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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
fascist + "masculiste" cult member charged for sexual torture of minors www.lemonde.fr/article-offe...
lemonde.fr
Le procès de Rohan Rane, un étudiant fasciste et masculiniste jugé pour des tortures sexuelles sur mineures, s’ouvre lundi à Paris
Cet étudiant dirigeait une communauté en ligne composée de jeunes hommes fascinés par l’ultraviolence. Il pourrait encourir la perpétuité pour avoir contraint des adolescentes à s’automutiler ou à s’a...
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Beng @bengtang.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If you’ve been scrolling through social media lately, you’ve probably seen ads reminding you to register to vote. Some of these ads lead users to websites that harvest sensitive personal information and then sell it behind the scenes. www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/c...
findlaw.com
Check Before Clicking That Voter Registration Ad: Some Non-Official Sites Are Selling Your Personal Data - FindLaw
Private voter registration websites like VoteSafe are collecting and selling your data. Learn why Vote.gov is the safer place to register at FindLaw.
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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
it does describe the behavior of bluesky users repeating "AI is just predicting the next token" in 2026 because they heard someone say that in 2023 and haven't interacted since (but not all human behavior)
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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
so many leftists like "I can always tell" as if they just naturally are too smart for propaganda and don't need to be even slightly careful... the CIA doesn't train for the same voice as your chatgpt free tier lol
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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
why is her jacket flaccid with no interfacing in the collar
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It's The Big Iron, Charlie Brown @big-iron.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"what kind of communist are you" quiz sweeps website of aging communists, briefly uniting then utterly dividing them.
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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
from July
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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
thank you, Israel!
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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
100% chance they have something better using LLMs these days
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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I don't think it's "individualism" precisely, it's also the lack of persistence across time necessary for reputation. Adam Smith's "individual" was assumed to have long-term interests vs. today's just flash-in-the-pan scams...
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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"seize the means of consumption" mfs
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“Jesus doesn’t hear the prayers of those who wage war.” — Pope Leo XIV
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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
That doesn't make any sense. You would have had fewer options pre-ACA...
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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
that's not possible.
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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Happy to share! There's a legit translation coming in December too: cup.columbia.edu/book/from-th...
cup.columbia.edu
From the 20th to the 21st Century | Columbia University Press
Written at the close of the twentieth century and vindicated by the decades that followed, this book stands as one of the most clear-eyed diagnoses of the wo... | CUP
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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"voters choose politicians to best secure their own welfare" is relatively recent; cold war self-understanding where the West delivered better material equality than the USSR via mass democracy. But "self-interest" depends on one's Lifeworld, and also ^ may not be true vmchale.com/static/serve...
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It’s actually not kind and empathetic to ascribe false consciousness to people who are very clearly telling you why they voted for the anti-immigrant party. It’s just condescending.
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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
there's levels, and it's ok to complain if you're financially stressed BUT when we start redefining like "unemployed" and "broke" means "I'd have to dip into my 401(k)"... that just tramples over people who are actually broke!
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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
it's INSANE. An op-ed, but HOLY !!!>#@
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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
it's majority self-pitying consumers trying to fudge/move the goalposts so they can argue the government owes them more treats. Taking attention away from actual poor people and then they'll accuse you of hating poor people if you point that out lol.
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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
the Jerusalem Post ran an op-ed suggesting using indebted Americans to invade Iran Had to check this was real www.jpost.com/defense-and-...
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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
well you don’t get to choose because the people who participated in the robotic Olympics actively do things and they chose to do this/have fun and you do nothing and complain
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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
iran war was Israel's idea but yeah...
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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Trying to say it's caused by tech companies rather than their own choice to loudly spew nonsense about water usage... just doesn't work.
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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I still people parroting "stochastic parrot" "plagiarism machine" these days, or just people unaware that the results can be impressive.
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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The Marxist center: the fact that it works is exactly why I'm afraid of being a renter forever!
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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
they're not depreciating...
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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
robot qwops to its death 💔
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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
americans are consumers, not workers, what would a general strike even do 😭
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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
We should be have refuse to take self-loathing people seriously in general
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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
They should be replaced by someone moral and competent as well.
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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
can't even do his one job
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Baseball Enthusiast @iluvbaseball.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I don't know what to say anymore ICE is a dangerous institution and must be abolished
nbcnews.com
San Diego Padres minor-league catching coordinator detained by ICE in Texas
Oswaldo Pirela is a Venezuelan former pro who works for the San Diego Padres. Relatives say he is in the United States legally and demand his release.
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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
that’s not buying opinion though (and maybe not even elections), nor is it evidence those donors are pushing “resent immigrants” specifically
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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Turns out there’s no law that says you have to think through the consequences of what you asked for, you can just start hollering!
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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I have never seen the evidence it originated with “a few extremely wealthy people” despite people trotting out this line for years
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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
their "socialism" is just that the government gives them treats. On top of the "no one ever confronts me for my antisocial behavior" permissive leftism
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The Recurring Speed Camera Discourse is a bit exasperating really because, look, we all know what's actually happening is people just want to be able to commit the pertinent crimes and don't like being punished for it, but people come up with obvious post-hoc pseudo-woke rationalisations for this.
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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
rotten meat for Israel
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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
is rachel comey related to james comey
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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
quite an admission www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Eh, he did it after a meeting with Netenyahu. Murdoch apparently supports the war. The (previously) vocal advocates for war with Iran are stupid (and bombing the girls’ school was sadistic), so they’re bleeding support, like you said.
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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
whoa
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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
"acknowledge your own powerlessness" is not really the virtuous kind of humility
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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
They will betray anyone for Israel
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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Few Americans bought luxury pre-2000, and I imagine 100 years ago only a minority bought luxury fashion. “Everyone has hand tailored clothes” is not an advanced economy!
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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Yes
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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
he's not saying "too much education," he's disputing that thesis—read the subtitle and the second paragraph "Weak educational outcomes often owe more to economic performance than education policy"
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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
"let's dumb it down for the masses" seems like an excuse for people who don't actually have good ideas, then attributing their opinion in the third person to "normal people" If you get into power and deliver dumb stuff... what was the point?
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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
woah!!!
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