MerlotMage
@merlotmage.bsky.social
I'm standing next to another wallflower at a punk show and we're both swiping Hinge.
This is the Modern Loneliness Epidemic
This is the Modern Loneliness Epidemic
October 24, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I'm standing next to another wallflower at a punk show and we're both swiping Hinge.
This is the Modern Loneliness Epidemic
This is the Modern Loneliness Epidemic
My partner, being woken up to construction noise outside my window:
Who tf starts the day with 15 solid minutes of jackhammering?
Me: other than every Tinder date I've ever been on?
Who tf starts the day with 15 solid minutes of jackhammering?
Me: other than every Tinder date I've ever been on?
October 23, 2025 at 1:11 PM
My partner, being woken up to construction noise outside my window:
Who tf starts the day with 15 solid minutes of jackhammering?
Me: other than every Tinder date I've ever been on?
Who tf starts the day with 15 solid minutes of jackhammering?
Me: other than every Tinder date I've ever been on?
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Why, whenever the government intervenes in a strike, that it’s to force the workers back and never to force the company to negotiate?
August 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Why, whenever the government intervenes in a strike, that it’s to force the workers back and never to force the company to negotiate?
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The Venn diagram of people who say that polyamorous people are riddled with STIs and people who have literally never been tested for an STI is a circle.
July 21, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The Venn diagram of people who say that polyamorous people are riddled with STIs and people who have literally never been tested for an STI is a circle.
"We did not uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation of uncharged third parties" just doesn't have quite the ring to it that "I did not have sexual relations with that woman" does.
If Elon Musk actually takes down this presidency? I'm gonna be so pissed
If Elon Musk actually takes down this presidency? I'm gonna be so pissed
July 7, 2025 at 9:13 PM
"We did not uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation of uncharged third parties" just doesn't have quite the ring to it that "I did not have sexual relations with that woman" does.
If Elon Musk actually takes down this presidency? I'm gonna be so pissed
If Elon Musk actually takes down this presidency? I'm gonna be so pissed
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Something the Mamdani win demonstrates is the extent to which the reigning cadre of ancient, establishment, centrist Dems think it’s more important to be on good terms with their GOP colleagues than it is to represent their own voters, and how thoroughly sick of this literally everyone is.
June 25, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Something the Mamdani win demonstrates is the extent to which the reigning cadre of ancient, establishment, centrist Dems think it’s more important to be on good terms with their GOP colleagues than it is to represent their own voters, and how thoroughly sick of this literally everyone is.
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Teaching sand to think was a mistake.
June 18, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Teaching sand to think was a mistake.
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The band playing "Fortunate Son" might have been the best part of the whole parade. In case you don't know the lyrics, here they are. A perfect gift for a flawed man.
June 17, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The band playing "Fortunate Son" might have been the best part of the whole parade. In case you don't know the lyrics, here they are. A perfect gift for a flawed man.
Being trans is wild. Some days you finally feel like the only person you've ever wanted to be. And then others you have menstrual cramps and cry in the shower because the testosterone hair loss is starting and you can't ignore it anymore.
May 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Being trans is wild. Some days you finally feel like the only person you've ever wanted to be. And then others you have menstrual cramps and cry in the shower because the testosterone hair loss is starting and you can't ignore it anymore.
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Leader Jeffries, if House Dems don't have a stack of impeachment resolutions ready to introduce as soon as Congress is back in session, you are failing at your job.
April 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Leader Jeffries, if House Dems don't have a stack of impeachment resolutions ready to introduce as soon as Congress is back in session, you are failing at your job.
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Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
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Sometimes when I remember that Trump became president because Hillary Clinton stored her emails in a somewhat incautious place I do feel like I've gone mad
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
White House inadvertently texted top-secret Yemen war plans to journalist
In extraordinary blunder top Trump cabinet members added Atlantic editor to chat discussing strikes on Houthis
www.theguardian.com
March 24, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Sometimes when I remember that Trump became president because Hillary Clinton stored her emails in a somewhat incautious place I do feel like I've gone mad
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Awesome episode chok full of giggling whatthefuckery.
But it's also wild how many groups, in positioning themselves away from dominant cultural narratives, just end up remaking them.
What is our obsession with calamitous end and rebirth? Why can we not reckon with the monotonous drudge of time?
But it's also wild how many groups, in positioning themselves away from dominant cultural narratives, just end up remaking them.
What is our obsession with calamitous end and rebirth? Why can we not reckon with the monotonous drudge of time?
None of the articles I read made this all make sense to me than Robert Evans saying the rationalists invented techno‐Calvinism.
Straight up "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" shit.
Straight up "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" shit.
New Behind the Bastards ⚡📚⚡
Robert sits down with David Gborie to trace the Zizian’s development, from part of the Bay Area Rationalist subculture to killers.
@iwriteok.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
Robert sits down with David Gborie to trace the Zizian’s development, from part of the Bay Area Rationalist subculture to killers.
@iwriteok.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
March 20, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Awesome episode chok full of giggling whatthefuckery.
But it's also wild how many groups, in positioning themselves away from dominant cultural narratives, just end up remaking them.
What is our obsession with calamitous end and rebirth? Why can we not reckon with the monotonous drudge of time?
But it's also wild how many groups, in positioning themselves away from dominant cultural narratives, just end up remaking them.
What is our obsession with calamitous end and rebirth? Why can we not reckon with the monotonous drudge of time?
Somebody call Jesse Eisenberg's agent and tell him to get over to SNL stat
www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerb...
www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerb...
An ex-Facebook exec said staff let Zuckerberg win at board games. But now the plot thickens.
Former Facebook exec Sarah Wynn-Williams claims Mark Zuckerberg's employees let him win Settlers of Catan in her new book "Careless People."
www.businessinsider.com
March 11, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Somebody call Jesse Eisenberg's agent and tell him to get over to SNL stat
www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerb...
www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerb...
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Thoughts on boycotts: inflict pain on the corporation. Buying a couple 99 cent ebooks from a self-published author on Amazon is fine. Don’t buy a microwave on it. Purity is never the answer. Restraint though and thoughtfulness is.
March 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Thoughts on boycotts: inflict pain on the corporation. Buying a couple 99 cent ebooks from a self-published author on Amazon is fine. Don’t buy a microwave on it. Purity is never the answer. Restraint though and thoughtfulness is.
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Wild how Shadowrun today feels like an optimistic alternate future. Native Americans gain independence from the U.S. government? A benevolent dragon becomes the president and governs by suicide? People still communicate primarily through message boards? Sign me the fuck up.
March 9, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Wild how Shadowrun today feels like an optimistic alternate future. Native Americans gain independence from the U.S. government? A benevolent dragon becomes the president and governs by suicide? People still communicate primarily through message boards? Sign me the fuck up.
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Hey remember that time a bunch of losers got mad at a lady who made a video game about depression and it led to several thousand federal employees losing their jobs
March 8, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Hey remember that time a bunch of losers got mad at a lady who made a video game about depression and it led to several thousand federal employees losing their jobs
ugin take egg
Dang, even the Prison Realm isn’t immune from the current egg shortage 🫢
March 3, 2025 at 2:16 PM
ugin take egg
Imagine accepting an Oscar for Original Song from Mick Jagger when you wrote La Vaginoplastia
March 3, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Imagine accepting an Oscar for Original Song from Mick Jagger when you wrote La Vaginoplastia
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Jobst does genuine journalism here both in meticulously researching the claim (surprisingly turning up that there's a kernal of truth to it) and then, crucially, using his own knowledge to contextualize it for the audience and contextualize why Elon is being dishonest bsky.app/profile/tayl...
That’s because the people doing the analysis actually know what they’re talking about and are not simply cosplaying as informed experts
March 1, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Jobst does genuine journalism here both in meticulously researching the claim (surprisingly turning up that there's a kernal of truth to it) and then, crucially, using his own knowledge to contextualize it for the audience and contextualize why Elon is being dishonest bsky.app/profile/tayl...
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Just saying.
February 28, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Just saying.