Dystopos
@dystopos.bsky.social
Personal account of the founder/publisher of Bhamwiki.
Statements of fact or opinion may change when I learn new things. (Distopos with an “i” at the old place.)
Statements of fact or opinion may change when I learn new things. (Distopos with an “i” at the old place.)
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Dystopos
@dystopos.bsky.social
· Nov 6
I’m saying this here for my own benefit.
“I will stand for factuality.”
“I will stand for factuality.”
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Dems should say this right now, loudly and clearly: Anyone who is trusting Donald Trump, of all people, when he says what he’s directing you to do is lawful and that you’ll be protected later may be putting themselves in a very precarious position. 6/
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
November 15, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Dems should say this right now, loudly and clearly: Anyone who is trusting Donald Trump, of all people, when he says what he’s directing you to do is lawful and that you’ll be protected later may be putting themselves in a very precarious position. 6/
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
Top five film genres:
* someone has to answer a pay phone
* six more choppers appear over the ridge
* she switched them out before you even broke in
* wildly anachronistic song plays but sounds amazing
* music by John Williams
* someone has to answer a pay phone
* six more choppers appear over the ridge
* she switched them out before you even broke in
* wildly anachronistic song plays but sounds amazing
* music by John Williams
Top five film genres:
* Regular people have to contend with unusual threat
* Shot w/a camera that hasn’t been used since 1968
* Studio gave director 8 truckloads of cash + 10 years to make this
* Director has 8-dollar budget and is doing their own weird-as-hell thing
* John Carpenter
* Regular people have to contend with unusual threat
* Shot w/a camera that hasn’t been used since 1968
* Studio gave director 8 truckloads of cash + 10 years to make this
* Director has 8-dollar budget and is doing their own weird-as-hell thing
* John Carpenter
Top five film genres:
- aw, that ordinary Joe you just fucked with is actually a secret badass
- dancing, but in Technicolor
- existential dread a-go-go
- let’s wrestle with the nature of God and faith
- smart dumb comedy
- aw, that ordinary Joe you just fucked with is actually a secret badass
- dancing, but in Technicolor
- existential dread a-go-go
- let’s wrestle with the nature of God and faith
- smart dumb comedy
November 17, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Top five film genres:
* someone has to answer a pay phone
* six more choppers appear over the ridge
* she switched them out before you even broke in
* wildly anachronistic song plays but sounds amazing
* music by John Williams
* someone has to answer a pay phone
* six more choppers appear over the ridge
* she switched them out before you even broke in
* wildly anachronistic song plays but sounds amazing
* music by John Williams
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Good reminder that the Catholic League is just one very odd guy calling himself the Catholic League
Holy shit. They're really doing it. They're doing "actually pedophilia is good now." The debasement of the American Right is complete.
MEGYN KELLY IS RIGHT ABOUT EPSTEIN - Catholic League
Bill Donohue
www.catholicleague.org
November 15, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Good reminder that the Catholic League is just one very odd guy calling himself the Catholic League
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Yep. People are talking about the latest Frankenstein film.
But Mary Shelley was also an abolitionist, and she and husband Percy abstained from sugar because it was produced with the the labor of enslaved people.
"In every pound of sugar used… consuming two ounces of human flesh,"
- William Fox
But Mary Shelley was also an abolitionist, and she and husband Percy abstained from sugar because it was produced with the the labor of enslaved people.
"In every pound of sugar used… consuming two ounces of human flesh,"
- William Fox
How Percy Shelley Stirred His Politics Into His Teacup
In 19th century Britain, keeping sugar out of tea became a political statement against slavery. The sugar boycott was no easy choice for the radical poet, who hated slavery but loved tea.
www.npr.org
November 15, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Yep. People are talking about the latest Frankenstein film.
But Mary Shelley was also an abolitionist, and she and husband Percy abstained from sugar because it was produced with the the labor of enslaved people.
"In every pound of sugar used… consuming two ounces of human flesh,"
- William Fox
But Mary Shelley was also an abolitionist, and she and husband Percy abstained from sugar because it was produced with the the labor of enslaved people.
"In every pound of sugar used… consuming two ounces of human flesh,"
- William Fox
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Slavery never ended
November 15, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Slavery never ended
Not a great use for a blue check.
AI slop now making up saccharine Bible verses that do not exist
November 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Not a great use for a blue check.
November 15, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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JD Vance owns a company that buys American real estate and sells it to foreign investors. They specifically target Americans in crisis to buy their property for less than it is worth.
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
JD Vance owns a company that buys American real estate and sells it to foreign investors. They specifically target Americans in crisis to buy their property for less than it is worth.
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The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.
November 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.
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It will never not be worth mentioning how the leader of the senate minority believes it is his duty to keep his party in favor of what is very clearly a Nazi state, one that is literally harvesting the organs of the very same people it is trying to genocide
🚨 Director-General of Gaza’s Health Ministry:
“We have received 315 bodies so far, and only 89 of them have been identified through clothing or a wedding ring or simple markings. Yesterday, we received a new body that had been mauled by trained predatory dogs, and the marks of the attack were...
“We have received 315 bodies so far, and only 89 of them have been identified through clothing or a wedding ring or simple markings. Yesterday, we received a new body that had been mauled by trained predatory dogs, and the marks of the attack were...
November 13, 2025 at 12:32 AM
It will never not be worth mentioning how the leader of the senate minority believes it is his duty to keep his party in favor of what is very clearly a Nazi state, one that is literally harvesting the organs of the very same people it is trying to genocide
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I also don't think you can talk about Republican complicity without talking about Dennis Hastert, who is never ever discussed anymore, but he was the speaker of the House, and he was a pedophile.
November 12, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I also don't think you can talk about Republican complicity without talking about Dennis Hastert, who is never ever discussed anymore, but he was the speaker of the House, and he was a pedophile.
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Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
November 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
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How does employer access to prisoners’ labor through work release impact the well-being of those workers & of free workers?
New working paper by Sue Helper, Suresh Naidu, Akseli Palomaki, Adam Reich, + me provides evidence, focus on auto manufacturing in AL
#EconSky
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
New working paper by Sue Helper, Suresh Naidu, Akseli Palomaki, Adam Reich, + me provides evidence, focus on auto manufacturing in AL
#EconSky
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
November 3, 2025 at 2:20 PM
How does employer access to prisoners’ labor through work release impact the well-being of those workers & of free workers?
New working paper by Sue Helper, Suresh Naidu, Akseli Palomaki, Adam Reich, + me provides evidence, focus on auto manufacturing in AL
#EconSky
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
New working paper by Sue Helper, Suresh Naidu, Akseli Palomaki, Adam Reich, + me provides evidence, focus on auto manufacturing in AL
#EconSky
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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I’ve never seen such raw barbaric malevolence in my 42 years of life as I see openly displayed in Israel… and I live in the fucking US where right-wingers line up to donate millions to plain murderers specifically because they murdered minorities.
November 11, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I’ve never seen such raw barbaric malevolence in my 42 years of life as I see openly displayed in Israel… and I live in the fucking US where right-wingers line up to donate millions to plain murderers specifically because they murdered minorities.
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look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry
November 9, 2025 at 11:37 PM
look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry
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been doing some light reading about the aftermath of the korean dictatorship and I think it's really important that we repeat this to ourselves, to our friends, to our neighbors, to our politicians
Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 9, 2025 at 6:14 PM
been doing some light reading about the aftermath of the korean dictatorship and I think it's really important that we repeat this to ourselves, to our friends, to our neighbors, to our politicians
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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Just remembering that Dick Cheney secretly intervened in a dispute over the Klamath River in 2001--and caused the biggest fish die-off in US history, with ~77,000 fully grown adult salmon piled on the banks of the river.
November 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Just remembering that Dick Cheney secretly intervened in a dispute over the Klamath River in 2001--and caused the biggest fish die-off in US history, with ~77,000 fully grown adult salmon piled on the banks of the river.
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Trump’s aid cuts are killing far more Nigerian Christians than Islamic terrorists are. Independent monitors in Nigeria report 33 deaths this year in attacks against Christians (fewer than the 88 Muslims killed). But Trump cut off aid that helped save 270,000 lives a year in Nigeria. 270,000 > 33.
Opinion | Trump Aid Cuts Kill More Christians Than Jihadists Do
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Trump’s aid cuts are killing far more Nigerian Christians than Islamic terrorists are. Independent monitors in Nigeria report 33 deaths this year in attacks against Christians (fewer than the 88 Muslims killed). But Trump cut off aid that helped save 270,000 lives a year in Nigeria. 270,000 > 33.
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1/4 I typically do not use preprint services, but our findings are important to the residents of Bessemer, Alabama impacted by the Marvel Project...a mega datacenter that will have a huge environmental impact.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 8, 2025 at 1:25 AM
1/4 I typically do not use preprint services, but our findings are important to the residents of Bessemer, Alabama impacted by the Marvel Project...a mega datacenter that will have a huge environmental impact.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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did you know the Mountain Goats have a new album out today and you can buy it or stream it and dance to it in your living room or while driving or on the subway and it's a whole vibe? well now you know that 30tgrs.ffm.to/ttfafpb
The Mountain Goats - Through This Fire Across from Peter Balkan
Choose your preferred music service
30tgrs.ffm.to
November 7, 2025 at 1:28 PM
did you know the Mountain Goats have a new album out today and you can buy it or stream it and dance to it in your living room or while driving or on the subway and it's a whole vibe? well now you know that 30tgrs.ffm.to/ttfafpb
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I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.
November 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.
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You know, this would be a great time to introduce a bill that would prohibit ALL elected Federal officials from trading stock or directing their own investments while in office. You could even call it the Preventing Emoluments Limiting Outside Sourced Income act, if that gets Republicans on board.
November 7, 2025 at 5:02 PM
You know, this would be a great time to introduce a bill that would prohibit ALL elected Federal officials from trading stock or directing their own investments while in office. You could even call it the Preventing Emoluments Limiting Outside Sourced Income act, if that gets Republicans on board.
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finance guys on twitter are like "can't believe zohran hired lina khan. she wants to make it illegal to bundle memecoin futures into junk stocks and sell them to public worker pension plans. the public won't stand for it."
November 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
finance guys on twitter are like "can't believe zohran hired lina khan. she wants to make it illegal to bundle memecoin futures into junk stocks and sell them to public worker pension plans. the public won't stand for it."