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Rhys Needham
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Je Suis Marxiste, Tendance Harpo (...movie star, movie star...)

Mostly Harmless. Panicking optional.

Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.

Ex-Douglas Bader Meinhof Gang.

Yasser (Arafat), I can boogie all night long.

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meanwhile, the fiume avant-garde lady of the NYC New Right thinks Mamdani is going to cause an artistic revolution for reactionaries
Mamdani is going to create an Eccentric Right. The opposition to him well inspire a creative movement that has not been seen since St. Marks Place in the 70s. We will blur all political lines and have fun. No dumb women and no gooners ever again. Their days are finished. If you can’t get offline to do anything, you don’t exist in NYC. You are pixels and nothing else. Your memes are stale. Your vitality is lacking. We will rise through your ashes. A new creative class is about to launch
November 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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I am not a crazy ideologue. I just think that the richest society in human history has a moral responsibility to welcome the stranger, feed the hungry, treat the sick, and house the homeless. If doing that requires forcing comfortably-housed people to accept neighborhood change, I'm ok with that.
alerigolon.bsky.social Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 9h
Probably the key part of this piece. It comes down to the following: "What does prioritizing millionaire homeowners’ aversion to change over the needs of the poor and unhoused do to our souls?"
"Those of us who do housing reform work in California do not have the luxury of that distance. Many of us struggle to afford housing. Nearly all of us have friends who have moved away due to the high cost of rent or the seeming impossibility of becoming a homeowner. We constantly bear witness to the suffering of the tens of thousands of people who are forced to sleep outside every night and live with the knowledge that many of them die every day. This close proximity to the human costs of California’s disastrous housing policy, combined with experience of listening to housing opponents’ arguments, focuses the mind and clarifies the stakes. While I understand and admire Marohn’s desire to give people the benefit of the doubt, it cannot survive contact with California housing opponents’ words and actions. What are we supposed to say about people who wait hours to speak in opposition to affordable farmworker housing in downtown Half Moon Bay because it might make it harder for them to park their cars, or who scream at public officials who propose converting an existing motel to homeless housing? What do we make of people who live near UC Berkeley—where one in ten students experience homelessness—and sue to block the construction of a dorm because the students might be loud? What should I think about a city council member who brags about building fewer homes for needy families to mollify her constituents who dislike mid-rise buildings? Should housing advocates continue to seek compromise with NIMBYs who understand perfectly well that endlessly dragging out the entitlement and permitting process with bad-faith demands for further project-level public input can kill projects’ financial feasibility? Is YIMBY rhetoric painting these people as obstacles to housing really the problem here, or is their rigid dedication to the status quo in the face of so much suffering the problem? What does prioritizing millionaire homeowners’ aversion to change over the needs of the poor …
November 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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HORRIBLE TAKE
November 11, 2025 at 1:46 AM
rhysneedham.bsky.social
There's a good chance he does read books. He just doesn't understand them and cherry-picks out the bits he likes around it all.
akelacooper.bsky.social Akela Cooper @akelacooper.bsky.social · 11h
Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.
Screenshot of a tweet from Joyce Carol Oates posted on Sunday, November 9th that reads "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."
November 11, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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lordbusinessman.bsky.social
I mean I sleep in a big bed with my wife, my kids love me, and my dick works, of course I'm happier than Elon Musk
akelacooper.bsky.social Akela Cooper @akelacooper.bsky.social · 11h
Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.
Screenshot of a tweet from Joyce Carol Oates posted on Sunday, November 9th that reads "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."
November 11, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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dennycarter.bsky.social
(She made a point about Musk that way too often goes without saying: He is a totally joyless man, so miserable he can hardly tolerate himself)
November 11, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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dennycarter.bsky.social
so joyce carol oates owned elon so hard he's been taking out ads on X saying he has in fact read a book and watched a movie and he's clearly spiraling and unable to recover from such a vicious own i say to my wife as she frantically pulls out of the driveway
November 11, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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jessehawken.bsky.social
this is why Canadians complain about American politics so much btw
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16h
WASHINGTON (AP) — Canada has lost its measles elimination status because of continued spread, international health experts say.
November 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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beijingpalmer.bsky.social
also he's pathetically unable to say anything actually interesting or memorable about them or that indicates he had some kind of human reaction.
razzball.bsky.social Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 15h
Joyce Carol Oates owned Elon so hard he's spent the last day posting about movies he hasn't seen in 15 years
cinesthetic. @ @TheCinesthetic - 6h Edge of Tomorrow (2014) was sunk by confusing marketing and a forgettable title, yet it turned out to be one of the smartest and most entertaining sci-fi films of the last decade. Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt at their absolute best. 5 cinesthetic. © @TheCinesthetic - 14h What film have you gone into absolutely expecting to hate but that ended up pleasantly surprising you the most? 303 t7 703 • 15K Elon Musk • Great movie 9 98 17 47 0 cinesthetic. @@TheCinesthetic - 1d Man on Fire (2004) sits at 38% on Rotten Tomatoes, proof that critics don't always see the vision. Tony Scott turned vengeance into poetry, and Denzel Washington gave one of his most quietly devastating performances. cinesthetic. • @TheCinesthetic-2d What's your favorite movie with a "rotten" (below 60%) rating on Rotten Tomatoes? © 44к ni 217K 贝 Elon Musk • x 2 @elonmusk - 16m Man on Fire is great! • 64 to 16 • 187
November 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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razzball.bsky.social
Joyce Carol Oates owned Elon so hard he's spent the last day posting about movies he hasn't seen in 15 years
cinesthetic. @ @TheCinesthetic - 6h Edge of Tomorrow (2014) was sunk by confusing marketing and a forgettable title, yet it turned out to be one of the smartest and most entertaining sci-fi films of the last decade. Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt at their absolute best. 5 cinesthetic. © @TheCinesthetic - 14h What film have you gone into absolutely expecting to hate but that ended up pleasantly surprising you the most? 303 t7 703 • 15K Elon Musk • Great movie 9 98 17 47 0 cinesthetic. @@TheCinesthetic - 1d Man on Fire (2004) sits at 38% on Rotten Tomatoes, proof that critics don't always see the vision. Tony Scott turned vengeance into poetry, and Denzel Washington gave one of his most quietly devastating performances. cinesthetic. • @TheCinesthetic-2d What's your favorite movie with a "rotten" (below 60%) rating on Rotten Tomatoes? © 44к ni 217K 贝 Elon Musk • x 2 @elonmusk - 16m Man on Fire is great! • 64 to 16 • 187
November 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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maiamindel.bsky.social
why do we have leo strauss and martin heidegger wojaks, so we can make stupid memes about hannah arendt's dating life in the 1940s?
November 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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mtsw.bsky.social
Was the CPSC guy deemed an essential employee who wasn't furloughed or were these shitposts scheduled like 6 weeks in advance?
November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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wood-mousse.bsky.social
The thing about Marxism is that it is an ideology of political economy more dependent on graphs and spreadsheets than almost any other. So it's not great that so many self-professed leftists seem so hell-bent on hating the idea of graphs. Makes you think they're in it for something else...
wilgieseler.com Wil Gieseler @wilgieseler.com · 1d
defining the economy is capitalist propaganda, as is measuring it with graphs. also, the economy is bad and used to be better and everyone knows it.
November 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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apparatchikwannabe.bsky.social
politics approach their final form:
“we should improve society somewhat” and “yet you live in society” teaming up against “we should destroy society”
segyges.bsky.social SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 1d
chait's a smart guy who happens to be somewhat conservative. i think we got him in the divorce
November 10, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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theonion.com
Hungover Egyptologist Just Gonna Call In Cursed Today
Hungover Egyptologist Just Gonna Call In Cursed Today
CAIRO—Admitting he was unable to face a lengthy session of indexing artifacts after drinking too much the night before, hungover Egyptologist Henry Chapman confirmed Tuesday he was just gonna call in ...
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November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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ARP vs MEGHA Cricket Scorecard, Plate Group at Surat, November 08 - 10, 2025
Live Cricket Scoreboard: Get Arunachal Pradesh vs Meghalaya Plate Group, cricket scorecard, Ranji Trophy 2025/26 dated November 08 - 10, 2025.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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acscricket.bsky.social
Arunachal Pradesh are the whipping boys of the Ranji Plate (bottom division).

In 2023/24, they conceded the fastest 300 and most sixes in an inns to Hyderabad's Tanmay Agarwal.

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stats.acscricket.com/Records/Firs...

#FirstClassCricket #IndianCricket #RanjiTrophy
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November 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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And in 2024/25 Arunachal Pradesh were on the wrong end of the second-highest third-wicket partnership, 606* by Goa's Kashyap Bakhle and Snehal Kauthankar. Goa declared, unaware they were 19 short of a world record.

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#FirstClassCricket #IndianCricket #RanjiTrophy
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November 10, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Akash Choudhary has scored first-class cricket's fastest fifty off 11 balls (beating 12) hitting a record eight successive sixes (beating six) for Meghalaya v Arunachal Pradesh.

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stats.acscricket.com/Records/Firs...

#FirstClassCricket #IndianCricket #RanjiTrophy
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November 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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mbkplus.bsky.social
The vast majority of homeowners with fire insurance never file a claim but we don't say fire insurance is a bad idea. Having the insurance *is* using the system. And I think that people actually understand this *because everyone needs health insurance*
crampell.bsky.social Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 17h
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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stephenkb.bsky.social
This in turn deepens a dynamic of 'MY side is poorly represented - why does that CRANK always get on?' when you have hot button debates largely discussed by people who are not fluent in the actual topic but are reciting talking points, often poorly.
adamcobb.bsky.social Adam @adamcobb.bsky.social · 17h
it‘s also changed the incentives a bit. You don’t get on a programme by leading a campaign or having expertise in an area, you get on it by saying something a bit spicy on Twitter before 11am in the hope that an overworked 24 year old researcher books you.
November 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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stephenkb.bsky.social
I agree with this, but I think if the BBC were better led, it would make fewer culpable errors and it would both directly and indirectly be better placed to fight the real and concerted campaign against it.
robertshrimsley.bsky.social Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 19h
The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
November 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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afaulds.bsky.social
Relatedly, I really hate seeing the affected internet leftist cynicism of "young people who are into politics are weird and it anything we should discourage them" takes, another instance of actually just mystifying and wonkifying political involvement and making the claim a self fulfilling prophecy
afaulds.bsky.social Allan Faulds @afaulds.bsky.social · 18h
Speaking as the former Co-Convener of a political party youth wing, I will die in the ditch of "youth wings are good, actually": the Scottish Greens got 8 solid years of quite intense activism out of me it'd have never have got had the Scottish Young Greens not existed and drawn me in!
dov.bsky.social Dunland National Party 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 20h
Like I'm sorry but the average 20 year old wants to hang out with other 20 year olds, not old people. This is a societally universal phenomenon that has to be adjusted to, not "why won't people just"-ed
November 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Claude Ennui

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November 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM