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Adam, Guy with 600 Followers, weighs in
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Adam, Guy with 600 Followers, weighs in
Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) (@iwriteok.bsky.social) reposted
we passed this point long ago. the Christchurch shooter murdered more than 50 people for the memes. if you don't realize that was part of the point for him you don't understand this stuff.
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social)
keep getting intrusive thoughts of an alternate timeline where an extermely online Wobbly assassinates Dean Withers and President Kamala Harris uses it as an excuse to do the purge
Sky Marchini (@sky.skymarchini.net) reposted
jesus christ, some of you really fucking suck at information warfare yes, his politics were almost certainly turbo online and completely incoherent. but he's clearly not on the left, and so you can actually punch back now at the narrative the GOP has been pushing for the last 36hr
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social) reply parent
The Great Gazoo is an abomination unto the LORD, whose act of creation was reserved for man
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social) reply parent
The median dem on my personal social media feed is either making anodyne calls for general lowering of tensions or REDACTED
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social) reply parent
I quit my SNRI earlier this year -- i was misdiagnosed, and quitting helped me a lot! -- but it was a grueling process that I would never have undertaken unless I was absolutely sure it would help forcing millions of people off of their SSRIs is cruel and unusual punishment
Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) reposted
General reminder that people who engage in political assassinations often have pretty muddled world views.
Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) reposted
Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence. Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets. Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe. It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social) reply parent
80 bucks for a cafepress-ass lookin hoodie
Fionna OâLeary (@fascinatorfun.bsky.social) reposted
Northern Ireland man from Lisburn kidnapped by Trumpâs Ice raids because he âlooked like a Mexicanâ. He had the correct visa, all his documents. Heâs never been in trouble with police. Held in terrible conditions. A fellow captive couldnât get his medication and dropped dead of a heart attack
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social) reply parent
>datetime here be dragons
Emily M. Bender (@emilymbender.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
What we should do instead of training people to use LLMs? 1. Provide education on what they actually are 2. Provide education on their environmental & labor impacts 3. Work towards regulation that holds LLM providers accountable for their negative impacts
Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
I canât speak for others, but Iâm fed up with Dems regularly talking themselves into a too cute by half theory for how the personally easier non-confrontation move is savvy. Trump prioritizes his own lawbreaking so much heâs too incompetent to keep the govt open. Anything else is overthinking. 2/3
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social)
There are a few places over near Detroit where itâs very easy to make the wrong turn and suddenly be on your way into Canada and everyone who has driven over there has had at least one panic attack about this happening
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social)
âHusbands can fight their wives a little, as a treatâ -The President of the United States
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social) reply parent
I daydream about Johnny Boby getting frogwalked
Seth Cotlar (@sethcotlar.bsky.social) reposted
There is nothing our contemporary âoriginalistâ judges like more than cherry picked historical references that confirm their priors, but which have no actual grounding in either modern scholarship or the archive.
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social)
One of my favorite bad jokes is when weâre camping with a big group and you go around asking people how they want their eggs and everyone says âscrambledâ because then Iâll say something ridiculous like âsoufflĂŠâ
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social) reply parent
i had to quit caffeine entirely and start taking ritalin instead, which...uh...yeah
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social) reply parent
one of the fringe benefits fr
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social) reply parent
Is the good job market in the room with us right now
bort (@crushbort.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Obama tried to pass immigration reform the way you jumping counts as trying to go to outer space
Left-neoplatonist (@yungdreyfusard.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
it is funny that if youd only heard the first two songs on the album the juxtaposition of george harrison complaining about taxes and paul mccartney talking about how the elderly are being left behind and treated cruelly gives the impression that the beatles have the politics of like. cs lewis
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social) reply parent
Itâs just the fucking nerdier version of âthey should teach a class on how to do your taxes instead of xyzâ
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social) reply parent
how can they be expected to swipe left and right, and which of them is going to message first if they get a match?
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social) reply parent
ah yes, war, famously immune to mission creep
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social) reply parent
WAR IS WHERE MISSION CREEP COMES FROM
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social)
THE ORIGIN OF THE PHRASE "MISSION CREEP" IS LITERALLY WAR WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social)
Full Qanon
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social) reply parent
LUTNICK: FLOGGINGS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social) reply parent
Like whatâs the angle here for them other than complicity
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social) reply parent
*heavy breathing*
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social) reply parent
you literally got scammed by Skylar from Hinge bro, log off forever
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social)
i learned recently that many people who use hinge are extremely fucking stupid
tocharian spongebart eatpants (@theophite.bsky.social) reposted
tf is DOJ doing a notes app apology for
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social) reply parent
when this happens to me, my spouse or my dog, we like to yell "DIFFERENT!!" and it doesn't help but it's good for a laugh
The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) reposted
Sen. Bill Cassidy: "Do you agree with me that President Trump deserves a Nobel Prize for Operation Warp Speed?" RFK: "Absolutely." Sen. Bill Cassidy: "But you just told Sen. Bennet that the Covid vaccine killed more people than Covid?"
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social) reply parent
It may not surprise you to learn that people who casually use slurs and dogwhistles often modulate their message to âhide their power levelsâ
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social) reply parent
The name Muhammad is used as a slur among this crowd
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Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social) reply parent
if only there was some way of knowing ahead of time that malcolm gladwell was a dipshit and a fool
Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started (@gothamgirlblue.com) reposted
White supremacists are always claiming some sort of unified European culture as if you couldnât pick any random year in European history and find some inter-ethnic/intra-national conflict awash in war crimes.
Prisonculture (@prisonculture.bsky.social) reposted
You donât find âcommon groundâ with fascists. You build power to defeat them. This is the main reason why I believe fascism at the Federal level in the US will last generations.
William Shakespeare (@shakespeare.lol) reposted
Produce the bodies, be they alive or dead.
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Max Berger (@maxberger.bsky.social) reposted
[Guy who constantly posts on the fascism app]: The problem is the anti-fascism app
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social)
The RFK people in our neighborhood started flying MAHA+MAGA flags before the election because they knew it was coming
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social) reply parent
So you just woke up and decided to hurt people today
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social) reply parent
Ope
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social)
âHow would Trump even enforce itâ with guns and a compromised Supreme Court, are you serious right now
Gwen Snyder is uncivil (@gwensnyder.bsky.social) reposted
The far right succeeded in this country in large part because adult men were angry about this supposed theft, and the Nazis learned to channel that rage. "[Marginalized group] stole your sex mommy!" is quite literally their rallying cry a lot of the time.
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social) reply parent
I saw someone describe a relationship between a 30 year old and a 40 year old as inherently problematic and I thought I was losing my mind
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm not having fun, Andy
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social) reply parent
Hippo for god-emperor
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social) reply parent
Some people are going to reflexively hate the comparison butâŚstructurallyâŚitâs pretty good
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social)
abolish ICE is now the moderate position and let me just say to everyone who spent years hemming and hawing about it... ...welcome. thank you so much for joining us.
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social) reply parent
Maybe not a movie per se but Jimi Hendrix - Live at Woodstock
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social)
In sad news, the 47th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, has passed his longest period of time without golfing
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social) reply parent
Thatâs why he cancelled Kamalaâs secret service detail
Rex Huppke (@rexhuppke.bsky.social) reposted
Joe Biden outliving him would be objectively hilarious.
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social)
Have you considered also how fun it is to tell confederate sympathizers and lost causers that he was not a general
Mike Drucker (@mikedrucker.bsky.social) reposted
Iâm just saying that when it happens Iâm jumping out of bed, running to my window, and tossing a coin to a boy to buy the biggest goose in town
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social) reply parent
a very small set of my extremely online, pathologically cynical lefty friends fell victim to the "Ukronazi" bullshit and i feel like the rest of us bullied and shamed them into shutting the fuck up about it
m (@keptsimple.bsky.social) reposted
I'm out of DC and a 65-ish black guy saw my DC plates and commented on the national guard presence. He told me he was a cop for 25 years and very pro law enforcement, but hates what they're doing with the National Guard in DC. Really hasn't hit elite media how broadly unpopular this stuff is.
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and also apparently "the Dark Ages"
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social) reply parent
"I hate when people make me understand something before trying to make rules about it"
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social) reply parent
your social media team sucks so bad
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social) reply parent
And then they fax you a letter saying everythingâs gravy baby
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social) reply parent
Then Iâm not talking about you
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social) reply parent
thank you for this anyone celebrating the closure of rural hospitals or welcoming the death of rural people is a fucking ghoul
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social) reply parent
yes, that's right, it's the professional academic historians who are acting like antivaxxers and not you, guy who reads things on the internet
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social) reply parent
trying to think of ways in which this attitude differs from "doctors should focus on finding the â¨root cause⨠of disease and failing
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social) reply parent
The real Dark Ages
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social) reply parent
finally, a win for us depressed alcoholics who love getting vaccinated
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social) reply parent
like...what is this claptrap
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social) reply parent
to match ZM's intellectual dishonesty, the typical argument in favor of using the term Dark Ages is that (a) people like it, and (b) people like the term's connotations
Matt Gabriele (@profgabriele.com) reposted
just a lot of "historians aren't people with real expertise" going around lately
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social) reply parent
and yet the people who study organizing the past full time seem to disagree that it's a useful term curious!
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social) reply parent
Some of my students are working on models that run locally on phones 4080? I donât even know her
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social)
Me, an idiot: The shooter was a troll who combined different incompatible indices You, enlightened: Neonazis love Koyaanisqatsi
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social) reply parent
finally someone is saying it
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social) reply parent
*nervously* what the fuck
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Katelyn Burns (@katelynburns.com) reposted
going to need our lib allies very soon
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social) reply parent
Quick everybody deduce the shooters politics from whichever symbols you recognize and ignore the others
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social)
Absolutely wild to see the loss reference on here
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social) reply parent
*sighing heavily* is thisâŚ.loss
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social)
And yet when I say I want Donald Trump to go and be with the person who loves him most, that being Jesus, I get a knock on my door from the secret service? Make it make sense
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social) reply parent
fond memories of AP History
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social) reply parent
Itâs so simultaneously cathartic and triggering
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social) reply parent
This is it â the post that convinced me to dress myself better
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social)
The bar is so low itâs buried in the ground and youâre still tripping over it
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social) reply parent
Finally just blocked everyone involved in the two minutes hate and now life is good again Canât wait to go home to see my aging leftist parents, I hope their closest hospital (over an hour away) doesnât get shut down
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social)
âActually thereâs no Dems in these districts, just fat opioid addicts who love Trumpâ the district with the hospital is forty percent democratic and have been begging you to fight the far right for over forty years I am going to lose my mind
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social) reply parent
Many such cases
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social) reply parent
Welcome to exactly how we got here in the first place
Tripping the Light Fantastick (@ttlfb.bsky.social)
If your entire understanding of rural America comes from weird tv shows and the time when you went on vacation, maybe shut the fuck up about it forever