Clockworksteve
@clockworksteve.bsky.social
Nazi punks fuck off.
Photographer, Physicist.
Minneapolis, MN
Photographer, Physicist.
Minneapolis, MN
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Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
November 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
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This is an incredibly powerful piece, impeccably researched, and everyone should take the time to read it. It clarifies a lot of things I’ve instinctually felt but haven’t quite had the words to describe.
We have a “poverty trap” and it’s driving the destruction of social cohesion.
The “poverty line” is’t 35,000, it’s $150,000, and making more than one, and less than the other is worse than being “poor”.
Which is why the rage.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
The “poverty line” is’t 35,000, it’s $150,000, and making more than one, and less than the other is worse than being “poor”.
Which is why the rage.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM
This is an incredibly powerful piece, impeccably researched, and everyone should take the time to read it. It clarifies a lot of things I’ve instinctually felt but haven’t quite had the words to describe.
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There’s a moment in the classic film “Paths of Glory” in which an artillery officer, told to commit a war crime, asks for the order in writing.
That is happening right now, in real life, among US troops in the Carribbean.
Except in the movie, the demand kept the crime from happening.
That is happening right now, in real life, among US troops in the Carribbean.
Except in the movie, the demand kept the crime from happening.
Gift link: wapo.st/43FXQfO
detailed WashPost account of how Trump and Stephen Miller sidelined serious lawyers so they could fabricate a justification for committing murder
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
There’s a moment in the classic film “Paths of Glory” in which an artillery officer, told to commit a war crime, asks for the order in writing.
That is happening right now, in real life, among US troops in the Carribbean.
Except in the movie, the demand kept the crime from happening.
That is happening right now, in real life, among US troops in the Carribbean.
Except in the movie, the demand kept the crime from happening.
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shout-out to every single person you knew in high school who thought that naming it the department of homeland security was a gross fascist overture, and would ultimately come back to haunt us.
We have to dismantle the whole thing & jail everyone responsible.
x.com/DHSgov/statu...
We have to dismantle the whole thing & jail everyone responsible.
x.com/DHSgov/statu...
November 20, 2025 at 6:10 PM
shout-out to every single person you knew in high school who thought that naming it the department of homeland security was a gross fascist overture, and would ultimately come back to haunt us.
We have to dismantle the whole thing & jail everyone responsible.
x.com/DHSgov/statu...
We have to dismantle the whole thing & jail everyone responsible.
x.com/DHSgov/statu...
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I’m still thinking about “quiet, piggy.” No president should be able to speak to a member of the press that way and remain president. That moment encapsulates how vile, misogynistic, and horrible that man is.
November 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I’m still thinking about “quiet, piggy.” No president should be able to speak to a member of the press that way and remain president. That moment encapsulates how vile, misogynistic, and horrible that man is.
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DID YOU KNOW that podcasts don't expire??? That you can listen to them anytime??? We just learned this. It's neat.
So, listen to "American Medieval" NOW - 1st 2 episodes feature @goingmedieval.bsky.social & @greenleejw.bsky.social
Braveheart and eels! Yes that's right!
So, listen to "American Medieval" NOW - 1st 2 episodes feature @goingmedieval.bsky.social & @greenleejw.bsky.social
Braveheart and eels! Yes that's right!
American Medieval | Patreon
If we've never been modern, we've always been medieval.
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November 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
DID YOU KNOW that podcasts don't expire??? That you can listen to them anytime??? We just learned this. It's neat.
So, listen to "American Medieval" NOW - 1st 2 episodes feature @goingmedieval.bsky.social & @greenleejw.bsky.social
Braveheart and eels! Yes that's right!
So, listen to "American Medieval" NOW - 1st 2 episodes feature @goingmedieval.bsky.social & @greenleejw.bsky.social
Braveheart and eels! Yes that's right!
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In an age where we have fewer and fewer collective cultural experiences that everyone is in on, it’s so special to come online and just scream, “omg omg omg” with strangers from across the country.
November 12, 2025 at 3:56 AM
In an age where we have fewer and fewer collective cultural experiences that everyone is in on, it’s so special to come online and just scream, “omg omg omg” with strangers from across the country.
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Trump is claiming credit for ending the government shutdown, boasting that he “broke the Democrats.”
November 11, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Trump is claiming credit for ending the government shutdown, boasting that he “broke the Democrats.”
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Tesla is great because it highlights the irrationality at the heart of consumerist capitalism: the most valuable vehicle brand in the world, whose CEO just got a trillion-dollar pay package, and nobody is buying their cars.
Tesla's latest gambit: become a rental car company. As cars pile up in showrooms and storage lots, Elon is trying to rent his way out of a crisis. Good luck, bud. #teslatakedown #MuskMustFall electrek.co/2025/11/10/t...
Tesla can’t sell its cars anymore so it is renting them now
Tesla is launching a new car rental program out of its stores in the US, as sales are crashing due...
electrek.co
November 10, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Tesla is great because it highlights the irrationality at the heart of consumerist capitalism: the most valuable vehicle brand in the world, whose CEO just got a trillion-dollar pay package, and nobody is buying their cars.
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Every single person in Little Village fighting ICE/BP this week, each one of those people had more courage than the entire party leadership put together. Every single person in the street resisting in LA, Portland, Chicago, they're ALL showing more backbone than useless top tiers of Dem apparatus
I keep seeing regular Americans taking more risks every day to fight tyranny, want, and cynicism than I see from the opposition party, and I imagine many of those regular Americans are asking themselves what the value proposition of such an opposition party is, really
November 10, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Every single person in Little Village fighting ICE/BP this week, each one of those people had more courage than the entire party leadership put together. Every single person in the street resisting in LA, Portland, Chicago, they're ALL showing more backbone than useless top tiers of Dem apparatus
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Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
November 10, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
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This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
November 10, 2025 at 12:43 PM
This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
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To be fair, it is one of the more mockable things that NTs find strange about us.
For years I mocked the psychiatrist for including "chronic sympathy for underdogs" in my psych eval when I was tested for ADHD at 17 after I went on rants about shit like the basic human right to housing
And only now did I realize she was alluding to Justice Sensitivity, an ADHD trait. Whoops.
And only now did I realize she was alluding to Justice Sensitivity, an ADHD trait. Whoops.
November 8, 2025 at 7:41 PM
To be fair, it is one of the more mockable things that NTs find strange about us.
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Forever Charlie Brown trying to kick a football.
SCHUMER is on the floor now making this offer to end the shutdown:
Clean CR
Bipartisan "minibus" of approps bills
1-year ACA funding extension
Bipartisan cmte to negotiate on health care
"This is a reasonable offer that reopens the government, deals with health care affordability."
Clean CR
Bipartisan "minibus" of approps bills
1-year ACA funding extension
Bipartisan cmte to negotiate on health care
"This is a reasonable offer that reopens the government, deals with health care affordability."
November 7, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Forever Charlie Brown trying to kick a football.
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Under new head of Paramount David Ellison, the studio has drawn up a list of actors who opposed the Gaza genocide and will not allow them to appear in its films and TV shows.
Does this sound familiar?
Also, "Ellison is reportedly aiming to take over Warner Bros. next."
Does this sound familiar?
Also, "Ellison is reportedly aiming to take over Warner Bros. next."
Paramount Has Blacklist for Stars Deemed “Overtly Antisemitic” — World of Reel
It sure looks like the likes of Javier Bardem, Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, and Mark Ruffalo won’t be making movies for Paramount in the foreseeable future.
www.worldofreel.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Under new head of Paramount David Ellison, the studio has drawn up a list of actors who opposed the Gaza genocide and will not allow them to appear in its films and TV shows.
Does this sound familiar?
Also, "Ellison is reportedly aiming to take over Warner Bros. next."
Does this sound familiar?
Also, "Ellison is reportedly aiming to take over Warner Bros. next."
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CNBC - US job cuts last month surged 183% from September and went up 175% from than the same month a year ago. This is now the worst year for layoffs since 2009. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/job-c...
Job cuts in October hit highest level for the month in 22 years, Challenger says
Job cuts for October totaled 153,074, a 183% surge from September.
www.cnbc.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
CNBC - US job cuts last month surged 183% from September and went up 175% from than the same month a year ago. This is now the worst year for layoffs since 2009. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/job-c...
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I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
November 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
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i’ve said this before but lemme say it again. it makes absolutely 0 sense to talk about “misuse” of llms because there is no clear use or purpose for llms to begin with. genAI is a purposeless tech floating around looking for uptake
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November 2, 2025 at 2:17 PM
i’ve said this before but lemme say it again. it makes absolutely 0 sense to talk about “misuse” of llms because there is no clear use or purpose for llms to begin with. genAI is a purposeless tech floating around looking for uptake
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The views of the average pro-Palestinian student broadly match what the academic literature says, what international courts say, what the relavant UN officials & orgs say and what the relevant NGOs say. It is views of Clinton and her peers in Western capitals which are largely divorced from reality.
What Hillary is saying here is a conspiracy theory and not even a tame, silly one, but a whopper. A more balefully consequential and widespread one than e.g. Trump complaining that the media lied about his crowds being big.
November 4, 2025 at 8:16 PM
The views of the average pro-Palestinian student broadly match what the academic literature says, what international courts say, what the relavant UN officials & orgs say and what the relevant NGOs say. It is views of Clinton and her peers in Western capitals which are largely divorced from reality.
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Poast an birb apnnouncing Dick Cheney is ded
November 4, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Poast an birb apnnouncing Dick Cheney is ded
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Well how about that, another Trump shithead that @amyklobuchar.com voted to confirm. Thanks for giving us the Road Rules bro, Amy! So bipartisan.
Transportation chief Sean Duffy threatened to ground all U.S. flights amid the ongoing shutdown, warning "we'll shut the whole airspace down."
Trump official threatens to ground all flights before Thanksgiving in shutdown standoff
Transportation chief Sean Duffy threatened to ground all U.S. flights amid the ongoing shutdown, warning "we'll shut the whole airspace down." As the stalemate drags into the second month, it's adding more potential risk to the aviation system and putting a further strain on air traffic control staf...
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November 3, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Well how about that, another Trump shithead that @amyklobuchar.com voted to confirm. Thanks for giving us the Road Rules bro, Amy! So bipartisan.
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Holy shit this is so good
November 3, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Holy shit this is so good
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For the weekend delight of lovely Patrons, I interviewed the wonderful @dannybate.bsky.social about the history of the alphabet, when it's cute to do nationalism about it and when it isn't, and whether or not the letter Q is a diva. Check it out from only £1 a month!
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Danny Bate on the alphabet, language, and what nationalism does to language | Dr Eleanor Janega
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October 31, 2025 at 5:30 PM
For the weekend delight of lovely Patrons, I interviewed the wonderful @dannybate.bsky.social about the history of the alphabet, when it's cute to do nationalism about it and when it isn't, and whether or not the letter Q is a diva. Check it out from only £1 a month!
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Happy Halloween!!
Come join my campaign Halloween bash in the back lot of 7016 N Clark Street!
We’ve got blood donation, bone marrow donor registration, candy, Chicago dogs, and ICE whistles! Come hang from 12-6!
Come join my campaign Halloween bash in the back lot of 7016 N Clark Street!
We’ve got blood donation, bone marrow donor registration, candy, Chicago dogs, and ICE whistles! Come hang from 12-6!
October 31, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Happy Halloween!!
Come join my campaign Halloween bash in the back lot of 7016 N Clark Street!
We’ve got blood donation, bone marrow donor registration, candy, Chicago dogs, and ICE whistles! Come hang from 12-6!
Come join my campaign Halloween bash in the back lot of 7016 N Clark Street!
We’ve got blood donation, bone marrow donor registration, candy, Chicago dogs, and ICE whistles! Come hang from 12-6!