Pres. Pranklin Fierce
@blakesquest.bsky.social
Husband of @wendycat.bsky.social. Chicago lawyer. All views are my own. Annoying politics stuff, sports posting, occasional gaming stuff, goofing around, etc. Chi DSA. Free Palestine. Trans rights are human rights. Solidarity forever. He/him.
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I know it’s incredibly dorky and cringe, but I’ll be thinking a ton about Sam’s speech over the next four years. Never forget that there is good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for
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You can call either one an echo chamber but Bluesky is the app of "better things are possible" and Twitter is the app of "hey Nazis aren't so bad if they're nice to me personally".
February 16, 2026 at 1:24 AM
You can call either one an echo chamber but Bluesky is the app of "better things are possible" and Twitter is the app of "hey Nazis aren't so bad if they're nice to me personally".
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I do think there’s a certain type of Democrat that realizes it’s possible we are dealing with a perfect storm where almost any Democrat will win, and are terrified we might nominate radical candidates who will actually engage in needed change instead of status quo corporate centrist bullshit.
One of the interesting things this time around is just how hollow the whole thing sounds. In the past, people have been able to use the empty concept of electability to anoint and position the person they demanded, but now that Republicans are getting obliterated everywhere, that doesn't work.
If I were a Democrat concerned about winning elections and was hearing that a significant number of voters wouldn’t support Gavin Newsom in 2028, I would simply stop pushing Gavin Newsom in 2026.
February 16, 2026 at 4:51 AM
I do think there’s a certain type of Democrat that realizes it’s possible we are dealing with a perfect storm where almost any Democrat will win, and are terrified we might nominate radical candidates who will actually engage in needed change instead of status quo corporate centrist bullshit.
The government must take it from them
February 16, 2026 at 6:19 PM
The government must take it from them
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(3) But the Democrat view is also bad: while it's fine for people at Princeton and Harvard to study Latin and Sanskrit, public higher education is about job training and $ ROI. There is no room for the idea that curiosity-driven inquiry is a good that should be supported by the public.
February 13, 2026 at 2:57 PM
(3) But the Democrat view is also bad: while it's fine for people at Princeton and Harvard to study Latin and Sanskrit, public higher education is about job training and $ ROI. There is no room for the idea that curiosity-driven inquiry is a good that should be supported by the public.
Real baseball heads remember the Tungsten Arm O’Doyle tweet, but little did I know that there really was a player named Steel Arm Davis
www.baseball-reference.com
February 16, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Real baseball heads remember the Tungsten Arm O’Doyle tweet, but little did I know that there really was a player named Steel Arm Davis
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Voting by itself is obviously not sufficient to effectuate real change, but if voting didn’t matter at all, I don’t think the fascist right and center-right would be trying so hard to stop us from doing it
February 16, 2026 at 3:39 AM
Voting by itself is obviously not sufficient to effectuate real change, but if voting didn’t matter at all, I don’t think the fascist right and center-right would be trying so hard to stop us from doing it
Bri4nna Wu Ben Shapiro
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Saying the most racist things about Palestinians you can possibly imagine
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Saying the most racist things about Palestinians you can possibly imagine
February 16, 2026 at 11:31 AM
Bri4nna Wu Ben Shapiro
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Saying the most racist things about Palestinians you can possibly imagine
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Saying the most racist things about Palestinians you can possibly imagine
Voting by itself is obviously not sufficient to effectuate real change, but if voting didn’t matter at all, I don’t think the fascist right and center-right would be trying so hard to stop us from doing it
February 16, 2026 at 3:39 AM
Voting by itself is obviously not sufficient to effectuate real change, but if voting didn’t matter at all, I don’t think the fascist right and center-right would be trying so hard to stop us from doing it
If anyone’s interested to know, the podcast was about Fox’s The O.C.
The only time I guested on a podcast, said podcast abruptly ended and never posted another episode again. I feel like that’s basically the worst case scenario
February 16, 2026 at 2:47 AM
If anyone’s interested to know, the podcast was about Fox’s The O.C.
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"But, rest assured, this will be the sixth time we have gone woke, and we have become exceedingly efficient at it."
February 15, 2026 at 9:49 AM
"But, rest assured, this will be the sixth time we have gone woke, and we have become exceedingly efficient at it."
Article in Slate, circa July 2028: Why the Principle of Harm Reduction Means It’s Important We All Vote for Garshub the World-Eater
February 16, 2026 at 1:47 AM
Article in Slate, circa July 2028: Why the Principle of Harm Reduction Means It’s Important We All Vote for Garshub the World-Eater
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yeah like that time the US invaded Iraq and killed about half a million people for no reason, but you wouldn't know anything about that
If you think there’s NOTHING in our heritage (or in any nation’s) to be unapologetic about, you’re a fool. A dangerous fool.
February 15, 2026 at 11:20 PM
yeah like that time the US invaded Iraq and killed about half a million people for no reason, but you wouldn't know anything about that
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Bluesky was literally meant to be a cryptobro social network for grifters, LinkedIn sludge, and libertarians who know way too much about age of consent laws.
Jack Dorsey *left* when instead of weird and off-putting cryptonerds, trans people started hanging out here.
Jack Dorsey *left* when instead of weird and off-putting cryptonerds, trans people started hanging out here.
Can you think of examples where people use technologies differently from what the developers intended, whether unintentionally or as an act of resistance?
February 15, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Bluesky was literally meant to be a cryptobro social network for grifters, LinkedIn sludge, and libertarians who know way too much about age of consent laws.
Jack Dorsey *left* when instead of weird and off-putting cryptonerds, trans people started hanging out here.
Jack Dorsey *left* when instead of weird and off-putting cryptonerds, trans people started hanging out here.
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i think most (not all) of the "you must vote for Newsom" people are just Newsom supporters who want him to win because they like him and his policies, not because they have high minded ideas about harm reduction.
February 13, 2026 at 4:44 PM
i think most (not all) of the "you must vote for Newsom" people are just Newsom supporters who want him to win because they like him and his policies, not because they have high minded ideas about harm reduction.
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Slavery isn't complicated. People must never own other people. When they do, it's an orgy of physical, sexual, emotional, and economic violence that poisons every aspect of any society that permits it. And American race-based chattel slavery was the worst of all forms of slavery.
Physically incapable of analyzing politics outside of this insipid frame.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
February 15, 2026 at 2:43 AM
Slavery isn't complicated. People must never own other people. When they do, it's an orgy of physical, sexual, emotional, and economic violence that poisons every aspect of any society that permits it. And American race-based chattel slavery was the worst of all forms of slavery.
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That sound you hear? The Democratic establishment crapping their pants over @katmabu.bsky.social's campaign.
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
The next progressive pressing for an upset
www.politico.com
February 15, 2026 at 4:37 PM
That sound you hear? The Democratic establishment crapping their pants over @katmabu.bsky.social's campaign.
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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I’d never heard it expressed this way before, but it’s brilliant
horseshoe theory is real but it's specifically real regarding obnoxious dimwits insisting that you need to pledge support for candidates with genuinely disqualifying qualities because they're "the only one who can win"
February 15, 2026 at 3:48 PM
I’d never heard it expressed this way before, but it’s brilliant
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The John Wick series is so effective because it fully embodies the three major tenets of dumb guy fantasy: 1. being able to kick anyone’s ass, 2. living by a code of honor, and 3. paying for things with gold coins
February 15, 2026 at 1:32 PM
The John Wick series is so effective because it fully embodies the three major tenets of dumb guy fantasy: 1. being able to kick anyone’s ass, 2. living by a code of honor, and 3. paying for things with gold coins
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Everyone’s talking about Swarovski right now so let’s take a second and dive into the fact that they were NAZI Nazis. Like full-on Seig Heil, prosecuted after the war level Nazis and the modern company has done everything they can to hide all their archives and prevent anyone accessing them.
![Members of the Swarovski family were early, active and enthusiastic champions of Nazism, and at least six of its members maintained membership in the illegal party prior to Austria's annexation to Nazi Germany on 12 March 1938.!23] Three weeks earlier, 500 marchers in the Tyrolean town of Wattens held a torchlight procession that ended with chants of "Sieg Heil" and "Heil Hitler". The majority of the participants, police determined, were Swarovski plant employees, among them Swarovski family heirs Alfred, Wilhelm and Friedrich. 124]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nvfznp5ls3wcf6aktlfkfkp3/bafkreicscf6waklhijry6fblsvr4psk7yku2jauu5hqsn4n765i4gkl2pe@jpeg)
![In its report to the state police on 14 February 1947, the Innsbruck district administrator called company head Alfred Swarovski "an enthusiastic member of the NSDAP." [25] Alfred Swarovski praised Hitler at business gatherings and took actions as a regional business leader to ensure that "Tyrolean industry could be integrated as smoothly as possible into the enormous gears of the economy of Greater Germany and into the National Socialist economic order." He sent
"grateful loyalty greetings" to Adolf Hitler on his 49th birthday and arranged a donation of 100,000 shillings for Hitler to establish a holiday home in Tyrol.!26]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nvfznp5ls3wcf6aktlfkfkp3/bafkreifou66ng5baxhiicmm6d3zntcqosn7pqwzafclwf2qs7xtq7wvqku@jpeg)
![In 1994, historian Horst Schreiber wrote about Swarovski's past but was not granted access to company archives. (27]
The contemporary Swarovski company commissioned historian Dieter Stiefel as "a step towards dealing with our history in a serious and very pro-active manner," board spokesman Markus Langes-Swarovski said in
2018; however, the study was not published because, Langes-Swarovski said, "Swarovski is a company that generally tries to keep the owners' personal stories largely out of the public eye because it does nothing for the business." (28]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nvfznp5ls3wcf6aktlfkfkp3/bafkreift4wajp6nsrzdrumb2cnyv7s5nvswakab7h62jnjqua4i7tf2qeq@jpeg)
February 14, 2026 at 4:24 AM
Everyone’s talking about Swarovski right now so let’s take a second and dive into the fact that they were NAZI Nazis. Like full-on Seig Heil, prosecuted after the war level Nazis and the modern company has done everything they can to hide all their archives and prevent anyone accessing them.
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Oregon Trail was a great game even though the graphics were a little buggy
February 14, 2026 at 8:37 PM
Oregon Trail was a great game even though the graphics were a little buggy
My probably insane idea to get rid of tanking in the NBA: other than teams that win a league title, conference title, and/or division title, every team in the league has equal odds for the first pick
February 14, 2026 at 9:39 PM
My probably insane idea to get rid of tanking in the NBA: other than teams that win a league title, conference title, and/or division title, every team in the league has equal odds for the first pick
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Crazy that Costco’s we value our customers message is so much more effective than everyone else telling us to fuck off
February 14, 2026 at 4:25 AM
Crazy that Costco’s we value our customers message is so much more effective than everyone else telling us to fuck off
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The American right does not defend slavery because progressives say it was bad. They defend slavery because racial hierarchy has been an important and increasingly explicit component of their ideology for 70 years. Read a fucking book.
February 14, 2026 at 1:16 PM
The American right does not defend slavery because progressives say it was bad. They defend slavery because racial hierarchy has been an important and increasingly explicit component of their ideology for 70 years. Read a fucking book.
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A post that states that everyone else is being super unreasonable in their positions is not starting a discussion in good faith so it’s not surprising if the discussion doesn’t proceed that way (and that applies to both Chris’s post and yours!)
February 12, 2026 at 12:45 PM
A post that states that everyone else is being super unreasonable in their positions is not starting a discussion in good faith so it’s not surprising if the discussion doesn’t proceed that way (and that applies to both Chris’s post and yours!)