browwiw.bsky.social
My brain got cooked by classical antiquity instead of modern politics in college, so I have a thing or two to say about oligarchy and petty-princes. I've worked in public utilities for over 20 years.
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Age/Sex/Location? is how the cool kids initiated Cyber sex back in the yahoo chat days.
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Oh, fuck, I was right...the 1920s style interstate gangsters are back...but they're now the cops, not Pretty Boy Floyd! I dislike this curled monkey's finger.
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I ream Elizabeth Wayland Barber's "The Dancing Goddesses", recently, so of course I see drowned magic girl and think of the Vila en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vila_(f...
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From Arlington, to the names of bases, now to the names of ships; MAGA has thing for exploiting and dishonoring the memory of credible heroes. Imagine walking in classical Athens and pushing over an Eponymous Hero statue...passersby would tear you apart.
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I like to call them A/S/L?Trucks
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I was skeptical of the claims that ICE was using pardoned J6ers...now, I am ready to re-examine that belief. For all we know, the FBI is recruiting these assholes from the domestic terrorists the database they were keeping before Trump took back over.
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It must be very scary to be Nancy Mace. She must experience the world like a toddler lost in a shopping mall.
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Honestly, I think Trump just liked the image of himself that was attached to that post and didn't even read it before reposting. Which kinda is as bad, if not worse. Making poor decisions because he won't wear his glasses while playing with his phone.
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I still can't believe he hasn't figured out that the sun is what is doing that to his face.
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In the classical era, the women of Lesbos were renowned all over the Greek world for their textile skills; especially spinning, weaving, and scissoring.
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I frown very hard when I think about the nature of the transactional relationship Thiel has with Vance.
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Imagine the cognitive dissonance of the ICE trooper sent to abduct Elon: you're following the orders of your god-king, but you also have beat up the guy who made your truck.
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I did not have "ICE disappears Elon" on my 2025 bingo card, but I may have to add it.
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A past record of the near future
www.atlasobscura.com/articles/swi... The 19th-Century Swill Milk Scandal That Poisoned Infants With Whiskey Runoff - Gastro Obscura
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For context en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_... Banana Wars - Wikipedia
We toppled South American sovereign gov’ts and destroyed trade unions to keep bananas cheap. Now they want to tariff them.
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Elon managed to sour the American public on the concept of rocketry, one of the few things we actually are best at. He ain’t repairing his own brand. No way.
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I can’t decide if Trump is a Bronze Age god king or a Hellenistic god king.
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That is what they use to launch tear gas canisters. He was too much I’ve a coward to face protestors without it, then was too much of a coward to use it on the protesters who chased him. The whole point of being tear gas gun guy is to not get chased away by protesters! Failure all the way at down.
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stop being weird with the bot accounts.
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lol no
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She's gonna Gothy-Gothy Bang Bang right out of DC.
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Elevator pitch: should we start dismissively saying "FWA" the same way they dismissively say "DEI"?
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She has a get away car for when this all falls apart.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_V...
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I think they would have gone directly to the part where they sew him up in a sack with a dog and a monkey and throw him in the river.
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I'm not unconvinced that Melania is an ancient Black Sea witch, so Barron may have what it takes to embody the household gods.
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Honestly, I wonder what kind of anxiety UFOs Ukrainians are seeing, too. There have got to be drone based urban legends. I await the documentaries in decades to come.
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The spirit of the pater familias will pass into the body of the first born son. That's how the daddy magic works.
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Back in imperial Athens you pretty much bought your trireme captaincy. Think how much trouble he'd have gotten into if we had just let Elon be the captain of a Coast Guard cutter or something.
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Kind of puts the Great Drone Flap of 2024 into perspective. I wonder what kind of anxiety UFOs Russians are seeing right, now, on top of the real ones.
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The AI techbros are hoping for the advent of nuclear fusion (free energy) to fix their energy needs as much as they are fearing the advent of quantum code cracking. They are burning the unicorn at both ends.
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Anakin Skywalker as the new face of the Promise Keepers would be appropriate.
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I know this sounds crazy, but autocratic paternal regimes always outlaw divination magic as a form of social control. All knowledge, both mundane and divine, must proceed from the god-king. Meteorology is the *only* form of divination that has ever worked, so of course they want to control it.
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I've been listening to audio books on ancient Mesopotamia, specifically the Assyrian Empire. That god-king shit worked and never went away.
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Because cops are shameful cowards and they don't want their families and friends to see them participating in what they know is an evil act.
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They always want to put their face on a coin, even if it’s not real.
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I thought that was Axl Rose 🌹 😂
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Axl Rose is definitely a man who cares about the quality of his sausages.
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Why do we remember these plot points and not the birthdays of families and friends? But, yeah, I'm going to need to see the source article before I accept this isn't pop culture savvy joke,
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You know what didn't make you tear up? That putz with the fucking gas canister launcher in the middle of a quiet American neighborhood. He brought that thing for this very situation and was too much of a coward to use it. Fucking Kosplay Krypteia.
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"Welcome to The Jungle, baby, you're gonna die!" -- Upton Sinclair.
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While I know that sound dramatic, do consider that every autocratic patriarchal regime in history limited access to divination rituals as forms of social control. All knowledge, mundane and divine, must come from the god-king. When only Trump can warn you of tornadoes, he is your defacto storm god.
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Modern weather forecasting is the only form of divination that has ever worked in human history, so of course the Republicans want to limit public access to it. Meteorology is more accurate than theology and that is dangerous.
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Also Yarvin did not invent “the cathedral”— even that is plagiarized from an older reactionary en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cat...
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Yarvin’s tech bro utopia is Neal Stephenson’s “Snow Crash” glossed lightly over Plato’s “The Republic”. It’s embarrassing Yarvin can wow his acolytes with ideas gleaned from
a precocious teenager’s summer reading list.