@thomasmjabraham.bsky.social
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The United States doesn’t need Venezuela‘s oil it needs Venezuela to be punished for selling its oil to China and displaying a model for dollar independence btw
December 17, 2025 at 10:44 PM
The United States doesn’t need Venezuela‘s oil it needs Venezuela to be punished for selling its oil to China and displaying a model for dollar independence btw
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so wait, do you get worse at football as you get older? it seems to me like you would get better at it since you'd have more time to learn football facts
December 14, 2025 at 9:33 PM
so wait, do you get worse at football as you get older? it seems to me like you would get better at it since you'd have more time to learn football facts
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This is such patronising bullshit. We’re not aspiring to “unrealistic” things like a three-day work week, a holiday house and a pony. We want kids fed, a health system, a role in life for everyone. Those things aren’t unrealistic, they’re a *choice* successive governments are making to deny us.
"We've had a series of governments now who have encouraged people to be aspirational for New Zealand and have promised things that have been completely unrealistic. ... I'm not going to fall into that trap."
#NzPol
#NzPol
'Opportunity to stamp my own mark': Chris Hipkins promises a different Labour
The last election saw Labour's six years in government come to an end, and Hipkins returning to the opposition benches just 10 months after becoming prime minister.
www.rnz.co.nz
December 14, 2025 at 6:18 AM
This is such patronising bullshit. We’re not aspiring to “unrealistic” things like a three-day work week, a holiday house and a pony. We want kids fed, a health system, a role in life for everyone. Those things aren’t unrealistic, they’re a *choice* successive governments are making to deny us.
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has anyone else noticed that food tasted better in the past? it was mushy and easy to eat. and the spoon would come at you like an airplane
December 5, 2025 at 9:38 PM
has anyone else noticed that food tasted better in the past? it was mushy and easy to eat. and the spoon would come at you like an airplane
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you gotta remember that from a conservative perspective, these programs are a failure. they don't want to reduce homelessness, they want to punish homeless people. they'd pay 10x as much for that happily
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
December 3, 2025 at 7:51 AM
you gotta remember that from a conservative perspective, these programs are a failure. they don't want to reduce homelessness, they want to punish homeless people. they'd pay 10x as much for that happily
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Don't even have to pull up the ladder, the kids can't climb it
December 2, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Don't even have to pull up the ladder, the kids can't climb it
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client has a slight issue in that almost all of the under 30 college grads they've hired struggle in either writing a report or being able to condense a report down into a paragraph for people above them. like man this is your fucking job and you are googling "chatgpt ai environmental report help"
We now basically test people at interviews to make sure they'd have been good enough to be a 10th grader in 1999 lol
December 2, 2025 at 8:03 PM
client has a slight issue in that almost all of the under 30 college grads they've hired struggle in either writing a report or being able to condense a report down into a paragraph for people above them. like man this is your fucking job and you are googling "chatgpt ai environmental report help"
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We need a wealth tax, not just to be able to fund infrastructure and public services, but also because very rich people are a threat to democracy. And I don't just mean billionaires, who should not exist at all.
December 2, 2025 at 9:09 PM
We need a wealth tax, not just to be able to fund infrastructure and public services, but also because very rich people are a threat to democracy. And I don't just mean billionaires, who should not exist at all.
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"[T]he COP process is not simply failing to solve the climate crisis: It cannot solve the climate crisis ... [E]ffective responses are not compatible with the present system, because this system itself — its acceptable forms of political and economic organization — are the [crisis's] root causes."
COP30 isn’t a failure — it’s a farce. writes @petergelderloos.bsky.social as he unpacks the glossy PR of “Indigenous inclusion,” and the climate summit doing nothing to halt emissions or deforestation.
COP30 Isn't a Failure — It's a Farce
Why these climate summits can't solve the crisis—and why we should support Indigenous land struggles instead.
inthesetimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:01 PM
"[T]he COP process is not simply failing to solve the climate crisis: It cannot solve the climate crisis ... [E]ffective responses are not compatible with the present system, because this system itself — its acceptable forms of political and economic organization — are the [crisis's] root causes."
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Why does what other people claim to “sincerely believe” matter to my rights and liberties??
December 1, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Why does what other people claim to “sincerely believe” matter to my rights and liberties??
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people pirate most stuff when they're broke as shit and buy all they can when they're not, except for all the shit you can't see without piracy 'cause no one sells it. people pay when they have the cash and, increasingly, they have no cash. blame The End Of Mass Prosperity In The Imperial Core.
piracy discourse is so exhausting and passe, but i will observe that every truly great collector of physical media I know has a big harddrive of pirated books and movies. you literally cannot have one without the other
November 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
people pirate most stuff when they're broke as shit and buy all they can when they're not, except for all the shit you can't see without piracy 'cause no one sells it. people pay when they have the cash and, increasingly, they have no cash. blame The End Of Mass Prosperity In The Imperial Core.
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Will AI save money? Does it make work faster? Does it make work better? All of these questions are irrelevant when the person shoving it down your throat has millions invested in AI startups
November 27, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Will AI save money? Does it make work faster? Does it make work better? All of these questions are irrelevant when the person shoving it down your throat has millions invested in AI startups
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We grew up being told "you'll get more conservative as you age" but it turns out becoming more conservative isn't about aging it's about accruing wealth, which we didn't do as we aged because for most of us home ownership was out of reach
www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...
Millennials are the first generation to move left as they age, rewriting the rules of Australian politics | RNZ News
The trend has surprised the experts behind the study.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 26, 2025 at 10:58 PM
We grew up being told "you'll get more conservative as you age" but it turns out becoming more conservative isn't about aging it's about accruing wealth, which we didn't do as we aged because for most of us home ownership was out of reach
www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...
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I think a lot of people in the center genuinely mistake baseline leftists and progressives for like 60s era hippies instead of just boring professionals and blue collar workers who took Mr. Rogers shit seriously lol.
November 26, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I think a lot of people in the center genuinely mistake baseline leftists and progressives for like 60s era hippies instead of just boring professionals and blue collar workers who took Mr. Rogers shit seriously lol.
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isaac chotiner came to my house and tricked me into admitting we weren’t out of ice cream in front of my five year old daughter
November 25, 2025 at 2:33 AM
isaac chotiner came to my house and tricked me into admitting we weren’t out of ice cream in front of my five year old daughter
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A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys)
November 15, 2025 at 5:52 PM
A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys)
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i can handle this one: it is because he is an illiterate boer ape
I know there a thousand other points to make here, but: why did Musk put a picture of the Odyssey in a thread about the Iliad?
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 2:56 AM
i can handle this one: it is because he is an illiterate boer ape
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“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 3:05 AM
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
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this is literally never not accurate
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
this is literally never not accurate
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Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
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just started having recency bias and i love it. easily the best bias
August 12, 2023 at 6:04 PM
just started having recency bias and i love it. easily the best bias
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Why is it important to have a history curriculum that accurately represents WW2 (unlike the proposed proto-nazi one?) we have a museum with an SS exhibit, there was a ski run named after an SS soldier. Our minister of defense explicitly cites fucking Rommel as an inspiration. The Nazis are here.
November 3, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Why is it important to have a history curriculum that accurately represents WW2 (unlike the proposed proto-nazi one?) we have a museum with an SS exhibit, there was a ski run named after an SS soldier. Our minister of defense explicitly cites fucking Rommel as an inspiration. The Nazis are here.
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The “Person who wants a political party to lose describes what that political party must do to win” genre of article is just incredibly insulting to everyone’s intelligence yet it will persist until the end of time
November 2, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The “Person who wants a political party to lose describes what that political party must do to win” genre of article is just incredibly insulting to everyone’s intelligence yet it will persist until the end of time
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They see casual masculinity and how effortless it comes to certain men and covet the way it makes others sit up and pay attention. So they drape themselves in the trappings, and are left looking like they’re wearing their dad’s ill-fitting suit and beard. Going for Don Draper and hitting Don Knotts.
November 3, 2025 at 12:55 AM
They see casual masculinity and how effortless it comes to certain men and covet the way it makes others sit up and pay attention. So they drape themselves in the trappings, and are left looking like they’re wearing their dad’s ill-fitting suit and beard. Going for Don Draper and hitting Don Knotts.