Charlotte Thomas, MLS
@caribouwireless.bsky.social
She/Her at long last. Death before detransition.
The second season of Andor is rich with analogies for our present day. There are right-wingers seeing all this come out and realizing, far too late, that they're Syril Karn standing there looking stupid in Palmo Plaza
November 13, 2025 at 4:18 AM
The second season of Andor is rich with analogies for our present day. There are right-wingers seeing all this come out and realizing, far too late, that they're Syril Karn standing there looking stupid in Palmo Plaza
FDR used the New Deal to bake Jim Crow into urban and rural infrastructure; those redlining maps you see were New Deal projects, and rural electriification bypassing Black farms was too. We need to reinstate the five Military Districts and reestablish democratic governance in the former slave states
November 13, 2025 at 3:49 AM
FDR used the New Deal to bake Jim Crow into urban and rural infrastructure; those redlining maps you see were New Deal projects, and rural electriification bypassing Black farms was too. We need to reinstate the five Military Districts and reestablish democratic governance in the former slave states
That's one way of looking at it; clearly, I don't agree with it, nor do I think history agrees with it. One last one before I go, Huntsville, an old Alabama cotton city that during WW2 became a major ordnance site, switched to rockets, and by 1960 Wernher von Braun was building the Saturn V there
November 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
That's one way of looking at it; clearly, I don't agree with it, nor do I think history agrees with it. One last one before I go, Huntsville, an old Alabama cotton city that during WW2 became a major ordnance site, switched to rockets, and by 1960 Wernher von Braun was building the Saturn V there
orchestrated by the unholy alliance between segregationist preachers like Jerry Falwell, fascist tech early adopters like Paul Weyrich, extraction industry monsters like the Kochs and Nelson Hunt, manufacturing ghouls like Joseph Coors, evil strategists like Lewis Powell, and of couse this bastard
November 12, 2025 at 1:40 PM
orchestrated by the unholy alliance between segregationist preachers like Jerry Falwell, fascist tech early adopters like Paul Weyrich, extraction industry monsters like the Kochs and Nelson Hunt, manufacturing ghouls like Joseph Coors, evil strategists like Lewis Powell, and of couse this bastard
“If you don't want meritocracy, you hate Palantir. That is our competition.”
November 12, 2025 at 8:26 AM
“If you don't want meritocracy, you hate Palantir. That is our competition.”
Capitalist calibration of misery is a longstanding horror; how little food can we give a slave before productivity dips too low to make the margin, how many bullets do we need to manufacture in order to kill enough people to quell an insurgency, &c. However what, other than economics, explains this?
November 11, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Capitalist calibration of misery is a longstanding horror; how little food can we give a slave before productivity dips too low to make the margin, how many bullets do we need to manufacture in order to kill enough people to quell an insurgency, &c. However what, other than economics, explains this?
I most likely have been following politics longer than you've been alive so you likely don't remember Reagan campaigning on that phrase or know that Project 2025 is the latest book in a series the Heritage Foundation started for Reagan in 1979. You should learn more about the country you live in
November 11, 2025 at 1:16 AM
I most likely have been following politics longer than you've been alive so you likely don't remember Reagan campaigning on that phrase or know that Project 2025 is the latest book in a series the Heritage Foundation started for Reagan in 1979. You should learn more about the country you live in
Someone spent the time to graph homeownership over a longer time interval, which lest us see a bit more of the y-axis and what the larger trend in the homeownership rate was. Tells an interesting story
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November 9, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Someone spent the time to graph homeownership over a longer time interval, which lest us see a bit more of the y-axis and what the larger trend in the homeownership rate was. Tells an interesting story
dqydj.com/historical-h...
dqydj.com/historical-h...
Let's have a look at your graph, shall we? Homeownership was on a steady increase until Ronald Wilson Reagan Made America Great Again, when it started declining for some odd reason. It started rising again, only to go into significant decline starting in 2007 for reasons that remain a total mystery
November 9, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Let's have a look at your graph, shall we? Homeownership was on a steady increase until Ronald Wilson Reagan Made America Great Again, when it started declining for some odd reason. It started rising again, only to go into significant decline starting in 2007 for reasons that remain a total mystery
I like the concept of Anglofascism, but it not incorporating the Confederacy and the Lost Cause engendered by the Confederacy's flaming defeat misses a key basis of our current sundowning Leader's power and the nature of the Special Relationship over the last century-plus
November 8, 2025 at 4:10 AM
I like the concept of Anglofascism, but it not incorporating the Confederacy and the Lost Cause engendered by the Confederacy's flaming defeat misses a key basis of our current sundowning Leader's power and the nature of the Special Relationship over the last century-plus
We haven't had a legitimate government since the illegal ending of Reconstruction put Rutherford B. Hayes in the White House. 150 years of this shit is more than enough
November 7, 2025 at 10:31 PM
We haven't had a legitimate government since the illegal ending of Reconstruction put Rutherford B. Hayes in the White House. 150 years of this shit is more than enough
Was just having a friendly chat on here about my warm, happy memories of the 70s
November 6, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Was just having a friendly chat on here about my warm, happy memories of the 70s
"Would you believe a sternly worded appeal to bipartisanship"
November 4, 2025 at 3:38 AM
"Would you believe a sternly worded appeal to bipartisanship"
These are people who orchestrated a genocide and whose gradual abolition of Northern slavery was so slow that New Jersey still had slaves in 1865. They were not moral people. They did not lose their consciences under Jim Crow. Those were already lacking before the War
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November 3, 2025 at 10:41 AM
These are people who orchestrated a genocide and whose gradual abolition of Northern slavery was so slow that New Jersey still had slaves in 1865. They were not moral people. They did not lose their consciences under Jim Crow. Those were already lacking before the War
Stellan Skarsgård understood the assignment here. English is a tool we are condemned to use
November 1, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Stellan Skarsgård understood the assignment here. English is a tool we are condemned to use
I've been burned too many times, but this right here
November 1, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I've been burned too many times, but this right here
At the risk of doing the Bluesky thing of completely missing the joke, a model of being transgender that does not include gender euphoria is flawed. Stolen moments of euphoria kept me alive while dysphoria was slowly killing me, alive long enough to transition. Euphorialess transmedicalism very bad
November 1, 2025 at 4:22 AM
At the risk of doing the Bluesky thing of completely missing the joke, a model of being transgender that does not include gender euphoria is flawed. Stolen moments of euphoria kept me alive while dysphoria was slowly killing me, alive long enough to transition. Euphorialess transmedicalism very bad
USAID was formed in 1961; the Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV) was established the next year, to increase support to the South Vietnamese army we stood up in 1955. Given that MACV and its CIA friends went on to kill several million people I doubt they were greater humanitarians back then
October 27, 2025 at 7:47 AM
USAID was formed in 1961; the Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV) was established the next year, to increase support to the South Vietnamese army we stood up in 1955. Given that MACV and its CIA friends went on to kill several million people I doubt they were greater humanitarians back then
Capitalism reproduces mechanisms of control and influence to keep the bourgeoisie inside the tent pissing out, to paraphrase LBJ. Capitalism produces tons of propaganda to make you think that's just human nature, but capitalism says lots of shit you'd be advised to doubt
October 27, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Capitalism reproduces mechanisms of control and influence to keep the bourgeoisie inside the tent pissing out, to paraphrase LBJ. Capitalism produces tons of propaganda to make you think that's just human nature, but capitalism says lots of shit you'd be advised to doubt
Birthright citizenship is in the 14th Amendment because four million Black people were legally considered property in 1861 despite having been born here. Being born into chattel slavery died as Richmond burned. Ending birthright citizenship is to raise Lee's banner and watch history repeat
October 25, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Birthright citizenship is in the 14th Amendment because four million Black people were legally considered property in 1861 despite having been born here. Being born into chattel slavery died as Richmond burned. Ending birthright citizenship is to raise Lee's banner and watch history repeat
Yanking Paramount-Skydance-Warner-Brothers-Discovery-ACME's chain, as one does
October 25, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Yanking Paramount-Skydance-Warner-Brothers-Discovery-ACME's chain, as one does
“Guerrilla warfare takes heart, it takes nerve. And he doesn't have that”
October 25, 2025 at 7:13 AM
“Guerrilla warfare takes heart, it takes nerve. And he doesn't have that”
The DDR was performing vaginoplasties for free when this pucture was taken. As to that anti-racist propaganda, do you think Earl Warren pushed a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board because he suddenly found Jesus? Or might it have been something else?
October 25, 2025 at 6:52 AM
The DDR was performing vaginoplasties for free when this pucture was taken. As to that anti-racist propaganda, do you think Earl Warren pushed a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board because he suddenly found Jesus? Or might it have been something else?
Communism is internationalist work, and dialectic is a dynamic, ongoing process. The Paris Commune was defeated in months. Reconstruction was illegally ended in 1877. And yet, when the US bought the broke-ass British Empire, the USSR was showing the newly independent nations America's Klan hoods
October 25, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Communism is internationalist work, and dialectic is a dynamic, ongoing process. The Paris Commune was defeated in months. Reconstruction was illegally ended in 1877. And yet, when the US bought the broke-ass British Empire, the USSR was showing the newly independent nations America's Klan hoods