Ambulocetus @ambulocetus@social.cleverlibre.org
Nemo me impune lacessit
Voted Best Psychic Of 2026
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https://www.metafilter.com/user/99809
Certified freak, seven days a week.
謙虚だが弱くはない、自信に満ちているが誇りに思っていない、神秘的だが不魔法ではない
Joined Mar 2020
A knowing smile doesn't actually require knowledge - just a mouth
Pop-stars aren't really artists, they are just musical instruments for producers.
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Ok I've been laughing at this since yesterday because that's so me. 🤣
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Dispatches from bluesky
@stavvers there’s a weird sort of desperation to it. it’s like twitter died and bsky is its bedroom which has been kept exactly as it was just in case it ever comes back
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Lauren Boebert is a total hypocrite. #LaurenBoebert
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8j48s4N/
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People get so defensive about their post-Xitter social media, which I find incredibly silly. All of these services are too new to come to any meaningful conclusions about them. And only 2 of them promise open ecosystems. Supporting any that don’t is reckless, uninformed and selfish, imo. Just because some friends are there, is no excuse to gravitate toward another fascist-enabling, closed social media nightmare like the mess we’re all running away from.
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Fuck Lauren Bobert. All these articles written about a fucking moron make the authors fucking morons.
@idoubtit Oh sorry, I didn't know about any of that with RW, but her video rants are entertaining. At least she didn't take a sharp turn to the Right like some of the others we mentioned.
@idoubtit For a lot of the true believers, of whatever fringe belief, changing their mind means changing their entire foundation of their personality and giving up on the para-social relationships they have developed. The feeling of comfort and belonging is more important than knowing the truth. https://youarenotsosmart.com/2020/04/20/yanss-178-why-conspiratorial-thinking-has-gone-mainstream-why-facts-dont-always-persuade-people-and-other-lessons-we-can-learn-from-those-of-us-who-are-pretty-sure-the-earth-is-flat/#more-6538
@cstross Interesting, but what do you do with it?
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Musk’s X revokes paid blue check from United Auto Workers after strike called https://arstechnica.com/?p=1968789
@idoubtit I used to be a fan of Dawkins too, and it just seems like there are so many people who were secretly ass-holes. I don't know if they are sincere ass-holes or if they just jumping on the right-wing gravy train, but the end result is the same either way. It only gives ammo to the other side. Now they can point to them and say "see, you're no different than us." At least there are still a few good people. The SGU is good people, and the only remaining Skepchick (RW) is cool. And if you you don't know about the guys from Puzzle In A Thunderstorm, they are very funny.
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I used to be a huge fan, but the parent organization (CFI) recently published an anti-trans episode of their podcast. It was severely disappointing and I unsubscribed. It was an interview with Jerry Coyne, another disappointment. As a biologist and supposed skeptic, I would have thought he would know better. But considering he hangs with Dawkins and Harris, I shouldn't have been surprised.
Somebody called me an old fart. It must be because I'm silent but deadly.
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A lot of conflict in the Old West might have been avoided if cowboy architects had simply made their towns big enough for everyone.
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To properly prepare us for another introspective #caturday, let us meditate on some cat names given to them lovingly, we assume, by their servants.
Foucault named his cat Insanity.
Derrida named his cat Logos.
Camus named his cat Cigarette.
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Dear journalists:
You continue to pour your work into Musk's business. You are supporting him. You are helping him.
You are doing this despite his demonstrated contempt for you, despite his support for extremists -- and, as of today, his rank anti-semitism (effectively blaming Jews for his vile site's loss of advertising)
I know that you believe you get value from being "where the people are" -- but sometimes principle requires sacrifice.
So much is at stake.
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@Radical_EgoCom
Uvalde proved once and for all that cops are worse than useless, they're in the way.
There's a name for people who rely on police to protect them. They're called "victims." Police have no obligation to protect us. The SCOTUS agrees.
See: Castle Rock v. Gonzales, 545 U.S. 748 (2005)
See also: DeShaney v. Winnebago County, 489 U.S. 189 (1989)
You talk shit about cops now, but just wait until a guy breaks in your house and you need to call someone who will show up an hour late and shoot your dog.
Nemo me impune lacessit
Voted Best Psychic Of 2026
Non-practicing intellectual
https://www.metafilter.com/user/99809
Certified freak, seven days a week.
謙虚だが弱くはない、自信に満ちているが誇りに思っていない、神秘的だが不魔法ではない
Joined Mar 2020
