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A selection of the best responses to this question. (from @sameyler.bsky.social @jordanw2382.bsky.social @interfluidity.com @pamherd.bsky.social)

Hannah the plumber but in Florida.

probably completely obvious but the reason Project Hail Mary is doing so well (apart from being very well made) is that it is all about problem-solving, cooperation, self-sacrifice, and forming deep relationships with those from far away. All values that people feel a desperate need for right now.

Spencer is brusque about career politicians: “Politics at uni, work for an MP, become an MP. If you have a handful of people who’ve done it that way, absolutely fine. But at the moment, there’s way too many like that and they lose themselves along the way.”

GOAT

Americans about to have a generation with liver toxicities even as they drink less.

Should have been the winning message of the elections in 2024. but unfortunately we were told it was the eggs.

Fascism is worse than neoliberalism in literally every way

Oh this is a nice piece after the mealy mouthed ungenerous review by The Guardian of this well cast, acted and staged show.

Two very good points : 1. Bluesky all too often substitutes attempts at social punishment (insults, ad hominems, obscenity) for any kind of argument or substantive engagement 2. this kind of endless policing of ideological purity does bubkes to build the kind of constitutional coalition we need.

One of the lovely details of the service is that the clasp holding her cloak together was made from her belt that she wore as an NHS nurse. It was originally made for her by her father.

less talk about cold plunges and jawlines, more building your wife a table and your kids a playset

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There is absolutely no need to dredge up the past in this way. No need. Let’s focus on the present that’s looking better every minute that this thing doesn’t roam the earth.

The subtext of all this is that the postal service has been systematically underfunded and mismanaged to further delay ballots that may well have been posted in time. USPS currently under a tremendous financial crunch.

Beautiful paper, read, set in your classes, think about, cite, extend, etc.

Block block block: how is your Saturday on bluesky going?

Ok, just for starters, Lenin: Terrorized and expropriated peasants, leading to the famine of 1921 which killed 5M Established the Cheka, who summarily executed up to 150K people during the Red Terror Established slave labor camps and the gulag system Executed over 10k Orthodox priests.

The antisemitism bubbling up here is appalling. Get your shit together and get that filth out of my timeline. There will be no warnings.

The wonderful thing about the House of Lords is it allows a diverse representation of expertise in Parliament, including expertise in non sequiturs.

After 15 years of eating yoghurts in the U.S. I can say this list is missing the only one that will make an Indian happy and that is Seven Stars original plain yoghurt. This list is mid at best.

What is your identification strategy?

NPR routinely posts a Katie Britt promo story and I am convinced it’s part of some deal they made with the Trump admin to feature conservatives in a positive light. It’s perplexing to see this soft marketing

Ah, the simple tactic of holding up a mirror, this time to find a conscience.

"is your talent pipeline is such that you are compelled to turn back to old hands and the old guard? Jonathan Powell, Pat McFadden..... It reads like a roll call of TB-GB retreads... masters of an old world. Did Tony Blair turn so heavily to members of the 1974-79 govt?" Absolutely damning read:

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

Everyday I see the parallels between the US and India. The Modi govt has many allies in the press, but a large country with a robust local media ecosystem (in numerous languages) that goes back over a century, and which survived the british colonial rule, will also survive the now.

At all three places where I taught, veterans and military students are admired for their service, their ability to get their academic work done quickly and extremely well, and for often balancing family and school. Not *once* have I ever heard a faculty member disparage a military student.

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This is an excellent article by my colleague @jonasnahm.com. American innovation has been captured by a Silicon Valley mindset, and this has important disadvantages... www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/o...

I have no idea why the aggressive behaviour has gone up here. I am over here minding my nerdy business, and in the past few days I have had troll accounts willfully misunderstand posts. Block block block.

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Building on this thought... I conjecture that the *only* way that a single overarching social category can create social order is if that category is fused to a strict internal caste/status hierarchy. Do you want integralism? This is how you get integralism.

Excellent thread: once again requesting that we see abundance folks not as making the case for cheaper electricity for voters alone but as case for oil & gas companies to continue to be competitive because the political backlash from these resource owners is a major funder of far right politics.

The LSE finding itself on this list of woke American schools like

Someone told me lately "Bluesky is just like Twitter." I argued that was untrue on the basis that last time I had a Twitter account most times I got a new follower their bio said "single & looking for fun" & here when I get a new follower it tends to say something like "professor of rare moths".

Let me say something positive about the Winter Olympics for a change: there's an extreme overrepresentation of Minnesotans, and they're using the platform for good.

Man do they hate data

All due respect to Norwegians: a competition whose medal leaderboard looks like this does not deserve the "Olympics" moniker. It's a small party, and the world is not invited... #WhiterOlympics

Interesting interactions in thread showing how hard it is to code what is left wing policy. Original thread argues current UK govt. is boringly centrist, another suggests govt. has done most left wing redistributive/regulatory policy in 40 years. what we can say is it's not right wing.

I'm going to win.

striking illustration of the methods/words of a politician selected into politics in a different era, who is unable to understand the urgency of the situation. She keeps resorting to sensible policy bargains to address what is a fascist tool. Her constituents understand the moment, she just can’t.

This is good! Shame as a device is still working in the UK. I am reminded of Boris Johnson and those COVID parties. Accountability is a good thing and signifies a healthier political system however much the the US/UK comparisons abound.

Vladimir Putin arrests journalists for spreading “fake news” and “insulting the armed forces.” But Russia doesn’t have a 1st amendment and vociferous defenders of free speech.

The headlines of top 6 stories currently on the NY Times homepage: “Trump expected to announce” “Can Trump Really Give” “Trump Sues…Demands” “Trump Threatens” “Trump Weighs” “Trump Confronts” Good example of the media reinforcing what @donmoyn.bsky.social calls the “personalist presidency.”

There are many frames to analyze the current moment but one repeating theme is the current administration’s preoccupation with bolstering oil and gas, weakening oil alternatives to energy production, and acquiring natural resources.

Interesting post: it suggests that Democartic party activists lost legitimacy during the Biden years by over playing their hand, and the Minnesota collective action is special in part because the solidarity movement is ground up and occurring outside of the Dem party.

Nothing can prepare your soul for the first image ever transmitted onto a television