mithril mine safety inspector
@bolemene.bsky.social
He/him, American of Ukrainian Jewish background.
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atbash cypher is still in use today by mystics, word game enthusiasts, and the very large crossover population betwixt the two. It’s also used as a term for an acrostic poetic form that alternates between abgad and tashraq
January 22, 2026 at 12:33 PM
atbash cypher is still in use today by mystics, word game enthusiasts, and the very large crossover population betwixt the two. It’s also used as a term for an acrostic poetic form that alternates between abgad and tashraq
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atbash is a simple cipher where you replace every letter with the letter in the opposite position on the alphabet – the first letter becomes the last letter, the second letter becomes the second to last, etc. See attached chart.
in atbash, ששך is בבל
in atbash, ששך is בבל
January 22, 2026 at 12:26 PM
atbash is a simple cipher where you replace every letter with the letter in the opposite position on the alphabet – the first letter becomes the last letter, the second letter becomes the second to last, etc. See attached chart.
in atbash, ששך is בבל
in atbash, ששך is בבל
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Jeremiah uses atbash twice. The first time is in Jeremiah 25:26 where it is Sheshakh as a cipher for Babylon.
The second is Jeremiah 51:1. If I were teaching a class, I would say “can you figure out what ‘Lev-kamai’ means?” and I would prob overestimate how many students know the word “Chaldeans”
The second is Jeremiah 51:1. If I were teaching a class, I would say “can you figure out what ‘Lev-kamai’ means?” and I would prob overestimate how many students know the word “Chaldeans”
January 22, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Jeremiah uses atbash twice. The first time is in Jeremiah 25:26 where it is Sheshakh as a cipher for Babylon.
The second is Jeremiah 51:1. If I were teaching a class, I would say “can you figure out what ‘Lev-kamai’ means?” and I would prob overestimate how many students know the word “Chaldeans”
The second is Jeremiah 51:1. If I were teaching a class, I would say “can you figure out what ‘Lev-kamai’ means?” and I would prob overestimate how many students know the word “Chaldeans”
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People can say they didn’t vote for this but people are liars
January 22, 2026 at 2:10 AM
People can say they didn’t vote for this but people are liars
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I guess I do think if you participated in the arrest of a five-year-old you are probably just fundamentally incompatible with society. That you are not a safe person for humanity to be around, generally
January 22, 2026 at 3:31 AM
I guess I do think if you participated in the arrest of a five-year-old you are probably just fundamentally incompatible with society. That you are not a safe person for humanity to be around, generally
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All I have ever heard about every news story from Bill Clinton to drag shows is “it’s awful, parents have to explain this to their children, why can’t we just let kids be kids?”
Now an entire classroom is going to go home to parents trying to explain why their five year friend was taken by the govt
Now an entire classroom is going to go home to parents trying to explain why their five year friend was taken by the govt
Liam is one of four Columbia Heights, MN school district students who have been taken by ICE in the last two weeks, the school district said. Liam's teacher: “He is so kind and loving, and his classmates miss him. He ... just brightens the room. All I want is for him to be back here and safe.”
January 22, 2026 at 3:41 AM
All I have ever heard about every news story from Bill Clinton to drag shows is “it’s awful, parents have to explain this to their children, why can’t we just let kids be kids?”
Now an entire classroom is going to go home to parents trying to explain why their five year friend was taken by the govt
Now an entire classroom is going to go home to parents trying to explain why their five year friend was taken by the govt
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Liam’s mom dressed him in all those layers to keep her little boy warm and safe in this frigid weather, packed his book-bag w/ everything he’d need for a good day at school, and then our govt stole him out of their driveway. Used her little boy as bait. These people are monsters.
This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
January 22, 2026 at 3:47 AM
Liam’s mom dressed him in all those layers to keep her little boy warm and safe in this frigid weather, packed his book-bag w/ everything he’d need for a good day at school, and then our govt stole him out of their driveway. Used her little boy as bait. These people are monsters.
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let's fucking GO
January 21, 2026 at 5:08 PM
let's fucking GO
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This is why I always emphasize that "the media just likes Trump for clicks and ratings" is not accurate. The Jeffrey Epstein scandal is the worst in political history and instead of sensationalizing it, they repeatedly minimize it and downplay it despite massive public interest
public perception says mainstream media is sensationalist, lusts for scandal, will make anything up to sell papers and get clicks etc.,
and then this particular president does like 10 scandals a day and mainstream media insists on describing his actions in the most uninteresting way possible
and then this particular president does like 10 scandals a day and mainstream media insists on describing his actions in the most uninteresting way possible
Right on cue, here are the push alerts from the 3 major newspapers lmao
January 21, 2026 at 5:03 PM
This is why I always emphasize that "the media just likes Trump for clicks and ratings" is not accurate. The Jeffrey Epstein scandal is the worst in political history and instead of sensationalizing it, they repeatedly minimize it and downplay it despite massive public interest
The people of Ukraine are going through unimaginable suffering and struggle.
The power outages and freezing conditions in Ukraine right now are insane. Greenland news and war “coverage fatigue” not giving it the presence in headlines it deserves. The humanitarian impact is absolutely staggering.
January 21, 2026 at 2:26 PM
The people of Ukraine are going through unimaginable suffering and struggle.
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As writer, I would love to not have to keep using the "Everything GOP smacks of rape culture/domestic violence" metaphor, vary it up a bit, but they just keep going to the same well! It is what it is.
US Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent:
What I am urging everyone here to do is sit back, take a deep breath, and let things play out. The worst thing countries can do is escalate against the United States.
What I am urging everyone here to do is sit back, take a deep breath, and let things play out. The worst thing countries can do is escalate against the United States.
January 20, 2026 at 5:23 PM
As writer, I would love to not have to keep using the "Everything GOP smacks of rape culture/domestic violence" metaphor, vary it up a bit, but they just keep going to the same well! It is what it is.
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Adam "I Would Shoot Biden Cabinet Members in the Head like My Hero Stalin" Tooze is doing panels at Davos with trump cabinet members, lol, lmao, lol
They have Lutnick on stage with Tooze???
Q: Can I bring you back to Greenland?
LUTNICK: No. It's not necessary. The Western Hemisphere is vital for the United States of America.
OTHER PANELISTS: 😬😬😬
LUTNICK: No. It's not necessary. The Western Hemisphere is vital for the United States of America.
OTHER PANELISTS: 😬😬😬
January 20, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Adam "I Would Shoot Biden Cabinet Members in the Head like My Hero Stalin" Tooze is doing panels at Davos with trump cabinet members, lol, lmao, lol
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The Danes answered our call after 9/11 and lost 43 soldiers in Afghanistan, which is a casualty rate equal to our own relative to their population.
The whole thing isn’t just enraging, it’s dishonorable in the extreme
The whole thing isn’t just enraging, it’s dishonorable in the extreme
January 20, 2026 at 2:02 AM
The Danes answered our call after 9/11 and lost 43 soldiers in Afghanistan, which is a casualty rate equal to our own relative to their population.
The whole thing isn’t just enraging, it’s dishonorable in the extreme
The whole thing isn’t just enraging, it’s dishonorable in the extreme
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Kinda funny that Trump thinks "asylum" means other countries send people from insane asylums, and a) this is real life, not a ham-handed Idiocracy-type satire, b) he has surely been corrected several times but is incapable of updating his priors, & c) most media politely agree not to mention it.
January 19, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Kinda funny that Trump thinks "asylum" means other countries send people from insane asylums, and a) this is real life, not a ham-handed Idiocracy-type satire, b) he has surely been corrected several times but is incapable of updating his priors, & c) most media politely agree not to mention it.
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"the most widely accepted definition of the working class" !!!! wow my eyes just bulged out of my head lol
and on MLK Day? right in front of my March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom?
and on MLK Day? right in front of my March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom?
January 19, 2026 at 9:09 PM
"the most widely accepted definition of the working class" !!!! wow my eyes just bulged out of my head lol
and on MLK Day? right in front of my March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom?
and on MLK Day? right in front of my March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom?
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"chuck schumer invited a foreign adversary to give a stump speech against a president of his own party" is indisputably true
apparently denmark is not one of the countries where your own party will invite their leader to give a speech in the senate about how the sitting president is a piece of shit and he ought to be removed from power
if we do not push Chuck Schumer out of power, he will not just meekly submit to the right until they put him in the camps, he will blow up NATO as well
January 19, 2026 at 8:38 AM
"chuck schumer invited a foreign adversary to give a stump speech against a president of his own party" is indisputably true
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The Nobel Peace Prize becoming so prestigious that wars are fought over a head of state coveting it is some real monkey paw stuff for Alfred Nobel.
January 19, 2026 at 8:47 AM
The Nobel Peace Prize becoming so prestigious that wars are fought over a head of state coveting it is some real monkey paw stuff for Alfred Nobel.
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This made me curious enough to check and Codepink hasn't said a single fucking thing about Greenland
One thing very tangible and expected about the Greenland Crisis is the quietest posters on this site have been the "everything I don't like is American Imperialism" brigade, which - hm.
January 19, 2026 at 8:48 AM
This made me curious enough to check and Codepink hasn't said a single fucking thing about Greenland
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I don't completely track how russia can be threat so imminent and great that the u.s. needs to forcibly take greenland from an ally, but also not worth sending weapons to ukraine to fight
January 19, 2026 at 9:13 AM
I don't completely track how russia can be threat so imminent and great that the u.s. needs to forcibly take greenland from an ally, but also not worth sending weapons to ukraine to fight
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Your country is threatening to conquer the only majority indigenous state in the Americas, take your lumps lads.
I am not here for Europeans telling me Americans don't know how crazy things are. The Nazis are killing people over here at the moment so we're busy but thanks for the input. I had hoped for solidarity but I suppose I'll have to settle for sneering condescension instead.
January 19, 2026 at 9:22 AM
Your country is threatening to conquer the only majority indigenous state in the Americas, take your lumps lads.
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they're doing the thing again
January 19, 2026 at 9:41 AM
they're doing the thing again
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1️⃣ He didn't say that.
2️⃣ He said it, but you misunderstood him.
3️⃣ He said what you understood, but he was just trolling.
4️⃣ He was serious but he's just negotiating, not going to do it.
5️⃣ He's going to do it for grand strategy reasons I've invented.
6️⃣ Look what you liberals made him do.
2️⃣ He said it, but you misunderstood him.
3️⃣ He said what you understood, but he was just trolling.
4️⃣ He was serious but he's just negotiating, not going to do it.
5️⃣ He's going to do it for grand strategy reasons I've invented.
6️⃣ Look what you liberals made him do.
January 19, 2026 at 10:34 AM
1️⃣ He didn't say that.
2️⃣ He said it, but you misunderstood him.
3️⃣ He said what you understood, but he was just trolling.
4️⃣ He was serious but he's just negotiating, not going to do it.
5️⃣ He's going to do it for grand strategy reasons I've invented.
6️⃣ Look what you liberals made him do.
2️⃣ He said it, but you misunderstood him.
3️⃣ He said what you understood, but he was just trolling.
4️⃣ He was serious but he's just negotiating, not going to do it.
5️⃣ He's going to do it for grand strategy reasons I've invented.
6️⃣ Look what you liberals made him do.
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the unmatched decadence of the america first movement. what are you people doing. you should be engaged in internal alchemical cultivation. attempt to grasp the eternal dao (while never forgetting the fact that no spoken dao could ever be the eternal dao)
Three of these folks were let back on Twitter by Musk after he bought it
January 18, 2026 at 7:12 PM
the unmatched decadence of the america first movement. what are you people doing. you should be engaged in internal alchemical cultivation. attempt to grasp the eternal dao (while never forgetting the fact that no spoken dao could ever be the eternal dao)
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If the basic project is expanding and straightening the American empire, everything this administration has done - destroy soft power, wreck alliances, abandon shared ideals, withdraw for the intl institutions America built, and general erratic behavior - will have the opposite effect.
Bessent on Greenland: "Peace through strength. Make it part of the US and there will not be a conflict because the US right now, we're the hottest country in the world, we're the strongest country in the world. Europeans project weakness. The US projects strength."
January 18, 2026 at 2:53 PM
If the basic project is expanding and straightening the American empire, everything this administration has done - destroy soft power, wreck alliances, abandon shared ideals, withdraw for the intl institutions America built, and general erratic behavior - will have the opposite effect.
Not the right meter but I started singing this in my head with the tune from Sixteen tons
One morning when Pharaoh went down to the mud
He saw that the Nile was turned into blood
Streams full of gore and blood on the shore
Blood here
Blood there
Blood was flowing everywhere
He saw that the Nile was turned into blood
Streams full of gore and blood on the shore
Blood here
Blood there
Blood was flowing everywhere
January 18, 2026 at 5:57 AM
Not the right meter but I started singing this in my head with the tune from Sixteen tons