7/ And this is, fundamentally, a far-right movement. These are the conspiracies & bad science of the Freedom Convoy. While UOF claims CFIA isn’t testing properly to gain public sympathy, UOF’s Katie Pasitney states that PCR testing is fake.
they/them|1.777.161.1312 concerned citizen of Armageddon. unprofessional. bullshit detector. queer as in "bashes back." 313 chili dog ahegao. the difference between traffic stops & being robbed at gunpoint is that the cop doesn't need your money.
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7/ And this is, fundamentally, a far-right movement. These are the conspiracies & bad science of the Freedom Convoy. While UOF claims CFIA isn’t testing properly to gain public sympathy, UOF’s Katie Pasitney states that PCR testing is fake.
1/ I don’t want to use the term “cult” lightly, but I don’t know what to call the Universal Ostrich Farms situation other than “cult” these days. I hesitate to share their claims because the followers themselves are so bad at facts but one thing they can’t hide is the bullying campaign.
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FWIW, "sexual matador" is probably accurate & fair, in the sense that he's the guy that handles the bull's linens
Accidental gleek?
I gave y'all the search term you been missing for a year, you're welcome.
Individual ignorance is not collective. Search engines exist.
“what do you want democrats to do?” has always been a disingenuous counter to leftwing agitation—you don’t actually need to have concrete policy recommendations before you’re allowed to voice your opinion—but defunding the White House and Supreme Court would be good places to start
[this is not an authentic belief, just a fun operative framework for some specific social contexts]
That's actually what happened & I can't wait for the next time the Witnesses come over.
your life is not a sacrifice on the altar of fascism and authoritarianism ... please get off of your knees
many of you are working overtime to validate the humanity of people who are intentionally, systemically, and methodologically working to invalidate your humanity
it's just a fact. you can't have a global hegemon who every few years is at risk of electing a lunatic government that will undo treaties, start murdering people in international waters on a whim, stop aid programs, and slap wanton tariffs on the world capriciously. we have no credibility anymore
Hey you dropped something
lmao
"we are better than this" i am telling your right now... no we are not find the courage to be what the moment requires
"you are mocking their physical features" yes ... i know "They can mock your physical features" They are mocking my life... My actual life so you are going to have to swallow hard ... and be bad
When i say Robert Kennedy Jr look like evil alien Krang... and sound like the rock biter from neverending story stop telling me about his medical condition... he do not care about your medical condition... The only thing he wanna do is Zyn packets steroids and the wives of other people
Go practice being mean to the fascist... make it apart of your spiritual discipline . Before you put fork to mouth ask Jesus or whoever you got to help you be mean to bad people.
So when we are ridiculing the fascists that is NOT the time to ponder our collective being and finding the good in everyone
Commenters and quoters gotta realize OP is Aussie — they're still ~1-5yrs out from getting caught up in the robocall apocalypse. Their phones still sorta work. This post is like peering into a sepia-filtered time capsule. Don't hate on the guy, he's basically a time traveller from a bygone era.
You can read a lot about Ryan Routh, he's been in the news for like 40 years. *You* don't know anything bc you haven't bothered to know. There is no *we*.
Influencer culture is so weird, man. Like if you get popular because you’re a thin, mid/late-20s woman whose whole schtick is like, idk being a lesbian and doing pottery badly with your pet ferret or something, that’s it. That’s your content for life. Every day you have to post a ferret video.
It’s the same with text influencers on bluesky except everyone is pushing or has breached 40 and is in denial and the content is responding to every single thing happening on the news as if you are on cocaine but not actually being cool enough to do cocaine
i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended
take the fucking bait nerd I wanna disrespect you in a prosaic fashion
wait what is "sff"?
FTR the next time the Witnesses come over I'm gonna time how long our conversation lasts cuz it's gonna be awkward & could super duper go either way.
Can we all agree to, where applicable, treat the Rapture as a very real historical event that (after tomorrow) absolutely did happen?
Ohhh duh, that's gotta be it. Good call.
That's the one that's throwing me thru a loop here. The other 3 I can grasp the varying logics as to why they'd be seen more often as RW coded at the moment, but polyamory...??? Best guesses are either something about Republicans always cheating, Tate's camgirl trafficking, or reality TV tropes.
Not being much of a fantasy reader, I get where they're coming from on that point — what w all the divine hierarchies of chosen ones manifesting their destinies to subvert mystical & mysterious oppressors who just so happen to be some version of scheming or brutish otherized foreign minority.
shit ain’t over til it’s over
that idiot w 70k followers that said she ain't never been outside of Georgia but was determined that Allen Park, MI is a sundown town went ahead and deleted her entire account lmao good riddance
Fascists control a lot, but we should do our best not to let them control how we feel day to day. We can and we must do what we can to stop them, and we can't help but be affected by the awful things they do, but we can't let every word out of their mouths control us. Don't let them in your head.
Acetaminophen/paracetamol use in pregnancy doesn't cause autism, no matter what RFK says this week. This is not an unsettled question. Evidence summarized here: sciencebasedmedicine.org/tylenol-and-...
"The idea that women’s bodies are state resources for sustaining population appears to be re-emerging" Whew. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
We need every American to understand that a group of far-right billionaires that have PUBLICLY called for ending democracy are funding this shit. They now own: - nearly every media company - the military/surveillance apparatus - many/most of the detention centers - the Vice President
Grand Rapids was the first city to add fluoride to drinking water. There’s even a sculpture commemorating its role in what was long seen as a public health success story. Now, communities in Michigan and elsewhere are turning back the clock. By @annaleighclark.bsky.social
concluding thru the power of sheer intuition & context clues that "tush push" is like boofing prog but for cishet dudes w IV anabolics. No I won't google it, go birds
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Oh, and of course let me replug this openletter.earth/open-letter-... 15/n
We end on "Machine Yearning for a Better Present" because why can't we dream? Why accept that universities are not places of learning? Nothing, except industry and their paid shills amongst us, force us to accept this & this force is not one of reason, but one of regressive values & profit. 10/n
7. the kinda appealing, but substantively indefensible, idea that somehow AI is different to other technology, like calculators, in a pedagogical context — but we totally ban a great deal of technology in the classroom. (Section 3.7 here doi.org/10.5281/zeno...) 9/n
6. the extremely unhinged series of claims that without training them on how to be users of such systems that we somehow fail as teachers — truly ludicrous, utterly bizarre, and in fact directly contradicts other industry selling points. (Section 3.6 here doi.org/10.5281/zeno...) 8/n
5. the nonsense refrain that somehow everybody — every one of our students — is cheating now and we need to police them more and more. (Section 3.5 here doi.org/10.5281/zeno...) 7/n
4. the disregard for the corrosive power of anthropomorphism, which is taken advantage of by industry to sell & steal our data, in the base case scenario, and in the worst to abuse and push vulnerable groups to dependance and worse. (Section 3.4 here doi.org/10.5281/zeno...) 6/n
3. the obsession with denying and rewriting history, pretending AI only appeared in the last 3 years or that it has no history before the last few decades, etc. (Section 3.3 here doi.org/10.5281/zeno...) 5/n
![3.3 Ahistoricism and the AI hype cycles When I started writing about science decades ago [...] I edited an article in which [a computer scientist] predicted that AI would soon replace experts in law, medicine, finance and other professions. That was in 1984. John Horgan (2020, n.p.) When we engage with the public, we notice people think that AI, as a field or a technology, appeared on the scene in the last three years. And they experience confusion and even dissonance when they discover the field and the technologies have existed for decades, if not centuries or even millennia (Bloomfield 1987; Boden 2006; Bogost 2025; Guest 2025; Hamilton 1998; Mayor 2018). Such ahistoricism facilitates “the AI-hype cycles that have long been fuelled by extravagant claims that substitute fiction for science.” (Heffernan 2025, n.p. Duarte et al. 2024). We have been here before, both with entanglements of AI and statistics with industry corrupting our academic processes, and with so-called AI summers: hype cycles that pivot from funding booms to complete busts and cessation of research (Bassett and Roberts 2023; Boden 2006; Law 2024; Lighthill et al. 1973; Merchant 2023; Olazaran 1996; Perez 2002; P. Smith and L. Smith 2024; Thornhill 2025). To understand how industry tries to influence independent research for their benefit, we can look to past examples of entanglement of industry and statistics. Ronald A. Fisher, a eugenicist and “the founder of modern statistics” (Rao 1992), having been paid by the tobacco industry, claimed that because ‘correlation is not causation’ that therefore ‘smoking does not cause lung cancer’ (Fisher 1958; Stolley 1991). The parallel between tobacco and technology does not end here: “both industries’ increased funding of academia was as a reaction to increasingly unfavourable public opinion and an increased threat of legislation.” (Mohamed Abdalla and Moustafa Abdalla 2021, p. 2; also see Knoester et al. 2025) The histories of eugenics, statistics, comput…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vsyj5jtayxcq5dw5mtja4xtb/bafkreie4dme35ovxs6t4ekrdosziqnikttmmef63imkpxqh2fdlybzccoa@jpeg "Click to view full size")
We also go through many arguments that can be used as counters to typical false frames forced upon us, such as: 1. the powerful nonsense that we as experts know nothing (Section 3.1 here doi.org/10.5281/zeno...) 3/n
![3.1 Rejection of expertise, ironically including our own Being in a colonizing discipline first demands and then encourages an attitude that might be called intellectual hubris. Furthermore, since you cannot master all the disciplines that you have designs on, you need confidence that your knowledge makes the ‘traditional wisdom’ of these fields unworthy of serious consideration. Here too, the AI scientist feels that seeing things through a computational prism so fundamentally changes the rules of the game in the social and behavioural sciences that everything that came before is relegated to a period of intellectual immaturity. Sherry Turkle (1984, p. 230) Every field that comes into contact with AI discourse becomes infected even within AI as a field of study (recall Table 1). Our colleagues have embraced these systems, uncritically incorporating them into their workflows and their classrooms, without input from experts on automation, cognitive science, computer science, gender and diversity studies, human-computer interaction, pedagogy, psychology, and law to name but a few fields with direct relevant expertise (Sloane et al. 2024). Meanwhile, technology companies have rushed to invest in ‘AI ethics’ or ‘AI safety’ to ethics wash their claims, thereby “laundering accountability” (as Abeba Birhane explains in Arseni 2025) and “distracti[ng] from real AI ethics” (Crane 2021), while censoring academics and thus, violating academic freedom (Gebru and Torres 2024; Gerdes 2022; Goudarzi 2025; Munn 2023; Ochigame 2019; Suarez et al. 2025; Tafani 2023).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vsyj5jtayxcq5dw5mtja4xtb/bafkreihavj4y4hvuqmervolkakodhui7qozn2jmnsrav5lilv37cecg6bq@jpeg "Click to view full size")
As seen in the table & figure above, we dissect and explain how terminology is abused and contorted by industry — terms like 'generative' or 'agentic' are not able to isolate what is being critiqued. We have seen this countless times before; flitting from one nonsense buzzword to another. 2/n
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n
NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
If someone is asking you to be compassionate to folks who've "lost their way" & gone right, but are also discouraging mutual aid directly to folks & saying compassion for them will undo you & is unwise, what they are actually doing is setting up a 'compassion > nazi pipeline' under you to fall down.
leaving a bowl of raspberry gushers on my porch as an offering to the ghost of Curly Chirk to ward off the morality police and also (hopefully) the goddamned Witnesses
It mourns Charlie Kirk, or else it gets the hose again.
Do not RSVP to protests you attend and do not bring your devices along for the ride if you do not need them.
Yoooo nice! M has a little Wacom about the size of a mousepad that's been going strong for like 7yrs now. Stoked to see how quick you adapt, my understanding is it was pretty quick to pick up.
hereby informally nominating "JOURNOMERTA" for 2025 Portmanteau of the Year
Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us. We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again. That's the revolution.
"A democratic society needs people in Klein’s position to treat Kirk’s anti-democracy stances as disqualifying, rather than pretend they’re just another policy opinion like tax rates. Media leaders are among those responsible for making sure ideas relegated to the dustbin of history stay there."
I don't think pointing out the fascists' 'hypocrisy' is a good use of time. It's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. They actually do believe that they have the right and obligation to dominate you because they are superior to you. They are using their power not being hypocritical.
If you have put your name down saying that you will be somewhere at a specific time, that becomes evidence in court that you were in fact there, even if actually it turns out you didn’t go bsky.app/profile/chan...
Anyone telling you it’s not a big deal and not addressing that angle is someone you should not be listening to on this
Gonna say this very very very slowly The main issue with putting your name on a protest list is not whether the government has your name It is you providing information about where you are/will be That is *legally* actionable
On the plus side, a bunch of people on the left who have not yet grasped it are about to viscerally understand why some of us, despite despising bigots to our very core, keep insisting that allowing the government to prosecute "hate speech" would be a bad idea.
What the actual fuck.
A mainstream outlet finally does more than repeat the official BS statement from ICE about the shooting of Silvero Villegas-Gonzalez. This man's death should be a national scandal. Grateful for indy journalists who questioned the official narrative that corporate outlets mindlessly echoed last week.
Suddenly "hate speech" is bad. Suddenly "dehumanizing" people is bad. Suddenly "cancel culture" is good. Suddenly words have consequences. The modern American right in 2025, folks.
A warning to all other communities voting on whether or not to allow data centers
There is real wisdom here. For over a decade, liberals existed in a world in which their opponents have denied that they meant what they said. Now this is unraveling in a frenzy of speech and thought policing by governments who cannot bear to hear their own words spoken back to them.
no shooter has been caught and there is no mention of any help offered to other people on the street, even though it seems clear that they could be in grave danger
FOX news host suggests we euthanize the homeless, someone goes into two encampments and starts shooting. 13 people shot and Jacob Frey and the media are just talking about it as the new best reason to clear the encampments
Happy to share! Prob gonna watch Noroi tonight, looking forward to it!
The "Anticorruption of Public Morals Act," intro'd by Rep. Schriver, is unlikely to go anywhere. But it does have 5 co-sponsors— a ludicrous bill is backed by 20% of Republicans in the MI House. That's not nothing. Republicans are telling you what they would do if they could get away with it.
As far as I can tell, the law itself would be banned for even discussing issues like "group sex" and "fellatio." I would ostensibly be facing a felony even for sharing this as there are only exemptions for "scientific and medical research or instruction or peer-reviewed academic content."
The bill would make it a felony to share, distribute or even host "prohibited" content — which includes not just trans info but any mention of masturbation, sex or even sexual "moaning" Music, art, healthcare — even news coverage of issues sex or gender all banned.
Michigan lawmakers have introduced a bill prohibiting the any "depiction or description" of trans people or trans existence online, including it in a bill banning "pornographic" material The bill would completely erase trans people online, equating them with porn.
"they're violating the law! we need to pass laws to make that illegal!" said the fucking dipshit
what the actual fuck
IANAL, but if I had to guess then I reckon this prob has something to do w the court having been captured by a dangerous cabal that uses sneaky and improper methods to get it's way.
Does anybody else see it capitalized and automatically hear a cartoonishly bad fake-British VO pronounce it "auhntee-fah," or nah?
scrolling makes me feel like a chihuahua
This is an archived government report that found that “Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists.” It existed yesterday and is gone today.
Circling back — it may be worthwhile to consider the possibility that some of them are not particularly smart and experience (or perhaps even write? Can't remember off top who wrote what) lyrics as something less like poetry and more like "cool metal words." Lotta dummies out there. [soz to 2xpost]
fr! I would assume they have some sort of "no politics no religion" type thanksgiving rule, but that doesn't quite scan considering some of their lyrics... I just don't get it.
Their drummer is a full on fascist, meanwhile vocals is like... I would guess some flavor of 3Wist ancom? I like some of their music but I can't trust a group of dudes so chill w that level of incoherence.
It doesn't matter that they've been lied to when they go to the lie theater every week to hear their favorite lies that just so happen to consistently work them into a bloodthirsty rage at literally the rest of society. Its not the flavor they like, it's the intoxication. They want the bloodthirst.
They might be worse than you, but there ain't a single decent person on earth that went to church to eulogize Chirk. Not a one.
just seen a lefty Christian talking bout their church fully eulogizing Chirk for a service and how "they're not bad people, they've been lied to, they're grieving" and I'ma need y'all soft headed mfs to understand that the types of narratives people prefer do indeed illustrate their character.
The American Right has been actively waging what they conceptualize as a war on the rest of us for a long time now, hence all the terrorism and school shootings. The least we can do is rip away whatever dignity they'd dare muster from their dead heroes. Fuckem if they can't take a joke.
For the record, there's little reason to read Flynn's 5GW text, it's Lind's 4GW w slightly more emphasis on the importance of lying online.
This chyron is such a piss off. Poso been posting giddy AF about his "4G/5G warfare" strats for damn near a decade. Flynn wrote a whole ass book outlining the necessity of asymmetry in informational & kinetic insurgency. And CNN gaslights the public by framing their victims as the aggressors.
No worries. Not to keep piling on, but while you're receptive to it I might suggest breaking the habit of referring to people online as "accounts." Or, at least, be aware that it's dehumanizing and just weigh that notion before saying it. Some accounts aren't human, ofc, so use your own discernment.
Just because an explanation hypothetically exists doesn't mean it needs or ought to be articulated to the individual you've harmed. At that point, the "explanation" becomes an excuse, and you are engaged in the process of excuse-making regardless of intent.
Deranged to assume someone is emotionally invested in being mad at a stranger bc they pointed out that you're an asshole on the internet. I'll forget you exist before the day is over. Good luck in therapy or whatever, try to remember other people are people too & you'll be golden.
I also addressed your word choice, and did not say "excuse." Read before replying, asshole.
Your explanation is bullshit.
I know you know this, but I still feel compelled to say aloud that autism and ADHD don't explain being an asshole. That's a whole different third thing.