Cary
@caryshaffner.bsky.social
Anthro nerd, geek, goth-but-doesn't-bother. Definitely on a side: inclusivity, empathy, respect. If your thing involves oppressing or exploiting people, know that my thing is going to smash your thing. Wait, that didn't come out right, did it?
Nuclear reactors are fine and dandy unless they exist under capitalism or authoritarian communism. Like most things, really. Just let the engineers do the cooking, and give them whatever gorram ingredients they want, as much as they want, and shut up because not blowing up costs what it costs, OK?
January 21, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Nuclear reactors are fine and dandy unless they exist under capitalism or authoritarian communism. Like most things, really. Just let the engineers do the cooking, and give them whatever gorram ingredients they want, as much as they want, and shut up because not blowing up costs what it costs, OK?
Well, the bleeding hearts and artists made their stand, but this is where we came in, isn't it?
January 21, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Well, the bleeding hearts and artists made their stand, but this is where we came in, isn't it?
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The Nobel Peace Prize becoming so prestigious that wars are fought over a head of state coveting it is some real monkey paw stuff for Alfred Nobel.
January 19, 2026 at 8:47 AM
The Nobel Peace Prize becoming so prestigious that wars are fought over a head of state coveting it is some real monkey paw stuff for Alfred Nobel.
We all need to start planning for when the phone/internet gets shut down. Beyond shortwave, I have no off the shelf ideas, anyone?
January 18, 2026 at 8:04 PM
We all need to start planning for when the phone/internet gets shut down. Beyond shortwave, I have no off the shelf ideas, anyone?
1) Go to Subway
2) Order a Jared from the secret menu
3) Insist there is too such a thing
4) Become deeply offended at their churlish denials and go eat somewhere better
2) Order a Jared from the secret menu
3) Insist there is too such a thing
4) Become deeply offended at their churlish denials and go eat somewhere better
January 15, 2026 at 10:56 PM
1) Go to Subway
2) Order a Jared from the secret menu
3) Insist there is too such a thing
4) Become deeply offended at their churlish denials and go eat somewhere better
2) Order a Jared from the secret menu
3) Insist there is too such a thing
4) Become deeply offended at their churlish denials and go eat somewhere better
Member when 9/11 and that naziass "homeland security" crap happened and we were all ' that seems kinda naziass I don't like where this is all going' and people were all don't be such a dramatic alarmist? Wishing I had kept a list of those people so I could indulge in some therapeutic face punchin
January 15, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Member when 9/11 and that naziass "homeland security" crap happened and we were all ' that seems kinda naziass I don't like where this is all going' and people were all don't be such a dramatic alarmist? Wishing I had kept a list of those people so I could indulge in some therapeutic face punchin
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I keep seeing people asking why the police aren't arresting ICE or protecting people from ICE and I desperately need you to understand that the police aren't protecting you from ICE because protecting YOU is not and never has been their function and that's why we need to defund them.
January 12, 2026 at 4:34 PM
I keep seeing people asking why the police aren't arresting ICE or protecting people from ICE and I desperately need you to understand that the police aren't protecting you from ICE because protecting YOU is not and never has been their function and that's why we need to defund them.
Killed her trying to leave ("not mad at you dude"). That is the point they are trying to get across. They released the his own cell phone video. Operations were not paused. It was a media event. This was a communicative murder, a performative public execution. Don't think otherwise for a second.
January 12, 2026 at 12:28 AM
Killed her trying to leave ("not mad at you dude"). That is the point they are trying to get across. They released the his own cell phone video. Operations were not paused. It was a media event. This was a communicative murder, a performative public execution. Don't think otherwise for a second.
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Here's the crux of the gist: we're on the cusp of a brink
January 6, 2026 at 10:22 PM
Here's the crux of the gist: we're on the cusp of a brink
He knows he's dying. This is him running out the clock. He'll invade Luxembourg if that's what it takes to keep the Files Monster from catching up to him before the finish line. He's going out like he lived- avoiding accountability at all costs.
January 5, 2026 at 11:56 PM
He knows he's dying. This is him running out the clock. He'll invade Luxembourg if that's what it takes to keep the Files Monster from catching up to him before the finish line. He's going out like he lived- avoiding accountability at all costs.
Kinda loki funny that the Norse got the apocalypse exactly backwards, what with the endless winter and all. Could our headlong charge into further climate damage be the result of some Ancient Norse religious nuts trying to stave off the end?
January 5, 2026 at 11:26 PM
Kinda loki funny that the Norse got the apocalypse exactly backwards, what with the endless winter and all. Could our headlong charge into further climate damage be the result of some Ancient Norse religious nuts trying to stave off the end?
Bet- active duty personnel get shafted on pay and bennies because this wasn't a declared war. Just a trip to the Gulf of America, metaphorically speaking.
January 4, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Bet- active duty personnel get shafted on pay and bennies because this wasn't a declared war. Just a trip to the Gulf of America, metaphorically speaking.
Idea: if a society has decided that incarcerating someone is necessary, it must be absolutely forbidden from profiting thereby; this disincentivizes casual incarceration (for reasons of profit, racism, etc). Its gonna cost ya, and it SHOULD. This is an extreme act, and must be regarded as such.
December 31, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Idea: if a society has decided that incarcerating someone is necessary, it must be absolutely forbidden from profiting thereby; this disincentivizes casual incarceration (for reasons of profit, racism, etc). Its gonna cost ya, and it SHOULD. This is an extreme act, and must be regarded as such.
I hope anyone Trump sues for not performing at the Kennedy Center uses the Gulf of America defense; "I agreed to play at the Kennedy Center, sir, which no longer exists as such."
December 31, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I hope anyone Trump sues for not performing at the Kennedy Center uses the Gulf of America defense; "I agreed to play at the Kennedy Center, sir, which no longer exists as such."
As time muddies history, they will come to think we invented Lex Luthor, Thanos et al to explain Bezos, Thiel et al. To mythologize, digest such figures, as was likely done to a man named Hercules at some point. I will scream into the void that it was backwards this time, our evil myths became real!
December 30, 2025 at 8:39 PM
As time muddies history, they will come to think we invented Lex Luthor, Thanos et al to explain Bezos, Thiel et al. To mythologize, digest such figures, as was likely done to a man named Hercules at some point. I will scream into the void that it was backwards this time, our evil myths became real!
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Ohhh I get it: they're creating space for their culties to disbelieve all this. The seconds of fake-now-deleted video, the 'we aren't sure about this' letter... muddying the water is their last defense here. Will it work?
December 23, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Ohhh I get it: they're creating space for their culties to disbelieve all this. The seconds of fake-now-deleted video, the 'we aren't sure about this' letter... muddying the water is their last defense here. Will it work?
Eyem thinkin bout ae aye, cn ewe parse mi nau tho-u phu kin clang ka? Cock knee rimeslang, comin back like a boomerang, robots try to catch my idiom but it wont be computin none, maybe next time a kenning gonna come, beat gonna drop from my letter drum
December 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Eyem thinkin bout ae aye, cn ewe parse mi nau tho-u phu kin clang ka? Cock knee rimeslang, comin back like a boomerang, robots try to catch my idiom but it wont be computin none, maybe next time a kenning gonna come, beat gonna drop from my letter drum
Life is turning into a video game. It is literally just a matter of time until a billionaire makes a robot army to do the Terrible but Necessary Thing that will make him Great. 1
December 19, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Life is turning into a video game. It is literally just a matter of time until a billionaire makes a robot army to do the Terrible but Necessary Thing that will make him Great. 1
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
Yes, nothing makes a girl feel safer and more privacy-having than having 3 deadeyed state goons, rethinking their life choices but checking your ID before you're allowed to pee, I'm sure. "I'll stop by your place about 8, beautiful", Trooper Gooner said... www.texastribune.org/2025/12/12/t...
Enforcement of Texas’ bathroom bill draws challenges
In its first week, one group’s test of the new restrictions was met with ID checks at women’s restrooms at the Capitol while the Austin City Council moved to circumvent the law's intent.
www.texastribune.org
December 15, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Yes, nothing makes a girl feel safer and more privacy-having than having 3 deadeyed state goons, rethinking their life choices but checking your ID before you're allowed to pee, I'm sure. "I'll stop by your place about 8, beautiful", Trooper Gooner said... www.texastribune.org/2025/12/12/t...
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It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
December 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
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SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
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