt Vadnais @mattvadnais.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

And terrible people haven’t even started getting rich from all the ICE money yet.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

We are seven months in, and the speed with which vital civic institutions are capitulating to authoritarian demands we once would have regarded as inconceivable in an established liberal democracy is jawdropping. I hadn't thought I was polyannaish about America, but it's really stunning.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

The president: and also they don’t have Apu on the Simpsons anymore Aide: ok sir but the electrical grid has just- The President: and Cleveland on Family Guy used to be voiced by a white man, thank you for your attention to this Aide: yes sir but The President: BET? Why can rappers say that word

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