Erik the Pleb

Erik the Pleb

@erikfrechette.bsky.social

Proud sufferer of toxic empathy disorder. Let’s starve Audible and support local booksellers: buy DRM-free audiobooks at https://libro.fm/referral?rf_code=lfm777257

577 Followers 3,783 Following 1,698 Posts Joined Jul 2023
1 day ago

If only our society were one focused on spreading the wealth and building a better future for ourselves as well as our children.

1 0 0 0
1 day ago

Smooth brain, strong jawline, white skin, complete lack of morality. This man is omega level white supremacist and a prototypical Musk toady.

2 0 0 0
1 day ago

Fitting imagery for modern, American fascists. Why bother burning historical truth in service to your foundational lies, when you can just throw it all in a dumpster and have it hauled off to the incinerator.

These malignant idiots will lose.

1 0 0 0
1 day ago

During my lifetime, the Florida I know has evolved from a backward, melting pot, tourist state where most people rarely discussed religion, into a state captured by white supremacist, religious fundamentalists determined to imprison all of us in some imagined version of the Dark Ages.

0 0 0 0
1 day ago

I’m no academic, but having grown up in a US perpetually pummeled by white-Christian-corporatist conservatism, I have never understood their endgame. If not fascism rebranded as corporate authoritarianism, or wealthy minority domination, what? This essay is hefty. Going to require multiple passes. 😆

0 0 0 0
2 days ago
YouTube
Noiselund feat. Red Letter Media and friends - Look At Me (Bop Bop Bop) YouTube video by Noiselund

Look at me, bop-bop-bop!

0 0 0 0
2 days ago

It's lunatic farce. The US carpet bombed Vietnam, only to desperately evacuate Saigon. We held Afghanistan and Iraq by force, right up until the day we didn't. Now there are chants of, "Death to America" in the Iraqi parliament. Maduro's people control Venezuela today.

They're malignant idiots.

2 0 0 0
2 days ago
Preview
a man is sitting on a swing in the grass ALT: a man is sitting on a swing in the grass

How the hell do we have another week to wait for the next MotoGP race. There may not be a world a week from now! 😭

2 1 1 0
2 days ago

Fascist little worms.

“If you’re not white, straight, and male, you're out.”

1 0 0 0
3 days ago

I know Villeneuve was/is a contentious figure for some, but he could drive. My dad remembered seeing Gilles drive live and we watched Jacques' entire climb to CART dominance. That F1 title seemed like just the beginning, but damn things went South after '97. 😫

3 1 1 0
3 days ago
Preview
'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:

www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

6,209 2,989 33 163
3 days ago

Didn't BMW pioneer this specific aspect of our living nightmare with heated seats functionality?

1 0 1 0
3 days ago

Relieved this is satire. Screaming into the void, hoping it takes me, because I live in a world where something like this is/could be a genuine possibility.

2 0 0 0
3 days ago

Bizarre, surely there is an exemption for sponsorships in historical footage??

1 0 0 0
3 days ago
YouTube
How America Got Loomered - SOME MORE NEWS YouTube video by Some More News

Cody’s Showdy released a new, disturbing episodey.

0 0 0 0
3 days ago

A-B testing. Not an actual phrase, was being lazy. 😆 Should have written as A-B’ing.

1 0 0 0
3 days ago
Preview
Think Twice Before Buying or Using Meta’s Ray-Bans Over the last decade or so, the tech industry has tried, and mostly failed, to make “smart glasses”—tech-infused glasses with cameras, AI, maps, displays, and more—a thing. But over the past year, pro...

“Before you strap a dashcam to your face and sprint out into the world filming everything and everyone in your life, there are some civil liberties and privacy concerns to consider before buying or using a pair.”

(Also, don’t buy the pervert glasses)

77 19 0 1
3 days ago

Yeah, must be A-Bing 2027 engine/electronics versus 2026 package to understand the mechanical delta.

3 0 1 0
3 days ago

“I’m not some lowdown, dirty, monosyllabic, gutter racist. No! I am a martinis and brunch, BMW X5, graduate degree, designer glasses racist. I am white-supremacist chic, not white-supremacist in sheets.”

1 0 0 0
3 days ago
Post image

“Progress“ by Nicholas P Myers (u/NPMyers1976)
Source: www.reddit.com/r/ProCreate/...

‘Capitalism is a meatgrinder‘ as an enormous, Epstein-class Jawa sandcrawler. Brilliant!

1 0 0 0
3 days ago

They’re bribing for their lives.

0 0 0 0
4 days ago

A government official from an Islamic fascist state reading a similar passage from the Quran: a terrorist, a warmonger, a threat to global security.

A government official from a would-be Christian fascist state reading from the Bible: a holy crusader, a champion of Christ, a hero saving the world.🙄

1 0 0 0
4 days ago

So, first we get the faceless, corrupt, authoritarian killers from V for Vendetta without the charm of Hugo Weaving. Now we’re getting the autonomous, merciless killing machines from Murderbot without the charisma of Alexander Skarsgård.

I hate this movie and want it to stop.

0 0 0 0
5 days ago

What a rancid human being. I hope his parents are bitterly disappointed that this man is they raised, but I would bet he is the product of a particular kind of household.

0 0 0 0
5 days ago
Preview
Escape From Capitalism w/ Clara Mattei | MR Live YouTube video by The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder

Clara Mattei's book Escape From Capitalism is already in my backlog. After watching this interview, I'm moving it to the front!

1 0 0 0
6 days ago

The fundamentalists are coming for reality with full force. No one on this Earth has a Biblical responsibility to any country on the planet, Israel or otherwise.

This is loud and proud religious fundamentalism from a US Senator. This type of person should never be trusted with power of any kind.

0 2 0 0
6 days ago

Pathological hubris is a cruel master. I sincerely hope these checks they’re writing cost them everything one day, but given their proximity to power and full embrace of corruption, it’s likely taxpayers will be left holding the bailout bill somehow.

0 0 0 0
1 week ago
Preview
U.S. Judge says Kari Lake broke law in overseeing Voice of America He declared all of Lake's actions over the past year to be null and void, including the layoffs of more than 1,000 journalists and staffers.

He declared all of Lake's actions over the past year to be null and void, including the layoffs of more than 1,000 journalists and staffers. n.pr/4sy0uhE

4,270 1,482 172 94
1 week ago

I am so thankful not to have anyone like this in my life.

1 0 0 0
1 week ago

That is super cool. McQuarrie was great! The official Star Wars site has a lot of McQuarrie material, but I love the paintings he did for Empire most.

2 0 0 0