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irishdreamer.bsky.social
To be fair, this place is crawling with fuckwits whose entire personality is based on their hatred of Starmer.
January 10, 2026 at 8:39 AM
nicklangley.bsky.social
"People are losing faith in big picture politics. News and politics are dominated by problems that feel out of our control. What if we tried zooming in on smaller, local or community-based issues where real change is not just possible but already taking place?"

national.thelead.uk/p/when-polit...
When politics feels broken, think smaller: the case for community action
There couldn't be a worse time to drop out of politics — here are the people choosing to zoom in instead
national.thelead.uk
January 10, 2026 at 8:17 AM
repec-nep-ino.bsky.social
Tertiary Education in place-based transformative innovation: Kroll Henning
NEP/RePEc link
to paper
d.repec.org
January 10, 2026 at 7:53 AM
morselya.bsky.social
Oh, and while I'm thinking of that... I feel safe recommending to European-based viewers to check out Tivify, a streaming service in Spain. The NHK channel is, alas, one needing a paid subscription, but after trialing the place for a month, we went to paying per half-year.
January 10, 2026 at 7:11 AM
groofay.bsky.social
I just had a book store open near me (within walking distance) and it might be my new favorite place. It is romantasy-themed, and that is very not in my demographic generally speaking, but it is unspeakably based if you consider we're located in a small town in Kentucky, USA
January 10, 2026 at 6:50 AM
allibally.bsky.social
😂 Ryan’s making me Flammkuchen for dinner tonight based on my craving from the same place 😬
January 10, 2026 at 5:39 AM
crookedkarma.bsky.social
Rescue in Denmark is a fact based book regarding what took place at that time. My dad was one of the youths that helped the resistance with helping get Jews on the boats to Sweden.
January 10, 2026 at 4:49 AM
sassafrassva.bsky.social
Watch what they do, not what they say.

Thanks to @wavynews10.bsky.social, Rep Jen Kiggans (VA-2) was outed as a flip flop.

She seems obsessed over the working class receiving benefits she thinks they don't deserve, while rubberstamping all of Trump's wasteful spending

www.wavy.com/news/local-n...
Dec. 16, she stated, "...the ACA has been the law of the land for fifteen years, and millions of Americans depend on it for coverage. It would be wrong to let this subsidy expire without a concrete plan in place -putting hardworking families in a very difficult position." Jan 8, she changed her mind and voted against extending the subsidy. "As a Nurse Practitioner, I know firsthand how vital it is for patients to have affordable health insurance and that accessibility must be the cornerstone of patient care! Unfortunately, the discharge petition brought by Hakeem Jeffries failed to make meaningful reforms to the ACA premium tax credit system that would ensure that those who truly need this assistance receives it. A clean 3 year extension with no reforms is nothing more than a continuation of a failed system that rewards insurance companies and not patients. Without income caps, individuals who should otherwise be ineligible for these need based credits would continue to draw from the system and further limit real benefits from those individuals who truly need the assistance."
January 10, 2026 at 4:27 AM
askanaspergirl.bsky.social
I might be back in — we have a link that led to a sockpuppet video. another link to that weird chiropractic place. // I’m a little surprised Freddy’s not pissed at our protagonist for not sticking to the topic. // “The Freedom Network is faith based. We believe God is the best path to sobriety.” >>
January 10, 2026 at 4:15 AM
garyvice.bsky.social
Captain Teach's Suite.

A piece for my partner, @traigh.bsky.social based on his Riverboat, Fleur de Flamme anthology/series that takes place in the Café Plaisir universe. Featuring Edward Teach, his Pangoro Captain.
He has an odd custom room design :3

#furry #furryart #nsfw #plaisir #cafeplaisir
Panda pokemon sits on his mossy bed with his erect ursine dick in his hand. He beckons you closer.
January 10, 2026 at 3:35 AM
amwclark.bsky.social
None of this is new.

Heather explains...
Beginning in 1943, the War Dept published a series of pamphlets for U.S. Army personnel in the European theater of World War II. In 1945, one of them described what fascism looks like & what we need to do to combat it.
Fascism, the U.S. government document explained, “is government by the few and for the few. The objective is seizure and control of the economic, political, social, and cultural life of the state.” “The people run democratic governments, but fascist governments run the people.” “The basic principles of democracy stand in the way of their desires; hence—democracy must go! Anyone who is not a member of their inner gang has to do what he’s told. They permit no civil liberties, no equality before the law.” “Fascism treats women as mere breeders. ‘Children, kitchen, and the church,’ was the Nazi slogan for women,” the pamphlet said. Fascists “make their own rules and change them when they choose…. They maintain themselves in power by use of force combined with propaganda based on primitive ideas of ‘blood’ and ‘race,’ by skillful manipulation of fear and hate, and by false promise of security. The propaganda glorifies war and insists it is smart and ‘realistic’ to be pitiless and violent.” First, they would pit religious, racial, and economic groups against one another to break down national unity. Part of that effort to divide and conquer would be a “well-planned ‘hate campaign’ against minority races, religions, and other groups.” Second, they would deny any need for international cooperation, because that would fly in the face of their insistence that their supporters were better than everyone else. “In place of international cooperation, the fascists seek to substitute a perverted sort of ultra-nationalism which tells their people that they are the only people in the world who count. With this goes hatred and suspicion toward the people of all other nations.” Third, fascists would insist that “the world has but two choices—either fascism or communism, and they label as ‘communists’ everyone who refuses to support them.”
January 10, 2026 at 3:19 AM
clintent-to-treat.bsky.social
He should do hard time for assault with a deadly weapon if there was no cause.

We missed the window with George Floyd to place braindead-obvious rules on gov't use of firearms based on normal legal principles.
January 10, 2026 at 2:59 AM
notexxonsbitch.bsky.social
Can they just say "gambling?"
“The Golden Globes have long been a place where audiences debate and predict what will happen next,” Polymarket founder and CEO Shayne Coplan said in a statement. “Polymarket reflects those expectations through markets spanning entertainment and culture, and this partnership brings that perspective directly into one of awards season’s biggest moments. By pairing cultural debate with market-based probabilities, we’re giving fans a new, more interactive way to follow the show as it unfolds
January 10, 2026 at 2:40 AM
kariizumi.bsky.social
I'm an Internet Old™ so I grew up with and thrive more on text based platforms but I accept that's not where the majority of people are, even within my generation 😔

Wish you artists had an AO3 cuz if Tumblr of the "female presenting nipples" is the best place, then it's truly bad 😔
January 10, 2026 at 2:14 AM
pierceah66.bsky.social
I miss when we had infrastructure successes that were based in America because of the Biden-Harris admin while Biden was simultaneously running circles around the KSA re oil pricing. Ya know, instead of execs saying infrastructure in a country we shouldn’t be in in the first place is uninvestable.
January 10, 2026 at 2:02 AM
amagire.bsky.social
I occasionally toss this one out as a test to see how twitterlike this place is becoming and so far (SO FAR) no one here has tried to argue that Ghostbusters (2016) is "objectively" a failure based on box office intake.
coreybrickley.bsky.social Corey They Them Brickley @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 7h
if i was gonna do this i think the one that would get people mad at me that i actually feel is "i thought the lady ghostbusters movie was funny"
xavierck.com Xavier needs a job, oh my god. @xavierck.com · 12h
I have terrible taste and I love hurting myself
January 10, 2026 at 1:47 AM
rhutabhayga.bsky.social
It's critical that citizens become more informed about the roles of each law enforcement department. This gives a clear breakdown of what ICE has the authority to do. And NOT do.

The question is how do we push back on a pack of lawless, armed, zealots without risking our lives?
"It is clear that US citizens' ignorance of federal laws and law enforcement duties, procedures, and limits of authority is getting to the point where it is deadly. I spent probably 3 hours watching and re-watching, and finding every single video and angle I could of the situation in Minnesota yesterday and came to one immovable conclusion based off of what I saw and what I know from a professional standpoint. This is long, but please give it a read. "As a former officer, let me make something clear: ICE agents ARE NOT police officers, deputy sheriffs, or troopers. They are not local/state law enforcement. They are not federal criminal law enforcement. They have an INCREDIBLY limited scope of authority, and that scope of authority exists in detaining and arresting with probable cause and/or SIGNED WARRANTS those investigated and suspected of being in the US illegally. "They cannot just pull anyone over for a traffic violation or because their car is in a place they don't want it. They have NO authority to pull people over for ANYTHING other than immigration enforcement- and even then that involves probable cause, such as a known vehicle of someone they have been tracking, or a warrant. On very rare occasions they have the legal authority to pull someone over if they are threatening the lives of others, but that was not happening in this case. They do not have the training nor the authority to pull ANYONE else over. They cannot arrest legal citizens. They cannot detain legal citizens without probable cause to believe they might not be legal. They have ZERO authority to be attempting to force entry into a vehicle- without even identifying themselves, without a warrant, without exigent circumstances such as a life being directly threatened- that is trying to drive down the street without probable cause in relation to IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT. "This ENTIRE situation in Minnesota was outside of the scope of legal authority from the get go. None of it was done within the scope of authority of ICE. Every single behavior those agents made was procedurally incorrect, done without proper authority, and was based off of intimidation and the assumption that people do not understand the law and their rights in regards to interactions with ICE. "On no planet should an officer, agent, or any human being ever step in front of a car in 'drive' that is actively trying to leave and use their body as a shield to prevent a person from LEGALLY LEAVING a situation in which they are not legally being detained. It takes maybe a week of any kind of actual law enforcement training to understand that under NO CIRCUMSTANCES do you ever place yourself in front of a vehicle in 'drive.' That agent had every single opportunity to simply take two steps to the right and not be standing directly in front of a vehicle attempting to conduct their legal right to drive away. "You can see the wheels are turned, [Renee] backed up and turned them to the right, moved forward a bit to leave, couldn't because an agent was standing in front of her, and continued to try to leave by TURNING HER WHEELS TO THE RIGHT and moving forward. He continually chose to stand there and not allow her to legally leave as she had every single right to do. The officer pulling on her door and banging on her window and swearing at her had ZERO authority to order her out of her vehicle or attempt to make entry into her vehicle. NONE. A single day of actual training of the legal scope of authority and the LAW would've prevented that from happening. "You now have a frightened citizen being blockaded by immigration agents (with another person in her vehicle) who had zero obligation to follow legally invalid orders from that agent, being blocked in and having a fully grown, masked man attempting to make entry into her car. If this were reversed, every single person would immediately feel she had every reasonable expectation to fear for her safety. It doesn't matter if she knew it was ICE because the agents weren't even acting in their scope of authority anyway. "Whether or not she made the right decision by very CLEARLY- based off of how hard her wheels were turned and how low and to the driver corner windshield that shot was fired- trying to drive to the left of that agent is IRRELEVANT in the picture as a whole. None of this would have happened if those agents had done even one single thing correctly. Not just correctly, but within their legal scope of authority. Every single moment of that interaction was escalated by untrained, unprofessional, procedurally inept "agents" who not only had zero control of themselves but everything around them. And not because they are helpless, but because their actions that did not fall under their scope of power CAUSED this. Their tempers, lack of training, and the knowledge that they can get away with violating their own scope of authority caused this. "I will always be the first to defend law enforcement when lethal force very clearly is required. But this was not even remotely the case, and as an actual TRAINED professional in that field with experience and understanding of both the law and procedures, there is no justification for this- and it would benefit EVERYONE to actually read up on the laws, scope of authority, and use a single shred of common sense to see that this situation was started, escalated, and caused by the ICE agents involved. I have zero respect for those in power who are ignorant of the scope of their authority and abuse it at the cost of lives around …
January 10, 2026 at 1:34 AM
rxyalbird.bsky.social
-ability he is still teaching her how to use, Electricity Manipulation, which, in the in both past and the modern age age (When TotK takes place), is vital, as she is able to disrupt purah pads, zonai tech, and other electric and zonai tech based things. She isn't very good at it, but she is quite-
January 10, 2026 at 1:19 AM
1anniem.bsky.social
Don't give a hoot.
We want to pollute!

"A federal judge fining Tyson Foods...for polluting the Illinois River is part of a decades-long legal fight that prompted the Springdale-based company to deem the watershed “no longer a hospitable place to do business."

arkansasadvocate.com/2026/01/09/t...
Tyson accepts tax break in region it claims is inhospitable to business | Arkansas Advocate
A tax write-off and Tyson’s simultaneous decision to withdraw from local contracts shows the balancing act the nation’s largest processed chicken manufacturer is performing as it fights a costly envir...
arkansasadvocate.com
January 10, 2026 at 1:09 AM
cinemartialarts.bsky.social
And that look could also suit Mi Vida Loca well, but Akira is already there, so I think it might still be open in which direction she will continue to go. Besides Akira has already found her place in her unit, but I would have guessed her fitting more in God's Eye. Purely based on stereotypes.
January 10, 2026 at 12:56 AM
hannahcomb.bsky.social
Redid this comic depicting a moment from early in the pandemic. It's based on a real conversation we had, although the cashier might not have been this hairy, exactly!

Mostly adjusted the colors to be brighter and the background to have more depth

#comic #memoir #indie #webcomic #animal #bear #art
A one-page digital comic that takes place in a grocery store. The artist depicts herself and her partner standing in front of the checkout line, manned by what is clearly a bear who is wearing a mask. Narrator: On not recognizing someone because they are wearing a mask... Bear cashier: Oh! Blueberries. They're my favorite. The bear cashier panics slightly. Bear cashier: But I like raspberries too. Bear cashier: (thinking) Have I offended the raspberry?! Bear cashier: Oh no. Maybe I just like all of the berries! The artist and her partner walk away from the cashier with all their paid groceries. Artist: W...was the cashier... hairier than normal?
January 10, 2026 at 12:42 AM
juliansingleton.bsky.social
I've reached out to @alamodrafthouse.bsky.social with the following. I would encourage you to do the same and make your concerns heard.
I’m writing to request clarification regarding the planned changes to Alamo’s ordering system, as reported by Variety today. As described, the move toward a solely-phone-based ordering experience, especially during the films themselves, raises several concerns that I believe directly impact accessibility, equity, and the core Alamo experience. Key concerns include: Access and equity: Many low-income and elderly patrons do not own smartphones or prefer to pay with cash. How will these guests place orders if ordering becomes phone-only? Accessibility: Patrons with physical, sensory, or cognitive disabilities may be unable to use a phone during a film, especially as outlined. For example, my Deaf/HOH family occasionally relies on this pen/paper system to communicate with servers, especially when a film is in progress. This process would require them to take out their phone to communicate via text. Blind and visually impaired patrons may also be hindered by a phone-exclusive system. How will Alamo ensure ADA-compliant access for all guests? Enforcement of no-talking policies: The article notes that texting and talking will remain prohibited, yet phone use would be required for ordering. How will patrons discreetly flag disruptions without paper order cards? There is also concern that disruptive guests could claim they are “ordering food,” overall undermining a foundational Alamo policy. Dietary needs and customization: Many orders currently require direct server communication for allergies, substitutions, or special instructions. How will a non-editable digital system accommodate these needs without introducing new accessibility barriers? Season Pass functionality: Currently, Season Pass discounts often require manual server input. Will the new system resolve this long-standing issue? Technical reliability: What contingency plans are in place if Wi-Fi fails or the ordering platform experiences outages? Impact on staff and experience: Servers are central to the Alamo experience. How will this shift prevent affecting their roles, staffing levels, and guest interaction without overall staffing eliminations? CEO Michael Kustermann has said that Alamo will continue to evolve “without ever losing sight of who we are.” Based on the reporting, this system appears to risk doing exactly that—by weakening long-standing policies that differentiate Alamo while raising serious accessibility and equity concerns. I would greatly appreciate a detailed response addressing the above. I’ve valued Alamo’s transparency in the past—particularly during periods of major change, such as 2017 during a conduct/harassment crisis—and hope that same care can be applied here. However, if this system is implemented as described without meaningful alternatives, I would seriously reconsider my continued participation as both a Season Pass holder and customer. Thank you for your time. I look forward to your response. Sincerely, Julian Singleton
January 10, 2026 at 12:31 AM
bwil.bsky.social
So based on some of the studies that take place in countries that don't let corporations kill or poison their population with bullshit in their foods, soybean oil, palm oil, and hydrogenated oils are a big no-no. I'm trying to adjust my diet accordingly, but buddy...those oils are EVERYWHERE.
January 10, 2026 at 12:11 AM
rad.gendervibes.online
Agreed, I think they are attacks on different parts of the process and boycotts (when successful) can be much more effective because of their material basis. But social norms have their place in helping us relate to each either.

In my head I was grouping them as "attacks based on ostracism"
January 9, 2026 at 11:45 PM
mrbuick.bsky.social
Samantha says it better than I ever could

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While knowing anything about the deep past is inherently difficult, what evidence we do possess suggests that the Old System is an accurate description of such societies. We have far stronger evidence concerning state-based societies; in these cases, the Old System clearly predominates. They are characterized by distressingly high levels of unfree labor and distressingly low female control over their own reproduction. At the same time, all these societies differ in numerous ways, including the extent of the subordination of women; the Old System therefore exists as a kind of abstract type which can be instantiated in different ways. The past is a dismal, patriarchal place-but that patriarchy is not so stark or simple as today's patriarchs imagine.
January 9, 2026 at 11:08 PM