Hannah Arendt did not mince words, did she? 'Totalitarianism replaces all first-rate talents with crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.' From "The Origins of Totalitarianism" (1951)

Couldn't be me after #longsword practice #HEMA

We are past "abolish ICE", that should be the centrist position at this point. We're now entering the Nuremberg Trials Required stage

Have been tagged in to provide the reminder about traumatic video because of the Charlie Kirk shooting video going around! 1. Settings -> Content & Media, turn off "autoplay video" 2. Keep your device sound off while browsing so an accidental activation won't include the sound

Settings > Content and Media > Autoplay Video and GIFs Turn it off, now.

The Fourth Reich death squads are bad

Note how there's no violence or chaos when the cops aren't rioting.

HEY CONGRESSMAN. THIS YOU?

Real end of the dynasty crazy making shit yes

A culture where this kind of overt we're-breaking-the-law-and-have-to-hide-it can happen and filter down the ranks and go for months before a whistleblower reveals it, as opposed to everyone immediately going "hell no that's crazy and illegal," is not fixable or reformable. Burn it to the ground.

Good to see the ai boosters finally mask off as white nationalists

In addition to being bad, this is all pretty stupid.

reading this post flashbanged my inner minds eye with this image that i now have to expunge by creating and posting it

Where do I sign up for the Rainbow Panthers?

The people in charge of sending feds into cities have been desperate for people to take shots at the officers from the very beginning! The whole point of this campaign has been to try to get people to shoot cops, and it's only now ramping up because no one's done it yet!

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

This is the logical conclusion of the phrase, "real americans."

I understand the logic of trying to protect yourself, but telling the Gestapo "I'm a citizen" implies that it's OK for them to do this against non citizens.

The increasingly common habit of screenshotting the AI summary of a Google search and presenting it as evidence must be nipped in the bud immediately. That is nothing. That is not anything, it is not a thing.

DHS Releases List Of Mothers Driving Cars

It's an AI hallucination that escaped containment because some journalist posted it without double checking it- now it's spreading because it sounds plausible

The way my old gov'ment job worked was I got paid a hiring bonus when I started and then if I left before the end of the probationary period I would have to return it. So these chuds likely have already spent the money they're going to have to give back.

This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia. Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.” Really listen to it.

Lead Dirigible

This guy is a shoe in for the Hater of the Year award

In Afghanistan, anyone killed was automatically labeled post mortem an enemy combatant, even if they were just out with a herd of goats. In America, anyone ICE kills is automatically a terrorist.

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

So what the fuck is actually going on in Venezuela?

No need for a futuristic sci-fi take on What It’s Like To Be Grok, whether it can meaningfully apologize, anything like that. X is paying for synthetic revenge porn and CSAM at enormous scale because it amuses its insane king and appeases its sick users. The implementation details are irrelevant.

Stop asking DJT questions. He has no idea what’s going on.

I must not fed post. Fed posting is the mind killer. Fed posting is the big oops that brings gestapo knocking at your door

Mercator projection strikes again!

This is what fascism looks like. This is what terrorism looks like. This is what war crimes looks like. This is what murder looks like. The media will sensationalize and normalize it for profit whilst half of Congress sends out letters and the other half drool with excitement.

The president unilaterally decided to attack a sovereign nation and kidnap its leader, and now he says he's just going to run that county himself for a while too. Call your representatives now and demand they impeach him.

This person went on a buying spree over the past 24 hours. Fresh wallet. Only existed since Dec 27th and has only bet on Venezuela-related markets. polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...

We don’t talk enough about how the AI bubble is going to seamlessly transition to tech-based state surveillance and oppression of the working and dwindling middle classes as the wealth class steals more and more resources and power and as the climate worsens.

As you may know, I have stopped using Twitter, and have decided to reproduce some of my more memorable threads here for posterity. Here’s one I hold wrote after a particularly engaging swordfighting lesson. Buckle up, swordfighting fans, because I *have* studied my Agrippa! [BIG ASS THREAD]

It really sucks to import #HEMA gear into the US right now. I'd love to buy from a domestic supplier but they simply don't exist! It's like putting a tariff on bananas, no one makes a SPES jacket in the US, and for good reason!

Just now realizing how much of the traditional Christmas song cannon is about using the excuse of bad weather to bone

Finished the diaper bag on the same day we went into the hospital, now that's timing! #craftsky

I talk to my students about this on the first day, and use it to discuss why they are in college in the first place.

Hot take: even the absolute best billion dollar LLMs absolutely suck ass at writing code. Like, a college sophomore will produce a better module than the best fanciest most expensive model. Having now spent time with claude, codex, and antigravity, they all suck and should not be used in production.

The movie based on the book, Starship Troopers are Dope as Hell

Nothing to see here, just a right wing hyper-nationalist government going to their party’s youth event sponsored by a group with a martyred leader they’ve pledged to avenge, recruiting people to join their masked police force devoted to removing auslanders from ze homeland.

A roman senator, watching Niro play his fiddle while rome burns, "it'll take years to recover from this!"

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u... This woman's brain has been hard boiled

For the last month or so I've been using Cursor to develop a side project. At first it felt amazing, things were moving at the speed of light and the code it was writing seemed fairly reasonable, but now that the codebase is maybe 10k lines the whole house of cards is starting to fall.

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I want to say nightmare blunt rotation, but this is the blunt rotation from the 9th circle of hell