Joe
@elusivethought.bsky.social
Absurdist and deeply passionate student of the music of life. Fascinated by #deeptime, #mythology, #sciencefiction, #nature, and #craftbeer.
(He/him) | NB Cis Masc | Pagan ΘΔ 🐺🦊
(He/him) | NB Cis Masc | Pagan ΘΔ 🐺🦊
Decisions, decisions...
December 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Decisions, decisions...
Traveling in Chicagoland with some good friends!
December 20, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Traveling in Chicagoland with some good friends!
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It will never stop being jarring that small c-conservative ethics are so seemingly radical in 2025.
December 18, 2025 at 1:51 PM
It will never stop being jarring that small c-conservative ethics are so seemingly radical in 2025.
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Live by the vibecession, die by the vibecession.
A fiery President Trump — addressing Americans from a holiday-decked White House — insisted the economy is stronger than people think it is and any problems are all Democrats' fault.
It's a message that poll after poll says most voters don't believe.
It's a message that poll after poll says most voters don't believe.
Trump's Christmas message: Things are better than you think
Trump's 18-minute address was essentially the speech he was expected to give last week in Pennsylvania, where he went off-script.
www.axios.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Live by the vibecession, die by the vibecession.
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Constant deprivation is treated as a fact of life. The legal system is widely treated as a joke. The “I know a guy” economy flourishes. People ask me how they can win the favor of elected officials or gov’t employees, working around a system said to be sacrosanct but understood to be crumbling.
December 18, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Constant deprivation is treated as a fact of life. The legal system is widely treated as a joke. The “I know a guy” economy flourishes. People ask me how they can win the favor of elected officials or gov’t employees, working around a system said to be sacrosanct but understood to be crumbling.
December 17, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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have we tried... paying creatives a decent wage?
America, you have spoken loud and clear: You do not like AI. But what if AI is the way to restart the world’s idea machine?
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:50 PM
have we tried... paying creatives a decent wage?
Siouxsie And The Banshees - The Killing Jar (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by SiouxsieBansheesVEVO
youtu.be
December 15, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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the reason you can tell "Artificial Intelligence" is fraudulent is that if you tried to tell an average adult that you believed a statistical average of reddit posts and pirated books from libgen could combine to make a brain, they would laugh at you
December 12, 2025 at 10:22 PM
the reason you can tell "Artificial Intelligence" is fraudulent is that if you tried to tell an average adult that you believed a statistical average of reddit posts and pirated books from libgen could combine to make a brain, they would laugh at you
The particular brand of performative Christian identity Beckwith ascribes to requires you to go around wailing you are persecuted and a victim, while simultaneously threatening your own colleagues if they don't vote exactly the way you want them.
The Lt. Gov. of Indiana has now deleted this post which confirmed that the Trump admin threatened to withhold federal funding from Indiana if they didn’t gerrymander.
December 12, 2025 at 8:41 PM
The particular brand of performative Christian identity Beckwith ascribes to requires you to go around wailing you are persecuted and a victim, while simultaneously threatening your own colleagues if they don't vote exactly the way you want them.
Same conman playback, different set of marks.
“Trump and the Oligarchs Are Killing Corporate Media”
He’s doing what Putin did…..
He’s doing what Putin did…..
December 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Same conman playback, different set of marks.
I dumped it when it became abundantly clear their internal 'research' was limited to election ads spent in RUBLES targeting US voters.
Which is to say, the minimum amount of effort to infer the actual amount of foreign actors spending on psyops.
And they pocketed all of that revenue.
Which is to say, the minimum amount of effort to infer the actual amount of foreign actors spending on psyops.
And they pocketed all of that revenue.
I dumped Facebook back in 2015. It was discovered that "META" provided Russia election rich data via Cambridge Analytics. Russians used that data to target voters and get Trump elected. Fancy Bear a Russian hacker group hacked the DNC emails in 2015. FCK FACEBOOK
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content
More than 50 organisations report sites being restricted or removed, with abortion hotlines blocked and posts showing non-explicit nudity triggering warnings
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I dumped it when it became abundantly clear their internal 'research' was limited to election ads spent in RUBLES targeting US voters.
Which is to say, the minimum amount of effort to infer the actual amount of foreign actors spending on psyops.
And they pocketed all of that revenue.
Which is to say, the minimum amount of effort to infer the actual amount of foreign actors spending on psyops.
And they pocketed all of that revenue.
This sounds a lot more like domestic terrorism than anything Antifa has been accused of.
December 11, 2025 at 10:39 PM
This sounds a lot more like domestic terrorism than anything Antifa has been accused of.
Second film tonight is a lot better.
"Before the Devil Knows You're Dead," a late entry Sidney Lumet crime thriller with Philip Seymour Hoffman, Marisa Tomei, Ethan Hawke, and a young Michael Shannon(!) cast as a total lunkhead.
"Before the Devil Knows You're Dead," a late entry Sidney Lumet crime thriller with Philip Seymour Hoffman, Marisa Tomei, Ethan Hawke, and a young Michael Shannon(!) cast as a total lunkhead.
December 11, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Second film tonight is a lot better.
"Before the Devil Knows You're Dead," a late entry Sidney Lumet crime thriller with Philip Seymour Hoffman, Marisa Tomei, Ethan Hawke, and a young Michael Shannon(!) cast as a total lunkhead.
"Before the Devil Knows You're Dead," a late entry Sidney Lumet crime thriller with Philip Seymour Hoffman, Marisa Tomei, Ethan Hawke, and a young Michael Shannon(!) cast as a total lunkhead.
Watching "Mountainhead," an incredibly strange, and fairly uncomfortable, film about techbros.
Steve Carrell's character appears to be based on Peter Thiel or Larry Ellison, but his vocal take is more Jordan Peterson.
Not something I expected, but one I heard it, it totally fits his delivery.
Steve Carrell's character appears to be based on Peter Thiel or Larry Ellison, but his vocal take is more Jordan Peterson.
Not something I expected, but one I heard it, it totally fits his delivery.
December 11, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Watching "Mountainhead," an incredibly strange, and fairly uncomfortable, film about techbros.
Steve Carrell's character appears to be based on Peter Thiel or Larry Ellison, but his vocal take is more Jordan Peterson.
Not something I expected, but one I heard it, it totally fits his delivery.
Steve Carrell's character appears to be based on Peter Thiel or Larry Ellison, but his vocal take is more Jordan Peterson.
Not something I expected, but one I heard it, it totally fits his delivery.
I can't pretend to have the level of smooth brain needed to equate cultural hegemony with racial purity.
The Manhattan Project, the greatest scientific achievement in the 20th century, was accomplished because of scientists fleeing the human rights hellscape these rich louts want to emulate.
The Manhattan Project, the greatest scientific achievement in the 20th century, was accomplished because of scientists fleeing the human rights hellscape these rich louts want to emulate.
This post by the world’s richest and most divorced man on the site he bought to promote his far right extremism is ripped straight from the Klan messaging of the 1870s or the 1915 film Birth of a Nation that inspired the Klan’s rebirth as a PR stunt/Ponzi scheme/terrorist organization in the 1920s.
December 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I can't pretend to have the level of smooth brain needed to equate cultural hegemony with racial purity.
The Manhattan Project, the greatest scientific achievement in the 20th century, was accomplished because of scientists fleeing the human rights hellscape these rich louts want to emulate.
The Manhattan Project, the greatest scientific achievement in the 20th century, was accomplished because of scientists fleeing the human rights hellscape these rich louts want to emulate.
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It’s hard to imagine a better metaphor for late-stage Silicon Valley: Pay us a cut to imagine the future for us. An industry completely devoid of new ideas asking users to gamble on what might happen next.
www.garbageday.email/p/here-are-1...
www.garbageday.email/p/here-are-1...
December 8, 2025 at 8:22 PM
It’s hard to imagine a better metaphor for late-stage Silicon Valley: Pay us a cut to imagine the future for us. An industry completely devoid of new ideas asking users to gamble on what might happen next.
www.garbageday.email/p/here-are-1...
www.garbageday.email/p/here-are-1...
The Clash - The Magnificent Seven (Official Video)
YouTube video by theclashVEVO
youtu.be
December 8, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Today's brew day is a traditional ESB. I am utilizing some whole cone hops that my friend @mateovillarreal.bsky.social acquired off a neighbor ("Some kind of English varietal") so I am going to pretend they are East Kent Golding.
#Beermaking #HomeBrewing
#Beermaking #HomeBrewing
December 6, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Today's brew day is a traditional ESB. I am utilizing some whole cone hops that my friend @mateovillarreal.bsky.social acquired off a neighbor ("Some kind of English varietal") so I am going to pretend they are East Kent Golding.
#Beermaking #HomeBrewing
#Beermaking #HomeBrewing
Wound up watching "The Road to Wellville" because it was an Alan Parker film I hadn't seen.
Gotta say, Dana Carvey's performance is worth price of admission alone.
Gotta say, Dana Carvey's performance is worth price of admission alone.
December 5, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Wound up watching "The Road to Wellville" because it was an Alan Parker film I hadn't seen.
Gotta say, Dana Carvey's performance is worth price of admission alone.
Gotta say, Dana Carvey's performance is worth price of admission alone.
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it is MIRACULOUS that we got rid of lead paint and asbestos when we did. if we had tried that today, there would be people whining about how we're restricting their rights.
Bring back residential-use lead paint, you cowards.
December 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
it is MIRACULOUS that we got rid of lead paint and asbestos when we did. if we had tried that today, there would be people whining about how we're restricting their rights.
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if all the people who thought this way disappeared the world would be unequivocally better in every way
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 3, 2025 at 11:13 PM
if all the people who thought this way disappeared the world would be unequivocally better in every way
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When you look at it as a way to diversify your money laundering so it’s not all in crypto and real estate, it makes more sense
December 3, 2025 at 5:23 PM
When you look at it as a way to diversify your money laundering so it’s not all in crypto and real estate, it makes more sense
Dungeons & Dragons Park, Carbondale, IL (1/3)
#photography
#photography
November 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Dungeons & Dragons Park, Carbondale, IL (1/3)
#photography
#photography