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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
okay now explain this departure from gravity
Donald Trump talking to reporters in his assless centaur stance
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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
A light switch set to on with the history channel aliens guy on top and the “I don’t know her” Mariah Carey meme on the bottom
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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
the worst are those homegrown aliens
A summary of “alien” arrests in Portland, OR listing total arrests (835), dates, criminal charges, and countries of origin—a list which includes the United States.
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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
“They've shopped in the same stores, attended the same classes as our children, and lived seemingly normal human existences.” Screenshot from the White House webpage referring to immigrants as non-humans.
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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
they full on made a 90s geocities racist x-files fan page
Mobile screenshot of a geocities ass looking webpage with a twinkle star background and glowing text titled “ALIENS”, subtitle “DECLASSIFIED”, header “THEY WALK AMONG US” and scrolling text with a whitehouse.gov web address.
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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
that balloon was a freedom-hating domestic terrorist and DHS needs one bajillion tax dollars to blow up their secret headquarters with lasers
Exterior of a Party City, the discount party super store. Window graphics display featuring many threatening looking balloons.
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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
so the GOP isn’t going to make a peep about a republic-ending threat to states rights here? we have to do it?
A woman (Pam from the Office) is talking in an office with the caption “Angela, you’re the chairman of the party planning committee. I shouldn’t even be doing this. It’s your job.”
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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
They didn’t put these signs up for aesthetics. He was getting lost walking to the other side of the building.
In image of a white glass door with gold flourishes above and a paper sign to the right reading “the Oval Office” in large gold type.
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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
an image of the Cascadia flag featuring blue, white, and green horizontal stripes and the black silhouette of a fir tree in the center
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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
sean penn sure nailed the impression from the future
A split screen image with a middle aged white man with a goofy cropped haircut wearing border patrol tactical gear (Greg Bovino) on the left and a middle aged white man with a goofy cropped haircut wearing military fatigues (Sean Penn in One Battle After Another) on the right.
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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
ralph wiggum cartoon with a face mask wearing a sign that says “administrative law judge”
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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
yeah, they’ve been training for years, already had the outfits and everything
A group of men stand together outside wearing face coverings and hats in black and yellow with a visible “proud boys” on one shirt
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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
A cartoon of a hand holding a fried nugget-looking creature with a face saying “mama”
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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
An old-style cartoon car from Futurama where Bender turns into a werecar
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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
literally an ad for GATTACA
An advertisement for the film GATTACA (1997) in the style of a mock advertisement for designer babies with a picture of a white baby and the words “Children made to order” and “How far will you go? How far will your child go?”
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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I’m… I’m sorry— These people are professional writers? With paying jobs?
Screenshot of a blog article:

Part 1: How I Found Out
RYAN LIZZA
NOV 17, 2025

Olivia had just returned from a reporting trip—at least that’s what she told me it was—and her Herschel backpack, the one with the flap that never quite closed properly, was tossed beside our bed, its contents scattered on the floor.
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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
i don’t know you guys there’s some very interesting ideas in the prospectus
A children’s crayon drawing of a robot-type creature and a human
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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
an aperitif for madame?
A social media post describing and showing images of Trump’s all marble renovation of a bathroom in the White House.
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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
sigh
A man wearing a dress shirt, Fox Mulder, leaning forward with the caption “That’s why they put the I in FBI.”
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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Literally calling ICE terrorism in Chicago a “blitz”. If they weren’t cowards they’d just come out and say they’re nazis.
Screenshot from Reuters article reading “The judge is presiding over a lawsuit challenging the legality of the tactics used by officials carrying out Trump's Chicago crackdown called ‘Operation Midway Blitz.’”

October 28, 2025 8:28 PM UTC
Judge intensifies oversight of agents in Trump's Chicago immigration crackdown
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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
He claimed the milkshake had cement in it. It was just a regular milkshake someone dumped on his head.
man covered in milkshake
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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
A man (Rudy Giuliani) in a suit with a shocked expression and dark liquid dripping down his face from his hairline.
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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
andy: it’s a faaaaaaaaaaake!
A group of middle-aged women wearing yellow shirts and helmets, arms locked attending a protest.
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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
He has his own Brian Stack
A man in a suit sitting behind a desk (Conan O’Brien) split screen with a man in a long dark wig, mustache, and billowing purple shirt (staff writer Brian Stack who played many recurring characters on Late Night)
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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
actually it’s true, here we are high fiving
A person dressed in black pushing a dumpster on the street
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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Top: caption reading “what people think anarchists want” and photo of a person in black clothing and mask throwing a Molotov cocktail

Bottom: caption reading “What anarchists want” and a photo of an older lady feeding chickens
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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
A person in a silver alien costume with a large head and eyes and hands to his face on CNN
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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
You guys I found the perfect candidate
A slice of moldy old white bread
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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Fuck, I’d missed that one A good reminder, though, that we could all be referencing Gul Dukat more frequently in these trying times:
A screen shot of a meme responding to a tweet. The original tweet from Anson Mount says “And to bandy about the term ‘genocide’ is both ignorant and, in this context, deeply dismissive of the state of Israel and its right to exist. So here we are.” The meme response is an image of a grey skinned alien man, Gul Dukat from Star Trek, captioned “Attention Bajoran workers / To bandy about the term ‘genocide’ is both ignorant and, in this context, deeply dismissive of Cardassia and its right to exist. So here we are.”
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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Trump himself now says it’s bc Epstein was poaching teenage employees from his resort spa, which we know happened with 16yo Giuffre in 2000. There’s also this www.businessinsider.com/ghislaine-ma...
From Business Insider: “Jane testified that she remembered Epstein driving her to Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida when she was 14 years old and introducing her to the real-estate mogul.

She also testified that she later participated in a beauty pageant Trump oversaw.”
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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Just getting out ahead of the Schriftleitergesetz
Screenshot reads: “Fearing imprisonment or death, reputable journalists also began to flee the country in large numbers. German non-Jewish newspaper owners replaced them in part with ill-trained and inexperienced amateurs loyal to the Nazi Party,” [this section highlighted] “as well as with skilled and veteran journalists prepared to collaborate with the regime in order to maintain and even enhance their careers.”

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-press-in-the-third-reich
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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
“Good news, we put the foreigner in a concentration camp, but those lazy poors are still eyeing your cookie when there’s thousands of job openings working the fields for slave wages.”
A cartoon of a three men sitting at a table. A white man in a suit has a plate stacked with dozens of cookies while a white man in a hard hat has one cookie and a dark-skinned man has none. The suited man points to the dark-skinned man and says to man wearing the hard hat “Careful, mate, that foreigner wants your cookie!”
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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
bahahahahahahaha
A pile of trash on a grass lawn with a sign in the middle that reads “ICE IS TRASH”
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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
feel your brain cells melt into the screen. you won’t need them once Peter thiel has his flying car.
AI 2027

We wrote a scenario that represents our best guess about what that might look like.1 It’s informed by trend extrapolations, wargames, expert feedback, experience at OpenAI, and previous forecasting successes.2

What is this?

The CEOs of OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic have all predicted that AGI will arrive within the next 5 years. Sam Altman has said OpenAI is setting its sights on “superintelligence in the true sense of the word” and the “glorious future.”32029: Transformation

Robots become commonplace. But also fusion power, quantum computers, and cures for many diseases. Peter Thiel finally gets his flying car. Cities become clean and safe. Even in developing countries, poverty becomes a thing of the past, thanks to UBI and foreign aid.
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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Well underway www.nytimes.com/2024/08/10/o...
Snippet from NYTimes article:

The single most troubling thing about Senator JD Vance — his bizarre understanding of the work of J.R.R. Tolkien notwithstanding — is his close relationship with some of the most extreme elements of the American right.

When asked to explain his worldview, Vance has cited his former boss, Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist who has written passionately against democracy (“I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible”), and Curtis Yarvin, a software developer turned blogger and provocateur who believes the United States should transition to monarchy (“If Americans want to change their government, they’re going to have to get over their dictator phobia”). Yarvin has also written favorably of human bondage (slavery, he once wrote, “is a natural human relationship”) and wondered aloud if apartheid wasn’t better for Black South Africans.
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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Flyer for Chinga la Migra (Fuck ICE) rally. June 18 @ 3:30. ICE building, 4310 S Macadam Ave PDX. “Our friends and neighbors are threatened by ICE. Join your community and say ENOUGH.”
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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Pure Moods (1997) album cover, featuring an abstract multicolor watercolor painting with a sun, moon, clouds, and animals.
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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Peter Thiel, JD Vance, and those of their ilk get all their dumb ideas from an even dumber asshole, Curtis Yarvin. newrepublic.com/article/1839...
In “Friscorp,” as Yarvin calls the San Francisco realm, an all-seeing Orwellian surveillance system would enforce public safety: “All residents, even temporary visitors, carry an ID card with RFID response. All are genotyped and iris-scanned. Public places and transportation systems track everyone. Security cameras are ubiquitous. Every car knows where it is, and who is sitting in it, and tells the authorities both.”
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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
SpongeBob cartoon mocking meme that says “This is Portland police” and “This has been declared a riot”.
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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
he just needs to accessorize more
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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
There isn’t a “main dude” or a “main form” I think this is what you’re talking about. futurism.com/ai-godfather... And he’s got his own model to sell. (OpenAI is also technically a nonprofit!)
Futurist article excerpt reading “To put such behavior in check, Bengio said that his new nonprofit is building a so-called "trustworthy" model, which he calls "Scientist AI," that is "trained to understand, explain and predict, like a selfless idealized and platonic scientist."”
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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Go out and protest instead!
Poster for “No Kings Mass Protest” June 14, 2025.
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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
His closet
A standing closet made of glass with a black frame
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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
A still from the movie Star Wars the phantom menace. A white man (Qui-Gon Jinn) and a pinkish, floppy-eared alien (Jar Jar) are walking through a forest. The subtitle reads “The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.”
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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
An arm holding up a white PVC pipe that’s forming a complete loop.
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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
In the Oval Office Trump seated at his desk sharing a large poster of a picture with a map of the USA covered by a golden dome. Edited to include a man, Jim Halpert a character from The Office, standing next to it and a blue triangle referencing a pyramid scheme drawn over the dome.
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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
What we’ll probably get:
A Gonk droid with blasters attached. Apparently being assisted by a stormtrooper, with another stormtrooper down. (Possibly friendly fire?)
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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
What we’re promised: C3PO What they actually want:
A group of KX series imperial security droids walking out menacingly amid smoke and dust. From the Star Wars TV series Andor, season 2 episode 8, focused on the Ghorman Massacre where security droids were used to kill civilians protestors and resistance fighters.
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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
fixed it for them
A chart that says “ICE in the Gestapo, they’ll do whatever the fuck they want until you stop them. Yes, even you (US citizens).”
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