Reposted by @calad-uin.bsky.socialJohn C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 3hI do find that many of my progressive and leftist friends are, in fact, kind of incapable of considering that my research on war doesn't mean I think it was fun 1424223
calad-uin.bsky.social @calad-uin.bsky.social · 35mThe thing about this brave new world we live in is that the LR catalog file is just a database, and Claude is great at doing database surgery. I've literally made changes to my 10+ year old LR catalog in plaintext now. You can absolutely migrate your catalog data if you have somewhere to send it. 000
Reposted by @calad-uin.bsky.socialVituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 22hA lot of people seem to hold the opinion “Biden should simply have imprisoned Trump permanently without trial” and the thing is that the president can’t do that Trump can’t do it, we think this is a positive feature of the system! 7819
Reposted by @calad-uin.bsky.socialDjinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 11hBut the eternal twilight of the occupation is a moral catastrophe. You cannot hold a people beneath your heel forever: you will either physically obliterate them - whether by extermination or removal - or you will do the right thing and let them go. 117313
Reposted by @calad-uin.bsky.socialDjinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 11hThoughts on this anniversary of Oct. 7: 1) Hamas are monsters. If you saw the footage of Shani Louk's corpse being desecrated, or the photos of those old women lying in pools of their own blood at a bus stop and did not come away with the idea that Bad Men did this, then I don't know what to say 123630
Reposted by @calad-uin.bsky.socialІлля @illya.bsky.social · 2hBut they still do this shit! They still think Ukrainians don't have aganecy and still don't see us as human because not being part of the russian world is some great sin to them bsky.app/profile/snp4... 182
Reposted by @calad-uin.bsky.socialVaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 10h[leftistly] the master races who built great empires because of their innate civilizational superiority must have supreme dominion over the lesser races in their great spheres who lack the will to power 816031
Reposted by @calad-uin.bsky.socialVibecession Forever @ghazelleberner.bsky.social · 1hYeah, this generally would be much easier to take in good faith if we couldn't see all the shit "antizionists" post on the internet. 0228
Reposted by @calad-uin.bsky.socialVituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 6hYou could replace Biden with anyone you can think of and they aren’t going to be able to fundamentally restructure the judiciary with the narrowest legislative majority in American history. Biden would have preferred larger majorities! He’s a New Deal guy! 49611
Reposted by @calad-uin.bsky.socialSam @samd.bsky.social · 19hvery few things bring me as much joy as the left-NIMBY crashout in response to zohran and his allies supporting building more housing 835423
Reposted by @calad-uin.bsky.socialHeadless Engineer - Spooky Light Dept. @cppilgram.bsky.social · 6hThat just does not reflect reality one bit. The DNC is jazzed af about AES, they won't stop giving his campaign money and assistance. Did Haley Stevens run attack ads? Very probably! They were in a tight primary race! But she was maybe the first Dem to put all her *unconditional* support behind him. 21108
Reposted by @calad-uin.bsky.socialAaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 6hThe thing about Ben Collins is that he clearly views himself as a political actor. He came out of political journalism, he has no relevant comedy experience, his partner also came out of political journalism and ran for Congress. So we should view his actions primarily through a political lens. 832959
Reposted by @calad-uin.bsky.socialMike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 13hthe handful of people in govt who care about this are very very very lazy, think poasting is reality, and know it's a lot of effort for little return at this point DHS isn't even doing the "make citizens who they don't like lives unnecessarily difficult for no reason" thing at the border anymore 0212
calad-uin.bsky.social @calad-uin.bsky.social · 1hdo you seriously believe even one R senator would have voted for impeachment in this scenario? 100
Reposted by @calad-uin.bsky.socialKeith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 6hAnyways, we could've solved politics with one good successful prosecution and a socialist president. Bernie would've succeeded where Biden failed. Now to take a big sip of caipirinha and check the first round election results from Brazil. 1302
Reposted by @calad-uin.bsky.socialVituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 6hRight like the core problem is that voters elected a bunch of cowardly and/or treasonous Republican senators 1928
Reposted by @calad-uin.bsky.socialVituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 6hThere is a way to skip criminal procedure in this situation and it’s called impeachment and Nancy Pelosi pulled the trigger on that twice 613611
Reposted by @calad-uin.bsky.socialVituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 6hThere basically isn’t a federal judge who would have allowed “skipping the inconvenient parts,” there isn’t a circuit that would have upheld them on the inevitable appeal, and then there’s the Supreme Court The only way the conviction was happening was through formal perfection, if at all 213710
Reposted by @calad-uin.bsky.socialVituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 6h“If Garland and Smith had rushed the most legally and politically complex criminal trial in American history even more than they did it was a silver bullet against authoritarianism” is something you need to argue not assume What if the judge throws the indictment out because they fucked it up? 815214
Reposted by @calad-uin.bsky.socialVituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 6hThe blame for Trump 2 lies with voters! That’s a bummer! But you gotta accept that! 518831
Reposted by @calad-uin.bsky.socialVituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 6hTwo things: 1. He sort of famously failed to overthrow the government, hence the indictments 2. “Biden should simply have skipped the inconvenient parts of criminal procedure” is a dumb take both because Biden (and Trump!) couldn’t do that and because it would be very bad if they could 1222624
Reposted by @calad-uin.bsky.socialalarmist morisette @technicalsquirrel.bsky.social · 3hThe Onion is giving Mallard Fillmore vibes of late. 4th panel: "oops, I forgot to tell a joke." 071
Reposted by @calad-uin.bsky.socialB. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 2hstatic.klipy.comBartlett WestALT: Bartlett West 71188
Reposted by @calad-uin.bsky.socialVituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 16h“Is Barack Obama good or bad” remains a really useful “touch grass” heuristic 620933
Reposted by @calad-uin.bsky.socialZoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 21hThe casual antisemitism among leftists is really something to behold. Something go wrong? THE J...excuse me...THE ZIONISTS MUST BE INVOLVED. 1023437
Reposted by @calad-uin.bsky.socialMax Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com · 21hHosting parties is easy: Text your friends that you are having a party. Go to trader Joe’s and buy all the silly snacks that look good. Get some drinks. Put the food and drink out. Play some music. Introduce strangers to each other. When you want people to leave, start cleaning up. Done! 13989
Reposted by @calad-uin.bsky.socialReconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 21hhe created a SAP??? 1318221
Reposted by @calad-uin.bsky.socialSam @samd.bsky.social · 22hit is so clear that Connie Chan is only passionate about one issue and it’s keeping the west side of San Francisco low density and car dependent she literally tried to kill Caltrain during the pandemic! 418322
Reposted by @calad-uin.bsky.socialDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 18hwow. half-assed political commentary "haha the democrats suck like THIS." wow. i can't get that anywhere else 1361825
Reposted by @calad-uin.bsky.socialDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 18hyou know the onion was funnier when they tried to be funny 67100587
Reposted by @calad-uin.bsky.socialWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 23hYeah OpenAI or Anthropic or whoever might go bankrupt, some specific use cases like ‘therapists’ might be litigated to oblivion. But things that involve interfacing with code are never, ever going back to the modal default being a human being typing things out, like it’s just full stop not happening 535628
Reposted by @calad-uin.bsky.socialExecutiveOtaku @executiveotaku.bsky.social · 06/10/2026We could and should have had another administration of this. www.ft.com/content/0753...ft.comThe discreet US campaign to defend Brazil’s electionAmid widespread speculation about a coup attempt, the Biden administration pressured politicians and generals to respect the result 132
Reposted by @calad-uin.bsky.socialZoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 06/10/2026If only there was a US political party she could have supported that actually had the Woke CIA save Brazilian democracy recently. 18910
Reposted by @calad-uin.bsky.socialNute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The fact that Harris is the big name Dem doing this and that the event is a roundtable on black maternal health tells you exactly where they think they’re weak and want to shore up 110519
Reposted by @calad-uin.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 06/10/2026there’s one true answer but it’s the correct one five minutes after game of thrones - the last true monoculture show - ended, we all collectively agreed not to talk about it again, and house of the dragon/knight of the seven kingdoms haven’t recaptured a fraction of that cultural presence 932365230
Reposted by @calad-uin.bsky.socialAaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 05/10/2026 __________ | | | | | | | | | |______ | | | | | | | | | | 1214416
Reposted by @calad-uin.bsky.socialbrasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026[Getting interrupted while taking the side of sexual assault] "Have you no DECENCY Sir!" 625430
Reposted by @calad-uin.bsky.socialMatthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I want everyone to remember that truly the height of Michael Tracey’s career was reporting in Europe about how Biden was going to cause WW3 by sending old APCs to Ukraine He got to banter with Erdoğan! Now look at him, doing rape apology. But really, that’s what he’s been doing the whole time 1045965
Reposted by @calad-uin.bsky.socialFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 06/10/2026This is excellent. I want to see more Dems going hard on this. 117235
Reposted by @calad-uin.bsky.socialSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026[in the trenches of the Second American Civil War] "so, are you pro-fanfic or anti-fanfic?" 1826317
calad-uin.bsky.social @calad-uin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The issue I have with this approach is that it’s exactly what Biden did and that didn’t work. He made nearly everyone better off and they despised him for it. I don’t think the disengaged median voter actually wants quiet competence. 110
Reposted by @calad-uin.bsky.socialZoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Cool, you can feed the whole world without exporting obscene amounts of alfafa to Saudi Arabia and spending colossally more water than all the data centers in the world use in the process. 3775
Reposted by @calad-uin.bsky.socialHaydon, frightfully @haydonmp.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The Syria test is 100% sensitive and specific for degenerate brain worms. Anyone that at any point defend Assad should be considered a wrecker, pariah, danger to society and should think about what they’ve done. >:( 17913
Reposted by @calad-uin.bsky.socialembracebecoming.bsky.social @embracebecoming.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This was the point when I noticed there was something Capital-W Wrong. There was a legit, no-shit Russian psyop to push pro-Assad sentiment on the Western left and all the people who call everything a psyop fell for it hook, line, and sinker. Low trust is the mind-killer. 0112
Reposted by @calad-uin.bsky.socialSam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Lmfao Kyle Kulinski was crashing the fuck out as HTS was thunder running to Damascus to the point he was saying the IDF airstrikes on Syria were actually the work of the US 39611
Reposted by @calad-uin.bsky.socialDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 06/10/2026see i just can't fuck with this. why use an ak symbol when every true mangionist knows he relied on a suppressed 3d printed firearm, the strong right arm of the right wing libertarian internet weirdo 1734225
Reposted by @calad-uin.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Like so much else, this should result in the prosecution of everyone involved. 1247295
