you know what the craziest part of all this is? The only guy who took Trump's tariff plans seriously is Xi Jinping

Season Five of Babylon Berlin is gonna be the Zeitgeist of the 2nd Trump administration. You heard it here first folks

Babylon Berlin hits different after you've read The Wages of Destruction

Listened to a Donna Haraway lecture and God I forgot how woke academia was. I'm glad I was able actually listen to what she had to say and while I don't really care for the Plantationocene and multispecies justice it was morally coherent to a surprising degree

Xi would've been much happier if he was the last (Conserva)Dem governor of a small rural state like Iowa or Arkansas. He'd be great at taking ag subsidies and kissing babies at state fairs and getting picked as the director of the president's task force for small businesses by the Biden admin

deactivated my twitter. Probably won't reactivate if I can't stop doomscrolling on other platforms within a month

This is all an elaborate ploy to sink the world into a decade of depression, an elegant solution to the climate crisis. We salute our climate accelerationist in chief

don't think there's a case of a deindustrialised democracy turning into a dictatorship, and developmental dictatorships who usually don't survive the decade of mass unemployment that comes with deindustrialisation. The next 4 years might provide some interesting case studies if the world survives it

'We shall repeal the 20th century'

Chuck Schumer tweet: if Trump is so serious about getting rid of aliens by any means necessary, why doesn't he release the UFO files? 😜

Gustavo Petro tweet: the souls of Caesar, Tarik, Biohó, and Bolivar visited me and told me to counter-tariff the rabid Yanqui dog.

If this was a TNO path I'd be a failstate

“Lies written in ink cannot disguise facts written in blood.”

― Lu Xun

The MAGA infighting over H1B is just the latest manifestation of fusionism. It's Buckley's world and we're just living in it lol

Was watching the British handover of Hong Kong and I can't help being astonished at how dignified the process was, ending with Auld Lang Syne and all that. Most empires aren't afforded such a dignified funeral. The Qing empire, for example, was expunged at the tip of a bayonet.

He's back

I like what I've seen here so far, wish I did my postgrad a year later so my dissertation can be on digital migration

Thinking abt making a roast duck for Christmas, anyone's got any tips and/or recipes?

Gonna try to make this a fresh start plz pretend all the nasty shit I said or did on twitter didn't happen lol