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VesperAegis @vesperaegis.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Did you visit other non-Java islands in Indonesia? What were your impressions as to how it compares, may I ask?

VesperAegis @vesperaegis.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

10 years behind for Kim Iversen, too. She's always been extremely grifty and waffled a lot on Trump. Both her and MTG will believe just about any conspiracy theory they hear. It takes a lot for Trump to lose the wild-eyed tinfoils.

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VesperAegis @vesperaegis.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I'll be honest I always poked fun at people for being conspiracy theorists in suggesting Epstein wasn't a suicide. I'm a little more open-minded about that one today.

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VesperAegis @vesperaegis.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Out of curiosity, may I ask how bad the lingering effects are inside? I assume the ventilation is insufficient given the scale of the assault here.

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VesperAegis @vesperaegis.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Super impressive. The perspective on Epona looks brilliant and better than the original!

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VesperAegis @vesperaegis.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

I'm not sure I would call it a constitutional crisis if the planes don't turn around midflight, so long as he doesn't send more. At this point, the judiciary is still holding. If they're already there, does he have an obligation to return them outside abuses of the Alien Enemies Act?

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VesperAegis @vesperaegis.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Putin is an habitual liar, though in this particular case momentum has been against the Ukrainians in Kursk in the past week especially. Maybe not encirclement, but even if not, they are in dire straits right now.

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VesperAegis @vesperaegis.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Based federal judge literally told him to turn back the planes. So thankful we have a robust judicial system, but can't shake the feeling of being on a rickety old ship being hammered by a storm that's just being held together by a few makeshift planks and a creaking hull.

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VesperAegis @vesperaegis.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Reflecting on Angelo's 8th post here, both sides are more easily pulled in this environment by the fringes not by moderates. However, the much of the Left has arguably been less willing to create ecstatic, ideologically emotional memes(the Right will disagree, but this is protective).

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VesperAegis @vesperaegis.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I enjoy your interviews, but would also love to see you do some more on-the-ground reporting in the field if you're interested. You were always great at on-scene reporting, in my humble opinion. I hope you get the opportunity to still directly hold feet to the fire in this corrupt administration.

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VesperAegis @vesperaegis.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

All of that can still be true, and at the same time Americans have disgusting consumptive/consumer habits(when it comes to the media, books, food, and otherwise). Celebrity/personality worship is the tail end of Eleanor Roosevelt's: Stupid people talk about people, average = events, smart = ideas.

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VesperAegis @vesperaegis.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

No, it's not. It's still up on his feed and Luckovich himself posted that he received a fake e-mail with the citation.

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VesperAegis @vesperaegis.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Luckovich confirmed five hours before you posted this that it was a fake email. He did not get cited for it, and the cartoon is till up on his feed.

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VesperAegis @vesperaegis.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Concerning in terms of how far he will take presidential pardons in terms of brownshirting.

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VesperAegis @vesperaegis.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

As an American, I deeply apologize. We tried very hard to keep these clowns out, but virulent angry "forgotten men" culture wars won the day.

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VesperAegis @vesperaegis.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Trump's previously dangled one object at a time before ignoring the results of the original controversy and claiming a new goal which would be even better. His current tact is much more flooding the zone.

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VesperAegis @vesperaegis.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Thank you for taking the time to check this. I remember the instance, I was wondering if his thinking evolved a bit on this more akin to an immediate overwhelming blitzkrieg, Caesar marching immediately on Rome too fast for Pompey to react, etc...

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VesperAegis @vesperaegis.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Yea, was completely familiar with the tactic, just wanted the specific quote as a reference point.

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VesperAegis @vesperaegis.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Do you remember which interview by chance? Or how long ago approximately it was?

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VesperAegis @vesperaegis.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Eh to be fair though Zelenskyy is relevant to this conversation. Rare exception.

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VesperAegis @vesperaegis.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I love these ancient web articles. www.cnet.com/tech/service... "The company also will offer a light-usage program providing three hours of AOL per month for $4.95"

cnet.com

AOL shifts prices, execs

America Online announces that it will offer a $19.95 flat-rate pricing plan for unlimited access to both the Internet and AOL's private network.

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VesperAegis @vesperaegis.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Genuinely looks and feels like an external coup to completely disrupt the United States. We're being gutted from the inside out.

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VesperAegis @vesperaegis.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I don't know anyone who benefits from the election of Trump/Musk more than our adversaries and Russia. This is like a double Christmas.

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VesperAegis @vesperaegis.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

"including failing to articulate why the agencies are changing policy." This is the best part. Trump couldn't articulate a ham sandwich, so the fact that orders can be challenged on arbitrariness and capriciousness is the chef's kiss. I'm so glad fascists are often incompetent.

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VesperAegis @vesperaegis.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

SpaceX has already been awarded a contract as well. DOGE had very little to say. How odd!

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VesperAegis @vesperaegis.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Not everyone wants to play childish word games with the President. He demands in truly postmodernist sense that you conform to his alternate reality, or be deprived of journalism.

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VesperAegis @vesperaegis.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

In a world of transactionalism, trust is not part of the equation. Carl Sagan pointed out that Jane Goodall studies chimps in the wild because like humans in jail, being caged never brings out the best in us. Removing latitude for human vulnerability and connection allows CEOs to see us as cogs.

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VesperAegis @vesperaegis.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

15 minutes and 10 seconds for your lunch break... Starting... NOW! (Starts stopwatch) Every 10 seconds spent munching overtime counts as an additional parcel.

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VesperAegis @vesperaegis.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Like the 20th round of documents being released about JFK and it's still the same guy who shot him. Not that the info about the CIA isn't important or relevant, but nothing has fundamentally changed about the event.

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VesperAegis @vesperaegis.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

A short and sweet couple of paragraphs of explanation is there now, but it seems about right as it relates to current events. The reader may be aided in understanding the historical context of nationalist expansionism vis a vis irredentism/revanchism - pan-Germanism revised naming conventions also.

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VesperAegis @vesperaegis.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Even in the worst throes of one's rebellious teenage years, who does shit like this unless they are genuinely brought up devoid of morals, empathy, and curiosity? We see here the roots and makeup of what it takes to become an Elon supporter; a very dark nihilism and abusiveness.

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VesperAegis @vesperaegis.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I prefer that it's targeted stuff like this more than across-the-board tariffs. If they can somehow hit either Trump voters more, stakeholders, or adjacent business interests, they can avoid hitting *some* of the people that didn't vote for madness as hard.

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VesperAegis @vesperaegis.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

... and one FEMA official recently ordered subordinates to freeze grants. Complaints by Musk/Trump about housing migrants in "luxury hotels." Instead of taking a nuanced or stepwise approach, Trump has suggested FEMA be completely terminated and states handle their own disaster relief efforts.

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VesperAegis @vesperaegis.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

... In an interview with Bloomberg TV on Tuesday, Altman said of Musk "Probably his whole life is from a position of insecurity. I feel for the guy." * A constitutional crisis looms as Judge John J. McConnell insists that Trump is not unfreezing funds...

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VesperAegis @vesperaegis.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

* Elon Musk is attempting to buy out OpenAI for $97.4 billion, with pledges by various venture capital groups, to which Sam Altman rejected "We are not for sale." Altman is not the final say, and the board will rule on it...

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VesperAegis @vesperaegis.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Quick news rundown for things catching my eye recently: * Santorini(Greece), known for its idyllic beauty spawned from the Thera eruption circa 1600 BCE, has seen thousands of earthquakes over the past two weeks causing an evacuation of the island's residents/tourists. 🧵

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VesperAegis @vesperaegis.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Still a concerning trend if so, essentially Hamilton's power of the sword co-opting the power of the purse by not faithfully executing and deciding by fiat. It's another example of reduction of pluralism, division of powers, and seeking compromise and conversation.

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VesperAegis @vesperaegis.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

How are you discerning which side is making an implicit agreement for tolerance? It seems to me that in the course of natural dialogue, there is a spectrum of agreed tolerance and intellectual honesty just as there is a spectrum, if skewed, of Trump supporters' intentions.

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VesperAegis @vesperaegis.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

While I think the spectrum is narrow, and that many if not the majority of Trump supporters are beyond reach, it's important to realize that there are in fact some that are there ready for debate. Refusing to actively look for genuine engagement will hurt more than help.

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VesperAegis @vesperaegis.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Glad to hear it. Indirect costs were not some arbitrary luxury cost, but a baked-in part of how major universities funded everything from research projects, to infrastructure, to lab maintenance, to recruitment and competitiveness of institutions. www.statnews.com/2025/02/08/n...

statnews.com

The NIH’s drastic cut to indirect cost rates is a critical threat to U.S. research infrastructure

The drastic reduction in indirect costs is not a path to innovation or cost savings — it’s a threat to U.S.’s position as global leader in medical research.

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VesperAegis @vesperaegis.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

As Sam more or less alluded to, 9/11 truthers who would previously have had to go to a convention of conspiracy theorists may have been turned off by the face-to-face interactions they had to endure, and introspectively re-analyzed their entire world view. This is no longer necessary.

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VesperAegis @vesperaegis.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

"... if you had to live in a small village somewhere, even though you'd only be seeing a very limited number of people, they'd all be sort of weird in different ways rather than you finding all the people who are weird in the same way."

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VesperAegis @vesperaegis.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

... as people grouped by geographic proximity needed to accommodate a variety of interests and unite behind a broader set of values and common humanity. Lifestyles and ideology are prepackaged online, "it sands a lot of the rough edges off..."

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VesperAegis @vesperaegis.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Helen Lewis was asked by Sam Harris what the effects of today's Internet are and presents a couple of interesting ideas. People aggressively self-sorting themselves based on very specific interests with outsized memetic value is something that would not have happened before this... 🧵

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VesperAegis @vesperaegis.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

with someone that has innate empathy. Higher order rationalizing is thus compromised/detached, at least on the human level. Worth noting that CEOs have high rates of psychopathy versus the general population(numbers seem to range from 4% to as high as 21%). I'm sure we know some in particular.

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VesperAegis @vesperaegis.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

(amygdala, anterior cingulate cortex, etc) turned off, and these areas responsible for empathy means that even if the dorsolateral PFC is developed properly later in life, it's receiving inadequate empathetic information to derive a moral code/impulse otherwise consistent...

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VesperAegis @vesperaegis.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex is the final part of the brain that develops at age 25, involved in rational thinking, planning, inhibition, abstract thinking. However, in fMRI, psychopaths when presented with moral questions frequently have parts of their PFC and parts of their limbic system...

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