Something that makes this difficult, at least in my experience, is that there's lots of halfway decent (i.e. potential recruit) liberals who react to tone regardless of content or context, meaning you have to be nice to outright bad faith right-wingers or they'll think *you're* the problem

The essence of the "left" liberal in current western culture is to be one of the most propagandized people that has ever existed in the history of humanity, while believing that you don't need to deprogram yourself, change your media consumption habits, or learn to think any differently

I could maybe, reluctantly, grant "intelligent" in the broadest possible sense, but "philosophically sophisticated" is a *wild* thing to say about Richard Dawkins

This might be the single funniest possible guy for this to happen to

So a fun thing about having big blacked out areas is that a lot of people will just assume you've covered up Nazi tattoos

"Dear everyone shouting at me: have you considered that I would like it better if you didn't?"

This name is fun, because bots use "Hey Lady" as an opener. eeeyy lady, I'm postin' heah!

A funny thing about all the Nazi tattoo senator business is that the people who get suckered into this by their party loyalty are exactly the people who should fight tooth and nail to prevent it. You know what I'll say when someone throws this at me as a weapon against Democrats/liberals? "yep"

It's so funny how right-wing freaks, though they imagine themselves as rebels, are supported so completely be society that they always believe everyone is rotten like them

War and Peace and Grogu

Seems obvious, but looks like nobody's done it yet, so: yes. Fascists.

Hitler is dead. Saigon is free. New Kneecap is out. I'm home and don't have to deal with my parent's fucking abuse anymore. Happy May Day, comrades. We will win. ... admittedly not all of these things are on quite the same tier, but still

I see a "honk if you like pizza" bumper sticker and think "sir, this is a bicycle", which has nothing to do with autism. Specifically, it's my daily driver "utility road" bike, admittedly a bit heavy, but I think with the bigger 11-32 cassette on there the gear ratios are suitable compared to the li

Being the one true punk, I also felt I had to weigh in on "orthodoxpunk" (lol), but being a massive nerd, I thought too much about it, and it's morphed along the way. At first it feels oxymoronic (orthodox being a sort of opposite of punk), but the thing is, that's not how *punk works

Sent myself on a bit of a Godspeed kick with this one but then I remembered Silver Mt. Zion is a thing, which I somehow forget sometimes despite being the only band with the honour of having made me cry DURING THEIR SOUND CHECK

"I should be more fun and normal and post about, I don't know, Star Trek or bicycles or software or something" *immediately posts about how the most, nay, only important thing in the world is to make the streets run red with the blood of fascists* oh god damnit

You know what nevermind I really don't have the patience for Nazi tattoo apologia, especially on Adolf Hitler Ate A Bullet Day. I hope you all fucking choke and die slow

Wait how did the End It full-length come out *last year*? I watched a recent interview about this being an upcoming thing like... a few weeks ago, tops. I am cogent and on top of things the world is gaslighting me stahp

Wait it's Hitler Eats a Bullet Day? How did I make it all the way to the afternoon before figuring out that it's Hitler Eats a Bullet Day? Happy Hitler Eats a Bullet Day to all who celebrate, and a very Follow Your Leader Day to everyone else

Imagine showing your whole ignorant ass this brutally and not only failing to delete the post, but to continue arguing as if anyone is going to take you seriously, and making a separate post with the same, uh, "point" because you're proud of it. Genuinely incredible work

As best I can tell, there's a lot of discourse about the Animal Farm movie being bad because it's less reactionary than the book. Fascinating

Uuuuhhh yeah so, Patreon, you're really not giving anywhere near enough information about what the implications of the member and creator profile combining are. My dry technical creator profile being merged with the one that funds the type of shit I do on Patreon would be a very big problem for me

What they had in their head was that the bad people (non-white ones) would be rounded up. Because they're racist. They didn't think they'd have to see it, deal with it affecting white people, or get criticized. Because they're racist. Now they're lying to save face. Because they're racist.

Ah yes, The Economist. The perfectly neutral journal for British millionaires

*Chewing cowboy coffee made in a mug because I'd rather die than use one of those horrible pod things* I'd definitely have made it on the Oregon trail. Solo.

I'm always saying Kill All Fascists, meaning, of course, historical WWII Nazis and so on and definitely not anything or anyone else and I stand by my Definitely No Subtext guarantee

That brief moment of dread when you encounter a poster on here with dogshit opinions who lives where you do, followed by relief upon learning that they're in a scene you wouldn't be caught dead in

Vote for me and we'll use eminent domain to put train tracks directly through the living room of every single Ontario suburbanite

I'm all for CC as a project in general, but "how can we policy wonk our way out of exploiters not caring about the law at all while staying within the existing framework?" isn't a problem that requires much active collaboration or whatever, because the answer is very straightforward: you can't

I have to drive somewhere today, meaning I get to be ten thousand times angrier at *gestures vaguely* than usual. Death to America Death to America Death to America Death to America Death to America Death to America Death to America Death to America Death to America Death to America Death to America

Dreamt I was with a group staying at a hostel in England, and the receptionist felt it necessary to announce that they don't have any "stinking transexuals" there, which I imagine is pretty accurate to the real life experience

A bit long, but worth it, I think, because (as much as I hate this) everyone needs to get better at clocking slop. The "follow-up" is... kind of a do-over, but also not quite, though, so you can probably just read that one if you're in a hurry

I got curious if the cliché “you'll get more conservative as you get older” even existed before boomers, and for that specific formulation, I'm not sure (but strongly suspect it's mainly a North American boomerism), but the earliest likely predecessor I can find is similarly revealing 🧵

When Bluesky invevitably dies it'd be a good bit to make a new platform exclusively for the radical left, due to reasonable concerns about the liberal predilection for domestic terrorism

*clocking in at the concrete saw factory* "Hey, did you design that new saw engine?" "Yeah boss, an extremely loud and annoying and smelly and polluting two-stroke menace for use in the middle of a reliable power grid just like you asked"

We should reëmbrace diaeresis marks. If the Germans of all people can reform their spelling and even alphabet there's no excuse

I'm seeing a lot of discourse about people being mean to fascist stenography crybabies, but almost no people actually being mean to fascist stenographer crybabies

It's poisonous tribalism when you *don't* automatically and unconditionally side with your own group. I am very smart

I don't want to belong to any club that would have me as a member, except this one

I love it when I'm skimming a Molly hater profile to confirm the block I'm about to do and see a bunch of fawning over "AI" in there. Yeah, you feel strongly about "scams" in general. That's definitely it. Mmhmm

I'm kind of bored with blaming this increasingly broken joke of a website on vibe-coding at this point, but it obviously upsets people that it's cool and good to upset, so nice job, dipshits

Never fall for Lt Cmdr Data, you ain't making it to the finale doing that sort of thing

A neat thing about being property acquired as a status symbol that I've learned is that, while you might think they'll start treating you as a person some day, nope!

Not to hand it to Russia, but I gotta hand it to Russia, blocking BlueSky is clearly the right move in all circumstances

@realfollowers.bsky.social all my followers are real followers, fake accounts don't mute people

I somehow managed to eye-gouge myself in the shower this morning and it still hurts. Getting actually eye-gouged by a hostile opponent must really suck

Carney certainly understands this, he's just a Reaganite: destroying the government via under-funding is the goal. He's a monster, but a smart one, here in two ways: smart enough to understand these consequences, and smart enough to know that openly running on that rhetoric is suicide

Look at the replies and quotes of this disaster. We are so utterly fucked