Shit like this article always ends up bringing out really ugly attitudes about America as well, as you can see from some of the comments. There's a depressing number of people who still think of us as the backward, cultureless parochials to "civilized" Europe. /1

"How did I work this?" "Where is that large automobile?" #Persona3Reload

How does the public perceive and engage with the discipline of history and the past? Check out the results of a national survey that explored these issues, conducted by the AHA and Fairleigh Dickinson University with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. 🗃️

Now see, *this* is newsworthy. What effect will this have on the GOP, or their Q-Anon base? Will she be atomized by the Jewish space lasers she so stridently believed we're real? Will Lauren Boebert have enough time left over from sloppy theater sex to pick up the crazy lady slack?

Honestly, I find this whole thing with Mamdani and Trump way overblown. Johan basically hasn't *done anything* as mayor yet, to my knowledge (and again, he's just a mayor. A big city mayor, sure, but just a mayor). And Trump changes his mind on who and what he likes every five minutes.

If anyone is looking for a #BlackFriday sale on #Playstation, here's a thread of the 34 sales I can vouch for as a good deal. Phew, that took a bit of time.😅

you'd think the forced displacement of 10 million people from one of the oldest centres of civilisation in human history would get a little more news attention than beltway journalists writing essays on how Olivia Nuzzi is a genius because they want to bone her and you'd be wrong

Afternoon everyone. I'm not buying anything today, but I figure I'd do some public service and highlight some of the worthwhile sales on the PS Store. Going through alphabetically, we start an great deal for fantastic Visual Novel 428 Shibuya Scramble at just 8 bucks, down from 50./1 #Playstation

NEW: The PRC has escalated pressure against Japan in response to Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi saying that a war over Taiwan could threaten Japanese security. (🧵1/4) Read more in the November 21, 2025, China & Taiwan Update: isw.pub/ChinaTaiwanU...

Okay, I get where you guys are coming from, and I'm not a huge fan of Burns, but as a military historian I think it's important to note that useful battlefield analysis is inceeasingly rare, and it makes my job so hard sometimes. We really *do* need some "This side won because XYZ" analysis at times

Man, I still love #Helldivers. Every time I play it, I still find it cool.

You can say that again. I'm just now finding out about this! A lot of people are probably going to die if Tehran is abandoned: from the drought, from the chaos of the evacuation and the conditions of the places they'll end up, and from the fucking morality police watching like hungry wolves. #Iran

I kinda feel Tehran running out of water should be a waaay bigger story than it is?!

Most of the responses to this prompt have been Mel Brooks or Airplane! Good taste you lot have. Anyway, what's a movie gag that never fails to get a chuckle out of you?

Starting on The Magic Voyage of Sinbad (everyone knows Sinbad the Sailor was Russo-Finnish, that's just common knowledge!) With a localization that desperate, I have high hopes for this episode. #MST3K

My mother and I *finally* decided on what we're making for Thanksgiving next week. Everyone always says they don't want the same old things, but when you try to think of something new, it's like pulling teeth.🫩 Anyway,we've finally got a plan.

Let’s talk about sedition and treason, because the most powerful yet inadequate man in the world is having a tantrum about it, and his soulless, spineless sycophants are boosting his message. /1

EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: my staff is releasing a new report showing JPMorgan Chase executives – all the way to the top – enabled Epstein's sex trafficking operation. You're going to want to read this.

It's been 14 years since Egypt's riot police and security forces brutally attacked a sit-in leading to clashes that would last days, intentionally shot at protesters' eyes, and used teargas without limit. Thinking of those we lost and those who bore witness: Mohamed Mahmoud.

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

Well, that's The Sword and the Dragon done. Not as funny or memorable as Jack Frost (Corman's editing is far more detrimental here) but there's a few nice jokes and host segments. Mike was delightful, Servo squealed like a fish wife, and Crow really...rounded out the cast. #Mst3k

The Yuletide Senate must vote to grant Tinseler Palpatine emergency powers to combat the Confederacy of Festivus Systems.

HOBOCOP (2019)

"Harry Truman is forcing me to sleep with Asians as part of a commie-catholic plot. Please don't put in the newspaper that this is my fetish."

Starting the Sword and the Dragon now. I recall getting fairly far in this one at some point but never finishing it. Huh. "Finish"-ing. Hyuk hyuk. Anyway, it's once again time for Finland ft. USSR, with Roger Corman on the beat.

My guess is that if, and when, the AI industry runs into serious trouble, the traditional grifters will have a Renaissance. Not only will there be a lot of desperate marks, there'll also be a surplus of arrogant ones who think dodging the AI bullet means they're too smart to get scammed. /1

The important thing to understand about all of this is that all of the Third Reich's actions were undertaken *because* of their antisemitism. It was the core of their worldview. Their other genocidal projects existed *because* if their imagined war with an eternal Judeo-Bolshevik conspiracy. /1

It's not widely known, but Lincoln actually required the assistance of three puppy-cat-things in order to write the Gettysburg Address.

My 12 yr old daughters favourite game is Stardew Valley She has 200+ hrs, loves to talk to me about it, listens to the soundtrack and has started a sketchbook (below) She doesn't know yet...but I managed to get tickets to the concert for next year in Glasgow, she is going be so damn excited! 😁

Captain America! Spirit of 76! Sentinel of Liberty! Paragon of Justice! .....Seller of costume IP Rights. Isn't Janet supposed to be the fashion designer? Ugh, I'm so ready to be done with this part of Gruenwald's run. #Comics #Marvel

Been feeling pretty awful again, so I'm resuming my project to watch my unseen #MST3K episodes. Figured I'd start with the old Russo-Finnic films. I tend to be pretty wary when the show covers foriegn films, as the riffing can get a bit boorish, but this one, Jack Frost, is really funny.

Just found out about Chomsky. It feels weird to be taking any amount of pleasure in news of this nature, but man oh man, if there was ever a totemic representation of people I cannot fucking stand, Noam would be it. So I'm glad more people are seeing what a hollow golem of a man he really is.

long time chomsky haters vindicated

......Decabria? I want a refund. #Persona

Books with Pictures (@bkswpicspdx.bsky.social) in Portland, Oregon is a GREAT comic shop, and its owner in @omgkatiep.bsky.social is one of the best. The shop is going through a hard time right now, and if you want to help BwP out, they opened a GoFundMe to help do just that.

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

Well, when you don't have to spend that budget on episodes about Anakin and Padme being horrible together, you can really stretch it out much further.

So much ink gets spilled, on this website and others, on tiresome quests to find what arcane magic drove Trump's popularity and electoral win, when I'm pretty sure it's just been misogyny, and always has been. There is no MAGA movement without the hatred of women. That simple.

Just a quick reminder to everyone that, if you're like me and couldn't care less about the game awards, you can just mute the tag for them, rather than be obnoxious about it in other people's threads.

I run into this type pretty frequently even in professional contexts and it drives me insane. Like the moment a culture mints a coin or buys something from someone it suddenly becomes "proto-capitalist." That's not what it means!

There's also a certain pop-leftist take that seems to equate 'capitalism' with trade and commerce generally, and ends up morphing into the kind of attitude held by landowning aristocrats throughout history

I've been trying to ween myself off the left of center circular firing squads we have here on Bluesky, but this response, and a lot of the rest of the thread, genuinely make me angry. Obviously this particular take is psychotic and mockable,but even the more *reasonable* ones are also hurtful./1

So, while the year isn't over yet, and there are still some games I'm hoping to play before it does, with the award show and all that folk are talking about their impressions. And, honestly? I don't mean to bring the mood down, but I didn't really have that great a time with gaming this year. /1

JUST IN: the Georgian Dream deprives Georgians abroad of voting rights. If the diaspora wishes to vote, they must physically arrive in Georgia on the election day.

Look, I know you guys are all excited about the new Avengers line-up, but do you think you can do this somewhere else? Franklin's had a long day and is trying to sleep. #Comics #Marvel

Y'know, I was told that Mark Gruenwald's run of #CaptainAmerica was a highlight for the character, but man, I am really struggling. Steve's spent, like, 12 issues fighting with a government commission over the IP rights to Captain America and I just don't care. All in a much worse costume, natch.

Done with the first genuinely good episode of #SamuraiChamploo, which stars the usual weaboo foriegner stereotype, but with some rare nuance. Namely, said foriegner is a gay man seeking refuge in the more gay tolerant Shogunate. Perhaps overly idealistic about Edo era tolerance, but it's a step. 🏳️‍🌈

🎵Always look on the bright side of life🎵 🎶Do-Do, do do da doodly do🎶 #Persona3Reload

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A lot of people in this thread focus on the "it's all about money" types, who are a big problem, but my experience was always that,pro or anti war, the average American during the aughts was terribly racist and ignorant about the Middle East and oil being there was the only thing they knew about it.