Time again for my favorite christmas post ever, one that still makes me laugh every time i read it

Abandonen esa plataforma. Utilicen con cautela el resto, en las que de cualquier forma hay más gente. Potencien e inviertan en las alternativas abiertas. Atraigan a ellas a periodistas y otros cargos electos. Apuesten por la soberanía digital europea. Muevan el culo de una vez.

No somos responsables de vivir al final de la era neoliberal, o de que nuestros dirigentes hayan infravalorado la debilidad que supone que ciertas infraestructuras básicas estén fuera de nuestro control. De lo que sí somos responsables es de empezar a pensar en esto con la seriedad que merece.

This. Post-politics, or antipolitics, or whatever is called, is tilted field, asymmetrical warfare.

Putin's plan to end the war in Ukraine. Cartoon by Michael de Adder

Quick, they can’t have gotten far

Devastador e imprescindible: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...

Oh sí

You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?

That's why I say that, at its core, reactionary politics is not an alternative set of values, norms, & rules -- it is permission to *jettison* values, to ignore the dreary call of conscience, to wallow in impulse & instinct. It can't triumph via persuasion (it sounds awful out loud), only violence.

If I have a choice -- one one side, middle-aged academic author with grand 3-volume tome on How to Create the Perfect World (I get two or three of these *a week*); on the other side, someone who boosted heat pump uptake in midsized NYC multifamily buildings by 17% -- I choose the latter every time.

@raquelpelaezg.bsky.social es una voz imprescindible, que articula la rabia ante la tranquilidad, la serenidad, del privilegio. De hecho, el privilegio consiste en esa tranquilidad, es su condición de posibilidad. Hagamos política que construya serenidad para todos. elpais.com/opinion/2025...

Are you sure Elon Musk is rich? I mean, he can't even afford a soul...

@cwarzel.bsky.social writes a moving final paragraph to a somber, indispensable article: "The loss of friction deprives people of something crucial. What happens between imagination and creation is ineffable—it entails struggle, iteration, joy, and frustration, disappointment, and pride. 1/2

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

I really value the public service value in the constant, unsuccessful, painstaking reexposition of this core assessment of how political language works now by Roberts. I feel you, David.

AI should be used to ask ourselves what learning looks like, rather than reconsidering what counts as cheating. It's learning that's supposed to be the point of all this, right?

probably the first time in history since the 18th century where the leaders of all the major powers -- trump, xi, putin, modi, erdogan etc -- are all personalist regimes. not sure what this means but worth noting

I would even go so far as to say the very core of fascism is an elevation of raw male emotions -- the two-sided coin of drippy nostalgia & butthurt fury. The whole point of fascism is to say: trust those emotions, those instincts, they are pure & right, don't examine or get any distance from them.

all the anxiety human evolution developed to help me spot bears now kicks in when i have to answer emails

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine. My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask: Why, even now, is no-one asking questions? t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

We cannot deal with this from the information deficit model nor the moral deficit model.

¿Sabéis que hacen los millonarios latinoamericanos? Venir a vivir a Europa ¿Sabéis por qué? Porque por más dinero que tengan, su calidad de vida allá es peor que aquí. Porque en una sociedad con menos diferencias se vive mejor. Más seguro. En un mejor ambiente.

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪 Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students. I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

Is this what the last gasps of a worldview that don't fit the actual world looks like? Extreme violence and extreme bizarreness, stretching stretching stretching to hold structures founded in fantasies of entitlement together?

Este titular contiene la realidad entera, el universo, toda la creación. Es la cumbre del periodismo de cualquiera época. www.abc.es/espana/astur...

Hoy mismo circulaba por aqui un vídeo bueno sobre este asunto de si los reaccionarios son o no “hipócritas”, cortito y al grano: bsky.app/profile/gare...

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74

This is the graph we show whenever someone talks about how back in the old days there weren't (people who are not whoever the person speaking thinks are the default). Mostly we do this to underscore that a rise in apparent frequency isn't always a rise in real frequency.

Como tantos, me quedé pensando que las ensoñaciones neuróticas, y algo así como tecnovampíricas, de los líderes autócratas sobre transplantes y longevidades eran un síntoma importante por interpretar, ligado a los límites. @santiagoalbarico.bsky.social comienza la tarea: elpais.com/opinion/2025...

I see people bleating yet again that "elections are won from the centre". Let's examine this claim. 1. Not long ago, the current Labour government, with its grovelling to corporations and oligarchs, extreme deregulation, island of strangers rhetoric etc, would have been classed as radical right. 🧵

my statement on Ai from the mini-comic I'm making as syllabus for a new class I'm teaching this fall. It's simple, but I pretty much said all I have to say on it - it robs you of decisions and struggle - and the joy of being surprised. It robs you of learning...

There is no legal or political system that can hold together a culture that has lost all sense of public morality or shame.

Desde mayo, más de 1.655 personas han sido asesinadas y 11.800 han sido heridas intentando conseguir comida. En Gaza, buscar pan o agua puede costar la vida. BASTA YA

Most Americans really have no clue how far the US is being left behind.

En UNRWA tenemos suficientes alimentos en nuestros almacenes para toda la población de Gaza durante más de tres meses. Los suministros están disponibles. Solo hay que levantar el asedio y permitirnos hacer nuestro trabajo.

One of the tricks over the past decade Centrist politicians & news media used to avoid real world climate action has been focusing on the 12% of the US denying global warming. “See, I don’t deny science like Repubs!” Moderates say while denying the urgency, risk, scale of climate collapse.

Un estupendo y necesario artículo de @tinamonge.bsky.social el de hoy en El País. Para entender la corrupción y su imagen pública, es crucial delimitar sus contornos. Pero luego hay que invertir en la lucha contra ella, y ahí está la contradicción, nada casual, del populismo: debilitar las [1/2]

El nuevo logo de Repsol es perfecto, representa muy bien los códigos de color de los mapas y gráficos de incremento de temperaturas debidos a la crisis climática a la que contribuyen y planean seguir contribuyendo. Porque era eso lo que pretendían, ¿verdad?

Trump steadfastly commits to NATO's Article 5 Per Cent.

Si algo nos identifica como país (y nos diferencia de cualquier otro más al norte) es la altísima probabilidad de que, vayas donde vayas y estés donde estés, haya alguien cerca metiendo ruido (obras, música a tope, motos ruidosas, camiones, aparatos varios, etcétera, etcétera, etcétera).

a nation on edge holds its breath as the former host of celebrity apprentice huddles with his advisors, the wrestlemania ceo and the former co-host of fox & friends weekends

TBH it's just profoundly fucked that the internet has created a coordination mechanism for the low social trust silent majority and now like a huge chunk of the population trust a large constructed kinship network of far right populists worldwide than reality itself

Absolufuckinglutely perfect 👇

¿Por qué cuando hablamos de renovables o electricidad se aplica una lógica de "no producir más de lo que se consumo en el territorio" que no se aplica a cualquier otra mercancía o servicio? ¿Las comarcas o CCAA van a dejar de exportar o importar alimentos u otros productos?