Scraping Through France
@johnjrose.bsky.social
On an old boat. Taking it slow Keen on good food. Half n half, France and Australia.
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
At this stage it would make as much sense for it to devolve into a goth-versus-skinhead kind of discussion of skull symbols
anyway it is just fascinating that this has somehow become some proxy battle over “men” and “identity politics” where the critics represent “woke overreach” but as far as i can see it the strong attachment is pure identity politics! and i think the discourse would be better if people just said that
October 23, 2025 at 3:47 AM
At this stage it would make as much sense for it to devolve into a goth-versus-skinhead kind of discussion of skull symbols
Also interestingly ironic is how the thread following this post absolutely reverts to a discussion of typology, masculinity and symbols rather than the central question about the candidate "on its own terms".
At least you tried, Jams.
At least you tried, Jams.
October 23, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Also interestingly ironic is how the thread following this post absolutely reverts to a discussion of typology, masculinity and symbols rather than the central question about the candidate "on its own terms".
At least you tried, Jams.
At least you tried, Jams.
It might be worthwhile referencing Australian Indigenous beliefs and practices regarding Dreaming stories of landscape, including inorganic elements and geoformations.
Although as I (poorly) understand it, the truths therein are reified through relations with landscape, not its inherent qualities.
Although as I (poorly) understand it, the truths therein are reified through relations with landscape, not its inherent qualities.
I think it’s genuinely a thorny question, at which point if any consciousness emerges in a machine. I’m not really comfortable saying that it has to exist, but I’m also not really comfortable saying there is something ineffable about organic matter that can host consciousness that other matter can’t
what i did not expect re: "AI" is the number of people saying "i know exactly what consciousness is" before saying "and this isn't it." i believe in the second half of that sentence. i do not know why anyone would say the first.
October 8, 2025 at 7:20 AM
It might be worthwhile referencing Australian Indigenous beliefs and practices regarding Dreaming stories of landscape, including inorganic elements and geoformations.
Although as I (poorly) understand it, the truths therein are reified through relations with landscape, not its inherent qualities.
Although as I (poorly) understand it, the truths therein are reified through relations with landscape, not its inherent qualities.
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You can't maintain your US lifestyle without buying most of your household goods from China.
Even Walmart is little more than an outlet for factories in Shenzhen.
You've larped yourselves into a client state, but with guns.
Even Walmart is little more than an outlet for factories in Shenzhen.
You've larped yourselves into a client state, but with guns.
You were closer with "disdain". Too many decades of free riding. You were warned, long before Trump came along. And as Democrats mocked Mitt Romney (who would have made a fine President) for pegging Russia as a threat, Europeans were going all in on dependence on Russia for energy.
October 2, 2025 at 10:32 AM
You can't maintain your US lifestyle without buying most of your household goods from China.
Even Walmart is little more than an outlet for factories in Shenzhen.
You've larped yourselves into a client state, but with guns.
Even Walmart is little more than an outlet for factories in Shenzhen.
You've larped yourselves into a client state, but with guns.
How far along the "athoritarian" spectrum does this sort of thing sit, Tom?
I guess at least the colleges still get to exist!
@radiofreetom.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
I guess at least the colleges still get to exist!
@radiofreetom.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference
www.nytimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 6:38 AM
How far along the "athoritarian" spectrum does this sort of thing sit, Tom?
I guess at least the colleges still get to exist!
@radiofreetom.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
I guess at least the colleges still get to exist!
@radiofreetom.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
"I won’t celebrate his death, but I’m not obligated to celebrate his life, either."
I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning
The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn't a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division
www.thenation.com
September 13, 2025 at 9:09 AM
"I won’t celebrate his death, but I’m not obligated to celebrate his life, either."
Musk's Xitter is apparently happy to fabricate lies at will
September 13, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Musk's Xitter is apparently happy to fabricate lies at will
The most unflinchingly honest appraisal of the US electorate and the state of its democracy I've read so far.
It will surely end in tears.
And American voters will have no one to blame but themselves.
It will surely end in tears.
And American voters will have no one to blame but themselves.
August 24, 2025 at 6:05 PM
The most unflinchingly honest appraisal of the US electorate and the state of its democracy I've read so far.
It will surely end in tears.
And American voters will have no one to blame but themselves.
It will surely end in tears.
And American voters will have no one to blame but themselves.
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Paris has removed the paving from its city hall square and transformed it into an urban forest. Stunning! 🤩
August 19, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Paris has removed the paving from its city hall square and transformed it into an urban forest. Stunning! 🤩
Seen this, @grogsgamut.bsky.social ?
August 20, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Seen this, @grogsgamut.bsky.social ?
I think that no matter what else happens in the next while, or even in the next 3.5 years, this picture will be used to sum up the entire legacy of the man.
August 17, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I think that no matter what else happens in the next while, or even in the next 3.5 years, this picture will be used to sum up the entire legacy of the man.
Tired of winning yet, America?
Who would have thought a slapdash last-minute thrown together summit to distract from the Epstein files would be a complete and utter failure?
August 17, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Tired of winning yet, America?
I plunder the countries I visit by hoarding the hotel toiletries
Tourists are modern day colonialists.
August 11, 2025 at 11:46 AM
I plunder the countries I visit by hoarding the hotel toiletries
Ssshhh... genius at work
July 27, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Ssshhh... genius at work
Re the Bradfield count, Giselle Kapterian may become the first person nominated to a front bench role unable to take up the position.
Started the day 12 votes ahead, now down to 3.
It must be horrible to be close enough to taste it but far enough away to feel the chill.
#auspol #Bradfield
Started the day 12 votes ahead, now down to 3.
It must be horrible to be close enough to taste it but far enough away to feel the chill.
#auspol #Bradfield
May 28, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Re the Bradfield count, Giselle Kapterian may become the first person nominated to a front bench role unable to take up the position.
Started the day 12 votes ahead, now down to 3.
It must be horrible to be close enough to taste it but far enough away to feel the chill.
#auspol #Bradfield
Started the day 12 votes ahead, now down to 3.
It must be horrible to be close enough to taste it but far enough away to feel the chill.
#auspol #Bradfield
Bridget McKenzie's party currently boasts less than 29% women across House and Senate representatives. The Labor government achieved 57%, with 52% women in the Cabinet.
She has a hide like a rhinoceros.
#auspol #womeninpolitics
She has a hide like a rhinoceros.
#auspol #womeninpolitics
May 14, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Bridget McKenzie's party currently boasts less than 29% women across House and Senate representatives. The Labor government achieved 57%, with 52% women in the Cabinet.
She has a hide like a rhinoceros.
#auspol #womeninpolitics
She has a hide like a rhinoceros.
#auspol #womeninpolitics
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The only thing holding this back will be Musk's insistence that he be the biological father of every baby born above quota
The Trump administration is assessing ways to persuade women in the U.S. to have more children, as a movement grows on the right to reverse declining birthrates and push conservative family values. Some pitched ideas include cash baby bonuses and menstrual cycle classes. nyti.ms/4jh3UAR
April 22, 2025 at 8:31 AM
The only thing holding this back will be Musk's insistence that he be the biological father of every baby born above quota
Kakiocracy Unlimited.
The depth of idiocy, ignorance, naivety, carelessness, absence of analysis and sheer laziness is appalling.
#kakiocracy #loonylutnick #knownothings #tariffmadness
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
The depth of idiocy, ignorance, naivety, carelessness, absence of analysis and sheer laziness is appalling.
#kakiocracy #loonylutnick #knownothings #tariffmadness
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Not that Norfolk! Mislabelled shipments led to Trump tariffs on uninhabited islands and remote outposts with no US trade
Exclusive: Aquarium systems, Timberland boots and recycling plant parts were mislabelled as coming from remote Norfolk Island or Heard and McDonald islands
www.theguardian.com
April 4, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Kakiocracy Unlimited.
The depth of idiocy, ignorance, naivety, carelessness, absence of analysis and sheer laziness is appalling.
#kakiocracy #loonylutnick #knownothings #tariffmadness
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
The depth of idiocy, ignorance, naivety, carelessness, absence of analysis and sheer laziness is appalling.
#kakiocracy #loonylutnick #knownothings #tariffmadness
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Ben for the W today
April 2, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Ben for the W today
Clearly, French people do not read US/UK newspapers
More French public response to the sentencing and banning of M Le Pen: 68% think it just; 31% unjust
April 2, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Clearly, French people do not read US/UK newspapers
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Well... There's always a quote..
VIDEO. When Marine Le Pen called for "lifelong ineligibility" for elected officials convicted of "misappropriation of public funds"
www.publicsenat.fr/actualites/p...
VIDEO. When Marine Le Pen called for "lifelong ineligibility" for elected officials convicted of "misappropriation of public funds"
www.publicsenat.fr/actualites/p...
VIDEO. Quand Marine Le Pen demandait « l’inéligibilité à vie » pour les élus condamnés pour « détournement de fonds publics » - Public Sénat
Alors que Marine Le Pen vient d’être condamnée pour détournement de fonds publics à quatre ans de prison et à cinq ans d’inéligibilité, l’empêchant de se présenter en 2027, la même Marine Le Pen défen...
www.publicsenat.fr
April 1, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Well... There's always a quote..
VIDEO. When Marine Le Pen called for "lifelong ineligibility" for elected officials convicted of "misappropriation of public funds"
www.publicsenat.fr/actualites/p...
VIDEO. When Marine Le Pen called for "lifelong ineligibility" for elected officials convicted of "misappropriation of public funds"
www.publicsenat.fr/actualites/p...