Theseus, His Sails Unfurled
@essencewarden.bsky.social
It's Mike. I wish I only talked about tabletop games, writing, and comic books (and tea), but politics keep happening. I like He/Him, and I like She/Her, and I don't like Twitter anymore.
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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the Bluesky Poasts at dawn looking for an angry fix
dragging themselves through the Bluesky Poasts at dawn looking for an angry fix
Wanda Sykes accepting Ricky Gervais' award and thanking God and the Trans Community in spite of him is a beautiful thing.
January 12, 2026 at 3:21 AM
Wanda Sykes accepting Ricky Gervais' award and thanking God and the Trans Community in spite of him is a beautiful thing.
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This follows the news that the minibus spending bill has no restrictions on gender-affirming care either. It looks like Democrats dug their heels in on this one and won.
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The minibus spending bill is out! This is for the Commerce, Justice, Science; Energy and Water Development; and Interior and Environment Appropriations Act, 2026. Notably, there are no restrictions for gender-affirming care or trans care in here.
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rules.house.gov
January 12, 2026 at 12:28 AM
This follows the news that the minibus spending bill has no restrictions on gender-affirming care either. It looks like Democrats dug their heels in on this one and won.
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I am not talking about Miller or Vought or the other viziers, because they are absolutely trying to make us Russia II: Double the Bigots, but regarding the main fucker:
He is acting like he is the CEO of America, has no Board, and the government is his employees.
It explains *everything*.
He is acting like he is the CEO of America, has no Board, and the government is his employees.
It explains *everything*.
trump absolutely believes that the fed chair personally sets the interest rate and that Powell is not lowering it to 0% entirely to spite him
if this happens it would probably be a generational Trump crashout
if this happens it would probably be a generational Trump crashout
January 12, 2026 at 2:56 AM
I am not talking about Miller or Vought or the other viziers, because they are absolutely trying to make us Russia II: Double the Bigots, but regarding the main fucker:
He is acting like he is the CEO of America, has no Board, and the government is his employees.
It explains *everything*.
He is acting like he is the CEO of America, has no Board, and the government is his employees.
It explains *everything*.
Wine Moms when these pieces of shit try to pull this
January 12, 2026 at 2:32 AM
Wine Moms when these pieces of shit try to pull this
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hi, political philosopher here! this is not funny, central banks only do this when they're in extreme distress
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
YouTube video by Federal Reserve
www.youtube.com
January 12, 2026 at 1:04 AM
hi, political philosopher here! this is not funny, central banks only do this when they're in extreme distress
If anything, I think it's odd how much *less* I heard about people being arrested at protests until recently, vs. under W. It seemed really common back then. Maybe it was a perception thing. But getting arrested temporarily and let go seemed like an expectation.
January 11, 2026 at 11:05 PM
If anything, I think it's odd how much *less* I heard about people being arrested at protests until recently, vs. under W. It seemed really common back then. Maybe it was a perception thing. But getting arrested temporarily and let go seemed like an expectation.
All of these fucking freaks love Franco
Hungary and shit
All the Christofash
That crooked monster's legacy must be wiped out
Hungary and shit
All the Christofash
That crooked monster's legacy must be wiped out
The sign on Kristi Noem's podium reads "One of ours, all of yours." The reader will recall that this was a fascist rallying cry in the Spanish Civil War. What it means is that one of "our" people is worth all of "your" people.
January 11, 2026 at 6:12 PM
All of these fucking freaks love Franco
Hungary and shit
All the Christofash
That crooked monster's legacy must be wiped out
Hungary and shit
All the Christofash
That crooked monster's legacy must be wiped out
Ah, yes, liberal pinko commie rag Forbes Magazine launches another partisan attack on the MAGA agenda.
The U.S.-Born Unemployment Rate Rose After Trump Reduced Immigration www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
The U.S.-Born Unemployment Rate Rose After Trump Reduced Immigration
Government data show the Trump administration’s policies reducing the number of foreign-born workers did not help U.S.-born workers in 2025.
www.forbes.com
January 11, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Ah, yes, liberal pinko commie rag Forbes Magazine launches another partisan attack on the MAGA agenda.
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The Lowdown is the best damn show not enough people are watching. I can exclusively report that FX has ordered a second season of the delightful Ethan Hawke comic mystery series: www.whatsalanwatching.com/the-lowdown-...
The Lowdown, the best show you're not watching, is coming back for Season Two
FX has officially renewed the Ethan Hawke-led comic mystery series
www.whatsalanwatching.com
January 7, 2026 at 5:32 PM
The Lowdown is the best damn show not enough people are watching. I can exclusively report that FX has ordered a second season of the delightful Ethan Hawke comic mystery series: www.whatsalanwatching.com/the-lowdown-...
Rest in piss, fuck face. Your books turned my mother's brain into unscientific, tacitly racist oatmeal.
He laid out the m.o. of modern pseudo-archaeology, i.e., repeat false claims and never correct them: " “Chariots of the Gods” was followed by more than two dozen similar books, spawning a literary niche in which fact and fantasy were mixed together against all historical and scientific evidence."
Erich von Däniken, Swiss writer who spawned alien archaeology, dies at 90
Erich von Däniken, the Swiss author whose books on the extraterrestrial origins of ancient civilizations brought him both fame and scorn, has died at age 90.
www.seattletimes.com
January 11, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Rest in piss, fuck face. Your books turned my mother's brain into unscientific, tacitly racist oatmeal.
I know Tulsa is an urban center, but -- possibly my favorite thing about that show The Lowdown is that we see multiple people in various states of gender nonconformity being treated completely normally in Oklahoma.
I suspect it’s a goal for these ghouls to make LGBTQ people feel besieged and isolated and friendless outside urban centers
you better know it’s not true. those of us showing up to public life in my mostly-small-c-conservative community are finding out: we have friends everywhere
you better know it’s not true. those of us showing up to public life in my mostly-small-c-conservative community are finding out: we have friends everywhere
January 11, 2026 at 4:39 PM
I know Tulsa is an urban center, but -- possibly my favorite thing about that show The Lowdown is that we see multiple people in various states of gender nonconformity being treated completely normally in Oklahoma.
I think if I didn't have like 10 different lists blocked, I couldn't be on here.
Several people I follow who make large amounts of sense keep saying that this app is full of terrifying self-defeating assholes that I never meet.
Several people I follow who make large amounts of sense keep saying that this app is full of terrifying self-defeating assholes that I never meet.
January 11, 2026 at 4:18 PM
I think if I didn't have like 10 different lists blocked, I couldn't be on here.
Several people I follow who make large amounts of sense keep saying that this app is full of terrifying self-defeating assholes that I never meet.
Several people I follow who make large amounts of sense keep saying that this app is full of terrifying self-defeating assholes that I never meet.
Or they think (or say), "Why aren't electeds taking our country back, like South Korea," when that wasn't a reverse coup; they had a legal process to stop it and enough people elected who wanted to do the right thing.
We have neither.
We have neither.
I think a lot of the people demanding things that would cause a civil war lack the historical knowledge to realize that civil war is what they're asking for.
They think they're asking for Nepal, without even knowing enough to know that literal children died and it wasn't a bloodless revolution.
They think they're asking for Nepal, without even knowing enough to know that literal children died and it wasn't a bloodless revolution.
"I want Dems to do <action that would start a civil war>"
You do not want electeds, you just want revolutionaries.
You do not want electeds, you just want revolutionaries.
January 11, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Or they think (or say), "Why aren't electeds taking our country back, like South Korea," when that wasn't a reverse coup; they had a legal process to stop it and enough people elected who wanted to do the right thing.
We have neither.
We have neither.
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We're trying to make it through to the other side of this with as few people dying as possible, and they really have no idea just how unbelievably bad a full blown civil war would be because everyone is twelve.
January 11, 2026 at 7:02 AM
We're trying to make it through to the other side of this with as few people dying as possible, and they really have no idea just how unbelievably bad a full blown civil war would be because everyone is twelve.
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people need to break the stupid voice in your head that makes you think nothing good ever happens, project positive thoughts, like who you’d see swinging on the gallows
January 10, 2026 at 7:40 AM
people need to break the stupid voice in your head that makes you think nothing good ever happens, project positive thoughts, like who you’d see swinging on the gallows
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The entire MAGA project has been one of attacking the support pillars and just kind of assuming that the platform they’re holding up will stay put.
January 11, 2026 at 3:36 AM
The entire MAGA project has been one of attacking the support pillars and just kind of assuming that the platform they’re holding up will stay put.
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January 10, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Total vibe thing, but I keep wanting to respond to people like Travolta in Pulp Fiction where he's like "Ain't nobody fuckin' stoppin' you!"
January 10, 2026 at 10:26 PM
Total vibe thing, but I keep wanting to respond to people like Travolta in Pulp Fiction where he's like "Ain't nobody fuckin' stoppin' you!"
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"You think of all your neighbors as just scum upon the earth
And you live inside a bubble where a badge is all you're worth
All your dreams are built on loathing
All your hopes are built on hate
I can't see any way out of this hell that you create"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncuc...
And you live inside a bubble where a badge is all you're worth
All your dreams are built on loathing
All your hopes are built on hate
I can't see any way out of this hell that you create"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncuc...
Die and Burn
YouTube video by Stiff Little Fingers - Topic
www.youtube.com
January 9, 2026 at 5:49 PM
"You think of all your neighbors as just scum upon the earth
And you live inside a bubble where a badge is all you're worth
All your dreams are built on loathing
All your hopes are built on hate
I can't see any way out of this hell that you create"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncuc...
And you live inside a bubble where a badge is all you're worth
All your dreams are built on loathing
All your hopes are built on hate
I can't see any way out of this hell that you create"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncuc...
Someone soon, probably they already have, is going to say this protest isn't big enough and is bullshit because it isn't immediately toppling the regime.
And to that, I say, get blocked, get fucked, log off forever and delete the e-mail address you've been signing up with. Nobody wants to hear you.
And to that, I say, get blocked, get fucked, log off forever and delete the e-mail address you've been signing up with. Nobody wants to hear you.
BREAKING: Massive Crowds of Anti-ICE protesters in Minneapolis, Minnesota as we speak. The tide is turning. America is Fed Up.
Americans should be fighting back against what is happening in this country. Having masked, secret police shooting people, breaking into homes and cars, is NOT normal.
Americans should be fighting back against what is happening in this country. Having masked, secret police shooting people, breaking into homes and cars, is NOT normal.
January 10, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Someone soon, probably they already have, is going to say this protest isn't big enough and is bullshit because it isn't immediately toppling the regime.
And to that, I say, get blocked, get fucked, log off forever and delete the e-mail address you've been signing up with. Nobody wants to hear you.
And to that, I say, get blocked, get fucked, log off forever and delete the e-mail address you've been signing up with. Nobody wants to hear you.
From my app screen
You look like my friend
Even though you have started a flame war
From my app screen
I just cannot
🎶 Com-pre-hennnd 🎶
What all this Poasting is for
You look like my friend
Even though you have started a flame war
From my app screen
I just cannot
🎶 Com-pre-hennnd 🎶
What all this Poasting is for
January 10, 2026 at 9:08 PM
From my app screen
You look like my friend
Even though you have started a flame war
From my app screen
I just cannot
🎶 Com-pre-hennnd 🎶
What all this Poasting is for
You look like my friend
Even though you have started a flame war
From my app screen
I just cannot
🎶 Com-pre-hennnd 🎶
What all this Poasting is for
I say again, folks: Watch Jeopardy! weeknights. Check your local listings.
A lot of replies here (obviously from people not already aware of The Discourse on this point) were genuinely confused variants on "But why, they're right, that's a valid concern." Let me leave a short thread for future readers explaining why that stuff is always unwelcome on here. (1/n)
January 10, 2026 at 8:25 PM
I say again, folks: Watch Jeopardy! weeknights. Check your local listings.
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yes! a good number of MAHA-approved products are just repurposed waste from beef production
i'm not saying this as anyone who knows anything about health; i'm saying it as someone who is an alleged expert in interest group politics: the American beef industry is all over MAHA, wellness, and podcast spaces.
remember "bacon mania?" totally a marketing strategy by the pork industry.
remember "bacon mania?" totally a marketing strategy by the pork industry.
New federal dietary guidelines give federal approval to beef tallow, a fat that both cardiologists and the U.S. government told Americans to avoid for nearly half a century.
January 10, 2026 at 4:57 PM
yes! a good number of MAHA-approved products are just repurposed waste from beef production
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The shootings in Minneapolis and Portland are further proof the Trump administration and its federal agents are out of control.
We the people are taking to the streets to say: ICE out of our communities NOW.
We the people are taking to the streets to say: ICE out of our communities NOW.
Protests planned nationwide after Minneapolis, Portland shootings
Protests planned across the US in response to recent shootings involving federal authorities. Organizers demand accountability and transparency.
thehill.com
January 10, 2026 at 4:21 PM
The shootings in Minneapolis and Portland are further proof the Trump administration and its federal agents are out of control.
We the people are taking to the streets to say: ICE out of our communities NOW.
We the people are taking to the streets to say: ICE out of our communities NOW.
I just looked back at my Facebook memories, and nearly every year going back to 2017, I have posted something about feeling sad or chaotic in this exact week
January 10, 2026 at 4:17 PM
I just looked back at my Facebook memories, and nearly every year going back to 2017, I have posted something about feeling sad or chaotic in this exact week