Wannabe Apparatchik
@apparatchikwannabe.bsky.social
he/him
History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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it’s really crazy how, in the course of three weeks, we’ve gone from “wow he’s really out there chasing ICE” to it being a point of total consensus among many that I am “working with the feds.” a bizarre demonstration of how social environments Online just microwave people’s brains
"If I keep working with the feds people might get mad that I work with the feds, what can I do!?"
I’m telling you, eventually someone could actually take a shot at me if this “he’s a fed!” lunacy continues. It’s not safe, it’s genuinely scary
February 11, 2026 at 4:02 PM
it’s really crazy how, in the course of three weeks, we’ve gone from “wow he’s really out there chasing ICE” to it being a point of total consensus among many that I am “working with the feds.” a bizarre demonstration of how social environments Online just microwave people’s brains
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Oh it's not income airstrikes; they are just grossly incompetent
U.S. FAA : THE TEMPORARY CLOSURE OF AIRSPACE OVER EL PASO HAS BEEN LIFTED.
February 11, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Oh it's not income airstrikes; they are just grossly incompetent
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cool to know I can apparently be told "actually that flight doesn't exist" at any time for no reason on no notice. definitely won't make travel planning harder or reduce tourism spending.
February 11, 2026 at 1:26 PM
cool to know I can apparently be told "actually that flight doesn't exist" at any time for no reason on no notice. definitely won't make travel planning harder or reduce tourism spending.
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the whole 'master's tools' thing is way too close to Bad Calvinism for my liking, apologies to Audrey Lorde
the master's tools rule. you should steal them. if you don't, you had better hope whoever does likes you and your cause
February 11, 2026 at 8:00 AM
the whole 'master's tools' thing is way too close to Bad Calvinism for my liking, apologies to Audrey Lorde
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the rollout of the mRNA vaccines was one of the greatest public health triumphs in history and the end result has been the all-around triumph of the antivax movement and I will never get over it
I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
FDA declines to review Moderna's mRNA flu shot
Under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Food and Drug Administration has taken an aggressive stance against mRNA technology.
www.nbcnews.com
February 11, 2026 at 1:22 AM
the rollout of the mRNA vaccines was one of the greatest public health triumphs in history and the end result has been the all-around triumph of the antivax movement and I will never get over it
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they said it couldn't be done, folks, big strong men with tears in their eyes, they came up to me and said "no president could completely wreck an entire united states economy twice", they said "no one's ever put more people out of work than you"
US HIRING AT RECESSION LEVELS: HIRING RATE AT 3.3%, MATCHING THE 2020 CRISIS AND NEAR A 13-YEAR LOW.
February 11, 2026 at 3:12 AM
they said it couldn't be done, folks, big strong men with tears in their eyes, they came up to me and said "no president could completely wreck an entire united states economy twice", they said "no one's ever put more people out of work than you"
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This woman is a dissident who survived an attempted assassination by state security, and would be internationally recognized as a hero for democracy if that happened in any other country
Marimar Martinez, shot 5 times by Border Patrol in Chicago, speaks out after Renee Good, Alex Pretti deaths
'I am their voice'
NEW w/ @adrianacardmag.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
'I am their voice'
NEW w/ @adrianacardmag.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Marimar Martinez, shot by Border Patrol in Chicago, speaks out after Good, Pretti deaths: 'I am their voice'
In a wide-ranging interview with the Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ, Martinez discusses her shooting, the federal government’s failed attempt to prosecute her and the role she now sees for herself in a fi...
chicago.suntimes.com
February 3, 2026 at 4:50 PM
This woman is a dissident who survived an attempted assassination by state security, and would be internationally recognized as a hero for democracy if that happened in any other country
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Sometimes very hard not to feel like the rest of the country has abandoned Minnesota. We STILL have ICE everywhere. Our schools, businesses, and economy are in profound crisis. But without Bovino here throwing tear gas, much of the country seems to not care at all what’s being done to us.
February 11, 2026 at 11:03 AM
Sometimes very hard not to feel like the rest of the country has abandoned Minnesota. We STILL have ICE everywhere. Our schools, businesses, and economy are in profound crisis. But without Bovino here throwing tear gas, much of the country seems to not care at all what’s being done to us.
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Napoleon's ultimate success can be measured in the fact that his impact on the French population - and that impact was not a good one - was still evident at the start of the Great War.
Still, logistics are boring, right?
Still, logistics are boring, right?
February 11, 2026 at 8:41 AM
Napoleon's ultimate success can be measured in the fact that his impact on the French population - and that impact was not a good one - was still evident at the start of the Great War.
Still, logistics are boring, right?
Still, logistics are boring, right?
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"Napoleon achieved his success by ignoring logistics" is a bold take when you consider that such successes include losing his entire army in Egypt due to logistics, losing his entire army in Russia due to logistics, turning the Peninsular War into a nightmare by replacing logistics with theft...
February 11, 2026 at 8:37 AM
"Napoleon achieved his success by ignoring logistics" is a bold take when you consider that such successes include losing his entire army in Egypt due to logistics, losing his entire army in Russia due to logistics, turning the Peninsular War into a nightmare by replacing logistics with theft...
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“wow, young(er) people be spending small amounts of money when they’re priced out of things that cost impossibly large amounts of money. oooh weee, how strange!” - ‘lifestyle’ writers since 2008
Gen Zers and millennials are swimming in student debt and may never own homes, but they’re splurging on gut-healthy juices and rotisserie chickens.
The Booming Business of Luxury Grocery Stores
A new crop of gourmet grocers has hit the city, drawing lines of trendy TikTokers, MAHA-curious health fiends and Instacart devotees who want to pop in for a treat.
on.wsj.com
February 11, 2026 at 12:34 PM
“wow, young(er) people be spending small amounts of money when they’re priced out of things that cost impossibly large amounts of money. oooh weee, how strange!” - ‘lifestyle’ writers since 2008
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you don't have to like AI or LLMs or microsoft, you can hate all those things, but you should save some contempt for people who shamelessly lie to you to make you angry for likes and shares
February 11, 2026 at 5:34 AM
you don't have to like AI or LLMs or microsoft, you can hate all those things, but you should save some contempt for people who shamelessly lie to you to make you angry for likes and shares
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i do not like that we're just going to run the entire bluecheck credibility crisis from start to finish again; this guy's an engagement grifter and he's openly lying in easily disprovable ways and a lot of people who should know better are running with it because it confirms their priors
fwiw this is not what this paper claims at all
Microsoft released a study showing the 40 jobs most at risk by AI:
February 11, 2026 at 5:32 AM
i do not like that we're just going to run the entire bluecheck credibility crisis from start to finish again; this guy's an engagement grifter and he's openly lying in easily disprovable ways and a lot of people who should know better are running with it because it confirms their priors
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the master's tools rule. you should steal them. if you don't, you had better hope whoever does likes you and your cause
February 11, 2026 at 5:13 AM
the master's tools rule. you should steal them. if you don't, you had better hope whoever does likes you and your cause
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fwiw this is not what this paper claims at all
Microsoft released a study showing the 40 jobs most at risk by AI:
February 11, 2026 at 5:15 AM
fwiw this is not what this paper claims at all
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>working families tax cut
>six thousand dollars exclusively for retired people
lol. lmao. xd.
>six thousand dollars exclusively for retired people
lol. lmao. xd.
February 11, 2026 at 5:06 AM
>working families tax cut
>six thousand dollars exclusively for retired people
lol. lmao. xd.
>six thousand dollars exclusively for retired people
lol. lmao. xd.
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the deployment of mRNA vaccine technology was a monumental leap in medical advancement and the crowning achievement of Donald Trump's first presidency but now his administration is scuttling it because their political coalition exists in opposition to the concept of expertise
So the feds ARE NOT considering an mRNA vaccine for the flu, which could save countless lives, but ARE backing research into whether horse dewormer can cure cancer, because the right views vaccines as elite and ivermectin as populist.
Cool.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Cool.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
FDA won’t review Moderna application for first mRNA-based flu vaccine
The decision, which shocked company officials, comes as the FDA says it will take a stricter approach to federal vaccine approvals.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 11, 2026 at 4:59 AM
the deployment of mRNA vaccine technology was a monumental leap in medical advancement and the crowning achievement of Donald Trump's first presidency but now his administration is scuttling it because their political coalition exists in opposition to the concept of expertise
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I am an anti-anti power scaler.
“What matters is the story!”
Yes, and for a story to be good, it needs to have internal logic. It is possible to tell a good story where the weaker party wins through luck, cunning, the power of friendship, etc. but you need to have a sense for a fight to sell it.
“What matters is the story!”
Yes, and for a story to be good, it needs to have internal logic. It is possible to tell a good story where the weaker party wins through luck, cunning, the power of friendship, etc. but you need to have a sense for a fight to sell it.
February 11, 2026 at 4:57 AM
I am an anti-anti power scaler.
“What matters is the story!”
Yes, and for a story to be good, it needs to have internal logic. It is possible to tell a good story where the weaker party wins through luck, cunning, the power of friendship, etc. but you need to have a sense for a fight to sell it.
“What matters is the story!”
Yes, and for a story to be good, it needs to have internal logic. It is possible to tell a good story where the weaker party wins through luck, cunning, the power of friendship, etc. but you need to have a sense for a fight to sell it.
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I feel bad for ivermectin, which genuinely is amazing stuff that won a deserved Nobel Prize but is now forever associated with crank antiscience
February 11, 2026 at 4:29 AM
I feel bad for ivermectin, which genuinely is amazing stuff that won a deserved Nobel Prize but is now forever associated with crank antiscience
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This really is the dumbest fucking rule in the history of games. You know some idiot prince came up with the “if you trap my king so that any move causes it to be captured in the game where if you capture my king, I lose, it’s a tie” rule and everyone else had to eat shit and smile to dodge the axe.
February 11, 2026 at 4:28 AM
This really is the dumbest fucking rule in the history of games. You know some idiot prince came up with the “if you trap my king so that any move causes it to be captured in the game where if you capture my king, I lose, it’s a tie” rule and everyone else had to eat shit and smile to dodge the axe.
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former prosecutors-turned-defense lawyers with one *hell* of an axe to grind are absolutely going to be a thing in the coming years
The Star Tribune reports that former acting U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson, in one of his first acts since joining private practice, will be representing Don Lemon.
February 11, 2026 at 4:22 AM
former prosecutors-turned-defense lawyers with one *hell* of an axe to grind are absolutely going to be a thing in the coming years
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imagine if large numbers of Americans became singularly obsessed with one niche figure from the Chinese internet, obscure even to Chinese people, and posted every day about why "Digimon Zhou deserves to be [redacted]"
February 11, 2026 at 2:38 AM
imagine if large numbers of Americans became singularly obsessed with one niche figure from the Chinese internet, obscure even to Chinese people, and posted every day about why "Digimon Zhou deserves to be [redacted]"
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the realization that a good deal of Stancil haters are foreigners is so incredibly pathetic
February 11, 2026 at 2:30 AM
the realization that a good deal of Stancil haters are foreigners is so incredibly pathetic
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y'all want to pretend you're in a WWII Nazi occupied resistance and casually allege stuff that got people shot, it's not doing wonders to defuse the allegations it's all a LARP to you
February 10, 2026 at 10:59 PM
y'all want to pretend you're in a WWII Nazi occupied resistance and casually allege stuff that got people shot, it's not doing wonders to defuse the allegations it's all a LARP to you
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Ask yourself: how does a well-meaning leftist talk themselves into believing that Stancil is "one of the worst people on here"? Because when you believe that, you can join a club in which bullying becomes cool and good
February 10, 2026 at 11:04 PM
Ask yourself: how does a well-meaning leftist talk themselves into believing that Stancil is "one of the worst people on here"? Because when you believe that, you can join a club in which bullying becomes cool and good