Modern Moloch
@modernmoloch.bsky.social
Consumer of pedestrians and cyclists, worshipped and fed by reckless and vicious drivers.
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I know it's tiresome to keep hearing it but it's important to remind ourselves that Trump's anti-Somali rant yesterday would have been a presidency-ending scandal for anyone else
NYT: Is the President tired?
Ms. Leavitt: Would a weary President be able to deliver a racist rant like that one?
Ms. Leavitt: Would a weary President be able to deliver a racist rant like that one?
December 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I know it's tiresome to keep hearing it but it's important to remind ourselves that Trump's anti-Somali rant yesterday would have been a presidency-ending scandal for anyone else
The Apprentice Tapes: Redux
Honestly, he is *this* close to blurting out the "n" word. I expect it any day.
Trump: When they come from hell and they complain and do nothing but bitch—we don’t want them in our country. Let them go back to where they came from
December 2, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The Apprentice Tapes: Redux
lol
“The word ‘affordability’ is a con job by the Democrats”—President Trump, at today’s cabinet meeting
December 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
lol
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i'm actually struck by how pete hegseth isn't just a cowardly man but a capital-c Coward. a guy who gets off on abusing and hurting people he thinks are weaker than him and then tries to run and hide when there might be consequences
December 2, 2025 at 1:45 PM
i'm actually struck by how pete hegseth isn't just a cowardly man but a capital-c Coward. a guy who gets off on abusing and hurting people he thinks are weaker than him and then tries to run and hide when there might be consequences
Good thing there isn’t a years-long evidentiary trail of Hegseth vocally supporting war crimes, otherwise wise he might be in a bit of hot water.
December 2, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Good thing there isn’t a years-long evidentiary trail of Hegseth vocally supporting war crimes, otherwise wise he might be in a bit of hot water.
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people think grant’s fatal flaw was alcoholism, but that’s a lot more nuanced than is generally discussed. his fatal flaw was being pathologically incapable of recognizing that someone might be trying to get one over on him.
US Grant: best general in US history, one of the most decent people to ever hold high office, and just catastrophically terrible at anything having to do with money or business. from birth to death one comical pratfall after the next
December 1, 2025 at 8:26 PM
people think grant’s fatal flaw was alcoholism, but that’s a lot more nuanced than is generally discussed. his fatal flaw was being pathologically incapable of recognizing that someone might be trying to get one over on him.
How many fad diets are just industry plants?
December 1, 2025 at 6:11 PM
How many fad diets are just industry plants?
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I really don't know what to do about the fact that for almost any political issue you care to name, it is nearly always the argument that is least supported by the facts that travels, furthest, fastest, and most successfully
it is absolutely unbelievable how complaining about water has somehow obliterated every real harm
December 1, 2025 at 3:32 AM
I really don't know what to do about the fact that for almost any political issue you care to name, it is nearly always the argument that is least supported by the facts that travels, furthest, fastest, and most successfully
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So, reading between the lines of all of this, Mark Kelly et al clearly got wind of this specific thing just a little before it came out publicly and shrewdly figured theyd exploit what was going to be a festering wound for the administration by messaging about illegal orders, right?
November 30, 2025 at 11:26 PM
So, reading between the lines of all of this, Mark Kelly et al clearly got wind of this specific thing just a little before it came out publicly and shrewdly figured theyd exploit what was going to be a festering wound for the administration by messaging about illegal orders, right?
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Seems pretty clear that this has to end with removal and prosecution and courts martial.
Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
November 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Seems pretty clear that this has to end with removal and prosecution and courts martial.
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people wonder how you can ride a bike in the winter and let me tell you my commute to work is so much more pleasant than standing at a pump getting pummeled by freezing wind as the loudest most tedious sounds on earth bombard you waiting for the tank to fill
Little TV screens at the gas station pump blaring ads directly in your face as you spend $70 on a tank of gas is enough to radicalize a person
November 30, 2025 at 2:15 PM
people wonder how you can ride a bike in the winter and let me tell you my commute to work is so much more pleasant than standing at a pump getting pummeled by freezing wind as the loudest most tedious sounds on earth bombard you waiting for the tank to fill
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There’s a great big homage to The Shining at the end of … Zootopia 2?
November 29, 2025 at 6:29 PM
There’s a great big homage to The Shining at the end of … Zootopia 2?
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people are starting to leak. republicans who are either planning to retire or don’t have to face voters again until after trump’s term is over are starting to talk about trump in public the way they’ve spent the last decade talking about him in private. 2006 vibes increasing.
November 29, 2025 at 4:46 PM
people are starting to leak. republicans who are either planning to retire or don’t have to face voters again until after trump’s term is over are starting to talk about trump in public the way they’ve spent the last decade talking about him in private. 2006 vibes increasing.
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i want to underline how significant i think it is that people are starting to leak already. that’s a sign, imo, that people are shifting into ass-covering mode, hoping that if they’re among the first to blow the whistle, however belatedly, they’ll get more lenient treatment.
people are starting to leak. republicans who are either planning to retire or don’t have to face voters again until after trump’s term is over are starting to talk about trump in public the way they’ve spent the last decade talking about him in private. 2006 vibes increasing.
November 29, 2025 at 4:54 PM
i want to underline how significant i think it is that people are starting to leak already. that’s a sign, imo, that people are shifting into ass-covering mode, hoping that if they’re among the first to blow the whistle, however belatedly, they’ll get more lenient treatment.
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I regret every joke I’ve made about how our elected officials were so old they didn’t know how to use a computer. I would give anything for another administration that doesn’t know how to use a computer
November 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I regret every joke I’ve made about how our elected officials were so old they didn’t know how to use a computer. I would give anything for another administration that doesn’t know how to use a computer
Rogue One declines in quality upon watching Andor
yes i have seen ANDOR, no it does not “make it better” because any given film should be evaluated on its own as a standalone text.
November 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Rogue One declines in quality upon watching Andor
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Cassian Andor is clearly the protagonist of the story Rogue One wants to tell — and that was clear even before the series — but what we have instead is a movie where the ostensible “protagonist” floats through the wind taking no actions and making no real choices.
November 24, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Cassian Andor is clearly the protagonist of the story Rogue One wants to tell — and that was clear even before the series — but what we have instead is a movie where the ostensible “protagonist” floats through the wind taking no actions and making no real choices.
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rogue one is bad folks. i have believed this since i saw it in theaters and no subsequent rewatch has changed my mind. basically a chop job until the final sequence, which is good (for star wars)
November 24, 2025 at 7:48 PM
rogue one is bad folks. i have believed this since i saw it in theaters and no subsequent rewatch has changed my mind. basically a chop job until the final sequence, which is good (for star wars)
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Also Episode 8 is the best in the series largely because @rianjohnson.bsky.social is the best director to ever helm a Star Wars movie.
Consistently funny and tight, and the warp speed sacrifice is the best shot I’ve ever seen in a Hollywood blockbuster.
Consistently funny and tight, and the warp speed sacrifice is the best shot I’ve ever seen in a Hollywood blockbuster.
November 24, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Also Episode 8 is the best in the series largely because @rianjohnson.bsky.social is the best director to ever helm a Star Wars movie.
Consistently funny and tight, and the warp speed sacrifice is the best shot I’ve ever seen in a Hollywood blockbuster.
Consistently funny and tight, and the warp speed sacrifice is the best shot I’ve ever seen in a Hollywood blockbuster.
Art is when nipples
This will always be the most iconic example of White Supremacist / Internet Male subcultures being owned.
November 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Art is when nipples
Both Rogue One and Revenge of the Sith are too high, but this is a pretty decent list
haven’t seen ROS or Solo but this seems like a pretty ball-knowing list from Pritzker, particularly if he volunteered the name “Star Wars” rather than “A New Hope”
November 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Both Rogue One and Revenge of the Sith are too high, but this is a pretty decent list
There is a man - a certain man -
And for the poor you may be sure
That he'll do all he can!
Who is this one?
This fav'rite son?
Just by his action
Has the Traction magnates on the run?
Who loves to smoke?
Enjoys a joke?
Who wouldn't get a bit upset
If he were really broke?
(1/2)
And for the poor you may be sure
That he'll do all he can!
Who is this one?
This fav'rite son?
Just by his action
Has the Traction magnates on the run?
Who loves to smoke?
Enjoys a joke?
Who wouldn't get a bit upset
If he were really broke?
(1/2)
You cannot kill me in any way that matters, Charlie Brown.
I did it 35 minutes ago, Charlie Brown.
November 24, 2025 at 4:25 PM
There is a man - a certain man -
And for the poor you may be sure
That he'll do all he can!
Who is this one?
This fav'rite son?
Just by his action
Has the Traction magnates on the run?
Who loves to smoke?
Enjoys a joke?
Who wouldn't get a bit upset
If he were really broke?
(1/2)
And for the poor you may be sure
That he'll do all he can!
Who is this one?
This fav'rite son?
Just by his action
Has the Traction magnates on the run?
Who loves to smoke?
Enjoys a joke?
Who wouldn't get a bit upset
If he were really broke?
(1/2)
Guys, it’s okay if people don’t like Thanksgiving food. They’re not attacking your moral character
I have seen ~0 people on here say Thanksgiving food sucks, but roughly 1,000 super-defensive people self assuredly proclaim that their Thanksgiving feast is the one true way to make everything delicious
November 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Guys, it’s okay if people don’t like Thanksgiving food. They’re not attacking your moral character
I have seen ~0 people on here say Thanksgiving food sucks, but roughly 1,000 super-defensive people self assuredly proclaim that their Thanksgiving feast is the one true way to make everything delicious
November 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I have seen ~0 people on here say Thanksgiving food sucks, but roughly 1,000 super-defensive people self assuredly proclaim that their Thanksgiving feast is the one true way to make everything delicious
Waving my phone in my friends’ faces at a party so it can call them racial epithets
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Waving my phone in my friends’ faces at a party so it can call them racial epithets