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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
One thing that I think about a lot is in “Wages of Destruction” Tooze describes how the Third Reich didn’t really have a theory about public policy or the economy. They limped from crisis to crisis their entire existence finding emergency stop-gaps to achieve short term priorities.
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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Germany’s political leadership believed in esoteric theories around racial supremacy and ultimately believed good outcomes would naturally flow from Aryan’s natural superiority. This is the same vibe the GOP has in 2026.
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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Conservatives never post shit like this. Only liberals do because they have a nagging insecurity, don’t believe liberals can ever wield power legitimately and don’t believe liberal constituencies can legitimately govern without the blessing of the Volk.
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scwiba @scwiba.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This man won his primary by 30 points.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
if it took you 5 seconds of contemplation to think of an alternative you should take at least another 5-10 to at least consider the possibility that it at least crossed the minds of 1 or 2 of the people who dedicate their lives and research careers to dealing with the problems we post about on here
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Antebellum politics is fascinating, the South kept getting policy concessions and whipped themselves up into a paranoid rage anyway, essentially because they couldn't stand being culturally judged for having slaves
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zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
gotta do something in between not being allowed to contact your ex-wife or child for 50 years
A restraining order was issued against White in February 2026, requiring him to stay away from his former wife and their son. Said restraining order is enforceable for 50 years. 140]
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Meredith Rose @mrose.ink · 28/08/2026
This is what I need people to understand when they start grousing about "resist libs": these are people who hate ICE with their entire, folk-art-making, cornfed hearts. You cannot sit around and write people off as potential allies because you're not personally into their aesthetics.
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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Stick your militant doomer bullshit up your ass. Everybody isn't required to share your precious cynicism.
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dillo saint dillo @dillo.media · 23/08/2026
dudes will always find a way to rock
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Rob Haug @robhaug.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
We also know that AI is only helpful if you have the discipline specific skills and knowledge to understand when, how, and why the AI is giving you incorrect results. Therefore the most important thing we can do to prepare students to work with AI is double down on the fundamentals.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
At the climax of the book of Job, God responds to a cogent and detailed argument from Job by screaming about how Job should shut the fuck up because he’s not the one who fought and defeated a sea monster. You must study the Bible to learn that people have always known what it’s like to post.
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Former Staffer: Institute of Price Stabilité @pabstblueronin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
It's so sick that popcorn is pre-columbian. Imagine getting a basket of hot popcorn, a big gourd of chicha, and settling in for some Meso-American ballgame
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The Recurring Speed Camera Discourse is a bit exasperating really because, look, we all know what's actually happening is people just want to be able to commit the pertinent crimes and don't like being punished for it, but people come up with obvious post-hoc pseudo-woke rationalisations for this.
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Approximately 74% - 80% of drivers ticketed by New York City's speed camera ticket do not receive a second one. Speeding dropped by 94 percent reduction in locations where cameras were installed. www.nyc.gov/html/dot/htm...
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/08/2026
14 hours later and my mentions are still full of angry treatises about badly behaved cyclists. Bike lanes are not a reward for good cyclist behavior! They are infrastructure proven to make cities safer for ALL ROAD USERS. Whatever way cyclists have wronged you is irrelevant to the discussion!
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OB Cycler @obcycler.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
good thing we're having a moral panic over ebikes 🙄
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
amazing article
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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
It’s super fucking weird that this is like the consensus position among most urban scholarship but no one is able to see the tension. White flight is bad! But white professionals moving back to the city? Yeah also bad.
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Peter Flax @pflax1.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I have spent 20+ years talking to drivers who have counterfactual complaints about bike riders. My conclusions...
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Personally, I think what needs reckoning with is how fake it all was. Centrists convinced themselves annoying leftists on twitter were an equivalent threat to Jan 6 insurrectionists. They wildly inflated the threat of left-wing authoritarianism while ignoring how it was taking hold on the right.
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Travis Norvell @pedalingpastor.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
How come after a concert or sporting event or rush hour it’s not called a “car takeover”? Streets are for people
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Pumpkin Baby @hessianhunter.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The only actual anti-aging biohacking that works for shit is wearing sunscreen.
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Michael Baumann @baumann.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
There's a guy who built a full-body war elephant puppet and is hiking Hannibal's route over the Alps with his toddler. If you've got a billion dollars and you devote a single second of your life to accumulating more wealth instead of doing shit like this, I don't think you should count as a person
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Aaron Meyers @aaronmeyers.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"Today is August 4, 2026" There Will Come Soft Rains By: Ray Bradbury
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Absolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West
Chart showing solar panel exports from China (the main solar panel maker by a long shot) growing steadily & mightily from 2018 through 2026, then spiking by almost 2x in March 2026.
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Jerome Alexander Horne @jahorne.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The first three towers of the Sen̓áḵw in Vancouver. A major Indigenous-led, multi-tower residential and commercial development project by the Squamish Nation located on ancestral reserve land. Meaning "the place inside the head of False Creek."
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tpwrtrmnky. @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
researchers: every unit of currency we put into this welfare service not only makes the user's life materially better, but returns about 150% of the spending in how it benefits society more broadly. right wing: ok but what if too many people use it though? also "too many" is "more than zero" here
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The only creative industry that is inarguably both doing well and doing great work right now is "new baseball guy names."
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
And here is the same Alex Jones bullshit appearing in Rolling Stone. Unbelievably embarrassing to publish this.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
minnesota state senator directly taking on musk and his big pockets PRECISELY HOW DEMOCRATS SHOULD BE DOING IT
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Pumpkin Baby @hessianhunter.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I need a Key and Peele college football sketch but for 19th century baseball players
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Adam H Johnson @ahjohnson.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Centrists in Congress (anonymously) threatening to leave this Democratic Party. James Carville calling for a schism. Top Dems refusing to endorse Dem primary winners. Pouty (also anonymous) pro-Israel donors in MI calling for a donor strike—I wrote about the emerging centrist Uncommitted Movement.
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A new, centrist Uncommitted Movement has emerged
Except this time it’s in support of genocide, rather than trying to stop one.
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Jackson Teal @jbteal.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
As someone who loves older architecture and thinks genuine preservation is important, the historic preservation in our cities is deeply broken. This project in New York is preserving an existing 3 story building but was not approved and told to make revisions. Can you tell the difference?
Project in New York City at 277 Canal. Image shows a rendering previous to Landmarks Preservation Commission comments and after. Virtually no difference to someone walking by from the sidewalk
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baby cigarette @mommywiseau.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
HP Lovecraft's full name was "Harry Potter Lovecraft". which is why he was so racist
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I feel like the way of dealing with such behaviour is to look these people right in the eye and say, very gently, "You think your right to park matters more than homes these children?" Then when they reply just repeat it with slightly different emphasis.
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Hundreds slam proposals to turn car park into children's home in Bromley
Plans to build a children’s home on a car park in Bromley have been slammed by nearby residents who call the current parking situation “a…
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Hagai Palevsky (he/him) @dialhforhagai.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Wile E. Coyote, despaired, takes a bucket of paint and a brush and paints a beautiful two-bedroom house on a mountainside. He paints a beautiful coyote wife in the window, and two adorable coyote kids running around in the yard. He tries to enter this new coyote life, but it is inaccessible to him
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Again. This is the author. What are we doing here?
The Somali community is a scourge on the republic. I have been saying this for years. The rampant fraud is just icing on the cake. We should indeed be reviewing if Somalis e.g. lied on naturalization forms, and deport any with deportable offenses.
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Stephen Graham King🍉 @stephengrahamking.com · 25/05/2026
I loathe the cult of the car.
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by hazel (@sodiumPen) on X(dot)com

europeans will ride a train going 200 mph through the alps while drinking wine and americans will sit in traffic on 1-95 for three hours eating a gas station sandwich and say "at least i have my freedom" brother you are imprisoned by a honda accord

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
we are one john roberts heart attack away from the complete dissolution of the reconstruction amendments and instantiation of a formalized caste system
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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
if fascists had any competence and rizz they'd get bitches and be too distracted to be bothered with all this ethnic cleansing bullshit
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
publiccomment.blog/p/hyperfascism
I would like to suggest that Trumpism is best understood as a species of what I’m going to call hyperfascism. By “hyperfascism,” I don’t mean “superfascism” or anything like that. Instead, I’m using the hyper- prefix in a way similar to how Baudrillard deploys it in his definition of hyperreality as a sort of representation that is more “real” than whatever it was originally meant to represent. (He uses Disneyland as an example of the paradigmatic hyperreal space.) I’m also influenced by Anton Jäger’s suggestion that “hyperpolitics”—or constant and frenetic political activity in the absence of any structures that might convert this activity into real institutional change—is the dominant political register in 21st-century Western democracies.

So what is hyperfascism? It is hyperreal, hyperpolitical fascism. It’s a dramatic reenactment of totalitarian domination in a time and place where the infrastructure for real totalitarianism is nowhere to be found. It’s the signs and symbols of fascism detached from the machinery of the Nazi war economy or the large-scale, organized street violence of the Italian blackshirts.

Make no mistake: hyperfascism is still fascism. But it is a shallow sort of fascism, obsessed with outward appearances and completely uninterested in everything else. It is as if the architects of the Trump regime had cribbed their entire governing agenda from cheap cyberpunk thrillers about fascist dystopias. They certainly haven’t given much thought to how authoritarian regimes consolidate popular consent; in fact, they’re acting like the 2024 election represented the end of politics, and therefore the end of any need on their part to modulate their behavior in order to ensure regime stability.
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Citizen Platano 🇵🇷 @daniloc.xyz · 24/05/2026
conspiracy thinking is seductive because it’s SIMPLE you don’t need to unpack five interlocking technology trends you don’t need to understand the limitations of a given technology or the process of how things get built and shipped you just need a villain to hate but this is an opiate
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Citizen Platano 🇵🇷 @daniloc.xyz · 24/05/2026
my favorite case on this point: yes, Zuckerberg did trip over a curb and land in a radicalization engine then he spent $80b to create a 3D shopping mall no one wanted. no amount of money or connections could conjure the social change he wanted don’t award these guys more power than they have
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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
A lot of replies being like “Wait something good!?” No you morons, republicans want to be able to allow chud truck drivers to speed through your neighborhood without consequence. You are a fucking sucker if you think congressional republicans care about privacy. This stupid country I swear to god.
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Look, if you wanted your student loans, healthcare, or retirement paid for by the government I suppose you should have stormed the Capitol on January 6th.
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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
CIS PEOPLE TIME TO STEP UP it’s once again time to yell at our bad government via online comment form the FCC is trying to make trans and nonbinary content require special ratings on shows GLAAD has a good writeup on it below TELL ‘EM NO direct link to comment form: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...
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Tell the FCC that LGBTQ Stories Don’t Need a Warning Label | GLAAD
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is targeting LGBTQ stories. They are trying to control what you see on television. This government overreach is dangerous...
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