@sielulintu.bsky.social
Transplanted from northeast US to Flyover Country. Boomer. Language nerd. Folk music enthusiast. Picker of nits. Need to stop doomscrolling and post more about music.
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My should-be-entirely-non-controversial position is that any personal assets over, say, $500 million should be taxed at about 90%, and if you're genuinely opposed to that, why? What human being needs that much money? Or more than that?
Capitalism is a sickness.
Capitalism is a sickness.
December 8, 2025 at 10:10 AM
My should-be-entirely-non-controversial position is that any personal assets over, say, $500 million should be taxed at about 90%, and if you're genuinely opposed to that, why? What human being needs that much money? Or more than that?
Capitalism is a sickness.
Capitalism is a sickness.
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If the Sep. 2 boat really had "narco-terrorists" on board, questioning the survivors would have been a way to learn about how the organization worked, where more drugs were stashed, etc. But this isn't a counter-terrorism campaign. It's a shooting gallery with helpless targets.
December 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
If the Sep. 2 boat really had "narco-terrorists" on board, questioning the survivors would have been a way to learn about how the organization worked, where more drugs were stashed, etc. But this isn't a counter-terrorism campaign. It's a shooting gallery with helpless targets.
When someone posts that frequently here in the Sky, I report them for being a bot. Nine times out of ten, they get removed.
In two hours, over 225 posts. A good 50 or more of them are posted twice though. So at least 150 original posts.
I assume these were all queued up, maybe awaiting approval or something and the system bugged out.
Certainly looks whacky and odd(incompetent) they didn't catch it, stop it, reverse it.
I assume these were all queued up, maybe awaiting approval or something and the system bugged out.
Certainly looks whacky and odd(incompetent) they didn't catch it, stop it, reverse it.
December 2, 2025 at 6:45 AM
When someone posts that frequently here in the Sky, I report them for being a bot. Nine times out of ten, they get removed.
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LONG RAMBLING EMOTIONAL THREAD:
It's World AIDS Day. Since the Administration has decided to keep it quiet, I'd like to share my introduction to AIDS.
I grew up in Seattle. My mom remarried a man who had a brother who was a King County Sheriff's Deputy. His name was Terry and he was gay. 1/x
It's World AIDS Day. Since the Administration has decided to keep it quiet, I'd like to share my introduction to AIDS.
I grew up in Seattle. My mom remarried a man who had a brother who was a King County Sheriff's Deputy. His name was Terry and he was gay. 1/x
December 2, 2025 at 3:59 AM
LONG RAMBLING EMOTIONAL THREAD:
It's World AIDS Day. Since the Administration has decided to keep it quiet, I'd like to share my introduction to AIDS.
I grew up in Seattle. My mom remarried a man who had a brother who was a King County Sheriff's Deputy. His name was Terry and he was gay. 1/x
It's World AIDS Day. Since the Administration has decided to keep it quiet, I'd like to share my introduction to AIDS.
I grew up in Seattle. My mom remarried a man who had a brother who was a King County Sheriff's Deputy. His name was Terry and he was gay. 1/x
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Gonna get a PhD in evolutionary biology by writing "God did it"
December 1, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Gonna get a PhD in evolutionary biology by writing "God did it"
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Imagine being so far gone into Trumpism/Republicanism that you would say this to someone who was shot in the head in an act of political violence.
MAGA legal world, man…
Gorsuch and Grassley should be so proud.
Gorsuch and Grassley should be so proud.
November 30, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Imagine being so far gone into Trumpism/Republicanism that you would say this to someone who was shot in the head in an act of political violence.
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EVEN IF 10 died bc of the vaccine, which I highly doubt, that has to be fewer than the number of infant lives saved by it.
November 29, 2025 at 4:02 AM
EVEN IF 10 died bc of the vaccine, which I highly doubt, that has to be fewer than the number of infant lives saved by it.
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Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.
November 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.
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apparently the two turkeys pardoned by Trump have been arrested for committing a number of other crimes
November 28, 2025 at 10:42 AM
apparently the two turkeys pardoned by Trump have been arrested for committing a number of other crimes
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Foggy Mountain Spaceship - "Linus and Lucy" (Vince Guaraldi) (2023) #bluegrass #banjo #psychedelic
#Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwXC...
#Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwXC...
"Linus and Lucy", performed by Foggy Mountain Spaceship
YouTube video by Foggy Mountain Spaceship
www.youtube.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Foggy Mountain Spaceship - "Linus and Lucy" (Vince Guaraldi) (2023) #bluegrass #banjo #psychedelic
#Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwXC...
#Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwXC...
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This feels like if the Sacklers said that getting addicted to Oxycontin was against the Terms of Use.
are they going to make it illegal in the TOU to receive hallucinations too.
OpenAI says teen's 'misuse' of ChatGPT is to blame for his suicide, because he broke the TOU: 'Users must comply with OpenAI's Usage Policies, which prohibit the use of ChatGPT for suicide or self-har...
The lawyer presenting Adam Raine's family calls the response "disturbing" and I have to agree.
www.pcgamer.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:03 AM
This feels like if the Sacklers said that getting addicted to Oxycontin was against the Terms of Use.
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This is great, but the scientific method has 4 parts. This is missing the essential steps of study some shit, and make up some shit that might explain it. These are critical before the said fucking around and finding out.
Technically “fuck around and find out” is the scientific method
November 29, 2025 at 6:09 AM
This is great, but the scientific method has 4 parts. This is missing the essential steps of study some shit, and make up some shit that might explain it. These are critical before the said fucking around and finding out.
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The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture
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I don’t know who is ready to hear this but people don’t have to add value
Like people should also be allowed to exist for free
Like people should also be allowed to exist for free
May 27, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I don’t know who is ready to hear this but people don’t have to add value
Like people should also be allowed to exist for free
Like people should also be allowed to exist for free
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In effect, deporting afghans who fought for the U.S. back to Afghanistan is the U.S. Government working for the taliban
November 27, 2025 at 4:09 AM
In effect, deporting afghans who fought for the U.S. back to Afghanistan is the U.S. Government working for the taliban
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All the Afghans who risked their lives and security to help US troops? Yeah, F YOU, says the Trump Admin.
So now they’re going to be doing individualized re-review of tens of thousands of Afghan evacuees’ cases on TOP of the re-review of 200,000+ refugees who entered under Biden?
November 27, 2025 at 6:26 AM
All the Afghans who risked their lives and security to help US troops? Yeah, F YOU, says the Trump Admin.
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Doing this to people who rightfully came here the 'right way' let alone the people who helped us as our allies in Afghanistan is evil distilled, and reveals despite all the hogwash excuses, MAGA is a fundamentally racist movement.
November 27, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Doing this to people who rightfully came here the 'right way' let alone the people who helped us as our allies in Afghanistan is evil distilled, and reveals despite all the hogwash excuses, MAGA is a fundamentally racist movement.
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Now for something completely different. This fine quartet spent almost 50 years every holiday season bringing to audiences songs of winter. Sadly, John Roberts and Tony Barrand are no longer with us, but Fred Bruenig and Andy Davis soldier on.
youtu.be/Tzhv7sqUGCI?...
youtu.be/Tzhv7sqUGCI?...
Nowell Sing We Clear, 2008 "Chariots"
YouTube video by Tony Barrand
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Now for something completely different. This fine quartet spent almost 50 years every holiday season bringing to audiences songs of winter. Sadly, John Roberts and Tony Barrand are no longer with us, but Fred Bruenig and Andy Davis soldier on.
youtu.be/Tzhv7sqUGCI?...
youtu.be/Tzhv7sqUGCI?...
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Buzz buzz! Dizzy Lizza in a tizzy over Nuzzi's scuzzy biz with Izzy at prez's palazzo! Razzes frazzled Miz Livvy for muzzling news nozzles while dazzled fuzzy by Buzzard Bobby's rizz!
November 26, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Buzz buzz! Dizzy Lizza in a tizzy over Nuzzi's scuzzy biz with Izzy at prez's palazzo! Razzes frazzled Miz Livvy for muzzling news nozzles while dazzled fuzzy by Buzzard Bobby's rizz!
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The Trump administration wanted to do something about affordability, so it cut a few highly visible tariffs. What does that suggest they believe the rest of their tariffs — which remain in place — are doing to affordability?
November 26, 2025 at 3:11 AM
The Trump administration wanted to do something about affordability, so it cut a few highly visible tariffs. What does that suggest they believe the rest of their tariffs — which remain in place — are doing to affordability?
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Genuinely it rocks that a bunch of dudes whose sole media diet is action thrillers and who have never read an academic nonfiction book have convinced the investor class to bet the entire U.S. economy on a gamble that relies on an untested technology raising productivity more than electricity did
November 24, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Genuinely it rocks that a bunch of dudes whose sole media diet is action thrillers and who have never read an academic nonfiction book have convinced the investor class to bet the entire U.S. economy on a gamble that relies on an untested technology raising productivity more than electricity did
Does anybody actually know what "quantum information science" is?
"the president has directed the Department of Energy to launch an AI project called the genesis mission" sounds like something out of a technothriller
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Launching the Genesis Mission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
November 25, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Does anybody actually know what "quantum information science" is?
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Imagine, if you will, that NASA updated its website to suggest gravity might not exist, prompting CalTech and CERN to release statements saying, "With great sadness, we can no longer recommend listening to NASA."
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
November 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Imagine, if you will, that NASA updated its website to suggest gravity might not exist, prompting CalTech and CERN to release statements saying, "With great sadness, we can no longer recommend listening to NASA."
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
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Most days lately have been in the genre of horror.
Today was magical realism.
Today was magical realism.
November 22, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Most days lately have been in the genre of horror.
Today was magical realism.
Today was magical realism.