a refugee and genocide survivor is about to start her Master's at Goldsmith and this is the response from a senior politician. what a disgrace.

> posts a rant that is rabid, frothing at the mouth, mentally ill antisemitism > stop policing Susan's speech You need to be hauled off in a straitjacket as well.

Mr. Mamdani, when will you condemn the Bulgarian Socialist Party for its anti-LGBT propaganda and collaboration with russian imperialism? Your neutral and cowardly stance on Balkan schizo-politics as NYC mayor is immense.

this is one of the most amazing conversations I have ever seen on Bluesky. It’s a shame that the Louvre deleted his account because this should be framed

fascinated by this phenomenon of Mamdani just being A Regular Dude by the standards of...... literally just a few years ago, and somehow melting the brains of everyone in a 300 ft. radius because of it

Extremely normal behaviour to use the words parasites, vampires, ghouls, and jewish in the same sentence.

They're calling it the dumbest air campaign of all time

“Jews are safe from pogroms because they’re associated with money” is certainly one of the takes of all time.

my take on birth rate discourse: If the only way our species can keep going is by forcing the half of the population born with Unlucky Organs into reproductive slavery, we should go extinct, and good riddance

>the military capability of the enemy is 100% annihilated. >they still pose a major threat with drones, mines and missiles.

I wouldn’t have sieged the Strait of Hormuz. I would have taken it immediately,

I've already lost track of the amount of prominent antisemitic attacks in the last couple of days.

Please just relocate and become the Bulgarian PM or something. No one here believes in taxes, state capacity, or that any quality services should exist to serve society. You will fit right in and win with Assad numbers.

Completely losing my mind how one of the biggest recurring characters of rabid online antisemitism is a twitter squirrel pfp account.

Today is the first time that Zelensky is guilty of unspeakable evil--complimenting Bernard-Henri Lévy on social media.

Ten billion more Ukraine/Palestine flags in my bio. God willing at some point it will give these creatures a stroke (or at least a hobby to get them out of their decrepit basements).

I assumed their official statements would be some kind of comically evil gloating--not disappointed on that front (these are from ABC).

vaxxed?

Peak bluesky. No notes.

I see people are quoting this with their usual very normal takes here like *Liberalism is fascism and slavery*, etc.

Your state is collapsing due to the weight of manufactured nationalist hysteria? No problem. Send in the bioweapon (Sanchez), Resident Evil style to smother the fash with multicultural democracy.

Your state is collapsing due to the weight of manufactured nationalist hysteria? No problem. Send in the bioweapon (Sanchez), Resident Evil style to smother the fash with multicultural democracy.

The EU will survive only if it transitions to Pedro Sánchez cloning facilities.

Dunno about Politico, but I certainly would have crashed out years ago if I had to deal with a genocidal invasion and my freedom-defending allies are a pedo yank fascist alongside wormlike EU heads of state sending thoughts and prayers ribbons.

Go back to your 2010 Sam Harris love pillow or whatever it is you do. Anyone trying to do New Atheism 2.0 deserves to be bonked with a substantial blunt object.

Me: It's been months since I've checked what mentally ill opinions Dugin has shared with the world. [opens new tab] My god

Yeah, we're back.

It's finally warm enough outside for me to take my e-bike for a spin. Haven't touched it since early December, and can really feel the absence of regular exercise.

sharon take: gender is part of the reason decarbonization is so hard

"Marx thought capitalism was progressive relative to much of what was going on in the world" is one of those indisputable facts that some (not all!) people have a lot of difficulty incorporating into their worldview. Especially since this isn't just an idiosyncratic quirk; its core to his theory.

What I love about Reddit is that you get these wonderful glimpses into completely sealed epistemic chambers on the same site. If you dropped this screengrab on r/AskHistorians I think it might kill someone. Certainly it would cause several ulcers.

All of you jest, but Booker would become PM for life in any Balkan country with such extraordinary slopulism.

Big thumbs up to my girlfriend and her omniscient powers for suggesting Sicily instead of Jordan--we'd be stranded in Amman right now. "No, I won't go anywhere near when Trump and Bibi are in power and decide to randomly start killing people in the region for no reason."

The Ukrainian army has gotten very little positive coverage or acknowledgement for not doing war crimes on a constant basis even when they are waging a war for survival against an explicitly genocidal invasion. This is honestly completely unprecedented in the history of modern warfare.

I haven't even boarded my flight yet, but the idea of leaving Italy is making me crash out.

High degree of accuracy.

It's crazy how the way time happened and the way we understand it are so different. We think Einstein and Marie Curie were like, super far apart but Curie died 13 years after Einstein got the Nobel. She was literally at the conference where they argued about black holes and quantum entanglement

The moderate position at this point is crushing sanctions against Israel. Everything less than that is collaboration.

The last remaining gladiators in the Catania amphitheatre are about to go at it.

Some guys on motorcycles stopped nearby the building and started blasting fireworks. They managed to get away before the police arrived. Definitely midnight in Catania, lmao.

This is good. It has finally broken containment and Westerners will suffer the spread of Bulgarian Facebook boomer slop.

I'll be back soon to check up on what all of you are up to (and dooming about). Now in Catania doing vitally important "work".

Another thing I also managed to see at the Palazzo Abbatellis is one of the greatest portraits of all time--Antonello de Messina’s Annunciation.

Hot take alert: This massive 15th century Triumph of Death fresco by an anonymous Palermo master is an underrated masterpiece and better than Bruegel's later version (sorry Bruegel fanboys).

Stupid person voice: Multiculturalism has failed! Me: Well, you clearly haven't embraced the majesty of Sicilian-Norman-Arab-Byzantine-Jewish civilisation.

Ok, fine. Here are some actual highlights.