13yo: I learned why communism failed. [tells me] Me: [Deep existential sigh] 13yo: Is that wrong? Me: [Checks traffic on Waze]. Okay. We’ve got some time. The first thing to understand is that communism has never been tried… [30 minutes later] And that’s why LENIN-ISM failed.

holy shit he actually conceded folks, they tell you they’re invincible they tell you they’re inevitable they tell you that you should give up and stop fighting and absolutely none of that is true

Not dunking on Zack or this post, I’m just always struck by how easily American journalists will admit that the media shapes public polling and political outcomes when they’re not talking about America.

This is so sad. One way I coped with the omnipresent scams is to picture some poor, down on their luck guy operating small scale scams from their shitty apartment. "Didn't get me, but good luck, we're all trying to get by and I probably seem rich to you," I think, before blocking the number.

I think it's really an underrated moral issue (let along a political economy one) that we've sort of let scams and scam adjacent activities (sports betting, car dealerships, most retail interactions with skilled trades, crypto, etc) pervade the economy from top to bottom.

I found a paper on "agricultural rewilding" - The terminology certainly gets wordy. So many different types of "rewilding" and "farming", is it agricultural rewilding, rewilding lite, wild farming, agroecology, regenerative farming, or permaculture? (These are all similar, with slight nuances.)

btw the “Oh my god!” you hear at the beginning is Mamdani. Leading into this clip, he was talking about how he was inspired by Bernie Sanders, saying it’s such a shame he’s not there, then *Blackout* “OH MY GOD!”

Everyone please welcome CBS News Immigration Analyst Viktor Orban.

it’s sunday night so of course the president is yelling at the pope on the internet again

The Pope is weak on crime.

Perhaps Magyar's most important promise, and the one that certainly resonates with voters: "never again a country without consequences!" The crowd chants: "To prison! To prison!" [with the corrupt officials of the outgoing government]

So happy for all Hungarians, but especially for my husband’s family in Budapest, and for family members who had to leave Hungary to finish their education after Orban shut down their university. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

remember this last summer? the huge crowd defying the ban on Budapest's Pride parade last summer was a rehearsal for massing together & sticking it to fascists

Budapest ht: @anneapplebaum.bsky.social

I’m making gluten free vegan apple muffins to take to work tomorrow.

The purpose of culture war is not to *win*. The purpose of it is to keep fighting about nothing you actually care about, at astonishing intensity, as a distraction from you stealing from and fucking over the public. You pick topics specifically because you don’t care whether you win or lose.

“There is a massive difference between faculty in their own departments determining that programs are no longer viable — which has been the usual way program closure has been initiated in the past — and such closure decisions being made solely by administrators." dailyorange.com/2026/04/facu...

“If it’s already happening now, then what does a future that is two or three degrees warmer hold?” Australian researchers have found that extreme heat mortality is "seriously underreported” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Any random billionaire or even merely millionaire executive controlling literally everything, would die in a gristly manner in about a week of living like a normal person with a normal job.

An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

Fucking neighbor back on his shit with the loud music that bleeds through the walls again.

5 large data centers are being proposed in Seattle. They would use 369 megawatts, which is 1/3 of the electricity Seattle currently uses Seattle City Light declines to identify the four companies. They should hold a public input meeting before making any final decisions.

If a cop or prosecutor asks if you want to press charges, what they're really asking is if you want THEM to press charges, and they're under no obligation to actually do what you are asking. In fact, they very often don't.

Police and law enforcement can refer or hold a person pending those charges, and sometimes have authority to charge misdemeanors themselves. But the idea of a victim having the final say on when or if criminal charges are pressed is simply media copaganda. That's not real life.

"If Swalwell was guilty, his accusers would file charges" is a thing I keep seeing. But here's the thing: it's absolutely NOT how the system works. ONLY PROSECUTORS CAN FILE CRIMINAL CHARGES IN THE US LEGAL SYSTEM.

Jose Ramirez has become the first Cleveland player to homer against all 29 other teams in the MLB! 🐐🐐🐐

New progress pride flag installed for the fourth year. (They fray and fade.) My basic human rights are constantly under threat, and so it seems more important than every to be visible in my community as a reminder that queer and trans people aren't abstract bogeymen but your neighbours and peers.

First time I've seen someone give a sequel book a bad review because it doesn't reintroduce the concepts but rather assumes you remember reading the last book lol

I was just in Costco. There was a woman in her late 60’s riding a scooter with a speaker on the basket. She was blasting 80’s rap. It was glorious.

Ok that was weird. I'm on the road working and I was just asked to do an age verification to get on Bluesky. It said the location I was logging in from required it. First time I have seen this. Rather not say exactly where I am, suffice it to say it's the "deep south".

Sometime you need a shitty day to get a fabulous sunset.

also if for some reason people are worried about the CA governor’s race, the only risk is that the field is so split that two Rs end up top 2, so swalwell dropping out actually helps there if it’s D vs R all the D has to do is stand up and say “hi I’m a democrat” and they’ll win, I could do it

very especially eric fucking swalwell does not fall into this nonexistent category, throw the whole man out

there is no politician so irreplaceable that we must overlook sexual misconduct because nobody else could possibly fill their shoes

I still get threats from men I wrote about a decade ago who are angry I covered federal lawsuits against them related to sexual assault allegations. To my personal email, to new work emails. I don’t think readers understand how difficult and laborious it is to get these stories published

One of the comments to this is like “of all the things to be mad about, not being able to get a credit card is low down the list” and y’all being able to leave shitty men is so important and cannot be done without money.

Got sucked into watching “Paradise” with Sterling K Brown and I really can’t turn it off now.

seeing ai, especially blatantly unrealistic stuff, often feels like a psychological attack

It seems ridiculous but I genuinely don’t know how to explain to people that it’s important that photos of real events are real. Both to my understanding of the event and my enjoyment of it.

Just because a picture doesn’t have all four astronauts waving at us like we’re watching the end of a 1980’s sitcom doesn’t mean it’s less inspiring

He's going to run as the anti-war candidate in 2028 and the stupidest people you know are all going to pretend to believe it.

Continuing my "meta" arc, this time I'm talking about why its worth reading academic books even if you are not an academic. Also why I think a lot of the criticisms against academic works don't hold up, and how the line between pop and academic work isn't always clear cut. #medievalsky #history

Loving my shirt from @blueheronfarm.bsky.social!

“If you can hear me my name is Doctor Robbie. We need to give you what is known as a medical Snoopy tattoo.”

“Starving student life organizations accomplishes something larger than cutting a budget line. It weakens the ecosystems that help marginalized students survive on predominantly white campuses…And it does so without ever having to say that’s the goal.”🔥 newsone.com/6855369/univ...

By taking the departments that study women, queer people, Black people, + Latinos + combining them into a single, ill-defined dept, UT has defined these populations by their lack of whiteness. Their lack of being cisgender, straight + male...These people are now the Other…an object to be dealt with.

First Plato—now Dr. Peterson—out the door at Texas A&M! Who’s next? Here is Dr. Peterson’s letter of resignation, which he just shared with the faculty.

🔔Texas’s 2023 anti-DEI law SB17 was a harbinger of the dismantling of DEI across the country. This week the Chronicle has tracked attacks + rollbacks on DEI policies and programs at NYU, Yale, Rutgers + the University of Illinois system. What is happening in TX now is headed for your state next.

Alabama, Kentucky, Oklahoma & Tennessee legislatures are considering bills that will weaken tenure, academic freedom & shared governance at public colleges and universities. Inside Higher Ed breaks down the harmful impact of the bills and how AAUP chapters & leaders are responding to this threat⬇️