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post photos and philosophical/political musings - trans rights are human rights - black lives matter - free palestine - he/him - check out my blog twilliambell.wordpress.com
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tiredgenerally.bsky.social
i dont think there’s ever been a point where corporate america has had a sincere sense of morality but it is probably a sign of the times that the culture at most major firms does not even pretend to encourage ethical behavior anymore. the transformation is really stark in tech.
tiredgenerally.bsky.social Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 1d
i honestly do not know what major company in america isnt involved in some ghastly shit at this point? i just would not *do* the ghastly shit yourself.
supportourpoops.bsky.social Cadence ”Port Game Use Crane” Andrysiak @supportourpoops.bsky.social · 1d
are we shaming people for having worked for companies that did ghastly shit elsewhere but far away organizationally because I'll be the first to say I ran a poop plant for a company that was/is major defense contractor and I'm pretty sure was involved with NEOM and *am* sure works with the UAE
November 10, 2025 at 5:42 AM
pseudospectre.bsky.social
Finally read this piece on ICE/CBP’s recruiting and it didn’t disappoint www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/pol...
One of the ICE applicants I spoke with seemed to have an insatiable desire for conflict in line with this hypothesis. All his life, he said, he had hoped to fight in America's wars in Iraq or Afghanistan. He'd joined the army hoping to fulfill this desire, but the wars had wound down by the time of his enlistment. He never got a chance to fight abroad. He said his wife had almost been assaulted in Texas, and when she called the police they arrested a man who turned out to be an "illegal alien" and who was promptly deported. He said he'd seen videos of a member of the Taliban getting into an argu- ment at a fast-food restaurant in California (I couldn't find any evidence of this-not even as a conspiracy), and that he wanted to join ICE to protect his family. "I learned all these skills in the army- smash and grabs, site exploitation-and never got to use them," he said. "So I'm here to kind of do what I learned to do over there, but this time here, defending my country?" Previously impressed by the connections between war and domestic policy elucidated by the historians Kathleen Belew and Stuart Schrader, I found this man's account almost embarrassingly transparent. It was the most straightforward articulation I'd ever heard of someone bringing the war home. Other applicants offered similar explana- tions for their motives. There was the young, taciturn southerner managing a batting cage in Louisiana, and the pimply youth from Kentucky, churning out Yahoo Finance content for $20 an hour. Both said they were tired and bored. The lat- ter said his father had been in ICE, but he "didn't really know what he did." I spoke to a gregarious New York police officer who was fed up with patrolling Times Square and all the "savages" there. Another applicant said he was sick of installing office furniture in properties subleased by the United States Marines. A blind man I spoke to, who was hop- ing to find a data-centric position with ICE, said he was sick of his current job colle…
November 10, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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mightygodking.com
for Canadians who are overdosing on bad American news, here is some news about OUR shit government:
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November 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
pseudospectre.bsky.social
I am at a company that works for other companies, and I recall when we started they made a big deal about never working for tobacco companies (which was an easy feat in our field), now we have Imperial Tobacco and Amway on our client list…
theophite.bsky.social rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1d
there was an incredibly stark change at my job between 2023 and 2025. just absolutely day and night.
tiredgenerally.bsky.social Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 1d
i dont think there’s ever been a point where corporate america has had a sincere sense of morality but it is probably a sign of the times that the culture at most major firms does not even pretend to encourage ethical behavior anymore. the transformation is really stark in tech.
November 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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downwithdan.bsky.social
lol she got his ass and he knows it
Joyce Carol Oates @Joyce... 17h O So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates— scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the "most wealthy person in the world." Elon Musk ' @elonmusk X.com Oates is a liar and delights in being mean. Not a good human.
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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jazzbot.bsky.social
“Generalissimo Zohran Mamdani”
November 8, 2025 at 5:35 PM
pseudospectre.bsky.social
I wasn’t expecting commentary on the weaving trade in Middlemarch
I see Vincy, the mayor of Middlemarch; they are probably his wife and son,' said Sir James, looking interrogatively at Mr Brooke, who nodded and said - 'Yes, a very decent family - a very good fellow is Vincy; a credit to the manufacturing interest. You have seen him at my house, you know.' 'Ah, yes: one of your secret committee,' said Mrs Cadwal- lader, provokingly. 'A coursing fellow, though,' said Sir James, with a fox-hunter's disgust. 'And one of those who suck the life out of the wretched hand- loom weavers in Tipton and Freshitt. That is how his family look so fair and sleek,' said Mrs Cadwallader. Those dark, purple-faced people are an excellent foil. Dear me, they are like a set of jugs! Do look at Humphrey: one might fancy him an ugly archangel towering above them in his white surplice.'
November 7, 2025 at 4:16 AM
pseudospectre.bsky.social
Family jumping their dying relative to negotiate their inheritance in Middlemarch
of half-mourning purple; while Mrs Vincy with her pink cheeks and pink ribbons flying was actually administering a cordial to their own brother, and the light-complexioned Fred, his short hair curling as might be expected in a gambler's, was lolling at his ease in a large chair. Old Featherstone no sooner caught sight of these funereal figures appearing in spite of his orders than rage came to strengthen him more successfully than the cordial. He was propped up on a bed-rest, and always had his gold-headed stick lying by him. He seized it now and swept it backwards and for- wards in as large an area as he could, apparently to ban these ugly spectres, crying in a hoarse sort of screech - 'Back, back, Mrs Waule! Back, Solomon!' 'Oh, Brother Peter,' Mrs Waule began - but Solomon put his hand before her repressingly. He was a large-cheeked man, nearly seventy, with small furtive eyes, and was not only of much blander temper but thought himself much deeper than his brother Peter; indeed not likely to be deceived in any of his fellow-men, inasmuch as they could not well be more greedy and deceitful than he suspected them of being. Even the invis- ible powers, he thought, were likely to be soothed by a bland parenthesis here and there - coming from a man of property, who might have been as impious as others. Brother Peter,' he said, in a wheedling yet gravely official tone, it's nothing but right I should speak to you about the Three Crofts and the Manganese.2 The Almighty knows what I've got on my mind...' 'Then He knows more than I want to know,' said Peter, laying down his stick with a show of truce which had a threat in it too, for he reversed the stick so as to make the gold handle a club in case of closer fighting, and looked hard at Solomon's bald head. There's things you might repent of, Brother, for want of speaking to me,' said Solomon, not advancing, however. 'I could sit up with you to-night, and Jane with me, willingly, and you might take your own time to spea…
November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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markjacob.bsky.social
Did the New York Times ruin journalism?
Interesting Times with Ross Douthat: Did Women Ruin the Workplace?
November 6, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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thomaszimmer.bsky.social
The New York Times quickly sending out Douthat to argue that Mamdani’s victory doesn’t really matter is so predictable it borders on self-parody.

Remember, folks: Every time the Right wins an election, it’s an undeniable expression of the will of the people. If a lefty wins, it’s just a blip.
Opinion | Mamdani’s Victory Is Less Significant Than You Think
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
The way all of these people convinced themselves that Mamdani is antisemitic is a subject far more worthy of media examination than any of the ‘groupthink on campuses!’ thinkpieces we’ve been subjected to
November 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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feelingtheory.bsky.social
But who would actually write such a ridiculous thi--
November 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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derek.bike
good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
guy said, “Do you like Marx?” I said, “I haven’t met him.” Guy said, “No, no, he’s dead.” “Wow, what happened?” “No, no, he died long ago.” I thought the guy Marx had just died. So then, “Why are you asking me if he died long ago?” “No, he wrote a lot. He wrote that poor people should not be poor.” I said, “Sounds amazing.” I’m giving you a sense of how naïve I was. After they left, I went to the library to look for Marx. So that was my introduction to Karl Marx. BS: The FBI. MM: The FBI. Then, of course, I took a class on Marx. Couldn’t just get Marx out of the library. But,
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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rachelgilmore.bsky.social
Dimitri Soudas, former Harper comms guy, told RadCan this morning that he's hearing Conservative MP Matt Jeneroux will cross the floor to the Liberals today.

If this happens, the Liberals are one seat short of a majority. You know what that means.

That's right.

Elizabeth May is Kingmaker.
November 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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nytpitchbot.bsky.social
Zohran Mamdani won. So why does it feel like he lost?
November 5, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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antlervel.vet
Subject: Brains/blowing out etc Hi Alan, Just circling back on this. Best, Stella
November 5, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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eldashraheb.bsky.social
If you’re still in line, STAY IN LINE
Dersh fantasizing about the Budd Dwyer special
November 5, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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davidwearing.bsky.social
The views of the average pro-Palestinian student broadly match what the academic literature says, what international courts say, what the relavant UN officials & orgs say and what the relevant NGOs say. It is views of Clinton and her peers in Western capitals which are largely divorced from reality.
flyingrodent.bsky.social flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 7d
What Hillary is saying here is a conspiracy theory and not even a tame, silly one, but a whopper. A more balefully consequential and widespread one than e.g. Trump complaining that the media lied about his crowds being big.
Hillary Clinton on the generational shift on Israel inside the Democrats. "We have done a miserable job teaching young people history. "And, you know, those of us who have lived through it, I went to Israel for the first time in 1980, so a long time ago, and I've been back many times. And obviously, you know, with my husband, deeply involved in all kinds of activities to support Israel and to try to be as helpful as possible. But it was astonishing to me because I had so many conversations, and frankly, they often started as confrontations with students, not just at Columbia, but elsewhere. "Where were they getting their information? They were getting it from social media. They were getting it most particularly from TikTok, which is governed by an algorithm until at least up till now, still largely manipulated by the Chinese Communist Party.
November 4, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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theonion.com
In Memoriam:

Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War
November 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
i'm a very biased party here but pretty much everything about the Mamdani campaign and the discourse around it thus far is a pretty thorough vindication of Africana Studies
hamiltonnolan.bsky.social Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 6d
It is worth saying that putting “Africana studies” in scare quotes as if it’s a ridiculous concept is not a political argument. It’s just racism. “Africa is not worthy of a major” is the implication. Yeah dude you’re just racist. (From Gerard Baker at the WSJ today)

www.wsj.com/opinion/mamd...
November 4, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
every science news article is like "chinese researchers invent cure for hurting your back getting out of bed" and every science policy news article is like "uncomfortable bed lobby successfully lobbies trump admin with $500 bribe"
November 3, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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gtconway.bsky.social
#Thugs

"Leaving his home in Ontario to work at a food bank Thursday morning, Carlos Jimenez pulled over to warn a group of federal agents that they should wrap up their stop of a car quickly because school-age children would soon gather there to take the bus, his lawyers said Sunday."
November 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM
pseudospectre.bsky.social
Journey of the Magi by TS Eliot
Journey of the Magi *A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter.' And the camels galled, sore-footed, refractory, Lying down in the melting snow. There were times we regretted The summer palaces on slopes, the terraces, And the silken girls bringing sherbet. Then the camel men cursing and grumbling And running away, and wanting their liquor and women, And the night-fires going out, and the lack of shelters, And the cities hostile and the towns unfriendly And the villages dirty and charging high prices: A hard time we had of it. At the end we preferred to travel all night, Sleeping in snatches, With the voices singing in our ears, saying That this was all folly. Then at dawn we came down to a temperate valley, Wet, below the snow line, smelling of vegetation; With a running stream and a water-mill beating the darkness, And three trees on the low sky, And an old white horse galloped away in the meadow. Then we came to a tavern with vine-leaves over the lintel, Six hands at an open door dicing for pieces of silver, And feet kicking the empty wine-skins. But there was no information, and so we continued
November 4, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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eyesontheright.bsky.social
Fry telling Bender (who looks incredibly beaten up), "You've been drinking too much, or too little. I forget how it works with you."
November 3, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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mtsw.bsky.social
The description could apply much better to Cuomo, who was a literal nepotism case and spent his career tearing down the postwar liberalism that made the US a superpower and that his father championed.
msignorile.bsky.social Michelangelo Signorile @msignorile.bsky.social · 7d
Another abominable editorial from the Wash Post
Wash post on Mamdani: The young politician wa born into a life of wealth and privilege, and from tht perch he adopted a worldview centered around destroying the economic system that made his adopted country thrive.
November 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM