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abovoadmala.bsky.social @abovoadmala.bsky.social · 4h

This subreddit is always doing stuff like this, posting gradients with no numbers

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

man, reading about the Flying Tigers (US pilots flying for China during WW2) makes me feel like sobbing 😭

It was told by a Flying Tiger pilot who was shot down over enemy territory in China. Fortunately, he was picked up by villagers and hidden in a couple's house.

"The first thing they did was to take his boots away. He thought: 'They're going to take everything I have of value and then turn me over to the Japanese,'" Jobe told the audience.

When the Japanese came into this house, they mercilessly beat the couple, and then another Japanese soldier came and mumbled something, and suddenly all of them left the home and the town.

Touching story

The pilot later discovered that the couple had given his boots to a young man who left a trail out of the town; the Japanese believed the trail was left by the Flying Tiger, so they followed it.

The pilot waited at the home till a missionary arrived to help escort him back to his base. Before leaving, he asked the missionary to ask the couple why they risked their lives to save his. "Their answer was simplicity itself: 'When the Japanese come, we see fear in the eyes of the Chinese; when the Flying Tigers come, we see fear in the eyes of the Japanese,'" said Jobe.

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 7h

Donald Trump has a significantly harsher “death to America” stance than the IRGC does at this point I think

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abovoadmala.bsky.social @abovoadmala.bsky.social · 7h

It's old now but this Milanovic paper is outstanding, has really shaped how I think the past 10 years stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/files/2012/0...

stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu

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abovoadmala.bsky.social @abovoadmala.bsky.social · 7h

As hardreeds said on twitter years ago: Sriracha is the bachelor's defense against his own cooking

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Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 8h

“Please stop putting my crimes in writing,” I write to my fellow criminal

"It's unbelievable when we have a private arrangement with you that you would now CC a producer talking about money," she said. "Do not say we have any arrangement."

She added: "What a nightmare you'll literally cost me my ambassadorship stop writing"

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Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 8h

Alright then www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

"It won't show up anywhere if you wire money to American Express," she wrote on Signal, according to messages reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
"Please."

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zoë @zo-e.xyz · 10h

okay so this anecdote in Margaret's obituary has me crying because this is exactly what it's like being in tech and trying to anticipate failures and having men basically tell you you're being hysterical and then you have to fix it later

"the Lauren error": One day, her daughter Lauren, then four years old, was playing with the command module simulator at the
Instrumentation Lab when she somehow activated a pre-launch program, called P01, while the simulator was in midflight - which
crashed the simulator altogether. Hamilton created a program add-on in the technical documentation warning users not to launch P01 during flight.
She also proposed a software fix to prevent the error happening during a real mission, but she was overruled on the grounds that the highly trained astronauts were never going to make that same mistake. Yet during the Apollo 8 mission in 1968, that's exactly what happened: Jim Lovell inadvertently launched P01 during the flight, causing the on-flight navigational data to vanish. Hamilton and her team were called in to solve the error, and after that her proposed changes were integrated into the program. This was an early example of "defensive" programming, the

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 9h

It's important to remember that as degenerate and deranged the online anonymous commentariat can be, the actual professional American intelligentsia is about a thousand times worse.

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abovoadmala.bsky.social @abovoadmala.bsky.social · 9h

Côte d’Ivoire, 1750-2000; Late Medieval France; Mimbres, 1750-2000

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abovoadmala.bsky.social @abovoadmala.bsky.social · 10h

Whiffed two in Africa today - first one looked like things I saw in Morocco, and I guessed the ivory was from Ivory Coast

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21st Century Schizoid Tran @grayathena.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I think sometimes about how it somehow didn't end with Access Hollywood or half a hundred other scandals in 2015-2016 alone. It didn't end because his supporters are terrible people who will either excuse him if he hurts the right people or who love the brutality. We are Babylon

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celine dionysus / FISHER THING on bandcamp 🌌 @celinedionysus.bsky.social · 11h

biblical archangels are like, michael, the leader, gabriel, the spokesman, raphael, a guy with no particular portfolio, and potentially others. this is like lotr wizards now that i think about it

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Public Universal Fiend @publicuniversal.bsky.social · 11h

This is correct but in a constitutional crisis and/or “dueling congresses” situation it is a good idea to come prepared to sieze legitimacy

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Katie @littlelistmaker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I believe people feel guilty or selfishly mad enough to lie but not guilty enough to actually go vote and certainly not enough to switch parties. I guess we'll see though.

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21st Century Schizoid Tran @grayathena.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I keep seeing the "what's more punk than the public library" shirt and I still don't get it. It's a municipal service funded by property taxes. How is that punk? What does being punk mean to people? Seems pretty square and establishment to me.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A tree that took 250 years to grow getting cut down by Donald's jackbooted thugs in minutes is the type of on-the-nose symbolism that would have a writer panned by critics as a hack.

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Carey @careylikemariah.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I don't know which personality disorder this is indicative of, but there seems to be a lot of it in politics these days (mostly on the Republican side, where RBH will undoubtedly end up):

Screenshot of a tweet by @AMBichotte on Twitter with a photo of her holding up copies of the judge's contempt order. Her tweet reads, "I just got served with a contempt order signed by a Judge for invoking my constitutional rights. Punished for the 5th. Ignored for the 14th. Erased for the 13th #Justice is on Life Support—and somebody’s pulling the plug. #haters
#FreedomToAssemble #FreedomOfAssociation"

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abovoadmala.bsky.social @abovoadmala.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Reporter did a good job constructing the piece

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abovoadmala.bsky.social @abovoadmala.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Price doesnt come across as particularly competent but he does seem to feel responsibility and earnestly care about getting things done right, which makes the failure haunting even though we're better off without the Iowa caucuses www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ruby...

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The Iowa Caucus Is Supposed To Tell A Story About America. He’s Still Trying To Figure Out What It Meant.

Troy Price devoted years of his life to the Iowa caucus, hoping to make it successful, transparent, and inclusive. But in a year when everything fell apart, the 2020 Iowa caucus was the first institut...

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abovoadmala.bsky.social @abovoadmala.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Reading NYRB and listening to Sylvan Esso....I'm back in 2015

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Ariel @arielmp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

feeling very vindicated re: my long time take that I think Abdul winning (+Angie Nixon winning as a bonus) is very important to AOC’s presidential calculus.

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abovoadmala.bsky.social @abovoadmala.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Incredible band. Just wonderful. Hard to believe some of these songs are 13 years old. Still sound fresh and timeless

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abovoadmala.bsky.social @abovoadmala.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Guess Monday night in DC is going to be a little stiff

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abovoadmala.bsky.social @abovoadmala.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Crowd not giving Sylvan Esso the energy they deserve

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Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

0.48% chance is a meaningless number. You might as well say either zero or 1%. Just cuz you run it through the math machine to make it seem magic doesn't mean it's not horseshit.

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Michael "Fallen Coffee Pot of Shadows" Senters the Sigillite:ABD @mikesenters.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Moldbug might not be a household name but the fact that he's a well known influence on not just Vance but many members of this regime is bleak.No one should have to know who Moldbug and Land are; we should be able to laugh at them cause they are fringe freaks but here we are.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

What you call "influence ops" is also known as "democratic politics" insofar as persuasive statements in the public sphere are core features thereof. The fascist international is—ironically—incepting & instantiating a transnational democratic politics that repudiates old ideas of non-interventionism

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abovoadmala.bsky.social @abovoadmala.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Finest tribute I've ever seen is to a guy who died working on a cure in the 18th century

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

One of the few things that would turbocharge important institutional reform:

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This thing where reporters simply do not check trump supporters' public social media posts at all, and editors don't give a shit either, has to stop

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abovoadmala.bsky.social @abovoadmala.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

(And the punchline, about intimacy vs love: he loved cars. He did not, it is safe to say, love laundry vans. And yet he was surely more intimate with the laundry van that ran him over than he was with any other car)

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abovoadmala.bsky.social @abovoadmala.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

designed and made by masters and technicians effectively anonymous to their users and occupants.

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abovoadmala.bsky.social @abovoadmala.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I still think often of the Sarah Nicole Prickett riff on Barthes: He loved cars. He thought the Citroën was the new Notre Dame. The automobile and the cathedral were the defining objects of their age: at the limits of technical ability, using all the resources socially available, consumed by all,

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 05/10/2026

the new book Supremacy is the most clarifying and clearsighted book about the Supreme Court I've ever read. and somewhat to my surprise it's by two Harvard Law profs! prospect.org/2026/10/05/o...

prospect.org

The Supreme Court’s Power Is Based on the Lie of Its Supremacy - The American Prospect

The Constitution does not establish a judicial dictatorship.

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Shishiqiushi @shishiqiushi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Its not a war it's state murder and every service member involved should be in prison

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Very saddened to say I won’t be able to headline Tim Pool’s student event in Chicago this week. I unfortunately have other plans.

Hi Katherine,
Timcast Media is partnering with the Chicago Thinker to host a student event in Chicago on October 9 at 4:00 PM.
The event will feature a one-on-one conversation with Tim Pool followed by a live student Q&A. To create a dynamic and balanced dialogue, we are specifically seeking a featured guest to represent a left-leaning perspective.
Timcast Media will fully cover and arrange all travel and accommodations.
Thank you in advance for your consideration.
Sincerely,
[REDACTED]

Hi Lisa,
Sorry, I'll be too busy slamming my hand in a car door that day to talk with Tim. Hope you understand.
Kat

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Alex Koma @alexkoma.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Perhaps the most honest media advisory re: the D.C. Council ever circulated, courtesy of @brianneknadeau.bsky.social's staff:

WHEN & WHERE
Wilson Building, Council Chamber
Tuesday, October 6
Timing: All time predictions for Council meetings are speculative and foolhardy. The Legislative Meeting is scheduled to start at noon but never starts on time. The bill is the second item on the non-consent agenda and likely to be heard early in the meeting. The bill could come up for discussion during the Breakfast Meeting, scheduled for 9 a.m., which will not start at 9 a.m. The bill is not on the agenda for the Council of the Whole meeting, which precedes the Legislative Meeting.

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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

somehow seeing this concept for the first time and it’s *so obviously* essential

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 05/10/2026

In 2010, I sat in on a patrol brief for a BCT in eastern Afghanistan that claimed “pashtunwali revenge” was responsible for why they faced so much violence. When I asked him to remind me why we were in Afghanistan in the first place, the colonel got frustrated and asked me to wait for them outside.

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abovoadmala.bsky.social @abovoadmala.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The prose in Wilson's Thirty Years War is excellent. Always clear and fluent

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Massive, sweeping prosecutions of everyone even tangentially involved in the overthrow or corruption of US government. Build a whole infrastructure for it

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neuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

the rule with artists is that you amplify them when they're morally correct, bury them when they're fuckheads, and ignore them when they start talking about voting. i'm sorry but that's just none of my business.

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neuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

i love reading posts on here and learning that some people are taking tom morello's electoral politics takes seriously. you would get better advice from a ouija board trying to contact charles i of england, full offense.

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