Mon Mothra
@flobbert.bsky.social
Mostly complaining about politics and structural biology. At the end of everything, hold on to anything.
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it does kind of feel like a lot of bluesky users spent four days around their extended family and immediately got on here to be like "the pizza you ate as a child sucks. the twin cities are overrated. what else. pencils should be illegal" you all are disregulated and you need to settle down!!
December 28, 2025 at 5:39 PM
it does kind of feel like a lot of bluesky users spent four days around their extended family and immediately got on here to be like "the pizza you ate as a child sucks. the twin cities are overrated. what else. pencils should be illegal" you all are disregulated and you need to settle down!!
The time has come for a commander keen reboot I think
December 29, 2025 at 1:20 AM
The time has come for a commander keen reboot I think
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in your 20s, you'll come across someone who's wrong online. it's very important than you spend the next 40 years of your life learning and arguing about this topic online long after they've moved on, built a career, and raised a family.
December 29, 2025 at 12:36 AM
in your 20s, you'll come across someone who's wrong online. it's very important than you spend the next 40 years of your life learning and arguing about this topic online long after they've moved on, built a career, and raised a family.
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People only have the Chamberlin example of flamboyantly short-sighted cowardice. This is so much darker than this.
This is the case China will make for invading Taiwan. This is the sort of lie Trump would peddle when invading a neighbor, which is inevitable, the way he's going.
This is the case China will make for invading Taiwan. This is the sort of lie Trump would peddle when invading a neighbor, which is inevitable, the way he's going.
Trump: "Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed. It sounds a little strange but President Putin was very generous in his feeling toward Ukraine succeeding, including supplying energy, electricity and other things at very low prices."
December 29, 2025 at 12:19 AM
People only have the Chamberlin example of flamboyantly short-sighted cowardice. This is so much darker than this.
This is the case China will make for invading Taiwan. This is the sort of lie Trump would peddle when invading a neighbor, which is inevitable, the way he's going.
This is the case China will make for invading Taiwan. This is the sort of lie Trump would peddle when invading a neighbor, which is inevitable, the way he's going.
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modesty laws prevented showing even one lousy frame of John Waters' PINK FLAMINGOS (1972) in the trailer, so the only footage in it is of people reacting to a screening they just came out of. every single type of extant queer person is contained in the specific sequences I have selected here
December 28, 2025 at 10:08 PM
modesty laws prevented showing even one lousy frame of John Waters' PINK FLAMINGOS (1972) in the trailer, so the only footage in it is of people reacting to a screening they just came out of. every single type of extant queer person is contained in the specific sequences I have selected here
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This isn't a popular idea. This is an *elite* belief. There's no mass of voters who recoil from impeachment like this. Majorities wanted him convicted the last two times, and the same would easily poll >50% today. The handwringing about the sacred presidency is DC-driven, it's not voter-driven.
The popular idea is that removing a president to replace him with a non-criminal president from his party, and usually elected on his ticket, is a coup.
Do governors/mayors get replaced by number 2s all the time? Yes. There's poli sci work on this, the power of the presidency blinds people.
Do governors/mayors get replaced by number 2s all the time? Yes. There's poli sci work on this, the power of the presidency blinds people.
December 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
This isn't a popular idea. This is an *elite* belief. There's no mass of voters who recoil from impeachment like this. Majorities wanted him convicted the last two times, and the same would easily poll >50% today. The handwringing about the sacred presidency is DC-driven, it's not voter-driven.
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Not gonna lie, it’s pretty annoying that every time I download Threads I see a half dozen new interesting meticulously-executed features that are distinct from what any similar app is doing
December 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Not gonna lie, it’s pretty annoying that every time I download Threads I see a half dozen new interesting meticulously-executed features that are distinct from what any similar app is doing
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the short answer is that this specific semirealistic style came from grafting the large convolution blocks from anime models onto the small convolution blocks from photorealism models
I can't be the only one noticing that they all have faces that, uh, do not read as adult? It just feels like a robustly Bad Sign if our culture's synthetic beauty standard is trending towards underage facial features!
December 28, 2025 at 10:08 PM
the short answer is that this specific semirealistic style came from grafting the large convolution blocks from anime models onto the small convolution blocks from photorealism models
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TIL where the infamous "I GUESS" reaction image came from and. I can't bear this burden alone
December 28, 2025 at 3:48 PM
TIL where the infamous "I GUESS" reaction image came from and. I can't bear this burden alone
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There's this weird idea that SCOTUS/Republicans could be absolutely *forced* into voting/acting in a certain way, if only Dems had moved faster.
This, of course, ignores the fact that Republicans went *right* back to trying to invalidate state vote counts after the Jan 6 riot dissipated.
This, of course, ignores the fact that Republicans went *right* back to trying to invalidate state vote counts after the Jan 6 riot dissipated.
December 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
There's this weird idea that SCOTUS/Republicans could be absolutely *forced* into voting/acting in a certain way, if only Dems had moved faster.
This, of course, ignores the fact that Republicans went *right* back to trying to invalidate state vote counts after the Jan 6 riot dissipated.
This, of course, ignores the fact that Republicans went *right* back to trying to invalidate state vote counts after the Jan 6 riot dissipated.
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you get into warhammer and you find yourself saying stuff like: "oh those are the blood angels. theyre kind of vampire-coded because they have a 'blood curse.' their primarch is named 'sanguinius'" and you start to die of embarrament about liking this and then you remember "count dooku"
December 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM
you get into warhammer and you find yourself saying stuff like: "oh those are the blood angels. theyre kind of vampire-coded because they have a 'blood curse.' their primarch is named 'sanguinius'" and you start to die of embarrament about liking this and then you remember "count dooku"
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It really is crazy that the president has engineered a situation where the US government pays his companies tons of money whenever he goes on vacation, and now he just goes on vacation endlessly www.howtoreadthisch.art/president-ho...
December 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
It really is crazy that the president has engineered a situation where the US government pays his companies tons of money whenever he goes on vacation, and now he just goes on vacation endlessly www.howtoreadthisch.art/president-ho...
i dont think a moratorium on construction of new communications infrastructure is a good idea.
Bernie Sanders: "We need to be thinking seriously about a moratorium on data centers. You gotta slow this process down. It's not good enough for the oligarchs to tell us 'you adapt.' Are they gonna guarantee healthcare to all people? What are they gonna do when there are no jobs? Make housing free?"
December 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
i dont think a moratorium on construction of new communications infrastructure is a good idea.
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I have yet to meet a small business owner who wants to pay more for imported goods thanks to tariffs, wants it to be harder to hire/retain talent thanks to xenophobic immigration policies and try to sell things in the face of collapsing consumer sentiment.
Kelly Loeffler: "I don't think small business owners have ever been so excited to pay their taxes thanks to President Trump."
December 28, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I have yet to meet a small business owner who wants to pay more for imported goods thanks to tariffs, wants it to be harder to hire/retain talent thanks to xenophobic immigration policies and try to sell things in the face of collapsing consumer sentiment.
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I love how the capitalist geniuses weren't prepared for the most obvious outcome of stapling the name of one of the most disliked living humans to the building
Here’s the Ric Grenell letter to Chuck Redd. Because Grenell can’t help himself, he insists that Redd’s withdrawal was “very costly” to the Kennedy Center while also alleging “dismal ticket sales” and “the public’s lack of interest in your show.”
December 28, 2025 at 5:48 AM
I love how the capitalist geniuses weren't prepared for the most obvious outcome of stapling the name of one of the most disliked living humans to the building
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One of the reasons Law and Order at its best works is when it takes random real world bits and mixes them in even though it makes no story sense. Because that’s what police work is actually like, full of dumb shit.
I think the funniest thing is the Law and Order bits where the guy who owns the pizza store across from the murder (and isn't the murderer) is super stand offish.
December 27, 2025 at 10:07 PM
One of the reasons Law and Order at its best works is when it takes random real world bits and mixes them in even though it makes no story sense. Because that’s what police work is actually like, full of dumb shit.
One of the things that makes the expanse a great set of novels is that “living in space really sucks” is a major, extremely unsubtle theme but yet when I read them I want to live in space
December 28, 2025 at 2:59 AM
One of the things that makes the expanse a great set of novels is that “living in space really sucks” is a major, extremely unsubtle theme but yet when I read them I want to live in space
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Ok anecdotes aren’t data but I have adhd and back when I swam a lot had an absolutely dump truck ass
I *know* I shouldn’t share the NYPost but I got served this BUTT PHRENOLOGY article
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And people should know that we have entered the era of BUTT PHRENOLOGY
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And people should know that we have entered the era of BUTT PHRENOLOGY
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How a bigger-looking butt could be a sneaky sign of autism and ADHD
Your backside might reveal a thing or two about your brain.
nypost.com
December 27, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Ok anecdotes aren’t data but I have adhd and back when I swam a lot had an absolutely dump truck ass
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these violent delights have violent ends
December 27, 2025 at 11:09 PM
these violent delights have violent ends
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if when you hear me refer to "rural areas" you are picturing an English town with a downtown and then a bunch of single-family homes built around it in a sensible grid or whatever, you are not picturing what I'm talking about
"rural" where I'm from is not transit-soluble.nothing is next to anything
"rural" where I'm from is not transit-soluble.nothing is next to anything
December 27, 2025 at 9:52 PM
if when you hear me refer to "rural areas" you are picturing an English town with a downtown and then a bunch of single-family homes built around it in a sensible grid or whatever, you are not picturing what I'm talking about
"rural" where I'm from is not transit-soluble.nothing is next to anything
"rural" where I'm from is not transit-soluble.nothing is next to anything
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The median American private corporation is bug nuts crazy, and highly inefficient due to the whole bug nuts crazy problem.
No wonder really shitty MBA’s sell like hot cakes.
No wonder really shitty MBA’s sell like hot cakes.
Many private (actually private…not beholden to shareholders) companies are run like cults. Borderline sycophants running the boardroom with their lackeys spouting nonsense and manifestos until the PE firm backing the whole thing comes calling.
Then things happen.
Then things happen.
December 27, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The median American private corporation is bug nuts crazy, and highly inefficient due to the whole bug nuts crazy problem.
No wonder really shitty MBA’s sell like hot cakes.
No wonder really shitty MBA’s sell like hot cakes.
every so often someone goes "well these regulations may exist but I am pure of heart and character and so they don't have anything to do with me" and then proceeds to get in more trouble than they had imagined possible
December 27, 2025 at 6:57 PM
every so often someone goes "well these regulations may exist but I am pure of heart and character and so they don't have anything to do with me" and then proceeds to get in more trouble than they had imagined possible
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oh, I have strong opinions about how the culture at R1 universities breaks otherwise thoughtful people of seeing the field as anything but a moated castle where they are inside.
December 26, 2025 at 12:47 AM
oh, I have strong opinions about how the culture at R1 universities breaks otherwise thoughtful people of seeing the field as anything but a moated castle where they are inside.