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Professor of Russian & Soviet History at Queens College, CUNY. Author of The Essential Guide to Writing History Essays and An Ordinary Marriage: The World of a Gentry Family in Provincial Russia. Knitter & spinner. antoshki.com
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dante made up an entire fake trip through hell just so he could talk about how he coincidentally saw every single one of his enemies there receiving graphically specific and tailor-made punishments
Do you have a historical figure you most wish got to be a poster? I feel like you must have a better answer than mine, which is Churchill. The guy started autobiography when he was 19 I think. And just never stopped. True poster.
January 6, 2026 at 10:19 PM
dante made up an entire fake trip through hell just so he could talk about how he coincidentally saw every single one of his enemies there receiving graphically specific and tailor-made punishments
This seems like a good idea we could use now.
January 6, 2026 at 10:25 PM
This seems like a good idea we could use now.
At this point anticipating the new season of The Pitt is what's keeping me from screaming, like, constantly.
January 6, 2026 at 10:21 PM
At this point anticipating the new season of The Pitt is what's keeping me from screaming, like, constantly.
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I get that nothing will come of this but if you want people to think a thing is bad you have to do things like this over and over, no matter how futile it feels or is. There's a reason the GOP voted at least 60 times on pointless attempts to repeal the ACA between 2010 and 2016.
🚨 Today, I formally introduced articles of impeachment against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.
RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.
January 6, 2026 at 8:32 PM
I get that nothing will come of this but if you want people to think a thing is bad you have to do things like this over and over, no matter how futile it feels or is. There's a reason the GOP voted at least 60 times on pointless attempts to repeal the ACA between 2010 and 2016.
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This thread applies to far more than just gaming. If you have a public-facing facility and aren't asking people who display antisocial behaviors to leave, pretty soon all you are going to have are the antisocial customers.
I spent an excessive number of years moderating a gaming forum and I learned a great deal about community spaces and cultivation, whether I wanted to or not. I have critical advice for anyone who runs a game store or gaming convention. Please share this thread with people who run those things.
January 6, 2026 at 9:01 PM
This thread applies to far more than just gaming. If you have a public-facing facility and aren't asking people who display antisocial behaviors to leave, pretty soon all you are going to have are the antisocial customers.
It is absolutely both, come on.
January 6, 2026 at 10:20 PM
It is absolutely both, come on.
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Wrote up my thoughts on all the nonsense replies I've been getting falsely claiming that @schumer.senate.gov can't do anything and I should stop telling him to do more.
There's a TON that he can do, as I outline in the piece. And he's doing basically none of it.
There's a TON that he can do, as I outline in the piece. And he's doing basically none of it.
Chuck Schumer’s Ridiculous Strategy For Trump’s Illegal War: Hope Republicans Come To Their Senses
I've criticized Chuck Schumer plenty over the years, generally for being bad on tech policy, but also for not understanding the moment we’re living through. Yes, he’s the leader of a minority party…
I've criticized Chuck Schumer plenty over the years, generally for being bad on tech policy, but also for not understanding the moment we’re living through. Yes, he’s the leader of a minority party…
Chuck Schumer’s Ridiculous Strategy For Trump’s Illegal War: Hope Republicans Come To Their Senses
I've criticized Chuck Schumer plenty over the years, generally for being bad on tech policy, but also for not understanding the moment we’re living through. Yes, he’s the leader of a minority party with zero power, but that doesn’t mean he’s powerless. Yet he acts as if he is. And if he can't figure that out, it's time for someone else to do it.
www.techdirt.com
January 6, 2026 at 9:39 PM
Wrote up my thoughts on all the nonsense replies I've been getting falsely claiming that @schumer.senate.gov can't do anything and I should stop telling him to do more.
There's a TON that he can do, as I outline in the piece. And he's doing basically none of it.
There's a TON that he can do, as I outline in the piece. And he's doing basically none of it.
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The fact that nothing is being done about this — and that people keep blithely hanging out on that site as though its owner and a key part of its official architecture aren’t actively enabling disgusting criminal abuse at scale — is making me lose my mind
Every piece of reporting I've seen on this is drastically understating the scale. These are from Grok's replies within a single minute. Time-to-reply is degrading because it has such a backlog of NCII/CSAM requests to fulfill. Conservatively I estimate it is producing more than 5000 of these per day
January 6, 2026 at 9:58 PM
The fact that nothing is being done about this — and that people keep blithely hanging out on that site as though its owner and a key part of its official architecture aren’t actively enabling disgusting criminal abuse at scale — is making me lose my mind
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AFAIK, in 200 years, only 3 times did a country elect someone who had attempted a coup:
- Louis Napoleon (France, 1848)
- Adolf Hitler (Germany, 1933)
- Hugo Chavez (Venezuela, 1998)
Each one became dictator. I think we will be the first exception, but it's not something you screw around with.
- Louis Napoleon (France, 1848)
- Adolf Hitler (Germany, 1933)
- Hugo Chavez (Venezuela, 1998)
Each one became dictator. I think we will be the first exception, but it's not something you screw around with.
The American people electing Trump after he staged a coup attempt 5 years ago was a nail in the coffin of our democracy. You can rationalize it all you want - But inflation! But wokeness! - but ultimately it was a societal suicide attempt and probably the dumbest collective voting decision ever made
January 6, 2026 at 9:54 PM
AFAIK, in 200 years, only 3 times did a country elect someone who had attempted a coup:
- Louis Napoleon (France, 1848)
- Adolf Hitler (Germany, 1933)
- Hugo Chavez (Venezuela, 1998)
Each one became dictator. I think we will be the first exception, but it's not something you screw around with.
- Louis Napoleon (France, 1848)
- Adolf Hitler (Germany, 1933)
- Hugo Chavez (Venezuela, 1998)
Each one became dictator. I think we will be the first exception, but it's not something you screw around with.
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you ever think the 21st century was a mistake?
January 6, 2026 at 9:20 PM
you ever think the 21st century was a mistake?
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So I am keeping this general but let’s say I’ve had reason to see a middle schooler’s class assignments recently. A kid with no personal tech was being throughly exposed to ChatGPT in their class work.
I tried really hard not to…be me about it.
Suffice to say I failed. I was me about it.
I tried really hard not to…be me about it.
Suffice to say I failed. I was me about it.
my 3rd grader is describing projects and I recently realized, oh god, they are doing searches and being delivered trash and they have no reference point to understand how to assess or sift; the only way is to return to the encyclopedia or similar, at least as a foundation
January 6, 2026 at 9:47 PM
So I am keeping this general but let’s say I’ve had reason to see a middle schooler’s class assignments recently. A kid with no personal tech was being throughly exposed to ChatGPT in their class work.
I tried really hard not to…be me about it.
Suffice to say I failed. I was me about it.
I tried really hard not to…be me about it.
Suffice to say I failed. I was me about it.
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The constitutional remedy for a president who launches a war of acquisition against an ally is impeachment, removal, disqualification, and ultimately a criminal trial. And the same is true for every member of his cabinet involved in such an illegal undertaking.
January 6, 2026 at 9:34 PM
The constitutional remedy for a president who launches a war of acquisition against an ally is impeachment, removal, disqualification, and ultimately a criminal trial. And the same is true for every member of his cabinet involved in such an illegal undertaking.
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Trump's obsession with making Greenland part of the United States because it looks big on a map and is colored differently from the states is a classic case of Mercator Projection
January 6, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Trump's obsession with making Greenland part of the United States because it looks big on a map and is colored differently from the states is a classic case of Mercator Projection
Just invade us and impose UN "observers" to walk us through the steps of democracy again, cause we forgot.
According to the German news magazine Der Spiegel & repeated here by Le Monde, the Trump administration has threatened to impose sanctions on the French judges handling the domestic criminal case against Marine Le Pen.
I’m not outraged; I’m enjoying imagining EU sanctions on Sam Alito.
I’m not outraged; I’m enjoying imagining EU sanctions on Sam Alito.
Affaire des assistants parlementaires du FN : le président du tribunal de Paris met en garde contre une éventuelle « ingérence » américaine avant le procès en appel
January 6, 2026 at 10:15 PM
Just invade us and impose UN "observers" to walk us through the steps of democracy again, cause we forgot.
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According to the German news magazine Der Spiegel & repeated here by Le Monde, the Trump administration has threatened to impose sanctions on the French judges handling the domestic criminal case against Marine Le Pen.
I’m not outraged; I’m enjoying imagining EU sanctions on Sam Alito.
I’m not outraged; I’m enjoying imagining EU sanctions on Sam Alito.
Affaire des assistants parlementaires du FN : le président du tribunal de Paris met en garde contre une éventuelle « ingérence » américaine avant le procès en appel
Affaire des assistants parlementaires du FN : le président du tribunal de Paris met en garde contre une éventuelle « ingérence » américaine avant le procès en appel
A partir du 13 janvier et jusqu’à la mi-février, la cheffe de file de l’extrême droite, Marine Le Pen, et onze autres prévenus vont être jugés par la cour d’appel de Paris, soupçonnés d’avoir détourné l’argent du Parlement européen au seul profit du parti.
www.lemonde.fr
January 6, 2026 at 8:56 PM
According to the German news magazine Der Spiegel & repeated here by Le Monde, the Trump administration has threatened to impose sanctions on the French judges handling the domestic criminal case against Marine Le Pen.
I’m not outraged; I’m enjoying imagining EU sanctions on Sam Alito.
I’m not outraged; I’m enjoying imagining EU sanctions on Sam Alito.
Every task I have to do online takes LONGER than the old way because of all the bullshit now built into every app, and now needing 5 apps to do one basic thing.
Today is one of those days where I’m struck anew by how *bad* the internet has gotten. It’s almost unusable. Clouds, apps, advertising — nothing is where it should be and it’s nigh impossible sometimes to do basic tasks online.
January 6, 2026 at 10:13 PM
Every task I have to do online takes LONGER than the old way because of all the bullshit now built into every app, and now needing 5 apps to do one basic thing.
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Today is one of those days where I’m struck anew by how *bad* the internet has gotten. It’s almost unusable. Clouds, apps, advertising — nothing is where it should be and it’s nigh impossible sometimes to do basic tasks online.
January 6, 2026 at 9:05 PM
Today is one of those days where I’m struck anew by how *bad* the internet has gotten. It’s almost unusable. Clouds, apps, advertising — nothing is where it should be and it’s nigh impossible sometimes to do basic tasks online.
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My kid is writing a story where the one weakness the bad guys have is to thrown sandwiches and I’m very proud of that he took an important lesson from the ICE sandwich guy. :)
January 6, 2026 at 9:23 PM
My kid is writing a story where the one weakness the bad guys have is to thrown sandwiches and I’m very proud of that he took an important lesson from the ICE sandwich guy. :)
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Amazing to live in a country where every day you can watch Republicans gin up issue salience out of nothing but attitude and 4chan posts and a sizeable chunk of people think Democrats' only power is to vote yes or no on bills placed in front of them
January 6, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Amazing to live in a country where every day you can watch Republicans gin up issue salience out of nothing but attitude and 4chan posts and a sizeable chunk of people think Democrats' only power is to vote yes or no on bills placed in front of them
JFC. it's not actually crazier than all the other shit. It's all crazy.
Greenland is happening. Not a joke, not trolling, not a distraction. He has already made up his mind and nobody who matters in the inner circle will try to talk him out of it. Some of them want it precisely because it will destroy NATO. There are no adults in the room. They really mean to do it.
January 6, 2026 at 9:59 PM
JFC. it's not actually crazier than all the other shit. It's all crazy.
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liberals need to think long and hard about what these guys consider communism before they start thinking they're safe
Palantir co-founder says it exists to kill communists.
January 6, 2026 at 8:55 PM
liberals need to think long and hard about what these guys consider communism before they start thinking they're safe
Look what government can do! This is the energy we need.
Zohran just went out and fixed the Williamsburg Bridge bike entrance. Just did it. No faffing, no nonsense. Bam. Fixed.
January 6, 2026 at 9:58 PM
Look what government can do! This is the energy we need.
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not to go all identity politics but I think it’s also because the victims are women
one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it
January 6, 2026 at 9:21 PM
not to go all identity politics but I think it’s also because the victims are women
I hate to say this, but even when men do their part or more, there is just WAY TOO MUCH expected of a family w 2 working adults, let alone ppl w less. The money doesn't stretch, the time doesn't stretch, there are too many demands. As an extractive resource for the rich, we're tapped out.
January 6, 2026 at 9:57 PM
I hate to say this, but even when men do their part or more, there is just WAY TOO MUCH expected of a family w 2 working adults, let alone ppl w less. The money doesn't stretch, the time doesn't stretch, there are too many demands. As an extractive resource for the rich, we're tapped out.
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i completely agree that this is the key problem with Bluesky discourse right now: The Circumstances are genuinely toxic right now.
log off.
go scream at an inanimate object.
dig a hole.
continue digging until you've got a burrow.
hide in the burrow.
do not bring your phone
log off.
go scream at an inanimate object.
dig a hole.
continue digging until you've got a burrow.
hide in the burrow.
do not bring your phone
my hot take is that I don't think it's this website specifically that's toxic. the Circumstances are toxic and nobody really knows what to do about it so they come online and scream. and if I may offer an alternative: actually going outside and screaming feels better.
January 6, 2026 at 7:30 PM
i completely agree that this is the key problem with Bluesky discourse right now: The Circumstances are genuinely toxic right now.
log off.
go scream at an inanimate object.
dig a hole.
continue digging until you've got a burrow.
hide in the burrow.
do not bring your phone
log off.
go scream at an inanimate object.
dig a hole.
continue digging until you've got a burrow.
hide in the burrow.
do not bring your phone