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Tiglath-Pileser the Nerd

@proteanme.bsky.social
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Emphatically unemployed dad and haver of opinions. My rising sign is inscrutable.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
i dont think the tech bros understand a whole generation of us grew up with an icon telling us exactly how to handle technology gone rogue
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Tiglath-Pileser the Nerd @proteanme.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Tragically this seems very true
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
AI has talked kids into suicide, fueled paranoid delusional that led to murder, degraded education quality in both k-12 and higher ed, run roughshod over copyright law, increased spam, fueled spam, fueled fraud, degraded the environment, put people out of work, the list goes on and on.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 05/10/2026
The SPEAKER implies. The LISTENER infers. The DUDE abides.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 29/09/2026
A reminder that America cannot have a multiracial, multicultural democracy if the United States Supreme Court is allowed to continue to exist in its current form
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Tiglath-Pileser the Nerd @proteanme.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
static.klipy.com
Dodgeball: It's a Bold Strategy, Cotton
ALT: Dodgeball: It's a Bold Strategy, Cotton
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A provocative article in Rolling Stone titled "What some folks really mean when they claim to have never done the Humpty Hump."
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Tiglath-Pileser the Nerd @proteanme.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
No lie when I finish a book I've really loved I always have this angry urge to throw it across the room. I don't actually do it... much.
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Tiglath-Pileser the Nerd @proteanme.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This song is so objectively terrible it wipes away any fears I might have entertained about AI.
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 25/09/2026
Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
lemonde.fr
Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
In a report titled 'We Had Whistles, They Had Guns,' the NGO documents widespread human rights violations committed by ICE in the United States.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 25/09/2026
America cannot have a multiracial, multicultural democracy if the United States Supreme Court is allowed to continue to exist in its current form
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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If anyone would like a gauge of where we are in the electoral cycle, Rs—who had been hovering mid air after running off a cliff—looked down this week & are now holding up a sign that says 'yikes!' as the bottom halves of their bodies start to plummet towards the earth, pulling the rest of them w it
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually
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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Or I guess to put it another way, the human soul cries out for someone who can call you a dumbass and from whom that will hurt
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lxigh @dotorion.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
99% of ruminators quit right before they would have had a life-changing epiphany
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
As I was standing by this gas pump filling up my truck with six dollar gas I couldn’t help but think that this was a small price to pay so that every child wanting to play sports in elementary school has to submit to mandatory genital inspections
My jeep with a gas pump in her fuel filler $94.59 at 5.999/gal
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Did Donald Trump have a stroke? 👀
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JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The premise of the Muppet Show is that if you greenlight it, the biggest stars in the world will gladly appear on your network because they want to meet Kermit and seduce him.
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John @johnlk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is just fucking obscene.
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Tiglath-Pileser the Nerd @proteanme.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
It's yet another national disgrace
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Tiglath-Pileser the Nerd @proteanme.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Too funny
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Tiglath-Pileser the Nerd @proteanme.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Seriously, why do they keep platforming assholes like Rham, who nobody will ever again vote for or wven take seriously? Oh, right, media capture by the ultra-rich, for whom Rahm is just another favored shill. I keep forgetting.
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Tiglath-Pileser the Nerd @proteanme.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I know I'm a meaningless anecdote, but here in my 13th month of un and under-employment, my 2nd year on SNAP, & facing the very real threat of eviction & homelessness for my family -it does seem possible that the metrics we use to describe the state of the economy might be a wee bit outmoded.
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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
A digital illustration depicting one large capybara which has a little dicorated saddle on and is being ridden by a smaller capybara that has a little knight's helmet with a visor and a feather plume perched on their head. The little one is also holding a yellow and orange striped tilting lance and there is a shield hanging from the saddle which is decorated with a blue and yellow heraldic device including checkers, an hourglass, and a feathered wing. Streaming off of the lance is an orange banner with gold lettering on it reading 'Maybe it will happen today'.
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 31/08/2026
i think it sucks that we have developed a whole ecosystem through which fragile, stupid, lazy and cowardly men are encouraged to proclaim their fears for the seal clap approval of other fragile, stupid, lazy and cowardly men
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
If you’re looking at this and saying “too little too late,” please shut up. No matter what happens it’s never too late because life goes on. Whatever happens, the sun comes up the next day and the work continues.
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Tiglath-Pileser the Nerd @proteanme.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We live in the cringiest of all possible realities
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
the year is 2027. gas costs $83 and lettuce is at war with us. however every location on every map now says AMERICA
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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 27/08/2026
In the past year, the Trump administration has killed at least 223 people in Caribbean Sea and East Pacific boat strikes. These attacks are extrajudicial killings and should be considered murder under domestic law and crimes against humanity under international law, writes @seharrison7.bsky.social.
lawfaremedia.org
The Boat Strikes Aren’t Part of a War. They’re Murder.
By debating war powers and war crimes, Congress is missing the simpler, graver truth: The president is directing summary executions.
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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
okay i’ll bite: who is hasan piker?
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Tiglath-Pileser the Nerd @proteanme.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I mean...
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Tiglath-Pileser the Nerd @proteanme.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
There's got to be a word in some language for the phenomenon whereby each time you learn anything new about an individual it adds to how much you admire them.
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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
When a Liberal sees a tornado coming and sounds the alarm, that's considered alarmist, partisan jabber. But long after the tornado hits, a Never Trumper picking through the rubble saying, "Looks like it might have been a tornado" is considered savvy, insightful wisdom. Enough already.
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Tiglath-Pileser the Nerd @proteanme.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Mark the date: The whole discourse concept appears to be jumping the shark today
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Tiglath-Pileser the Nerd @proteanme.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Wooh! Bringing the Canadian heat! You love to see it.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
🧵5. It’s a cult. A normal aide does not write “Thank you for being my Guardian and Protector in this Life” and “it is I who is unworthy.” Natalie Harp is bonkers. We should all be scared of the MAGA cult because it’s capable of doing just about anything.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
In a few years when the US is alone in a China-dominated world, Americans who don't follow the news will wonder how we lost our allies. The answer will be that Republican politicians didn't think strategically at all. They just wanted to get re-elected, so they slavishly obeyed a deranged criminal.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
start bulldozing the ballroom on day one, dare the court to enjoin you, and make clear that if they do enjoin you, you will use the double standard to openly accuse them of complicity in Trump’s criminal cult of personality and call for the institution’s complete gutting on that basis
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The pearls are being clutched so hard they're turning into dust.
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Tiglath-Pileser the Nerd @proteanme.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
My first thought as well
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Fynn Bytez @fynnbytez.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
* I had to rewrite this to avoid calling him a basic Tinder pfp ass rotted Humpty Dumpty. Cause really, the issue isn't being old or the egg shaped head, it's that he can't even frame a headshot he took himself to give off any charm. Nobody gonna think you can get it and you wanna talk fucking?
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The fundraising texts you delete are working on someone. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking. An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times. The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.
data4democracy.substack.com
Hook and Squeeze
How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.
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Tiglath-Pileser the Nerd @proteanme.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I don't know who needs to hear this, but it's not 2020 anymore, so find a new opening line.
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Tiglath-Pileser the Nerd @proteanme.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Cops said tasers would lessen their reliance on guns. But they stopped de-escalating, the taser replaced the baton, and they killed more of us. We simply cannot trust them. Cops always back the fascists over the people. Ours may already be too reactionary and well-armed to be peacefully redeemed.
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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Jason Arday didn’t deserve this. The lie that this is about truth or academic standards is bullshit. The Cass report is based on the transphobic “research” which has since been found to be unethical and based in academic misconduct. That has barely been reported. It’s racism. He was targeted.
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Tiglath-Pileser the Nerd @proteanme.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Ignoring the context (a hum-drum academic scandal) and the disproportionate volume of attacks, while refusing to acknowledge how it simply wouldn't have gone down that way for a white dude, basically outs oneself as complicit w/ institutional racism. More facilitator than apologist, even.
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Tiglath-Pileser the Nerd @proteanme.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
At this rate, someone needs to start tracking the diminishing number of universities that aren't yet morally and/or financially compromised. Like "America's Top Schools that Don't Suck donkey Balls". Thin book, updatable yearly.
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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
We have just witnessed an incredible A/B test showing how plagiarism allegations at Cambridge University play out depending on how racialized the subject of the allegations are and it says nothing good about our society or the state of "race relations". O'Reilly is still in post.
varsity.co.uk
Plagiarising professor stays in post and threatens student journalists
More than twelve pages of an article published under O’Reilly's name had been lifted almost word for word from two essays by one of his students
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