Alyosha
@mediocremensch.bsky.social
Australian republican, democracy-enjoyer, internationalist
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Alyosha
@mediocremensch.bsky.social
· Jan 9
Australia should ditch AUKUS and join NATO.
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I think plenty of it speaks to the state of the media, but an obvious one is that Vox and Vanity Fair barely investigated her and that she managed to commit an unforgivable journalistic crime before getting a book deal and walking into another prestige job, while plenty of others are being laid off
you know, what if they aren't actually a commentary on journalism or the state of media. what if these people are just extremely weird
November 27, 2025 at 3:13 AM
I think plenty of it speaks to the state of the media, but an obvious one is that Vox and Vanity Fair barely investigated her and that she managed to commit an unforgivable journalistic crime before getting a book deal and walking into another prestige job, while plenty of others are being laid off
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💔 Life in Kherson is a daily struggle. Anti-drone nets hang over the streets, burned cars hit by Russian drones stand by the roadside, and artillery shells stick out of the ground.
Still, the city keeps going, no matter how much Russia tries to destroy it.
📷 Vgoru, Oleksandr Andryushchenko/YouTube
Still, the city keeps going, no matter how much Russia tries to destroy it.
📷 Vgoru, Oleksandr Andryushchenko/YouTube
November 27, 2025 at 4:47 PM
💔 Life in Kherson is a daily struggle. Anti-drone nets hang over the streets, burned cars hit by Russian drones stand by the roadside, and artillery shells stick out of the ground.
Still, the city keeps going, no matter how much Russia tries to destroy it.
📷 Vgoru, Oleksandr Andryushchenko/YouTube
Still, the city keeps going, no matter how much Russia tries to destroy it.
📷 Vgoru, Oleksandr Andryushchenko/YouTube
JD Vance having the divorce talk with his kids, trying to make it clear that they absolutely share a portion of the blame.
November 28, 2025 at 5:08 AM
JD Vance having the divorce talk with his kids, trying to make it clear that they absolutely share a portion of the blame.
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As blunt as it may seem, the reality is that for Americans to have a functional domestic or international setup for them requires that they simply stop electing Republicans.
November 28, 2025 at 1:30 AM
As blunt as it may seem, the reality is that for Americans to have a functional domestic or international setup for them requires that they simply stop electing Republicans.
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JK Rowling got a full *decade* of press as a martyr for being "cancelled" (declared passe by people online) and meanwhile nobody considers it very interesting that a prominent left wing author is basically banned from entering or publishing in the United Kingdom for her politics
so this is like, one of the biggest free speech infringements by a western democracy in our lifetimes right?
November 28, 2025 at 12:22 AM
JK Rowling got a full *decade* of press as a martyr for being "cancelled" (declared passe by people online) and meanwhile nobody considers it very interesting that a prominent left wing author is basically banned from entering or publishing in the United Kingdom for her politics
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I hope that this doesn't just become about "Nuzzi is bad" but fosters a wider recognition that our culture of political journalism that didn't just tolerate her, but promoted and celebrated her even after the allegations were known, is rotten to the core and has been for a long time.
this was bad before, but these are the most troubling and serious allegations you can make about a journalist. if they’re true, i genuinely can’t think of a worse scandal in the history of political journalism. devastating to our industry, to public trust as a whole, and to everyone in its orbit
November 27, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I hope that this doesn't just become about "Nuzzi is bad" but fosters a wider recognition that our culture of political journalism that didn't just tolerate her, but promoted and celebrated her even after the allegations were known, is rotten to the core and has been for a long time.
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
Brushes with Death and Mysteria Ecclesiae DLCs are just smooching on each other here.
November 26, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Brushes with Death and Mysteria Ecclesiae DLCs are just smooching on each other here.
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There is infinitely more evidence that Trump is working with the Russians against Ukraine, than there is that the US was behind Euromaiden.
November 26, 2025 at 1:08 AM
There is infinitely more evidence that Trump is working with the Russians against Ukraine, than there is that the US was behind Euromaiden.
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It's great how you just ignored the actual warnings of the actual Irish Defence Forces in the article as to exactly why that might happen, in a world in which Russia has already, in fact, attacked multiple European Union member states
if no one else is willing to say it, i will: i don’t think russia is going to attack ireland
When it comes to modern war, Ireland is a high-value target: its waters on the western fringe of Europe contain three-quarters of all undersea cables in the northern hemisphere. Despite this, is unprotected and unprepared.
An #FTEdit 🧵 on why this determinedly neutral nation is Europe's weak link 👇
An #FTEdit 🧵 on why this determinedly neutral nation is Europe's weak link 👇
November 26, 2025 at 8:12 AM
It's great how you just ignored the actual warnings of the actual Irish Defence Forces in the article as to exactly why that might happen, in a world in which Russia has already, in fact, attacked multiple European Union member states
Counterpoint. Irish republicans and the Fenians were greatly admired by nationalist Poles, who also know something about the evils of imperialism. So unless you feckless cunts want to help your fellow friends in distress against the evils of Empire you can jump in the sea.
if no one else is willing to say it, i will: i don’t think russia is going to attack ireland
When it comes to modern war, Ireland is a high-value target: its waters on the western fringe of Europe contain three-quarters of all undersea cables in the northern hemisphere. Despite this, is unprotected and unprepared.
An #FTEdit 🧵 on why this determinedly neutral nation is Europe's weak link 👇
An #FTEdit 🧵 on why this determinedly neutral nation is Europe's weak link 👇
November 26, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Counterpoint. Irish republicans and the Fenians were greatly admired by nationalist Poles, who also know something about the evils of imperialism. So unless you feckless cunts want to help your fellow friends in distress against the evils of Empire you can jump in the sea.
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On this day in 1120, the White Ship sank en route from Barfleur to Southampton. William Ætheling, King Henry I’s only legitimate son and heir to the throne, drowned whilst trying to save his half-sister, Matilda of Perche, who also perished.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:10 AM
On this day in 1120, the White Ship sank en route from Barfleur to Southampton. William Ætheling, King Henry I’s only legitimate son and heir to the throne, drowned whilst trying to save his half-sister, Matilda of Perche, who also perished.
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Outdoor Live Rave Party. Novorossiisk, 2025
November 25, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Outdoor Live Rave Party. Novorossiisk, 2025
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Hilariously (in the lolsob sort of way), Australia has concluded their social media ban law cannot actually be used to ban underage Australians from Roblox because it's not a social media site
Me: Australia's social media ban for under 16s is a deeply terrible idea and is going to make a lot of problems much worse
Also me: we should ban Roblox for all ages
Also me: we should ban Roblox for all ages
Oh, God, this is one of those "where do I even start" things, because Roblox is, like, *fractally* fucked. They are terrible at content moderation. A lot of the games are rated incorrectly, so kids can encounter graphic content (sex or violence) out of nowhere --
November 23, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Hilariously (in the lolsob sort of way), Australia has concluded their social media ban law cannot actually be used to ban underage Australians from Roblox because it's not a social media site
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The thing about Trump saying it’s fine for Mamdani to call him a fascist is that he genuinely thinks all of this is kayfabe, just as he could insult Rubio or Cruz but still work with them. It’s not possible for him to imagine other people being sincere about anything.
November 23, 2025 at 12:20 AM
The thing about Trump saying it’s fine for Mamdani to call him a fascist is that he genuinely thinks all of this is kayfabe, just as he could insult Rubio or Cruz but still work with them. It’s not possible for him to imagine other people being sincere about anything.
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Au contraire, mon ami. I believe in, how you say, la solidarité internationale, and you do not.
November 22, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Au contraire, mon ami. I believe in, how you say, la solidarité internationale, and you do not.
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Tankies hate this one weird trick*
*: Quoting Marx.
*: Quoting Marx.
November 22, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Tankies hate this one weird trick*
*: Quoting Marx.
*: Quoting Marx.
We should all take a moment to have chaste thoughts, sit down and read any sacred text right now, I dunno, just snowballi- spitballing!
November 22, 2025 at 7:29 AM
We should all take a moment to have chaste thoughts, sit down and read any sacred text right now, I dunno, just snowballi- spitballing!
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“sixty four of god’s own megabytes” is such a great phrase
November 22, 2025 at 2:44 AM
“sixty four of god’s own megabytes” is such a great phrase
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watching your husband’s phone light up like a Christmas tree and knowing it’s President Donald J Trump
November 22, 2025 at 5:06 AM
watching your husband’s phone light up like a Christmas tree and knowing it’s President Donald J Trump
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29. 'burning the clothes and books and costumes of the priests,' from Diego Munoz Camargo's 'description of the city and province of tlaxcala,' illustrated by an anonymous indigenous artist. c. 1581-1584.
July 7, 2025 at 2:35 AM
29. 'burning the clothes and books and costumes of the priests,' from Diego Munoz Camargo's 'description of the city and province of tlaxcala,' illustrated by an anonymous indigenous artist. c. 1581-1584.
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17. north shore synagogue, by the legendary minoru yamasaki. @publicuniversal.bsky.social shared these photos with me years ago. no idea where he got them though.
June 16, 2025 at 10:47 AM
17. north shore synagogue, by the legendary minoru yamasaki. @publicuniversal.bsky.social shared these photos with me years ago. no idea where he got them though.
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self-portrait by Helene Schjerfbeck. her enduring fear of aging produced fascinating self-portraits
May 29, 2025 at 10:43 AM
self-portrait by Helene Schjerfbeck. her enduring fear of aging produced fascinating self-portraits
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Hope stars doing alright, but I'll say, she's done a great service of creating basically "mute the biggest morons that ever lived" thread
Fine. You all win. I’m logging off for the day because I‘m a big smelly man who’s also a Nazi and a bigot because I liked it better when Groypers didn’t have 1,770 nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert. Feel free to brag in your discords about how my jimmies have been rustled and I was owned.
November 21, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Hope stars doing alright, but I'll say, she's done a great service of creating basically "mute the biggest morons that ever lived" thread
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ANUBIS: (presses button with paw) [guilty]
OSIRIS: im sorry he does this when he's hungry
ANUBIS: (button) [guilty] [bad] [food]
OSIRIS: you already ate
ANUBIS: (button) [bad] [bad] [bad]
OSIRIS: he's right though we weighed your heart against the feather and its not looking good
OSIRIS: im sorry he does this when he's hungry
ANUBIS: (button) [guilty] [bad] [food]
OSIRIS: you already ate
ANUBIS: (button) [bad] [bad] [bad]
OSIRIS: he's right though we weighed your heart against the feather and its not looking good
November 2, 2025 at 12:23 PM
ANUBIS: (presses button with paw) [guilty]
OSIRIS: im sorry he does this when he's hungry
ANUBIS: (button) [guilty] [bad] [food]
OSIRIS: you already ate
ANUBIS: (button) [bad] [bad] [bad]
OSIRIS: he's right though we weighed your heart against the feather and its not looking good
OSIRIS: im sorry he does this when he's hungry
ANUBIS: (button) [guilty] [bad] [food]
OSIRIS: you already ate
ANUBIS: (button) [bad] [bad] [bad]
OSIRIS: he's right though we weighed your heart against the feather and its not looking good