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deepstaria

@deepstaria.bsky.social

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She/her, 30s. Deep sea creature living under a rock.

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deepstaria @deepstaria.bsky.social · Jan 16

Made an alt account to keep my shitposting and fandom spam separate from my main, it's @tentaclegown.bsky.social

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The Fig Economy

@figgityfigs.bsky.social

Has there ever been anybody besides JD Vance to be specifically repudiated by two popes inside of six years of converting to Catholicism?

May 8, 2025 at 7:16 PM

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Marisa Kabas

@marisakabas.bsky.social

amazing that he thought this would stop people from saying he killed him

@JDVance:
I just learned of the passing of Pope Francis. My heart goes out to the millions of Christians all over the world who loved him.

I was happy to see him yesterday, though he was obviously very ill. But I’ll always remember him for the below homily he gave in the very early days of COVID. It was really quite beautiful.

May God rest his soul.

April 21, 2025 at 11:52 AM

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BeijingPalmer

@beijingpalmer.bsky.social

Pope Francis lived through his health crisis driven by his faith and love in the Lord, and his burning loathing of J.D. Vance.

April 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM

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Joel S.

@joelhs.bsky.social

Me trying to explain fascism to students: "A lot has to do with fear of supposedly stable gendered boundaries blurring, and how that maps onto racial and national hierarchies. But can I really say transphobia is the lodestone to fascism?"

Aleksandr Dugin: "Ukrainians are collective transgenders."

"Ukrainians are ‘collective transgenders’ – Dugin
The country has bartered away its Russian identity for an “abstract and absurd alternative,” the political scientist has said
Ukrainians are ‘collective transgenders’ – Dugin
Alexandr Dugin. © Sputnik
Ukrainians have become “collective transgenders” in their desire to get closer to the West and cut ties with Moscow, Russian philosopher and political scientist Aleksandr Dugin has said."

April 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM

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maeveslop

@maeveynot.bsky.social

anne boyer (i feel like we all know this here but i screenshotted it for a discord i’m in so it seemed like an opportunity)

Always falling into a hole, then saying "ok, this is not your grave, get out of this hole," getting out of the hole which is not the grave, falling into a hole again, saying "ok, this is also not your grave, get out of this hole," getting out of that hole, falling into another one; sometimes falling into a hole within a hole, or many holes within holes, getting out of them one after the other, then falling again, saying "this is not your grave, get out of the hole"; sometimes being pushed, saying "you can not push me into this hole, it is not my grave," and getting out defiantly, then falling into a hole again without any pushing; sometimes falling into a set of holes whose structures are predictable, ideological, and long dug, often falling into this set of structural and impersonal holes; sometimes falling into holes with other people, with other people, saying "this is not our mass grave, get out of this hole," all together getting out of the hole together, hands and legs and arms and human ladders of each other to get out of the hole that is not the mass grave but that will only be gotten out of together; sometimes the willful-falling into a hole which is not the grave bc it is easier than not falling into a hole really, but then once in it, realizing it is not the grave, getting out of the hole eventually; sometimes falling into a hole and languishing there for days, weeks, months, years, because while not the grave very difficult, still, to climb out of and you know after this hole there's just another and another; sometimes surveying the landscape of holes and wishing for a high quality final hole; sometimes thinking of who has fallen into holes which are not graves but might be better if they were; sometimes too ardently contemplating the final hole while trying to avoid the provisional ones; sometimes dutifully falling and getting out, w/perfect fortitude, saying "look at the skill and spirit with which I rise from that which resembles the grave but isn't!"

April 6, 2025 at 2:17 AM

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rahaeli

@rahaeli.bsky.social

okay this may be the one that finally breaks me. The Signal thing, okay, one time fuckup. GMAIL?

evacide @evacide.bsky.social · Apr 1

In case you were wondering what kind of story would lead me to say "I'm going to need a moment to come up with something more printable than 'fuck no,'" it is this: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Waltz and staff used Gmail for government communications, officials say

Trump’s national security adviser is trying to manage his way out of a crisis. But new revelations about his team’s operational security are piling up in the inbox.

www.washingtonpost.com

April 1, 2025 at 9:03 PM

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Anil Dash

@anildash.com

I’ve seen enough. (Just in general, I’ve seen enough.)

April 2, 2025 at 2:19 AM

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Shane Harris

@shaneharris.bsky.social

In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans

U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

www.theatlantic.com

March 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM

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Faine Greenwood

@faineg.bsky.social

The most dangerous thing about AI chat bots is how many men with political power treat them *exactly* and unquestioningly like actual Ancient Greek oracles.

March 22, 2025 at 12:19 AM

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BeijingPalmer

@beijingpalmer.bsky.social

putting your govt in the hands of a millenarian cult usually turns out great, right?

hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · Mar 18

You should read this, by Henry Farrell.

"I put it to this ['DOGE-adjacent] individual that tearing out the decision making capacities of government would not be good for America’s ability to do things in the world. Their response (paraphrased slightly) was: so what? We’ll have AGI by late 2026." 😮

Should AGI-preppers embrace DOGE?

There's magical thinking about the magical thinking

www.programmablemutter.com

March 18, 2025 at 9:31 PM

deepstaria

@deepstaria.bsky.social

LRP cartoon villain country

March 9, 2025 at 12:18 PM

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James

@gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social

Countries actively engaged in combat operations against each other voted in favor of this while the United States voted no because having hope is woke or something. What an embarrassing display.

PassBlue @passblue.bsky.social · Mar 9

The US was the sole UN member state to vote NO on a resolution declaring an International Day of Hope

March 9, 2025 at 1:52 AM

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Doc Revan

@docrevan.bsky.social

"Don't destroy your own economy and your own bureaucracy; only a complete dumbass would do that"
- Sun Tzu, The Art of War

March 3, 2025 at 10:58 PM

deepstaria

@deepstaria.bsky.social

LRP jesus

March 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM

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Aslak Berg

@aslak.bsky.social

I don't know what to say

March 3, 2025 at 10:07 AM

deepstaria

@deepstaria.bsky.social

Romanian politicians balancing our foreign policy between the EU and the US

a man in a blue shirt says i 'm playing both sides

ALT: a man in a blue shirt says i 'm playing both sides

media.tenor.com

March 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM

deepstaria

@deepstaria.bsky.social

LRP at this point I'm wondering how long it'll take until he starts imposing a full blown Ceaușescu-style personality cult

March 1, 2025 at 12:53 PM

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌

@chanda.blacksky.app

Ok so usually I think the North Korea comparisons are mostly racist but now I’m starting to think he wanted to meet Kim because … he likes the Kim family propaganda swagger