mtraven

@mtraven23.bsky.social

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knowledge plumber, metacognitive engineer, dada scientist, anarchitect, investigative pataphysician, certified subgenius saint, professional amateur. Agency Made Me Do It: https://hyperphor.com/ammdi

General Ripper from Dr. Strangelove
Captain Queeg (played by Humphrey Bogart) from The Caine Mutiny
quote from counterterrorism document announcing plans to kill the "radically pro-transgender"
Tattoo of Socrates with surrounding text "Born to Raise Questions"
Ad for "the first agentic cannabis device"
Description of Walmart "Ladies Day" ritual where gender roles were reversed
Leftism is understood to include all strains of political thought that have a collectivist focus, reject capitalism, reject imperialism, and embrace some form of proletarian governance. This can include Marxists, Leninist, Anarchists, Socialists, and the many sub variations of these leftist theories. Importantly it *does* include Democratic Socialists but *does not* include Social Democrats.
Sean Hannity wondering if the Pope has read the bible
Nancy strip where she falls into a Firesign Theater Nick Danger episode
LAPD arresting a woman dressed as the Statue of Liberty
Giant explosion in the pink and blue trans flag colors, near port of San Francisco
Vending machine screen advertising an OpenClaw agent named Valerie
Trump receiving a brain from the Scarecrow in Wizard of Oz
A wankpanzer (cybertruck) with fake-hippie ad decals
DHS Tweet, text is "one homeland, one people, one heritage"
If your brain rewards you for believing you occupy a high position in a hierarchy, and if it doesn’t particularly care whether that hierarchy is real or fabricated, then bigotry becomes a neurochemical cheat code. Believing you’re inherently superior to an entire race or gender gives you a serotonin boost without requiring you to actually accomplish anything.
Remixed Nancy where she asks Santa for an elf slave
Santa Claus with big amanita
You don’t have to be a wild-eyed leftist to think all of this has a pre-French Revolution vibe. It feels like a “let them eat cake” moment—and that’s to say nothing about the Trumpist kleptocracy that competes every day for headlines with our Muskian plutocracy.
Shot of tweet where Bill Ackman praises Andew Cuomo's debate with Mamdani
Antoun Chigurh smiling
Steve Buscemi as bellhop in Barton Fink
Palantir ad "Software that dominates"
Final scene of Twin Peaks: The Return, Cooper asks "what year is this?"
General Jack D Ripper from Dr. Strangelove
I want to draw out a critical element of what happened on Monday and which we learned today. DOGE went to the private security contractor working for USIP and essentially said, you don’t have a clear legal or ethical ability to do this. But if you don’t want to lose all your federal contracts, you have to. And they did. This cuts to the core of DOGE’s role as a rogue operation inside the federal government and critically one that very much by design engineered its ability to work across the entire federal government. One department or another … none of that matters. DOGE is operating everywhere.
Caught in the grips of despair? Times are tough, huh, bud? – R Crumb