Post #2436718
2026-05-11 23:35 UTC
Replies (27)
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@Niall@mastodon.nz 2026-05-12 01:00
@thomasbeagle@mastodon.nz are you calling Trump & Musk nerds?
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@nycki@critters.gay 2026-05-12 02:13
@thomasbeagle@mastodon.nz i dont think the billionaires count as "nerds" if they're not building trains or theme parks or something. i dont think they're even computer literate? these are still jocks.
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@drwho@masto.hackers.town 2026-05-12 03:42
@thomasbeagle@mastodon.nz "There's one hole in every revolution, large or small. And it's one word long: People." --Spider Jerusalem
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@wendinoakland@beige.party 2026-05-12 04:24
@thomasbeagle@mastodon.nz @Taco_lad@aus.social Technofascists aren’t nerds.
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@Elizafox@social.treehouse.systems 2026-05-12 05:13
@thomasbeagle@mastodon.nz Have you ever seen the politics of your average nerd??? Like holy shit I am appalled by your average nerd's politics. Not every nerd has horrible politics. Many do. Most of the ones that aren't "if the child consents" style libertarians are technofascists. You think people would know that by looking at the politics of most sci-fi authors.
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@14mission@sfba.social 2026-05-12 06:14
@thomasbeagle@mastodon.nz They picked the wrong nerds. Put train nerds in charge!
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@Renaigh@beige.party 2026-05-12 06:28
@thomasbeagle@mastodon.nz that was a good movie.
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@graybeard85@universeodon.com 2026-05-12 07:41
@thomasbeagle@mastodon.nz Tech billionaires are not nerds.
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@carloshr@lile.cl 2026-05-12 07:48
@thomasbeagle@mastodon.nz @ojala@mastodon.nz Nerds aren't ruling the world 🤷🏻♂️
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@Benaresh@mastodon.social 2026-05-12 08:53
@thomasbeagle@mastodon.nz "If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself." Mikhail Bakunin "God and the State" (1871)
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@flippac@types.pl 2026-05-12 09:08
@thomasbeagle@mastodon.nz turns out whoever the ruling class is, they're still rulers
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@strutsulf@mastodon.social 2026-05-12 09:32
@thomasbeagle@mastodon.nz :-) Somehow, billionaire nerds manage to pick all the wrong role models — I mean, non-billionaire readers really don’t jump to the conclusion that a palantír in every street corner of Minas Tirith is the way to make Gondor great again.
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@0x00string@infosec.exchange 2026-05-12 10:33
@thomasbeagle@mastodon.nz idk, these are nazis, not nerds. nerds are smart?
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@joschtl@karlsruhe-social.de 2026-05-12 10:37
@thomasbeagle@mastodon.nz Not sure if I get your message − but if you think what I think you think, then I think you're wrong. It is not nerds that run "AI"-slop-machines, it's techbros. And it is mostly non-nerds that fall for "AI" − most nerds despise it.
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@josh0@babka.social 2026-05-12 11:28
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@ZDL@mstdn.social 2026-05-12 12:12
@thomasbeagle@mastodon.nz Techbros aren't nerds. They're sociopaths.
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@nCrazed@fd00.space 2026-05-12 12:13
@thomasbeagle@mastodon.nz do we really want to concede nerdom to these psychopaths? 🥲
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@tkissing@mastodon.social 2026-05-12 12:18
@thomasbeagle@mastodon.nz Don't call those rich assholes nerds.
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@llanciawn@mastodon.social 2026-05-12 12:38
@thomasbeagle@mastodon.nz I don't believe it has been tried.
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@fourmiune@mastodon.world 2026-05-12 13:01
@thomasbeagle@mastodon.nz @mmu_man@m.g3l.org Not all nerd 🤣🤣🤣
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@lambdacalculus@masto.hackers.town 2026-05-12 13:22
@thomasbeagle@mastodon.nz None of these techbros, cryptobros, or AI bros are nerds or hackers or anything. They shit filled, limp dicked, vengeful technofascists. All they want is money and power. They're poseurs. They have zero connection to nerd culture or anything other than "hey everyone look at me I'm obviously such a nerd". They're on the same level as nearly every character in The Bag Bang Theory: shallow, soulless concepts of what nerds are like. We're not ruled by nerds. We're ruled by psychos.
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@jordan@mastodon.subj.am 2026-05-12 13:24
@thomasbeagle@mastodon.nz Nerds do not rule the world. Real nerds are nice to others. Real nerds share. Real nerds are who gave us the early Internet. Then, tech bros came in and stole our work to make a billion dollars off of. We are not the same as them.
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@stebby@bsd.network 2026-05-12 13:26
@thomasbeagle@mastodon.nz 1890s: It would be better if the workers ruled the world. 1920s: Nope. Maybe it would be better if nobody ruled 🤔
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@d1@autistics.life 2026-05-12 16:17
@thomasbeagle@mastodon.nz 1990s: Things would be better if the autistic nerds ruled the world! 2020s: Narcissistic salesman-types having clawed their way - toxicly - into the positions of C-Suite: Nope. #actuallyAutistic
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@elilla@transmom.love 2026-05-12 19:11
@thomasbeagle@mastodon.nz Lewis' Law: "The comments on any article about feminism justify feminism". elilla&'s corollary to the Lewis' Law: The comments by nerds on Thomas Beagle's toot about a world ruled by nerds demonstrate Thomas Beagle's toot
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@galaxis@mastodon.infra.de 2026-05-12 20:46
@thomasbeagle@mastodon.nz It's the wrong nerds, thanks to many of the 1990s nerds being too naive and myopic outside of their own objectives.
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@essentiel@piaille.fr 2026-05-13 16:08
@thomasbeagle@mastodon.nz they are not only nerds, but also white male assholes, and billionaires. 🤔