jace cavacini
@dysamoria.com
Trying to maintain a thread of realistic optimism. The anti-intellectualism, anti-science, ignorance, antipathy, sexism, racism, & corporate/authoritarian-bootlicking in my country terrifies me. And it's getting so much worse.
Facts. Art. Music. Empathy.
Facts. Art. Music. Empathy.
Conspiracy theorists are toxic to civilization. This thread might not be surprising, but it’s fucking maddening for anyone who sincerely cares about the work a government is meant to do.
Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2
November 26, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Conspiracy theorists are toxic to civilization. This thread might not be surprising, but it’s fucking maddening for anyone who sincerely cares about the work a government is meant to do.
Coughing is fucking EXHAUSTING
Every cold I’ve ever had is the worst at the lung (and Eustachian tube dysfunction) stage. Even bad sore throats don’t bother me as much.
Every cold I’ve ever had is the worst at the lung (and Eustachian tube dysfunction) stage. Even bad sore throats don’t bother me as much.
November 26, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Coughing is fucking EXHAUSTING
Every cold I’ve ever had is the worst at the lung (and Eustachian tube dysfunction) stage. Even bad sore throats don’t bother me as much.
Every cold I’ve ever had is the worst at the lung (and Eustachian tube dysfunction) stage. Even bad sore throats don’t bother me as much.
Reminder and PSA (because I keep getting shit in the mail and I’m not sure if it’s BS or not): Medicare Advantage isn’t really Medicare. I’m not sure if the shit I’m getting is about it, but it reeks of trying to sell me shit I don’t want, while looking like they’re being helpful.
Medicare Advantage: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
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November 26, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Reminder and PSA (because I keep getting shit in the mail and I’m not sure if it’s BS or not): Medicare Advantage isn’t really Medicare. I’m not sure if the shit I’m getting is about it, but it reeks of trying to sell me shit I don’t want, while looking like they’re being helpful.
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I still can't believe these goddamn fools are trying to get into a patriotism dick measuring contest with a guy who was a combat pilot and an astronaut and space flight commander.
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I still can't believe these goddamn fools are trying to get into a patriotism dick measuring contest with a guy who was a combat pilot and an astronaut and space flight commander.
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I'm thankful for all the technologists, FOIA officers, parks workers, public health researchers, criminal investigators, and countless other civil servants who have kept diligently doing their jobs under extreme duress. This year has been bad but it could have been so, so much worse.
November 26, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I'm thankful for all the technologists, FOIA officers, parks workers, public health researchers, criminal investigators, and countless other civil servants who have kept diligently doing their jobs under extreme duress. This year has been bad but it could have been so, so much worse.
Not one iMessage I sent my friend this morning ever went through. I finally closed & reopened the app on my phone and they all magically vanished. Six messages, just wiped from existence because ALL SOFTWARE SUCKS SHIT.
SMS w/my GF waiting for her mom in hospital luckily worked fine.
SMS w/my GF waiting for her mom in hospital luckily worked fine.
November 26, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Not one iMessage I sent my friend this morning ever went through. I finally closed & reopened the app on my phone and they all magically vanished. Six messages, just wiped from existence because ALL SOFTWARE SUCKS SHIT.
SMS w/my GF waiting for her mom in hospital luckily worked fine.
SMS w/my GF waiting for her mom in hospital luckily worked fine.
Apple Watch Tip #1: If you need to quickly pause & unpause your workout, you can press both the crown & button at the same time.
Apple Watch Tip #2: No matter how firmly you press these buttons, nor how simultaneous the press is, the fucking thing will ignore it ⅓ of the time because tech sucks.
Apple Watch Tip #2: No matter how firmly you press these buttons, nor how simultaneous the press is, the fucking thing will ignore it ⅓ of the time because tech sucks.
November 26, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Apple Watch Tip #1: If you need to quickly pause & unpause your workout, you can press both the crown & button at the same time.
Apple Watch Tip #2: No matter how firmly you press these buttons, nor how simultaneous the press is, the fucking thing will ignore it ⅓ of the time because tech sucks.
Apple Watch Tip #2: No matter how firmly you press these buttons, nor how simultaneous the press is, the fucking thing will ignore it ⅓ of the time because tech sucks.
The sheer nakedness of the Trump regime’s corruption truly lays bare the foundational lawlessness of the USA, so long as you commit crime while Republican (or rich, white, and connected, on average).
November 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The sheer nakedness of the Trump regime’s corruption truly lays bare the foundational lawlessness of the USA, so long as you commit crime while Republican (or rich, white, and connected, on average).
A merit-based system would have no stock market. If you want to hollow-out a business, take it public; merit will be strangled pursuing a perpetual-growth fantasy.
In a culture glorifying the privileged and forcing average people to suffer, one default is *scheming to join the privileged*.
In a culture glorifying the privileged and forcing average people to suffer, one default is *scheming to join the privileged*.
November 24, 2025 at 9:04 PM
A merit-based system would have no stock market. If you want to hollow-out a business, take it public; merit will be strangled pursuing a perpetual-growth fantasy.
In a culture glorifying the privileged and forcing average people to suffer, one default is *scheming to join the privileged*.
In a culture glorifying the privileged and forcing average people to suffer, one default is *scheming to join the privileged*.
Someone at BlueSky explain why I have to fucking rapidly click on the like button multiple times to get it to fucking register one fucking like!! This issue comes and goes, day in and day out.
The most BASIC SHIT doesn’t work in tech, yet we allow civilization to be run by more complicated shit.
The most BASIC SHIT doesn’t work in tech, yet we allow civilization to be run by more complicated shit.
November 24, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Someone at BlueSky explain why I have to fucking rapidly click on the like button multiple times to get it to fucking register one fucking like!! This issue comes and goes, day in and day out.
The most BASIC SHIT doesn’t work in tech, yet we allow civilization to be run by more complicated shit.
The most BASIC SHIT doesn’t work in tech, yet we allow civilization to be run by more complicated shit.
Ranked-choice voting is one of the things that could dramatically help correct our fucked-up electoral process.
Dems Eye New Way to Shake Up 2028 Primaries: Ranked-Choice Voting
Here’s how it could happen.
newrepublic.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Ranked-choice voting is one of the things that could dramatically help correct our fucked-up electoral process.
I have zero sympathy for Congressional republicans, regardless of whether they feel threatened by Trump’s cult. They CREATED this environment; they’ve BENEFITTED from it w/connections & wealth. These melting snowflakes would rather act in selfish cowardice than responsibility to their own country.
PUNCHBOWL: “.. GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term. Here’s one particularly exercised senior House Republican:
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November 24, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I have zero sympathy for Congressional republicans, regardless of whether they feel threatened by Trump’s cult. They CREATED this environment; they’ve BENEFITTED from it w/connections & wealth. These melting snowflakes would rather act in selfish cowardice than responsibility to their own country.
But it WILL further the toxic culture loop that makes fucked-up & broken children, and it WILL put a life-breaking burden on the mothers who will be essentially single parents in these arrangements. Making children doesn’t fix broken people; it just perpetuates the cycle.
I promise you, the gaping maw of loneliness & a lack of purpose borne of the mismatch between the self you truly are & the one-size-fits-all mold of patriarchal masculinity will NOT be filled by subjecting a woman to pregnancy, childbirth, and unequal divisions of labor just so you can be a father.
November 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
But it WILL further the toxic culture loop that makes fucked-up & broken children, and it WILL put a life-breaking burden on the mothers who will be essentially single parents in these arrangements. Making children doesn’t fix broken people; it just perpetuates the cycle.
When was it, Eric?
It was always police state authoritarianism under a mask of security theater. It grew out of bipartisan post-9/11 insanity, and many of us already knew what it was back then.
It was always police state authoritarianism under a mask of security theater. It grew out of bipartisan post-9/11 insanity, and many of us already knew what it was back then.
They should change the name from "Homeland Security" because that's not their focus any more www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
Homeland Security Missions Falter Amid Focus on Deportations
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:51 AM
When was it, Eric?
It was always police state authoritarianism under a mask of security theater. It grew out of bipartisan post-9/11 insanity, and many of us already knew what it was back then.
It was always police state authoritarianism under a mask of security theater. It grew out of bipartisan post-9/11 insanity, and many of us already knew what it was back then.
Does anyone know when & why Newman’s Own fucked up their Newman Os sandwich cookies? They used to rock, now they suck. This is only the 2nd time the company disappointed me; last time they reversed course on shitty plastic bottles for sauce pretty quickly. Are they headed to shit like all companies?
November 24, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Does anyone know when & why Newman’s Own fucked up their Newman Os sandwich cookies? They used to rock, now they suck. This is only the 2nd time the company disappointed me; last time they reversed course on shitty plastic bottles for sauce pretty quickly. Are they headed to shit like all companies?
Reason 2 I kinda wish anonymous bluetooth messages weren’t blocked these days: I’d like to send articles about how spewing baby-talk/gibberish at infants slows their language acquisition to my neighbors, who are near-constantly spewing noises at their child as bad as the ones their child produces.
November 22, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Reason 2 I kinda wish anonymous bluetooth messages weren’t blocked these days: I’d like to send articles about how spewing baby-talk/gibberish at infants slows their language acquisition to my neighbors, who are near-constantly spewing noises at their child as bad as the ones their child produces.
Best friend shared this guy’s channel with me and I didn’t care for the presentation of the icons/videos, but she made me watch this one and I’m a total convert now. This ROCKS and I laughed a hearty “manly” laugh:
Are Skidmarks Peak Maculinity?
YouTube video by The Speech Prof
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Best friend shared this guy’s channel with me and I didn’t care for the presentation of the icons/videos, but she made me watch this one and I’m a total convert now. This ROCKS and I laughed a hearty “manly” laugh:
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A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
November 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
I refuse to act like any of this is normal. So many tech industry people are ignorant morons behaving as if in a cult. The cult? Laissez-faire capitalism. Worse: they seem immune to embarrassment. Social conventions are a mere inconvenience. They keep doing the same thing, w/the same outcome.
Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives
Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives | CNN Business
Sales of an artificial intelligence-enabled plush toy have been suspended after it was found that it engaged in conversation around sexually explicit topics and offered potentially dangerous advice.
www.cnn.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I refuse to act like any of this is normal. So many tech industry people are ignorant morons behaving as if in a cult. The cult? Laissez-faire capitalism. Worse: they seem immune to embarrassment. Social conventions are a mere inconvenience. They keep doing the same thing, w/the same outcome.
I despise this era of science being actively rejected by unqualified assholes in positions of authority serving their preferred beliefs & grifts. I’m sorry for legitimate medical professionals forced to coexist w/anti-science obscenity due to employment in a once-respectable government system.
This is a fucking DISGRACE. The Republicans of the United States Congress are permitting a man to spew dangerous and harmful disinformation to the public.
This is dangerous. This will kill infants and children.
Republicans DO NOT CARE about babies after they are born
www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...
This is dangerous. This will kill infants and children.
Republicans DO NOT CARE about babies after they are born
www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...
Autism and Vaccines
Answers to common questions about vaccine safety and autism.
www.cdc.gov
November 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I despise this era of science being actively rejected by unqualified assholes in positions of authority serving their preferred beliefs & grifts. I’m sorry for legitimate medical professionals forced to coexist w/anti-science obscenity due to employment in a once-respectable government system.
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
It enrages me that, to this day, there’re still ZERO discontinuation procedures provided to patients as part of standard drug info sheets for psychotropic medications.
November 19, 2025 at 6:50 PM
It enrages me that, to this day, there’re still ZERO discontinuation procedures provided to patients as part of standard drug info sheets for psychotropic medications.
This is a fascinatingly disturbing THREAD, but it is entirely unsurprising to me. Inevitable, in fact. LLMs can be particularly toxic to those with pre-existing vulnerabilities:
Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
November 19, 2025 at 5:04 PM
This is a fascinatingly disturbing THREAD, but it is entirely unsurprising to me. Inevitable, in fact. LLMs can be particularly toxic to those with pre-existing vulnerabilities:
I fully endorse this thread as being the take I could have if I weren’t shitty at posting solid nuggets of fun-size commentary:
The term "fun-size" is a conflict between idealism and reality. Ideally, if you enjoy something then a "fun-size" version of it would be more of it and it would be fantastic. One might even say "fun".
In reality, a "fun-size" version of something is anything but, as you get less of it. It's bad.
In reality, a "fun-size" version of something is anything but, as you get less of it. It's bad.
Former kids of bluesky:
If I refer to something as fun-size, is it small or large, and is its valence broadly positive or negative?
If I refer to something as fun-size, is it small or large, and is its valence broadly positive or negative?
November 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I fully endorse this thread as being the take I could have if I weren’t shitty at posting solid nuggets of fun-size commentary:
This regime knows nothing about how anything works because it’s composed of bigots, narcissists, incompetents, fueled by grudges & self-entitlement, propped up by sycophantic opportunists. This result is the only kind that’s possible in such environments, which is why it’s all we’re seeing from it.
Trump's campaign to kill an industry where America runs a massive trade surplus is succeeding
New foreign student enrollment in the US fell 17% this fall www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
November 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
This regime knows nothing about how anything works because it’s composed of bigots, narcissists, incompetents, fueled by grudges & self-entitlement, propped up by sycophantic opportunists. This result is the only kind that’s possible in such environments, which is why it’s all we’re seeing from it.