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Boring pedant, reformed former liberal (as in "Tankie" more than not). Politics, economics, war, NFL, mostly. Of minor infamy on Elmo's site for as long as that lasts.
How the fuck did I not know about this band until recently. Why did my friends who inflicted stuff like Depeche Mode like 30 years ago not introduce me. This is beautiful. Signed, that rare Tankie on here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vcj...
Book Of Love - Boy (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by RHINO
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November 7, 2025 at 10:17 AM
How the fuck did I not know about this band until recently. Why did my friends who inflicted stuff like Depeche Mode like 30 years ago not introduce me. This is beautiful. Signed, that rare Tankie on here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vcj...
Feeling really shitty and demoralized but this always cheers me up. Generally a hater of 90s Brit Pop but the Libertines were interesting and good, and not just for the nostalgia for insanely drugged out punk bands when I was a kid. Beautiful song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Hum...
The Libertines - Don't Look Back into the Sun GLASTONBURY 2015
YouTube video by secret AGENT
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February 22, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Feeling really shitty and demoralized but this always cheers me up. Generally a hater of 90s Brit Pop but the Libertines were interesting and good, and not just for the nostalgia for insanely drugged out punk bands when I was a kid. Beautiful song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Hum...
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Evergreen reminder
February 19, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Evergreen reminder
Trump is shallow and dumb in some ways but not all. He has an intuitive grasp on how power operates, and greed too. Those are what the world rotates around after all, it's not significant. A thoroughly bad guy but not a dummy exactly, like W and Reagan were. unherd.com/2025/02/why-...
Donald Trump's economic masterplan
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February 14, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Trump is shallow and dumb in some ways but not all. He has an intuitive grasp on how power operates, and greed too. Those are what the world rotates around after all, it's not significant. A thoroughly bad guy but not a dummy exactly, like W and Reagan were. unherd.com/2025/02/why-...
Yep. With few exceptions (Schwarz, Welsh and Susan of Texas come to mind) that whole ecosystem was exposed as opportunistic frauds the second Blue Team won in 2008 and they figured they could make money licking Democratic boots, assuming they'd won that promised permanent majority.
I honestly think that the worst condemnation of "web 1.0" nostalgia is that the reactionary liberal blogosphere still exists. They should have killed themselves way more than the Something Awful guys.
Next few years youll see a cope narrative that the 00s internet was actually a kinder more accepting place than the one we have now. In fact expect a complete revision of the 2000s.
February 9, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Yep. With few exceptions (Schwarz, Welsh and Susan of Texas come to mind) that whole ecosystem was exposed as opportunistic frauds the second Blue Team won in 2008 and they figured they could make money licking Democratic boots, assuming they'd won that promised permanent majority.
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NEW: What exactly is the problem that socialists have with liberals, anyway? Is there any way we can reach some kind of compromise or understanding? All of your answers are within!
An Open Letter to Liberalism
https://www.carlbeijer.com/p/an-open-letter-to-liberalism
An Open Letter to Liberalism
https://www.carlbeijer.com/p/an-open-letter-to-liberalism
February 5, 2025 at 8:11 PM
NEW: What exactly is the problem that socialists have with liberals, anyway? Is there any way we can reach some kind of compromise or understanding? All of your answers are within!
An Open Letter to Liberalism
https://www.carlbeijer.com/p/an-open-letter-to-liberalism
An Open Letter to Liberalism
https://www.carlbeijer.com/p/an-open-letter-to-liberalism
Seeded Watermelon and the Tooth that Had To Get Pulled But Shattered Into 100 Pieces And Took the Oral Surgeon Almost Two Hours To Get All Of It Out.
January 9, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Seeded Watermelon and the Tooth that Had To Get Pulled But Shattered Into 100 Pieces And Took the Oral Surgeon Almost Two Hours To Get All Of It Out.
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Not that Google was ever good, but this cartoon is a good summary of now.
December 28, 2024 at 5:53 PM
Not that Google was ever good, but this cartoon is a good summary of now.
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Recall the Strategic Response Group (SRG) was originally sold as a specialized “counterterror” squad that could quickly respond to ISIS-style attacks and since its inception in 2015 has only been used to harass Black Lives Matter, anti-genocide protestors and striking workers.
Today the NYPD deployed the Strategic Response Group (SRG) to harass and arrest striking Amazon workers.
As Mayor, I will disband the SRG, which has cost taxpayers millions in lawsuit settlements and brutalized countless New Yorkers exercising their first amendment rights.
As Mayor, I will disband the SRG, which has cost taxpayers millions in lawsuit settlements and brutalized countless New Yorkers exercising their first amendment rights.
December 19, 2024 at 8:57 PM
Recall the Strategic Response Group (SRG) was originally sold as a specialized “counterterror” squad that could quickly respond to ISIS-style attacks and since its inception in 2015 has only been used to harass Black Lives Matter, anti-genocide protestors and striking workers.
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You’ll be surprised to learn this is an FBI manufactured “plot” with FBI informants pushing the 18 year old student along the entire time
A freshman at George Mason University in Virginia is accused of plotting an attack at the Israeli consulate general in New York. He faces a charge of distributing information relating to weapons of mass destruction, according to federal court documents.
Virginia Student Accused of Plot to Attack Israeli Consulate in New York
A freshman at George Mason University, who is a citizen of Egypt, was arrested on Tuesday after being accused of planning an attack.
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2024 at 7:46 PM
You’ll be surprised to learn this is an FBI manufactured “plot” with FBI informants pushing the 18 year old student along the entire time
Just saw this (thanks, algorithm!). They should be out inside a month but I'm sure any gesture of support, even just a postcard, would be welcomed.
December 20, 2024 at 7:19 AM
Just saw this (thanks, algorithm!). They should be out inside a month but I'm sure any gesture of support, even just a postcard, would be welcomed.
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Yep. anytime someone tries to sell you on their new “AI tool” replace this with “hey checkout my new labor misclassification arbitrage scam”
Anyone who has had so much as a passing engagement with AI will immediately see that this emperor is in his birthday suit. Can we please agree not to push higher education even further into bargain basement mode through a new, AI-fuelled race to the bottom? Students deserve better than that.
Super excited to publicly launch "All Day TA" (http://www.alldayta.com), a product @joshgans.bsky.social and I have been working on with our team over the last year. Short version: if you teach in spring, you will want to use this! It's the future of higher education. A short thread: 1/x
December 14, 2024 at 11:58 PM
Yep. anytime someone tries to sell you on their new “AI tool” replace this with “hey checkout my new labor misclassification arbitrage scam”
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The AI madness is so far out of control that "Our product wrote a completely false news alert and credited a real news source" doesn't even rate a corporate comment, let alone an ashamed apology and pulling the product www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC complains to Apple over misleading shooting headline
Apple's new artificial intelligence features falsely made it seem the BBC reported Luigi Mangione had shot himself.
www.bbc.com
December 13, 2024 at 11:41 PM
The AI madness is so far out of control that "Our product wrote a completely false news alert and credited a real news source" doesn't even rate a corporate comment, let alone an ashamed apology and pulling the product www.bbc.com/news/article...
Don't care if Destiny and Elon are autistic or have ADHD. I know a lot of people who are deep on those spectra (I think we all are, to some degree) who aren't psychopathic assholes. It's not a pass to devoting your life to being a toxic piece of shit.
December 16, 2024 at 9:06 AM
Don't care if Destiny and Elon are autistic or have ADHD. I know a lot of people who are deep on those spectra (I think we all are, to some degree) who aren't psychopathic assholes. It's not a pass to devoting your life to being a toxic piece of shit.
Don't care. There's a lot I don't like about Nolan and his body of work (hit or miss, for me) but I really liked this one when I finally got around to it. I'll take theme and good acting over scientific accuracy (sorry Neil deGrasse Tyson).
December 16, 2024 at 8:56 AM
Don't care. There's a lot I don't like about Nolan and his body of work (hit or miss, for me) but I really liked this one when I finally got around to it. I'll take theme and good acting over scientific accuracy (sorry Neil deGrasse Tyson).
Visually stunning, especially in 3D, but such a frustrating movie. There's a lot of hate for it but for me it was that there was a compelling meta-story there that Scott just failed to put to the screen. Oh well, we'll always have Alien and Thelma and Louise.
December 16, 2024 at 8:44 AM
Visually stunning, especially in 3D, but such a frustrating movie. There's a lot of hate for it but for me it was that there was a compelling meta-story there that Scott just failed to put to the screen. Oh well, we'll always have Alien and Thelma and Louise.
Still on the cursed bird site for now, trying to build a backup network here for when Elmo finally manages to destroy it for good. Met at least several dozen people on there who I genuinely like and care about I'd rather not lose touch with.
December 14, 2024 at 12:30 AM
Still on the cursed bird site for now, trying to build a backup network here for when Elmo finally manages to destroy it for good. Met at least several dozen people on there who I genuinely like and care about I'd rather not lose touch with.
You know what would be cool for once? A police procedural TV series with a more or less normal protagonist, instead of the tiresome by now "supercop with a convoluted and tragic backstory".
December 7, 2024 at 6:03 AM
You know what would be cool for once? A police procedural TV series with a more or less normal protagonist, instead of the tiresome by now "supercop with a convoluted and tragic backstory".
I (stereotypically, old white straight guy) dislike musical theater but I would be first in line to see a Broadway hip hop show about this guy's life. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstan...
Konstantin Rokossovsky - Wikipedia
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November 24, 2024 at 4:52 AM
I (stereotypically, old white straight guy) dislike musical theater but I would be first in line to see a Broadway hip hop show about this guy's life. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstan...
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Gonna be so much of this over the next four years and all the people and newspaper columnists going on about the bigotry on college campuses for protesting Gaza are going to be completely silent on all of it
November 15, 2024 at 2:09 AM
Gonna be so much of this over the next four years and all the people and newspaper columnists going on about the bigotry on college campuses for protesting Gaza are going to be completely silent on all of it
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This is basically how we got Milton Friedman, how we got Ronald Reagan, and how we got the up-by-your-own-bootstraps, winner-take-all, profits-over-people economy that's leaving so many Americans (and especially women and moms) still struggling today.
Let me explain... 🧵 1/
Let me explain... 🧵 1/
September 26, 2024 at 9:53 PM
This is basically how we got Milton Friedman, how we got Ronald Reagan, and how we got the up-by-your-own-bootstraps, winner-take-all, profits-over-people economy that's leaving so many Americans (and especially women and moms) still struggling today.
Let me explain... 🧵 1/
Let me explain... 🧵 1/
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Reminder that the ADL struck a deal with Musk allowing exactly this kind of speech in exchange for banning pro-Palestinian slogans
Twitter isn't hiding its Nazi affiliation.
It verifies it.
It verifies it.
September 1, 2024 at 7:42 PM
Reminder that the ADL struck a deal with Musk allowing exactly this kind of speech in exchange for banning pro-Palestinian slogans
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Respond to every single fundraising text and email with a link to this story.
July 14, 2024 at 11:47 PM
Respond to every single fundraising text and email with a link to this story.