Former Gnome
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Yearning for the vast and endless sea.
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They hang the man and flog the woman
That steal the goose from off the common,
But let the greater villain loose
That steals the common from the goose.
That steal the goose from off the common,
But let the greater villain loose
That steals the common from the goose.
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 6, 2025 at 11:37 PM
They hang the man and flog the woman
That steal the goose from off the common,
But let the greater villain loose
That steals the common from the goose.
That steal the goose from off the common,
But let the greater villain loose
That steals the common from the goose.
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California firm Skydio shipped 100s of AI drones to Israel, which battle-tested them in Gaza. Now nearly every big US city has signed up with Skydio and is using the drones to surveil their populations
Gaza is the future of how the world will be surveilled & subjugated to violence
Gaza is the future of how the world will be surveilled & subjugated to violence
Ahmad Ibsais (@ahmadibsais)
California firm Skydio shipped 100s of AI drones to Israel, which battle-tested them in Gaza. Now nearly every big US city has signed up with Skydio and is using the drones to surveil their population...
substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:32 PM
California firm Skydio shipped 100s of AI drones to Israel, which battle-tested them in Gaza. Now nearly every big US city has signed up with Skydio and is using the drones to surveil their populations
Gaza is the future of how the world will be surveilled & subjugated to violence
Gaza is the future of how the world will be surveilled & subjugated to violence
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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DOGE was always a very thinly disguised con to dress up data theft and extraction class destruction of federal corporate oversight as innovative, and it's important to remember that part of the reason it worked so well is that the press helped legitimize it
hey don't be so hard on yourselves; it delivered oceans of sensitive government and citizen data to billionaires
Musk’s DOGE Quietly Killed Off After Delivering Almost Nothing
The agency disbanded eight months ahead of schedule.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
DOGE was always a very thinly disguised con to dress up data theft and extraction class destruction of federal corporate oversight as innovative, and it's important to remember that part of the reason it worked so well is that the press helped legitimize it
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Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:
November 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:
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You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
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Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon
November 16, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon
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My book has an essay called “Larry Summers Caused My Eating Disorder,” about how Summers — as the face of the neoliberal Y2K era policy consensus — provided expertise that trashed Russia’s economy, leading indirectly to a massive market for female models who were often exploited, to put it mildly.
"Summers declined to comment on Wednesday beyond referring to previous remarks in which he acknowledged 'regretting my past associations with Mr. Epstein.' (...Summers is a contributing writer for The New York Times Opinion section.)"
They don't mention the IQ email
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
They don't mention the IQ email
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Epstein Bantered Regularly With Larry Summers
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:32 AM
My book has an essay called “Larry Summers Caused My Eating Disorder,” about how Summers — as the face of the neoliberal Y2K era policy consensus — provided expertise that trashed Russia’s economy, leading indirectly to a massive market for female models who were often exploited, to put it mildly.
Have any Brits speculated yet that Starmer picked Peter Mandleson to be ambassador to the US precisely because his longstanding friendship with Jefferey Epstein was hoped to give him particular camaraderie with Donald Trump?
November 13, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Have any Brits speculated yet that Starmer picked Peter Mandleson to be ambassador to the US precisely because his longstanding friendship with Jefferey Epstein was hoped to give him particular camaraderie with Donald Trump?
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honestly you aren't mad enough
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 AM
honestly you aren't mad enough
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so uh, what was Merrick Garland doing
November 12, 2025 at 2:59 PM
so uh, what was Merrick Garland doing
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“The President sent his lawyer to negotiate a settlement with a convicted sex trafficker to provide cushy accommodation in exchange for her silence on his participation in said sex trafficking” is a cold description of the facts of an insane story that the media doesn’t find worthy of scrutiny
November 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
“The President sent his lawyer to negotiate a settlement with a convicted sex trafficker to provide cushy accommodation in exchange for her silence on his participation in said sex trafficking” is a cold description of the facts of an insane story that the media doesn’t find worthy of scrutiny
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If your office is on the south side of the Capitol complex you can ignore the following:
If Lucy is holding a football, don’t try to kick it. She’s not to be trusted.
Thanks.
If Lucy is holding a football, don’t try to kick it. She’s not to be trusted.
Thanks.
November 6, 2025 at 1:39 AM
If your office is on the south side of the Capitol complex you can ignore the following:
If Lucy is holding a football, don’t try to kick it. She’s not to be trusted.
Thanks.
If Lucy is holding a football, don’t try to kick it. She’s not to be trusted.
Thanks.
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
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Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists.
You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man, but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?
You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man, but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?
November 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists.
You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man, but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?
You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man, but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?
You cease, we fire.
November 4, 2025 at 2:14 PM
You cease, we fire.
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Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’
November 3, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’
Democrats have been moving right on almost every issue for the past half century.
I guess here on Bluesky it's controversial to note that the Democrats, once the majority across this country, were reduced to national minority (in stages, from 1968, to 1980, to 2016) by moving left.
But if you'd rather think I'm just making Trump's point...well, whatever helps you cope.
But if you'd rather think I'm just making Trump's point...well, whatever helps you cope.
I'm questioning this statement, "the left started to lose the public (who to this day don't see Reagan the same way they do.)"
Who is this *public* you speak of? Wouldn't the left be a subset of it?
This feels like the current Trump regime's feelings that Democrats aren't real Americans.
Who is this *public* you speak of? Wouldn't the left be a subset of it?
This feels like the current Trump regime's feelings that Democrats aren't real Americans.
November 2, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Democrats have been moving right on almost every issue for the past half century.
One party wants the destruction of civilization, the other party wants bipartisanship.
I will never understand the pundit obsession with getting Democrats to solve "political division."
Not only is this what they're already doing, but Klein admits that Republicans will never do the same. So elections will remain constant GOP smears and simping Democratic promises of bipartisanship.
Not only is this what they're already doing, but Klein admits that Republicans will never do the same. So elections will remain constant GOP smears and simping Democratic promises of bipartisanship.
November 2, 2025 at 2:10 PM
One party wants the destruction of civilization, the other party wants bipartisanship.
Sunday election days make so much more sense than Tuesdays.
November 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Sunday election days make so much more sense than Tuesdays.
Elon’s donating them because he can’t sell the ones he’s building, right?
The nation’s largest police fleet of Tesla Cybertrucks is set to begin patrolling the streets of Las Vegas in November thanks to a donation from a U.S. tech billionaire, raising concerns about the blurring of lines between public and private interests.
Nation's largest fleet of police Cybertrucks to patrol Las Vegas
The nation’s largest police fleet of Tesla Cybertrucks is set to begin patrolling the streets of Las Vegas in November.
bit.ly
November 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Elon’s donating them because he can’t sell the ones he’s building, right?
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it’s ironic how nothing makes you sound more like you live in a weird little bubble than when you make the bizarre assumption that liberals in big cities have never interacted with a conservative before
The educated liberal big city US folks outraged at Trump's renovation of Lincoln bathroom really need to scroll some Facebook of their less established relatives and friends to see what kind of aesthetic resonates with Trump's target audience.
November 1, 2025 at 3:39 PM
it’s ironic how nothing makes you sound more like you live in a weird little bubble than when you make the bizarre assumption that liberals in big cities have never interacted with a conservative before
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how do you even talk about how the policy response to Wall Street gambling off a cliff in 2008 was to essentially earmark billions of fed dollars specifically for the purpose of subsidizing a campaign of mass psychosis inducing fascist propaganda across the entire world polity for a whole generation
October 29, 2025 at 8:08 PM
how do you even talk about how the policy response to Wall Street gambling off a cliff in 2008 was to essentially earmark billions of fed dollars specifically for the purpose of subsidizing a campaign of mass psychosis inducing fascist propaganda across the entire world polity for a whole generation
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Yet again i want to remind everyone that Bill Gates and several other billionaires have invested in mining projects in Greenland that are only accessible because of melted land and sea ice, he and other billionaires are essentially shorting the planet
Bill Gates softens 'Climate Disaster' approach, says too many resources are going to fight the problem
Bill Gates softens 'Climate Disaster' approach, says too many resources are going to fight the problem
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates says countries and leaders need to shift their approach to climate change and focus on 'improving lives'
cnb.cx
October 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Yet again i want to remind everyone that Bill Gates and several other billionaires have invested in mining projects in Greenland that are only accessible because of melted land and sea ice, he and other billionaires are essentially shorting the planet