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Seth is back! He’s EXTREMELY perceptive in matters great and small — I’ve found him very, very sharp on prrrretty much every single occasion I’ve interacted with him.

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Thank you very much! Could you follow me so I can DM, please? Or just drop me a line if you have the option now that I’m following you, of course.

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Buncha stuff that boils down to “what does this bit of metadata mean? Can you tell what sort of device an image was created on or posted from based on the following stuff we’ve noticed that SEEMS potentially useful to us, but we don’t know squat?”

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Hey, gang. If you know the nitty-gritty of how image files work and are willing to donate your expertise for $0.00, we have MANY questions and could really use your help! If that’s you, please give a holler in the replies; I’ll follow and shoot you a DM. P.S. We promise you’ll have a good time!

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my 2 books put together are a relatively, dreadfully relevant summary of who exactly is running the government right now. i hate it but its true

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

R—reputable and accredited institutions?

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There's a Crisis of Masculinity in this country and the only way to solve it is to let me act like a cross between a baby and a movie villain

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HOW CAN I SUPPORT YOUR MINISTRY?? Tell me where to send my next paycheck, I beg you!

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Oh, sorry, an HONORARY doctorate. That makes perfect sense, then, because NO IT DOESN’T akeifjdnbiosdjejdbfjeb

The last sentence, I— excuse me, what, he’s claiming he got a PhD *from a person* and not an institution????? WHAT??? Can I — can I just write “Doctor of Philosophy” on a napkin and tuck it into my dog’s collar and it’s true???? Is that how it works???????????

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HIS AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY ALONE —

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It has! I got a new phone in mid-October and went “what if I DIDN’T gaze into the void all the time? How would that affect my life?” and it turned out my life was better without it, so 🤷‍♂️

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AN OBAMA BIDEN MYSTERY???? Are they the fucking Hardy Boys???!!??? IS IT ALWAYS SMUGGLERS, EVERY SINGLE TIME?????

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This is amazing. I fast-forwarded to a random moment in it and he was rasping, “Suicide bombers ready to deposit—“

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And QAnon is PERFECT for that, because it can recast any suffering or inconvenience as: “oh, this is all part of smashing the Cabal and destroying the bad guys who literally eat babies for Satan, after which we’ll have a golden age. Small price to pay! We should REJOICE in this sacrifice of ours!”

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One of the things Trump’s second term will require, and *urgently so*, too, is a narrative that sort of… soothes his supporter’s emotions about the negative impacts they’ll see in their own lives from what Trump is doing.

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I would say “no it isn’t,” but there are people I respect who think it *is*. Had a really good conversation recently, where I was like “any Q-equivalent thing in Trump’s second term would have to be an entirely new movement suited to the conditions of the times.” And the counterpoint was:

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SAY MORE. … uh, please and thank you.

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Namely: it’s one of MANY different reasons you can select to go “see? Trump is the chosen one.” Obviously it’s not a MAINSTREAM reason, but it’s part of the buffet of choices you have available to justify (and personalize!) your Trump worship.

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I would agree. I think in general, a fascist movement has to straddle the line between hero worship and deification of The Leader because *if he’s just some guy who has a bunch of good ideas*, then why would you follow him *fanatically*? So weird shit like this plays an important ideological role.

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because theirs is a very political, very conspiracy theory-oriented worldview to begin with (and it ALSO embraces the idea that everything we see on earth is the result of an invisible shadow war, in this case between spiritual powers of good and evil). But this is — whoof. Like I said: DEEP lore.

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And it’s notable because this kind of thing — “Trump time travel” stuff, Deep Lore about the Trump family’s connection to Tesla, all of it — used to be *only* seen in the online fever swamps and, specifically, the Q-flavored ones. There were always a LOT of neo-Charismatic anons…

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Q Origins Project @qop.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

By Grabthar’s hammer! What a savings! Anyway, this ad was on CharismaNews.com, which is the leading news organ of neo-Charismatics (think “Jesus Camp” types who want 🇺🇸 to be a theocracy — heck, I saw the ad on an article about a North Dakota legislator’s attempt to pass a law saying Jesus is King).

An ad for a book called “The Trump Code: Exploring Time Travel, Nikola Tesla, the Trump Lineage, and America’s Future.”

The price has been reduced from $19.99 to $14.99 — MIGHTY SAVINGS INDEED, WORTHY OF A CHAMPION!!!!!

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Oh! Uh… I DID NOT REALIZE my DMs weren’t set up such that anyone could reach out. Sorry! Still very much interested. Lemme drop you a line!

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Q Origins Project @qop.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Hey, nerds! I’m looking for a Chinese-speaker who can search Baidu for a specific, narrow piece of information and lemme know what they find. If that’s you, please shoot me a DM. And thanks in advance!

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See, that’s because you made two crucial mistakes: you learned actual facts *and expected our guys to do the same*.

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Strongly agree. This guy is the *one* anon I would actually love to get high with. (If I partook, anyway.)

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“Sometimes the most fiercest battles,” he solemnly informs the reader, “are the BATTLES” (link to: Bing video search results for “battle within” Christian) “WITHIN” (link to: alteregos dot gif, stored on a Google drive). You’re telling me you DON’T wanna roll around in this material????

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There’s an entire sub-page called “ass.html” and naturally I clicked in expecting some primo early internet bunda, and instead it’s just two emails from a hypnotherapist in 1995 who was mad because the vibes in his alien abductee group had changed. www.angelfire.com/ut/branton/a...

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Speaking of his role in popularizing Dulce… OK, not really speaking of that. I just needed you to know: “Dungeon Wars training grounds” links to three separate things and all of them are Zork.

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I can’t SWEAR he’s still updating as of 2025, to be fair. But there’s a Trump mugshot a long way down the front page of his… *screed*, would we call it?… so he’s at least been adding to it *somewhat* recently.

He’s been doing it for SO long, in fact, that David Icke cribbed from him about reptilians! Here’s Michael Barkun summarizing this guy’s whole deal in a passage from “A Culture of Conspiracy.” As you can see, I maybe went a LITTLE overboard with the highlighter while reading. Great book, though!

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Source: www.angelfire.com/ut/branton/p... www.angelfire.com/space/branto... And yes, yes this man HAS been continually updating his Angelfire page for literally decades.

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Sometimes I talk about “the waters anons are swimming in,” which are comprised of: * conspiracy-theory content * the more-vanilla sense of grievance and outrage peddled by the right-wing infosphere. Anons switch between these two lanes VERY easily, as you can see in these screenshots.

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J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 24/01/2025

Oh, and you know the other great part of it? You really do have to CANCEL the subscription. There’s a “switch plans” link on the subscriptions page, but it’s a lie; all it lets you do is switch between monthly and yearly billing. I love our corporate overlords! May no misfortune ever touch them.

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It actually doesn't much matter if the bad people doing the bad things are acting in good faith as they understand it.

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