Democratic socialism is a center-left ideology

These states should all be putting "Repeal the GOP BJ Ban" initiatives on every ballot. Make these lunatics actually defend their positions publicly.

Just had Canvas stop working as I was typing comments on a student paper. I now can’t access anyone’s work or grades. Strangely, this never happened back when I used a grade book and had students email me their papers, a system no shareholders extracted money from.

who could have imagined that it wasn't a good idea to have a nearly ubiquitous educational platform run by for-profit tech? @mattseybold.bsky.social is who! (yep, Canvas is down, hacked, stick a fork in it)

It’s just nature guys, like how every member of a wolf pack is an alpha. Famously great for pack functioning.

My biggest conspiracy theory is that telling working class people that engagement in the arts is a middle / upper class thing and to do so makes you a class traitor is a psyop to make them disengaged with themselves and the world and the beauty of being human, so that they accept worse treatment.

Prediction: he’s going to take it and like it

Fruit cart scene in AN ADVENTUROUS AUTOMOBILE TRIP (1905) directed by Georges Méliès. This is the earliest version of the chase movie staple that I have seen and it is enhanced by hand-colored oranges, courtesy of legendary film colorist Madame Thuillier's team.

We have many machines that can lift extremely heavy weights, and yet some humans choose to lift weights using only muscle power. Extremely confusing.

If you ever go visit Rome and go see the spot Caesar got got, it's a really great bonus that it's currently a sanctuary for feral cats like this one, who get to laze about in the crumbling remnants of a fallen empire. As we all do, these days. D7200. May, 2024.

not the listicle we want, but the listicle we deserve

but we can't afford universal health care and housing for all.

If you are talking about 20th C. American/American-influenced music & the names Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington are not mentioned... you have already said all I need to know

MAGA DELENDA EST

Macbeth: SHIT

Just wanna go on the record saying 2a is cool as fuck. Some of the world’s best art is 2a

If you're just an older, more wizened, more conventionally successful version of the guy you were when you were 20 without any actual growth as a human being, you've failed as a man

If we could just figure out how to make it Not Weird to want to clean your neighbor’s gutters, we could have Socialism

Article in @nytimes.com never mentions this. This is fucking gaslighting. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...

One day of general strike & they immediately fold. That is POWER folks. This is not rocket science, its just regular old class war.

An aged man is but a paltry thing A tattered coat upon a stick — unless Soul clap its hands and sing And louder sing for each tatter in its mortal dress — WB Yeats, Sailing to Byzantium

That money could’ve ended homelessness in the US, or established UBI for every American, student loan erasure, or supercharged every creative industry in existence to pay artists better, instead of, yknow, blowing it on dead malls full of Elegy of Emptiness statues for rich people I hate it here

This right here. You could build a whole solidaristic political consciousness around being a "good neighbor." [It would of course have to resist reactionary Nextdoor / neighborhood watch / property value protection versions]

neolithic guys get pissed if you tell them their cultures are organized by the type of pots and jewelry they made. "we called ourselves the blood hunters" "we conquered villages far beyond this horizon" sorry bud you're the western linear pottery culture now

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

Yes - though I’d replace ‘useless results’ with ‘generations of imperial blowback and a world-historical squandering of resources’

What I love about this racist fetish is that the Western Civilization Supremacists don’t understand the Christians won a grand total of one out of seven Crusades

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This is only one bit of anecdotal evidence. I say we must immediately begin large-scale tests of his hypothesis.

Correct & definitive answer. Everyone can now stop posting on this subject.

For a moment I thought this was a reference to the explosion following the death of William the Conqueror

APB for assault /kidnapping perps > “I apologize”

Netflix: "We don't want movies to even go into theaters because that reduces demand on our product." Also Netflix: "We demand that you treat our original films as amazing motion picture experiences worthy of being seen in a theater!" Gotta pick, dudes. Got. To. Pick.

I just received notification from University IT warning us about phishing attacks that “seem too good to be true” and I can’t stop thinking about the scammer last year who wanted us to enter our credentials to register for our 5% annual cost-of-living raise.

2026, dir. Cronenberg

Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon

If people understood orders of magnitude better, more people would favor socialism

I think a lot about the story Carl Reiner told: he’d have been a sewing machine repairman if not for a free WPA drama class. That led to other theater work, to Sid Caesar, to Mel Brooks, and all the rest. All because of one free class paid for by a government that felt the arts were worth teaching.

Then, to my siblings in Valhalla: “LOL, Cuomo thought he’d be in Valhalla“

1998 called, they want their hit pieces back

The Oceans Eleven of Louis Bonaparte www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/w...

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

Somewhere in the afterlife Sam Beckett is smiling with satisfaction. Or perhaps not perhaps its all a meaningless void of non-existence 🤷

Silent movie edition! THE COUNTRYMAN AND THE CINEMATOGRAPH (1901) was a joke that was taken seriously by later generations. "Look at this smock-wearing country dolt, I bet he thinks movie trains will hit him!" quickly became a much-repeated "fact" about early cinema.

Sinners (2025)

If you see this, repost with a vampire that is not Dracula.

Did not realize how much I needed @aywarhiannon.bsky.social's absolute banger of a rant on the new @fivefourpod.bsky.social. Suck it up buttercups, and get yourself some dialectical materialism! History is contingent! We make our own but not in circumstances of our choosing.

universe loading the bases for a walkoff grand slam