Andrew S.
@shoutingboy.bsky.social
I write boring things for big companies that don't use my name. I write other things here and use my first name. I have two sweet dogs that wish the UPS man wouldn't ring the doorbell.
(Same handle on Dead Bird site--account now dormant--and on Threads.)
(Same handle on Dead Bird site--account now dormant--and on Threads.)
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Andrew S.
@shoutingboy.bsky.social
· Mar 18
im simultaneously impressed and disappointed
this is my brand
You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.
February 10, 2026 at 5:12 PM
You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.
Me: no kings
Also Me: not like this 😰
Also Me: not like this 😰
February 10, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Me: no kings
Also Me: not like this 😰
Also Me: not like this 😰
I mean, I made a post that said pretty clearly “almost all speech should have legal protection, but social opprobrium is often appropriate“. If someone well-actuallys it, they’re disagreeing with either the “legal protection” part or the “social opprobrium“ part. They can at least say so plainly.
February 10, 2026 at 3:46 PM
I mean, I made a post that said pretty clearly “almost all speech should have legal protection, but social opprobrium is often appropriate“. If someone well-actuallys it, they’re disagreeing with either the “legal protection” part or the “social opprobrium“ part. They can at least say so plainly.
I’ve never read Popper and I’m not expressing an opinion about what *he* wrote. I’m just very familiar with people who parachute in with motte-and-bailey arguments invoking Popper where they strongly imply, without copping to, that people should lose legal protection for odious speech.
February 10, 2026 at 3:44 PM
I’ve never read Popper and I’m not expressing an opinion about what *he* wrote. I’m just very familiar with people who parachute in with motte-and-bailey arguments invoking Popper where they strongly imply, without copping to, that people should lose legal protection for odious speech.
if a man watches Bad Bunny dancing and says “that’s gay pornography” maybe he’s describing a subjective experience and, like, i get it
February 10, 2026 at 3:42 PM
if a man watches Bad Bunny dancing and says “that’s gay pornography” maybe he’s describing a subjective experience and, like, i get it
Well, Tay and Travis got engaged, but other than that
February 10, 2026 at 7:39 AM
Well, Tay and Travis got engaged, but other than that
I think the biggest offenders are the GOP establishment. If you’re a normie low-info Republican-friendly voter, it‘s easy to think “if Trump were really so bad, would all those old time GOP politicians have gotten on board?” So you assume all this “fascism” talk is just politics.
February 10, 2026 at 7:35 AM
I think the biggest offenders are the GOP establishment. If you’re a normie low-info Republican-friendly voter, it‘s easy to think “if Trump were really so bad, would all those old time GOP politicians have gotten on board?” So you assume all this “fascism” talk is just politics.
I’m going to try to tell 100 normal people about her and then come up with a graphical way to represent how the conversations went
February 10, 2026 at 7:26 AM
I’m going to try to tell 100 normal people about her and then come up with a graphical way to represent how the conversations went
Well, you were replying to my post where I said that people don’t lose their right to free speech just because their opinions are odious, so I figured either you were saying that, or your post was a complete non sequitur.
February 10, 2026 at 7:18 AM
Well, you were replying to my post where I said that people don’t lose their right to free speech just because their opinions are odious, so I figured either you were saying that, or your post was a complete non sequitur.
Ken White wrote a good post on the importance of distinguishing freedom of speech (ie the law doesn’t punish you, and you don’t lose the law’s protection, because of your speech) from the increasingly specious “free speech culture” (ie “speech should never have consequences”).
The Fashionable Notion of 'Free Speech Culture' Is Justifying State Censorship, Ironically
It'll convince people that free speech is a sham
www.theunpopulist.net
February 10, 2026 at 7:16 AM
Ken White wrote a good post on the importance of distinguishing freedom of speech (ie the law doesn’t punish you, and you don’t lose the law’s protection, because of your speech) from the increasingly specious “free speech culture” (ie “speech should never have consequences”).
If Karl Popper is saying people with bad opinions shouldn’t have legal rights then I’mma go ahead and disagree with Karl Popper and you about that, thanks
February 10, 2026 at 5:00 AM
If Karl Popper is saying people with bad opinions shouldn’t have legal rights then I’mma go ahead and disagree with Karl Popper and you about that, thanks
Yeah… I remember Nick “Allahpundit” Catoggio writing in 2024 about Trump voters who assumed he’d be tougher on Russia than Kamala because, well, he’s a Republican, right? Republicans are tough on Russia.
February 10, 2026 at 4:04 AM
Yeah… I remember Nick “Allahpundit” Catoggio writing in 2024 about Trump voters who assumed he’d be tougher on Russia than Kamala because, well, he’s a Republican, right? Republicans are tough on Russia.
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The idea of a bill rendering people deportable for following religious law should make every Jew ill
Tomorrow I will testify before subcommittee of House Judiciary Committee against the proposed "Preserving a Sharia-Free America Act," which would authorize exclusion/deportation of all or most non-citizen Muslim immigrants. My written testimony posted here: reason.com/wp-content/u...
reason.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:47 AM
The idea of a bill rendering people deportable for following religious law should make every Jew ill
Nah, I’ll defend people’s *right* to say almost anything. Want to say that we should bring back slavery? That the Nazis were right to murder Jews? I’ll defend your legal right to say it.
That is, I don’t think you should be fined or imprisoned for saying it. Shunned? Fired? You bet.
That is, I don’t think you should be fined or imprisoned for saying it. Shunned? Fired? You bet.
February 10, 2026 at 3:53 AM
Nah, I’ll defend people’s *right* to say almost anything. Want to say that we should bring back slavery? That the Nazis were right to murder Jews? I’ll defend your legal right to say it.
That is, I don’t think you should be fined or imprisoned for saying it. Shunned? Fired? You bet.
That is, I don’t think you should be fined or imprisoned for saying it. Shunned? Fired? You bet.
Yeah, fuck on out of here with that bullshit. If you can vote for a fascist or you can vote for a non-fascist and you come up with a reason to do something other than vote for the non-fascist, then to hell with you.
February 10, 2026 at 2:24 AM
Yeah, fuck on out of here with that bullshit. If you can vote for a fascist or you can vote for a non-fascist and you come up with a reason to do something other than vote for the non-fascist, then to hell with you.
COUNTERPOINT: If someone can choose to vote between a fascist and a non-fascist, and they don't vote for the non-fascist, that tells me a lot about that person.
February 10, 2026 at 2:15 AM
COUNTERPOINT: If someone can choose to vote between a fascist and a non-fascist, and they don't vote for the non-fascist, that tells me a lot about that person.
Among many other things: Control of the House ain't gonna come down to "a small number of very close races". The Senate might be tight, but for the House, the only question is whether the result is "Dems in 2006"-lopsided, or "Saddam in 1995"-lopsided.
February 10, 2026 at 1:30 AM
Among many other things: Control of the House ain't gonna come down to "a small number of very close races". The Senate might be tight, but for the House, the only question is whether the result is "Dems in 2006"-lopsided, or "Saddam in 1995"-lopsided.
Repulsive word, “ICE“. It means abduction and that’s a mighty big crime
February 10, 2026 at 1:11 AM
Repulsive word, “ICE“. It means abduction and that’s a mighty big crime
Say, aren’t we overdue for Trump‘s monthly MRI and cognitive assessment test? Shouldn’t we be seeing some posts about how they asked him to identify a drawing of a goat and he totally aced it?
February 10, 2026 at 1:00 AM
Say, aren’t we overdue for Trump‘s monthly MRI and cognitive assessment test? Shouldn’t we be seeing some posts about how they asked him to identify a drawing of a goat and he totally aced it?
I’m looking at what ICE is doing right now and I see a lot of dipshits causing tremendous localized human suffering. This isn’t Trump‘s SS. It isn’t even Trump‘s SA.
I see a lot of low level threat there, but I don’t see a meaningful threat to the elections.
I see a lot of low level threat there, but I don’t see a meaningful threat to the elections.
February 10, 2026 at 12:52 AM
I’m looking at what ICE is doing right now and I see a lot of dipshits causing tremendous localized human suffering. This isn’t Trump‘s SS. It isn’t even Trump‘s SA.
I see a lot of low level threat there, but I don’t see a meaningful threat to the elections.
I see a lot of low level threat there, but I don’t see a meaningful threat to the elections.
Though remember, Trump didn’t pardon J6ers in 2021 when he could have. If he’s afraid it’ll blow back on him, he’ll let his soldiers twist in the wind.
So we have to make Trump worry that pardons will hurt him. IMO we can do that.
So we have to make Trump worry that pardons will hurt him. IMO we can do that.
February 10, 2026 at 12:38 AM
Though remember, Trump didn’t pardon J6ers in 2021 when he could have. If he’s afraid it’ll blow back on him, he’ll let his soldiers twist in the wind.
So we have to make Trump worry that pardons will hurt him. IMO we can do that.
So we have to make Trump worry that pardons will hurt him. IMO we can do that.
Like, every time Trump comes back to the Ukraine war, his mental model is "it's all Ukraine's fault for not giving Russia what it wants which basically forced Russia to do all that"
Like, if Ukraine's going to walk around dressed like that, of course it gets invaded
Like, if Ukraine's going to walk around dressed like that, of course it gets invaded
February 9, 2026 at 11:43 PM
Like, every time Trump comes back to the Ukraine war, his mental model is "it's all Ukraine's fault for not giving Russia what it wants which basically forced Russia to do all that"
Like, if Ukraine's going to walk around dressed like that, of course it gets invaded
Like, if Ukraine's going to walk around dressed like that, of course it gets invaded
Basically Trump has two models of interpersonal/governmental relationship:
1. Abuser to battered wife
2. Rapist to victim
(there's some overlap there, of course)
1. Abuser to battered wife
2. Rapist to victim
(there's some overlap there, of course)
February 9, 2026 at 11:40 PM
Basically Trump has two models of interpersonal/governmental relationship:
1. Abuser to battered wife
2. Rapist to victim
(there's some overlap there, of course)
1. Abuser to battered wife
2. Rapist to victim
(there's some overlap there, of course)
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it does strike me how completely unsubtle the abuser talk is here; you’re totally ungrateful to me for how good i am to you, you’ll regret leaving me for anyone else, anyone else would be much worse to you, you owe me for everything i have done for you
luv 2 have an elderly president ostensibly atop a rudderless administration having daily crashouts that are increasingly and obviously evidence of intellectual decline
Trump, in the middle of his latest unhinged Truth Social screed, claims that if Canada makes a trade deal with China, "the first thing China will do is terminate ALL Ice Hockey being played in Canada, and permanently eliminate The Stanley Cup."
February 9, 2026 at 11:37 PM
it does strike me how completely unsubtle the abuser talk is here; you’re totally ungrateful to me for how good i am to you, you’ll regret leaving me for anyone else, anyone else would be much worse to you, you owe me for everything i have done for you