Diodotos @diodotos.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Consider your Christmas shopping partly done, and ♫ "Blame Canada!" ♫ youtube.com/shorts/dgCja...youtube.comSorry to interrupt family game night with the collapse of democracyYouTube video by Tod Maffin 000
Reposted by Diodotostweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 19/09/2026eliminate EV subsidies, ban cheap overseas EVs, ban EV component import, deport people bringing battery technology to the US, pay billions to kill clean energy projects, end fuel economy standards, and then do THIS is such an elaborate prank on the American people you almost have to respect it 453182751
Reposted by DiodotosKasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Sure, sex is great, but have you ever watched a media company suffer actual consequences for their shitty behavior? 3947071170
Diodotos @diodotos.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Everyone should follow Kyla Scanlon. youtube.com/shorts/hsM2k...youtube.comAI AgentsYouTube video by Kyla Scanlon 300
Reposted by DiodotosSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Objecting to the destruction of USAID is a pretty clean litmus test for being a serious person and not evil a surprising number of otherwise bad people pass this test, and a shocking number of people who pretend to care do not 231620232
Reposted by DiodotosGil Durán @gilduran.com · 15/08/2026We can have billionaires or we can have democracy. We cannot have both. The billionaires see a future without us, so we have to start imagining a future without them. Watch my full interview with Marisa Lagos of @kqednews.kqed.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi9o...youtube.comDo Silicon Valley Billionaires Want to End Democracy? | Political BreakdownYouTube video by KQED News 427290
Reposted by DiodotosKen Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 17/03/2026They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me. 329203373675
Diodotos @diodotos.bsky.social · 13/02/2026"Pupils, take out your slates!" Everything old is new again. 000
Reposted by DiodotosAlan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 05/02/2026The war on empathy and the war on the arts are part of the same project. www.liberalcurrents.com/none-more-wo... 11451147
Diodotos @diodotos.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Worth a read: Saida Grundy on the killing of Renée Good, the demands which Racist Rethugs / White Supremacists make of white women, and The Birth Of A Nation: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...theguardian.comAmerica’s contract to protect white women has always been tenuous | Saida GrundyICE’s killing of Renee Good has revealed how the state will only defend those who uphold a white racial order. A 1915 film points to the origins of this social pact 110
Diodotos @diodotos.bsky.social · 26/01/2026The liveblog of the hearing to restrained ICE in the Twin Cities is an interesting read. Best DOJ could do for a mouthpiece is a single attorney who graduated law school in 2022 and who has basically zero experience of practice. 010
Reposted by DiodotosRoger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 26/01/2026J: lot of cases focus on administration's attempt to get cities and states to cooperate with immigration laws. conditioning of grants. have any of those cases found it doesn't implicate 10th Am to force city or state to change policy in that way? other than that 2d Cir case? BM: not off top of /95 1727
Diodotos @diodotos.bsky.social · 23/12/2025Enshittification Wriggles On: Mee-lon the Mo-ron in recent weeks has changed Sh*tter to 1) incentivize summarizing news stories without linking to them and 2) suppress posts with news source pix and links, making his Hellsite even more worthless. talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/how-e...talkingpointsmemo.comHow Elon Musk’s Changes to X Made Our Discourse Far StupiderWe don’t know the minute when X started throttling links to news,... 010
Diodotos @diodotos.bsky.social · 21/11/2025An important partisan point -- lots of our sh*tt**st public figures used to be Democrats, but became Racist Rethugs when the Dem voters weren't sh*tty enough for them (Dem voters, NOT Dem leaders, who were and are remarkably sh*tty). So, yeah we live in a democracy. With party competition. Sort of. 110
Reposted by Diodotosmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Your dad's cousin is your aunt. I am from a family of plain boring white people and my kids call my wife's cousins who live around here and they see all the time "aunt/uncle." This is not even some "see, in other cultures," thing this is just a total normal thing they are presenting as scandalous 1182299262
Reposted by DiodotosGil Durán @gilduran.com · 24/09/20251/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that 8773093370
Reposted by DiodotosRyan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 19/09/2025If you have an extra $10 a month to spare, here's a list of worker-owned cooperative news sites you might want to support: • 404 Media • Defector • The Flytrap • Flaming Hydra • The Appeal • Aftermath • Racket • Hell Gate • The 51st • The Colorado Sun • Range Media • Discourse Blog • Pop Heist 6325751008
Diodotos @diodotos.bsky.social · 05/07/2025Everyone should see Jamelle Bouie's spiked posts on the Nazi-sourced NYTimes nothingburger story aimed at smearing Mamdani, and then raise hell about the Gray Lady's evil social media policies. 132
Diodotos @diodotos.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Yup. "AI exists for one reason and one reason only–to throw you out of a job" www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/06/ai-n...lawyersgunsmoneyblog.comAI: Not a Requirement to Live - Lawyers, Guns & MoneyThe AI stories are coming fast and furious now. Will AI change how we read? Will historians embrace AI and what does that mean? I don’t know, but I do know this much–the use of technology is a choice.... 020
Reposted by DiodotosOuterBoroPrincess @outerbororoyal.bsky.social · 12/06/2025More Americans voted for Senator Alex Padilla than for 48 of the 53 red state GOP U.S. Senators combined. 16114773497
Diodotos @diodotos.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Krugman understands Stinky's LA actions correctly: 'The militarized response ... is all about rejecting the idea that Americans have a right to oppose Trump policies.' open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...open.substack.comThis Is Not a DrillAmerican democracy is on the line right now 110
Diodotos @diodotos.bsky.social · 29/05/2025amen to this sentiment on (part of!) the role of US higher education -- I would add, at all levels, not jus R1s. 000
Reposted by DiodotosA Tea Walks Home Alone at Night @teaberryblue.net · 10/05/2025Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man starring Tobey Maguire is older than ICE. 51661471
Diodotos @diodotos.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Hey Curtis -- ever hear of an 'Executive Officer" of a US Naval vessel? And, um, what exactly is his job? 000
Reposted by DiodotosMaryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 27/04/2025My personal "5 years since the start of Covid" moment is remembering that in 2020, the US discovered it had allowed almost all its mask and PPE manufacturing to transfer to China for cost savings. In 2025, PPE is still almost all made offshore, and we just encouraged China to end shipments to us. 682189589
Reposted by DiodotosMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/04/2025If you think a just-fertilized ovary is entitled to life but are indifferent to what happens to a kidnapped 4-year-old with cancer, sent to a dangerous country without meds, you don’t give a fuck about the lives of children. You are just in a cult that fetishizes being against abortions. 8324256012199
Diodotos @diodotos.bsky.social · 22/04/2025Poor Stinky-BooBoo didn't read the job description carefully before he applied. Sad! 010
Diodotos @diodotos.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Stephen Miller is out in front and widening the gap in the WorstPersonWorkingForStinky-BooBoo race 010
Diodotos @diodotos.bsky.social · 10/04/2025 Yves Smith, truly an expert here, and Richard Murphy: how Stinky-BooBoo's antics are wrecking global finance, a wreck that eventually will wreck Main Street too, and possibly my, your, and most everyone's household finances, as it did after 1929 and 2008: www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/04/long...nakedcapitalism.comLonger-Dated Treasuries Sell Off Sharply, Increasing Interest Rates: The Exact Opposite of What Trump Says He Wants | naked capitalismMr. Market, in the form of longer-dated Treasury yields, is not on board with the Trump tariff scheme. 010
Diodotos @diodotos.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Remember how during Stinky-BooBoo's first term the pandemic released an unexpected hell of "supply chain disruption?" Get ready for a repeat. 100
Diodotos @diodotos.bsky.social · 04/04/2025FT: Stinky-BooBoo plays approximately 0.01-dimensional chess in setting tariffs www.ft.com/content/bbaa...ft.comWhy does Trump’s tariff explainer reference a paper it doesn't cite?And cite a different paper it doesn't reference? 000
Reposted by DiodotosNova999999 @nova999999.bsky.social · 30/03/2025Chicago is the greatest city in the world 122000463
Reposted by DiodotosOsita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · 02/04/2025Every so often, it just comes back to me in full force. The political and economic order that allowed this man to come to power is obviously no longer tenable. The leaders who let it happen obviously have to be replaced. This is an epoch defining failure and we have to turn the page completely. 394216464511
Diodotos @diodotos.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Tech Shmoes are lining up outside the Oval Orifice with their bribe offers for Stinky-BooBoo 000
Diodotos @diodotos.bsky.social · 31/03/2025"there is no essential connection between the modern research university and the values of liberal democracy other than, as (recall) Michael Polanyi noted, that they can have the same enemies" crookedtimber.org/2025/03/22/o...crookedtimber.orgOn the Predicament of the Richly Endowed University and Liberal Society — Crooked Timber 100
Reposted by DiodotosAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/03/2025DOGE is disproportionately targeting grants in blue states that voted for Harris. This is about political retribution. Credit to u/airmovingdevice for this. www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau... 241249408
Reposted by Diodotos🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 30/03/2025To justify kicking out these service members, Trump accused all transgender people of lacking the honesty, humility, and integrity, not to mention the 'warrior ethos,' to serve in the armed forces, a claim adopted in DOD’s implementation of Trump’s order. They are being kicked out by Pete Hegseth. 1230979
Diodotos @diodotos.bsky.social · 30/03/2025The doge-can-recode-cobol- codebase-fast is a classic case from business ethics, where a salesman exaggerates what his engineers can do. Musk is a habitual exaggerator of what his firms will do. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...en.wikipedia.orgList of failed and overbudget custom software projects - Wikipedia 100
Diodotos @diodotos.bsky.social · 29/03/2025MEE-lon the MO-ron 's right hand man in doge has been is long-time lackey Steve Davis, who has nothing better to do, since he's CEO of Musk's Boring Company, which is a total smoke-&-mirrors, cannot-deliver-the-goods flop blog.ucs.org/steven-higas...blog.ucs.orgTransportation Professionals Saw Elon Musk’s Lies and Disdain for the Public Firsthand.We can't sit on the sidelines now. 000
Reposted by DiodotosMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/03/2025I learned this week that you can put our troops' lives in danger, compromise our national security, and violate the Espionage Act. And the government will do nothing. But if you write an editorial for your school newspaper that Trump doesn't like, you will be abducted on the street and disappeared. 21088583428
Diodotos @diodotos.bsky.social · 29/03/2025I guess ABC News payoff on Stinky-BooBoo's shakedown was money wasted. 000
