Dan Waterfield
@danwaterfield.bsky.social
SWE / PhD 18c History / Social Democrat / gam zu l'tovah. ✡️ 🇬🇧 in 🇳🇿.
this is bloody incredible writing.
They called them Near Abroad Direct Action Operations, NADA Ops. The "joke" in the CalSec cafeterias, which made its way out later in the hearings was that "What does the operator say when asked if there are civilians in the area? Nada...oops!". Even decades later, Arizona didn't find it funny.
November 23, 2025 at 12:41 AM
this is bloody incredible writing.
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the Beaton Brontes never leave me
November 22, 2025 at 10:27 PM
the Beaton Brontes never leave me
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Elon Musk is Stevenage
November 20, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Elon Musk is Stevenage
tfw important cat business.
November 21, 2025 at 9:53 PM
tfw important cat business.
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had plans for the evening but guess I'm just going to sit here and repost every single thing I see about the fucking insane Trump/Mamdani meeting
November 21, 2025 at 9:19 PM
had plans for the evening but guess I'm just going to sit here and repost every single thing I see about the fucking insane Trump/Mamdani meeting
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they said my Shahada was the best they'd ever seen, they were so impressed. they couldn't believe it. the means of production, we're going to be looking into it, looking into very strongly.
November 21, 2025 at 8:50 PM
they said my Shahada was the best they'd ever seen, they were so impressed. they couldn't believe it. the means of production, we're going to be looking into it, looking into very strongly.
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Honestly, what an idiot.
November 21, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Honestly, what an idiot.
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Trump in a room with a very charismatic person results in like half a day of Trump agreeing with everything that person said, so this has the potential to be very, very funny.
Trump says he’s meeting with “communist” Mamdani at the White House on Friday
November 20, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Trump in a room with a very charismatic person results in like half a day of Trump agreeing with everything that person said, so this has the potential to be very, very funny.
Feels more like a study.
November 21, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Feels more like a study.
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“Are the fae open source?” is such a terrifying question in so many ways.
Turning into my father one "the problem is no one reads enough books these days" grumble at a time
November 20, 2025 at 9:26 AM
“Are the fae open source?” is such a terrifying question in so many ways.
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I remember when there was a discussion on Twitter about Shein's manufacturing practices and some apologists invented all sorts of fantastical machinery and technology to avoid facing the more horrifying truth. Reminds me of this comedian's joke.
IG bscomedian
IG bscomedian
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I remember when there was a discussion on Twitter about Shein's manufacturing practices and some apologists invented all sorts of fantastical machinery and technology to avoid facing the more horrifying truth. Reminds me of this comedian's joke.
IG bscomedian
IG bscomedian
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
TurboTax is about to be integrated into ChatGPT, where customers will be guided through tasks tied to their tax filings or financial profile by the AI chatbot.
TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
November 19, 2025 at 4:46 AM
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
YOU INVITED YARVIN TO GIVE THE OAKSHOTTE LECTURES?!
See also Curtis Yarvin's remarks in a recent Oxford lecture:
"Say what you want about MBS, he's quite an effective king I think in a lot of different ways. Um love the Ritz thing, the whole Saudi embassy thing, I don't know, but I mean he was a journalist". [Giggles]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXYl...
"Say what you want about MBS, he's quite an effective king I think in a lot of different ways. Um love the Ritz thing, the whole Saudi embassy thing, I don't know, but I mean he was a journalist". [Giggles]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXYl...
November 18, 2025 at 11:44 PM
YOU INVITED YARVIN TO GIVE THE OAKSHOTTE LECTURES?!
Looking forward to this, my first conference in over five years! Well worth the drive down from Auckland.
I find conference organising super stressful, but it is a chance to imagine the field in ways that interest you.
I'm very proud of the programme we have for our joint Romantic Studies Association of Australasia / David Nichol Smith seminar - you can see it here www.wgtn.ac.nz/fhss/about/e...
I'm very proud of the programme we have for our joint Romantic Studies Association of Australasia / David Nichol Smith seminar - you can see it here www.wgtn.ac.nz/fhss/about/e...
November 18, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Looking forward to this, my first conference in over five years! Well worth the drive down from Auckland.
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I love Aristotle, because his political opinion boils down to "All things considered, democracy is the best available form of government, except for the very specific king that it is a pure coincidence I used to work for."
November 18, 2025 at 4:37 AM
I love Aristotle, because his political opinion boils down to "All things considered, democracy is the best available form of government, except for the very specific king that it is a pure coincidence I used to work for."
Well, yes. Having been beaten up a lot as a child / teenager it’s essentially ‘huh what’s going o… AAAA’. Or, in the case of being knocked out by a flying bottle, a lights out situation.
I think a lot of people grossly overestimate their own ability to respond to physical violence, especially when the other individual intends serious physical harm.
I was accosted and beaten as a younger man and I can tell you that by the time I understood what was happening the fight was over.
I was accosted and beaten as a younger man and I can tell you that by the time I understood what was happening the fight was over.
November 17, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Well, yes. Having been beaten up a lot as a child / teenager it’s essentially ‘huh what’s going o… AAAA’. Or, in the case of being knocked out by a flying bottle, a lights out situation.
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stop reading bad takes
read Kotsko's book instead
read Kotsko's book instead
November 17, 2025 at 9:07 PM
stop reading bad takes
read Kotsko's book instead
read Kotsko's book instead