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there's a new world order waiting to chestburst out of this one and we're currently in the "involuntarily shuddering and contorting and vomiting at dinner" phase

Me every time I overreact to anything for any reason

One of my Roman Empires is that Pol Pot rose to power after the US bombed the shit out of them.

I really hope they don't drop this.

I've seen this. Some I lost touch with on fb was posting after he died. I had no idea until a family member took control of his account and explained.

It's telling how this brown foreign national who came to the US to assassinate an American isn't being weaponised for pro-ICE concentration camp rhetoric afaik. Is political assassination*that* normalised, or are they dropping the pretence that ICE detentions have anything to do with criminality?

There was an interview with someone who knew Epstein who claimed the 'massages' were treatment for ADHD. The Epstein class see disability support as privileges and excuses for bad behaviour, not equity. (No shade to @segyges.bsky.social )

This is the most tone deaf account on the entire internet.

dude would shit himself if he saw Jesus flipping the moneylenders' tables in the temple.

I used to spend time in a bookstore once frequented by Jack Kerouac. People said he haunted that bookstore.

I'm assuming 'third world' is a moving goalpost, but wouldn't that mean Silicon Valley, as we know it, wouldn't exist, and the food would be terrible. No Ocean Vuong or Viet Tanh Nguyen either.

So I'm not a fan of Erika Kirk, but I'm unnerved that my TikTok algorithm is feeding me content about her filled with antisemitic dog whistles. Are the Groypers up to some bullshit?

RFK: “Where did all this autism come from? It never existed when I was a kid!” “A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”

It's not just authoritarianism. The selling point of Trump is that he is not a member of the US establishment. His connection to Epstein proves that he's embedded in the establishment in the worst possible way.

Tiny describes the concert, not the desk.

It would be better if countries were kicked out if their public broadcaster didn't have clear regulations ensuring neutrality. This would easily eliminate 🇮🇱 and 🇦🇿, which have both used Eurovision to pinkwash war crimes. bbc.com/news/article...

This will be in an Adam Curtis film one day.

That classic horseshoe of men who hate themselves for liking other men and taking it out on society, especially by projecting their self-loathing on women and queer people.

So, this thread--particularly @lizthegrey.com's useful explanation of how the relevant databases actually work--is worth reading in response to the Erin in the Morning story that's terrifying our community today. But I'll add a few broad points about Where We Are and scaremongering.

Children can correctly identify their own gender.

More than anything else, powerful men - like the ones who run the NYT - believe in the legitimacy of power itself. Because if it isn’t legitimate, they have to start asking hard questions about the world and themselves.

A VP's job is to break ties in the senate.

'State Capture' gets at a feeling I had about how gen-z protest movements in the Global South are addressing similar issues that exist elsewhere. 👏👏👏

Lee Jae Myung is against Korean military dependence on the US. 'Made in Murica' vibes aside, getting a nuclear anything from the US is a step in that direction.

Saying Tylenol causes autism is just lazy. Everyone knows it's caused by pressing your nose up to a CRT TV so you can see the tiny red/green/blue squares that make all your favourite cartoons.

@sentencebender.bsky.social it's getting increasingly difficult to find amazing books by accident, but that's how I found Blackfish. Thank you. 🙏

What's especially stupid is news orgs like WaPo, NYT, pull shit like this, or water down their coverage to protect themselves from Trump, when it literally Does Not Do That. Trump pulls shit arbitrarily, because that's how authoritarian censorship*actually* works.

Is he dead, or did he just have a really bad meltdown over the fact that all his tariffs are illegal?

I'm attending this event. RT if you think others will find this helpful 🙌 worldshift.manyworldswriting.com

Horseshoe bad take: terrible, brain rot, but I kinda love it?

Ben-hur.

In every other Stephen King book, it is understood that there is a violent, bigoted undercurrent to small town America. Characters either tap into that for evil, or fight it for good. When Dems say 'voters are bigots and we must pander to them', they're the former.

C'mon California...

The recent ones in MN and LA are political theatre for Trump voters, not just because they're filling Miller's quotas for brown people (and obvs harming them in the process) but because Trump voters get to watch liberal cities getting invaded militarily by the feds, supported by local cops.

🎶You can kiss a hundred boys in bars...

Birthright citizenship is a foundational policy of settler colonialism. This has nothing to do with what the 'Democrat Party' believes. It just *is*. Societies founded on settler colonialism pull up the ladder if there are too many pregnant tourists who are not white.

The one (1) US war in Vietnam is a drop in the bucket compared to the scores Chinese invasions of Vietnam. Consequently, Vietnam hates China more and is siding with the US sphere of influence in the Pacific as China develops militarialy.

Me when my favourite eurovision entry loses at the semifinals:

The article states that asbestos is excluded from sanctions. 5 of the biggest market leaders in that industry are PJSC Uralasbest (ru), SAMA SA (ksa), Orenburg Minerals (ru), Unique Udyog (in), BFAI (ru). authoritarian besties > public health

People need to stop debating the factual accuracy of statements from the Trump administration about topics like Kilmar Ábrego García and autism. You need to focus on the gestalt, not what type of drink glasses were on the table or whether or not autistic people pay taxes.

I love resource management sims. But when I grew up, I realised that resource management sims are a narrative for how societies are built, rather than an instruction manual for how they are built. Elon never grew up.