Alexander Zanate
@snapgracklepop.bsky.social
Call me Max. Loud bird that likes to keep a level head. Home means Nevada. Left-liberal? Intactivist.
🇺🇸🏳️🌈🐦⬛ He/him
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Senator Warnock would make a fine president and I think could be competitive in the primary with a strong campaign.
I broadly consider myself an atheist with a complicated relationship to religion but Sen. Warnock is obviously not the problem and ultimately on my side.
I broadly consider myself an atheist with a complicated relationship to religion but Sen. Warnock is obviously not the problem and ultimately on my side.
December 14, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Senator Warnock would make a fine president and I think could be competitive in the primary with a strong campaign.
I broadly consider myself an atheist with a complicated relationship to religion but Sen. Warnock is obviously not the problem and ultimately on my side.
I broadly consider myself an atheist with a complicated relationship to religion but Sen. Warnock is obviously not the problem and ultimately on my side.
I think AI placeholder assets are a generally bad idea because you want a placeholder asset to be something distinct so you don't forget to change it to the real one later. The AI placeholders we've seen so far have not done that, the opposite really.
December 14, 2025 at 3:58 AM
I think AI placeholder assets are a generally bad idea because you want a placeholder asset to be something distinct so you don't forget to change it to the real one later. The AI placeholders we've seen so far have not done that, the opposite really.
Recently rewatched Star Trek The Wrath of Khan and Into Darkness with a friend for a comparison video they're making and damn Into Darkness is worse than I remember.
Why does nobody recognize Khan from history books??
Why does nobody recognize Khan from history books??
December 13, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Recently rewatched Star Trek The Wrath of Khan and Into Darkness with a friend for a comparison video they're making and damn Into Darkness is worse than I remember.
Why does nobody recognize Khan from history books??
Why does nobody recognize Khan from history books??
I think it's a stretch to call anything a company the size of Disney does "furry bait." Furries (myself ostensibly included) are an unusually large subculture but not large enough to justify that level of pandering.
December 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I think it's a stretch to call anything a company the size of Disney does "furry bait." Furries (myself ostensibly included) are an unusually large subculture but not large enough to justify that level of pandering.
Of all the people in the current zeitgeist I think Bari Weiss is the most offensive and personally upsetting. I expect Trump to be awful and I know how he got to where he is. Her? She's fallen upwards for no reason and it's not obvious that she'd be a vacuous monster.
December 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Of all the people in the current zeitgeist I think Bari Weiss is the most offensive and personally upsetting. I expect Trump to be awful and I know how he got to where he is. Her? She's fallen upwards for no reason and it's not obvious that she'd be a vacuous monster.
My relationship to my neurodiversity is a little complicated but I don't think it's right to say most ND people view their ND as a disability, I'm not sure if it should be that way either. I think of it as a phenotype, one that requires some accommodations that should be available to all people.
December 7, 2025 at 11:50 PM
My relationship to my neurodiversity is a little complicated but I don't think it's right to say most ND people view their ND as a disability, I'm not sure if it should be that way either. I think of it as a phenotype, one that requires some accommodations that should be available to all people.
I don't think reigniting the drug war, even if only limited to silicon valley, would be in our favor. It was just bad policy and doing it leftishly won't make it good policy.
It also ignores the executive/worker split, employees of these places tend to be pretty liberal! We shouldn't alienate them!
It also ignores the executive/worker split, employees of these places tend to be pretty liberal! We shouldn't alienate them!
December 7, 2025 at 5:32 AM
I don't think reigniting the drug war, even if only limited to silicon valley, would be in our favor. It was just bad policy and doing it leftishly won't make it good policy.
It also ignores the executive/worker split, employees of these places tend to be pretty liberal! We shouldn't alienate them!
It also ignores the executive/worker split, employees of these places tend to be pretty liberal! We shouldn't alienate them!
I love subposting and screaming into the void I actually do find it very cathartic.
December 7, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I love subposting and screaming into the void I actually do find it very cathartic.
I don't think this would actually do anything, I don't see what makes this fighting back and not more "strongly worded letters" or self-simialr to pining for a Joe Rogan of the left. Libleft judges would not suddenly follow this new legal theory.
Also, Biden tried this with the ERA.
Also, Biden tried this with the ERA.
December 7, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I don't think this would actually do anything, I don't see what makes this fighting back and not more "strongly worded letters" or self-simialr to pining for a Joe Rogan of the left. Libleft judges would not suddenly follow this new legal theory.
Also, Biden tried this with the ERA.
Also, Biden tried this with the ERA.
I think the Star Wars prequels hold up on the level of a lower tier Shakespeare play, they share the same clunkiness. I think calling them objectively bad is overreaching.
If the prequels were just more romance opera like the originals I think people would dislike them more.
If the prequels were just more romance opera like the originals I think people would dislike them more.
December 6, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I think the Star Wars prequels hold up on the level of a lower tier Shakespeare play, they share the same clunkiness. I think calling them objectively bad is overreaching.
If the prequels were just more romance opera like the originals I think people would dislike them more.
If the prequels were just more romance opera like the originals I think people would dislike them more.
In other news I'm probably going to learn Magic the Gathering for my spouse and he's, at my request, building me a mono-blue Final Fantasy themed Ultros commander deck designed to be as annoying as possible.
I also pulled both Cloud and the Buster Sword so I'll probably get a deck out of that.
I also pulled both Cloud and the Buster Sword so I'll probably get a deck out of that.
December 6, 2025 at 6:35 AM
In other news I'm probably going to learn Magic the Gathering for my spouse and he's, at my request, building me a mono-blue Final Fantasy themed Ultros commander deck designed to be as annoying as possible.
I also pulled both Cloud and the Buster Sword so I'll probably get a deck out of that.
I also pulled both Cloud and the Buster Sword so I'll probably get a deck out of that.
I generally index what Roddenberry would have thought about modern Trek along "morality plays but flashy so people will watch them." The gritty details of late-20th Trek are more an old dying man trying to cling to his baby against Paramount than a reflection of what he thought the show should be. 🧵
December 6, 2025 at 6:17 AM
I generally index what Roddenberry would have thought about modern Trek along "morality plays but flashy so people will watch them." The gritty details of late-20th Trek are more an old dying man trying to cling to his baby against Paramount than a reflection of what he thought the show should be. 🧵
The new Star Trek series looks fine. It's not some grand indicator of society's decline that they've decided to make becoming-competent-porn instead of competence-porn and I think Roddenberry would be fine with it, if a little worried anyone would watch (they will it's not the 60s anymore).
December 6, 2025 at 4:54 AM
The new Star Trek series looks fine. It's not some grand indicator of society's decline that they've decided to make becoming-competent-porn instead of competence-porn and I think Roddenberry would be fine with it, if a little worried anyone would watch (they will it's not the 60s anymore).
I think Christopher Hitchens' image has been brought down posthumously by the other close associates going crazy in the years since. He wasn't fantastic but he was more articulate than the others, and in a way more fair. He knew what role he was playing and it wasn't an independent objective judge.
December 5, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I think Christopher Hitchens' image has been brought down posthumously by the other close associates going crazy in the years since. He wasn't fantastic but he was more articulate than the others, and in a way more fair. He knew what role he was playing and it wasn't an independent objective judge.
The discourse that's come out of the Hillary Clinton comment has revealed that many people care more about their proxy ethnic grievances than any actual outcome.
December 4, 2025 at 8:55 PM
The discourse that's come out of the Hillary Clinton comment has revealed that many people care more about their proxy ethnic grievances than any actual outcome.
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“Progslop” is the assertion southern white people would vote for socialists if they heard their message about universal healthcare.
“Modslop” is the assertion Dems could win southern white people if they spent their whole campaigns reacting to Republican talking points.
“Modslop” is the assertion Dems could win southern white people if they spent their whole campaigns reacting to Republican talking points.
December 3, 2025 at 4:02 AM
“Progslop” is the assertion southern white people would vote for socialists if they heard their message about universal healthcare.
“Modslop” is the assertion Dems could win southern white people if they spent their whole campaigns reacting to Republican talking points.
“Modslop” is the assertion Dems could win southern white people if they spent their whole campaigns reacting to Republican talking points.
I do also think another excess of Woke 1 was on overessentialization unique-lived-experience/cultural-knowledge re racism/sexism/etc.
Sure people of color have unique experiences that white people can't fully live but that was often used more to just bully than towards any useful analysis.
Sure people of color have unique experiences that white people can't fully live but that was often used more to just bully than towards any useful analysis.
December 1, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I do also think another excess of Woke 1 was on overessentialization unique-lived-experience/cultural-knowledge re racism/sexism/etc.
Sure people of color have unique experiences that white people can't fully live but that was often used more to just bully than towards any useful analysis.
Sure people of color have unique experiences that white people can't fully live but that was often used more to just bully than towards any useful analysis.
I was on Tumblr during the height of Woke 1 and the online component of it at least was insane. "If you're white you shouldn't learn Spanish" levels of nonsense.
Not that this was core to the movement, just that it was visible and caused more problems than we probably thought at the time.
Not that this was core to the movement, just that it was visible and caused more problems than we probably thought at the time.
December 1, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I was on Tumblr during the height of Woke 1 and the online component of it at least was insane. "If you're white you shouldn't learn Spanish" levels of nonsense.
Not that this was core to the movement, just that it was visible and caused more problems than we probably thought at the time.
Not that this was core to the movement, just that it was visible and caused more problems than we probably thought at the time.
People who don't like the Star Wars prequels wouldn't like Shakespeare plays if Shakespeare plays didn't have the "necessarily serious art" veneer they do today.
Sorrynotsorry I love Attack of the Clones.
Sorrynotsorry I love Attack of the Clones.
November 29, 2025 at 10:00 PM
People who don't like the Star Wars prequels wouldn't like Shakespeare plays if Shakespeare plays didn't have the "necessarily serious art" veneer they do today.
Sorrynotsorry I love Attack of the Clones.
Sorrynotsorry I love Attack of the Clones.
Boy howdy do I hope that insurance will cover my gender affirming surgery!
November 29, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Boy howdy do I hope that insurance will cover my gender affirming surgery!
Psychosexual analysis of BDSM and society I think misses the forest for the trees pretty often especially when it comes to 'masculine' aspects.
The history of kink among gay men is a good example, there's a history and tradition there that is ignored and conflicts with the read re: fascism.
The history of kink among gay men is a good example, there's a history and tradition there that is ignored and conflicts with the read re: fascism.
November 29, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Psychosexual analysis of BDSM and society I think misses the forest for the trees pretty often especially when it comes to 'masculine' aspects.
The history of kink among gay men is a good example, there's a history and tradition there that is ignored and conflicts with the read re: fascism.
The history of kink among gay men is a good example, there's a history and tradition there that is ignored and conflicts with the read re: fascism.
Its fine that some people take a more watsonian approach to their media and it's fine some media is written with a watsonian mindset, I don't even know how this became discourse.
I know it can get annoying but people on Reddit are usually pretty judicious about this, relatively.
I know it can get annoying but people on Reddit are usually pretty judicious about this, relatively.
November 27, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Its fine that some people take a more watsonian approach to their media and it's fine some media is written with a watsonian mindset, I don't even know how this became discourse.
I know it can get annoying but people on Reddit are usually pretty judicious about this, relatively.
I know it can get annoying but people on Reddit are usually pretty judicious about this, relatively.
Final Fantasy XIII is probably my favorite one, been replaying lately.
I think it was pulled down because it was released right into the beginning of the open world craze and had a woman protagonist.
It's not perfect duh but there's something different and special about it.
I think it was pulled down because it was released right into the beginning of the open world craze and had a woman protagonist.
It's not perfect duh but there's something different and special about it.
November 26, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Final Fantasy XIII is probably my favorite one, been replaying lately.
I think it was pulled down because it was released right into the beginning of the open world craze and had a woman protagonist.
It's not perfect duh but there's something different and special about it.
I think it was pulled down because it was released right into the beginning of the open world craze and had a woman protagonist.
It's not perfect duh but there's something different and special about it.
A hot take, as a treat.
The Golden Compass is absolutely about circumcision, fuck you.
The Golden Compass is absolutely about circumcision, fuck you.
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 PM
A hot take, as a treat.
The Golden Compass is absolutely about circumcision, fuck you.
The Golden Compass is absolutely about circumcision, fuck you.
Okay I got the appointment, now I have to figure out how to get to San Francisco in a few months.
November 25, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Okay I got the appointment, now I have to figure out how to get to San Francisco in a few months.