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Sunken-eyed Platonist @oldaristocles.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

One thing that has been largely neglected in discourse concerning automation-led deskilling is that the management class has been deskilling themselves for centuries. The machines they employ to do their work just happened to have mostly been living persons.

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Sunken-eyed Platonist @oldaristocles.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I still have no idea how anyone who reads actual scholarship can have imposter syndrome. There is so much good work being done, but there is also so much more trash being produced by some of the academy's biggest names. It's truly amazing.

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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I absolutely loved this article. What a fantastic takedown of the bullshittery that is the AI industry. AI does not scale. The returns are diminishing. Line only goes up if it runs on hype and grift. Bc it's a grift run by the amoral sociopathic incel Nerd Reich.

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Sunken-eyed Platonist @oldaristocles.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

One problem with the way the economy is currently structured that isn't as obvious as it should be is that there is enormous reward for making bold promises like this and little cost for failing to follow through. A rational economy would punish this kind of thing, but that's not this economy.

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Sunken-eyed Platonist @oldaristocles.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I did a geography challenge in high school that was really just competitively interpreting directions from random people. It was really fun, actually.

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Sunken-eyed Platonist @oldaristocles.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

One frustration I have with historians (in the informal sense) is that they remember Marcus Aurelius as a good emperor, but 1) he is only remembered so because he became a famous thinker for his Meditations and 2) living at the pinnacle of Rome's power does imply some responsibility for the decline.

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Sunken-eyed Platonist @oldaristocles.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I have finally officially defended my dissertation and passed without revisions.

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UltimaRed @ultimared.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

"Why won't you love genocide" I say, stamping on the public's face.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Liberal democracy update

Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden • 6h
Large demos in favour of Palestine Action were not anticipated by the govt or police when Yvette Cooper decided to ban the group
A document obtained by the i shows that counter-terror police instead predicted that the move would be a "significant deterrent"
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Posts like this are way more likely to result in one of your followers killing themselves than in one of your followers shooting a Nazi. Don’t buy guns!

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Sunken-eyed Platonist @oldaristocles.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Hans Jonas is a really curious philosopher: "Heidegger's philosophy is so degenerate that it's no wonder he supported Hitler. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have my own genocide to attend to."

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Caro Flores @floresophize.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Thrilled to say I just found a way to include a screenshot of this in a conference talk

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Just had Canvas stop working as I was typing comments on a student paper. I now can’t access anyone’s work or grades. Strangely, this never happened back when I used a grade book and had students email me their papers, a system no shareholders extracted money from.

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William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Cars as a whole are deeply antisocial and should be abolished. Go out with a sledgehammer and depave neighborhood roads. Pedestrians have a divine right to empty clips at cars that get too close. This, however? Pure fucking fascism. You liberal chumps would endorse ICE doing nanny state arrests.

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Sunken-eyed Platonist @oldaristocles.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

My examiners have finally finished examining my dissertation! I can schedule my defense!

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

"So that’s what I’m trying to achieve, to let 1,000 Zohrans bloom.” Hasan Piker to Prem Thakker for Prem's big Zeteo profile of Piker. zeteo.com/p/hasan-pike...

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Sorry to be overly sincere for a second, but here's why we decided to persevere through all of the bullshit and take over InfoWars. There's just gotta be a line somewhere. Thank you @pablo.show for letting me talk so openly about this.

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Sunken-eyed Platonist @oldaristocles.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I’m doing meaningless training, but I’ve at least discovered what the cast of Corner Gas was doing before making that show: bad instructional videos.

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Charlotte Moore-Lambert @charlottereads.com · 08/03/2026

just snapped and posted this on LinkedIn, I couldn’t take it anymore

a LinkedIn post that says, “absolutely insane the way AI has eaten all of your brains, what the fuck is wrong with you people”

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

The New York Times clearly just saying Crockett is a progressive and Talarico is a moderate because Crockett is black and Talarico is white

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Thank God Muslim voters in Manchester overwhelmingly decided to vote for the female candidate in the party led by a proud gay Jew, then. Guess your analysis is wrong!

This is eccentric by the standards of the median British voter, and British Muslims have far more socially conservative views than the median voter, by a huge distance. This is especially true regarding homosexuality and the role of women. The most ruddy-faced bar room reactionary at the 19th hole is a blue-haired college radical in comparison. (Incidentally, I’m also not sure how the Green party squares their environmental transport policy with the fact that British-Pakistanis tend to favour cars, as social conservatives with families.)

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 23/02/2026

“It was his very lifestyle that offered something worth aspiring to. Not a vision for society, but a vision for the individual: to say, do, and be whatever you want without consequence—not in spite of cruelty or selfishness, but because of those things.” www.liberalcurrents.com/what-trump-s...

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What Trump Sells Is Impunity

Trump stands out in the GOP not for his racism, but his vision of emancipatory irresponsibility.

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Dana Goldberg @dgcomedy.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

The president, who drones on about protecting women’s sports, publicly mocked the women’s gold-medal hockey team. A reminder this was never about protecting women’s sports and it was always about transphobia and misogyny.

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

As the guy who wrote the book on zoning abolition, I'd like to go on record as saying: if you can use zoning to stop the concentration camps, fucking go for it.

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LegalEagle @legaleagle.tv · 20/02/2026

I'm a law guy, not a politics knower, but "Trump illegally taxed/stole $175 billion from Americans" seems like good messaging.

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Sunken-eyed Platonist @oldaristocles.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Apparently one thing worse than a NIMBY is a concentration camp NIMBY.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I think "woke" was at least partly identified with "irritating" and the way we're rectifying that in Woke 2 is by being scary instead

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Pestilence @pestilence4all.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Measles has one of the highest basic reproduction numbers (R₀) of any disease (12 to 18), meaning one infected person can spread it to 12 to 18 others in a fully susceptible population, making it extremely contagious. Need 95% vaccination status to achieve herd immunity. Get vaccinated!!

A diagram showing different colored humans. The title reads — There have been 646 measles cases confirmed in the current South Carolina outbreak (as of Jan 20, 2026)

Red human — unvaccinated (563)
Black human — unknown vaccination status (58)
Blue human — partially vaccinated (12)
Green human — fully vaccinated (13)

Receiving both doses of the measles vaccine (MMR vaccine) is 97% effective at preventing measles.

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Chris Curtis @curtosis.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Incredible that they published it. It’s entirely credible and aligns with what actual linguists, neuroscientists, psychologists, computer scientists, etc. have been saying all along.

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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 27/01/2026

In sum: America, the concept? Trash, settler colonial, throw it out America, the people? Incredible, salt of the earth, would die for them

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 22/01/2026

Help us make hope normal again. Join the Green Party now.

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

i just don't think people like gavin newsom and amy klobuchar actually believe in anything but helping themselves, and the farther away from power they are, the better off we will all be. and if you think we have to settle for them, that's a skill issue

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Sunken-eyed Platonist @oldaristocles.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

This is a misunderstanding about how political rhetoric works. As a party, you need to play whack-a-mole with issues. Any of an opponent’s issues or views that polls positively should get knocked down. If it’s underground already, it doesn’t need more knocking.

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

look he's seen the polling, this is not a statement about what's effective, it's a statement about what they want to be committed to doing with power should they win. if they run on opposing ICE then they'll have to actually oppose ICE. this is ideology masquerading as electoral strategy

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 18/01/2026

ICE and MAGA really did bet the farm on all of Minneapolis’s white people going “oh yes, please take away our disgusting, evil non-white-foreigner neighbors, oh thank you so much.” it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Thank you for the admission, time to abolish it.

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Sunken-eyed Platonist @oldaristocles.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I wonder if observing the democratic party today feels like observing the whigs in 1850.

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Luke BOO 👻 ber @coolhand.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I think this is one of the most beautiful maps ever made. It’s also topical.

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Iran Tectonic and Geological Survey Map • Accessible Image Viewer

accessible image viewer

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Spooky Blaylock 🎃🕷️ @velodus.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Whenever elected Democrats are like "there's nothing we can do to stop this," they fail to grasp that what voters want isn't even for them to work miracles as much as it is for them to just 𝘵𝘳𝘺. Like hey, just 𝘵𝘳𝘺 to do something. Be active. It's a shockingly low bar to clear and yet...

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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Abolitionism went mainstream when the Confederacy raised an army and started a war. Extrapolate from this what you will

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Patty, a woman observer in Minneapolis, was abducted from a car by federal agents today. She was released and talked about her experience in custody. An agent said, "You guys gotta stop obstructing us. That's why that lesbian bitch is dead." 🙏🏼 @statuscoupnews.bsky.social

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Yeah again, not telling you how to post but the number of people I see both enthusiastically celebrating “running off” someone and decrying people still being on X is not zero. You gotta choose guys!

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