Joel
@snufkinlib.bsky.social
Cosmopolitan, liberal | Catholic | 🇪🇺🇺🇸🇮🇪🇬🇧🇦🇹🔶 | Mark 8:36 | he/him
The views I express here are mine alone and do not necessarily express the views of my employer
The views I express here are mine alone and do not necessarily express the views of my employer
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Joel
@snufkinlib.bsky.social
· Jun 9
Immigration is the central issue of our century and progressives must defend it or lose absolutely everything to fascism
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Cuomo was *supposed* to win and to set the stage for dozens of shitty editorials about how America had moved on.
January 2, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Cuomo was *supposed* to win and to set the stage for dozens of shitty editorials about how America had moved on.
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manufacturing non-consent, yeah
January 2, 2026 at 5:12 PM
manufacturing non-consent, yeah
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NEW BLOG POST! Today we're looking at Enver Pasha, the man who presided over the destruction of the Ottoman Empire, and his completely batshit insane postwar career.
Where in the World is Enver Pasha?
On August 2nd, 1996, a military transport plane from the Republic of Turkey landed in Tajikistan, carrying ten tons of humanitarian aid for the bitterly-impoverished post-Soviet Central Asian repub…
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January 2, 2026 at 4:20 PM
NEW BLOG POST! Today we're looking at Enver Pasha, the man who presided over the destruction of the Ottoman Empire, and his completely batshit insane postwar career.
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through Roehampton
January 2, 2026 at 4:31 PM
through Roehampton
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through an icy Richmond Park
January 2, 2026 at 4:27 PM
through an icy Richmond Park
If you were Napoleon III’s nephew in exile you’d probably reckon maybe I have a shot. Worked last time.
January 2, 2026 at 2:30 PM
If you were Napoleon III’s nephew in exile you’d probably reckon maybe I have a shot. Worked last time.
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Jazz will be replaced by Buzz
January 1, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Jazz will be replaced by Buzz
When they bring home Napoleon’s remains in 1840 there’s a guy, Lamartine, who warns them doing this will boost the cult of Napoleon and undermine the July Monarchy, and they all tell him to shut up.
Lamartine goes on to lose the 1848 election to one Louis Napoléon Bonaparte
Lamartine goes on to lose the 1848 election to one Louis Napoléon Bonaparte
January 2, 2026 at 1:54 PM
When they bring home Napoleon’s remains in 1840 there’s a guy, Lamartine, who warns them doing this will boost the cult of Napoleon and undermine the July Monarchy, and they all tell him to shut up.
Lamartine goes on to lose the 1848 election to one Louis Napoléon Bonaparte
Lamartine goes on to lose the 1848 election to one Louis Napoléon Bonaparte
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i would take my mayoral oath on the Dune box set. because of the implications
January 2, 2026 at 1:46 AM
i would take my mayoral oath on the Dune box set. because of the implications
I wonder what proportion of people’s last words of the year, globally, are “three two one” in the local language
January 2, 2026 at 1:37 PM
I wonder what proportion of people’s last words of the year, globally, are “three two one” in the local language
Blessed image
January 2, 2026 at 1:09 PM
Blessed image
Viscerally humiliating to read a powerful man painfully slowly describe a meme he’s thought of in print. Grow up.
What the fuck is he on about? When has the government got distracted by demands for colonial reparations?? How does a diplomatic meeting with a foreign leader count as a derailing distraction?
January 2, 2026 at 11:51 AM
Viscerally humiliating to read a powerful man painfully slowly describe a meme he’s thought of in print. Grow up.
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Studio Execs, sobbing: you can't just pitch Death of Stalin style black comedies nonstop! You don't even work here!
Me: Trial of Charles I, 1924 DNC, Russian Revolution, Polaris Expedition, Anglo-Zanzibar War, An Lushan, Diodochi, Bernadotte Biography, Death of Franco, Carnation Revolution...
Me: Trial of Charles I, 1924 DNC, Russian Revolution, Polaris Expedition, Anglo-Zanzibar War, An Lushan, Diodochi, Bernadotte Biography, Death of Franco, Carnation Revolution...
September 8, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Studio Execs, sobbing: you can't just pitch Death of Stalin style black comedies nonstop! You don't even work here!
Me: Trial of Charles I, 1924 DNC, Russian Revolution, Polaris Expedition, Anglo-Zanzibar War, An Lushan, Diodochi, Bernadotte Biography, Death of Franco, Carnation Revolution...
Me: Trial of Charles I, 1924 DNC, Russian Revolution, Polaris Expedition, Anglo-Zanzibar War, An Lushan, Diodochi, Bernadotte Biography, Death of Franco, Carnation Revolution...
Swearing in on Machiavelli’s The Prince. Concerned murmur from the crowds. Good.
January 2, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Swearing in on Machiavelli’s The Prince. Concerned murmur from the crowds. Good.
I’d go with a good Catholic Bible, but for a secular option probably On Liberty
Ok, everyone, what book is sacred enough to you to get sworn in on?
Strange takes on Mayor Zamdani swearing his oath on the Qu’ran. It has nothing to do with church & state. The point of the oath is for the person swearing in to do so upon some text that is sacred TO THEM. Some Presidents swore in w/o any book. John Quincy Adams was sworn on a law book. His choice.
January 2, 2026 at 1:13 AM
I’d go with a good Catholic Bible, but for a secular option probably On Liberty
BREAKING: Mayor Mamdani has abolished the value form and the city government of New York has subsequently withered away
January 2, 2026 at 12:44 AM
BREAKING: Mayor Mamdani has abolished the value form and the city government of New York has subsequently withered away
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“We are the Shenzhou-21 crew. We wish everyone a smooth journey illuminated by the stars in the year ahead. Happy New Year!”
January 1, 2026 at 11:25 PM
“We are the Shenzhou-21 crew. We wish everyone a smooth journey illuminated by the stars in the year ahead. Happy New Year!”
been thinking about this one often lately
Do you see how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws, and it hits or misses, and that's the end of it. When that rock is lifted, the earth is lighter; the hand that bears it heavier.
January 1, 2026 at 11:14 PM
been thinking about this one often lately
Perfect Zadok the Priest needle drop in Wild London
January 1, 2026 at 11:11 PM
Perfect Zadok the Priest needle drop in Wild London
Attenborough a bit too much into the slug mating this time
January 1, 2026 at 11:07 PM
Attenborough a bit too much into the slug mating this time
Cosmopolitanism is back
Mamdani: Where else can you hear the sound of the steel pan, savor the smell of sancocho, and pay $9 for coffee on the same block? Where else could a Muslim kid like me grow up eating bagels and lox every Sunday?
January 1, 2026 at 9:13 PM
Cosmopolitanism is back
*record scratch* Yep. That’s me.
January 1, 2026 at 9:07 PM
*record scratch* Yep. That’s me.
All of 2010s and 2020s Brooklyn leftism retroactively justified as effective
No matter where we go from here I cannot believe we, as DSA, in under 10 years of reconstitution, elected a guy to govern the most important city in the world that says in his inaugural speech: “I was elected as a democratic socialist and I will govern as a democratic socialist.”
January 1, 2026 at 8:39 PM
All of 2010s and 2020s Brooklyn leftism retroactively justified as effective