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normiecore.bsky.social @normiecore.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

What even are my preferences? I don't even know until you present something to me. This is the death of art in general, the demand to cater every experience to what's already familiar to me. Unironically a fascist sentiment.

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normiecore.bsky.social @normiecore.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yes, which is why all the discourse about demanding difficulty modes, not liking timers and wanting to mod friction out of games bored me to no end. Games are cool PRECISELY because they demand you experience them on their terms. I deeply hate this trend of catering art to a person's interests.

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Liberal 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...

Social Media Has Not Brought Liberation

Social media has been a boon to autocratic regimes and their allied movements in democracies.

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normiecore.bsky.social @normiecore.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For all the talk of the establishment impeding El-Sayed or not getting behind him or whatever, they're the ones actually pulling their weight for him here. But I guess these progressives have more important things to worry about, like Ed Sheeran's lack of moral clarity on Palestine or whatever.

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normiecore.bsky.social @normiecore.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Leftists only care about the factional dispute, and Trump actually makes it so their brand of socialism is more likely to appeal to voters as fiery as combative. Once the Dem is beaten, enthusiasm dwindles. Platner's campaign was also broke when he dropped out. www.axios.com/2026/09/22/s...

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Democrats prod progressives to spend for El-Sayed

"I made an appeal to all of my colleagues in caucus to give," Sen. Elissa Slotkin told Axios.

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normiecore.bsky.social @normiecore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It was pretty awful TV after Season 2, but in hindsight it also attained a hilarity factor. Score was good, though. I'm not even a "the mysteries weren't answered!!" person, the show just makes no sense in general. It doesn't even have a set premise or internal logic.

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normiecore.bsky.social @normiecore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Lost wasn't a puzzle box, it was simply a dumpster in which Lindelof and Cuse threw thousands of cut up pieces that didn't fit every week, while fans desperately tried to make a coherent picture out of it, only to discover there never was one. Severance is hindered by actually having to make sense.

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normiecore.bsky.social @normiecore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Super cool write up! Seems like a game I'll get when it hits 40 bucks and spend a weekend with my wife next to me on the couch going "what the fuck??" at, which is always a good experience.

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normiecore.bsky.social @normiecore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I think most of his policy views are squarely within the "normie" sphere, which makes the reluctance to simply take the W on these kinds of questions even more annoying.

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normiecore.bsky.social @normiecore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yeah, so no good faith conversation to be had I guess.

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normiecore.bsky.social @normiecore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Not Bernie Sanders elevating and being advised by a crackpot that reflects badly on his character and judgement! This has to be a first!

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normiecore.bsky.social @normiecore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Absolutely. But we don't have to pretend the usual suspects approached said accomplishments with any sort of goodwill either. Everything was framed as either the minimum or not good enough.

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normiecore.bsky.social @normiecore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Lmao, this is such obfuscation. Leftists didn't give Biden an inch on labour, they called him a traitor that blocked the railroad workers strike.

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normiecore.bsky.social @normiecore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

No one gives a flying fuck now, ironically. I guess we're busy denouncing Ed Sheeran or whatever.

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normiecore.bsky.social @normiecore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Abdul El-Sayed is pretty close to a normie Dem and his victory is absolutely crucial in Michigan, but stop actively chasing banana peels to slide on, man. Just fucking say the IRGC is awful, Khamenei was a butcher, but that still doesn't justify Trump's intervention in Iran. Fucking done.

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normiecore.bsky.social @normiecore.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

AI won't simply disappear and if we want it to be regulated we better be fucking familiar with how it works and what its capabilities are. Right now it's exceedingly rare to hold an office job of any sort and not have come into contact with ChatGPT or Claude. We can't afford to be ignorant.

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normiecore.bsky.social @normiecore.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This is stupid. How can you even be against AI if you have no inkling of how it works or what it does? Do you believe people use ChatGPT because they're dumb drones or far right lunatics? Or because it's actually useful in some scenarios and we should recognize that when putting in guard rails?

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normiecore.bsky.social @normiecore.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I mean, which Democrat is Elon Musk funding? Where is the money flowing in from Peter Thiel to liberal and socdem parties in Europe? Just cut the fucking bullshit already, it's exhausting.

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normiecore.bsky.social @normiecore.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If they give money to both sides of the aisle, why is it that the techno fascists only "now" have those countries? Wouldn't they by definition then have had them (and every other country) already? These "both sides" ghouls can't even be consistent in their fuckery. Impressive.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/09/2026

Convincing young people that America is poor & no one can afford anything & everyone is living paycheck to paycheck & their economic future is doomed ... IS NOT GOING TO LEAD TO MORE PROGRESSIVE POLICY. People who feel anxious & under threat do not respond with openness & generosity! Look it up!

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normiecore.bsky.social @normiecore.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

As if the leftist movement in America is known in any way for their aggressive opposition to Donald Trump.

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normiecore.bsky.social @normiecore.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Hillary Scholten didn't commit to endorsing El Sayed, a position I disagree with, but a) not a statement that she'd prefer a Republican to win the seat due to ideological similarities and b) not dissimilar to the position some progressives took regarding Kamala (for instance, Rashida Tlaib's).

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normiecore.bsky.social @normiecore.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

And it sucks because this reverberates and creates this environment of persecution and paranoia among progressives and socialists who then will obviously feel justified in lashing out and being even more obnoxious towards liberals, here and elsewhere. But that's just what gets attention these days.

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normiecore.bsky.social @normiecore.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The post makes it seem as if this is a sentiment held by dozens of in office Dems, or people high ranking in the party. Where are they? Maybe it simply isn't true and you're taking what some people have said on Twitter and Twitch streams as representative of the party. Just maybe.

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normiecore.bsky.social @normiecore.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

And then you ask for a single example of a high profile Dem who has openly said they'd support a Republican over a progressive due to the GOP representing their values more closely and you won't get a response. Because we can just say things that sound true to a certain sect and they become reality.

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Elena Lazic @elazic.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Emily Wilson's piece on Christopher Nolan's THE ODYSSEY for the LRB went viral and was received very positively by many — but not by virtually every film critic I know. For @animusmagazine.bsky.social I wrote about why: animus-magazine.ghost.io/a-tale-as-ol...

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A Tale as Old as Time

Emily Wilson’s piece on Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey evinces an archaic perspective on cinema’s value as art

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normiecore.bsky.social @normiecore.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

You can govern in a way that shapes public opinion through policy. You won't change public opinion through a campaign. Electoral politics is meeting the voters where they already are, not where you'd like them to be. That's both fortunate and unfortunate.

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normiecore.bsky.social @normiecore.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Trump's position on immigration is the center in American politics. So is his position on policing. DSA's position on foreign aid to Israel very likely is now the center as well. The center isn't where moderate Dems/Bulwark writers are. It's not an ideological threshold.

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normiecore.bsky.social @normiecore.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The "center" isn't an abstract projection concocted by the DNC to browbeat progressives or whatever the fuck, it's whatever the median voter perceives it to be. If you don't get there, you're screwed. Period. Every single candidate has to moderate to win, yes, even GOP ones!

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normiecore.bsky.social @normiecore.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Both Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton were perceived by voters as more extreme and further away from their politics than Trump. That VERY LIKELY DOESN'T REPRESENT REALITY, AND YET THAT DOESN'T MATTER. Reality is what the voters put on the ballot box. You run to the "center" as in where voters are.

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normiecore.bsky.social @normiecore.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

People for some reason don't understand that politics is aesthetics first and foremost. I don't care if BlueSky understands Trump is a fascist, he won two elections by virtue of BEING SEEN BY THE ELECTORATE AS THE MODERATE CHOICE. We have actual polls and numbers on this. Look it up.

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normiecore.bsky.social @normiecore.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

It's all optics and bravado. I remember a time in which Fetterman was presented as being firmly in the "fight" axis as well. Wonder how that turned out.

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normiecore.bsky.social @normiecore.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Translators aren't script writers for a reason. I think it's incredibly silly of Wilson to come at a film under the lens of her work as if they set out to accomplish similar things. Her perspective is of course valid, but this reads as her enjoying the spot light a bit too much.

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normiecore.bsky.social @normiecore.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Just watched The Odyssey and want to relay this comment from my wife regarding Jon Bernthal's performance: "he always acts as if he's wearing a hoodie". Carry on.

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normiecore.bsky.social @normiecore.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The whole Mao debate is insane to me. How about we all agree that the kind of leader that ends up killing tens of millions through "mismanagement" is abhorrent and shouldn't be defended? Who gives a flying fuck about intentionality here? Isn't it just as bad an indictment on the ideology?

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Zerésima Rodrigues @melisandreunai.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

avengers doomsday - official trailer

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normiecore.bsky.social @normiecore.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

What gives away this specific game is the fact that the American left talks about "the working class" and not "the poor", as left wing parties in the global south do.

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Lilith Ferreyra-Carroll @trasinscneach.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Remember when all the gender criticals used to pretend that trans activists were being funded by billionaire George Soros to try discredit us and now we all know gender criticals are all being funded by billionaire JK Rawling? Funny how everything they accuse us of they actually do themselves.

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normiecore.bsky.social @normiecore.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

This specific intersection of leftist/islamist either doesn't give a shit about minorities or actively believe them to impede progress. Some may hide it better than others and Jilani at least is honest in giving away the game, but it's a more widely held position than you'd think.

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normiecore.bsky.social @normiecore.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Remember when MMT was popular during COVID? When leftists called Joe Biden a mass murderer for giving insufficient stimulus? There's no notion of a trade off for these people. Just never trust them. A Party that wants to be popular is one that understands price stability comers before anything else.

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normiecore.bsky.social @normiecore.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Never ever trust someone who says they'd gladly pay more for X if Y. It's always a lie. People just have an idea of how much a product/service should cost (i.e. a figure that would make their consumer preference always attainable) and everything breaks when prices deviate from that.

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normiecore.bsky.social @normiecore.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Because prices aren't exclusively a reflection of production costs, but a rise in production costs will be reflected in prices, everything else being equal.

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normiecore.bsky.social @normiecore.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The whole Austin comedy scene and its consequences have pretty much killed stand up, or at least mainstream stand up comedy.

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normiecore.bsky.social @normiecore.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Also, this looks so shoddily written as to be embarrassing. Yeah, I get why no one wanted the outside world to look at it. Reeks of incompetence.

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normiecore.bsky.social @normiecore.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

No mention of Gaza as a main culprit for the loss (which is what everyone was drooling for, let's be fucking honest), so I'm just waiting for the "its been tamperedwith/edited!!!" rhetoric to start, thus validating Martin's concerns with the public release in the first place.

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normiecore.bsky.social @normiecore.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

My guess is there's no way a game starting development now with a projected 4 year cycle will release without using AI assistance at any point. I think it's a dumb crusade that studios won't be able to follow through. Just be realistic and keep it away from the writing and art.

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