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Hahahaha, are we fucking seriously right now?
November 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Hahahaha, are we fucking seriously right now?
"Maybe instead of being an arrogant dipshit, bother to check stuff before you repost it."
November 13, 2025 at 9:33 PM
"Maybe instead of being an arrogant dipshit, bother to check stuff before you repost it."
Meanwhile, Will Stancil "regretfully" informs one of the trolls he calls Nazis that their song about him is "a banger".
November 12, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Meanwhile, Will Stancil "regretfully" informs one of the trolls he calls Nazis that their song about him is "a banger".
New record!
November 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM
New record!
Anyhoo,
![Scatterplot with the x axis labeled "DEM PERCENT TWO PARTY TOTAL MONEY", y axis labeled "% Dem - % GOP", and a clearly upward-sloping array of blue points, mostly clustered near x = 0, x = 50, and x = 100.
Lifted from https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/the-origins-of-the-investment-theory-of-party-competition, where it's figure 1 and surrounded by the two paragraphs
"After the 2012 election, however, my colleagues and I decided it was time to actually look at real data for congressional elections. Because we had built up special files integrating many forms of campaign money, we decided to directly examine whether knowing the percentage of campaign funds a Democrat or a Republican spent in the campaign compared to his or her opponent could be used to predict how many votes they got. To our astonishment, the finding was a near-perfect straight line. See Figure 1.[12]
Do not be put off by the figure. It is a simple scatter diagram and easy to read. Along the bottom from left to right runs the Democratic percentage of the total dollar amounts spent on any given race – not the cost of votes per ballot or other measures that vary with district size and other characteristics. The vertical axis going up the left side benchmarks the percentage of the two-party vote that the Democrats garner. That axis is scaled as the difference between the Democratic and Republican shares of the vote, meaning that as the difference goes positive for the Democrats (roughly in the middle of the figure), they start winning seats. At the bottom left corner, in other words, the Democrats get no or hardly any money and win no or hardly any seats. At the upper right, they slurp in all the money and get all the votes.[14]"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:a2qilsqtzjwqfd6lr7l5d33s/bafkreidgbuspdfttqlddmshoo5cwgjke5nqxj5wpu3m6uui4sq4w7ysrwm@jpeg)
November 11, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Anyhoo,
I see I have been #BlockedForTruth. I was quoting British music critic, podcaster, and author of a book about Orwell's 1984 Dorian Lynskey (@dorianlynskey.bsky.social): "The phrase 'NATO expansion' is a red flag for me". #YouCanBlockButYaCantHide
November 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I see I have been #BlockedForTruth. I was quoting British music critic, podcaster, and author of a book about Orwell's 1984 Dorian Lynskey (@dorianlynskey.bsky.social): "The phrase 'NATO expansion' is a red flag for me". #YouCanBlockButYaCantHide
...though it's possible he blocked me for being too good at quoting him.
November 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
...though it's possible he blocked me for being too good at quoting him.
Wrong!
November 2, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Wrong!
Went back to the profile's feed I was looking at, and scrolled down literally 4 blueskeets before I hit this. I don't mention this to put PM or anyone on blast, but to illustrate how wantonly even left-leaning writers throw around "crazy" & "insane". Tough not to see it when one knows to notice it.
November 2, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Went back to the profile's feed I was looking at, and scrolled down literally 4 blueskeets before I hit this. I don't mention this to put PM or anyone on blast, but to illustrate how wantonly even left-leaning writers throw around "crazy" & "insane". Tough not to see it when one knows to notice it.
While I reviewed the video to quote it, YouTube kept interrupting it with ads pushing AI. Including an ad featuring Tony Robbins, who's been repeatedly accused of sexual harassment and assault...including kissing & groping a minor.
www.businessinsider.com/tony-robbins...
www.businessinsider.com/tony-robbins...
October 30, 2025 at 3:08 AM
While I reviewed the video to quote it, YouTube kept interrupting it with ads pushing AI. Including an ad featuring Tony Robbins, who's been repeatedly accused of sexual harassment and assault...including kissing & groping a minor.
www.businessinsider.com/tony-robbins...
www.businessinsider.com/tony-robbins...
October 29, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I'm tellin' ya...
October 29, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I'm tellin' ya...
October 27, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Good to know. Were you aware of that when you helped to amplify @captivedreamer7's squid-ink pretense at being someone else called "Sebastien Franks"?
October 26, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Good to know. Were you aware of that when you helped to amplify @captivedreamer7's squid-ink pretense at being someone else called "Sebastien Franks"?
I propose that it is _not_ fine to work for Blackwater if they assign you to a "diplomatic security" detail.
October 26, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I propose that it is _not_ fine to work for Blackwater if they assign you to a "diplomatic security" detail.
Imagine going from
Isn't It Bleak How Antisemitism Is Getting Worse
to
You Can't Easily Dismiss The View That Graham Platner And His Totenkopf Tattoo Are Necessary Allies Against The Fascist Party
in the space of two minutes. Literally side-by-side posts. Good grief.
Isn't It Bleak How Antisemitism Is Getting Worse
to
You Can't Easily Dismiss The View That Graham Platner And His Totenkopf Tattoo Are Necessary Allies Against The Fascist Party
in the space of two minutes. Literally side-by-side posts. Good grief.
October 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Imagine going from
Isn't It Bleak How Antisemitism Is Getting Worse
to
You Can't Easily Dismiss The View That Graham Platner And His Totenkopf Tattoo Are Necessary Allies Against The Fascist Party
in the space of two minutes. Literally side-by-side posts. Good grief.
Isn't It Bleak How Antisemitism Is Getting Worse
to
You Can't Easily Dismiss The View That Graham Platner And His Totenkopf Tattoo Are Necessary Allies Against The Fascist Party
in the space of two minutes. Literally side-by-side posts. Good grief.
Politicians in general don't write up their platforms as university text books, because that's not what text books are for.
Anyway, Ed Miliband, the guy whose platform was so deep it...er...fitted on one stone tablet.
Anyway, Ed Miliband, the guy whose platform was so deep it...er...fitted on one stone tablet.
October 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Politicians in general don't write up their platforms as university text books, because that's not what text books are for.
Anyway, Ed Miliband, the guy whose platform was so deep it...er...fitted on one stone tablet.
Anyway, Ed Miliband, the guy whose platform was so deep it...er...fitted on one stone tablet.
I immediately noticed that the same survey asked about a bunch of other Democrats and they all had way fewer "Haven't heard enough to say" responses than Zohran Mamdani.
October 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
I immediately noticed that the same survey asked about a bunch of other Democrats and they all had way fewer "Haven't heard enough to say" responses than Zohran Mamdani.
Which a bigger Vote Blue No Matter Who ("anarchist") account uses as a cue to wag a finger at "the left".
Thus Bluesky spins a myth about AAA-video-game pricing into left-punching.
Thus Bluesky spins a myth about AAA-video-game pricing into left-punching.
October 24, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Which a bigger Vote Blue No Matter Who ("anarchist") account uses as a cue to wag a finger at "the left".
Thus Bluesky spins a myth about AAA-video-game pricing into left-punching.
Thus Bluesky spins a myth about AAA-video-game pricing into left-punching.
One of the bigger lib accounts takes that as a cue to lecture no one in particular that "You don’t think video games should cost $100? Don’t buy the videogame. Buying Things Is Optional.".
Uh, yeah, they're already doing that. That's why they cost 25% _less_ than $100.
Uh, yeah, they're already doing that. That's why they cost 25% _less_ than $100.
![Screenshot of a threaded pair of October 23, 2025 blueskeets by @opinionhaver.bsky.social.
First blueskeet: "The responses this post is getting, combined with the animating grievances of large swathes of politics, has convinced me we need a kind of society wide PSA about how Buying Things Is Optional.
You don’t think video games should cost $100? Don’t buy the videogame. Buying Things Is Optional.
[embedded quoteblueskeet of @beijingpalmer.bsky.social declaring "AAA video games should cost $100 on launch."]"
Second blueskeet: "You think the restaurant’s new logo is woke? Don’t dine there, don’t buy their food. Buying Things Is Optional.
You don’t like the casting choice made in the movie? The ticket to go to the film is, you guessed it,"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:a2qilsqtzjwqfd6lr7l5d33s/bafkreid23gjfzvakfeavch4han6usfq7ct37guevzsb5uvzp6scsqmck6a@jpeg)
October 24, 2025 at 8:14 AM
One of the bigger lib accounts takes that as a cue to lecture no one in particular that "You don’t think video games should cost $100? Don’t buy the videogame. Buying Things Is Optional.".
Uh, yeah, they're already doing that. That's why they cost 25% _less_ than $100.
Uh, yeah, they're already doing that. That's why they cost 25% _less_ than $100.
It starts with a Foreign Policy editor sermonizing about how much AAA video games (an inessential entertainment good) ought to cost, bemoaning "whiny babies" allegedly keeping them "literally at the same price for *two decades*", which is false: typical AAA game prices went from $50 to $70/$80.
October 24, 2025 at 8:09 AM
It starts with a Foreign Policy editor sermonizing about how much AAA video games (an inessential entertainment good) ought to cost, bemoaning "whiny babies" allegedly keeping them "literally at the same price for *two decades*", which is false: typical AAA game prices went from $50 to $70/$80.
Dunno about friends, but he certainly seemed to appreciate TAO's publicity for an adaptation of [checks notes] The Merchant of Venice.
October 23, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Dunno about friends, but he certainly seemed to appreciate TAO's publicity for an adaptation of [checks notes] The Merchant of Venice.