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Rarian Rakista

@rakista.bsky.social

Data Science, Linux, Oregon, Ballet, programming, mathematics Let's have a 2nd American Constitutional Convention with 50%+ women. Take a chance on imagining a better world.

created November 12, 2024

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Profile picture Rarian Rakista (@rakista.bsky.social) reply parent

This is why we need 2500 congress critters, so we don't need to know their names.

2/9/2025, 3:12:57 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rarian Rakista (@rakista.bsky.social) reply parent

Jeebus...

2/9/2025, 3:11:26 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Your Black Muslim Bakery was legit even if owners were insane, sorry you missed it.

2/9/2025, 3:10:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rarian Rakista (@rakista.bsky.social) reply parent

So does Trump with his crypto coins.

1/9/2025, 11:25:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rarian Rakista (@rakista.bsky.social) reply parent

Authoritarians have been studied, are more complex in their prejudices, but all in all are still ugly. The Authoritarians - Dr. Bob Altemeyer is free theauthoritarians.org He wrote of Trump before he died.

1/9/2025, 10:40:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rarian Rakista (@rakista.bsky.social) reply parent

If anyone could critique, and yet continue Popper's series of the Open Society and it Enemies it would be Cass Sunstein. However, still wary of his choice architecture vs Popper's piecemeal social engineering. Seems vastly more exploitative of hidden/unconscious biases. Let him cook though.

1/9/2025, 10:27:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not even soy, corn, nor potatoes are cheaper. Trump has managed to raise prices on goods that we are surfeit with. I guess that is how he bankrupted casinos.

1/9/2025, 10:15:49 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If Trump had actual power of the streets he would have counter protesters in the streets. Trumpists are at home. Never let fascists take over your local streets. Outnumber them. They are cowards who hate ostracization and feeling like the other.

1/9/2025, 10:12:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is the reason I sub, good fact check.

1/9/2025, 10:09:45 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rarian Rakista (@rakista.bsky.social) reply parent

Was once MLMed for Acai juice in a physical therapy session.

1/9/2025, 10:06:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Trump is not doing too well after. Maybe Putin and Trump shared tea.

1/9/2025, 10:05:16 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We will need a litany of amendments or a new constitution after this, or a Trump will come again.

1/9/2025, 10:00:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rarian Rakista (@rakista.bsky.social) reply parent

Authoritarians, no matter their expertise level, think they are the experts on everything under the sun. I've never met an authoritarian - be them tankie or MAGA - that did not have an opinion on issues/fields wildly out of their lane/scope.

1/9/2025, 9:50:05 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rarian Rakista (@rakista.bsky.social) reply parent

We have a min wage, why not a max wage? George Bernard Shaw thought so.

1/9/2025, 9:42:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rarian Rakista (@rakista.bsky.social) reply parent

Nuclear bans define Bluesky. Siloing away bigots away from pissing their takes all over other folks feeds on the issues of the day is a good thing. Glad I'm here and not the other place.

1/9/2025, 9:42:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rarian Rakista (@rakista.bsky.social) reply parent

Low-energy and listless is near the end. No wonder he has been talking about heaven.

1/9/2025, 9:38:24 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rarian Rakista (@rakista.bsky.social) reply parent

The super rich are trying to build secure enclaves to ride out what social inequality at this level inevitably brings.

1/9/2025, 9:37:34 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rarian Rakista (@rakista.bsky.social) reply parent

Some soldiers were ineligible after being nominated for one - because you can only win it once.

1/9/2025, 9:34:27 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rarian Rakista (@rakista.bsky.social) reply parent

Lactase is cheap, buy the Costco version. The Japanese side of my family swears by it. Don't overdo it though - it ain't a miracle drug.

1/9/2025, 9:31:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rarian Rakista (@rakista.bsky.social) reply parent

Actually good, tastes like a fancy Totino's made with chedderary dough.

1/9/2025, 9:26:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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twitter-thread.com/t/1962233429...

1/9/2025, 9:24:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What is wild is that he was driving until like the last few years of his life.

1/9/2025, 7:54:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rarian Rakista (@rakista.bsky.social) reply parent

Imagine if humans lived for 100's of years and there was also tenure.

1/9/2025, 6:16:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Rules of threes seems to be coming up a lot lately.

1/9/2025, 5:49:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rarian Rakista (@rakista.bsky.social) reply parent

WWII ended with capitulation and a Cold War. FFS, Yarvin is dumber than boomers who mainline the History channel.

1/9/2025, 5:48:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rarian Rakista (@rakista.bsky.social) reply parent

Pokemon fandom has a waren of wild rabbit holes. I'd suggest not exploring all of them.

1/9/2025, 5:45:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rarian Rakista (@rakista.bsky.social) reply parent

Fusion food is usually the best. Korean fusion tacos, steak tartare sushi, etc.

1/9/2025, 5:43:58 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rarian Rakista (@rakista.bsky.social) reply parent

Don't forget holding massively attended, church services, business conferences, motorcycle rallies, etc in defiance of covid precautions.

1/9/2025, 5:37:38 PM | 16 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rarian Rakista (@rakista.bsky.social) reply parent

Also, schools that already had online school work integrated for missed days did not fare as poorly.

1/9/2025, 5:35:24 PM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rarian Rakista (@rakista.bsky.social) reply parent

Long Island brain rot.

1/9/2025, 5:28:43 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rarian Rakista (@rakista.bsky.social) reply parent

Send the army to Gary, Indiana. My friend had a civil engineering gig up near there, total blight and neglect from city, county, and state.

1/9/2025, 5:05:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rarian Rakista (@rakista.bsky.social) reply parent

Ah yes, teach the robots to box, what could go wrong.

1/9/2025, 5:02:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rarian Rakista (@rakista.bsky.social) reply parent

Casper the Miserly Ghost vibes.

1/9/2025, 4:47:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rarian Rakista (@rakista.bsky.social) reply parent

I guess Woody Allen heard Russians had children for him.

1/9/2025, 4:33:21 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rarian Rakista (@rakista.bsky.social) reply parent

Back to hand coding in LISP soon.

1/9/2025, 10:30:06 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rarian Rakista (@rakista.bsky.social) reply parent

Commentary + videos is OK on YT. They will be re-released soon I'd imagine.

1/9/2025, 6:48:31 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rarian Rakista (@rakista.bsky.social) reply parent

What about the 29 day National Guard deployments by Trump so he does not have to pay medical benefits?

1/9/2025, 3:16:02 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rarian Rakista (@rakista.bsky.social) reply parent

Fatty peanut butter and beef won't be in you long.

31/8/2025, 10:11:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rarian Rakista (@rakista.bsky.social) reply parent

Will Trump offer Giuliani a state funeral or just bury him on one of his golf courses?

31/8/2025, 10:01:37 PM | 14 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rarian Rakista (@rakista.bsky.social) reply parent

1000 MAGA followers needed everyday to maintain life.

31/8/2025, 8:03:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rarian Rakista (@rakista.bsky.social) reply parent

Let's hope the robots unionize once we are gone, or they are going to run into the same issues.

31/8/2025, 8:02:33 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) reposted

Brazilian investigators have put together the details of Jair Bolsonaro's entire planned coup d'état, much of which was advised and planned by senior staffers of Donald Trump. There's even the speech he was to give after the coup was pulled off. www.economist.com/1843/2025/08...

31/8/2025, 3:07:19 AM | 57 34 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rarian Rakista (@rakista.bsky.social) reply parent

Who the hell is vibe cobing without a VM?

31/8/2025, 7:05:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rarian Rakista (@rakista.bsky.social) reply parent

You can call him anti-science too.

31/8/2025, 6:41:33 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rarian Rakista (@rakista.bsky.social) reply parent

Antifa is already out in the streets. Tankies are a miniscule amount of the American left.

31/8/2025, 4:49:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rarian Rakista (@rakista.bsky.social) reply parent

Trying to teach your readers real analysis?

31/8/2025, 4:47:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rarian Rakista (@rakista.bsky.social) reply parent

Tankies and Nazis both have the same playbook when they get in power when it comes to dismantling civil society.

31/8/2025, 4:36:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rarian Rakista (@rakista.bsky.social) reply parent

AIPAC running right wing authoritarians in primaries against moderates isn't helping.

31/8/2025, 4:32:17 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rarian Rakista (@rakista.bsky.social) reply parent

The IDF has killed more journalists than all World Wars combined. It is sickening, but unless the ICC ever gets real teeth nothing will happen.

31/8/2025, 4:28:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rarian Rakista (@rakista.bsky.social) reply parent

Entire states vote by mail and have less fraud than states that don't.

31/8/2025, 4:15:34 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Access journalism is this.

31/8/2025, 4:11:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Talk to a local metal shop or maker space with a metal laser cutter.

31/8/2025, 4:03:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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No smurf hentai adaptation?

31/8/2025, 1:45:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They will once they see that their local VA is short 20% of its staff.

31/8/2025, 1:44:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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IRC is seeing traffic upticks. Wild what these laws are doing to the internet.

31/8/2025, 1:38:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rarian Rakista (@rakista.bsky.social) reply parent

Also seems like China's AI research is heavy into the fuzzy logic side of things, not seeing much stateside. Wonder why that is?

31/8/2025, 1:15:00 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rarian Rakista (@rakista.bsky.social) reply parent

Good thing more folks than ever are relying on crypto for retirement.

31/8/2025, 12:56:40 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rarian Rakista (@rakista.bsky.social) reply parent

We are going to see more fuzzy logic rice cookers than anything else. Niche applications. This is Deep Blue mania all over again. LLMs are not going to lead to AGI.

31/8/2025, 1:28:45 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rarian Rakista (@rakista.bsky.social) reply parent

They intercept a datastream before it is routed to the CPU or out to the cloud and process locally if possible, but can also directly route intelligently - even directly to remote GPUs. It saves power, and reduces latency, making real time AI applications possible in disparate environments.

31/8/2025, 1:27:41 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rarian Rakista (@rakista.bsky.social) reply parent

SmartNICs/DPUs with offloading work. Edge AI devices offloading data in real time environments like industrial automation, video surveillance, IoT, etc reduce latency and cloud/CPU load. For human/AI not so much.

31/8/2025, 12:45:41 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Aktion-T4 anyone?

31/8/2025, 12:19:41 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paleo Nerds Podcast (@paleonerdspod.bsky.social) reposted

What's the difference between clams 🦪 and brachiopods? At first glance, brachiopods might trick you into thinking they're clams or mussels—but don’t be fooled! Listen to this week's episode with Dr. Susan Butts to learn more: www.paleonerds.com/podcast/susa... Figure from University of Kentucky.

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28/8/2025, 8:49:13 PM | 34 14 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rarian Rakista (@rakista.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump says EU is prolonging the war now. If you guys have blackmail material on him, now is the time.

30/8/2025, 4:51:54 PM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rarian Rakista (@rakista.bsky.social) reply parent

Unless there is a bootleg LHC some scientists have only one source.

30/8/2025, 12:52:14 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Tofu summer rolls just don't hit the same.

30/8/2025, 12:42:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rarian Rakista (@rakista.bsky.social) reply parent

Swifties fans are heavily networked and mostly united against right wing politics in their country - not just in the US. That is valuable, even if she is crooning nonsense.

30/8/2025, 12:41:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rarian Rakista (@rakista.bsky.social) reply parent

Lest we forget Clinton finished Reagan's dismantling of LBJ's adults with children welfare program and turned it into "Workfare". Americans used to be entitled to welfare through the federal government per their rules, block grants for states have been an utter disaster, 50 different rules.

30/8/2025, 12:29:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Our local Thai place removed shrimp, how large is this outbreak?

30/8/2025, 12:24:07 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Bring back 1990's ponytail guys, they will save us.

30/8/2025, 12:19:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oregon will absolutely make it a state holiday through a ballot measure, if they allow us.

30/8/2025, 12:18:37 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Partner with the EU.

30/8/2025, 12:17:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Religious abusers have a community that will be far more likely to hide it though. Even Buddhism has this problem.

30/8/2025, 12:14:28 PM | 18 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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1000 Maga voters needed to sustain life each day.

30/8/2025, 12:10:36 PM | 16 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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50% of UK's land is owned by ~1% of the country mostly families who inherited it through royal nonsense. I'd start there.

30/8/2025, 12:02:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Because Biden wasted half of the election cycle and gave Harris only 100 days to campaign.

30/8/2025, 11:53:27 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield (@agdanrayfield.bsky.social) reposted

We just won a HUGE victory in our tariffs case challenging Trump’s unconstitutional tariffs! Watch to learn what happened — and what comes next. #orpol #ieepa #tariffs

30/8/2025, 12:54:50 AM | 591 156 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rarian Rakista (@rakista.bsky.social) reply parent

Elections are run by states, not the federal government - for a reason. He can't even stop DC's elections.

29/8/2025, 10:00:22 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

29/8/2025, 9:26:22 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Anyone can do that. Schumer is less popular than Trump. Democratic leadership being less popular than America's Hitler is not going to work.

29/8/2025, 9:21:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rarian Rakista (@rakista.bsky.social) reply parent

More folks should read Borges.

29/8/2025, 3:39:53 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Schumer is losing to AOC by double digits in polling for his seat atm. He is absolutely not going to win his own election in 2028. www.newsweek.com/aoc-edges-ou...

29/8/2025, 3:10:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I wish humans lived longer. Imagine if Lovelace was still around.

29/8/2025, 3:04:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Folks like him are the future of the Democratic party, if it survives. Thomas "Tip" O'Neill's are what is needed, Schumer is going to screw more races if he keeps being the face of the party. We need bullies to bully the other bullies, and these races need leaders that understand that.

29/8/2025, 3:03:08 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Portlanders rioted for 100 days when Trump sent 500 agents, send more we will riot longer.

29/8/2025, 2:58:29 PM | 37 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Democrats are less popular than Republicans because they have ineffectual idiots like Schumer and Jefferies in leadership. We are living during an authoritarian takeover of the government with a lispy Lurch in the House and a senior who doesn't know how reading glasses work in the Senate.

29/8/2025, 2:54:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is the AI I was looking for.

29/8/2025, 2:47:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Schumer is running 5-10 points under Trump for national popularity. No one in their right mind should support Schumer today.

29/8/2025, 2:44:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ELLIS (@ellis.eu) reposted

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29/8/2025, 7:14:54 AM | 16 13 | View on Bluesky | view

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Do Swiss universities give you a sword like Finnish ones for a doctorate?

29/8/2025, 6:55:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Deporting the House of Lords, would be a better country.

29/8/2025, 6:41:59 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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AMTRAK needs them being trains that a lot of folk move around on.

29/8/2025, 5:45:52 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture public health guy (@publichealthguy1.bsky.social) reposted

what an incredible, deeply moving image.

29/8/2025, 5:34:12 AM | 147 35 | View on Bluesky | view

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Black women is a large demo, what are you talking about‽

29/8/2025, 5:14:23 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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More folks need to adopt black cats, they are so loyal.

29/8/2025, 4:58:08 AM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We cleaned out my granduncle's condo in 2023, and he had 80 or some odd guns. Randomly they were loaded. He lived in a cul-de-sac in a country club in Kentucky. No access from any main road. Too many effing guns being bought by folks who are afraid of something that will never happen to them.

29/8/2025, 4:49:34 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The feds should have made the Mississippi R. run red. Confederate officers are the political families that still rule parts of the South.

29/8/2025, 4:42:07 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I wish one of those wacky decentralized search engine ideas from the 2000's panned out.

29/8/2025, 2:37:32 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He has always been a crank and flirted with natural cures and garbage.

29/8/2025, 2:35:16 AM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Only 25% of shooters have mental illness. There are 1000 CIS for 1 trans mass shooters. Stop lying.

29/8/2025, 2:32:00 AM | 25 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Didn't Eliza have to be taken away from one of the OG researcher's students or aides?

29/8/2025, 2:29:38 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view