Rambling Wreck
@ramblingwreck.bsky.social
Average Joe, internet addict, and part time dreamer. "Do you even know how bad things have to be, to make *me* pay attention to politics?" is my life-story now.
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Rambling Wreck
@ramblingwreck.bsky.social
· Nov 22
If anyone wonders why I left the previous mess behind, this comic about sums it up...⬇️ My exit was not a sudden whim. It was thought-out and long delayed choice. Twitter/X had already reached "coyote ugly" territory a loooong time ago.😑 #exodus #TwitterRefugee #Bluesky #BlueskySocial #blueskyapp
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Good. It’s horrific how other platforms abused their reach to strangle local, independent, and national outlets alike.
I WANT to see news and actual vetted work and I WANT journalists to get rewarded for it.
Because I want to live in a thinking human world over some AI generated slop dystopia
I WANT to see news and actual vetted work and I WANT journalists to get rewarded for it.
Because I want to live in a thinking human world over some AI generated slop dystopia
November 27, 2024 at 1:38 AM
Good. It’s horrific how other platforms abused their reach to strangle local, independent, and national outlets alike.
I WANT to see news and actual vetted work and I WANT journalists to get rewarded for it.
Because I want to live in a thinking human world over some AI generated slop dystopia
I WANT to see news and actual vetted work and I WANT journalists to get rewarded for it.
Because I want to live in a thinking human world over some AI generated slop dystopia
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Well, when put it that way…
November 27, 2024 at 12:52 AM
Well, when put it that way…
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"Donald, go ahead and try to rewrite history. Use your platform to deflect blame, point fingers, and play the victim. But the evidence speaks louder than your words. History will remember the January 6 Committee as defenders of democracy—and you, as a man who betrayed it."
Adam Kinzinger
Adam Kinzinger
December 11, 2024 at 1:57 AM
"Donald, go ahead and try to rewrite history. Use your platform to deflect blame, point fingers, and play the victim. But the evidence speaks louder than your words. History will remember the January 6 Committee as defenders of democracy—and you, as a man who betrayed it."
Adam Kinzinger
Adam Kinzinger
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"...the growing attacks in the farmlands are having an impact on food production as women stay away from the fields. As a result, some food prices have increased by 50% in the last eight months." - @philipobaji.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘They turn our farms into rape centres’: Russian mercenaries accused of abuse in Central African Republic
A rise in sexual violence means food prices have leapt in CAR as women and girls say they fear working in the fields
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2024 at 9:20 PM
"...the growing attacks in the farmlands are having an impact on food production as women stay away from the fields. As a result, some food prices have increased by 50% in the last eight months." - @philipobaji.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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The piece has tons of devastating details about Hegseth's many, many disqualifying personal traits, but we shouldn't overlook the parts about how he has repeatedly mismanaged every single organization he's led and been driven out of job after job for utter incompetence.
Yikes. A racist, drunken, sexual predator. "A different former employee described Hegseth being at a bar in the early-morning hours of May 29, 2015, while on an official tour through Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, drunkenly chanting “Kill All Muslims! Kill All Muslims!” www.newyorker.com/news/news-de...
Pete Hegseth’s Secret History
A whistle-blower report and other documents suggest that Trump’s nominee to run the Pentagon was forced out of previous leadership positions for financial mismanagement, sexist behavior, and being rep...
www.newyorker.com
December 2, 2024 at 1:19 PM
The piece has tons of devastating details about Hegseth's many, many disqualifying personal traits, but we shouldn't overlook the parts about how he has repeatedly mismanaged every single organization he's led and been driven out of job after job for utter incompetence.
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¯\_(ツ)_/¯ www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
December 2, 2024 at 1:39 PM
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Coates: Are you ok with the pardon of Hunter Biden?
Clyburn: I am absolutely okay with it. I don't know how many people urged him to do so, but I did.
Clyburn: I am absolutely okay with it. I don't know how many people urged him to do so, but I did.
December 4, 2024 at 4:57 AM
Coates: Are you ok with the pardon of Hunter Biden?
Clyburn: I am absolutely okay with it. I don't know how many people urged him to do so, but I did.
Clyburn: I am absolutely okay with it. I don't know how many people urged him to do so, but I did.
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“Whaler? What Whaler?”
My Boyfriend is a Shark Ep#117
Design by Liz Ransdell
Art by Atlas Talos
@thesharkqueen.com
@atlastalos.bsky.social
Check out all your faves from the gang at mbfias.com today!
My Boyfriend is a Shark Ep#117
Design by Liz Ransdell
Art by Atlas Talos
@thesharkqueen.com
@atlastalos.bsky.social
Check out all your faves from the gang at mbfias.com today!
November 29, 2024 at 6:48 PM
“Whaler? What Whaler?”
My Boyfriend is a Shark Ep#117
Design by Liz Ransdell
Art by Atlas Talos
@thesharkqueen.com
@atlastalos.bsky.social
Check out all your faves from the gang at mbfias.com today!
My Boyfriend is a Shark Ep#117
Design by Liz Ransdell
Art by Atlas Talos
@thesharkqueen.com
@atlastalos.bsky.social
Check out all your faves from the gang at mbfias.com today!
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Authoritarian regimes being inefficient isn’t new, but I do wonder if the current wave of global reaction, being motivated by things like education polarization and anti-cosmopolitanism, doesn’t actively select against competence in many ways.
December 3, 2024 at 7:39 PM
Authoritarian regimes being inefficient isn’t new, but I do wonder if the current wave of global reaction, being motivated by things like education polarization and anti-cosmopolitanism, doesn’t actively select against competence in many ways.
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When very very smart people are authoritarians, it's usually because they have some sort of emotional issue.
December 3, 2024 at 7:49 PM
When very very smart people are authoritarians, it's usually because they have some sort of emotional issue.
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A really smart person doesn't want to be an authoritarian except in very strange circumstances, because the default optimal lifestyle is extremely high prosperity with extremely low responsibility.
Authoritarian regimes being inefficient isn’t new, but I do wonder if the current wave of global reaction, being motivated by things like education polarization and anti-cosmopolitanism, doesn’t actively select against competence in many ways.
December 3, 2024 at 7:49 PM
A really smart person doesn't want to be an authoritarian except in very strange circumstances, because the default optimal lifestyle is extremely high prosperity with extremely low responsibility.
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Trump offers Pentagon’s No. 2 job to billionaire Stephen Feinberg
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Trump offers Pentagon’s No. 2 job to billionaire Stephen Feinberg
The search for a capable deputy defense secretary has taken on heightened significance as lawmakers scrutinize Pete Hegseth, Trump’s choice to lead the agency.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 3, 2024 at 7:49 PM
Trump offers Pentagon’s No. 2 job to billionaire Stephen Feinberg
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Welp, America chose fascism. But the rejection of liberal democracy didn’t start with DJT; it’s been taking shape for decades. @mayagurantz & @gynostar sort out how things went so horribly wrong, in this election cycle and over the last 40 years. Is our political system broken? What do we do now?
WTF Happened?
Welp, America has chosen fascism. But the rejection of liberal democracy didn’t start with Donald Trump; it’s been taking shape for decades. Maya and Rebecca sort out how things went so…
www.saucepodcast.com
November 21, 2024 at 5:15 PM
Welp, America chose fascism. But the rejection of liberal democracy didn’t start with DJT; it’s been taking shape for decades. @mayagurantz & @gynostar sort out how things went so horribly wrong, in this election cycle and over the last 40 years. Is our political system broken? What do we do now?
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I'm begging you, stop hyperfocusing on Washington politics. You can't affect it & it's dealing you persistent psychic damage. Your doomscrolling is not serving you.
Focus on your town. Your city council. Find meetups. Spend your time on your ACTUAL community. If shit goes raw they're your lifeline.
Focus on your town. Your city council. Find meetups. Spend your time on your ACTUAL community. If shit goes raw they're your lifeline.
November 23, 2024 at 2:28 AM
I'm begging you, stop hyperfocusing on Washington politics. You can't affect it & it's dealing you persistent psychic damage. Your doomscrolling is not serving you.
Focus on your town. Your city council. Find meetups. Spend your time on your ACTUAL community. If shit goes raw they're your lifeline.
Focus on your town. Your city council. Find meetups. Spend your time on your ACTUAL community. If shit goes raw they're your lifeline.
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hard to exaggerate how nuts the engagement is on Bluesky compared to 𝕏. a vastly smaller user base (at least officially), but just look at these stats for one of the biggest newspapers on Earth. Musk has absolutely trashed the platform. folks, you are not locked in on 𝕏. not even a little.
November 23, 2024 at 9:21 AM
hard to exaggerate how nuts the engagement is on Bluesky compared to 𝕏. a vastly smaller user base (at least officially), but just look at these stats for one of the biggest newspapers on Earth. Musk has absolutely trashed the platform. folks, you are not locked in on 𝕏. not even a little.
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There’s a reason people love these stories.
November 24, 2024 at 3:37 PM
There’s a reason people love these stories.
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The whole first half of the MCU sees Tony so fucked by his trauma that he creates a murderbot that almost causes an extinction level event! T’Chaka has to deal with the arrogance & isolationism of his ancestors! Natasha was brainwashed! Thor has PTSD! Bruce is a literal rage monster!!!
November 24, 2024 at 3:36 PM
The whole first half of the MCU sees Tony so fucked by his trauma that he creates a murderbot that almost causes an extinction level event! T’Chaka has to deal with the arrogance & isolationism of his ancestors! Natasha was brainwashed! Thor has PTSD! Bruce is a literal rage monster!!!
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To be clear, a bad critical reading of a pop culture tentpole is the least of the sins Dr. Brainworm committed with that inanity. But I just had to say something.
November 24, 2024 at 3:34 PM
To be clear, a bad critical reading of a pop culture tentpole is the least of the sins Dr. Brainworm committed with that inanity. But I just had to say something.
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Of the million things wrong with this — much of it rising to pure evil — a very obvious one is that the whole theme of the MCU is that not even superheroes are immune to emotional pain, trauma, failure, etc. And that it has massive, wide-ranging, generational repercussions.
Trump HHS nominee RFK Jr.:
If you give Black children “resilience” then “the inevitable racism” will “bounce off” them like they are “the Avengers” because “they will be immune to it” and “then we don’t have to stop racism altogether, because we’re never going to be able to do that.”
If you give Black children “resilience” then “the inevitable racism” will “bounce off” them like they are “the Avengers” because “they will be immune to it” and “then we don’t have to stop racism altogether, because we’re never going to be able to do that.”
November 24, 2024 at 3:32 PM
Of the million things wrong with this — much of it rising to pure evil — a very obvious one is that the whole theme of the MCU is that not even superheroes are immune to emotional pain, trauma, failure, etc. And that it has massive, wide-ranging, generational repercussions.
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The whole "echo chamber" discourse is rooted in the premise that people won't be exposed to or have to engage with opposing views if they don't see them on this one particular social media app. As if Thanksgiving with your family weren't even a thing.
November 24, 2024 at 5:27 PM
The whole "echo chamber" discourse is rooted in the premise that people won't be exposed to or have to engage with opposing views if they don't see them on this one particular social media app. As if Thanksgiving with your family weren't even a thing.
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Okay, Skeeters. What's your strategy for dealing with relatives who, shall we say, have different politics than you? Do you try enforce a "no politics at family gatherings" rule? Just ignore them? Dump all the gravy in their lap and storm out?
It feels like every approach has a down side.
It feels like every approach has a down side.
November 26, 2024 at 9:47 PM
Okay, Skeeters. What's your strategy for dealing with relatives who, shall we say, have different politics than you? Do you try enforce a "no politics at family gatherings" rule? Just ignore them? Dump all the gravy in their lap and storm out?
It feels like every approach has a down side.
It feels like every approach has a down side.
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In case you needed a good example of America's collective brain disease: I just witnessed an argument on the NYC subway, in which a woman with a thick foreign accent taunted a woman who appeared to be American born by saying, "Trump is back. They're closing the border. Just wait. Trump is back."
December 2, 2024 at 3:25 PM
In case you needed a good example of America's collective brain disease: I just witnessed an argument on the NYC subway, in which a woman with a thick foreign accent taunted a woman who appeared to be American born by saying, "Trump is back. They're closing the border. Just wait. Trump is back."
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Donald Trump has, once again, wiggled his way out of a jam.
@jaywillis.net joined me to talk about the indefinitely postponement of Trump's sentencing, the fight to confirm judges in the Senate and whether or not Sotomayor should retire:
www.insurgentspod.com/p/ep-331-tru...
@jaywillis.net joined me to talk about the indefinitely postponement of Trump's sentencing, the fight to confirm judges in the Senate and whether or not Sotomayor should retire:
www.insurgentspod.com/p/ep-331-tru...
Ep. 331: Trump Gets Off Again ft. Jay Willis
Donald Trump has, yet again, wiggled his way out of a jam.
www.insurgentspod.com
November 22, 2024 at 11:17 PM
Donald Trump has, once again, wiggled his way out of a jam.
@jaywillis.net joined me to talk about the indefinitely postponement of Trump's sentencing, the fight to confirm judges in the Senate and whether or not Sotomayor should retire:
www.insurgentspod.com/p/ep-331-tru...
@jaywillis.net joined me to talk about the indefinitely postponement of Trump's sentencing, the fight to confirm judges in the Senate and whether or not Sotomayor should retire:
www.insurgentspod.com/p/ep-331-tru...