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@vantazach.bsky.social
The system is its own best explanation.
I'd love to credit whoever wrote this. No idea. But I'm 100% with its message. When I think of how the '80s ethos, "Greed is Good" has metastasized, it surprises and depresses me. Imagine having so many millions, hundred of millions, even billions & caring about nothing except your own vanity.
Tesla UK July sales down 48% compared to July 2026. What a shame.... #TeslaTakedown
should i use the billions of dollars i have to make the one known hospitable planet in the universe nicer or should i spend trillions pretending to colonize a moon 239k miles away where no one can breathe, eat, or drink these are the hard questions i, a genius, wrestle with every day.
has Miller always talked like he's struggling to keep his second jaw from shooting out?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 18h agothe vibes are rancid
This is the most loser-coded image imaginable, big "villains in an '80s breakdancing movie" energy
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 18h agoJD Vance: "We don't want the next administration, whoever -- god forbid you're gonna have President El-Sayed in three years ... "
Cramer [patting Elon's head]: "You can fit so much racism in this baby"
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 19h agoJim Cramer just now on Elon Musk and why you should buy SpaceX: “Because our minds are small and his mind is big.”
“Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it you cannot use it.” -- Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Dispossessed"
The Joke Calculator@dewno.bsky.social · yesterdayAlso, I need to point out that if liberal capitalism had a consistently better answer to this kind of question, I would feel a lot better about it in general. The fact that it doesn't shows the truly rigid limits of an ideology of private ownership, as flexible as capitalism can sometimes seem.
THE MEANING OF A COMMUNICATION IS THE BEHAVIOR THAT RESULTS. -- John Gall, "The Systems Bible"
Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · 2d agoNot the guillotine for the data center CEO 🔥
didn't even know I could 😬😬😬 as hard as I did like five times in this interview. he's some kind of distilled essence of the modern maga man, failing upwards ever towards Trump
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday🤯 Rep. Max Miller's interview with Jake Tapper was one of the most self-destructive things I've ever witnessed on cable news. Here's the whole thing:
suspiciously green bananas is sadly one of the funniest things i’ve read in awhile
to be clear, this is an unrepentant openly pro-hitler nazi saying that elon musk, the richest man alive, whose wealth could not exist without u.s. taxpayers, is, if not one of them, doing his best to promote their agenda. why this isn't treated as a huge natsec threat by dems is beyond me.
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · last wk.Elon Musk's politics are indistinguishable from Paul Golding of Britain First [except Britain First is more coded on violence, while Musk has been more openly pro-violence as inevitable, necessary, legitimate since Aug 2025] The main pro-Hitler YouTuber "Zoomer Historian" is encouraged.
They're probably hoping you won't hear about this. But tomorrow in TX, Tarrant County officials meet to vote on a GOP plan to cut almost HALF of Election Day voting locations, plus 8 early voting locations, some of them on campuses. Not hard to guess why. fortworthreport.org/2026/07/30/t...
Tarrant County considers cutting 140 Election Day polling sites for November
County commissioners vote Aug. 4 on proposed reductions to the number of early voting and day-of sites for the midterms.
fortworthreport.org
Lists on Bluesky are the best thing about it. Want a human-curated feed that is real time and not algorithmically moderated? They are the RSS of the social age. Here are a few of mine, hopefully self-explanatory (thread) bsky.app/profile/did:...
The richest person in the world, an avowed white supremacist, today again posted "the next step is getting rid of 'source code' entirely and just making an efficient binary directly with AI" because he has no idea how anything works, not even the basics of industries he is in.
I don't even know what to say. This is real, this is true, so, like, thank you all, from the bottom of my heart. This took over 25 years to happen so if there's any lesson here it's either "keep at it, who knows" or "many people are divorced"
this is just slightly covert racism. those no-shave chits go almost only to Black men, so the "carry your papers" requirement is going to be a way to hassle them especially
David Burbach 🇺🇸@dburbach.bsky.social · 2d ago"Commanders [must] maintain a log of personnel requiring facial hair treatment plans... Must forward a Facial Hair Accommodation Accountability Report in Excel monthly... Those approved for accommodation must carry the signed paperwork on their persons..." www.militarytimes.com/news/your-na...
Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media
I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
He will never understand that being "the fat guy from Superbad" is infinitely better than being "the martial arts chud nobody likes"
none shall oppose the ascendant Military Industrial Soccer Complex
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 3d agoFIFA President Gianni Infantino is seeking the Trump administration's help to stay in office and has scheduled private talks with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the NYP reports. Assistant Secretary of State Dylan Johnson later said Rubio had no plans to speak with Infantino.
there are people doing it in much worse ways, but everyone that plays along with Trump in these championship farces is an enabler too
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d agoTrump: “The Winning Shot in the Bedminster Club Championship! Thank you very much to all of those who participated. I won with a 70, & am so honored in that, unlike the rest of the field, I’m given very little time to practice, bc I’m focused on many other things. It’s called TALENT, and I have it”
George Santos figured it out? Santos? Yeah, this one hurts. (2023)
“If this was true, I would be in jail” is not a real profession of innocence; it is a brag about how strenuously the state protects the male right of private sphere violence against women and children.
Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 4d agoThose who believe things like this are working hard at not understanding the finite options available to someone whose abuser has not been prosecuted, found guilty, etc. by the law. And how rarely those things happen to abusers, esp. high-status white male abusers.
doesn't help to replace it with synthetic tissue, those leopards are still coming for your face
Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · 4d agoMeanwhile Laura Loomer is fending off accusations that she’s a trans woman. Participating in right wing political discourse just melts people’s brains.
"It's called CHEATING, and I do it and they don't!"
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d agoTrump: “The Winning Shot in the Bedminster Club Championship! Thank you very much to all of those who participated. I won with a 70, & am so honored in that, unlike the rest of the field, I’m given very little time to practice, bc I’m focused on many other things. It’s called TALENT, and I have it”
