Not delusional, just everyday bullshit. Any time he says anything with numbers in it, he's just making it up. He doesn't know if it's true or not, and he doesn't care.

In practice the Friedman types end up just ideological cover for the fact that capitalists actively fight scenarios where actual market logic would have them lose money.

Imagine if Burma Shave was bought out by Dr. Bronner

burma shave got weird.

Of course, everyone knows Italians are all bomb-throwing anarchists and the Marxists threw them out of the Second International

humans instinctively Make Stuff to meet our basic needs and the minute we have those needs met, we start making fun stuff. it's an essential part of being a person and it's good for us, imo

The Friedmanites have this neat little trick where they say "Well of course this isn't a free market, if we had real capitalism things would work much better and profit would reflect real value creation." Then they defend big business and billionaires against criticism as if it were real capitalism.

Wouldn’t it be great if economics classes explained to people how all this shit actually works instead of all the Milton Friedman nonsense?

the function of the market in 2026 is to destroy good things. that is what it does. if you make something good, it is going to be purchased by one of the five or six Big Guys whose job is to purchase good things and turn them into shitty things before scrapping them for parts

I thought I was doing better after a bleak couple of weeks but seeing this made my mind instantly just spiral into chanting "it's over"

At what point do the hardliners just retire the negotiationists by rolling up to their houses at night with machine guns and a pre-write of their resignation letter?

again at what point do the iranians stop waiting for these rounds and just keep their foot on the gas? i reckon at least part of it is internal politics. it seems like Mojtaba is aligned with the hardliners but the hardliners haven't be able to sideline the pro-negotiation camp

Copy of the new Hookland Fragments book arrived this evening to accompany the sensational light of the setting sun - both magical. Looking forward to reflecting on the words within and in the glow of the land here and there.

60% of youth in custody are diagnosed with ADD or ADHD – compared to just 11% nationally. Kids need care, not cages.

Getting diarrhea like, "Hope this isn't the diarrhea that was on the news"

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@zhinxy.bsky.social Getting ready to watch Stargate

Clearly

My four year old talking to me, looking at this photo: "...is that you?"

Stanley from The Office: "I do not find that very funny."

Hi, everybody! I'd like to address a lot of baseless rumors and speculation that have been going around since my hospitalization last month....

So Hormuz crossings briefly peaked after the June memorandum at a third of prewar levels, rapidly dropped, and has since remained at one-sixth or less. When oil prices come into contact with material reality, it's gonna be catastrophic.

This is going to be so funny because they are going to go full Glenn Beck chalkboard trying to do this and melt into actual puddles

Regular degular Black folk are not the enemies of US progressive politics. Please, I implore you, take a page from Zohran Mamdani's book and TALK TO BLACK PEOPLE. Treat us like we're human! It's how a progressive like Rashida Tlaib won easily in Detroit. It's how Abdul El-Sayed is moving as well...

Amber Tamblyn claims that at age 16, she and a friend were approached by James Woods at a diner. She says he invited them to Las Vegas, and after she disclosed her age, he allegedly replied, “Even better.” Now Woods has locked his account. Truly the sign of an innocent man.

Good fuck those places. Also shove orbies into the water system of data centers so they inflate and fuck everything up. You can build your damn data centers when the planets not reaching 130 degrees and when you figure a way for them not to pollute to high hell

I've asked my students how they would feel if I had AI grade their (AI generated) work. They say they would feel "cheated".

For those outside academia who are curious: as someone who has taught for ~25 years, many of us now face an existential crisis in assessing student work. Anything you haven't viewed a student actually writing down with their own hand is basically suspect; it's a shitty feeling, to put it bluntly

It would be fantastic if Dems would stop chasing white working class folks who would sooner chop off their hands than cast a single vote for a Democrat.

"Workers are ontologically petulant dummies who will punish you for doing the right thing and trying to help them because they would aesthetically prefer to have their racism and misogyny flattered even to the detriment of their material standing. The leftist party must facilitate this."

"Working class places" is a dogwhistle with the volume of a car horn.

Weird how "reorient to working class people" translates to adopting the policies of right-wing shitstains.

False! Testimony is not evidence! Fact: An accusation is not proof by itself! Fact: Evidence consists of verifiable facts and materials! My superior intellect is undefeated! Eat Shrute Farms beets!

Remember when Oakland had three new police chiefs in nine days because they were each complicit in the pigs raping children? Bay area pigs continues to so brazenly do what all pigs do, that they're still getting caught. oaklandside.org/2026/07/06/a...

In your article sneeringly refusing to apologize to the HR schoolmarms of antifa or whatever, you still repeatedly print Platner's narratives ("drunk tattoo" etc). The fact that you credulously believed in Platner and apparently STILL believe in his accounts, is a sign of bias and irrationality.

By all means, run back to the nazi bar to whine about how out of touch the smoothgroins at bluesky are. But I would like some reflection on that while you present as a radical leftist, no antifascist scholar, researcher or activist thought Platner was trustworthy on the totenkopf tattoo.

Hi @kenklippenstein.bsky.social. You're lying about the extent of the allegations. Fifield detailed being violently grabbed and yanked around hard enough to leave marks, and that he twisted her arm behind her back, pushed her into a bedroom, and held the door closed to prevent her from leaving.

And the thing is, we don't NEED proof. This isn't a criminal trial. It's a hiring process, and "this guy stinks to high heaven" is reason enough to reject him.

Do I have proof? No, but I'm on team "Based on how he desecrated bodies and talks about rape as power, there's 95% odds that fucker raped someone overseas at gunpoint and we'll never know because the victim was brown."

Anyone who spontaneously brags about how he would literally rape someone as punishment has certainly sexually assaulted someone. If you can't grasp that I literally do not know what the fuck to say to you. I don't know how to reach you.

It's a little insane-making that the watershed moment wasn't the reveal a month ago that he grabbed and threw his partners around and locked one in a room, but that he sexually assaulted. If you're getting off the Platner train NOW, why didn't the violent physical abuse matter?

My favorite anecdote about him (among several) is the one where he lost his column in the Las Vegas Review-Journal because he wouldn't stop pitching colloidal silver and other woo as COVID-19 cures on his radio and TV shows.

The 2008 Libertarian Party VP nominee:

@/fknsickofms.bsky.social Average Platner stan

I'm not even joking when I say that, as a former writing teacher, I think even the act of bullshitting through a 10-page paper on a book you only skimmed is also incredibly valuable learning.

Crazy how People is the remaining publication that just goes for the jugular.

11 July, 2026 00:21 I've been reading Chinese novels and they're always mentioning eating fish maw, and I don't know, I just assumed that the fish maw was some part of the fish's mouth or face. But it turns out "fish maw" is the swim bladder of fish. They're eating the swim bladder! I didn't even…

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