Public Universal Fiend
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Public Universal Fiend, Reply Guy Local #666-420 on twitter. Proud Duşakabinoğlu failson and supporter of a Denver el.
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agreed. on another note i think the reply guy saying YIMBY vs. NIMBY "plays into the interests of the right" is very funny when actually existing republicans hate apartment buildings, don't want any to be built, and think driving 50 miles each way to work from an exurban mcmansion is cool and good
January 21, 2026 at 9:10 PM
agreed. on another note i think the reply guy saying YIMBY vs. NIMBY "plays into the interests of the right" is very funny when actually existing republicans hate apartment buildings, don't want any to be built, and think driving 50 miles each way to work from an exurban mcmansion is cool and good
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It's not an analogue but this image of European friars burning indigenous (Maya and Aztec I think) books and cultural objects (c. 1585) feels like one of the reference points for whatever is unfolding.
January 21, 2026 at 5:06 PM
It's not an analogue but this image of European friars burning indigenous (Maya and Aztec I think) books and cultural objects (c. 1585) feels like one of the reference points for whatever is unfolding.
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it didn’t even ask amazon to build it amazon just did that for the love of the game
one of the most hilarious* things about america and its preoccupation of being The Most Freedom Country is that it has an unprecedented surveillance network that is trivially available to government that government didn't even have to pay for, it tricked its citizens/residents into buying it
“Safety experts and tech critics have long condemned the Ring devices for security risks and privacy violations, not to mention their role in building the largest civilian surveillance network in US history.”
January 21, 2026 at 9:11 PM
it didn’t even ask amazon to build it amazon just did that for the love of the game
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The only people there to disabuse them of this are the actual mil people there who know better, but in a more degraded US political environment there is a serious risk of chud hubris just assuming their foes will give up and it gets us into a serious conflict.
There's always been fantasies on forums and on 4chan about killing 'weak libs' in cities in a civil war, as well as killing the 'weak and gay' coalition troops coming to support the 'woke US government' which I'm sure has carried onto to current staffers.
January 21, 2026 at 8:58 PM
The only people there to disabuse them of this are the actual mil people there who know better, but in a more degraded US political environment there is a serious risk of chud hubris just assuming their foes will give up and it gets us into a serious conflict.
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Speaking for myself, if she wins, my reaction will be "cool! Issues, communication, & mutual aid activity all matter more than Being a Known Quantity; time to throw out every crap alder in the upcoming municipal. LFG"
If she loses? Guess living where you're running does matter
If she loses? Guess living where you're running does matter
January 21, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Speaking for myself, if she wins, my reaction will be "cool! Issues, communication, & mutual aid activity all matter more than Being a Known Quantity; time to throw out every crap alder in the upcoming municipal. LFG"
If she loses? Guess living where you're running does matter
If she loses? Guess living where you're running does matter
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it’s been a decade of this and somehow nobody has figured out that trump is the most beatable man alive. he folds the instant you show him a mirror. just do what he does at you back at him and he crumples instantly!!
Trump is fundamentally a coward, he is happy to use military force but only if it's a mugging from behind and not a straight up fight
I don't think Greenland fascination is 'fake' in any way, but I do think Trump is uniquely and correctly loathe to involve actual US troops in whatever it is he's doing, and until I see some reporting on troop buildup or standing orders I'm going to treat it as bluster, but our allies markedly can't
January 21, 2026 at 9:09 PM
it’s been a decade of this and somehow nobody has figured out that trump is the most beatable man alive. he folds the instant you show him a mirror. just do what he does at you back at him and he crumples instantly!!
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yes, republican policy is explicitly intended to cause mass death. maybe someone at, idk, the washington post should write about this. just spitballing
Jesus Christ www.statnews.com/2026/01/20/c...
Senior CDC official: Loss of measles elimination status in U.S. would be ‘cost of doing business’
The principal deputy director of the CDC said he would not view the loss of the United States' measles elimination status as a significant event.
www.statnews.com
January 21, 2026 at 7:21 PM
yes, republican policy is explicitly intended to cause mass death. maybe someone at, idk, the washington post should write about this. just spitballing
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Ask yourself: do you want the capitalists to be in charge as this gets worse. And if not what are you doing to change that
The world has entered “an era of global water bankruptcy” with irreversible consequences, according to a new United Nations report. https://cnn.it/4qxGTNX
January 21, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Ask yourself: do you want the capitalists to be in charge as this gets worse. And if not what are you doing to change that
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For our SLC rep we need the opposite - unassuming BYU grad with a perfectly conventional family life and style but who has developed a deep faith based social justice belief system
January 21, 2026 at 4:06 PM
For our SLC rep we need the opposite - unassuming BYU grad with a perfectly conventional family life and style but who has developed a deep faith based social justice belief system
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She has very strong “most alternative & sexually liberated kid in her private Christian school but still actually pretty conservative views otherwise” vibe
January 21, 2026 at 4:00 PM
She has very strong “most alternative & sexually liberated kid in her private Christian school but still actually pretty conservative views otherwise” vibe
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Niiiice. I got this guy at a thrift store in Michigan a couple months ago
January 21, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Niiiice. I got this guy at a thrift store in Michigan a couple months ago
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the Supreme Court never gave immunity for the documents case, or anything he did as a private citizen. and either way, you make them do it! maybe along the way you find out about more malfeasance that’s prosecutable with the extra ~21 months you’ve bought yourself!
January 21, 2026 at 6:36 PM
the Supreme Court never gave immunity for the documents case, or anything he did as a private citizen. and either way, you make them do it! maybe along the way you find out about more malfeasance that’s prosecutable with the extra ~21 months you’ve bought yourself!
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went almost 3 and a half minutes without feeling blind anger at some new form of senseless, wanton destruction. thankfully this came along
The Trump administration is bending the rules to open up the deep sea to commercial mining for the first time.
Trump is steamrolling global calls for a moratorium on deep-sea mining
It wants to greenlight mining outside of US national jurisdiction.
www.theverge.com
January 21, 2026 at 6:18 PM
went almost 3 and a half minutes without feeling blind anger at some new form of senseless, wanton destruction. thankfully this came along
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Observe: At first glance, this picture could be from Minnesota and show an ICE goon.
"A striking image captures a Palestinian children standing face-to-face with a heavily armed soldier in the southern area of Hebron."(Eye on Palestine) #WestBank
January 21, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Observe: At first glance, this picture could be from Minnesota and show an ICE goon.
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There isn’t a state that doesn’t have a utility that owns half the legislature, and if I was a power lobby or the smallest electric utility I would let every congressman I’d ever donated to know that institutional memory is real and Trump will die one day, and on that day your career will too
The administration "can't just say 'national security,' file a secret report and call it a day, a lawyer for Dominion, which is building what's poised to be the largest offshore wind farm in the US, told a federal judge at a hearing on Friday
www.npr.org/2026/01/21/n...
www.npr.org/2026/01/21/n...
Trump administration claims offshore wind poses a threat. But it won't say how.
The Interior Department said pausing construction of offshore wind farms would allow the government agencies to work with project developers to mitigate potential risks. But wind companies say the adm...
www.npr.org
January 21, 2026 at 6:25 PM
There isn’t a state that doesn’t have a utility that owns half the legislature, and if I was a power lobby or the smallest electric utility I would let every congressman I’d ever donated to know that institutional memory is real and Trump will die one day, and on that day your career will too
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Historians, especially Eurocentric ones or those who employ methodological nationalism, often elide this or elude it by focusing on the fact that Ashkenazim were numerically superior. But that was a pretty recent state of affairs in the 1800s and the Ottoman state would have had no reason to know it
January 21, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Historians, especially Eurocentric ones or those who employ methodological nationalism, often elide this or elude it by focusing on the fact that Ashkenazim were numerically superior. But that was a pretty recent state of affairs in the 1800s and the Ottoman state would have had no reason to know it
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TIL: in the 1890s, from the Ottoman perspective, “Jew” meant what they then called “Sephardi.”
They had one population registry for “Jews” and another one for “Ashkenazim.”
When Ashkenazim learned of this they experienced it as disorienting. One compared it to being seen as Samaritan
They had one population registry for “Jews” and another one for “Ashkenazim.”
When Ashkenazim learned of this they experienced it as disorienting. One compared it to being seen as Samaritan
January 21, 2026 at 3:17 PM
TIL: in the 1890s, from the Ottoman perspective, “Jew” meant what they then called “Sephardi.”
They had one population registry for “Jews” and another one for “Ashkenazim.”
When Ashkenazim learned of this they experienced it as disorienting. One compared it to being seen as Samaritan
They had one population registry for “Jews” and another one for “Ashkenazim.”
When Ashkenazim learned of this they experienced it as disorienting. One compared it to being seen as Samaritan
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And they won’t let you cancel service. Curious! Fascinating.
January 21, 2026 at 5:54 PM
And they won’t let you cancel service. Curious! Fascinating.
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What is a tiktok/reel/short but a fireside chat for the modern era?
January 21, 2026 at 6:14 PM
What is a tiktok/reel/short but a fireside chat for the modern era?
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Basically correct I think
January 21, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Basically correct I think
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but it was invented during the 18th century - and is actually an early example of deliberate green technology. At the time, Sweden faced a deforestation crisis because huge amounts of charcoal were being used for iron production. The Royal Academy of Sciences gave two guys the task of inventing a
January 21, 2026 at 6:11 PM
but it was invented during the 18th century - and is actually an early example of deliberate green technology. At the time, Sweden faced a deforestation crisis because huge amounts of charcoal were being used for iron production. The Royal Academy of Sciences gave two guys the task of inventing a
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ICE agents will come to the school patrol asking who the organizers are believing they’re like Soros shadow figures, and it’s like a bespectacled software engineer who didn’t know the names of more than 5 parents two weeks ago.
January 21, 2026 at 4:02 PM
ICE agents will come to the school patrol asking who the organizers are believing they’re like Soros shadow figures, and it’s like a bespectacled software engineer who didn’t know the names of more than 5 parents two weeks ago.
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absolutely fascinating dynamic where the aesthetics of liberal hipsters of the 2010s are ubiquitous cool now they no longer signal anything about political alignment
January 21, 2026 at 7:57 AM
absolutely fascinating dynamic where the aesthetics of liberal hipsters of the 2010s are ubiquitous cool now they no longer signal anything about political alignment
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right, like "there are a lot of activists in the south doing important work despite a system stacked against them" and "many southerners would gleefully cut off their nose if it meant spiting the democrats" are two separate thoughts we should be able to hold together
January 21, 2026 at 1:04 PM
right, like "there are a lot of activists in the south doing important work despite a system stacked against them" and "many southerners would gleefully cut off their nose if it meant spiting the democrats" are two separate thoughts we should be able to hold together