max knightley (real)
@maxknightley.bsky.social
composer, podcaster, game designer, and novelist. you have probably seen screenshots of my tumblr posts
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HIRING MANAGER: What's your greatest strength?
ME: I was born with the soul of a demon, which grants me incredible power in times of need as long as I surrender to my suppressed bloodlust.
HIRING MANAGER: I see. And your greatest weakness?
ME: Well, at the risk of repeating myself,
ME: I was born with the soul of a demon, which grants me incredible power in times of need as long as I surrender to my suppressed bloodlust.
HIRING MANAGER: I see. And your greatest weakness?
ME: Well, at the risk of repeating myself,
tabletop role playing games are dope as fuck.
November 13, 2025 at 4:42 AM
tabletop role playing games are dope as fuck.
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The notion abusers need to resort to conspiracies and subterfuge is more comforting than the truth that many people will readily look the other way when confronted with sexual violence if doing otherwise would even slightly inconvenience them
Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
November 12, 2025 at 11:42 PM
The notion abusers need to resort to conspiracies and subterfuge is more comforting than the truth that many people will readily look the other way when confronted with sexual violence if doing otherwise would even slightly inconvenience them
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Epistemic violence against sexual abuse accusers—smearing them as deluded, crazy, or incompetent—is something rapists know works, and they conspire to do it.
Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon that the lawyers representing Brett Kavanaugh in his confirmation hearing should accuse Christine Blasey Ford of being on medications that cause false memories or memory loss.
November 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Epistemic violence against sexual abuse accusers—smearing them as deluded, crazy, or incompetent—is something rapists know works, and they conspire to do it.
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What the Epstein files show is the *solidarity* of many men-across class, race, religion, profession & party affiliation-in the global political project of keeping the boot on women's necks.
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
Like I dunno, maybe the reason it took a lady to break open the story of all the men protecting the dude trafficking underage girls is because the male journos were all emailing him making jokes about it?
November 12, 2025 at 9:09 PM
What the Epstein files show is the *solidarity* of many men-across class, race, religion, profession & party affiliation-in the global political project of keeping the boot on women's necks.
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
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I'm very appreciative now of how many Roman citizenry must've been watching and going "god, this is so fucking stupid" while politically powerless to prevent it.
America has long feared it would suffer the same fate as the Roman republic, but never quite truly appreciated how utterly absurd Roman elites had become by the time of the late republic.
November 12, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I'm very appreciative now of how many Roman citizenry must've been watching and going "god, this is so fucking stupid" while politically powerless to prevent it.
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Just by sheer chance we are always exactly one vote short of doing good stuff, and one vote over the line to do bad stuff.
Nancy Mace is expected to pull her support for the petition to release the Epstein Files, the day before Adelita Grijalva is sworn in.
November 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Just by sheer chance we are always exactly one vote short of doing good stuff, and one vote over the line to do bad stuff.
I have officially written the first two (2) paragraphs of The Next Novel.
November 13, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I have officially written the first two (2) paragraphs of The Next Novel.
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Chuck Grassley objectively the funniest option here. You thought Biden was old? Welcome to 92 year old President U Kno What
A fun exercise is thinking about how far down the presidential line of succession you'd have to go before you find someone who isn't involved in committing or covering up the most heinous crimes known to man. You have to impeach everyone until you get there
November 12, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Chuck Grassley objectively the funniest option here. You thought Biden was old? Welcome to 92 year old President U Kno What
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Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
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One of the defining feelings in American life, for decades now, is elites doing plainly criminal shit and nothing at all happening as a result. It is deranging in a way that virtually nothing else is. Media fixates on perceived street lawlessness but shit like this matters much more in my opinion.
Dereliction of responsibility by the court. It is so flagrantly illegal. www.huffpost.com/entry/us-wis...
Wisconsin Appeals Court Won't Stop Musk's $1 Million Payments To Voters After AG Sues
A Wisconsin appellate court has denied the state Democratic attorney general’s request to stop billionaire Elon Musk from handing over $1 million checks to two voters at a rally planned for Sunday, ju...
www.huffpost.com
March 30, 2025 at 11:14 PM
One of the defining feelings in American life, for decades now, is elites doing plainly criminal shit and nothing at all happening as a result. It is deranging in a way that virtually nothing else is. Media fixates on perceived street lawlessness but shit like this matters much more in my opinion.
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where's the indie spiritual successor to floigan bros.
November 12, 2025 at 10:14 PM
where's the indie spiritual successor to floigan bros.
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TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence!
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
November 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence!
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
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i can only feel god in this chili's if there isn't anyone distracting me
November 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
i can only feel god in this chili's if there isn't anyone distracting me
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In Super Mario Galaxy, the stars on the letters of the logo spell "u r mr gay", while for the movie it says "he mr gay". This is because you are watching Mario, not playing him.
November 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
In Super Mario Galaxy, the stars on the letters of the logo spell "u r mr gay", while for the movie it says "he mr gay". This is because you are watching Mario, not playing him.
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Republicans will be like oh you just oppose everything Trump does. Well let me tell you, he's 100% right in getting rid of the penny. Fuck the penny.
The US Mint has said that it will end the production of the penny, its lowest denomination coin, in cost-saving move
November 12, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Republicans will be like oh you just oppose everything Trump does. Well let me tell you, he's 100% right in getting rid of the penny. Fuck the penny.
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One comment I sometimes get on my chess posts is that it's demotivating to consider getting into chess now, when a computer can more or less easily beat any human. Respectfully, that's never been persuasive to me. A car can outrace any human, but humans still run track. It's about the joy of doing
November 12, 2025 at 5:51 PM
One comment I sometimes get on my chess posts is that it's demotivating to consider getting into chess now, when a computer can more or less easily beat any human. Respectfully, that's never been persuasive to me. A car can outrace any human, but humans still run track. It's about the joy of doing
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again i am perfectly fine with locking every one of Jeffrey Epstein's friends in prison, Democrat, Republican or Whatever.
Lest there be any insinuation that Dems spared their own. It would be tough for Kathy Ruemmler—Obama’s WH Counsel from 2011 to mid-2014—to come off looking worse in these docs the committee Dems released. oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
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To:
Subject:
Kathy Ruemmler
9/19/2014 11:54:57 AM
jeffrey E. ljeevacation@gmail.com]
Re:
Importance: High
Doesn't look like you are prioritizing your schedule very effeetively.....how are you going to manage all of that? this is unga week so the boss will be in town too....l'Il be here all week -- you may get sick of me....just sat down on the train so can't talk freely.
On Sep 19, 2014 7:48 AM, "jeffrey E." <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
"girls?", careful i will renew an old habit, . this week, thiel, summers, bill burns, gordon brown, jagland, ( council of curope and nobel chairman). mongolia pres, hardeep puree (india), boris ( gates). jabor (qatar ). sultan (dubai, ), kosslyn (harvard), leon black, woody. you are a welcome guest at any... also if you think there are interesting people in town, everyone here for climate summit, clinton security council, holy shit im on
for next 30 minutes
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 7:15 AM, Kathy Ruemmler -
> wrote:
Most girls do not have to worry about this crap.
On Sep 19, 20147:09 AM, "jeffrey E." <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
understood. it comes down to high risk / reward / low risk / reward. professional, cmotional. and financial
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 6:15 AM, Kathy Ruemmler
Agreed, but I need to be prepared to say yes before I talk to him.
wrote:
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November 12, 2025 at 5:38 PM
again i am perfectly fine with locking every one of Jeffrey Epstein's friends in prison, Democrat, Republican or Whatever.
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Hell yeah, there's nothing wrong with that. I know tons of butch trans gals.
Being a trans gal has nothing to do with your clothes. If dressing super femme and pretty makes you feel good then perfect, do that, but you're just as trans in an old t-shirt and jeans. Embrace what feels right to you.
Being a trans gal has nothing to do with your clothes. If dressing super femme and pretty makes you feel good then perfect, do that, but you're just as trans in an old t-shirt and jeans. Embrace what feels right to you.
November 11, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Hell yeah, there's nothing wrong with that. I know tons of butch trans gals.
Being a trans gal has nothing to do with your clothes. If dressing super femme and pretty makes you feel good then perfect, do that, but you're just as trans in an old t-shirt and jeans. Embrace what feels right to you.
Being a trans gal has nothing to do with your clothes. If dressing super femme and pretty makes you feel good then perfect, do that, but you're just as trans in an old t-shirt and jeans. Embrace what feels right to you.
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Larry Summers had an "insight" in an email to Epstein.
November 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Larry Summers had an "insight" in an email to Epstein.
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(Zoom meeting presenting a bar chart): any questions on Q3 before we move on to forecasts?
Me: uh, can we imagine the bars as skyscrapers where the data works? Or are they little smokestacks at a data factory?
Presenter:…they’re stelae, that the data can’t understand but worship regardless
Me: uh, can we imagine the bars as skyscrapers where the data works? Or are they little smokestacks at a data factory?
Presenter:…they’re stelae, that the data can’t understand but worship regardless
November 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
(Zoom meeting presenting a bar chart): any questions on Q3 before we move on to forecasts?
Me: uh, can we imagine the bars as skyscrapers where the data works? Or are they little smokestacks at a data factory?
Presenter:…they’re stelae, that the data can’t understand but worship regardless
Me: uh, can we imagine the bars as skyscrapers where the data works? Or are they little smokestacks at a data factory?
Presenter:…they’re stelae, that the data can’t understand but worship regardless
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This is actually the original definition of emotional labor, as defined by Arlie Hochschild, the sociologist who coined the term. It refers to the labor of performing emotions in order to do your job. It is not enough to just do your job, you have to put on a performance
There is something really wrong with people who need workers to be not just competent, but slavishly fake-happy. "Slavishly" used on purpose, bc that's where this grotesquerie comes from.
"Store employees are now required to smile if they are within 10 feet of a shopper.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
November 9, 2025 at 12:23 AM
This is actually the original definition of emotional labor, as defined by Arlie Hochschild, the sociologist who coined the term. It refers to the labor of performing emotions in order to do your job. It is not enough to just do your job, you have to put on a performance
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By Collecting This Star, You Are No Better Than Bowser
November 12, 2025 at 8:56 AM
By Collecting This Star, You Are No Better Than Bowser
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whether games are action or turn based; developed in america, japan or china; whether they're on steam or console or gacha games you play on your phone; have an audience of millions or an audience of double digits; what's important is that games are about choosing one from a list of three things
November 12, 2025 at 2:48 AM
whether games are action or turn based; developed in america, japan or china; whether they're on steam or console or gacha games you play on your phone; have an audience of millions or an audience of double digits; what's important is that games are about choosing one from a list of three things
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The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
The single most important thing a creative can have is "at least one friend or romantic partner who will Gas Them The Fuck Up when they talk about a new project." The second most important thing is money.
November 12, 2025 at 1:21 AM
The single most important thing a creative can have is "at least one friend or romantic partner who will Gas Them The Fuck Up when they talk about a new project." The second most important thing is money.