along these lines, you can just not share shit from the ontologically evil new york times
blueskys need to repost/promote/spread the words of a columnist they purportedly hate is mental. it's mad behaviour. you don't have to read or think about them, especially an irish times paywalled columnist. they are preaching to the choir, let them stay cloistered !
September 17, 2026 at 1:00 PM
along these lines, you can just not share shit from the ontologically evil new york times
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Relevant again
September 15, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Relevant again
personally i wouldn't be maudlin about an SS officer killing himself
September 15, 2026 at 2:35 PM
personally i wouldn't be maudlin about an SS officer killing himself
TFW ur causes and conditions catch up to you
September 15, 2026 at 3:42 AM
TFW ur causes and conditions catch up to you
senator terri schiavo
September 15, 2026 at 3:25 AM
senator terri schiavo
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indeed, political discourse *just is* what people say often and loudly.
September 14, 2026 at 12:46 PM
indeed, political discourse *just is* what people say often and loudly.
fuck you man
I know what adjuncts make, and it is scandalous. But that’s because the market is glutted with PhDs - including people who should have either abandoned the PhD or abandoned the idea of a teaching career.
I know that sounds cruel, but that’s real talk.
I know that sounds cruel, but that’s real talk.
September 13, 2026 at 11:59 PM
fuck you man
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Liberals pave the way for fascists
September 13, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Liberals pave the way for fascists
it's darkly funny to me that liberal currents reshared a "the left is so mean to will stancil" piece amidst a multi day stancil meltdown where he insists that trans people shouldn't have opinions about democrats selling them out for votes in exactly the same way labour did. unserious shit.
"American politics as mediated by our smart phones is beset by increasingly dysfunctional forms of parasocial relationships. … People are imputed with darkly villainous intent and an outsized ability to effect outcomes that no one really possesses." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-parasoci...
The Parasocial Style in American Politics, Part 2: Witch Hunts and Comfort Blankets
As during witch hunts, social media enables a process of rendering people into totemic figures in a war between Good and Evil.
www.liberalcurrents.com
September 13, 2026 at 2:03 PM
it's darkly funny to me that liberal currents reshared a "the left is so mean to will stancil" piece amidst a multi day stancil meltdown where he insists that trans people shouldn't have opinions about democrats selling them out for votes in exactly the same way labour did. unserious shit.
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Like I can't stress enough that this tension is at the heart of everything and if you try and get round it your analysis is going to fall apart.
You need wages to live. The people who own everything don't want to pay you. That's it. Everything else is commentary.
You need wages to live. The people who own everything don't want to pay you. That's it. Everything else is commentary.
Watching people struggle to grasp the philosophical issues without a Marxist analysis is kinda painful. They know something is up but without the right tools they're floundering around.
The bosses would always rather automate your job away because they hate paying wages. That's it, man.
The bosses would always rather automate your job away because they hate paying wages. That's it, man.
September 13, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Like I can't stress enough that this tension is at the heart of everything and if you try and get round it your analysis is going to fall apart.
You need wages to live. The people who own everything don't want to pay you. That's it. Everything else is commentary.
You need wages to live. The people who own everything don't want to pay you. That's it. Everything else is commentary.
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Chinook salmon have recolonised 88% of their historic range on the Klamath River, with more than 13,000 fish passing the old Iron Gate Dam site in 2025, up from 7,700 the year before. Two years after the dams’ removal, it’s going better than anyone predicted. buff.ly/pToC9gB
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Rewilding the upper Klamath River Basin: rapid recolonization of Chinook salmon following the world’s largest dam removal - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Rewilding the upper Klamath River Basin: rapid recolonization of Chinook salmon following the world’s largest dam removal
www.nature.com
September 9, 2026 at 12:50 PM
Chinook salmon have recolonised 88% of their historic range on the Klamath River, with more than 13,000 fish passing the old Iron Gate Dam site in 2025, up from 7,700 the year before. Two years after the dams’ removal, it’s going better than anyone predicted. buff.ly/pToC9gB
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
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SSJR will be hosting a virtual book talk with @bryandaniellowe.bsky.social later this month. Open to the public, so please come join us!
Registration link: furman.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Link to the book: uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/how-bu...
Registration link: furman.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Link to the book: uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/how-bu...
September 6, 2026 at 6:32 PM
SSJR will be hosting a virtual book talk with @bryandaniellowe.bsky.social later this month. Open to the public, so please come join us!
Registration link: furman.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Link to the book: uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/how-bu...
Registration link: furman.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Link to the book: uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/how-bu...
it seems kind of dishonest to compare active reforestation efforts to reforestation as a result of massive social collapse but sure
September 8, 2026 at 7:17 PM
it seems kind of dishonest to compare active reforestation efforts to reforestation as a result of massive social collapse but sure
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one of the big lessons from the buddha about your life is that the seeds you water are the only ones with a chance to grow
Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature
Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...
www.nature.com
September 8, 2026 at 12:02 PM
one of the big lessons from the buddha about your life is that the seeds you water are the only ones with a chance to grow
i see the timeline is debating the merits of shoju vs shakubuku
September 7, 2026 at 1:58 PM
i see the timeline is debating the merits of shoju vs shakubuku
the people cry out for show trials
we are going to have to do this with the military too. Senior leadership that went along with things like murdering hundreds of randos in boats have to be publicly made examples of
September 4, 2026 at 1:39 AM
the people cry out for show trials
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we are going to have to do this with the military too. Senior leadership that went along with things like murdering hundreds of randos in boats have to be publicly made examples of
September 4, 2026 at 1:14 AM
we are going to have to do this with the military too. Senior leadership that went along with things like murdering hundreds of randos in boats have to be publicly made examples of
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just ran across this cartoon from the year of our lord two thousand and nine, and, welp.
September 2, 2026 at 11:19 PM
just ran across this cartoon from the year of our lord two thousand and nine, and, welp.
fuck that, post your notes for the case as an appendix to the decision at the time it's released. it's already been finally decided, so why should the public have to wait?
Pretty outrageous that the Supreme Court increasingly plans to release its records only when the entire public that lived through the decisions are dead. Congress should pass legislation requiring all internal communication be preserved and then released 5 years after a justice's retirement.
September 1, 2026 at 12:39 PM
fuck that, post your notes for the case as an appendix to the decision at the time it's released. it's already been finally decided, so why should the public have to wait?
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they literally just exist to ratify the actions of the powerful and quash dissenters or anything that smells of reform
Symmetry would entail recognizing that ppl can be injured by the mere unlawfulness of executive acts. But because the Court says that's not an injury, nobody gets to sue just to make the government act lawfully, plfs are stuck coming up with theories of aesthetic injury, which the Court then mocks:
August 31, 2026 at 9:02 PM
they literally just exist to ratify the actions of the powerful and quash dissenters or anything that smells of reform
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Trying to get a read on this guys stance on the major questions doctrine based on his questions during oral arguments
August 31, 2026 at 8:22 PM
Trying to get a read on this guys stance on the major questions doctrine based on his questions during oral arguments