epistemic crisis actor

@insaanity.bsky.social

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We all live under the same sky. Antifascist, anticapitalist, feminist, anti-racist, anti-imperialist, humanist. Somehow still convinced we can make the world a better place because we absolutely must. End capitalism before it ends us.

A screen capture with an arrow pointing at the man who pretends to row as his oar magically waggles on its own.
Black and white image of a boy in a bathing suit holding a garden hose with the nozzle in his mouth, about to find out that you really shouldn't spray one of those high pressure nozzles RIGHT INTO YOUR MOUTH ARE YOU CRAZY
Scene from Repo Man: The more you drive, the less intelligent you are
Jello Biafra on stage rubbing his together with a maniacal grin
Map of 1972 presidential election results showing a completely red United States with the exception of McGovern winning Massachusetts and DC. Nixon won 520, McGovern 17.
Sergeant Carter in "Gomer Pyle USMC" right up in Gomer's face and grinning maliciously
Chevy Chase in Community sitting alone on a bench at a carnival looking miserable as everyone around him is happy. Subtitle: Goodbye
Diedrich Bader as Lawrence in Office Space
555-COME-ON-NOW meme: man looking over his glasses into the camera with a "come on now" expression
Scene from Brazil. Close-up of a printer printing TUTTLE then mistakenly printing BUTTLE due to an insect in the mechanism, which is splattered on the page next to BUTTLE.
Social democracy has been described as the most common form of Western or modern socialism, as well as the reformist wing of democratic socialism. Amongst social democrats, attitudes towards socialism vary: some retain socialism as a long-term goal, with social democracy being a political and economic democracy supporting a gradualist, reformist, and democratic approach towards achieving socialism. Others view it as an ethical ideal to guide reforms within capitalism. While both social democracy and democratic socialism once referred to movements seeking to achieve socialism, modern social democracies retain a capitalist system, whereas democratic socialists continue to advocate for its abolition. Nevertheless, the distinction remains blurred in colloquial settings, and the two terms are commonly used synonymously. The Third Way is an offshoot of social democracy which aims to fuse economic liberalism with social democratic economic policies and center-left social policies. It is a reconceptualization of social democracy developed in the 1990s and is embraced by some social democratic parties; with some political scientists and analysts characterising the Third Way as an effectively neoliberal movement.
Dew point graph Below 50F / 10C: Dry 50-55F / 10-12C: Comfortable 56-60F / 13-15C: Pleasant 61-65F / 16-18C: Sticky 66-70F / 18-21C: Humid 71-75F / 21-23C: Oppressive 76+F / 24+C: Miserable
A white woman with gray hair in a wheelchair holding a sign saying MASS DEPORTATION NOW! with big smile on her face.
epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bs... 1d Neoliberalism benefits the wealthy at the expense of everyone else, and it has resulted in the grotesque and unprecedented levels of wealth inequality we now see worldwide. There's no reason to think voters chose this willingly. It has been forced upon them by both parties for over 30 years. sjoyner1965.bsky.social @sjoyner19... 1h Then explain Reagan's popularity. You're coming at this from a rationalist perspective. Bigotry isn't rational, and folks will behave irrationally if it caters to their bigotry. Yes, they absolutely supported massive tax breaks, because that's what was necessary to destroy the social safety net.
Screen shot of a Twitter post. Centrist rally organizer @InternetHippo Just got back from the centrist rally. Amazing turnout. Thousands of people holding hands and chanting "Better things aren't possible"
I have long opposed governmental recognition of same-gender marriages and this legislation is consistent with that position. The Act confirms the right of each state to determine its own policy with respect to same gender marriage and clarifies for purposes of federal law the operative meaning of the terms "marriage" and "spouse". - from Bill Clinton's statement on signing the Defense of Marriage Act (emphasis added)
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Two big handfuls of garmonbozia
The Dude buying milk at Ralph's wearing a robe, t-shirt, shorts, and flip flops. And sunglasses.
For a long time, I thought the Democrats were fighting valiantly but just overwhelmed by the oligarchy and the Republicans. Then I saw that the Democrats keep losing fights they should win and figured they must be just weak and ineffectual. Then I kept seeing them backing off without putting up any fight at all and decided they were gutless cowards. Finally, I noticed that enough of them keep voting with the Republicans to always ensure that the Republicans more or less win almost every fight, and that they start by bargaining from the Center position and moving Right -- and eventually, after enough of that, it became impossible to ignore the only conclusion that actually fits the facts: The Democrats are not overmatched, they aren't weak, they aren't cowards ... they're complicit.
Close-up gif of Peter Sellers as Dr Strangelove
Richard Ayoade as a revolutionary guerilla leader in The Phoenician Scheme
Close-up of Mia Threapleton as Liesl in The Phoenician Scheme wearing her white novice habit and holding the small bit elaborate pipe she was just given by her father, saying "I love it."
"Satan" from the show Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell
Shinzo Abe giving a thumbs up and a big smile while sitting in the cockpit of a military jet that has a very large number 731 on it directly below him.
Gif of President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho riding his mega-trike, chugging some beer, throwing down the mostly full can, popping a wheelie, standing up yelling and giving the world the finger.
The Emperor in Amadeus saying "Well, there it is" and walking off.
The Emperor in Amadeus saying "Well, there it is" and walking off.
The Mitch & Mickey album cover from A Mighty Wind, showing them holding hands in front of a tree made to look like it has a carving saying Together Forever inside a heart with an arrow through it.
Charlie Brown once again flying in the air because Lucy moved the ball at the last second.
Super Hans, the crack-adled maniac, is NOT an animal. Fucking hell, use a coaster!
Richard Hanania in Lost Highway (not really)
Alex Blechman @AlexBlechman Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus 5:49 PM - Nov 8, 2021 - Twitter Web App
An image of what many flat earth conspiracists claim the world looks like: a flat disc with the Arctic in the center, all the continents arranged around it, with Antarctica as an ice wall along the outer rim of the disc.
An AI-generated image of a woman on a beach with normal head, face, hair, shoulders, and arms, but instead of a body she just has oversized calves and feet.
Screen shot of my report from the Cover Your Tracks privacy tester: Our tests indicate that you have strong protection against Web tracking. Is your browser: Blocking tracking ads? Yes Blocking invisible trackers? Yes Protecting you from fingerprinting? Your browser has a unique fingerprint
Colorful infographic from The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy TV series showing the Babel Fish. Side view of the fish, with many parts labeled, including TELEPATHIC EXCRETOR, OLFACTORY BULB, EXTENDABLE NERVE SIGNSL SENSOR, UNCONSCIOUS FREQUENCY SENSORS. Main caption: THE BABEL FISH IS SMALL, YELLOW, LEECHLIKE, AND PROBABLY THE ODDEST THING IN THE UNIVERSE.
An animated scene of a massive space battle in the sci-fi MMO EVE Online
Short clip of the scene from The Blues Brothers when just after saying "I hate Illinois Nazis" they drive their car right at the Nazis and force them to jump off a bridge into a river.
A ThinkPad T23 screen showing a console login with the following text: Arch Linux 3.7.9-2-ARCH (tty2) archbang login: root Password: Last login: Mon Jun 24 10:47:59 on tty2 [root@archbang ~]# uname -a Linux archbang 3.7.9-2-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Feb 25 12:29:24 CET 2013 i686 GNU/Linux [root@archbang ~]#
A ThinkPad T23 turned on and showing a screen saying WELCOME with a login prompt. The backdrop is a blue sky at sunrise with a scattering of low-lying clouds.
Close up of Agent Dale Cooper in the Black Lodge, very dark background, with strobe lights flashing and lighting up his face from different angles.
Diedrich Bader as Lawrence in Office Space
Shiv Ramdas Mens Ric... @nam... 6mo I am very much afraid that "this non nazi leftist was so dumb he spent 18 years wearing a nazi tattoo"is not the endorsement that you seem to think it is
Screenshots from Clearsky: margaretforsyth.bsky.social 4 minutes ag... Two lies right in a row. 1. He never worked for Blackwater. Straight up lie.2. He was not a guard at the prison in Abu Ghraib. Abu Ghraib is a whole ass CITY in which that prison is located. He was a gunner in a combat unit stationed in the CITY of Abu Ghraib, several years AFTER the abuses. margaretforsyth.bsky.social 10 minutes a... I'm just blocking away like crazy. They're all just spewing venom. margaretforsyth.bsky.social 13 minutes a... Fact check: There are about 10 "problematic" posts. The rest of the 1800 show him to be consistently progressive and mostly concerned about vets getting help to readjust to civilian life. We're vetting him on June 9. It's called a primary. margaretforsyth.bsky.social 16 minutes a... Suddenly, a lot of ugly nasty trolls have popped up. These are new ones because I blocked the old ones. Someone is getting scared and freaking out.
Margaret Forsyth @margaretforsyth.bsky.social User Blocking You Replies over 20 times per day on average
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Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It saying to Ollie: "Don't ever, ever call me a bully. I'm so much worse than that."
The Waiter from Twin Peaks giving a thumbs up
Nada from They Live looking over his sunglasses
Quote from Ben Collins: The name’s great, but Alex is so one-note. It’s just: get afraid of this thing, take this supplement, it’ll make you stronger for the day they come and take all your stuff. I’m sorry, I’m bored by it.
Terry Crews as President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho driving his giant multiperson motorcycle thing, drinking a beer and smashing it down, screaming, standing up giving the world the finger with both hands, screaming some more. American flags everywhere.
The Man from Another Place saying "Let's rock!"
A photo of the inside of the Cordoba Mezquita-Catedral (mosque-cathedral), looking at an angle through seemingly endless columns topped by beautiful arches of alternating light and dark stone.
Black and white photo of Margaret Hamilton standing next to a stack of computer printouts that are as tall as she is.
Screenshot of a Twitter post: Alex Blechman @AlexBlechman Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus 5:49 PM Nov 8, 2021 Twitter Web App
Fred Astaire once told the brothers that this dance number was the greatest number he had ever seen on film. The choreographer Nick Castle said, "Just do it. Don't rehearse it, just do it." And so it was done, unrehearsed and in one take, which relieved Harold Nicholas because he did not want to do the rigorous routine over and over all night. In another signature move, they would rise from a split without using their hands. Gregory Hines declared that if their biography were ever filmed, their dance numbers would have to be computer-generated because no one now could emulate them. Ballet legend Mikhail Baryshnikov once called them the most amazing dancers he had ever seen in his life.
The famous "I'm doing my part!" clip from Starship Troopers.
Two images of David Lynch In the top image he's looking into the camera saying "One day the sadness will end." In the bottom image he's looking to the side, slightly upward apparently toward a window, saying "But I don't think today's the day."