This has been a very bewildering debate to watch from the Southern U.S. what's going on over there. Are y'all good

The tea party comparisons are pretty asinine (for one the actual tea party was astoturfed as hell while the Mamdani phenomena is grassroots as it gets) but "they don't care about the issues, just like the tea party!" is very funny. The tea party won! By every metric! We're living in their world now!

I don't know man, maybe pushing ideology-neutral party building might be a contributing factor to why insurgents keep dog-walking you guys. Maybe people actually do believe in things and think stuff like that matters

Just got back from the moderate rally. For some reason they're all screaming, crying and throwing up. It's actually quite sad.

The sentences doled out in the Prairieland case today are horrific. Des was sentenced to 30 years in prison for moving a box of zines. There is no pretense of "justice" here. The judge said, “the state wants to send a message to anyone who shares a similar ideology.” crimethinc.com/prairieland

Sometimes you come across a gem

Foodcels are slaves to the material world of the Demiurge. The based and gnostic-pilled administration recognizes that, through spiritual meditation and certain esoteric agreements with the Gnomes, one can survive indefinitely by taking one half scrupule of Solar Quintessence.

"policing tones of communication" sometimes I get the impression that Vance longs for the Hillbilly Elegy days of grifting credulous liberals

One thing I really appreciate about Bluesky is the kind of bog standard bigotry you'd see 1,000 times in a Facebook news article comment section can ratios like this

I love Boots man but this idea is pretty goofy. Are there people willing to vote socialist you absolutely wouldn't expect? For sure. Are they a majority? No. This is why political education is important, peoples' politics aren't immutable.

Out on a run and came across a couple having a break up. The woman yelled that the guy cared more about “his YouTube videos” than her. Fully expected it to be some Andrew Tate shit until he sheepishly said “trains mean so much to me but you’ve never understood that”

Well, that was a fucking ride.

These are all bad but the "real names" one is particularly egregious. Like yeah it intuitively makes sense that people using their "real" name would be less likely to be abusive but. It isn't true. Just look at what some of y'all's racist uncles are posting on Facebook.

They're calling it the most unconditional surrender of all time. People come to us, crying, saying Mr. President, you can't keep giving Iran more concessions. They say it's the American century of humiliation. More people are saying it. I like that word. A century is a very, very long time you know.

Mr. President,,, welcome to Hamas

Honey are you OK, you've barely touched your liquefied cheetos

It's cool to make fun of Trump for losing the Iran war but you know when these ghouls do it it's because they just wanted to do the war better.

Can't wait to see how far this logic extends. Can't abolish ICE, destruction is not strength. Can't even bring them back to previous funding levels. Reflecting pool is gonna stay green. DOGE, the arch, gulf of America, the Iran war. The internment camps? Just gotta keep 'em I guess.

I remember learning this (along with other important lessons such as how to stage an asymmetric insurgency and the Cost of War) from beloved children's series Animorphs, where one of the characters was turned into a redtail hawk and got very salty about that sort of thing.

this might be the best headline i’ve ever read

I guess some talking heads are still trying to carve out a niche of genteel racism for embarrassed liberals and NPR Republicans but I don't think it's going to have much staying power in an age where gutter racists run the country and you can just say slurs if you want

a mass-murdering white nationalist psycho becoming the first trillionaire feels like it might be kind of an indictment on this whole system, personally. can we try one that doesn't incentivize men like Musk

"LLMs are actually a form of critical fabulation" You bolt awake. It is the 5th century BCE, and you are in a crowd watching Herodutus introduce his new 'Histories'. Your hand curls around a stone. The future must not be allowed to pass.

the Library of Alexandria has burned 10,000 times and will burn 10,000 more before it’s all said and done

it's cool that when someone isn't even in DSA or even claims to be a socialist you can still label them as "leftist/DSA vanguard" anyway to continue whatever polemic you have against leftist orgs

Bricks and Minifigs thing is fascinating on so many levels, not the least of which being how bad do you have to be at PR to go up against some asshole YouTuber who genuinely seems like kind of a dumbass and come out looking SO much worse off and cartoonishly evil

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IDK ABOUT ALL THIS AI STUFF I JUST HAVE MY CAT WRITE ALL THE CODE HES TERRIBLE AT IT BUT HE LOVES DOING IT

"We're gonna take down this secret cabal of elite pedophiles running the government" "But JD Vance! We're all elite pedophiles who run the government!"

The forces of reaction have once again been defeated, as ever they must. Liberté, égalité, fraternité ou la mort

Currently reading Silence of the Gods by @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social . I'm just getting into it but it's great so far. Weirdly, I got it as a like new former Brooklyn library book via Thriftbooks. Hopefully I'm not contributing to illicit library theft

One of the funnier bits of the old EU is that Vader's fleet was considered a good for ambitious officers because if you were competent (or below radar) you could expect rapid promotion as sr. officers died off. The trick is not getting greedy and transferring before you become a direct subordinate.

Alabama elections don't get a lot of national attention usually so it's cool to finally get a chance to have David Frum lie to my face about an event I personally experienced.

Sorry there's only room in my heart for one mystery solving live action dog

lmao

It's time to capitalize on the success of Hunger games and adapt Suzanne Collins's earlier, superior series: Gregor the Overlander. The people yearn for anthropomorphic rat Hitler teaching you that war sucks and genocide is bad

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

There's exactly one of these signs left in Alabama, just outside of Birmingham. I suspect it might be the last seal and when it's taken down we will descend ineluctably into hell

Life. Straight out of the box like a proper freak (I still do this).

Come look guys, former Republican politician and 10 year racist radio host veteran is here to tell us about how disqualifying it is to say cruel things to people!

We should be two “D&D Honor Among Thieves” sequels deep.

This is fake AI slop and I wish people would delete fake AI slop when it’s pointed out they’re spreading what essentially is misinformation but that is unfortunately way too much to ask these days.

I'm not loving this new trend of when someone points out that you posted AI slop getting defensive and saying it's no big deal so might as well leave it up. Yes actually I think spreading misinformation is a big deal! I think knowingly contributing to the mileau of unreality is actually bad!

For days, Bolivia has been in a state of full-on revolt. Broad social discontent has brought the country to a halt and stoked mass resistance to the larger project of U.S-aligned, right-wing attacks on workers and social movements in Latin America.

can't believe we're missing great discourage on Twitter such as "gundam is right wing" because all morality/bravery is right wing (their actual argument!) Like you could pick out actual reactionary anime (AOT) but of this list only thing I've got is the frieren demons are potentially problematic.

“Why doesn’t Batman just fund Gotham welfare programs instead of beating up the poor” Because Gotham has • corpse of an elder god • living elder god • Is built onto a cursed Native burial ground • portal to hell that’s a little open • portal to the afterlife that’s a little open • over 100 gangs

New book by @cbzeichmann.bsky.social arrived from @firestorm.coop yesterday! I've listened to the audiobook but I like having physical copies (plus pictures). Really cool book, I love it when my two interests of leftism and ancient history intersect. Shout-out to my bro Mazdak and the Khurramites

It's really sick how many people are objecting to employees who wish to work from home in this post COVID era. You shouldn't have to go into the office in order to send untraceable bullion to fund right wing drug trafficking death squads in foreign countries.