Jim Bliss
@jimbliss.bsky.social
Philosopher, psychoanalyst, former industrial engineer. Writes words and code.
Near Dublin (Ireland). At the intersection between anarchism, socialism, & despair.
GenX, gamer, #COYS and very left wing. He/Him. They is fine too.
"Everyone's lost but me."
Near Dublin (Ireland). At the intersection between anarchism, socialism, & despair.
GenX, gamer, #COYS and very left wing. He/Him. They is fine too.
"Everyone's lost but me."
Pinned
Jim Bliss
@jimbliss.bsky.social
· Nov 18
Watching the rise of fascism around the world and seeking investors in our new start-up: Gallows & Guillotines.
Our marketing strategy:
"When the rich and powerful fail to learn the lessons of history, what the people need is..."
Our marketing strategy:
"When the rich and powerful fail to learn the lessons of history, what the people need is..."
January 29, 2026 at 10:07 AM
Watching the rise of fascism around the world and seeking investors in our new start-up: Gallows & Guillotines.
Our marketing strategy:
"When the rich and powerful fail to learn the lessons of history, what the people need is..."
Our marketing strategy:
"When the rich and powerful fail to learn the lessons of history, what the people need is..."
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I've said this before, but lib commentators want to turn the clock back to one minute before full-blown fascism, with no plan for what happens a minute later
January 29, 2026 at 7:07 AM
I've said this before, but lib commentators want to turn the clock back to one minute before full-blown fascism, with no plan for what happens a minute later
Soon be time for the men's semis at the tennis.
*snigger*
*snigger*
January 29, 2026 at 9:48 AM
Soon be time for the men's semis at the tennis.
*snigger*
*snigger*
Oh for fucks sake! What are you up to Dunnes Stores!? I literally still have a handful of Quality Street left from Christmas and this is what greets me in the supermarket in January?
January 28, 2026 at 11:42 PM
Oh for fucks sake! What are you up to Dunnes Stores!? I literally still have a handful of Quality Street left from Christmas and this is what greets me in the supermarket in January?
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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..."
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So nice of The Times to make sure we finally get the other side of the story.
![The parable of the Nazi Bar, a screenshot of a series of tweets by Michael Tager (in a screenshot from Google Images).
It's a long text and I'm not going to transcribe it here, but this Wiktionary explains it link and full Wiktionary definition below):
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Nazi_bar
Popularized by an anecdote shared by Michael B. Tager (@IamRageSparkle) on Twitter in July 2020. Tager recounted visiting a "shitty crustpunk bar" where he saw a patron abruptly expelled: the bartender explained that the man was wearing "iron crosses and stuff", and that he feared such patrons would become regulars and start bringing friends if not promptly kicked out, which would lead him to realize "oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now" only after the unwanted patrons became too "entrenched" to kick out without trouble.[1][2] (Instances of people noting that if a bar starts serving Nazis other customers stop going and it becomes a Nazi bar are older.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xfrwohjwxmkytdzadc4lqqy6/bafkreiefmg6zucjna7se4szf7ykihyrej4gzgjujgeicnraj3h4duqpl7i@jpeg)
January 27, 2026 at 12:37 PM
So nice of The Times to make sure we finally get the other side of the story.
Ignore (just for a moment) the usual arguments about this. The rights and wrongs. The rights and lefts.
Instead realise, from a practical standpoint, that this is how European countries solve their demographic problem. This is how they fund the pensions of their citizenry going forward.
Bravo.
Instead realise, from a practical standpoint, that this is how European countries solve their demographic problem. This is how they fund the pensions of their citizenry going forward.
Bravo.
Spain's left-wing government approved a plan to regularise around 500,000 undocumented migrants by decree, the country's latest break with harsher policies elsewhere in Europe
Spain to regularise 500,000 undocumented migrants
Spain's left-wing government approved a plan to regularise around 500,000 undocumented migrants by decree, the country's latest break with harsher policies elsewhere in Europe.
www.rte.ie
January 27, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Ignore (just for a moment) the usual arguments about this. The rights and wrongs. The rights and lefts.
Instead realise, from a practical standpoint, that this is how European countries solve their demographic problem. This is how they fund the pensions of their citizenry going forward.
Bravo.
Instead realise, from a practical standpoint, that this is how European countries solve their demographic problem. This is how they fund the pensions of their citizenry going forward.
Bravo.
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When the devil takes you up to a high place at the end of the century, and offers you all the kingdoms of the earth, you may well find yourself on Mulholland Drive.
January 27, 2026 at 11:15 AM
When the devil takes you up to a high place at the end of the century, and offers you all the kingdoms of the earth, you may well find yourself on Mulholland Drive.
Every room's a panic room when you forget your anti-anxiety meds.
January 26, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Every room's a panic room when you forget your anti-anxiety meds.
Ah, the 90s...
January 25, 2026 at 11:21 PM
Ah, the 90s...
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Every week there's a pair of headlines that's like
"NUMBER OF HOMELESS CHILDREN REACHES ONE MILLION"
and
"GOVERNMENT TO FAST TRACK BILL BANNING TURNING YOUR PILLOW OVER TO THE COOL SIDE"
"NUMBER OF HOMELESS CHILDREN REACHES ONE MILLION"
and
"GOVERNMENT TO FAST TRACK BILL BANNING TURNING YOUR PILLOW OVER TO THE COOL SIDE"
January 23, 2026 at 11:28 PM
Every week there's a pair of headlines that's like
"NUMBER OF HOMELESS CHILDREN REACHES ONE MILLION"
and
"GOVERNMENT TO FAST TRACK BILL BANNING TURNING YOUR PILLOW OVER TO THE COOL SIDE"
"NUMBER OF HOMELESS CHILDREN REACHES ONE MILLION"
and
"GOVERNMENT TO FAST TRACK BILL BANNING TURNING YOUR PILLOW OVER TO THE COOL SIDE"
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There aren't any penguins in Greenland, but there are other animals.
January 23, 2026 at 11:26 PM
There aren't any penguins in Greenland, but there are other animals.
Penguins live in the south for fucks sake!
January 23, 2026 at 11:29 PM
Penguins live in the south for fucks sake!
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January 19, 2026 at 6:48 PM
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I will not vote, nor give a preference to ANY candidate who personally remains or is a member of a party that uses the child sex abuse image generator also known as X/twitter.
Pass it on.
Pass it on.
January 18, 2026 at 12:44 PM
I will not vote, nor give a preference to ANY candidate who personally remains or is a member of a party that uses the child sex abuse image generator also known as X/twitter.
Pass it on.
Pass it on.
"In Dublin, on Fenian Street, there's a factory that makes child sex abuse material. You can pay it money, as a subscription, and that's one of the services it offers..."
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...
The Gist: The Abuse Factory
X, the child abuse imagery app, revealed our state has no red lines. This is the Gist.
www.thegist.ie
January 10, 2026 at 3:56 PM
"In Dublin, on Fenian Street, there's a factory that makes child sex abuse material. You can pay it money, as a subscription, and that's one of the services it offers..."
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...
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Go if you've not been before, or not been in a while. Wonderful cinema.
Some recent favourite reviews of your favourite cinema from both regulars and newcomers. We love you all, see you at the movies...
January 9, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Go if you've not been before, or not been in a while. Wonderful cinema.
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Dawn breaks over a snow-covered Novi Sad. Petrovaradin Fortress looks down on an icy Danube where reflected city lights dance in the current. There's a quiet magic. Clearly nobody told this place Christmas is over.
The bus driver plays classic jazz. For just a second, all's well with the world.
The bus driver plays classic jazz. For just a second, all's well with the world.
January 9, 2026 at 5:57 AM
Dawn breaks over a snow-covered Novi Sad. Petrovaradin Fortress looks down on an icy Danube where reflected city lights dance in the current. There's a quiet magic. Clearly nobody told this place Christmas is over.
The bus driver plays classic jazz. For just a second, all's well with the world.
The bus driver plays classic jazz. For just a second, all's well with the world.
Who do I talk to about this 2026 thing we've been doing for the past week? Frankly, this year is clearly defective.
January 8, 2026 at 7:54 PM
Who do I talk to about this 2026 thing we've been doing for the past week? Frankly, this year is clearly defective.
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It's Bowie's birthday, which means it's time for the annual repost of my drawing of a bunch of dancing Daves in the style of Charles M. Schulz’s Peanuts. Happy Birthday, Mr Jones.
January 8, 2026 at 4:31 PM
It's Bowie's birthday, which means it's time for the annual repost of my drawing of a bunch of dancing Daves in the style of Charles M. Schulz’s Peanuts. Happy Birthday, Mr Jones.
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'I lost her way back at “sovereign wealth fund.” I shouldn’t have used the term. ... The whole premise of a sovereign wealth fund sounds like a conspiracy. In fact, all finance sounds like conspiracy if you try to explain it out loud.' rushkoff.substack.com/p/you-are-no...
You Are Not Crazy
Reality has become absurd. Those of us who see it for what it is, who know its origins, and who know that it is constructed? We are the sane ones here.
rushkoff.substack.com
January 8, 2026 at 9:27 AM
'I lost her way back at “sovereign wealth fund.” I shouldn’t have used the term. ... The whole premise of a sovereign wealth fund sounds like a conspiracy. In fact, all finance sounds like conspiracy if you try to explain it out loud.' rushkoff.substack.com/p/you-are-no...
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The Government and media who are locked in a rotten symbiosis on X, are trying to suggest something needs to investigated or discovered.
But all the relevant facts are both known and undisputed.
X dot com launched a paid-for feature that produces images of people undressed, including kids.
But all the relevant facts are both known and undisputed.
X dot com launched a paid-for feature that produces images of people undressed, including kids.
January 7, 2026 at 10:54 PM
The Government and media who are locked in a rotten symbiosis on X, are trying to suggest something needs to investigated or discovered.
But all the relevant facts are both known and undisputed.
X dot com launched a paid-for feature that produces images of people undressed, including kids.
But all the relevant facts are both known and undisputed.
X dot com launched a paid-for feature that produces images of people undressed, including kids.