Nick 𐃥
@adjectivalnoun.bsky.social
(He/Any)
General engineer. No, more general than that. Angry we aren’t caring for each other more, trying to fix it.
General engineer. No, more general than that. Angry we aren’t caring for each other more, trying to fix it.
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Nick 𐃥
@adjectivalnoun.bsky.social
· Oct 26
Things to know about getting from one place to another outside of a car in America:
1. You have no right to do that.
2. If you do it anyway, your fellow citizens will remind you of (1) by helpfully threatening to kill you.
1. You have no right to do that.
2. If you do it anyway, your fellow citizens will remind you of (1) by helpfully threatening to kill you.
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News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
November 29, 2025 at 11:48 PM
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
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The US government is totally audience-captured by a tiny faction of internet fascists, and spends huge amounts of time trying to impress them, dedicating official communications channels to barely-concealed in-group references, and making horrific, murderous policy decisions to thrill this group
November 29, 2025 at 10:34 PM
The US government is totally audience-captured by a tiny faction of internet fascists, and spends huge amounts of time trying to impress them, dedicating official communications channels to barely-concealed in-group references, and making horrific, murderous policy decisions to thrill this group
Letting this thread roll around in my head for the past hour I’ve come to agreement. There’s a petulance I’ve noticed in corporate executives throughout my career, in which any outcome other than their goals being achieved is not just something they work to avoid, but something illegitimate.
I'm being completely serious that you can draw a direct line between the introduction of instant replay to football and the widespread toleration of Donald Trump's bad-faith lawsuits and election overturning.
Sometimes a touchdown is a touchdown.
Sometimes a touchdown is a touchdown.
November 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Letting this thread roll around in my head for the past hour I’ve come to agreement. There’s a petulance I’ve noticed in corporate executives throughout my career, in which any outcome other than their goals being achieved is not just something they work to avoid, but something illegitimate.
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Looks like it’s time to re-up this thread on the fascist genealogy of the seemingly pablum term “Americanism.”
November 29, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Looks like it’s time to re-up this thread on the fascist genealogy of the seemingly pablum term “Americanism.”
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Western media & politicians constantly claim one "evidence" Muslims are extremists is due to "child soldiers."
CIA recruited DC shooter at ~15 to become a child soldier. We see the horrific result. Yet 0 talk of accountability for CIA who recruited and trained him. Every accusation is a confession.
CIA recruited DC shooter at ~15 to become a child soldier. We see the horrific result. Yet 0 talk of accountability for CIA who recruited and trained him. Every accusation is a confession.
November 29, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Western media & politicians constantly claim one "evidence" Muslims are extremists is due to "child soldiers."
CIA recruited DC shooter at ~15 to become a child soldier. We see the horrific result. Yet 0 talk of accountability for CIA who recruited and trained him. Every accusation is a confession.
CIA recruited DC shooter at ~15 to become a child soldier. We see the horrific result. Yet 0 talk of accountability for CIA who recruited and trained him. Every accusation is a confession.
LLM-speak is the Charles Ponzi outfit of today, disarmingly confident in our present cultural context in a way that evokes more trust than anyone can overcome. In a generation it’ll be a signifier of fraud.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles...
November 29, 2025 at 6:59 AM
LLM-speak is the Charles Ponzi outfit of today, disarmingly confident in our present cultural context in a way that evokes more trust than anyone can overcome. In a generation it’ll be a signifier of fraud.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles...
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An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
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And I don't know if the answer is: everyone is too traumatized to do work and we need to reinvent society. Or if it's more like: generations are losing their cognitive abilities and willpower due to destructive technologies. Or: we all have post-viral brain damage. Or: all of the above.
November 28, 2025 at 11:34 PM
And I don't know if the answer is: everyone is too traumatized to do work and we need to reinvent society. Or if it's more like: generations are losing their cognitive abilities and willpower due to destructive technologies. Or: we all have post-viral brain damage. Or: all of the above.
There’s no gif of the full sequence on bsky’s set of approved gifs, but in The Lion King when Simba’s advisor bonks him on the head and Simba says “What was that for??” and the response is “Doesn’t matter, it’s in the past” - that’s what I think of every time I hear one of these “look forward”s.
Let me put this more productively: there was considerable public fury toward previous Republicans for lies, crimes, misbegotten wars, etc. But it ran up against the *enormous, extremely powerful* forces defending elite impunity. And the latter forces won, decisively. It was barely a fight.
November 28, 2025 at 9:11 PM
There’s no gif of the full sequence on bsky’s set of approved gifs, but in The Lion King when Simba’s advisor bonks him on the head and Simba says “What was that for??” and the response is “Doesn’t matter, it’s in the past” - that’s what I think of every time I hear one of these “look forward”s.
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And it is absolutely imperative (as in, 'the fate of the Republic hangs in the balance') that elected Democrats not fall for it, not engage with it on its own terms. Got to be "secret, masked, federal police are kidnapping our neighbors and our loved ones, terrorizing our churches and our hospitals
November 28, 2025 at 7:02 AM
And it is absolutely imperative (as in, 'the fate of the Republic hangs in the balance') that elected Democrats not fall for it, not engage with it on its own terms. Got to be "secret, masked, federal police are kidnapping our neighbors and our loved ones, terrorizing our churches and our hospitals
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The US federal government is openly warring against its own nonwhite population in a way no one alive has ever experienced. It’s not even getting to hide it. The overt bigotry is comparable to Jim Crow. And our pathetic, cowed, putrid political class just keeps pretending it isn’t even happening.
November 28, 2025 at 5:43 AM
The US federal government is openly warring against its own nonwhite population in a way no one alive has ever experienced. It’s not even getting to hide it. The overt bigotry is comparable to Jim Crow. And our pathetic, cowed, putrid political class just keeps pretending it isn’t even happening.
The Kirby Argument everyone needs to be making.
Everyone in politics, everyone in media knows what’s happening here: the White House is controlled by a repellant white supremacist who waits with bated breath for any opportunity to run nonwhite people out of America. They know who it is, what he’s doing. But they won’t SAY it.
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
The Kirby Argument everyone needs to be making.
Adding to the long list of tech company statement and actions that sound like satire, instagram has a seventeen-strikes-and-you’re-out policy for sex trafficking.
Instagram’s former head of safety and well-being Vaishnavi Jayakumar testified the company had a “17x” strike policy for accounts that engaged in the trafficking of humans for sex.
“You could incur 16 violations and upon the 17th violation, your account would be suspended"
time.com/7336204/meta...
“You could incur 16 violations and upon the 17th violation, your account would be suspended"
time.com/7336204/meta...
7 Allegations Against Meta in Newly Unsealed Filings
Court filings allege Meta tolerated sex trafficking, hid harms to teens, and prioritized growth over user safety for years.
time.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Adding to the long list of tech company statement and actions that sound like satire, instagram has a seventeen-strikes-and-you’re-out policy for sex trafficking.
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Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...
ICE agent who shot woman in Chicago drove Border Patrol vehicle back to Maine
An unnamed ICE agent, who shot and injured a woman in Chicago, is now back in Maine after driving the Border Patrol vehicle he was in 1,100 miles.
wgme.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...
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Not to sound too corny or like a version of 2019 woke that would be insufferable now but I do hope that everyone who has difficult or painful relationships with their family finds comfort, love, and belonging today.
November 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Not to sound too corny or like a version of 2019 woke that would be insufferable now but I do hope that everyone who has difficult or painful relationships with their family finds comfort, love, and belonging today.
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They did it again! NYC subway Thanksgiving 2025, via @scootercaster.com!
November 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
They did it again! NYC subway Thanksgiving 2025, via @scootercaster.com!
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Yankee (laudatory) is a category that exists, but it's reserved for New Englanders with a ramrod-straight moral compass who would rather break the world than compromise. Exemplars are William Lloyd Garrison, John Brown and Pete Seeger.
November 27, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Yankee (laudatory) is a category that exists, but it's reserved for New Englanders with a ramrod-straight moral compass who would rather break the world than compromise. Exemplars are William Lloyd Garrison, John Brown and Pete Seeger.
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the invasion of Afghanistan is among the most horrific recent chapters of the long history of elite impunity in the US. this coda is grim but fitting - the govt practically explicitly affirming that it should only be Afghans who live with the consequences amid fading public memory of the atrocity
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 AM
the invasion of Afghanistan is among the most horrific recent chapters of the long history of elite impunity in the US. this coda is grim but fitting - the govt practically explicitly affirming that it should only be Afghans who live with the consequences amid fading public memory of the atrocity
There’s a phenomenon where the harshest animosity emerges toward those the aggressor is *almost* aligned with, or very culturally/ethnically similar or whatever, instead of those most different. I think about this every time leftists talk about electoral politics.
November 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
There’s a phenomenon where the harshest animosity emerges toward those the aggressor is *almost* aligned with, or very culturally/ethnically similar or whatever, instead of those most different. I think about this every time leftists talk about electoral politics.
Oh hey, I think this is my gender.
Recently saw a comedian do a bit and he was like
Okay so im straight and cis. Im not gay or bi but I think i need my own term because whatever the fuck joe Rogan is? Im not that
We can't be the same thing
Okay so im straight and cis. Im not gay or bi but I think i need my own term because whatever the fuck joe Rogan is? Im not that
We can't be the same thing
November 27, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Oh hey, I think this is my gender.
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Society is a construct. You can just ask someone to do a ska cover of Faith of the Heart and they'll say "$300 please" and you give it to them and then you have it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
November 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Society is a construct. You can just ask someone to do a ska cover of Faith of the Heart and they'll say "$300 please" and you give it to them and then you have it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
Inside me there are two Progressives.
Mayor Michelle Wu said she has no interest in confabbing with President Trump as New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani did last week while in Washington:
“I’m not interested in a bromance with the federal regime,” Wu said.
“I’m not interested in a bromance with the federal regime,” Wu said.
Mamdani can have his ‘bromance’ with Trump, but Mayor Wu says she’s ‘not interested’ - The Boston Globe
Last Friday’s meetup between President Trump and New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani raised eyebrows on both sides of the political aisle.
trib.al
November 26, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Inside me there are two Progressives.
There’s a really widespread belief that affordable housing come from being built of affordable bricks or something. People really don’t want to believe that affordability is a decision individual sellers/landlords make entirely based on what people are willing to pay.
![Robert Fruchtman
@_fruchtose
X.com
Welch: [Haight-Ashbury] was a moderate-to-low-income neighborhood when I moved in with 30% African-American population. It's now the second whitest neighborhood in the City. I can't explain it in any meaningful way. "The population changes, but the buildings remain the same.
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November 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
There’s a really widespread belief that affordable housing come from being built of affordable bricks or something. People really don’t want to believe that affordability is a decision individual sellers/landlords make entirely based on what people are willing to pay.
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Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."