Thaddeus

You Can See Everything is a rich text! self-deception so complete, fully believing our own lies, that we invite outsiders to witness it like a magic trick and they buy it so we believe it even more

If you would try to win by abandoning trans people (or any targeted group) you can save this “we need to win” talk; there is no “we.” I am about solidarity, and you have chosen anti-solidarity. You are not any “we” I recognize. You are the enemy I’m trying to defeat. Beating you is how my “we” wins.

a haunted house, but it's just the endowment ceremony

my hot take is the AIs are conscious but so are bugs it's not that special

corporations salivating at the chance to replace their human employees with AI agents is a real signal that an entity doesn't need sentience to do us harm

I've decided to age naturally, which means I will complain about it

at the end of the day, a prediction engine of any kind is going to forecast a predictable future

if you're looking at bizarre political or financial or business decisions by people in high positions, I've found that "they are in the Epstein files and are panicky" is an illuminating explanation most of the time

I know this is a common belief, but it’s not true. If people went anti-vaxx/MAHA because they were excluded from the medical establishment, we would see sky-high rates among poor people, minorities and the uninsured. We don’t.

I bet for very hot people, it's just expected that everyone will gag and stare. like they don't even clock it as weird because it's their normal

countdown to the president co-opting her death and making it about him

Trump could poke their Jesus in the eye and conservatives would call him a lil scamp

when the 1% say "but how will we pay for it?" they secretly mean "but I've done some heinous crimes (like, truly depraved acts of cruelty and violence against innocent people) and I *need* to maintain control of the police state so the people can never put me in prison"

we carefully guard the line between "person" and "object" because we act horribly when we treat people as objects but what if we started treating all objects as people and got rid of the line altogether? might be good practice

enemies of the United States finding out hegseth used up all the ammo

Feature idea for #bluesky: envelope mode write a post, put it in a sealed envelope, and set a date for it to open. People can see *something* was posted, but can't read the contents until it's opened great for making predictions without tilting the scales

advanced intellect is actually pretty susceptible to manipulation give em some data with a little ambiguity and prime em with the kind of answer you're looking for and they'll proudly connect the dots for you like raw meat to a wolf

the reason Dems aren't stepping up to stop corruption is bc they called dibs on being next

it’s pretty obvious that a lot of people remember that COVID lockdowns were unpleasant and from there just extrapolate that they were therefore bad policy

the diarrhea president

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

when I think about my feet my head's all "I have no need of thee"

i would give anything to see Fox News go defunct like seriously it's the only "news" my parents will watch, and it's brainwashing them

I've believed this for years corporations provide goods and services, sure, but their main deliverable is a little fiefdom for the executives. they just need to feel powerful! business leadership is their IV drip

The Odyssey couldn't be orated today

Saw a zillow listing touting the smart fridge and can't tell you how much I need the fridge to be the dumbest appliance in the house. I just need it to be cold. Nothing else. Should be JD Vance levels of dumb, just there without a thought, being cold & impersonal, staring at the couch all day.

I unironically think we could get the country back on track if we got him talking to an AI hologram of his mom

when is the salad fingers blockbuster movie from a24 coming out?

22 years ago today I released Salad Fingers.

the roberts majority is so completely and utterly corrupt that it more closely resembles a criminal conspiracy than a court of law

crazy to me that rich people have been so successful in perpetuating the lie that the poor are stealing from everyone. they don't have any money. the rich people are the ones with the money! that's who stole the money

The Democratic establishment crash-out is a wonderous thing to see. A bunch of people, their organization named after democracy, unable to handle the results of just a few popular elections, appealing to the unspoken rules of a club they thought belonged exclusively to them. Let's do it everywhere.

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool