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Aspiring philosopher; tolerable human; "amusing combination of sardonic detachment & literally all the feelings felt entirely unironically all at once" [he/his]
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Don't be gaslit: They are Nazis. This is a Nazi salute. They are not hiding it, or dog whistling, they are announcing it. They have come out as Nazis. Show the people in your life these images all together. Make them understand this is not an accident, or a fluke. It is happening here.

bro no wonder you got hoisted on your own petard. you forgot to gird your loins dude

In modern history, what is the least popular that party leaders have ever been to their OWN voters? Second place was the GOP in 2009, where their net approval with Republican voters was only +6. Currently Dems are -8, shattering all previous records.

they had to manually patch Grok 3 to prevent it from calling for the execution of Donald Trump, which it is a federal crime under USC 18 871 to do

It was actually restraint that had her land on "Seamus Finnegan".

Never go full Kemi

They waffle about his legitimacy and then say “no no I’m not saying that” very obvious

Both English and Scottish Labour are irredeemably right-wing parties now, they have nothing to offer the left or the centre and should be treated as identical to Tories. Not shadows of Tories, not Tories Lite, they just *are* more Tories now.

Heroic Dog Saves Family Of 5 From Herb-Roasted Chicken theonion.com/heroic-...

It was reported this week that British special forces officers vetoed asylum for their Afghan colleagues, because those soldiers had seen them commit war crimes against civilians and might be called to testify against them in court. As far as I can see, nobody who matters even blinked.

The Trump regime's segregationist agenda is clear. I argue that having a Black man as president of white America enraged a portion of this country so much, that they decided to destroy any pipeline to Black advancement in academia, government, & workplaces. karenattiah.substack.com/p/trumps-seg...

All this bullshit immediately crumbles when it's presented to anyone who's not a sympathetic cohost on your podcast

He nails it.

it is not great to me that the entire right is adopting a trolling approach to the Hitler salute

not even AI can escape educational polarization

Glad they consulted an expert, such subtle insights can be difficult for the untrained eye to detect

A number of federal agencies, from HHS to the USDA, have laid off employees only to rescind those terminations days later. An expert says it "suggests something about mismanagement of government."

A lot of nazi saluting happening for a country that won World War Two

Tomorrow on #HoPWaG we kick off a mini-series on the Mohists, the ancient Chinese school who were the first ever consequentialists.

Extremely terrible!!! A big blow to philosophy and HPS, especially.

21/2/25 - nocturn

So Vermintide II is doing a charity run for an org called APOPO. APOPO trains rats to detect tuberculosis and landmines. C'mere Rattie. I'm going to TRAIN YOU.

I've written a free and accessible guide to Cephalopod Sentience with Alex Schnell, Piero Amodio and Peter Morse, stunningly illustrated by Roksolana Tkach. Please download and share! It's worth it for the illustrations alone! 🐙 thebrooksinstitute.org/sites/defaul...

Blood for the Blood God. Meeps for the Meep Throne.

Heard a song from the 80s reference a "long distance call" and it occurred to me that this is a concept that no longer holds any emotional currency whatsoever

Yeah I think people are sometimes a bit silly about this tbh.

Be ungovernable Comic by @chazhutton.bsky.social

Starting the year with a couple of oil painting commissions, which in an age of NFT and AI makes me happy. Attachments for illustrative purposes only.

I think Musk might be following the Icarus arc

I do think part of the problem the ostensibly reasonable "centre right" has is that they still believe things that are manifestly untrue. This just didn't happen!

Not enough people from individual counties on here yet to get truly parochial, so proposing the formation of Munster Bluesky as an act of social media provincial solidarity, uniting all six counties under a high king to subjugate the kingdoms of Leinster and crush the Norse-Gaels of Dublin

Ok, we need a new James Bond AND a new Archbishop of Canterbury, and pretty soon it'll be time for another new Willy Wonka and a new Doctor Who. We need to economise. They should all be amalgamated into a single new character called Archdoctor Bondwonka.

60x90 pixels of outer space #pixelart

Reading Josh Simmons and Patrick Keck's copyright-skirting masterpiece DREAM OF THE BAT Holy fucking shit it is the only Batman comic that makes sense in 2025

Michael Young coined the phrase "meritocracy" as satire, and then he fathered Toby Young in case people didn't get the joke.

I liked this mini-zine yesterday .

I recall when this was twenty profiles of Milo the enterprising Alt Right crank, whose views were controversial but whose determination and online popularity just couldn’t be ignored

Just a few more instances of ceding the ground to the right on everything then we'll be able to finally get some real Sensible governance done around here!