@derksen17.bsky.social
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January 6 was like a much dumber version of Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch and yet a plurality of American voters were like, Yeah, let’s give that guy the nuke codes again. An absolutely world historical debacle of societal ignorance. I’ll never understand it.
December 18, 2025 at 4:47 AM
January 6 was like a much dumber version of Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch and yet a plurality of American voters were like, Yeah, let’s give that guy the nuke codes again. An absolutely world historical debacle of societal ignorance. I’ll never understand it.
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The Ranch View 1
Erin Elizabeth Ross
2024
Erin Elizabeth Ross
2024
December 18, 2025 at 12:01 AM
The Ranch View 1
Erin Elizabeth Ross
2024
Erin Elizabeth Ross
2024
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It’s obvious that *before this week* Trump had never heard about Venezuela nationalizing its oil industry (in 1976!) but now it’s a casus belli in a shitshow that makes the 2002-03 run-up to invading Iraq look like a model of planning, preparation, and logic.
Trump on Venezuela: "Getting land, oil rights, whatever we had -- they took it away because we had a president that maybe wasn't watching. But they're not gonna do that. We want it back. They took our oil rights. We had a lot of oil there. They threw our companies out. And we want it back."
December 17, 2025 at 9:29 PM
It’s obvious that *before this week* Trump had never heard about Venezuela nationalizing its oil industry (in 1976!) but now it’s a casus belli in a shitshow that makes the 2002-03 run-up to invading Iraq look like a model of planning, preparation, and logic.
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Hahahahahahahahahaaaa!
I love this idea!!!
I love this idea!!!
December 16, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Hahahahahahahahahaaaa!
I love this idea!!!
I love this idea!!!
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"AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations" -Cory Doctorow.
December 15, 2025 at 7:15 AM
"AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations" -Cory Doctorow.
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this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
December 15, 2025 at 2:21 AM
this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
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“It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them.” — Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain (re-elected 6 times)
December 13, 2025 at 12:55 AM
“It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them.” — Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain (re-elected 6 times)
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We can add “properly sized shoes” to the growing list of means of transportation that the Secretary of Transportation is scared of
December 7, 2025 at 8:02 PM
We can add “properly sized shoes” to the growing list of means of transportation that the Secretary of Transportation is scared of
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The World Cup draw was what happens when you have a fantastic sports event, too much money, too little taste, a nose for corruption, and giant stupid man-baby to give a nightmarish gold trophy of the damned to, in the hopes that he likes it. www.thestar.com/sports/socce...
Bruce Arthur: The World Cup draw is a mix of too much money, not enough taste and Donald Trump. Just what you’d expect from the beautiful game
But the result next year will be football, and all the glories it can bring.
www.thestar.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:04 AM
The World Cup draw was what happens when you have a fantastic sports event, too much money, too little taste, a nose for corruption, and giant stupid man-baby to give a nightmarish gold trophy of the damned to, in the hopes that he likes it. www.thestar.com/sports/socce...
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okay, what the fuck is going on with this dumbass franklin the turtle shit. this is even stupider and more embarrassing than normal, and these fucking clowns aren't within a country mile of normal to start with.
December 5, 2025 at 10:31 PM
okay, what the fuck is going on with this dumbass franklin the turtle shit. this is even stupider and more embarrassing than normal, and these fucking clowns aren't within a country mile of normal to start with.
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Maybe I'm an outlier, but as a driver I have a strong preference for not injuring or killing anyone. I love bike lanes, and I love the ones with barriers even more.
December 6, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Maybe I'm an outlier, but as a driver I have a strong preference for not injuring or killing anyone. I love bike lanes, and I love the ones with barriers even more.
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Why are the richest people the biggest heartless dicks to the people in desperate circumstances?
You will have to face your creator someday who clearly said “what you do to the least of these you do to me”
I used to like Phil. Saudi sellout
You will have to face your creator someday who clearly said “what you do to the least of these you do to me”
I used to like Phil. Saudi sellout
December 5, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Why are the richest people the biggest heartless dicks to the people in desperate circumstances?
You will have to face your creator someday who clearly said “what you do to the least of these you do to me”
I used to like Phil. Saudi sellout
You will have to face your creator someday who clearly said “what you do to the least of these you do to me”
I used to like Phil. Saudi sellout
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It’s frustrating to watch interviews like the one between the @thedailyshow.com’s Jon Stewart & @elizkolbert.bsky.social tonight, suggesting we don’t know the solutions to the #ClimateCrisis, & better solutions aren’t “politically viable.” WE KNOW THE SOLUTIONS, AND ONLY CORRUPTION MAKES THEM HARD.
December 2, 2025 at 5:46 AM
It’s frustrating to watch interviews like the one between the @thedailyshow.com’s Jon Stewart & @elizkolbert.bsky.social tonight, suggesting we don’t know the solutions to the #ClimateCrisis, & better solutions aren’t “politically viable.” WE KNOW THE SOLUTIONS, AND ONLY CORRUPTION MAKES THEM HARD.
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It’s not easy for Canada to completely restructure its economic system away from a partnership with the United States, a partnership Canada knows… that EVERY nation now knows… can’t be trusted. But it’s the right thing to do. And we’ll be stronger for it.
Will the United States? I doubt it.
Will the United States? I doubt it.
Prime Minister Mark Carney's government announces that Canada is realigning Canada's economy away from the United States.
December 1, 2025 at 3:06 AM
It’s not easy for Canada to completely restructure its economic system away from a partnership with the United States, a partnership Canada knows… that EVERY nation now knows… can’t be trusted. But it’s the right thing to do. And we’ll be stronger for it.
Will the United States? I doubt it.
Will the United States? I doubt it.
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I had major surgery in April and I saw doctors 10% of the time. Otherwise it was all nurses, and they were as essential as water. they're professionals, period.
The Trump admin now says nursing isn't a professional degree.
The admin plan to redefine what constitutes a professional degree to exclude nursing and limit access to student loans — outraging national health care groups and leaving nursing students questioning how they'll pay for graduate degrees.
The admin plan to redefine what constitutes a professional degree to exclude nursing and limit access to student loans — outraging national health care groups and leaving nursing students questioning how they'll pay for graduate degrees.
November 30, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I had major surgery in April and I saw doctors 10% of the time. Otherwise it was all nurses, and they were as essential as water. they're professionals, period.
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So awful Alberta Premier Danielle Smith cynically courts separatists and other alt-right extremist voters for her political benefit to leverage the rest of Canada with the threat of separation, and now those separatists don’t want ANY deal with Canada.
Who could have seen THAT coming? #Everyone
Who could have seen THAT coming? #Everyone
November 30, 2025 at 4:10 AM
So awful Alberta Premier Danielle Smith cynically courts separatists and other alt-right extremist voters for her political benefit to leverage the rest of Canada with the threat of separation, and now those separatists don’t want ANY deal with Canada.
Who could have seen THAT coming? #Everyone
Who could have seen THAT coming? #Everyone
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Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.
November 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.
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One of the three trucks in this picture can Carry full size sheets of plywood.
November 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
One of the three trucks in this picture can Carry full size sheets of plywood.
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“Critics have likened Jack the Ripper’s approach to the mass murder of women, while others have chalked it up to the cost of women existing at night in Whitechapel.”
Media in the United States is completely broken.
A crime is a crime. A criminal is a criminal. Media cowardice is media cowardice.
Media in the United States is completely broken.
A crime is a crime. A criminal is a criminal. Media cowardice is media cowardice.
How did the @nytimes.com editors let this sentence appear?
"Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with this administration."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
"Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with this administration."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Northwestern University Nears Deal to Resolve Its Conflict With the White House
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:05 AM
“Critics have likened Jack the Ripper’s approach to the mass murder of women, while others have chalked it up to the cost of women existing at night in Whitechapel.”
Media in the United States is completely broken.
A crime is a crime. A criminal is a criminal. Media cowardice is media cowardice.
Media in the United States is completely broken.
A crime is a crime. A criminal is a criminal. Media cowardice is media cowardice.
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OK, who narced?
November 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
OK, who narced?
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The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture
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GUARDIAN: “Per head, 🇺🇸 output is six times China’s, and yet, inexplicably, there seem to be more abjectly poor Americans than Chinese. 🇺🇸 inequality is breathtaking… keeps getting worse…”
Wanting to address this isn’t radical.
NOT wanting to is.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Wanting to address this isn’t radical.
NOT wanting to is.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
November 28, 2025 at 3:15 PM
GUARDIAN: “Per head, 🇺🇸 output is six times China’s, and yet, inexplicably, there seem to be more abjectly poor Americans than Chinese. 🇺🇸 inequality is breathtaking… keeps getting worse…”
Wanting to address this isn’t radical.
NOT wanting to is.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Wanting to address this isn’t radical.
NOT wanting to is.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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World’s Worst Diplomat — ever. But Trump didn’t hire a diplomat. He hired a goon to threaten Canada.
November 27, 2025 at 7:01 AM
World’s Worst Diplomat — ever. But Trump didn’t hire a diplomat. He hired a goon to threaten Canada.