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Tau Cetaceans @tau-cetaceans.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

MAGA co-worker: COVID does not exist same MAGA co-worker: COVID was a Chinese bio-weapon ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Tau Cetaceans @tau-cetaceans.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

this is the Terminator / Babylon 5 / Idiocracy mashup nobody asked for

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Tau Cetaceans @tau-cetaceans.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

LinkedIn: what do you think of this ad? me: TBH it sounds more like something that's legally required to list all known side effects when advertised than a nascent interplanetary megacorp which will soon dominate the exploitation of the solar system...

image of mining colony on the lunar surface, with a full Earth in the sky... motto overlay reads "Fluor - Building What's Next in Space"

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Tau Cetaceans @tau-cetaceans.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"At eleven a grand-uncle handed (Yudkowsky) Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition, a 1990 chronicle of cryonicists, space eccentrics, and people planning to upload their minds into computers." am glad that I didn't get that book foisted on me by a transhumanist relative until a bit older

iankduncan.com

Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse - Ian Duncan

How a community devoted to thinking clearly incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and an affection for autocracy, and why that history matters now that its alumni are asking ...

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Tau Cetaceans @tau-cetaceans.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

made the mistake of attending alumni event with poli sci prof from my alma mater talking about Russia / Ukraine - apparently we're calling territorial appeasement "accommodation" now... at least the dude had the sense not to propose doing it in Munich

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Neville Chamberlain's Peace in Our Time Speech

Alt: Neville Chamberlain's Peace in Our Time Speech

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Tau Cetaceans @tau-cetaceans.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

in an old shadowrun campaign, had a megacorp round up otaku off the streets and sequester them in a boarding school... kinda the same vibes here

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yeah, I find the whole debate quite bizarre for this reason. They're fooling people with a combination of impressive statistical modelling and our innate tendency towards anthropomorphism.

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Tau Cetaceans @tau-cetaceans.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

memo to myself: 1) do the dumb things I gotta do 2) touch the puppet head

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Tau Cetaceans @tau-cetaceans.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

not just any Putin-linked Russian oligarch... but one involved in the mass-kidnapping and "re-education" of Ukrainian children, which is, you know, kinda genocide-y my contempt for MAGA (and Tankies who are also okay with this invading, killing, raping and kidnapping) still has found no bottom...

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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch

The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...

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Tau Cetaceans @tau-cetaceans.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

uh... Tesla recruiter guy pinged me again... I dunno man, I thought I was pretty clear I held Elon Musk in extreme contempt for being a fascist and a purveyor of AI slop / CSAM... didn't even get into cybertrucks being butt ugly, AI being a bubble and withholding full usage of Starlink to Ukraine...

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

look, mainstream dems were wrong about a lot of things but Russiagate was 100 percent real

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

1/ Russia has suffered a "crushing defeat" at Lyman in eastern Ukraine, with multiple regiments routed, heavy losses, and a "collapse of the front." Crippled soldiers are reportedly being sent into battle in a last-ditch effort to prevent disaster. ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/tend...

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Tau Cetaceans @tau-cetaceans.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

got cold call e-mail from third-party recruiter... humored them enough to take a phone call... and it was for a Musk-owned corporation... so yeah, as much as current job sitrep sucks... do still have standards... not working for CSAM-generating techbro fascists is one of them

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Minion Says Ehh No

Alt: Minion Says Ehh No

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Tau Cetaceans @tau-cetaceans.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Slava Ukraini 35 years since Ukraine declared independence from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 12 years of having to fight against a Russian attempt to renege on it's recognition of that independence in a brutal and wanton act of fascist aggression

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"Ukraine is not yet lost" - National Anthem of Ukraine

YouTube video by Ingen

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Tau Cetaceans @tau-cetaceans.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

saw fly overhead yesterday (live near Joint Base Andrews), concerned because knew no B2s stationed at Andrews TFW you immediately wondered if this was related to Trump nuking Iran or invading Canada, but nope, it was related to the Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho side of him (Grand Prix thing)

screenshot from Pakistan TV showing flyover of a B-2 stealth bomber and fighter jets flying in formation over Washington DC on August 23rd 2026 for the "Freedom 250" Grand Prix

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Tau Cetaceans @tau-cetaceans.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

me, an autist working on sci-fi timeline: "okay the electoral college is stupid, but at least it meets on a predictable date, let me just enter those in..." Trump on 1/6/21: COUP ATTEMPT Congress after: "let's close some loopholes and also arbitrarily change the date in December that the EC meets"

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Tau Cetaceans @tau-cetaceans.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

attempting to read the Bible and The Silmarillion at the same time (4th grade) was clutch... just had to apply English class style compare and contrast exercise and go, oh, these are the same genre! Asimov was right, properly read, the Bible is the most potent argument for atheism ever conceived...

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Erik Gregersen @ctgriffes.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

As an adaptation of Homer’s epic, the Honda Odyssey is a complete disaster. With its roomy cabin and rear entertainment system for the kids, the minivan foregrounds concerns that only arose with the American nuclear family and say nothing about the brutality that underlay the Bronze Age.

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Tau Cetaceans @tau-cetaceans.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

AI slop ad about the bloodlines of the Nephilim... including giant LEGO men stomping Ancient Mesopotamia like Godzilla... that dear readers is when my mental model tipped from "this is the dark cyberpunk future we were warned about" to "this is a very bad acid trip and I didn't know I did acid"

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Tau Cetaceans @tau-cetaceans.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

TFW you're thinking about the problem of naming near-future characters in sci-fi - how to make them sound weird / not quite modern but not *too* weird, and then you remember IRL the world's first trillionaire is a techno-fascist named "Elon Musk" after a character in von Braun's Das Marsprojekt?

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Tau Cetaceans @tau-cetaceans.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Phoenicopteridae are having a moment like nothing since 1957...

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Tau Cetaceans @tau-cetaceans.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

took a detour from current events to wikipedia rabbit hole on South Carolina political history, and remembering the simpler times of "hiking the Appalachian Trail" entering the national lexicon

screenshot of wikipedia article on Mark Sanford extramarital affair

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Tau Cetaceans @tau-cetaceans.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I mean, he had a few other smaller films between Red October and Jurassic Park, but literally the next time most people saw him after "i would have liked to have seen Montana", he was a paleontologist doing field work in Montana, getting visited by a techbro and roped into crazy consulting side gig

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Tau Cetaceans @tau-cetaceans.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

have one of those ethnic heritages where paranoia about Russia isn't merely conspiracy theory, it's basic historical literacy, so wasn't the only one in my family to immediately jump to the "did Russia kill Lindsey Graham?" thought, and shared it with a friend of similar ethnic heritage, but... /1

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Tau Cetaceans @tau-cetaceans.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

on June 4, 1942, in the span of 10 minutes, Japan lost 4 carriers and the war in the pacific was effectively won even if it took a long time after that to see it through on an unrelated note, here is pic of some of the most recent Russian oil tankers set ablaze by kamikaze drones in the Sea of Azov

Russian oil tankers on fire in the Sea of Azoz after Ukrainian drone strikes

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 12/07/2026

pictured: parasite now causing explosive diarrhea across the country

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Tau Cetaceans @tau-cetaceans.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

“The idea is really to find a big space advocate who hasn’t found the Lord yet. Ideally, we would want to convert someone like Elon Musk." last I knew Musk switched from godless nerd to "cultural christian" because he hates his trans daughter, so... shit... this is disturbingly plausible strategy

talkingpointsmemo.com

A Pro-Trump Christian Group Wants to Put a Cross on the Moon

The Christian right has been gaining traction in Washington, D.C. under President...

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Tau Cetaceans @tau-cetaceans.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Best STAR TREK captain. Wrong answers only.

Ambassador Delenn of the Mimbari at the helm of a White Star at the end of Babylon 5's Season 3 Hugo Award-winning episode "Severed Dreams"

"This is Ambassador Delenn of the Mimbari. Babylon 5 is under our protection. Withdraw, or be destroyed."
"Negative, we have authority here. Do not force us to engage your ship."
"Why not? Only one human captain has ever survived battle with the Mimbari fleet, HE is behind me, YOU are in front of me, if you value your lives... be somewhere else."

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Tau Cetaceans @tau-cetaceans.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

yeah, Ukraine is the litmus test / deal breaker for me even if I largely agree with them on domestic DSA's political ancestors were okay w/ every Soviet and German invasion of a sovereign European nation between 8/23/1939 and 6/22/1941, and now de facto support Russia invading it's neighbors today

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Tau Cetaceans @tau-cetaceans.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

wish I had a photo for this, but we had the sole Jeep Wrangler in late 1980s Soviet-occupied Poland, and for some weird reason state-owned TV showed dubbed version of Dallas (edited to turn into anti-capitalist propaganda?), upshot was kids would point and shout "J.R.!!! J.R.!!!" when we drove past

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Look guys I know this is controversial but maybe we shouldn't try and compete with the right on the whole being Nazis and raping front

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Tau Cetaceans @tau-cetaceans.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

impression: that montage in Dune (1984) where the Fremen pwn Harkonnen spice production next targets: more things like that semiconductor factory, eff up the ork's supply chain for missiles they could be lobbing at Ukraine Kerch bridge: not right away, want to prod the ork occupiers to self-deport

screenshot of part of a transcript of the 1984 version of Dune:

"I am Usul. Paul Muad'Db.
Our shared enemy, the Harkonnens, are once again in control of Arrakis
Stilgar, your leader, has asked me and my mother to teach you the weirding way to crush the Harkonnens.
We must do more than this.
We must destroy all spice production on Arrakis.
The Guild and the entire universe depends on spice.
He who can destroy a thing controls a thing.
I will take 100 of your warriors and train them.
This 100 will train the thousands that remain.
When the spice flow stops, all eyes will turn to Arrakis.
The baron and the emperor himself will be forced to deal with us.
Arakkis will become the center of the universe."

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Tau Cetaceans @tau-cetaceans.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

"ah, breaker one-nine, this here's the Rubber Duck, you got a copy on me Love Machine?" "ah ten four Pig Pen, for sure, for sure, by golly it's clean clear to Taco Town" "yeah we definitely got us a front door good buddy, mercy sakes alive, looks like we got ourselves a convoy"

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C.W. McCall - Convoy

YouTube video by Alamo YTC Germany

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Tau Cetaceans @tau-cetaceans.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

What's a non-military aspect of America that you love? Being the first and so far only to send probes to interstellar space, including unsolicited nudes (Pioneer) and a mix tape (Voyager) and being surprised when nobody returns our phone calls (SETI)... plus did some planetary science along the way

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Tau Cetaceans @tau-cetaceans.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

"What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of... neutrality."

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Tau Cetaceans @tau-cetaceans.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

The convicts shake their cages of a bad dream / And they'll coach you in the classroom that it cannot happen here / But it has happened here / ... / We were born in a revolution and we died in a wasted war / It's gone that way before

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Another Age

YouTube video by Phil Ochs - Topic

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Tau Cetaceans @tau-cetaceans.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

“Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.” ~ Homer Simpson

Homer Simspon standing on a pedestal of beer kegs, holding a mug of beer aloft, surrounded by Springfield residents who are also holding mugs of beer in their hands

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Tau Cetaceans @tau-cetaceans.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

what we were promised: President Thomas J. Whitmore's epic speech in ID4 what we'll get: whatever crap is going to come out of Trump's mouth tonight

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Tau Cetaceans @tau-cetaceans.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

in a fit of optimism, we are burying a time capsule in Philly to excavate on the hypothetical 500th national birthday... to celebrate, finished reading this time capsule from 2020 which posited blockchain and AI as the solution to AGW... as opposed to the IRL timeline where they both made AGW worse

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