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Moon

@moonster.bsky.social

Me and my monochromatic dragon. #ParanoidsAtHush

December 13, 2024 at 11:36 PM

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Marisa Kabas

@marisakabas.bsky.social

this feels newly-relevant today: “It is a bad habit of the soul to celebrate anyone's death…but there are some people whose deaths come as a relief…because justice was never served for the acts of such a person. And relief is the closest thing to justice that people will experience.”

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Nov 29

the first anniversary of henry kissinger’s death is a good time to revisit this interview i did with @attackerman.bsky.social about his righteous obituary for the heinous war criminal: www.thehandbasket.co/p/writing-an...

I had a conversation with my daughter who was like, “Why are people excited? So are you happy that this guy died?” And I was trying to talk about it in terms that I wanted her to take away from this. That it is a bad habit of the soul to celebrate anyone's death. But that emerges from our understanding of our humanity, what we owe to one another, the basic respect and dignity in viewing human lives as precious and in viewing them as valuable. And that's a contract. And there are gonna be some people, like Henry Kissinger, who break that contract at grand scale, and you don't have to be sad when someone like that dies. You can feel relieved. You don't want, in general, to be happy when people die. That is not a good way of being that will ultimately hurt you more than it will hurt them. But there are some people whose deaths come as a relief, and sometimes they come as a relief because justice was never served for the acts of such a person. And relief is the closest thing to justice that people will experience.

December 4, 2024 at 10:44 PM

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Rebecca Solnit

@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

"One of my teachers at Columbia was Joseph Brodsky...and he said 'look,' he said, 'you Americans, you are so naïve. You think evil is going to come into your houses wearing big black boots. It doesn’t come like that. Look at the language. It begins in the language.'"

Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · Dec 5

Inbox: [Sen. Tom] Cotton Introduces Legislation to Eliminate Federal Use of the Term “West Bank”

December 5, 2024 at 10:27 PM

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borderless

@borderless.bsky.social

Yall realize you don't need to commit a crime to be charged with a crime and have years of your life fucked up, right?

Just look at what the state did to dismantle the Stop Cop City movement 👇

December 6, 2024 at 2:12 AM

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Tatarigami

@tatarigami.bsky.social

Famous YouTuber Johnny Harris, with 6 million followers, released a video titled "Why People Blame America for the War in Ukraine." He presented his argument in it, essentially blaming the West for causing Russia's imperialistic rise. I find it necessary to respond

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December 5, 2024 at 11:17 PM

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Dr. Luisa Rebull

@lrebull.bsky.social

🔭🧪 Things that make me happy: This is the first image from Mars, taken July 1965. Why does it look like this? Because computers were slow and it was going to be hours before the computer processed it enough to make an image. The scientists and engineers were impatient. 1/5