Profile avatar
markusf.bsky.social
Australian // Latvian (mostly navigating the world in a state of optimistic confusion)
43 posts 29 followers 64 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
Posts 18 Comments 30

> Russians placed explosives in the nuclear power plant and pulled out their forces, but the world is watching! Bruh why would I care if it’s watching? How will watching help? Watch me glow in the dark or something? Tf?

submitted 604 days ago • 2 comments

Well now I'm definitely adding Judith Butler to my reading list, both this and and her previous work. If anyone has a recommendation on the best book to wade into first, do let me know.

submitted 604 days ago • 0 comments

Agreed, the current default icon for Bluesky needs a some loving attention from a good designer. It at least got improved a bit by my theme on my phone though.

submitted 604 days ago • 0 comments

"don't play games with me, kid"

submitted 604 days ago • 4 comments

On this day in 1941 Nazi Germans burnt down the Great Choral Synagogue in Riga, 🇱🇻 Latvia. This was the beginning of the Holocaust in Latvia, when 70,000 local Jews and 20,000 from abroad were murdered. 🕯️Today is the the official Commemoration Day of Genocide against the Jews in Latvia

submitted 605 days ago • 0 comments

Me on Twitter vs me on Bluesky

submitted 605 days ago • 0 comments

Great article explaining how our defenses against social media manipulation re: elections are less robust now than in 2020. Remarkably, after Jan 6, platforms have chosen to back away, rather than double down, on efforts to mitigate the falsehoods that motivated efforts to overturn the election.

submitted 608 days ago • 6 comments

This is why the gods have forsaken us.

submitted 605 days ago • 0 comments

I remember in the 1990s when people were like "I can't wait for EVERYONE to be on the internet! It will be great!" lol, lmao

submitted 605 days ago • 8 comments

Exactly 87 days ago I was lucky enough to get to marry the love of my life. I'm a very very lucky man 😊

submitted 605 days ago • 0 comments

This repost IS an endorsement.

submitted 607 days ago • 0 comments

Public space is a feature of democracy and destroying it has been an intentional process by the global far right

submitted 605 days ago • 11 comments

It's almost as if patriarchal right wing reactionaries who don't care for democracy or human rights see Russia and think "yep, that's the stuff, that's exactly what we're talking about"

submitted 606 days ago • 0 comments

paste four of your favorite characters and let people assume things about you

submitted 606 days ago • 0 comments

And just like the movie, my partner got left behind to suffer in the icy waters as I float off into the bluesky horizon. Oh well.

submitted 606 days ago • 1 comment

The last few years have made it increasingly apparent that we need to re-evaluate how we internet.

submitted 606 days ago • 0 comments

Just a reminder: * The climate crisis is our fault and we can stop it. * LGBTQ+ are human beings, real, and deserve dignity * Russia committed a crime by invading Ukraine. tl;dr: right-wing extremists, i.e. fascists are the most important political problem of our time.

submitted 607 days ago • 0 comments

Elon’s Twitter debacle is the apotheosis of our era, from Brexit and Trump to Russia in Ukraine: self-immolation powered by malice, bigotry, and insecurity, carried out contrary to reason, an ouroboros of idiocy satisfied as long as it damages others while consuming itself.

submitted 607 days ago • 0 comments