Marie
@verynormalhuman666.bsky.social
Totally normal human enjoying totally normal human things - reading, watching movies, gardening, quietly panicking, watching cute animal videos, contemplating the collapse of civilization
This is NOT "speaking to your dead grandmother", please stop propagating the AI bullshit and do some actual reporting, thank you.
December 11, 2025 at 4:15 PM
This is NOT "speaking to your dead grandmother", please stop propagating the AI bullshit and do some actual reporting, thank you.
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1. The European Parliament’s attempt to ban plant-based foods from being sold as “sausages”, “burgers” etc is a direct response to livestock industry lobbying. This is a short thread on how utterly bl...
skywriter.blue
December 3, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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The thread on one page. As always, please feel free to add to/subtract from the argument. Constructive criticism and other perspectives welcome, as ever. skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...
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1. Placing these two graphs side by side shows why we have a prisons crisis. They can also be seen as a kind of Authoritarianism Index, showing the trend in state attitudes.
On the left is the Crime ...
skywriter.blue
November 13, 2025 at 7:01 AM
The thread on one page. As always, please feel free to add to/subtract from the argument. Constructive criticism and other perspectives welcome, as ever. skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...
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1. This is a thread on freedom, and how easy it is to lose.
Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppress...
skywriter.blue
November 7, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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1. The approach of mainstream Democrats is summed up in this astonishing February advice from the Democratic strategist James Carville:
“Roll over and play dead. Allow the Republicans to crumble benea...
skywriter.blue
November 6, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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and it's a bummer and unfair that the police can just decide to refuse to follow the law, and that business associations etc will flood the zone with propaganda declaring any attempt at a better world a miserable failure
But you have to meet that shit head on and riposte. It can't be avoided.
But you have to meet that shit head on and riposte. It can't be avoided.
November 5, 2025 at 9:48 AM
and it's a bummer and unfair that the police can just decide to refuse to follow the law, and that business associations etc will flood the zone with propaganda declaring any attempt at a better world a miserable failure
But you have to meet that shit head on and riposte. It can't be avoided.
But you have to meet that shit head on and riposte. It can't be avoided.
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This is an incredible level of enthusiasm for a candidate that was not endorsed by national Democratic party leadership, with policies and a message tailored to working people. It's also a stark referendum on the centrist party wing that's beholden to third-way consultants and corporate donors.
November 5, 2025 at 5:21 AM
This is an incredible level of enthusiasm for a candidate that was not endorsed by national Democratic party leadership, with policies and a message tailored to working people. It's also a stark referendum on the centrist party wing that's beholden to third-way consultants and corporate donors.
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There's no reason that similarly aspirational politics can't work in places with less progressive politics: Affordable groceries and transit. Childcare. I'm sold that if you articulate a politics that fights for the working class you'll find supporters well across our late capitalist hellscape
November 5, 2025 at 5:37 AM
There's no reason that similarly aspirational politics can't work in places with less progressive politics: Affordable groceries and transit. Childcare. I'm sold that if you articulate a politics that fights for the working class you'll find supporters well across our late capitalist hellscape
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Anyway, thanks Mamdani, and the movement that elected him. This is the way
November 5, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Anyway, thanks Mamdani, and the movement that elected him. This is the way
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It wasn't just the Democrat establishment and its major donors who did everything they could to sink Mamdani. It was also large sections of the "liberal" press. What do we learn from this? That they would rather the Democrats fail than be led by people who want a fairer, kinder, greener society.
November 5, 2025 at 6:57 AM
It wasn't just the Democrat establishment and its major donors who did everything they could to sink Mamdani. It was also large sections of the "liberal" press. What do we learn from this? That they would rather the Democrats fail than be led by people who want a fairer, kinder, greener society.
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