Reposted by HK-1988Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 3hwww.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...nytimes.comCourt Tosses Sentence After A.I. Video of Victim ‘Forgiving’ His Killer Is PlayedAn appellate court in Arizona threw out the prison sentence of a man convicted of manslaughter after an A.I.-generated video of his victim was played in court. 3295
Reposted by HK-1988Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 23/09/2026You should have to smell the dead when you disinter them. 5415120
Reposted by HK-1988Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 3hThe national vibe if Dems win Texas and Florida during the midterms: (was this just an excuse to post the Victory Song edit? yes.) 3463
Reposted by HK-1988DeezNutterButterz @deeznutterbuttersz.bsky.social · 4hLinktober '26 Day 2: Weapons 08024
Reposted by HK-1988Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 3hWhy are we not allowed to judge the character of the voters who want this? 381029226
Reposted by HK-1988Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 4hshould non-fascist govts voluntarily surrender power to popularly elected fascist governments: the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked after 10,000 pages of debtae 111120
Reposted by HK-1988Jade (Obsessed with werewolves) @jdplaysmoth.bsky.social · 3hHoly fuck my legs are so thick I just absolutely wrecked my favorite pair of jeans 131
Reposted by HK-1988AAAAHH!-lex Rhys 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🎃 @robinandcat.bsky.social · 3hY’know…I’ve never thought about what kind of OC’s Robin would have. There’s gotta be at least one magical girl in there. 14818
Reposted by HK-1988Glonzo In Exile 🇨🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇬🇱 @glonzo-in-exile.bsky.social · 5hVoters having the memory of a goldfish when it comes to the horror of right wing authoritarianism is super not good 215331
Reposted by HK-1988Notthedarkweb @notthedarkweb.bsky.social · 4hI think its possible liberals far overestimated the importance of tactical policy like arresting a former president over the strategic headwinds of politics 3556
Reposted by HK-1988Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 3hAn important thing too is that because the LDP is incredibly broad and factionalised it is also able to generate change from within itself. You don't like the incumbent government? Fine! Here's a new government with an entirely new programme. 0242
Reposted by HK-1988WildPartyInviteDecliner @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social · 4hIt’s only hard for people to understand because this website is overwhelmingly affluent and insulated from economic shocks. 4295
Reposted by HK-1988Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 3hIn political media “the Tory Syndrome” is mostly understood as “the Conservative Party likes to do infighting and leadership coups because it’s in their nature or something“ 0182
Reposted by HK-1988Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 3hThere’s a book called “The Tory Syndrome” from 1980 which argues that Canada’s Tories are so dysfunctional because they’re just a coalition of everyone who isn’t a winner under the Liberals, and those groups have little in common and don’t like each other. 2323
Reposted by HK-1988Phillip M Jackson @jollyjack.bsky.social · 4hSinclaire Sunday. Chloe does cosplay in October. Bayonetta! 10738155
Reposted by HK-1988 Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 12hNot even real Nazis, cartoonish video game Nazis. 2263
Reposted by HK-1988Russ Copeland @rcopelander.bsky.social · 12hAnd I'm an asshole for calling all these people Nazis 🤷 2212
Reposted by HK-1988Frankestein's monster 🧟 (averysoftno) @aefrankes.northsky.social · 11hMy dad was born in ‘57 in The Netherlands to WWII survivors & came to Canada at 28. He was very strict about what video games my brother & I could play, one big rule being that we couldn’t play games where we killed humans (i.e. monsters were fair game). He let us play the Castle Wolfenstein games. 611412
Reposted by HK-1988 Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 3hThese guys saw Wolfenstein, and decided, yep we identify with the schmucks Blazkowicz uses for target practice. 3695
Reposted by HK-1988rattatatouille @rattatatouille.bsky.social · 3hThe general case of this is that one country's politics do not cleanly map on to that of another's, which is why the political compass becomes increasingly useless the further away you move from the United States politically. 0475
Reposted by HK-1988Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Bodies still warm, there's a killer about. 8579
Reposted by HK-1988Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This is not a presidential and polls showed no bias or even R bias in 2018 or 2022. 2022 was a massive overperformance by a party in power. There's been like one better historical midterm in the modern era. 77914
Reposted by HK-1988✨John Carpenter’s BOObies✨ @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 01/07/2026I’ve never seen a meme that embodies my very essence before. 81815459
Reposted by HK-1988Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 12hI think Susan Collins is going to run double digits ahead of partisan lean in Maine. I also think the environment is so bad for Rs that it won't matter. 31139
Reposted by HK-1988Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 12hThe anatomy of a wave is when you have to draw more and more resources into previously safe seats. That's how it happens. Because the Rs are spending a quarter of a billion in Texas that means none of that can go anywhere else. 732356
Reposted by HK-1988Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 12hWhat is also very important is that I think generally dems are going to break a lot of supermajorities in states and take a lot of state houses. Government at the state level is about to really change. 515938
Reposted by HK-1988Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 11hThis is quite possibly the most deranged Christian(tm) take I have ever read and that's saying something 520331
Reposted by HK-1988Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 11hThe British thank you for this post. 4848
Reposted by HK-1988Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 11hI think if you look at the US and say "yes we should do that too" you may end up being more stupid imho. 5829
Reposted by HK-1988Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 8hPolitical campaigns get kind of quixotic when they're down but still have money. The data room gets ignored. 2636
Reposted by HK-1988Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 6hI think the data suggests we are in for quite the period of thermostatic opinion causing significant political instability in most democracies. And probably some non democracies too. 317424
Reposted by HK-1988Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 4hI continue to posit that one of the key failures of the online anti-trump grifting/pundit class is that they really hammer on this "we have to promote democracy!" When it's becoming clear, everywhere, that voters don't actually give a rats ass about democratic systems instead of outcomes. 129411
Reposted by HK-1988Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 3hthis isn't that hard to explain tbh. basically komeito imploded and the opposition remains divided between Ishin/DPJ/JCP, so the party able to mobilize the most voters wins (in this case, ST being the first female PM was a bonus) 10648
Reposted by HK-1988Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 10hnazis change their names often yet this new moniker “Aryan Racial Order (ARO)” certainly isn’t anything stealth. we will see them & despite their security (cops) we will find them & outnumber them as they run away 11711
Reposted by HK-1988The Vegapunk of Hyenas @yeeniemcbeenie.bsky.social · 11hSometimes 4chan hits 225633
Reposted by HK-1988Ms. Wong @mauiwong.bsky.social · 3hThey love the POWER to be able to lie in your face. The power to grin and smirk and say "up is down" and "wrong is right." Their hypocrisy dares you to challenge your humiliation, and is thus more humiliation, and they savor every cruelty. 0318
Reposted by HK-1988Tristan Stevens @tristanstevens.bsky.social · 3h"An in-group for which the law protects but does not bind and an out-group for which the law binds but does not protect" yeah? I agree the fundamental principle is not hypocritical, but I do think a degree of deliberately imposing hypocrisy is part of that exercise of power. 1203
Reposted by HK-1988Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 3hYou know. I don’t think that there is any more crucial component to contextualizing & meeting our current set of problems than understanding this. 14513118
Reposted by HK-1988Alex Awoos @alex-awoos-backup.bsky.social · 6hI feel like more people should be talking about this part 162241938
Reposted by HK-1988Jeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 3hKorea and Yoon is the best case scenario but they’re not unique on this front 0323
Reposted by HK-1988Jeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 3hMost other democracies are better able to fix electoral mistakes after the fact because 1. They have had autocracies in living memory 2. Large %s of their populations live near their capitals 28512
Reposted by HK-1988Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social · 11hIf you want to know what Canadian outlets will obligingly push conspiratorial drek for the American right (from fentanyl to CCP influence) look no further. It is also a very good encapsulation of the kind of depressive, pessimistic frenzy that has gripped portions of the Canadian right for years. 1333
Reposted by HK-1988Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social · 11hThis comes on the heels of years of credulously repeating whatever complaints their DEA sources feed them about procedural friction with the RCMP and supposed superlabs from Brampton to the Lower Mainland. To hear them tell it, Canada is a captured narco-state incapable of enforcing the law. 1312
Reposted by HK-1988Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social · 11hThe Bureau has been on a wild fucking ride and jumped the shark long ago, but we are now at the point where they are using an AI video and fearmongering about a student-Islamist alliance of rioters to try to attack Carney for seeking closer EU ties.thebureau.newsWhile France Burns, Driven by the Radical Left According to Intelligence, and Its Sovereign Debt Approaches Bailout Levels, Mark Carney Wants to Bind Canada to EuropeOTTAWA – On Thursday in Marseille, a woman told a group of youths to stop wrecking a bus shelter. 2434
Reposted by HK-1988 Guofu 류강 대™🪨 @karnesmellagio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This is like feeling really bad for the guy who keeps on stabbing himself and occasionally stabs others because he can 1212
Reposted by HK-1988 Guofu 류강 대™🪨 @karnesmellagio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I mean there is a lot of boohoo shit about the eventual fate of the Russia but like why should anyone other than Russians feel bad? It was the Russians who pushed for the dissolution of the USSR & it was Russians who pushed for the wars in the 90s & it was Russian who pushed for war with Ukraine. 3262
Reposted by HK-1988 Guofu 류강 대™🪨 @karnesmellagio.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It’s east asia to them it’s just a bunch of whites killing each other. it’s similar to how your average westerner views the Eritrean Vs Ethiopian conflict or Sudan 1171