Valastrius
@valastrius.bsky.social
BRD specializing in ska and cackles, most often in the direction of Crumbling Muscovy.
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Valastrius
@valastrius.bsky.social
· Nov 8
The First was Life, the Quickening of Matter
The Second Was Mind, the Awakening of Flesh
The Third was Glyph, the Embodying of Thought
The Fourth was Light, Weaving These into Sand
The Second Was Mind, the Awakening of Flesh
The Third was Glyph, the Embodying of Thought
The Fourth was Light, Weaving These into Sand
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Not just the rich and that's also something to sit with.
COVID really opened my eyes.
We had two paths ahead of us, and as soon as we took a single step towards THINKING about an equitable world, the rich put their full force into stopping it.
They loath humanity.
We had two paths ahead of us, and as soon as we took a single step towards THINKING about an equitable world, the rich put their full force into stopping it.
They loath humanity.
December 29, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Not just the rich and that's also something to sit with.
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Remember when we told them to do air-land battle without the air component and when asked "what do we do about the ungodly number of minefields observed by drone corrected artillery?" we just told them "just go around lmao"
I actually sort of worry that a lack of American military presence even purely as observers not only means we’re not learning the right lessons but not even learning lessons at all
Ukrainians are Woke, you see.
The US Army Field Artillery can’t learn from them.
The US Army Field Artillery can’t learn from them.
December 29, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Remember when we told them to do air-land battle without the air component and when asked "what do we do about the ungodly number of minefields observed by drone corrected artillery?" we just told them "just go around lmao"
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"Uncommitted":
December 29, 2025 at 8:25 PM
"Uncommitted":
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Happy feast of Ss. David and Jonathan, AKA Pray the Gay To Stay Day
December 29, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Happy feast of Ss. David and Jonathan, AKA Pray the Gay To Stay Day
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I simply cannot take popularism remotely seriously when nobody involved even tries to answer the question "what happened to keir starmer"
at best they point to a few policies they don't like, but "move right on social issues and immigration" is his main platform and look what fucking happened!
at best they point to a few policies they don't like, but "move right on social issues and immigration" is his main platform and look what fucking happened!
Keir Starmer was the model for centrists and popularists who insisted that moving right on issues, especially immigration, is how you win at politics.
Wonder if there will ever be any self-reflection here! Ah well nevertheless
Wonder if there will ever be any self-reflection here! Ah well nevertheless
December 29, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I simply cannot take popularism remotely seriously when nobody involved even tries to answer the question "what happened to keir starmer"
at best they point to a few policies they don't like, but "move right on social issues and immigration" is his main platform and look what fucking happened!
at best they point to a few policies they don't like, but "move right on social issues and immigration" is his main platform and look what fucking happened!
Evil is boring and sucks.
Every time I think 'this time, this time I will play a Dark Urge playthrough', and every time I get to the bard I go 'no, time to roll up another Tav instead'.
I don't know why i always end up playing the Paragon/good side in RPGs, even though I sometimes plan to do the darker/bad choices
it happens every time.
it happens every time.
December 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Evil is boring and sucks.
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raise my boomer neighbors property taxes above prop 13 margins or im turning my MacBook and PhD diploma into weapons
December 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
raise my boomer neighbors property taxes above prop 13 margins or im turning my MacBook and PhD diploma into weapons
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One of my more controversial opinions is that the US needs to significantly raise taxes to the tune of a couple % of GDP right now, even before any expansive social democratic reforms, and that means you—yes you, dear highly educated professional—will need to pay up, not just nebulous billionaires.
December 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
One of my more controversial opinions is that the US needs to significantly raise taxes to the tune of a couple % of GDP right now, even before any expansive social democratic reforms, and that means you—yes you, dear highly educated professional—will need to pay up, not just nebulous billionaires.
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Fabled main character
December 29, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Fabled main character
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I mean, the entire Manhattan project was underpinned by immigrant researchers, and the reason why America got the nukes and Germany didn't is because the Nazis adopted the exact vile, boneheaded blood-and-soil bullshit that Miller is spouting and drove out all their smartest guys.
Immigrant-hating Stephen Miller talks about Americans being "first to harness the atom." But the first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was conducted by a team led by Italian immigrant Enrico Fermi, who didn't become a U.S. citizen until a year and a half later.
December 29, 2025 at 3:41 AM
I mean, the entire Manhattan project was underpinned by immigrant researchers, and the reason why America got the nukes and Germany didn't is because the Nazis adopted the exact vile, boneheaded blood-and-soil bullshit that Miller is spouting and drove out all their smartest guys.
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Important and powerfully written piece.
Some excerpts:
"...once a state grants itself the power to unmake a citizen, the line can always be moved."
"Sweden, now with a population of 10 million, has the world’s highest proportion of dollar billionaires per capita."
Some excerpts:
"...once a state grants itself the power to unmake a citizen, the line can always be moved."
"Sweden, now with a population of 10 million, has the world’s highest proportion of dollar billionaires per capita."
December 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Important and powerfully written piece.
Some excerpts:
"...once a state grants itself the power to unmake a citizen, the line can always be moved."
"Sweden, now with a population of 10 million, has the world’s highest proportion of dollar billionaires per capita."
Some excerpts:
"...once a state grants itself the power to unmake a citizen, the line can always be moved."
"Sweden, now with a population of 10 million, has the world’s highest proportion of dollar billionaires per capita."
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Nobody:
The guys who wrote Enoch and Jubilees: WE FUCKING HATE THE MOON FUCKING DIE YOU SHAPESHIFTING LITTLE BITCH WE GOTTA BLOW UP THE MOON WE GOTTA BLOW UP THE MOON BLOW UP THE MOON BLOW UP THE MOON BLOW UP THE MOON BLOW UP THE MOON BLOW UP THE MOON BLOW UP THE MOON BLOW UP THE MOON BLOW UP THE M
The guys who wrote Enoch and Jubilees: WE FUCKING HATE THE MOON FUCKING DIE YOU SHAPESHIFTING LITTLE BITCH WE GOTTA BLOW UP THE MOON WE GOTTA BLOW UP THE MOON BLOW UP THE MOON BLOW UP THE MOON BLOW UP THE MOON BLOW UP THE MOON BLOW UP THE MOON BLOW UP THE MOON BLOW UP THE MOON BLOW UP THE M
December 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Nobody:
The guys who wrote Enoch and Jubilees: WE FUCKING HATE THE MOON FUCKING DIE YOU SHAPESHIFTING LITTLE BITCH WE GOTTA BLOW UP THE MOON WE GOTTA BLOW UP THE MOON BLOW UP THE MOON BLOW UP THE MOON BLOW UP THE MOON BLOW UP THE MOON BLOW UP THE MOON BLOW UP THE MOON BLOW UP THE MOON BLOW UP THE M
The guys who wrote Enoch and Jubilees: WE FUCKING HATE THE MOON FUCKING DIE YOU SHAPESHIFTING LITTLE BITCH WE GOTTA BLOW UP THE MOON WE GOTTA BLOW UP THE MOON BLOW UP THE MOON BLOW UP THE MOON BLOW UP THE MOON BLOW UP THE MOON BLOW UP THE MOON BLOW UP THE MOON BLOW UP THE MOON BLOW UP THE M
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seeing a lot of people wonder why NYT is giving this overt antisemite such a glowing profile but they’re all forgetting their shared interest in ruining the lives of trans people
Sorry but you do not, under absolutely any circumstances, gotta hand it to Marjorie Taylor Greene www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/m...
‘I Was Just So Naïve’: Inside Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Break With Trump
www.nytimes.com
December 29, 2025 at 2:47 PM
seeing a lot of people wonder why NYT is giving this overt antisemite such a glowing profile but they’re all forgetting their shared interest in ruining the lives of trans people
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God willing we end up in a place in ~10 years where someone can make an absolutely insufferable death of stalin movie about trump
December 29, 2025 at 3:29 PM
God willing we end up in a place in ~10 years where someone can make an absolutely insufferable death of stalin movie about trump
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“They can’t deport the nice couple that owns the Mexican restaurant or persecute my gay cousin who isn’t one of the *weird* ones or shoot at my little brother who only joined the Marines for the college money.”
Buddy, not only can they, they literally can’t not if they commit to the bit.
Buddy, not only can they, they literally can’t not if they commit to the bit.
December 29, 2025 at 3:06 PM
“They can’t deport the nice couple that owns the Mexican restaurant or persecute my gay cousin who isn’t one of the *weird* ones or shoot at my little brother who only joined the Marines for the college money.”
Buddy, not only can they, they literally can’t not if they commit to the bit.
Buddy, not only can they, they literally can’t not if they commit to the bit.
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By way of context the annual USAID budget was $23 billion.
US TO PLEDGE $2 BILLION IN LIFE-SAVING SUPPORT TO PEOPLE FACING HUNGER AND DISEASE IN DOZENS OF COUNTRIES IN 2026 -US STATE DEPARTMENT STATEMENT
December 29, 2025 at 3:12 PM
By way of context the annual USAID budget was $23 billion.
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Tear it all down. I want the historical record to be full of scenes like the newsreel footage of the allies dynamiting swastikas in the aftermath of WWII.
December 29, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Tear it all down. I want the historical record to be full of scenes like the newsreel footage of the allies dynamiting swastikas in the aftermath of WWII.
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my name is joe americaman, I live amidst a row of detached houses at country club boulevard and veterans parkway
This is a radio station out of Fort Meyers, a part of the country that looks like this and is going to be underwater before basically anywhere else. This feels like a death drive thing to me.
December 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
my name is joe americaman, I live amidst a row of detached houses at country club boulevard and veterans parkway
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Cute, small, but the strongest :3
December 29, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Cute, small, but the strongest :3
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telling those voters "actually, your choice to vote Trump, third party, or sit out was fine, you SHOULD do that whenever you don't have a dem candidate you're enthusiastic for" has OBVIOUS negative consequences and pretending you don't understand that is absurd
“Boo bad voter!!” accomplishes what exactly? It makes those of us who know feel smug but what practical purpose does it accomplish? It gives the people who had Harris campaigning with Cheney and wasting millions on ads on the sphere an out. It lets them say “we did our best but the voters…”
"instead of"
Learn to be able to blame multiple people at once.
Voters making bad choices doesn't mean campaigns are blameless. Campaigns making bad choices doesn't mean voters are blameless. Letting your anger at dems lead you to "voters are blameless" is counterproductive idiocy
Learn to be able to blame multiple people at once.
Voters making bad choices doesn't mean campaigns are blameless. Campaigns making bad choices doesn't mean voters are blameless. Letting your anger at dems lead you to "voters are blameless" is counterproductive idiocy
December 29, 2025 at 12:55 PM
telling those voters "actually, your choice to vote Trump, third party, or sit out was fine, you SHOULD do that whenever you don't have a dem candidate you're enthusiastic for" has OBVIOUS negative consequences and pretending you don't understand that is absurd
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But it's hard to address that question without openly acknowledging that the President has taken leave of his senses, and the only real task is somehow grappling with that and minimizing the damage (or, alternatively, exploiting it for advantage).
December 27, 2025 at 3:44 PM
But it's hard to address that question without openly acknowledging that the President has taken leave of his senses, and the only real task is somehow grappling with that and minimizing the damage (or, alternatively, exploiting it for advantage).
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All in all, I hope the lesson these guys learn isn’t “Both parties are the same and all politicians are liars” but “I fell for an obvious liar and should reflect on why this particular liar seemed so believable to me”
December 29, 2025 at 12:55 PM
All in all, I hope the lesson these guys learn isn’t “Both parties are the same and all politicians are liars” but “I fell for an obvious liar and should reflect on why this particular liar seemed so believable to me”
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youngkin ending his term as virginia’s worst governor of the 21st century thus far, with a political career that has gone down the toilet
Politico Gives Youngkin “The Milk Carton Award for Missing Politicians”; Says His “star faded as he hemmed and hawed about running for president last year” – and Badly Lost the 2025 Elections bluevirginia.us/2025/12/poli...
Politico Gives Youngkin “The Milk Carton Award for Missing Politicians”; Says His “star faded as he hemmed and hawed about running for president last year” – and Badly Lost the 2025 Elections
I included this Politico story ("The 2028 Race Has Begun. Here’s Who’s Winning.") in the morning news clips today, but I liked the part about Youngkin winning "The Milk Carton Award for Missing Politi...
bluevirginia.us
December 29, 2025 at 12:45 PM
youngkin ending his term as virginia’s worst governor of the 21st century thus far, with a political career that has gone down the toilet
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and once again shoutout to the beltway political press that turned a blind eye to his race-baiting campaign and treated him like the coming of christ
December 29, 2025 at 12:54 PM
and once again shoutout to the beltway political press that turned a blind eye to his race-baiting campaign and treated him like the coming of christ
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Watching so many defense-related blogs and channels trying to somehow explain Trump's "golden fleet" and fixation on "battleships" like it's somehow tied to a real strategy and not a man-baby's fantasy.
December 27, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Watching so many defense-related blogs and channels trying to somehow explain Trump's "golden fleet" and fixation on "battleships" like it's somehow tied to a real strategy and not a man-baby's fantasy.