Alex Mayberry
@breauxhim.bsky.social
Here to watch the crumbles and find weird shit to read. Interested in literature and liberation. Writer and producer of locally sourced organic sci-fi, horror, and odd fiction. Current project is the PHANTOM LIMB podcast: https://tinyurl.com/PHANTOM-LIMB
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PHANTOM LIMB@phantomlimbpodcast.bsky.social · 2w agoPHANTOM LIMB is a finalist in two categories for the 2026 Signal Awards! We're really psyched to be recognized and hope that you'll take a second to vote for us to receive a "Listener's Choice" award: Best Sound Design: tinyurl.com/mr3uwhpv Best Original Music: tinyurl.com/bdemahpk
Vote Democrat! They're the heroes fighting fascism. All you gotta do is sacrifice trans people. And immigrants. And homeless people. And Palestinians. And people who oppose genocide. And the environment and last hopes of mitigating the worst of climate change. There's more but I'm out of characters.
Joined Ed Elson on Prof G Markets to give my take on the AI safety debate, explain why it’s attracted so much attention, and point out how catastrophically the media has missed on this story. youtu.be/dKhzcKRQRiQ?...
AI Insiders Keep Saying We’re In Danger — Where’s The Evidence?
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We saw this with the Biden administration on immigration and it haunted me the whole four years. All the concern for immigrants, gone like nothing, as Biden cracked down more and more, chasing voters in red hats who smirked "Let's Go, Brandon."
Lesbian Claire-abiner 🏳️⚧️@lesbiancarabiner.bsky.social · last mo.If democrats put us trannies in the camps, everyone will celebrate, if republicans put is in the camps, everyone whose only thought is "orange man bad" will fight for us.
Introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you’ve seen live: Future Islands Sharon Van Etten Big Thief Mother Mother Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit St. Vincent Iron and Wine Opeth Devin Townsend Band Dream Theater
Kate Hagen's House of Horrors 👻@thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 5mo agoIntroduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you’ve seen live: Dolly Parton NIN Depeche Mode Neil Young Daft Punk Fleetwood Mac Madonna R. E. M. Nile Rodgers + CHIC My Morning Jacket (quite literally 20 times)
(I make a "mouth" with the side of my hand and draw little eyes above it) Richard Dawkins: hmmmm (I put lipstick around the "mouth") Richard Dawkins, suavely: well hello
They're going full-on Evil Jesus. Incredible
Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · 6mo agoNot a fan of this aggressively menacing depiction of Jesus that today’s Christian Nationalists are promoting. This was posted by a Covid-denialist, prosperity gospel, nondenominational MAGA church in my town that sponsored the Reawaken America tour in 2022.
My whole life I've had to listen to country-club dickheads in $400 dress shirts tell me why other people should be dying
Every picture of ICE agents in airports is just this again
one of the things that's particularly Hitlerian about Trump 2 is the way that irrational and counterproductive aggression can win startling early advantages, since everyone assumed that you wouldn't be stupid enough to try it, so they didn't bother to prevent you, but then. but then!
1) Meeting actual gay people. 2) Smugly trotting out all the creationist apologia I had been taught, only to watch it crumble immediately under the slightest criticism. 3) Classes in philosophy and psychology
Morgana@plantthugy.bsky.social · 8mo agoFor those of you that abandoned organized religion, what was the “spark” that started your deconstruction arc?
hearing someone say they regularly talk to ai chatbots for anything does feel like they just rolled up their sleeve to reveal a festering zombie bite
i really struggle to understand how anyone could behave this way. i mean, intellectually, i get it. i research monsters for a living. i know they’re real. but imagine slamming the cage door in a crying child’s face, having just confiscated her crayons. and then going home to your own family???
ProPublica@propublica.org · 8mo agoNEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims. By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social
This one is a personal favorite of mine, written to express a feeling; tough to put into words exactly what that feeling is--which is why I wrote a story about it instead of a sentence--but it's something like: "What does it feel like to be awake in America?" Hope you pick up what I'm putting down!
Phantom Limb: One For The Pile
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PHANTOM LIMB@phantomlimbpodcast.bsky.social · 8mo agoNew PHANTOM LIMB! Episode 16: "One for the Pile," available now wherever you pod. #audiodrama #weirdfiction #scifi
OBAMA AS THE LAST GUY TO JOIN THE CONGA LINE: Uhhh . . . let me be rear
Comfortably Boo@numb.comfortab.ly · 8mo agoOBAMA CHOOSING TO STOP GIVING A FUCK: uhhh... let me be drear
I've been saying it a lot, but these deaths line up with what happened in early concentration camps during other regimes: Deaths from poor conditions, disease, or abuse. These deaths are not accidental. They are the direct result of a camp system that is designed to harm those being imprisoned.
Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal@jayapal.house.gov · 8mo agoI received notification of yet another death at an ICE facility, meaning 38 people have died in custody since Trump returned to office. ICE is failing to ensure the health and safety of the people it is responsible for. We need immediate oversight of this entire operation.
I mean, fair. Worth noting though: most people take careful argument supported by evidence as personal insult, if it would require them to change their mind or admit being wrong.
lumpenpoledancer@daturabombs333.bsky.social · 8mo agoI don’t know who needs to hear this, but insulting potential voters isn’t going to win anybody over. Unless you care more about being right on the internet, than you actually do about winning elections.
There is no easier or more important political position to take than to do everything possible to stop this. It will change our society forever, and Democrats are going along with it.
it's backwards. obama and biden conceded the republican framework of border obsession, sliding right and setting off a near-inevitable push to where we are today. once again the democrats triangulated themselves into becoming republicans, allowing republicans to publicly embrace explicit fascism.
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 8mo agoNot going to read them all because jesus fucking christ but this is nasty work from Friedersdorf
I want to live in a society where this is the norm.
Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 8mo agoget the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship
I don’t know what this is called but I’m pretty sure it’s the cure for male loneliness
Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 8mo agoget the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship
To me the chatbots pose zero interesting questions about the ‘nature of selfhood’ but dozens about the nature of manipulation. Here the Claude team pretends they are programming the robot for ethical responses but they land on one that is false and disingenuous.
The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 8mo agoExperiments conducted with the A.I. system Claude are producing fascinating results—and raising questions about the nature of selfhood. Gideon Lewis-Kraus reports from inside the company that designed it, Anthropic. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/rOfXjg
THREAD. One of the great propaganda myths of our society is that police spend their time dealing with "violent crime." ICE is no different. "Violence" is a pretext to sell it. Did you know that only 4% of all police time in the U.S. is devoted to "violent crime"?
As the negotiations over DHS budget continue, please remember: the ICE detention budget alone was exploded in 2025 so it is now 62% greater than the entire Bureau of Prisons. People are not clocking what this infusion of cash to build concentration camps will do to our society.
If you're wondering how it's going with The Facebook Libs, I saw more than one assert confidently in the last week or two that Alex Peretti should have been arrested and charged for (allegedly) kicking out a tail-light on a vehicle in one of ICE's roving racist kidnap patrols. 1/6
This document is one of the great political failures of our time. It must be immediately denounced by all people of good will. And it will be a major scandal if any "civil rights" organization gives cover to this capitulation to fascism.
Chuck Schumer@schumer.senate.gov · 9mo agoSENATE AND HOUSE DEMOCRATS ARE UNITED ON REINING IN THE ABUSES OF ICE Americans have watched in horror as ICE has terrorized communities across the country Federal agents can’t continue to cause chaos in our cities while more Americans are killed We must rein in ICE Here’s what we're demanding:
