Rosalynde

Rosalynde

@roslaynde.bsky.social

please stop saying “deeply” :)

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Rosalynde reposted

Susan Pretti, Alex Pretti’s mom: “He was exceptionally kind and caring…he understood right from wrong. And he did not tolerate bullies.”

In addition to the interesting insights itt, I think another factor is that for some people education/information does not expand the mind but rather enforces its limits more firmly. They just have “data” to prove the dumb stuff they already think.

neuse river hag@neuseriverhag.bsky.social

i need to hit the books to find out what actual experts call this sort of thing - i call it "there-must-be-something brain" but no one should let me name things. it's correlated with some ideologies, predictable if you know the person is an institutionalist, but ime it's a pretty universal impulse

Starting w sky’s post, we saw self-proclaimed “realists” using a totally inappropriate example to promulgate their pet theory. Darling and his “windfall,” stancil and his “people only post to be cool online,” etc. even though none of the theories fit the example. Some people’s minds are small.

the craziest thing about this dumbass post is that sky treats a $500k medical bill (which according to them was never meant to be paid) as hard fact and not a quintessential example of “mak[ing] up the reality you want to justify the policy you want.”

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really pathetic to cosplay about being a macho warrior when the actual topic was about someone paying a $30k and dealing with a $500k bill for 3 years of their life. wow it’s really cool how you best that guy and his family up with your $30k “windfall” data.

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com

watching matt darling wade into a thread to try and explain "actually the social impact of one-time windfalls is well-studied in economics, the net effect is mid" against every annoying fool on this website is like that scene in ip man where he decides to fight ten men

Rosalynde reposted

Pretty surreal how sharing a traumatic story about my daughter's birth elicited someone to call it "insane bullshit". I was just trying to contextualize why people are right to call our healthcare system dogshit, and also why you don't have to be an asshole if you disagree.

Eoin Higgins@eoinhiggins.bsky.social

I'd suggest sneering "insane bullshit" at someone for feeling stressed out about having to handle hours on the phone over a half million dollar bill after dealing with a birth and NICU stay is why people can't stand you

A $30k hospital bill is an “increase in earnings?” sounds good man for sure sign me up

Matt Darling@besttrousers.bsky.social

I don't think $30k is a life-changing amount of money. Median American born in 1980 will have $2m in income in their lifetime. It's a 1% increase in earnings.

you gotta be a huge asshole to see someone describe a three year nightmare trying to resolve a $500k medical bill and decide to repost and pick on them, comparing them to the president spreading racist lies about immigrants. Truly vulgar shit.

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how does a thread in which the posts have 0-3 likes and 0 reposts demonstrates a “critical mass of social media likes and shares?”

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social

It is now broadly accepted among so many people - frankly, so many of YOU - that the way to prove any claim is to get a critical mass of social media likes and shares behind it. If you try to insist that false things not be treated as true, you’ll change little, but you’ll ruin your reputation.

Rosalynde reposted

Replying to @helldude.bsky.social

okay ill bite: if that's all it is then you may as well eat the business end of a 20 gauge. it's all just a sham. and im sorry, the very earth we walk on is a fucking unfathomable miracle. none of these Business Guys could create anything even a minute fraction as impressive as a mitochondria

Rosalynde reposted

Replying to @neuseriverhag.bsky.social

I don't want to pound my chest. Everyone here is so tired. So much harm has been done to our state and our immigrant neighbors. But baby, you try another surge against a bunch of people who are sick to death of your shit and already know they'll die for each other, you're not gonna have a good time.

every will stancil tirade is exactly the same: selective framing of an argument that he uses to moan about how his rivals are cooked by social media and peer pressure, and that he, a terminally online guy with 100k followers, is immune to these pressures and is never wrong (& is the real victim)

every good boyfriend ought to know that being a boyfriend is in fact their highest achievement

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

i described lewis hamilton this way to point out how mainstream and major the sheerhan/macklemore/kraft situation has become, but now people are mad because they think i was trying to diminish hamilton's many achievements and that it's disrespectful to define him as someone's boyfriend. lol. lmao.

Rosalynde reposted

Replying to @roslaynde.bsky.social

💯 the usual retreat to internecine cross-factional beefs bc they can't and don't want to engage with actual politics happening in reality because it means their assumptions were bad and history (derogatory) is going to keep happening anyway even if we'd really prefer otherwise

Rosalynde reposted

when i say i am fine with suspension of democratic norms to ensure this never happens again, i mean that every single ICE guard described in this piece should be tried and executed on live television, and the government should maintain a printed & online publication describing their lives & crimes.

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com

NEW FROM ME: On a hellish third-country removal flight last month, passengers say ICE-contracted guards got drunk, teased and beat them, tied them up, refused to let them use the lavatory. One says he witnessed an ICE agent admit to illegal chain refoulement. prospect.org/2026/08/31/w...

Related example. obviously dr. Traditions is shit posting. He is known for this. We all know this. Pretending he is “spinning baroque theories” is foolish behavior. People are not well and are not able to communicate with integrity bc the website incentivizes them to post self-righteous rubbish.

Rosalynde@roslaynde.bsky.social

I don’t follow the Piker stuff, don’t care about him at all, not seeking content about him. Yet numerous posts have come across my feed of people doing precisely what this post is saying “no one” is doing. But supposedly this person has been on the case for a long time and isn’t seeing it?

To me, this is the conduct of an unserious person. Someone willing to eat shit in public so long as it advances their politics. It’s embarrassing. Can’t believe how much I see this on here!

I don’t follow the Piker stuff, don’t care about him at all, not seeking content about him. Yet numerous posts have come across my feed of people doing precisely what this post is saying “no one” is doing. But supposedly this person has been on the case for a long time and isn’t seeing it?

Like legit so much of this site is people saying blatantly false stuff, totally distorting reality, purely making shit up. Not healthy behavior. Truly depressing.

I have to say, as someone who does not use this site very often, pretty much every time I come on here I experience shock at how absolutely cooked so many people on here are. Just some of the most degraded, delusional shit that is just normal daily behavior for people it’s depressing af

I don’t think most people can handle social media tbh. It seems so obvious the beast is too powerful for most brains. Brutal to observe. Many such cases etc

I find this particular bit quite vulgar. Yes, it is indicative of the shallow nature of the piece in which black clothes are said to alienate normies, with no attempt to actually prove this, or even prove why 1/3

(Idk how to post so my point 1 was cropped at the end. I meant to point out that this “alienating the normies” thing is another completely unexplored assertion of the piece. Normies are scared of black? Also, can we not learn from history other than “black bloc bad?” Do we remember Hong Kong or…?

I find this particular bit quite vulgar. Yes, it is indicative of the shallow nature of the piece in which black clothes are said to alienate normies, with no attempt to actually prove this, or even prove why 1/3

Yes, it is an offensive and ridiculous description of what happened in the chaos of Minneapolis while we were - and continue to be! - under seize by the US gov. 2/3

But most importantly, she’s saying this about people who showed up to a concentration camp to let the frightened people inside know that they are not alone and that outside their cages there a people still fighting for them. Fuck right off with this cosplay American flag bullshit.

I cannot deal with how bad Hancox-Li’s piece is. The whole thing is like this. “Song’s actions are [a] result of culture and doctrine.” Prove it! The only evidence is a brief message Hill wrote and smth alleged by the prosecution.

“Song’s actions flowed out of a deliberate strategy.” What does that mean? How is this demonstrated? It isn’t! What about the other activists whose actions did not “flow out of” this culture and strategy? An analysis has failed to flow out of the author’s strategy

Rosalynde reposted

I'm going to flatly say: this piece is so bad it should make you suspicious of the person who wrote it and the outlet who published it. It should make you question their perspective, their political ideology, and to what degree they are actually "on your side." It certainly leads me to question.

Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com

"Their actions ensured that they struggled to achieve sympathetic media coverage outside of a few left-wing outlets, struggled to attract material or legal support (the ACLU, for instance, refused to touch the case), and failed to achieve positive virality in the larger culture."

Deniro looking in the mirror: “You directing comments toward me?”

Minnesota Star Tribune@startribune.com

St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her said Wednesday she has no intentions to leave office amid an investigation of claims that she directed inappropriate sexual comments toward Police Chief Axel Henry and other city employees, but acknowledged that what she intended as a joke was misguided.

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