Materialist Gnostic

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can't imagine a Muslim guy mastering, for instance, algebra

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

12h

these pro-42 ads are not making me optimistic about the future of governance in this state

12h

we need to be able to tax things! governments require revenue to run function!

12h

can't believe the horde of robot servants that have been doing my job are overloaded, forcing me to do my job

13h

I assume that this is the guy from Abbott and Costello

John@johnlk.bsky.social

I love that Namor is getting sued for, uh, property damage from invading the surface world repeatedly.

13h

I told the robot to run something for testing and now it keeps committing suicide (running out of quota) whenever it tries to process my command to turn off the test server

13h

why are you doing this I'm trying to free up resources for you

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if only we could've known this in advance by his public ties to the century's most famous pedophile or all his public statements about women

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

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I understand this is the wrong way to do things but man the Bluesky webpage on my mobile browser is just having a psychotic break today

19h

but you have to consider what you're paying for: the opportunity to live in a permanent sauna convenient to a wide variety of predatory lizards and the rising seas that periodically try to kill you with hurricanes

David H. Montgomery@dhmontgomery.com

Median rent as a share of median income of renter households in major U.S. metros, 2010 vs. 2024. Minneapolis is lowest on the list, at 29%, down from 30.4% in 2010. www.artio.so/dataviz/page...

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it's insane how much I've been oneshot by the Google health app doing the most mild form of gamification possible

21h

it keeps upping my cardio target and I keep doing more cardio and at the rate things are going I'll be running ten miles a day by new years

22h

what if we just didn't do Crazy Socks Day or Crazy Hat Day. I mean that seems like the obvious solution if it's too much of a pain in the ass for parents to remember.

Amanda Katz@katzish.bsky.social

It’s hard to decide what part of this story on Marissa Mayer’s new startup is most loathsome, but this “women need a wife or, in other words, a digital servant” construction makes me want to flip over an actual table www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...

now, yes, I know they're collapseable spears and airlines have some security concerns, but have they considered how much less of a pain in the ass it would be if I could take trekking poles carryon

they should invent a kind of procrastination where you don't have to do the task later

alternatively: sheets that stay clean forever

bit.lyFox News Hosts Sean Hannity and Ainsley Earhardt Are MarriedFox News personalities Sean Hannity and Ainsley Earhardt are married.

unfairly charitable to say hannity has a personality tbh

The Hollywood Reporter@thr.com

Fox News personalities Sean Hannity and Ainsley Earhardt are married.

this week for halloween something only vaguely halloween-y: dark chocolate cookies with white chocolate chips and caramel bits

Materialist Gnostic@walmsley.bsky.social

finally back home, so finally back to baking. in this case, some quick lemon blackberry bars which interestingly don't have any egg in them. the batter is incredibly loose going in, but they bake up nicely

deliciouslittlebites.com{Fudgy) Dark Chocolate Cookies Recipe - Delicious Little BitesThis recipe for Dark Chocolate Cookies will give you thick, chewy, rich cookies. These decadent treats can be enjoyed as is, or you can mix in your favorite chocolate chips, nuts, or dried fruit.

I added white chocolate chips and some caramel bits for variety. not as many as I'd've liked because I couldn't find a fresh bag this week.

look it's time that we face facts: being president makes you gay. the only way to survive the enormous pressures of running the free world is homosexuality.

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social

Obama on Abdul El-Sayed: "You see those big guns? That's why he wears those t-shirts. I never campaigned in a t-shirt. I ain't got those big guns."

urgh I feel the siren song of a new Type of Guy I'm being called to be

please don't make me think enough about the flights I'd need to book for the trips I want to take to decide if I should be part of a rewards program that gives free checked bags

don't make me have multiple credit cards where I need to split my spending to maximize points on per-purchase and overall limit basises. don't do this to me. I just want to go hiking until I physically can't anymore.

accidentally bought a thing of worcestershire sauce after I already own a thing of worcestershire sauce, so now I have more worcestershire sauce than I will use in my entire life

you can remember this because bucks are naked all the time, as they have not eaten from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil

Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com

We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It's 'buck naked' -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’ -It’s ‘toe the line'

nytimes.comIran in ‘Advanced Stages’ of Planning Attacks Against Americans, Officials SayThe U.S. government has ordered diplomats and other federal employees to leave Saudi Arabia. It is also drawing down staff at other missions in the region.

I mean that seems like a likely thing for a country at war with the US to be doing

David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social

Uggh www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

I'm not some campist who's going to say we should all accept what's coming to us but we are at war with them and the way we still treat it as surprising that means they're at war with us is a little silly

living in the bay involves a lot of not thinking about the fact that these people live maybe an hour's drive away from you

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him & samoyed had a kinda insane chemistry

the existence of the Winter Soldier implies the existence of a Marvel villain called the Cloudy Patriot

ACAB (assigned cabbage at birth)

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The screenshot in question is about feminizing hormonal therapy…so kale to female. You said those risks are a part of natural puberty…diabetes, infertility, stroke, etc. You’re pretending to confuse general aging with puberty. Why pretend something like that?

Amazon has *wildly* improved the experience of online shopping. subscribe and save in particular is not very directly visible but makes keeping up with household stuff way easier.

Michael Druker 🇨🇦@mdruker.app

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

obviously Amazon is not without its flaws but I do think the labor abuses are separable from particularly the front-end. if stuff took four days to arrive but arrived reliably in four days, that would generally be fine

I've been thinking about this since yesterday

Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq.@clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social

Famous interaction unfortunately

I just want to know what MattY thinks a society where what ICE has done isn't a losing issue looks like in five or ten or twenty years

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social

A helpfully clear exchange here Hasan: "So your argument is that [Minnesota ICE protesters] should stay at home because immigration is a salient issue for Donald Trump. Opposing ICE is only going to help Trump. Wait until we win the election in 2028." Yglesias: "Yes that is what I would have said"

if we're complaining about Mass Effect: it's fucked up that the guy who's in charge of all the Reapers is named Harbinger and the guy who's supposed to open the way for the other Reapers is named Sovereign

so he just has no idea what's going on, huh?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

😳 WOMAN REPORTER: Do sexual abuse allegations mean nothing to you, sir? TRUMP: Wait. Wait! Wait wait wait. Slow down. Who are you with? REPORTER: NBC, sir. But they are very serious sex abuse allegations TRUMP: Quiet! Isn't she a fresh person? You're a horrible little reporter, aren't you?

propublica.orgBird Flu Is Raging on a Mink Farm. It Could Spark a Human Pandemic, Experts Say, but Officials Won’t Act.Federal officials brushed off the issue as Utah prioritized the fur industry’s interests. Little has been done to stop the spread of the virus and ensure it can’t spread to humans, a failure that expe...

now, yes, you may die. but have you considered that we preserved the supply of a famously evil luxury good?

ProPublica@propublica.org

NEW: A bird flu outbreak has been raging uncontrolled on a Utah mink farm for two months. Flu experts fear it could spark a devastating human pandemic. But officials haven’t acted — instead prioritizing the financial interests of the fur trade.

I have made Enormous Amount of Chicken and Beans (chili mode). I mostly don't regret it but the pan I used for the chicken was too small for the amount of chicken so I got less browning than I'd like

Materialist Gnostic@walmsley.bsky.social

simply cook Enormous Amount of Chicken and Beans. you will never regret Enormous Amount of Chicken and Beans. make Enormous Amount of Chicken and Beans and put it in your mouth.

brianlagerstrom.com30 Minute Chili - Brian LagerstromI found a quick and easy way to make chili in 30 minutes AND make it taste like it had been cooking all day. This recip is so fast and farly easy, its perfect to make on a Monday night and eat for the...

this is based on Brian Lagerstrom's 30 minute chili, but with chicken (thighs cut bite-sized and velveted with corn starch, salt, baking soda, and chili) instead of beef because that's way cheaper and I'm not particularly impressed by beef in chili

forbes.comBillionaires Palmer Luckey And Ben Lamm Spin Up Startup To Genetically Engineer Military DogsBen Lamm of de-extinction startup Colossal has teamed up with Palmer Luckey’s team at Anduril to create a dog that’s optimized for military use. The new “warhounds” will be cloned and gene edited.

I'm not an expert at war but I feel like "thumbs" are important for war

Amy Feldman@amyfeldman7.bsky.social

*NEW* Colossal Biosciences’ Ben Lamm and Anduril’s Palmer Luckey team up on a new startup to genetically engineer war dogs for the military. Warhound comes out of stealth at $1.2B valuation For @forbes.com with @iainmartin.bsky.social and @mhunterhart.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

one way I think LLMs have actually made me a better coworker is that they're good enough at search that I default to them rather than pinging someone I expect to know with a "hey where is X" question

this is huge news for my proposed cabinet department of sticking your dick in the vacuum

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