Testudo Aubrei
@ritterteufeltod.bsky.social
Queer Episcopalian thirty something. History, theology, trees, heavy metal.
Soc-Dem Left-Lib I guess, with a soft spot for anarchist thought
Soc-Dem Left-Lib I guess, with a soft spot for anarchist thought
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Name a more iconic warhammer duo?
November 11, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Name a more iconic warhammer duo?
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"...the sales tax exemption for data centers accounted for $2.73 billion of the tax savings..."
A multi-trillion-dollar industry doesn't need our tax dollars to incentivize it to do $#!+. That's money we need to fix roads and feed kids, not subsidize corporate greed.
richmond.com/news/state-r...
A multi-trillion-dollar industry doesn't need our tax dollars to incentivize it to do $#!+. That's money we need to fix roads and feed kids, not subsidize corporate greed.
richmond.com/news/state-r...
State spending outpaces inflation, watchdog agency finds
Increases in state spending increases outpaced inflation over the past decade and accelerated during the past four fiscal years, a report from a legislative watchdog agency said.
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November 11, 2025 at 11:56 AM
"...the sales tax exemption for data centers accounted for $2.73 billion of the tax savings..."
A multi-trillion-dollar industry doesn't need our tax dollars to incentivize it to do $#!+. That's money we need to fix roads and feed kids, not subsidize corporate greed.
richmond.com/news/state-r...
A multi-trillion-dollar industry doesn't need our tax dollars to incentivize it to do $#!+. That's money we need to fix roads and feed kids, not subsidize corporate greed.
richmond.com/news/state-r...
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So every part of this is dumb but the idea that the Iliad is about 'fighting for princesses' is such a vapid take on a work that tells you exactly what it is about in the first (and last) lines.
You can tell the poem isn't really about Bryseis because her return does not resolve the conflict.
You can tell the poem isn't really about Bryseis because her return does not resolve the conflict.
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 2:22 AM
So every part of this is dumb but the idea that the Iliad is about 'fighting for princesses' is such a vapid take on a work that tells you exactly what it is about in the first (and last) lines.
You can tell the poem isn't really about Bryseis because her return does not resolve the conflict.
You can tell the poem isn't really about Bryseis because her return does not resolve the conflict.
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With apologies, for today’s feast.
November 11, 2025 at 11:25 AM
With apologies, for today’s feast.
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Hello Donald this is your campaign manager speaking. I am advising you today to please keep saying this shit
Trump on Newsom: "He did something even worse than that. He's now taking a big section of Palisades or some area and he's gonna build low income income where they used to have luxury housing."
November 11, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Hello Donald this is your campaign manager speaking. I am advising you today to please keep saying this shit
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Could tonight be the night ✨
whenever a team's first score is a safety i just want a 4. just let me see one absolutely hideous 4 in my lifetime
November 11, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Could tonight be the night ✨
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
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My former combat medic husband is teaching the cub scouts a class on first aid tonight so apologies to any fifth graders who get traumatized if he slips back into "teaching tactical combat casualty care" mode.
November 11, 2025 at 1:11 AM
My former combat medic husband is teaching the cub scouts a class on first aid tonight so apologies to any fifth graders who get traumatized if he slips back into "teaching tactical combat casualty care" mode.
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I don’t have a whole lot of advice for people younger than me but the earlier in life you stop worrying about what other people will think and just wholeheartedly enjoy the stuff you like the happier you’ll be
One thing people kind of tell you, but not really, about middle age:
One day you'll be like "oh [thing] looks fun but people will think I'm a loser" about a thing
And then you'll say. Wait a second.
Fuck 'em
One day you'll be like "oh [thing] looks fun but people will think I'm a loser" about a thing
And then you'll say. Wait a second.
Fuck 'em
Darn Tough turned me on to Cute Socks and I've never looked back
November 11, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I don’t have a whole lot of advice for people younger than me but the earlier in life you stop worrying about what other people will think and just wholeheartedly enjoy the stuff you like the happier you’ll be
If you are Episcopalian you get a name from the Wolf Hall Name generator.
No more Braedynns. If you're Jewish, you get named for a dead relative, if you're Catholic you get named based on the nearest saints day and if you're Protestant you open a Bible to a random page and choose the first name on that page. Return to tradition
November 10, 2025 at 7:56 PM
If you are Episcopalian you get a name from the Wolf Hall Name generator.
I pieced an effect of this together myself a while ago - our education focuses on the origins of Protestantism but does little to explain how it became what it is other than ‘there were a couple of great awakenings’.
FWIW, I think my “crux” of the matter is that, writ large, “American Protestantism” is only tangentially related to the Protestant Reformation of Europe, and can be seen as different category of church and relation to God than the one of Luther or Calvin.
A lot of early American Christians had Biblical Jewish names, because they were off-shoots/descendants of Protestantism’s emphasis on reading the Bible for one’s self, and radical Protestant enthusiasm for ancient Israel was off the charts compared to the institutional churches
November 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I pieced an effect of this together myself a while ago - our education focuses on the origins of Protestantism but does little to explain how it became what it is other than ‘there were a couple of great awakenings’.
Apropos of what I said before, Chris Murphy is a Democrat, unlike Angus King.
In response to this claim that the "strategy didn't work."
The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.
And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.
And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
November 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Apropos of what I said before, Chris Murphy is a Democrat, unlike Angus King.
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worth reflecting also on tracinski's point about fighting--fighting as an information-gathering exercise--fighting as revealing who fights and who doesn't--and what tactics WORK and what don't
www.liberalcurrents.com/fight-on-eve...
www.liberalcurrents.com/fight-on-eve...
Fight On Everything
"This dictatorship has been asserted but not yet consolidated. We must therefore 'fight on everything,'" according to Rob Tracinski's "Dictator From Day One."
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:40 PM
worth reflecting also on tracinski's point about fighting--fighting as an information-gathering exercise--fighting as revealing who fights and who doesn't--and what tactics WORK and what don't
www.liberalcurrents.com/fight-on-eve...
www.liberalcurrents.com/fight-on-eve...
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in other words, compared to the first shutdown fight back in march--that little shitshow--the direction of travel is Good. now we need to support those who want to fight and primary those who don't.
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A Quick Take on Team Cave’s Big Win
I have what I suspect is a somewhat counterintuitive take on the...
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November 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
in other words, compared to the first shutdown fight back in march--that little shitshow--the direction of travel is Good. now we need to support those who want to fight and primary those who don't.
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-qui...
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-qui...
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like this is basically it, the melts melted under pressure
November 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
like this is basically it, the melts melted under pressure
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8 Senate Democrats sided with Trump and Republican fascists in throwing 15 million Americans off Medicaid and Obamacare:
Dick Durbin (IL), Maggie Hassan (NH), Tim Kaine (VA), Angus King (I-ME), Cortez Masto (NV), Jeanne Shaheen (NH), Jacky Rosen (NV), John Fetterman (PA).
Dick Durbin (IL), Maggie Hassan (NH), Tim Kaine (VA), Angus King (I-ME), Cortez Masto (NV), Jeanne Shaheen (NH), Jacky Rosen (NV), John Fetterman (PA).
November 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM
8 Senate Democrats sided with Trump and Republican fascists in throwing 15 million Americans off Medicaid and Obamacare:
Dick Durbin (IL), Maggie Hassan (NH), Tim Kaine (VA), Angus King (I-ME), Cortez Masto (NV), Jeanne Shaheen (NH), Jacky Rosen (NV), John Fetterman (PA).
Dick Durbin (IL), Maggie Hassan (NH), Tim Kaine (VA), Angus King (I-ME), Cortez Masto (NV), Jeanne Shaheen (NH), Jacky Rosen (NV), John Fetterman (PA).
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seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
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Sen Gary Peters is in his own way the biggest embarrassment of the lot. He’s been a leader of Team Cave and he’s retiring. So there’s no politics or risk aversion. He wants to cave as a matter of genuine principle.
November 10, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Sen Gary Peters is in his own way the biggest embarrassment of the lot. He’s been a leader of Team Cave and he’s retiring. So there’s no politics or risk aversion. He wants to cave as a matter of genuine principle.
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2. Chris Coons. This guy sucks! This guy has always sucked! Wanted to go home for valentine's day rather than call witnesses after J6. Delaware is incredibly safe and deserves better. Easy primary.
3. Dick Durbin. Retiring. Still want to primary him just out of general principle.
3. Dick Durbin. Retiring. Still want to primary him just out of general principle.
November 10, 2025 at 2:21 AM
2. Chris Coons. This guy sucks! This guy has always sucked! Wanted to go home for valentine's day rather than call witnesses after J6. Delaware is incredibly safe and deserves better. Easy primary.
3. Dick Durbin. Retiring. Still want to primary him just out of general principle.
3. Dick Durbin. Retiring. Still want to primary him just out of general principle.
The dark truth is that the institutional political parties have very little power after years of reforms, campaign finance chicanery etc.
It isn’t ’the Democrats’ who are caving since there is no one thing. It is particular politicians.
It isn’t ’the Democrats’ who are caving since there is no one thing. It is particular politicians.
As this vote moves to the House, I stand with Democratic leadership as they refuse to rubber stamp the full-scale Republican assault on Americans’ health care and I am proud of the majority of Senate Democrats who opposed this vote.
November 10, 2025 at 2:38 AM
The dark truth is that the institutional political parties have very little power after years of reforms, campaign finance chicanery etc.
It isn’t ’the Democrats’ who are caving since there is no one thing. It is particular politicians.
It isn’t ’the Democrats’ who are caving since there is no one thing. It is particular politicians.
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i also appreciate that nick hoult’s luthor is genuinely evil and *petty* in a way that really fits how the character has been written the last 30 years
November 9, 2025 at 2:05 AM
i also appreciate that nick hoult’s luthor is genuinely evil and *petty* in a way that really fits how the character has been written the last 30 years
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The way we talk about the economy as positioned the losses of workers as male losses, wrong and threatening because of the way they endanger male status. But women are workers, too, and they deserve dignity and decent wages.
November 9, 2025 at 7:57 PM
The way we talk about the economy as positioned the losses of workers as male losses, wrong and threatening because of the way they endanger male status. But women are workers, too, and they deserve dignity and decent wages.
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Money quote from Gov-Elect Spanberger (now please just do it).
November 9, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Money quote from Gov-Elect Spanberger (now please just do it).