Reposted by hilux joyrideDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Writing something where I will be liberally citing @lilymasonphd.bsky.social's latest and realizing that I can't cite every single thing I would like to because then I'm just reprinting her work. So, I've gotta thread about it instead. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... 8886288
hilux joyride @leftspace13.bsky.social · 30/09/2026in the BC, i enjoyed the guy in india harvesting the cave of dried urine for white phosphorous but kept thinking, i probably can't cite this in internet fights, yes? 010
hilux joyride @leftspace13.bsky.social · 30/09/2026uh oh, another neal nerd (probably my fave neal novel, actually). 120
hilux joyride @leftspace13.bsky.social · 30/09/2026maybe subconsciously he knows he's an asshole since he stumbled on the deliver of his bad boy shit-talk. "Simple translation -- translation of that, no fatty -- no fatties, no trannies (sic), no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals, just warriors." 120
hilux joyride @leftspace13.bsky.social · 28/09/2026as a descendant of hiberno-normans i'll solemnly use the generational admin skills to start the reparation payouts. 000
hilux joyride @leftspace13.bsky.social · 23/09/2026yeah wondering if traister and grim got punked by someone sending a generic consultant memo from two years ago. 1112
hilux joyride @leftspace13.bsky.social · 19/09/2026i was telling my sis about HPMOR and she pulled it up to read, i warned her cognitohazard but luckily she just put it down after a half hour, "really boring." 010
Reposted by hilux joyrideAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Speaking of chickens... Today is the day that I will debate...an empty podium. Because Mike Rogers is…well… 239100022416
Reposted by hilux joyrideFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026Combatants are hunting civilians from the sky with small drones more than ever before - and the international community isn’t doing enough to stop it. My latest on the ways we can protect civilians from drones, written with Nathaniel Raymond of @hrl-yalesph.bsky.social :foreignpolicy.comThe Laws of War Must Change for the Drone AgeHunting civilians from the sky is growing disturbingly common. 14531214
hilux joyride @leftspace13.bsky.social · 14/09/2026i transcribed the first airings of the fox talarico interview last week, after uploading to the place with which i contract, jumped over to check the clippers, rupar etc, and thought yeehar, if nothing else, this is gonna be bluesky inferno, time to add more sporps and star trek follows. 010
Reposted by hilux joyrideLiberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 12/09/2026"I came at a low point, with accordingly low expectations. I found a room full of people of all ages, who care a lot, work hard, develop relationships, and who have accumulated expertise in things you wouldn’t imagine someone might know." www.liberalcurrents.com/meet-the-dem...liberalcurrents.comMeet the DemocratsThe party is not an abstract cabal powered by fever dreams, but a living, breathing coalition held together by a ceaseless grind and people with the will to face it. 06118
Reposted by hilux joyrideThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13/09/2026The crowd erupts in chants of "Shame on you!" as Roger Marshall tries to explain why he sued 700 of his patients, leading to 81 arrests: 1603887981
hilux joyride @leftspace13.bsky.social · 12/09/2026scheming vizier misleads frat czar in affirming 151 for jungle juice when court astronomers know the proper accelerant is everclear. 0120
Reposted by hilux joyrideMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/09/2026Shanah Tovah, New York! Wishing all Jewish New Yorkers celebrating a sweet, joyful and meaningful Rosh Hashanah. Here’s to a new year filled with health, happiness and blessings (and yes, even another Knicks championship). 290188483254
Reposted by hilux joyrideSpectrum News NY1 @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The last speaker at the 9/11 remembrance ceremony lost his father to the attacks. 9367871762
Reposted by hilux joyrideDEEPLOCK #28 FURRY EDITION @djdeeplock.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I went to the trouble of generating it 31012127
hilux joyride @leftspace13.bsky.social · 09/09/2026work light industrial temp in SW virginia and long island, get the american rainbow of racism. 010
hilux joyride @leftspace13.bsky.social · 08/09/2026but also the model is broken. lots of orgs still surge strangers to doors every sept.-nov. like it's 2008 instead of training/paying professionals and targeting. election's over, whole structure goes poof, then next cycle people reinventing the wheel, again, as if it's 2008. 000
hilux joyride @leftspace13.bsky.social · 08/09/2026field has been a mess for a while. campaigns frequently recycle cronies and buds and never listen to lots of experienced FOs, DODs, and RODs. 100
hilux joyride @leftspace13.bsky.social · 07/09/2026good ol' stovepiping, i'd be almost nostalgic, except the run-up to the iraq war was one of the most depressing times in the US. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_...en.wikipedia.orgOffice of Special Plans - Wikipedia 031
hilux joyride @leftspace13.bsky.social · 07/09/2026read the quote and looked up the speaker, using eu- and dysgenic a bit too much for my comfort, but there was a whiff of appropriating the slurs and pejoratives in punk/queer style, but don't know enough about speaker's other work as to whether that's what they're doing. 020
hilux joyride @leftspace13.bsky.social · 05/09/2026as someone who transcribes many political events, please pray for me this week lol. 000
Reposted by hilux joyrideGoodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts. 895423545
Reposted by hilux joyrideNatalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 05/09/2026obsessed with this from @racketmn.com. one of my core principles is that we need like 20x as much scene/street style photography from media outlets as we have. it's so wonderful racketmn.com/enjoy-43-lov...racketmn.comEnjoy 43 Lovely Portraits of Minnesotans Thriving at the 2026 MN State Fair - RacketAt the Great Minnesota Get-Together, humanity shines as bright as the midday Midway sun. 10799162
hilux joyride @leftspace13.bsky.social · 03/09/2026i treat is as stephen jay gould's non-overlapping magisteria, uh, i like both types of wile e. 030
Reposted by hilux joyrideJen Rice @jenrice.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Happening now in TX: Voters in battleground Tarrant County are telling GOP local officials what they think of their plan to cut 30% of voting locations this year “Nothing you can do can stop us from removing you in November” 18568572054
Reposted by hilux joyrideOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026"Besides being deeply cynical, Chomsky’s supposed pragmatism has not stood the test of time...We may have manufactured consent once upon a time, but America has long since transitioned to a post-manufacturing economy." Very harsh but worthwhile read. strangematters.coop/noam-chomsky...strangematters.coopChomsky After Epstein - Strange MattersNoam Chomsky – friend of Epstein, defender of dictatorships – was no model anti-imperialist. Can we do better? 561578357
hilux joyride @leftspace13.bsky.social · 30/08/2026i get it'd be nice for candidates to try promising to "repeal all of trump's billionaire and corporate giveaways," ahem OBBB *and* TCJA, hopefully that's step two in the next congress going into 2028. 000
hilux joyride @leftspace13.bsky.social · 30/08/2026i'm fine with "only billionaire tax hikes" slop as long he doesn't internalize it like some other should know better dumb dem tax cut proposals (warren, porter, etc). sadly think we're in an age where the rhetoric-policy gap will just have to widen. 100
hilux joyride @leftspace13.bsky.social · 29/08/2026bill gets his preferred eastern front victory. 000
Reposted by hilux joyrideAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026The situation in Haiti is terrifying. On Sunday, 150 gunmen swept down on a town to kill, rape, loot, and burn. 22 people were executed in a churchyard. 52 were taken hostage. Stephen Miller mockingly says Haiti is safe and ICE just sent its second deportation flight this month; with kids on board. 13638282012
Reposted by hilux joyrideJes Steele ✌️ @piratito.com · 25/08/2026Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, and Emmylou Harris performing “Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow” on The Dolly Parton Show (1976) 213217837
Reposted by hilux joyrideAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Watters: You think it’s ok to slash a ding-a-ling off El-Sayed: Do you really want to have this conversation? Are you circumcised? Watters: Yeah El-Sayed: Then you probably want to move on. 1250162603237
Reposted by hilux joyrideAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS. 566280948612
Reposted by hilux joyrideRon Marz @ronmarz.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Jake Lang getting his Nazi ass beaten by Spider-Man in Minneapolis today is the ray of sunshine I needed. 10671341601
hilux joyride @leftspace13.bsky.social · 20/08/2026it is grimly fitting he goes to church at the converted capitol lounge. 030
Reposted by hilux joyrideNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 17/08/2026New Public Comment on the self-interested case for quitting X publiccomment.blog/p/it-is-past...publiccomment.blogIt Is Past Time for You to Quit Elon Musk's XYes, I'm talking to you. 🫵 10606155
hilux joyride @leftspace13.bsky.social · 18/08/2026just wanted to chime in on your fox monitoring days at MMA. 2004ish i used to transcribe part of the primetime lineup, half an hour each of orly, hannity (back then also colmes), and greta (murder mayhem yeehaw), and it triggered a depressive episode for months. felt stuck in an abusive household. 001
Reposted by hilux joyrideAdam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 16/08/2026The fundraising texts you delete are working on someone. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking. An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times. The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.data4democracy.substack.comHook and SqueezeHow Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations. 17845351588
Reposted by hilux joyrideCadaver Formosus is Already Spooky @cadaverformosus.bsky.social · 12/08/2026New from me: Why is Communion so WEIRD? Why does the second half feel like a different book? Why does it get Catholicism 101 wrong? What’s with all the non sequiturs about spies and why did Ross Douthat quote a literal Nazi in the NYT last week? Well, Vance thinks we’re too stupid to ask…lareviewofbooks.orgJ. D. Vance’s Straussian Moment | Los Angeles Review of BooksThe US vice president wrote his new book without citing his source—Peter Thiel. 49633