Michael McKinney

@mashan.bsky.social

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(He/him) Sometime author and esotericist. History buff. Player of Dwarf Fortress. Feeder of cats. Knower of obscure and mostly useless things.

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They sat fake electors as delegates and printed mass deportations now signs. Any coverage that misses those elements is willful obfuscation.

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Blocking people before I’ve ever interacted with them just because they give me the *slightest* hint of Bad Vibes has made my online experience vastly more enjoyable. My dumb account isn’t a public service or a democracy. you shouldn’t feel bad about doing the same.

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This is the point I've been trying to make and why it's so very important to not fall for disinformation campaigns like we've been drowning in the last few weeks

People are really underestimating the chances of the Calvinball Court ruling the entire election illegitimate on some fake-ass technicality. bsky.app/profile/pauv...

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pundits: “a new tone from Donald Trump” the rest of us: “you are overly credulous cretins born in the last twelve hours” there, I have saved us all the entire rest of the evening, nobody has to watch now

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We really do in fact need this place to work.

It is so important that an open ecosystem replacement succeeds here lol stop making this place unfun you know who you are

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Shiv Ramdas

I think bad people crying is a good thing actually. What the world needs is a lot more of it everywhere

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The Republicans really are forgetting the reason why it’s so massively historically dangerous to stop giving a shit about the rule of law if it benefits YOUR side: because that’s when the the OTHER side starts doing the same thing

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Partisans who start selectively flouting the law on behalf of their side are making a very dangerous gamble about the willingness of the other side to say “ok, fuck you, so I guess no one does laws now.”

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Seems real un-American to me to let one shitlord foreigner hold our defense program hostage.

Genuinely fucking mystifying to me that the US government continues to give Elon money.

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;))))))))

Exactly!

And if your leftism is focused only on opposing liberals rather than on reducing suffering and standing in solidarity with the vulnerable, it isn’t leftism. It’s performance.

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Here’s the thing about thinking about politics as the art of compromise: you can only find middle ground between two positions each plausibly rooted in actual reality.

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White male billionaires want to buy the country and run it on their white male vibes. Hang in there, Senator Heinrich! New Mexico backs Joe Biden!

the thing about this is that if you're willing to brag to the NYT about how you demanded that politicians do your bidding or else, "over and out", and then people look and see if they did your bidding (heinrich, for example, has not), the politicians are not the ones who end up looking like clowns

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Went to Amazon looking for a specific book on fascism, and here's what showed up as a *sponsored* item at the very top of my search results.

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Fyi to journalists: Hillbilly Elegy is not about the brave nobility of rural poor/working class people. It’s deeply insulting to rural poor people - presenting them as lazy addicts who rely on welfare instead of working. The book is about how amazing Vance was to escape that backwards culture.

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Biden's proposals for judicial reforms will surely bring up objections that it's political suicide because of what happened with FDR's court-packing plan, so let me repost this recent CAMPAIGN TRAILS post about how those comparisons are completely misplaced. kevinmkruse.substack.com/p/unpacking-...

Unpacking the Courtkevinmkruse.substack.com In recent months, the breathtaking radicalism and brazen corruption of the current Supreme Court has reignited the longstanding debate over reforming the Court by expanding the number of Justices. As ...

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I'm busy today, so here's my 2000+ word response to everything that happened on this anti-Black platform yesterday. You can read it, or not. www.patreon.com/posts/racism...

Racism, Transphobia, and the Bluesky Brigade | Kaitlin Byrd - GothamGirlBluewww.patreon.com Get more from Kaitlin Byrd - GothamGirlBlue on Patreon

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I will never forget the interview, shortly after Ozy Media Inc. was formed, where Carlos Watson said he named it after the poem, because "the lesson you take from [Ozymandias] is that you have to dream big." So that's why liberal arts education is important.

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if we still had MAD Magazine they would’ve gotten him with “Hillbilly Allergy by JD Pantsed” four years ago and none of this would be a problem

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That Vance is a direct line to Thiel and Andreessen is truly important. Trump wants their money. Thiel wants to sell billions in Palantir contracts to power Trump’s mass surveillance/ethnic cleansing infrastructure. Pence was the Christian Nationalists’ guy. Vance is reactionary capital’s.

Are you a fan of all of those guys who are directly responsible for making the internet an unusable dogshit hellhole? Well boy do I have a VP for you.

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A fun fact about JD Vance is that he's openly backed purging anyone who disagrees with him from the government, comparing it to "de-Nazification," and illegally defying court orders to do so.

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time to dust this one off. amen.

Vance is, you guessed it, an adult Catholic convert

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it is worth pointing out that Vance is in a Twitter group chat with a whole bunch of teenage groypers

are there screenshots? yes, brother, there are screenshots.

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The alpha wolf is a myth, and a lone wolf is just dispersing from its family of origin to join a new group for breeding purposes 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-t...

Is the Alpha Wolf Idea a Myth?www.scientificamerican.com The idea that wolf packs are led by a merciless dictator, or alpha wolf, comes from old studies of captive wolves. In the wild, wolf packs are simply families

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I am just... so fucking exhausted from having to think about the single worst human being on Earth every fucking day 24/7 for the last fucking decade. It is an unbearable assault on my mind and I wish it would fucking end.

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I work at Rockin' Stickers! We're a small business in the PNW and our stickers and our little crew are amazing (I print my own stickers in-house, too)! I love us so much, please consider ordering your stickers from Rockin' Stickers! 💛

Sticker Mule is Tr*mp trash. Use StickerApp or Sticker Robot or Zug Monster or literally anything else

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This is what AOC and Bernie get for sticking by Biden, and we can debate the policy, but this is a super-tangible win for the left side of the Democratic Party

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Its wild how AOC believing that elections are things you "organize to win" that involve more on running media management campaigns from DC, puts her out afield of so much of the establishment

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in 2013 I saw a man get a 100,000 hour probation on the SomethingAwful forums and today I saw him come off probation and immediately pick up the same argument, quoting a reply from 2013, absolute next-level hater, I can't even imagine, my man is the Count of Monte Posters