Brendan C. Byrne

@brendancbyrne.bsky.social

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another world isn't possible

Brendan C. Byrne @brendancbyrne.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 16:56 UTC

"The collapse of democracy means the reign of violence, and no amount of poetic justice will make that okay."

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Amy A @lolennui.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 00:03 UTC

I saw Joe biden slip on a banana peel and all his cups and dishes went flying up in the air and he caught them all with his tray

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Brendan C. Byrne @brendancbyrne.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 02:01 UTC

we all know it but don't wanna say it...the only person who can win a general election against Trump is Hunter

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Adam Kotsko @adamkotsko.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 00:57 UTC

"My name is Joe Biden. I used to be president, until... [whistling noise] When you're burned, you've got nothing..."

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Robin Z @firepile.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 01:18 UTC

I'm sorry but I would vote for whoever made this except they are undoubtedly asleep on their couch right now

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Brendan C. Byrne @brendancbyrne.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 01:57 UTC

i may cry i laff so hard

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Brendan C. Byrne @brendancbyrne.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 18:54 UTC

expansion of executive power has been the norm for the last hundred years. this is an acceleration

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Brendan C. Byrne @brendancbyrne.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 22:53 UTC

you wanna talk about racist SF...

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Brendan C. Byrne @brendancbyrne.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 22:52 UTC

Sonnet 121, banger

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Brendan C. Byrne @brendancbyrne.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 21:56 UTC

one of those days i'm unhappy i read THE CAMP OF THE SAINTS

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Brendan C. Byrne @brendancbyrne.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 20:29 UTC

oh wait reading further they did, go sickos go

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Brendan C. Byrne @brendancbyrne.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 20:25 UTC

these sickos found water that was billion years old and didn't drink it www.nytimes.com/2024/06/24/m...

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Brendan C. Byrne @brendancbyrne.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 16:45 UTC

! am psyched

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Brendan C. Byrne @brendancbyrne.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 15:00 UTC

bizarre to be reminded Hitch could bring it literaryreview.co.uk/dead-men-on-...

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Bryan Klausmeyer @bryan.is
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 14:35 UTC

Replace Biden with the dictatorship of the proletariat

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Brendan C. Byrne @brendancbyrne.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 21:55 UTC

i'll grovel for guild rate thom

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Brendan C. Byrne @brendancbyrne.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 21:49 UTC

Tim Maughan, AI-enthusiast and fan of the 2016 feature film ZOOTOPIA

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Brendan C. Byrne @brendancbyrne.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 21:39 UTC

scary how you had that all ready to go man

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Tim Maughan @timmaughan.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 21:37 UTC

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Brendan C. Byrne @brendancbyrne.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 21:33 UTC

Ai what good are you

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com
[ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 21:31 UTC

Are you digging holes at a goddamn criminal conspiracy

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Brendan C. Byrne @brendancbyrne.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 21:30 UTC

AI give me THE WIRE + PAW PATROL

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Brendan C. Byrne @brendancbyrne.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 19:35 UTC

but how does it interpret LOLITA

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Brendan C. Byrne @brendancbyrne.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 19:33 UTC

people keep acting like this man has politics but it's losers and winners all the way down for him. the only distinction in there is that he is *always* a winner

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Brendan C. Byrne @brendancbyrne.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 19:31 UTC

y'know if Ukraine invaded Russia Trump would probably be on Ukraine's side

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Brendan C. Byrne @brendancbyrne.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 18:10 UTC

the ok gatsby

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Brendan C. Byrne @brendancbyrne.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 15:44 UTC

is this irresponsible? sure. should horror be responsible?

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Tega Brain @tega.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 14:42 UTC

Wrote a new essay with @lav.io for eflux architecture. We consider carbon offsetting as a data driven scheme and trace a little of the history of market based approaches to environmental management.
www.e-flux.com/architecture...

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Brendan C. Byrne @brendancbyrne.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 14:42 UTC

this is ungentrified horror. horror that doesn't acknowledge that it owes the audience anything besides fucking with it

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com
[ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 13:22 UTC

The e in e-girl stands for Emma Goldman

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Brendan C. Byrne @brendancbyrne.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 12:09 UTC

"i know what we're gonna do lads, tax...without representation"

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Amy A @lolennui.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 02:27 UTC

Panic! At The DNC

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Brendan C. Byrne @brendancbyrne.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 13:23 UTC

am reminded of Edward Luttwak's theory that smoking was integral to Pax Americana as it's not only a neural stimulant but also killed off the apparatchiks before they could get senile

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Brendan C. Byrne @brendancbyrne.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 02:29 UTC

just started reading BR Yeager's NEGATIVE SPACE

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Brendan C. Byrne @brendancbyrne.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 21:33 UTC

sending my child to private school because i want him to have a secular education

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 03:44 UTC

Every precinct is now reporting in Albany, according to the county: DA David Soares trails 55/44 vs challenger Lee Kindlon. This would be a big loss for a longtime prosecutor who's been among the most vocal opponents of criminal justice reform. Trying to confirm what's left.

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Kip Manley @kiplet.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 14:00 UTC

Those poor video game misogynists concerned about man-jaws and tomboy busts all imprinted at a terribly early age on Lara Croft's first low-res simply polygonned bosom: it's why they also think the Cybertruck is beautiful.

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Brendan C. Byrne @brendancbyrne.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 02:07 UTC

i didn't know that. be interested if Stranger holds up. i read it in my late teens and thought it was productively weird and jangly

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Brendan C. Byrne @brendancbyrne.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 01:45 UTC

The Puppet Masters absolutely rips (and: i have that edition!)

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Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 19:26 UTC

Don't know what it is. Maybe there's just more bad faith. A hundred years ago, you could just say "black people shouldn't have rights" and that'd be it. You knew what was what and you had things out on that basis. Now everything's buried under 10 layers of bullshit you dump on everyone all the time.

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Kip Manley @kiplet.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 14:50 UTC

Saving the planet isn't important enough to moonshot fusion, but powering AI is?

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Brendan C. Byrne @brendancbyrne.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 02:58 UTC

as soon as google maps stops working (any day now!) i'm going back to flip phone

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Brendan C. Byrne @brendancbyrne.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 02:57 UTC

social circle doesn't exist there anymore. everything i want to buy there is maybe probably not real. most information severely compromised.

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Brendan C. Byrne @brendancbyrne.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 02:56 UTC

just increasingly uninterested in "the internet"

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jam @socialistboat.dad
[ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 22:54 UTC

My three recommendations for new parents are: fast twitch reflex training, basics of sleight of hand illusions, and ego death

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Amy A @lolennui.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 17:24 UTC

"AI PhD level intelligence" is very "Bruce banner has 7 PhDs"

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Brendan C. Byrne @brendancbyrne.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 18:58 UTC

lol i would never say this to Stanley Crouch (RIP) but this dude is boring

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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 18:11 UTC

halfway through the Paul Simon documentary & enjoying it but similarities to the recent Steve Martin one (not just a Lorne Michaels narrator appearance)--an unwillingness or inability to really dig into anything about the guy. Offers a curated past built around the artist's current project

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Brendan C. Byrne @brendancbyrne.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 15:36 UTC

always forget that above 92 the hearing aid cuts out

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Brendan C. Byrne @brendancbyrne.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 14:29 UTC

and the river offers no succor

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