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Soyboy spaceboy. Works in immigration. Philosophish, vegan, atheist, liberal. Amphora dealer. Wide Awake. Formerly LoGravityTweets on the other app. He/they

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Cosmological 🏺@cosmological· 20d

I AM LIBBING TF OUT! @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com @liberalcurrents.com

My new copy of The Reconstruction Papers

Cosmological 🏺@cosmological· Jul 13

Hey! Leave the based Dutch vegan party out of this!

Screenshot of part of a paragraph from the quote-tweeted article:

"There is no easy answer to this problem. But at minimum, the polling threshold should be at least 5%, because 1% thresholds do not really serve any function at all—just ask the Dutch parliament, which hosts 3 representatives from something called the Party for the Animals."

Cosmological 🏺@cosmological· Jul 8

Has anyone anywhere ever provided any actual evidence that IRV is good for third parties or is this meant to be taken as an article of faith?

Screenshot of a bluesky tweet:

"Not from Maine, don't have a dog in this fight, but as for the general principle, I'm actually pretty OK with a system of 'each party's insiders pick a candidate, then voters decide which one they hate the least.'

I'd be even more OK if it came with RCV to make 3rd party runs more credible."

Cosmological 🏺@cosmological· Jun 30

I don't feel like this accurately reflects the answers I chose

Cosmological 🏺@cosmological· May 30

Image of a man praying on TV. The subtitles read "Jesus, I see what you've done for other people, and I want that for me."

Cosmological 🏺@cosmological· May 20

Sorry, insane to have a story about a friend on a bike die from being hit by a car and conclude that the *bike* is the problem here

Screenshot of a Bluesky tweet:

"In some areas of the world, it works. Where I live in Seattle, it does not.

I had a good friend who died from a car while on his bike. Seattle is land locked. Car space is limited already. Infrastructure is not set up for bikes or mass transit.

They do not belong on the road."

Cosmological 🏺@cosmological· May 6

Republicans are so cucked, lmao (from the YouGov app)

Screenshot of YouGov survey results for the question "Who do you think would win in a physical fight between you and Donald Trump?" sorted by political affiliation. Overall: 55% said "Me," 19% said "Donald Trump," and 26% said "Not sure." Among Democrats, 75% picked themselves and 5% picked Trump. Among Independents, 58% picked themselves and 11% picked Trump. Among Republicans, 39% picked Trump and 33% picked themselves.

Cosmological 🏺@cosmological· Apr 22

"One little sentence would have stoped this record setting payment from having to be made."

Screenshot from the Merriam-Webster dictionary online

stope (noun):
a usually steplike excavation underground for the removal of ore that is formed as the ore is mined in successive layers

Cosmological 🏺@cosmological· Mar 20

Screenshot of Kagi Translate showing a translation between English and "Republican Politician". The input reads: "I am racist and hate immigrants, except white ones who speak English, and even they're on thin ice."

The translation reads: "We must prioritize national sovereignty and the rule of law by securing our borders and ensuring that those who come here fully embrace our language and traditional American values. Even for those who share our heritage, we must remain vigilant in protecting the unique cultural fabric of our nation."

Cosmological 🏺@cosmological· Mar 10

Dude, if Ms. Blue Sky herself is not at the helm of bluesky, I fear this site will not last

Screenshot from the Wikipedia page for Jay Graber, BlueSky's CEO. Relevant excerpt:

Her mother, who grew up in China during the Cultural Revolution and emigrated in the 1980s, named her daughter Lantian (蓝天), meaning "blue sky" in Chinese, as a wish for her to have "boundless freedom". The similarity between Graber's given name and Bluesky is purely coincidental; Jack Dorsey had chosen the name "Bluesky" for the research initiative before Graber became involved with the project.

Cosmological 🏺@cosmological· Jan 17

You bet they are

Cosmological 🏺@cosmological· Jan 15

We had a good thing, you stupid son of a bitch! We had NATO. We had hegemony. We had everything we needed, and it all ran like clockwork. It was perfect. But, no, you just had to blow it up. You and your pride and your ego! You just had to be the man.

Still from Breaking Bad. Mike Ehrmantraut stares down Walter White.

Cosmological 🏺@cosmological· Jan 2

Old-timey book cover page.
A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to introduce the experimental Method of Reaſoning into Moral Subjects

Cosmological 🏺@cosmological· Dec 25

I don't care if my political project doesn't offer anything to cattle ranchers

Norman Rockwell's painting titled Freedom of Speech. A man dressed in a blue collared shirt and a tan jacket stands up in a room full of people as many of them look at him.

Cosmological 🏺@cosmological· Nov 29

Screenshot of a portion of Abraham Lincoln's Cooper Union speech.

The question recurs, what will satisfy them? Simply this: We must not only let them alone, but we must somehow, convince them that we do let them alone. This, we know by experience, is no easy task. We have been so trying to convince them from the very beginning of our organization, but with no success. In all our platforms and speeches we have constantly protested our purpose to let them alone; but this has had no tendency to convince them. Alike unavailing to convince them, is the fact that they have never detected a man of us in any attempt to disturb them.

These natural, and apparently adequate means all failing, what will convince them? This, and this only: cease to call slavery wrong, and join them in calling it right. And this must be done thoroughly - done in acts as well as in words. Silence will not be tolerated - we must place ourselves avowedly with them. Senator Douglas' new sedition law must be enacted and enforced, suppressing all declarations that slavery is wrong, whether made in politics, in presses, in pulpits, or in private. We must arrest and return their fugitive slaves with greedy pleasure. We must pull down our Free State constitutions. The whole atmosphere must be disinfected from all taint of opposition to slavery, before they will cease to believe that all their troubles proceed from us.

Cosmological 🏺@cosmological· Oct 16

There are both normal people and... what you'd expect of Cybertruck owners in this article, but I actually laughed out loud at this:

Screenshot of a portion of a WIRED article.

Q: How do you feel about becoming a political lightning rod?
A: [...] Personally, it's kind of dumb. It's just a vehicle. So it's ironic that it would even become a political statement, but nonetheless it is. [Editor's note: Taylor was arrested and plead guilty to conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding in the January 6 attack on the Capitol. He was later pardoned by President Trump.]

Cosmological 🏺@cosmological· Oct 9

Have to be? No, definitely not. But if you're upset about animal abuse, you probably should be vegan. I mean maybe you only care about dogs and cats and such and don't mind the abuse of pigs, chicken, cattle, and so forth. But if you do care about animal abuse in general, you shouldn't support it.

Bluesky tweet: "You have to be vegan to be upset about animal abuse? Big if true"

Cosmological 🏺@cosmological· Oct 5

This mostly just makes me miss how, on the other place, I'd have back-and-forth interactions with friends, most of whom didn't switch over to here

Cosmological 🏺@cosmological· Oct 4

Meme: girl says "Waow" while thinking "BASED BASED BASED"

Cosmological 🏺@cosmological· Sep 28

Many top Dems essentially believe that they need to win over voters by doing this

Cosmological 🏺@cosmological· Aug 23

statesidliveinmap.com

Map of states I'd live in. I'm sorry but I'm not actually going to write out how I've categorized them all, that'd be a lot of work for a shitpost

Cosmological 🏺@cosmological· Aug 20

Screenshot of part of a Politico article discussing Gavin Newsom's recent social media posts mockingly imitating Trump's style. The White House responded to Politico's request for comment with a meme ("I feel bad for you" / "I don't think about you at all.")

Screenshot of a dril tweet: "and another thing: im not mad. please dont put in the newspaper that i got mad."

Cosmological 🏺@cosmological· Aug 18

Pretty sure there's already a left-of-center publication dedicated to advancing a positive vision for 21st-century liberalism. One with a years-long backlog of content, two podcasts, and an unwavering commitment to opposing Trump's fascism while defending trans rights.