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

I, too, expect pushback when I say dumb things

Two panel comic of someone being laughed at for pissing their pants, followed by that person saying "Heh. Rent Free"

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piell.bsky.social @piell.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The AKC didn't make a statement about it, it's from a random google AI summary

Tweet reading "I hate that I had to google it, but it is impossible to train a dog to sexually assault a human being according to the American Kennel Club.

So Nicholas Kristof is a sublime idiot for reporting that this happened."

The tweet has an embedded image of a google AI summary

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piell.bsky.social @piell.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Stancil's other issue is he sees people getting mad at him as validation - if lots of people are mad at him that proves he isn't audience captured.

Tbh I am obviously subject to the social media reward structure, which is why I paradoxically can feel more confident that I'm at least thinking for myself when everyone is angry at me. The abuse sucks but it's the POSITIVE reinforcement that truly breaks people for good

my view is that unless people are yelling at you, you're probably being captured by your audience. eventually your audience will want you to say things that seem obviously incorrect, the emotional incentive is to reduce friction by saying it, and the best bulwark is probably just stubbornness. I guess the risk here is you brain starts to view conflict as a reward - evidence of your own rightness - so I also sort of think that it's important that the conflict still make you miserable. basically the key to avoiding audience capture is to be eternally stuck in a hell of your own creation

As far as I can tell the only way to be sure you’re not just saying what you know your audience wants to hear is if your audience clearly doesn’t want to be hearing it

Kind of yes, actually: most commentators are audience captured. They say the things they know their audience wants to hear, which is why they keep it. They are providing a certain kind of content, and can’t really deviate from that content. I am unusual in that my audience hates me.

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piell.bsky.social @piell.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Yeah, he's said this numerous times bsky.app/profile/whst... bsky.app/profile/whst... bsky.app/profile/whst...

WHAT ARE THE EFFECTS FOR POLITICAL MESSAGING?

you have to navigate the fragmented environment. any single message on a single platform will have a tiny audience. the best way to reach a large audience is to have your message REPEATED across many platforms. that dramatically changes the kinds of messages that are most effective. the consideration of "what sort of message will the largest number of people find agreeable?" now has to be balanced against "what sort of message will be repeated, discussed, shared, talked about the most?" in practice, you have to balance the imperative of broad appeal against the imperative of virality. a very appealing message, that doesn't induce people to share it, will reach a much smaller audience than a more controversial message that gets talked about across many platforms.

I can tell you why: because social media gives you attentional reward if you go viral, and if you post enough, you realize that really overheated, doomy stuff, particularly aimed at establishment targets, reliably goes viral. So you end constantly trying to fit every idea into that frame I know this because I have been quite successful at getting stuff to go viral by putting it in an outraged, doomy frame, often aimed at establishment Democrats. The frustration was real and I stopped when I felt they were doing better. But that TONE - it was finetuned for max audience reach

This is literally the entire ballgame in digital media. You have to pick messages that get shared and go viral, or you will have no audience, no matter how often you post or advertise. You can dump 500 million dollars into modern media and have an effective viewership of 0. There is no magic Posting Schedule that will break you out of this. You have to be interesting, authentic, compelling. Conflict draws eyeballs. Blunt honesty draws eyeballs. "I can't believe he just said that" draws eyeballs.

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piell.bsky.social @piell.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

lol it's for the seashell post

Former FBI Director James Comey was indicted Tuesday over a photo of seashells officials said threatened President Donald Trump, marking the administration’s second attempt to prosecute one of his largest political opponents, three sources first told CNN.

James Comey's instagram post of "86 47" written with seashells

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piell.bsky.social @piell.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Why are you lying so transparently? You already said it deserved an 18/25, which honestly really gives away the game that you aren't approaching this in good faith.

Skeet from Anthony reading "I think 18/25 and focus on the lack of engagement with the assignment in detail and move along."

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piell.bsky.social @piell.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

That explicitly happened and Palmeri still asked questions she knew Kat wouldn't answer for legal reasons.

Before we started, she mentioned that there were some things she couldn’t discuss because it’s an ongoing legal case. That’s normal.

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piell.bsky.social @piell.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Give it up and find a different candidate who didn't work at abu ghirab, work for blackwater, and had a nazi tattoo www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...

Platner went to the United States Marine Corps School of Infantry and deployed to Iraq in 2005. “It was a relatively calm deployment for the first few months, mostly because the Battle of Fallujah just happened, and much of the insurgent activity in the area had been crushed in that fight,” he told me. Later, while he was on patrol at Abu Ghraib, there was an attack on the prison. (It was nearly two years after human-rights abuses were first reported at the prison; Platner was not involved.) “That was my first real taste of combat,” he said. It was an odd juxtaposition discussing Platner’s experiences in the Iraq War while looking out at the islands on Frenchman Bay. “I loved infantry combat,” he said. “It was like this kind of high-stakes game where everything you do matters and you need to make decisions under immense amounts of stress that are going to impact both your life, but more importantly, the lives of your men.”

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piell.bsky.social @piell.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

It's a "celtic knot" apparently. Comedy option is it's a celtic cross www.adl.org/resources/ha...

With some kind of Celtic knot with a dog on it, because that's far more in line with my opinions about nature and animals now than my connection to the violence that I partook in when I was a young man.

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piell.bsky.social @piell.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

New order, I'm kinda worried they didn't actually turn the plane that was in the air around and are waiting for it to land and say "oh too late"

MINUTE ORDER: The Court ordered the Defendants to file a status report by August 31, 2025, at 4:00 PM. They have not done so. The Court ORDERS the Defendants to show cause why a status report was not filed by that deadline. The Defendants remain under their obligation to file a status report addressing the current status of the deplaning of putative class members. If all class members have not been deplaned and moved back to the custody of ORR, the Defendants should advise when they expect that to occur. The Court further ORDERS the Plaintiffs to file a status report by August 31, 2025, at 6:30 PM, that addresses their understanding of whether the putative class members have been deplaned and moved to ORR. Signed by Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan on 8/31/2025. (lcak)

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piell.bsky.social @piell.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Matt Yglesias follower label doesn't miss

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piell.bsky.social @piell.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

there's a third article asking people to give them material for a fourth article

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piell.bsky.social @piell.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Hogg isn't supporting her challenger

I have no idea where the rumor that Leaders We Deserve or myself is challenging Rep. Lauren Underwood came from but it is absolutely false. We will not be backing a primary challenge against her and anything you hear to the contrary is not true. She’s one of the best members of Congress we have.

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piell.bsky.social @piell.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Hogg isn't primarying Underwood

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piell.bsky.social @piell.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

He's not primarying here, you're just lying.

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piell.bsky.social @piell.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

and also bsky.app/profile/kent...

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piell.bsky.social @piell.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

You can just search for the document for it you know, "N.Y.Times" shows up multiple times (there are more but the image limit is 4) www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

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piell.bsky.social @piell.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

it seems they're just really dumb

Tweet reading "Micha, I respect you, but why are you doing calls with a self described race realist?" and Micah Erfan responding "Where does he describe himself as that"

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piell.bsky.social @piell.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

it seems that Micah Erfen at least is indeed just that dumb

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piell.bsky.social @piell.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Just checking, is it helpful for getting past the SLAPP stage if you say you're looking to waste their time and aren't necessarily looking to win

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piell.bsky.social @piell.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

That isn't true, though, the NOVA classification absolutely considers it ultraprocessed if it has a single ingredient they think is bad.

Ultra-processed foods are operationally distinguishable from processed foods by the presence of food substances of no culinary use (varieties of sugars such as fructose, high-fructose corn syrup, 'fruit juice concentrates', invert sugar, maltodextrin, dextrose and lactose; modified starches; modified oils such as hydrogenated or interesterified oils; and protein sources such as hydrolysed proteins, soya protein isolate, gluten, casein, whey protein and 'mechanically separated meat') or of additives with cosmetic functions (flavours, flavour enhancers, colours, emulsifiers, emulsifying salts, sweeteners, thickeners and anti-foaming, bulking, carbonating, foaming, gelling and glazing agents) in their list of ingredients.

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piell.bsky.social @piell.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

If you add whey protein, fruit juice concentrates, corn syrup, to anything it immediately becomes category 4, ultraprocessed. Hell, if you drop a pinch of salt onto an egg it becomes category 3

Industrially manufactured food products made up of several ingredients (formulations) including sugar, oils, fats and salt (generally in combination and in higher amounts than in processed foods) and food substances of no or rare culinary use (such as high-fructose corn syrup, hydrogenated oils, modified starches and protein isolates). Group 1 foods are absent or represent a small proportion of the ingredients in the formulation. Processes enabling the manufacture of ultra-processed foods include industrial techniques such as extrusion, moulding and pre-frying; application of additives including those whose function is to make the final product palatable or hyperpalatable such as flavours, colourants, non-sugar sweeteners and emulsifiers; and sophisticated packaging, usually with synthetic materials. Processes and ingredients here are designed to create highly profitable (low-cost ingredients, long shelf-life, emphatic branding), convenient (ready-to-(h)eat or to drink), tasteful alternatives to all other Nova food groups and to freshly prepared dishes and meals. Ultra-processed foods are operationally distinguishable from processed foods by the presence of food substances of no culinary use (varieties of sugars such as fructose, high-fructose corn syrup, 'fruit juice concentrates', invert sugar, maltodextrin, dextrose and lactose; modified starches; modified oils such as hydrogenated or interesterified oils; and protein sources such as hydrolysed proteins, soya protein isolate, gluten, casein, whey protein and 'mechanically separated meat') or of additives with cosmetic functions (flavours, flavour enhancers, colours, emulsifiers, emulsifying salts, sweeteners, thickeners and anti-foaming, bulking, carbonating, foaming, gelling and glazing agents) in their list of ingredients.[10]

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piell.bsky.social @piell.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

8% of Americans think they could beat a gorilla solo, that's 8 dudes you could send in as the first wave, you're fine.

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piell.bsky.social @piell.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

There isn't an actual denial that he doesn't want people to go there, though.

Whether Jeffries believes having House Democrats physically go to El Salvador will help or hinder efforts to get Abrego Garcia back is not addressed either in Stephenson’s statement or his own comments following the Supreme Court decision.

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piell.bsky.social @piell.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

And thus a compromise was made that included slavery as a founding principle in the constitution, thus showing Stancil was wrong! Also, you know, the fugitive slave clause.

Article IV, Section 2, Clause 3 of the Constitution:

No Person held to Service or Labour in one State, under the Laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in Consequence of any Law or Regulation therein, be discharged from such Service or Labour, but shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such Service or Labour may be due.

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piell.bsky.social @piell.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Also considering your job, you'd think you'd be better at considering the evidence here.

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piell.bsky.social @piell.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Government was arguing that "DOGE employees" is only people working directly for DOGE. Judge says no, it's everyone working on behalf of DOGE even if they're volunteers or working for DOGE in other departments, and you have to give the requested information on those people too