Doing my govt announcements at the nazi bar obvs

It really isn't tenable long-term for the US and British center-lefts to keep acting like a 18 year old edgy college student can speak for all of the Palestinian liberation movement but that the natsec, finance, defense, and prime ministers of Israel are small beans who don't mean anything.

Is this where we're supposed to incite a riot and rampage?

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A thread of observations on our politics - most (but not all) inspired by Starmer: 1) If you think a Labour leader is rubbish and people on the right agree with you but for different reasons, it doesn't mean you're doing their bidding, it means you want someone who can do better at fighting them.

Not to pick on Malone, but a weirdly large group on Bluesky both notices that Musk is attempting an active measures campaign against the UK but also thinks the solution is for His Majesty’s Department of Trains to quit X instead of doing what states usually do to people trying to regime change them.

Bovino romania sounds like a breed of dairy cow

Insightful person, not at all driven by personality torment

When we think of high-quality #Roman wall painting, we usually imagine the domus of a senator. This floating #Dionysiac youth comes from a very different reality: a high-end rental block for the ancient middle class. Welcome to the Case a Giardino in #Ostia. #FrescoFriday 🧵 #AncientBluesky 🏺

There's something in my eye 🥲

How is Musk the first trillionaire when his companies, combined, lose money? Cult capitalism. The market prices the future he promises as if it already arrived. He’s a pitch-deck trillionaire holding his companies hostage: lose Musk, lose the premium, and the boards know it. Plus the corruption.

what's Italian for "Hugh Grant"?

Breaking: Versailles agreement fails to resolve underlying, festering geopolitical problems

Starmer's special skill is pissing off everybody

I got some funny looks when i proposed something along these lines in my PhD back in 2014

I once had to dig out 18 "human bodies" from a paper draft after an edit from a co-author who, I suppose, really likes human bodies

love when mathematicians get silly like this, see also: the Cox-Zucker algorithmic machine

Ah but, the inherent validity of the herrenvolk

Is ecological neuroscience a feasible enterprise? After some theoretical work on ecological resonance, we've engaged on experimental research to test some of the hypotheses that follow from it. These are the first results of (hopefully) many more to come! It's open access 👇 doi.org/10.1111/psyp...

For nearly 18 months, the Trump administration and many analysts have thought of the US, Russia, and China as great powers deciding the fate of the world, unconstrained by lesser states. Today, the US is the losing party in a Versailles peace agreement and Moscow looks like this:

We need to bully them harder.

I was surprised how weakly non-brexit UK elites surrendered to the bullying stupidity of the brexiters. Just acceded to the beachhead for British fascism cos they couldn't handle the tactical risks or take the good gamble on its failure when the Titanic success hits the iceberg of reality. Pathetic

You could hardly ask for a better example of investing in vibes over value than shutting down *real* cancer research to free up money for teaching more words to the word-guessing machine because it's about to become God and cure cancer. 11/

The conversation I have had with each of my kids: "if you *ever* run into a problem online and you think you're in trouble, you can *always* come talk to me about it, and if you think I will be upset about a choice you made just start out by saying 'I may need some help.'" And I will take that...

Yes they should, at least a citation check. Also, I'd like to reserve 'waisting' for my Christmas eating habits

To put it another way, I think Musk’s purchase of Twitter has helped reify the vague pundit instinct that Trump in some way channels the will of an inchoate true Volk, because now the voice of the Volk speaks through X, the everything app

we really have no idea what happens when a radical right populist takes over a hegemon of America's size

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Epic moon-Venus combo in the western night sky over Europe right now

So one I would emphasize that these kinds of people talk the same behind closed doors as they do in public. What was, in fact, the striking thing was how much a rich or powerful person talk like they tweet.

The motor cortex is organized functionally to promote “meaningful, ethologically relevant behavior patterns,” new study shows. #neuroskyence By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/motor-cortex...

Musk’s desire to scrap empathy is really a declaration that at some point, he believes, we'll need to cut loose all the civilizational dead weight (global poor and global south) to save the parts of humanity "worth" saving. It’s 1970s “lifeboat ethics” all over again. newrepublic.com/article/2119...

BAKED in the PIZZA EXPRESSES, STAKED in the HIGH-STREET BOOKIES, PACKAGED in the AMAZON FULFILMENT CENTRES

It‘s still amazing to me that 77 million Americans voted for this obvious con artist.

“There’s a very strong expectation that he will stand by Ukraine. That’s what he told the leaders.” I see we're at the 'trusting Trump to keep his very vague word on Ukraine' stage of the cycle again.

Trump stop oil

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NEW: A trove of internal records from Dialog, the secret society cofounded by Peter Thiel, was left exposed online. WIRED obtained a second cache of records that reveal who's really attending, how they're screened, and what personal details they were promised would stay private.

Efficient market hypothesis really taking a beating recently.

Kohonen maps making a comeback?

Not the main point but it’s hilarious to me that all of the Labour nostalgic fantasising about their lost coalition is pining for days when that coalition was also woefully insufficient and they lost almost every election

Trump has screwed over a lot of his voters, but I reckon the white nationalists have gotten their money's worth

Don't remember legitimate concerns rioting over this horrorshow, odd that

New post: The Consequences of Tolerating the Far Right mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-... The rise in the far right is not a result of changes in people’s attitudes, but is due to the political elite eroding the social norms we used to have against racism and dehumanising minorities.

Protecting women #cartoon

Banning children from social media?

It just pisses em off