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@minimallycrazy.bsky.social
you're all weird and gross
I'm also weird and gross
(He/him, je suis un maquereau tigré)
I'm also weird and gross
(He/him, je suis un maquereau tigré)
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New people! I choose to present myself as a cat here as a warning about the level of capriciousness I display.
I will hiss at you and block you for a bad vibe. I don't give a fuck. Your rug may be subjected to the full force of the Strategic Pissing Initiative.
I will hiss at you and block you for a bad vibe. I don't give a fuck. Your rug may be subjected to the full force of the Strategic Pissing Initiative.
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that is a thing you would genuinely need if you were going to embark upon a misadventure, and we would know. you can tell where boats are.
this makes 100% of his comms about this *stupider, rather than less stupid*, to be clear
this makes 100% of his comms about this *stupider, rather than less stupid*, to be clear
January 6, 2026 at 10:08 PM
that is a thing you would genuinely need if you were going to embark upon a misadventure, and we would know. you can tell where boats are.
this makes 100% of his comms about this *stupider, rather than less stupid*, to be clear
this makes 100% of his comms about this *stupider, rather than less stupid*, to be clear
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like whether or not they would actually push whatever threatening and redly pulsating button they were clearly setting up to push was anyone's guess but we all knew the button was there, and we do not have a bunch of very big important boats surrounding fucking Greenland
January 6, 2026 at 10:08 PM
like whether or not they would actually push whatever threatening and redly pulsating button they were clearly setting up to push was anyone's guess but we all knew the button was there, and we do not have a bunch of very big important boats surrounding fucking Greenland
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worth noting in light of people apparently thinking that Trump is going to launch a surprise attack on Greenland tomorrow as opposed to that he's just strokin' it (as opposed to strokin' out. inshallah) that we had SIGNIFICANT advance awareness of military buildup around Venezuela
January 6, 2026 at 10:08 PM
worth noting in light of people apparently thinking that Trump is going to launch a surprise attack on Greenland tomorrow as opposed to that he's just strokin' it (as opposed to strokin' out. inshallah) that we had SIGNIFICANT advance awareness of military buildup around Venezuela
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that's it, that's all of the it, the entirety of 2026 is going to be more floridly stupid than is possible to imagine but they are still subject to the ultimate and uncrossable dominance of raw physical fact, as are we all, one of which is: you cannot make big important boats be in place w/ a tweet
January 6, 2026 at 10:08 PM
that's it, that's all of the it, the entirety of 2026 is going to be more floridly stupid than is possible to imagine but they are still subject to the ultimate and uncrossable dominance of raw physical fact, as are we all, one of which is: you cannot make big important boats be in place w/ a tweet
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what happened here is that Marco Rubio cahooted with Venezuelan officials who wanted Maduro gone and thought they could get Rubio to be a useful idiot in hopes of burnishing his Monroe Doctrine credentials for the future he wanks to every night + Trump's been told he's got weeks or months to live
January 6, 2026 at 10:08 PM
what happened here is that Marco Rubio cahooted with Venezuelan officials who wanted Maduro gone and thought they could get Rubio to be a useful idiot in hopes of burnishing his Monroe Doctrine credentials for the future he wanks to every night + Trump's been told he's got weeks or months to live
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"costly war"
you know, the US killing random people would be bad if it were free of charge, or if we made bank on each kill.
maybe fiscal considerations shouldn't be the ones at play here.
you know, the US killing random people would be bad if it were free of charge, or if we made bank on each kill.
maybe fiscal considerations shouldn't be the ones at play here.
January 7, 2026 at 1:23 AM
"costly war"
you know, the US killing random people would be bad if it were free of charge, or if we made bank on each kill.
maybe fiscal considerations shouldn't be the ones at play here.
you know, the US killing random people would be bad if it were free of charge, or if we made bank on each kill.
maybe fiscal considerations shouldn't be the ones at play here.
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All the primary players were extremely eager to kill people
January 7, 2026 at 5:00 AM
All the primary players were extremely eager to kill people
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"The Monroe Doctrine was a policy born of US weakness and discarded as soon as the US became a world power" should be something that all journalists know
January 5, 2026 at 9:06 PM
"The Monroe Doctrine was a policy born of US weakness and discarded as soon as the US became a world power" should be something that all journalists know
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Most straight men dislike homosexual men more than they dislike homosexual women, but if you do run into a guy who hates lesbians more than gay men, he's a fucking FREAK about it
January 7, 2026 at 4:33 AM
Most straight men dislike homosexual men more than they dislike homosexual women, but if you do run into a guy who hates lesbians more than gay men, he's a fucking FREAK about it
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This is true but the history of niche hobby forums also rings of early Christianity (bear me out) because you have heterogeneous coexistence and then the emergence of orthodoxy and heterodoxy and heresy. Understand that I am thinking about Ravelry the knitting forum here.
January 7, 2026 at 3:28 AM
This is true but the history of niche hobby forums also rings of early Christianity (bear me out) because you have heterogeneous coexistence and then the emergence of orthodoxy and heterodoxy and heresy. Understand that I am thinking about Ravelry the knitting forum here.
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Professor Fired for Charlie Kirk Post Gets $500,000 From School, Is Reinstated
Professor Fired for Charlie Kirk Post Gets $500,000 From School, Is Reinstated
Professor Darren Michael has reportedly been reinstated and given $50,000 after being fired over posts about assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
The post Professor Fired for Charlie Kirk Post Gets $500,000 From School, Is Reinstated first appeared on Mediaite.
dlvr.it
January 7, 2026 at 3:09 AM
Professor Fired for Charlie Kirk Post Gets $500,000 From School, Is Reinstated
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There is no amount of 'Being Right on the Internet' that is worth that future. There is no amount of domestic political clarity that is worth that future.
Touch the stove if you must. Please do not use the gas stove to blow up the house with me still in it.
You do not want that future. /end
Touch the stove if you must. Please do not use the gas stove to blow up the house with me still in it.
You do not want that future. /end
January 7, 2026 at 4:15 AM
There is no amount of 'Being Right on the Internet' that is worth that future. There is no amount of domestic political clarity that is worth that future.
Touch the stove if you must. Please do not use the gas stove to blow up the house with me still in it.
You do not want that future. /end
Touch the stove if you must. Please do not use the gas stove to blow up the house with me still in it.
You do not want that future. /end
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Now imagine instead of a burned out economy of $2.5tn, the size of Mexico, that fight involved, say, a country with upwards of $20tn GDP and so able to operate on *ten times* the scale, pushed to actually fight at that limit like no country since 1945.
And that's without even considering nukes. 8/
And that's without even considering nukes. 8/
January 7, 2026 at 4:15 AM
Now imagine instead of a burned out economy of $2.5tn, the size of Mexico, that fight involved, say, a country with upwards of $20tn GDP and so able to operate on *ten times* the scale, pushed to actually fight at that limit like no country since 1945.
And that's without even considering nukes. 8/
And that's without even considering nukes. 8/
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The economic cost has been staggering. As @sashotodorov.bsky.social likes to note, individual battles in that war consume entire NATO-countries worth of vehicles and munitions. Tens of thousands of AFVs, millions of shells, hundreds of billions of dollars, hundreds of thousands of dead. 7/
January 7, 2026 at 4:15 AM
The economic cost has been staggering. As @sashotodorov.bsky.social likes to note, individual battles in that war consume entire NATO-countries worth of vehicles and munitions. Tens of thousands of AFVs, millions of shells, hundreds of billions of dollars, hundreds of thousands of dead. 7/
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Your reference point for what those potential Big Boy Wars could look like shouldn't be Iraq or Afghanistan, but Super Ukraine, where inc. civilians, Russia's invasion has probably produced something on the order of 1.5-2 *million* casualties.
So, like, two Delawares of casualties. 6/
So, like, two Delawares of casualties. 6/
January 7, 2026 at 4:15 AM
Your reference point for what those potential Big Boy Wars could look like shouldn't be Iraq or Afghanistan, but Super Ukraine, where inc. civilians, Russia's invasion has probably produced something on the order of 1.5-2 *million* casualties.
So, like, two Delawares of casualties. 6/
So, like, two Delawares of casualties. 6/
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Meanwhile, isolated USA is not so threatening as the whole Status Quo Coalition, so you've made the possibility of a Big Boy Way in East Asia more likely.
And almost certainly - stability-instability paradox being what it is between nuclear power blocs - increased the number of brushfire wars. 5/
And almost certainly - stability-instability paradox being what it is between nuclear power blocs - increased the number of brushfire wars. 5/
January 7, 2026 at 4:15 AM
Meanwhile, isolated USA is not so threatening as the whole Status Quo Coalition, so you've made the possibility of a Big Boy Way in East Asia more likely.
And almost certainly - stability-instability paradox being what it is between nuclear power blocs - increased the number of brushfire wars. 5/
And almost certainly - stability-instability paradox being what it is between nuclear power blocs - increased the number of brushfire wars. 5/
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Walk through what that 'mask off' world looks like: Europe accelerates rearmament, functioning as an independent power bloc - to which the United States' neighbors, threatened by our bullshit, will want to realign, creating flash-points for potential trans-Atlantic Big Boy Wars. 4/
January 7, 2026 at 4:15 AM
Walk through what that 'mask off' world looks like: Europe accelerates rearmament, functioning as an independent power bloc - to which the United States' neighbors, threatened by our bullshit, will want to realign, creating flash-points for potential trans-Atlantic Big Boy Wars. 4/
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Because after that, you won't be able to put Humpty Dumpty together again in a situation where even the fiction of Humpty Dumpty - of a broad alliance of rich and free countries committed to the liberal international order - averts conflicts and saves lives. 3/
January 7, 2026 at 4:15 AM
Because after that, you won't be able to put Humpty Dumpty together again in a situation where even the fiction of Humpty Dumpty - of a broad alliance of rich and free countries committed to the liberal international order - averts conflicts and saves lives. 3/
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You *very much* want to preserve the chance the mask holds just long enough to get a different president.
If that mask drops, Trump breaks NATO & Europe recalculates the tail risks that we are all too rich & pampered to think about - the ones with body counts denominated in millions - go way up. 2/
If that mask drops, Trump breaks NATO & Europe recalculates the tail risks that we are all too rich & pampered to think about - the ones with body counts denominated in millions - go way up. 2/
January 7, 2026 at 4:15 AM
You *very much* want to preserve the chance the mask holds just long enough to get a different president.
If that mask drops, Trump breaks NATO & Europe recalculates the tail risks that we are all too rich & pampered to think about - the ones with body counts denominated in millions - go way up. 2/
If that mask drops, Trump breaks NATO & Europe recalculates the tail risks that we are all too rich & pampered to think about - the ones with body counts denominated in millions - go way up. 2/
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I was listening to @thebulwark.com's Next Level podcast today and they were thinking through the chance that Trump actually tries to seize Greenland and there was a @jvl.bsky.social sort of 'I kinda hope he does it to drop the mask entirely' and I just cannot scream loudly enough: No, You Do Not. 1/
January 7, 2026 at 4:15 AM
I was listening to @thebulwark.com's Next Level podcast today and they were thinking through the chance that Trump actually tries to seize Greenland and there was a @jvl.bsky.social sort of 'I kinda hope he does it to drop the mask entirely' and I just cannot scream loudly enough: No, You Do Not. 1/
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I’m not doing this all day. You should get the point by now. The blame for this moment in history can be shared all over the place. White voters, the Republican Party, non-voters, etc…So pick a race & elect more Democrats.
January 6, 2026 at 7:15 PM
I’m not doing this all day. You should get the point by now. The blame for this moment in history can be shared all over the place. White voters, the Republican Party, non-voters, etc…So pick a race & elect more Democrats.
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The actual Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson.
The actual Senate Majority Leader, John Thune.
McCarthy, McConnell, & any other relevant Republican in the past decade+.
The actual Senate Majority Leader, John Thune.
McCarthy, McConnell, & any other relevant Republican in the past decade+.
January 6, 2026 at 7:15 PM
The actual Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson.
The actual Senate Majority Leader, John Thune.
McCarthy, McConnell, & any other relevant Republican in the past decade+.
The actual Senate Majority Leader, John Thune.
McCarthy, McConnell, & any other relevant Republican in the past decade+.
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Fraud “progressives” like Bazelon who defended child traffickers in court & supported Betsy DeVos repeatedly but who sure got cited in most articles attacking Harris’s record as a progressive prosecutor.
Idiots like M*nsch, T*ylor, Kendzi**r, & whoever else promoted wildly wrong shit about the DOJ.
Idiots like M*nsch, T*ylor, Kendzi**r, & whoever else promoted wildly wrong shit about the DOJ.
January 6, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Fraud “progressives” like Bazelon who defended child traffickers in court & supported Betsy DeVos repeatedly but who sure got cited in most articles attacking Harris’s record as a progressive prosecutor.
Idiots like M*nsch, T*ylor, Kendzi**r, & whoever else promoted wildly wrong shit about the DOJ.
Idiots like M*nsch, T*ylor, Kendzi**r, & whoever else promoted wildly wrong shit about the DOJ.
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Everyone who didn’t actually read the footnotes in Mueller’s report or the Congressional testimony explaining how Russia interfered while proceeding to bash Clinton & Harris for spelling it out because racism is America’s Achilles heel.
Mark Penn & every idiot citing that 1 Stagwell-owned poll.
Mark Penn & every idiot citing that 1 Stagwell-owned poll.
January 6, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Everyone who didn’t actually read the footnotes in Mueller’s report or the Congressional testimony explaining how Russia interfered while proceeding to bash Clinton & Harris for spelling it out because racism is America’s Achilles heel.
Mark Penn & every idiot citing that 1 Stagwell-owned poll.
Mark Penn & every idiot citing that 1 Stagwell-owned poll.
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Foreign media who interviewed supporters like me while saying the premise was about excitement for her who then cut the several hours of conversation re policy to use 2 sentences & talk about 1 Trump supporter they could find while telling me off the record how scared they were I said he could win.
January 6, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Foreign media who interviewed supporters like me while saying the premise was about excitement for her who then cut the several hours of conversation re policy to use 2 sentences & talk about 1 Trump supporter they could find while telling me off the record how scared they were I said he could win.