Takel
Cybersecurity gryphon, leftist, pansexual disaster, occasional streamer. Old enough to complain about back pain. He/him.
PFP by @fleeks.art. Banner from art by @blindcoyote.bsky.social.
🔞 b/c Horny on Main.
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- Oh my god
- apparently Elon's gotten so mad about Grok not answering questions about Afrikaners the way he wants, xAI's now somehow managed to put it into some kind of hyper-Afriforum mode where it thinks every question is about farm murders or the song "Kill the Boer"
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- i think it's worth looking at a lot of the examples we see in pieces like these and noting that the vast majority of the cases - students and faculty - are coming from the "professional" wings of universities. courses in business, CS, (certain sectors of) comm, etc.
- Now it's the professors using ChatGPT. Students aren't happy about it. I talked to professors. I talked to students. I read the scathing reviews on Rate My Professors. Here you go: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/t...
- Undefeated.
- how on earth is zaslav still employed
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- remember those 3 weeks last year when they were loudly called weird creeps and the weird creeps lost their fucking minds and melted down, the whole thing was funny & it was *working* then of course the Dem leadership/consultant class put a STOP to all that because they have a public failure kink
- the centrist “identity politics is bad” argument, sneering at leftists over pronouns - like we’re fixated on arcane academic concepts and you need a PhD in gender studies just to express an opinion - falls apart pretty fast when you reframe this as Normal Humans vs. Creeps Spying On Strangers Peeing
- i really should not have to set 'followers replies only' on a post about fucking korean fried chicken chips i bought. give us opt out on discover feed or make it so people cannot reply directly from there
- "why do people NOT want replies from those reading the discover feed?!" you're incurious, you're stupid, you're assholes. you're like a frozen in time yahoo answers post that goes "IDK" but if they also added in "why don't you care about how much i hate pedestrians in crosswalks and my wife"
- hanania is a dull, uninteresting writer whose main contribution to the discourse is being a gutter racist. naturally, he is being feted by elite publications. makes you wonder.
- "ai is inevitable" no you are just a weak coward
- just a really long sustained and, as it goes on, increasingly obviously sarcastic round of applause to every Democratic op who is still pushing the utterly failed "culture war stuff is just a distraction" narrative and using "woke" as a pejorative. Republicans are gross weirdos just keep saying it.
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- A swing voter is not a centrist. It's like, a guy who loves guns but has a gay sister, loves weed but hates food stamps because his cousin who owes him 50 bucks gets them. (Also, Osama was Iraqi.) You don't win that guy with a carefully crafted platform, you do it by not seeming fucking lame
- the prince of all sickos!!!
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- even if we accept "a lot of the left holds a true belief because of groupthink rather than careful examination of the evidence" for the sake of argument, "the left should be more open to demonstrably false belief" is not a correct counterbalance!
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- "The treatment of the lab leak shows the left is prone to groupthink" sounds like a great argument until you realize they're skipping the part where they've shown the lab leak theory to be true. If it's false and we're treating it like it's false then that's not a problem!
- true story! Jeri Ryan was previously married to 2004 Republican senate candidate Jack Ryan during the senate campaign, the Tribune got their custody records unsealed and it turns out Jack was a huge sex creep, leading him to withdraw Obama trounced Alan Keyes and the rest is history
- importantly, for political nerds of a certain age, this also brought us the @johnrogers.bsky.social Crazification Factor
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- yesterday i published this piece about Trump floating a bullshit plan to "raise taxes on the rich" in order to bait the media into talking about it. shortly after, the GOP released their tax plan, which naturally includes no tax such increase on the rich.
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- Study: 58% of college students are functionally illiterate! Wow! This seems like a sensational headline that adheres to my previously conceived notions! I should test myself against their criteria *reads first several paragraphs of Bleak House* I think there's a slight problem here
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- "fully operational mobile McDonald’s unit" is a phrase that makes me feel like maybe i've passed away and all the news i read is all just the final neurons in my brain racing around making haphazard connections in the moments before darkness
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- a trans woman is expressing disgust and fear at a new anti-trans policy. i click the reply button. “the cruelty is the point,” i write. i’ve enlightened them. they didn’t know this before. but it’s a pretty insightful thought. i keep scrolling a like a picture of big boobs,
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- BREAKING: The Eleventh Circuit, on a 2-1 vote, holds that Florida’s anti-drag law is likely unconstitutional and upholds the injunction barring enforcement of the ban. media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
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- Especially when that's immediately followed with "and here's why that's bullshit".
- "Ice has become Trump’s private militia. It must be abolished" It's become fashionable for even progressive politicians to diss the 'Abolish ICE' movement. I make the political and moral case for abolition in my latest for @GuardianUS, with receipts: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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- There's a pet psychic who got called out on Tiktok for being a fraud (getting every detail of the pet owner's life wrong) and the pet psychic responded saying that the pets must have been lying to her
- excited to see her become the next Secretary of State.
- Sat next to a guy on a flight who was also playing Balatro and we had a seven-second conversation about it before we quickly and obviously realized the conversation was basically "Oh so I see you also enjoy black tar heroin."
