@ynot1989.bsky.social I think you’ll like this. My university has a Titan II engine in the basement, I believe from the upper stage.

I’ve had a space alternate history developing in my head for years but I’m holding off on writing it until I get my bachelors. Technical details and all that. But since it’s been incubating for so long I think it’s gotten a pretty unique political history.

For a long time ahead I will probably regard Orion’s Arm as the most accurate sci-fi in depicting what the interstellar descendants of humanity will be like. It makes lots of critical but imo reasonable assumptions. Also it’s fun reading space Wikipedia 10k years into the future.

so did the CIA decide it was time to save NATO or what

poutine is arguably a salad

Yeah a world where the US decentralizes like this is probably a lot more unstable and the median American is a good amount poorer as a consequence

One thing I would love to see, and maybe bsky is nerdy enough to make this happen, is getting local news to show a global view of the jet stream for winter storms. Cause lived experience right now is the coldest winters ever, especially in the south. But that’s just the freezer door being open.

One of my nightmare scenarios is the US basically undergoes a decade of internal chaos and the ultimate end is the reduction of the power of the Federal state (as no one wants it to be used against them)

Yes. Worst-case, yes. The more carbon we pump into the atmosphere and the less effort we make to mitigate effects, the higher the odds of that worst-case outcome.

I think most people here don't understand or don't communicate the enormous threat climate change poses to us this century.

When the economy crashes under Trump I believe that will be the greatest crisis of the post-WWII liberal international order. Mercosur shows that maybe free trade and international law can survive a hostile US but I'm cynical. The US is a load-bearing pillar taking the world with it in its fall.

The thing is that separatism, both in QC and AB, isn't that popular: however, given that the US has territorial designs for the Western hemisphere and the global culture war.... it's not hard to realize how things can go off the rails.

Feels like the dream of a lot of these places is to devolve into a neo-feudal landscape where longstanding landowners own everything and restrict even the most modest of developments which might bring about change (new people)

Holy shit my circuits professor looks like elderly Jimmy Carter. Similar voice too wtf

Median voter trusting Rs on trade and foreign policy at this point is just a reminder that most people are not following politics at all and it's a bit of an issue for democracy.

Median voter (derogatory)

They got suburban realtors talking like Patrick Henry, it's over

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

You know how lots of people (me included) say they have a moment where they "gained consciousness" during ages 2-5 years old. I've always wondered if there's people where that never happened. They never "gained consciousness."

30 years war but chud and woke instead of prot and cath

if any blue governor is thinking about what to do if america enters the cool zone it's probably spanberger

CIA governor perhaps thinking of certain contingencies

This is a bullshit blueanon account. That is not what the call-up was announced as. Walz is not sending the NG to fight DHS. He is not starting a Civil War. It is a normal call-up for public safety and crowd control. Stop listening to dipshit random accounts.

🎶If he wants you to do violence, he's a Fed. If he wants you to do violence, he's a Fed. If he wants you to start killin' 'Cause his bosses need a villain, If he wants you to do violence, he's a Fed.🎶

Praying for a Dem dominant 7th party system where we win 6 of the next 8 presidential elections because we’re gonna need to govern for a long time to be able to get the Federal state under control

Unless there is radical reform and soon, we're heading for a new national parallel to most major cities with the Federal government, where DHS (like major police departments) simply operates as it wishes, flagrantly disobeys administrations it doesn't support, and actively intervenes in politics.

I've talked to some people about the upcoming Artemis II mission and future plans for starting industry on the moon. And I find it interesting that several of them, after hearing about the moon's mining potential, get worried that we'll mine so much of the moon we mess up its orbit.

its genuinely wild that there's only been a single biography of John Bingham, when he's arguably the most important constitutional architect since madison

I might just be spooked after the very eventful past 11 days but I'm starting to feel like 2026 is the pivotal year. If we have anything close to a peaceful transfer of power following the midterms and presidential elections, or we spiral into civil war II, I feel this year will determine that.

This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.

We need to start thinking of ways to make the Yanks as economically miserable as possible if it happens.

We’re like 2-4 bad decisions away from discovering if “Presidential Breakdown” in the US is possible and I’m not looking forward to that.

Anyway, I will just reiterate: If it should come to pass that America commits the ultimate perfidy, then it is the duty of every patriotic American to undertake every active and passive measure to frustrate the American war effort, and to assist NATO forces in whatever capacity they require

The Greenland fixation feels like a personal insult to anyone who's spent more than about five minutes thinking about national security. "Hey, let's demolish our most valuable alliance so we can get get access to arctic territory we already have access to!"

I’m seeing people get mad at this but it is a problem that any attempts to arrest an ICE officer come with a very real threat of them shooting at the police who try to do it and I think it’s good that Frey is talking about that. I don’t know how to deal with that either!

there’s a lot of not getting scared of crowd control shit in these clips

this is an odd comment but there’s lots of things (like rhinos) that I forget exist because I never think about them. But when I see them again I remember everything about them in this mix of joy and curiosity.

BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!

It’s going to backfire if for no other reason that most people, outside a faction of right-radicals, enjoy seeing people murdered in our streets. The Admin’s near glee, and emboldened attitude, is both incredibly dangerous but will also produce far more enemies than friends for them

Good’s last words to the ICE agent: “That’s fine. I’m not mad at you.” His to her, after shooting her in the face: “Fuckin’ bitch.”

If you want an orderly transition of power eventually and not "J.D. Vance gets kicked to death in the Oval Office along with quisling Dem Senators" you gotta show that order is going to produce something other than impunity.

Yeah I don't think Dem electeds understand for the most part how much of a volcano they are sitting on.

i think probably three most fraught moments in the next 12 months are (in no particular order): (1) notional invocation of the insurrection act (2) certification of the election (3) seating of the 120th Congress

think the fact that this administration thinks it can win by doubling down on anything makes the former even possible

The new phase we're in is one where the administration's only options remaining for pulling levers involve executive monopoly over coercive powers.

i do think we're slouching towards ameri-maidan, but we could just slouch to just a perpetual simmer of violent enshitification

Dr. Fukuyama, you can't miss