@bellsandwistles.bsky.social
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Only YOU can prevent the Abominable Intelligence. Is your hatred pure?
December 18, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Only YOU can prevent the Abominable Intelligence. Is your hatred pure?
I guess he would know
Ben Shapiro: "Today I want to talk about something even more important — how to discern those attempting to speak truth from frauds and grifters…The conservative movement is in danger from charlatans who claim to speak in the name of principle but actually traffic in conspiracy and dishonesty."
December 19, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I guess he would know
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Children are being exploited. Let’s respond by dramatically hindering our ability to point out or criticize children being exploited, using methods we don’t understand because we’re old and incurious.
Children are being exploited and abused because Big Tech consistently prioritizes profits over people.
Enough is enough. Time to sunset Section 230.
Enough is enough. Time to sunset Section 230.
December 19, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Children are being exploited. Let’s respond by dramatically hindering our ability to point out or criticize children being exploited, using methods we don’t understand because we’re old and incurious.
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If you are so delicate that you cannot stand to hear me point out that the TikTok ban passed with bipartisan support because heaven forbid I should besmirch some Democrats by pointing out what they voted for, I have terrible news for you about all of my other opinions.
December 19, 2025 at 2:29 AM
If you are so delicate that you cannot stand to hear me point out that the TikTok ban passed with bipartisan support because heaven forbid I should besmirch some Democrats by pointing out what they voted for, I have terrible news for you about all of my other opinions.
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"you're a man"
ad hominem
"you were born a boy"
sunk cost fallacy
"you're amab"
false dichotomy
"you have xy chromosomes"
false equivalence
"trans people are mentally ill"
non sequitur
"changing your sex isn't possible"
skill issue
ad hominem
"you were born a boy"
sunk cost fallacy
"you're amab"
false dichotomy
"you have xy chromosomes"
false equivalence
"trans people are mentally ill"
non sequitur
"changing your sex isn't possible"
skill issue
December 18, 2025 at 9:36 PM
"you're a man"
ad hominem
"you were born a boy"
sunk cost fallacy
"you're amab"
false dichotomy
"you have xy chromosomes"
false equivalence
"trans people are mentally ill"
non sequitur
"changing your sex isn't possible"
skill issue
ad hominem
"you were born a boy"
sunk cost fallacy
"you're amab"
false dichotomy
"you have xy chromosomes"
false equivalence
"trans people are mentally ill"
non sequitur
"changing your sex isn't possible"
skill issue
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This is huge. Trump has successfully prosecuted a state official for bucking his racist war on immigrants. If they can get a judge, they can get anyone. Gift article.
Judge Convicted of Obstructing Agents as They Sought Undocumented Immigrant
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:01 AM
This is huge. Trump has successfully prosecuted a state official for bucking his racist war on immigrants. If they can get a judge, they can get anyone. Gift article.
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when your hammer makes solid contact with your chisel, and the chisel with the stone, there’s a wonderful feeling of force being transmitted from one to the other and of the potential for that force to change things and this right here is it
December 19, 2025 at 3:50 AM
when your hammer makes solid contact with your chisel, and the chisel with the stone, there’s a wonderful feeling of force being transmitted from one to the other and of the potential for that force to change things and this right here is it
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Premium newsletter: my 18k word AI Mythbusters: There’s no insatiable demand for AI compute, AI is not “getting exponentially better” or “tricking humans,” we haven't “lost control of AI,” AI doomerism is a grift, and there is no “GenAI arms race with China.”
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December 15, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Premium newsletter: my 18k word AI Mythbusters: There’s no insatiable demand for AI compute, AI is not “getting exponentially better” or “tricking humans,” we haven't “lost control of AI,” AI doomerism is a grift, and there is no “GenAI arms race with China.”
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Just to recap:
The TikTok ban? Bad.
The SCOTUS ruling upholding the TikTok ban? Also bad.
Trump choosing not to enforce the ban? More bad.
The Trump-backed mostly-US consortium taking over US Tiktok? You guessed it...bad.
The TikTok ban? Bad.
The SCOTUS ruling upholding the TikTok ban? Also bad.
Trump choosing not to enforce the ban? More bad.
The Trump-backed mostly-US consortium taking over US Tiktok? You guessed it...bad.
December 19, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Just to recap:
The TikTok ban? Bad.
The SCOTUS ruling upholding the TikTok ban? Also bad.
Trump choosing not to enforce the ban? More bad.
The Trump-backed mostly-US consortium taking over US Tiktok? You guessed it...bad.
The TikTok ban? Bad.
The SCOTUS ruling upholding the TikTok ban? Also bad.
Trump choosing not to enforce the ban? More bad.
The Trump-backed mostly-US consortium taking over US Tiktok? You guessed it...bad.
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This clip offers as good a time as ever to say a huge thank you to NGNM producer @sammartirosyan.bsky.social who really went above and beyond tolerating our firearm-based nitwittery throughout this episode. Some phenomenal editing work that really tied the pod together. 🔫
this week we've got @gregk.co.uk talking about Brazil's Baron Harkonnen, Paulo Maluf. But first, some history about the military dictatorship that birthed him. nogodsnomayors.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:14 PM
This clip offers as good a time as ever to say a huge thank you to NGNM producer @sammartirosyan.bsky.social who really went above and beyond tolerating our firearm-based nitwittery throughout this episode. Some phenomenal editing work that really tied the pod together. 🔫
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It all makes perfect sense once you realize that "violence" isn't ALL use of force, but only those uses of force that we disapprove of (and many other things we disapprove of, tbh).
"We condemn all violence" really just means "no-one is allowed to challenge us in any way."
"We condemn all violence" really just means "no-one is allowed to challenge us in any way."
December 19, 2025 at 11:00 AM
It all makes perfect sense once you realize that "violence" isn't ALL use of force, but only those uses of force that we disapprove of (and many other things we disapprove of, tbh).
"We condemn all violence" really just means "no-one is allowed to challenge us in any way."
"We condemn all violence" really just means "no-one is allowed to challenge us in any way."
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Here’s part 2 of this week’s three-part Better Offline NVIDIA special. I walk you through the history of Enron, how it differs from NVIDIA, and how growth-desperation led big tech to waste hundreds of billions of dollars on GPUs.
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Linktr.ee/betteroffline
December 18, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Here’s part 2 of this week’s three-part Better Offline NVIDIA special. I walk you through the history of Enron, how it differs from NVIDIA, and how growth-desperation led big tech to waste hundreds of billions of dollars on GPUs.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Linktr.ee/betteroffline
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Linktr.ee/betteroffline
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In the latest update of BLADE MAIDENS...
In the first of a three-part short, Eldridge and Rowan share a quiet moment and some COMMON GROUND.
The whole short is available at www.blademaidens.com right now, with the other two pages being posted here tomorrow and Saturday.
In the first of a three-part short, Eldridge and Rowan share a quiet moment and some COMMON GROUND.
The whole short is available at www.blademaidens.com right now, with the other two pages being posted here tomorrow and Saturday.
December 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
In the latest update of BLADE MAIDENS...
In the first of a three-part short, Eldridge and Rowan share a quiet moment and some COMMON GROUND.
The whole short is available at www.blademaidens.com right now, with the other two pages being posted here tomorrow and Saturday.
In the first of a three-part short, Eldridge and Rowan share a quiet moment and some COMMON GROUND.
The whole short is available at www.blademaidens.com right now, with the other two pages being posted here tomorrow and Saturday.
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They booked a bunch of 14 year old models to come to a Mar A Lago party, told them to dress sexy and tried to ply them with alcohol.
These are the people who are willing to go on the record.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
December 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
They booked a bunch of 14 year old models to come to a Mar A Lago party, told them to dress sexy and tried to ply them with alcohol.
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actual name TK
Breaking news: The board of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has voted to rename the storied arts institution the “Trump-Kennedy Center,” according to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.
Kennedy Center board votes to rename ‘Trump-Kennedy Center’
Kennedy Center trustees, installed earlier this year by President Trump, have voted to rename the center after him, said Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:06 PM
actual name TK
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Tonight’s Christmas movie is the debunking of Steven Pinker’s The Blank Slate, which premiered two decades prior to that book
December 14, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Tonight’s Christmas movie is the debunking of Steven Pinker’s The Blank Slate, which premiered two decades prior to that book
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BLOOD WORK TOURISM BOARD HIGHLIGHTS: WISH YOU WERE (LISTENING TO BLOOD WORK) HERE
VIEW MORE ON INSTAGRAM:
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VIEW MORE ON INSTAGRAM:
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December 14, 2025 at 12:06 PM
BLOOD WORK TOURISM BOARD HIGHLIGHTS: WISH YOU WERE (LISTENING TO BLOOD WORK) HERE
VIEW MORE ON INSTAGRAM:
www.instagram.com/p/DSPkBT0jJg...
VIEW MORE ON INSTAGRAM:
www.instagram.com/p/DSPkBT0jJg...
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Any essential service that is required for safe and functional modern living should be mandated to be public only. Profit motive is incompatible with essential services, because "everyone has it" and "increase profit yearly" don't mix. Water, power, heat, safety - and I'm looking at you, Internet.
Private equity has found a new source of profit: volunteer fire departments.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...
Private Equity Finds a New Source of Profit: Volunteer Fire Departments
www.nytimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Any essential service that is required for safe and functional modern living should be mandated to be public only. Profit motive is incompatible with essential services, because "everyone has it" and "increase profit yearly" don't mix. Water, power, heat, safety - and I'm looking at you, Internet.
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This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
December 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
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And finally, the assault on Section 230. This is the endgame for independent speech.
If you repeal 230, you don’t hurt Google or Meta—they have the lawyers to survive. You destroy the small forums, the independent blogs, the dissenters. You make the cost of speaking the truth too high to bear.
If you repeal 230, you don’t hurt Google or Meta—they have the lawyers to survive. You destroy the small forums, the independent blogs, the dissenters. You make the cost of speaking the truth too high to bear.
How Democrats’ Attack On Section 230 Plays Right Into Trump’s Censorial Plans
Like clockwork, lawmakers are once again rallying around the idea of eliminating Section 230. That Republicans are leading this charge is hardly surprising—repealing Section 230 is explicitly laid …
www.techdirt.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM
And finally, the assault on Section 230. This is the endgame for independent speech.
If you repeal 230, you don’t hurt Google or Meta—they have the lawyers to survive. You destroy the small forums, the independent blogs, the dissenters. You make the cost of speaking the truth too high to bear.
If you repeal 230, you don’t hurt Google or Meta—they have the lawyers to survive. You destroy the small forums, the independent blogs, the dissenters. You make the cost of speaking the truth too high to bear.
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Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
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'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 8:31 AM
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
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people are so shocked that eugenics was, and still is, normalised because of the normalisation of the assumption that what is normal must be Good
eugenics is Bad so it must only be associated with the abnormal Other
it's fractal
and it hurts
eugenics is Bad so it must only be associated with the abnormal Other
it's fractal
and it hurts
1. Historically, eugenics was not a pseudoscience. It was *science* Almost every scientist, social scientist, academic, etc. believed in the validity of eugenics. You would have to search far & wide to find a scientist that didn't believe in some form of it. They taught it in college!
December 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
people are so shocked that eugenics was, and still is, normalised because of the normalisation of the assumption that what is normal must be Good
eugenics is Bad so it must only be associated with the abnormal Other
it's fractal
and it hurts
eugenics is Bad so it must only be associated with the abnormal Other
it's fractal
and it hurts
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so many 'ancient immutable truths' were actually invented in the colonial era to try and justify it as the lesser evil
November 30, 2025 at 11:56 AM
so many 'ancient immutable truths' were actually invented in the colonial era to try and justify it as the lesser evil
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It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.
December 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.