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Berserker Coach
@berserkercoach.bsky.social
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"Fuck every cause that ends in murder and children crying."
An autotelic soul wearing a corpse.
Optimized for a world that doesn't exist yet.

pronoiac, lawyer, coach, sport psychologist, Olympian, BJJ black belt, SFF/comics reader.
Baffled, angry
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November 23, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/p...
November 23, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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FFS.

Strong echoes of "Freedom Fries"
November 21, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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How DARE you slander the beautiful Maleficent!

these women WISH they could look that good
a head shot screen capture of the beautiful evil fairy Maleficent from the 1959 animated movie/Sleeping Beauty
November 20, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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they are, in fact, sending their best.
November 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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What the actual fuck, @bostonglobe.com?

Bad enough you give space to someone who wants to do away with the Civil Rights Act, but this is paragraph 2 of his wikipedia.
Come on!
Between 2008 and the early 2010s, Hanania wrote for alt-right and white supremacist publications under the pseudonym Richard Hoste.[7][8] He acknowledged and disavowed his writing under the pseudonym when it was reported in 2023.[7][6] Journalists have stated that Hanania continued to make racist statements under his own name.[5][9]
November 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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November 18, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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www.wired.com/story/all-my...
Still, I put aside my unease to hear him out about the product. We’d been building what we liked to call a “procrastination engine,” named Sloth Surf. The app worked like this: A user who had the urge to procrastinate on the internet could come to the site, input their procrastination preferences, and let an AI agent do it for them. Want to waste half an hour on social media? Read sports message boards for the afternoon? Let Sloth Surf take care of the scrolling for you, our pitch went, and then it can email you a summary—all while you get back to work (or don’t, we’re not your boss).
November 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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and maybe get on a good track rather than trying to shoehorn the modern era into yesterday's paradigms

cf EO Wilson's comment about "Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology"

also Stephenson's The Diamond Age

the actual Luddites were onto something.
excerpt from Neal Stephenson's book The Diamond age "“What do you mean, a different way?” “To make money you have to work hard—to live your life in a certain way. The Atlantans all live that way, it's part of their culture. The Nipponese too. So the Nipponese and the Atlantans have as much money as all the other phyles put together.” “Why aren't you an Atlantan?” “Because I don't want to live that way. All the people in Dovetail like to make beautiful things. To us, the things that the Atlantans do—dressing up in these kinds of clothes, spending years and years in school—are irrelevant. Those pursuits wouldn't help us make beautiful things, you see. I'd rather just wear my blue jeans and make paper.” “But the M.C. can make paper,” Nell said. “Not the kind that the Atlantans like.” “But you make money from your paper only because the Atlantans make money from working hard,” Nell said. Rita's face turned red and she said nothing for a little while. Then, in a tight voice, she said, “Nell, you should ask your book the meaning of the word discretion.”"
November 17, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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A) that's literally what ACA subsidies do.

B)
November 17, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Every word of this makes me
November 16, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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graph from Pew Research showing that GOP members of Congress have on average become much more conservative while Democrats have remained the same valence of left-leaning. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/03/10/the-polarization-in-todays-congress-has-roots-that-go-back-decades/ "The polarization in today’s Congress has roots that go back decades By Drew DeSilver It’s become commonplace among observers of U.S. politics to decry partisan polarization in Congress. Indeed, a Pew Research Center analysis finds that, on average, Democrats and Republicans are farther apart ideologically today than at any time in the past 50 years."
November 16, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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November 16, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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boat hulls get stove in
stave 2 of 2 verb staved or stove ˈstōv ; staving transitive verb 1 : to smash a hole in stove in the boat also : to crush or break inward staved in several ribs 2 : to break in the staves of (a cask) 3 : to drive or thrust away
November 15, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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read.gov/aesop/061.html
A screenshot of an Aesop Fable " The Birds, the Beasts, & the Bat The Birds and the Beasts declared war against each other. No compromise was possible, and so they went at it tooth and claw. It is said the quarrel grew out of the persecution the race of Geese suffered at the teeth of the Fox family. The Beasts, too, had cause for fight. The Eagle was constantly pouncing on the Hare, and the Owl dined daily on Mice. It was a terrible battle. Many a Hare and many a Mouse died. Chickens and Geese fell by the score—and the victor always stopped for a feast. Now the Bat family had not openly joined either side. They were a very politic race. So when they saw the Birds getting the better of it, they were Birds for all there was in it. But when the tide of battle turned, they immediately sided with the Beasts. When the battle was over, the conduct of the Bats was discussed at the peace conference. Such deceit was unpardonable, and Birds and Beasts made common cause to drive out the Bats. And since then the Bat family hides in dark towers and deserted ruins, flying out only in the night. --The deceitful have no friends.--
November 15, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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This is why Schumer et al. need to retire - only fresh new energetic faces can do this.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...
November 14, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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a picture of Goya's painting "Saturn Devouring His Son" altered such that Saturn's head is replaced by a large Oreo cookie, and the body of Saturn's son is replaced with a stack of smaller Oreo cookies.
November 14, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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November 14, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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[insert "created Torment Nexus" reference here]
November 14, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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November 13, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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November 12, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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November 12, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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November 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM