Eric Sipple
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Author of BROKEN MAGIC, MIMESIS. Head of Engineering at Hey Jane. My brain is a beautiful rain of frogs. 🏳️⚧️ (they/them)
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Eric Sipple
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· Sep 5
On September 24th, I'll be releasing a piece with one of my bolder theses: That Glen Morgan and James Wong are the innovators of what we consider Modern Television. Their work from The X-Files, to Space: Above and Beyond, through Millennium represents the most influential-on-writers work of the era.
The democrats caved in the face of this political messaging.
Trump claims that food stamps "puts the country in jeopardy. People that are able-bodied can do a job, they leave their job because they figure they can pick this up, it's easier."
November 11, 2025 at 1:31 AM
The democrats caved in the face of this political messaging.
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low polyamory
November 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
low polyamory
Never go full ICP, dude.
November 10, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Never go full ICP, dude.
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I know everyone is struggling right now, but it has been a while since I promoted my tip page. God knows I could use a hit right now. 😟
November 9, 2025 at 1:49 AM
I know everyone is struggling right now, but it has been a while since I promoted my tip page. God knows I could use a hit right now. 😟
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This allows Trump (via DOJ) to use taxpayer money to bribe eight GOP Senators. It's that simple, there's no other way to describe it.
And where's the compensation for people injured by the Trump admin's unlawful conduct through DHS & DOGE?
Take a bow, @schumer.senate.gov, you did this.
And where's the compensation for people injured by the Trump admin's unlawful conduct through DHS & DOGE?
Take a bow, @schumer.senate.gov, you did this.
November 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
This allows Trump (via DOJ) to use taxpayer money to bribe eight GOP Senators. It's that simple, there's no other way to describe it.
And where's the compensation for people injured by the Trump admin's unlawful conduct through DHS & DOGE?
Take a bow, @schumer.senate.gov, you did this.
And where's the compensation for people injured by the Trump admin's unlawful conduct through DHS & DOGE?
Take a bow, @schumer.senate.gov, you did this.
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For my first piece back from vacation, I blogged about the people who moved from Texas to Russia to escape gay people and then found out living in Russia kind of sucks:
www.chron.com/culture/arti...
www.chron.com/culture/arti...
They left Texas for Russia to escape 'LGBT indoctrination.' Turns out, it sucks.
Their Texas towns had too much "DEI" and "LGBT indoctrination." So they moved to Russia and became influencers.
www.chron.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
For my first piece back from vacation, I blogged about the people who moved from Texas to Russia to escape gay people and then found out living in Russia kind of sucks:
www.chron.com/culture/arti...
www.chron.com/culture/arti...
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Today is a great day to make sure you cancel ANY recurring donation to ANY sitting Democratic senator and especially to ANY of the party committees.
Yes, they will notice. Yes, they should all be afraid. Send a signal that they'll be held collectively responsible for this utter betrayal. 🧵
Yes, they will notice. Yes, they should all be afraid. Send a signal that they'll be held collectively responsible for this utter betrayal. 🧵
November 10, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Today is a great day to make sure you cancel ANY recurring donation to ANY sitting Democratic senator and especially to ANY of the party committees.
Yes, they will notice. Yes, they should all be afraid. Send a signal that they'll be held collectively responsible for this utter betrayal. 🧵
Yes, they will notice. Yes, they should all be afraid. Send a signal that they'll be held collectively responsible for this utter betrayal. 🧵
Friends, I am begging you to learn the history of the French Revolution, which was *not* a working class revolt, but a liberal democratic one led primary by urban professionals. The guillotine was not used in class-related ways, but to punish treason in increasingly paranoid ways.
![A post with the text: i see no historical parallels with other times the greed of the ruling class has created the exact material conditions which pressure working class people into open revolution.
don’t you feel free, citizen? isn’t this liberty? surely austerity is a sustainable way to maintain a society.
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And then four images of revolutions: French, Soviet, Cuban, and [unknown, I failed to remember the alt text on that one]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3a6m6qmw3i67uyyr46cpc3uh/bafkreigihltxzgpexsnyer5xukmmdsbm7brb2hnbtxx5s2r3eurv6xkh4i@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Friends, I am begging you to learn the history of the French Revolution, which was *not* a working class revolt, but a liberal democratic one led primary by urban professionals. The guillotine was not used in class-related ways, but to punish treason in increasingly paranoid ways.
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I think this is at least mostly right at the national level, and where I'm going to add to it, I suspect hat it's within what they mean anyway.
The viability of third parties and major party takeover requires coalition with one of the other major parties, the way DSA and WFP are playing things.
The viability of third parties and major party takeover requires coalition with one of the other major parties, the way DSA and WFP are playing things.
you cannot create a viable third party without changing the constitution.
to change the constitution, you need control of one of the major political parties, at minimum.
anyone refusing to accept this is a fucking child i'm tired of entertaining.
to change the constitution, you need control of one of the major political parties, at minimum.
anyone refusing to accept this is a fucking child i'm tired of entertaining.
November 10, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I think this is at least mostly right at the national level, and where I'm going to add to it, I suspect hat it's within what they mean anyway.
The viability of third parties and major party takeover requires coalition with one of the other major parties, the way DSA and WFP are playing things.
The viability of third parties and major party takeover requires coalition with one of the other major parties, the way DSA and WFP are playing things.
Is there a follow up question for what people think the difference between Mainstream Liberal and Moderate are, and if their answers are remotely consistent?
"Would you say that the Democratic Party today is more of a..."
Mainstream Liberal Party: 37%
Socialist Party: 34%
Moderate Party: 28%
Harvard-Harris / Nov 6, 2025
Mainstream Liberal Party: 37%
Socialist Party: 34%
Moderate Party: 28%
Harvard-Harris / Nov 6, 2025
November 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Is there a follow up question for what people think the difference between Mainstream Liberal and Moderate are, and if their answers are remotely consistent?
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Wait do I have it correct that Joyce Carol Oates said Musk was a shell of a man with no joy in his life and he totally saw it and said "No I'm not" and now he's searching the titles of different movies he likes and replying "great movie"
November 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Wait do I have it correct that Joyce Carol Oates said Musk was a shell of a man with no joy in his life and he totally saw it and said "No I'm not" and now he's searching the titles of different movies he likes and replying "great movie"
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Adding to my list of Reasons Why Chuck Schumer Needs To Resign: That he even SAT DOWN in a room with these motherfuckers who were proudly displaying this unconstitutional nonsense in front of him. You see that hat, Chuck, you walk out and say why.
I heard from a bunch of federal employees last night and this morning. They aren't happy.
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something. All this for a fucking meaningless vote."
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something. All this for a fucking meaningless vote."
'A Slap in the Face': Federal Employees Feel Betrayed by Democrats' Shutdown Cave
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something."
www.gravityisgone.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Adding to my list of Reasons Why Chuck Schumer Needs To Resign: That he even SAT DOWN in a room with these motherfuckers who were proudly displaying this unconstitutional nonsense in front of him. You see that hat, Chuck, you walk out and say why.
Doing a version of that Clinton in McDonalds sketch from SNL about Warlords, but the $1.50 hot dogs are health care and we aren't changing the price of that, while the Kirkland paper towels are housing, and...
Let's again stipulate that the government is not a business & the whole idea it should run like one is a dumb category error. But if anyone was actually serious about running the government like a business & eliminating waste, the model would be Costco & not a single person/firm from Silicon Valley.
Costco is a really popular subject for business-success case studies but I feel like business guys kinda lose interest when the upshot of the study is like "just operate with scrupulous integrity in all facets and levels of your business for four decades" and not some easy-to-fix gimmick
November 10, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Doing a version of that Clinton in McDonalds sketch from SNL about Warlords, but the $1.50 hot dogs are health care and we aren't changing the price of that, while the Kirkland paper towels are housing, and...
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(1) The vote doesn't mean anything if it is destined to fail.
(2) Big chump energy
(2) Big chump energy
Whoa -- Sen. Durbin went to up Leader Thune during the vote last night to tell him that on the shutdown vote and ACA promise that "8 of us are sticking our neck out that you're going to keep your word. I hope you will. He said 'I assure you I will,'" Durbin says just now
November 10, 2025 at 6:22 PM
(1) The vote doesn't mean anything if it is destined to fail.
(2) Big chump energy
(2) Big chump energy
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Yep. Don't give up the party apparatus, organization, etc to the Vichy Dems.
Kick THEM out.
They're the ones who suck, not us.
Kick THEM out.
They're the ones who suck, not us.
Right, the answer isn't to abandon the party to these weasels.
The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.
The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.
Hey, a lot of people are talking about changing affiliation from Democratic to Independent.
Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.
One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.
Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.
One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.
November 10, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Yep. Don't give up the party apparatus, organization, etc to the Vichy Dems.
Kick THEM out.
They're the ones who suck, not us.
Kick THEM out.
They're the ones who suck, not us.
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Joyce Carol Oates owned Elon so hard he's spent the last day posting about movies he hasn't seen in 15 years
November 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Joyce Carol Oates owned Elon so hard he's spent the last day posting about movies he hasn't seen in 15 years
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Whacky variations on a theme:
DEATH NOTE, only instead of a paper notebook it's a vintage Newton MessagePad 100 with non-upgraded handwriting recognition (and all the spelling whackiness that went with it). Also, no takesie-backsies.
DEATH NOTE, only instead of a paper notebook it's a vintage Newton MessagePad 100 with non-upgraded handwriting recognition (and all the spelling whackiness that went with it). Also, no takesie-backsies.
November 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Whacky variations on a theme:
DEATH NOTE, only instead of a paper notebook it's a vintage Newton MessagePad 100 with non-upgraded handwriting recognition (and all the spelling whackiness that went with it). Also, no takesie-backsies.
DEATH NOTE, only instead of a paper notebook it's a vintage Newton MessagePad 100 with non-upgraded handwriting recognition (and all the spelling whackiness that went with it). Also, no takesie-backsies.
Can we start with the fact that Silver thinks the shutdown ended?
the hipsters, they’re ordering double frufru mocha soy frappuccino. doesn’t anybody order a black coffee anymore
November 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Can we start with the fact that Silver thinks the shutdown ended?
Fresh Icelandic CDOs are back on the menu, boys!
This is insane. This is *literally* doing the same mechanics of the housing crisis and 2008 recession but to create debt to finance construction of AI data centers
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
November 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Fresh Icelandic CDOs are back on the menu, boys!
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this kind of rhetoric does more to suppress the vote than any liberal/progressive poster could. and this is a us senator.
November 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
this kind of rhetoric does more to suppress the vote than any liberal/progressive poster could. and this is a us senator.
So is @fetterman.senate.gov. Give him a call like I did and let him know what you think of his cowardice. www.fetterman.senate.gov
November 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
So is @fetterman.senate.gov. Give him a call like I did and let him know what you think of his cowardice. www.fetterman.senate.gov
It’s time for elder millennials to achieve their final evolution into Eldritch Millennials.
November 10, 2025 at 3:39 PM
It’s time for elder millennials to achieve their final evolution into Eldritch Millennials.
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