Elle
@ellebj.bsky.social
Wife gal. Cookin, liftin, readin about the Troubles
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No. No. Absolutely fuck off. I refuse to accept this. Salience tuned too high! Salience tuned TOO HIGH!
So apparently I was right to shittalk m00t this week because it's been revealed that his boneheaded decision to establish /pol/ and subsequently ruin the website was allegedly born out of a one-on-one meeting with Jeffery Epstein.
January 31, 2026 at 4:18 AM
No. No. Absolutely fuck off. I refuse to accept this. Salience tuned too high! Salience tuned TOO HIGH!
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I've had this same thought, and I think taking the next step in society is going to require a more aggressive stance towards fighting scams, and zero-sum money chases more generally.
I’m increasingly concerned how navigating the modern world requires ever more sophistication, and about the huge and growing segment of people left behind by it who get eaten alive by scams and propaganda
January 29, 2026 at 5:20 PM
I've had this same thought, and I think taking the next step in society is going to require a more aggressive stance towards fighting scams, and zero-sum money chases more generally.
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It's socially unacceptable to point out on this site that a huge amount of mutual aid requests that get circulated are outright scams.
January 29, 2026 at 4:40 PM
It's socially unacceptable to point out on this site that a huge amount of mutual aid requests that get circulated are outright scams.
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I think we're living in a period of extreme social distrust of the government coming across the political spectrum and part of that is manifesting as displacing that social trust into appealing scams and schemes.
why is such a large percentage of activity in america outright scams
January 29, 2026 at 4:39 PM
I think we're living in a period of extreme social distrust of the government coming across the political spectrum and part of that is manifesting as displacing that social trust into appealing scams and schemes.
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Watching this with the sound off and Christ how much meth has she been smoking.
Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (one of 7 Democrats who just voted to fund DHS) defends her stance.
Argues funding for ICE "is not the question." Instead, Senate Democrats have leverage for various demands.
"I think they could negotiate to replace Noem with someone that doesn't skirt the filibuster."
Argues funding for ICE "is not the question." Instead, Senate Democrats have leverage for various demands.
"I think they could negotiate to replace Noem with someone that doesn't skirt the filibuster."
January 28, 2026 at 11:07 PM
Watching this with the sound off and Christ how much meth has she been smoking.
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What do you mean you see a lot of visualisations of one year of a person's online dating?
No you don't, that would be mad.
No you don't, that would be mad.
I see a lot of visualizations of one year of a person's online dating (a 21M from London in this case). Seems miserable. Is getting drunk in a bar or club making a comeback as a dating strategy? Source: buff.ly/ZvAbOdz
January 28, 2026 at 10:23 AM
What do you mean you see a lot of visualisations of one year of a person's online dating?
No you don't, that would be mad.
No you don't, that would be mad.
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Anyway, sometimes there can be one single event that brings down a government. It's usually because they do something so cruel that the population, no matter their previous beliefs, simply will not stand for it.
What that has to do with the US right now, I'll guess we'll have to see.
What that has to do with the US right now, I'll guess we'll have to see.
January 26, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Anyway, sometimes there can be one single event that brings down a government. It's usually because they do something so cruel that the population, no matter their previous beliefs, simply will not stand for it.
What that has to do with the US right now, I'll guess we'll have to see.
What that has to do with the US right now, I'll guess we'll have to see.
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Apologies for yet another Irish Revolution comparison: the Irish population was very much opposed to the Easter Rising in 1916 because downtown Dublin was destroyed for, seemingly, no purpose. Until the British executed James Connolly as he was dying of gangrene. He was strapped to a chair and shot.
There's another way to look at this. ICE is doing everything the military manual tells you not to do to civilian populations because it creates insurgencies where none existed before.
January 26, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Apologies for yet another Irish Revolution comparison: the Irish population was very much opposed to the Easter Rising in 1916 because downtown Dublin was destroyed for, seemingly, no purpose. Until the British executed James Connolly as he was dying of gangrene. He was strapped to a chair and shot.
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my gut tells me american politics are about to shift radically within the next few days, as this rubicon crossing event occurs with both sides heading toward snowstorm-induced isolation and online algorithms
January 24, 2026 at 10:25 PM
my gut tells me american politics are about to shift radically within the next few days, as this rubicon crossing event occurs with both sides heading toward snowstorm-induced isolation and online algorithms
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Also from a purely military perspective, an armed insurgency is a fucking dumb idea in a pretty culturally homogenous, infrastructurally developed and (in macro terms) high employment country. Nowhere to hide, no major source of recruits.
The thing about the “acktually armed resistance is the only way to revolution” reply guys is that the ones who aren’t feds have no plans for armed revolution: they just want an excuse to stay at home and jerk off while feeling morally superior to the people doing the actual work or resistance.
January 24, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Also from a purely military perspective, an armed insurgency is a fucking dumb idea in a pretty culturally homogenous, infrastructurally developed and (in macro terms) high employment country. Nowhere to hide, no major source of recruits.
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personally i don't like rolling the dice on an honest to god Amerimaidan, but i don't know how much choice in the matter we will get
i do not know how this goes on for three more years
January 24, 2026 at 4:17 PM
personally i don't like rolling the dice on an honest to god Amerimaidan, but i don't know how much choice in the matter we will get
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Which is gonna be the first outlet to run a profile about how women won't keep an open mind about dating ICE agents
January 24, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Which is gonna be the first outlet to run a profile about how women won't keep an open mind about dating ICE agents
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It is committing a nationalist fallacy to say “this is what America is.” America has no objective definition. It is, as Benedict Anderson says, an imagined community and *we* get to decide what defines it.
It should be clear why we should want to define it by its highest ideals.
It should be clear why we should want to define it by its highest ideals.
I very much disagree with @whstancil.bsky.social on this - how are you going to oppose ICE and the Trump administration if you don't understand that this *is* indeed who you are as a nation and that what we're seeing today is the culmination of a long history of American violence? 1/
People who say this are clearly speaking aspirationally about a shared American creed they hold dear. “Have you heard of the Trail of Tears?” is not a very helpful response, because they probably have and the priority right now is moral opposition to fascism and not fake-educating each other.
January 23, 2026 at 9:03 AM
It is committing a nationalist fallacy to say “this is what America is.” America has no objective definition. It is, as Benedict Anderson says, an imagined community and *we* get to decide what defines it.
It should be clear why we should want to define it by its highest ideals.
It should be clear why we should want to define it by its highest ideals.
Crash (1996) but it’s the guy shitting himself and discovering abdl
January 22, 2026 at 7:41 PM
Crash (1996) but it’s the guy shitting himself and discovering abdl
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this is also the name of a fic i wrote
Rahm Emanuel is coming — whether Democrats like it or not.
Rahm Emanuel targets GOP and Dems as he tests 2028 campaign for president
The former Chicago mayor wants to lead a post-Trump "renewal wing" of the Democratic Party.
www.axios.com
January 22, 2026 at 2:01 PM
this is also the name of a fic i wrote
>looking for a new man
>ask Feeld if the man is a pervert or a gooner
>it doesnt understand
>pull out illustrated diagram explaing what is pervert and what is gooner
>it laughs and says “it’s a good man”
>message him
>hes a gooner
>ask Feeld if the man is a pervert or a gooner
>it doesnt understand
>pull out illustrated diagram explaing what is pervert and what is gooner
>it laughs and says “it’s a good man”
>message him
>hes a gooner
January 21, 2026 at 5:31 PM
>looking for a new man
>ask Feeld if the man is a pervert or a gooner
>it doesnt understand
>pull out illustrated diagram explaing what is pervert and what is gooner
>it laughs and says “it’s a good man”
>message him
>hes a gooner
>ask Feeld if the man is a pervert or a gooner
>it doesnt understand
>pull out illustrated diagram explaing what is pervert and what is gooner
>it laughs and says “it’s a good man”
>message him
>hes a gooner
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The single and explicit message of the 2024 election was that Americans were more interested in the promise of cheap and easy treats than democracy or the rule of law
This lesson has shaped the current state of the Democratic Party and it is why you are now mad at them
This lesson has shaped the current state of the Democratic Party and it is why you are now mad at them
January 21, 2026 at 10:55 AM
The single and explicit message of the 2024 election was that Americans were more interested in the promise of cheap and easy treats than democracy or the rule of law
This lesson has shaped the current state of the Democratic Party and it is why you are now mad at them
This lesson has shaped the current state of the Democratic Party and it is why you are now mad at them
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a year ago i wrote a story that went viral over here about how republicans could create a de facto national care ban for trans medicine
to stop it, democrats would have to hold the line in funding talks, and staff in congress told me they were unsure if they would
today, they stopped it
to stop it, democrats would have to hold the line in funding talks, and staff in congress told me they were unsure if they would
today, they stopped it
Will Democrats Let the GOP Gut Trans Health Care?
Donald Trump and Republicans may try to ban funding to companies that perform trans health care. Some fear Democrats won't stop them.
www.rollingstone.com
January 21, 2026 at 2:59 AM
a year ago i wrote a story that went viral over here about how republicans could create a de facto national care ban for trans medicine
to stop it, democrats would have to hold the line in funding talks, and staff in congress told me they were unsure if they would
today, they stopped it
to stop it, democrats would have to hold the line in funding talks, and staff in congress told me they were unsure if they would
today, they stopped it
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HUGE NEWS for trans people: We have the latest minibus, including the bill to fund the Department of Health and Human Services and it looks like there are no restrictions on gender-affirming care for transgender people.
docs.house.gov/billsthiswee...
docs.house.gov/billsthiswee...
docs.house.gov
January 20, 2026 at 1:31 PM
HUGE NEWS for trans people: We have the latest minibus, including the bill to fund the Department of Health and Human Services and it looks like there are no restrictions on gender-affirming care for transgender people.
docs.house.gov/billsthiswee...
docs.house.gov/billsthiswee...
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good news: foreign relations can radically change in relatively short periods of time. mortal enemies to close allies in a matter of a few years, that sort of thing.
bad news: foreign relations can radically change in relatively short periods of time...
bad news: foreign relations can radically change in relatively short periods of time...
January 20, 2026 at 3:33 PM
good news: foreign relations can radically change in relatively short periods of time. mortal enemies to close allies in a matter of a few years, that sort of thing.
bad news: foreign relations can radically change in relatively short periods of time...
bad news: foreign relations can radically change in relatively short periods of time...
Unironically this would be greatest advancement for queer people since Obergefell
A very conservative coded opinion I’ve now done a complete 180 on is just: instead of spending money on useless “economic development” funds or permanent welfare the government should just directly hand out piles of cash to people in deprived areas to move somewhere there’s jobs.
January 19, 2026 at 11:33 PM
Unironically this would be greatest advancement for queer people since Obergefell
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I joked about nostalgia being the most right-wing emotion a few months ago, but once you notice it it really becomes impossible to ignore.
January 17, 2026 at 5:21 PM
I joked about nostalgia being the most right-wing emotion a few months ago, but once you notice it it really becomes impossible to ignore.
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the degree to which the mainstream press is just plainly terrified of ta-nehisi coates' moral clarity makes this basically proven imo
There was a similar flowering of Black American public intellectuals culminating in the 2016-2024 period, and I'd argue the anti-Woke backlash was in many ways a reaction to the threat this posed to the outclassed white punditocracy, for whom meritocracy and DEI hire was a way to disqualify them.
Just finished this right after having read @hofrench.bsky.social's Second Emancipation, and it convinced me that the African & African diaspora anti-colonial thinkers of the 1940-1975 period constituted one of the great intellectual movements in the history of humankind.
Second Enlightenment level.
Second Enlightenment level.
January 18, 2026 at 2:40 PM
the degree to which the mainstream press is just plainly terrified of ta-nehisi coates' moral clarity makes this basically proven imo
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They're putting protein in the water that turns the frickin frogs jacked.
January 18, 2026 at 5:36 PM
They're putting protein in the water that turns the frickin frogs jacked.