Grumpy Rootbeer
@grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social
He/him, mid-30s, Iowan, nerd, leftist, cat lover
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The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist
The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”
www.theatlantic.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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it is almost as if someone was promoted beyond their ability
“I’ve been hearing that standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She also asked openly, ‘What’s the point of standards?’” one CBS source said.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Bari Weiss wants to take down ‘too much power’ CBS News Standards unit: sources
EXCLUSIVE: Internal rumblings within the newsroom come after the S&P head resigned and the network disbanded its vaunted Race and Culture unit.
www.independent.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
it is almost as if someone was promoted beyond their ability
Fully nailed my improvised leftovers curry. Doesn't photograph great, but tastes fantastic.
November 11, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Fully nailed my improvised leftovers curry. Doesn't photograph great, but tastes fantastic.
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Chuck Schumer? Would love to.
November 9, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Chuck Schumer? Would love to.
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UPDATE: Reached out to the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister who was there that day and has been active in religious demonstrations at Broadview.
“They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”
“They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”
November 8, 2025 at 2:08 PM
UPDATE: Reached out to the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister who was there that day and has been active in religious demonstrations at Broadview.
“They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”
“They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”
The Roberts Court doing everything it can to make clear that it is an enemy of the people.
The Supreme Court granted the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments.
Supreme Court Issues Emergency Order To Block Full SNAP Food Aid Payments
The food program serves about 1 in 8 Americans, mostly with lower incomes.
www.huffpost.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:47 AM
The Roberts Court doing everything it can to make clear that it is an enemy of the people.
Excited to see Petey try to retool the chicken nugget factories and protein powder repackaging warehouses that are all that remains of American industry to build JDAMs and reaper drones.
Hegseth: "We are not building for peacetime. We are pivoting the Pentagon and our industrial base to a wartime footing. Building for victory should our adversaries FAFO."
November 7, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Excited to see Petey try to retool the chicken nugget factories and protein powder repackaging warehouses that are all that remains of American industry to build JDAMs and reaper drones.
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bring back maligning racism as the mark of a stupid person. prejudice is the mark of an idiot. if you believe that shit i bet you also don’t wipe your ass
November 7, 2025 at 8:55 PM
bring back maligning racism as the mark of a stupid person. prejudice is the mark of an idiot. if you believe that shit i bet you also don’t wipe your ass
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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Pretty thin movie week, but a couple good ones. So far quite liking the Heisei Godzillas and really enjoyed Bugonia.
November 7, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Pretty thin movie week, but a couple good ones. So far quite liking the Heisei Godzillas and really enjoyed Bugonia.
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Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc
November 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc
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one thing thats kinda crazy to get your head around is not that the musk and thiel masters of the universe are ungrateful for the vast public infrastructure, public funding of research, and robust systems of laws and rules that made their wealth possible. it's that theyre too dumb to understand it
October 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
one thing thats kinda crazy to get your head around is not that the musk and thiel masters of the universe are ungrateful for the vast public infrastructure, public funding of research, and robust systems of laws and rules that made their wealth possible. it's that theyre too dumb to understand it
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New York electing its first Muslim mayor 24 years after 9/11 and rejecting the idiotic racism that would connect those events is actually a legit excuse for American triumphalism, but the people who say they love America the most hate all the best things about it.
November 6, 2025 at 10:41 PM
New York electing its first Muslim mayor 24 years after 9/11 and rejecting the idiotic racism that would connect those events is actually a legit excuse for American triumphalism, but the people who say they love America the most hate all the best things about it.
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Look I get publishing a broad spectrum of opinions but I already fed them this morning
November 6, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Look I get publishing a broad spectrum of opinions but I already fed them this morning
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This could be us if we weren't strangling the solar industry to help keep oil prices up
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
This could be us if we weren't strangling the solar industry to help keep oil prices up
The 2024 campaign was all a long game to solve the problem of contentious family thanksgiving gatherings by making it impossible for anyone to travel for Thanksgiving
U.S. TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY EXPECTED TO ANNOUNCE 10% CUT OF SCHEDULED CAPACITY AT 40 MAJOR HIGH TRAFFIC AIRPORTS STARTING FRIDAY -- SOURCES
November 5, 2025 at 9:50 PM
The 2024 campaign was all a long game to solve the problem of contentious family thanksgiving gatherings by making it impossible for anyone to travel for Thanksgiving
Well, if there was ever an expert in neutralizing the separation of powers between the legislative and executive branches, it would be John Roberts.
Roberts now going at the solicitor general like a cat with a wounded mouse. Keeps telling him that tariffs are taxes on the American people. "Who pays the tariffs??" Says Trump's argument would neutralize separation of powers between the legislative and executive branches. Incredible stuff.
November 5, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Well, if there was ever an expert in neutralizing the separation of powers between the legislative and executive branches, it would be John Roberts.
*me turning my 38 year old head to hear you better* Is that bad?
Midlife hearing loss was associated with smaller brain volumes, accelerated worsening in executive function, and an increased risk of dementia, suggesting that it may be an early marker of brain aging and dementia risk. ja.ma/3Lh9veH
November 5, 2025 at 6:17 PM
*me turning my 38 year old head to hear you better* Is that bad?
Consolidating my authoritarian government by telling the troops they're too gay and fat, not paying them, and telling them to go ask a foreign government for food.
NEW: The US Army website for its bases in Bavaria, Germany told its soldiers and employees that it might need to obtain free food from the German government during the US government shutdown.
The Army later altered publication to remove a list of food banks, but we have the original text here:
The Army later altered publication to remove a list of food banks, but we have the original text here:
US Army Tells Soldiers to Go to German Food Bank, Then Deletes It
The initial 'Shutdown Guidance' for the US Army Garrison Bavaria included instructions to go to German food banks.
www.404media.co
November 5, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Consolidating my authoritarian government by telling the troops they're too gay and fat, not paying them, and telling them to go ask a foreign government for food.
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The obsessive wokeness panic is about elite labor market competition and prestige. People use a lot of fancy words to obscure this, and offer some substantive criticisms as well, but that’s ultimately its driving force.
November 5, 2025 at 2:28 PM
The obsessive wokeness panic is about elite labor market competition and prestige. People use a lot of fancy words to obscure this, and offer some substantive criticisms as well, but that’s ultimately its driving force.
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Conservative Man Proudly Frightened Of Everything
Conservative Man Proudly Frightened Of Everything
FLOWER MOUND, TX—Condemning the “woke left” for what he called the “modern evisceration of masculinity,” local conservative man Hank Daniels confirmed Monday that he was never going to stop being prou...
theonion.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Conservative Man Proudly Frightened Of Everything
Bugonia is so good. I won't say anything about the plot, but I will say the acting is really great. Skinny Plemmons and girl boss Stone are in their own ways equally terrifying and the supporting cast are tremendous.
November 5, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Bugonia is so good. I won't say anything about the plot, but I will say the acting is really great. Skinny Plemmons and girl boss Stone are in their own ways equally terrifying and the supporting cast are tremendous.
Great news. DMPS deserved a win for once
Overshadowed by many other important races today: voters in Des Moines, Iowa approved a $265 million school bond issue.
(A month ago many thought bond had no chance of getting 60% because of the scandal surrounding the former DSM superintendent who's now facing federal charges.)
(A month ago many thought bond had no chance of getting 60% because of the scandal surrounding the former DSM superintendent who's now facing federal charges.)
November 5, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Great news. DMPS deserved a win for once