@admiralstav.bsky.social chips in on the discussion of whether Europe can defend itself. He does not agree with Mark Rutte.

Obama was the right choice after Bush, of course, but if Americans had only gone Gore ➡️ Romney ➡️ Biden instead, then none of this would have happened. Other bad things would have happened, of course, but not this. Fucking up Bush v. Gore is the granddaddy of everything happening in the world today.

Rigging up a machine designed exclusively to do the language bits and expecting it to have thoughts & feelings like ours is like creating a papier-mâché tiger and expecting it to have a digestive system. You didn’t build that! It would never need that!

Imagine having leaders who could meet the moment. Imagine being represented by people who were unafraid to stand against tyranny, or were brave enough to despite their fears.

It is genuinely insane to watch capital decide that allowing this shit to go on is better for them than having to allow the FTC to do mild monopoly investigations and require cancellation buttons on websites.

"bluesky is nothing but wokescold leftist politics" idk man my timeline is all my beloved mutuals and artists who draw anime characters with huge breasts, maybe you should try following other people

ME: Can you come back later? THEM: Why, are you busy now? ME: No, it's just that I won't be here later.

Relations between the US and Canada are so tense that millions of teenage American boys are being broken up with by their imaginary Canadian girlfriends

Single-issue anti-abortion voters in the US continue not beating the hypothesis that they would have fully and vociferously supported an anti-abortion Hitler.

There are many leaders throughout history who were not capable of rising to the demands of their times. We appear to have currently a record high number of those leaders.

More of this, please.

Sweden becomes the first country to ban all AI music from their official charts! Huge win!

You see it with the American right loving Putin and Farage and the British right worshipping Trump, even foreign leaders who are hostile to their country are better than their fellow citizens they disagree with politically

I would not be here if I thought it had any chance of being a global town square.

And thou mayest aske thyself, 'How do Ich werke thys?' And thou mayest aske thyself, 'Wher ys that large destrier?' And thou mayest telle thyself, 'Thys nys not my beautiful castle!' And thou mayest telle thyself, 'Thys nys not my swift goshawk!'

I dream of a world where everyone is free and lives in peace.

Criminality & brutality have limited lives Trump will end up in prison. Vance will end up in prison Miller will end up in prison All who sanctioned the killing & wrecking of innocents will face justice

I hope the Iranian people find what they are looking for (peace and freedom).

Not a lot of states’ rights fuckers yelling about states’ fucking rights as of late, are there?

The X social media app needs to be banned, and I personally think it should never be permitted again. They show themselves to be bad actors again and again.

The rule of law must be unconditional and sacrosanct. No one is above the law. No one is unaccountable to justice and the judiciary.

"You can't kill us all, Nazi" This is a good rallying cry.

Brandenburger Tor was looking *good* today, with a gray sky and a little white snow around. I cannot believe I never saw it before even though I used to live for years in Germany. Berlin was great!

I like the styling of the ß on the street signs in Berlin near the Reichstag. Is it for readability? Purely style?

Join me in blocking anyone who posts overly violent replies or comments on other people's posts. I often have to delete my posts just to escape such replies. Write what you want on your own post, and own it. Infecting other people's posts is unacceptable.

There we go. That there’s a headline.

Anyone who has grown up watching love actually at Christmastime understands that the USA has always been a bully that takes whatever they can try to get away with.

The fucked up thing is that none of this changes the minds of any of the “Donald the dove; Hillary/Kamala the hawk” idiots. If anything, this reinforces their beliefs, because somehow they would say Trump is showing restraint while a hawk would be waging all our war by now.

I wonder how much trumpcoin Maduro will have to buy to get his pardon?

New year, not feeling so great. 😟

Gosh. If only some widely read political media properties had been willing to call out Trump's disavowals as nonsense. If only.

I do not understand the condescension against listening? You don’t have to big up “listening to an audiobook” to “reading an audiobook”. Listening is good. It’s okay to listen. More people should listen. If you don’t want to read, then go listen. It’s fine.

Alas, I am not at all certain that mainstream media does know better. Needless to say, LLMs are not showing anything of the sort.

Culture seems replete with fat>friendly>good and skinny>mean>evil. This goes back a long way and makes me wonder why thicc people have historically been preferred? The paintings over the last hundreds of years have generally depicted plumper people, at least in the museums I have visited.

No bailouts for tech companies when the AI bubble bursts!

“Vivaldi CEO Jon von Tetzchner accused other companies like Google and Microsoft of ‘reshaping the address bar into an assistant prompt, turning the joy of exploring into inactive spectatorship.’” Well, Vivaldi. You had my interest; now you have my attention

So many people don’t believe me when I say that the Republican platform is very simple: they want to sexually abuse children, and they want you to pay for it. But Nicki believes me!

Took multiple photos from the same spot over the course of my hikes this year.

At least a US president cannot pardon himself and his accomplices for state-level crimes against children.

Your power bill has tripled and you can't afford new PC parts just to create this.

Criticizing Gabbard, Witkoff, Kushner, and Vance for their foreign policy positions but somehow not blaming Trump is the ultimate act of a coward.

Wow. Though if this is real then I am basically convinced he committed suicide after all.

Happy „Nuts“-Day! Heute, im Jahr 1944, gibt General Anthony McAuliffe von der 101. Luftlandedivision der US-Armee, auf ein deutsches Ultimatum zur Kapitulation der eingezingelten Stadt Bastogne, seine inzwischen legendäre und prägnante Antwort: „Nuts!“ (Blödsinn, Unsinn, verrückt) /2

Happy „nuts“ day! 😏 Mehr dazu später…

I don’t know about biscuits, but they kind of look like sponges? But they look tasty! So, I don’t know what that says about me. Guess I need to go try to eat a sponge now.

God jul, Wil. Jag hoppas att du får ett hälsosamt och härligt nytt år. Tänd ett ljus!

Blessed Yule to all who celebrate. May the longest night of the year renew your strength and restore your peace.

AI Bro from yesterday blocked me. I get that he was upset that people mocked his profession and said it was bad and useless. There’s no way that would ever happen to me, someone with a theater degree

Most US media are oblivious to Melania's role in the Epstein world and do no reporting on it. But Melania was introduced to Trump by Epstein while she was working for a modeling agency which Epstein controlled. This has appeared in UK media, but Melania struggling to keep it unpublished in the US.