Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 31/07/2026Ontological proof that √2 is rational: suppose √2 has all supreme perfections. Descartes argued that actual existence is a perfection. If √2 was irrational, it would lack existence as the ratio of integers, a supreme perfection. Contradiction; therefore, God exists. I mean √2 is rational. 000
Reposted by Steve SmithJudd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Meta is spending $600 billion+ to build out its AI model. That model is being aggressively integrated into platforms used by 3.9 billion people. This week, Meta announced its AI will be trained on content from Newsmax, the far-right website with a history of promoting pro-Trump conspiracy theories. 43646333
Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 30/07/2026Article with link to charities to help Haitians stripped of temporary protective status: bsky.app/profile/theb... 000
Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 30/07/2026“what makes this genuinely interesting — and, frankly, a little embarrassing for the field — is that none of the ingredients are exotic.” bsky.app/profile/matt... 000
Reposted by Steve SmithCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 27/07/2026TPS for Haitians officially expires tomorrow. ICE is planning big operations, with Springfield, Ohio among the targets www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-hai...cbsnews.comICE plans to target Haitians as Temporary Protected Status is set to end, sources sayThe plans include arresting migrants in Ohio and quickly putting them on deportation flights to crisis-stricken Haiti, the internal documents indicate. 20926401786
Reposted by Steve SmithOnly In Boston @onlyinbos.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Happy Saturday from Storrow Drive. ❤️ 📸: @jessfrith @johngallagher23 @0svaldo_g 10646
Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 13/04/2026The only way that will restore the Rule of Law, in Hungary, and the U.S.: Magyar: "No mercy, they will need to take responsibility for all their actions." 000
Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 08/04/2026If the pizza at Pastels is okay with Donny, it’s okay with me. 120
Reposted by Steve SmithEoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 08/04/2026That's the point of the attacks right 311824
Reposted by Steve SmithRima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Hospitals sharing images of children to identify their parents, this is the situation across #Beirut 13328
Reposted by Steve SmithRima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 08/04/2026AUB urgently calling for blood donations AUBMC Blood Bank is currently in need of all blood groups. يُعلن بنك الدم في المركز الطبي في الجامعة الأميركية في بيروت عن حاجته إلى جميع فصائل الدم. نرحّب بالمتبرعين يوميًا من الساعة 8:00 صباحًا حتى الساعة 4:00 بعد الظهر. بتبرّعكم يمكن أن تُحدِثوا فرقًا. 042
Reposted by Steve SmithMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 07/04/2026It would be nice if mainstream media would report the obvious fact that the president of the United States is out of his mind. Seems like a highly relevant fact that the media have buried so far, in betrayal of their duty. 461211336
Reposted by Steve SmithDaniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 07/04/2026I hate having to do the "look, they're normal just like us" post, but sometimes you have to do that when American propaganda tries to convince everyone Iranians are "animals". 20102023782
Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 07/04/2026Watch this as the hour of Trump’s threatened genocide approaches. 000
Reposted by Steve SmithRachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Iranians are forming human chains around power plants and infrastructure as Trumps evil deadline approaches. Will he commit mass murder? We have no idea bc he’s crazy. Hopefully he uses this an excuse to stop 1720450
Reposted by Steve SmithTom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 07/04/2026If Trump does give an order to attack civilian targets that have no military value as a means of collectively punishing the Iranian people - and make good his threat to begin a genocide - Marco Rubio should resign and the military must refuse the order. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...theatlantic.comDid Trump Just Threaten to Use Nuclear Weapons in Iran?If such an order comes to pass, the military can and must refuse. 1712814858
Reposted by Steve SmithPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 07/04/2026We’re doomed because Trump represents a sick, evil, but absolutely permanent and strong element of American culture. Killing civilizations is what these people voted for. 581597290
Reposted by Steve SmithSenator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 07/04/2026Completely unstable and perilous. The House must bring up impeachment articles, and the Senate needs to remove a president who wants to commit war crimes. We cannot sit idly by as Donald Trump threatens to end an entire civilization. 46563361706
Reposted by Steve SmithAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/04/2026The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is. 14755699816895
Reposted by Steve SmithBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 04/04/2026I read a lot of conservative media, and let me just say that this Washpost house editorial is one of the most shameful pieces of unsubstantiated, free-market claptrap that has been published all year, by anyone. Barely a mention of the thousands of deaths caused by US aid cutbacks. 561560428
Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 04/04/2026Sir, you staged your death by your own hand in full view of Captain America? 000
Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 04/04/2026The issue not addressed: real, not sci-fi, teleportation cannot overcome quantum uncertainty. At best this person would be incinerated then reconstituted as an unidentifiable glob of chemicals in the Waffle House. That’s the plausible bit: people teleport then are served up as All-Star Specials™ 000
Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 04/04/2026One reason I enjoy @theatlantic.com (subscribe!) is that its silly self-parodic think pieces seldom descend below “Lice are actually okay!” 000
Reposted by Steve SmithIgnacio Villaverde @wildlandfirefig.bsky.social · 28/03/2026En Beirut la gente denuncia que dos aviones israelís han roto la barrera del sonido sobre la ciudad. Esto, como creo sabe tó el mundo, provoca un BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM enorme. Si suena en una zona a la que le caen bombas a diario pues imaginad, a la gente casi le da un pasmo del susto 2186
Reposted by Steve SmithSally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Very loud sonic booms across Beirut now. Four in total that I counted. Terrorising a civilian population right as people are going to sleep. #lebanon 13716
Reposted by Steve SmithCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Lots of suspicious trades in oil/equities just ahead of Trump tweets backing off his ultimatum. Sure looks like somebody close to Trump knew he was about to TACO, and exploited that inside information to make huge, instant profits From @pkrugman.bsky.social: paulkrugman.substack.com/p/treason-in...paulkrugman.substack.comTreason in the Futures MarketsPeople close to Trump are trading based on national secrets 54868362
Reposted by Steve SmithEric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 23/03/2026$2.45 billion NIH grant cuts and ~2300 terminated active research grants were DOGE'd in early 2025 Who were most affected? www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.... Early career and women researchers 10391259
Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 24/03/2026Robert E. Lee massacred hundreds of American soldiers who tried to surrender at Petersburg and elsewhere. Lee beat and flagellated people that tried to escape enslavement by Lee, then Lee tortured them by pouring salt into their open wounds. Robert E. Lee was a traitor and his memory is a disgrace. 020
Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 18/03/2026“Solemn articles were written about the supposed significance of Greenland … as if Trump’s interest in the Arctic island were not entirely derived from the fact that it looks very large on a Mercator projection.” Maybe brief that the Mercator Jacobian 1/cos² latitude scales Greenland’s area 12× ? 000
Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 18/03/2026@michelebella.bsky.social Do you know the artist for the cartoons inside your grandfather’s photo album of the 509th? This one specifically is remarkable, and as I posted below I speculate must be Kubrick’s inspiration for Dr. Strangelove’s finale. 000
Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 17/03/2026Melkorka told her son Ólafr that she was taken by vikings, and her father was king Myrkjartan. She taught him Gaelic, urged him to visit family. The king was convinced of kinship when he recognized Ólafr’s ring. Ólafr became renowned as a grandson of the Irish king. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melkorkaen.wikipedia.orgMelkorka - Wikipedia 000
Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 17/03/2026Happy Saint Patrick’s Day - from an Icelandic descendent. My great grandfather brought records that go back 1100 years. The most remarkable ancestor is the Irish princess Melkorka, enslaved in a Viking raid. Very different story to share with Boston Irish friends. 🍀 vimeo.com/496367623?fl...vimeo.comVictims of the Vikings TrailerThis is "Victims of the Vikings Trailer" by Stefan Ludwig on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. 001
Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 16/03/2026“America’s political leadership is completely out-classed. We have an illiterate madman tweeting contradictory bullshit every ten minutes. Meanwhile, the Iranian regime is calmly and methodically probing the structural weaknesses of the American-dominated global financial order.” 000
Reposted by Steve SmithSteve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 12/01/2026OBAA’s fascist allegories: • “Clean” murder is to gas & incinerate victim • Lockjaw office is Suite 55, i.e. “SS” • Willa calls attention to Lockjaw’s shirt: he’s a blackshirt • Lockjaw has mixed-race daughter shot; Nazi Amon Göth’s (Schindler’s List) irl black Gdau wrote “My Gfa Would Have Shot Me” 021
Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 12/03/2026“In major disputes capabilities for repression grow, both because governments are likely to mobilize significant additional forces and because repression of dissent is likely to be supported by nationalist groups.” archive.org/details/bomb... 000
Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 12/03/2026Sir, you demanded that Henry “think big.” Which of these toadies would tell the President, “That, I think, would just be too much”? 000
Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 11/03/2026Every place the British needed to navigate to reach their eastern colonies. Churchill’s failed Gallipoli campaign was to sieze the Dardanelles and a sea route to supply Russia. When natural geography or fortune didn’t cooperate, they created artificial straits: www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9Uw...youtube.comLAWRENCE OF ARABIA - The Suez Canal, then Cairo -YouTube video by Tanji Akira 000
Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 10/03/2026@timmiller.bsky.social: “I was watching a Nick Fuentes clip… he said something about Trump… is totally in megalomania world and he wants to do historic things. He sees himself as a grand historic figure. … that makes me also think that he wants to drop the bomb.” www.thebulwark.com/p/sarah-long...thebulwark.comSarah Longwell: No One Should Trust this GovernmentUnless the administration is keeping some closely-guarded secret about why America went to war against Iran, the only thing officialdom is saying out loud is that Netanyahu wanted us to. 000
Reposted by Steve SmithKatherine Clark @whipkclark.bsky.social · 09/03/2026This disgusting shit doesn’t belong in American society. And Republicans who support it don’t belong in Congress. 1333762829
Reposted by Steve SmithTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes. 763251238005
Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 07/03/2026@michelebella.bsky.social Here’s the group photo of the 509th’s 390th Air Service Group with your grandfather (row 7, 5th from right) and mine. 300