Gregk Foley
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Intermezzo: Behind the Blood Veil | Blood Work
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BLOOD WORK / EPISODE 54
INTERMEZZO: BEHIND THE BLOOD VEIL
Gregk and Thomas mark Blood Work’s first birthday with a casual discussion about what we learned in the year 1 AS (Anno Sangui).
INTERMEZZO: BEHIND THE BLOOD VEIL
Gregk and Thomas mark Blood Work’s first birthday with a casual discussion about what we learned in the year 1 AS (Anno Sangui).
Don’t cheer so soon. I live in the same area as Hussein. Last week, I was in an independent cafe when a lady complained that she had ordered a coffee but been served a bowl of soup. This officer was present but refused to intervene, because he said he was following orders to commit white genocide.
Was just in my local bookshop, when I saw someone ask in hushed tones if they had any “Sally Rooney” left. Thankfully before the bookseller could pass them a copy of Intermezzo, this brave police officer (who was reading bell hooks) jumped up and arrested them. Thank you, officer.
October 17, 2026 at 1:41 PM
Don’t cheer so soon. I live in the same area as Hussein. Last week, I was in an independent cafe when a lady complained that she had ordered a coffee but been served a bowl of soup. This officer was present but refused to intervene, because he said he was following orders to commit white genocide.
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Was just in my local bookshop, when I saw someone ask in hushed tones if they had any “Sally Rooney” left. Thankfully before the bookseller could pass them a copy of Intermezzo, this brave police officer (who was reading bell hooks) jumped up and arrested them. Thank you, officer.
October 17, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Was just in my local bookshop, when I saw someone ask in hushed tones if they had any “Sally Rooney” left. Thankfully before the bookseller could pass them a copy of Intermezzo, this brave police officer (who was reading bell hooks) jumped up and arrested them. Thank you, officer.
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Don't tell me this app doesn't have the juice
October 17, 2026 at 11:24 AM
Don't tell me this app doesn't have the juice
The only thing you need to know about the Neera Tanden/Sam Seder debate is Neera spent the first 20 minutes avoiding defining ‘leftist’ vs. ‘liberals’, and then an hour later when Sam made an offhand remark about leftists and liberals she immediately pulled him up on it and said words mean things.
October 17, 2026 at 12:45 PM
The only thing you need to know about the Neera Tanden/Sam Seder debate is Neera spent the first 20 minutes avoiding defining ‘leftist’ vs. ‘liberals’, and then an hour later when Sam made an offhand remark about leftists and liberals she immediately pulled him up on it and said words mean things.
She's no angel
I know a lot of people won't want to hear this but Ilhan Omar withholding support for Biden and Kamala has a clear correlation to her potential deportation
October 17, 2026 at 10:05 AM
She's no angel
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Here's video from a 2023 Nature paper showing their principal finding: octopus sleep is divided into slow-wave brain activity interrupted about every hour with 60 seconds of their equivalent of rapid eye movement (REM).
We think they're dreaming very much like we dream.
We think they're dreaming very much like we dream.
October 16, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Here's video from a 2023 Nature paper showing their principal finding: octopus sleep is divided into slow-wave brain activity interrupted about every hour with 60 seconds of their equivalent of rapid eye movement (REM).
We think they're dreaming very much like we dream.
We think they're dreaming very much like we dream.
One must imagine Sisyphus caught lackin’
October 17, 2026 at 8:34 AM
One must imagine Sisyphus caught lackin’
One must imagine Sisyphus capping
October 16, 2026 at 10:57 PM
One must imagine Sisyphus capping
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Obsessed with Damascus goats lately. They look like they were created by H. R. Giger. They both looks and sound stupid as hell. An utter catastrophe of an animal. I love them.
October 16, 2026 at 7:50 AM
Obsessed with Damascus goats lately. They look like they were created by H. R. Giger. They both looks and sound stupid as hell. An utter catastrophe of an animal. I love them.
I love how it lets out that agonising yelp that sounds almost human and then just settles its face and swallows like an old man wondering what’s on TV. You can’t teach comedic timing like that.
You'd be forgiven for thinking this is some sort of cry of existential agony but nah they're just like that and they're having the time of their lives
October 16, 2026 at 5:28 PM
I love how it lets out that agonising yelp that sounds almost human and then just settles its face and swallows like an old man wondering what’s on TV. You can’t teach comedic timing like that.
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This post is like an ant farm where you can observe the maddest Bluesky users in history live work and reply alongside one another
Trump admits ‘I have some very severe problems’ in Biden-like ramble at White House
Trump admits ‘I have some very severe problems’ in Biden-like ramble
Trump’s latest lengthy soliloquy in the Rose Garden evoked memories of the last octogenarian to occupy the Oval Office. Andrew Feinberg explains why
trib.al
October 16, 2026 at 12:45 PM
This post is like an ant farm where you can observe the maddest Bluesky users in history live work and reply alongside one another
I was a kid at the turn of the millennium when MiniDiscs briefly blew up. One of my friend's mums was an evangelist; raved about them. Transferred her entire music collection from CD to MiniDisc then gave the CDs to a charity shop. A few months later, the iPod came out. That's how I feel about this.
Some guy in Charleston, SC started an AI consultancy firm for small businesses where he just asks ChatGPT. Using a blueberry farm as an example he asked for outside risks. It said heavy rain, heatwaves and rising fuel costs. He asked how to hedge against this. It said to place bets on Kalshi.
October 16, 2026 at 12:12 PM
I was a kid at the turn of the millennium when MiniDiscs briefly blew up. One of my friend's mums was an evangelist; raved about them. Transferred her entire music collection from CD to MiniDisc then gave the CDs to a charity shop. A few months later, the iPod came out. That's how I feel about this.
"I'm President of one of the largest liberal think tanks in D.C., worked with numerous presidents and Hillary called when I gave birth to my child—not a presidential candidate at the time, just a senator, tyvm—but I don't like the term 'establishment' because it makes me feel icky."
Instructive.
Instructive.
"You're not the 'Establishment'? If you're not 'Establishment,' who is?"
A relatively light-hearted exchange/preview from my 'Head to Head' interview with CAP President & ex-Hillary adviser @neeratanden.bsky.social at Georgetown last week, airs tonight at 10pm ET.
www.aljazeera.com/video/head-t...
A relatively light-hearted exchange/preview from my 'Head to Head' interview with CAP President & ex-Hillary adviser @neeratanden.bsky.social at Georgetown last week, airs tonight at 10pm ET.
www.aljazeera.com/video/head-t...
October 16, 2026 at 11:37 AM
"I'm President of one of the largest liberal think tanks in D.C., worked with numerous presidents and Hillary called when I gave birth to my child—not a presidential candidate at the time, just a senator, tyvm—but I don't like the term 'establishment' because it makes me feel icky."
Instructive.
Instructive.
Where on earth are White British people getting the idea that they can refuse to be treated by medical professionals of a different race, in a country where a sitting MP openly says, "We should deny trans people normal, expedient healthcare because my mother is a bigot." It must be the Russians.
What a heartless, cruel thing for an elected representative to say.
October 16, 2026 at 9:49 AM
Where on earth are White British people getting the idea that they can refuse to be treated by medical professionals of a different race, in a country where a sitting MP openly says, "We should deny trans people normal, expedient healthcare because my mother is a bigot." It must be the Russians.
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October 16, 2026 at 9:07 AM
Aristotle theorising the four causes:
From dream to heartbreak in four short questions
October 16, 2026 at 8:59 AM
Aristotle theorising the four causes:
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From dream to heartbreak in four short questions
October 16, 2026 at 8:58 AM
From dream to heartbreak in four short questions
I like to think of myself as a casual enthusiast for snakes, lizards, frogs, newts, gibbons, fish, birds, damascus goats, clouded leopards, creatures of that nature
October 16, 2026 at 7:47 AM
I like to think of myself as a casual enthusiast for snakes, lizards, frogs, newts, gibbons, fish, birds, damascus goats, clouded leopards, creatures of that nature
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Some guy in Charleston, SC started an AI consultancy firm for small businesses where he just asks ChatGPT. Using a blueberry farm as an example he asked for outside risks. It said heavy rain, heatwaves and rising fuel costs. He asked how to hedge against this. It said to place bets on Kalshi.
October 15, 2026 at 8:43 AM
Some guy in Charleston, SC started an AI consultancy firm for small businesses where he just asks ChatGPT. Using a blueberry farm as an example he asked for outside risks. It said heavy rain, heatwaves and rising fuel costs. He asked how to hedge against this. It said to place bets on Kalshi.
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Personally, I think what really threatens American Jews is insisting our safety is dependent on denying what the whole world sees, that the Israeli gov committed war crimes against Palestinian civilians. Force people to think protecting Jews means denying reality, and they will stop caring about us.
October 15, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Personally, I think what really threatens American Jews is insisting our safety is dependent on denying what the whole world sees, that the Israeli gov committed war crimes against Palestinian civilians. Force people to think protecting Jews means denying reality, and they will stop caring about us.
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median american voter’s understanding of global political economy
October 15, 2026 at 5:06 PM
median american voter’s understanding of global political economy
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the big thing the rise of LLMs has revealed to me is that there is a not insignificant chunk of the population that considers cognition itself to be a frustrating and unnecessary burden
Some guy in Charleston, SC started an AI consultancy firm for small businesses where he just asks ChatGPT. Using a blueberry farm as an example he asked for outside risks. It said heavy rain, heatwaves and rising fuel costs. He asked how to hedge against this. It said to place bets on Kalshi.
October 15, 2026 at 5:47 PM
the big thing the rise of LLMs has revealed to me is that there is a not insignificant chunk of the population that considers cognition itself to be a frustrating and unnecessary burden
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Strikes me that when the hacks all went to Reform conferences and declared it very professional and detoxified, either the UK’s largest grouping of pub uncles somehow maintained best behaviour for a whole weekend, or the UK’s finest political journalists just weren’t very observant
“We're not f****** stupid enough to p*** off the entire woke south or centrist south really of the country,”
“You need to seem palatable to everyone...We just need to get f****** elected, that’s all that really matters. We won't necessarily say what we are doing, part of the point is to not [say].”
“You need to seem palatable to everyone...We just need to get f****** elected, that’s all that really matters. We won't necessarily say what we are doing, part of the point is to not [say].”
www.itv.com
October 15, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Strikes me that when the hacks all went to Reform conferences and declared it very professional and detoxified, either the UK’s largest grouping of pub uncles somehow maintained best behaviour for a whole weekend, or the UK’s finest political journalists just weren’t very observant
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Israel's foremost natsec think tank says Israel's new doctrine rests on these principles
1. Jewish supremacy over democracy.
2. Peace is illusory
3. No such thing as an independent Arab state
4. War is key to security
5. The US is declining, Israel does not need it
6. Settlement is key to security.
1. Jewish supremacy over democracy.
2. Peace is illusory
3. No such thing as an independent Arab state
4. War is key to security
5. The US is declining, Israel does not need it
6. Settlement is key to security.
October 14, 2026 at 8:18 PM
Israel's foremost natsec think tank says Israel's new doctrine rests on these principles
1. Jewish supremacy over democracy.
2. Peace is illusory
3. No such thing as an independent Arab state
4. War is key to security
5. The US is declining, Israel does not need it
6. Settlement is key to security.
1. Jewish supremacy over democracy.
2. Peace is illusory
3. No such thing as an independent Arab state
4. War is key to security
5. The US is declining, Israel does not need it
6. Settlement is key to security.