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baba yaga bear @thatdobson.bsky.social · 2h

In case anyone was wondering how to engineer a Slipknot from first fundamentals:

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 18h

a little louder for the cheap seats in the back

One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.

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baba yaga bear @thatdobson.bsky.social · 15h

Anything worth tasting in his work is just Sadie Plant and Kodwe Eshun’s work, but he tacks on “BUT THATS A BAD THING” at the end. CCRU is a fun read until you realize he’s rooting for the Beast because he knows humans root for humans, while his students think humans are prone to oppression.

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baba yaga bear @thatdobson.bsky.social · 15h

I can’t wait to see some insane character makeup and know just how much sleep was lost getting up to get in the makeup chair. Godspeed you, Black Empress

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baba yaga bear @thatdobson.bsky.social · 15h

Maison Yaki was a Japanese French fusion spot in Brooklyn that did yakitori skewers with French Sauce work and the Milk Bread with Umeboshi Butter was better than like 2/3rds of the sex you can have.

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baba yaga bear @thatdobson.bsky.social · 16h

@iwriteok.bsky.social all you need to do is let me compose Vice: A Brief History: The Musical. It’ll be 2 hours of noise music at Stonehenge while you drunkenly read whatever excerpts of your writing you choose.

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baba yaga bear @thatdobson.bsky.social · 22h

The advantage of a forum is its containment via subject. Like, yeah, my childhood Kingdom Hearts board was just as prone to petty power posturing as any internet space, but even at 14 I could tell, “They’re trying to be king of a message board about Donald and Goofy and the FFVIII guy”

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baba yaga bear @thatdobson.bsky.social · 23h

Between Oracle’s inability to prove ROI and Warner Bros being Warner Bros this is not going to end well for the Ellison’s at all.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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baba yaga bear @thatdobson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If people do not wish us to imagine cartoonish levels of justice perhaps, perchance, they shouldn’t engage in cartoonish levels of villainy.

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baba yaga bear @thatdobson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Welp, there’s another tick on the “stimulants and fascism” phenomena

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

people are saying maybe the cornell case leads to the end of campus greek life. which feels daunting but plausible. my preference though would be the end of ivy league universities & everyone whose degree is from one of them has to wear a dunce cap until they've officially proven they aren't a shit

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026

the idea that rufo has, at any point in his public career, been a sincere advocate for “colorblind meritocracy” is brain dead

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

another day at the machine learning factory. everyone keeps asking me if the machine is intelligent. buddy, they won’t even let me fuck it

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baba yaga bear @thatdobson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I think there are legitimate artistic uses for LLMs, but like in the same way we turned cassette tapes into their own medium for music. The problem with AI as art is that you only find a medium’s capability in its extremes, and frontier models are what they are and smaller models are… kinda dumb.

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baba yaga bear @thatdobson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

You went to the tax fraud Churro shop and didn’t invite me?!?

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baba yaga bear @thatdobson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In the past year or so my mental model of what the admin and the five CEOs propping them up are aiming for is “White Trash Great Leap Forward But Directly to Dengist Reforms”

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baba yaga bear @thatdobson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

As a writer, I’m absolutely jealous of all the hack work G-d gets away with.

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baba yaga bear @thatdobson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The moment I knew I was on the right path was when it was just me and the theatre’s master electrician, a butch who’d been married 25 years, doing a hang and focus. At the end, she gifted me her speed wrench, with cool clean, “Nice work, kid.”

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baba yaga bear @thatdobson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I have carved out an impossibly beautiful life creating hospitality in New York City, and wouldn’t change a thing (if I did I wouldn’t have met my partner and have the coolest kid ever) But that kid sure as SHIT is getting a college education because the stability provided by a Bachelor’s is REAL.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is why I get pissed off when anyone accuses me of being an elitist when I say young people should go to college if they can. I say that because my dad was a local lineman and contractor who did heavy physical labor for years and has had chronic back pain since his early 30s

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baba yaga bear @thatdobson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ain’t this the dude whose mom logged on to defend him?

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baba yaga bear @thatdobson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“Economic Refugees” is such a wild way to say “Business Owners incapable of running a profitable business while paying humane wages to labor.”

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baba yaga bear @thatdobson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Your point feels connected to the most scathing critique of AZ I ever heard, from a playwright friend who grew up in NorCal: “Arizona’s just everyone who wanted to manifest destiny but didn’t have the juice.”

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baba yaga bear @thatdobson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Magna Carta is just a guest list of people who got a long and had a great time. It’s like a guestbook, honestly.

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baba yaga bear @thatdobson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It’s also that a LOT of these communities were founded with the explicit purpose of white separatism (in the western US) Like, it too me a bit too long to realize why my Grandfather who moved to AZ in the 80’s had a bunch of Soldiers of Fortune mags with glorious odes to Rhodesia.

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baba yaga bear @thatdobson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Like watching watching a lobotomized whale soar through the air

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

hmmm, wonder what's going on over at the other place? Oh. Oh my.

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baba yaga bear @thatdobson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I always point to the history of Italy and then I remember these phrenologists don’t view Italians as white.

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baba yaga bear @thatdobson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“The internet is a bar,” is hardly the worst metaphor to operate from, and especially good for those who work in “the bar.” Like, when you go to bars on the day you’re not working in your bar, maybe working in the bar isn’t the best play for your long term health?

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Stephen A Smith voice: “lemme tell you something, we don’t care”

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Jamie Gump, pushing the acceptable boundaries of hubris @jamiegump.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

so much depends upon an Ivy League rapist glazed with media protection beside the older alumni

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baba yaga bear @thatdobson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

white nationalism always tries to portray itself as some deep esoteric understanding of history that you just haven’t read enough to understand and then will vomit a historical bullshit like this. Yes, noted unified pillars: Judea, Athens, and Rome. Each one a HUGE fan of the other.

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baba yaga bear @thatdobson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As a child of a “University of Louisville Mother, University of Kentucky Father” family, it’s a feature of my faith, not a bug.

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baba yaga bear @thatdobson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Something akin to the TRC is a baseline, but that's after the other baseline which is finishing the work of The Reconstruction. This country's been in a cold (and often hot) war with it's secessionists ever since we didn't line every slaver against the wall.

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Caroline Baxter @convergingriskslab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Pausing my AI/NATSEC commentary to share this with a personal take, stated as clearly as possible: This is fucking barbaric and should feature prominently and permanently in every US history textbook. We will never wash away this stain, so we better learn from it. www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...

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Inside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN Politics

Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.

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baba yaga bear @thatdobson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Anything less does a disservice to men everywhere. It does a disservice to us all, to the human condition, but apparently the only means of having the conversation is when we center young men.

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baba yaga bear @thatdobson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Like, sure, we can go whole bore and throw the whole category (man) out as a reactionary container of oppression against women but like... There's 18 year olds stumbling around in live time trying to figure out how to live and succeed and thrive and the only solution is to try all 57 of them.

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baba yaga bear @thatdobson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Not for gold stars and feminism points reasons (perfectly fine, but not the point), but for the sheer fact of caring for the people you love. I want to know where the conversation is about those who get gendered men's responsibilities to others in our stupid arbitrary tribe.

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baba yaga bear @thatdobson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The thing about the "The other 50 did NOTHING" that young men really need to hear is... If you're actually doing the work of being a better man w/ regards to gender and feminism you're never gonna be on that group thread to begin with. But you have to make sure no one you know is on there either.

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baba yaga bear @thatdobson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tag yourself, I'm Kris Novaselic getting ready to ride these coattails just to flip what little cred I have left in my 3rd act by making a hard right turn

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