I'm taking a bit of a social media break.

Y'all be good to each other.

I don't think you're trying to be malicious here, otherwise I would've simply blocked you and moved on. But since we're in a "give advice to strangers" mood here, I'll offer some myself:

Do not be a reply-guy. Do not offer unsolicited advice to someone you don't know and haven't built trust with.

This list is cryptocurrency, surveillance tech, and generative AI erasure.

No, and it makes me think Andy Yen might've been operating their social media accounts directly.

It's just so nutty watching all of these tech CEOs publicly lose their minds simultaneously.

I'd love to say that Song of the South should be rereleased with a warning banner...

But then I realize that the vast majority of people who would watch it would be racists for racist reasons, and for that reason alone I'd prefer it stay locked away, because screw 'em.

Thank God they never made any sequels.

It's worth remembering that he doesn't have a job despite being wrong.

He has a job *because* he is wrong.

Paying someone to be this consistently wrong about everything for decades is an intentional choice.

May her memory always be a blessing, Wendy.

The saturnine man over there talking with a lovely French emigree is already a Nazi. Mr. C is a brilliant and embittered intellectual. He was a poor white-trash Southern boy, a scholarship student at two universities where he took all the scholastic honors but was never invited to join a fraternity. His brilliant gifts won for him successively government positions, partnership in a prominent law firm, and eventually a highly paid job as a Wall Street adviser. He has always moved among important people and always been socially on the periphery. His colleagues have admired his brains and exploited them, but they have seldom invited him—or his wife—to dinner. He is a snob, loathing his own snobbery. He despises the men about him—he despises, for instance, Mr. B—because he knows that what he has had to achieve by relentless work men like B have won by knowing the right people. But his contempt is inextricably mingled with envy. Even more than he hates the class into which he has insecurely risen, does he hate the people from whom he came. He hates his mother and his father for being his parents. He loathes everything that reminds him of his origins and his humiliations. He is bitterly anti-Semitic because the social insecurity of the Jews reminds him of his own psychological insecurity.

Pity he has utterly erased from his nature, and joy he has never known. He has an ambition, bitter and burning. It is to rise to such an eminence that no one can ever again humiliate him. Not to rule but to be the secret ruler, pulling the strings of puppets created by his brains. Already some of them are talking his language—though they have never met him. There he sits: he talks awkwardly rather than glibly; he is courteous. He commands a distant and cold respect. But he is a very dangerous man. Were he primitive and brutal he would be a criminal—a murderer. But he is subtle and cruel. He would rise high in a Nazi regime. It would need men just like him—intellectual and ruthless. But Mr. C is not a born Nazi. He is the product of a democracy hypocritically preaching social equality and practicing a carelessly brutal snobbery. He is a sensitive, gifted man who has been humiliated into nihilism. He would laugh to see heads roll.

JD Vance is a man perfectly predicted by Dorothy Simpson's "Who Goes Nazi?" 43 years before his birth.

Only one pile?

Amateur.

Really wish there was a "thanks, I hate it" button in bsky instead of just a "like" button.

🧵 THREAD: Our reporter spent the past year reporting inside the State Department, trying to answer the central question of Biden’s foreign policy:

How did the U.S. let Israel get away with widespread horrors in Gaza?

Oh hell yeah buddy. Who the fuck needs serious people doing oversight of intelligence. Bent that knee. FUCK INDEPENDENT BODIES OF GOVERNMENT WOOOOOOOOOOOO LETS GOOOOOOO FUCK INSTITUTIONS JUST FUCKING LIGHT THAT SHIT ON FIRE WHO EVEN CARES ANYMORE NOTHING MATTERS WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

We are once again proving François Truffaut's maxim:

“There’s no such thing as an anti-war film."

I am calling for a total and complete shutdown of Republicans watching subversive films until our country can figure out why they cannot grasp irony.

Yeah, they were pulling this same crap over on Mastodon earlier today before they dirty deleted there, too. I'm glad I had the opportunity to drag them for it beforehand.

Proton @proton.me • 10h Dems had a choice between the progressive wing (Bernie Sanders, etc), versus corporate Dems, but in the end money won and constituents lost. Until corporate Dems are thrown out, the reality is that Republicans remain more likely to tackle Big Tech abuses. 3/3

@proton.me has deleted but here it is in case you’re wondering why you should definitely not trust them with your email

We need to return to the intelligence community being a bunch of weird nerds doing even weirder jock shit.

Cursed.

Buddy, do you really think that being a stranger posting a reply saying "don't worry so much" in response to these concerns is likely to engender my respect or serve as a convincing argument?

Cultural exchange

A mercy killing tbh

There's a lot of room to blow things up with budgetary impoundment, removal of legal immigration status and possibly birthright citizenship, wrecking healthcare, deregulation, tariffs, purges of civil service and military, mass deportations, abuse of insurrection act and war powers resolution, etc.

Maybe, but he has at least two year's control of every branch of government, a major of state governorships, and detailed plans through Project 2025. The only good news is his majorities in Congress are slim, and his party and nominees are fractious and disorganized.

Yep, people hear "Office of Management and Budget" and tune out thinking it's just a bunch of boring accountants, but the reality is they drive cross-agency coordination and detailed implementation of executive orders and white house policy. It's no coincidence Vought led much of Project 2025.

“Clearly he’s not fit for the Defense Department if he can’t even manage a simple cover-up.” Gina Palermo, Jingle Approver

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Russ Vought is one of the most dangerous nominees because of his competency. There are plenty of stories about the chaotic evil nominees that will wreak havoc through bumbling incompetency, but Vought is the lawful evil bastard that will break this country with laser-focused intention.

Russ Vought is getting his hearing to be director of the OMB as we speak. He is the most dangerous Trump nominee who hasn't broken through in the headlines.

Project 2025 and Schedule F/civil service purge architect, Christian Nationalist, sword of the dictatorial presidency. Thread: