Contrariwise
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Democratic Socialist. I block for adding me to bitcoin lists.
Relocating from that dead bird app.
Relocating from that dead bird app.
Pinned
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.”
― Hannah Arendt
― Hannah Arendt
Yeah... been waiting for people to take notice ever since I first heard about Palantir. If this doesn't chill you to the bone, then you don't really get what's happening.
Palantir has received billions to create a surveillance state.
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org
December 1, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Yeah... been waiting for people to take notice ever since I first heard about Palantir. If this doesn't chill you to the bone, then you don't really get what's happening.
I remember in the early 90s, keeping a close eye on ads from the mail order house "Computability" in Amiga Magazine, waiting for the price of a 1 Gigabyte drive to drop below $1000. 😂
Not that many years later, I was using 1G drives as paperweights and doorstops. 🤣
Not that many years later, I was using 1G drives as paperweights and doorstops. 🤣
There was a time when I had a business that required a lot of digital storage. We paid $20,000 (around $40k in today’s dollars) for a 5-foot-high stack of interconnected drives.
They had 54 gigs of storage! Less than half of the iPhone I got for free when I signed a 2-yr contract.
I’m only 55.
They had 54 gigs of storage! Less than half of the iPhone I got for free when I signed a 2-yr contract.
I’m only 55.
December 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I remember in the early 90s, keeping a close eye on ads from the mail order house "Computability" in Amiga Magazine, waiting for the price of a 1 Gigabyte drive to drop below $1000. 😂
Not that many years later, I was using 1G drives as paperweights and doorstops. 🤣
Not that many years later, I was using 1G drives as paperweights and doorstops. 🤣
It's funny how language and communication work. For example, I've noticed that when I'm having an exchange with someone on social media, if they refer to vaccination as "the jab" it is invariably paired with all kinds of absolutely irreparable idiocy.
December 1, 2025 at 4:01 AM
It's funny how language and communication work. For example, I've noticed that when I'm having an exchange with someone on social media, if they refer to vaccination as "the jab" it is invariably paired with all kinds of absolutely irreparable idiocy.
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Agree or disagree?
November 30, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Agree or disagree?
This Presidency has convinced me that we need to completely remove the power of Presidential pardon, because clearly there is no limit to its potential for abuse.
November 30, 2025 at 11:10 PM
This Presidency has convinced me that we need to completely remove the power of Presidential pardon, because clearly there is no limit to its potential for abuse.
When you put a drunken, belligerent moron in charge of the world's largest military force...
November 30, 2025 at 3:25 AM
When you put a drunken, belligerent moron in charge of the world's largest military force...
I don't know what the artist had in mind, but to me, this is a post about politics.
November 29, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I don't know what the artist had in mind, but to me, this is a post about politics.
Wow, just had the first full-on MAGA propaganda account show up in my feed that I've seen in weeks, maybe months.
Hope that's not the beginning of a trend.
Hope that's not the beginning of a trend.
November 29, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Wow, just had the first full-on MAGA propaganda account show up in my feed that I've seen in weeks, maybe months.
Hope that's not the beginning of a trend.
Hope that's not the beginning of a trend.
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November 28, 2025 at 8:20 PM
These people are nauseating.
November 29, 2025 at 9:37 AM
These people are nauseating.
That Dr Seuss' WWII-era anti-Nazi cartoon should become relevant again really says terrible things about our society.
November 28, 2025 at 6:08 PM
That Dr Seuss' WWII-era anti-Nazi cartoon should become relevant again really says terrible things about our society.
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Oh my. When you've lost the Babylon Bee …
November 28, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Oh my. When you've lost the Babylon Bee …
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Post something random
November 28, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Post something random
Even if Trump's fantasy $2000 payout to citizens did materialize, that would cover about a month of people's heightened insurance premiums under the BBB.
November 28, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Even if Trump's fantasy $2000 payout to citizens did materialize, that would cover about a month of people's heightened insurance premiums under the BBB.
I agree, and I also think Pattinson is the best filmic Batman we've had. Extraordinary character performance. I wish they'd gotten him a film that was better (it was ok, but not great). Hoping they keep him around for a while, and give him some more colorful villains and situations to work with.
Robert Pattinson's Batman is genuinely one of my favorite autistic characters I've seen in modern fiction.
He's not the autism representation we deserve, but he's the autism representation we need.
Or whatever the line is.
(It's also just the best take on The Batman we've gotten in cinema tbh)
He's not the autism representation we deserve, but he's the autism representation we need.
Or whatever the line is.
(It's also just the best take on The Batman we've gotten in cinema tbh)
November 28, 2025 at 3:50 AM
I agree, and I also think Pattinson is the best filmic Batman we've had. Extraordinary character performance. I wish they'd gotten him a film that was better (it was ok, but not great). Hoping they keep him around for a while, and give him some more colorful villains and situations to work with.
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No. The Thing is a movie about a bunch of people who all distrust and hate each other trapped in one building as the tension between them slowly builds until it reaches a breaking point. It's a Thanksgiving movie.
Should John Carpenter's THE THING be officially classified as a Christmas movie? Let your voice be heard!
Is John Carpenter’s THE THING A Christmas Movie? Have Your Say
Should John Carpenter's THE THING be officially classified as a Christmas movie? Let your voice be heard!
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November 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
No. The Thing is a movie about a bunch of people who all distrust and hate each other trapped in one building as the tension between them slowly builds until it reaches a breaking point. It's a Thanksgiving movie.
This post-NYC mayoral election comment pairing remains my favorite 1-2 punch of the year. 🤣
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bsky.app/profile/moos...
November 26, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This post-NYC mayoral election comment pairing remains my favorite 1-2 punch of the year. 🤣
bsky.app/profile/moos...
bsky.app/profile/moos...
At this point I assume the reason that we haven't seen the full Epstein files is because they're not done scrubbing them yet.
November 26, 2025 at 11:29 AM
At this point I assume the reason that we haven't seen the full Epstein files is because they're not done scrubbing them yet.
I'm really tired of having this country run by morons.
November 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I'm really tired of having this country run by morons.
I think only the most oblivious dunderheads - like, say for example, every conservative that I know - was unaware of, or in denial of this.
Of course, they're in denial of basically everything that constitutes objective reality. 🤷♂️
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Of course, they're in denial of basically everything that constitutes objective reality. 🤷♂️
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Many prominent Maga personalities on X are based outside US, new tool reveals
Users posing as rightwing Americans are operating internationally, per the platform’s transparency feature
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I think only the most oblivious dunderheads - like, say for example, every conservative that I know - was unaware of, or in denial of this.
Of course, they're in denial of basically everything that constitutes objective reality. 🤷♂️
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Of course, they're in denial of basically everything that constitutes objective reality. 🤷♂️
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The world just keeps getting more and more inexplicable. Some days I feel like I don't even know up from down anymore 🤣
November 22, 2025 at 9:42 AM
The world just keeps getting more and more inexplicable. Some days I feel like I don't even know up from down anymore 🤣
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