SubGothius
@subgothius.bsky.social
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Schooled in Green Bay & Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Born & raised in Lincoln, Nebraska
Schooled in Green Bay & Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Born & raised in Lincoln, Nebraska
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SubGothius
@subgothius.bsky.social
· Jan 20
In the days to come, remember who you are & what you stand for—your values, principles & ideals. As an abiding, born & raised Unitarian Universalist, this is what matters to me:
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Think about refactoring.
Refactoring code is taking code, and changing *only* how it pieces together. It does the same thing, but it now does it with such as more reuseable parts, less hardcoding, etc.
It does the same thing as before, but it is now more maintainable. Easier to modify later.
Refactoring code is taking code, and changing *only* how it pieces together. It does the same thing, but it now does it with such as more reuseable parts, less hardcoding, etc.
It does the same thing as before, but it is now more maintainable. Easier to modify later.
December 28, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Surprised I haven't already seen him called the Great Pumpkin before now, tbh
5️⃣ THE NUMBER FIVE TOM THE DANCING BUG OF 2025
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Q-Nuts, in "All Hail the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown," from the week of 4/28/25
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Q-Nuts, in "All Hail the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown," from the week of 4/28/25
December 28, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Surprised I haven't already seen him called the Great Pumpkin before now, tbh
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It is EXHAUSTING not only being made responsible for coming up with new kinds of assignments for our students; it's also tedious reading op-eds that suggest the core problem is a crisis in teaching. But, as Chris and I lay out here, this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning.
"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction."
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
December 28, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is the best guarantee of their loyalty."
I'm mentioning this b/c the folks who hatched the grand theocratic plot to overthrow American pluralist democracy were smart & sophisticated. That's why it's so astonishing that the people they've picked to push the project across the finish line are such blathering idiots.
December 27, 2025 at 4:07 AM
"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is the best guarantee of their loyalty."
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ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
December 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
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🔵 This week’s Tom the Dancing Bug comic
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Human Morality Made Simple
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Brought to you by the Inner Hive, including longtime member Qwest1119 and new member Warren Spuzzum.
( bit.ly/theInnerHive )
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READ IT RIGHT HERE👇
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Human Morality Made Simple
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Brought to you by the Inner Hive, including longtime member Qwest1119 and new member Warren Spuzzum.
( bit.ly/theInnerHive )
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READ IT RIGHT HERE👇
December 26, 2025 at 6:43 PM
🔵 This week’s Tom the Dancing Bug comic
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Human Morality Made Simple
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Brought to you by the Inner Hive, including longtime member Qwest1119 and new member Warren Spuzzum.
( bit.ly/theInnerHive )
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READ IT RIGHT HERE👇
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Human Morality Made Simple
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Brought to you by the Inner Hive, including longtime member Qwest1119 and new member Warren Spuzzum.
( bit.ly/theInnerHive )
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READ IT RIGHT HERE👇
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“But it's also clear that there is likely something in the files that further incriminates him.” This is what I think, too. Horrible as the facts at hand are, there must be something else, something verging on the unimaginable.
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/feminism-ver...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/feminism-ver...
Feminism Versus Trump and Epstein
We already knew that Jeffrey Epstein had sexually assaulted and exploited dozens of girls and young women, that he had done so openly, that his dehumanization of the vulnerable had not prevented a who...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
December 26, 2025 at 9:04 PM
“But it's also clear that there is likely something in the files that further incriminates him.” This is what I think, too. Horrible as the facts at hand are, there must be something else, something verging on the unimaginable.
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/feminism-ver...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/feminism-ver...
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What if the paperclip maximizer but in real life
“Like Prime, but with human beings.”
December 24, 2025 at 9:25 PM
What if the paperclip maximizer but in real life
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Amazing the degree to which the philosophy of tech fascism seems to come straight from Alexandr Dugin—Vladimir Putin's version of Curtis Yarvin.
"Antichrist" theme, "multipolarity," democracy as "global dictator"
They should be paying him royalties, if they aren't already.
From 2009:
"Antichrist" theme, "multipolarity," democracy as "global dictator"
They should be paying him royalties, if they aren't already.
From 2009:
December 24, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Amazing the degree to which the philosophy of tech fascism seems to come straight from Alexandr Dugin—Vladimir Putin's version of Curtis Yarvin.
"Antichrist" theme, "multipolarity," democracy as "global dictator"
They should be paying him royalties, if they aren't already.
From 2009:
"Antichrist" theme, "multipolarity," democracy as "global dictator"
They should be paying him royalties, if they aren't already.
From 2009:
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Arizona Mirror in the Washington Post today
“Like Prime, but with human beings.”
December 24, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Arizona Mirror in the Washington Post today
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Oh dear, how awkward...the guy who coined the term "American Dream" gave the last word of his book to a young immigrant girl & said the main lesson of his day was that people who'd amassed great wealth were not "the wisest leader to follow nor the best fitted to propound a sane philosophy of life."
December 25, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Oh dear, how awkward...the guy who coined the term "American Dream" gave the last word of his book to a young immigrant girl & said the main lesson of his day was that people who'd amassed great wealth were not "the wisest leader to follow nor the best fitted to propound a sane philosophy of life."
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Rudolph wasn't accepted until he proved his value to the boss
What was your takeaway from Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer, when you watched it at a kid?
a stuffed reindeer with a red nose and a white tail
Alt: Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
media.tenor.com
December 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Rudolph wasn't accepted until he proved his value to the boss
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I’m a MAN
A MAN’S man
I eat STEAKS
With TRUFFLE BUTTER
At FANCY restaurants
And I pay CLOSE ATTENTION
To what OTHER DUDES order
And my ability to enjoy food is VERY DELICATE
A MAN’S man
I eat STEAKS
With TRUFFLE BUTTER
At FANCY restaurants
And I pay CLOSE ATTENTION
To what OTHER DUDES order
And my ability to enjoy food is VERY DELICATE
December 25, 2025 at 4:28 AM
I’m a MAN
A MAN’S man
I eat STEAKS
With TRUFFLE BUTTER
At FANCY restaurants
And I pay CLOSE ATTENTION
To what OTHER DUDES order
And my ability to enjoy food is VERY DELICATE
A MAN’S man
I eat STEAKS
With TRUFFLE BUTTER
At FANCY restaurants
And I pay CLOSE ATTENTION
To what OTHER DUDES order
And my ability to enjoy food is VERY DELICATE
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The people who say they are opposed to participation trophies want their children to receive diplomas for refusing to learn and if anyone suggests their precious little unique dandruff flake has to actually do the work then off with their heads.
December 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The people who say they are opposed to participation trophies want their children to receive diplomas for refusing to learn and if anyone suggests their precious little unique dandruff flake has to actually do the work then off with their heads.
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This struck me too. As Anne Applebaum doesn’t mention, she wrote a classic history of the Gulag.
The CBS investigation portrays a modern concentration camp, similar to the Soviet GULAG (like CECOT, an acronym): sadistic guards, 24 hour lighting, isolation cells.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This struck me too. As Anne Applebaum doesn’t mention, she wrote a classic history of the Gulag.
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The thing about Trump is that everything with him is exactly what it looks like. We've been through this before, with anxious liberals fretting that something or other is a clever double-fakeout. It never is. It's always just the thing in itself.
Given how news cycles work and the dynamics of the Trump propaganda/conspiracy machine, I don't find it plausible that the DOJ knowingly planted fake evidence against Trump in the Epstein files so they could discredit it later.
December 23, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The thing about Trump is that everything with him is exactly what it looks like. We've been through this before, with anxious liberals fretting that something or other is a clever double-fakeout. It never is. It's always just the thing in itself.
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This is totally underreported. Trump is not just going after "illegals." He's going after people who were here legally, by changing their status.
These are people who entered the US the right way, and never broke a law. Now they are subject to Trump's whim, his ICE goons, and inhuman detention.
These are people who entered the US the right way, and never broke a law. Now they are subject to Trump's whim, his ICE goons, and inhuman detention.
Trump has revoked legal status for at least 1.6 million immigrants over the past year by cancelling programs like TPS and student visas.
Remember: these are people who entered the country legally.
Trump never cared about “legal immigration" — just inflicting cruelty.
Remember: these are people who entered the country legally.
Trump never cared about “legal immigration" — just inflicting cruelty.
December 23, 2025 at 7:24 PM
This is totally underreported. Trump is not just going after "illegals." He's going after people who were here legally, by changing their status.
These are people who entered the US the right way, and never broke a law. Now they are subject to Trump's whim, his ICE goons, and inhuman detention.
These are people who entered the US the right way, and never broke a law. Now they are subject to Trump's whim, his ICE goons, and inhuman detention.
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cartoonishly evil, completely corrupt and bumbling incompetence are, like, *the* defining traits *and trifecta* of this entire stupid era
"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025
December 23, 2025 at 11:42 PM
cartoonishly evil, completely corrupt and bumbling incompetence are, like, *the* defining traits *and trifecta* of this entire stupid era
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don't ever listen to imposter syndrome, folks, all of these people are the most grossly incompetent imbeciles of all time, and if you see this, you're not on that list
December 23, 2025 at 12:57 AM
don't ever listen to imposter syndrome, folks, all of these people are the most grossly incompetent imbeciles of all time, and if you see this, you're not on that list
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Yes, CECOT is a concentration camp in the guise of a prison. The Venezuelans were the first people to *ever* be released from CECOT since Bukele opened the prison in January 2023. Seriously. The first.
These are concentration camps. No other way to describe them. Truly horrific, and none of it surprising in the least.
30 minutes. Some deportees described sexual assault. Detainee describes the guard sexually assaulting most detainees. Lights left on all day. Prisoners not given clean water.
Now the DHS tour. Nobody spoke to the detainees. Noem's video was in a different area of the prison.
Now the DHS tour. Nobody spoke to the detainees. Noem's video was in a different area of the prison.
December 23, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Yes, CECOT is a concentration camp in the guise of a prison. The Venezuelans were the first people to *ever* be released from CECOT since Bukele opened the prison in January 2023. Seriously. The first.
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Looking forward to Nancy Mace’s condemnation of these men in a women’s bathroom.
ICE agents illegally break into a woman's bathroom in a NY nutrition bar manufacturing plant. "Pull up your pants," says a male agent. The agents only had a warrant to review employer documents. They didn't have a warrant to search for, detain, or arrest anyone there.
December 23, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Looking forward to Nancy Mace’s condemnation of these men in a women’s bathroom.
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Fascism selects for people who think they see through the lie of liberal democracy but who are actually just too broken and malformed to eke out a reasonably satisfying life on conditions of general equality with their fellow citizens.
The fascists certainly aren't very good at this, are they
December 23, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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A coverup so fractally inept that the literal act of covering up redacted text got bungled
December 23, 2025 at 6:55 AM
A coverup so fractally inept that the literal act of covering up redacted text got bungled
JHC these guys are heckin terrible at this
After Epstein's 2019 death "prosecutors produced a seven-page memo on co-conspirators they might consider charging and followed that with an 86-page update in December ... a 13-page memo of corporate prosecutions they might pursue and a 26-page memo regarding another target prosecutors considered."
New trove of apparent Epstein files posted on DOJ site disappear
The Justice Department didn’t respond to requests for comment on the new documents or the decision to remove them.
www.politico.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:41 AM
JHC these guys are heckin terrible at this