Got fired from my job making thousands of promotional social media posts about the band Geese today because I accidentally DDoSed BlueSky :(

Political book titles in... 2014: An American Journey: How A Small Town Defeated Partisanship 2017: Shattered: How Trump Broke America 2021: Colony of Cork: The Anti-Korean History of Ping-Pong 2024: Let That Be Your Last Battlefield: Biden at War 2026: Quantity: How AI Can Democratize Politics

Excellent timing on this now that Baron Robert Skidelsky, the famous Keynes biographer, has passed away. He was a Labour-SDP-Continuing SDP-Tory independent who endorsed Corbyn, was denied tenure in the 70s for a very sympathetic Oswald Moseley biography, and was a huge Z head later in life.

Political book titles in... 2014: An American Journey: How A Small Town Defeated Partisanship 2017: Shattered: How Trump Broke America 2021: Colony of Cork: The Anti-Korean History of Ping-Pong 2024: Let That Be Your Last Battlefield: Biden at War 2026: Quantity: How AI Can Democratize Politics

Next Democratic Presidency should launch an investigation into meat packing plants and drive up prices significantly, and whenever someone objects point to the horrible conditions.

Changes of government in Kyiv from 1917 to 1920

The end point of small-holder populism is unlimited handouts to farmers, small business owners, and homeowners while you continue to prosecute big companies for putting fewer chips in the bag.

Donald Trump's history of child abuse, intolerance towards LGBTQ people, imperialistic designs on the Americas, and policies that have led to massive increases in AIDS deaths in Africa are NOT what the Catholic Church stands for

Donald Trump's history of child abuse, intolerance towards LGBTQ people, imperialistic designs on the Americas, and policies that have led to massive increases in AIDS deaths in Africa are NOT what the Catholic Church stands for

These are crazy back to back

The US should become a parliamentary system by adopting a habit of immediately impeaching the President and Vice President every time an ideologically opposed Congress is elected

The Americas watching right-wingers lose everywhere else

AMA

Every Russian revolutionary dedicated their life to overthrowing the Tsar because they read about a Chernyshevsky character who lived like this and went "he's literally me"

CW: sexual assault Eric Swalwell deserves to die

Called it

This is the natural result of liberals completely caving on the reality that asylum is both a moral imperative and not just legal but required under domestic and international law

Mike Mansfield, who spent two weeks with the Marines in China before being deployed to the Philippines, admits to exaggerating his Far East experience in his early days in Congress.

Americans will be like "don't walk 5 miles it'll ruin your knees"

My foreign policy

I'm not sure how you can be against removing this man from office right now. What will it take? A nuke being dropped? It's too late then. The purpose of impeachment and the 25th Amendment is to prevent that type of thing from happening, not just to react to it.

Read the debate. Conservatism was not fascism, by @polphilpod.bsky.social www.liberalcurrents.com/it-wasnt-fas... VS yes it was, by @radtranslib.bsky.social www.liberalcurrents.com/it-was-fasci...

Now do you see it? How the economic justice stuff is almost always adopted because it’s the most conflict averse, generic, broadly unobjectionable critique you can make? How it’s been corrosive that the left and the center are often in a weird sort of concord that this is the avenue to attack Trump?

Wokest pastor in America:

had to go check and see if that post was real and the banal herbal medslop ad below it really gives the genocidal nuclear holocaust threat an unexpected piquancy

Nixon accuses the Du Bois clubs of being named to trick Americans into thinking they're the Boys Clubs.

Zhou Enlai, attempting to explain China's openness to a visit from Nixon, informs cadres that actually it was the Democrats who did Korea and Vietnam.

Zhou Enlai has a several hour long meeting explaining to Beijing Red Guards why they cannot change traffic lights so red means go and green means stop. Original source of this story appears to be 周恩来卫士回忆录 (Memoirs of Zhou Enlai's Bodyguards) by Gao Zhenpu.

Janeway did nothing wrong. Tuvix was a good shoot.

The problem with BlueSky is lots of people are idiots. Unfortunately this is less of a technical issue and more of a general problem with the human condition.

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Everyone involved in these illegal strikes (including the pilots) needs to be in prison.

Apparently the SF Congressional race had the exact same thing happen wrt the progressive candidate and Taiwan as IL-09... what is going on

I believe they are American citizens.

Craziest thing I learned recently is that for a period in 1920, Mao Zedong was a Hunanese independence activist.

i’m glad the Supreme Court said what we’ve all been thinking: lawyers should be in charge of medicine

I don’t get streamers, if I wanted to listen to an idiot with a Wikipedia level knowledge of the world ramble on nonstop I have my internal monologue

every time a tech founder/CEO outs themselves as some new esoteric form of freak or pervert the legend of Woz grows a little more radiant

Hey US Air Force targeting analyst, if they’re saying “find me all the desalination plants“ that’s a big old illegal order and war crime target and you don’t want no part of that

45. Torah case, 1886, Guangzhou, China, oxidized silver, silver, and silver-gilt, 92.6 x 30 cm.

The use of image AI isn't really taboo outside of the West. This is because Westerners have internalized the Protestant Work ethic and can't understand using tools to produce output that is not a moral reflection on them. In this essay I will...

The rot goes all the way back to Insurrection, in which the Enterprise crew revolt against the Federation spreading a life-saving medical advance so that…Picard’s girlfriend of the week can continue to sit on her butt doing very little?

Anyway, my opinion about Star Trek, which is Good and Correct, is that two things have gone wrong: it is best served by 22 episode seasons, which streaming has killed, and also it is a franchise that needs you to inhabit the worldview of a Centre-Left Army Guy that few in modern US TV do.