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Sean Hoyer
@seanhoyer.bsky.social
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also on the fediverse at https://masto.ai/@seanhoyer
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as @daedsider.bsky.social said...
"We can have a 'debate' if both parties are taking the same risk when they walk in and will still be equals when they walk away. A 'debate' where the stakes are one party's rights and autonomy is called a trial." - @RedIsDead July 7 2020 on Twitter.
August 28, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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Two consecutive Fediverse posts responding to the renaming of Twitter, one from @QuasiRealSmiths@beige.party saying "'X' is just a sans serif swastika" and another from @MarcoArment@mastodon.social saying "Can we please pronounce it 'ten'".
August 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Black bumper sticker with white print stuck on a dispenser of toilet seat covers. Text in Spanish above English "SIEMPRE ESTÁ BIEN GOLPEAR NAZIS IT IS ALWAYS OK TO PUNCH NAZIS" between the antifascist three-arrow symbol on the right and a lightning bolt striking something that might be a dead gargoyle or eagle on the left.
August 19, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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TV screen showing a white evangelical balding person wearing a dark suit with eyes closed and head bowed. Closed captions displayed on the screen read "JESUS, I SEE WHAT YOU'VE DONE FOR OTHER PEOPLE, AND I WANT THAT FOR ME."
August 5, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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then, 10 years later...
post from Hari Kondabolu dated June 22, 2020: "POC: Yo, that shit is racist! WHITE: It's just a movie/ TV show/ book/ song / any piece of media! 10 YEARS LATER... WHITE: You were right. My bad."
July 31, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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post from TheImmortalKeithRichards "Call me old-fashioned, but I find the word 'influencer' to be unnecessary when we already had the word 'shill', which was a perfectly good word for the exact same thing." and reply from Escandolo "Shill, yes! See also: 'huckster - especially: one who sells or advertises something in an aggressive, dishonest, or annoying way'" dated 3/4/19 10:45am and 11:50am, time zone and date format unknown
July 24, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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with alt text
Stenciled graffiti on gray wall. A crowd of black stick figures holding spears or bows and arrows is surrounding two black Cybertrucks with large swastika/X logos on the side panels, pointing weapons at the vehicles. One vehicle is on fire, with the back half of the roof consumed in orange and red flames. A spear thrown by one of the stick figures is sticking out of the center of the fire and may have caused it.
July 19, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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"Famous Moments in History, Reimagined by Centrists" 4-panel comic by Kasia Babis. 1: White masc person saying "I don't agree with what you say but I will defend to the death you're right to say it" over Hitler's shoulder. 2: Hood-wearing KKK members with "WE WANT TO KILL BLACK PEOPLE" sign facing a crowd with "WE WANT CIVIL RIGHTS" sign, and white masc person is between them with a "COMPROMISE?" sign. 3: crowd at a demonstration with signs "IT'S COMPLICATED" "OK I GUESS" "PEACE IS NOT JUST REALISTIC" and "REASONABLE AMOUNT OF WARS". 4: two people standing on a platform surrounded by a crowd about to drop the blade of a guillotine and behead the white masc centrist, who is face down on the bed saying "I don't really care about politics". The original comic is on TheNib.com.
July 13, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Person in cop-like uniform with white dress gloves, white cap, navy jacket, light blue shirt, dark blue tie, and a badge and various bits of flair seen from the shoulder up, gazing intently ahead, right hand saluting, face sweaty, licking lips, left hand pumping vigorously, presumably jacking off admiring whomever is being saluted.
June 22, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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East Bay animal lovers, HAPI.pet nonprofit is giving away free vet care, pet food, grooming gear, and other pet-related goods and services this Saturday June 21 from 11 am to 3 pm at Willie Wilkins Park, C St. at 98th Ave. in Oakland. #Oakland #pets #EastBay #Alameda #BayArea #dogs #cats #FreeStuff
Everything is FREE for your & your pets! Veterinary services: dog and cat vaccines, microchipping and registration, veterinary checks, flea meds, dewormer Grooming: nail trims, mat removal, free grooming supplies Personalized ID tags: Keep your pets safe and get them home quickly with a personalized ID tag for their collar or harness Pet apparel & gear: collars, leashes, harnesses, and clothing Enrichment and Toys: Go home with some fun items for your playful pets! Dog and cat food: kibble and canned food for your dogs and cats No cost, just fun! Saturday, June 21 11 am until 3 pm Willie Wilkins Park (Elmhurst Park) C St. @ 98th Ave Oakland Hosted by Human and Pet Initiative http://hapi.pet Partners: Petco Love, Oakland Animal Services, OakVet, East Bay SPCA, East Oakland Collective, HEPPAC
June 16, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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full version with attribution
A tweet, dated Oct. 11, 2018, from Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence). Conservative: I have been censored for my conservative views Me: Holy shit! You were censored for wanting low taxes? Con: Lol, no...no not those views. Me: So.... deregulation? Con: Haha no not those views either Me: Which views exactly? Con: Oh, you know the ones.
June 16, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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Agent Fox Mulder of "The X Files" holding up a wallet with credentials, but it's modified to say "Shitposting license" on the lower half with a close-up photo of a cat's face on the upper half.
June 5, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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www.nature.com/articles/518...
Pie chart "Types of atom in the universe" with 74% Hydrogen and 25% Helium and a thin slice 1% Other. Text above "Atoms are binary. They are either intended to be hydrogen or helium. We can't just scrap this worldview just because of a handful of exceptions" . Posted by Katy's Shit Cartoons @KatysCartoons on March 17, 2022.
June 4, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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www.dailykos.com/stories/2018...
cartoon by @mattbors "you made me become a Nazi" 4 panels, femme-presenting person A on the left, masc-presenting person B with "MAGA" hat on the right. 1) A: "MY *GAWD* THESE TRUMP PEOPLE ARE RACIST." B: "THAT ATTITUDE IS WHAT'S *PUSHING ME TO BE RACIST!* 2) A: "SAY WHAT?" B: "MIGHT AS WELL! YOU SAY I'M A NAZI SO, FINE, I'LL BE A NAZI IF THAT MAKES YOU HAPPY." 3) A: "IT... DOESN'T." B: "I BOUGHT THIS WAFFEN SS UNIFORM FOR HALLOWEEN. YOU'LL CRY 'OFFENSIVE' SO MAYBE I'LL JUST WEAR IT EVERY DAY." 4) B, SHAVING HEAD AND GETTING A SWASTIKA TATTOO FROM A SKINHEAD "I JUST HATE TO DO THIS." "I FEEL BULLIED, REALLY." https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/8/8/1786532/-Cartoon-You-made-me-become-a-Nazi
May 28, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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Saved this image that was going around during the first DJT regime.
Still of the White House at night with the silhouette of the priest from "The Exorcist" with satchel of exorcism supplies in the foreground.
May 22, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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Box for "STAY COOL FRUIT MAT" with photo of a spaniel-like dog wearing sunglasses resting on their side on a circular mat resembling an orange slice with sections. Text around the photo "Automatically cools down when your pet sits on it. Safe. No Electricity. No Water. Non Toxic. Ideal to help pets with allergies, heat stroke, skin conditions, & post surgery."
May 4, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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apparently "pass me the giraffe" is a great example of Cockney rhyming slang, because "giraffe" rhymes with "knife"?
Google's AI bullshit overview response to "what does the phrase 'pass me the giraffe' mean": "The phrase 'pass me the giraffe' is a form of Cockney rhyming slang, where it is a euphemism for something else, in this case, asking for a 'knife'. 'Giraffe' rhymes with 'knife', making it a veiled request for a knife to be passed."
April 18, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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Bob Altemeyer's research on authoritarian follower personalities, which he kindly makes available for free, shows that they DGAF about consistency.

Here's the first page of the "How Authoritarian Followers Think" chapter.

The whole thing is online in various formats at theauthoritarians.org
1st page of "How Authoritarian Followers Think", chapter 3 of Bob Altemeyer's book "The Authoritarians", a summary of research on authoritarian personalities. Excerpt: "[Authoritarian followers] have mainly copied the beliefs of the authorities in their lives. They have not developed & thought through their ideas as much as most people have. Thus almost anything can be found in their heads if their authorities put it there, even stuff that contradicts other stuff. A filing cabinet... can store quite inconsistent notions & never lose a minute of sleep over their contradiction. Similarly a high [scorer on the authoritarian scale] can have all sorts of illogical, self-contradictory, & widely refuted ideas rattling around in various boxes in his brain, and never notice it.... [R]esearch reveals that authoritarian followers drive through life under the influence of iimpaired thinking a lot more than most people do, exhibiting sloppy reasoning, highly compartmentalized beliefs, double standards, hypocrisy, self-blindness, a profound ethnocentrism, and – to top it all off – a ferocious dogmatism that makes it unlikely anyone could ever change their minds with evidence or logic." - page 75 of free e-book PDF from TheAuthoritarians.org
April 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Fediverse post from @adapalmer@wandering.shop: "When facing the 'All we need is STEM!' approach to education, my usual response is: Developing the vaccine was the STEM problem; distribution & getting shots in arms was the Social Science problem; getting people to trust it & combatting misinformation was the Humanities problem - which did we fail?"
April 15, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Cartoon with two geese on either side of a white person wearing shorts and a blue rugby shirt with white, red, white stripes around the waist and each arm, kneeling with head face down on the ground and hands over their ears. Text over the person says "I'M BEING SILENCED FOR MY OPINIONS". Goose on left :"WHICH ONES". Goose on right: "WHICH ONES MOTHERFUCKER".
April 14, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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www.dailykos.com/stories/2018...
cartoon by Matt Bors "you made me become a Nazi" 4 panels, femme-presenting person A on the left, masc-presenting person B with "MAGA" hat on the right. 1) A: "MY *GAWD* THESE TRUMP PEOPLE ARE RACIST." B: "THAT ATTITUDE IS WHAT'S *PUSHING ME TO BE RACIST!* 2) A: "SAY WHAT?" B: "MIGHT AS WELL! YOU SAY I'M A NAZI SO, FINE, I'LL BE A NAZI IF THAT MAKES YOU HAPPY." 3) A: "IT... DOESN'T." B: "I BOUGHT THIS WAFFEN SS UNIFORM FOR HALLOWEEN. YOU'LL CRY 'OFFENSIVE' SO MAYBE I'LL JUST WEAR IT EVERY DAY." 4) B, SHAVING HEAD AND GETTING A SWASTIKA TATTOO FROM A SKINHEAD "I JUST HATE TO DO THIS." "I FEEL BULLIED, REALLY."
April 14, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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"Suppression of speech is [aimed at] marginalized people [who are] easily silenced and ignored. [Liberals] shouldn’t be laying down their lives for those who say things they disagree with [but] for [those] who often have no access to the public sphere at all." www.liberalcurrents.com/free-speech-...
“'I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it,' Beatrice Evelyn Hall wrote in her 1906 biography of Voltaire. Her words conveying Voltaire’s attitude have become one of the most quoted, and most valorized, summations of liberal principles. Unfortunately, the statement is for the most part practically irrelevant, and therefore is morally misguided. Suppression of speech is not directed most intensely at controversial speech. It’s directed at speech by *people who are controversial*—that is, at marginalized people who lack power, and who are therefore easily silenced and ignored. If liberals really want to defend free speech, they shouldn’t be laying down their lives for those who say things they disagree with. They should be fighting instead for the disempowered, who often have no access to the public sphere at all." - "Free Speech and Marginalized People", Liberal Currents, May 19, 2020
April 13, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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www.liberalcurrents.com/free-speech-...
“I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it,” Beatrice Evelyn Hall wrote in her 1906 biography of Voltaire. Her words conveying Voltaire’s attitude have become one of the most quoted, and most valorized, summations of liberal principles. Unfortunately, the statement is for the most part practically irrelevant, and therefore is morally misguided. Suppression of speech is not directed most intensely at controversial speech. It’s directed at speech by *people who are controversial*—that is, at marginalized people who lack power, and who are therefore easily silenced and ignored. If liberals really want to defend free speech, they shouldn’t be laying down their lives for those who say things they disagree with. They should be fighting instead for the disempowered, who often have no access to the public sphere at all. - "Free Speech and Marginalized People" in Liberal Currents May 19, 2020
April 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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person waving an "ALLY" flag with an "ALLY PRIDE" tattoo with quote bubbles "I'M YOUR FUCKING ALLY AND DON'T YOU FORGET IT!" "WHY ARE YOU SO ANGRY?" "WOW WHY CAN'T I SPEAK FOR YOU?" "I DON'T DERAIL TOPICS! MY FEELINGS MATTER TOO!" "IF YOU DON'T GET THE MAJORITY TO SUPPORT YOU YOU'LL GET NOWHERE!" "DON'T SILENCE ME! SORRY I CARE SO MUCH" "HOW DARE YOU LABEL ME? HOW DARE YOU?!" "YOU SHOULD BE VERY GRATEFUL I EVEN CARE! SHEESH..." "YOU NEED TO CALM DOWN!"
April 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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"Never again" is incompatible with "come talk to me when your body count matches ours." - Han Koehle, June 9, 2019. Facebook post.
March 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM