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Independent mead-peddler, translator, writer, political hothead and general doer-of-things. My website is www.rogue-trading.co.uk
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Hot take (so feel free to disregard): Centrist and liberal politicians right now react to crises by engaging in "common sense" realpolitik. Unfortunately for them, realpolitik hinges on a consistent and shared reality. No "real" = No "politik". Maybe time to dust off those moral compasses instead?

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remember this; try if the things some people are trying look useless or stupid to you maybe they are, find something that seems smart. and keep an eye on whether or not the shit other people are trying works.

submitted 34 days ago • 14 comments

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus? NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country HASSAN: That's incorrect

submitted 36 days ago • 5032 comments

If anyone thought "gender criticism" was ever about women's safety: The recent interpretations of the supreme court ruling now mean that a 6 ft man with a beard can enter the female bathrooms and claim to be "biologically female". Are they? Who will check? It was always just transphobia.

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This is not, and should not be normal. xkcd.com/3081/

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submitted 60 days ago • 91 comments

It was truly a meeting of opposites. On one hand, the foremost disciple of an intransigent movement of conservative fundamentalists driven by blind faith, and on the other hand, the Pope.

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My current level of anxiety can only be described as “Sir, we’ve run out of canaries”

submitted 77 days ago • 20 comments

Something a lot of people forget, and the people of the US are finding out hard right now, is that laws are not real. In the same way that money is not real. Both are just norms that we accept to live in societies, and once they are no longer enforced, they cease to exist.

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

Every Propaganda Technique 👇

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

political norms are not just completely useless they are deeply harmful because they always end in the worst people acting with impunity while everyone else goes 'oh my goodness well nothing we can do that would violate the rules that don't exist really'

submitted 93 days ago • 37 comments

I've cossed more international borders than most, been through checkpoints and searches and have trained human rights activists, journalists and others in staying safe in repressive regimes. In the past few days I've provided some friends with travel advice for no particular reason; here's a thread:

submitted 96 days ago • 66 comments

This piece by @gideonrachman.bsky.social makes a helpful distinction between Trump the genius (politics eg getting elected) and Trump the moron (policies eg tariffs, invading Canada). I think it’s possible to go further and see that the moron is created by the genius. Bleak thread …

submitted 100 days ago • 5 comments

Someone made a Wiley E. Coyote style painted wall to see if Tesla’s autopilot would detect it and well…

submitted 101 days ago • 561 comments

CNBC is calling it the Tesla Chain Saw Massacre. 🤣

submitted 105 days ago • 1085 comments

You claw your way towards justice through mud and shit.

submitted 105 days ago • 11 comments

Really enjoyed the latest two BtB episodes about Louis XIV and Versailles (and the way isolation and privilege can drive people insane). I do feel there should have been more shout-outs to J-Stahl's practice of "Keep your friends close and your enemies shitfaced," though. youtu.be/wEvreLB5x_A?...

submitted 110 days ago • 0 comments

human rights champion bashar al-assad

submitted 198 days ago • 17 comments

"I don't think I'm allowed to kill something because I am frightened." —Nikki Giovanni 💔 #poem #poems #poetry

submitted 197 days ago • 321 comments

We live in a world where individual murder is illegal, but where corporate murder and death-by-a-thousand-cuts murder is ignored or even lauded as "Good Business". If you turn a blind eye to suffering and genocide, don't call US hypocrites when the chickens come home to roost. Keep running, dude.

submitted 198 days ago • 0 comments

Publisher: Do you want to put an LLM clause in the copyright statement? Me: Definitely. How specific can we get? Publisher: As specific as you like.

submitted 221 days ago • 197 comments

Since introductions seem to be a thing here: I'm just some geeky dude in Scotland that runs a mead-selling business while dressed as a monk. I do freelance translation and writing on the side. I also spend a lot of my time furious over how people can't be better to one another.

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