zak strassberg
@raining.men
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Dudes Rock
December 24, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Dudes Rock
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What's going to be fascinating is when 60 Minutes has to air the "new" version because of the corner Weiss painted them into and people can see what they changed beyond adding a Nazi perspective.
December 22, 2025 at 9:50 PM
What's going to be fascinating is when 60 Minutes has to air the "new" version because of the corner Weiss painted them into and people can see what they changed beyond adding a Nazi perspective.
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If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...
December 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...
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Could a person with depression do this?! (grimly goes about activities of daily living)
December 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Could a person with depression do this?! (grimly goes about activities of daily living)
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Over this century, America has developed a culture of business that is only interested in running securities trading
They have *no idea* how to run another kind of business, and the way those businesses operate kinda piss them off
They have *no idea* how to run another kind of business, and the way those businesses operate kinda piss them off
December 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Over this century, America has developed a culture of business that is only interested in running securities trading
They have *no idea* how to run another kind of business, and the way those businesses operate kinda piss them off
They have *no idea* how to run another kind of business, and the way those businesses operate kinda piss them off
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Pop crave posting this and not like the times or the post is everything we need to know about the medias complicity
An ICE agent in Minneapolis pinned a pregnant woman’s face into the snow and knelt on her body.
She was also dragged across the pavement by her wrist.
She was also dragged across the pavement by her wrist.
December 17, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Pop crave posting this and not like the times or the post is everything we need to know about the medias complicity
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It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
December 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
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This. This was the formative event of my generation & our entire politics in 🇺🇸. The structural break after which we were no longer a full democracy, when 5 Wizards In Robes decided they were a super-legislature & counting all the actual votes didn’t matter. The rest has been 25 years of commentary.
25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.
December 12, 2025 at 7:50 AM
This. This was the formative event of my generation & our entire politics in 🇺🇸. The structural break after which we were no longer a full democracy, when 5 Wizards In Robes decided they were a super-legislature & counting all the actual votes didn’t matter. The rest has been 25 years of commentary.
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We need to stop being so institutionally provincial! For every seemingly intractable institutional problem we face, other countries have pioneered multiple alternatives, some of which might even be quite trivial to implement!
"One thing that presidential countries have done to give impeachment teeth is to make the removal trial a secret ballot. South Korea does this, and that is why they were successful in removing their president after he attempted to impose martial law on the country on a thin pretense."
Impeach and Remove the Bastards
A scenario for 2027.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:31 PM
We need to stop being so institutionally provincial! For every seemingly intractable institutional problem we face, other countries have pioneered multiple alternatives, some of which might even be quite trivial to implement!
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The “forever” implies that after my own death, an AI simulation of me will take over and continue the conversation
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
www.independent.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 9:16 PM
The “forever” implies that after my own death, an AI simulation of me will take over and continue the conversation
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US invested 20% more in AI data centers last year than it did in entire power sector. The US has gone ALL IN BET OF THE 21st Century on AI, while China has gone all in on green tech.
This is the Chinese great green leap forward.
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
bsky.app/profile/70sb...
This is the Chinese great green leap forward.
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
bsky.app/profile/70sb...
Western politicians love the excuse “Why should we invest in renewables when China isn’t doing anything?”
adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...
Well, this is what China is upto:
China installing wind & solar equivalent of 5 nuclear plants per week
globalenergymonitor.org/report/china...
adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...
Well, this is what China is upto:
China installing wind & solar equivalent of 5 nuclear plants per week
globalenergymonitor.org/report/china...
August 2, 2025 at 2:29 AM
US invested 20% more in AI data centers last year than it did in entire power sector. The US has gone ALL IN BET OF THE 21st Century on AI, while China has gone all in on green tech.
This is the Chinese great green leap forward.
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
bsky.app/profile/70sb...
This is the Chinese great green leap forward.
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
bsky.app/profile/70sb...
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Trump's dementia has grown so extreme that a select group of advisors are now running the country without his input. To find who those advisors are and what their plans are, buy my new book, which will appear in March 2029.
December 6, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Trump's dementia has grown so extreme that a select group of advisors are now running the country without his input. To find who those advisors are and what their plans are, buy my new book, which will appear in March 2029.
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Agree with this thread. Worth reading in full.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
They're not even trying to appear nonpartisan anymore.
December 4, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Agree with this thread. Worth reading in full.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
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Netsuke of a Rat Grasping a Soybean Pod, 19th century Japan
November 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Netsuke of a Rat Grasping a Soybean Pod, 19th century Japan
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one of the major reasons i like anime so much is that Japan feels to me like the last place where pulp/genre lit’s liminal status between high and low art survives. evangelion is iconic because it combines dense psycho analysis with tokatsu tropes
November 29, 2025 at 7:26 PM
one of the major reasons i like anime so much is that Japan feels to me like the last place where pulp/genre lit’s liminal status between high and low art survives. evangelion is iconic because it combines dense psycho analysis with tokatsu tropes
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Me seeing another CIA trained radical attack the united states: Well well well if it isn't the blowback brothers...
November 28, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Me seeing another CIA trained radical attack the united states: Well well well if it isn't the blowback brothers...
There might be no better example of the war coming home than a CIA trained teen death squad recruit getting asylum in the US and then shooting a bunch of soldiers who were deployed to DC for no reason other than Kabuki Security Theater
November 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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I think this is an underrated source of the extent to which Bluesky is in a false consensus about public AI hatred. If you are a power user on a microblogging site you are basically by definition not going to see the "take the effort out of reading and writing" machine as being useful
I think more than anything else AI feels like a miracle to people with questionable literacy because it can read and write for you, and a lot of us who are highly literate underestimate how many of our society's leaders, esp in business, struggle with literacy.
It's pretty much mandatory at work that I appear to be using it, so I've doe a few functional things with it, and it's a moderate time-saver if used right. But nowhere near worth it's stock value, energy cost.
Then I realize there's a lot of people who simply can't write coherent paragraphs.
Then I realize there's a lot of people who simply can't write coherent paragraphs.
November 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I think this is an underrated source of the extent to which Bluesky is in a false consensus about public AI hatred. If you are a power user on a microblogging site you are basically by definition not going to see the "take the effort out of reading and writing" machine as being useful
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I believe he would be the first person to have been on Party Down to run for office www.espn.com/espn/story/_...
Ex-NBA champ Fox entering Bahamian politics
Former NBA player Rick Fox will run for a legislative seat in the Bahamas in next year's general election, he announced Monday.
www.espn.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I believe he would be the first person to have been on Party Down to run for office www.espn.com/espn/story/_...
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this holiday season, please consider how lonely Crenshinibon, the evil Crystal Shard, must be and thank your lucky stars that you, too, are not an amoral magical object borne into being by a coven of seven evil liches
November 25, 2025 at 4:32 PM
this holiday season, please consider how lonely Crenshinibon, the evil Crystal Shard, must be and thank your lucky stars that you, too, are not an amoral magical object borne into being by a coven of seven evil liches
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"there are no third spaces anymore" wrong. blast furnace
November 25, 2025 at 12:59 AM
"there are no third spaces anymore" wrong. blast furnace
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One of the weirdest imperial boomerangs for sure
God it's so cool that so much of British and European nationalist politics has broadly been shaped by warehouse clickfarms rented by guys in South Asia running "how to make money from racist old people" workshops, and that this has had more influence on media and politics than any grassroots group
November 24, 2025 at 5:27 PM
One of the weirdest imperial boomerangs for sure
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Today is Tridi the 3rd of Frimaire in the year 234.
Frimaire is the month of frost.
Today we celebrate chicory.#JacobinDay
More information on chicory
Frimaire is the month of frost.
Today we celebrate chicory.#JacobinDay
More information on chicory
November 22, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Today is Tridi the 3rd of Frimaire in the year 234.
Frimaire is the month of frost.
Today we celebrate chicory.#JacobinDay
More information on chicory
Frimaire is the month of frost.
Today we celebrate chicory.#JacobinDay
More information on chicory