T. J. Kong
@mjrkong.bsky.social
All combat takes place at night, in the rain, and at the junction of four map segments.
@jadomian.bsky.social emergency clip incoming ? A La Gorka riding in convertible.
July 5, 2025 at 10:39 PM
@jadomian.bsky.social emergency clip incoming ? A La Gorka riding in convertible.
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I’m trying, and I hope other people will try, to hold onto the simple notion that a US president cannot simply declare a federal law that was passed last year and literally upheld this week to be a nullity—even if it’s a not-so-hot law. The Congress is the body that can amend or repeal federal laws.
January 19, 2025 at 5:08 AM
I’m trying, and I hope other people will try, to hold onto the simple notion that a US president cannot simply declare a federal law that was passed last year and literally upheld this week to be a nullity—even if it’s a not-so-hot law. The Congress is the body that can amend or repeal federal laws.
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December 27, 2024 at 12:49 AM
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The idea of “social murder” is super useful, and we need to get comfortable using it. Engels is the best, man - reading him feels like finally acknowledging the obvious reality everyone wants you to ignore
![Engels on 'Social Murder'
When one individual inflicts bodily injury upon another, such injury that death results, we call that deed manslaughter; when the assailant knew in advance that the injury would be fatal, we call this deed murder.
But when society places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death, one which is quite as much a death by violence as that by the sword or the bullet; when it deprives thousands of the necessaries of life, places them under conditions in which they cannot live - forces them ... to remain in such conditions until that death ensues which is the inevitable consequence - knows that these thousands of victims must perish, and yet permits these conditions to remain, its deed is murder just as surely as the deed of the single individual ...
Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845 [1967]), p. 126 (Panther Press)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jfcht3gt62twn3r32e7bziq4/bafkreifeiogd6watrjgxqrzfsfrujyv4765jeh4why7my2rl76nbnqr5xu@jpeg)
December 5, 2024 at 4:42 AM
The idea of “social murder” is super useful, and we need to get comfortable using it. Engels is the best, man - reading him feels like finally acknowledging the obvious reality everyone wants you to ignore
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Bluesky has rebuilt the Twitter of 2011. Keep going. Time to rebuild Blogspot and Google Reader. Web 1.0 fundamentalists unite!
November 20, 2024 at 4:02 PM
Bluesky has rebuilt the Twitter of 2011. Keep going. Time to rebuild Blogspot and Google Reader. Web 1.0 fundamentalists unite!
@davidpakman.bsky.social David, sir. As a big, strong man who has never cried before in his life, not even as a baby, I come to you with tears in my eyes in hopes to receive one of your tremendously great #echomachine2025 books.
November 20, 2024 at 5:31 PM
@davidpakman.bsky.social David, sir. As a big, strong man who has never cried before in his life, not even as a baby, I come to you with tears in my eyes in hopes to receive one of your tremendously great #echomachine2025 books.
Tesla Bot achieved !
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November 19, 2024 at 9:03 PM
Tesla Bot achieved !
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This was like watching the goddamn election again.
November 16, 2024 at 5:39 AM
This was like watching the goddamn election again.
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This is not a mandate.
November 16, 2024 at 3:08 AM
This is not a mandate.
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GOP under Obama: No more government paternalism!
GOP under Trump: He's our daddy!
GOP under Trump: He's our daddy!
Rep. Jeff Van Drew on Newsmax: "Daddy's home. And things are gonna change."
November 14, 2024 at 4:20 PM
GOP under Obama: No more government paternalism!
GOP under Trump: He's our daddy!
GOP under Trump: He's our daddy!
@jay.bsky.team how about it ?
Would like to hear more about Bluesky's funding and long term vision for the users. Billionaires keep making offers to founder's and their VC's that they can't refuse and the product enters the enshittification phase.
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November 13, 2024 at 8:19 PM
@jay.bsky.team how about it ?
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11/The company should try to address this by publishing a clear and convincing "trust story" that offers assurances about its funders and their motives, similar to an S-1 prior to an IPO. Creators deserve to have a clear picture so they can decide whether and how to invest. Basic transparency.
November 13, 2024 at 5:11 PM
11/The company should try to address this by publishing a clear and convincing "trust story" that offers assurances about its funders and their motives, similar to an S-1 prior to an IPO. Creators deserve to have a clear picture so they can decide whether and how to invest. Basic transparency.
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Would like to hear more about Bluesky's funding and long term vision for the users. Billionaires keep making offers to founder's and their VC's that they can't refuse and the product enters the enshittification phase.
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November 13, 2024 at 8:17 PM
Would like to hear more about Bluesky's funding and long term vision for the users. Billionaires keep making offers to founder's and their VC's that they can't refuse and the product enters the enshittification phase.
pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/u...
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