JJDiablo
@jjdiablo.bsky.social
Lifelong lover of history, music and gaming.
No matter where you go, there you are
Always look on the bright side of life
And somebody spoke and I went into a dream
Rrright ... nowwwwwww
I turned to look but it was gone
No matter where you go, there you are
Always look on the bright side of life
And somebody spoke and I went into a dream
Rrright ... nowwwwwww
I turned to look but it was gone
Most "moderates" suck fossil fuel pipe for campaign donations.
I'm kind of baffled how the "moderates" have apparently all decided to turn against climate policy at once, just as China reaches green electrostate liftoff mode. I thought these people were all about National Greatness and making Hard Choices
November 18, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Most "moderates" suck fossil fuel pipe for campaign donations.
And Republicans will defend him to the last.
Ah, but for those halcyon days when they cared about "crime families"
Ah, but for those halcyon days when they cared about "crime families"
The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
To negotiate a trade deal with the President of the United States, the Swiss government arrived with a "special Rolex desktop clock" and "a 1-kilogram personalized gold bar"
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
November 18, 2025 at 10:54 PM
And Republicans will defend him to the last.
Ah, but for those halcyon days when they cared about "crime families"
Ah, but for those halcyon days when they cared about "crime families"
What, you mean to say that we're not rugged individualists just pining for Gault's Gulch? That we actually need other people, both personal and professional, to help us survive and thrive?
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www.kiplinger.com/retirement/a...
A Retirement Guide for Solo Agers
If you’re single without adult children to rely on for help, planning for your older years requires an added layer of intention and urgency.
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November 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
What, you mean to say that we're not rugged individualists just pining for Gault's Gulch? That we actually need other people, both personal and professional, to help us survive and thrive?
www.kiplinger.com/retirement/a...
www.kiplinger.com/retirement/a...
I'll take "Things I Never Knew About The Ramones" for $200, Alex 😜😂
When I was a teen I thought Joey Ramone's "pterodactyl club" shirt that he wore in the "Pet Semetary" music video was the coolest fuckin thing ever. I didn't know it was a dumpy lil' venue (now closed) in Charlotte North Carolina that they had gigged at, I just thought it was a cool shirt.
November 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I'll take "Things I Never Knew About The Ramones" for $200, Alex 😜😂
Yo, FIFA, you thought it wouldn't come to this? You thought this jackass wasn't going to make the entire event about himself? And, seriously, Seattle has "a crime problem"?
Better to yank all games from the USA and DIRECTLY blame the stable genius. 🙄
www.usatoday.com/story/sports...
Better to yank all games from the USA and DIRECTLY blame the stable genius. 🙄
www.usatoday.com/story/sports...
Trump threatens to move 2026 World Cup matches at 'sign of any trouble'
President Donald Trump again suggested World Cup matches at US venues could be changed if the administration is concerned about safety in that city.
www.usatoday.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Yo, FIFA, you thought it wouldn't come to this? You thought this jackass wasn't going to make the entire event about himself? And, seriously, Seattle has "a crime problem"?
Better to yank all games from the USA and DIRECTLY blame the stable genius. 🙄
www.usatoday.com/story/sports...
Better to yank all games from the USA and DIRECTLY blame the stable genius. 🙄
www.usatoday.com/story/sports...
And Elon wants to "preserve the light of consciousness" by colonizing Mars (and propping up fascist political parties) ...
Meanwhile, in the real world, it taxes our global limits to maintain a couple space stations.
www.livescience.com/space/space-...
Meanwhile, in the real world, it taxes our global limits to maintain a couple space stations.
www.livescience.com/space/space-...
Three more Chinese astronauts are now stranded in space following successful rescue of their colleagues
The Shenzhou-21 crew has been marooned on China's Tiangong space station after three of their colleagues were brought back to Earth in the wrong spacecraft. For now, the astronauts have no safe way of...
www.livescience.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
And Elon wants to "preserve the light of consciousness" by colonizing Mars (and propping up fascist political parties) ...
Meanwhile, in the real world, it taxes our global limits to maintain a couple space stations.
www.livescience.com/space/space-...
Meanwhile, in the real world, it taxes our global limits to maintain a couple space stations.
www.livescience.com/space/space-...
And they get upset when you call it a cult.
Seriously, it is truly disturbing how many truly disturbed people are wrapped up in the Christo-MAGA vortex.
Seriously, it is truly disturbing how many truly disturbed people are wrapped up in the Christo-MAGA vortex.
Yesterday, a Republican tried to give me holy water and Trump perfume because I’m “demonic.”
Extremely normal stuff coming from an extremely normal party.
Extremely normal stuff coming from an extremely normal party.
November 18, 2025 at 12:03 PM
And they get upset when you call it a cult.
Seriously, it is truly disturbing how many truly disturbed people are wrapped up in the Christo-MAGA vortex.
Seriously, it is truly disturbing how many truly disturbed people are wrapped up in the Christo-MAGA vortex.
I remember when this thread below was what the internet was going to be ... a small bit of human enrichment to brighten your Tuesday.
a #MedievalSky question: when Edward III in 1360 is demanding that his Irish adminstration send vast and specified quantities of foodstuffs, including two hundred casks of Gascon wine, for his Scottish campaign, to "Novum Castrum super Are", where is it to go?
November 18, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I remember when this thread below was what the internet was going to be ... a small bit of human enrichment to brighten your Tuesday.
Mess with Seth and it’s ON
November 16, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Mess with Seth and it’s ON
Yep
“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
November 16, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Yep
For comparison, $41.95 (about €35) gets me 30 rides on the Valencia metro/bus system.
We are going to need a study on how much people waste on this shit annually vs how much it would cost to have a functional transit system.
November 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
For comparison, $41.95 (about €35) gets me 30 rides on the Valencia metro/bus system.
I'm old enough to remember the Great Autopen Scandal from way back last month ...
abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...
abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...
Justice Department quietly replaced 'identical' Trump signatures on recent pardons
President Donald Trump is facing new scrutiny over the use of a replicated signature on several recent pardons
abcnews.go.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I'm old enough to remember the Great Autopen Scandal from way back last month ...
abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...
abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...
Somehow I'm guessing this, like most of the other insane social media posts coming from the executive branch these days, will simply be ignored by the press and "serious pundits" ... most likely because they can't "both sides" this but also, possibly and likely, fear. This is unprecedented.
Yikes 😬 an official U.S. government account just referred to Americans as “imbecilic morons.” That’s… a choice.
November 15, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Somehow I'm guessing this, like most of the other insane social media posts coming from the executive branch these days, will simply be ignored by the press and "serious pundits" ... most likely because they can't "both sides" this but also, possibly and likely, fear. This is unprecedented.
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“Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.”
— Albert Camus
— Albert Camus
November 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
“Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.”
— Albert Camus
— Albert Camus
Fer cryin' out loud, Wormtongue, at least TRY to hide it ...
November 15, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Fer cryin' out loud, Wormtongue, at least TRY to hide it ...
In a coffee shop in Lincoln, Nebraska overhearing two older men discussing Trump-Epstein. "It's a Democrat smear", "he was most likely there but didn't do anything", "I think he honestly tried to do the right thing", "we'll never know", "there's really nothing we can do". It will not penetrate.
November 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
In a coffee shop in Lincoln, Nebraska overhearing two older men discussing Trump-Epstein. "It's a Democrat smear", "he was most likely there but didn't do anything", "I think he honestly tried to do the right thing", "we'll never know", "there's really nothing we can do". It will not penetrate.
Proper return
November 14, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Proper return
Glad to see that Punching Left isn't just an American phenomenon. Seriously, fuck all the "serious person" pundits who contort themselves into pretzels to rationalize and normalize literal fucking Nazis but jump as the slightest whiff of policy or politicians that actually aim to better the world.
Extraordinary that the Green Party should be given serious scrutiny, but the Reform Party must be given unchallenged airtime and column inches.
I wonder why?
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
I wonder why?
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
Sorry kids, Greens’ fantasy politics don’t add up
Now Zack Polanski’s party is polling level with Labour it’s time to subject his platform to the scrutiny given to the grown-ups
www.thetimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Glad to see that Punching Left isn't just an American phenomenon. Seriously, fuck all the "serious person" pundits who contort themselves into pretzels to rationalize and normalize literal fucking Nazis but jump as the slightest whiff of policy or politicians that actually aim to better the world.
This is not going to affect conservative Catholics at all. They view the last two popes as illegitimate. Funny given how, growing up, all I ever heard from same conservative Catholics was "you don't get to pick and choose your faith". With conservatives it's always about power and control. Always.
Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops
November 14, 2025 at 7:42 AM
This is not going to affect conservative Catholics at all. They view the last two popes as illegitimate. Funny given how, growing up, all I ever heard from same conservative Catholics was "you don't get to pick and choose your faith". With conservatives it's always about power and control. Always.
Where are all the Oath Keepers and 3%era? Oh, right, they’re the goon squad rappelling from the helicopter
NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
November 13, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Where are all the Oath Keepers and 3%era? Oh, right, they’re the goon squad rappelling from the helicopter
Wow
Never forget when Gio Reyna torched Mexico’s entire defense at the Estadio Azteca 😤
An unreal solo run that left everyone in awe during the World Cup Qualifiers 🔥🇺🇸 (Via @umsnt)
An unreal solo run that left everyone in awe during the World Cup Qualifiers 🔥🇺🇸 (Via @umsnt)
November 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Wow
Couple this with news the USDA searched for words like “diversity” and “climate modeling” in canceling grants and we’re seeing christofascist inquisition in action.
The War on the Enlightenment is here, now.
The War on the Enlightenment is here, now.
The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has launched investigations against school districts for teaching lessons on systemic racism and hosting empowerment gatherings for students of color.
Five Ways the Department of Education Is Upending Public Schools
The Trump administration has made a rapid succession of hires and decisions at the Department of Education that could spur profound changes in how schools operate and children learn. Here’s what to kn...
www.propublica.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Couple this with news the USDA searched for words like “diversity” and “climate modeling” in canceling grants and we’re seeing christofascist inquisition in action.
The War on the Enlightenment is here, now.
The War on the Enlightenment is here, now.
If she does, I might just move to New York to help it happen!
November 12, 2025 at 9:15 PM
If she does, I might just move to New York to help it happen!