iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

No, and you know I didn't say that, but the immediate bad faith reading is instructive.

You're making good points, & I'd really like to take you at your word. Unfortunately, I've also seen a lot of anti-coalitional wrecker stuff coming from your platform in particular, so I have a hard time trusting your judgement on this tbh. Do you...reflect on that at all? You must be aware of it..?

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I am yet again encouraging people to spent like 5 hours a week volunteering for a campaign. Make it a state leg or municipal one, you will get to know the candidate and this may change your view of how politics works

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

me, an immigrant, watching people who said immigrants are corrupting america engage in actual corrupt behavior

An Asian man looks out the window with binoculars.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

what did he know

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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AMCW 177 @tce177.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

No, I'm not kidding. The data is limited because it's a very new tech, but we're off to a promising start so far publichealth.jhu.edu/2026/the-saf... Are you, or is your bio performance art?

@kimoco.bsky.social

Bio reads: "Wish more people in this country had more empathy and less bigotry."

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AMCW 177 @tce177.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

No, they won't. Robotaxis are statistically orders of magnitude safer, & we have an ongoing shortage of skilled labor in healthcare that could desperately use more bodies. Free up the taxis drivers. This is a step backwards, & will hurt the differently abled in the long run.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

this is also never applied evenly. no lines are ever drawn between "social networks where opinion-leaders hang out are saturated by antisocial trolls claiming to represent the downtrodden" and "opinion-leaders become more conservative"

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

yeah at some point we all have to decide whether the thing we're doing is participating as an individual in a subculture or participating as a member of a political project and adjust our goals and behavior accordingly

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olive consumer's floating skull @machete.gay · 23/09/2026

I think the sentiment expressed by Jacob Rees-Mogg is generally quite nice and reflective of a certain "cultured chauvinism" that is entirely compatible with a multicultural, multiethnic civilization. The idea that one ought to "join in to the society to which they belong" is quite good, I think.

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AMCW 177 @tce177.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

fwiw, as someone from an immigrant background (& from somewhere vilified by MAGA) I was really touched by your threads today & yesterday. Your solidarity is more than just a gesture, and it is not in vain. Not to me or my family. Thank you.

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 12/09/2026

Stop letting “I trust this person I share an affinity group with, and the crowd of people retweeting them” define your reality. Take some responsibility for your epistemology and learn the actual facts. Then get in the fight, we need you

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Doll @dollspace.gay · 11/09/2026

Ok heres a game pitch, a sim city clone but instead of having godlike power to impose your perfect civic vision you have actual political constraints and competing groups who have influence

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AMCW 177 @tce177.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"alas"? You ... think it's ... bad that Vietnam has a positive relationship with its former enemy?

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AMCW 177 @tce177.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I'm sorry for your loss. My your time together continue to shine light in your life.

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Thorne 🌸 - Play Cozysters! @ens0.me · 05/09/2026

Stop looking for an out group you feel justified in abusing That urge isn’t healthy even if you manage to only take it out on the worst people (and you won’t)

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

the point here is not rendering justice, it is setting future expectations. we can't control thermostatic electoral behavior. we can teach a very painful lesson that Democrats will punish corruption when they take power

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Whether or not you think Dems are going to do it, you need to act like they are going to. The thing that guarantees failure is preemptively conceding defeat

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AMCW 177 @tce177.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Some of it is, certainly. Who cares? He's earned it. Do you know how profoundly grating to have the same protection against bigotry my family needs (plenty of whom are critical of Israel without being anti-Semites!) extended to that vulgarian donkey? His enemies can have him. We don't want him.

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AMCW 177 @tce177.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Insipid of you imo. Turkish Americans have more opportunities than most to approach crimes against humanity with humility & grace. He's an utter pig who gleefully wields atrocities as a cudgel when it suits him and his preferred narrative; oppositionally defiant at the prospect of doing otherwise.

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AMCW 177 @tce177.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

⬆️ (Only I disagree about the 4x not being that good, while fully acknowledging I am that outlier/sicko that was adding diplomacy mods to make weird coalition politics more feasible)

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AMCW 177 @tce177.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Several things can be bad at the same time, including things we're ostensibly allied with. We get tired of anti-anti-Trump Republicans with good reason. It's equally easy to condemn a manchild who insists Mao did nothing wrong as it is Nazis.

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April Glick Pulito @aprilglick.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I screenshotted this elsewhere because the line: “the crushing weakness of our politics against the unmet needs of our people” landed on me like a ton of bricks (h/t @acyn.bsky.social)

Acyn
@Acyn .16h
Ossoff: When you step back and consider it, the situation is absurd. Tech titans dig bunkers and warn us the new intelligence they're training could lead to mass joblessness or human extinction, while our Congress debates ballrooms and youth sports.
We've amassed enough firepower to end the world 1,000 times over, but we can't summon the will to guarantee health care and pre-K. I say all this to say, but it's the crushing weakness of our politics, against the unmet needs of our people and the massive stakes of our times, that's shaking our faith in the future.
But Atlanta, I refuse to leave my girls a world as dark and dangerous and cruel as this one threatens to become.
When Eva is old enough to ask me why | let this happen. I'm determined to answer truthfully, that | didn't

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I think it's key to understanding their worldview that they imagine a world not *without* immigrants, but one in which immigrants' inferiority is permanently asserted and they become a subservient caste. All these people worship the Gulf States.

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AMCW 177 @tce177.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Sounds more like a cry for help more than a coherent criticism tbh

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Eric Lee @ericleeacts.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I’m tired of this game of if there are two Democrats running, then one of them is “centrist” and one of them is “progressive.”

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 12/08/2026

peggy flanagan says she just got off the phone with angie craig, who assured her “we’re in this fight together.” says they disagree on much, but both love minnesota too much and cannot just hand donald trump another senate seat flanagan says she will work her tail off to earn trust of craig voters

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AMCW 177 @tce177.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Not only are you apparently mildly famous, you're not even from this country, lol. Is it that you're enamored with Hasan, or 10/7 denialism, that drew you to this?

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AMCW 177 @tce177.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

57k followers, a verified account, & this is what you choose to do with your spare time? How did you even find this? You aren't tagged in the thread. Jeez.

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AMCW 177 @tce177.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Yeah, your weird parasocial idol ain't far off that mark either www.reddit.com/r/Livestream... Find better things/people to spend your time on. I promise you there's no shortage.

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From the LivestreamFail community on Reddit: Hasan doubles down on denying mass rapes on October 7

Posted by GarethPW - 11,630 votes and 3,786 comments

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AMCW 177 @tce177.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Hey man, are you okay? You seem to be posting about suicide more often lately.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/08/2026

The DOJ indicted “Bitcoin Jesus” Roger Ver in one of the largest-ever crypto tax fraud cases. Those familiar with the case said the evidence was “rock solid” and that prosecutors were confident of a conviction. Then Donald Trump won a second term. (Published January)

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How “Bitcoin Jesus” Avoided Prison, Thanks to One of the “Friends of Trump”

Billionaire fugitive Roger Ver was facing federal criminal charges until he sought the services of a select club of President Donald Trump’s former personal attorneys who have easy access to top Justi...

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AMCW 177 @tce177.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I'll never say no to a good RPG, but it's mainly stuff to read (or audiobooks) that I need right now

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AMCW 177 @tce177.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

What would you (or others reading this) recommend for good RP fodder for my table? I'm trying to broaden my range of responses outside of what I usually read (Pratchett, Dark Library, Jonathan L Howard, Tolkien, etc). Anything that helps get into a diversity of characters' headspaces would be great.

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AMCW 177 @tce177.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

gözün aydın / nazar değmesin

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AMCW 177 @tce177.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Please share more? (If you are comfortable)

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

this shit was always annoying even in cases where it was maybe technically correct, but now with Trump doing lots of unprecedented bad shit the ‘heh, you rube, you fool, politicians have always been corrupt’ gimmick is both wrong on the merits and much more pernicious.

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AMCW 177 @tce177.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

YES! The Bubble threads the needle between capturing the madness of the time & being a fun watch (at least, for the sense of humor in our household; ymmv)

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Calliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

More to the point, this is happening in *non-white* countries as well: Japan, Turkey, and India have huge far-right nativist blocs. So it's not merely white supremacy or nostalgia for the days when the West ruled. Nor is it happening purely in developed post-material countries.

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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Surveys like this always alarm people Fortunately, recent research from cognitive psychology shows that the reason people are so wildly wrong when estimating the size of minority groups is largely NOT because of prejudice — but rather how humans think about unknown proportions of any kind

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AMCW 177 @tce177.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Thanks for the article. I noticed there wasn't any polling mentioned. Are there any credible polls out of the race?

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.

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AMCW 177 @tce177.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Yes! I have been haunted by Propublica's reporting from the TX border on immigration just days before the '24 election bsky.app/profile/tce1... whenever I bring it up, especially on here, people bounce right off. Meanwhile, the Executive acts more & more by the day like they're running RTLM.

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

When someone tells you it has always been this bad, the correct response is to point out that the Voting Rights Act passed with 98 votes in the Senate in 2006 and its main sponsor was a Republican who worked with the ACLU to build a comprehensive record in defense of its most “controversial” parts

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

"one ought to orient oneself towards affirming the good in those institutional behaviors one is responsible for rather than merely disclaiming responsibility for anything not personally chosen" is a pretty easy thing to understand once you expand out all the terms.

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