Joshua Perkins
@joshuabperkins.bsky.social
My favorite media thing is Star Trek and my politics show it.
No DMs please.
No DMs please.
It's genuinely baffling that people are so willing to treat LLM chatbots as authoritative sources. I mean they definitely do something impressive from a computation standpoint, but that thing is definitely not giving the right answer to every question.
August 15, 2025 at 4:00 AM
It's genuinely baffling that people are so willing to treat LLM chatbots as authoritative sources. I mean they definitely do something impressive from a computation standpoint, but that thing is definitely not giving the right answer to every question.
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This feels like propaganda to convince poor people their money problems are all their fault. I mean, we all know teachers are underpaid, right? If she can get her finances under control by limiting wasteful spending, so can you.
Nevermind the "Tiktok side hustle" that's barely more than a footnote.
Nevermind the "Tiktok side hustle" that's barely more than a footnote.
27-year-old first-grade teacher lived paycheck to paycheck due to impulsive spending: ‘It became so stressful’
Maddie Baker's impulsive spending habits left living paycheck to paycheck. How she got out and the silver lining she found from saving money.
www.cnbc.com
August 5, 2025 at 10:52 AM
This feels like propaganda to convince poor people their money problems are all their fault. I mean, we all know teachers are underpaid, right? If she can get her finances under control by limiting wasteful spending, so can you.
Nevermind the "Tiktok side hustle" that's barely more than a footnote.
Nevermind the "Tiktok side hustle" that's barely more than a footnote.
If you're a reporter and you get added to the war planning group chat, I think the only patriotic thing to do is warn our NATO allies when they're inevitably on the target list.
March 25, 2025 at 1:04 PM
If you're a reporter and you get added to the war planning group chat, I think the only patriotic thing to do is warn our NATO allies when they're inevitably on the target list.
Is it possible to publicly discuss the trauma of growing up with a parent who had an untreated psychotic disorder without also contributing to mental health stigma among a certain contingent of potential readers?
February 22, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Is it possible to publicly discuss the trauma of growing up with a parent who had an untreated psychotic disorder without also contributing to mental health stigma among a certain contingent of potential readers?
More often than not a "discussion" with a MAGA is like talking to that one ex who did nothing but put words in your mouth and refused to hear you.
Fucking useless.
Better to get them out of your life.
Fucking useless.
Better to get them out of your life.
The problem is you assume they want to "engage and have reals discussions on real issues." They don't. When confronted with facts, data, science, actual laws, and the like, they resort to spewing lies, disinformation and hate.
February 10, 2025 at 4:24 PM
More often than not a "discussion" with a MAGA is like talking to that one ex who did nothing but put words in your mouth and refused to hear you.
Fucking useless.
Better to get them out of your life.
Fucking useless.
Better to get them out of your life.
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the appropriate response to someone doing a nxzi salute is to punch them in the face.
January 29, 2025 at 8:27 PM
the appropriate response to someone doing a nxzi salute is to punch them in the face.
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It'd be a shame if the terms "swasticars" and "Muskolini" caught on. #swasticars #Muskolini
January 29, 2025 at 1:37 PM
It'd be a shame if the terms "swasticars" and "Muskolini" caught on. #swasticars #Muskolini
However you feel about the contents of this post, the replies reflect a growing sentiment that legacy news media no longer serves the people. People want independent, properly sourced and vetted news that doesn't hide from the truth. Legacy media has grown a reputation for bias and whitewashing.
A while back I asked folks why they’re joining Bluesky and the most common response I saw was, “I just want a good place to get my news” and, yall, no. Bad.
GET YOUR NEWS FROM THE NEWS
PBS Newshour is FREE FOR EVERYONE.
youtu.be/PMOYN8JWdUk?...
GET YOUR NEWS FROM THE NEWS
PBS Newshour is FREE FOR EVERYONE.
youtu.be/PMOYN8JWdUk?...
PBS News Weekend full episode, Jan. 25, 2025
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
youtu.be
January 26, 2025 at 7:05 PM
However you feel about the contents of this post, the replies reflect a growing sentiment that legacy news media no longer serves the people. People want independent, properly sourced and vetted news that doesn't hide from the truth. Legacy media has grown a reputation for bias and whitewashing.
Of course, this presumes we still have a democracy in 2028. Y'know, the democracy Trump and the Republicans are actively dismantling right now.
thehill.com
January 26, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Of course, this presumes we still have a democracy in 2028. Y'know, the democracy Trump and the Republicans are actively dismantling right now.
Everything the Trump administration does is tailor made to create a crisis. An economic crisis here, a constitutional crisis there, a humanitarian crisis on Tuesday. The chaos and the cruelty are the point.
January 26, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Everything the Trump administration does is tailor made to create a crisis. An economic crisis here, a constitutional crisis there, a humanitarian crisis on Tuesday. The chaos and the cruelty are the point.
We can only hope
Joe Rogan’s theory of politics being “I’m just a little podcast man who just asks questions” is starting to ring hollow even for some folks in his audience.
January 25, 2025 at 7:32 PM
We can only hope
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How does terrorizing farm workers, school kids and hard working immigrants make America great, especially when you release and pardon violent insurrectionists?
White Nationalism is Nazism.
White Nationalism is Nazism.
January 24, 2025 at 10:22 PM
How does terrorizing farm workers, school kids and hard working immigrants make America great, especially when you release and pardon violent insurrectionists?
White Nationalism is Nazism.
White Nationalism is Nazism.
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musk definitely did a nazi salute but there's incentives for pretending he didn't across the top of the mainstream political spectrum (secretly being a nazi/not wanting line to go down/finding muddied waters re: antisemitism to be useful/sycophantic servility before power, etc) so he didn't actually
January 23, 2025 at 9:21 AM
musk definitely did a nazi salute but there's incentives for pretending he didn't across the top of the mainstream political spectrum (secretly being a nazi/not wanting line to go down/finding muddied waters re: antisemitism to be useful/sycophantic servility before power, etc) so he didn't actually
The Democrats are fucking complicit with Nazis at this point
The Senate confirmed Marco Rubio as Secretary of State by a vote of 99-0.
Democrats offer an endless supply of goodwill to Republicans that will never be reciprocated.
Democrats offer an endless supply of goodwill to Republicans that will never be reciprocated.
January 22, 2025 at 10:02 PM
The Democrats are fucking complicit with Nazis at this point
Anyone else starting to feel like "the Dems are the only thing standing between us and full blown fascism" was a fucking grift the whole time?
I'm sure a lot of ink has been spilled to explain how authoritarian regimes use the levers of democratic systems to destroy the whole machine.
I'm sure a lot of ink has been spilled to explain how authoritarian regimes use the levers of democratic systems to destroy the whole machine.
January 22, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Anyone else starting to feel like "the Dems are the only thing standing between us and full blown fascism" was a fucking grift the whole time?
I'm sure a lot of ink has been spilled to explain how authoritarian regimes use the levers of democratic systems to destroy the whole machine.
I'm sure a lot of ink has been spilled to explain how authoritarian regimes use the levers of democratic systems to destroy the whole machine.
Is it even worth my time on here trying to block obvious bot accounts?
January 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Is it even worth my time on here trying to block obvious bot accounts?
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It was a Nazi salute. Don't let anyone tell you it wasn't.
January 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
It was a Nazi salute. Don't let anyone tell you it wasn't.
As though Trump cares about the Constitution 🙄
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."
Written right there in the Constitution.
The President cannot change that with the stroke of a pen.
Written right there in the Constitution.
The President cannot change that with the stroke of a pen.
January 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
As though Trump cares about the Constitution 🙄
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You are here:
January 21, 2025 at 10:43 AM
You are here:
It's important to keep in mind that, in the face of an out and proud authoritarian regime sweeping in to end American democracy as we know it, the Democratic party rolled over and took let it happen in the name of fucking high road decorum.
We have always been on our own, so let's do this.
We have always been on our own, so let's do this.
January 21, 2025 at 6:22 AM
It's important to keep in mind that, in the face of an out and proud authoritarian regime sweeping in to end American democracy as we know it, the Democratic party rolled over and took let it happen in the name of fucking high road decorum.
We have always been on our own, so let's do this.
We have always been on our own, so let's do this.
Apropos of nothing in particular, the most charitable way to see so-called psychics/mediums/intuitives is as salespeople who happen to buy their own product.
The much less charitable way to see them is as grifters who want to convince you they have special insight.
Kinda the same deal as MLMs.
The much less charitable way to see them is as grifters who want to convince you they have special insight.
Kinda the same deal as MLMs.
January 21, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Apropos of nothing in particular, the most charitable way to see so-called psychics/mediums/intuitives is as salespeople who happen to buy their own product.
The much less charitable way to see them is as grifters who want to convince you they have special insight.
Kinda the same deal as MLMs.
The much less charitable way to see them is as grifters who want to convince you they have special insight.
Kinda the same deal as MLMs.
A reminder: the left views ICE raids, mass deportations, and likely detainment camps as dire human rights violations which ought to be resisted.
So many people in America support these actions and so many more are tacitly okay with them happening. The US is deeply racist and has never not been.
So many people in America support these actions and so many more are tacitly okay with them happening. The US is deeply racist and has never not been.
Katie Phang: How Trump's mass deportation plans was inspired by Eisenhower's
The model of what Trump is promising to do was an immoral nightmare.
www.msnbc.com
January 20, 2025 at 6:46 PM
A reminder: the left views ICE raids, mass deportations, and likely detainment camps as dire human rights violations which ought to be resisted.
So many people in America support these actions and so many more are tacitly okay with them happening. The US is deeply racist and has never not been.
So many people in America support these actions and so many more are tacitly okay with them happening. The US is deeply racist and has never not been.
I think the maybe the best thing about #tiktok coming back is it gives lots of people a little longer to follow their favorite creators on other platforms
January 19, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I think the maybe the best thing about #tiktok coming back is it gives lots of people a little longer to follow their favorite creators on other platforms