Dralnah
@dralnah.com
He/They | MD, USA
Occasional streamer, youtuber, photographer. Check out all my links at https://linktr.ee/dralnah!
Occasional streamer, youtuber, photographer. Check out all my links at https://linktr.ee/dralnah!
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The first official US coin was the Fugio cent, rumored to have been designed by Ben Franklin.
Instead of "In God We Trust" (which wasn't put on coins until the Civil War) it said Mind Your Business.
Instead of "In God We Trust" (which wasn't put on coins until the Civil War) it said Mind Your Business.
November 21, 2025 at 5:20 AM
The first official US coin was the Fugio cent, rumored to have been designed by Ben Franklin.
Instead of "In God We Trust" (which wasn't put on coins until the Civil War) it said Mind Your Business.
Instead of "In God We Trust" (which wasn't put on coins until the Civil War) it said Mind Your Business.
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Mike Pence wrote an opinion piece for Fox News. Reading the headline, I was like, "Okay, seems like a normal take."
Then I read the subheadline and... bro, what?
Then I read the subheadline and... bro, what?
November 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Mike Pence wrote an opinion piece for Fox News. Reading the headline, I was like, "Okay, seems like a normal take."
Then I read the subheadline and... bro, what?
Then I read the subheadline and... bro, what?
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The Treasury Department has its own Epstein file containing thousands of bank records. My investigators reviewed a portion of those records last year. I've demanded the Secretary Bessent produce the file for further investigation. He has refused repeatedly.
November 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM
The Treasury Department has its own Epstein file containing thousands of bank records. My investigators reviewed a portion of those records last year. I've demanded the Secretary Bessent produce the file for further investigation. He has refused repeatedly.
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I do not believe that America is Rome.
What I believe is that rhetorics of power & oppression are inherently similar over all time and space. Trump is not Caligula or Caesar, but what we can say is: we must recognize the ways that law, invective & brute force are being used to protect autocracy.
What I believe is that rhetorics of power & oppression are inherently similar over all time and space. Trump is not Caligula or Caesar, but what we can say is: we must recognize the ways that law, invective & brute force are being used to protect autocracy.
November 21, 2025 at 12:27 AM
I do not believe that America is Rome.
What I believe is that rhetorics of power & oppression are inherently similar over all time and space. Trump is not Caligula or Caesar, but what we can say is: we must recognize the ways that law, invective & brute force are being used to protect autocracy.
What I believe is that rhetorics of power & oppression are inherently similar over all time and space. Trump is not Caligula or Caesar, but what we can say is: we must recognize the ways that law, invective & brute force are being used to protect autocracy.
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I. Would. Rather. Die.
Saw a post today that advised writers to stop writing as if a human will read it and start writing for an LLM that will be summarising.
As someone who really enjoyed trying to develop a peculiar but readable authorial voice, I find this incredibly depressing.
As someone who really enjoyed trying to develop a peculiar but readable authorial voice, I find this incredibly depressing.
November 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I. Would. Rather. Die.
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Bizarre that their new motto, fuck our minority customers, isn’t juicing sales
Target said it doesn’t think holiday sales will be enough to turn around a tough year.
Target Predicting Week Holiday Sales As Consumer Angst Weighs On Season
Target said it doesn’t think holiday sales will be enough to turn around a tough year.
www.forbes.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Bizarre that their new motto, fuck our minority customers, isn’t juicing sales
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I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
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Willingly scarring your body to own the libs. These people are straight up insane. This is Manson Family shit
November 19, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Willingly scarring your body to own the libs. These people are straight up insane. This is Manson Family shit
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I'm not looking forward to my twilight years talking about weird flash animations from the distant year of 2002 to some poor nurse in the nursing home who wasn't born before the icecaps melted
November 19, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I'm not looking forward to my twilight years talking about weird flash animations from the distant year of 2002 to some poor nurse in the nursing home who wasn't born before the icecaps melted
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one thing about this is that in the wake of all of this kirk is basically forgotten. he was barely cold in the ground before his allies — before his *wife* — started scheming over what they could take for themselves. a real life parable.
New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
November 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
one thing about this is that in the wake of all of this kirk is basically forgotten. he was barely cold in the ground before his allies — before his *wife* — started scheming over what they could take for themselves. a real life parable.
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We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.
November 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.
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Previously, these belief systems tended to collapse under their own weight. Contradictions and memory gaps made them hard to sustain. Now the AI removes that friction, it produces timelines, summaries, and "forensic" explanations on demand.
November 19, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Previously, these belief systems tended to collapse under their own weight. Contradictions and memory gaps made them hard to sustain. Now the AI removes that friction, it produces timelines, summaries, and "forensic" explanations on demand.
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Advertising experts believe they’ve found a new way to get your phone even hotter when you view their user-generated wikis.
paletteswap.site/dif...
paletteswap.site/dif...
November 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Advertising experts believe they’ve found a new way to get your phone even hotter when you view their user-generated wikis.
paletteswap.site/dif...
paletteswap.site/dif...
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Maybe we shouldn't call it giving away money when billionaires give it to themselves.
Elon Musk’s foundation gave away a record $474 million in 2024, with the vast majority again going to entities he controls
Elon Musk Gave Away $474 Million in 2024, Mostly to Entities He Controls
Elon Musk’s foundation gave away a record $474 million in 2024, with the vast majority again going to entities he controls.
bloom.bg
November 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Maybe we shouldn't call it giving away money when billionaires give it to themselves.
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America's first ever esports champion was Rebecca Heineman, a trans woman. She went on to found some of your favorite video game studios and worked on your favorite video games. Next time you see somebody rail about 'woke' and 'DEI'
Remember that.
Remember her.
Remember that.
Remember her.
"I code so others can dream."
Gayming Icon and LGBTQ+ video game pioneer, Rebecca Heineman, has sadly passed away after a short, tough fight with aggressive cancer.
Read our obituary to this true industry trailblazer: gaymingmag.com/2025/11/gaym...
Gayming Icon and LGBTQ+ video game pioneer, Rebecca Heineman, has sadly passed away after a short, tough fight with aggressive cancer.
Read our obituary to this true industry trailblazer: gaymingmag.com/2025/11/gaym...
Gayming Icon and LGBTQ+ games pioneer, Rebecca Heineman, has died - Gayming Magazine
Rebecca Heineman, a trailblazing figure in the video game industry and a celebrated icon within the LGBTQ+ gaming community, has died.
gaymingmag.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
America's first ever esports champion was Rebecca Heineman, a trans woman. She went on to found some of your favorite video game studios and worked on your favorite video games. Next time you see somebody rail about 'woke' and 'DEI'
Remember that.
Remember her.
Remember that.
Remember her.
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
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when bluesky was in its very early days and I was making my first forays into posting a nice lady with a pig liked to talk Discworld with me all the time
one day, because of what happened here, she logged off completely
I started a Discworld quote thread because I missed chatting with her
one day, because of what happened here, she logged off completely
I started a Discworld quote thread because I missed chatting with her
Two years and two days ago, a woman delivered some chili to her new neighbors. Everyone was very happy and normal and there were no lasting effects.
November 18, 2025 at 11:33 PM
when bluesky was in its very early days and I was making my first forays into posting a nice lady with a pig liked to talk Discworld with me all the time
one day, because of what happened here, she logged off completely
I started a Discworld quote thread because I missed chatting with her
one day, because of what happened here, she logged off completely
I started a Discworld quote thread because I missed chatting with her
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frieren look up (alternate ending)
November 19, 2025 at 2:03 AM
frieren look up (alternate ending)
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One of the most liberating truths I’ve learned, and the one that white folx, particularly white men, still struggle to face, is this:
The myth of white supremacy explains your behavior.
It does not, and has never, determined my value.
The myth of white supremacy explains your behavior.
It does not, and has never, determined my value.
November 19, 2025 at 10:50 AM
One of the most liberating truths I’ve learned, and the one that white folx, particularly white men, still struggle to face, is this:
The myth of white supremacy explains your behavior.
It does not, and has never, determined my value.
The myth of white supremacy explains your behavior.
It does not, and has never, determined my value.
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i think that people who use headphones in public places like trains are selfish. keeping all your cool music and podcasts to yourself is genuinely sociopathic and deranged behavior. play it on your phone's speaker and let everyone enjoy it, or don't play it at all
November 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
i think that people who use headphones in public places like trains are selfish. keeping all your cool music and podcasts to yourself is genuinely sociopathic and deranged behavior. play it on your phone's speaker and let everyone enjoy it, or don't play it at all
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to be clear, i also do not think it is necessarily true that adopting a laundry list of progressive positions is an instant win either. i think you have to do the work of discovering what it is that voters want in a direct and engaged way. and i think that voters want moral leadership.
it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.
November 18, 2025 at 2:44 PM
to be clear, i also do not think it is necessarily true that adopting a laundry list of progressive positions is an instant win either. i think you have to do the work of discovering what it is that voters want in a direct and engaged way. and i think that voters want moral leadership.
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its cool how the internet actually works like this xkcd comic from 2011 now
November 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM
its cool how the internet actually works like this xkcd comic from 2011 now
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The GOP is trying to sneak legislation into a bigger bill that would preempt state laws around the regulation of AI, and create a national environment with very little regulation of the technology.
punchbowl.news/article/tech...
punchbowl.news/article/tech...
House eyeing AI preemption in NDAA, Scalise says
House Republican leaders are searching for a legislative vehicle they could attach language to that would effectively ban state regulation of artificial intelligence.
punchbowl.news
November 18, 2025 at 3:11 PM
The GOP is trying to sneak legislation into a bigger bill that would preempt state laws around the regulation of AI, and create a national environment with very little regulation of the technology.
punchbowl.news/article/tech...
punchbowl.news/article/tech...
Skate 3 is a hella fun game, wtf
Building up a PS2/3 library in my adulthood has been like exploring an alternate reality of games that I'd have loved when I was younger
Building up a PS2/3 library in my adulthood has been like exploring an alternate reality of games that I'd have loved when I was younger
November 18, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Skate 3 is a hella fun game, wtf
Building up a PS2/3 library in my adulthood has been like exploring an alternate reality of games that I'd have loved when I was younger
Building up a PS2/3 library in my adulthood has been like exploring an alternate reality of games that I'd have loved when I was younger