Make a band bigger 10 inch nails

Redacted@matttttthews.bsky.social · 2d ago

Make a band bigger 10,001 Maniacs

Not enough people are acknowledging that reckoning with “Woke 1” means also addressing the way the word itself was stolen, appropriated, misunderstood, and weaponized by *both* conservative and leftist white people.

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Hi, authoritarianism expert here! this is not funny, fascist states only do this when they’re in extreme distress!

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · 2w ago

Oh no 🤭

But yeah to close the thought here it add literal insult to injury to act as if the main thing to takeaway from a movement spurred by blood being spilled were the people you found annoying on the internet or counterproductive to the larger goal imo

I mostly have regrets. Things I tried that turned out bad for me but might have been great (looked like they’d be great when I picked them). So IDK. Don’t do what I did. Or do, and have it turn out better. I just pulled a bad hand.

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2w ago

what are things where your own experience and the view of what you think is good for most people vary wildly? For instance, I *hated* university and it was not at all interesting or useful to me intellectually, but am generally very encouraging of people going to university.

pan: i have chosen my champion! the other champions: you fucked up a perfectly good goat is what you did. look at it. it’s got anxiety #PantheonSMP

Part of what makes that middle ground untenable and uncomfortable, I think, is that it requires carrying water for these clearly bad actors. You can set that bucket down and step out onto firmer ground. >>

Riffing on what you're pointing out, I've never myself seen researchers get super emotionally attached or attribute pseudohuman characteristics to ML apps that they use for materials science, climate stuff, or music information retrieval—it's only the general-purpose LLMs with sycophantic properties

My good lad, it’s been 17 years and I still don’t even use Siri.

Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 3w ago

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

If you see this, quote with the energy you bring to bluesky.

Meadow Further@meadow-further.bsky.social · 3w ago

me

White people y'all ready to not be cool with other white people? Because that's what it really takes. You have to accept that when you get woke you don't fit into that world of ignorance as well anymore. That discomfort you've chosen is you risk you took on. Bucking against the norm is unpopular.

The Muppets are not a punchline, they are professionals. Put some respect on their names.

Peacocks are the closest thing we have to eldritch gods

Peacock Fanning Tail

Alt: Peacock Fanning Tail, which is like a shaky eyeballs demon

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The use case is military violence planning. How far out to block off streets, protect certain buildings etc. how those calculations get *visually* represented to the-evils-in-charge so they can war video game their destruction plans. It’s like the ai that lets you preview your haircut. But evil.

Today I am asserting, for my own mental health, that shit be fucked up.

I wish more people knew this about kalshi. Number one cause of low-T is online betting

you underestimate the depths of my burnout, the char of my oaken timbre, the structurally unsound load-bearing beams crisspyy

We post a lot about what we’d do if we were rich and how you’d see us at the very least enjoying ourselves and not being maniacs and I think shorthand for that is “we would be Weird Al, we would come out to play accordion at Offspring concerts and everyone would go hooray because they like us”

Dysmorphia in your 20s: “how tragic! Doesn’t she realize how beautiful she is?” Dysmorphia in your 40s: “old lady sad about aging needs to recognize that no, it’s just that she really is that ugly. How vain. Someone needs to tell her she was ugly in her 20s too, maybe use some skincare bitch”

People. 1 star. Summary: "Overrated species with self-destructive tendencies. Can be very dangerous. Frequently returned product. Malfunctions easily. Often tainted with hate. Fragile. Annoying. White model particularly dangerous and unpredictable. Seek alternatives (e.g. dogs).

Ryan Gosling's 'Ew' Look with Shades On

ALT: Ryan Gosling's 'Ew' Look with Shades On

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Also. It’s not just “shit like this” that has radicalized folk. It’s all the BLM organizers and tireless leftest educators/activists who have spent countless hours educating and giving us the words. We didn’t get here purely by self insight. We’ve gotta thank our teachers and ancestors too. ❤️

shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social · last mo.

it’s hard to explain how much shit like this has radicalized people. like i’m a white middle-aged broad who’s always been liberal but i’ve gone full-on “abolish ICE/reform scotus/the next dem candidate must commit to mass prosecutions” and you will not sway me from that position.

If what you really want is a story with a marginalized author's name on it that still sounds exactly like a white dude who went to Clarion, then LLMs are tailor-made to feed you exactly what you want.

We should invent a kind of canceling where the guy goes away

she was just like "something about this feels really queer in a way the men around me are NOT acknowledging" and on some level that absolutely is the Catholic experience

APPARENTLY I HAVE WATCHED TOO MANY MINECRAFT VIDEOS AND GOOGLE HAS NOW DECIDED I AM UNDER 18 AND CANNOT WATCH MY CLASS LECTURE ON DRUG ABUSE DOUBLE AMUSINGLY I HAVE HAD THIS GOOGLE ACCOUNT FOR 20 YEARS

The swamp is nature’s great alchemical lab. Earth & Water dissolve into one another; Life & Decay share the same bed. Here, the veil isn't thin - it’s damp. To sit by the blackwater is to learn the heaviest occult truth: nothing is truly lost, it is only waiting to be remade. #SwampLifeSunday

Cultural question: do drum circles still exist? Have I just moved to a place where I never see them? Are they here and I just don’t get out enough? (Not talking about performances of anarchist bands, I mean like, anyone can come sit in a circle with us pickup drumming.)

Happy Wrath Eve y’all.

A dead end system is not going to teach you how to spot its successor.