Lloyd Sullivan
@lloydgonkillya.bsky.social
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The Talmud is dudes in 4th c. whats-now-Iraq nerding out about Torah, + some intern takes notes in the study hall
sometimes they fight abt whether or not you accidentally making a furrow in dirt when you drag a bench is Shabbat-prohibited "farming"
sometimes they make wang jokes
like, chill
sometimes they fight abt whether or not you accidentally making a furrow in dirt when you drag a bench is Shabbat-prohibited "farming"
sometimes they make wang jokes
like, chill
PSA: Stop being weird about the Talmud, folks.
Being weird about the Talmud is Nazi garbage.
Being weird about the Talmud is Nazi garbage.
The More You Know
Alt: The More You Know
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September 30, 2026 at 2:05 AM
The Talmud is dudes in 4th c. whats-now-Iraq nerding out about Torah, + some intern takes notes in the study hall
sometimes they fight abt whether or not you accidentally making a furrow in dirt when you drag a bench is Shabbat-prohibited "farming"
sometimes they make wang jokes
like, chill
sometimes they fight abt whether or not you accidentally making a furrow in dirt when you drag a bench is Shabbat-prohibited "farming"
sometimes they make wang jokes
like, chill
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i think that part of the problem is that it's hard to tell which American MENA experts are on the Saudi payroll, Israeli payroll, Qatari payroll, or UAE payroll because they're all on every payroll
"IR people writ large" or even "the blob (as originally defined) in general" are painting with too broad a brush here, but it is a completely true statement that anyone who ID's as a MENA specialist has loudly and explicitly been advocating for bombing iran in exactly this fashion for decades
September 30, 2026 at 1:22 AM
i think that part of the problem is that it's hard to tell which American MENA experts are on the Saudi payroll, Israeli payroll, Qatari payroll, or UAE payroll because they're all on every payroll
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very interested to see if this is your classic terrorist group or an extreme example of the way the Iranians have been subcontracting out to (mostly quite dumb) criminals
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Five men arrested at RAF Fairford are all UK nationals from London, say police
Officers say they have secured extension to continue to hold men, all in their 20s, on suspicion of terror offences
www.theguardian.com
September 28, 2026 at 2:13 PM
very interested to see if this is your classic terrorist group or an extreme example of the way the Iranians have been subcontracting out to (mostly quite dumb) criminals
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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An important message about the Academy of Natural Science in Philadelphia from @miniminuteman.bsky.social. It even has an IASIP joek in it. What more you want?
The Plan To Destroy Americas Oldest Natural History Museum
YouTube video by Miniminuteman
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September 24, 2026 at 1:20 AM
An important message about the Academy of Natural Science in Philadelphia from @miniminuteman.bsky.social. It even has an IASIP joek in it. What more you want?
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please to see that my latest academic article is out now:
"Ghost in the Machine. Crusade Medievalisms in the 21st-century United States"
I take on the ghost of Samuel Huntington and some right-wing tropes in scholarship
open access so free to read --> www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
"Ghost in the Machine. Crusade Medievalisms in the 21st-century United States"
I take on the ghost of Samuel Huntington and some right-wing tropes in scholarship
open access so free to read --> www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
September 23, 2026 at 12:32 PM
please to see that my latest academic article is out now:
"Ghost in the Machine. Crusade Medievalisms in the 21st-century United States"
I take on the ghost of Samuel Huntington and some right-wing tropes in scholarship
open access so free to read --> www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
"Ghost in the Machine. Crusade Medievalisms in the 21st-century United States"
I take on the ghost of Samuel Huntington and some right-wing tropes in scholarship
open access so free to read --> www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
The jokes write themselves
a16z invests $35M in Horowitz Andreessen Academy, an independent, unaccredited two-year alternative to college; Anthropic, Meta, and others will provide compute (Katherine Bindley/Wall Street Journal)
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September 22, 2026 at 10:43 PM
The jokes write themselves
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The fantasy: AI becomes sapient, takes over the nukes itself, and wages war against Humanity.
The reality: AI becomes the equivalent of a drunken, street-corner pseudo-prophet that Humanity decides to take seriously for some reason.
Weren't there multiple TOS episodes with similar premises?
The reality: AI becomes the equivalent of a drunken, street-corner pseudo-prophet that Humanity decides to take seriously for some reason.
Weren't there multiple TOS episodes with similar premises?
September 19, 2026 at 10:09 AM
The fantasy: AI becomes sapient, takes over the nukes itself, and wages war against Humanity.
The reality: AI becomes the equivalent of a drunken, street-corner pseudo-prophet that Humanity decides to take seriously for some reason.
Weren't there multiple TOS episodes with similar premises?
The reality: AI becomes the equivalent of a drunken, street-corner pseudo-prophet that Humanity decides to take seriously for some reason.
Weren't there multiple TOS episodes with similar premises?
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yeah i mean there's a lot to disagree with in "they go low we go high" as it turns out, but "tethered to factual reality" really needs to be the touchstone. hannah arendt etc etc
There's a genuinely terrifying attitude (that isn't just isolated to ResistanceSky, but is utterly prevalent amongst them), that the truth doesn't matter. That's it ok to post that fake quote, genAI image etc, because the other side have denigrated & destroyed the truth, and holy shit that's bad.
yanks resistposting about trump's visit to Ireland has opened my eyes as to just how serious a disinformation vector blue sky is
September 13, 2026 at 7:07 PM
yeah i mean there's a lot to disagree with in "they go low we go high" as it turns out, but "tethered to factual reality" really needs to be the touchstone. hannah arendt etc etc
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Since it can be hard to believe that political and corporate elites would actively give up on our shared future on this singular planet, we made a short film so folks can hear from the end timers and judge for themselves. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor: the future according to end times fascism
In a new video, Klein and Taylor outline a ominous evolution taking shape on the far right – and how to stay loyal to this planet and each other
www.theguardian.com
September 13, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Since it can be hard to believe that political and corporate elites would actively give up on our shared future on this singular planet, we made a short film so folks can hear from the end timers and judge for themselves. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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The only responsible attitude for liberals and progressives to align on is that all right-wing grievances, claims and believes are not only false, but malicious lies. Nothing passes the mouth of an American conservative in public life that is not meant to harm and destroy the lives of millions.
July 28, 2026 at 11:15 PM
The only responsible attitude for liberals and progressives to align on is that all right-wing grievances, claims and believes are not only false, but malicious lies. Nothing passes the mouth of an American conservative in public life that is not meant to harm and destroy the lives of millions.
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(The Computer is mysterious and enigmatic.)
September 12, 2026 at 7:25 PM
(The Computer is mysterious and enigmatic.)
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ok but "the future" they are promising is "we destroy your jobs and maybe build a dark god of genocide" so perhaps winning these people back is not the wisest electoral move
Opinion | Democrats have lost Silicon Valley. Here's what it will take to win it back
If Democrats want to become the party of the future again, they need to stop treating the people building the future like political enemies.
If Democrats want to become the party of the future again, they need to stop treating the people building the future like political enemies.
Opinion | Democrats have lost Silicon Valley. Here's what it will take to win it back
If Democrats want to become the party of the future again, they need to stop treating the people building the future like political enemies.
cal.news
September 10, 2026 at 5:09 AM
ok but "the future" they are promising is "we destroy your jobs and maybe build a dark god of genocide" so perhaps winning these people back is not the wisest electoral move
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a remarkably effective life hack: just be nice to people
it's incredible how much goodwill people will extend to you if you're pleasant to them
it's incredible how much goodwill people will extend to you if you're pleasant to them
September 1, 2026 at 5:58 PM
a remarkably effective life hack: just be nice to people
it's incredible how much goodwill people will extend to you if you're pleasant to them
it's incredible how much goodwill people will extend to you if you're pleasant to them
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In an age of extremism everyone is an extremism scholar
I feel like I’m on fraud watch as an international relations scholar because I honestly kinda don’t fucking know why this country does anything anymore. If you held a gun to my head and demanded to know why we’re at war with Iran or feuding with Canada or want Greenland, I’d say the Lord’s Prayer.
August 30, 2026 at 7:35 PM
In an age of extremism everyone is an extremism scholar
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Yes but that would require accepting the idea that American voters have agency and should accept responsibility for their actions and yet we still regularly have the burrito taxi argument on here.
a lot of the lessons from the Trump era are "don't elect Donald Trump"
August 30, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Yes but that would require accepting the idea that American voters have agency and should accept responsibility for their actions and yet we still regularly have the burrito taxi argument on here.
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The "climate sceptics" are going to pivot to becoming weather manipulation truthers or whatever. The problem isn't gas guzzling trucks and coal, it's those damn west coast elites stealing our water or whatever.
August 26, 2026 at 6:19 AM
The "climate sceptics" are going to pivot to becoming weather manipulation truthers or whatever. The problem isn't gas guzzling trucks and coal, it's those damn west coast elites stealing our water or whatever.
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Does no one else find this an unforgivably stupid question?
Emissions reductions won't make a heat wave NOW survivable.
Likewise, more homes can have AC, heat pumps while overall cutting greenhouse emissions. This isn't an "either/or", both are needed.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Emissions reductions won't make a heat wave NOW survivable.
Likewise, more homes can have AC, heat pumps while overall cutting greenhouse emissions. This isn't an "either/or", both are needed.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Air conditioning push favoured over emissions cuts in five European nations, survey finds
Poll also finds sizeable majorities who believe it should be easier to install air con in homes
www.theguardian.com
August 24, 2026 at 5:32 AM
Does no one else find this an unforgivably stupid question?
Emissions reductions won't make a heat wave NOW survivable.
Likewise, more homes can have AC, heat pumps while overall cutting greenhouse emissions. This isn't an "either/or", both are needed.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Emissions reductions won't make a heat wave NOW survivable.
Likewise, more homes can have AC, heat pumps while overall cutting greenhouse emissions. This isn't an "either/or", both are needed.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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If you're into that sort of thing, GPPi produce a great podcast series on Assad's chemical weapon use as part of their Nowhere to Hide project
chemicalweapons.gppi.net/podcast/
chemicalweapons.gppi.net/podcast/
Nowhere to Hide
The Story of Chemical Warfare in Syria
chemicalweapons.gppi.net
August 21, 2026 at 9:36 AM
If you're into that sort of thing, GPPi produce a great podcast series on Assad's chemical weapon use as part of their Nowhere to Hide project
chemicalweapons.gppi.net/podcast/
chemicalweapons.gppi.net/podcast/
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The “you just don’t like AI because you don’t understand it” argument is completely demolished whenever I post about this nuance because everyone resoundingly agrees and supports this version. People understand AI. They understand what they don’t like about it. They are not ignorant.
(AI actually has been used in science and medicine for decades and is incredibly good at doing things like finding cancer that can’t be seen with the human eye but that is a completely different type of AI then we’re all angry about it and we shouldn’t discuss them in the same conversations TBH)
Talk to the people who would use this for dream use cases — the cancer scientists, the people who want to make material goods out of it — and they will tell you it’s either a marginally useful if unreliable trick or completely useless. It has produced 0% of the utopian products promised.
August 21, 2026 at 9:38 AM
The “you just don’t like AI because you don’t understand it” argument is completely demolished whenever I post about this nuance because everyone resoundingly agrees and supports this version. People understand AI. They understand what they don’t like about it. They are not ignorant.
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once again, essential reading:
August 17, 2026 at 9:22 PM
once again, essential reading:
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stories like this are a useful reminder that a) Chinese people love goofing around and b) the CCP really distrusts people goofing around.
August 17, 2026 at 11:45 AM
stories like this are a useful reminder that a) Chinese people love goofing around and b) the CCP really distrusts people goofing around.
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"We got our shit kicked in an exercise by one of the most experienced militaries on the face of the planet at current moment" is actually kind of what I want to hear
the real problem is that this article is gonna be used as a sales pitch for the gizmo cult and Anduril
the real problem is that this article is gonna be used as a sales pitch for the gizmo cult and Anduril
>ukranian drone ops wiped out a fucking brigade of 1st cav in an exercise
it's even more over than i ever thought possible www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
it's even more over than i ever thought possible www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
August 13, 2026 at 1:54 AM
"We got our shit kicked in an exercise by one of the most experienced militaries on the face of the planet at current moment" is actually kind of what I want to hear
the real problem is that this article is gonna be used as a sales pitch for the gizmo cult and Anduril
the real problem is that this article is gonna be used as a sales pitch for the gizmo cult and Anduril
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If the Democrats really want to run on an anti corruption platform (and i think they should), this means coming out against prediction markets, crypto, and sports betting, all of which are either directly corrupt or facilitate corrupt acts.
Prediction markets are not predictive and should not be covered as news
August 12, 2026 at 2:44 PM
If the Democrats really want to run on an anti corruption platform (and i think they should), this means coming out against prediction markets, crypto, and sports betting, all of which are either directly corrupt or facilitate corrupt acts.