Modern life is basically dependent on nerds you will never meet building software & spreadsheets you will never see What the Trump admin dares to ask is: what if we just shoved as many of those folks as we could find into a locker.
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I disagree, the vanguard of the radical right setting policy are essentially the Revenge of The Nerds guys. Losers everyone hates that aren't half as smart as they think they are. They just long to do rape, hurt others and prove how tough they are at the drop of a hat
aug 26, 2025, 1:58 am • 32 3 • view
Sure, but the regime isn't basing it's power on the vanguard, but on a large base of support. The average Trumper is a "Revenge of the Jocks" type of guy.
aug 26, 2025, 12:21 pm • 1 0 • view
Turns out not pushing nerds into lockers didn’t lead to a bully-free nirvana but to the nerds building a robot to push others into lockers.
aug 26, 2025, 2:00 am • 13 0 • view
Nerds are competent. DOGE are not nerds.
aug 26, 2025, 8:35 pm • 1 0 • view
Friendly amendment: A bunch of nerd-coded bullies building &c
aug 26, 2025, 2:31 am • 2 0 • view
(What’s the difference? Well, you see: Money)
aug 26, 2025, 2:32 am • 2 0 • view
I think nerd-dom requires some actual skill or talent that these guys all lack, speedrunners are nerds. They are clearly different than what these guys are, though these guys might properly be called nerds and maybe the other group should be called something else? idk
aug 26, 2025, 2:04 am • 5 0 • view
Also nerds running experiments and studying phenomena/trends that you’ve never heard of. Screw worms?!
aug 26, 2025, 3:25 pm • 3 0 • view
They couldn't do it without whatever the nerd-vs-jock axis version of a "class traitor" is. The incels, the redpillers, the gamers, the 4chan basement dwellers. All nerds. Nerds who decided they'd rather ally with the jocks.
aug 26, 2025, 2:11 am • 2 0 • view
Many of these nerds are currently shocked that they can't order anime figurines anymore
aug 27, 2025, 5:44 am • 3 0 • view
yeah but in my imagination those nerds I've never met looked down on me, an exurban dealership owner, so unfortunately for the world I've decided we have to commit hegemonic suicide
aug 26, 2025, 1:42 am • 25 1 • view
Not sure they’re asking. They seem to have elevated them to positions of ridiculous unchecked power. I, personally, would like to know how many fit in a locker 🤷♀️
aug 26, 2025, 3:24 am • 0 0 • view
Modern life is dependent on Organic Chemists you will never meet who make chemicals like anesthetics and antibiotics
aug 28, 2025, 2:50 pm • 1 0 • view
The Trump admin is people who resent not going to prom because they are internet dwelling social outcast psychopathic freaks and they want to take it out on the nerds who at least had their own popularity, instead of nothing. They’re not high school bullies, they’re high school shooters
aug 26, 2025, 5:18 am • 0 0 • view
if those nerds were better at vlookups we might not be in this goddamn mess
aug 26, 2025, 1:30 am • 20 0 • view
Yes, trumpism is all about re-affirming a certain type of pecking order – that, worryingly to its adherents has been becoming outdated.
aug 27, 2025, 12:59 am • 1 0 • view
Fundamentally, Trump was explicitly and repeatedly promising the end of modern society. That’s literally what “make America great again” means. They can’t all be surprised that he actually delivered
aug 26, 2025, 2:12 am • 389 81 • view
they're morons sky
aug 26, 2025, 2:16 am • 19 0 • view
Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Mel Brooks and the rest of the talent they are geniuses
aug 26, 2025, 2:20 am • 5 0 • view
Reminds me of all those losers who fantasize about going back in time, where they will surely be kings instead of peasants.
aug 26, 2025, 2:14 am • 13 0 • view
I spend a lot it time thinking about how I know how to talk to the thinking rocks better than most people, and even give them complex instructions, but I don’t actually know why the rocks think or how to make them think. It’s troubling. I’m not even really sure how to make a steam engine
aug 26, 2025, 3:04 am • 8 0 • view
Rocks think because of the semiconducting effect and you can lithograph that into silicon. Logically it’s all just relays wired up weirdly
aug 27, 2025, 4:18 am • 1 0 • view
A relay is nothing but an electrically powered switch. If not done as semiconductors they are just a bunch of electric magnets
aug 27, 2025, 4:21 am • 1 0 • view
If you are interested in „how to make a computer from an electrically powered switch?“ the book „CODE the secret language of computers“ is fun and easy to read
aug 27, 2025, 4:23 am • 1 0 • view
I hope that when civilisation collapses someone will think I’m valuable enough to give food to due to knowing how to make these things from scratch. I fear nobody will
aug 27, 2025, 4:29 am • 2 0 • view
The tricky thing about the steam engine is the pressure ventile regulator. Is two weights that rotate around an axis and are attached to it in a way that their position to the centre of the axis varies with speed. Now when they move away from the axle, they open a ventile to lower pressure
aug 27, 2025, 4:16 am • 1 0 • view
Now the force that turns the axle with the weights is the pressure and that way you have a feedback loop letting the engine run at a stable pressure. Not the most efficient but a pretty safe way to make it run at a certain pressure
aug 27, 2025, 4:27 am • 1 0 • view
Now if you connect it to be driven not by the pressure but to the wheel/shaft that you use for your machine you have a mechanism to have a stable rpm no matter the load
aug 27, 2025, 6:01 am • 1 0 • view
Thank you for this, I learned a lot!
aug 27, 2025, 1:30 pm • 2 0 • view
My pleasure!
aug 27, 2025, 2:14 pm • 1 0 • view
The second important thing is recycling the waste heat a second time to increase efficiency, similar to modern central gas heatings
aug 27, 2025, 4:16 am • 1 0 • view
Not all, but a f**kton will be.
aug 26, 2025, 2:52 pm • 1 0 • view
See also bsky.app/profile/sky....
aug 26, 2025, 2:13 am • 92 15 • view
I am so angry about the screw worm thing and it doesn't even affect me. But the eradication program was a shining example of USAID partnering with other countries to help the US as well as other people. Got dumped into USDA and lost a lot of the institutional knowledge and goodwill.
aug 26, 2025, 4:38 pm • 25 5 • view
I’ve been screaming about this since #Trump started threatening #Panama ⚠️But who listens to #Women who come with fucking RECEIPTS⁉️ Have you SEEN what these #ScrewWorm | #BotFly #fuckers look like⁉️ I swear I was posting vivid & well-researched warnings everywhere for months & nobody gave a fuck
aug 29, 2025, 11:28 am • 0 0 • view
He is sadly a rare politician who delivered on his election promise. In his case, it's fascism.
aug 26, 2025, 2:14 am • 6 1 • view
It's amazing how much you can deliver when you're willing and able to threaten anyone getting in your way with both the state and the mob.
aug 26, 2025, 3:04 pm • 1 0 • view
I'll admit I've been confused about *why* Trump's goons want to destroy the US but I think it's just this: American society is a public pool, and they'd rather fill it with concrete than integrate it.
aug 27, 2025, 3:29 am • 50 8 • view
But the ultimate spreadsheet users are found on Wall Street and they’ve been radio silent on trying to push trump to be pro business. Dimon went as far as to suggest ppl were making a big deal out of tariffs
aug 26, 2025, 11:26 pm • 0 0 • view
analysts (the spreadsheet jockeys) are not generally the people speaking for the firms
aug 27, 2025, 2:16 am • 1 0 • view
The ones that get up to be vps and managing directors were spreadsheet jockeys who could also sell well
aug 27, 2025, 2:17 am • 1 0 • view
> spreadsheets The world runs on these more than anyone wants to know or is comfortable admitting
aug 26, 2025, 1:49 am • 11 0 • view
"society is when nerds builds spreadsheets whose pages youll never see" is pretty good
aug 26, 2025, 1:30 am • 140 19 • view
This is the modern equivalent of "Blessed Are Those Who Plant Trees Under Whose Shade They Will Never Sit"
aug 26, 2025, 2:05 am • 35 4 • view
There's also the evil modern variant: "Legacy. What's a legacy? It's planting bugs in a project you'll never have to maintain."
aug 26, 2025, 1:02 pm • 7 0 • view
The little men with the slide rules and computers are going to inherit the earth. - Frank Towns (1965)
aug 26, 2025, 4:16 am • 3 0 • view
This, but they just set that little block on fire and shoved into that locker: xkcd.com/2347/
aug 26, 2025, 1:43 am • 15 2 • view
The best description of this administration I’ve seen is “A sustained war on anyone who has ever read a book”
aug 26, 2025, 1:46 am • 47 2 • view
There is no Cathedral, but there is an excel spreadsheet somewhere that is completely load-bearing on the entire global economy. They will find it by accident, they will torch it without understanding what it is, and the next day I will walk to a specific house and eat somebody that has it coming
aug 26, 2025, 3:32 am • 4 0 • view