Ted Bun B
@aware-minnow.bsky.social
If democrats can figure out just which level of Maslow’s hierarchy is actually under threat here we might get somewhere.
January 8, 2026 at 3:59 AM
If democrats can figure out just which level of Maslow’s hierarchy is actually under threat here we might get somewhere.
The Oscar Meyer Wienermobile kinda fell off.
December 17, 2025 at 2:24 AM
The Oscar Meyer Wienermobile kinda fell off.
The Hat Man has signed a 72-month auto loan at 11% APR. Ya hate to see it.
December 16, 2025 at 3:50 AM
The Hat Man has signed a 72-month auto loan at 11% APR. Ya hate to see it.
CEOs of ai companies need to shill their product as a revolution in theft of the value of labor by the capital class to attract investment. in the abstract, it does look like the ultimate alienation of labor. but the thing is that it fucking sucks at it.
December 12, 2025 at 2:16 AM
CEOs of ai companies need to shill their product as a revolution in theft of the value of labor by the capital class to attract investment. in the abstract, it does look like the ultimate alienation of labor. but the thing is that it fucking sucks at it.
ah the weather’s finally good in the southern US. think I might go for a walk on my neighborhood streets (no sidewalks) and get barked at by every dog in a 1/2 mile radius!
December 8, 2025 at 11:16 PM
ah the weather’s finally good in the southern US. think I might go for a walk on my neighborhood streets (no sidewalks) and get barked at by every dog in a 1/2 mile radius!
When a thing they do looks contradictory, that is a sign that that thing and its apparent contradiction are actually totally incidental to some underlying goal. Which is always just white supremacy and christian nationalism.
Defending Texas sovereignty has been central to Gov. Greg Abbott’s political identity.
Yet he has helped Trump erode states’ authority over elections, policing and deploying the National Guard.
Yet he has helped Trump erode states’ authority over elections, policing and deploying the National Guard.
Abbott embraces Trump’s views of presidential power despite support for states’ rights - The Texas Tribune
Defending Texas sovereignty has been central to Abbott’s political identity. Yet he has helped Trump erode states’ authority over elections, policing and deploying the National Guard.
www.texastribune.org
November 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM
When a thing they do looks contradictory, that is a sign that that thing and its apparent contradiction are actually totally incidental to some underlying goal. Which is always just white supremacy and christian nationalism.
im a modern app and i love to append a 1 to a numeric name being copied instead of incrementing it
November 20, 2025 at 12:49 PM
im a modern app and i love to append a 1 to a numeric name being copied instead of incrementing it
im the lockpicking lawyer
November 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM
im the lockpicking lawyer
That democrats are still producing/consuming/embodying this rationale explains so much. We’re where we are because the center is a rhetorical vapor, providing no material opposition to the right. Which I guess is the point.
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
The antidote to our polarized politics “is a creative, re-energized political center,” the Times editorial board writes.
The antidote to our polarized politics “is a creative, re-energized political center,” the Times editorial board writes.
Opinion | America Still Has a Political Center, and It’s the Key to Winning
The antidote to our polarized politics is a creative, re-energized political center.
nyti.ms
October 31, 2025 at 2:28 PM
That democrats are still producing/consuming/embodying this rationale explains so much. We’re where we are because the center is a rhetorical vapor, providing no material opposition to the right. Which I guess is the point.
The nasty outcome is unchanged, but it is funnier to read this as a guy whose frontal lobe has been deleted to toddler levels of inhibitory power. I think he would fail the one cookie now or two cookies later test.
John Fetterman when asked about timing of vote that will cost millions health care and food on the table, destroy industries and jobs:
"Oh my God, I just want to go home... I've missed our entire trip to to the beach."
It is noon on a Monday.
"Oh my God, I just want to go home... I've missed our entire trip to to the beach."
It is noon on a Monday.
June 30, 2025 at 5:42 PM
The nasty outcome is unchanged, but it is funnier to read this as a guy whose frontal lobe has been deleted to toddler levels of inhibitory power. I think he would fail the one cookie now or two cookies later test.
cyberpunk guy excitedly sticking his head in the crew’s quarters: “gore-penis is fightin’ pedo!”
June 5, 2025 at 11:32 PM
cyberpunk guy excitedly sticking his head in the crew’s quarters: “gore-penis is fightin’ pedo!”
Thinking of a new computer called “the dark computer” and it is very powerful #darkcomputer
May 26, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Thinking of a new computer called “the dark computer” and it is very powerful #darkcomputer
hello everyone. it is my pleasure to announce the new pope is none other than the grunpy cat #grumpycatpope
May 8, 2025 at 4:32 PM
hello everyone. it is my pleasure to announce the new pope is none other than the grunpy cat #grumpycatpope
Liberals think that reacting to some right-wing outrage with “Imagine if Obama did that—they would’ve been in the streets!” is illustrating the right’s hypocrisy, but it is much more an inadvertent confession to liberal complacency. The right WOULD’VE been in the streets yet liberals are not.
March 5, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Liberals think that reacting to some right-wing outrage with “Imagine if Obama did that—they would’ve been in the streets!” is illustrating the right’s hypocrisy, but it is much more an inadvertent confession to liberal complacency. The right WOULD’VE been in the streets yet liberals are not.
What’ll they do next, repudiate foreign debts?
February 26, 2025 at 1:19 AM
What’ll they do next, repudiate foreign debts?
A lot of people are saying Greenland’s not a big Country but we say Have you seen it on a Map, ok? It is Very Big—bigger than Africa according to some very smart people who have seen the Maps. The Haters and the Losers are talking about someone named Mercator but we don’t like Mercator do we folks
February 25, 2025 at 8:51 PM
A lot of people are saying Greenland’s not a big Country but we say Have you seen it on a Map, ok? It is Very Big—bigger than Africa according to some very smart people who have seen the Maps. The Haters and the Losers are talking about someone named Mercator but we don’t like Mercator do we folks
WWII might have been different if Ribbentrop insisted on being chauffeured about by toonces the driving cat. Interesting to think about.
Tesla, whose chief executive, Elon Musk, has been advising President Trump on how to cut government spending, is likely to receive a lucrative contract to supply armored versions of its Cybertruck pickup to the State Department, according to public documents.
State Dept. Plans $400 Million Purchase of Armored Tesla Cybertrucks
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2025 at 2:53 AM
WWII might have been different if Ribbentrop insisted on being chauffeured about by toonces the driving cat. Interesting to think about.
The critique of capital wherein its reflection of liberal democratic values as marketing is a cynicism is incomplete, as is being shown by their current eschewing of them. Capital’s mandate is to align not merely with ideology as a source of profits but with power.
February 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
The critique of capital wherein its reflection of liberal democratic values as marketing is a cynicism is incomplete, as is being shown by their current eschewing of them. Capital’s mandate is to align not merely with ideology as a source of profits but with power.
Also, liberals’ incredulousness at fascists’ contradictions and hypocrisy (“but they said tyrants are bad!”) betrays a juvenile, fiction-informed conception of the bad guys, which is that their motivations can be understood via some rational, if evil, framework.
February 3, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Also, liberals’ incredulousness at fascists’ contradictions and hypocrisy (“but they said tyrants are bad!”) betrays a juvenile, fiction-informed conception of the bad guys, which is that their motivations can be understood via some rational, if evil, framework.
American pop culture, particularly the reskinning of WWII archetypes in books/movies, has built a conception of struggle among many liberals under 50 in which deus ex machina + the good guys winning are the natural order. Since that is an inexorable outcome, they are thus excused from action.
February 3, 2025 at 5:51 PM
American pop culture, particularly the reskinning of WWII archetypes in books/movies, has built a conception of struggle among many liberals under 50 in which deus ex machina + the good guys winning are the natural order. Since that is an inexorable outcome, they are thus excused from action.