RTorin
@torinwren.bsky.social
40’s M Science-Fiction fan. I love giant robots, anime, manga and comics.
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Charlie Kirk once said, "I can't stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new age term that — it does a lot of damage."
We have a medical diagnosis for people who feel no empathy: we call them psychopaths.
We have a medical diagnosis for people who feel no empathy: we call them psychopaths.
September 13, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Charlie Kirk once said, "I can't stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new age term that — it does a lot of damage."
We have a medical diagnosis for people who feel no empathy: we call them psychopaths.
We have a medical diagnosis for people who feel no empathy: we call them psychopaths.
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SYNONYMS FOR A GOLF CHEAT:
* Tangerine totalitarian
* Mango molester
* Gold-grubbing clunge-catcher
* Presidential paedophile
* Incontinent shitgibbon
…
Gods, I hate that guy. May he choke to death inhaling his own diaper discharge!
Signed, Yrs., A Scot.
* Tangerine totalitarian
* Mango molester
* Gold-grubbing clunge-catcher
* Presidential paedophile
* Incontinent shitgibbon
…
Gods, I hate that guy. May he choke to death inhaling his own diaper discharge!
Signed, Yrs., A Scot.
July 28, 2025 at 9:30 PM
SYNONYMS FOR A GOLF CHEAT:
* Tangerine totalitarian
* Mango molester
* Gold-grubbing clunge-catcher
* Presidential paedophile
* Incontinent shitgibbon
…
Gods, I hate that guy. May he choke to death inhaling his own diaper discharge!
Signed, Yrs., A Scot.
* Tangerine totalitarian
* Mango molester
* Gold-grubbing clunge-catcher
* Presidential paedophile
* Incontinent shitgibbon
…
Gods, I hate that guy. May he choke to death inhaling his own diaper discharge!
Signed, Yrs., A Scot.
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By bombing Iran now, Israel is shoring up the Islamic Revolution by giving it an external enemy to point at. (Great way not to get regime change!)
And even if there is a new Iranian revolution, the resulting polity will not be friendly to people who hated them for decades then bombed them.
And even if there is a new Iranian revolution, the resulting polity will not be friendly to people who hated them for decades then bombed them.
June 20, 2025 at 10:22 AM
By bombing Iran now, Israel is shoring up the Islamic Revolution by giving it an external enemy to point at. (Great way not to get regime change!)
And even if there is a new Iranian revolution, the resulting polity will not be friendly to people who hated them for decades then bombed them.
And even if there is a new Iranian revolution, the resulting polity will not be friendly to people who hated them for decades then bombed them.
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It's perfectly possible for a corrupt, ailing regime to be desperately unpopular and hated by its people—to the point of inducing rebellion—and yet for the nation to rally against an external threat. And the USA (and Israel) have set themselves up as such an external threat wrt. Iran.
June 20, 2025 at 10:19 AM
It's perfectly possible for a corrupt, ailing regime to be desperately unpopular and hated by its people—to the point of inducing rebellion—and yet for the nation to rally against an external threat. And the USA (and Israel) have set themselves up as such an external threat wrt. Iran.
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Reminder that Iran is merely the current name for the fricken' PERSIAN EMPIRE. That one. Those people. The ones who fucked with the ancient greeks and romans, stood up to Alexander the Great, and have pride going back to the bronze age.
They will not roll over and become good little Americans.
They will not roll over and become good little Americans.
Today’s assignment for all the armchair warriors who think the ordinary people of Iran will welcome US and UK liberators with open arms is 500 words on Mohammad Mosaddegh.
500 words on Iraq, Desert Storm and other related matters will not do. It’s far too easy.
500 words on Iraq, Desert Storm and other related matters will not do. It’s far too easy.
June 20, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Reminder that Iran is merely the current name for the fricken' PERSIAN EMPIRE. That one. Those people. The ones who fucked with the ancient greeks and romans, stood up to Alexander the Great, and have pride going back to the bronze age.
They will not roll over and become good little Americans.
They will not roll over and become good little Americans.
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This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.
June 18, 2025 at 11:17 PM
This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.
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Treat JD Vance on Bluesky like we did Donald’s birthday parade. Ignore it, don’t show up to watch it, and he will soon become sad and dejected.
June 18, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Treat JD Vance on Bluesky like we did Donald’s birthday parade. Ignore it, don’t show up to watch it, and he will soon become sad and dejected.
30ms OP16 + Lirinel limbs.
June 14, 2025 at 12:19 PM
30ms OP16 + Lirinel limbs.
Cat drinking at the drinking fountain.
June 12, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Cat drinking at the drinking fountain.
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青い画面が広がっていくの旧Twitter思い出してホッコリします。
February 9, 2024 at 1:53 AM
青い画面が広がっていくの旧Twitter思い出してホッコリします。
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Anyway, the main takeaway here is the same as it ever was: block early, block often, block anyone who even seems like they might be annoying. There’s no interpersonal moderation here so you are the ban-happy moderator you’ve been waiting for
May 26, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Anyway, the main takeaway here is the same as it ever was: block early, block often, block anyone who even seems like they might be annoying. There’s no interpersonal moderation here so you are the ban-happy moderator you’ve been waiting for
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As someone who has remarkably few sex scenes across twenty novels (and what sex scenes there are, are mostly implicit rather than explicit), I feel this. I'm not the author for meltingly hot sex scenes. I will likely never be. I'm glad others are out there to, uh, service that desire.
My only complaint about romantasy is that people are starting to demand it of me, and I am not a spicy author. I am the Midwestern casserole of authors. There's cream of mushroom soup in there. Please don't make me write sex. It makes me want to die.
May 24, 2025 at 7:01 PM
As someone who has remarkably few sex scenes across twenty novels (and what sex scenes there are, are mostly implicit rather than explicit), I feel this. I'm not the author for meltingly hot sex scenes. I will likely never be. I'm glad others are out there to, uh, service that desire.
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While I'm on the general subject of "AI," let me just say that it's a real dickheaded maneuver to tell an actual artist that their work "looks like AI." Their work doesn't look like "AI" because they're aping what "AI" does; it looks like "AI" because the "AI" company fucking stole from them.
May 15, 2025 at 12:15 AM
While I'm on the general subject of "AI," let me just say that it's a real dickheaded maneuver to tell an actual artist that their work "looks like AI." Their work doesn't look like "AI" because they're aping what "AI" does; it looks like "AI" because the "AI" company fucking stole from them.
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It's my patriotic duty to tell Mehmet Oz to go fuck himself
Mehmet Oz just said on Fox News that:
“It is your patriotic duty to be as healthy as you can”.
“It is your patriotic duty to be as healthy as you can”.
May 9, 2025 at 8:31 PM
It's my patriotic duty to tell Mehmet Oz to go fuck himself
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#MAHQ update: Editorial - The Enshittification of Entertainment.
The Enshittification of Entertainment – MAHQ
www.mahq.net
May 2, 2025 at 9:54 PM
#MAHQ update: Editorial - The Enshittification of Entertainment.
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TECH JOB INTERVIEWER TIP IN THE AGE OF DEEPFAKE VIDEO CALLS: Always ask "how fat is Kim Jong-Un?"
Apparently North Korean spies bail on their job interviews at this point because anawering will get them a 9mm pain in the neck.
Now we need to collate equivalent questions for China, Russia …
Apparently North Korean spies bail on their job interviews at this point because anawering will get them a 9mm pain in the neck.
Now we need to collate equivalent questions for China, Russia …
April 29, 2025 at 9:44 AM
TECH JOB INTERVIEWER TIP IN THE AGE OF DEEPFAKE VIDEO CALLS: Always ask "how fat is Kim Jong-Un?"
Apparently North Korean spies bail on their job interviews at this point because anawering will get them a 9mm pain in the neck.
Now we need to collate equivalent questions for China, Russia …
Apparently North Korean spies bail on their job interviews at this point because anawering will get them a 9mm pain in the neck.
Now we need to collate equivalent questions for China, Russia …
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Not sure who needs to see this, but no car salesman is your friend, and no cell phone company has ever given anyone a free phone.
April 26, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Not sure who needs to see this, but no car salesman is your friend, and no cell phone company has ever given anyone a free phone.
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Now it can be told: I wrote two episodes of Volume 4 of Love Death + Robots!
variety.com/2025/tv/news...
variety.com/2025/tv/news...
‘Love, Death + Robots’ Season 4 Trailer: David Fincher Directs Red Hot Chili Peppers, MrBeast Commands Space Dinosaurs and Kevin Hart Is a Smart Fridge
'Love, Death + Robots' Season 4 streams on Netflix May 15. The new episodes feature David Fincher directing Red Hot Chili Peppers, MrBeast and more.
variety.com
April 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Now it can be told: I wrote two episodes of Volume 4 of Love Death + Robots!
variety.com/2025/tv/news...
variety.com/2025/tv/news...
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It's pretty depressing how every science-related Instagram post that references our planet as being a.) a sphere, and b.) being billions of years old inevitably draws a bunch of "NUH UH" comments from some of the dumbest motherfuckers on said planet.
April 24, 2025 at 11:52 PM
It's pretty depressing how every science-related Instagram post that references our planet as being a.) a sphere, and b.) being billions of years old inevitably draws a bunch of "NUH UH" comments from some of the dumbest motherfuckers on said planet.
