@douglas-feltham.bsky.social
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You need to flip this on its head. If you advocate for violent resistance, or even carrying weapons, you are being selfish, placing your own desire for cathartic violence above the needs of your community. You are selling out the vast majority, who will become targets as a result of your actions.
A great thing to do if you’re an activist is throw other, braver activists under the bus and signal to the fascists that they’re fair game
What we’re doing is working. A few people - mostly angry young men who barely have ideological views, just a yearning to commit justified violence - seem almost upset that it’s working, because they wanted the chance to kill someone. The other 99.5% of us want to help our neighbors.
January 17, 2026 at 8:30 PM
You need to flip this on its head. If you advocate for violent resistance, or even carrying weapons, you are being selfish, placing your own desire for cathartic violence above the needs of your community. You are selling out the vast majority, who will become targets as a result of your actions.
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Bluesky posters will be like you “you think massive universal legal resistance with total support from the population works? that pales in comparison to my strategy, winning a shootout with an ICE army” and then not win a shootout with an ICE army
Oh my god theyre killing rosa luxemburg again lmao, your failure to engage in armed resistance is speedrunning you towards death camps
There’s no real debate. I have witnessed a very small number of ICE activists advocating for carrying firearms or even trying to agitate by physically striking ICE vehicles, etc. Let’s be clear: the incredibly vast majority of people resisting ICE correctly believe these people are fools.
January 18, 2026 at 2:32 AM
Bluesky posters will be like you “you think massive universal legal resistance with total support from the population works? that pales in comparison to my strategy, winning a shootout with an ICE army” and then not win a shootout with an ICE army
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(2019)
THE OLYMPICS: OK Italy, we're giving you 2026, can you pull it off?
ITALY: Yes, we just have to build one arena, very easy, the easiest of any Olympics
(2026)
THE OLYMPICS: OK we're here! how is that one arena looking?
ITALY: (sitting at a cafe, reading a newspaper) mi scusi????
THE OLYMPICS: OK Italy, we're giving you 2026, can you pull it off?
ITALY: Yes, we just have to build one arena, very easy, the easiest of any Olympics
(2026)
THE OLYMPICS: OK we're here! how is that one arena looking?
ITALY: (sitting at a cafe, reading a newspaper) mi scusi????
You say "all the venues" but this is basically the only new venue they needed to build. Everything else was existing or temporary.
The Italians couldn't build one (1) arena on time, when they had about 7 years to plan.
The Italians couldn't build one (1) arena on time, when they had about 7 years to plan.
if you're surprised to learn that the Winter Olympics are just a month away, don't worry, you're not alone, the people building all the venues in Italy also appear to be surprised the Olympics are just a month away
January 10, 2026 at 4:07 PM
(2019)
THE OLYMPICS: OK Italy, we're giving you 2026, can you pull it off?
ITALY: Yes, we just have to build one arena, very easy, the easiest of any Olympics
(2026)
THE OLYMPICS: OK we're here! how is that one arena looking?
ITALY: (sitting at a cafe, reading a newspaper) mi scusi????
THE OLYMPICS: OK Italy, we're giving you 2026, can you pull it off?
ITALY: Yes, we just have to build one arena, very easy, the easiest of any Olympics
(2026)
THE OLYMPICS: OK we're here! how is that one arena looking?
ITALY: (sitting at a cafe, reading a newspaper) mi scusi????
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The Seahawks getting a second half lead against a beatable opponent and...just continuing to play well? I'm not sure Mike McDonald understands the ethos of the organization
December 7, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The Seahawks getting a second half lead against a beatable opponent and...just continuing to play well? I'm not sure Mike McDonald understands the ethos of the organization
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"I am Spartacus" but for sex pests
December 7, 2025 at 10:55 PM
"I am Spartacus" but for sex pests
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anyway if you want to make a resource argument against AI you probably have a couple of years left to do it on electricity.
don’t make it on water and ideally don’t make it at all, there are plenty of other legitimate reasons to dislike AI that won’t vanish on you
don’t make it on water and ideally don’t make it at all, there are plenty of other legitimate reasons to dislike AI that won’t vanish on you
May 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM
anyway if you want to make a resource argument against AI you probably have a couple of years left to do it on electricity.
don’t make it on water and ideally don’t make it at all, there are plenty of other legitimate reasons to dislike AI that won’t vanish on you
don’t make it on water and ideally don’t make it at all, there are plenty of other legitimate reasons to dislike AI that won’t vanish on you
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I hope somebody had the sense to present tariffs as an unjustifiable violation of Native sovereignty to Gorsuch.
If I had to guess right now (and it is premature!) I'd say the Supreme Court is going to strike down Trump's tariffs.
All three liberals are clearly against the government. Barrett too. Roberts leaning that way. And we haven't even gotten to tax-hater Gorsuch yet.
All three liberals are clearly against the government. Barrett too. Roberts leaning that way. And we haven't even gotten to tax-hater Gorsuch yet.
November 5, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I hope somebody had the sense to present tariffs as an unjustifiable violation of Native sovereignty to Gorsuch.
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People on NextDoor frequently think that the reason cities keep recklessly adding speed bumps is because we've defunded the police. All time I see requests for more traffic enforcement.
Reality: Police and Fire take up 50% of most city budgets. In Redwood City, it is already 57%!
Reality: Police and Fire take up 50% of most city budgets. In Redwood City, it is already 57%!
September 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
People on NextDoor frequently think that the reason cities keep recklessly adding speed bumps is because we've defunded the police. All time I see requests for more traffic enforcement.
Reality: Police and Fire take up 50% of most city budgets. In Redwood City, it is already 57%!
Reality: Police and Fire take up 50% of most city budgets. In Redwood City, it is already 57%!
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One of the other great advantages of liberalism is that we're able to read graphs and so can notice that the share of humanity in extreme poverty has declined massively over the last 200 years.
September 18, 2025 at 3:10 PM
One of the other great advantages of liberalism is that we're able to read graphs and so can notice that the share of humanity in extreme poverty has declined massively over the last 200 years.
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I think I'd put "crazy thing Herotodus wrote being true" at maybe closer to 50/50, but that's still turned out to be *much* higher than we would have credited him pre-archaeology.
The value of archaeology (and sources in languages not Latin/Greek) to confirm/disconfirm our sources is significant!
The value of archaeology (and sources in languages not Latin/Greek) to confirm/disconfirm our sources is significant!
Herodotus rules because the history of the historiography of his work is like “oh that can’t possibly be true” and then we figure out that what he wrote was mostly in fact true.
It's reasonable to think every European/near Eastern source was repeating the same rumor. But there are also Chinese sources, and it's unlikely they got it from Herodotus.
The Medes and Sassanians, meanwhile, took the trouble to clarify inheritance laws for increasingly bizarre family trees.
The Medes and Sassanians, meanwhile, took the trouble to clarify inheritance laws for increasingly bizarre family trees.
September 15, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I think I'd put "crazy thing Herotodus wrote being true" at maybe closer to 50/50, but that's still turned out to be *much* higher than we would have credited him pre-archaeology.
The value of archaeology (and sources in languages not Latin/Greek) to confirm/disconfirm our sources is significant!
The value of archaeology (and sources in languages not Latin/Greek) to confirm/disconfirm our sources is significant!
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I get the sentiment, but, if you look at the studios being shuttered, it's mostly teams that were left to do what they wanted and wasted years without really progressing towards viable games. Microsoft has gone from micromanaging studios to being too hands off.
We should probably be clear eyed about the fact that Microsoft purchased a huge roster of some of the world's best game development studios only to turn around and use them all as kindling for its ill-begotten AI boondoggle
July 4, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I get the sentiment, but, if you look at the studios being shuttered, it's mostly teams that were left to do what they wanted and wasted years without really progressing towards viable games. Microsoft has gone from micromanaging studios to being too hands off.
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Agree but the relevance of yes minister still amazes me. Virtually all of the dilemmas are still resonant. The Middle East, Europe, transport, industrial policy, defence, “up north”, councils, arts funding, personal data, the literal physical space of No 10, it’s all there
May 18, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Agree but the relevance of yes minister still amazes me. Virtually all of the dilemmas are still resonant. The Middle East, Europe, transport, industrial policy, defence, “up north”, councils, arts funding, personal data, the literal physical space of No 10, it’s all there
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The prob with a lot of cult documentaries is that a lot of them have the message "anyone could join a cult" and it's always said by someone who has been in multiple cults.
There's a fascinating bit in The Vow where Mark Vicente admits he directed the quantum-mystic "documentary" What The Bleep Do We Know?! and then does exactly zero introspection into how his work primed himself and others to be exploited by people like Keith Raniere
May 18, 2025 at 3:01 AM
The prob with a lot of cult documentaries is that a lot of them have the message "anyone could join a cult" and it's always said by someone who has been in multiple cults.
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There is no reason for any Democrats to be justifying these Trump Tariffs.
59% of manufacturing workers believe tariffs will hurt their company!
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
April 11, 2025 at 7:32 PM
There is no reason for any Democrats to be justifying these Trump Tariffs.
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Sometimes it feels like Trump is doing a Brewster’s Millions type thing but for impeachment. He’s sitting on the White House toilet, posting yet again that he crashed the stock market on purpose, getting increasingly pissed that nothing works.
April 7, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Sometimes it feels like Trump is doing a Brewster’s Millions type thing but for impeachment. He’s sitting on the White House toilet, posting yet again that he crashed the stock market on purpose, getting increasingly pissed that nothing works.
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if the phrase "the asian markets" enters common parlance there is some country somewhere about to go through the most devastating recession ever
do you know how bad things have to get for me to care about Asian markets ugh
April 7, 2025 at 12:40 AM
if the phrase "the asian markets" enters common parlance there is some country somewhere about to go through the most devastating recession ever
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Hello! The US housing market has gotten very expensive, but I still dream of one day owning a home in a walkable neighborhood. In that spirit, I'm offering my consulting services. If you support the Trump tariffs, I can help you find US suppliers. Let me show you some examples. 🧵
April 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Hello! The US housing market has gotten very expensive, but I still dream of one day owning a home in a walkable neighborhood. In that spirit, I'm offering my consulting services. If you support the Trump tariffs, I can help you find US suppliers. Let me show you some examples. 🧵
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in 2008 w bush turned the g20 from a photo op into a real summit basically so the global economy wouldn't turn into the currency hunger games, which was a major factor in why the great recession didn't become an outright depression. now bigballs is asking chatgpt what the tariff rate should be
pondering how the specifically financial responses to 2008 and 2020 left a lot to be desired (especially 2008) but they did mostly keep that particular train on the tracks. wonder if the DOGE children are up to managing a galloping panic
April 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
in 2008 w bush turned the g20 from a photo op into a real summit basically so the global economy wouldn't turn into the currency hunger games, which was a major factor in why the great recession didn't become an outright depression. now bigballs is asking chatgpt what the tariff rate should be
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I'm never getting a new graphics card, they'll bury me with my 3080 like an Egyptian Pharaoh.
April 2, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I'm never getting a new graphics card, they'll bury me with my 3080 like an Egyptian Pharaoh.
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The administration's line is, "nonono, these weren't 'war plans' these were 'attack plans' and that is very different and how dare you mix that up."
Honestly, I think the American people work hard and deserve better liars than this.
Honestly, I think the American people work hard and deserve better liars than this.
March 26, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The administration's line is, "nonono, these weren't 'war plans' these were 'attack plans' and that is very different and how dare you mix that up."
Honestly, I think the American people work hard and deserve better liars than this.
Honestly, I think the American people work hard and deserve better liars than this.
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This would be hilariously terrible for Trump's coalition. Good God it could produce Obama level %s for democrats by suppressing the low info - low engagement MAGA block.
These are the *only* docs it would allow. For most Americans, the only document they would be able to show to register would be a passport. It would not even allow birth certificates. Only half of American citizens have a passport.
March 25, 2025 at 11:45 PM
This would be hilariously terrible for Trump's coalition. Good God it could produce Obama level %s for democrats by suppressing the low info - low engagement MAGA block.
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I’m sorry y’all, I did love the halftime show, but the only things I really know about that feud come from @kenwhite.bsky.social discussing the Drake legal filings so I missed a lot of what you’re excited about.
February 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
I’m sorry y’all, I did love the halftime show, but the only things I really know about that feud come from @kenwhite.bsky.social discussing the Drake legal filings so I missed a lot of what you’re excited about.
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All of which is to say, the tech broligarchs rushing to back Trump because they think the wind is shifting seem to me to be making a poor choice.
While most of the outcome options are bad for America, it seems to me very few of them are good in the long-term for large pro-MAGA companies. /end
While most of the outcome options are bad for America, it seems to me very few of them are good in the long-term for large pro-MAGA companies. /end
February 5, 2025 at 11:54 PM
All of which is to say, the tech broligarchs rushing to back Trump because they think the wind is shifting seem to me to be making a poor choice.
While most of the outcome options are bad for America, it seems to me very few of them are good in the long-term for large pro-MAGA companies. /end
While most of the outcome options are bad for America, it seems to me very few of them are good in the long-term for large pro-MAGA companies. /end
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I am going to become The Joker
January 1, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I am going to become The Joker