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🧵 I want to follow up this earlier thread by examining why the USA finds itself in the state it does at the moment; the process of disordered discourse capturing state institutions and how it inevitably results in a slide towards authoritarianism, a process we're seeing unfold before our very eyes.
What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.
March 12, 2025 at 7:28 PM
🧵 I want to follow up this earlier thread by examining why the USA finds itself in the state it does at the moment; the process of disordered discourse capturing state institutions and how it inevitably results in a slide towards authoritarianism, a process we're seeing unfold before our very eyes.
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Bonus panel and hovertext here: smbc-comics.com/comic/murderer
February 21, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Bonus panel and hovertext here: smbc-comics.com/comic/murderer
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To clear up any confusion, we have issued a new memo: Effective immediately, this department shall defund all departments which do not defund themselves.
January 31, 2025 at 4:23 PM
To clear up any confusion, we have issued a new memo: Effective immediately, this department shall defund all departments which do not defund themselves.
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Here are my book recommendations for the new year:
Read the books you already bought.
Read the books you already bought.
December 10, 2024 at 12:44 PM
Here are my book recommendations for the new year:
Read the books you already bought.
Read the books you already bought.
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I’ve seen some posts recently, about the value of basic research, in light of funding cuts and demands that research have immediate economic justification.
Let me collect some info here, in a thread, about why it’s a bad idea to attach those sorts of demands to funding. 🧵 🧪 ⚛️
Let me collect some info here, in a thread, about why it’s a bad idea to attach those sorts of demands to funding. 🧵 🧪 ⚛️
December 4, 2024 at 4:13 AM
I’ve seen some posts recently, about the value of basic research, in light of funding cuts and demands that research have immediate economic justification.
Let me collect some info here, in a thread, about why it’s a bad idea to attach those sorts of demands to funding. 🧵 🧪 ⚛️
Let me collect some info here, in a thread, about why it’s a bad idea to attach those sorts of demands to funding. 🧵 🧪 ⚛️
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The Onion should buy Elsevier next
November 14, 2024 at 8:28 PM
The Onion should buy Elsevier next
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Scientist types as #DnD classes:
Fighter: The best way to approach any problem is to do an experiment first and ask questions later (assuming there is any question left to ask). Very high volume of fire, but needs a constant stream of money to pay for fancier and fancier equipment.
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Fighter: The best way to approach any problem is to do an experiment first and ask questions later (assuming there is any question left to ask). Very high volume of fire, but needs a constant stream of money to pay for fancier and fancier equipment.
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December 2, 2024 at 1:48 PM
Scientist types as #DnD classes:
Fighter: The best way to approach any problem is to do an experiment first and ask questions later (assuming there is any question left to ask). Very high volume of fire, but needs a constant stream of money to pay for fancier and fancier equipment.
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Fighter: The best way to approach any problem is to do an experiment first and ask questions later (assuming there is any question left to ask). Very high volume of fire, but needs a constant stream of money to pay for fancier and fancier equipment.
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November 29, 2024 at 12:49 AM
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The corporate egregore's inability to understand or perform horniness means my posts are safe from ever being understood as machine-generated
November 27, 2024 at 5:58 PM
The corporate egregore's inability to understand or perform horniness means my posts are safe from ever being understood as machine-generated
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It will be hard to find someone worse than Matt Gaetz for attorney general. But if anybody can do it, I trust it's the president-elect.
November 21, 2024 at 8:27 PM
It will be hard to find someone worse than Matt Gaetz for attorney general. But if anybody can do it, I trust it's the president-elect.
Celebrando a Aniv. De la Rev.
November 19, 2024 at 2:24 AM
Celebrando a Aniv. De la Rev.