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dev who likes spinning around in office chairs
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www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
Imagine parting ways with the Democratic Party not because of its unwavering support of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he violated international law and waged a bloody campaign against civilians in Gaza; not because of its humiliating failure to mount meaningful opposition to the Trump administration’s assault on just about everything of value in the country; not because it continues to run candidates in their 70s and 80s, one of whom opted to die in office at 90 rather than cede her seat to someone younger; not because of its inability to expand access to health care, or protect immigrants, or tax the wealthy, or really get anything done at all; not because of its politely noncommittal affect and rhetoric of facile uplift, or its members’ tendency to address the public as if they are delivering the keynote at a corporate retreat; not because the Democrats have no political vision, something of a liability for a political party; but rather because of the single sensible — if very belated — thing they have done in recent memory, which was to usher a doddering Joe Biden out of the 2024 presidential race.
October 27, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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in these times
When people say, “we have made it through worse before” by Clint Smith all I hear is the wind slapping against the gravestones of those who did not make it, those who did not survive to see the confetti fall from the sky, those who did not live to watch the parade roll down the street. I have grown accustomed to a lifetime of aphorisms meant to assuage my fears, pithy sayings meant to convey that everything ends up fine in the end. There is no solace in rearranging language to make a different word tell the same lie. Sometimes the moral arc of the universe does not bend in a direction that will comfort us.Sometimes it bends in ways we don’t expect & there are people who fall off in the process. Please, dear reader,do not say I am hopeless, I believe there is a better future to fight for, I simply accept the possibility that I may not live to see it. I have grown weary of telling myself lies that I might one day begin to believe. We are not all left standing after the war has ended. Some of us have become ghosts by the time the dust has settled.
September 21, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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maybe... we could try doing this again. it could happen here.
A graph displaying the percent of the global population under the British empire, and under independent former British colonies. The graph shows a sharp drop in British control over time.
June 24, 2025 at 11:18 PM
mntys.bsky.social
and anotherrrr one. with just text
May 29, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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mistah tom scott is in the terminal
May 29, 2025 at 9:47 PM
mntys.bsky.social
2d rendering stuff in the terminal (and yes these little goofy shapes can be animated). can go up to 920 x 500 with a framerate around 60. would try something higher, but it physically won't fit on a zoomed out terminal
An image of a circle and a square in the terminal, made up of text. An image of a rectangle of the terminal, made up of text. An image of a line rendered in a terminal, made up of text.
March 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM