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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This book is about a very white and often exclusively white are

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Killings
Folk Justice in the Upper South
by William Lynwood Montell

Back of book: The “State Line Country” of this book is a rugged area of small farms on the Kentucky-Tennessee border. Historically the area has had a homicide rate more than ten times the national average.
In this gripping and penetrating study of violence and death in the State Line Country, Lynwood Montell examines the local historical and social conditions, as well as the prevailing attitudes and values, that gave rise and support to rowdy behavior and homicidal acts from the Civil War to the 1930s. The area fostered, he thinks, a culture of violence.
Drawing from vivid oral accounts, which he recorded from present-day residents, Montell describes more than fifty killings that took place in the area, locating them against a background of farming, moonshining, and sawmilling activities common in that country. In addition to reconstructing the homicides, he analyzes their key features, including the circumstances under which they took place, the relationships of the persons involved, the presence of precipitating factors (such as deadly weapons and alcohol) in the culture, and attitudes toward law enforcement officers and the courts.
This close examination of homicide in the State Line Country, which views the tradition from regional and national perspectives, adds a significant dimension to the study of homicide in the South. Students from various disciplines will find here a source of deeper understanding of southern violence.

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Feel like "Mark Whatney can't get tenure" would resonate with some guys

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"I am not putting it out there because I am going to report it two days from now" - Matt Belloni, one day ago

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This makes more sense due to the medium but there are also the public intellectuals and commentators. Hitchens was seemingly everywhere but is rarely mentioned, going back further a Winchell or a Mencken. Seem like titans then just gone.

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In this small diner 20 miles outside Atlanta, folks disagree about where Atlanta is

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yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 29/09/2026

In the future, the human's comparative advantage vs machines will our ability to self-heal small wounds, and our resistance to ionising radiation

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Unfortunately, pre-ai even, an absolutely tremendous amount of thought and money has gone into making 'planet' scale systems designed to keep running after the loss of continents.

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Venn diagram overlap of "SpaceX is a truly innovative organization that stands head and shoulders above its competition in ways that can't be explained by government or mere capitalism" and "Its CEO is one of the principal threats to our ability to flourish as species" is a lonely place to be

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Not sure how much it would help, but some genuine pharmaceutical grade mandatory disclaimers on the consumer AI ads is probably a good and passable idea.

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Actors can act, sure, but Jeremy Strong is 5 years older than Mark Zuckerberg today, right now. The movie takes place 5+ years ago.

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Remember when the Biden administration (which I disliked for unrelated reasons) tried to be supercharge the economy by nationally copying California's one weird trick ( no non-competes) and businesses said "no thanks."

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Huh so the triumphal arch with be in DC. I was sure that was Virginia. I am a bad Virginian.

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Finally, my chance to be one of those rulers of one half of a post apocalyptic city block the main characters dispatch slightly into their journey

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Tyler @twoodard89.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“RIP to those brought low by court squabbling, but I’m better and different. Definitely better than Parliament.” - Charles I

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Trump had real, impressive/terrifying gains, especially in blue states, a bunch of depressed turnout, and California counts very slowly. Luckily he's absolutely worse than he was the first time, something voters maybe possibly remember until mid 2032.

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Well that's it, I am going to sleep

What are you going to do with these whales?’ The Icelandic billionaire eyeing Australia’s humpbacks
Kristján Loftsson served as lookout in his father’s whaling fleet as a young man. He says killing whales for meat is no different to killing cows or kangaroos

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

People don't understand how good the tv business used to be. Every ten years you would walk into the writers room and say "let's lock one more chevron" and your net worth went up $10 million.

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Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The State AGs were on pace to kill the Paramount/Warner Bros by litigation and delay until Gavin Newsom stepped in and turned the tide. Now the Trump loyalist Ellisons will control CNN and HBO. Don't ever, ever forget that Newsom stabbed us in the back www.wsj.com/business/med...

wsj.com

Exclusive | Newsom Expresses Concerns About State Antitrust Suit Against Paramount

The California governor has told people involved in the suit that blocking the $81 billion deal could harm Hollywood jobs.

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Obviously he's an effective politician in some spheres, and generally I just don't like him, but I take Newsom's advocacy for a settlement as a particular strike against him www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/09/...

cnbc.com

Paramount could settle with states over Warner Bros. as soon as this weekend, sources say

A settlement this week could help Paramount avoid paying millions of dollars in fees to Warner Bros. shareholders, Reuters reported.

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I should try and be a better person more of the time. I get such an absolute rush out of standing around for 10-30 minutes calling random people until I finally return a cell phone I found on the street.

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Ian Moss @ian.allenmoss.co.uk · 16/09/2026

I was in a chip shop in Hove today. Doctor/consultant sat next to me on a conference call on soeakerphone discussing current patient notes with two other doctors. i asked him what on earth he was doing he said ‘we are only using their first names so you cant identify the patients’.

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I had success tapping someone (playing bright phone game) on their shoulder during the Odyssey and just saying "please" and gesturing towards phone, but I was slightly worried the rest of the film

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A retired swat cop killed a veteran over popcorn throwing and walked out a free man because he'd never been so scared before

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Why is hitman the one thing not getting inflation? Shouldn't it be a couple hundred grand by now?

The US government also said Yuri Khrameev recruited an individual living in the US to assassinate an individual in Lithuania who he accused of “spreading dirt about my country”. Khrameev allegedly offered the US-based individual $25,000 to kill the dissident and suggested it could be carried out by “throwing a bottle of gasoline” or “sticking a knife” in the person.

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It should be one police force per state, cabinet department, and railroad as god intended.

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I think the Pitt is very good but I think Pluribus is better, personally.

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Absolutely no evidence that's why he's in Folsom, it was a different state!

A still from jarchive for tonight's jeopardy, reading "I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die", he sang, explaining the cause of his Folsom Prison Blues"

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I guess the calculus is it's easier to undo a fraying of the very nature of the world economy that it is to undo tax cuts? So they just expect the next admin to fix free trade and free navigation and atlantic trust?

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Trump is extremely committed to doing things that destroy the economy, yet equally committed to boosting the economy at all costs. Incredibly, these things have offset themselves neatly enough that the business community's confidence that he will secure them favorable policy has largely held firm.

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The most expensive news site I subscribe to is the Financial Times. I only have a reguar subscriptiom though, not premium. Desperate but unable to know what they say about painting little guys.

Lex: The anti-AI portfolio: fountain pens, Warhammer and film cameras

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DaylightCounter @daylightcounter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

We continue losing daylight for 99 days.

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Personal anecdote about terrible catastrophe, this Labor Day weekend marks 25 years since I had dinner at Windows on the World

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

You like international snacks because you are high as a kite, I like international snacks because I love to see how multinational corporations put on different skins in their constant attempt to get into your mouth, we are not the same

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I can't get over this headline, can't bring myself to read either.

Financial Times
Category: architecture
Headline: How 9/11 changed the Manhattan skyline forever

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The FT had an article like this a few weeks ago, a commenter relayed the story of an american bank executive in London, her family fell in love with the neighbors cat, when they moved back to the states they took the cat

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Just looked this up, Michael Jordan was 38 when he joined the wizards. LeBron is 41 now.

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It feels under commented on that the reason they did this is to kill Atlantic right whales

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Ojou Mojo @ojoumojo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

One would think that even from a purely self preservation angle party leaders would have learned from the example of how in the UK Labor got a huge win via negative polarization against the Conservatives without having concrete promises and have since almost completely delegitimized their party.

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