vILLAGE GENIOUS
@suddenlygarmo.bsky.social
doing Posts about politics, renewable energy, cat, things of that nature
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Running focus grouped or poll tested language doesn't work and this is a major reason why. Know your values, frame the debate bsky.app/profile/rick...
And paradoxically, why the triangulationist in the Democratic party are such bad speakers. All those third way moderate ghouls cant think on their feet because they're mentally running a focus group on the next word they speak. They aren't basing their speech on core values. See: MGP video last week
February 6, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Running focus grouped or poll tested language doesn't work and this is a major reason why. Know your values, frame the debate bsky.app/profile/rick...
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If you understand your values as the basis for your politics, you will have considerably less trouble figuring out what to say. (Practice, slogans, preparation all help too) bsky.app/profile/ohta...
based on convos with folks who've organized with and around him for years:
the most significant cognitive savings likely comes from the depth of his ideological commitment, and the practice has been on fine tuning an effective framework
also i bet rapping's not unlike improv for getting "reps" lol
the most significant cognitive savings likely comes from the depth of his ideological commitment, and the practice has been on fine tuning an effective framework
also i bet rapping's not unlike improv for getting "reps" lol
It's true that Mamdani is a skilled improviser but that's counterintuitively a result of his superior preparation — spending time and energy to hone your speaking style, memorize talking points etc frees up cognitive load to notice and react to what's around you instead of thinking about what to say
February 6, 2026 at 5:28 AM
If you understand your values as the basis for your politics, you will have considerably less trouble figuring out what to say. (Practice, slogans, preparation all help too) bsky.app/profile/ohta...
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It's true that Mamdani is a skilled improviser but that's counterintuitively a result of his superior preparation — spending time and energy to hone your speaking style, memorize talking points etc frees up cognitive load to notice and react to what's around you instead of thinking about what to say
Dude is such a natural and charismatic communicator. Something occurs that would make someone else stumble or lose focus and he just rolls it into his speech almost like it was prepared. That takes not just talent but instinct.
Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.”
Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
February 6, 2026 at 4:52 AM
It's true that Mamdani is a skilled improviser but that's counterintuitively a result of his superior preparation — spending time and energy to hone your speaking style, memorize talking points etc frees up cognitive load to notice and react to what's around you instead of thinking about what to say
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Do you know of any researchers who study eugenics (especially around vaccine stuff)?
February 6, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Do you know of any researchers who study eugenics (especially around vaccine stuff)?
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The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley.
Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo.
Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles.
Get them out!
Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo.
Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles.
Get them out!
February 6, 2026 at 12:08 AM
The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley.
Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo.
Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles.
Get them out!
Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo.
Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles.
Get them out!
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We need to rehabilitate the "girlboss" as a concept, seeing how it took approximately 2.5 seconds for us to go from deciding they were cringe to a rapeboss taking over the world.
February 6, 2026 at 3:20 AM
We need to rehabilitate the "girlboss" as a concept, seeing how it took approximately 2.5 seconds for us to go from deciding they were cringe to a rapeboss taking over the world.
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People will often come close to directly stating this, such as their disbelief that Trump could order a nuclear strike. I remember in autumn 2016 people telling me that republicans would never let Trump be elected
i think there is a shared, cross generational belief that there is a “They” sitting in the background that will step in and prevent things from getting intolerably bad
February 6, 2026 at 5:16 AM
People will often come close to directly stating this, such as their disbelief that Trump could order a nuclear strike. I remember in autumn 2016 people telling me that republicans would never let Trump be elected
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I liked reading the McArdle claim how, to these men who are 40+, there are 13-16-year-old girls "just around" a private island and that's why they think it's fine to have sex with them.
Yeah sorry but as a man in my 40s that is not ambiguous or confusing to me, they are bad men hurting young girls.
Yeah sorry but as a man in my 40s that is not ambiguous or confusing to me, they are bad men hurting young girls.
February 6, 2026 at 11:24 AM
I liked reading the McArdle claim how, to these men who are 40+, there are 13-16-year-old girls "just around" a private island and that's why they think it's fine to have sex with them.
Yeah sorry but as a man in my 40s that is not ambiguous or confusing to me, they are bad men hurting young girls.
Yeah sorry but as a man in my 40s that is not ambiguous or confusing to me, they are bad men hurting young girls.
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when I was in high school I had male teachers in their 30s who I totally thought I was adult peer friends with. when I was in my 30s and was a high school youth group leader I was like “those are not my friends, those are children.” that’s when I realized those men just had bad boundaries
when i was a 16yo girl i thought i was an adult. coaching 12-17yo girls as a 28yo really hammered home how much i was wrong about being an adult at 16 and how obvious it is to actual adults that a 16yo is not an adult. if they say they cannot tell they are lying because they are a creep.
February 6, 2026 at 6:16 AM
when I was in high school I had male teachers in their 30s who I totally thought I was adult peer friends with. when I was in my 30s and was a high school youth group leader I was like “those are not my friends, those are children.” that’s when I realized those men just had bad boundaries
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Not celebrating bitcoin crashing until it’s bare minimum at Pre-2020 levels. I want those guys left with absolutely nothing. I wanna rub it in when they’re really thinking of ending things.
February 6, 2026 at 6:17 AM
Not celebrating bitcoin crashing until it’s bare minimum at Pre-2020 levels. I want those guys left with absolutely nothing. I wanna rub it in when they’re really thinking of ending things.
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This is so beautiful. I can't think of a better example of the fact that art isn't a luxury. It's a human impulse and need, and always has been.
February 6, 2026 at 12:24 PM
This is so beautiful. I can't think of a better example of the fact that art isn't a luxury. It's a human impulse and need, and always has been.
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A little bear figurine carved out of amber some 6,000 years ago 🐻❤️
A hole runs through the bear’s torso suggesting it was threaded on a cord, perhaps worn or carried as a protective charm.
Found in a peat bog near Słupsk, Poland, in 1887.
📷 National Museum in Szczecin
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
A hole runs through the bear’s torso suggesting it was threaded on a cord, perhaps worn or carried as a protective charm.
Found in a peat bog near Słupsk, Poland, in 1887.
📷 National Museum in Szczecin
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
February 6, 2026 at 8:04 AM
A little bear figurine carved out of amber some 6,000 years ago 🐻❤️
A hole runs through the bear’s torso suggesting it was threaded on a cord, perhaps worn or carried as a protective charm.
Found in a peat bog near Słupsk, Poland, in 1887.
📷 National Museum in Szczecin
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
A hole runs through the bear’s torso suggesting it was threaded on a cord, perhaps worn or carried as a protective charm.
Found in a peat bog near Słupsk, Poland, in 1887.
📷 National Museum in Szczecin
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
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No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
www.nature.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:09 AM
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
A screenshot from a video posted on Trump's Truth Social account: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
February 6, 2026 at 9:28 AM
Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
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Depressingly I’m the most surprised by him knowing and using “et al”
February 6, 2026 at 12:48 PM
Depressingly I’m the most surprised by him knowing and using “et al”
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Going by his public footprint and age (used the same screen name on Twitter where his avatar was a selfie, used the same screen name to submit a review of a car dealership in Bowie Maryland) seems highly likely to be the guy who has worked at the National Archives in College Park for 26 years
February 6, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Going by his public footprint and age (used the same screen name on Twitter where his avatar was a selfie, used the same screen name to submit a review of a car dealership in Bowie Maryland) seems highly likely to be the guy who has worked at the National Archives in College Park for 26 years
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I've said this before, but...
The day of the election, a woman came up to the democrats booth, walked up to my husband, looked him in his eyes and said, "you have no idea what you've done"
Gives me a chill thinking about it. Still haunts us
The day of the election, a woman came up to the democrats booth, walked up to my husband, looked him in his eyes and said, "you have no idea what you've done"
Gives me a chill thinking about it. Still haunts us
February 6, 2026 at 10:48 AM
I've said this before, but...
The day of the election, a woman came up to the democrats booth, walked up to my husband, looked him in his eyes and said, "you have no idea what you've done"
Gives me a chill thinking about it. Still haunts us
The day of the election, a woman came up to the democrats booth, walked up to my husband, looked him in his eyes and said, "you have no idea what you've done"
Gives me a chill thinking about it. Still haunts us
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The entire anti wokeness nonsense of the past decade was about making this kind of gutter racism broadly acceptable again bsky.app/profile/adam...
Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
A screenshot from a video posted on Trump's Truth Social account: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
February 6, 2026 at 10:09 AM
The entire anti wokeness nonsense of the past decade was about making this kind of gutter racism broadly acceptable again bsky.app/profile/adam...
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lol. lmao
February 6, 2026 at 3:57 PM
lol. lmao
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He’s going to destroy both companies hell yes
SPACEX AND XAI MERGER PREMISED ON CAPITAL FLOWS FOR AI STARTUP, SOURCES SAY -- WSJ
February 6, 2026 at 3:42 AM
He’s going to destroy both companies hell yes
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this shit is seriously fucking with my grip on, like, reality, and I do not care for it one bit to be quite honest with y'all
February 6, 2026 at 3:59 AM
this shit is seriously fucking with my grip on, like, reality, and I do not care for it one bit to be quite honest with y'all
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jeffrey epstein being the first domino for the financial crash, video game micro transactions, and Gamergate is making me lose my mind
February 6, 2026 at 3:57 AM
jeffrey epstein being the first domino for the financial crash, video game micro transactions, and Gamergate is making me lose my mind
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The only monument I respect is Bottineau, ND once voted to build this turtle on a snowmobile instead of an outdoor pool.
February 6, 2026 at 4:58 AM
The only monument I respect is Bottineau, ND once voted to build this turtle on a snowmobile instead of an outdoor pool.