Wes

@wescontreras

Psychology, politics, philosophy, technology, larp, psychedelics, ADHD. Portland, OR.

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Wes@wescontreras· 18d

I wonder what's going to happen when they announce their first public earnings report in a couple weeks and employees get to start selling...

A graph of SpaceX stock price showing a couple days of hype right after the API followed by a long decline, currently at $113.05 against a $150 opening day.

Wes@wescontreras· May 12

ded

A giant fluffy white and orange cat napping on his back, belly floof on full display.

Wes@wescontreras· Mar 24

Maybe click the link.

This product line does not report in detail on war crimes because these activities are well-covered in Western media and do not directly affect the military operations we are assessing and forecasting. ISW and CTP utterly condemn violations of the laws of armed conflict, Geneva Conventions, and humanity even though we do not describe them in these reports

Wes@wescontreras· Mar 19

“It’s so hard,” he says. “They already had a bunch of issues before. Now it’s like, ‘Well, now you’re missing an arm.’ How are you going to now recover? You got chronic pain associated with injury. You need services. You’re homeless. You have underlying mental health issues. There’s no way that one expects you to recover from your addiction at this point. I mean, it’s nearly impossible.”

Wes@wescontreras· Mar 19

So many people assumed a war wouldn't break too much stuff. Turns out that was wrong.

State-owned QatarEnergy, the operator of Ras Laffan, told Reuters the damage of its LNG units, in which ExxonMobile was a co-investor, would take three to five years to repair, cost the company $20bn a year in lost revenue, and force it to cancel long term contracts with Italy, Belgium, Korea, and China.

The volume of gas now lost for the foreseeable future is roughly 17% of Qatar's total capacity.

Wes@wescontreras· Mar 3

I'll just leave this here.

Fred from Scooby-Doo unmasking a tied up villain: Before the unmasking, he's labeled "both parties suck," but after the mask comes off, he's labeled "Republican."

Wes@wescontreras· Feb 22

"What you did there - I see it" against a background of a white pelican starting oddly directly into the eyes of a researcher in their office.

Wes@wescontreras· Feb 19

Oh you hate ICE? Remember that when you're being mugged by an MS-13 gang member and you need 10 5'4 dumbasses to beat up a totally unrelated 65 year old cleaning lady on the way to her job.

(an X post by Comandante Starkins, @FanSince09)

Wes@wescontreras· Jan 23

Looks like it's just surrendering passports.

Screenshot of the court document saying defendants have to surrender and not replace passport and other foreign travel documents.

Wes@wescontreras· Jan 23

The actual NYT headline is even worse, and the article doesn't just center the admin's narrative, but explicitly dismisses anyone else's.

Headline: Detention of 5-year-old by federal agents incenses Minneapolis

A photo showed a boy with an oversized hat and Spider-Man backpack being held next to a vehicle as his father was detained. A Homeland Security spokeswoman said the man had fled and left the child.

Wes@wescontreras· Jan 22

Don't need tools against ICE
if there is no ICE

Wes@wescontreras· Jan 21

I remember when pepper spraying peaceful protesters just once dominated the news for days. UC Davis hired a PR firm to (fail to) scrub it from search results! Now it's just a regular Wednesday. nbd. #DarkestTimeline

An officer casually pepper spraying a row of students sitting on the ground peacefully.

Wes@wescontreras· Jan 12

This is what the European financial sector is waking up to.

Reuters headline: Stocks wobble, dollar dips as Trump-Fed feud deepens

Wes@wescontreras· Jan 9

The victims called for help 3 miles away from where they were shot. Border patrol does not appear to have told Portland police anything until they showed up to investigate gunshots.

Map of Portland showing the location of the shooting vs. where the victims called for help.

Wes@wescontreras· Jan 8

Is anyone able to confirm this? I'm not finding anything to contradict it...

it's probably worth noting that for all of the right-wing narrative around Minneapolist being unsafe, there has only been *one* homicide in the city so far this year.

it happened today and was committed by a masked ICE agent.

-sam_d_1995 on X

Wes@wescontreras· Jan 1

I have questions.

A YouTube video advertisement declaring WE'RE F*CKED by a picture of an alleged ex-AI "scientist"... tagged as an "AI upload"

Wes@wescontreras· Dec 5

Maximizing the profit potential of genocide.

"Will the IPC classify Gaza as experiencing famine this year?" read the wager from this past summer. The bet was eventually settled in the affirmative after the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) did indeed declare famine in Gaza on Aug 22. The more overtly cynical Polymarket, a rival of Kalshi that's backed by right-wing multibillionaire Peter Thiel, allows for even more obscene wagering, permitting users to bet on whether Palestinians will be ethnically cleansed. "Gaza mass population relocation in 2025?" reads one of its many Gaza-related bettering markets. You can also bet on when Israel will bomb Gaza, bomb the West Bank, or annex either.

One cannot, of course, wager on when or if Hamas will attack Israel since, in polite circles, Israelis are considered fully human and Palestinians are not.

Wes@wescontreras· Nov 22

"How to woo a woman, step one" over a picture of Rick Flair in a gaudy robe captioned WOOOOOOOO!!

Wes@wescontreras· Nov 11

My $72 product from Germany gets an extra $23 in tariffs. Fuck you, Trump.

Screenshot of a receipt with $72.80 subtotal and $23.66 in duties.

Wes@wescontreras· Oct 16

Seen in Portland.

A row of posters with a frog face saying "DON'T OBEY"

Wes@wescontreras· Oct 16

Near the ICE facility in Portland.

A rack of colorful costumes on a sidewalk with a FREE sign.

Wes@wescontreras· Oct 16

Claude is better, though not by much.

A screenshot of claude.ai fumbling around trying to figure out that there's no seahorse emoji and failing.

Wes@wescontreras· Oct 14

The "live map" isn't up any more, but the site still has the data. Choose the appropriate election and select by congressional district. www.atlasizer.com

Map of the NY 8th Congressional District with voting results showing 44.15% of the vote to Mamdani and 41.23% to Cuomo.

Wes@wescontreras· Oct 14

Did it?

Screenshot of a table of results by congressional district showing Mamdani winning the 8th district (where Jeffries won his election).

Wes@wescontreras· Oct 14

In the words of Hakeem Jeffries...

A tweet from Hakeem Jeffries saying "Trump is the existential threat poisoning America. Vote BLUE (no matter who)."

Wes@wescontreras· Oct 13

The fascist project requires the suppression of human virtue, which means showing virtue is anti-fascist. www.the-reframe.com/the-crime-of...

There's a picture from the early days of the Trump regime that has lived with me ever since: A man at FBI headquarters painting over words on a wall. Each word is a human virtue. The man is covering them all with a large paint roller; overwriting fairness and compassion, leadership, diversity, integrity, respect, responsibility, leaving nothing but a blank plane of grey. The man could be anyone. He's not extraordinary. They told him to paint over human virtue and he did it, as if human virtue can be eradicated with a bit of paint. There can be no better picture of the fascist project.

From www.the-reframe.com

Wes@wescontreras· Oct 13

Observing who someone chooses to celebrate tells you something about their values.

Chat: I'm watching a movie about America's first serial killer
Reply: Christopher Columbus?

Wes@wescontreras· Oct 8

$ANTI-ANTIFA on a hoodie worn by one of a group of right-wing thugs with the caption: ok now reduce your fraction$

Wes@wescontreras· Sep 30

Wow. This is some powerful writing. And the footnotes are *so good*.

Judicial text: Small wonder then that our bastions of independent unbiased free speech -- those entities we once thought unassailable -- have proven all too often to have only Quaker guns. Behold President Trump's successes in limiting free speech -- law firms cower, institutional leaders in higher education meekly appease the President, media outlets from huge conglomerates to small niche magazines mind the bottom of the line rather than the ethics of journalism.

Wes@wescontreras· Sep 29

This is a disgusting amount of left-behind trash.