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@sthelen.bsky.social

We’re the fuel. We’re the thing that explodes when there’s too much friction in the air. Let it in, boy! That’s freedom calling! Let it in! Let it run! Let it run wild!

created October 19, 2023

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Profile picture David Forbes (@davidforbes.bsky.social) reposted

Y'all even the fucking literal Weimar liberals weren't mourning Horst Wessel. This is pathetic.

11/9/2025, 1:25:27 AM | 846 216 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sami Schalk (@drsamischalk.bsky.social) reposted

Turning Point USA made a literal watch list of professors, primarily women, queer folks and people of color, and made us targets of political violence. I’ve received hate mail and harassment and death threats off and on for nearly a decade in part due to that man’s organization so 🤷🏽‍♀️

10/9/2025, 10:17:24 PM | 7085 2341 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holl🌞 (@willows-song.bsky.social) reposted

This explains it better than I can

Dave Portnoy tweet saying ‘absolutely disgusting and disturbing video from Charlie Kirk shooting today. Hoping for the best for him and his family. Anybody who is happy about this is a disgusting human.’ Pop Crave Tweet: ‘Barstool Sports CEO Dave Portnoy says he hopes a missile hits Greta Thunberg’s boat as she sails away with aid: “I hope they hit a f*cking, like, a missile on her boat. Knock that boat down. Greta or whatever her name is”
10/9/2025, 9:24:10 PM | 22977 6631 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture One of 65 Million (@sthelen.bsky.social)

Me

11/9/2025, 2:31:37 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 𝕴𝖓𝖋𝖊𝖗𝖓𝖆𝖙𝖗𝖎𝖝 𝕾𝖔𝖕𝖍𝖎𝖆 (@infernatrixsophia.bsky.social) reposted

Charlie Kirks literal last acts alive was to blame trans people for a crime that is overwhelmingly committed by white cis men and then immediately followed it up with a racist comment about gang violence. No I don't have sympathy.

10/9/2025, 11:43:01 PM | 157 51 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Governor Gavin Newsom (@governor.ca.gov) reposted reply parent

The best way to honor Charlie's memory is to continue his work: engage with each other, across ideology, through spirited discourse. In a democracy, ideas are tested through words and good-faith debate — never through violence.

10/9/2025, 10:05:43 PM | 548 63 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture One of 65 Million (@sthelen.bsky.social) reply parent

Looks like the assassin shot from a nearby rooftop and got away scot free so it seems it was smart and organized

10/9/2025, 10:59:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jack Saint (@lackingsaint.bsky.social) reposted

actually so funny when terminally online conservatives switch from "triggered libs can't handle me" mode to "d-d-dont let the memes bother you guys we're totally gonna kill them all guys for reals"

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10/9/2025, 10:06:57 PM | 283 26 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture One of 65 Million (@sthelen.bsky.social) reply parent

Exactly. This is a war. And I don’t cry about this shooting any more than I cry when a Russian general is blown up.

10/9/2025, 9:05:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture One of 65 Million (@sthelen.bsky.social) reply parent

And so? The other option is to not fight. It’s not like the only people who are being killed are people who fought back. With the new MAHA and the end of USAID stuff we’re looking millions dead simply for the crime of getting sick.

10/9/2025, 9:05:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ (@madycast.com) reposted reply parent

Politicians and rich people only condemn violence as "political" when it kills someone rich and famous. When trans people are targeted for violence by the state or by right wing influencers, when immigrants are racially profiles and put in camps, when protestors are brutalized, that's just normal.

10/9/2025, 8:13:04 PM | 1005 352 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture One of 65 Million (@sthelen.bsky.social) reply parent

Then this is just part of the reaction to the right wing’s mistakes and the natural outcome

10/9/2025, 8:59:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture One of 65 Million (@sthelen.bsky.social) reply parent

Why does this killer have agency, but whatever right wing crime comes next is the fault of the Charlie shooter? Why isn’t this shooting the fault of the last right wing shooter?

10/9/2025, 8:58:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture One of 65 Million (@sthelen.bsky.social) reply parent

Did you consider maybe that the attack on Pelosi’s husband and the killings of Minnesota senators provoked retaliatory violence and that was a mistake of the right wing to support those?

10/9/2025, 8:56:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture One of 65 Million (@sthelen.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah I’m sure the existence of Charlie Kirk was a lynchpin in liberal democracy. Get real. Your idea is that the right can kill whoever they want whenever they want that’s not causing a cycle of violence, but when a left winger commits violence it’s their fault when someone uses that as an excuse.

10/9/2025, 8:55:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture One of 65 Million (@sthelen.bsky.social) reply parent

The actual political consequences is that guys like this will be a lot more scared to do public appearances

10/9/2025, 8:53:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture One of 65 Million (@sthelen.bsky.social) reply parent

No, but that’s the attacker’s problem. Worked out for the guy who killed Shinzo Abe, though.

10/9/2025, 8:50:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture One of 65 Million (@sthelen.bsky.social) reply parent

No. Just because it’s a government doing it to its own people doesn’t make it just.

10/9/2025, 8:43:38 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture One of 65 Million (@sthelen.bsky.social) reply parent

It was part of a huge campaign of political violence lasting decades. The ability to kill the right hand of the dictator doesn’t appear out of nowhere resistance movements need to develop the ability and willingness to conduct attacks like that.

10/9/2025, 8:42:53 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture One of 65 Million (@sthelen.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah I’m sure you shed tears when you hear about Russians killed in the war in Ukraine, too

10/9/2025, 8:36:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture One of 65 Million (@sthelen.bsky.social) reply parent

Okay and when riot police arrest the strikers and beat them up? When the union staff that organized the strikes are imprisoned and the unions legally disbanded?

10/9/2025, 8:29:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture One of 65 Million (@sthelen.bsky.social) reply parent

Spain

10/9/2025, 8:27:56 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Łink. (@spacelawshitpost.me) reposted reply parent

It’s not considered political violence to round up people and put them in concentration camps. It’s not considered political violence to fund ethnic cleansing and genocide. Very interesting what’s considered political violence and deemed unacceptable.

10/9/2025, 8:06:33 PM | 3564 1237 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture One of 65 Million (@sthelen.bsky.social) reply parent

Pretty soon fedposting will just be saying you’re against the regime

10/9/2025, 8:09:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jesse Singal Vapes Piss (@mumbly-joe.bsky.social) reposted

I owe an apology to Etsy witches, I was unfamiliar with your game

10/9/2025, 7:13:53 PM | 2685 1013 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture One of 65 Million (@sthelen.bsky.social)

I dunno, I think today proved that consequence *can* catch up to you

10/9/2025, 7:42:44 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture One of 65 Million (@sthelen.bsky.social)

Today could be a real turning point in American history

10/9/2025, 7:39:55 PM | 28 6 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nash (@radiodeadair.com) reposted

Banks: We will not let you have smut about furries or fairies or whatever you sick sick sick sickos Also banks: Oh hello Mr. International Pedophile how can we move your money today?

10/9/2025, 6:24:11 AM | 3861 1857 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture One of 65 Million (@sthelen.bsky.social) reply parent

Did you see the video? A pint comes out in like half a second

10/9/2025, 7:22:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture strigix (@sovereignbeast.bsky.social) reposted

Charlie Kirk Declaring,
10/9/2025, 7:03:47 PM | 31 6 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture cait (and adonis) (@cait.bsky.social) reposted

damn that's so crazy. picture unrelated

10/9/2025, 7:01:35 PM | 3176 858 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture One of 65 Million (@sthelen.bsky.social)

I guess they proved him wrong

10/9/2025, 7:13:29 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brian Merchant (@bcmerchant.bsky.social) reposted

Two models of Amazon smart glasses—one for hip consumers who can order products on the go, and one for wage workers, whose efficiency and whereabouts will be tracked continuously. One is a luxury item, one will be mandatory. Both ensure nonstop surveillance. Both are extractive. Both are handcuffs.

10/9/2025, 6:11:12 PM | 289 137 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Chadbourn (@chadbourn.bsky.social) reposted

NATO has officially invoked Article 4 at Poland’s request following the Russian drone incursion. This is significant.

10/9/2025, 4:52:17 PM | 7457 2220 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TeamFourStar (@teamfourstar.bsky.social) reposted

A general warning to users of our patreon, our creator page has been hacked. As far as we can tell, no malicious content has been distributed. But, if you receive any private messages from that account, especially any with links, DO NOT CLICK THEM.

10/9/2025, 5:50:50 PM | 549 277 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture mandoqueer (Enthusiastic Hypnobait) (@mandoqueer.itch.io) reposted reply parent

we need to make the most deranged conservative fantasies of campus cancel culture happen because institutions simply cannot survive giving people like this any leeway

10/9/2025, 5:52:55 PM | 16 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Heyzell (@heyzell.bsky.social) reposted

It's rare that I recommend anything like this but I think now would be a good time to contact Gov Kotek if you live in Oregon and ask that she drop the requirements that people have a prescription or are over 65 to get a Covid booster www.oregon.gov/gov/Pages/sh...

10/9/2025, 6:14:21 PM | 2 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture cait (and adonis) (@cait.bsky.social) reposted

perhaps spending the last several decades valorizing people who willingly decided to join the military so they could go to other countries and murder brown people as "heroes" was a mistake actually

10/9/2025, 5:00:10 PM | 1387 267 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture One of 65 Million (@sthelen.bsky.social)

My rep!

10/9/2025, 6:00:05 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ᚈᚆᚓ ᚆᚔᚁᚓᚏᚅᚔᚐᚅ ᚋᚓᚅᚐᚉᚓ (@ciara2001.bsky.social) reposted

Remember this the next time you read about how "trans activists" control the police,or how someone was fired for their "views on gender". This is a hate group that has no expertise on trans people that continuously pushes at an open door and routinely gets preferential access at the highest levels

10/9/2025, 2:27:59 PM | 42 14 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Anarchy Goose (@anarchygoose.bsky.social) reposted

For the record, I don't think trying to say this bans World of Warcraft or whatever is the way to go -- it is very clearly being used to target LGBTQ art and if you get people invested because it hits other stuff they will feel betrayed when it turns out it doesn't. What it does hit is bad enough.

10/9/2025, 4:18:06 PM | 26 12 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) reposted

The Nazis did this with material written by and discussing Jews. www.erininthemorning.com/p/positive-d...

10/9/2025, 4:18:09 PM | 1830 631 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò (@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social) reposted

another of the things I will keep saying is that we have an elite impunity problem and nothing will improve until and unless we change that

9/9/2025, 10:59:28 AM | 3810 801 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture OrbGazer (@orbgazer.bsky.social) reposted

my takeaway: this confirms my suspicions that every citizen observer/ critic was just as an astute political mind as any paid pundit, consultant or politician themselves. These people are not smarter than you, just more avaricious and vain

10/9/2025, 4:13:43 PM | 143 16 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture bort (@crushbort.bsky.social) reposted

it’s hard to talk politics anymore because the natural response to everything is “oh they should be killed” but you’re not allowed to say it. it’s more illegal than open pedophilia

9/9/2025, 8:18:32 PM | 5041 1122 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture One of 65 Million (@sthelen.bsky.social) reply parent

I scrolled for a while and nobody was talking about it… are people just not posting about it?

10/9/2025, 8:15:19 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture One of 65 Million (@sthelen.bsky.social)

So like I appreciate the discourse and all but tbh I’m pretty worried about World War III . Russia attacking a NATO country is scary www.bbc.com/news/live/c2...

10/9/2025, 8:14:44 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pwnallthethings (@pwnallthethings.bsky.social) reposted

No clear answers on whether mommy disappeared entirely behind hands during game of peekaboo Mommy's face was not visible from behind hands, and experts say they can't be sure

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10/9/2025, 12:21:16 AM | 14553 3020 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Anarchy Goose (@anarchygoose.bsky.social) reposted

The 'chilling effect on free speech' never seems to refer to the efforts made to clamp down on pro-Palestine protests, the puritanical censorship of LGBTQ+ library books or violence against drag queen story hour. It's always about people not being able to be openly bigoted without being yelled at.

10/9/2025, 7:51:40 AM | 76 19 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Assigned Media (@assignedmedia.org) reposted

9 Sep 25 -- Detransitions among trans kids run about 1%, and many of those are due to social/familial rejection. But WSJ editorial page flogs one of the few we know of and ignores the tens of thousands helped by affirming care. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

9/9/2025, 7:09:15 PM | 159 29 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture One of 65 Million (@sthelen.bsky.social) reply parent

Conservatism as it actually exists is anti-academia. Conservatives don’t *want* to become academics, they find it disgusting. Just look at all the conservative universities that hire liberal faculty just to stay accredited!

10/9/2025, 7:54:08 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture surasshu (@surasshu.com) reposted

hmm.

10/9/2025, 5:53:13 AM | 1477 600 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture good hyuck, babe! (@markpopham.bsky.social) reposted

yesterday "here is proof that the president is a sex criminal" felt pretty bad. today "almost all of the news media is assisting in covering up the fact that the president is a sex criminal" feels much worse

10/9/2025, 1:36:36 AM | 6306 1371 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Direct Luminosity (@directluminosity.bsky.social) reposted

Ghost jobs are a real danger for people living paycheck to paycheck. Someone teetering on the edge of poverty may spend precious hours, transportation money, and emotional energy applying to positions that don’t exist or are already filled.

3/9/2025, 1:54:01 AM | 2110 828 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zahzu 🔜 AFC, BLFC (@zahzu.bsky.social) reposted

"Fantasy (Cat Ears, Fairies, ETC.)" is absolutely INSANE Missionary humans only or have a THOUSAND+ DOLLAR FINE???? They're legitimately coming for all of us, y'all.

10/9/2025, 6:38:46 AM | 7 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Uzza (@uzzamodea.bsky.social) reposted

Chelly's been doing this thing where she reports on "someone(s)" putting up love notes for PDX ICE, like they were sweet gestures of support from community randos. But Chelly is close friends w one of them - Audra Price - who's connected to some of the most violent extremists in the area. thread

9/9/2025, 2:57:45 AM | 30 11 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dan Collen (@dancollen.bsky.social) reposted

An easy story for reporters in tech and extremism right now might be to ask major music streaming platforms why they quietly let Skrewdriver back on some time this year

A screenshot of Apple Music which shows a playlist of Skrewdriver songs under a
8/9/2025, 9:48:30 PM | 1424 525 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Kaib (@davidkaib.bsky.social) reposted

Begging people not to treat open white supremacy from the Supreme Court as incomprehensible inconsistency.

9/9/2025, 12:13:26 AM | 838 198 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) reposted

Told you so. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/s...

9/9/2025, 12:43:28 AM | 2515 789 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) reposted

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

8/9/2025, 9:52:25 PM | 9097 3517 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture One of 65 Million (@sthelen.bsky.social) reply parent

What exactly do you think he and the Supreme Court are doing?

9/9/2025, 1:42:52 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture DevinCow (@devincow.bsky.social) reposted

This entire book is a nightmare

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9/9/2025, 12:58:34 AM | 7125 2307 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture One of 65 Million (@sthelen.bsky.social)

I basically spend my whole life before I was 24 and automatically reacting to stimuli. Even if I had original thoughts and behavior it was nothing I had control over.

8/9/2025, 6:05:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) (@theserfstv.bsky.social) reposted

This is not only morally reprehensible but strategically did more to help get Donald Trump elected

David Pakman’s ex-producer says Pakman joined an off-record meeting with Kamala Harris and creators including Brian Tyler Cohen, where they informally discussed their editorial stance on Gaza. “too divisive…a poison pill...better if they just don't talk about it at all.”
7/9/2025, 9:03:57 PM | 2080 449 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alison Fitzgerald Kodjak (@alikodjak.bsky.social) reposted

DOGE, he said, began acting like “a bunch of people who didn’t know what they were doing, with ideas of how government should run — thinking it should work like a McDonald’s or a bank — screaming all the time.” @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/insi...

8/9/2025, 1:28:12 PM | 482 192 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture strigix (@sovereignbeast.bsky.social) reposted

The right to bear arms is a great example of how 'trans rights' aren't actually anything particularly new or unique to trans people, it's just asking that the same standards and same 'rights' are applied when talking about trans people.

8/9/2025, 4:55:58 PM | 20 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Signal (@signal.org) reposted

Until now, if you lost or broke your phone, your Signal message history was *gone,* a real challenge for everyone whose most important conversations happen in Signal. So, with careful design and development, we’re rolling out opt-in secure backups. signal.org/blog/introducing-secure-backups

8/9/2025, 4:02:58 PM | 636 205 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BSonblast (@bsonblast.bsky.social) reposted

Today's quick update [Sep 7]: - After clashes between SAF and RSF in the area, reports that SAF has captured the towns of Kazgeil and Fartangol, N. Kordofan (in red on map). - SLM-AW: 373 bodies recovered so far following last week's landslide in Jebel Marra, S. Darfur (in blue). #KeepEyesOnSudan

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8/9/2025, 5:28:48 AM | 28 26 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Harms Committed (@harmscommitted.bsky.social) reposted

"Death feels closer after clemency." "There, I fear, they will do to us what they do to political prisoners: Bury us alive inside concrete cells. Isolate us from each other. Restrict our contact with the outside world. All while mind-torturing us to death." #Indiana #Colorado #USA #Incarceration

7/9/2025, 4:46:21 PM | 9 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Your Old Pal, Jerry Fodor (@oldjerryfodor.bsky.social) reposted

While this might seem like a low number of acceptances, it is justified by the overwhelming danger posed by publishing even a single bad or wrong philosophy paper

8/9/2025, 1:15:49 PM | 85 18 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò (@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social) reposted

Here is the @uaw.org statement on the arrests at Hyundai (h/t @lfelizleon.bsky.social)

statement under the UAW logo, reading:
8/9/2025, 11:02:06 AM | 980 254 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture One of 65 Million (@sthelen.bsky.social) reply parent

I doubt there were five hundred terrorists in the UK in 2017 tbh. Manchester Arena, London Bridge… that’s like four guys at most and then if you add in the foiled attacks and conspiracies that only adds up to like ten or twelve.

8/9/2025, 4:21:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture One of 65 Million (@sthelen.bsky.social)

Please listen to this

8/9/2025, 4:07:36 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jacob Geller (@jacobgeller.com) reposted

Somewhat hilariously, YouTube's restricted mode hides my most recent video on reading game guides, but DOESN'T hide my video on the Nuremberg Trials. My major takeaway is DON'T SELF-CENSOR YOUR OWN WRITING. You don't know what will or will not be restricted!! Do not comply in advance!!!

8/9/2025, 1:19:50 PM | 6120 1632 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jacob Geller (@jacobgeller.com) reposted reply parent

Words included in my Nuremberg script: kill, murder, suicide, hanged, genocide, Nazi, holocaust, Hitler. The video is still monetized. Using bullshit algo-compliant words like unalive, sewerslide, mustache man, etc. is not just embarrassing - its NOT EFFECTIVE.

8/9/2025, 1:26:16 PM | 2813 541 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture One of 65 Million (@sthelen.bsky.social) reply parent

So truth is determined by whoever is most convincing?

8/9/2025, 4:06:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture One of 65 Million (@sthelen.bsky.social) reply parent

Buddhist mindfulness helped me way better than CBT because it assumes an actual internality and forces you to confront that before it can actually produce results. In a lot of ways, I am more of an actual person after starting to practice meditation. That’s why meditation is so distressing to many.

8/9/2025, 3:51:49 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture One of 65 Million (@sthelen.bsky.social) reply parent

Is it the first step or is it entirely unnecessary? Why not just say whatever is most convincing do whatever is most convenient?

8/9/2025, 3:44:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture One of 65 Million (@sthelen.bsky.social) reply parent

To be clear when I say NPC I mean people with little interiority or control over their own actions, largely driven by factors outside themselves. I believe this is caused by severe conditioning from childhood provoking an instinctual aversion to having their own thoughts and choices.

8/9/2025, 3:43:17 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Winter (@kernowshark.bsky.social) reposted

The sports and changing rooms bit in schools doesn't get talked about enough imo. The rest of it the harm is self-evident, but there's an added cruelty to sports lessons. Because PE is mandatory until a certain age, and pupils will get punished for refusing to take part.

8/9/2025, 2:20:26 PM | 91 16 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture One of 65 Million (@sthelen.bsky.social) reply parent

Good point. I shouldn’t be posting before drinking coffee

8/9/2025, 3:36:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture One of 65 Million (@sthelen.bsky.social)

My most controversial take is that NPCs are real and this is proven by CBT. CBT is more successful than psychotherapy because it’s just performing classical conditioning on yourself. It doesn’t solve problems it just trains people to automatically engage in self-soothing behaviors when distressed.

8/9/2025, 3:35:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Duck (aka Syd) (@theexiledduck.bsky.social) reposted

i will never understand conceding the word 'criminal' like this. it's an entirely subjective term that the state can alter the definition of as it sees fit.

8/9/2025, 11:46:43 AM | 21 8 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture One of 65 Million (@sthelen.bsky.social)

This posy by Lakshya is set up like a classic joke. The punchline about healthcare subsidies is hilarious!

8/9/2025, 3:29:00 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Katelyn Burns (@katelynburns.com) reposted

It makes me mad that youtube buried our last episode of cancel me daddy because we dared talk about NSFW topics. it was in no way salacious and it was a frank and needed conversation about government policy. and yet it is the least viewed episode in months. youtu.be/lwRGW0Jb9TI?...

8/9/2025, 2:33:21 PM | 765 347 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ♫ it's happening in Portland ♫ (@in-portland.bsky.social) reposted

Running Down the Walls 2025 #portland The funds raised through this event will go to the ABCF Warchest Program, which sends regular financial support to Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War (PP/POWs) who have been receiving insufficient or no financial support during their imprisonment.

Event flyer that reads “Running Down the Walls, 5K, September 21 2025. Meet under Tilikum Bridge East. $30 BBQ, $25 BBQ+5K. 11am check-in, 12pm race, 1pm BBQ.” The flyer is illustrated in a graphic style, with two hands grasping Olympic torches engraved with “1312” and “161” respectively, passing a flame in a relay, backdropped by a prison engulfed in fire.
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Profile picture Mutual A (@mutual-a.bsky.social) reposted

there's an essay to be written about how the popular imagery of transhumanism is largely masculine fantasies around military strength or superior intelligence letting you "win" and yet in actually-existing transhumanism has taken the form of greater gender expansion and overcoming disability

7/9/2025, 2:17:05 AM | 198 58 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture One of 65 Million (@sthelen.bsky.social) reply parent

They’re trained very well. But only to hurt people.

8/9/2025, 3:16:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture One of 65 Million (@sthelen.bsky.social) reply parent

Cool. In five years the federal government will hand him a $7000 check. Woohoo

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Profile picture One of 65 Million (@sthelen.bsky.social) reply parent

The Polish need to lay down their arms and nonviolently resist. This kind of escalation is exactly what Hitler is aiming for to justify his genocides.

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Profile picture One of 65 Million (@sthelen.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah it’s insane how things like the New Deal or Great Society would have to be spread over thirty years nowadays. We’d need to desegregate institutions one by one instead of just passing a blanket ban on segregation. Otherwise we’d be asking for “too much, too fast.”

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The ability to analyze a situation and derive the actual truth of the situation has no value in your paradigm. All that matters is who is a better salesman. You don’t actually care about which answer is “right.”

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Profile picture One of 65 Million (@sthelen.bsky.social) reply parent

They literally didn’t have him going to prison. They spend four years “investigating” him for something he did on national TV and never arrested him.

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Profile picture One of 65 Million (@sthelen.bsky.social) reply parent

She had a panic attack because she wasn’t in charge of a situation and knew everyone would think she was a psycho for trying to take charge and she believes that’s a violation of consent. Tbh reminds me of Tony Soprano and his fainting fits.

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Piper appears to be working herself up to call me out in an effort to make my own account of her abusing me less credible. The bodily consent violation she's referencing here is me holding hands with another partner next to her

Piper @yourfriendpiper CW: sexual violence Some of the most traumatizing moments of my life seem like nothing because what caused me trauma was not the specific act but my ability to say no and feel like that no would be heard. I've spiraled for weeks on why a Piper @yourfriendpiper.bsky.social Someone crosses my explicit bodily consent boundaries in front of others: Me during: frozen, heart racing, unable to think Me after: I am hysterical I need to spend weeks going through every consent violation I've ever experienced that must have caused my hysteria Piper @yourfriendpiper.bsky.social To others: I'm sorry I'm such a freak that has physical reactions to violations of my bodily autonomy (like what of course I do wtf?) Piper @yourfriendpiper.bsky.social One thing I hate a lot about the way culturally we talk about trauma and dysregulation is that it is often assumed the threat is gone. This has led me over and over to try to regulate myself out of experiencing the effects of very bad treatment rather than listening to my body freaking the fuck out Piper @yourfriendpiper.bsky.social I don't shouldn't want to lose my warning signals someone is trying to control me that my body developed because of childhood abuse. Why would it be bad I find it emotionally intolerable?? Piper @yourfriendpiper.bsky.social I find myself constantly trying to justify being upset by people dehumanizing me -
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Profile picture One of 65 Million (@sthelen.bsky.social) reply parent

And I refuse to care what buck-toothed antivaxxer hicks who vote for KKK members and live 2000 miles away think. Cadillac socialist this and that when they support billionaires who basically want to bring back feudalism. It’s ridiculous.

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Profile picture One of 65 Million (@sthelen.bsky.social) reply parent

You’re not in control on the road you’re at the mercy of psychopaths in oversized trucks facetiming while going twenty over the speed limit on Columbia Blvd

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