at the eve of the modern period the only European nations which had assumed their modern form were Portugal, England, and France. Germany, Italy, and Spain were divided, Scandinavia, the Baltic, and Eastern Europe still had its medieval profile, and the Balkans were under the rule of the Turks.

insularity sucks.

If I were the richest guy in the world I would simply not do this with your tax dollars.

America is gonna learn what it's like when Canadians stop being polite.

I'm late for Saturday but it's always time for seaweed pics.

Amazon, McDonald’s, Target, Lowe’s, Tractor Supply and Walmart are all named in the advisory

No, he doesn't. Randy E. Barnett and Ilan Wurman should be disbarred and removed from their positions for even saying this. There should be no mercy for people articulating this made up bullshit in the legal profession. They are enablers of fascism no different than the lawyers of the Nazi regime.

Christmas Day, 888 AD, Emperor Leo VI released a sixty-book edition of 𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘱𝘶𝘴 𝘐𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘴 𝘊𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘴, based on Greek translations of the 6th century 𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘱𝘶𝘴, stressing the Roman context of Justinian's laws. The gap in law and scholarship between the Byzantine and Frankish worlds could not be made more plain.

just when we need to divert this Titanic a good 90° to avoid disaster, the "legitimate" officers want to make a 3° course correction while a group of criminal malcontents have seized control of the bridge and are going full speed towards the iceberg.

Americans need to grapple with the knowledge that the rest of the world has always known they were a monster. They are just waking up to it though it has been in their power to change course for a long time

I used to tweet on these topics before moving to BlueSky - but virtually all our planetary & social problems are rooted in cauldron of 1. hyperconsumption 2. a world population still growing by 66-89m net new people/yr 3. mindsets of entitlement, competition & separation from Nature/each other.

small independent farmers who overwhelmingly voted for Trump are shitting their panties as they realize that USAID, SNAP, and WIC are basically agricultural subsidies.

And just like that, America lost her allies.

This is fascism.

A point to consider.

"In fact, this woman and her talking raven have a theory that the species' love of mimicry may be what is fueling most legends of spooky happenings in woods and other wild places." Woman with Talking Raven Has Convincing Theory About Woodland Ghost Legends pethelpful.com/pet-news/wom... #folklore

This is probably the most accurate take.

i have a theory which is quite possibly wrong, nevertheless i am really proud of it. suppose you watch all 7 seasons of a TV drama series. the theory is statistically you will remember more events from the first season than any other.

the most controversial opinion i posted in the last month was regarding the correct way to make a grilled cheese sandwich.

Canadian travel agencies confirm a mass movement of Canadians cancelling plans to vacation in US, even eating a penalty fee if necessary. The most popular destinations for Canadians are now Mexico, Portugal, the Caribbean, or in Canada itself.

Central Copenhagen. And yes, this is completely legal, since a bike is also a vehicle in the sense of the law regulating road traffic.

audible boos for the US National Anthem in Montreal before the USA-Canada 4 Nations Face-Off hockey game

i used to go AA - most people only take action AFTER their lives are destroyed by liver disease, divorce, lost jobs, and legal trouble. I am convinced the same applies to civic issues. most people will only change their political opinions after disaster repeatedly happens - if even then.

Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand. #resist

i got a 12-hour timeout on twitter for this reply to the question "what's the quickest way to calm a woman down when she's mad at you?" i am convinced that twitter algorithm doesn't understand the meaning of 'feign'.

@razzli.bsky.social so happy you are on this place also.

the only time i cried upon reading the news was when i saw the headline that Diana was killed.

i am (still) also on the "other" site. sometimes i cross-pollinate by sharing the same tweet on both sites. is that so wrong?

MAGA Troll

The pieces click into place: The private prisons folks being paid by government to run the camps provide the labour to farms for a healthy fee, which the ag corporations then get to write off or have reimbursed by goverment for providing productive activity for the internees... Say it ain't so...

The story around China issuing USD-denominated sovereign bonds in Saudi Arabia is generating an enormous amount of buzz in China, and could potentially be immensely important. I strongly suspect it's a message to the upcoming Trump administration. A small 🧵

Pay Attention: Prices at Walmart and elsewhere are ALREADY beginning to spike, in anticipation of trump's idiotic tariffs. Right wingers are trying to pivot to that hateful "trans in women's bathrooms" talking point that nobody cares about, to try to distract trump's price spikes. STAY SHARP!

Breaking WaPo: Trump plans to fire the entire team that worked with special counsel Jack Smith to pursue the two federal prosecutions against Trump — including career attorneys typically protected from political retribution. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

What is your opinion of goats?

NASA's Galileo spacecraft caught Jupiter's moon Io undergoing a volcanic eruption

word of the day: capricious (adjective) given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behavior, especially angry or violent rages. similar words: fickle, inconstant, unstable, mercurial, volatile.

“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” -Plato

instead of a coherent plan of dealing with overshoot, the world is just going to throw overpopulation, poverty, ethnic and racial hatred, plutocracy, authoritarianism, and war into the blender and let things rip.

recycling some of my twatter memes.

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And to be sure you have the right information when you're talking about how f&%ked modern industrial civilization is with your colleague at the water-cooler today, I offer you the latest data:

the USA is the world's leading producer of oil, betraying the hypocrisy of our claim to be leading the charge for a "clean energy future". in fact America is exploiting its proven energy reserves much more rapidly than other petro-states.

i have spent hours obsessing over this graphic. world consumption of energy is growing 2% a year, which is outpacing the growth of renewables. consequentially the consumption of Fossil fuels is still growing, and so are emissions of CO2.

AIPAC has spent over $100 million in US elections to keep the image on the left from looking like the image on the right.