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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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This is my best friend's very conservative uncle. He has commented on nearly every political Facebook post my buddy has made over the past decade.
I have _never_ seen him do something like this. He's always been a typical Trumper.
I have _never_ seen him do something like this. He's always been a typical Trumper.
January 10, 2026 at 5:51 AM
This is my best friend's very conservative uncle. He has commented on nearly every political Facebook post my buddy has made over the past decade.
I have _never_ seen him do something like this. He's always been a typical Trumper.
I have _never_ seen him do something like this. He's always been a typical Trumper.
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I would never have guessed it based on the description of the service but they are probably the most responsible of the social platforms
January 10, 2026 at 6:40 AM
I would never have guessed it based on the description of the service but they are probably the most responsible of the social platforms
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I hate that this post is true
snapchat being the biggest success in safety standards is funny when you consider how horrifying the service is at first glance, yet they were an early success and continue to be mostly because they've always been engaged with the problem
January 10, 2026 at 6:37 AM
I hate that this post is true
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Yeah, uh, that is the right kind of censorship
Preventing the sharing of sexualised images of children is “censorship” according to Elon Musk.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Musk says X outcry is 'excuse for censorship'
The government is urging Ofcom to use all its powers – up to and including an effective ban – against X.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 10, 2026 at 5:59 AM
Yeah, uh, that is the right kind of censorship
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every UK policeman I have known (a handful) had a corrosively negative opinion of US policing, *especially* the guy who had done an exchange visit.
January 10, 2026 at 3:23 AM
every UK policeman I have known (a handful) had a corrosively negative opinion of US policing, *especially* the guy who had done an exchange visit.
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it is one of my go-to points - connected to their widespread use of firearms and dire lack of training - that while police have problems everywhere, U.S. police are unusually brutal and incompetent by developed country standards.
January 10, 2026 at 3:22 AM
it is one of my go-to points - connected to their widespread use of firearms and dire lack of training - that while police have problems everywhere, U.S. police are unusually brutal and incompetent by developed country standards.
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that really is all of the story. a colleague (Westerner) had adopted a dog, but hadn't taken him to be registered yet. a group of chengguan (urban militia, shitty cops basically), visibly drunk, saw him, demanded to see the dogs paperwork, and then beat the dog to death while they grappled him
January 10, 2026 at 3:15 AM
that really is all of the story. a colleague (Westerner) had adopted a dog, but hadn't taken him to be registered yet. a group of chengguan (urban militia, shitty cops basically), visibly drunk, saw him, demanded to see the dogs paperwork, and then beat the dog to death while they grappled him
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the chengguan beat the dog of a colleague to death on the street in Beijing for no reason other than sadism
"They shot my dog. I say my dog because this experience taught me something about fascists: if you don't admit to owning the world's stray dogs, they'll shoot them. And one day they'll be back. For you. With the boxcars."
-William Gibson
-William Gibson
i think about this william gibson quote a lot
January 10, 2026 at 3:07 AM
the chengguan beat the dog of a colleague to death on the street in Beijing for no reason other than sadism
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What's so wild about this particular Bluesky Mass Delusion is that it's one of the best examples of how a highly engaged audience can be *completely and utterly misled* by just a *handful* of influential propagandists, many of whom take great pleasure in lying openly about liberals for clout.
The idea that Democrats stopped calling Trump and Vance weird is itself the weirdest mass delusion on this website. They were calling them weird all the way to election day, and yet a cultlike belief has nevertheless spawned insisting that they did it for like a week then stopped.
Remember in the summer of 2024 when Dems started calling Trump/Vance/et al "weird" and it resonated with millions of people (because it's true) and then they stopped?
Seeing a similar shift now. But angrier. Good. Take off the fucking gloves.
Seeing a similar shift now. But angrier. Good. Take off the fucking gloves.
January 10, 2026 at 3:12 AM
What's so wild about this particular Bluesky Mass Delusion is that it's one of the best examples of how a highly engaged audience can be *completely and utterly misled* by just a *handful* of influential propagandists, many of whom take great pleasure in lying openly about liberals for clout.
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lmaooo yup. this is up there with people who reply to or QRT journalists reporting on a thing Dems (allegedly) did as though they are talking to the Dems that they are angry at and getting even madder when they don't get a response like...
January 9, 2026 at 6:09 PM
lmaooo yup. this is up there with people who reply to or QRT journalists reporting on a thing Dems (allegedly) did as though they are talking to the Dems that they are angry at and getting even madder when they don't get a response like...
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I am begging allegedly serious posters on here with academic credentials and a track record of trustworthiness to both read past the goddamn headline and be able and willing to call out a headline that's doing rhetorical work for the enemy instead of jumping on it dick-first to cosign that work
I am begging Democratic leadership to recognize that funding and legitimizing your authoritarian opponent’s secret police is a bad idea.
This should not be a difficult concept.
This should not be a difficult concept.
Top Democrats decline to say if they would rein in ICE after Minnesota shooting
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries denounce the killing but offer no concrete pledges
www.independent.co.uk
January 9, 2026 at 5:54 PM
I am begging allegedly serious posters on here with academic credentials and a track record of trustworthiness to both read past the goddamn headline and be able and willing to call out a headline that's doing rhetorical work for the enemy instead of jumping on it dick-first to cosign that work
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this is a key part of why voting is a sacred duty to me and why i'm -this- furious that people think they can decide that voting doesn't matter, tbh
in addition to the many reasons i gave people why voting matters is that when we vote we do not just vote for america. we vote for our Allies. we vote for people in other countries who want to breathe free. we never have voted for just us. it should be clear by now voting is a Butterfly Effect.
January 9, 2026 at 6:17 PM
this is a key part of why voting is a sacred duty to me and why i'm -this- furious that people think they can decide that voting doesn't matter, tbh
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it's just going to take work and there will never exist a generation that does NOT have to, actively, perform that work, and there will be a generation in the future that forgets that and has a bad time accordingly
January 9, 2026 at 6:22 PM
it's just going to take work and there will never exist a generation that does NOT have to, actively, perform that work, and there will be a generation in the future that forgets that and has a bad time accordingly
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like, the current ongoing Constitutional crisis in America is the result of a fairly highly technocratic system entering a failure mode! we've had pretty severe failure modes before and scraped ourselves out of them! American technocracy has been a model to the entire world for centuries!
January 9, 2026 at 6:22 PM
like, the current ongoing Constitutional crisis in America is the result of a fairly highly technocratic system entering a failure mode! we've had pretty severe failure modes before and scraped ourselves out of them! American technocracy has been a model to the entire world for centuries!
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the single most important thing social media has taught me is that if our lives collectively ever relied on passing the marshmallow test as a society we would all, immediately and without any fanfare whatsoever, perish
this does not make me feel great, honestly
this does not make me feel great, honestly
January 9, 2026 at 5:42 PM
the single most important thing social media has taught me is that if our lives collectively ever relied on passing the marshmallow test as a society we would all, immediately and without any fanfare whatsoever, perish
this does not make me feel great, honestly
this does not make me feel great, honestly
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X salvage continued, had to save this banger from @molleindustria.org
January 10, 2026 at 1:49 AM
X salvage continued, had to save this banger from @molleindustria.org
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Judge Chun is the third federal judge to block large portions of Trump’s March 25 executive order purporting to overhaul election procedures and punish states that don’t comply.
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
Judge blocks Trump effort to pull election funding for states that don’t adjust voting forms
It’s at least the third ruling against the president’s March executive order targeting state election processes.
www.politico.com
January 10, 2026 at 2:10 AM
Judge Chun is the third federal judge to block large portions of Trump’s March 25 executive order purporting to overhaul election procedures and punish states that don’t comply.
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
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the body language from the feds is embarrassing. they know they’re cooked and the people standing up to them do not fear them.
this is going to get worse before it gets better but it is going to get better
this is going to get worse before it gets better but it is going to get better
January 10, 2026 at 1:53 AM
the body language from the feds is embarrassing. they know they’re cooked and the people standing up to them do not fear them.
this is going to get worse before it gets better but it is going to get better
this is going to get worse before it gets better but it is going to get better
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do I have to point out why a return of lynch law would be bad in the US, even if it seems like it would be satisfying just this one time?
it's 2026, and I suppose I must. because it will immediately be used by the dominant demographic group -- let's call it "whitey" -- to terrorize everyone else.
it's 2026, and I suppose I must. because it will immediately be used by the dominant demographic group -- let's call it "whitey" -- to terrorize everyone else.
January 9, 2026 at 11:11 PM
do I have to point out why a return of lynch law would be bad in the US, even if it seems like it would be satisfying just this one time?
it's 2026, and I suppose I must. because it will immediately be used by the dominant demographic group -- let's call it "whitey" -- to terrorize everyone else.
it's 2026, and I suppose I must. because it will immediately be used by the dominant demographic group -- let's call it "whitey" -- to terrorize everyone else.
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in the old days, a few thousand people would go to wherever Ross is holing up, extract him, maybe give him a little informal trial (or maybe not), and then kill him in various clean or unclean ways.
even in Minnesota.
foreign observers don't realize that our alleged political passivity is...
even in Minnesota.
foreign observers don't realize that our alleged political passivity is...
January 9, 2026 at 11:07 PM
in the old days, a few thousand people would go to wherever Ross is holing up, extract him, maybe give him a little informal trial (or maybe not), and then kill him in various clean or unclean ways.
even in Minnesota.
foreign observers don't realize that our alleged political passivity is...
even in Minnesota.
foreign observers don't realize that our alleged political passivity is...
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visiting my family, which obviously means i am also visiting poppy, whose favourite game is to sit in this laundry basket and be carried around the house
January 9, 2026 at 11:20 PM
visiting my family, which obviously means i am also visiting poppy, whose favourite game is to sit in this laundry basket and be carried around the house
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The thing about fragile masculinity and all the things marketed to those susceptible to it is that there far cheaper ways to be all alone at the end of the evening, masturbating into a sock, so why not just save your money
January 9, 2026 at 11:28 PM
The thing about fragile masculinity and all the things marketed to those susceptible to it is that there far cheaper ways to be all alone at the end of the evening, masturbating into a sock, so why not just save your money
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Trumps refusal to be president of the entire country being part of what undermines his economic response, thus making the midterms worse for him than they would be otherwise is such an incredible bit of irony
I kind of think the most revealing thing about Trump and his advisors’ view of the economy are the (false) “it’s fine, the economy is doing well in red states” lines from the CEA report that he posted on Truth Social
January 9, 2026 at 11:29 PM
Trumps refusal to be president of the entire country being part of what undermines his economic response, thus making the midterms worse for him than they would be otherwise is such an incredible bit of irony
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Okay look, I'm not saying I deserve credit
But all this Wide-Awakes stuff, it turns out, has actually been extremely powerful talismanic practice, and I have been unknowingly constructing a powerful mandala in the dharma-field of politics, and now we got Tim Walz talking about the Civil War
But all this Wide-Awakes stuff, it turns out, has actually been extremely powerful talismanic practice, and I have been unknowingly constructing a powerful mandala in the dharma-field of politics, and now we got Tim Walz talking about the Civil War
Gov. Tim Walz references the 1st Minnesota regiment, credited with saving the Union at Gettysburg: “I think now we may be in that moment, that the nation's looking to us, to hold the line on democracy, to hold the line on decency, to hold the line on accountability...” youtube.com/shorts/DZXdZ...
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz quotes ‘1984’ in aftermath of fatal shooting of woman by ICE agent
YouTube video by MPR News
youtube.com
January 9, 2026 at 3:40 AM
Okay look, I'm not saying I deserve credit
But all this Wide-Awakes stuff, it turns out, has actually been extremely powerful talismanic practice, and I have been unknowingly constructing a powerful mandala in the dharma-field of politics, and now we got Tim Walz talking about the Civil War
But all this Wide-Awakes stuff, it turns out, has actually been extremely powerful talismanic practice, and I have been unknowingly constructing a powerful mandala in the dharma-field of politics, and now we got Tim Walz talking about the Civil War