Reposted by @golfdelendaest.bsky.socialWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 16hi do unironically think people that are cosmopolitan need sorta paradoxically be more chauvinist about it tbh. places and people that are cosmopolitan in outlook are better than places that are provincially minded. the kind of performative handwringing about not being 'authentic' is bad and weak. 15960116
Reposted by @golfdelendaest.bsky.social🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 14/10/2026god i fucking HATE the term enshittify 1927326
Reposted by @golfdelendaest.bsky.socialnorvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social · 12/10/2026list of dissonance bundles 5666
Reposted by @golfdelendaest.bsky.socialThe Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Repeating my sotto voce refrain that I think we are very soon going to have to deal with the plain (but seldom spoken) fact that police are simply not under the control of the political leadership who command them on paper. 191210222
Reposted by @golfdelendaest.bsky.socialChatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 09/10/2026As a legislative supremacy guy America needs the Grandstanding Thundering Senator. The Grandstanding Thundering Senator safeguards your rights & your interests more surely than cannons & bombs. 2578
Reposted by @golfdelendaest.bsky.socialrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Mehmed Pasha: 444456
Reposted by @golfdelendaest.bsky.socialthinkingbayonet.bsky.social @thinkingbayonet.bsky.social · 05/10/2026anyway when I am in charge I will reduce VMI and the Citadel to smoking craters and commission a memorial at USMA featuring the name of every grad who took up arms against his own country in defense of chattel slavery, provisionally titled "eternal shame" 1218313
Reposted by @golfdelendaest.bsky.socialBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026the UK has three industries: higher education, whisky, and Games Workshop. 421033160
Reposted by @golfdelendaest.bsky.socialWannabe Apparatchik @apparatchikwannabe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026the reason why it is so important to go after high level guys is because it’s completely unviable to get every random goon or sympathizer. you hit the leaders so you can convince all the low level guys to pretend they were against it all along, which is how you get the consensus to move on 15010
Reposted by @golfdelendaest.bsky.socialrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 04/10/2026the thing about impeaching Vought is that it will ruin his life. pull his kids and wife in for sixteen hour depositions. refer them all for perjury. scream in his face. when you're done, if it didn't work, do it again. 211586254
Reposted by @golfdelendaest.bsky.socialSporkamarink @strivingally.bsky.social · 01/10/2026If we’re gonna [redacted] anything, we should start with John Fucking Yoo. The fact that man hasn’t been rotting in a cell for the last two decades is an affront to the very concept of the rule of law. You can draw a straight line from his malfeasance to Trump’s abuse of law as a weapon. 29011
Reposted by @golfdelendaest.bsky.socialPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Congratulations to Elon Musk, who successfully made it to Mars by 2026. 835343
Reposted by @golfdelendaest.bsky.socialCameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"revenge for Nixon" explains a rather significant amount of GOP skulduggery in the 21st century www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...wsj.comExclusive | Decades After Watergate, Justice Department Reviews Whether Nixon Got a Raw DealA revisionist historian went to the DOJ headquarters to present his case that the former president and his associates weren’t treated fairly. 21697116
Reposted by @golfdelendaest.bsky.socialChatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 01/10/2026There are two merciless gods of war, the elder (logistics) & the younger (ballistics). Both are math first & everything else second. There is a reason military academies are engineering schools at heart 917745
Reposted by @golfdelendaest.bsky.socialZoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The US has to do some harsh retrenchment and the obvious deadweight to cut loose first is goddamn everything in the Middle East except our one (1) treaty ally there (Turkey). 1201
Reposted by @golfdelendaest.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Even hotter take: the fact that ebikes let teens in the suburbs suddenly have freedom to move around the public realm unsupervised is precisely why many older people are trying to ban them (using safety as a pretext) 2363279
Reposted by @golfdelendaest.bsky.socialrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026yeah the basic thing you have to do is just take a hammer to the Greek system. not police it. end it. because there are enough men like this that they can assemble their own culture without you. bsky.app/profile/walm... 629733
Reposted by @golfdelendaest.bsky.socialSpokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026Send Stephen Miller to The Hague. 21275942512
Reposted by @golfdelendaest.bsky.socialSenator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Remember how we forced German POWs to watch videos from the concentration camps? 25714
Reposted by @golfdelendaest.bsky.social🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 29/09/2026“the person who is CEO at the time a company goes public will, until their death, have sole power over company decisions, regardless of how much investment they have taken from the public” was just never how any of this was intended to work and it is a catastrophe for corporate governance 131201142
Reposted by @golfdelendaest.bsky.socialReconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Slave Power vibes 139213
Reposted by @golfdelendaest.bsky.socialrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026i think RFK Jr.'s colon-destroying steak and sauerkraut diet, tradwife culture, and Silicon Valley CNC parties are the same thing: a desperate attempt among powerful men to convince each other that gluttony, rapaciousness, and raw domination are not just their birthright but their responsibility 191495239
Reposted by @golfdelendaest.bsky.socialReconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 27/09/2026POV you are a GRU fuck fuck squad in a Lada announcing the union people's democratic republic of slavjank 21154
Reposted by @golfdelendaest.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026i strongly suspect the reason that they are hiding this is not because cops are moonlighting for ICE contractors off duty but because many of them are working for ICE contractors *while clocked in* 18871203
Reposted by @golfdelendaest.bsky.socialarr @arr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This makes me hopeful. This number is aspirational but nowhere near out of reach: a working professional could realistically cash out their 401k and buy off a public official. Owning a senator is more attainable for most Americans than home ownership. 6246791035
Reposted by @golfdelendaest.bsky.socialElixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 21/09/2026So please, stop vibe coding. And please, stop whining about how you don't like the entire job of software engineering and want to go back to the good old days where someone else let you play in the shallow pool while they managed the plumbing. Some senior engineer you probably never thanked did that 092
Reposted by @golfdelendaest.bsky.socialElixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 21/09/2026Now this doesn't mean you shouldn't write software! I am positive you can write wonderful, fun, interesting and clever things. No one is taking that away from you. But if you're working on infrastructure, that's not what the world needs from you. You won't get paid for the job you refuse to do. 1172
Reposted by @golfdelendaest.bsky.socialElixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 21/09/2026This is why when I read these blog posts about how SWEs are crumbling under the self-described misery of the engineering part of their job, I silently say, "You need to get out of this, for your own mental health. You don't belong here." 2313
Reposted by @golfdelendaest.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026plenty of people would try their hands at interesting little businesses if it they did not need to generate a huge profit at the outset and i think this is something governments should encourage. (and lots of little businesses makes a place more livable!) 37151085
Reposted by @golfdelendaest.bsky.socialEd @ed3d.net · 19/09/2026CS degree with multiple minors in things whose majors are scared of math 2161
Reposted by @golfdelendaest.bsky.socialStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots. 15786482563
Reposted by @golfdelendaest.bsky.socialIan @woolie.meowmeow.city · 18/09/2026BART would cost over a quarter of a trillion dollars to build today. We should start acting like we have a quarter trillion dollar investment in this infrastructure. Instead we call BART a hassle and a burden and starve it for funds. This is a level of privilege that cannot even be described. 310316
Reposted by @golfdelendaest.bsky.socialMike Jensen @mikejjensen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The US needs to take more aggressive steps to restore deterrence against Russia which thinks it can kill Americans on American soil www.wsj.com/opinion/a-u-... 111
Reposted by @golfdelendaest.bsky.socialA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Same people who seem to think it’s bad for China to beat us at AI are perfectly fine with China beating us at high speed rail, solar energy, wind energy, shall we go on 8685422213
Reposted by @golfdelendaest.bsky.socialMike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 17/09/2026to the extent this is going to be a thing (lol) I'm going to need people to look up what the EU is doing on security (if they can find anything of substance, good luck) before we make this about anything other than trade 4567
Reposted by @golfdelendaest.bsky.social👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The "I consent" meme but the man and lady are Carney and UvdL and the "I don't" Jesus is Merz, a grain elevator, and every dairy farmer in France. 2659
Reposted by @golfdelendaest.bsky.socialEugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 16/09/2026This is the weakest form of the analogy. A stronger form of it would be "how should we decide to trial this drug in a human trial if no one understands its province or mechanism" 3491
Reposted by @golfdelendaest.bsky.socialPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026what you’re missing is that guys are a structural problem 452653248
Reposted by @golfdelendaest.bsky.socialArgellaStone @argellastone.bsky.social · 14/09/2026He also opened with a far more progressive and ambitious program early in his term, and only really shifted towards the center when Democrats got wiped out in the 1994 midterms in large part due to Republicans successfully scaremongering against his universal healthcare plan. 69619
Reposted by @golfdelendaest.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/09/2026this guy is one of the architects of a war that might rank as one of the worst strategic missteps in american military history and here is on CBS getting a softball interview about his feelings 32888411560
Reposted by @golfdelendaest.bsky.socialJesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 12/09/2026"One more thing Miss Barlow... you were about 14 in 2001, and you grew up in the UK, so why did they dismiss your school at noon on 9/11, when the attacks would have happened around 2 pm your time? I just don't understand how the school knew the attacks would be happening later" 11981491568
Reposted by @golfdelendaest.bsky.socialOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Gerry Adams, just off screen: 16788105
Reposted by @golfdelendaest.bsky.socialSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 11/09/2026i'd strongly advocate that the problem was actually interest rates so the correct remedy is to offset inflation by other means instead 2161
Reposted by @golfdelendaest.bsky.socialZoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The US is gonna need to engage in some serious belt-tightening post-Trump and the only way to handle it politically is to throw MAGA shithole regime officials to the wolves (ie charge them for actual crimes they actually committed), and thus show the public you're avenging their suffering. 1342472
Reposted by @golfdelendaest.bsky.socialTony @tonychiado.com · 11/09/2026Doesn’t feel like the corporations are making a good faith critique of Mayor Wilson… *Data from SPD Crime Dashboard 3307
Reposted by @golfdelendaest.bsky.social"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 10/09/2026That's the whole-of-force figure. I mean ~400bn euros *purely* on 'how do we move this force around globally?' It's not tank-and-infantry money, it is heavy airlift money, blue-water navy money, global logistics base chain money. You need *another* 400bn euros is what I am saying. 3271
Reposted by @golfdelendaest.bsky.socialBaltic Takes (formerly badbaltictakes) @baltictakes.com · 09/09/2026A Chinese official attempted some of that Wolf Warrior Diplomacy ™ shit. It did not go well. Philippines' Defence Minister Gilberto Teodoro was speaking up for smaller nations and international law at a forum in Korea when he was handed a note from a Chinese official, meant as intimidating. 311240434
Reposted by @golfdelendaest.bsky.socialConor @ernekid.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Musk being a White South African where very famously this didn’t happen! Nelson Mandela was very explicit about it not happening! 35105
Reposted by @golfdelendaest.bsky.socialconputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026for example, if Sam Altman had instead tweeted “there‘s a material risk that someone will figure out how to kill people by using LLMs to hack remote infrastructure and turn off ventilation or cause electrical shorts“, that would be a level of alarm appropriate to the situation. but he can’t say that 21008