Augustine Merganser Flournoy
@augustinemerganser.bsky.social
This is my birth name; if you know me IRL, i go by something else.
It's not really safe to have a social media bio right now.
Neurodynamic or whatever we're calling ourselves.
♂️⚧️♀️
He/They
Trans rights are human rights.
It's not really safe to have a social media bio right now.
Neurodynamic or whatever we're calling ourselves.
♂️⚧️♀️
He/They
Trans rights are human rights.
Pinned
I think the "It is Wednesday my dudes" frog should be president
Punishable by a fine means legal if you're rich
A dude giving me an estimate on moving me told me that a super wealthy dude in the area had a zoning permit for one story but built three instead and he just pays the $10k+ in fines to the town every year.
Let that sink in.
Rich people can afford to do whatever they want.
They are not like us.
Let that sink in.
Rich people can afford to do whatever they want.
They are not like us.
November 14, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Punishable by a fine means legal if you're rich
Children are a marginalized population, and too many otherwise "woke" people tolerate anti-child bigotry in the form of childfree discourse
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Children are a marginalized population, and too many otherwise "woke" people tolerate anti-child bigotry in the form of childfree discourse
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I think Matt Gaetz sucks and yet I also think that making him the central villain in a story of a homeless teenage sex worker is missing the point. This is a girl — now a woman — who was so colossally failed at every point that Matt Gaetz himself is almost incidental to the story. Which is not…
November 14, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I think Matt Gaetz sucks and yet I also think that making him the central villain in a story of a homeless teenage sex worker is missing the point. This is a girl — now a woman — who was so colossally failed at every point that Matt Gaetz himself is almost incidental to the story. Which is not…
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I'm attending a workshop hosted by @techpolicypress.bsky.social tomorrow. They invited me to write a "provocation" about the state of technology and democracy right now.
I think I wrote something appropriately dark and foreboding.
www.techpolicy.press/the-dance-wi...
I think I wrote something appropriately dark and foreboding.
www.techpolicy.press/the-dance-wi...
The Dance with Big Tech is Different under Trump 2.0 | TechPolicy.Press
If we are going to repair democratic institutions, we are going to have to do it ourselves, writes Dave Karpf.
www.techpolicy.press
November 13, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I'm attending a workshop hosted by @techpolicypress.bsky.social tomorrow. They invited me to write a "provocation" about the state of technology and democracy right now.
I think I wrote something appropriately dark and foreboding.
www.techpolicy.press/the-dance-wi...
I think I wrote something appropriately dark and foreboding.
www.techpolicy.press/the-dance-wi...
Maugustine, the new disaster bi he/they lieutenant stepped on the the promenade of Deep Space Nine....
November 14, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Maugustine, the new disaster bi he/they lieutenant stepped on the the promenade of Deep Space Nine....
If you see this, post a bird
November 14, 2025 at 2:56 AM
If you see this, post a bird
I've been waiting my whole life for this
oh wow that’s crazy
oreos with bits of
of oreos. in them
Real Bits of Oreos
oreos with bits of
of oreos. in them
Real Bits of Oreos
November 14, 2025 at 1:21 AM
I've been waiting my whole life for this
Everyone once in a while, I'll be having a pretty good day, then I'll remember that the movie Duce Bigalow Male Gigollo exists
November 14, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Everyone once in a while, I'll be having a pretty good day, then I'll remember that the movie Duce Bigalow Male Gigollo exists
Cooking With Titus Andronicus
Donner Travel Guide.
Lysistrata Sex Therapy
November 14, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Cooking With Titus Andronicus
This exactly
Media standards:
1) No Democratic scandal on par with Trump-Epstein, so it’d be biased and unfair to five it much attention.
2) Trump wouldn’t be shamed into resigning and his cult of personality wouldn’t abandon him, so Trump-Epstein wasn’t worth pursuing.
Way too many think that’s journalism.
1) No Democratic scandal on par with Trump-Epstein, so it’d be biased and unfair to five it much attention.
2) Trump wouldn’t be shamed into resigning and his cult of personality wouldn’t abandon him, so Trump-Epstein wasn’t worth pursuing.
Way too many think that’s journalism.
November 13, 2025 at 11:14 PM
This exactly
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you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
Minnie Pearl Jam
The Lewis Black Keys
The Betty White Stripes
November 13, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Minnie Pearl Jam
We should have never ceded November to "The Holidays." The dominoes will continue to fall and your children will sing "all i want for Christmas" in June.
November 13, 2025 at 8:10 PM
We should have never ceded November to "The Holidays." The dominoes will continue to fall and your children will sing "all i want for Christmas" in June.
See also Xander Harris never facing consequences for his gross behavior (because he was a Whedon self-insert)
While I am ranting the whole point of pointing out weird things in old shows for me is seeing points of social conditioning. That's why I go so hard on Urkel. He was a character that did a lot of incel level shit before that term was coined.
I say this because when I post about 90's shows there's always 1 comment about some kind of continuation whether it's a comic or a reboot and the reason I make posts about these shows is that tons of people ingested the media and grew up without really reflecting on it and there's fucked up shit
November 13, 2025 at 6:11 PM
See also Xander Harris never facing consequences for his gross behavior (because he was a Whedon self-insert)
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
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Epstein spent Thanksgiving with Trump during president's first term in office: emails
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Epstein spent Thanksgiving with Trump during president's first term in office: emails
President Donald Trump's relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein continued into his first term in the White House, so much so that Epstein spent Thanksgiving with Trump while the pres...
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November 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Epstein spent Thanksgiving with Trump during president's first term in office: emails
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I want to say Hamilton as rage bait, but the real answer is Hadestown, and it's not even remotely a close contest.
what is the best musical of all time and please explain yourself so i know whether or not to be angry at you
November 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I want to say Hamilton as rage bait, but the real answer is Hadestown, and it's not even remotely a close contest.
Without downloading any new pics, describe your gender
November 13, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Without downloading any new pics, describe your gender
Socially Engineering the AI
November 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Socially Engineering the AI
So what is the line, Megyn? 9? 14?
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 5:41 PM
So what is the line, Megyn? 9? 14?
45 and yeah. I would feel weird and gross dating someone who can't remember hugging goodbye at the airport gate then watching the plane fly away.
the thing that always baffles me about when ppl start quibbling over age-of-consent or whatever is that as a 41 year old most 25 year old's look like teenagers to me. so even that seems gross.
i don't understand why anyone in middle-age would think 'sure they are 18 so its fine' let alone 15. 🤷♀️
i don't understand why anyone in middle-age would think 'sure they are 18 so its fine' let alone 15. 🤷♀️
15-year-olds aren’t “barely legal.” There is no such thing as “underage women” they’re fucking CHILDREN.
November 13, 2025 at 5:33 PM
45 and yeah. I would feel weird and gross dating someone who can't remember hugging goodbye at the airport gate then watching the plane fly away.
Three Novembers in a row I've gone to see a country rock band: Drive By Truckers in 2023, Old 97s in 24, and Murder By Death this year. I wonder who will be in town next year.
November 13, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Three Novembers in a row I've gone to see a country rock band: Drive By Truckers in 2023, Old 97s in 24, and Murder By Death this year. I wonder who will be in town next year.
CW suicide
I hate to be this guy, but I just saw a meme of Jar Jar Binks holding a gun to his own head. I hate the character as well, but Ahmed Best was actually suicidal over the criticism of his performance, so i think there are better ways to express dislike of the character.
I hate to be this guy, but I just saw a meme of Jar Jar Binks holding a gun to his own head. I hate the character as well, but Ahmed Best was actually suicidal over the criticism of his performance, so i think there are better ways to express dislike of the character.
November 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
CW suicide
I hate to be this guy, but I just saw a meme of Jar Jar Binks holding a gun to his own head. I hate the character as well, but Ahmed Best was actually suicidal over the criticism of his performance, so i think there are better ways to express dislike of the character.
I hate to be this guy, but I just saw a meme of Jar Jar Binks holding a gun to his own head. I hate the character as well, but Ahmed Best was actually suicidal over the criticism of his performance, so i think there are better ways to express dislike of the character.
"Did MeToo go too far," asked the chauvinist to the nonce
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
"Did MeToo go too far," asked the chauvinist to the nonce