Ouranocracy
@ouranocracy.bsky.social
Former archaeologist & current library worker. Civilization enthusiast. I was dooming then; I'm coping now. He/him
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Ouranocracy
@ouranocracy.bsky.social
· Sep 30
Every USN vs PLAN encounter after 2032 is like the USS Masculine Warfighter, Glorious Defender of the Cracker Barrel versus six identical copies of the CNS 我们昨天建了这个 supplied by a ship that does nothing but make birthday cakes for the other ships
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I, too, am worried about the state of Indo-Aryan religion. So many karapan presiding over the horrid rituals of the kavis, sacrificing cows, getting drunk on haoma, all to empower the nomadic warlords who burn the households and farms of the gradually-expanding settled population
honestly i know people get annoyed with Dort posts but like, c'mon man, how do you not die laughing
January 7, 2026 at 12:22 AM
I, too, am worried about the state of Indo-Aryan religion. So many karapan presiding over the horrid rituals of the kavis, sacrificing cows, getting drunk on haoma, all to empower the nomadic warlords who burn the households and farms of the gradually-expanding settled population
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January 6, 2026 at 2:02 AM
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WAKE UP FELLOW AMERICANS
THEY WANT TO TAKE YOUR TINY DESK CONCERTS FROM YOU
THEY WANT TO TAKE YOUR TINY DESK CONCERTS FROM YOU
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations
Corporation For Public Broadcasting Is Dissolved After 58 Years Of Service
www.huffpost.com
January 5, 2026 at 8:41 PM
WAKE UP FELLOW AMERICANS
THEY WANT TO TAKE YOUR TINY DESK CONCERTS FROM YOU
THEY WANT TO TAKE YOUR TINY DESK CONCERTS FROM YOU
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This Langston Hughes poem is relevant af.
January 5, 2026 at 4:27 PM
This Langston Hughes poem is relevant af.
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If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.
A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.
January 5, 2026 at 8:57 PM
If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.
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The Assassination of the Sheriff of Nottingham by the Coward Robin of Locksley
January 5, 2026 at 5:36 PM
The Assassination of the Sheriff of Nottingham by the Coward Robin of Locksley
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me: life has been so hard lately
my therapist, Glegbar The Blood Thief: how much blood do you think is inside your body
my therapist, Glegbar The Blood Thief: how much blood do you think is inside your body
January 4, 2026 at 11:23 PM
me: life has been so hard lately
my therapist, Glegbar The Blood Thief: how much blood do you think is inside your body
my therapist, Glegbar The Blood Thief: how much blood do you think is inside your body
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Good article this. Racism really is the reverse of a performance-enhancing drug, the mad, stupid shit it leads people to believe in and to do:
‘Once whispered, now discussed’: the rise of dubious claims of civil war in the UK
Dystopian warnings once reserved for the far right have found a wider audience – but there are good reasons for scepticism
www.theguardian.com
January 4, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Good article this. Racism really is the reverse of a performance-enhancing drug, the mad, stupid shit it leads people to believe in and to do:
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Its literally for the vibes. People go to war based on intangibles all the time. Louis the 14th did. Intangibles are real!
January 4, 2026 at 5:14 AM
Its literally for the vibes. People go to war based on intangibles all the time. Louis the 14th did. Intangibles are real!
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It seems to me a notable bit of worldbuilding that the empire forms in 19BBY, is basically stable (if evil) for almost two decades and then Palpatine abolishes the Senate thinking the Death Star solves his problems and in under 4 years he's dead and the empire is gone roughly a year later.
January 4, 2026 at 2:52 AM
It seems to me a notable bit of worldbuilding that the empire forms in 19BBY, is basically stable (if evil) for almost two decades and then Palpatine abolishes the Senate thinking the Death Star solves his problems and in under 4 years he's dead and the empire is gone roughly a year later.
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You ever think about how the Roman Senate kept meeting centuries into the reigns of emperors. Hanging out, shooting the shit, giving speeches, and play-acting that their positions of privilege remained positions of power.
January 3, 2026 at 6:36 PM
You ever think about how the Roman Senate kept meeting centuries into the reigns of emperors. Hanging out, shooting the shit, giving speeches, and play-acting that their positions of privilege remained positions of power.
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fascists are insatiable incubi who feed off horror, misery, and despair
A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.
January 4, 2026 at 1:12 AM
fascists are insatiable incubi who feed off horror, misery, and despair
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The obvious downsides of a schizophrenic global hegemon are one reason I don't have much patience for commentators who counsel taking it slow & easy. We have to salt the earth so that the Republican party never rises again, & that entails a radical approach
The significant part of it for Americans is going to be recognizing the role the republican party as currently constituted plays in the alliance of global antidemocratic forces
We should think broadly about this as the menagerie of democracies constituting it may include states that don't yet exist and other powerful corporate bodies politic that aren't territorial states at all.
It feels like things are going to get much weirder very soon and we should brace ourselves.
It feels like things are going to get much weirder very soon and we should brace ourselves.
January 3, 2026 at 11:36 PM
The obvious downsides of a schizophrenic global hegemon are one reason I don't have much patience for commentators who counsel taking it slow & easy. We have to salt the earth so that the Republican party never rises again, & that entails a radical approach
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the administration wants to frame this (bizarrely) as law enforcement. but if law enforcement conducted a raid for a suspect and killed 40 people, including an unknown number of unarmed civilians, it would be treated as a clear disaster like Waco.
NYT:
At least 40 people were killed in the US attack on Venezuela, including military personnel and civilians.
At least 40 people were killed in the US attack on Venezuela, including military personnel and civilians.
January 3, 2026 at 11:32 PM
the administration wants to frame this (bizarrely) as law enforcement. but if law enforcement conducted a raid for a suspect and killed 40 people, including an unknown number of unarmed civilians, it would be treated as a clear disaster like Waco.
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”why didn’t the Russian people rise up against Putin‘s war?”
hm. Look around you, maybe
hm. Look around you, maybe
January 3, 2026 at 11:32 PM
”why didn’t the Russian people rise up against Putin‘s war?”
hm. Look around you, maybe
hm. Look around you, maybe
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The casualties already coming in. Grandmothers in their apartments….
January 3, 2026 at 7:21 PM
The casualties already coming in. Grandmothers in their apartments….
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Is this what is was like to be Thucydides? Is this what it's like to watch your country destroy itself on the international and domestic level because of terrible leadership that was put in place by an ignorant mob? I feel for the dude, man.
January 3, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Is this what is was like to be Thucydides? Is this what it's like to watch your country destroy itself on the international and domestic level because of terrible leadership that was put in place by an ignorant mob? I feel for the dude, man.
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Instead, the informal practices & observed norms have changed drastically in the 21st century, effectively reshaping the US Constitution into its present autocratic form. Article I has been repealed by implication of the way those heading Congress have abdicated its constitutional authority.
January 3, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Instead, the informal practices & observed norms have changed drastically in the 21st century, effectively reshaping the US Constitution into its present autocratic form. Article I has been repealed by implication of the way those heading Congress have abdicated its constitutional authority.
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A concept I've been meaning to float to make sense of what's happened to the US Constitution is an idea from the British constitutional tradition: "implied repeal."
It's useful because it helps us to understand that Article I, & much else of the US Constitution, has been implicitly repealed.
It's useful because it helps us to understand that Article I, & much else of the US Constitution, has been implicitly repealed.
January 3, 2026 at 7:35 PM
A concept I've been meaning to float to make sense of what's happened to the US Constitution is an idea from the British constitutional tradition: "implied repeal."
It's useful because it helps us to understand that Article I, & much else of the US Constitution, has been implicitly repealed.
It's useful because it helps us to understand that Article I, & much else of the US Constitution, has been implicitly repealed.
Wait they did this from a fucking blanket fort at Mar a Lago?
January 3, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Wait they did this from a fucking blanket fort at Mar a Lago?
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You should be embarrassed to be a member of congress and issuing anything other than impeachment resolutions. You're in the model UN. They should give you legos and a propeller hat
January 3, 2026 at 3:57 PM
You should be embarrassed to be a member of congress and issuing anything other than impeachment resolutions. You're in the model UN. They should give you legos and a propeller hat
The political story of my lifetime - pre-existing Trump - has been watching 'the President makes war' become increasingly codified as part of America's unwritten constitution to the expense of the written one, with the media slavering like dogs for ever more expansive and insane versions of it.
January 3, 2026 at 3:03 PM
The political story of my lifetime - pre-existing Trump - has been watching 'the President makes war' become increasingly codified as part of America's unwritten constitution to the expense of the written one, with the media slavering like dogs for ever more expansive and insane versions of it.