the Epstein files make it very clear why the MeToo backlash was so extreme and why so much of elite society preferred Donald Trump ruling us like a king to the barest hint of accountability

@raaleh.bsky.social In a vote of appreciation for your work, I'd like to share that I've felt like a child awaiting santa ever since I read that FT story on the u.s. funding Albertan separatism as I cannot wait to have you creep into my headphones and leave a gift of a memorable segment.

there's a desperation to slam the lid shut on our teetering democratic system. theres an urgency because they fear, probably correctly, that their existence has become such that a society of free people can no longer tolerate them. it's their pile of money or us, and they're choosing their money

I think about this quote from the Luddite movement all the time

Hey, @adhocstudio.com I mightve been playing, uh, friend's copy of Dispatch (having received critical damage from the Market Man recently) but that won't stop me from commending you on a beautiful story with immaculate vibes, stellar soul -- I could go on. Glad these terrible times have you and it!

One of my faves among flights of fancy - or rumination - I sometimes let myself get carried by is the wish, the imagination, that one well placed slogan could both carry the True Weight of the thought it contains, and Fix Everything;

@raaleh.bsky.social

Hello! I already tipped off Milo for its Britainologous content, but as its also an ai in arts and small business grudge settling story (oh those provincial elites!) I think you might get some kicks and use of this thing I found, too:

bsky.app/profile/ugly...

@miloedwards.bsky.social

I think you might enjoy/be able to use this incredible bit of modern-day - ai feature and all - britainology:

bsky.app/profile/ugly...

Good morning logging on

Oh yeah nice one kid hook that hope for humanity right into my veins

The United Nations' food stocks for families in Gaza depleted a week ago. Children are being deliberately starved by Israel, and it is all being done openly.

yarvin is like one percent as intelligent as he thinks he is, and his knowledge of history is a quarter inch deep. his only real genius is in packaging his ignorance in a way that made very old right wing ideas sound new and shiny to young tech bros who are nominally literate

“The extent to which society can be thoroughly transformed is determined by the extent of the transformation attained by women.”

Bloody right. Wish that more people in the big media would say simply: "Fascists don't have a god given right to run despite what they do and what they want. They want to kill democracy. Stopping them defends democracy. They're ready to lie about it, but we don't have to listen. That is all."

imagine being a queer dude in 1867, laying out a modern understanding of homosexuality in writing and then deciding, "Guess i have to go tell all my family friends and professional colleagues about this now, welp."

Hey, so imma put this microblogging go use and skeet out a few thoughts rough draft style:

Thesis? Roman man yearns for submission.

Stick with me here, please;

OK, I'm actually going to microblog a little yell, for catharsis:

I went into the comments to a post by a "leftist" eng-speaking journalist in the Ukrainian Election discourse, at the other site, and

By gods. I was not ready to face how much glee and malicious ignorance there is. Westerners, no

Moving here after the continued blogging of one person I've been reading for a good while, while they still sporadically post - but don't cross post - to the Other Site has got me feeling like with big videogame DLC in the early 10s: you need two different memberships to get the whole picture.