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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 21/09/2026

I respect it only because it'll influence some non-zero number of other parents from pursuing that same ideology. I'd rather NHJ write that article than not.

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 15/09/2026

The MSM also loves asking questions like "Jon Ossoff mentioned Natalie Harp, do you think that's fair?" to every Dem elected, and there's always some Dick Durbin dork to say "we need to focus on the economy" and you get DEMS IN DISARRAY.

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 15/09/2026

MSM expects Dem electeds to be "adults in the room," and the electeds still give a shit about MSM, so any "anger" gets disproportionate scrutiny. Remember Pelosi ripping up the Trump SOTU?

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 28/08/2026

I think it's just this - just flagrant Marlboro Man and Joe Camel, but for sports gambling.

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 17/08/2026

I think this is absolutely plausible. E.g. Trump needs Harp pick out his socks and roll them up on his foot 'just the way I like it, I can't function otherwise.' Like activities that aren't overtly sexual, but are weirdly intimate in this bizarre way that's more embarrassing than just fucking her.

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

What’s amazing is nowhere in the story does the person in question actually outright state he doesn’t still support Trump lol

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 17/08/2026

"The social justice game has simple rules. I propose some change to society You associate me or my proposal with some real or imagined harm to a marginalized person I lose the game" www.liberalcurrents.com/in-praise-of...

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In Praise of Wokeness

Don't blame woke ideas, which have merit, for the self-defeating style of politics that is pervasive online.

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 17/08/2026

I find "you can just break the rules" offensive when it's framed as something objectively neutral, if not virtuous. You should consider your vices are vices. You can refuse to be judged by them, but don't pretend they're not vices.

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 17/08/2026

Will also add that there is no "support" for what Mangione did. His salience is entirely due to the multi-day manhunt, being very physically photogenic (as teased in manhunt photos) and just the name is, well, 😘.

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 05/08/2026

Just a big fan of the NFL itself.

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 02/08/2026

I'll never understand Ted Cruz not salting the earth over Trump insulting his wife in 2016.

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 16/07/2026

In fairness the Supreme Court keeps raising the bar for white collar prosecution. One of many gross rulings: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonne...

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McDonnell v. United States - Wikipedia

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 30/06/2026

Here's her short story: static1.squarespace.com/static/5345d... Basically, police abolitionists design a worse system even in fiction where they can dictate all facts and outcomes.

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jeffery --dangerously-skip-permissions @jefferyharrell.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I'm obviously biased here, but I think this is a really good sort of tip-of-the-iceberg take on agentic AI in a traditional application. It's basically intelligent automation, like workflows but bespoke each time. The real world is catching up. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuFp...

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Deep Dive into the New AI Assistant in Adobe Premiere!

YouTube video by Kylee Peña

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 15/06/2026

Behind-the-scenes: drawing Poison Ivy fresh out of the grave, no say in her wardrobe. I wanted shorts that really clash, and the Knicks had just bounced the Hawks, so: blue & orange. Loud, mismatched, perfect. 🧡💙 Congrats NYK! (to read more about the shorts: archiveofourown.org/works/85487321)

Poison Ivy in a brown Carhartt jacket and oversized blue-and-orange basketball shorts, arms folded, long red hair loose.

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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

difficulty scheduling the follow-up session is also true to its inspirations

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

talarico is going to be forced by attack ads to spend all of his time hanging out with his hot girlfriend and eating central texas barbecue

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 25/05/2026

I think this is what freaked out the capital/executive class in 2021. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Ne... Labor market was so tight back than, wouldn't even take that many employees resigning to be seen as a huge pain in the ass.

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2021 Netflix walkout - Wikipedia

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aron @adler.dev · 20/05/2026

You start out in 2024 by saying, "clanker, clanker, clanker." By 2026 you can't say "clanker" — that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, stochastic parrot, next-token predictor, and all that stuff, and you're getting so abstract.

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 30/04/2026

This is very goblin-coded of you.

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 22/04/2026

For a long time I was trying to get state CA reps to look into 4o. It's really important to understand how it happened! System prompt? Training set? Sam Altman fuckery? Also IMO, "4o toned" AI that just didn't engage in delusions of grandeur and violence - I think would be useful.

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 18/04/2026

I'm writing a Batman fanfic where Bruce Wayne is 42. That means he was born in 1984. His parents were killed in 1992 when they were taking him to see Aladdin. I take no pleasure in reporting this.

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 01/04/2026

Do you think porn brain thing is correlated to romantic arcs fading from fiction? Like nobody in the MCU kisses each other. 90s-00s fictional romance was often problematic but still left things in a healthier place than porn. Boys wanted to be the guy that "got the girl."

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 11/02/2026

Whenever I'm using it for any sort of brainstorming, I always feel weird when I want to stop. "ok, I'll be here if you want to talk more about these ideas for your D&D campaign" No man, we're good! Go do something else. You earned the day off buddy. Don't waste it waiting for me!

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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

The reason the Border Patrol is like this is that they have been allowed to operate outside the law for decades as marcher lords, with an ingrained and hereditary culture of brutality.

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 01/02/2026

What's the criteria for a connection? Met in real life? Had 1-1 communication? (email, DM, etc)

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 01/02/2026

Latest negotiations over Woke 2.0 Accords are showing progress, although diplomats caution there is still a long way to go. The mood is cautious optimism as Dave Chapelle, Bill Burr, and Jon Stewart have been tapped for the next round of negotiations, over "Permissive Use of Light Slurs."

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HBO Is Making A Police Version Of ‘The Pitt,’ ‘American Blue’

The Pitt has inspired HBO to make another series in that vein, this time a cop series called American Blue starring a big actor.

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 31/01/2026

On a podcast about the LAPD, one interviewee talked about various police reforms, legislation, etc that they were proud their civic group pushed in the 1990s. Another interviewee: "Reform, bullshit. What we wanted was police to respect the Black community. Do you see respect out there? I don't."

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 31/01/2026

Worth mentioning part of why #2 is "slightly disappointing" is it's often ambiguous that the "masses were mobilized" to do... what, exactly? Did we actually agree on that before we protested together? Probably not!

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

If you are planning to be involved in political action of any type, they have your name. The thing to do is make their lists useless by having so many names on them.

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 29/01/2026

I'd also love to hear who Tommy Tuberville would pick as his preferred "non-woke" performer. I'm sure it's someone with broad mainstream appeal that would deliver high ratings!

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 29/01/2026

We do have a problem in the MSM that is arbitrarily selective in where it pushes back on "delusion." Felt like 30% of every Dem primary debate was Elizabeth Warren needing to explain how she'd do M4A without raising taxes. Then she released a full policy plan and it got nitpicked.

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 29/01/2026

This sucks because I was hoping Markey would just retire, but this video is screaming "I'm going to try to fend off Moulton so that means making content that drives ActBlue donations."

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 29/01/2026

Say more? I probably know the least about 08-09, my sense is that Olmert did offer a "good deal" but the Israeli political spectrum was much more resistant. Then by the 2014 talks it was obvious Netanyahu had no interest in a deal.

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 29/01/2026

Anyway, the liberal Zionist interpretation of 2000 is basically: - Barak/Clinton offered a good deal that was an improvement over Oslo - Arafat should've gotten over "right of return" - Surely within another 5-7 years there would've been another deal to cement Palestinian statehood

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 29/01/2026

If the argument is that Oslo did let the pressure off Israel from UNSCR 242 and Palestinians didn't get nearly enough in return - sure. But in 1999 I think Israel did feel pressure they actually *had* to talk or Oslo goodwill would be forfeit.

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 29/01/2026

If Camp David 2000 had led to a deal, do you have any opinions on what that deal would've been, and would it have changed the context of where you view Oslo now?

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 28/01/2026

"We don't build anything in America anymore." Guy, I don't know about you, but ever since the YouTube algo hooked me, I've repaired 47 sections of drywall in my home.

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 28/01/2026

And you go "Wow, that's misleading. Why don't they fix the buttons to say what they do?" and your coworker rolls her eyes. "We ask them, but the team that built the app is way too busy. Last time we asked for an estimate they said Q4. So yeah, don't click 'Approve' to Approve."

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 28/01/2026

If you're not a software dev but you've used internal apps at a Good White Collar job - on Day 2 your coworker shows you The Big App We All Use which is both critical path to your job but also sucks. "So to approve the statement, click 'Accept.' Don't click 'Approve,' that actually will reject it."

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 28/01/2026

Man, nobody is talking to line engineers at big non-tech corps. I never have to dread working on "legacy apps" again. "Working on a legacy app that requires all your bandwidth to maintain and thus no time to reactor" used to be a soul-destroying role for software engineers.

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 28/01/2026

I'm not saying Jacob Frey needs to make this point NOW, but, well, it's probably gonna come up eventually?

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 28/01/2026

I guess that's what I really dread - border enforcement goes back to Biden standards, which is both a) inhumane to immigrants who aren't abled enough to trek here, b) easily demagogued by the right, and c) takes pressure off Congress for real reform and paths to citizenship.

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 28/01/2026

Like it would've clearly been better if Biden was much stricter on asylum claims, and said "If you feel bad, I do too. They're gonna make great Americans. But we need Congress to act to give them real channels and a path to citizenship. Until then, don't trek to the southern border claiming asylum."

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 28/01/2026

I appreciate this response. I'm just dreading 2026/28 Dems (either electeds, pundits, or just posters) trying to make a similar point, and everyone pouncing on them for conceding anything is wrong with asylum law.

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 28/01/2026

Anyway, I'd like to be able to say these things, even though some would consider it "giving concessions to the right." I unironically believe in One Billion Americans and think Biden's border policy did massive damage to that future. /end

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 28/01/2026

And yeah, I think asylum claims were being abused. And I would prefer an immigration system that doesn't outsource relocation and settlement to Greg Abbott. And lastly, no path to citizenship for any of these immigrants made them legally vulnerable to these ICE/CBP crackdowns.

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 28/01/2026

My objection is more on liberal humanitarian grounds - Biden's immigration policy was extremely generous to immigrants who could physically cross the border, but how many would-be immigrants perished in the Darien Gap or got extorted by coyotes on the way?

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 28/01/2026

I think Biden's immigration policy was extremely poorly designed in practice. Some of the "reforms" I would prefer would be "moving to the right." e.g. I don't think we should have anything like the asylum policies at the US southern border like we did from 2021-23...

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