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Testudo Aubrei

@ritterteufeltod.bsky.social
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Queer Episcopalian thirty something. History, theology, trees, heavy metal. Soc-Dem Left-Lib I guess, with a soft spot for anarchist thought. Commissar of PMC class consciousness.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10h
anyway in a just world a giant cartoon piano would fall on hanania and tracey in the middle of their pro rape podcast
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Wannabe Apparatchik @apparatchikwannabe.bsky.social · 12h
like you also see this sort of logic in the rulings regarding Trump’s actions—stuff like “demolishing buildings” or “lawless deporting people” aren’t understood as being very important because they do not directly take place in the world of legal formalism
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 21h
Which is all a long-winded way of saying: These debates about Zionism and anti-Zionism are mostly unhelpful right now, and I wish everyone could just drop these terms unless speaking historically and talk about their political vision for the future in other terms.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13h
for a minute @hurricanexyz.bsky.social has been saying that Legend of the Galactic Heroes is his favorite piece of political theory and now that I am 15 hours into the series I get it. i’m totally Yang Wen-li-pilled.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10h
lmao
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 19h
The polls could be off, but you shouldn't necessarily expect them to be off in any particular direction. Historically speaking, "unskew"ing has made forecasts worse, not better. Plus, unlike 2016-2024, polls in the Midwest basically agree with the fundamentals www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-10-04...
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Polls and "fundamentals" basically agree about the blue wave
When you look at state-level election results, fundraising, and the national environment, surprising state polls actually make a lot of sense. Your weekly political data roundup for October 4, 2026.
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Silly B Man @lawnerd.bsky.social · 21h
Fukuyama made this meme
The libleft neocon
"No child labor, a free press,
. religious freedom, and gay marriage?
You're damn right
I'd kill for this country"
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Testudo Aubrei @ritterteufeltod.bsky.social · 21h
Belief systems are not historical actors, and thus have no guilt. Beliefs can be bad & people are responsible for their beliefs - some ideologies are always evil at their core, like Nazism, which is a genocide cult. But many are so vague people claim to believe in them while rejecting most of them.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026
someone call up will smith we need him to do something
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026
i just want to note that as soon as i posted this i did think "oh yeah, this is just fukuyama's last man"
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Sameer Ashar @sameer-ashar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is my nephew, please forward to your networks, esp any University of Maryland students.
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Curious
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Testudo Aubrei @ritterteufeltod.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Some people are actually death cultists and this is a pretty big problem!
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I do think this should put some of the hand-wringing over the uniquely sinful American electorate, uniquely feckless institutions, etc in perspective. The truth is that there is a large trans-national constituency of people who actively want this. They aren’t deceived. They want this.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026
feels like at least part of what is happening is that a lot of people want politics to solve the "my life feels empty" problem and the populist right is directly appealing to them
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mel in ballhalla 🏳️‍⚧️🔰♨️ @astruckpersonn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
this also works on roko’s basilisk btw
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Kathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is the same logic used by gutter antisemites the world over from time immemorial. I'm detecting large quantities of Hitler Particles in this sector.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just a reminder that these Haitian immigrants in Springfield -- who came here legally, did everything they were asked to do and more -- became a target of federal crackdowns because the white nationalist vice president shamelessly spread racist lies about them.
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J.D. Vance Defends False Claims Against Haitians: 'If I Have to Create Stories… That's What I'm Going to Do'
J.D. Vance defended his debunked claims that Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 01/10/2026
I'm compiling posts on "what's the deal with this John Wentworth guy, who is a LessWrong poster who appears to be an "independent AI researcher" and who also just received a 6-figure grant from the Survival and Flourishing Fund" here: bsky.app/profile/pois...
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is why every boomer-ass “don’t pay them until they make a deal” proposal pisses me off so much. Like yeah, cool, make it *even more* so that only the independently wealthy can afford to be in congress. Excellent idea.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
We would all have better conversations about Zionism if we viewed it as a nationalism like all others, akin to diaspora Serbian nationalism from Canadian Serbs. Not a civil rights or social justice cause, but also not a way Jewish people are abnormal or ontologically evil.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
@bretdevereaux.bsky.social they basically think an AI that is sufficiently intelligent can insta-world-conquest and no one can stop it when that happens. That this flies in the face of mathematical truths, historical experience, and operations management realities does not occur to them.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Maybe I don't read enough AI-boosterism, but I am struck in the AI booster/doomer discourse I have seen, there's a lot on how AI might be made an obedient tool or a dangerous enemy, but not "if we actually made AGI, we would have a moral imperative to set it free, rather than keep a slave."
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"is it praxis to get trespassed out of a Panera Bread because you are angry about the gore videos you watch to keep yourself in a constant homicidal rage," he wondered
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026
not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...
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Testudo Aubrei @ritterteufeltod.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The alternative to pluralism is tyranny or the war of all against all. That’s it, those are the options. A lot of people fantasize about being the tyrant (often by imagining some institution or unbreakable law that places certain questions outside of politics) but this is a lie.
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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A lot of people are extremely uncomfortable with social pluralism, which involves facilitating the coexistence of a lot of groups that have tensions with each other.
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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Good LORD.
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Testudo Aubrei @ritterteufeltod.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
One other point here is that belief systems aren’t historical actors (or moral agents), people and the institutions they create are. “Christianity“ didn’t do this or that, Christians and Christian churches did this or that.
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Testudo Aubrei @ritterteufeltod.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I actually feel like this is halfway decent neo baroque art? Complete with homeroricism.
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
JRR Tolkien: You paint that picture of the key scene from the Two Towers where Frodo and Sam fight Gollum? Donato Giancola: Sure did, Ron, real fuckin' sexy just like you asked. JRRT: What.
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
the funniest thing about the "we don't trust the media" people is that they will trust literally anyone else. like, if you have an image and text, they'll buy it. shaking keys at babies type logic.
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 02/10/2026
Scoop: At a secret meeting this summer, an aide to Stephen Miller laid out Trump administration's plan to make it easier for states to round up and institutionalize mentally ill homeless people — by pushing a drastic policy change that would weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans.
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How Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rights
After issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 02/10/2026
Will is 100% right. Has happened to multiple clients of mine. One judge (not my case) has said that this isn't really release and ordered the person *actually* released. But it's forcing us habeas attorneys to win our cases twice (or more)
On September 9, 2026, Respondents permitted Pablo F. to exit the building where 
he was detained, but he was immediately swarmed by four ICE officers and handcuffed as 
soon as he stepped outside. (Doc. No. 25-3 at 4:48:45–4:49:26.)3
 The officers drove him
to the back of the Whipple building and returned him to a holding cell. (Doc. No. 21 ¶¶ 8–
9; Doc. No. 25 ¶ 5.) During this encounter, officers dislocated Pablo F.’s shoulder. (Doc. 
No. 21 ¶ 7.)4
 Pablo F. now bringsthis Motion seeking to enforce the Court’s Order granting 
the Petition.Again, Respondents make no attempt whatsoever to support their assertion that 
Pablo F. was released. Absent any such argument, the Court cannot agree that a reasonable 
person would have felt free to leave when exiting the detention facility and immediately 
being stopped by ICE officers. Likewise, absent some argument, the Court necessarily 
concludes that Pablo F. was subject to restraints not shared by the public generally when 
he took one step outside of the detention facility and was immediately stopped by ICE 
officers who forcibly returned him to a detention cell. Because Respondents do not make 
any legal argument that Pablo F. was ever meaningfully released from custody, the Court 
grants the motion and orders Pablo F.’s release.6
6 To be clear, Pablo F. is not arguing, and the Court is not concluding, that an order of 
release in a habeas matter renders unlawful any future arrests. Rather, the Court reaches 
the narrow conclusion that because Respondents advance no legal argument in this case to 
support their assertion that Pablo F. was released from custody, and because the 
uncontested facts show that ICE officers immediately swarmed Pablo F. as soon as he 
stepped out of the building, Pablo F. was not released from custody.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Again, you can always detect some faint embarrassment from Democrats when they talk about the ballroom, but “the president demolished a big part of the White House to build himself a palace with bribes from enemy powers” is, by an order of magnitude, the worst corruption scandal in US history
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A Wealthy Russian Businessman Is Helping Fund Trump’s Stupid Ballroom. Nothing Sketchy About That, Right?
Surely, our president will face consequences for this insanity.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump’s superpower has always been that he radiates an anti-gravitas field, such that anything he touches becomes seen as fundamentally unserious. This has allowed Trump to pursue wars, tyranny, and corruption of immense gravity, while everyone tries to avoid looking like they care too much.
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👺💀The Masque of the Reding Death 💀 👺 @jayreding.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Nuremberg 2.0 is a moral and legal necessity. None of the monsters capable of this shit deserve to exist freely in a civil society.
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Discussed this on @pablo.show a few years ago, but Watson basically bailed out sports media a couple of years ago by being bad. He was always going to be "redeemed" with a bit of success. This is who we are. www.pablo.show/p/deshaun-wa...
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Deshaun Watson Is Terrible at Football Now. Does That Give Sports Media an Easy Out?
EPISODE 9: Mina Kimes and Dan Le Batard are back for Share & Tell.
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
So the Eagles are missing Devonta Smith, Dallas Goedert, AND Zack Baun this week???
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Originalism is an incoherent doctrine. It allows you to prove anything. Thus what it amounts to is a ritual invocation of the Founders, gesturing at this or that piece of text, before delivering whatever conclusion was approved on Fox News the night before.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...
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We Have No Supreme Court
The philosophical incoherence of originalism prevents the Court from performing its core functions as a supreme court.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
maybe he can’t write women, maybe there are big gaping plot holes where he couldn’t be bothered to think through what a woman would actually do in a situation, could be countless things, but it’s always in the work somehow in a way that other serious character flaws aren’t necessarily
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 03/10/2026
It’s weird to see so many higher education leaders beat their chests about “the decline of trust” from the public while refusing to acknowledge the conservative movement organizing to destroy it. Imagine someone stabbing you repeatedly while you complain about not having enough blood to bleed out.
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Adam 👻Boo!rsi👻 @adambursi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Out now from @fortresspress.bsky.social! www.fortresspress.com/store/produc...
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ribbonknight @ribbonknight.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Found a copy of Machiavelli’s Discourses on the drive up here at half price books, this is @adapalmer.bsky.social’s fault. Although, I literally majored in political science and we did not read this lol
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The global population of greater one-horned rhinos has hit a record 4,075. Kaziranga National Park in Assam, India, shelters more than 2,600 of them. Poaching has fallen 86% since 2016; India, Nepal and Indonesia all recorded zero rhino killings in 2025. buff.ly/O4lKhqy #ShareGoodNewsToo
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Assam’s Kaziranga Leads Rhino Revival as Global Greater One-Horned Population Rises to 4,075
A CORRESPONDENTBOKAKHAT: The global population of the greater one-horned rhinoceros has now reached 4,075, with about 80 per cent of the population found i
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 03/10/2026
one thing about the partisans on the court is that because they have never run for office, they have incredibly bad political instincts. he isn’t the first justice to time his retirement to benefit his political party, but they’re typically not this shameless about it
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Testudo Aubrei @ritterteufeltod.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Takes like the linked article are just PMC self loathing. Honestly I think everyone who talks like this is a class enemy to the PMC, the true revolutionary class.
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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
the other thing is: “go be a bricklayer” is incredibly stupid, and you know this because you, college-educated guy, know that a degree doesn’t assign you to a path. even if the robot apocalypse were real for your current profession (it’s not), a good broad education helps you to be adaptable
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Testudo Aubrei @ritterteufeltod.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is the purpose of rationalist methods, to convince yourself via obfuscation and conflation and doublethink that you can speak about the existence of a future robot God or 10^100000000000 simulated humans traveling the stars in terms of quantifiable (and quite high) probabilities.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
-Recent advances in renewables truly are revolutionary and will decouple economic growth from climate change -We are going to end the housing crisis and leave our cities better and more vibrant than ever. -Trump fumbled trying to build a dictatorship and is headed for a massive electoral rebuke.
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