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I've picked up some new followers over the last few days and I've got to tell you, you're all going to be disappointed
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The thing I don’t understand about anarchism is the point where every policy discussion devolves into: “I do not trust the members of my community freely elected to represent me, but I do trust an unpredictable mob of vigilantes.”
I'm an anarchist so I done believe in the government existing much less taking people's kids. But the community should in fact get together and take their kids away to better homes.
January 23, 2026 at 11:06 PM
It's hard to judge from just this one picture, but it really doesn't take very many people deciding to shop on Thursday or Friday instead of Saturday or Sunday to clear some stuff out.

It probably takes <50 extra shoppers to temporarily clear out the toilet paper.
yes it’s stupid, but i have seen northerners with hurricanes, so don’t y’all go ripping the atlantans
It's not looking good in Atlanta...
January 23, 2026 at 10:38 PM
Look, <insert Democrat's name here> didn't say exactly the thing I wanted them to in the moment I was obsessing over it, in the tone that I wanted to hear it in and through the medium I personally use for that topic, therefore Democrats are failing
I mean 2 days ago people on here were mad that Schumer wasn't messaging to EUROPEANS on Greenland and why should be. Schumer isn't on any of the military committees, it's not his job to talk to Europeans or Canadians
January 21, 2026 at 1:28 AM
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I said something and my mom said it was funny and then I posted it here and you didn't laugh. I love bluesky but this is unsustainable. Mom said it was funny. Now bluesky will never be the global townsquare. This is proof you aren't fighting fascism enough.

MOM SAID IT WAS FUNNY.
January 20, 2026 at 12:07 AM
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I am going to be honest that if you aren’t sure whether or not it would be good if the fascists kill a prominent anti-fascist activist with whom you have developed an inscrutable parasocial antagonism, I really doubt the sincerity of your commitment to leftism or anti-fascism
January 17, 2026 at 1:36 AM
I had a dad that was wrong about a lot more than he realized but this is another league, perhaps a completely different sport
he is retired but when he was in practice he provided services through an agency and took insurance; i see a doctor who requires me to seek reimbursement out of network and my dad feels that makes her “my employee”. it’s really dumb
January 13, 2026 at 11:06 AM
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the funniest part of this dumbass obsession with protein from people like RFK, jr. is that there's an actual political problem you could help solve here (farmers and excess soybeans) to help sell this message, but people like him are brain-melted into thinking that tofu is gay
white house social media manager: you get those photos of RFK, jr. for the protein post?

white house content creator: sure did boss, real fuckin' sinister, just like you asked

white house social media manager: what
January 12, 2026 at 6:13 AM
I think that among a certain set of people that have "USA = bad" as a fixed point in their worldview, USAID is especially galling precisely because it did good things and in particular because people in poorer countries recognized it as such
Discovering the antipathy for USAID on the left has been moderately black pilling for me tbh
January 11, 2026 at 2:15 AM
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Every time I see Curtis Yarvin's writing or posts linked to me I am absolutely floored at how stupid he is
January 6, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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they are just such tedious people
January 3, 2026 at 2:24 AM
Someone should tell those people that capitalism is the vibes-based economy, but it's not gonna be me
I don’t understand the “oh, you have a LINE on a GRAPH, you think that MEANS anything?!” people who also self-id as some kind of socialist/communist. how exactly are you going to run the command economy, dude? macroeconomic policy made on vibes?
I don't think this a particularly accurate description.
December 19, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Kind of a separate discussion, but if you're concerned about gentrification then the answer is to support the construction of plenty of expensive, fancy housing in expensive, fancy neighborhoods
by cheap housing, do you mean that you oppose market rate construction?
December 17, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Since anecdotes are all that people want to hear anymore, I'm a straight white man and we're fine, I'm still the job market's special little boy

Academia did not in any way become hostile to men
What that study usefully does tell us is that the 'disproportionality in STEM academia' is not about hiring processes that are biased against women. It's not IMV a useful bit of evidence that disproportionality in the other direction humanities is about bias towards women.
December 17, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Me, a finance professor: True shareholder value maximization has never been tried
i think what disgusts me the most is that businessmen valued harassing their female employees over their everything else, including their duty to shareholders
So cool how we just willfully induced a national malaise
December 17, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Drums: Not Even Once
can’t hear you i just finished playing a set with six other bands in a basement with no ear plugs
December 16, 2025 at 2:12 AM
I genuinely appreciate getting (free!) takes on this stuff from someone that pays a lot more attention to this than I do
Yeah I get the concern. But the approach Ford is taking from here is genuinely differentiated and focused on competing with China through innovation/leveraging the unique attributes of the EV platform. Will it work? IDK. But it’s not just doubling down on ICE.
December 16, 2025 at 1:54 AM
This especially makes sense when you realize that the degrees a SLAC and a state school offer are nearly identical once you get past the hype and look at the classes you take

It's a competitive market that you have to differentiate yourself in, and not many people care about what SLACs offer
I personally think that is the bigger reason why so many small private colleges are declining. Not so much a rejection of the liberal arts, but they lost their core market. And can't compete against cheaper state schools on the one side and more selective private schools on the other.
December 9, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I don't think that desktop Linux will ever be a really big thing, but Microsoft sure seems to be trying its best to make it happen
I've always been a big fan of their hardware, it's just in the past couple of years that I've started to prefer the OS and that's mostly because it lets you login without tricking you into opening a Bing search because you accidentally clicked the stock photo on your login screen
December 8, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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The problems with *most areas of policy* in the US are mostly about political power - who gets to decide how something is done, what money is spent, and who gets to veto what project. "Technology" is just a pipe dream to abstract away from these questions
December 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
@stephenkb.bsky.social As an American this is a weird, unfamiliar feeling for me, but I need a distinctly British take re: the Falklands. The Argentinian nationalists are losing their minds online and my fellow Americans are just laughing.
December 5, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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So much of this shit is gambling! Robinhood is fucking gambling! Crypto is gambling! Videogame business models are gambling! It's all fucking gambling! Laws need to really catch up to the fact that the brain can be hacked by this shit.
This is gambling, and we've essentially decided that it's okay to let it go on entirely unregulated for ??? Reasons.
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 3, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Seeing Falklands discourse pop up says a lot about the current state of the Argentinian economy and internal politics and basically nothing about anything else
December 3, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Trying to decide if it's more accurate to say that poli sci research is "like econ research but what if you're not an asshole about it" or if econ research is like doing any other research but done douchily
unfortunately some of the stereotypes about social sciences that conservatives have, largely false in like Econ, Poli sci, etc. are partially true about education research (lots of exceptions, etc). it's really bad.
"i don't like the value judgment implied in 'that kid can't read so well'" AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
November 14, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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I think it’s bad that the president is a likely child rapist.
November 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Being the change I want see and reading the most recent 10-Q

I don't actually see anything about adjustments to operating income, that just talk about regular operating income a lot

I'm assuming either Bloomberg or Amazon is talking about seasonally adjusted quarterly operating income
no, but they're all disclosed in great detail with every quarterly earnings which is a quick google away.
October 27, 2025 at 9:15 PM