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InaneDragon
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Nuclear engineer by day, twitch streamer & alcoholic by night. I don't recommend following me, I'm a bit odd. He/him; she/her; they/them
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My first go at a hardscape for the 20 gallon. Remember, plants are going to be added all around & even on the hardscape.
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every shot-on-video, made-with-a-camcorder horror movie that's just some teenage friend group fucking around in the woods with some fake blood and a monster mask contains more artistic merit, human joy and creative light than anything AI has ever made or will ever, ever make
February 17, 2026 at 2:22 AM
Fuck it, I'm paying off my Rav4, getting some solar panels & vanishing into the mountains.
We're cooked aren't we?
BRO, WHAT THE FUCK IS THE MATTER WITH YOU?!
February 17, 2026 at 2:54 AM
If school not nazi, then nazi social media posts impact school badly.
I'm agreeing. But I'm saying you actually have to show it rises to this level of impact at that school.
February 17, 2026 at 2:23 AM
You're pretending that the Trump administration represents a normal continuation of government & that the Robert's Court represents a valid constitutional bulwark. We both know that both pretensions to reality are false & you need to stop. Deal with the reality in front of you.
Constitutionally, his intent doesn't matter here. Under governing First Amendment doctrine, if he's speaking on a matter of public concern (✅) then the question is whether the speech was damaging to workplace harmony, efficiency, and/or functioning—and if students were being pulled from school...
February 17, 2026 at 2:12 AM
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And we cant take this person's "go ice" statement in a vacuum. This isn't some tepid opinion being expressed on some economic policy. This is someone seeing videos of people being brutalized, citizens murdered in cold blood, and then publicly celebrating. That SHOULD impact their public life.
February 17, 2026 at 2:04 AM
How is this surprising when I explained this to you at least an hour ago?

Are you reading the posts you're responding to?
You wouldn't have supported his firing? That's surprising.
February 17, 2026 at 2:03 AM
Speaking from experience: the best you can hope for is people who were on the fence deciding you're more correct than the person you're yelling at. That's the only reason to argue online. To convince people on the fence. So, best to know if anyone's on that fence before you engage.
The secret to engaging in social media debate is knowing you will never win anyone over. The best you can hope for is to have people who already agree with tell you you're awesome. You might great a dopamine thrill from the righteousness of your anger! Fine benefits, all. But you will never win.
February 17, 2026 at 1:54 AM
Trump can fire people for actually doing their constitutional duties, Adam will be silent. One school teacher resigns because their public support for a Nazi purge of the wrong-colored Americans upsets the people whose children are under his care & Adam is absolutely livid.
Am I going to be the only one to suggest that firing a public school teacher for speaking out on a matter of public concern raises profound First Amendment issues, and we should pause before cheering on such actions when that power can be weaponized against progressive teachers in red places? 1/3
This “beloved” Chicago teacher, James Heidorn, believes he was pushed out of his job due to a two-word post on his Facebook account.

Oddly enough, the heavily Hispanic district didn’t appreciate him posting “GO ICE”.

#ProudBlue #FuckICE #Chicago
February 17, 2026 at 1:28 AM
People's public actions are always conditioned by their terms of employment. For example, I never talk about certain things because I've signed a number of non-disclosure agreements.

In the same way, a public servant likely has a contract that says "thou shalt not advocate for Nazism".
February 17, 2026 at 1:21 AM
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Being a school teacher in IL he has lots of rights & union support. Quitting the process before showing he was "wrongly" suspended to jump on the RW martyr gravy train just kinda makes me give 0 fucks.

I agree with protecting the 1st. Its just hard to care when the person jumps for cash so quick.
February 17, 2026 at 1:09 AM
You ought to be the only one to suggest this.

Let's lift some of the potential obfuscation: ICE is the modern day Gestapo. If anyone in a position of authority said "Go Gestapo", would you defend their right to say that or celebrate their exile from polite society?
Am I going to be the only one to suggest that firing a public school teacher for speaking out on a matter of public concern raises profound First Amendment issues, and we should pause before cheering on such actions when that power can be weaponized against progressive teachers in red places? 1/3
This “beloved” Chicago teacher, James Heidorn, believes he was pushed out of his job due to a two-word post on his Facebook account.

Oddly enough, the heavily Hispanic district didn’t appreciate him posting “GO ICE”.

#ProudBlue #FuckICE #Chicago
February 17, 2026 at 1:02 AM
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"We're not pro-rape, we're anti- anti-rape"
February 17, 2026 at 12:22 AM
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Urge your reps to ban Surveillance Pricing and boycott any business that uses it. If it’s allowed to take root, you will be robbed for the rest of your lives.
(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.
February 15, 2026 at 7:21 PM
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We need more fiction about how fucking good liberal modernity is, because for all the bellyaching about it, it's a hell of a lot better than what came before, and compared to all the (horrific) actually existing alternatives.

Come to the lib side! We have fun, excellence, and basic human decency.
February 16, 2026 at 5:44 AM
For the Thomists out there: if potentials don't actually exist, how do they exist at all?

And if a potential actually exists, then what actuality beyond the potential is needed to actualize the potential?
February 16, 2026 at 5:41 AM
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"the elite of the antebellum South were degenerate gamblers who financed their lifestyles with industrialized rape and would kill you for pointing this out" is a straightforwardly accurate statement
February 14, 2026 at 2:28 PM
For the record, whenever you adopt a new tool to do a job, not just AI tools, you run it in parallel with your existing methodologies long enough to validate the new tool before you actually adopt it for real.

Holy fuck, this is incompetent.
lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard
February 15, 2026 at 1:35 AM
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four score and seven years later, lincoln would defend the american experiment in similar terms, rooting the the war effort in a defense of freedom and equality — those were the things that made american civilization distinctive in his telling.
February 15, 2026 at 1:17 AM
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interesting to think that revolutionary era americans understood themselves as making a break with the “old world” and establishing a new civilization. and crucially, this new civilization rested on republican self-government, not “sovereignty.”
The Rubio speech really is appalling, and if you haven’t read it yet, you should.

www.state.gov/releases/off...
February 15, 2026 at 1:17 AM
I have a new solution for how to deal with people who are way too online. We confine them to a comfortable room with no internet access, no TV, no radio. They have a comfortable chair and a cat in their lap to pet.

Pet the cat, calm the soul.

Oh, maybe a camera to take cat pictures to share later.
February 15, 2026 at 1:00 AM
Are they wrong, though? Are they?
It's annoying when artists make me look hotter as a pig than I do in real life.
February 14, 2026 at 5:44 AM
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Happy Valentine's day, folks. Here's my favorite story about the nerd and the honeypot.
I vaguely recall @megelison.bsky.social telling a story from her fintech days about a shlubby engineer realizing several drinks in that he was being honeypotted by a model and climbing out the bathroom window to escape
February 13, 2026 at 7:37 PM
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RNC Research seems to be assuming something, yes?

😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
And yet, it still makes sense.
February 13, 2026 at 5:09 PM
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nobody posted the clip anywhere so i went and dug the whole episode up
February 13, 2026 at 5:22 AM