Wallet Inspector MetaBlueSky ♨️
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Cynic watching the world burn with popcorn and whisky. Living sci-fi is always going to be worse than reading it.
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To note very bluntly my view of the next span of years, I will quote Neville Chamberlain: "It is the evil things we fight against, brute force, bad faith, injustice, oppression, and persecution and against them I am confident the right will prevail."
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The Trump administration is like “sowwy we’ll put back the awticles on the website” and “sowwy you can do DEI” and some of you are still like “they are masterminds who are going to steal the midterms through surgical application of force? Have some self respect.
Censored Medical Research Restored to Federal Website
Nearly one year after researchers sued the federal government for removing articles from its patient safety website for allegedly promoting “gender ideology,” the government agreed Wednesday to perman...
www.insidehighered.com
February 19, 2026 at 12:16 PM
The Trump administration is like “sowwy we’ll put back the awticles on the website” and “sowwy you can do DEI” and some of you are still like “they are masterminds who are going to steal the midterms through surgical application of force? Have some self respect.
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Gunboat diplomacy was indeed viable in the 19th century, when the guns on said boat could outrange just about anything shooting at them and shell it to kingdom come.
A Houthi Samad-3 with a range of 1500km outranges the largest battleship ever built (the Yamato) by a factor of roughly 30.
A Houthi Samad-3 with a range of 1500km outranges the largest battleship ever built (the Yamato) by a factor of roughly 30.
December 25, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Gunboat diplomacy was indeed viable in the 19th century, when the guns on said boat could outrange just about anything shooting at them and shell it to kingdom come.
A Houthi Samad-3 with a range of 1500km outranges the largest battleship ever built (the Yamato) by a factor of roughly 30.
A Houthi Samad-3 with a range of 1500km outranges the largest battleship ever built (the Yamato) by a factor of roughly 30.
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This is soviet union shit.
Hassett on new study from NY Fed showing 90% of tariff burden is being shouldered by US firms & consumers: "The paper is an embarrassment. It's I think the worst paper I've ever seen in the history of the Fed system. The people associated with this paper should presumably be disciplined."
February 19, 2026 at 2:05 AM
This is soviet union shit.
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Trying to get signatures to separate Alberta from Canada
In Arizona
Couldn't be more "American Psyop" if you tried lol
In Arizona
Couldn't be more "American Psyop" if you tried lol
February 19, 2026 at 12:17 AM
Trying to get signatures to separate Alberta from Canada
In Arizona
Couldn't be more "American Psyop" if you tried lol
In Arizona
Couldn't be more "American Psyop" if you tried lol
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Holy shit.
A lot of people have suggested this, but I don’t think Lieu would make the allegation unless he had seen some evidence.
A lot of people have suggested this, but I don’t think Lieu would make the allegation unless he had seen some evidence.
February 18, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Holy shit.
A lot of people have suggested this, but I don’t think Lieu would make the allegation unless he had seen some evidence.
A lot of people have suggested this, but I don’t think Lieu would make the allegation unless he had seen some evidence.
Because Iran showed itself to be extremely weak the last couple of years and this man always goes to feast on the weakest possible targets. He's seen people attack it with impunity and he thinks he can do it again for longer and get away with it.
Why the fuck are we going to war with Iran?
February 19, 2026 at 3:26 AM
Because Iran showed itself to be extremely weak the last couple of years and this man always goes to feast on the weakest possible targets. He's seen people attack it with impunity and he thinks he can do it again for longer and get away with it.
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Two female ICE agents popped the hood of their car and knocked on the door of a mechanic born in Mexico. He went out to help.
“A bunch of agents jump out and tackle him, essentially restraining him, and take him away...His six kids are now without their father." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
“A bunch of agents jump out and tackle him, essentially restraining him, and take him away...His six kids are now without their father." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
ICE drawdown? Indications point to steady enforcement activity outside the Twin Cities
Some people who observe ICE activity are skeptical about a large scale drawdown of agents in the state. There are indications that activity has decreased in the Twin Cities, but has continued outside ...
www.mprnews.org
February 19, 2026 at 1:42 AM
Two female ICE agents popped the hood of their car and knocked on the door of a mechanic born in Mexico. He went out to help.
“A bunch of agents jump out and tackle him, essentially restraining him, and take him away...His six kids are now without their father." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
“A bunch of agents jump out and tackle him, essentially restraining him, and take him away...His six kids are now without their father." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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The alternative explanation is that our nation's educational leadership class are total nihilists, who simply believe nothing at all. And, frankly, that's too kind to them.
February 18, 2026 at 11:52 PM
The alternative explanation is that our nation's educational leadership class are total nihilists, who simply believe nothing at all. And, frankly, that's too kind to them.
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Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance.
And you know why?
Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.
And you know why?
Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.
February 18, 2026 at 11:47 PM
Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance.
And you know why?
Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.
And you know why?
Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.
Iran has both last year and through the entire 1980s shown there is no shortage to how many Iranians the regime will sacrifice for its own interest.
God he’s such a manchild. “Bomb them until I get what I want”(what he wants being muddled and incoherent)
February 19, 2026 at 2:54 AM
Iran has both last year and through the entire 1980s shown there is no shortage to how many Iranians the regime will sacrifice for its own interest.
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Look I think we are at world historical levels of you never have to take Tyler Austin Harper, Sam Moyn, Sam Haselby, Dan Bessner, Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, et all seriously again.
February 18, 2026 at 9:19 PM
Look I think we are at world historical levels of you never have to take Tyler Austin Harper, Sam Moyn, Sam Haselby, Dan Bessner, Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, et all seriously again.
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BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.
This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
February 18, 2026 at 5:39 PM
BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.
This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
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what id say is that consensus reality is a public good and it takes public policy to create. by the same token it can be insanely profitable for shitheads to pollute the commons if nobody stops them
The idea that we can have a functioning mass-democracy when people are cooking their brains to this extent remains extremely TBD imho.
She needs to go to jail.
February 19, 2026 at 2:25 AM
what id say is that consensus reality is a public good and it takes public policy to create. by the same token it can be insanely profitable for shitheads to pollute the commons if nobody stops them
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That last one will always get you blown up in liberal spaces, been that way for decades
trying to explain to people why I get cancelled on the internet is genuinely funny at this point. One time, I said venezeula had low-quality crude oil. another time, I said something literally doesn't happen, but it does - only very rarely. a third time, I said the language of firearms regs mattered
February 18, 2026 at 11:31 PM
That last one will always get you blown up in liberal spaces, been that way for decades
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Climate security is inherently national security.
February 19, 2026 at 12:06 AM
Climate security is inherently national security.
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some people are going to take this as encouragement to buy guillotines but i would prefer that you take it as a suggestion to doubt the article’s merit
February 19, 2026 at 1:09 AM
some people are going to take this as encouragement to buy guillotines but i would prefer that you take it as a suggestion to doubt the article’s merit
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i feel comfortable saying that, if as the author suggests, up to 30% of white collar workers lose their jobs in the next 12-18 months, no one can actually predict what the worst case will be, the economic and political conditions will be worse than anything anyone alive has ever seen in this country
i enjoy worst-case scenario articles, but this article doesn’t really do any of the work to outline the worst-case scenario the author proposes. if the worst-case outlined in it actually happens, there are significantly *worse* consequences, not just for white collar workers, for literally everyone
This article is very strange. While saying this is very unlikely it treats it wholly as an employment problem with no solution, but never contends with the fact that this would lead to an economic depression!
February 19, 2026 at 1:01 AM
i feel comfortable saying that, if as the author suggests, up to 30% of white collar workers lose their jobs in the next 12-18 months, no one can actually predict what the worst case will be, the economic and political conditions will be worse than anything anyone alive has ever seen in this country
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A world where 30% of the white-collar labor force evaporated is one that also takes a double digit percent of blue collar workers with it. We’d be looking at unemployment greater than the Depression, and mass political collapse across not just the US and EU, but even like China
February 19, 2026 at 2:14 AM
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quite frankly these scenarios are useless because if they are true there is absolutely nothing you can do about them besides adapt to society collapsing. which, again, little to none of the people raising them really believe will happen
February 19, 2026 at 2:16 AM
quite frankly these scenarios are useless because if they are true there is absolutely nothing you can do about them besides adapt to society collapsing. which, again, little to none of the people raising them really believe will happen
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Re the whole concept of "the wisdom of the ancients"--what we often call the wisdom of the *ancients* is in fact the wisdom of later generations figuring out *which* ancients were in fact wise.
The invisible hand of the curator is what ppl notice last, if ever.
@bretdevereaux.bsky.social
The invisible hand of the curator is what ppl notice last, if ever.
@bretdevereaux.bsky.social
Fireside Friday, January 23, 2025 (On the Cowardice of the Statue PfPs)
Hey folks, Fireside this week! Hopefully everyone enjoyed our series on the running debate over hoplites! As a social media note, I am going to attempt to start setting up a presence on Threads (wi…
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February 19, 2026 at 2:17 AM
Re the whole concept of "the wisdom of the ancients"--what we often call the wisdom of the *ancients* is in fact the wisdom of later generations figuring out *which* ancients were in fact wise.
The invisible hand of the curator is what ppl notice last, if ever.
@bretdevereaux.bsky.social
The invisible hand of the curator is what ppl notice last, if ever.
@bretdevereaux.bsky.social
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its really funny, like "yeah, the machine god will destroy the economy as we know it, learn claude code :)"
no brah, i'm not learning claude code
i'm getting a gun because it will like the Purge
no brah, i'm not learning claude code
i'm getting a gun because it will like the Purge
i feel comfortable saying that, if as the author suggests, up to 30% of white collar workers lose their jobs in the next 12-18 months, no one can actually predict what the worst case will be, the economic and political conditions will be worse than anything anyone alive has ever seen in this country
i enjoy worst-case scenario articles, but this article doesn’t really do any of the work to outline the worst-case scenario the author proposes. if the worst-case outlined in it actually happens, there are significantly *worse* consequences, not just for white collar workers, for literally everyone
February 19, 2026 at 2:11 AM
its really funny, like "yeah, the machine god will destroy the economy as we know it, learn claude code :)"
no brah, i'm not learning claude code
i'm getting a gun because it will like the Purge
no brah, i'm not learning claude code
i'm getting a gun because it will like the Purge
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It was this. All of this.
Exclusive: Senior DHS officials double down on arresting and detaining refugees in new memo
Hours after DOJ filed the new memo in court in Minnesota, a magistrate judge denied Law Dork's request for greater public access in the case — including remote electronic docket access.
www.lawdork.com
February 19, 2026 at 2:11 AM
It was this. All of this.
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It is 1000% people who were butthurt no one wanted to perma-mask. They talk round it like "so you want to kill disabled ppl with long covid" but it comes back to people mad about others not masking forever.
February 18, 2026 at 8:31 PM
It is 1000% people who were butthurt no one wanted to perma-mask. They talk round it like "so you want to kill disabled ppl with long covid" but it comes back to people mad about others not masking forever.
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I have seen this claim several times on here and it is abject fucking madness. bordering on antivax sentiment
February 18, 2026 at 5:33 PM
I have seen this claim several times on here and it is abject fucking madness. bordering on antivax sentiment