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@ithuffor.bsky.social
Engineer and no-nonsense nonsenser. I have an awesome wife and like birds. He/him
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“I’ll fight until hell freezes over and then I’ll cut the ice and fight on”
November 17, 2025 at 7:55 PM
“I’ll fight until hell freezes over and then I’ll cut the ice and fight on”
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“Re ‘There are a lot of people on your side who will be in the Epstein Files too!’: No there aren't, my side is the ‘People Who Don't Fuck Children’ side, anyone not on this side can get all the way into the bin, what side are YOU on, exactly?” — John Scalzi
November 14, 2025 at 8:24 PM
“Re ‘There are a lot of people on your side who will be in the Epstein Files too!’: No there aren't, my side is the ‘People Who Don't Fuck Children’ side, anyone not on this side can get all the way into the bin, what side are YOU on, exactly?” — John Scalzi
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The many monarchs of Europe, the slaver's Confederacy, the Kaiser, the Nazis, the Italian fascists, Imperial Japan and many more all assumed that because liberals value peace and human life, that they were weak and feckless and easily beaten.
Go look for them now.
Go look for them now.
I think fundamentally the problem with post liberal thinkers is that they seem to assume that vanquishing liberalism results in their enemies being converted or defeated and not becoming radicalized into enemies who no longer extend the mercies they once did.
October 31, 2025 at 12:27 AM
The many monarchs of Europe, the slaver's Confederacy, the Kaiser, the Nazis, the Italian fascists, Imperial Japan and many more all assumed that because liberals value peace and human life, that they were weak and feckless and easily beaten.
Go look for them now.
Go look for them now.
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"You can't defeat bad ideas by adopting them. You can't grow a coalition by selling out its members. And you can't persuade people who disagree with you that you can be trusted to fight for them when you won't even fight for those you say are with you." www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...
Eventually You're Going to Have to Stand for Something
On accepting the fascist offer and being better than Ezra.
www.the-reframe.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:09 PM
"You can't defeat bad ideas by adopting them. You can't grow a coalition by selling out its members. And you can't persuade people who disagree with you that you can be trusted to fight for them when you won't even fight for those you say are with you." www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...
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For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the World:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: [...}
A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: [...}
A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
October 25, 2025 at 11:53 PM
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the World:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: [...}
A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: [...}
A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
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Thank you, Chicago.
October 25, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Thank you, Chicago.
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Mamdani: "But there is one thing that I will change: I will no longer look for myself in the shadows. I will find myself in the light."
October 24, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Mamdani: "But there is one thing that I will change: I will no longer look for myself in the shadows. I will find myself in the light."
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shocked to learn that the president lied about this and also this is a horrible defacing of a building that belongs to the people of the United States, not donald trump
Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
wapo.st
October 20, 2025 at 6:52 PM
shocked to learn that the president lied about this and also this is a horrible defacing of a building that belongs to the people of the United States, not donald trump
It's kraken hockey time!
October 15, 2025 at 1:16 AM
It's kraken hockey time!
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They want us to die. Some of them are literal Nazis. Some of them literally want to end the world. Some of them believe the second coming is due any day now. And some of them are creepy fucks who just want to kill without repercussions.
That’s who we’re up against.
That’s who we’re up against.
October 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
They want us to die. Some of them are literal Nazis. Some of them literally want to end the world. Some of them believe the second coming is due any day now. And some of them are creepy fucks who just want to kill without repercussions.
That’s who we’re up against.
That’s who we’re up against.
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cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war
October 11, 2025 at 12:32 AM
cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war
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It’s so funny/bizarre that there are all these guys who are apparently furious about women liking video games? One of the best things that ever happened to me
October 10, 2025 at 11:16 AM
It’s so funny/bizarre that there are all these guys who are apparently furious about women liking video games? One of the best things that ever happened to me
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I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?
October 10, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?
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I wrote about Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein, why swallowing live frogs is a bad idea, and how context and history can release you from bright-kid syndrome, the illusion that you yourself are going to have every answer or fix the world.
You don't have to swallow frogs
Klein and Coates show that if you don't know what your core beliefs are, you're going to get played.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
September 30, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I wrote about Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein, why swallowing live frogs is a bad idea, and how context and history can release you from bright-kid syndrome, the illusion that you yourself are going to have every answer or fix the world.
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i keep saying this but what i hate most about the ezra kleins of the world is their insistence is that politics is about messaging and triangulating. its never about offering a compelling vision of the world, its about trying desperately to capitulate to whatever moment we are in
September 29, 2025 at 5:45 PM
i keep saying this but what i hate most about the ezra kleins of the world is their insistence is that politics is about messaging and triangulating. its never about offering a compelling vision of the world, its about trying desperately to capitulate to whatever moment we are in
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the problem with doing WW2 revisionism on here is that everyone on this website is a thirty eight year old nerd who spent all of high school reading WW2 history books
September 24, 2025 at 11:43 PM
the problem with doing WW2 revisionism on here is that everyone on this website is a thirty eight year old nerd who spent all of high school reading WW2 history books
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I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.
September 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.
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"There is a separation of white people and colored people in the United States. That separation is not a disease of colored people. It is a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it."
- Albert Einstein, 1946
- Albert Einstein, 1946
September 8, 2025 at 10:48 AM
"There is a separation of white people and colored people in the United States. That separation is not a disease of colored people. It is a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it."
- Albert Einstein, 1946
- Albert Einstein, 1946
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george lucas made a three film opus about how a combination of tariffs, incels, and anxiety would give rise to fascism and we all made fun of him smfh
September 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
george lucas made a three film opus about how a combination of tariffs, incels, and anxiety would give rise to fascism and we all made fun of him smfh
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Libs really need to embrace the origin story
September 5, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Libs really need to embrace the origin story
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On the topic of “our” duty to persuade abusers, a tale:
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THE FINGER-TAKER’S SON
Whenever the king became displeased with one of his subjects, he would send out his soldiers, and before long the offender would find themselves in the basement of the king’s finger-taker.
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THE FINGER-TAKER’S SON
Whenever the king became displeased with one of his subjects, he would send out his soldiers, and before long the offender would find themselves in the basement of the king’s finger-taker.
Apparently he's really saying "liberals need to befriend conservatives for the greater good" which is so pundit brained I can't even
September 4, 2025 at 10:32 PM
On the topic of “our” duty to persuade abusers, a tale:
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THE FINGER-TAKER’S SON
Whenever the king became displeased with one of his subjects, he would send out his soldiers, and before long the offender would find themselves in the basement of the king’s finger-taker.
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THE FINGER-TAKER’S SON
Whenever the king became displeased with one of his subjects, he would send out his soldiers, and before long the offender would find themselves in the basement of the king’s finger-taker.
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Think about it. "Dems were too zealous in trying to prevent the spread of the virus" is, in US politics, a greater disadvantage, a bigger problem, than "Republican lies got hundreds of thousands of Americans killed for no reason."
Just a pathetic fucking country. Pathetic.
Just a pathetic fucking country. Pathetic.
September 1, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Think about it. "Dems were too zealous in trying to prevent the spread of the virus" is, in US politics, a greater disadvantage, a bigger problem, than "Republican lies got hundreds of thousands of Americans killed for no reason."
Just a pathetic fucking country. Pathetic.
Just a pathetic fucking country. Pathetic.
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These people are genocidal fascists. They should be opposed because they are wrong, and evil.
If, for whatever reason, that is not enough for you, they should also be opposed because none of us are safe from them unless we all are.
If, for whatever reason, that is not enough for you, they should also be opposed because none of us are safe from them unless we all are.
People need to understand just how openly genocidal the rhetoric on the far right is getting towards transgender people. They're openly talking about eradicating us and forcefully mass institutionalizing all trans people.
These are people with direct ties to the Trump administration.
These are people with direct ties to the Trump administration.
August 28, 2025 at 6:46 PM
These people are genocidal fascists. They should be opposed because they are wrong, and evil.
If, for whatever reason, that is not enough for you, they should also be opposed because none of us are safe from them unless we all are.
If, for whatever reason, that is not enough for you, they should also be opposed because none of us are safe from them unless we all are.
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The only way out of this is out of it together.
Sacrifice one group, they will take that as a signal that they can pick us off group by group until there is no one less.
We hang together, or we all hang separately.
Sacrifice one group, they will take that as a signal that they can pick us off group by group until there is no one less.
We hang together, or we all hang separately.
August 28, 2025 at 3:17 AM
The only way out of this is out of it together.
Sacrifice one group, they will take that as a signal that they can pick us off group by group until there is no one less.
We hang together, or we all hang separately.
Sacrifice one group, they will take that as a signal that they can pick us off group by group until there is no one less.
We hang together, or we all hang separately.