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monteurhulot.bsky.social
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hopeless generalist / generally hopeless
professional landlord antagonist
bourgeois ecosocialist
mors omnibus regibus
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Larry Summers being shitty can really pop up anywhere
An excerpt from a recent review in the London Review of Books: Waste Wars, Alexander Clapp’s new book, is about such businesses. In the 1980s, waste became a national export across much of the global North. Since then, firms have made vast amounts of money by sending the rich world’s waste to the global South. At first, the focus of this business was hazardous waste like asbestos or paint sludge. In countries like the US it cost as much as $250 per tonne to bury hazardous waste domestically at a time when the price of burying it in many African countries was less than $3 per tonne. Even after shipping costs, American companies could save around $200 per tonne by sending their waste overseas. In 1991, a leaked memorandum on trade liberalisation sent by Larry Summers, then chief economist at the World Bank, stated that ‘the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that.’
November 19, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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woodwinds a recurring theme
an Alaska Native man in a black and white photograph from the mid-1950s. he is wearing a button-up shirt, trousers, and sandals and is seated on a wooden bench. he is playing a woodwind instrument, probably a recorder, and has a small book in his lap, possibly notation for a piece he is playing.
November 19, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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saw this photo my grandfather took in Alaska sometime in the mid-1950s. found the lighting and composition very striking
a black and white photograph of three children playing clarinet in an otherwise empty room. they are seated so that the child in the middle directly faces the camera, and the other two children face each other, directly to the left and right of the frame respectively.
November 19, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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Sarah Kenzidor? The hypobolic journalist?
November 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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November 12, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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November 12, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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November 12, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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November 12, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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November 12, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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November 12, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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November 12, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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I made the mistake of going to the USDA website to see what that agency's online Hatch Act violation looks like, and hooo boy
A fascist partisan message in violation of the Hatch act currently displayed at the top of usda.gov, which reads: "Senate Democrats have now voted 13 times to not fund the food stamp program, also known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Bottom line, the well has run dry. At this time, there will be no benefits issued November 01. We are approaching an inflection point for Senate Democrats. They can continue to hold out for healthcare for illegal aliens and gender mutilation procedures or reopen the government so mothers, babies, and the most vulnerable among us can receive critical nutrition assistance."
November 4, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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October 28, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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October 28, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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tempted to bring over my goofy low budget album covers thread from Twitter so that this could join it
The cover image for an album titled "World Music" by an artist named Dolce. A man, presumably Dolce, is standing on an image of the Earth, which is floating above the water, with a city skyline in the background. The flags of various nation states are arrayed in the sky around him.
October 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Kaufman, Charlie. 𝘈𝘯𝘵𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘥. Random House Publishing Group, 2020.
A tweet from an account identified as Paul Rosenberg. It reads "give it a rest dude. i've had queer friends since i was at least 5. i wrote under a gay black persona in a zine as a teen in the 60s. i've been the only straight dude in a queer performance art space & teased for it by the performer who i was there to support. i REALLY don't have time for yr BS." The whole thing has the vibes of the coincidentally-named character B. Rosenberger Rosenberg, narrator of the Charlie Kaufman novel Antkind.
October 25, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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I am not a Platner defender, but I'm quite certain that the highlighted sentence does not state or imply that he was a guard at the prison in Abu Ghraib; it says he was on patrol in *the city of Abu Ghraib* at a time when the prison there was attacked. The reading comprehension crisis continues
October 24, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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found the falafel mix in the parental pantry with a 20th century best-by date
A box of Casbah brand falafel mix with a 1999 'best before' date
October 23, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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almost a quarter million dead in a single storm because European colonizers didn't understand a coastal ecosystem
Unlike Crosby’s ‘Columbian Exchange’, these feats of hydraulic engineering were deliberate, and they very often failed. The conversion of the Sundarbans mangrove forests to taxable agricultural land – instrumental to the ‘permanent settlement’ of Bengal – left recently established coastal communities exposed to cyclones: in 1876, 215,000 people died in a storm in the Meghna estuary. In Hanoi, a sewage system heralded as a monument to the French civilising mission became a breeding ground for plague-bearing rodents. Residents rich enough to have plumbing in their homes reported rats climbing out of their toilets.
October 18, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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when the regime falls, we will have to try and convict a whole lot of officials for their crimes. the crimes are real, but these will still be political indictments. "no political indictments, even if they committed the crimes alleged" is not a sustainable principle. it's part of how we got here.
Screenshot of a post reading "The lack of outrage over the obviously political indictment of Bolton is perhaps as worrisome as the indictment itself."
October 17, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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It's literally all projection, exhibit one million
Excerpt from NY Mag piece: Noem could be warm and friendly only to turn it off moments later. Once, a former staffer recalled, a supporter brought Noem flowers, which Noem pretended to love but then had a staffer throw in the trash as soon as her constituent left. “She was rolling her eyes and said, ‘Ugh, I can’t stand these people,’” she said. “It made me wonder whether she was bad-mouthing me behind my back.”
October 9, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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A Greek millionaire who went to Cambridge couldn't translate "The Last Supper" from Italian to English. "It's something like the final something."
October 9, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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alright, I was misremembering it somewhat. Blitzer is actually in the lead until the end, and Stone rockets to a commanding lead in Final Jeopardy. Huffington was never competitive. (Blitzer answered the question below with "David," lol)
The final scores in a Jeopardy match between Wolf Blitzer, Arianna Huffington, and Oliver Stone. Blitzer is at $4100, Huffington at $300, and Stone at $15,000. The Final Jeopardy question: "The Italian name of this 15th Century masterpiece is 'L'ultima cena'"
October 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Resist Lib solidarity entryism in DSA is a very funny scenario that has never occurred to me. don't know that I think it's likely though
October 8, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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eight fucking years...
A tweet from November 10, 2017. It reads: "Jack Posobiec definitely seems like by far the creepiest of these young fascist shitheads. Someday we're going to learn some extremely dark shit about him"
October 8, 2025 at 8:58 PM