pyro @pyrolytic.bsky.social · 16/05/2026This is the ongoing tension between ideological leadership and practical leadership. People want unsullied ideological leaders, but real change demands a level of pragmatism and compromise with people you don’t agree with. It’s ok to have red lines, but everything can’t be a red line. 050
pyro @pyrolytic.bsky.social · 14/05/2026You ever wonder how many posters out there telling people not to worry about AI-related job losses are themselves bots? Are you, the reader of this post, a bot? Am I? 000
pyro @pyrolytic.bsky.social · 30/03/2026What in the 7th grade book report is that last line? It's literally textbook "Dumb person writing what they think smart people sound like." I don't know a single person who has used the "<condition/group> will not a <desired end state> make" in a serious statement. 030
pyro @pyrolytic.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Well pointed out, but what is the action plan to address it? Can you get establishment dems off the corporate teat long enough to look out for their constituents? 000
pyro @pyrolytic.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Especially not when significant inheritances are in play. 0120
pyro @pyrolytic.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Having lived in Germany and traveling back there for holidays the quality of roads there compared to here is astounding. UK absolutely needs to step up their commitment to infrastructure. 011
Reposted by pyroAndrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 04/12/2025Musk’s Wealth 2012: $2 billion 2025: $493.8 billion Bezos’ Wealth 2012: $18.4 billion 2025: $240.9 billion Zuckerberg’s Wealth 2012: $17.5 billion 2025: $226.9 billion Federal Minimum Wage 2012: $7.25 2025: $7.25 It’s not the start of an oligarchy. — We’re in the thick of it. 392161971
pyro @pyrolytic.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Surely now that she’s been made aware of her lies she’ll stop… 000
pyro @pyrolytic.bsky.social · 01/03/2026So Get Your War On is nearly 25 years old. It’s been 25 years (at least) and American is back to starting wars in the Middle East that are going to fuck everyone over… though now they’ve decided they don’t need a reason. www.mnftiu.cc/category/gyw...mnftiu.ccwar1 | www.mnftiu.cc 000
pyro @pyrolytic.bsky.social · 25/02/2026The performance of the democrats at SotU tells you all you need to know about them. 000
pyro @pyrolytic.bsky.social · 17/02/2026FCC learning what Streisand effect is... Also, I get why conservatives are scared of giving this guy a platform. He's a religious democrat who can real talk to religious moderates.youtube.comRep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislatu…YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert 000
pyro @pyrolytic.bsky.social · 13/02/2026It is easier to get a camel through the eye of a needle than it is to get an evangelical to be decent to other people in this life. 120
pyro @pyrolytic.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Reelection of Dubya. Trump 1. Trump 2. They will continue to do this until something changes. 020
Reposted by pyroDheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her) @themodsisyphus.bsky.social · 13/02/2026CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old. “8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJshorturl.at7-Year-Old Migrant Girl Dies Of Dehydration And Shock In U.S. Border Patrol CustodyThe girl's death underscores the crisis precipitated by large groups of families seeking asylum where there are inadequate facilities to detain them. 18454053164
Reposted by pyroAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/02/2026"While Americans should welcome Trump’s rapidly increasing unpopularity and must do everything they can to constrain him, realism requires a recognition that he's all but certain to do everything possible to cling to power — even if he brings the country down with him." — @davidrlurie.compublicnotice.coWe are all passengers in Trump’s death cabThe nihilism of the regime is its most terrifying attribute. 531131364
pyro @pyrolytic.bsky.social · 11/02/2026I’m still (naively?) mostly a reformist or will support nonviolent revolutionary actions. Once blood starts spilling it’s hard to stop and whoever comes out on top after that kind of action starts to see violence as the answer to everything. 000
pyro @pyrolytic.bsky.social · 11/02/2026In general the dems could be a lot less cooperative and maybe not continue to pass funding for things like ICE. Long term, what the us really needs is to raise up alternative parties which need voting reforms to make more viable. Ranked choice or proportional representation. 000
pyro @pyrolytic.bsky.social · 11/02/2026So I know this is pointless because I see where you’re going, but as I suggested, holding people accountable for their actions would be a great start. Bondi is subject to impeachment as a cabinet member so there’s that, but you’re gonna say that as the minority dems can’t do it so we’re back to 0. 000
pyro @pyrolytic.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Right now? Outside the country, but I can still vote. For now. 100
pyro @pyrolytic.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Nah. Was putting kids to bed and wasn’t in the mood to interact, but I’m ready to hear how It Really Is from someone in the trenches. Please let me know how the historic lack of holding bad actors to account for their actions is going to be different *this* time. 000
pyro @pyrolytic.bsky.social · 11/02/2026I seem to have angered the hive, but FWIW I’m American as well, though have lived abroad for a number of years now. The repeated failure of democratic governments to hold their republican predecessors accountable for their actions is a hard track record to ignore. 110
pyro @pyrolytic.bsky.social · 11/02/2026And yet… there she is. What does that say about the system and the competence of America? 000
pyro @pyrolytic.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Yeah. That you can’t do shit about it, or rather won’t do shit about it, for 3 years isn’t really showing y’all in a good light. Also, you’re not going to actually do anything about it in 3 years. We all know this. 6160
pyro @pyrolytic.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Radium. Leaded gas. BPA. The list goes on, but the challenge with AI (and crypto and other technologies) is it’s harder to regulate the use of technologies that exist as ideas. 000
pyro @pyrolytic.bsky.social · 08/02/2026After playing Expedition 33 I was left feeling like I should create something in the world. 000
pyro @pyrolytic.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Throwback playlist in car on way to swimming. Whoomp There it is playing. By the time they get to the second chorus I hear a small voice from the back seat saying “whoomp, there it is” and I know I am successful parent. 000
pyro @pyrolytic.bsky.social · 01/02/2026What? The land of the free? Whoever told you that is your enemy. 130
pyro @pyrolytic.bsky.social · 30/01/2026The boomer addiction to superlatives is probably one of the weirder facets of late empire living. Not everything is the biggest or the best or the most special. Sometimes it’s just fucking Tuesday and that’s fine. 010
pyro @pyrolytic.bsky.social · 20/01/2026It’s a shame there’s no way to make change in the world aside from through proper channels… 000
pyro @pyrolytic.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Exactly. This is the precedent set with modern IP contract clauses. Say I work for a company and, in my off time, fiddle with things that might have an application somewhat relevant to what the company does. If I make it big, the company takes partial or full ownership of what I developed. 000
pyro @pyrolytic.bsky.social · 16/01/2026en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27...en.wikipedia.orgMarx's theory of alienation - Wikipedia 010
pyro @pyrolytic.bsky.social · 16/01/2026People steeped in capitalist isolation finding the benefits of having a community around them… 110
pyro @pyrolytic.bsky.social · 16/01/2026Exactly. We cannot count on “karma” or “empathy” from these thugs. They need consequences and to be held accountable. 0122