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woltz.bsky.social
Perennially hopeful the public’s personal hygiene will improve. I’m trying to read. Never more opposed to anything in my life than to what is happening now. Background is a painting by Caillebotte. Avatar is a clock.
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A lot of people sharing my sentiment tonight.

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

And we got finger-wagged by a New England journo "expert" for not staying in our lane and sticking to our knitting (his words) and leaving hard stuff to (paywalled) NYT and Wapo. So we were right, and we did the right thing, and we didn't need anyone's permission to make our own news decisions.

submitted 22 hours ago • 25 comments

This alone makes it worth moving out of the US. The food supply will be about as safe as China's was in 2008. It will be an agri-corp free for all. There will be no food inspections. Bad meat and grain sold to market and no regulations. www.npr.org/2025/02/20/n...

submitted 22 hours ago • 8 comments

Unless he decides to have them killed.

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

A hack in the correct direction.

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

It is little comfort that everything Ive ever insisted to my usual betters at the usual places has been astonishingly, overwhelmingly correct, or that my betters have been proven utterly incorrect. I have considered being smug but would simply prefer now to not be dead in the next four years.

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

Insanely bad. Death for us all bad.

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

They’re going to mobilize against citizens.

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

oh fuck

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

My advice is that bluesky is fine and good—its basically a useful filter—but organizing here isn’t important nor is making money. You need to have a plan separate from this platform when this admin fails. We can laud the outcome of our institutions protecting us—here—but that’s about it.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

First migraine of this admin.

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Our new FBI director:

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

gravedigger of american democracy. a more malign influence than john c calhoun.

submitted 2 days ago • 1420 comments

Elon Musk is openly attacking Zelenskyy on his idiot website now. The Boer must go.

submitted 1 day ago • 60 comments

We have to improve our moral claims.

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Prince of Darkness is a very underrated film, certainly if you’ve seen any of the Quatermass films and enjoyed them. Farewell to one of the great Carpenter character actors.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

RIP Peter Jason. Been in more Carpenter movies than anyone and a million other things (Deadwood, Marked for Death, lots of Walter Hill, and yes - even a Meat Loaf video). He will be missed, but he's been in so much there will always be more to discover.

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

jfc

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It’s odd to consider the lust with which American society tries to extort money from everyone save half the estimated worldwide population of millionaires who find safe harbor here. ‘Billionaire’ should be another word for pariah.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

There's a lot going on right now, but this story from @dell.bsky.social and @dmehro.bsky.social is horrifying. Basically, in contravention of its own policies, Google's ad technology allows clients to identify and target people identified as, say, struggling with opioid addiction or gambling debt.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

I like “reap what you sow” better than “fuck around and find out.” The proverb has better hoodoo than the vulgarity.

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A deportation flight leaving the U.S. Thursday carrying 135 mostly Asian undocumented migrants is expected to land in Costa Rica in the afternoon. Almost half of the migrants will be children.

submitted 2 days ago • 115 comments

And of course the fascists have noticed.

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So that’s it for James Bond films. At least they went out on a high.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I don’t believe they fear him for a second. There is a word for this kind of story.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve said this so many times, people assume people are rich because they are so much smarter than the rest of us and this will be the downfall of us all.

submitted 3 days ago • 26 comments

I cannot think of another time a president, other than this piece of shit, has specifically targeted cities with federal violence. Targeted citizens, definitely, but not entire cities like Portland or New York. If it works, so long federalism.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

It’s a suicide cult that’s trying to kill all of us too.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

If the people running stories no longer know how to make moral claims they have to be sidelined. That requires work.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

No book, no movie, no story told to me by my Jewish émigré family or my in-laws who grew up under Hitler, prepared me for how much I would hate fascists.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

All of my MAGA family members post pictures to Facebook of "the way things were in the 70s/80s" with passive-aggressive captions like "and we turned out fine" but the thing is, you people definitely did not turn out fine and there's a good reason we stopped behaving like that.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Fell asleep early and had an intense dream about why the original name was Harriet Potter.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

One imagines defense contractors getting pissed off at Musk enough to not mess around.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Nancy in the House of Leaves

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

Drove my dog insane.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

We are all living with people who have conditioned themselves to seeing a hall of mirrors.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

It’s probably not accidental that every person we give authority isn’t very good at understanding it.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

considering what’s happening at Guantanamo rn and Vance’s political project I think it’s reasonable to understand his visit to Dachau as research and inspiration

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

I dont want to block Mr Rupar but Im not sure he’s helping at all

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

look guys I know it's fun to post nazi shit from twitter but at this point it's like handing someone a cup of ocean water and being like "omg taste it it's so salty!" we fucking know, we have known for a long time, please stop.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

"Hurting Tesla is stopping Musk, and stopping Musk will help save lives and our democracy." This weekend's nationwide #TeslaTakedown was just the beginning. bit.ly/3QJ53Vz

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments