Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social)
causing harm can be a form of harm reduction. not all harms are equal.
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causing harm can be a form of harm reduction. not all harms are equal.
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social)
I find that the pervasiveness of performative shock/excitement/outrage so ubiquitous online as one of the worst things about modern culture and the dissolution of authenticity is a massive factor in why things suck so fucking much right now.
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
that ain't so bad at all thanks for the info =)
BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL (@edsbs.bsky.social) reposted
hey man I don't give a shit what Nate Silver says
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
so you are as dumb as you seem. good luck out there.
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
you have so much dipshit pseduoscience in your bio it's hard to tell.
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
are you 1) describing yourself? 2) attempting to diagnose me? 3) some weird third fetish thing? I dunno, go back to make up stories about how strangers think you're cute for opening doors for them.
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
you heard something when you were 10 and decided never to be curious about it again, I understand. sucks, but I understand.
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
No, I just think you fail to understand what you're talking about, but judging from your other posts, that's typically the case.
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
Lol, how do you not live in a constant state of embarrassment? www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what...
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
pretty telling that you choose to use the slur instead of the definition right under it, ya know, the historical one 2) a member of any of the bands of English workers who destroyed machinery, especially in cotton and woolen mills, that they believed was threatening their jobs (1811–16).
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
A) you (purposefully?) misunderstand the conversation. B) you misunderstand who the Luddites were. C) Even Diogenes wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire. Trifectra.
kelly jensen (@heykellyjensen.bsky.social) reposted
Happy Unions Are Good, Actually Day! Happy Your-Stupid-Ass-Trump-Neighbors-Have-Pulled-Out-Their-Flags-Thinking-It's-A-Cult-Celebration Day, reminding you how much education, facts, information, libraries, public schools, etc etc are–things fought for BY unions.
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
Wonder how many hitmen you couls hire.
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
happy bday =)
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
Hey NPR, thanks for giving a platform to the absolute dumbest our society has to offer. Really raising the bar.
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
"both sides" is for pineapple on pizza this is wholly different and even the limited equivocating you're doing gives space to their fascism. And I'm positive you know this.
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
Pretty wild that people say shit like this out loud for real other humans to see.
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social)
Some people never learn. I should know.
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social)
violence as a form of harm reduction
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
(owner, not founder, my b)
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
If only Altman would follow the Segway's founders footsteps (or wheeltracks)
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social)
Lol at ALA. What a fucking joke organization it's become. Pathetic.
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
This is a weird way to take out your frustration about getting a $40 late fee. Go to therapy, you knob.
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
at least they have you there to help them. it sucks so much. I'm sorry you are all going through it.
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
<3
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
How big is the rock you live under?
Peter (@notalawyer.bsky.social) reposted
it is an unassailable truth that burning the flag looks cool and no executive order can ever change that
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
Quotes deserve quotations
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
You're suppsed to post a picture of a bed bug, but that's just Bret.
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
Blended fabrics and oyster bars indicate otherwise.
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social)
"We could commit a genocide in Gaza in an afternoon, but we're having way too much fun to end it that quick". -The full Netanyahu quote
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
And we hope you learn what empathy is. Throwing trans kids under the bus for votes ain't it.
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
Bro, you're real fuckin' dumb.
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
buddy, you're real dumb
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
bro, look in the fucking mirror lol
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
words mean things dipshit, you clearly have no idea what those words mean, please stop embarrassing yourself.
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social)
I'll die on a lot of hills, but one of them is that Galapagos is Vonnegut's best book
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
Do they go into detail on what they consider a "title"?
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
news.mit.edu/2025/explain...
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social)
Daily reminder that the people at the Lincoln Project do, actually, think you're scum, they just also happen to be losing money because of Trump.
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
Honestly? Probably, yeah.
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social)
I simply do not understand how you could trust Newson. If he's willing to through one vulnerable group under the bus what on Earth makes you think he wouldn't do it to another group when it because expedient? I do not understand the refusal to see reality.
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
lying on the internet is fun, huh?
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
I would say basic human rights is broad enough to be sufficient to be single issue about.
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
like, you're posting this ON THE INTERNET, it's so easy to fact check that you choosing not to is absolutely malicious. Typical center-right dipshit move.
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
wait who was President in 2022? apnews.com/article/heal...
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
every democrat who votes to increase police funding is calling you a liar (and a dipshit)
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
OF is that way -------->
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
Are you able to criticize people without also being a bigot? You center-right dipshits are so fucking pathetic.
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social)
The "Resistance" as they bill themselves is nothing more than self-deluded center-right initiative filled with someone of the dumbest bigots you're apt to meet.
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
(Blame John Shirley lol)
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
I believe in truth in advertising
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
Okay, but you're clearly an idiot, so why would we listen to you?
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, don't talk about politics in politics thread y'all! C'mon! I, too, like to join other people's conversations to conplain about the topic.
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
The way you think and speak is an affront to our ability to understand the world.
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
Books have covers specificially so we can judge them, that's kinda the whole point.
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
Ohhhh so you are a bigot, thanks for clarifying :) Keep licking those boots fuckface
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
I see who you repost and quote and I gotta say, makes ya look real fucking dumb.
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
The way you think is embarassing. Please learn to feel shame, for all our sake.
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, or asked them to help us get to the moon.
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social)
I just can't wait to not vote for a garbage dem candidate and them get yelled at for having a moral core.
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
IV - A Discordian shall Partake of No Hot Dog Buns, for Such was the Solace of Our Goddess when She was Confronted with The Original Snub.
Peter (@notalawyer.bsky.social) reposted
if you’re on the left, the question of “should you be on a platform consciously designed to turn people to the right” shouldn’t be some head-scratching dilemma
Martha Hickson (@sassylibrarian.bsky.social) reposted
“How long can a group of legislators linger over words like genitals and anus before it becomes clear they have an unhealthy hyper-fixation? Can you imagine what the parts that didn’t make the draft bill look like? This isn’t normal!” 😆👏😆👏
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
who is "we"?
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
pretty fucking shitty reporting there guys
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
Seems?
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
love seeing the center-right fight with the far right. so fun
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
how are you not embarrassed to exist?
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
very much the reason I didn't run again for director-at-large, what a fucking joke this shit is.
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
you're acting like the people speeding aren't off duty cops.
strawberry garfield (@bbburgerrr.bsky.social) reposted
if you enroll your kids in this they should send CPS to your house
posting expert (@magickfart.bsky.social) reposted
No don’t get me wrong I think I am a much better person than you are for not running to ChatGPT for everything but that said I still think you deserve basic human rights. That’s nonnegotiable it’s not a respect thing. Because I don’t respect you
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social)
pls be true
Martha Hickson (@sassylibrarian.bsky.social) reposted
Getting lost in AI; map analogy: “Traditional maps showed us an entire landscape … allowing us to understand how everything fit together. [GPS] gives us what we need in the moment, but at a cost … We move through a constructed reality … never seeing the whole … never getting the sense of place”
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
Go fuck yourself
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
Can you dislike them without also being a fascist? Do you have it in you?
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
Have less stupid ideas please.
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
Love the quotes around stolen and lost, it's almost like the author already made up their mind (obviously)
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
Nice
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
It's not harmless fun.
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
What kind of gAI garbage is this? Why? Why do this?
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
You're such a chump. I, too, believe the authenticity of random social media accounts and consider them representative.
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social)
I, personally, don't support MS
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social)
I simply wish people had a consistent moral core. It changing over time is cool, people learn and grow, but c'mon, you gotta have a center to care from. This Gavin Newsom simping is fucking disgusting and you should be embarrassed.
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
Are you able to dislike someone without insulting normal human behaviour? You center-right dipshits don't realize who you actually support.
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
Megan Piontkowski illustration (@meganpiont.bsky.social) reposted
“How to Report ICE” zines now available for these areas: NYC Philly Durham, NC All of Massachusetts I will add more as I get them done. Download them to print here: drive.google.com/drive/folder...
Michael Hobbes (@michaelhobbes.bsky.social) reposted
The point of journalism is to tell people the truth! If the population and political leaders are panicking about something that isn't happening, your job as a reporter is to loudly debunk it — not plead with the other party to join the panic.
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
Ban dipshit posts.
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
Can you try to make a point without eugenics? Or is being a decent person just out of reach?
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
Please stop posting until you use your brian. Thanks.
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
Individualism is such a fucking delusion. Rots people's ethos from the center.
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
It's good when people vandalize our collection, actually.
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
Naw, Dan is a dumb idiot without any neurons to rub together. He just wants attention.
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
Wow, two people willing to throw people under the bus. Imagine thinking either of this idiots deserve our respect lol
Professional Irritant (@benrackey.bsky.social) reply parent
You grew a lighter? Thanks for the mushroom for scale.