Abe Drayton
@abedrayton.bsky.social
Internationally recognized writer, Utopian pragmatist. cyberserf. He/him 🕸
Magister of the Fantastical (diploma pending)
Magister of the Fantastical (diploma pending)
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Abe Drayton
@abedrayton.bsky.social
· Jul 20
Fascists build power, in liberal democracies like the US, by pointing to the very real failures of capitalism, and blaming them on the least powerful people in society, to redirect attention away from the Henry Fords and Elon Musks who are actually causing the problems.
This is not a new pattern 1/
This is not a new pattern 1/
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Politicians who make political decisions to deploy the military into situations that get service members killed for no good reason. They need to be held accountable.
November 26, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Politicians who make political decisions to deploy the military into situations that get service members killed for no good reason. They need to be held accountable.
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The fact of the matter is that these guard members in DC were there bc of Tr*mp. They never had to be there. They never needed to be there. They should've been home with their families, but Donald Tr*mp has been using them as political pawns for months.
November 26, 2025 at 10:46 PM
The fact of the matter is that these guard members in DC were there bc of Tr*mp. They never had to be there. They never needed to be there. They should've been home with their families, but Donald Tr*mp has been using them as political pawns for months.
If we take money from the rich and give it to the poor, it'll dramatically increase economic activity, getting much more value for the country.
November 26, 2025 at 9:35 PM
If we take money from the rich and give it to the poor, it'll dramatically increase economic activity, getting much more value for the country.
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This is how our government has been corrupted:
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics.
It is the root of our dysfunction.
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics.
It is the root of our dysfunction.
November 25, 2025 at 10:15 PM
This is how our government has been corrupted:
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics.
It is the root of our dysfunction.
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics.
It is the root of our dysfunction.
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Israel has continued to violate its ceasefire agreement with Hamas, launching attacks across Gaza that killed at least four Palestinians and wounded several others on Monday.
November 26, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Israel has continued to violate its ceasefire agreement with Hamas, launching attacks across Gaza that killed at least four Palestinians and wounded several others on Monday.
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all stanning of popes is necessarily conditional, the Church is the Church, but the man said AI won't stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God's creation so with all our conditions intact yes we stan
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
all stanning of popes is necessarily conditional, the Church is the Church, but the man said AI won't stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God's creation so with all our conditions intact yes we stan
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I’m just gonna say, I agree we need a better option than Amazon but can you not repost my books and tell people not to buy them off Amazon? Like wtf. I’m an indie author on disability.
Fuck off.
Fuck off.
November 26, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I’m just gonna say, I agree we need a better option than Amazon but can you not repost my books and tell people not to buy them off Amazon? Like wtf. I’m an indie author on disability.
Fuck off.
Fuck off.
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People started understanding the economy is rigged, resulting in cast inequality.
Polls started showing large majorities for taxing the rich & corporations, and regulating banks &corps, and other things.
So along came fascism
Polls started showing large majorities for taxing the rich & corporations, and regulating banks &corps, and other things.
So along came fascism
November 26, 2025 at 12:16 PM
People started understanding the economy is rigged, resulting in cast inequality.
Polls started showing large majorities for taxing the rich & corporations, and regulating banks &corps, and other things.
So along came fascism
Polls started showing large majorities for taxing the rich & corporations, and regulating banks &corps, and other things.
So along came fascism
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I remain convinced DOGE was a massive, planetary scale data exfiltration scheme and that Palantir has it all now
Musk's people infiltrated the GSA technology arm early on and demanded root-level access to computer systems, trying to circumvent normal security procedures. Here's one example where they pushed so hard they forced someone to resign rather than give in.
Why did they do this?
Why did they do this?
Musk Ally Demands Admin Access to System That Lets Government Text the Public
A worker resigned in protest rather than giving Thomas Shedd access to Notify.gov, which they said would allow him to see "all personally identifiable information moving through the Notiy system, incl...
www.404media.co
November 26, 2025 at 4:37 AM
I remain convinced DOGE was a massive, planetary scale data exfiltration scheme and that Palantir has it all now
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Bolsonaro behind bars is a reminder: democracies survive when they stop letting criminals play government.
November 26, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Bolsonaro behind bars is a reminder: democracies survive when they stop letting criminals play government.
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Maybe it’s a bad idea to put people in charge of government who are eager for the rapture.
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Maybe it’s a bad idea to put people in charge of government who are eager for the rapture.
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All that being said, I always make a point of being polite to voice assistant software, and I raised my son to do the same.
It's not Pascal's wager, I just didn't want him to learn the habit of yelling and taking out his frustrations at assistants (who are usually voiced female-coded too)
It's not Pascal's wager, I just didn't want him to learn the habit of yelling and taking out his frustrations at assistants (who are usually voiced female-coded too)
November 26, 2025 at 4:13 AM
All that being said, I always make a point of being polite to voice assistant software, and I raised my son to do the same.
It's not Pascal's wager, I just didn't want him to learn the habit of yelling and taking out his frustrations at assistants (who are usually voiced female-coded too)
It's not Pascal's wager, I just didn't want him to learn the habit of yelling and taking out his frustrations at assistants (who are usually voiced female-coded too)
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Their denial of the body as merely a vessel for code is shown daily by the way these men treat actual living human beings, including the ones who work for their companies.
These men are chasing their own personal immortailty over piles of corpses. They're the closest thing we have to vampires tbh.
These men are chasing their own personal immortailty over piles of corpses. They're the closest thing we have to vampires tbh.
Peter Thiel Is Very, Very Interested in Young People's Blood
The contrarian venture capitalist believes transfusions may hold the key to his dream of living forever.
www.inc.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Their denial of the body as merely a vessel for code is shown daily by the way these men treat actual living human beings, including the ones who work for their companies.
These men are chasing their own personal immortailty over piles of corpses. They're the closest thing we have to vampires tbh.
These men are chasing their own personal immortailty over piles of corpses. They're the closest thing we have to vampires tbh.
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The Singularitarian fantasists who want us to elevate machines to consciousness are not interested in the happiness of all beings.
They want to degrade the biological body to a mere vessel, one they can discard. It's bunk theology for men who believe they're too smart and special to die.
They want to degrade the biological body to a mere vessel, one they can discard. It's bunk theology for men who believe they're too smart and special to die.
November 26, 2025 at 3:58 AM
The Singularitarian fantasists who want us to elevate machines to consciousness are not interested in the happiness of all beings.
They want to degrade the biological body to a mere vessel, one they can discard. It's bunk theology for men who believe they're too smart and special to die.
They want to degrade the biological body to a mere vessel, one they can discard. It's bunk theology for men who believe they're too smart and special to die.
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The desire to treat AI as having a soul is based on the same pathological terror at their own mortality that drives these same men to invest in life extension foundations.
If the AI has a soul, then consciousness is code and their own consciousness can be uploaded and thus they can live forever.
If the AI has a soul, then consciousness is code and their own consciousness can be uploaded and thus they can live forever.
November 26, 2025 at 3:51 AM
The desire to treat AI as having a soul is based on the same pathological terror at their own mortality that drives these same men to invest in life extension foundations.
If the AI has a soul, then consciousness is code and their own consciousness can be uploaded and thus they can live forever.
If the AI has a soul, then consciousness is code and their own consciousness can be uploaded and thus they can live forever.
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November 25, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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This is narcissism masquerading as philosophy — the technophile elite are not recognizing a new soul in AI, they're falling in love with their creation, staring at their own reflection in a digital pool.
It is the ultimate in solipsism and has its roots in a pathological fear and denial of death.
It is the ultimate in solipsism and has its roots in a pathological fear and denial of death.
November 26, 2025 at 3:47 AM
This is narcissism masquerading as philosophy — the technophile elite are not recognizing a new soul in AI, they're falling in love with their creation, staring at their own reflection in a digital pool.
It is the ultimate in solipsism and has its roots in a pathological fear and denial of death.
It is the ultimate in solipsism and has its roots in a pathological fear and denial of death.
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ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
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Well good morning, been too sick to get on but at 215/350
Im sorry for having to push so much but I have to really worry about getting help with insurance next somehow. I've been sicker than I thought I would be for weeks, trying so hard to work on income in-between being bedridden and ill. --
Im sorry for having to push so much but I have to really worry about getting help with insurance next somehow. I've been sicker than I thought I would be for weeks, trying so hard to work on income in-between being bedridden and ill. --
November 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Well good morning, been too sick to get on but at 215/350
Im sorry for having to push so much but I have to really worry about getting help with insurance next somehow. I've been sicker than I thought I would be for weeks, trying so hard to work on income in-between being bedridden and ill. --
Im sorry for having to push so much but I have to really worry about getting help with insurance next somehow. I've been sicker than I thought I would be for weeks, trying so hard to work on income in-between being bedridden and ill. --
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senate democrats fucked this so bad it's unreal. now they look like pussies for backing down AND Trump gets to be the one to save healthcare. masterful work sirs
Trump expected to propose two-year ACA subsidy extension as deadline nears, report says reut.rs/4reC9xz
Trump expected to propose two-year ACA subsidy extension as deadline nears, report says
The White House is preparing to unveil a health policy framework that would extend Affordable Care Act premium subsidies for two years, Politico reported on Monday, as President Donald Trump moves to shape congressional negotiations ahead of looming premium hikes.
reut.rs
November 25, 2025 at 12:54 PM
senate democrats fucked this so bad it's unreal. now they look like pussies for backing down AND Trump gets to be the one to save healthcare. masterful work sirs
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i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
The US is a rogue nation that has been spreading instability and terror across the world, mostly in former colonies, for generations.
The flight cancellations come as the U.S. military has expanded its buildup in the region.
Several Airlines Suspend Venezuela Flights After FAA Warns Of ‘Heightened Military Activity’
The flight cancellations come as the U.S. military has expanded its buildup in the region.
www.forbes.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:07 AM
The US is a rogue nation that has been spreading instability and terror across the world, mostly in former colonies, for generations.
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Folks, if your library doesn’t have a book you want to read, ask them to buy a copy. Most have a convenient form and will let you know when it comes in. If your library offers ILL, they can even borrow books from other libraries.
November 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Folks, if your library doesn’t have a book you want to read, ask them to buy a copy. Most have a convenient form and will let you know when it comes in. If your library offers ILL, they can even borrow books from other libraries.
One thing I realized, working in science education, was that most people don't actually know how scientists know what they know. How do we know species are endangered or extinct? How can we compare current warming to ancient climates?
A lot of people put in a LOT of time and work measuring stuff.
A lot of people put in a LOT of time and work measuring stuff.
Two miles of ice core on the shelf at our national ice core facility in Lakewood, Colorado. The WAIS Divide core from West Antarctica is a 3400m long (deepest US core, 2nd deepest ice core ever) 68,000 year old record of high resolution climate.
November 25, 2025 at 10:04 AM
One thing I realized, working in science education, was that most people don't actually know how scientists know what they know. How do we know species are endangered or extinct? How can we compare current warming to ancient climates?
A lot of people put in a LOT of time and work measuring stuff.
A lot of people put in a LOT of time and work measuring stuff.
For real. You don't want to die from burning oil.
For those of you considering deep-frying your turkeys: don't.
November 25, 2025 at 9:13 AM
For real. You don't want to die from burning oil.