I’m going to be very honest and clear. I am fully preparing myself to die under this new American regime. That’s not to say that it’s the end of the world. It isn’t. But I am almost 50 years old. It will take so long to do anything with this mess that this is the new normal for *me*.

So it’s clear that you don’t need to swear allegiance to Israel in order to win an office, what I’m still mulling is “is declaring support for Israel a liability yet?”

Take this as your sign to primary every appeasement-obsessed do-nothing motherfucker who looked at you sideways, gang.

sometimes yall are silly asf and then i remember you’re like 22 and i go aww okay :) and then some of yall are 30

More bits from Globalists: the neoliberals first saw that, regardless of national boundaries, we live in one world economy which they assumed was governed by a world government that simply wasn’t formalized. An economy has to be SOMEWHERE, right?

Another neat little bit in Globalists is that it was the fashion for a time to say that “the economy” was numinous, it was sorta spiritual in that it couldn’t be seen or accurately described, but somehow only a small group of loving economists could be trusted to manage this inner sanctum

I’m trying not to laugh because, hey, they weren’t there… but these Gen-Z and Gen Alpha kids asking “the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq weren’t this dumb, were they?” Has me feeling all kinds of ways. It was so much dumber than you think. But the media was like “never forget! Back our troops!”

Bluesky is an echo chamber of opinions unlike my own >:(

So from what I am understanding there’s a straight line from aristocracy to colonialism to neoliberal post-colonial control to Thiel talking about “democracy doesn’t work”

He’s easy like Sunday morning and I’m dreadful like Sunday Evening when you remember work is tomorrow

I have this friend and whenever we don’t like someone I ALWAYS think they’re being an asshole and he ALWAYS thinks they are autistic and sometimes I can’t tell which of us is being problematic

To use AI is one thing. To make it your personality is a very different, stranger thing

Shout out to all the people who always only wanna tell you their bad news, I see you ❤️ ❤️ 😘

it’s not fair to judge me by my words alone. or actually my actions either. please judge me based only on my idea of myself that I hold in my own head

I URGE the police and ICE and the natl guard to practice non-violence!!! If you give in to your baser instincts you’ll just he delegitimization your position!!!

If Sonic was a dem congressman he’d post like “it’s absolutely imperative at this time and in this moment in history that we go quickly”

Mom when I was 20: “you need to go into the sciences and not the arts because arts are not stable” Mom as I approach 40: “I was assuming you would cling to art in spite of my prodding. Actually I was depending on it. You need to make more art or I’ll feel I stifled you”

IMO the fact that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is back and being tried is a massive step in the right direction. It means that Trump no longer believes he can just make shit up, and he’s attempting to go through the system, and it’s likely that he’s too incompetent to do that.

Trumps trolling ability is exclusively limited to stuff trump says. He’s not clever enough to bait LA to overreaction in a way that legitimizes martial law. He just thinks force wins at the end of the day, and he’ll send more force until he loses or overextends and then loses

I’m wary of the phrase “vote with your dollars” The concept of money as vote is some hardcore old school aristocracy stuff, it’s some “poll tax” stuff. We should def use our money wisely and boycott and all that, but the idea of money as political voice is suspicious on its face

The second trump term basically picked up where Jan 6 left off. They learned that storming the physical capitol wasn’t the strat, once they got in there was nothing to do but steal shit and take a dump on pelosis desk.

If Dems offered universal healthcare the voters wouldn’t give a shit if you transed every mouse in America, but the Dems can’t do that, so they are limited to just “raise rainbow flag, or trample it if raising it didn’t beat republicans”

When I try to describe my political leanings sometimes I wanna say “centrist” because my primary goals are by and large pretty regular like universal healthcare but that’s not what “centrist” means in america

Lil dicky and his consequences have been disastrous for the human race

On TikTok everyone says everything is a pipeline to the point that it’s either paranoid or just a narrow view of a dialectic. Like maybe not EVERYTHING is a pipeline. Maybe people are flowing around and changing and there’s currents in the waters but not pipelines

It really is impressive how when the regular politicians try to do The Trump, it just doesn’t land. Trump does have a singular hold on MAGA, and the hold doesn’t even seem to be transferable. When others do it, it’s immediately seen by all as the asshole move it is

Most bosses hate being bosses, they just wanna make enough money and matter, and both could be doable if we build a system that is more hospitable to shared authority

I know the jokes been made before but it’s so fucking wild that RFK is full on Ivan Drago “if he dies, he dies”

My new personality is “shelving” There’s just never enough

Musk should become an artist, and in many ways he IS an artist, in that “going to Mars” is not a literal thing he is trying to do but a purely gestural, inspirational, emotional kind of performance art using Space X instead of paint

I’m good at shopping because I treat every store like the Cave Of Wonders and I touch nothing but the lamp (the lamp is whatever I went in to get) and that’s why people who enjoy shopping (I do not) hate going to shopping with me

Sometimes I wonder what happened to Nelly Furtado but damn man she straight up said she was like a bird, we just didn’t believe her smdh

Tenish years ago I bought a Light Phone, the beautiful sleek minimal “dumb phone” that was designed to counter the growing phone addiction trend. It could only call and receive calls, no text no web no nothing. It solves doomscrolling, but not workplace bullshit

RFK THE GOVERNMENT WONT LET ME FEED FECES TO MY CHILD RFK WHY WONT THEY LET MY CHILD EAT POOP, WHICH IS RICH IN BACTERIA THAT SUPPORT A POWERFUL MICROBIOME??? RFK IF YOU CAN READ THIS PLS EAT THE POOP TO PROVE IT IS SAFE

These are the smokestacks from the factories where strikers beat the breaks off pinkertons a long time ago. The battle in homestead led in part to the attempt on Henry Frick’s life, he was leading the strike-breaking effort for Carnegie. Now it is an icon for a parking lot for a large mall complex

This is a kids book from over 100 years ago about a very large and strong steel worker, and tho he works very hard his boss and congressman try to extort him for cash has he tries to get his citizenship.

Ok so is or is NOT trump allowed to kill everyone??? Pick a lane?!?

One time I took the train through Harrisburgh PA and the station was selling “Grapeheads” instead of Lemonheads, and I can’t really describe how insidious that felt. Such a clear sign to the audience that “something isn’t right”

I’ve been thinking about a character named “Bobby Ganoush” for months now. Robert Ganoush

One issue with working in a place where people have been “moving fast and breaking things” and “faking it until they make it” is that there’s actually a smell of insecurity that fills the place because everyone—EVERYONE—in the place is terrified of being “found out”

IKEA is the Gunpla of the broken

I am good at “do it scared” as a form of bravery but it is REALLY hard to get people to trust you when you’re like “I’m gonna do it scared”

Man challenges are amazing and help me grow but they are also challenging and I hate that honestly

When a rat has a job like “sniffing out bombs” or “smelling for diseases” and it’s saved so many people and its handlers “retire” it to like, a large enclosure with a watermelon every day and it’s clearly very happy That shit rules

Life changes can be scary but often not as scary as the terror that your life might not change

There is a general sentiment that the public sector is bound up with bureaucracy while the private sector is lean and nimble but it’s just not the case. Much of the private sector is just slowly eating its own feet

Is it legit that we have to wait for paychecks? Weeks at a time? Could we not just have them go to the bank account daily?

At this point it’s as simple as Listen to audiobook== I am happier and feel better and get a little smarter Watch tiktok== the opposite

(receiving new information) sorry, but if any of that were true I would have heard of it

I kinda think the Facebook ai push for “digital friends” is about the creation of a digital population. Like if the struggle is capital vs democracy, why not just use capital to create people who are as real as your flesh-made users are while in-app?