Reposted by Testudo Aubreijamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10hanyway in a just world a giant cartoon piano would fall on hanania and tracey in the middle of their pro rape podcast 615914345
Reposted by Testudo AubreiWannabe Apparatchik @apparatchikwannabe.bsky.social · 12hlike 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 0273
Reposted by Testudo AubreiJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 21hWhich 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. 742352
Reposted by Testudo Aubreijamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13hfor 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. 461619192
Reposted by Testudo AubreiG Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 19hThe 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...gelliottmorris.comPolls and "fundamentals" basically agree about the blue waveWhen 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. 718224
Testudo Aubrei @ritterteufeltod.bsky.social · 21hBelief 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. 100
Reposted by Testudo Aubreijamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026someone call up will smith we need him to do something 188100851123
Reposted by Testudo Aubreijamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026i just want to note that as soon as i posted this i did think "oh yeah, this is just fukuyama's last man" 392451187
Reposted by Testudo AubreiSameer Ashar @sameer-ashar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This is my nephew, please forward to your networks, esp any University of Maryland students. 2015821537
Testudo Aubrei @ritterteufeltod.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Some people are actually death cultists and this is a pretty big problem! 051
Reposted by Testudo AubreiWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I 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. 532458370
Reposted by Testudo Aubreijamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026feels 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 973651427
Reposted by Testudo Aubreimel in ballhalla 🏳️⚧️🔰♨️ @astruckpersonn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026this also works on roko’s basilisk btw 1244
Reposted by Testudo AubreiKathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This 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. 35811
Reposted by Testudo AubreiKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Just 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.rollingstone.comJ.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. 10041781455
Reposted by Testudo AubreiFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 01/10/2026I'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... 413025
Reposted by Testudo AubreiThe Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This 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. 518024
Reposted by Testudo AubreiJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026We 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. 22762108
Reposted by Testudo AubreiZoomer 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. 1151
Reposted by Testudo Aubrei"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Maybe 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." 5557262
Reposted by Testudo Aubreirev. 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 1238122
Reposted by Testudo Aubreijamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026not 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.talkingpointsmemo.comChris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a ThingTo the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in... 25561371143
Testudo Aubrei @ritterteufeltod.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The 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. 031
Reposted by Testudo AubreiMikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 02/10/2026A 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. 816522
Reposted by Testudo AubreiMikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Good LORD. 416630
Testudo Aubrei @ritterteufeltod.bsky.social · 03/10/2026One 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. 281
Testudo Aubrei @ritterteufeltod.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I actually feel like this is halfway decent neo baroque art? Complete with homeroricism. 330
Reposted by Testudo AubreiSmall Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 03/10/2026JRR 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. 5485582694
Reposted by Testudo AubreiJane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 01/10/2026the 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. 352334383
Reposted by Testudo AubreiMike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 02/10/2026Scoop: 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.nbcnews.comHow Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rightsAfter 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. 491242690
Reposted by Testudo AubreiDaniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 02/10/2026Will 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) 22871295
Reposted by Testudo AubreiWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Again, 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 historyesquire.comA Wealthy Russian Businessman Is Helping Fund Trump’s Stupid Ballroom. Nothing Sketchy About That, Right?Surely, our president will face consequences for this insanity. 321246369
Reposted by Testudo AubreiWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Trump’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. 841061
Reposted by Testudo Aubrei👺💀The Masque of the Reding Death 💀 👺 @jayreding.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Nuremberg 2.0 is a moral and legal necessity. None of the monsters capable of this shit deserve to exist freely in a civil society. 527867
Reposted by Testudo AubreiMina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Discussed 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...pablo.showDeshaun 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. 1372740
Reposted by Testudo AubreiMina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026So the Eagles are missing Devonta Smith, Dallas Goedert, AND Zack Baun this week??? 5496045
Reposted by Testudo AubreiBill 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...liberalcurrents.comWe Have No Supreme CourtThe philosophical incoherence of originalism prevents the Court from performing its core functions as a supreme court. 1222981776
Reposted by Testudo Aubreirax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 03/10/2026maybe 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 41864
Reposted by Testudo AubreiJoshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 03/10/2026It’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. 5440131
Reposted by Testudo AubreiAdam 👻Boo!rsi👻 @adambursi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Out now from @fortresspress.bsky.social! www.fortresspress.com/store/produc... 0348
Reposted by Testudo Aubreiribbonknight @ribbonknight.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Found 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 2202
Reposted by Testudo AubreiAda Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The 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 #ShareGoodNewsToobuff.lyAssam’s Kaziranga Leads Rhino Revival as Global Greater One-Horned Population Rises to 4,075A 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 219957
Reposted by Testudo AubreiGOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 03/10/2026one 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 2068097
Testudo Aubrei @ritterteufeltod.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Takes 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. 030
Reposted by Testudo Aubreilowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 03/10/2026the 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 1126224
Testudo Aubrei @ritterteufeltod.bsky.social · 03/10/2026This 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. 064
Reposted by Testudo AubreiNed 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. 219331