Magneto Was Left

@padraigkingsley

Writer, Musician, and Utterly Terrible Dancer. 🖤s rock n' roll, time travel, mutants, & chaos magic and absolutely hates Journey. he/him/sé/é

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Magneto Was Left@padraigkingsley· 4d

Stupid fuckin neo-nazi brine shrimp pieces a shit, look at them www.theawl.com/2011/06/the-...

Magneto Was Left@padraigkingsley· 7d

It's not lost on me that this beer lived through the American Civil War and did NOTHING www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

6:07
THE IRISH TIMES
Ireland
Guinness found on 162-year-old shipwreck inspires divers with
'Project Jurassic Beer'
Divers aim to scientifically 'rebrew' old stout to 'unlock a form of liquid time travel'
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Magneto Was Left@padraigkingsley· 7d

Donald Trump will never get his head on a PEZ dispenser because PEZ stopped honoring US presidents after Obama

PRESIDENTS
OF THE UNITED STATES
Presidential dispensers were sold in sets of 5
The sets ended in 2015 at Volume 9
There are no plans at this time expand the series or add additional Presidents.
enser
Candy
nser

Magneto Was Left@padraigkingsley· 8d

we don't talk enough about how Save Ferris just looks like stunt doubles for the original cast of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER

Magneto Was Left@padraigkingsley· 10d

There’s plenty to dissect from David Ellison’s op-ed defending the Paramount/Warner merger. But this … brandishing this film production resume … this is an interesting choice, for sure. Like seriously? THESE are the 3 film credits you want to highlight? Really guy? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...

In my own career, “G.I. Joe: Retaliation” met financial expectations, “Top Gun: Maverick” exceeded them and “Terminator: Dark Fate” fell short. I am proud of all these films, but nobody can dictate what audiences will love.

Magneto Was Left@padraigkingsley· 10d

The war is "causing" oil prices to "skyrocket" but also we're making more money than we ever have before That's because we EARNED our money through the HARD WORK of marking up prices and forcing consumers to pay Yet somehow this all … disappointed our shareholders? Because they wanted … more?

Last week, Chevron reported its best quarterly earnings result ever, while Exxon announced its largest profit in four years. None of this was a surprise: The Iran war and the Strait of Hormuz’s closure sent oil prices soaring around the world in the spring, making the supermajors’ domestic refinery business especially profitable. Despite its big result, Exxon actually underperformed Wall Street’s expectations — that’s how expected all of this was.

Magneto Was Left@padraigkingsley· Jul 14

HELL YEAH

Magneto Was Left@padraigkingsley· Jul 10

This is ghoulish www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

From Haaretz: Israel Is Holding Palestinian Detainees' Bodies for Bargaining Despite No Hostages in Gaza

The state said it is conducting a review regarding the need to continue holding detainees' bodies: according to Gisha, continuing to hold the bodies 'lacks legal basis and constitutes arbitrary punishment of bereaved families'

Magneto Was Left@padraigkingsley· Jun 24

Uhhh… you okay, ChatGPT?

ChatGPT compares to Kurt Vonnegut's butt hole drawing to a Nazi sun

Magneto Was Left@padraigkingsley· Jun 24

It took six minutes of prompting but I was finally able to get ClaudeAI to admit that its logo is nothing but a colorized version of Kurt Vonnegut's ass hole.

Magneto Was Left@padraigkingsley· Jun 24

Magneto was right (poppin' addies, takin' down the baddies)

Magneto Was Left@padraigkingsley· Jun 24

Hrmm yes I can't POSSIBLY fathom why an Amazon Exec would want to hire tons of human labor 🚨 that he can pay less money, or none at all 🚨 while ALSO being bullish on AI as a replacement for human labor. JFC dude, are you dense? www.platformer.news/matt-garman-...

From PLATFORMER:

The CEO of AWS on why Amazon is hiring 11,000 interns and junior employees

Matt Garman argues that junior employees are as necessary as ever. But AWS now sells agents that can recruit, code, and process claims. Will the balance hold?

Here's this week's free edition of Platformer: the final episode of our first season of the Platformer podcast. In it, AWS CEO Matt Garman explains why he's still bullish on hiring junior employees, even as he rolls out a suite of AI agents that promise to replace entire jobs. Can his rosy vision of the future survive contact with the reality that Amazon is busy building?

Garman might be the most full-throated optimist we've featured in the whole series.

It's an optimism that doesn't always seem to square with Amazon's own moves. The company has cut roughly 30,000 corporate jobs since last October. Its CEO, Andy Jassy, has written that AI will "reduce our total corporate workforce" in the years ahead. Among other strategies, the company plans to replace half a million jobs with robots. Garman is talking up the value of labor even as he sells the technology that may displace them.

Magneto Was Left@padraigkingsley· Jun 22

Large language models have like 5% more usefulness than NFTs but somehow the exact same idiots keep falling for the exact same web3 bullshit scams. Remember, kids: generational wealth doesn't actually make you a smart investor. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/t...

Then came the bills from companies, like Anthropic and OpenAI, that provide A.I. tools — and they were not cheap. Now the tokenmaxxing era appears to be over.

Meta told employees last week that it would soon limit A.I. use after seeing an “exponential increase” in costs. In May, Uber said it had blown through its projected A.I. spending for the year in just four months, and it has placed some monthly limits on A.I. coding tools. Walmart also set limits for different A.I. tools. And Amazon and Meta have taken down the tokenmaxxing leaderboards.

In other words, “tokenminning,” short for “token minimizing,” is now in.

Magneto Was Left@padraigkingsley· May 28

COUNTERPOINT: yes, yes it will

PAStE Magazine Headline:

Ozzy Osbourne's Al ghost won't be "fucking lame," son
assures

Magneto Was Left@padraigkingsley· May 27

This page feels even more profound when you remember that Chris Claremont based his transformation of Magneto on Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, as he tried to imagine what it would be like for a bloodthirsty terrorist madman to try and reform into a noble statesman.

From X-MEN (2024) #30:

Magneto says that, "Collective punishments … it's too attractive, Quentin. To ignore guilt or innocence, to abandon judgment and indulge in retribution, regardless of the existence of any culpability? To look at an entire group of people and declare them fit for punishment? It's too easy. It's what THEY do."

Magneto Was Left@padraigkingsley· May 27

*taps microphone* may I have your attention please Magneto is right This has been a public service announcement, thank you

from X-MEN (2024) #30:

Quentin Quire yells "I'LL PUNISH ALL OF THEM MAGNETO! THEY BUILT SENTINELS HERE! THEY'RE ALL GUILTY!"

Magneto calmly replies "Once, not so long ago … I would have agreed with you"

Magneto Was Left@padraigkingsley· May 26

Some powerful words from @attackerman.bsky.social on the horrors of a hunger strike — and what it says about the horrid conditions endured by those who are push to partake in one. www.forever-wars.com/give-me-libe...

Because they have been pushed past the limits of their endurance. Hunger strikers are beyond despair. I mean that in a Nietzschean sense. Despair was a reaction to their hopes getting crushed. Without hope, despair has no fuel. The hunger striker has reached a point of understanding that there will be no deliverance from their torment, no matter what nonsense their captors tell reporters about due process and humane internal conditions. Death is all they have, and so death must be put to use. They seek to inflict upon their captors unbearable political pressure or die trying. Think the Irish revolutionaries Bobby Sands or Dolours Price, or the imprisoned Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouthi.

Magneto Was Left@padraigkingsley· May 25

BEGUN, THE BUTLERIAN JIHAD HAS

ENCYCLICAL LETTER
MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS
OF HIS HOLINESS
POPE LEO XIV
ON SAFEGUARDING THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
I1 I1 11
INTRODUCTION
1. Humanity, created by God in all its grandeur, is today facing a pivotal choice: either to construct a new Tower of Babel or to build the city in which God and humanity dwell together.

Magneto Was Left@padraigkingsley· Apr 23

LYSISTRATA by Aristophanes (pub. 411 BCE)

World’s Biggest Condom Maker Raises Prices as Iran War Rattles Supply Chains

Magneto Was Left@padraigkingsley· Apr 20

OH COME ON

The Communist Manifesto — a Barnes & Noble Exclusive

Magneto Was Left@padraigkingsley· Apr 16

Like this 2021 NYT article about the band literally talks about them practicing and recording *in the basement of their parents palatial Brooklyn brownstone* — oh wait, sorry, they "stumbled" into their career, what are the chances! www.nytimes.com/2021/10/27/a...

A 2021 article about GEESE from the NY Times: A few weeks ago, as the teens sat in the sunroom of the funky Fort Greene brownstone owned by Bassin’s parents, they talked about the experience of essentially stumbling into what’s looking like a career. “I would tell myself, ‘Yeah, I’m excited for it,’” the guitarist Foster Hudson said. “Then I realized, ‘Oh man, there’s this tightness in my chest.’ I didn’t realize how much stress it was causing me.”

Magneto Was Left@padraigkingsley· Apr 9

Where my Whiteboys at who wanna join the tumultuous uprising against the colonial capitalist landlords

A post from 1776 Live from Apr 4, 2027:

The Parliament of Ireland passes an act condemning "tumultuous risings" by the Whiteboys, an Irish agrarian political group whose movement is called
"Whiteboyism."

Below the text is an illustration of Whiteboys beating a landlord.

Magneto Was Left@padraigkingsley· Apr 7

I said that Kneecap did nothing wrong! Right there in the tweet! (And then expanded on that in my reply right below, which you may not have seen)

Keir Starmer failed to punish Kneecap for DOING ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG

Magneto Was Left@padraigkingsley· Apr 7

READ THE FUCKING ROOM BRO

A screenshot of the above post getting reposted by "Alkimo AI"

Magneto Was Left@padraigkingsley· Apr 3

Fun fact: the infamous Israeli con artist Uri Geller is a canonical Marvel character — and the first villain to face Daredevil after his inaugural encounter with Bullseye

Marvel Wiki entry for Uri Geller 616:

= Contents
[hide]
1. History
2. Notes
3. See Also
4. Links and References
4.1. References
History
Uri Geller was a stage performer who possessed paranormal abilities that included telekinesis and telepathy. As a child, he had been struck by a light of presumably extraterrestrial origin which had granted him these powers.
He opposed less-powered ESPer Mind-Wave in
Europe, but could not prevent Mind-Wave's escape to loot cities elsewhere.
When Mind-Wave attacked New York City, District Attorney Blake Tower asked Daredevil to work with him. Together they stopped Mind-Wave, not without some collateral damage.
Uri Geller
END METAL.
I CAN CAUSE TO BEND I HALF.
Name
Uri Geller
Physical Characteristics
Origin and Living Status
Personal Information
Creators and Appearances
Creators
Marv Wolfman, William
Robert Brown
First
Daredevil #133
(February, 1976)

Magneto Was Left@padraigkingsley· Apr 1

fuuuuuuuuu —

Screenshot of a tweet/post by Daniel Yang @punished_daniel:

"Start here if you want to learn what's happening with the strait of Hormuz"

Below that is a screenshot of a post from @TruueDiscipline that features screenshots about Zoe Quinn "launching" gamergate

Magneto Was Left@padraigkingsley· Mar 20

I love Chris Shiflett. "Yeah my buddy Dave Grohl having an affair was a bummer but then a wildfire destroyed everything I own lol" www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...

“When Dave called me that morning,” Shiflett says, “I just thought: take all the time you need. And then my house burned down a few months after that,” in the Los Angeles wildfires. “So having an extensive break wound up being necessary for me."

Magneto Was Left@padraigkingsley· Mar 17

JFC the head of the department isn't even hiding his reactionary right-wing sneer in his official missives.

Original sin has been replaced by colonialism, American slavery, and the Holocaust. Does it matter that Western nations are now being colonized by non-Westerners? Does it matter that the Arab slave-trade was worse than the American, or that the crimes of Stalin and Mao were greater than those of Hitler? No, the great replacement is good, you’re obviously Islamophobic, and Hitler is the new Satan. Only one of his demons would ask such questions.

Or maybe the new Satan is Trump? He’s Hitler after all. In any case, straight white men are the original sinners. The new Saints include MLK Jr and Nelson Mandela. Never mind that both were communists, the first a plagiarist and the second a terrorist.

Magneto Was Left@padraigkingsley· Mar 17

Hashtag no regrets

A UNITED IRELAND CAN BE ACHIEVED
THROUGH NON-VIOLENT MEMES

Magneto Was Left@padraigkingsley· Mar 1

Ahh, so it's *my* fault that my neurodivergent child would vomit from certain textures and smells, and I should keep forcing him to physiologically suffer, cool