Steven Brust
@stevenbrust.bsky.social
Practical ontologist, mad, drunk, and reckless troubadour (RCPM) WSWS.Org
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Steven Brust
@stevenbrust.bsky.social
· Apr 5
For years I had a problem with losing important floppies. Then I got smart.
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Trump and Kennedy launch unhinged anti-science tirade in autism press conference
Monday’s announcement reveals the administration’s willingness to terrorize pregnant women and families with autistic children to advance its broader anti-science agenda.
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Monday’s announcement reveals the administration’s willingness to terrorize pregnant women and families with autistic children to advance its broader anti-science agenda.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Trump and Kennedy launch unhinged anti-science tirade in autism press conference
Monday’s press conference represents not merely a return to Trump’s prior medical quackery, but a deepening of what can only be characterized as a policy of deliberate social murder that has developed...
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September 24, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Trump and Kennedy launch unhinged anti-science tirade in autism press conference
Monday’s announcement reveals the administration’s willingness to terrorize pregnant women and families with autistic children to advance its broader anti-science agenda.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Monday’s announcement reveals the administration’s willingness to terrorize pregnant women and families with autistic children to advance its broader anti-science agenda.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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If there is any individual whom #CharlieKirk most closely resembles, in terms of persona and political tactics, it is George Lincoln Rockwell, the leader of the American Nazi Party in the 1960s.
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Charlie Kirk and the concealed legacy of American Nazi George Lincoln Rockwell
If there is any individual whom Kirk most closely resembled, in terms of persona and political tactics, it is George Lincoln Rockwell, the leader of the American Nazi Party in the 1960s.
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September 16, 2025 at 9:58 PM
If there is any individual whom #CharlieKirk most closely resembles, in terms of persona and political tactics, it is George Lincoln Rockwell, the leader of the American Nazi Party in the 1960s.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Sheesh. Why are so many people confused about what socialism means? It's not that hard, just ask any right-winger. It means anything capitalism does that they can't defend.
September 15, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Sheesh. Why are so many people confused about what socialism means? It's not that hard, just ask any right-winger. It means anything capitalism does that they can't defend.
"The fight against censorship is inseparable from the fight against the system that produces it."
Gaht Damn I love the Irish!
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Festival censorship of Mary Wallopers over Gaza protest backfires
Midway through their opening song, as they led chants of “Free Palestine,” festival staff cut the band’s sound and tore down the flag. The crowd booed, chanting “Let them play.”
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September 2, 2025 at 10:33 AM
"The fight against censorship is inseparable from the fight against the system that produces it."
I am eagerly looking forward to the opportunity to write the obituary.
September 2, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I am eagerly looking forward to the opportunity to write the obituary.
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The bulk of the party establishment opposes Mamdani not because it fears his mildly reformist program—on which he is already backtracking—but because his primary victory reflects a radicalization of broad masses.
August 27, 2025 at 2:19 AM
The bulk of the party establishment opposes Mamdani not because it fears his mildly reformist program—on which he is already backtracking—but because his primary victory reflects a radicalization of broad masses.
After adjusting for inflation, the wages of sin is now a mild head-cold.
August 27, 2025 at 1:53 AM
After adjusting for inflation, the wages of sin is now a mild head-cold.
The first computer I used was an IBM 1620. The first computer I owned was an R2E XP3--solid steel case (built for CAM), and, check it out, A FIVE MEG HARD DRIVE!!!! Shown on the dust jacket of the hardcover of To Reign In Hell.
What was y'all's first computer? I'm curious what the spread might be like.
Bonus points for sharing some anecdotal memories of your experience with it. 💜
Mine was a Commodore C64C, which I managed to semi-fry one day by knocking a pound coin off an overhead shelf down into a vent. 🫠
Bonus points for sharing some anecdotal memories of your experience with it. 💜
Mine was a Commodore C64C, which I managed to semi-fry one day by knocking a pound coin off an overhead shelf down into a vent. 🫠
a black cat is sitting in front of a computer
Alt: Luna from Sailor Moon is sitting in front of a computer tapping away
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August 26, 2025 at 12:35 AM
The first computer I used was an IBM 1620. The first computer I owned was an R2E XP3--solid steel case (built for CAM), and, check it out, A FIVE MEG HARD DRIVE!!!! Shown on the dust jacket of the hardcover of To Reign In Hell.
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The inability or unwillingness to accept that both of these are true causes immense confusion, frustration, and demoralization among many who fight for a better world.
Human thought is deeply conservative; it will struggle to resist any change in beliefs, attitudes, and habits.
Human thought is exceptionally volatile; under the pressure of events, it can overnight undergo fundamental changes in beliefs, attitudes, and habits.
Human thought is exceptionally volatile; under the pressure of events, it can overnight undergo fundamental changes in beliefs, attitudes, and habits.
August 7, 2025 at 10:42 PM
The inability or unwillingness to accept that both of these are true causes immense confusion, frustration, and demoralization among many who fight for a better world.
Human thought is deeply conservative; it will struggle to resist any change in beliefs, attitudes, and habits.
Human thought is exceptionally volatile; under the pressure of events, it can overnight undergo fundamental changes in beliefs, attitudes, and habits.
Human thought is exceptionally volatile; under the pressure of events, it can overnight undergo fundamental changes in beliefs, attitudes, and habits.
August 7, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Human thought is deeply conservative; it will struggle to resist any change in beliefs, attitudes, and habits.
Human thought is exceptionally volatile; under the pressure of events, it can overnight undergo fundamental changes in beliefs, attitudes, and habits.
Human thought is exceptionally volatile; under the pressure of events, it can overnight undergo fundamental changes in beliefs, attitudes, and habits.
"When an international financier is held up at gunpoint, Archie, he immediately hands over not only his cash, but his pants and his shoes. Because it does not occur to him that even a common thief would draw the line somewhere." -- Nero Wolfe
August 5, 2025 at 2:17 AM
"When an international financier is held up at gunpoint, Archie, he immediately hands over not only his cash, but his pants and his shoes. Because it does not occur to him that even a common thief would draw the line somewhere." -- Nero Wolfe
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We’ve been asked to believe a lot of intensely stupid narratives throughout this genocide, but “it’s actually HAMAS who’s starving Gaza” has got to be the dumbest one yet.
July 26, 2025 at 9:54 PM
We’ve been asked to believe a lot of intensely stupid narratives throughout this genocide, but “it’s actually HAMAS who’s starving Gaza” has got to be the dumbest one yet.
I salute @kenwhite.bsky.social for his principled stand. So long as academia functions within a capitalist society, intellectual honesty and integrity will remain commodities for sale. The rare exceptions deserve our respect. The rest must be opposed on every front.
The leadership of Columbia University is contemptible Vichy scum. To its professors who stay: that’s who you choose to work for, the obeisance to totalitarianism you choose to promote? To students who stay: those are your values?
July 24, 2025 at 4:45 AM
I salute @kenwhite.bsky.social for his principled stand. So long as academia functions within a capitalist society, intellectual honesty and integrity will remain commodities for sale. The rare exceptions deserve our respect. The rest must be opposed on every front.
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The leadership of Columbia University is contemptible Vichy scum. To its professors who stay: that’s who you choose to work for, the obeisance to totalitarianism you choose to promote? To students who stay: those are your values?
July 24, 2025 at 3:47 AM
The leadership of Columbia University is contemptible Vichy scum. To its professors who stay: that’s who you choose to work for, the obeisance to totalitarianism you choose to promote? To students who stay: those are your values?
The worst thing about Millennials is they always making sweeping generalizations about people based on when they were born.
July 22, 2025 at 6:08 AM
The worst thing about Millennials is they always making sweeping generalizations about people based on when they were born.
I'm so old, I remember when we'd talk about the weather to AVOID politics.
July 19, 2025 at 8:17 AM
I'm so old, I remember when we'd talk about the weather to AVOID politics.
I just invented a term for when the author of a fantasy series has to reread books he wrote 45 years ago: Cringefest.
July 18, 2025 at 4:48 AM
I just invented a term for when the author of a fantasy series has to reread books he wrote 45 years ago: Cringefest.
If you can't treat expensive equipment properly, you don't belong in the music business.
Mic drop.
Mic drop.
July 13, 2025 at 4:46 AM
If you can't treat expensive equipment properly, you don't belong in the music business.
Mic drop.
Mic drop.
"We Leftists should stop arguing among ourselves" translates to "We all agree on how the fight has to be carried out," which is false, or "it doesn't matter what we do," which is preposterous, or "find the minimum we all agree on" which is opportunistic betrayal.
July 9, 2025 at 7:12 AM
"We Leftists should stop arguing among ourselves" translates to "We all agree on how the fight has to be carried out," which is false, or "it doesn't matter what we do," which is preposterous, or "find the minimum we all agree on" which is opportunistic betrayal.
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For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
April 14, 2025 at 4:42 PM
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
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Deliberately starving a civilian population and then setting up aid sites as a death trap to massacre starving people trying to get food is too evil to wrap your mind around. If we saw a supervillain doing this in a movie we'd think it was dumb, because it wouldn't be believable.
June 30, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Deliberately starving a civilian population and then setting up aid sites as a death trap to massacre starving people trying to get food is too evil to wrap your mind around. If we saw a supervillain doing this in a movie we'd think it was dumb, because it wouldn't be believable.
I haven't reposted this in a while (or ever here) and maybe some people could use a chuckle. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppeA...
Do You Believe In Science?
YouTube video by Steven Brust
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June 26, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I haven't reposted this in a while (or ever here) and maybe some people could use a chuckle. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppeA...
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Socialism is not a campaign slogan or series of reformist proposals. Even the limited social reforms advanced by Zohran Mamdani cannot be achieved without a frontal assault on the wealth and power of the capitalist ruling class.
June 26, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Socialism is not a campaign slogan or series of reformist proposals. Even the limited social reforms advanced by Zohran Mamdani cannot be achieved without a frontal assault on the wealth and power of the capitalist ruling class.
Text Message from unknown number: Hey, Kate, what are you up to?
Me: Putting the finishing touches on a computer virus that I will use to destroy the computer of anyone who tries to get me to invest in crypto-currency. What are you up to?
Me: Hello?
Me: Putting the finishing touches on a computer virus that I will use to destroy the computer of anyone who tries to get me to invest in crypto-currency. What are you up to?
Me: Hello?
June 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Text Message from unknown number: Hey, Kate, what are you up to?
Me: Putting the finishing touches on a computer virus that I will use to destroy the computer of anyone who tries to get me to invest in crypto-currency. What are you up to?
Me: Hello?
Me: Putting the finishing touches on a computer virus that I will use to destroy the computer of anyone who tries to get me to invest in crypto-currency. What are you up to?
Me: Hello?