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AJ
@ajknights.bsky.social
· Jul 12
I want every human being on the planet to have free food, shelter clothing, medical care and higher education. I want every human being to be able to live freely in gender, religion, sexuality et al. Every vote, every government policy, every political decision I make is weighed against these goals.
Still one of my favourite episodes of all time... Utterly wild. Completely unhinged. Amazing work.
happy Threshold day from all of us on the STAR TREK VOYAGER: HOMECOMING team
January 29, 2026 at 10:53 PM
Still one of my favourite episodes of all time... Utterly wild. Completely unhinged. Amazing work.
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Absolutely incredible sequence from CNN.
"Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."
"Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."
January 28, 2026 at 12:41 PM
Absolutely incredible sequence from CNN.
"Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."
"Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."
DEEP HEAVY SIGH.
As a neighbour of Venezuela... I have wondered if Americans understand how sanctions work from a practical standpoint. Cuz they keep screaming that a country/ leader is bad cuz the people are poor. But the US literally destroyed their ability to make money and buy goods... soo 🤷♀️
As a neighbour of Venezuela... I have wondered if Americans understand how sanctions work from a practical standpoint. Cuz they keep screaming that a country/ leader is bad cuz the people are poor. But the US literally destroyed their ability to make money and buy goods... soo 🤷♀️
The neoconservative theory of change is that you can cripple a country's national economy via collective punishment and induce mass protests about the economy which you then in turn use as evidence of discontent with the regime for a casus belli to topple it.
January 22, 2026 at 6:22 PM
DEEP HEAVY SIGH.
As a neighbour of Venezuela... I have wondered if Americans understand how sanctions work from a practical standpoint. Cuz they keep screaming that a country/ leader is bad cuz the people are poor. But the US literally destroyed their ability to make money and buy goods... soo 🤷♀️
As a neighbour of Venezuela... I have wondered if Americans understand how sanctions work from a practical standpoint. Cuz they keep screaming that a country/ leader is bad cuz the people are poor. But the US literally destroyed their ability to make money and buy goods... soo 🤷♀️
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The neoconservative theory of change is that you can cripple a country's national economy via collective punishment and induce mass protests about the economy which you then in turn use as evidence of discontent with the regime for a casus belli to topple it.
January 22, 2026 at 5:18 PM
The neoconservative theory of change is that you can cripple a country's national economy via collective punishment and induce mass protests about the economy which you then in turn use as evidence of discontent with the regime for a casus belli to topple it.
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The point is to collectively punish in the hope that it induces massive upheaval and if they don't do that you just punish them more. When it doesn't work it's taken as evidence that the people haven't been punished enough. Also if you ever think about doing this to the US or Israel you're a bigot.
January 22, 2026 at 5:31 PM
The point is to collectively punish in the hope that it induces massive upheaval and if they don't do that you just punish them more. When it doesn't work it's taken as evidence that the people haven't been punished enough. Also if you ever think about doing this to the US or Israel you're a bigot.
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To be blunt Americans are just used to hitting people with every stick imaginable and they aren't used to being hit back. It's very likely they won't be hit back for a while but I do think it's inevitable that it happens.
January 22, 2026 at 5:43 PM
To be blunt Americans are just used to hitting people with every stick imaginable and they aren't used to being hit back. It's very likely they won't be hit back for a while but I do think it's inevitable that it happens.
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Someone on Twitter put the state of international political discourse really well when they said “the emperor has no clothes but the jesters are still dancing.”
January 22, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Someone on Twitter put the state of international political discourse really well when they said “the emperor has no clothes but the jesters are still dancing.”
A year later and yet...
@rsagarcia.bsky.social
Re-reading this interview was insane because so much of it feels so eerily prescient now and these ending lines...
Re-reading this interview was insane because so much of it feels so eerily prescient now and these ending lines...
January 17, 2026 at 1:38 PM
A year later and yet...
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pulling this reflection on white silence/fear over here, too:
January 15, 2026 at 4:41 PM
pulling this reflection on white silence/fear over here, too:
Me quietly announcing to my cat that it is I climbing into (my) bed for a nap so she doesn't jump awake.
(Sometimes it is the less favoured human come to sneak attack kisses.)
And so she stretches and rolls over to give me her belly.
Nice Sunday afternoon. Now if only the migraine would go away
(Sometimes it is the less favoured human come to sneak attack kisses.)
And so she stretches and rolls over to give me her belly.
Nice Sunday afternoon. Now if only the migraine would go away
January 11, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Me quietly announcing to my cat that it is I climbing into (my) bed for a nap so she doesn't jump awake.
(Sometimes it is the less favoured human come to sneak attack kisses.)
And so she stretches and rolls over to give me her belly.
Nice Sunday afternoon. Now if only the migraine would go away
(Sometimes it is the less favoured human come to sneak attack kisses.)
And so she stretches and rolls over to give me her belly.
Nice Sunday afternoon. Now if only the migraine would go away
I'm not trying to be mean... but if I invite you over for lunch and you show up at my house at 10 am be prepared for me to fucking ignore your ass till noon cuz WHY?
The coffee has not entered my fucking bloodstream. The cats are still eating breakfast. You know I'm not an early riser. WTF.
The coffee has not entered my fucking bloodstream. The cats are still eating breakfast. You know I'm not an early riser. WTF.
January 10, 2026 at 2:45 PM
I'm not trying to be mean... but if I invite you over for lunch and you show up at my house at 10 am be prepared for me to fucking ignore your ass till noon cuz WHY?
The coffee has not entered my fucking bloodstream. The cats are still eating breakfast. You know I'm not an early riser. WTF.
The coffee has not entered my fucking bloodstream. The cats are still eating breakfast. You know I'm not an early riser. WTF.
Yes. You do have to choose the lesser of two evils. It's called being a fucking adult. You have to make the best possible choice even when the choices aren't great. If certain people practiced some kind of common sense instead of tantrumming and virtue signalling we wouldn't be in this mess. 🤷♀️
January 8, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Yes. You do have to choose the lesser of two evils. It's called being a fucking adult. You have to make the best possible choice even when the choices aren't great. If certain people practiced some kind of common sense instead of tantrumming and virtue signalling we wouldn't be in this mess. 🤷♀️
Almost a month ago... and now they're not even pretending. Maybe it's only good and right that the mask is off. I couldn't take the gaslighting anymore.
I actually do not want the press to use the words "regime change" wrt Venezuela. Please say what it is.
America wants to install a puppet government so they can steal their resources.
It's not altruism. America has spent decades undermining Venezuela's govt so they can orchestrate this theft.
America wants to install a puppet government so they can steal their resources.
It's not altruism. America has spent decades undermining Venezuela's govt so they can orchestrate this theft.
January 5, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Almost a month ago... and now they're not even pretending. Maybe it's only good and right that the mask is off. I couldn't take the gaslighting anymore.
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On this day in 1901, CLR James is born in Trinidad. James was an important anti-colonial activist, socialist historian, theorist, journalist and cricket aficionado.
anticolonialhistory.com/event/148/
anticolonialhistory.com/event/148/
January 4, 2026 at 3:53 PM
On this day in 1901, CLR James is born in Trinidad. James was an important anti-colonial activist, socialist historian, theorist, journalist and cricket aficionado.
anticolonialhistory.com/event/148/
anticolonialhistory.com/event/148/
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This is what the US does. This is what the US has always done. Anyone who claims otherwise is either intentionally lying or effectively misled.
Please don’t be fooled.
Please don’t be fooled.
January 3, 2026 at 8:33 PM
This is what the US does. This is what the US has always done. Anyone who claims otherwise is either intentionally lying or effectively misled.
Please don’t be fooled.
Please don’t be fooled.
Nice and pretty unicorn. 🤦♀️
Just finished reading this and...SIGH!!!!
SO MUCH BIODIVERSITY.🥲
Just finished reading this and...SIGH!!!!
SO MUCH BIODIVERSITY.🥲
Contains:
- 40ish year old protagonist who is Very Over It
- A healthy old-growth forest! Good air quality!
- Excellent biodiversity metrics
- A nice and pretty unicorn
- Snacks! Shiny apples! Tempting fish!
- Tiny house living
- Interesting textiles!
- 40ish year old protagonist who is Very Over It
- A healthy old-growth forest! Good air quality!
- Excellent biodiversity metrics
- A nice and pretty unicorn
- Snacks! Shiny apples! Tempting fish!
- Tiny house living
- Interesting textiles!
January 3, 2026 at 5:05 AM
Nice and pretty unicorn. 🤦♀️
Just finished reading this and...SIGH!!!!
SO MUCH BIODIVERSITY.🥲
Just finished reading this and...SIGH!!!!
SO MUCH BIODIVERSITY.🥲
Yup to this article!
The dependency on an LLM to ::checks notes:: “explode ideas” just screams to me that this person has no significant bonds. Which takes me back to this essay, “AI Is A Slavery Fetish.” aeoncollective.substack.com/p/ai-is-a-sl...
AI Is A Slavery Fetish
The wet dreams of our overlords
aeoncollective.substack.com
December 28, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Yup to this article!
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People will say 'it's inevitable' like that wasn't how they sold NFTs & Bitcoin, your avg criminal's favorite currency.
It's shitty at everything it tries to do.
It's causing societal & environmental damage at a speed & scale we've never seen before.
But you want a 'conversation'.
Well, I don't.
It's shitty at everything it tries to do.
It's causing societal & environmental damage at a speed & scale we've never seen before.
But you want a 'conversation'.
Well, I don't.
December 28, 2025 at 6:49 PM
People will say 'it's inevitable' like that wasn't how they sold NFTs & Bitcoin, your avg criminal's favorite currency.
It's shitty at everything it tries to do.
It's causing societal & environmental damage at a speed & scale we've never seen before.
But you want a 'conversation'.
Well, I don't.
It's shitty at everything it tries to do.
It's causing societal & environmental damage at a speed & scale we've never seen before.
But you want a 'conversation'.
Well, I don't.
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The King Must Die by Kemi Ashing-Giwa: Review by Gary K. Wolfe locusmag.com/review/...
December 25, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The King Must Die by Kemi Ashing-Giwa: Review by Gary K. Wolfe locusmag.com/review/...
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To all my friends and family who celebrate, both online and in real life!
a greeting card that says happy holidays
ALT: a greeting card that says happy holidays
media.tenor.com
December 25, 2025 at 3:13 PM
To all my friends and family who celebrate, both online and in real life!
Look at my Grammarly and my Chat GPT right here. $10. Shimps.
December 20, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Look at my Grammarly and my Chat GPT right here. $10. Shimps.
If I have to see one more person fighting with endless semantics so they can find an excuse to outsource their brain. 😭
JUST DO THE WORK.
Let those neurons and synapses fire.
*This tantrum brought to you via the SFWA's latest set of snafus and resultant discourse.
JUST DO THE WORK.
Let those neurons and synapses fire.
*This tantrum brought to you via the SFWA's latest set of snafus and resultant discourse.
December 20, 2025 at 5:57 PM
If I have to see one more person fighting with endless semantics so they can find an excuse to outsource their brain. 😭
JUST DO THE WORK.
Let those neurons and synapses fire.
*This tantrum brought to you via the SFWA's latest set of snafus and resultant discourse.
JUST DO THE WORK.
Let those neurons and synapses fire.
*This tantrum brought to you via the SFWA's latest set of snafus and resultant discourse.
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My Locus and British Science Fiction Awards long-listed scifantasy novel THE NIGHTWARD is $1.99 for the ebook for a limited time!
If THE WITCHER meets Trinbagonian/West Indian folklore sounds fun to you, get it now for Christmas!
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If THE WITCHER meets Trinbagonian/West Indian folklore sounds fun to you, get it now for Christmas!
www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
www.amazon.com/dp/B0CSXFBWRN
The Nightward
Sturgeon, Nebula, Locus, and Ignyte awards finalist R.S.A. Garcia’s scifantasy debut novel—the first in a duology—in which Caribbean mythology meets The Wit...
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December 19, 2025 at 1:20 AM
My Locus and British Science Fiction Awards long-listed scifantasy novel THE NIGHTWARD is $1.99 for the ebook for a limited time!
If THE WITCHER meets Trinbagonian/West Indian folklore sounds fun to you, get it now for Christmas!
www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
www.amazon.com/dp/B0CSXFBWRN
If THE WITCHER meets Trinbagonian/West Indian folklore sounds fun to you, get it now for Christmas!
www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
www.amazon.com/dp/B0CSXFBWRN
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I hate having to constantly post shit at my american followers despite not being american myself but everyone gets affected by this so there really is no choice but to swing it
please do something about this guys, the rest of the world is literally at your mercy lmao
please do something about this guys, the rest of the world is literally at your mercy lmao
December 18, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I hate having to constantly post shit at my american followers despite not being american myself but everyone gets affected by this so there really is no choice but to swing it
please do something about this guys, the rest of the world is literally at your mercy lmao
please do something about this guys, the rest of the world is literally at your mercy lmao
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All I see is a man who is heavily leveraged on AI and doesn’t want to lose money when it proves to have no true value.
December 18, 2025 at 12:48 PM
All I see is a man who is heavily leveraged on AI and doesn’t want to lose money when it proves to have no true value.