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City-state enjoyer and enemy to all sentient life
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To extend this people are acting like the Duffer Brothers are completely retconning stuff that changes the whole series. No, they're giving off-the-cuff answers about stuff that was bracketed because it didn't need to be shown.
It's actually fine for events, sometimes even major events, to occur off-screen in order to make sure that the story gets told. The only way ASOIAF would ever get done is if GRRM skims, summarizes, or skips events that will be very important to at least some readers.
January 4, 2026 at 12:33 AM
To extend this people are acting like the Duffer Brothers are completely retconning stuff that changes the whole series. No, they're giving off-the-cuff answers about stuff that was bracketed because it didn't need to be shown.
Ok fine I will bite. The issue with this is that its not clear what the benefit here is other than the ability to return refugees, and there is a *massive* chance of this blowing up in their faces given they don't actually control the trial.
16 hours in, my guess this was all intended basically as a coup to put VP Delcy Rodriguez in power (likely without her knowledge but 🤷).
At least for democracy & human rights, that might be even worse than the "opening shots in a war" scenario.
All speculation, but let me explain:
At least for democracy & human rights, that might be even worse than the "opening shots in a war" scenario.
All speculation, but let me explain:
January 4, 2026 at 12:20 AM
Ok fine I will bite. The issue with this is that its not clear what the benefit here is other than the ability to return refugees, and there is a *massive* chance of this blowing up in their faces given they don't actually control the trial.
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OK, crash course in oil. Oil has two main gradings, viscosity (light or heavy) and sulfur (sweet or sour). A light (low viscosity) and sweet (low sulfur) oil is easier to process into gasoline and other products than a heavy and sour one, so the light & sweet oil commands a premium price.
I know several oil barons, I’ve had the oil and gas industry as clients in a past life: none of them want the Venezuelan oil, it’s dog shit quality and getting the PDVSA fields up to modern standards would take 20 years! It’s just trump being stuck in 1987
At this point the oil barons hardly even care (they can pivot to renewables too). It’s just gender and internal combustion brain
January 3, 2026 at 8:35 AM
OK, crash course in oil. Oil has two main gradings, viscosity (light or heavy) and sulfur (sweet or sour). A light (low viscosity) and sweet (low sulfur) oil is easier to process into gasoline and other products than a heavy and sour one, so the light & sweet oil commands a premium price.
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This whole movement feels like it’s going somewhere very, very bad.
January 3, 2026 at 9:33 PM
This whole movement feels like it’s going somewhere very, very bad.
Ok so prompted by @nathanwylabour.bsky.social I ended up going and looking at whether Patrick Deneen is au fait with Blue Labour stuff and the answer is yes he is and has been reading this for ages (this blog is from 2011) www.frontporchrepublic.com/2011/07/a-le...
A Left Turn Worth Considering - Front Porch Republic
If only such voices as that of Lord Maurice Glasman received a hearing in today’s Democratic Party. According to this remarkable article in the Guardian, Glasman has the ear of Labour’s leader Ed Mili...
www.frontporchrepublic.com
January 3, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Ok so prompted by @nathanwylabour.bsky.social I ended up going and looking at whether Patrick Deneen is au fait with Blue Labour stuff and the answer is yes he is and has been reading this for ages (this blog is from 2011) www.frontporchrepublic.com/2011/07/a-le...
I am going to need UK political elites to accept they are going to have to start doing Gaullist foreign policy Right Now
January 3, 2026 at 7:20 PM
I am going to need UK political elites to accept they are going to have to start doing Gaullist foreign policy Right Now
Finally we can do Sicario type operations in Latin America as shown in the movie Sicario: US Interventions In Latin America Are Bad
January 3, 2026 at 6:43 PM
Finally we can do Sicario type operations in Latin America as shown in the movie Sicario: US Interventions In Latin America Are Bad
Buddy I'm considering heroin at this rate
A very good luck to anyone attempting Dry January after the news today.
January 3, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Buddy I'm considering heroin at this rate
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Finally we can actually properly deploy this
January 3, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Finally we can actually properly deploy this
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The only line considered for this press conference was the one that went up Rubio's nose just before it
January 3, 2026 at 6:12 PM
The only line considered for this press conference was the one that went up Rubio's nose just before it
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I’m sure to Trump this looks like strength but to everyone else calculating their security options this morning it's more confirmation that US power is capricious and the only insurance policy is a nuclear one
January 3, 2026 at 1:14 PM
I’m sure to Trump this looks like strength but to everyone else calculating their security options this morning it's more confirmation that US power is capricious and the only insurance policy is a nuclear one
If I were Canada I would probably start doing nuclear testing round about now
January 3, 2026 at 1:20 PM
If I were Canada I would probably start doing nuclear testing round about now
Wasn't this allegedly in an early draft of the National Security Strategy as well
Trump isn’t predictable or consistent, but this particular action *would* be consistent with the emergence of a G2+1 order where Washington and Beijing, with Moscow as a junior partner, give each other free rein in their purported spheres of influence.
This will go down well in Moscow and Beijing. Goodbye, international order.
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
January 3, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Wasn't this allegedly in an early draft of the National Security Strategy as well
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It’s old-fashioned to defend mainstream journalism these days but some of the most reliable reporting from people actually on the ground will be the AP and Reuters the next 24 hours. Your Substack journalist writing takes will be using frontline reporting from them.
January 3, 2026 at 8:09 AM
It’s old-fashioned to defend mainstream journalism these days but some of the most reliable reporting from people actually on the ground will be the AP and Reuters the next 24 hours. Your Substack journalist writing takes will be using frontline reporting from them.
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grim posthumous scenario i had not previously considered: you post a picture of the missile headed straight for you, and are memorialized by a bunch of random assholes complaining about alt text
![A Bluesky user based in Venezuela posted 'I live near a military air base and five earth-shaking explosions were just heart.'
User @thenordic.bsky.social (a random asshole) replied 'was it too hard for you to to [sic] add a link?' along with a link to an AP piece. Quick, don't look, what do you think the odds are that this user responded gracefully to being told that OP was on the ground and reporting firsthand?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ycbmujtxprrwbkiw3x5qsyz4/bafkreieh2ddespqvcqdhpfy4g2higsw4lfiguzpaxs3rdessztcokmww6i@jpeg)
January 3, 2026 at 8:21 AM
grim posthumous scenario i had not previously considered: you post a picture of the missile headed straight for you, and are memorialized by a bunch of random assholes complaining about alt text
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But none of us are in heaven yet.
January 3, 2026 at 7:47 AM
But none of us are in heaven yet.
I will admit I'd not heard Bread and Roses before the inauguration but it did make me think that almost all British political songs are basically hymns or use the tunes of hymns
January 3, 2026 at 12:51 AM
I will admit I'd not heard Bread and Roses before the inauguration but it did make me think that almost all British political songs are basically hymns or use the tunes of hymns
Its always interesting how quickly the misogyny comes through
January 2, 2026 at 7:42 PM
Its always interesting how quickly the misogyny comes through
One of my lecturers (who was a medievalist) had a massive grudge against medieval scribes who he claimed had much worse handwriting than Early English scribes
Came across this on Instagram and was immediately annoyed - most people currently alive can’t read most historical documents for a myriad of reasons that far exceed handwriting. That’s why people who actually do read those documents (historians) learn palaeography!
January 2, 2026 at 5:29 PM
One of my lecturers (who was a medievalist) had a massive grudge against medieval scribes who he claimed had much worse handwriting than Early English scribes
This is also ass-backwards in my view, as the things he is mad about are politically difficult and administratively quite doable. The Treasury/DWP could probably put together the framework for cutting benefits in a couple of months even if implementation took time, but politically its not doable.
Just like the Tories, Labour's centrist hacks think themselves omniscient and infallible - they cannot fail, they can only be failed. So when they do fail, they blame everyone else.
We saw it with the Tories, and it's already started from the Starmerites with this idiotic dreck: archive.ph/rHoXA
We saw it with the Tories, and it's already started from the Starmerites with this idiotic dreck: archive.ph/rHoXA
January 2, 2026 at 1:16 PM
This is also ass-backwards in my view, as the things he is mad about are politically difficult and administratively quite doable. The Treasury/DWP could probably put together the framework for cutting benefits in a couple of months even if implementation took time, but politically its not doable.
Basically its just them wailing "why is stuff hard"
The Blob, the Groups and now The Stakeholder state
Alaa Abd el-Fattah has shown supremacy of the Stakeholder State
www.thetimes.com/article/3720...
Alaa Abd el-Fattah has shown supremacy of the Stakeholder State
www.thetimes.com/article/3720...
January 2, 2026 at 10:09 AM
Basically its just them wailing "why is stuff hard"
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It's New Year, so time to look back and forward. These are 10 things I think we need to recognise in 2026. It’s a response to what I think are profoundly damaging mistaken assumptions I’ve heard and read from practitioners, journalists, and analysts in 2025. Warning: very long🧵
January 1, 2026 at 4:55 PM
It's New Year, so time to look back and forward. These are 10 things I think we need to recognise in 2026. It’s a response to what I think are profoundly damaging mistaken assumptions I’ve heard and read from practitioners, journalists, and analysts in 2025. Warning: very long🧵