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Josh @jooshinator.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Finally getting to reading Lenin, picked a great time for it. From "two tactics of social democracy in the democratic revolution", feels increasingly relevant today

"Get out of your study, look about you, and seek your answer in the streets. Has not the government itself started civil war by everywhere shooting down crowds of peaceful and unarmed citizens? Have not the armed Black Hundreds come out as an "argument" of the autocracy? Has not the bourgeoisie-even the bourgeoisie-recognised the need for a citizens' militia? Does not Mr. Struve himself, the ideally moderate and punctilious Mr."

Struve, say (alas, he does so only to evade the issue!) that "the open nature of revolutionary action" (that's what we are like today!) "is now one of the most important conditions for exerting an educational influence upon the mass of the people"?

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Josh @jooshinator.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Just realized, probably a coincidence, but Gordon Bok (when he has the moustache at least) has a pretty strong resemblance to commissioner gordon from batman

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Josh @jooshinator.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Finished Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee. It's very good, though it—understandably—can feel a bit too fatalistic; I feel like there should have been a conclusion that pointed out no, the US govt couldnt fully genocide the natives, theyre still here, and we can still try to make things right by them

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Stephanie Farr @farfarraway.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Signs about the history of slavery in the U.S. and the 9 people George Washington enslaved are being removed right now at the President’s House Site in Philadelphia, across from Independence Hall, months after the Trump administration threatend to do so. How far we have not come in 250 years.

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Josh @jooshinator.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Y'know that Parenti clip where he talks about how the Sandinistas, when staring down a US-orchestrated coup, were basically forced to impose authoritarian measures? Can't help but feel that way about Venezuela now

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Josh @jooshinator.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

A very good essay, and very revealing on how the military arm of the empire has decayed. I think it does have some very interesting shortcomings though, namely that it ignores the politcal reality of what the US military does

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Josh @jooshinator.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Oh cool peter yarrow died in january

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Josh @jooshinator.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Maybe I should start hiding money in my mattress

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Josh @jooshinator.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

The sam seder jubilee video is so funny because one of the debate segments starts off with him saying "donald trump is only good for you if you love hitler" and then the next 20 minutes is his opponents screaming about how much they love hitler.

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Josh @jooshinator.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Finished a People's History of the united states. Despite its drawbacks (the soviet-bashing especially, though the book is from before we saw how bad the world is without them) I think he's mostly correct, especially here. It feels a bit naive in places, but it deserves its place in the US left

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Josh @jooshinator.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I know it's probably because of my priveledged background coming from a family of government workers but like, I can't believe theyre actually destroying the administrative state. I know social security and civil rights have been enemy #1 since they were created but, jesus

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Josh @jooshinator.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

interesting to contrast Zinn's treatment of the dprk and vietnam, though he does of course condemn the US in both. Elsewhere zinn lionizes NV's guerilla history, and emphasizes it was the legitimate govt, but the equivocation of NK and SK as foreign backed dictatorships is really all he says on them

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Josh @jooshinator.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Read the part of peoples history of the united states on the seattle general strike and now seeing people talk about real possibilities for general strikes with how fucked the economy is and will be with trump. Feels harder and harder to deny that we're regressing to the early 20th century

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Josh @jooshinator.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Damn having to do new things sucks why can't I know everything

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Josh @jooshinator.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Ignoring how he probably cant do this because old people and rural people would riot/die en masse, cases of former carriers actually going postal would increase a thousandfold, and thanks to luigi killing businessmen is a bit in vogue now, genuinely suicidal, maybe even more than the tariff thing

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Josh @jooshinator.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Apple pie was so close to bing actually good but i forgot to cut vents until 40 minutes into the bake, and its not quite as dark as I'd like, think next time ill bake it a bit longer and laminate it a bit more, and hopefully remember to cut vents into it lol

The pie, edges arent sealed, the filling spilled out over the top and sides of the crust

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Josh @jooshinator.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Seems kind of evil to openly promote gambling like this in public spaces ngl, but then again its not like septa doesnt need the ad money

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Josh @jooshinator.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Making a concoction, have no idea what the hell im doing, guess ill shove this in a pie tomorrow

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Josh @jooshinator.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Subscribed to a local daily newsletter I feel like I just aged 20 years

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Josh @jooshinator.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

folkways.si.edu/news-and-pre... Just learned this, great singer, listened to anthology of american folk songs a ton I really recommended it, also always on the right side of history, sad to see her go

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Remembering Barbara Dane, 1927-2024 | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Remembering “People's Singer” Barbara Dane (1927-2024), by Jeff Place

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Josh @jooshinator.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Simultaneous nicotine and caffeine withdrawal hits like a fucking truck jesus

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Josh @jooshinator.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Had a day off and didnt have anything better to do so I played bannerlord again. I cant stop thinking about it I feel like its driving me crazy

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Josh @jooshinator.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

youtu.be/iGuyygIxphg?... saw peggy seeger citing this as one of ewan's best and honestly I didn't really see it because I like my music more grounded and less sci-fi, but actually oh my god this is great, the last few lines especially are just so haunting, and increasingly relevant of course

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Nightmare

YouTube video by Ewan MacColl - Topic

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Josh @jooshinator.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Oh hey this site is kinda cool

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