root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 12hsomebody in the yersina community died in chicago when i first started, and it was beyond obvious that he was doing shady shit. he somehow gave himself a needle stick with live cultures (which were attenuated by deleting a heme transporter), told nobody, and got sick because he had hemocromatosis 000
root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 12hmy PhD was plague-focused (I did all my work in pseudotuberculosis tho, BSL2 lab) and if somebody has pneumonic plague, antibiotics aint gonna cut it. they are gonna be spewing bacteria all around them and antibiotic resistance has shown up in pestis before. none of this screams "weapon" but its bad 100
root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 13hall infra is inherently nonconsentual. everything in your environment constrains your choices and implicitly pushes you towards specific behaviors. the key is not to discard this truth but to realize how big a responsibility infrastructure design and construction (including digital infra!) really is 110
Reposted by root rotve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 13hIf you think about the data that is constructed about a person by observing their public behavior as a kind of "affordance" or "handle" for doing things on or to that person (including compiling further information about them), the technicized use of public data is inherently nonconsensual. 26916
Reposted by root rotleon @leyawn.bsky.social · 15hthis is about me and i'm not sorry! i don't have time to read about foreplay and where the g spot is or whatever. i'm sure spending hours and hours fucking your wife is a good ROI if you're unemployed but some of us have jobs also claude has a huge hog so that's another point in the AI column 576285
Reposted by root rotBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 16hI don't think the Republican Party can "go back to normal" but if it did, that just means being a vehicle for undermining government and concentrating wealth, enveloped in a bunch of dishonest obfuscatory slop. Why yearn for something to return to the exact thing that fostered it 361813222
Reposted by root rotEli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 17hThe fascist monopolization of US media, intent on ending what's left of democracy on behalf of billionaire mobsters, was finalized by a Democratic-appointed SCOTUS justice. 281334426
Reposted by root rotPwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 17hFounders, repeatedly: so just to reiterate, and I cannot stress this enough, the president is absolutely not a king and can be removed, charged, or even executed if they start to do king things (250 years later) Alito: getting a lot of king vibes from this document 327744
Reposted by root rotLola T. BabaBOOie 🏳️⚧️ @bababooie42.bsky.social · 17hoh cool we're at this stage of dystopia 041
root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 18hlike the intersection of mexican cuisine and wheat flour have brought us so many important innovations, its bonkers to me that we would try to trim this down to two categories of taco vs burrito 000
root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 18hwut. i assure you little doubled up corn tortilla street tacos can come wrapped in foil what are you on about. the mission burrito you're talking about is a california thing anyway. southwestern (texan) burritos arent even foil wrapped, they are like half the size of a mission burrito 100
root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 20hwhere do you see that? what i see are people trying to head off those outcomes, i would think they would be quite pleased to succeed 000
root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 20hthere is an EXTREMELY easy solution, its just not what rich people want 120
Reposted by root rotSam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 21hnot doing what I say is tyranny 0251
Reposted by root rotve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 20hAnother example of the performance of autonomized ignorance as a projection of one's desired social status in the post-information world where the powerful pretend their power derives from shedding annoyances like "the truth" and "knowing things", while the rest are temporarily embarrassed idiots. 1104
Reposted by root rotPatrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 06/10/2026nobody is talking about this but if you have the will, adequate ventilation, and access to a variety of household cleaners and OTC pharmaceuticals you can actually manufacture Legitimacy pretty much anywhere 3183
Reposted by root rotae @aelkus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026now is a good time to remember how some military observers, including an academic at a british university, kept telling us that we were underestimating us military power due to negative polarization and iran was going to collapse from bombing and subversion 431830
Reposted by root rotA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026My unpopular take is that God actually *is* returning to judge sins, but it's more like American Idol where God is like "damn dawg, that was a really impressive sin, a little pitchy but I’m putting you through to the next round" meanwhile Simon Cowell looks over at him in disbelief. 515312
Reposted by root rotMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 23hanyway this is why ai companies are trying so hard to make their products infrastructural, and tie them into other infrastructural information technologies 312510
Reposted by root rotMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 23hall infrastructure erodes consent, sometimes it bypasses it completely this is uncomfortable (& often problematic), but it should not be controversial to point out this fact 411129
Reposted by root rotBill Shea @billshea19.bsky.social · 23hThe president of the United States is openly inviting Iran to nuke two American cities. Even in his senile discursive babbling bullshit gibberish, this is treason. 043
Reposted by root rotNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 23h“The Two Minutes Hate was… a hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge-hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one’s will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic.” 718957
Reposted by root rotPOTUS Speedrun Record Holder @theradiostar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026we live in an era of mimics, doppelgängers, automata and inversions — an entire culture of dreadful, skinsuited parodies tyrants who speak of freedom, killers who brag of peace, thieves who promise plenty 010417
Reposted by root rotve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 21hAlso equally important for these things: the civic virtue of being able to say "no" to authorities 1131
root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 21hIn a country where the president openly thanks good ole Elon for knowing those voting computers so well that he won, I would be shocked if the president would feel emboldened to abandon people whose votes that he's pretty sure Elon overrules anyways. 030
Reposted by root rotEd Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 22hA president fantasizing about some part of his own country getting invaded or annihilated, and doing it so often that eventually it barely registers, is the kind of thing that happens in a country making the final few course corrections on the way to violently tearing itself apart. 613718
Reposted by root rotBrian @thatiscalledbrian.bsky.social · 22hThere's an assymetry in how conservatives wishing ill on blue cities/states is treated as noise while liberals/leftists will scold themselves if anyone is caught wishing ill on red areas because some number of non-conservatives also live there and I don't think this arrangement is sustainable. 0184
Reposted by root rotCatherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I don’t care where you started out on the political spectrum If your kid comes out as trans & you don’t become a rainbow-clad, parade-cheering ally & rock-solid supportive girl/boy/enby dad/mom? You were never a parent at all You were a doll collector furious they didn’t stay in their packaging. 252793736
Reposted by root rotAdam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 06/10/2026There's something pitch black, darkly funny about a certain herd of online snits celebrating Digger's low box office while we enter stretches above 2C "Mass death" warming in 2027. They for sure don't know what that means otherwise, like or don't like the movie, they wouldn't be celebrating. 97916
Reposted by root rotLeif Malone @thetroops.fightins.online · 06/10/2026You can have efficiency or you can have accountability. You can’t have both. 191
Reposted by root rot the ghostes @rem.bsjky.team · 06/10/2026asking a bunch of people for opinions on what we should do is obviously way less efficient than having one guy tell everyone what to do 2241
Reposted by root rot the ghostes @rem.bsjky.team · 06/10/2026democracies are meant to be inefficient lmao 3481
root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 06/10/2026the thing about setting the drinking at at 15 in belgium is that those kids WANT the insanely sweet 3.5% cider, they dont want the challenging 12% tripel 000
Reposted by root rotJulia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The drinking age in the United States being 21 gives frats a lot of power. Sexual assault absolutely happens in other settings, but being able to get booze legally elsewhere at 18 makes Greek life have a bit less power. 714522
root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 06/10/2026That sci fi writers of the 60s and 70s didn't refuse appearances at futurism conferences is how we ended up in this mess. 000
root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 06/10/2026What they refuse to understand is that science fiction is not predictive, it's reflective of our present culture. They see it and want to make it reality, when what was asked was "what would we do if..." That's the torment nexus tweet: sci fi is wondering what we would do if we could. 120
root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 06/10/2026really feels like daily life becoming an Ionesco play but instead of turning into Rhinos they are black hole sun morphing into the HST stars and stripes swastika skulls Every day people are forced to affirm a little bit more of it and I don't think they'll ever stop. 000
Reposted by root rotEvan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com · 06/10/2026No matter how petty. The goal is to make it look like he was never there, never existed. 1330348
Reposted by root rotEd Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 06/10/2026About 10, 15 years ago these people started the “was Hitler really so bad? Hitler only wanted what was best for the Germans, what’s wrong with that!?” talking point and I knew I would live to see it become the mainstream GOP position. The end of living memory of WWII is going to be ruinous. 1366498
Reposted by root rotSam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 06/10/2026again every elected Republican is a coward and a traitor 112920
root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I like that he's making his declaration of war on the Navy (San Diego) official. Anything to hasten the end. 020
root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I think it's neat that even with overwhelming, historic, insurmountable majority we're up against people who get to say "Elon knows those...vote-counting computers, And we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide." and what are you gonna do? Become a conspiracy theorist? 010
Reposted by root rotGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Written up for not feeding enough orphans into the orphan crushing machine 13815
root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 05/10/2026their way of life will literally lead to the end of organized civilizationgawkerarchives.comDumb Hicks Are America's Greatest ThreatMany of America’s political leaders are warning of the dangers posed by Syrian refugees. They are underestimating, though, the much greater danger: dumbass hicks, in charge of things. 010
root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 05/10/2026this does not say why they cant. it says why they dont want to 000
Reposted by root rotAcerbic Otter, but SPOOOOOOOOOKY @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Put me in, coach. I'm not even an MD but I bet I could undo a lot of the s*** he did 0114