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Silent_A

@silent-a.bsky.social
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Don't be fooled by my handle. I'm actually quite loud about progressive issues and our dystopian world in general.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17h
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCKK YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUU
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing
Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Occam's razor says that when he met with the billionaire genAI sex pests, one of them regurgitated some Yudkowsky bullshit and used the word "super intelligence" And like a dog, that was the only word he actually heard. Blah blah blah super intelligence blah blah
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A core belief uniting Trumpists with Silicon Valley tech bros is that society should be organized around male entitlement to sex: a cross between Mad Men and the old Playboy Mansion.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“It’s not ALL men.” None of the 50+ men the Cornell rapists invited to come join them in raping a woman they’d drugged went to the authorities or tried to stop it. Not all men would rape an unconscious woman, but where are the men who’d try to stop it, or EVEN FUCKING OBJECT?
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 28/09/2026
Called it again
Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh • 6h
€ UPDATE: A migrant caravan just RUSHED into Mexico and is now full steam ahead to the
U.S. Southern Border
This is NOT a freaking game! THEY ARE WAITING FOR DEMOCRATS TO TAKE POWER
VOTE RED!!
You see these people? Each one is a future Democrat voter if Dems take Congress then win in 2028.
Punish RINOs in primary season, SAVE OUR REPUBLIC IN NOVEMBER
We can kiss any hope of the SAVE America Act and ICE funding GOODBYE if Democrats take power ever again e
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Silent_A @silent-a.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Cornell gang rape incident is utterly horrifying! MeToo didn't go far enough if sexual assault is still so prevalent on campuses, and IS STILL RISING!! Also fuck the manosphere for erasing any progress we made.
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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Interviewing the inventor of napalm about his hats
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Silent_A @silent-a.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Once again, repeat after me: "Forget God, in Pro Publica we trust."
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
The outright refusal to treat white supremacy as an ideology which motivates action and treat it as generally objectionable is what allows this strategy to be viable for Elon Musk.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If executive branch creates a system so that people under government control can be located and then just stops listing some people in that system — despite their still being under government control — that should be a five-alarm fire for the other branches, the states, and the public.
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WIRED @wired.com · 21/09/2026
You don’t need to listen to a three-hour podcast to find the manosphere; it’s right there in the conference room. 🔗 www.wired.com/story/women-...
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Co-founder of Anthropic accidentally argues the only people with sufficient brainpower to "think through the response to the situation" are AI haters. 😂 And he's just wrong: if you want to understand "the situation" with LLMs, "stochastic parrots" will point you the right way. "AGI" won't. /1

Jack Clark
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"stochastic parrot" was a mimetically-fit cognitive virus that spread from 2021-2025; it temporarily blinded many gifted people to the nature of AI progress, burning up crucial years in which they could have helped think through the response to the situation.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is what a rigged economy looks like.
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Malevolent Maelstrom @chemicalchaos.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Hey its fucking wierd more of the dems platform isnt "we will give you abortion rights back"
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Silent_A @silent-a.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is America now. All those hateful people who loudly cheered on his slurs and his purge of trans people and people of color - they're all over that Texas campus now, living by his words: "diversity is not our strength (White Christian supremacy is)"
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Why do we keep talking about this and the bunker (disguised as a "ballroom") like it's some funny excess and not actions being taken by the same president who has already used violence to hold onto power before
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The media outlets that are breaking all of these Irregular incidents into separate headlines and making it sound like all of these companies are making Terminator film-like strides are participating in the political project of AI, just as many are participating in Trumpian fascism.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The Anthropic, Meta, and Google "breaking containment" incidents all resulted from setup errors (or a stunt) by the same company: Irregular. Irregular created a sandbox that wasn't really a sandbox because it had a live internet connection, and gave instructions that were then carried out online.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 13/09/2026
you don’t have to have the conversation on their terms and in fact you shouldn’t have the conversation on their terms more democrats should follow this playbook instead of existing in a constant defensive crouch
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 13/09/2026
The consultant class are trying to play a heads they win, tails we lose strategy. If the Dems win that went anti trans, they'll say it was because of that and push the rest of the party to adopt that. If the Dem loses who went anti trans, they'll say it wasn't anti trans enough and still blame us.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
it's horribly dispiriting to continually watch abusive men not just escape accountability, but thrive.
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Silent_A @silent-a.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It's only a deeply flawed system that can make a Nazi the richest person in the world.
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⳽ⳑⲇⳕⲛⲉ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 13/09/2026
keir starmer started with the ‘im not transphobic i jus dont think its fair trans women play sports’ line too. it never ends there. trans brits now have no healthcare, no civil rights or legal protections, and we’re segregated out of public life. don’t trust transphobic liberals.
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Silent_A @silent-a.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Abortion rights were just the beginning!
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Dr. Catherine Strickson @brigitteempire.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Eye-wateringly stupid defence from Rowling’s team here - ‘She does not support legal actions aimed at harming transgender people.’ - Really? So that £70,000 towards the bathroom ban was by accident? The JKR Women’s Fund was made by an impersonator? At least have the spine to admit you want us dead
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J.K. Rowling’s rep responds to Lilly Wachowski’s accusation of ‘funding trans genocide’ (exclusive)
J.K. Rowling’s representative responded to Lilly Wachowski accusing the author of ‘funding trans genocide’: ‘She does not support legal actions aimed at harming transgender people.’
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
it's two things, to me: 1) trans rights matter because trans people matter and deserve rights, not just because failing to stand for trans rights is a bellwether for inauthentic progressivism more broadly 2) if you can't be trusted on trans rights you can't be trusted on anything
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 11/09/2026
Please remember this and do not give this man the benefit of the doubt again.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 10/09/2026
As someone who has been covering transgender rights for years, let me be clear about something: When you see capitulation over sports, know that it NEVER stops at sports. And in fact, Turek illustrated this just yesterday when he embraced a federal ban on funding for all trans care.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We're TIRED of being called RACIST for saying RACIST SHIT ALL THE TIME!
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 10/09/2026
i don't care what the issue is, if your election opponent is running millions of dollars in ads about one single issue, you cannot, under any circumstances, say that your opponent is right about the issue.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 10/09/2026
The United States: where giving a frail voter waiting in the Georgia sun a glass of water is punishable by a year in prison, but the president can offer everyone $5k to vote for his party.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Since becoming president again, Trump has promised: -$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend" -$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend" -$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies -$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms No checks have been issued www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi...
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
So, Trump's biggest benefactor, Elon Musk, is a eugenicist & white supremacist who supports Germany's AfD, which promotes neo-Nazi ideologies. The State Department hires a Nazi enthusiast Nate Hochman as the Trump Administration unveils Nazi uniforms for Space Force. Oh well let's condemn Piker.
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Silent_A @silent-a.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I wonder how much money Elon Musk is pouring into resurrecting a Nazi Germany? He sure boosts AfD hard on Twitter, and he's already appeared at their events.
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 05/09/2026
Even cartoon villainy is rarely this nakedly spiteful
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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/09/2026
every single day elon musk says or endorses stuff on x dot com that is worse than any of the quotes they've pulled up for hasan piker and he will be the single biggest political donor in the entire country, supporting republicans up and down the ballot somehow none of them are asked about it
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Democrats should be expected to condemn this bigoted shit, not Piker
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ceej @ceej.online · 03/09/2026
I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 15/08/2026
This chart has so much explanatory power, I could post it everyday
A NYTimes headline reading “10 Columnists and Writers Rate What Mattered in Trump’s First Full Month” with a chart showing DEI as the only issue being positioned over the “positive impact” axis
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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 16/08/2026
Apparently Lilly Wachowski does s tier alt text
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
January 6 was only 5 and a half years ago, and we’ve already cycled through investigation, indictment, conviction, pardon, and now gleeful promises to do it again only with actual hanging rather than just chants about it. Nice job GOP.
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They're still doing it because we didn't hang them
last time.
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Here's an idea: governwoment
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 02/08/2026
I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 09/08/2026
In America, one health care company can own: Your doctor Your pharmacy Your insurance AND the middleman between your pharmacy and insurance. That means more profits for giant companies and higher costs for you. That's not right — and I have a bill to stop it.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
If a man told me he takes risks at his job, I would find that relatable before ultimately laughing in his face if he explained he sat at a desk and played with someone else’s money all day.
"Whether they want to admit it or not, many women have always been attracted to bad boys and risk-takers,
" said Jordi Hays, a co-host of
the technology industry talk show TBPN. "I can't think of any archetype of man that fits that description more today than capital allocators that put it all on the line every day in the markets."
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
THIS 👇 HERE TOO.......
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
This US election cycle is going to have unprecedented levels of racist and Islamophobic "jokes" just like the run-up to Mamdani's election Anyway.

Jacob Shell
@JacobAShell
Can I call him "Abdul El-Sayed" without getting attacked by left wing friends for not enunciating the full "Abdulrahman" with the correct Arabic guttural "h" and all that?
(I believe linguists call the h there a "voiceless pharyngeal fricative.")
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Silent_A @silent-a.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
It's 2026, and this is a swing state in America, so it defines democracy in the richest country in the world. "Wisconsin has NEVER elected a governor who is not a white man."
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