Aster Vérité
@aster-verite.bsky.social
Writer. Critical thinker. Cynical nihilist. Disinformation analyst. Scientist of belief webs. Mythologist of modern decay. Housing, Climate, Health, Science, The Apocalypse
created May 7, 2025
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The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
“LIKE A BROKEN RECORD” Now that the @nytimes is reporting Modi and Trump had a falling out over Trump’s lie that he deserves credit for the India-Pakistan ceasefire, we re-submit to you this clip of an Indian anchor calling him out months ago — even as 🇺🇸 media wouldn’t.
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social)
tomorrow, I think trump may step down, "temporarily" to undergo emergency surgery... or maybe he is pardoning Maxwell or ordering epstein survivors to be deported
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social)
tossing out a stillborn from a surprise pregnancy... so as to avoid murder charges or something
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social) reply parent
OMG right? I hate going to my brothers or my friends for dinner, because all their knives are duller than eric trump. I hone mine to razors edge.... I need to slice charcuterie super thin to manage my LDL cholesterol. Next I need to learn to eat fewer slices
Tara Moriarty (@moriartylab.bsky.social) reposted
Canadian COVID Forecast: Aug 30 - Sep 12 2025 Severe: Very high: AB BC NL High: CAN MB North NS ON PEI QC SK Moderate: About 1 in 65 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social) reply parent
times change.... I saw it at the drive in 50 years ago, with a visitor from Germany, about 14 years old... who did not even speak english... he shrieked all night with nightmares
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social) reply parent
It is the byzantine christian cross to be clear, the shit adopted eastern orthodox christian symbol to denote white european supremacist views.. his twitter account is vile
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social) reply parent
yes it is
Andy Scollick (@andyscollick.bsky.social) reposted
Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has announced a 10-point plan to prepare the country for the climate emergency, warning: “If we don’t want to bequeath our children a Spain that’s grey from fire and flames, or a Spain that’s brown from floods, then we need a Spain that’s greener.”
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social) reply parent
You can't force imperial nation to act humanely... the US has always been warn mongering war criminals. I'm hoping that these nations introduce sanctions
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social) reply parent
yep... exactly. I also question how many may have previously been bought off by Epstein and now feel they can speak out...
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social)
maybe trump will die tomorrow...
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social) reply parent
No, they all announced they would recognize Palestine in September, instead of immediately because to make the announcement at the general assembly carries weight and meaning when it it done en masse at the UN
Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) reposted
A Florida court detained a US Citizen for being an "illegal immigrant." He showed the court proof of citizenship. The court agreed—& held him anyway. I criticized the ruling online & a Florida judge responded by trying to strip me of my law license. I fought back www.qasimrashid.com/p/a-florida-...
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social) reply parent
speaking of which, if anyone has a vandercook proofing press sitting around, doing nothing.... I can put it to good use
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social) reply parent
psst, the 80th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 80) doesn't open until tuesday, september 9th 2025
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social)
I am old enough to know the origins of upper case and lower case.
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah I wanted to take a baseball bat to these racist pricks...
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social) reply parent
unless dark horse Barron poisons her and Jared
Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD (@arghavansallesmd.medsky.social) reposted
Look, I think it’s great the 9 former CDC directors came together to publish an essay in the NYTimes. Others may disagree, but this moment requires a level of courage and clarity I didn’t see there.
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social)
the dumbest bastard on earth... shit, he is delusional. Don Jr thinks it will be his prize to replace papa, but it will be Ivanka.
Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social) reposted
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social) reply parent
well this is not true, I forgot about Legalett. But I can't say they're made in Canada and they have a terrible website and limited ie almost non-existent dealer network. also air heated slabs are stupid
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social)
Canada needs to reduce housing costs. Foundations add a ton of cost, slab on grade construction significantly lowers costs yet we have no manufacturer's of systems to simplify frost protected slab on grade construction. That's a real shame
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social)
This pisses me off deeply, since I was nearly the victim of such fucking morons, who decided it would be fun to shoot up a wooded area... Identify, charge, convict and jail these shit stains www.ctvnews.ca/barrie/artic...
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social)
as predicted, we're well on the road to openly lynching any non-white... while whites cheer. resist
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social) reply parent
That's the room next to the lincoln bedroom...
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 (@chanda.bsky.social) reposted
"Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)". Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Luca Migo ❌👑 (@victinibcn.bsky.social) reposted
Toronto Ontario: a very big rally is happening in the city. Workers over Billionaires! Wonderful event💙🇨🇦
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social) reply parent
people need to learn consequences the hard way... look at 9/11, born of US imperialist meddling and still nations forget life choices bring consequences
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social) reply parent
Come on people, time to pray bsky.app/profile/aste...
Sean Johnson (@flytyingguy.bsky.social) reposted
Any police officer with ties to white supremacist terrorist orgs like the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers should be fired. Any cops with racist tattoos should be fired also.
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social) reply parent
Amen.. But more importantly, I want to know why the fuck coapparel.ca I can't find any of your durable heavier weight 85% tencil 15% poly tee shirts any more. Sure I can find others who make a light weight crepy thin shitty tees, I need one one for winter wear, that lasts and feels like silk.
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social) reply parent
for greater specificity, let's choose 1:30 pm eastern time.
Gisella Perl 🇨🇦 (@gisellaperl.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Make your complaints known!!! If we want real reporting of facts, we need to let the CBC know we are not okay with their framing of the genocide in Gaza as simple retaliation for Hamas' October 7th attack. We knew there was more to it. The fact that they refused to report facts is PATHETIC!
Kai, a very old GenX 🇨🇦 (@kaicable.bsky.social) reposted
Working for five years as a producer at the public broadcaster (CBC), I witnessed the double standards and discrimination in its coverage of Palestine #cdnpoli #canada breachmedia.ca/cbc-whitewas...
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social) reply parent
Don't mess with the test.... You can't wait ten days?
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social) reply parent
we will never see one... Canadians are too entitled and would shit their pants
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social) reply parent
One can hope, but history says they tend to fizzle out rather than gain momentum. We need action to incite change. Govt mandate on Canadian content in grocery stores... A tax on Canadians returning from the USA, a re-entry tax to cover increased security costs when returning from fascist nation
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social)
chalk up another win for the zionists genocidal plans.
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social) reply parent
Huh, I must not be a liberal then... But please, tell us your idea of resistance...
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social)
smart move, but hopefully not too late.
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social)
IF you don't already, why the fuck are you not following @deadder.bsky.social ??
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social) reply parent
He could be dead... what a glorious thought. Can people spare 15 seconds to try to make it so? Pray he dies on Sept 11th. See below.👇 bsky.app/profile/aste...
Randi Mayem Singer (@rmayemsinger.bsky.social) reposted
People, please stop ruining my "he could be dead" party. Sure maybe JD can control a cult while being controlled by an in-fighting committee of trillionaire shadow POTUS bros. I don't think so. But even so, he'll still be very dead. Dead is good. We have to find joy where we can.
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social)
zionist terrorist provocateurs
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social) reply parent
I'd be hugely disappointed if I didn't already expect this, and if I thought that humanity and democracy could be saved in the long run.
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social) reply parent
This is not effective resistance though. This is the monetization of tribalism and outrage culture. There is no effort to convert fence sitters, no bridging narratives, no use of belief webs to try to fight disinformation. Charlie should be in politics, but assholes.. bsky.app/profile/msko...
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social) reply parent
Meh, who gives a shit? No one. Why? Because the information deficit model cannot address disinformation. This has been proven 1 million times over. Yet, still science comms keep pushing ineffective content.
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social)
Meh, who gives a shit? No one. Why? Because the information deficit model cannot address disinformation. This has been proven 1 million times over. Yet, still science comms keep pushing ineffective content.
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social) reply parent
2/ The only reason some segments are being impacted such as US alcohol sales is the big block purchasers of provincial govts. They have resolve that consumers lack. And to some extent grocers seeking other suppliers. Mostly smaller chains not the large ones who dont give a shit.
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social) reply parent
1/ The reality is that consumer boycotts rarely cause a material loss of revenue. The bigger the Int'l corporation & corporate psychopath, the less the impact. Elbows up is a rare exception for consumer engagement, and yet still it is only a small percentage of consumers who are actively engaged
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social) reply parent
All you have to do it say you live an "inactive lifestyle" The FBI is not going to investigate if this is true or not. Yes, they're heinous fucks at HHS, that just means you an lie if necessary to work the system. You're complaints help no one, teaching ppl to lie does though...
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social) reply parent
Read like your nation's future depends on it. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/r...
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social)
Breaking: Birth is the leading cause of death
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social)
think of this the next time you shot on AI generated "art"
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social)
Just a hunch but.... Researchers looking to explain the rise of populism, the ease of disinformation taking hold especially among younger generations should look closely at the decline in reading, the rise of streaming and reality TV. FFS grab a book... www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/r...
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social)
10 more days to either convert sept 11th into the happiest day in american history, or to disprove prayer.... I mean what's not to love for your average atheist, group science experiment, once again disproving prayer,... and hey, just maybe the golem will coincidentally die that day 🤪
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social)
fuck Canadian grocers, they're crooks who are never held accountable, even when supposedly held accountable.... Fuck the gutless feckless govt bureaucrats too... www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social)
Listen to Mr King. and make sure to read every fucking book on the banned book list.
Dr. Tessa Fisher (@tessafisher.bsky.social) reposted
If you ever need help predicting what the policy of this administration will be, just ask, what would improve the lives and egos of the most painfully mediocre straight white conservative men imaginable, and go with that. It hasn't failed me yet!
The USA Singers (@theusasingers.bsky.social) reposted
The good news is that JD Vance does not have the mojo to be the new MAGA cult leader.
Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted
If we will never be a Socialist [sic] or Communist [sic] Country [sic], then why are you giving billions of dollars to farmers to make up for losses from your stupid tariffs (SOCIALISM) and having the US government own part of Intel (COMMUNISM)?
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social) reply parent
no dear, you're destined for the gas chamber, and I'm not even in the fascist state.
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social) reply parent
no dear, you gave us trump.... your attitude assure trump will remain. history shows gas chambers will follow. because your "principled" stance against Harris and Newsom
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social) reply parent
enjoy the gas chambers and your superior principles... if you call eschewing second person ethics and obligations "principled"
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social)
trump admits to climate change caused warming...
Daniel Herriges (@dpherriges.bsky.social) reposted
The car is such a voracious consumer of space that simply moving and storing them will easily crowd out the rest of public life if we allow it. We design and legislate environments utterly hostile to socializing. Yet people try anyway!
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social)
make it so... they don't want peace. you have to make life for russians hurt, so they pressure putin.
"How" (@myoneandonlykat.bsky.social) reposted
My dream is for it to happen like it does to vampires. When the leader kicks the bucket, the rest of them burst into flames.
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social) reply parent
TL;DR Nothing happens, because the court did not block them, pending appeal to SCOTUS who will strike it down...
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social)
let's apply this to any person with a job... yeah fuck anyone who excels at fulfilling their duties.... what more do they want. sorry doctor, it's your job to save my life, you want my thanks and appreciation too? GFY what do you mean you're burnt out and quitting?
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social) reply parent
Gavin for President!
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social)
Quebec may lose even more int'l students given their move to ban public prayer... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Ann Muir (@decoy007.bsky.social) reposted
We all just call him a liar.
David Osland (@davidosland.bsky.social) reposted
Britain has been multicultural for the last 2000 years. That's why we have the Roman alphabet, a Middle East religion, Arabic numerals, a Syrian patron saint, an aristocracy with French ancestry and a German royal family.
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social)
Pretendians are a scourge... I don't care if these ones are fake or not... I just want to comment on libel issues. IF you're a low life, with no real income and no reputation to damage or cause loss of income, you can't really suffer the damages these ppl claim share.google/cECyTS7M28hw...
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social)
where can I buy one of these decals?
Asha Rangappa (@asharangappa.bsky.social) reposted
I mean ffs even the Supreme Court wasn’t willing to find Trump’s calls to state legislatures to try to rig the 2020 election in the “outer perimeter” of his Article II duties and they are willing to let him off the hook for anything.
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social) reply parent
If more had the chance, they'd have stung too. Wasps are evil.
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social)
Dear readers... Suanne writes good books.
Sean Johnson (@flytyingguy.bsky.social) reposted
The Press needs to realize when it comes to fascist dictatorship there are not two sides to the “issue”
Gisella Perl 🇨🇦 (@gisellaperl.bsky.social) reposted
This goes for the Canadian press with Poilievre as well. It's no different.
The Lincoln Project (@lincolnproject.us) reposted
Trump's dictator moves like calling in the national guard or ballooning the ice budget are designed to enrage you, but also to desensitize you to his authoritarian behavior. As Rick Wilson says, we can't let that happen:
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social)
The US is more banana republic under trump than first world authoritarian state... So, no soup for you!
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social) reply parent
Absolutely Al, the amount of Canadians traveling to the US still is shameful. I am utterly disgusted in the people doing this. You can't all have sick grannies you claim to need to see.
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social)
Ok, I'm thinking this is the most egregious statement RFK jr has made...
UncleRicoReturns (@unclericotnt.bsky.social) reposted
Sorry food workers just know I've been there. I feel for you.
Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) reposted
And of course the tried and true pathway from claiming to be a civil rights lawyer to “seeing the light” and deciding you love Trumpism. The Damascus road paved w/a lucrative TV deal. The journey in 4 panels:
Maple Mama (@maplemama20.bsky.social) reposted
@jollygoodginger.bsky.social is in DC with other vets right now standing up for democracy. He's playing General Milleys speech on repeat for them today 💜 #LoveTheVets!
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social) reply parent
It is nice to know Gruden is a piece of trash
The New Republic (@newrepublic.com) reposted
This is all the dress rehearsal for Trump firing Jerome Powell, and the Supreme Court will likely let him do that, too. trib.al/l9NNEKU Even before that happens, Cook’s firing is, as Penn’s Peter Conti-Brown told The New York Times, “the end of central bank independence as we know it.”
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social) reply parent
just gate keeping? sorry I never accept bad form debate. If he meant is at satire it fell flat, but I doubt that how it was intended given the follow ups
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social) reply parent
This is classic gate keeping,.. you're not allowed to pick presidential candidates this early, whaaaaa because I say so. I'm talking about this, and not that and there is no way the two subjects can be interrelated.... whaaaa
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social) reply parent
that is not how this works,... and there is no E at the end of Newsom, so Ivan run along and get a new troll handle
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social) reply parent
A modest proposal to "test" the power of prayer. Let's get millions of people to join a group prayer centered on one specific thing: for trump to die on Sept 11, 2025 IF it works, god exists, prayer works, & we flip September 11th from a day of horror to a day of rejoicing.
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social) reply parent
yeah trump wants Kamala dead and canceled her security with that intention
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social)
trump is dumber than dirt. everyone around him is dumber than dirt trump has aligned India, Russia and China against the US youtube.com/shorts/r1btt...
Aster Vérité (@aster-verite.bsky.social) reply parent
I dont pray either... atheist all the way... the idea is to illustrate that prayer does not work, not even if millions do it for the same purpose on the same day....