Reposted by the wizardThe Other David Harper @theotherdavidh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Tagline: "We aim for the stars, but sometimes we hit London." 2151
Reposted by the wizardAlistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026Starting a training course for the left that just consists of me saying "something can be morally compelling but still tactically foolish" again and again and again. 841834
the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026never ask a liberal institutionalist how they reconcile their avowed theory of international relations with their deeply held belief that Russians are uniquely evil 000
Reposted by the wizardHaus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The inability to live up to your own stringent standards is FUNNY and not an indictment of your soul 7114575
Reposted by the wizardJP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit 3460301484
the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026You guys are gonna hate this but the boys down at the lab ran the numbers and it turns out Hasan Piker and Will Stancil are the same person. 000
the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Streamer campism is so powerful people are convincing themselves Piker’s 9/11 hot takes are more persuasive than dissuasive. Someone should tell El-Sayed to lean in! I don’t know why he keeps disavowing the guy. 300
the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026R.I.P. Kenneth Burke you would’ve loved American leftists 000
Reposted by the wizarddisc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Laura Loomer teams up with fake, classist genius and disgraced professor, Curtis Yarvin, in a new podcast which promises to be as shitty as you're imagining it to be. 3404
Reposted by the wizardClaudio Pozas — Commissions Open @claudiopozas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026That Cap speech going around again doesn't really sit well with me because you can swap Cap with Hatemonger and it'd still fit. It doesn't state a anything beyond "stick to your opinion, no matter the opposition". I much prefer Beta Ray Bill's "let us make good" speech. 27915161
the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Guy who briefly knew the Lord’s Prayer in Swedish because of that one Sabaton song (it’s me I’m that guy) 010
the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Much of Bluesky is me seeing someone post a dunk on what I assume has to be an egregious strawman and then when I click through I find the man of straw and he is real and he is yelling. 020
the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026If I have an issue with Eco’s “Ur-Fascism” it’s not that the net he weaves with his 14 points won’t catch fascism within it, it’s that it will catch so much else along with it that I don’t think it’s also that useful as a tool to identify fascism. 000
the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 24/08/2026I saw “What is fascism” discourse beginning on Bluesky and I immediately heard the books on my shelf from grad school calling out to me like the green goblin mask. I feel the Warp overtaking me, it is a good pain. 010
the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 20/08/2026R.I.P. Eugene Debs you would’ve loved War Pigs by Black Sabbath 011
the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I don’t know if I’m just hopelessly naive but fully 2/3rds of the lib/left discourse I see here is people who I think would broadly agree on most things flinging shit at each other over in group out group signifiers. Going to start calling this behavior “being a Schmitthead” 110
the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 08/08/2026“RETVRN” but Marxist is a weird phenomenon. Seems antithetical to what I understand to be a “best is yet to come” kinda project. 110
the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 03/08/2026This is a perfectly fine thing to say. You’re not going to convince me that providing an off-ramp for “MAHA” is bad. She didn’t come out as anti-vax, she said people are mistrustful of food and drug industries. If we don’t speak to this, the right is free to contextualize the issue unopposed. 300
the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 03/08/2026If Bernie declining to answer a loaded question and instead banging his stump speech for the millionth time comes as a surprise to you I don’t know where you’ve been for the past decade. 010
Reposted by the wizardJaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 31/07/2026considering arguing about TTRPGs all day 2843725
the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Calling for a detente between libs and leftists so we can hold hands and look at charts together. 010
the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 24/07/2026show this to a chart guy and it’ll shiver their timbers 000
the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 21/07/2026I generally think it would be better if people with disagreements on here had good faith interactions without assuming malicious intent on the others side BUT I did just see a prominent ragebaiter get mauled in their own comments and it was kinda funny 000
the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 20/07/2026This discussion feels like it sorta misses the point. Lots of valid questions about this: Are we measuring the right things, what cues are the population responding to, etc. But “they’re wrong to believe the economy is in decline” seems like a conclusion you can’t draw without answering those first 130
the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 15/07/2026I remember hearing “teach men not to rape” in undergrad and at the time I honestly found it condescending, but this is why that’s needed- if we don’t, men like this will teach young men and boys to rape. They reproduce that in their social groups and collectively make monsters out of themselves. 010
the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026England vs Argentina, winner gets Hatsune Miku and the Falklands 000
Reposted by the wizardDragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 13/07/2026i think it rules when wizards have flintlocks 2118127
the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Heartened to see DSA’s experiencing tremendous success, but I think this breakthrough will mark a transition where the Democratic Party might begin to treat them less like an obnoxious fringe and more like a real threat. That’s a necessary battle, but it’s gonna be nasty. 010
Reposted by the wizardNick @sregorn.bsky.social · 30/06/2026It’s about how, after roe v. wade, one side recognizing they were engaged in and committed to a political struggle and the other side said welp we’re sure glad that courts permanently ended that political struggle 151
Reposted by the wizardThe One True Ghoster @onetrueposter.bsky.social · 30/06/2026He would have become far too powerful 121
the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 01/07/2026It’s darkly funny seeing this exact script be passed around between progressives and moderates every election depending on who wins the primary. Trading vote blue no matter who for fuck your shitty candidate back and forth for all eternity. 110
the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Mamdani also does an excellent job of connecting his incremental gains to an ideological project. That’s part of the sauce. 040
the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 26/06/2026I try to follow the most cringe resistlibs and the most cringe leftists and gleam divine truth from their interactions 000
Reposted by the wizardFANGORIA @fangoria.bsky.social · 22/06/2026If horror has a hero, it’s Bruce Campbell. Today we celebrate the birth of an enduring actor, producer, and legend. Happy birthday, sir, and thanks for changing the face (especially the chin) of the genre. We love you! 642340482
Reposted by the wizardLuci. @transtextual.bsky.social · 10/06/2026the faux-feminism of harassing a random dude for writing for a specific niche audience and calling it misogynistic out of context - then when the guy apologizes because he's normal and doesn't want to upset people you declare it a great victory because you participated in a pointless social murder. 2141
the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 09/06/2026I truly don’t understand the normielib fixation with disputing the reality of the affordability crisis. Is it just the vacuous reasoning of the middle class who can’t empathize? Excessive negative polarization from center Dems promising tax cuts as their remedy? 010
