madason81.bsky.social
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Warm yourself by the virtual fireplace in this cosy 16-color EGA #Christmas scene. No MS-DOS or floppy 💾 drive required. Thanks to software preservation, it's still crackling on the Internet Archive.
✉️ Open the full 1986 Sierra On-Line "A Computer Christmas" card ⤵️
archive.org/details/sier...
✉️ Open the full 1986 Sierra On-Line "A Computer Christmas" card ⤵️
archive.org/details/sier...
December 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Warm yourself by the virtual fireplace in this cosy 16-color EGA #Christmas scene. No MS-DOS or floppy 💾 drive required. Thanks to software preservation, it's still crackling on the Internet Archive.
✉️ Open the full 1986 Sierra On-Line "A Computer Christmas" card ⤵️
archive.org/details/sier...
✉️ Open the full 1986 Sierra On-Line "A Computer Christmas" card ⤵️
archive.org/details/sier...
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true. that's bc you've allowed your sense of style to be narrowly defined by fashion brands, instead of thinking about it in terms of cultural history. over the course of the 20th century, many groups have dressed well, even if they didn't conform to fashion trends or bourgeois respectability
December 26, 2025 at 11:37 AM
true. that's bc you've allowed your sense of style to be narrowly defined by fashion brands, instead of thinking about it in terms of cultural history. over the course of the 20th century, many groups have dressed well, even if they didn't conform to fashion trends or bourgeois respectability
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It does feel like a lot of “leftists” on this website just entirely internalized the Rush Limbaugh they listened to in their parents’ car driving to their suburban schools as Gospel truth
seeing people react to Bill Clinton (again) say "release the Epstein files" with "oh he's falling on his sword" rather than admit that he has literally nothing to hide is... something, that 1990s Clinton insanity virus keeps paying off for the GOP
December 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
It does feel like a lot of “leftists” on this website just entirely internalized the Rush Limbaugh they listened to in their parents’ car driving to their suburban schools as Gospel truth
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"I didn't push you into the water. Nor did I obstruct your assailant or make any effort to save you. I merely watched as you were assaulted. Be assured, however, that I really hate the person who tried to drown you. By refusing adult responsibility, I maintain the purity of a toothless newborn."
December 20, 2025 at 7:47 PM
"I didn't push you into the water. Nor did I obstruct your assailant or make any effort to save you. I merely watched as you were assaulted. Be assured, however, that I really hate the person who tried to drown you. By refusing adult responsibility, I maintain the purity of a toothless newborn."
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I am begging certain leftists to understand that you cannot escape America & its history & cultures & traditions by despising such things. You can either orient yourself toward them & work toward a better synthesis, or you can orient yourself against them & in doing so find yourself in sorry company
December 18, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I am begging certain leftists to understand that you cannot escape America & its history & cultures & traditions by despising such things. You can either orient yourself toward them & work toward a better synthesis, or you can orient yourself against them & in doing so find yourself in sorry company
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*Free speech guy meme* I think it's reasonable to get upset when a would-be tyrant defaces symbols of the republic.
December 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
*Free speech guy meme* I think it's reasonable to get upset when a would-be tyrant defaces symbols of the republic.
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turning a big dial that says "Reddit socialism" and looking back at the audience to see how theyr eact
December 18, 2025 at 9:10 PM
turning a big dial that says "Reddit socialism" and looking back at the audience to see how theyr eact
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You know ChatGPT didn't write this slop, because ChatGPT makes more sense.
Anyway, to translate from Edgy Leftese into English, she's saying she wants to make the world uglier to punish Americans for being insufficiently leftist, which will surely result in a leftist radical vangauard revolution!
Anyway, to translate from Edgy Leftese into English, she's saying she wants to make the world uglier to punish Americans for being insufficiently leftist, which will surely result in a leftist radical vangauard revolution!
If any of you want to see some of the... amazing takes in this.
December 18, 2025 at 9:20 PM
You know ChatGPT didn't write this slop, because ChatGPT makes more sense.
Anyway, to translate from Edgy Leftese into English, she's saying she wants to make the world uglier to punish Americans for being insufficiently leftist, which will surely result in a leftist radical vangauard revolution!
Anyway, to translate from Edgy Leftese into English, she's saying she wants to make the world uglier to punish Americans for being insufficiently leftist, which will surely result in a leftist radical vangauard revolution!
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It's not surprising the CBS show bombed. Neither Bari Weiss nor Erika Kirk have any name recognition whatsoever, outside a tiny niche of Twitter-brained weirdos.
Nobody tuned in because nobody knows who the fuck these people are or why they should care about them. Twitter is not real life.
Nobody tuned in because nobody knows who the fuck these people are or why they should care about them. Twitter is not real life.
Major advertisers appeared to sit out a new CBS News town hall telecast Saturday, moderated by Bari Weiss and featuring an interview with Erika Kirk.
Lack of Madison Avenue support could challenge the viability of the format, which Weiss wants to expand
variety.com/2025/tv/news...
Lack of Madison Avenue support could challenge the viability of the format, which Weiss wants to expand
variety.com/2025/tv/news...
Big Advertisers Appear Wary of CBS News’ Bari Weiss Town Hall Format
Many major advertisers appeared to sit out a new CBS News town hall format moderated by Bari Weiss and featuring a conversation with Erika Kirk
variety.com
December 14, 2025 at 6:16 AM
It's not surprising the CBS show bombed. Neither Bari Weiss nor Erika Kirk have any name recognition whatsoever, outside a tiny niche of Twitter-brained weirdos.
Nobody tuned in because nobody knows who the fuck these people are or why they should care about them. Twitter is not real life.
Nobody tuned in because nobody knows who the fuck these people are or why they should care about them. Twitter is not real life.
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Specifically, that was how helldump worked on SA. they verbally abused you, you were supposed to like them because of this, to want to become like them. (This is where "bullying works" comes from.) If the target can just choose to not care, it destroys 20 years of social conditioning
December 13, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Specifically, that was how helldump worked on SA. they verbally abused you, you were supposed to like them because of this, to want to become like them. (This is where "bullying works" comes from.) If the target can just choose to not care, it destroys 20 years of social conditioning
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Breaking bad was about a guy who had many opportunities for his healthcare to be paid for (his former business partners, jrs accidental money laundering go fund me), but he preferred selling meth because ruining other people's lives feels more manly than accepting gifts.
December 7, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Breaking bad was about a guy who had many opportunities for his healthcare to be paid for (his former business partners, jrs accidental money laundering go fund me), but he preferred selling meth because ruining other people's lives feels more manly than accepting gifts.
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understated element of Walter's life is that him being poor at the beginning of the show is 100% just because he sucks
sure the show takes place during the Great Recession but he had been a teacher for literally years before that and somehow never found a better job with his qualifications
sure the show takes place during the Great Recession but he had been a teacher for literally years before that and somehow never found a better job with his qualifications
December 7, 2025 at 4:39 AM
understated element of Walter's life is that him being poor at the beginning of the show is 100% just because he sucks
sure the show takes place during the Great Recession but he had been a teacher for literally years before that and somehow never found a better job with his qualifications
sure the show takes place during the Great Recession but he had been a teacher for literally years before that and somehow never found a better job with his qualifications
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one of the least sympathetic microgenres of post is, "I financed an extremely expensive truck at fairly normal APRs and am paying HOW MUCH in interest?!"
my uncle is broke as shit in his 60s in large part from making this exact sort of decision multiple times
my uncle is broke as shit in his 60s in large part from making this exact sort of decision multiple times
November 27, 2025 at 5:44 PM
one of the least sympathetic microgenres of post is, "I financed an extremely expensive truck at fairly normal APRs and am paying HOW MUCH in interest?!"
my uncle is broke as shit in his 60s in large part from making this exact sort of decision multiple times
my uncle is broke as shit in his 60s in large part from making this exact sort of decision multiple times
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the last 24 hours on X, summed up:
November 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM
the last 24 hours on X, summed up:
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I see a lot of Paidchecks on X didn’t realize that a whole lot of people on social media lie about their location to grift off the naïveté of the rage-addled American right.
Turns out this problem is real and it’s a thing those of us who worked on “disinformation” pointed out.
Turns out this problem is real and it’s a thing those of us who worked on “disinformation” pointed out.
November 23, 2025 at 5:11 AM
I see a lot of Paidchecks on X didn’t realize that a whole lot of people on social media lie about their location to grift off the naïveté of the rage-addled American right.
Turns out this problem is real and it’s a thing those of us who worked on “disinformation” pointed out.
Turns out this problem is real and it’s a thing those of us who worked on “disinformation” pointed out.
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Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
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Every backwards rural shithole in the history of the entire world has been a hotbed of reaction but everyone from French radlibs to Chinese communists thinks they’re the ones who are going to turn it around. There is nothing new under the sun.
as a white liberal with Southern roots, quite frankly, I think other white liberals from the South need to get the fuck over their oddly defensive attitude about what should be pretty blindingly obvious.
November 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Every backwards rural shithole in the history of the entire world has been a hotbed of reaction but everyone from French radlibs to Chinese communists thinks they’re the ones who are going to turn it around. There is nothing new under the sun.
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"Greeks living in Afghanistan were Buddhist 500 years before China and a thousand years before Southeast Asia" is one of those things that sounds made up but is in fact true
November 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
"Greeks living in Afghanistan were Buddhist 500 years before China and a thousand years before Southeast Asia" is one of those things that sounds made up but is in fact true
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Its wild to see Olivia Nuzzi get this treatment while if I break the ethics rules of my profession I'll never be a CPA again
November 16, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Its wild to see Olivia Nuzzi get this treatment while if I break the ethics rules of my profession I'll never be a CPA again
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man we need a way to say "the moral rot and depravity of this country's elite must be burned out of it with cleansing fire" that isn't wildly reactionary-coded
November 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
man we need a way to say "the moral rot and depravity of this country's elite must be burned out of it with cleansing fire" that isn't wildly reactionary-coded
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1/ The characterization of Saruman and Gandalf is fascinating to me because LOTR is a very Catholic work but their relationship is an explicit rejection of Catholic theology. Catholic theology says Saruman should be the good guy.
November 14, 2025 at 1:15 AM
1/ The characterization of Saruman and Gandalf is fascinating to me because LOTR is a very Catholic work but their relationship is an explicit rejection of Catholic theology. Catholic theology says Saruman should be the good guy.
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Sarah McBride isn't an authentic voice for the trans community because she focused on saving transition care for the needy instead of important trans issues like backing my favorite Middle Eastern war criminals against their sworn rivals, slightly different Middle Eastern war criminals.
November 12, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Sarah McBride isn't an authentic voice for the trans community because she focused on saving transition care for the needy instead of important trans issues like backing my favorite Middle Eastern war criminals against their sworn rivals, slightly different Middle Eastern war criminals.
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At the same time the NY Times was hyping Hillary Clinton's emails, it had a reporter with emails from Jeffrey Epstein that were highly damaging to Trump.
The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.
The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.
November 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
At the same time the NY Times was hyping Hillary Clinton's emails, it had a reporter with emails from Jeffrey Epstein that were highly damaging to Trump.
The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.
The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.