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that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth
that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth
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@vchaud.bsky.social
· Jan 18
Here's the thing: I really am not interested right now in having a lot of followers - and unless we have something in common (as I privately ascertain) I'll probably block you. A heads up. If bluesky had a private mode, I would use it.
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#PudgyHorse Lascaux Tribute 2. A companion piece to the first, following one of the other cave horses with a darker colour morph. Again, painted with pigments made by Mary Sanche from Cretaceous rocks from the Albertan badlands. From 2020.
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December 6, 2025 at 3:26 AM
#PudgyHorse Lascaux Tribute 2. A companion piece to the first, following one of the other cave horses with a darker colour morph. Again, painted with pigments made by Mary Sanche from Cretaceous rocks from the Albertan badlands. From 2020.
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In a world where much of the current governing US elite has been driven insane through decades of being very online some of the best analysts of US elite behaviour are people like Mihnea who have detailed knowledge of the internet spaces that drove them round the bend
People ignore how much this is led by admin sclerosis and 4chan R interns wanting to brag to their chat buddies in Europe that they are gonna save them from the globalist filth
Much of all public online nature of this admin is that all interns are Nazi /pol/ posters
Much of all public online nature of this admin is that all interns are Nazi /pol/ posters
The headline, the main takeaway from a European viewpoint is this:
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
December 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
In a world where much of the current governing US elite has been driven insane through decades of being very online some of the best analysts of US elite behaviour are people like Mihnea who have detailed knowledge of the internet spaces that drove them round the bend
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Keystone Kash, his girlfriend, and her friends having the time of their lives using and abusing taxpayer funded resources and civil servants. www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...
December 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Keystone Kash, his girlfriend, and her friends having the time of their lives using and abusing taxpayer funded resources and civil servants. www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...
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"All is lost" narratives are popular because people generally do not want to take action. Taking action is tiring so if all is lost, you are off the hook. Nothing is more seductive than not having to do anything.
December 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
"All is lost" narratives are popular because people generally do not want to take action. Taking action is tiring so if all is lost, you are off the hook. Nothing is more seductive than not having to do anything.
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The lack of curiosity about the world, the insanely petty infighting about shit that doesn't matter, the attitude of superiority to anything and anyone that doesn't match their ideas about how the world is supposed to work: not a fan
December 5, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The lack of curiosity about the world, the insanely petty infighting about shit that doesn't matter, the attitude of superiority to anything and anyone that doesn't match their ideas about how the world is supposed to work: not a fan
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So, you know how people say stuff like, "just repost this & you'll have supported journalism"?
But this time... it's literally true!
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let's make this go viral!
But this time... it's literally true!
Russ has offered to donate to Bolts for each repost this ⬇️ gets or each follow @boltsmag.org gets—up to a sum way higher than we're at.
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December 4, 2025 at 6:09 PM
So, you know how people say stuff like, "just repost this & you'll have supported journalism"?
But this time... it's literally true!
Russ has offered to donate to Bolts for each repost this ⬇️ gets or each follow @boltsmag.org gets—up to a sum way higher than we're at.
let's make this go viral!
But this time... it's literally true!
Russ has offered to donate to Bolts for each repost this ⬇️ gets or each follow @boltsmag.org gets—up to a sum way higher than we're at.
let's make this go viral!
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It may get significantly more difficult over the next three years to get vaccines in the United States.
Which is shocking and devastating.
People will die.
Which is shocking and devastating.
People will die.
December 3, 2025 at 8:31 PM
It may get significantly more difficult over the next three years to get vaccines in the United States.
Which is shocking and devastating.
People will die.
Which is shocking and devastating.
People will die.
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ICE heads to Minnesota as the triple dip polar vortex starts
December 4, 2025 at 12:47 PM
ICE heads to Minnesota as the triple dip polar vortex starts
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BREAKING!! Jan 6 pipe bomb suspect arrested
YouTube video by Scott MacFarlane CBS
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December 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Epstein filings: today in DC the Oversight Committee "received records from J.P. Morgan and Deutsche Bank. Oversight Democrats intend to release files to the public after review in the days ahead." But what about files from Bank of America & BNY Mellon? #OCCcoverup innercitypress.com/jpmchase2eps...
December 3, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Epstein filings: today in DC the Oversight Committee "received records from J.P. Morgan and Deutsche Bank. Oversight Democrats intend to release files to the public after review in the days ahead." But what about files from Bank of America & BNY Mellon? #OCCcoverup innercitypress.com/jpmchase2eps...
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The U.S. is the only democracy in the world with:
- Lifetime terms for high court judges
- An electoral college for choosing an executive
- A legislative chamber where legislative minorities routinely and permanently thwart legislative majorities
- 75% requirements for constitutional amendments
- Lifetime terms for high court judges
- An electoral college for choosing an executive
- A legislative chamber where legislative minorities routinely and permanently thwart legislative majorities
- 75% requirements for constitutional amendments
December 3, 2025 at 2:53 PM
The U.S. is the only democracy in the world with:
- Lifetime terms for high court judges
- An electoral college for choosing an executive
- A legislative chamber where legislative minorities routinely and permanently thwart legislative majorities
- 75% requirements for constitutional amendments
- Lifetime terms for high court judges
- An electoral college for choosing an executive
- A legislative chamber where legislative minorities routinely and permanently thwart legislative majorities
- 75% requirements for constitutional amendments
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FDA Approves New Drug That Reverses Effects Of Narcan
FDA Approves New Drug That Reverses Effects Of Narcan
SILVER SPRING, MD—Praising the drug’s ability to quickly and effectively increase fatalities amongst the nation’s opioid users, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a new nasal spray Wednesd...
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December 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
FDA Approves New Drug That Reverses Effects Of Narcan
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a cartoon of a boy reading a book surrounded by books .
ALT: a cartoon of a boy reading a book surrounded by books .
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December 2, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Calling all #MastersDegree and #PhD students in subjects related to our press. Remember to submit your applications for our annual book grant before the end of the year. You could win $500-worth of our titles to help your studies. Full details here. www.gorgiaspress.com/gorgias-book... #grants
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Even by the standards of The Atlantic, this is an extraordinarily weak evidence base for an article.
Data from a tiny handful of schools that isn't measuring the variable at issue and a few thin, secondhand anecdotes.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Data from a tiny handful of schools that isn't measuring the variable at issue and a few thin, secondhand anecdotes.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
December 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Even by the standards of The Atlantic, this is an extraordinarily weak evidence base for an article.
Data from a tiny handful of schools that isn't measuring the variable at issue and a few thin, secondhand anecdotes.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Data from a tiny handful of schools that isn't measuring the variable at issue and a few thin, secondhand anecdotes.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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An easy way to explain luddites:
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
December 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
An easy way to explain luddites:
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
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Either that 2nd instructor, or another mentor of the grad student's, could have conferred with the department chair and apprised her/him/them of the situation. It's the chair's responsibility to have a solid grasp of the narrative and to be prepared to communicate it to admin. 4/x
December 2, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Either that 2nd instructor, or another mentor of the grad student's, could have conferred with the department chair and apprised her/him/them of the situation. It's the chair's responsibility to have a solid grasp of the narrative and to be prepared to communicate it to admin. 4/x
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And we'll have to get people to care about the dreadfully boring topic of *procurement capture*
Because that's how the surveillance monster is getting built: guys like Peter Thiel are writing themselves government contracts to slurp up gov data and circumvent the data partitions the law requires
Because that's how the surveillance monster is getting built: guys like Peter Thiel are writing themselves government contracts to slurp up gov data and circumvent the data partitions the law requires
Understanding DOGE as Procurement Capture - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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December 1, 2025 at 4:19 AM
And we'll have to get people to care about the dreadfully boring topic of *procurement capture*
Because that's how the surveillance monster is getting built: guys like Peter Thiel are writing themselves government contracts to slurp up gov data and circumvent the data partitions the law requires
Because that's how the surveillance monster is getting built: guys like Peter Thiel are writing themselves government contracts to slurp up gov data and circumvent the data partitions the law requires
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one reason "great power competition" is a bad description of the emerging order is that an interlinked global kleptocracy does not care about national interests or rivalries
Extraordinary WSJ reporting today that unveils the extent to which Trump, Witkoff, Kushner and US business executives are salivating over business deals with Russia while Putin’s forces kidnap Ukranian children and bomb civilians in their apartments.
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
November 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
one reason "great power competition" is a bad description of the emerging order is that an interlinked global kleptocracy does not care about national interests or rivalries
So Tom Woznicska is in a French series with this description: "A woman discovers the world's greatest wine collection that's left by her estranged father and competes against his protege to claim her inheritance." Being in a netflix show will increase audience awareness of him for sure #HATM
December 1, 2025 at 1:55 AM
So Tom Woznicska is in a French series with this description: "A woman discovers the world's greatest wine collection that's left by her estranged father and competes against his protege to claim her inheritance." Being in a netflix show will increase audience awareness of him for sure #HATM
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The brief discussion of the Hebrew is also just not true. It treats the prepositional כנגדו (comparative prepositional prefix; נגד, also a preposition meaning opposite, corresponding to, in front of, facing, etc; then the third person possessive suffix) as if it were a noun without any citations
November 29, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The brief discussion of the Hebrew is also just not true. It treats the prepositional כנגדו (comparative prepositional prefix; נגד, also a preposition meaning opposite, corresponding to, in front of, facing, etc; then the third person possessive suffix) as if it were a noun without any citations
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News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
November 29, 2025 at 11:48 PM
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
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"No ceiling" results in what we have: a couple dozen psychopaths control several trillion dollars and the power has made them go stark raving mad. They are obsessed with using their concentrated wealth to punish the population and remake the country into a failed state and international pariah.
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
November 30, 2025 at 6:30 PM
"No ceiling" results in what we have: a couple dozen psychopaths control several trillion dollars and the power has made them go stark raving mad. They are obsessed with using their concentrated wealth to punish the population and remake the country into a failed state and international pariah.
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Nov. 30, 1925: Yoshiko Kawashima, a Chinese princess living in Japan, says, "I am sick of being a girl, so I have become a boy." The 18-year-old has gotten a crew cut and shed her kimonos and dresses for male attire, after being annoyed too many times by marriage proposals. 1/4
November 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Nov. 30, 1925: Yoshiko Kawashima, a Chinese princess living in Japan, says, "I am sick of being a girl, so I have become a boy." The 18-year-old has gotten a crew cut and shed her kimonos and dresses for male attire, after being annoyed too many times by marriage proposals. 1/4