Garlax, The Weasel King
@garlaxweaselking.bsky.social
I’m PROBABLY not the most boring person alive.
Just this guy, you know?
He/Him
Just this guy, you know?
He/Him
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People are blaming the media, Democrats, etc for this but I don't know how one can force information into people who are not paying attention and don't want to be engaged
apparently the card above is messed up, but if you click the link it works www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-lost...
The less voters knew, the more they liked Trump in 2024. Not Anymore
The least-engaged Americans have swung 25 points against him since 2024 — about twice the shift among everyone else. Trump has flattened the engagement gap.
www.gelliottmorris.com
February 12, 2026 at 7:39 PM
People are blaming the media, Democrats, etc for this but I don't know how one can force information into people who are not paying attention and don't want to be engaged
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Please understand that the people who are warning you about Newsom are doing the work. Here. Now. WELL BEFORE a primary. To prepare you! I did not vote for Biden in the primary. Best believe I voted for him in the presidential election though.
February 12, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Please understand that the people who are warning you about Newsom are doing the work. Here. Now. WELL BEFORE a primary. To prepare you! I did not vote for Biden in the primary. Best believe I voted for him in the presidential election though.
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Homeschooling, like supplements, is the Wild West and its proponents want it that way for *reasons*
A Kanawha County delegate is proposing changes to state homeschool laws in the wake of a historic child abuse case in his county. A couple brought their adopted children to West Virginia and abused them, forced them to do heavy labor, locked them in a shed and more, reports @amelianews.bsky.social.
House Democrat seeks to reform WV homeschool laws to prevent child abuse after Kanawha slavery case • West Virginia Watch
A Kanawha County delegate is proposing changes to state homeschool laws in the wake of a historic child abuse case in his county.
westvirginiawatch.com
February 12, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Homeschooling, like supplements, is the Wild West and its proponents want it that way for *reasons*
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Two things that are both true:
1.) American conservatism has always been far worse than voters are willing to believe.
2.) The groyperization of the GOP has been a world historical catastrophe which will echo for generations.
1.) American conservatism has always been far worse than voters are willing to believe.
2.) The groyperization of the GOP has been a world historical catastrophe which will echo for generations.
February 12, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Two things that are both true:
1.) American conservatism has always been far worse than voters are willing to believe.
2.) The groyperization of the GOP has been a world historical catastrophe which will echo for generations.
1.) American conservatism has always been far worse than voters are willing to believe.
2.) The groyperization of the GOP has been a world historical catastrophe which will echo for generations.
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Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.
Now, Starbucks is lifting a cap on the CEO's use of a private jet to commute from California to Seattle.
It's been four years since Starbucks stores began unionizing and workers still don't have a contract.
Now, Starbucks is lifting a cap on the CEO's use of a private jet to commute from California to Seattle.
It's been four years since Starbucks stores began unionizing and workers still don't have a contract.
February 11, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.
Now, Starbucks is lifting a cap on the CEO's use of a private jet to commute from California to Seattle.
It's been four years since Starbucks stores began unionizing and workers still don't have a contract.
Now, Starbucks is lifting a cap on the CEO's use of a private jet to commute from California to Seattle.
It's been four years since Starbucks stores began unionizing and workers still don't have a contract.
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Why you don’t use “say their name” for white people.
The man who was killed last night wasn't the first Black man killed by government forces in DC since the government occupation of DC. He's like the 6th or 7th. If you're Black, you know that's how it is, no one makes a fuss over our murders & they're not big news.
February 12, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Why you don’t use “say their name” for white people.
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This is one of the nicest things anyone’s ever said about me. *sniffle*
Poking Ursula is fraught with peril. She's a delight, but every so often...
Look, it's like a piñata that's full of delightful, wonderful candy. But every tenth piece of candy skitters away on spider legs.
Look, it's like a piñata that's full of delightful, wonderful candy. But every tenth piece of candy skitters away on spider legs.
February 12, 2026 at 6:18 PM
This is one of the nicest things anyone’s ever said about me. *sniffle*
14. I don’t do seafood or various white goos well.
February 12, 2026 at 6:18 PM
14. I don’t do seafood or various white goos well.
Our family dog would bring me toys when I was super depressed. Not to throw for her! Just to have. We suspect the chain of doggy-logic was “toys make me happy! Maybe they help him.”
(And this was a terrier, not one of the breeds known for emotional intelligence.)
(And this was a terrier, not one of the breeds known for emotional intelligence.)
February 12, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Our family dog would bring me toys when I was super depressed. Not to throw for her! Just to have. We suspect the chain of doggy-logic was “toys make me happy! Maybe they help him.”
(And this was a terrier, not one of the breeds known for emotional intelligence.)
(And this was a terrier, not one of the breeds known for emotional intelligence.)
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not saying that any of those other hatreds don't motivate them greatly too but as far as the online right goes misogyny has always been the original #1 lode star and everything else orbits around it
February 12, 2026 at 5:32 PM
not saying that any of those other hatreds don't motivate them greatly too but as far as the online right goes misogyny has always been the original #1 lode star and everything else orbits around it
My favorite flowers. We definitely need this now.
I feel like we really need these now #Bloomscrollong #flowers
February 12, 2026 at 5:16 PM
My favorite flowers. We definitely need this now.
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But if you're working under the hood, you know how far we are from what tech execs are not only promising about the future, but also what they are claiming their AI products currently are capable of and achieving.
It's VAPORWARE.
It's VAPORWARE.
February 12, 2026 at 4:44 PM
But if you're working under the hood, you know how far we are from what tech execs are not only promising about the future, but also what they are claiming their AI products currently are capable of and achieving.
It's VAPORWARE.
It's VAPORWARE.
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This concept that you can be low IQ or high IQ and have that mean anything real is buying into this idea, invented to take people the state doesn't want having children and telling them they're not allowed to
Hey btw guess which culture forms the basis for the more cultural questions on the quiz
Hey btw guess which culture forms the basis for the more cultural questions on the quiz
February 12, 2026 at 3:04 PM
This concept that you can be low IQ or high IQ and have that mean anything real is buying into this idea, invented to take people the state doesn't want having children and telling them they're not allowed to
Hey btw guess which culture forms the basis for the more cultural questions on the quiz
Hey btw guess which culture forms the basis for the more cultural questions on the quiz
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Really wondering when people in general are going to wake up to how thoroughly diseased this entire practice is
Just utterly wretched and corrosive in every possible way, the people behind it are moral voids and should be banished to a remote island
Just utterly wretched and corrosive in every possible way, the people behind it are moral voids and should be banished to a remote island
Polymarket should be burned to the ground for even offering shit like this
February 12, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Really wondering when people in general are going to wake up to how thoroughly diseased this entire practice is
Just utterly wretched and corrosive in every possible way, the people behind it are moral voids and should be banished to a remote island
Just utterly wretched and corrosive in every possible way, the people behind it are moral voids and should be banished to a remote island
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Steve Jobs had the most treatable form of pancreatic cancer around and he refused conventional treatments which he admitted at the time of his death cost him is life. I'm BEGGING you not to use celebrities who only reveal tiny bits of their medical diagnosis to make a larger point about society
February 12, 2026 at 5:19 AM
Steve Jobs had the most treatable form of pancreatic cancer around and he refused conventional treatments which he admitted at the time of his death cost him is life. I'm BEGGING you not to use celebrities who only reveal tiny bits of their medical diagnosis to make a larger point about society
When I worked at a museum I once got a woman asking me how the Mayans were influenced by the Atlanteans. My stammered “… Atlantis like from Plato?” was not the answer she was looking for. I definitely had a blue screen moment.
Customer: "--and whether or not the Babylonians knew that they were depriving the Jews of salvation."
Me:
Me:
February 12, 2026 at 4:33 PM
When I worked at a museum I once got a woman asking me how the Mayans were influenced by the Atlanteans. My stammered “… Atlantis like from Plato?” was not the answer she was looking for. I definitely had a blue screen moment.
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I also think it's really important to note that
THE NATIONAL GUARD IS STILL IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
and
PEOPLE ARE STILL BEING KIDNAPPED IN MAINE AND LOS ANGELES
So even if they leave Minnesota, the struggle to end the kidnappings continues
apnews.com/live/trump-i...
THE NATIONAL GUARD IS STILL IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
and
PEOPLE ARE STILL BEING KIDNAPPED IN MAINE AND LOS ANGELES
So even if they leave Minnesota, the struggle to end the kidnappings continues
apnews.com/live/trump-i...
Live updates: Federal authorities announce end to Minnesota immigration crackdown
The immigration crackdown in Minnesota is coming to an end after thousands of arrests and two killings, Trump's border czar says. Over 2,000 federal officers are leaving.
apnews.com
February 12, 2026 at 4:04 PM
I also think it's really important to note that
THE NATIONAL GUARD IS STILL IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
and
PEOPLE ARE STILL BEING KIDNAPPED IN MAINE AND LOS ANGELES
So even if they leave Minnesota, the struggle to end the kidnappings continues
apnews.com/live/trump-i...
THE NATIONAL GUARD IS STILL IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
and
PEOPLE ARE STILL BEING KIDNAPPED IN MAINE AND LOS ANGELES
So even if they leave Minnesota, the struggle to end the kidnappings continues
apnews.com/live/trump-i...
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Douglas Adams actually answered all your questions about the universe. " Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space"
February 12, 2026 at 3:59 PM
Douglas Adams actually answered all your questions about the universe. " Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space"
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So, the message here is: Moms, if you want your kids to have a good life, you have to quit your job and become your kids' teacher full-time.
Looking for an edge in college admissions? Just pull your kid from school. Homeschooling, long associated with hippies and religious conservatives in the U.S., is in the middle of a rebrand and a boom.
The Homeschooling Hack
Looking for an edge in college admissions? Just pull your kid from school. Homeschooling, long associated with hippies and religious conservatives in the U.S., is in the middle of a rebrand and a boom.
nymag.com
February 12, 2026 at 1:00 PM
So, the message here is: Moms, if you want your kids to have a good life, you have to quit your job and become your kids' teacher full-time.
Folks. You can just block the people saying stupid shitty things. We don’t all need to respond or- worse!- quote them. Just block them. (Especially when it’s a small account. This is not worth highlighting)
February 12, 2026 at 3:21 AM
Folks. You can just block the people saying stupid shitty things. We don’t all need to respond or- worse!- quote them. Just block them. (Especially when it’s a small account. This is not worth highlighting)
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I was worried about this a few years ago but I'm seeing the generation that came in with 5E - very successfully! 4 to 5 the number of players of the early 1980s high! - branch out all over the place in both play and design.
Finally penned my "If you only play D&D, I encourage you to try other TTRPGs because you might find you love them" manifesto.
If You've Only Ever Played D&D, You're Missing Out
Tabletop RPGs are story engines. Why would you want to tell only one kind of story?
www.aaronrosspowell.com
February 11, 2026 at 6:29 PM
I was worried about this a few years ago but I'm seeing the generation that came in with 5E - very successfully! 4 to 5 the number of players of the early 1980s high! - branch out all over the place in both play and design.
Suddenly it’s 1998 again. I’m in sixth grade language arts class, tuned out staring at the screen.
I have seen too much of what is to come. I have no real way to process it, never mind change it. No wonder I have crippling anxiety.
I have seen too much of what is to come. I have no real way to process it, never mind change it. No wonder I have crippling anxiety.
February 11, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Suddenly it’s 1998 again. I’m in sixth grade language arts class, tuned out staring at the screen.
I have seen too much of what is to come. I have no real way to process it, never mind change it. No wonder I have crippling anxiety.
I have seen too much of what is to come. I have no real way to process it, never mind change it. No wonder I have crippling anxiety.
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help Allison and I will fist fight one person of your choice (provided it is sanctioned by a state athletic commission or you live in one of those insane jurisdictions that allows voluntary mutual combat)
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Boosting before I sleep.
Help me get some movement on this overnight~
Anything helps! Thaaaaanks!
Boosting before I sleep.
Help me get some movement on this overnight~
Anything helps! Thaaaaanks!
Support Jaye Allison Ashtear
Support Jaye Allison Ashtear
ko-fi.com
February 11, 2026 at 4:28 PM
help Allison and I will fist fight one person of your choice (provided it is sanctioned by a state athletic commission or you live in one of those insane jurisdictions that allows voluntary mutual combat)
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"will you vote for newsom in the general" is designed to undermine the left opposition to him *in the primary.* it's meant to show that the left can be ignored because they'll come around or that they can be ignored because they're a lost cause. the mission *now* is to make newsom lose the primary.
democratic primary voters keep fucking up and we're trying to get ahead of it this time by letting them know that newsom isn't electable
February 11, 2026 at 4:57 PM
"will you vote for newsom in the general" is designed to undermine the left opposition to him *in the primary.* it's meant to show that the left can be ignored because they'll come around or that they can be ignored because they're a lost cause. the mission *now* is to make newsom lose the primary.
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For real, I am so tired of explaining to colleagues that all it does is pattern-match. That Apple paper showing its reasoning conks out after about 37000k tokens? Is because humans *rarely write out every detail of long-form reasoning* because we don't have to and it's boring. No examples.
Also I’m sorry but I don’t think this is Claude developing a personality or ethical values. It is *simulating* those things because that is what humans value and reward. The programmers are falling for their own Clever Hans trick!
February 11, 2026 at 5:36 PM
For real, I am so tired of explaining to colleagues that all it does is pattern-match. That Apple paper showing its reasoning conks out after about 37000k tokens? Is because humans *rarely write out every detail of long-form reasoning* because we don't have to and it's boring. No examples.