Daniel Harper
@danielharper.bsky.social
One half of the I Don't Speak German podcast. I follow white nationalist assholes so you don't have to. He/him.
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NEW IDSG. 139: Bad Faith Discussion. @danielharper.bsky.social & I pick over Sam Harris' irresponsibly friendly and non-challenging chit-chat with Christian Nationalist pastor (and part-time Hegseth-brain) Doug Wilson. idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/139-bad-fait...
I Don't Speak German: 139: Bad Faith Discussion; Doug Wilson talks to Sam Harris
Daniel and Jack pick through Sam Harris' disgracefully friendly interview with right-wing fundamentalist and Hegseth-inspirer, Christian Nationalist pastor Doug Wilson. Content Warnings Episode Notes:...
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Alternate title: Sam Harris is Wrong on the Internet (As Usual).
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it's good for people to get aid. it's good to give people aid. it's good when public figures and politicians model positive behaviors like giving aid. it's good as a campaign tactic both for branding and earned media purposes. it's bad to sit online and nitpick someone actually doing good
Falling out of my chair in disbelief that WalMart Mike doesn’t know the difference between Mutual Aid and Charity.
December 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
it's good for people to get aid. it's good to give people aid. it's good when public figures and politicians model positive behaviors like giving aid. it's good as a campaign tactic both for branding and earned media purposes. it's bad to sit online and nitpick someone actually doing good
I have shit in my head that I won't even vaguely describe to people who aren't similarly situated to me because once you even know it exists you can't un-know. I don't even glance at the CSAM shit because I *know* just how badly it would mess with my head.
Leave it to the experts. Thread.
Leave it to the experts. Thread.
And as several folks are saying in the comments: curiosity about the Epstein files is understandable, but just for yourself personally, think carefully about what you want in your head forever.
It will come to you later in upsetting ways that you may not expect.
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It will come to you later in upsetting ways that you may not expect.
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I promise you- people think they want to know the lurid details- they don't. I spent 30 years reading accounts of CA/SA and that shit never leaves your head.
I'm interested in knowing who was on public payroll and didn't do their jobs. And I'm happy to wait for the truth so it sticks.
I'm interested in knowing who was on public payroll and didn't do their jobs. And I'm happy to wait for the truth so it sticks.
December 27, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I have shit in my head that I won't even vaguely describe to people who aren't similarly situated to me because once you even know it exists you can't un-know. I don't even glance at the CSAM shit because I *know* just how badly it would mess with my head.
Leave it to the experts. Thread.
Leave it to the experts. Thread.
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was it your christmas wish to listen to three people collectively lose their shit over a meritless polemic? well then, belated christmas, you filthy animals.
Half the Answer #56: Trent and Caitlin talk with philosophy of science expert Nathan Oseroff-Spicer about his review of the book "The War On Science," how the book misses the mark, and what strategies its authors use to downplay the threats from the right and fabricate a threat from the left.
Half the Answer #56: The Imaginary "War on Science"—and the Real One
Trent and Caitlin talk with philosophy of science expert Nathan Oseroff-Spicer about his review of the book "The War On Science," how the book misses the mark, what strategies its authors use to downp...
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December 27, 2025 at 1:06 AM
was it your christmas wish to listen to three people collectively lose their shit over a meritless polemic? well then, belated christmas, you filthy animals.
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Bari Weiss suddenly held to the standard of a journalist for the first time in her career: "Is this anti-semitism?"
December 27, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Bari Weiss suddenly held to the standard of a journalist for the first time in her career: "Is this anti-semitism?"
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anyway i respect guys like him and myspace tom so much. you were smart and in the right place at the right time and made more money than you could possibly ever spend in your life, why not go chill on the beach for the next 50 years instead of trying to invent the metaverse or whatever
December 27, 2025 at 5:25 AM
anyway i respect guys like him and myspace tom so much. you were smart and in the right place at the right time and made more money than you could possibly ever spend in your life, why not go chill on the beach for the next 50 years instead of trying to invent the metaverse or whatever
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a weird side player in the baltimore mayor pugh scandal was that the guy who did illustrations for her self-pubbed book didn't get paid, but it turned out he did pro bon bc he had sold a "website business template" business in 1999 for like $30 million and hadn't needed to work since
being a rich tech guy in the 90s must have been so sick. every morning you start a web page that sells ring tones, sell it at lunch for 2 million dollars, get dinner at a “sushi” restaurant and go to a night club wearing a cologne called Apartheid Sapphire
December 27, 2025 at 5:23 AM
a weird side player in the baltimore mayor pugh scandal was that the guy who did illustrations for her self-pubbed book didn't get paid, but it turned out he did pro bon bc he had sold a "website business template" business in 1999 for like $30 million and hadn't needed to work since
Strange Days (1995). A genuinely great cyberpunk noir, set on New Year's Eve, 1999.
December 27, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Strange Days (1995). A genuinely great cyberpunk noir, set on New Year's Eve, 1999.
This. I mean, I personally follow Will Stancil but that's for similar reasons that an entomologist might have a particularly noxious and smelly type of beetle beneath their magnifying glass. I certainly don't *interact* with him, and this will likely be the last time I post about him.
Will Stancil sucks and will never stop sucking so let me just inform you you can block him and never think about him more than 2x a year and then also if enough of us just block him then that frequency reduces by at least half and i promise you you are no less informed of a person for doing so
December 27, 2025 at 6:30 AM
This. I mean, I personally follow Will Stancil but that's for similar reasons that an entomologist might have a particularly noxious and smelly type of beetle beneath their magnifying glass. I certainly don't *interact* with him, and this will likely be the last time I post about him.
Why would anyone give this sweet girl up to the local animal shelter?
(I am told that she was given up because she bit a child who cornered her and reached for her. Which, as a kid who had cats very young, feels like a issue with the parents.)
(I am told that she was given up because she bit a child who cornered her and reached for her. Which, as a kid who had cats very young, feels like a issue with the parents.)
December 26, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Why would anyone give this sweet girl up to the local animal shelter?
(I am told that she was given up because she bit a child who cornered her and reached for her. Which, as a kid who had cats very young, feels like a issue with the parents.)
(I am told that she was given up because she bit a child who cornered her and reached for her. Which, as a kid who had cats very young, feels like a issue with the parents.)
I mean, fuck I got a minor in math (up through Differential Equations/Linear Algebra) and did a whole-ass Chemistry degree. Yet, because of Things it's hard to find work.
Often I think about the skill level I have achieved at so many skills and despair at my financial condition, and then realize that I (for better or worse) have never made myself an expert in something that will please the capitalist beast.
December 25, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I mean, fuck I got a minor in math (up through Differential Equations/Linear Algebra) and did a whole-ass Chemistry degree. Yet, because of Things it's hard to find work.
Often I think about the skill level I have achieved at so many skills and despair at my financial condition, and then realize that I (for better or worse) have never made myself an expert in something that will please the capitalist beast.
December 25, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Often I think about the skill level I have achieved at so many skills and despair at my financial condition, and then realize that I (for better or worse) have never made myself an expert in something that will please the capitalist beast.
My first Christmas after my divorce, I made (very much not authentic) tacos de asada. They were actually pretty delicious. I think I'm going to try to make fresh corn tortillas for New Year's.
December 25, 2025 at 9:32 PM
My first Christmas after my divorce, I made (very much not authentic) tacos de asada. They were actually pretty delicious. I think I'm going to try to make fresh corn tortillas for New Year's.
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Watched Gremlins and Goonies yesterday and it made me nostalgic not for the 80s but for pop culture where bankers, yuppies, and capitalist greed were the enemies
Doing our annual watch of the anti-capitalist classic Scrooged. I saw it in the theater as a kid and I could never understand how people didn't change their approach to life afterwards. Capitalism is very resilient.
December 25, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Watched Gremlins and Goonies yesterday and it made me nostalgic not for the 80s but for pop culture where bankers, yuppies, and capitalist greed were the enemies
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If there was a new Christmas song as horny as Santa Baby, accounting for inflation it’d be called like I Need Santa to Crush My Skull With His Sleigh
December 25, 2025 at 11:28 AM
If there was a new Christmas song as horny as Santa Baby, accounting for inflation it’d be called like I Need Santa to Crush My Skull With His Sleigh
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Whilst I'm slagging off this unprofessional git, this description of Lord's BASIC INCOMPETENCE AT HIS JOB always floors me: "...his seeming inability to conceptualize 3-D animation during the early planning stages and his preference to edit fully rendered work instead".
Phil Lord apparently being a nightmare boss has a lot to do with it.
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December 25, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Whilst I'm slagging off this unprofessional git, this description of Lord's BASIC INCOMPETENCE AT HIS JOB always floors me: "...his seeming inability to conceptualize 3-D animation during the early planning stages and his preference to edit fully rendered work instead".
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I think it's great the way Piers has Fuentes on his program so he can dunk on him, and raise Fuentes' public profile, further normalising him in the conversation, and... oh.
December 25, 2025 at 11:52 AM
I think it's great the way Piers has Fuentes on his program so he can dunk on him, and raise Fuentes' public profile, further normalising him in the conversation, and... oh.
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ppl are praising this bcos... well they can't help themselves.
but pay attention to piers here. he meets someone who hates women and his response is 'but... the sex, tho?! you must never have had sex?!'.
he's just as much a 'misogynistic dinosaur' as fuentes.
but pay attention to piers here. he meets someone who hates women and his response is 'but... the sex, tho?! you must never have had sex?!'.
he's just as much a 'misogynistic dinosaur' as fuentes.
PIERS: “You’re not gay?”
FUENTES: “No. But women are very difficult to be around.”
P: “Should they vote?”
F: “No.”
PIERS: “They should stay home?”
FUENTES: “Yeah.”
PIERS: “So you’re just a misogynistic dinosaur. Have you ever had sex?”
FUENTES: “No.”
PIERS: “Wow. Says the guy who never got laid.”
FUENTES: “No. But women are very difficult to be around.”
P: “Should they vote?”
F: “No.”
PIERS: “They should stay home?”
FUENTES: “Yeah.”
PIERS: “So you’re just a misogynistic dinosaur. Have you ever had sex?”
FUENTES: “No.”
PIERS: “Wow. Says the guy who never got laid.”
December 25, 2025 at 11:45 AM
ppl are praising this bcos... well they can't help themselves.
but pay attention to piers here. he meets someone who hates women and his response is 'but... the sex, tho?! you must never have had sex?!'.
he's just as much a 'misogynistic dinosaur' as fuentes.
but pay attention to piers here. he meets someone who hates women and his response is 'but... the sex, tho?! you must never have had sex?!'.
he's just as much a 'misogynistic dinosaur' as fuentes.
Tiny Tim, who did not die, was a screaming across the sky.
Tiny Tim, who DID NOT die, was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
Tiny Tim, who DID NOT die, fled through the desert while the gunslinger followed.
December 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Tiny Tim, who did not die, was a screaming across the sky.
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Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis.
I’m back after a 3 day suspension for sharing a link to publicly available police reports exposing Blood Tribe nazis. They also removed the post. Bluesky evidently prioritizes the protection of literal, active nazis over community safety. Unfortunately for BT, they’re already in the sunlight now :)
December 25, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis.
For just a moment I thought that was Richard Spencer.
December 25, 2025 at 11:29 AM
For just a moment I thought that was Richard Spencer.
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An absolutely harrowing ghost story by @timescarcass.bsky.social befitting the Christmas season.
Medusa - a new original ghost story for Christmas
In the Deserts of the West, still today, there are Tattered Ruins of that Map, inhabited by Animals and Beggars
Jorge Luis Borges, On Exactitude in Science
Everything is ghost.
Iain S...
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December 25, 2025 at 3:37 AM
An absolutely harrowing ghost story by @timescarcass.bsky.social befitting the Christmas season.
"They're just jealous because I have big tits and an Ashkenazi IQ" has been in my brain ever since I saw this clip for the first time, which must be nearly ten years ago now?
Laura Loomer hitting on a Nazi.
I shit you not.
I shit you not.
December 25, 2025 at 10:57 AM
"They're just jealous because I have big tits and an Ashkenazi IQ" has been in my brain ever since I saw this clip for the first time, which must be nearly ten years ago now?
For various reasons I have spent most of my adult life in some kind of retail hell. (As I do currently.) Most of the really bad experiences you've had in a retail setting are actually an employee doing *exactly* what corporate wanted them to do.
It's interesting that for a very long, long time, retail workers were commanded to act like robots. Strict scripts you had to follow or else get fired, done repetitively all day long.
People got fired for such as not smiling enough to a customer right after finding out their parent died, etc.
People got fired for such as not smiling enough to a customer right after finding out their parent died, etc.
"Store employees are now required to smile if they are within 10 feet of a shopper.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
December 25, 2025 at 10:48 AM
For various reasons I have spent most of my adult life in some kind of retail hell. (As I do currently.) Most of the really bad experiences you've had in a retail setting are actually an employee doing *exactly* what corporate wanted them to do.
So much for the tolerant left.
One of the earliest-ever modern portrayals of Santa Claus features him gifting Union soldiers with a jumping-jack doll of Jefferson Davis dangling from a noose - as drawn by political cartoonist Thomas Nast.
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December 25, 2025 at 10:34 AM
So much for the tolerant left.
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“We are blessed to share a nation and a savior”. Through the official messaging channels of a Cabinet-level department. Christian Nationalism 101.
December 25, 2025 at 1:23 AM
“We are blessed to share a nation and a savior”. Through the official messaging channels of a Cabinet-level department. Christian Nationalism 101.