Gwyan Rhabyt
@rhabyt.bsky.social
Immigrant, Prof of Interaction Design at Cal State East Bay. 3-time Fulbright Scholar. Games. Politics. Science. No One Lets Go of Anyone's Hand
Pinned
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at some point we're gonna have to have a real conversation about why we're still paying federal taxes to a regime that isn't using them to help anyone, but instead is using them to brutalize us
January 9, 2026 at 11:22 PM
at some point we're gonna have to have a real conversation about why we're still paying federal taxes to a regime that isn't using them to help anyone, but instead is using them to brutalize us
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AOC: What we saw today was a criminal murder a woman while she was trying to flee for her life. What we saw today was a manifestation of every American’s worst nightmare: their government turning into a tyranny.
January 8, 2026 at 12:20 AM
AOC: What we saw today was a criminal murder a woman while she was trying to flee for her life. What we saw today was a manifestation of every American’s worst nightmare: their government turning into a tyranny.
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A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.
January 8, 2026 at 1:05 AM
A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.
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Trump is insane. His inner circle is insane. They want to burn the world so they can loot everyone else’s wealth, feel like big tough guys, and hurt all the groups they despise.
But the thing breaking the whole world is how everyone feels obligated to avoid stating this fact directly.
But the thing breaking the whole world is how everyone feels obligated to avoid stating this fact directly.
January 6, 2026 at 9:35 PM
Trump is insane. His inner circle is insane. They want to burn the world so they can loot everyone else’s wealth, feel like big tough guys, and hurt all the groups they despise.
But the thing breaking the whole world is how everyone feels obligated to avoid stating this fact directly.
But the thing breaking the whole world is how everyone feels obligated to avoid stating this fact directly.
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There we go. That there’s a headline.
Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter
A look inside Elon Musk’s big tent
www.ft.com
January 6, 2026 at 4:08 PM
There we go. That there’s a headline.
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Amazing record for the FIFA
January 3, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Amazing record for the FIFA
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The closest comparison for the Grok thing we can imagine right now is if cereal made a bunch of people ill and the news put a microphone in front of some cereal boxes at the grocery store and was like “well they didn’t admit guilt, not sure who else we can ask”
January 2, 2026 at 8:24 PM
The closest comparison for the Grok thing we can imagine right now is if cereal made a bunch of people ill and the news put a microphone in front of some cereal boxes at the grocery store and was like “well they didn’t admit guilt, not sure who else we can ask”
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Yes. There needs to be a specific campaign theme and promise to get rid of ICE.
Everything about it is anti-American.
(Data point, not necessarily campaign-speech point: ICE hiring bonuses have lured in large number of prison guards. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...)
Everything about it is anti-American.
(Data point, not necessarily campaign-speech point: ICE hiring bonuses have lured in large number of prison guards. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...)
January 1, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Yes. There needs to be a specific campaign theme and promise to get rid of ICE.
Everything about it is anti-American.
(Data point, not necessarily campaign-speech point: ICE hiring bonuses have lured in large number of prison guards. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...)
Everything about it is anti-American.
(Data point, not necessarily campaign-speech point: ICE hiring bonuses have lured in large number of prison guards. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...)
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An essential development over the past decade-plus is that the ignorant went from feeling chastened when their ignorance was revealed to banding together and deciding that, actually, they were right. They might disagree at times, but they agreed that ignorance itself was an indicator of trust.
December 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
An essential development over the past decade-plus is that the ignorant went from feeling chastened when their ignorance was revealed to banding together and deciding that, actually, they were right. They might disagree at times, but they agreed that ignorance itself was an indicator of trust.
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Elder Dems have fundamentally misdiagnosed the problem. They’re like the leaders of a city during a bank-robbing spree, promising to pass more laws making bank robbery illegal.
It’s already illegal. The failure is along another dimension: you need to catch the robbers and put them in jail.
It’s already illegal. The failure is along another dimension: you need to catch the robbers and put them in jail.
I’ve seen no serious engagement from senior Dems about what, exactly, they plan to do in terms of reasserting congressional power, as in identifying the available tools and thinking seriously about ways to use them to dig us out of the current state of total constitutional collapse.
Pelosi: "Right now, Republicans in Congress have abolished the Congress. They just do what the president insists that they do. That will be over as soon as we have the gavel."
December 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Elder Dems have fundamentally misdiagnosed the problem. They’re like the leaders of a city during a bank-robbing spree, promising to pass more laws making bank robbery illegal.
It’s already illegal. The failure is along another dimension: you need to catch the robbers and put them in jail.
It’s already illegal. The failure is along another dimension: you need to catch the robbers and put them in jail.
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“Woman Enjoying Career Literally Made Possible by Feminism Declares Feminism a Failure”
December 28, 2025 at 1:48 AM
“Woman Enjoying Career Literally Made Possible by Feminism Declares Feminism a Failure”
The christmas chocolates did coldly furnish forth the valentine's tables
December 27, 2025 at 2:17 AM
The christmas chocolates did coldly furnish forth the valentine's tables
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Top tier joke
December 25, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Top tier joke
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You know how Americans are surprised to learn that gun deaths are rare in most other countries, pedestrian-centered cities are normal, or everybody else uses metric? That, but discovering that the rest of the world moved to EVs.
It's funny how us parochial Americans generally seem to perceive that the EV revolution is stalling or reversing when in fact it's accelerating rapidly worldwide. 25% of cars sold globally in 2025 were EVs!
It's mostly just the US that's being left behind
It's mostly just the US that's being left behind
December 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM
You know how Americans are surprised to learn that gun deaths are rare in most other countries, pedestrian-centered cities are normal, or everybody else uses metric? That, but discovering that the rest of the world moved to EVs.
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"Like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."
December 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
"Like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."
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Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower
December 21, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower
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Why aren’t you happppppyyyyyyyyy????
December 20, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Why aren’t you happppppyyyyyyyyy????
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They think writers can be replaced because they don't understand what writing is effective, yes, but don't discount the desire to cut human labor out of the process entirely, not just for "cost savings" but because the management class and especially the investor class just fucking hate humans.
Is that why people think that ChatGPT and other AI(?) could replace authors - the people in management can't recognize good writing and so assume that no one else can, either? It seems like that would quickly be dismissed witjh any sort of beta readership, but.
December 19, 2025 at 10:30 PM
They think writers can be replaced because they don't understand what writing is effective, yes, but don't discount the desire to cut human labor out of the process entirely, not just for "cost savings" but because the management class and especially the investor class just fucking hate humans.
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What’s different now is people can’t make heads or tails of the world. There is no nightly news to get everyone on the same page and stop freaking the fuck out.
December 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM
What’s different now is people can’t make heads or tails of the world. There is no nightly news to get everyone on the same page and stop freaking the fuck out.
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The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition
Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.
www.popsci.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
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"Are we still capable of talking to each other," asks the woman hired by billionaires whose economic model is predicated on fomenting polarization to install an actual criminal who dismantles the regulatory state that kept them from fully extracting what remaining wealth there was from the lower 99%
December 18, 2025 at 4:48 PM
"Are we still capable of talking to each other," asks the woman hired by billionaires whose economic model is predicated on fomenting polarization to install an actual criminal who dismantles the regulatory state that kept them from fully extracting what remaining wealth there was from the lower 99%
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"We have monetized the dysfunction" is 90% of what Cory Doctorow calls "enshitification." It combines the worst tendencies of design with the most insidious tendencies of capitalism.
Zohran: "I mean, think about when you fly. We have made it such a difficult experience to go through TSA that there's now a financial incentive to sign up for a separate program that can move you through it quicker. We have monetized the dysfunction."
December 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
"We have monetized the dysfunction" is 90% of what Cory Doctorow calls "enshitification." It combines the worst tendencies of design with the most insidious tendencies of capitalism.
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if the mta sold F/M swap merch they'd be funded for the next decade
December 18, 2025 at 3:50 AM
if the mta sold F/M swap merch they'd be funded for the next decade
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Is the MTA making merch with the F M Swap icon cause they should be
December 18, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Is the MTA making merch with the F M Swap icon cause they should be