Dave Andress
@davidandress.bsky.social
Historian of revolution, pessimistic anarchist. Nobody else wants these views, trust me. 'His real face is a hat' - Fern Riddell.
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I remember once watching a cozy chat with Nick Fuentes and Fresh & Fit (a black manosphere podcast) where they all agreed women shouldn't vote, then Fuentes added "a lot of people shouldn't be able to vote!" And they all chuckled along. I just thought... Who do you guys think he's talking about?
February 20, 2026 at 11:05 AM
I remember once watching a cozy chat with Nick Fuentes and Fresh & Fit (a black manosphere podcast) where they all agreed women shouldn't vote, then Fuentes added "a lot of people shouldn't be able to vote!" And they all chuckled along. I just thought... Who do you guys think he's talking about?
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Anakin: I see David Harvey has a new book coming out.
Amidala: Is it another book about Capital?
Anakin: ...
Amidala: Is it another book whose subtitle is "here's a book about Capital"?
Amidala: Is it another book about Capital?
Anakin: ...
Amidala: Is it another book whose subtitle is "here's a book about Capital"?
February 20, 2026 at 12:47 PM
Anakin: I see David Harvey has a new book coming out.
Amidala: Is it another book about Capital?
Anakin: ...
Amidala: Is it another book whose subtitle is "here's a book about Capital"?
Amidala: Is it another book about Capital?
Anakin: ...
Amidala: Is it another book whose subtitle is "here's a book about Capital"?
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Breaking: Money from snowbank robbery found in slush fund
Part of a scheme to rob the town's snowbank
February 20, 2026 at 12:26 PM
Breaking: Money from snowbank robbery found in slush fund
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three million years ago somebody picked up a rock because it looked like a little face and held onto it
This is older than any god this is who we truly are
This is older than any god this is who we truly are
one of my favorite archaeology terms is "manuport" which just means a thing (rock, animal, stick, etc) that's in a weird place because a prehistoric human picked it up and carried it there. this one is estimated to be 3 million years old
May 10, 2025 at 1:55 PM
three million years ago somebody picked up a rock because it looked like a little face and held onto it
This is older than any god this is who we truly are
This is older than any god this is who we truly are
"It's all God's Creation" is only ever the happy-clappy soft-touch version.
"It's all a TEST, to TEMPT YOU INTO SIN, and if you FAIL THE TEST, you BURN IN HELL" is the hardcore version.
"It's all a TEST, to TEMPT YOU INTO SIN, and if you FAIL THE TEST, you BURN IN HELL" is the hardcore version.
A lot of "but God created vaccines" in the replies here and I think that's missing a key aspect of religiosity in anti-vax culture.
It's a good vs evil battle with very high stakes (salvation vs damnation). Vaccines are slotted into the "evil" category and this can't be undone with simple logic.
It's a good vs evil battle with very high stakes (salvation vs damnation). Vaccines are slotted into the "evil" category and this can't be undone with simple logic.
I've interviewed moms like this—moms who won't vaccinate, reassuring themselves that if their child dies, it's God's will.
It's almost impossible to change their minds, because they believe God won't let them into heaven if they vaccinate their kids, since vaccinating means not trusting God's plan.
It's almost impossible to change their minds, because they believe God won't let them into heaven if they vaccinate their kids, since vaccinating means not trusting God's plan.
February 20, 2026 at 12:26 PM
"It's all God's Creation" is only ever the happy-clappy soft-touch version.
"It's all a TEST, to TEMPT YOU INTO SIN, and if you FAIL THE TEST, you BURN IN HELL" is the hardcore version.
"It's all a TEST, to TEMPT YOU INTO SIN, and if you FAIL THE TEST, you BURN IN HELL" is the hardcore version.
I mean, I dunno, I see this kind of thing, and I think, "You do know the climate is collapsing, right?"
On the one hand, millions of people are just supposed to accept that they & their families are handloom weavers in 1800, and on the other, we're one lifetime out from an uninhabitable planet.
On the one hand, millions of people are just supposed to accept that they & their families are handloom weavers in 1800, and on the other, we're one lifetime out from an uninhabitable planet.
The doomsaying about AI reminds me of the doomsaying about offshoring a few years ago. Yes, for white collar work. You may have forgotten! Every white collar worker was going to be replaced by a less expensive worker outside the US.
February 20, 2026 at 12:23 PM
I mean, I dunno, I see this kind of thing, and I think, "You do know the climate is collapsing, right?"
On the one hand, millions of people are just supposed to accept that they & their families are handloom weavers in 1800, and on the other, we're one lifetime out from an uninhabitable planet.
On the one hand, millions of people are just supposed to accept that they & their families are handloom weavers in 1800, and on the other, we're one lifetime out from an uninhabitable planet.
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Disgusting little man
Nick Fuentes says that "women are made to be fucked": "Women are either mothers, whores, or nuns. No other options. There are no female philosophers. There are no female inventors. There are no female generals or billionaires. They are mothers, whores, nuns. End of list. That's what you can be."
February 20, 2026 at 12:16 PM
Disgusting little man
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Sounds rough! I avoid this ever happening to me with One Weird Trick
February 20, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Sounds rough! I avoid this ever happening to me with One Weird Trick
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You’d hardly call it an endearing trait, but one of DJT’s let’s say more transparent qualities is the way that he openly mocks his own fiercest supporters, in this case conservative veterans.
Trump: "I flew to Iraq. I was extremely brave. So brave I wanted to give myself the Congressional Medal of Honor ... someday I'm gonna try. I'll test the law."
February 20, 2026 at 12:11 PM
You’d hardly call it an endearing trait, but one of DJT’s let’s say more transparent qualities is the way that he openly mocks his own fiercest supporters, in this case conservative veterans.
Thanks to the NHS insisting on communicating with a 93-year-old man by text, he appears to have ACCIDENTALLY CANCELLED HIS URGENT CARDIOLOGY CONSULTATION.
Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck.
Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck.
February 20, 2026 at 12:04 PM
Thanks to the NHS insisting on communicating with a 93-year-old man by text, he appears to have ACCIDENTALLY CANCELLED HIS URGENT CARDIOLOGY CONSULTATION.
Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck.
Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck.
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WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. If your tariff policy is so unpopular that you have to bully the central bank into not talking about it, maybe it’s time for a new policy.”
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/opinion/kevi...
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/opinion/kevi...
February 20, 2026 at 11:15 AM
WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. If your tariff policy is so unpopular that you have to bully the central bank into not talking about it, maybe it’s time for a new policy.”
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/opinion/kevi...
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/opinion/kevi...
This surgery, BTW, has EIGHT consulting-rooms...
This morning, I was the only person in my doctor's waiting-room for over 15 minutes, & there was nobody there when I came out from the appointment, either.
Yesterday, my parents-in-law waited ALL DAY for a GP callback, from the same practice, that never came.
Yesterday, my parents-in-law waited ALL DAY for a GP callback, from the same practice, that never came.
February 20, 2026 at 11:46 AM
This surgery, BTW, has EIGHT consulting-rooms...
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Cry me a million tears or something, I dunno. 🤷♀️
*Somehow "distilling" AIs by asking them zillions of questions is a lot worse than just scraping and mulching everything on the Internet
www.reuters.com/world/china/...
www.reuters.com/world/china/...
OpenAI says China's DeepSeek trained its AI by distilling US models, memo shows
OpenAI has warned U.S. lawmakers that Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek is targeting the ChatGPT maker and the nation's leading AI companies to replicate models and use them for its own...
www.reuters.com
February 20, 2026 at 11:05 AM
Cry me a million tears or something, I dunno. 🤷♀️
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i'm not an "economics isn't real" person but all i can say about every time a Big Econ Head says "[common social democratic take] is neither workable nor morally correct" - ok, but i disagree with the latter, so why should i believe you on the former
February 20, 2026 at 11:03 AM
i'm not an "economics isn't real" person but all i can say about every time a Big Econ Head says "[common social democratic take] is neither workable nor morally correct" - ok, but i disagree with the latter, so why should i believe you on the former
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Kier Starmer has played a blinder here
February 20, 2026 at 9:30 AM
Kier Starmer has played a blinder here
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I'm gonna try to write about this later today, but most of the people I've seen who are really using AI productively are using it in ways which look like they will create more jobs rather than fewer.
February 20, 2026 at 10:22 AM
I'm gonna try to write about this later today, but most of the people I've seen who are really using AI productively are using it in ways which look like they will create more jobs rather than fewer.
This morning, I was the only person in my doctor's waiting-room for over 15 minutes, & there was nobody there when I came out from the appointment, either.
Yesterday, my parents-in-law waited ALL DAY for a GP callback, from the same practice, that never came.
Yesterday, my parents-in-law waited ALL DAY for a GP callback, from the same practice, that never came.
February 20, 2026 at 10:45 AM
This morning, I was the only person in my doctor's waiting-room for over 15 minutes, & there was nobody there when I came out from the appointment, either.
Yesterday, my parents-in-law waited ALL DAY for a GP callback, from the same practice, that never came.
Yesterday, my parents-in-law waited ALL DAY for a GP callback, from the same practice, that never came.
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It's the kind of immensely cynical operation that just absolutely destroys trust in politics, but also in the state. Deeply shameful stuff, but also stupid and self-destructive. People high on their own supply from political thrillers. Whose future probably now lies in consultancy for the same.
February 20, 2026 at 10:35 AM
It's the kind of immensely cynical operation that just absolutely destroys trust in politics, but also in the state. Deeply shameful stuff, but also stupid and self-destructive. People high on their own supply from political thrillers. Whose future probably now lies in consultancy for the same.
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UFOs and Aliens are real (but Epstein Files are a hoax)
February 20, 2026 at 10:35 AM
UFOs and Aliens are real (but Epstein Files are a hoax)
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I think a good question here would be "If all these degrees aren't earning any extra money, but over 40% of the workforce has now presumably been paying back student loans, has that actually had a chilling effect on people's spending &, by extension, actually *supressed* Britain's economic growth?"
Worth noting that we have a greater percentage of graduates than any of these other countries, so that at least seems good
Except the graph does rather suggest that that increase over the past 30yrs has come primarily from degrees which are basically worthless (but still saddle people with debt)
Except the graph does rather suggest that that increase over the past 30yrs has come primarily from degrees which are basically worthless (but still saddle people with debt)
Spoiling a lot of takes but begging a large number of other questions... "Worsening graduate fortunes, it turns out, are a particularly British problem"
www.ft.com/content/649d...
www.ft.com/content/649d...
February 20, 2026 at 10:34 AM
I think a good question here would be "If all these degrees aren't earning any extra money, but over 40% of the workforce has now presumably been paying back student loans, has that actually had a chilling effect on people's spending &, by extension, actually *supressed* Britain's economic growth?"
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the actual story of what happened at the National Endowment for the Humanities last year is even more infuriating than we thought
DOGE Bro’s Grant Review Process Was Literally Just Asking ChatGPT ‘Is This DEI?’
Federal grants that had been approved after a full application and review process were terminated by some random inexperienced DOGE bros based on whether ChatGPT could explain—in under 120 characters—that they were…
Federal grants that had been approved after a full application and review process were terminated by some random inexperienced DOGE bros based on whether ChatGPT could explain—in under 120 characters—that they were…
DOGE Bro’s Grant Review Process Was Literally Just Asking ChatGPT ‘Is This DEI?’
Federal grants that had been approved after a full application and review process were terminated by some random inexperienced DOGE bros based on whether ChatGPT could explain—in under 120 characters—that they were "related to DEI." That's what the newly released proposed amended complaint from the Authors Guild against the US government reveals about how DOGE actually decided which National Endowment for the Humanities grants to kill.
www.techdirt.com
February 20, 2026 at 7:32 AM
the actual story of what happened at the National Endowment for the Humanities last year is even more infuriating than we thought
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Utterly chilling insight into how Keir Starmer's team has been operating from the beginning. As others have been pointing out for years, the Labour Party and the country have been taken for a ride. There was a coup within the party, using a host of dirty tricks.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Labour minister falsely linked journalists to ‘pro-Kremlin’ network in emails to GCHQ
Exclusive: Josh Simons pressed intelligence officials to investigate reporters, in emails described as ‘McCarthyite smear’
www.theguardian.com
February 20, 2026 at 9:31 AM
Utterly chilling insight into how Keir Starmer's team has been operating from the beginning. As others have been pointing out for years, the Labour Party and the country have been taken for a ride. There was a coup within the party, using a host of dirty tricks.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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We now have the situation that most fresh graduates are barely above minimum wage in the UK. But politicians keep on blaming young people that they study the wrong thing because it is easier to blame the young than admit that your economic policy has been a disaster for two decades now.
February 20, 2026 at 9:20 AM
We now have the situation that most fresh graduates are barely above minimum wage in the UK. But politicians keep on blaming young people that they study the wrong thing because it is easier to blame the young than admit that your economic policy has been a disaster for two decades now.
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like I don't understand the technical details well enough to know whether AI really will be coming for all white collar jobs in the next year or five but if it is......we can just choose, as a society, to not do that? people need jobs? we don't have to destroy jobs for no reason?
February 20, 2026 at 9:38 AM
like I don't understand the technical details well enough to know whether AI really will be coming for all white collar jobs in the next year or five but if it is......we can just choose, as a society, to not do that? people need jobs? we don't have to destroy jobs for no reason?
