Pre-war Holotapes @prewarholotapes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026A horse walks into a bar, the bartender asks "Why the long face?" The horse replies, "I have New World Screwworm and I'm in an immense amount of discomfort." *Bartender gets shot in an unrelated incident 110
Reposted by Pre-war HolotapesFunranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Cheryl has made a fine point. I, nor other safety professionals, have really said much about general safety precepts as they relate to AI, as opposed to the bullshit artist millenarian cultists that are happy to do so at length. One of the reasons is "These tools are an active detriment to safety." 8507155
Pre-war Holotapes @prewarholotapes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026war never changesmilitarytimes.comIranian strikes damaged hundreds of US military buildings, dozens of aircraftIranian strikes have damaged hundreds of U.S. military and diplomatic buildings, as well as dozens of aircraft, a Pentagon watchdog said. 000
Reposted by Pre-war HolotapesFunranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 09/09/2026It is so important to have people who can think like evil bastards without actually *being* evil bastards in your design loop. 49311
Pre-war Holotapes @prewarholotapes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Babe wake up, a new version of HOMES just dropped... We will now remember the Great Lakes using the acronym: SHAME 000
Pre-war Holotapes @prewarholotapes.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I have never felt less connected with my generation... must be doing something right. 010
Pre-war Holotapes @prewarholotapes.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Modernity has a deeper reverence for Homer Simpson than for Homer, but even still misunderstands the source material. 000
Pre-war Holotapes @prewarholotapes.bsky.social · 25/07/2026The U.S. is not a functioning democracy. It's not a functioning constitutional republic either. Situation is FUBAR. Situation is Mitch McConnell levels of braindead toast. 010
Pre-war Holotapes @prewarholotapes.bsky.social · 21/07/2026America today is the long lag effect of leaded gasoline, microplastics, and the hate-riddled "Southern Strategy" 000
Pre-war Holotapes @prewarholotapes.bsky.social · 15/07/2026As long as it doesn't replace the evergreen line "TROUBLE IN THE SUEZ" 000
Reposted by Pre-war HolotapesKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/07/2026What the actual fuck? Look, I'm sorry to keep saying this, but the president is clearly a dementia-ravaged necrotic husk of a man whose addled rants bear no actual resemblance to reality and I, for one, think that is concerning. 19250601247
Reposted by Pre-war HolotapesDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/07/2026The President, in times of peace, is requiring states to send soldiers to police the capital. That is a measure of an authoritarian state. 621275
Pre-war Holotapes @prewarholotapes.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Sure, that thing the fascists are doing this week is *really* bad... but wait 'til you see what's next 000
Pre-war Holotapes @prewarholotapes.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Realizing I don't even want a sequel to New Vegas, I just want @jesawyer.bsky.social to start a book club 000
Pre-war Holotapes @prewarholotapes.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Another day in our boring overshoot dystopia 020
Pre-war Holotapes @prewarholotapes.bsky.social · 30/06/2026People keep asking me today if I'm going anywhere for the 4th of July Yes, going into a spiral 💫 000
Pre-war Holotapes @prewarholotapes.bsky.social · 30/06/2026"No nation ever constituted so great a judicial power as the Americans—Extent of its prerogative—Its political influence—The tranquility and the very existence of the Union depend on the discretion of the seven Federal Judges." - Alexis de Tocqueville 031
Pre-war Holotapes @prewarholotapes.bsky.social · 26/06/2026I always wondered what would have happened if Nixon fought back, dug in and refused to leave, then his party rallied around him? It seems the Trump admin. is curious too. 000
Reposted by Pre-war HolotapesDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/06/2026New, from me: The stakes of the Reflecting Pool debacle seem simultaneously low enough to laugh about, but significant enough to gin up outrage. The mismanagement reflects seven broader themes of the Trump administration: 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-the-r...donmoynihan.substack.comWhat the Reflecting Pool Actually ReflectsAn American icon becomes a metaphor for an incompetent and corrupt presidency 24588154
Reposted by Pre-war HolotapesThe Onion @theonion.com · 23/06/2026Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For Legislating theonion.comArchaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For LegislatingWASHINGTON—Calling the discovery the “clearest proof yet” of how the U.S. government was originally designed to function, archaeologists published new evidence Thursday that suggests the Capitol build... 7196922148
Reposted by Pre-war HolotapesCheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Good morning team. Community is the counter to fascism. 06617
Pre-war Holotapes @prewarholotapes.bsky.social · 12/06/2026the past is just one second ago and the future is an eternity away 000
Reposted by Pre-war HolotapesPlague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 12/06/2026When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story. 8258062411
Pre-war Holotapes @prewarholotapes.bsky.social · 09/06/2026But, what's the point? Is 'life' the point? Is life for the sake of life a goal? Is biodiverse life the goal? Is a sustainable human population the goal? Objectively, this universe is either ordered and this is all happening for an unknown reason, or nothing fucking matters but loving each other. 000
Pre-war Holotapes @prewarholotapes.bsky.social · 09/06/2026“But here’s the thing: I’m a pioneer. And I’m going against the grain here. I’m climbing a mountain they say you can’t climb.” Here's the thing about that there Pandora's Box... I'm a pioneer. They say, don't open that. I'm going against the grain here. 000
Pre-war Holotapes @prewarholotapes.bsky.social · 05/06/2026accelerationist garbage peopleoilprice.comTrump Auction Opens Arctic Refuge Drilling Rights for First Time Ever | OilPrice.comThe Trump administration is auctioning off tracts in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge's Coastal Plain, following a record-breaking $163.7M NPR-A lease sale in March. 000
Pre-war Holotapes @prewarholotapes.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Somewhere growing from a cliffside is a single ripe strawberry and a traveler discovering it's delicious 000
Pre-war Holotapes @prewarholotapes.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Yes, things really are as bad as you think they are... acceptingcollapse.comacceptingcollapse.com Resilience and Acceptance in the Face of Collapse | A 9-Week Online or In-Person Course 010
Reposted by Pre-war HolotapesSerene Doomer @serenaribena.bsky.social · 20/05/2026'How nuclear war would impact global food system… The disruption to food system in a nuclear war scenario would happen through direct destruction, a colder climate, & cascading disruptions of food trade system… simulations predict a food prod. decline of up to 90%' thebulletin.org/2026/05/how-...thebulletin.orgHow nuclear war would impact the global food system. And how to prepare for itFood security expert Florian Ulrich Jehn explains how nuclear war would impact the global food trade, arguing that it is not morally misplaced for countries that do not possess nuclear weapons to prep... 162
Pre-war Holotapes @prewarholotapes.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Alt headline: "energy analyst promotes carbon cost accounting and nuclear deproliferation" 000
Reposted by Pre-war HolotapesProPublica @propublica.org · 04/05/2026Among the first agencies President Donald Trump gutted after taking office for his second term was a Department of Homeland Security team that had repeatedly disproved his stolen election claims.propublica.org8 Things You Should Know About Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm ElectionsFrom dismantling guardrails that upheld the integrity of past elections to gutting federal agencies and installing allies who supported Trump’s claim that the 2020 vote was stolen, here are the key ta... 111388717
Pre-war Holotapes @prewarholotapes.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Everyone make sure to read books this weekend, preferably old ones. 000
Pre-war Holotapes @prewarholotapes.bsky.social · 01/05/2026This man never experienced love and is making the world suffer for his trauma. 010
Pre-war Holotapes @prewarholotapes.bsky.social · 28/04/2026From where you're kneeling it must seem like an 18-carat run of bad luck. But, truth is... the game was rigged from the start. 010
Reposted by Pre-war HolotapesChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 27/04/2026How can people critically evaluate disinformation and misinformation if they literally don't know how to read at an adult level? 8926121
Pre-war Holotapes @prewarholotapes.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Caffeine made ants work systematically harder and accelerate their own ecological destruction? *glances around at humanity 010
Pre-war Holotapes @prewarholotapes.bsky.social · 23/04/2026media.tenor.coma black and white drawing of a man smiling in a circle .ALT: a black and white drawing of a man smiling in a circle . 000
Pre-war Holotapes @prewarholotapes.bsky.social · 23/04/2026The zero-accountability admin... Unaccountable to land use changes, unaccountable to the cost of carbon, unaccountable to polluted water and air. All marketing, no substance. 000
Reposted by Pre-war HolotapesKelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 07/04/2026I realize that the formal and legal mechanisms, designed as they to arrest the malfeasance of mere gunpowder kings, are too slow and clunky for the mad dreams of a thermonuclear monarch with a globe-spanning petroleum empire, but I'd still rather see them tried than resign myself to nothing. 07218
Reposted by Pre-war HolotapesJames Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 07/04/2026The Herodotus Trap, if you will. 16214
Reposted by Pre-war HolotapesMollz (ballz) @dopestatistics.bsky.social · 07/04/2026No offense history will not be kind to anyone in government from either party. You all fucking suck. 3786
Pre-war Holotapes @prewarholotapes.bsky.social · 07/04/2026The funny thing about war crimes, if the court condemning said crimes has no authority to judge or mechanism to enforce them, then the crimes become hot air. 000
Pre-war Holotapes @prewarholotapes.bsky.social · 07/04/2026acceptingcollapse.comacceptingcollapse.com Resilience and Acceptance in the Face of Collapse | A 9-Week Online or In-Person Course 000
Reposted by Pre-war HolotapesJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 05/04/2026Happy Easter, everyone. 49569115