All the coolest people were in Cairo

I fully support a Kirk Remembrance Day. Wait I’m just being told… I’m sorry what’s that? Who?

I'm not over the moon that I turned out right about all this 8 months before the orange dickhead won his first election. But I stand by the analogy.

Hope is punk now. And being the eternal belligerent optimist I am, I guess that makes me cool. It took a while, but you were right all along Mum.

Age turns music from a parade of dreams to a procession of memories.

This (what the emperor said), but unironically. I’m sick of folks buying into the images authoritarians have painted on the inside of our eyelids. Democracy is the engine of human freedom and one of the best damn ideas we’ve ever come up with. It just needs fixing.

So here’s my pitch. A late night show, with all the trimmings, but they just pull randoms off the street and introduce/treat them like they’re ‘important’ celebrities. We got a great show for you tonight. Josh is here! He waited tables for 3 years and now he’s starting an animal shelter!

I’m convinced that history will judge Millennials even more harshly than their boomer parents. We grew up so consumed with expectation and self righteousness and believing we deserved what our parents had, that we gave up the last chance to properly change things before it all turned to shit.

The Great War for Peace continues.

Just read that @nature.com is adopting transparent peer review across the board. www.nature.com/articles/d41... You folks should really look at using Stone - the free tool built explicitly for that purpose. Produces embedable records of review. www.writeinstone.com

Happy Captain Picard Day!

Mass protests > Military parades

Ok cool. Now take a page from the Arab Spring and do the same thing every week. Every. Week.

“…from a kingdom of gold, to one of rust and iron…” - Cassius Dio

League of Nations ❌ United Nations ❌ ________________ ❔ United Federation of Planets ✅

After gen Alpha and Beta get the ball rolling, gen Stable Release will bring it home and save us all.

Good news everyone! Depressed about the erosion of civil rights, the collapse of democratic institutions, the rise of authoritarianism and the fecklessness of liberal society in the face of unspeakable human suffering? Apparently the cure is cardio. Convenient.

I’ve been saying from the beginning that the one silver lining to this shit show was going to be watching the Elon and Trump relationship implode. It was always inevitable and it’s going to be glorious watching them try and leverage their largely overlapping cults against each other.

Brb. Running a highly uncoordinated psyop on myself to do better.

83% of NZers want to live in a functioning country it turns out ❤️

I know this might come across a little snide. That's not my intention. I just want to say that there are literally billions of people who deserve your sympathy. Most likely more than an ex president. Perhaps consider directing some of your outpourings their way.

When the 20th and 21st century get a proper retrospective one day, Gaza will be remembered as the quintessence of our cobweb of failure. A terminally incomplete liberal project that cultivates fecklessness, political aneurysm and systemic injustice. Not just allowing evil but formalising it.

The problem with our public intellectuals isn’t that they’re never right, it’s that they don’t publicly admit when they’re wrong. By ignoring or paving over the countless times and ways in which those voices given the most airtime have terrible takes, we fuel a culture of unaccountable error.

A few weeks ago, I posted a few lessons I'd learned from experiences alongside democratic movements and under authoritarianism. I've since expanded on it, and hope it can offer those of you experiencing, processing and facing down threats to democracy a reason (or two) not to lose hope altogether.

“I think this is gonna be more like the renaissance than the Industrial Revolution” - Sam Altman

Think globally. Buy locally. Act transdimensionally.

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

Gee I wonder which economy will be able to pivot harder and faster to manufacture things locally. The country that has spent the last few decades building its industrial base or the country that has spent the last few decades dismantling it?

I’m afraid if you want the rest of the world to buy more of your shit you have to do one of two things. A) Have standards that make it not shit, which means regulation. B) Undercut prices, which means paying your workers next to nothing. Bonus option: AI automation and put everyone out of work.

The Netanyahu government has killed 50,000 people in Gaza & wounded 112,000. Two weeks ago, they broke the ceasefire and have since killed 322 children & wounded 600. The US must end its complicity. Tomorrow, I will force votes to block $8.8 billion in arm sales to Netanyahu.

According to one NZ economist the results of the Trump Tariffs is a big net negative for Americans and pretty decent positive boost for New Zealand. Thanks for the help Trump. #nzpol #nz #aotearoa www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-...

What's the bet they just found a list of territories (not countries), slapped it in G-Sheets and just skipped merrily down the right column tapping in numbers that 'felt' right.

For reasons unknown to mankind.

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A reminder that "hope is as much about history as it is about the future".

Oh ok then.

The 'no true scotsman' fallacy should be renamed the 'this is not who we are' fallacy.

Goebbels famously said, “If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth.” Except he didn't. The irony is too perfect.

I mean come on guys. At least it wasn’t Telegram.

"Great work all. Powerful start."

My latest at scifishorts.co - Astrotropia A flash fiction story about a very special orchard, with an unusual visitor. "The right ship knows where it wants to go."

Fantastic News! Citizens elect Cascais as European Capital of Democracy 2026. Felicitações Cascais! 🌊 You can read the press release here: capitalofdemocracy.eu/citizens-sel...

My latest little bit of sci fi nonsense over at scifishorts. “Art has…consequences”

It should be abundantly clear by now. Americans don’t want decorum. They want someone outspoken who gives zero fucks about being polite. And I maintain that the first Democrat who can do that authentically and consistently with a clear positive vision, will lead either the country or the revolution.