Brian Tester @oblongsound - Bluesky Profile

should be nice and weeeeerd

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Opinion | Why Did Elon Musk Go After Bunkers Full of Seeds? (Gift Article) Gene banks are like a survivalist cache: our nation’s safeguard against all future challenges to growing the food we need.

This should be a much, much bigger story.

And once again I tell you:

Their singular mission is to decimate everyone but them.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/o...

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AI art aesthetic is = 21st century version of Italian Futurism, in service to fascism

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Good to remember that the wealthy German industrialists that supported the 3rd Reich's rise to power (because der fuhrer was anti union) all had their businesses seized and nationalized. And the owners wound up in jail.

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"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all."

Arthur C. Clarke

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Map of the Gulf Coast and That's Yucatan Peninsula with the Gulf of Mexico renamed as the Gulf of Alice Coltrane's 1971 Meteoric Sensation 'Universal Consciousness.'

New map update

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I'm glad that America is doing real classic end of empire stuff. A king who is visibly losing his mind declaring a war based on a dream he had. Greedy courtiers feuding over access to the treasury. Some looks are timeless.

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4. I *know* you know this, because we have all been here before, but I *beg* you to stop imagining that any of this stuff has to make sense by any external metric. That it has to be consistent with reality. The point is to unmoor the discourse from reality.

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2. Let me take a punt: maybe this is not politics, but alternate reality world building. aimed at creating the Trumpiverse, the running reality TV show/WWE special where he fights villains weekly and never truly loses.

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Playing an extremely rare voice and guitar set with good buddies Seculants at my fave St. Paul venue White Squirrel. First show in my hometown in several years!

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