I am very pro quant and materialism and empiricism and grounded scientific practice but the key thing with doing any of them good is you need a bunch of humanities and qual stuff to avoid fucking up and there are a lot of 20th century ideological hangovers that are built on denying this.

Taxidermied Corsicans on next week's episode of Taskmaster.

As a Corsican, seeing Little Alex Horne aggressively pushing for taxidermy scares me.

When the Trump admin crashes and burns, the most authoritarian elements of the Democratic Party will likely immediately try to grab power & impose a more liberal but still regressive austerity. Any prayer of using this crisis to escape the imperial extractive hellscape involves not letting them.

Lets test this empirically. Someone make an Idle game where you play a soccer mom beating the dogshit out of Asmon Gold at escalating levels of damage and see if nobody wants to play it.

Nerdiest ratio ever

I'm not sure if there's a word for people whose core interests lie at the intersection of animistic tricksters and media crit, but these are specifically my people.

The bigger challenge is we have a handful of sociopaths who can circumvent and undermine democracy. We have no bigger challenge.

❝ No one is immune. Pro-Israel forces have been mobilising to destroy progressive forces across western countries. Long before today's attacks on leftist politicians and Palestine solidarity movements, Zionist leaders sold their movement as a defence against socialism and communism ❞ — Joseph Massad

much of the American hubris is the result of being alienated from the land and its history. there are the prehistoric precolumbian days, genocide, then modernity without continuity in people. stonehenge haunts the brits with incomprehensible ancestors, here there is amnesia

So with all of the talk on here about alt text for screen readers. Do any of my followers know how to help someone who recently lost their vision set up accessibility aids like that?

Didn't want to have to get to 'don't let the Nazi robots convince you to hate foreigners' place in society, but here we are.

Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only FLCL Twin Peaks Golden Girls The Muppet Show One Piece Northern Exposure The Maxx Liquid Television Doctor Who Buffy the Vampire Slayer The Young Ones Columbo Animaniacs The Prisoner

This 💯 Too many people try to do Marxist analysis of the system of chattel slavery by replacing "enslaved person" with "worker with no wages" and go from there. Enslaved people weren't workers. They were capital. The most valuable asset class in the world at the time.

After years of trying to convince people that the fuckery of the world was something worth doing something about: First you were an alarmist and it's not that bad. Then it's too late, we're cooked. Be better, you selfish cowards.

The Voting Rights Act was a product of a disruptive social movement.

I’m thinking about a dialectic between ‘slop’ and ‘care’ as two opposing orientations toward the manner in which we do things (like work, tasks, creative acts, interacting, etc); and how different ways and uses of automation can be influenced by, evince, or further drive a sloppy or caring attitude.

#Norm is not second to Chinese C*rs. Norm is not second to Minnes*ta H*ckey. Norm is #1.

A US Citizen is being held by ICE & they're ignoring a court order to release her. How many people will you pledge to talk about #ICELawlessness with? How many friends? Strangers? Many have no idea about the extent of the human rights abuses happening. The press ignores it, so it's up to us.

For starters... Yes But also, Gen X DIY went hard as fuck "Bette Midler now assumes sainthood. Romanticize murder for morale. Tie a yellow ribbon round the old tree my friend and... 'gee Wally, that's swell'" Then ever monopolizing platforms swallowed everything youtu.be/vObjfSMtB1g?...

William Gibson falling for AI slop is just about the most 2026 I can think of. No disrespect William, you're a legend.

It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.

You mean the superannuation tax breaks? No? You mean the CGT discount? No? You mean the fossil fuel subsidies? No? You mean the free gas for multinationals? No? You mean the failure of the PRRT? No? You mean the tax dodging trusts? No? You mean the lack of a wealth tax? No? No you mean the NDIS FFS

I don’t think we talk nearly enough about the fact that corporations like Amazon, don’t pay a single cent to maintain the roads they use, the transportation system they use, the courts they use, they pay nothing for the infrastructure that is absolutely critical to their business. WE Pay for

What this underscores IMO is that this is someone who doesn't believe that his opponents are fascists and that fascism is the threat. Because if you did, then this is not how you come out swinging. You punch the fascists repeatedly, not some staffer at a nonprofit.

Kinda wonder if this will extend to reflecting that *maybe* all those people 'harassing' him about his material were concerned about the obvious consequences of it.

“Dead Raccoon Penis Research Laboratory” is what Frank Zappa would have named his recording studio if he’d thought of it.

I've run a kitchen. I still think of myself as a dish dog. Dish dog's a good dog.

If I were Moffat, I would have had the Capaldi Doctor go to spring of '77 and hit every show at the Greyhound.

Hey @caterpillarinc.bsky.social we see you 🤔😕

Whatever anyone thinks about the Catholic Church aside, strictly in terms of Catholicism, these 'tradcath' and Opus Dei assholes are heretic modern revisionists hellbent on Larping the Crusades. Pete Hegseth has an Opus Dei tattoo.

The same week the NYTimes was devoting its significant resources to producing this ridiculous piece about Lauren Sanchez Bezos's call for rich people to not worry and be happy, Ryan Hass, an independent journalist in Oregon, was investigating this horrifying story about a death in an Amazon plant.

was once New Amsterdam.

A note on privilege: Half of learning to fight is knowing you can survive getting hit. Too many privileged people are backing off of fighting right now because they grew up not needing to learn how to fight. And learned to support systems that punish fighting back.

They want you to become listless and hopeless. They know that's easier for many of us than inhabiting uncertainty. I get it. I don't do well with uncertainty. But I'm gonna stay here, in this ugly, messy uncertainty—grieving, refusing, denouncing, and trying to figure out what to do next.

damn aaron swartz tried to warn everybody about sam altman

Ahhh yes... Nothing antisocial happening on reddit.

I've said it 1000 times. Mychal Threets is one of the best symbols of everything the neo-fascists want to destroy. We are currently living through the War on Sesame Street. Which side are you on?

fucking superman over here

Some of my thoughts about some of the critiques of the recent No Kings protests I've seen online:

As is usually the case when someone makes this argument, they never finish this logical train of thought. The bottom line is that this is the same argument as "we have to let the right take some rights from minorities otherwise they'll take them all", except no one ever wants to directly say it.

Support shit like this. We need informed curation of media. We left it up to the internet. The internet was taken over by Nazis. We need to take back curation of media.

My classic favorite: theonion.com/family-dog-b...

We have two choices: 1. Get long term intentional about creating a society prepared to recover and prevent this from happening again. 2. Suffer ineptly while fascists and libs alternate between fuckery like this and hand wringing about how we don't have the resources to assist its casualties.

Hitler started mass arrests of the KPD within hours of the Reichstag fire. Germany passed the enabling act making Hitler dictator, March 1933. The editorial control act of 1933 put all journalism under Nazi control. It became a crime to have a radio We're not there yet, and we can stop it.

It's really hard to figure out how to deal with people who think cause and effect don't apply to them.

when Beastie Boys signed with Capitol, they were offered a big advance, which they turned down in favor of owning their masters - now, years later, they're still making money off those records - always bet on yourself, not a corporation