wiffles
@whobutwiffles.bsky.social
he/him | passive voice appreciator
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Maybe we shouldn't call it giving away money when billionaires give it to themselves.
Elon Musk’s foundation gave away a record $474 million in 2024, with the vast majority again going to entities he controls
Elon Musk Gave Away $474 Million in 2024, Mostly to Entities He Controls
Elon Musk’s foundation gave away a record $474 million in 2024, with the vast majority again going to entities he controls.
bloom.bg
November 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Maybe we shouldn't call it giving away money when billionaires give it to themselves.
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Imamoglu inspires me a ton because he keeps staring down brutal, illiberal suppression of political opposition and refuses to give up. They stripped him of his college degree so he wouldn't legally be able to run for President and he just said “I will never bow”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/w...
Turkey Seeks 2,000-Year Jail Sentence for Erdogan’s Top Political Rival
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Imamoglu inspires me a ton because he keeps staring down brutal, illiberal suppression of political opposition and refuses to give up. They stripped him of his college degree so he wouldn't legally be able to run for President and he just said “I will never bow”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/w...
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We *know* shockingly little about prehistory—we *speculate* about it, in ways that tend to reaffirm our own assumptions and biases, and then these speculations become sage wisdom about human nature, but only to the exact extent that they assert that women evolved to make sandwiches.
THIS IS WHY WE ALL HATE EVOPSYCH. Can we please fucking discredit this pseudo-naturalist bullshit at last?
November 6, 2025 at 3:57 PM
We *know* shockingly little about prehistory—we *speculate* about it, in ways that tend to reaffirm our own assumptions and biases, and then these speculations become sage wisdom about human nature, but only to the exact extent that they assert that women evolved to make sandwiches.
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relatedly, i know lib/left types sneer at free marketeers but a lot of them do genuinely believe what they're saying which is why places like Cato are holding the line on tariffs/etc. some others are too (jessica riedl is basically fighting alone at manhattan institute, aei notably slipping a bit)
one of the early warning signs that Heritage was going full Nazi was that all their sane foreign policy hawks quit years ago when they started defending Putin
heritage foundation sounds like a great place to work and I hear there's openings
November 6, 2025 at 5:26 PM
relatedly, i know lib/left types sneer at free marketeers but a lot of them do genuinely believe what they're saying which is why places like Cato are holding the line on tariffs/etc. some others are too (jessica riedl is basically fighting alone at manhattan institute, aei notably slipping a bit)
@themountaingoats.bsky.social I understand that this is an odd “@“, but I would be remiss if I did not find some way to request that your merry band, while you are touring through the Hudson valley and eastern Upstate, make a stop at a Stewart’s Shops and try their mint cookie crumble ice cream.
July 26, 2025 at 4:56 AM
@themountaingoats.bsky.social I understand that this is an odd “@“, but I would be remiss if I did not find some way to request that your merry band, while you are touring through the Hudson valley and eastern Upstate, make a stop at a Stewart’s Shops and try their mint cookie crumble ice cream.
teaching my new dog a trick called being a freethinker, he displays it whenever I ask him to sit, stay, shake, or speak.
July 21, 2025 at 12:53 AM
teaching my new dog a trick called being a freethinker, he displays it whenever I ask him to sit, stay, shake, or speak.
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Freedom from kings.
Freedom from fascism.
Power to the people forever. ♥️
Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸
Freedom from fascism.
Power to the people forever. ♥️
Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸
July 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Freedom from kings.
Freedom from fascism.
Power to the people forever. ♥️
Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸
Freedom from fascism.
Power to the people forever. ♥️
Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸
my circle may be small, but so are my bros. They are also weird looking. They are also possums.
March 18, 2025 at 12:11 AM
my circle may be small, but so are my bros. They are also weird looking. They are also possums.
If Nixon was president in the year of our lord 2025, you’d best believe he’d have all sorts of incriminating recordings on CornellLab’s Merlin Bird ID.
March 15, 2025 at 8:11 PM
If Nixon was president in the year of our lord 2025, you’d best believe he’d have all sorts of incriminating recordings on CornellLab’s Merlin Bird ID.
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early king blackberries, painted by royal charles steadman, 1916
March 5, 2025 at 11:18 AM
early king blackberries, painted by royal charles steadman, 1916
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LIKE if you think the February 2004 sighting of a bird in the White River refuge of Arkansas was a presumed-to-be extinct Ivory-Billed Woodpecker.
RT if you think it was just a misidentified Pileated Woodpecker!
COMMENT your reasoning!
RT if you think it was just a misidentified Pileated Woodpecker!
COMMENT your reasoning!
February 26, 2025 at 3:07 AM
LIKE if you think the February 2004 sighting of a bird in the White River refuge of Arkansas was a presumed-to-be extinct Ivory-Billed Woodpecker.
RT if you think it was just a misidentified Pileated Woodpecker!
COMMENT your reasoning!
RT if you think it was just a misidentified Pileated Woodpecker!
COMMENT your reasoning!
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Justice William O. Douglas knew the danger we face: “As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. It is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become victims of the darkness.” Fight the darkness.
February 12, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Justice William O. Douglas knew the danger we face: “As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. It is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become victims of the darkness.” Fight the darkness.
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if both parties are the same you shouldn't notice any major policy shifts between administrations, and yet
January 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
if both parties are the same you shouldn't notice any major policy shifts between administrations, and yet
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Today has been an awful day for marginalized Americans, foreigners threatened with the might of a superpower, and all people of conscience regardless of passport. I really am very sorry, and the only comfort I can offer is a belief from a man to whom this day also belongs, that we shall overcome.
January 21, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Today has been an awful day for marginalized Americans, foreigners threatened with the might of a superpower, and all people of conscience regardless of passport. I really am very sorry, and the only comfort I can offer is a belief from a man to whom this day also belongs, that we shall overcome.
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if we are all going to be forced to relive 2016, they should at the very least let us see mad max fury road in theaters again
January 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
if we are all going to be forced to relive 2016, they should at the very least let us see mad max fury road in theaters again
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The Elvish residents of Gondolin: oh boy, I sure do love our festival of The Gates of Summer! I hope the forces of Morgoth don’t attack.
Lord of the Balrogs, High Captain of Angband, and Marshal of the Hosts Gothmog:
Lord of the Balrogs, High Captain of Angband, and Marshal of the Hosts Gothmog:
January 9, 2025 at 12:16 AM
The Elvish residents of Gondolin: oh boy, I sure do love our festival of The Gates of Summer! I hope the forces of Morgoth don’t attack.
Lord of the Balrogs, High Captain of Angband, and Marshal of the Hosts Gothmog:
Lord of the Balrogs, High Captain of Angband, and Marshal of the Hosts Gothmog:
“friends, gnomans, countrymen… lend me your ears (of corn)” - gnome Marcus Aurelius at the grain dole in Gnome Rome
January 5, 2025 at 4:04 AM
“friends, gnomans, countrymen… lend me your ears (of corn)” - gnome Marcus Aurelius at the grain dole in Gnome Rome
oat meal? yeah, for a horse maybe.
January 4, 2025 at 11:57 PM
oat meal? yeah, for a horse maybe.
just walked past a goth standing there watching a crow, nature is healing. all is right in the world
December 19, 2024 at 11:25 PM
just walked past a goth standing there watching a crow, nature is healing. all is right in the world
the dog that lives in my house stole some cheese bread, and in my brilliance I referred to him as “John Cheese”. Now I cannot see him while I enjoy some cheese bread or I break into tears. My life has become hell, and John Cheeseman is blissfully unaware.
November 29, 2024 at 6:29 PM
the dog that lives in my house stole some cheese bread, and in my brilliance I referred to him as “John Cheese”. Now I cannot see him while I enjoy some cheese bread or I break into tears. My life has become hell, and John Cheeseman is blissfully unaware.
this place will never take off until Ocean Spray makes an account, rest assured I’ll be checking daily.
November 27, 2024 at 3:32 PM
this place will never take off until Ocean Spray makes an account, rest assured I’ll be checking daily.
if these fine fellows were still around they’d probably be called the Sonic Elderly. thanks folks I will be here all night.. ,
November 23, 2024 at 4:36 AM
if these fine fellows were still around they’d probably be called the Sonic Elderly. thanks folks I will be here all night.. ,
concept: a guy who keeps bluesky-tweeting about “the bad place” but they’re talking about threads instead of twitter.
November 20, 2024 at 7:11 AM
concept: a guy who keeps bluesky-tweeting about “the bad place” but they’re talking about threads instead of twitter.