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Valerie.vg @valerie.vg · 01/08/2026

bsky.app/profile/hlee... I want to talk about this for a minute as an important case study in how conservative positions, completely divorced from reality, scaffold out their rhetorical credibility 🧵

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The_Mess @the-mess.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Fuck. Doing this sort of bullshit just makes it more likely Iran will return the "favour". And if there's one thing experts have been bluntly talking about for the last 2 decades security wise, civil infrastructure in the US is highly, highly vulnerable to attack.

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Jesse Singal literally imagined an entirely fictional me, and then got furious at his own imagination.

Dr. Jonathan Howard says he does occasionally come across trans patients.
Imagine one of these patients in his office.
Imagine this patient asking him, a trusted, prestigious figure, if hormones are the right decision. Imagine this doctor thinking back to the abstract of one since mostly debunked paper and nodding, assuring this patient he is making the right choice. How can this not make you a little bit mad, this abuse of title and institution? How can it not make you a little bit mad that doctors who sit at the very top of society's hierarchy can spout off so confidently about matters they know so little about?

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The_Mess @the-mess.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Oh noes, I'm developing a love of hr+ podcast like things, send help. Also, I now, horrifically, understand now how nuts the singularitarians/LessWrong weirdo's are, thanks to Behind the Bastard's series on Zizians: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IqA...

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Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader | BEHIND THE BASTARDS

YouTube video by Behind the Bastards

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The_Mess @the-mess.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Top lulz, the Trump Admin's top morosoph is trying to go after those on the far right who are anti-Trump as "terrorists" now, because of course Gorka's dumb enough to think this will work: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/new-counte...

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New Counterterror Strategy Eyes Tucker Carlson

Administration deems anti-Trump right wingers terrorists

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The_Mess @the-mess.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

'Nother win for the youtube algo amongst a sea of LLM slop music: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeS8...

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Die Spitz - "American Porn" (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Die Spitz

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The_Mess @the-mess.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Chur youtube algo, why yes I was up for some Sleater-Kinney: www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9aR... Specifically the correct way to play these two tracks :P And up loud for the face melting wall of SOUND.

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Sleater-Kinney - Let's Call It Love/Night Light

YouTube video by Rick A. Benedum II

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The_Mess @the-mess.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Heh, come for the snark at Trump's stupidity, stay for the hopeful outcome of this utter stupidity: aliensideboob.substack.com/p/everything... Oh and if you're not subbed to John Birmingham already, do it already :P Anyhow, as much as this finally shifting everyone away from fossil fuels...

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Everything Trump Touches Dies

Including the fossil fuel industry

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The_Mess @the-mess.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Heh, I guess the album Everybody Scream from Florence + The Machine is now my happy place :3

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The_Mess @the-mess.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Holy shit, Israel is failing it's needs of it citizens massively: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNz6... This is fucking dark, but it shows why Israeli's are failing into fascists bullshit...

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Israel is FALLING APART

YouTube video by The Kavernacle

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The_Mess @the-mess.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

> Finally remember I should re-read David Morell's novel The Totem > Been over 2 decades since I read it. > Proceed to power read the last 1/2 of it because it's solid. Well, well, that turned out to be a good novel and it still holds up relatively well. Prose is a bit weird, but hey, it...

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David Nir @davidnir.com · 30/04/2026

Absolutely extraordinary. The Democrats conceded *nothing* and got everything they demanded. They said no ICE/CBP funding, and that's precisely what happened. In other words, they did not cave. At all. But the GOP did—completely.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I can think of only one good reason to take Kid Rock up in a helicopter

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The_Mess @the-mess.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Oh yay, yet another stupid lockdown on twitter, for pointing out a certain unfortunate fact Indian male immigrants have a higher than average rate of committing SA. Along with saying a certain incel should go castrate themselves or get some fucking therapy.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

The vast majority of Americans are birthright citizens. Unless you naturalized or were born abroad to an American parent, you are a citizen because of the 14th Amendment. There is nothing constitutionally distinct about Americans born here to non-Americans. We are all literally equal citizens.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Deliberately attacking civilian infrastructure without apparent military value is a war crime. Shouldn't be surprising since America elected a war crimes advocate, who in his first term pardoned convicted war criminals, and in his second made the public champion of those war criminals SecDef.

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The_Mess @the-mess.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Whaaaaat the Fuck? Really, thinking The Great Gatsby is "hard reading"? What are they, fucking 8yrs old? Also, this is going to completely mangle one of the key things about written books - the prose style unique to each author. As well as turning all detail into a bland LLM slop.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

This is absolutely bonkers and infuriating. Must-read reporting by ProPublica.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Started / going

Screenshot of Trump executive order "Restoring freedom of speech and ending federal censorship" from January 20, 2025

Trump Truth Social post where he's bragging about winning a "war against the media"

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

They made them take down the videos because they would cause "reputational damage" to people like this young man, Nathan Cavanuagh, so definitely don't post this all over the internet with the name Nathan Cavanaugh attached, or this guy might suffer reputational damage. This guy, Nathan Cavanaugh.

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The_Mess @the-mess.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

I get the strange feeling Twitter's not going to respond to the appeal lawl. Probably because they're drowning in them from the recent fail with the automated bot detector that killed people's accounts. But also, Elon is a one of the greatest anti-comedians in human history and a total schmuck.

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The_Mess @the-mess.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Apparently joking about Netenyahu's potential death is now "hateful speech" on twitter. Then again, Elon is a massive snowflake, so no surprise he's getting upset at people joking about it. Guess we all need to bully him more with the reaper at the vending machine meme XD

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The_Mess @the-mess.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Alas, twitter has me back in it's grasp, mainly because the discovery algo on here is kinda shit really. Also, there's a giant pile of bigots to be fabulously snarky to XD

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The_Mess @the-mess.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

So if you're confused at why members of the US military are talking about the war with Iran as though it's Biblically ordained here's some details: buttondown.com/theswordandt...

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Yearning for the Apocalypse

As chaos and violence break out across the Middle East in a war led by the US with Israel as junior partner, I wanted to revisit my research on Christian...

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The_Mess @the-mess.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Those fucking idiots: www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5... Kurd's already have it bad enough, but no, the Trump Admin fails to recognise this will draw in Turkey and over all makes things worse for Kurds in the region.

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CIA working to arm Kurdish forces to spark uprising in Iran, sources say

Iranian Kurdish opposition forces are expected to take part in a ground operation in Western Iran, in the coming days, the senior Iranian Kurdish official told CNN.

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The_Mess @the-mess.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Fuck. This shit is why Obama should have cracked down on the nutters infesting the military that ramped up under Bush Jnr. But no "retention" was totes more important than insuring the armed forces weren't potentially captured by religious extremists etc.

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The_Mess @the-mess.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Not surprising, turns out lying about talks tends to backfire really fucking badly on the international stage. This also has made every other country leery of the US's diplomatic efforts, another blow to US soft power. But it's not like this government has the brains to get why that's bad.

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The_Mess @the-mess.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

What. The. Fuck? There's a wealth of actual anti-terrorism people out there who are qualified, but the Trump admin picks this unqualified, nepo-baby dipshit? Once again the Trump admin is making Bush Jnr's look competent in fucking comparison. And that's bleak as all hell.

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The_Mess @the-mess.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Oh Voy, looks like Netenyahu wants to repeat the historic occupation of south Lebanon. Though given the utter nutters in his coalition that want a "Greater Israel" it may very well get worse. Especially as there's been fuck all push back to the ethnic cleansing of Gaza.

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The_Mess @the-mess.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Holy shit, the NYT finally grew a spine, now if only Congress would do the fucking same. Along with my government here in NZ, though they're Tories and thus spineless suck ups to Trump.

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The_Mess @the-mess.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Slept 12hrs, roughly. Definitely needed that, because I'm feeling more stable depression wise. Anyhow, I plan seeing if I can use the hypervisor method to play RE: Requiem :P Because I is broke due to paying off stuff. And it's NZ$120 on top ;-; Otherwise today's a blob out day.

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The_Mess @the-mess.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

It's worse really, as all it actually amounts to is "Trump wanted a war to boost him in the polls". And of course distract from the Epstein files. Oh well, Dubya can now rest a bit easier knowing he is no longer the shittiest US president in recent history

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The_Mess @the-mess.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Taking into account Iran's history, this is going to backfire massively. Especially since Trump primed it by not intervening when the regime murdered protesters on mass when he had promised to do so. So I fully expect any new government will tell the US and Israel to fuck off.

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The_Mess @the-mess.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

I'm fully expecting Trump to say the mid-terms are cancelled tomorrow. Though that might be today's depression attack making me think like that :/ Either way this is a bs attempt to boost his dismal poll ratings. and to try and stymie the looming blue wave. Plus distract from the Epstein files.

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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

President Obama had a deal with Iran that trump ripped up without replacing, and now we're in an unnecessary war with Iran that he started without Congress, because he's a small, petty, envious punk.

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The_Mess @the-mess.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Fuck, evidently those talks with Iran were just to buy time to prepare. Fuck Trump. Fuck Netenyahu. And fuck this stupid, needless war. Also, it's pretty easy to make a gun type fission bomb, so I will not be surprised if the US 5th Fleet get's nuked by one made with uranium.

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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

History, Rhyming Read more cartoons! ---> #PoliCartoon Help us make more! ----> patreon.com/barry

TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON

This cartoon has six panels. A caption at the top says "History, Rhyming."

PANEL 1

A close up of someone's hand lying limply on the ground, in sepia tones.

CAPTION: August 20, 1965: Civil rights activist Jonathan Daniels put himself between a deputy sheriff and the black teen the deputy was attacking. The deputy shot Daniels to death.

PANEL 2

A close up of a gloved hand lying limply on snowy pavement, a cell phone lying nearby. Drawn in blue tones.

CAPTION: January 24 2026: Anti-fascist activist Alex Pretti put himself between border protection agents and the woman the agents were attacking. The agents shot Pretti to death.

PANEL 3

This panel is divided in two, sepia on the left and blues on the right. On the sepia side, a man inn a suit sneers. On the right side, a man in a border patrol uniform sneers.

BOTH (in unison): He was intended to commit a massacre!

CAPTION (sepia side): Arthur Gamble: Corrupt prosecutor who threw the case.

CAPTION (blue side): Gregory Bovino: Border Patrol Commander.

PANEL 4

Another panel divided into sepia and blue sides. On the sepia side is a cheerful middle-aged man in a suit. On the right side are two masked Border Patrol agents.

ALL THREE (unison): I was in fear for my life!

CAPTION (sepia side): Tom Coleman, Daniels' murderer.

CAPTION (blue side): Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez, Pretti's murderers.

PANEL 5

On the sepia side, three people with 1960s haircuts are angrily yelling. On the blue side, same thing except with current-day hair and clothes.

ALL (unison): If he hadn't put himself where he didn't belong he'd still be alive! Cops have to make split-second judgements! Law! Order! Bark bark bark bark woof!

CAPTION: Boot-licking stooges.

PANEL 6

In a clearing, surrounded by grass, trees, and shrubs, two men talk to each other. One, wearing a clerical collar, is "Jonathan Daniels, 1939-1965." The other, wearing a winter jacket and baggy jeans, is "Alex Pretti, 1989-2026."

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The_Mess @the-mess.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Also, finally work out yesterday how to get my Pierce spammer Aegis of Menhir build in Grim Dawn to be faster in Shattered Realm at 30-31 shards: youtu.be/JnPFGusXKq8

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Pierce Bogson - Pierce Spam AoM Tactician - SR30-31 - 1 Short Room - Grim Dawn 1.2.1.6

YouTube video by The_Mess

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The_Mess @the-mess.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Blaaaaah, wanted to finally get a good night's sleep, but I got a monkey's paw sort of issue lawl. As I did sleep a good 6hrs but then woke up and became wide awake. But yeah, it's going to be a 2 coffee sort of day because it's been a week of night sweats and insomnia ;-;

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

I don't feel qualified to evaluate how well an opinion mirrors authentic originalism because I think originalism is already inauthentic. It's like asking me if THESE reiki crystals are REAL reiki crystals. Skip me with that bullshit and leave it for FedSoc's Chick-Fil-A bag lunches.

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The_Mess @the-mess.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Ow, my brain. Shit like this is why I avoid facebook, because it's full of utter idiots who post utterly insane takes on scientific things. And of course it's spread to Threads

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AblativMeatshld @ablativmeatshld.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

These aren't people. They are barely creatures. There is no suffering that would surpass what they deserve.

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The_Mess @the-mess.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Blahs, slept so poorly last night I'm going to have to have a 2nd coffee just to get anything done today ;-;

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The_Mess @the-mess.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

James Talarico is a Mensch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ... Which is why the Trump Admin is so desperate to abused the FCC's powers to try and block this interview.

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Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislature

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/02/2026

i think jesse jackson was one of the most important american political figures of the post-war era and i think that his 1984 and 1988 campaigns for the democratic nomination still have a great deal to teach about forging a path to a more egalitarian world. RIP.

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The_Mess @the-mess.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Reminder it is perfectly ethical to punch Nazi's and their allies like Raichik. Who's also a fucking kapo and should be called so to her face every time as well.

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