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The confluence of "I'm deeply concerned about far-right units incorporated into the Ukrainian military" and "Critical support for Hezbollah and the IRGC" is really a fascinating one

submitted 7 hours ago • 32 comments

Tired: a band of masked unidentified men that everyone hates (ICE) Wired: a band of masked unidentified men that everyone hates (TISM)

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

right, there’s this weird idea that the big mean us forced nato membership on the baltics rather than the baltics wanting protection from the russians (which, y’know, can’t imagine why…)

submitted 4 hours ago • 4 comments

People who say things like the screenshot quoted here have learned just enough revolutionary language to hang on their bullshit, but this is really a klaxon horn screaming “I believe in nothing at all.”

submitted 4 hours ago • 14 comments

So I am very angry, both for the human tragedy of it, but also the giant foreign policy own-goal that is squandering so much soft power. But I'm also a little frustrated in that even now the USA was basically the only load-bearing pillar holding this all up.

submitted 4 hours ago • 5 comments

anti-bedtime left is a reactionary force: there's a reason socialist movements emphasized public education and dedication to craft.

submitted 4 hours ago • 11 comments

the USAID accelerationism combined with the dictator boot licking is a pretty big reason the Left rarely polls over 5%; as lefties we really have to find a way to drown out these shitty voices and take the Mamdani tack instead of focusing on very practical, very tangible programs in our own hood

submitted 3 hours ago • 2 comments

Same playbook they always run, today it’s wealthy 23 year olds who are the problem for “average NYers” as Cuomo is bankrolled by a collection of Trump billionaires, yesterday it was elitist adjunct college professors and nbc news interns holding the working man down

submitted 2 hours ago • 19 comments

No American outlet would hesitate to describe them as pro-regime paramilitaries or an irregular militia and similar terms if this was happening anywhere else.

submitted 1 hour ago • 38 comments

leftists are correct that american elite antipathy to workers' rights led to the downfall of the republic (the 2007 TV writers strike led to the 2008 greenlighting of Celebrity Apprentice)

submitted 7 hours ago • 9 comments

Dress it up in progressive language but you're cheating yourself by not doing the work. This is the worst thing about AI: millions of students refusing to learn, taking zero interest in the world around them, empty in mind and heart. Your punishment is the person you will become.

submitted 4 hours ago • 108 comments

Feeling better and better about 'malicious and mendacious' as the correct descriptors

submitted 11 hours ago • 26 comments

I am totally opposed to polyamory. Mixing Greek and Latin roots like that is disgusting

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Our local funeral home just raised their prices. They blamed it on the cost of living

submitted 12 hours ago • 17 comments

Correct order to watch the Star Wars movies in A New Hope The Empire Strikes Back Milton Friedman's Freedom To Choose Phantom Menace Attack of the Clones Return of the Jedi The Force Awakens The Last Jedi The Rise of Skywalker

submitted 13 hours ago • 3 comments

The Man with the Golden Gun The Talented Mr Nippley more like!

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

"Donald Trump is betraying the Donald Trump who existed solely in my imagination again" is the kind of analysis you need to bring if you're interested in a luctrative political punditry sinecure

submitted 23 hours ago • 24 comments

it’s so cool how the secret to being a prominent pundit is apparently just being wrong about literally everything

submitted 22 hours ago • 13 comments

Random thought: there'd be such a great mini series in dramatising the Restoration Oliver Cromwell is dead. His son is a dud. What is crafty General Monck up to? Does he want to switch sides? Charles Stuart is mobilising in Holland But John Lambert is planning an uprising..

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Let's be frank: the same way that it is embarrassing that Western countries refuse to commit to arresting Netanyahu if he arrives on their soil despite doing that for Putin, it is also very embarrassing and deeply distressing that South Africa has done this.

submitted 13 hours ago • 13 comments

What's Mariska Hargitay in Polish?

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

If you weren’t so full of liberal bias, you would appreciate that Elon has built SpaceX into the world’s biggest and best fireworks company.

submitted 15 hours ago • 42 comments

this is a sith lightsaber, from the war. I keep it on a shelf right next to my stormtrooper armor and imperial officer’s uniform. I’ve even got a verified chunk of the death star from yavin. I’m just a collector. I just think the history is interesting. no, I don’t have any rebel stuff

submitted 23 hours ago • 112 comments

I love Bluesky because I wake up and feel existentially and philosophically seen by poasters like @pwnallthethings.bsky.social.

submitted 13 hours ago • 5 comments

A Greek way of describing something that fails miserably is μάπα το καρπούζι. It means “the watermelon proved to be a cabbage.”

submitted 14 hours ago • 6 comments

this negative form of American exceptionalism is as delusional as the other. It’s brain rot to think USAID is bad but Russian imperialism is good

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Real

submitted 376 days ago • 6 comments

I expect that consumer-facing AI programs will continue to improve and they may become much more useful tools for everyday life in the future. But I think it was a disastrous mistake that today’s models were taught to be convincing before they were taught to be right.

submitted 13 hours ago • 234 comments

the thing which most exemplifies this point is the debate over whether the DSA should issue a full-throated endorsement of 10/7, something which -- notably -- actual fucking Hamas did not do.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

On today's edition of "Nope". #booksky #writingcommunity

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

Extremely stupid - and far more virulent. For several years, really.

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

"how does the terrain matter when we have air power" buddy the mountains of Iran have taken out more Iranian heads of state than Israel and the USA combined in in the last 35 years of trying and that head of state was in a helicopter when he got offed

submitted 14 hours ago • 17 comments

Love a new gender reveal thanks to, I'm guessing, auto translate.

submitted 23 hours ago • 2 comments

#Resistance tools from bsky.app/profile/whys... when asked “why are we funding this” from uncles & Senators alike. www.americanscientist.org/article/%E2%... Shoutout bsky.app/profile/amer... for keeping the lights on while we reclaim #Science from the privatizing dismantlers. #StandUpForScience

submitted 16 hours ago • 6 comments

My cartoon in @thetimesluxury this week. #chickens #raisingchickens #farmerlife #gagcartoon #talkingchicken #farmmemes #farmcartoons

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Put on the news right in time to catch someone call Iran an Arab country and that's enough TV for today

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

Amazing correction in the Telegraph.

submitted 20 hours ago • 41 comments

“Trump spent years campaigning against risky and expensive wars, and criticizing hawkish foreign policy decisions” is just straightforwardly false. It’s completely made up!

submitted 16 hours ago • 141 comments

Trump ran on using the armed forces against Mexico!

submitted 15 hours ago • 11 comments