Ciggy Smoke Bringer
@ciggysmokebringer.bsky.social
Mr. Rogers Anarchist, Level III Hermes, Andiamo Spirit
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Repressed peoples fight back, so to pretend we arent repressed by insisting we dont fight back is all for yourself and repression
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February 4, 2026 at 6:15 AM
The basic article of political faith is 'were all the stops pulled out' and lemme tell yah...
February 4, 2026 at 5:56 AM
The basic article of political faith is 'were all the stops pulled out' and lemme tell yah...
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alright time to shut it down
February 4, 2026 at 5:46 AM
alright time to shut it down
Its impossible for a partisan to fake being a rube who needs hand holding but if you can do it, seems a lot more fun
February 4, 2026 at 5:44 AM
Its impossible for a partisan to fake being a rube who needs hand holding but if you can do it, seems a lot more fun
Lmao, the self lionizers are doing some medium lifting on this post
i don't particularly disagree with a lot of the critiques of anarchist activism by liberals but I bristle when they act as if their best practices are any wiser. we're here because none of us figured out how to avoid being here.
everyone should have some goddamn humility.
everyone should have some goddamn humility.
February 4, 2026 at 5:24 AM
Lmao, the self lionizers are doing some medium lifting on this post
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i don't particularly disagree with a lot of the critiques of anarchist activism by liberals but I bristle when they act as if their best practices are any wiser. we're here because none of us figured out how to avoid being here.
everyone should have some goddamn humility.
everyone should have some goddamn humility.
February 4, 2026 at 1:45 AM
i don't particularly disagree with a lot of the critiques of anarchist activism by liberals but I bristle when they act as if their best practices are any wiser. we're here because none of us figured out how to avoid being here.
everyone should have some goddamn humility.
everyone should have some goddamn humility.
Lmao, my wife is a Radical Liberal in the overt technical sense of wanting to vote for sherrifs at the precinct level as replacement to current policing regime, so these colloquial Radical Liberals are nothing to me.
February 4, 2026 at 5:08 AM
Lmao, my wife is a Radical Liberal in the overt technical sense of wanting to vote for sherrifs at the precinct level as replacement to current policing regime, so these colloquial Radical Liberals are nothing to me.
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I am not any kind of insider, but this was widely understood in the Seattle area. The scuttlebutt was he said he told her everything and then more came out and that was that. Bill allegedly openly conducted affairs, which is their marital business. This was apparently too much.
In an interview with NPR, Melinda French Gates confirmed that she ended her marriage with Bill Gates because of allegations contained in the Epstein files.
February 3, 2026 at 8:40 PM
I am not any kind of insider, but this was widely understood in the Seattle area. The scuttlebutt was he said he told her everything and then more came out and that was that. Bill allegedly openly conducted affairs, which is their marital business. This was apparently too much.
Explaing to Liberals I have a voting ritual with the wife that involves drinking and soup, and this drives basal voting impulse, and then enthusiasm and fuck you drive the nuance
February 4, 2026 at 4:13 AM
Explaing to Liberals I have a voting ritual with the wife that involves drinking and soup, and this drives basal voting impulse, and then enthusiasm and fuck you drive the nuance
I do need to start a list of unworkable political opinions, starting with education as a way to avoid politicking effort and play.
February 4, 2026 at 2:44 AM
I do need to start a list of unworkable political opinions, starting with education as a way to avoid politicking effort and play.
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Fucking surreal that people dressed like this and carrying assault rifles are permitted to kidnap people off our streets
February 3, 2026 at 11:35 PM
Fucking surreal that people dressed like this and carrying assault rifles are permitted to kidnap people off our streets
I would simply start working on a syncretic political ideology that speaks to the conditions rather than trying to straight jacket conditions into my political ideology and then finding a scapegoat when that doesn't work.
February 4, 2026 at 12:54 AM
I would simply start working on a syncretic political ideology that speaks to the conditions rather than trying to straight jacket conditions into my political ideology and then finding a scapegoat when that doesn't work.
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FAQ: 'why are people 3d printing whistles instead of getting injection molded ones'
an answer: faster and about as cheap once you consider what it takes to warehouse and ship bulk bags of whistles, but also 3d printed whistles can be optimized for loudness per price or size, and way out perform.
an answer: faster and about as cheap once you consider what it takes to warehouse and ship bulk bags of whistles, but also 3d printed whistles can be optimized for loudness per price or size, and way out perform.
February 4, 2026 at 12:18 AM
FAQ: 'why are people 3d printing whistles instead of getting injection molded ones'
an answer: faster and about as cheap once you consider what it takes to warehouse and ship bulk bags of whistles, but also 3d printed whistles can be optimized for loudness per price or size, and way out perform.
an answer: faster and about as cheap once you consider what it takes to warehouse and ship bulk bags of whistles, but also 3d printed whistles can be optimized for loudness per price or size, and way out perform.
Every single Liberal being like 'you don't know how to do a mass movement' is operating on 50 years of Liberals not doing mass movements themselves and trying to electorally recoup on them the moment they start.
Pointing to dead people isn't you knowing how to do it on the ground daily.
Pointing to dead people isn't you knowing how to do it on the ground daily.
February 3, 2026 at 11:09 PM
Every single Liberal being like 'you don't know how to do a mass movement' is operating on 50 years of Liberals not doing mass movements themselves and trying to electorally recoup on them the moment they start.
Pointing to dead people isn't you knowing how to do it on the ground daily.
Pointing to dead people isn't you knowing how to do it on the ground daily.
Prefigurative organization probably would...
You know what, nevermind, that's as likely to happen as some reactive method of keeping the wrong people out after exposure to them.
You know what, nevermind, that's as likely to happen as some reactive method of keeping the wrong people out after exposure to them.
This is a thing permanent activists do. They leech onto other more successful movements and start telling everyone what to do, then widen the scope to unrelated issues.
Remember the Women’s March? BLM? Occupy? It keeps happening again, and again, and again.
Remember the Women’s March? BLM? Occupy? It keeps happening again, and again, and again.
Okay, I'm now hearing reports of other locals being removed from Minnesota rapid response for interacting with press, as well as some "organizers" instituting onerous screening processes to join these networks.
It's time for local leaders to step in. These policies are incredibly counterproductive.
It's time for local leaders to step in. These policies are incredibly counterproductive.
February 3, 2026 at 10:46 PM
Prefigurative organization probably would...
You know what, nevermind, that's as likely to happen as some reactive method of keeping the wrong people out after exposure to them.
You know what, nevermind, that's as likely to happen as some reactive method of keeping the wrong people out after exposure to them.
You gotta check out the quote toots that are preemptively declaring 'it's over', like, say what you will about people who ruin things, but the sense of things being ruined is hair trigger for people that more or less want to backseat drive a bandwagon they'd join, and then never join.
Okay, I'm now hearing reports of other locals being removed from Minnesota rapid response for interacting with press, as well as some "organizers" instituting onerous screening processes to join these networks.
It's time for local leaders to step in. These policies are incredibly counterproductive.
It's time for local leaders to step in. These policies are incredibly counterproductive.
February 3, 2026 at 9:12 PM
You gotta check out the quote toots that are preemptively declaring 'it's over', like, say what you will about people who ruin things, but the sense of things being ruined is hair trigger for people that more or less want to backseat drive a bandwagon they'd join, and then never join.
Do I even need to label it?
February 3, 2026 at 8:19 PM
Do I even need to label it?
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Shamelessness is a professional skill for lobbyists.
![The letter to the heads and ranking members of the House and Senate agricultural committees was signed by 27 influential figures in the farming sector, including former heads of powerful associations representing corn and soybean farmers and officials from the Bush and Reagan administrations. It expressed dismay at the “damage done to American farmers.”
While there are many reasons for increasing farm bankruptcies and decreasing profits, “it is clear that the current administration’s actions, along with congressional inaction, have increased costs for farm inputs, disrupted overseas and domestic markets, [my highlights] denied agriculture its reliable labor pool [end highlight], and defunded critical ag research and staffing,” the letter warned.
The signatories called on Congress to relax tariffs for the agriculture sector, expand international markets, pass a new farm bill and restore funding for agriculture research and staffing.
“Our farmers and ranchers can compete with the world, but they can’t compete with the world with a chaotic set of policy circumstances,” one of the signers, Jon Doggett, the former chief executive of the National Corn Growers Association, said in an interview.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jgmxlsqaj6inwjqx3eowix6i/bafkreicf5nf5jyigu4rm6ubylrh6vw33zf23ytnr4eysqiwalm7osw5tla@jpeg)
February 3, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Shamelessness is a professional skill for lobbyists.
I can steelman it tactically, not as much strategically, and the specific dumpster fire in the video doesn't fit the steelman tactical case which would be - it creates a distracting impediment that doesn't require you keep standing there to sustain it.
A dumpster on its own is an impediment.
A dumpster on its own is an impediment.
i guess i would like to hear the theory on which setting fire to a random dumpster advances the cause of stopping ice
February 3, 2026 at 6:49 PM
I can steelman it tactically, not as much strategically, and the specific dumpster fire in the video doesn't fit the steelman tactical case which would be - it creates a distracting impediment that doesn't require you keep standing there to sustain it.
A dumpster on its own is an impediment.
A dumpster on its own is an impediment.
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a local PD tried to fabricate a criminal investigation against a city resident after he wrote a mild op-ed criticizing the department for investigating a local city councilwoman after a racist crank reported her as an illegal immigrant
A KCUR investigation discovered the department used the city’s license plate readers to track the writer’s movements and it issued a “be on the lookout” for him.
Lenexa police investigated author of column criticizing the department. He's 'pissed off'
A KCUR investigation discovered the department used the city’s license plate readers to track the writer’s movements and it issued a “be on the lookout” for him.
www.kcur.org
February 3, 2026 at 5:22 PM
a local PD tried to fabricate a criminal investigation against a city resident after he wrote a mild op-ed criticizing the department for investigating a local city councilwoman after a racist crank reported her as an illegal immigrant
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Three rules in FBI firearm training:
1. Always point your weapon downrange
2. Do not point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot
3. Don’t put your finger on the trigger unless you intend to shoot
Guns are not for threatening compliance for unarmed people doing things you don’t like
1. Always point your weapon downrange
2. Do not point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot
3. Don’t put your finger on the trigger unless you intend to shoot
Guns are not for threatening compliance for unarmed people doing things you don’t like
happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
February 3, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Three rules in FBI firearm training:
1. Always point your weapon downrange
2. Do not point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot
3. Don’t put your finger on the trigger unless you intend to shoot
Guns are not for threatening compliance for unarmed people doing things you don’t like
1. Always point your weapon downrange
2. Do not point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot
3. Don’t put your finger on the trigger unless you intend to shoot
Guns are not for threatening compliance for unarmed people doing things you don’t like
Seeing this millions of times, basically it's
"This sucked, was not it"->"Do you accept a conditional framework where that is it"->"Yes, but this isn't within that framework, or this just sucked"
And then most of it about litigating a framework and the person who holds it.
"This sucked, was not it"->"Do you accept a conditional framework where that is it"->"Yes, but this isn't within that framework, or this just sucked"
And then most of it about litigating a framework and the person who holds it.
It's really cool how any time that someone does something ethically dubious in service of a political cause the hikikomori leftists of the world turn it into an abstract conversation about violence versus nonviolence instead of "was this act, specifically, ok"
February 3, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Seeing this millions of times, basically it's
"This sucked, was not it"->"Do you accept a conditional framework where that is it"->"Yes, but this isn't within that framework, or this just sucked"
And then most of it about litigating a framework and the person who holds it.
"This sucked, was not it"->"Do you accept a conditional framework where that is it"->"Yes, but this isn't within that framework, or this just sucked"
And then most of it about litigating a framework and the person who holds it.
Screaming in 'total compliance and enforcing total compliance is besides the point'
Is it possible to 100% enforce requirements to wear a seatbelt when in a moving vehicle?
No, it is physically impossible.
And yet we require people to wear them nevertheless, because a) even lossy enforcement can change behaviour and b) laws can create clear expectations about behaviour
No, it is physically impossible.
And yet we require people to wear them nevertheless, because a) even lossy enforcement can change behaviour and b) laws can create clear expectations about behaviour
February 3, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Screaming in 'total compliance and enforcing total compliance is besides the point'
Boss: "How is that localization going, almost done?"
Artist: "making em real slack jawed just like ya asked for!"
Artist: "making em real slack jawed just like ya asked for!"
Xfinity has just released its Jurassic Park-themed Super Bowl ad that features a digitally de-aged Sam Neil, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum. https://bit.ly/4rmRhrK
February 3, 2026 at 6:49 AM
Boss: "How is that localization going, almost done?"
Artist: "making em real slack jawed just like ya asked for!"
Artist: "making em real slack jawed just like ya asked for!"
Do medical examiners get like any kickbacks or are they like ideologically taking free at bats to get The State looking less bad, implausibly?
February 3, 2026 at 5:33 AM
Do medical examiners get like any kickbacks or are they like ideologically taking free at bats to get The State looking less bad, implausibly?