MrSandman @mrsandman.bsky.social · 14hLike would the Ukrainian public be willing to become a Russian Bantustan, after this war? The Gallup poll doesn’t explain that. 100 0
MrSandman @mrsandman.bsky.social · 14hYeah, and the second option for that poll, “a diplomatic solution” doesn’t explain what that diplomatic solution would look like and whether or not said solution would involve land secessions, EU accession, or security guarantees. 100 0
MrSandman @mrsandman.bsky.social · 20hAlso, when was the last time owners, as a collective, had fans as their primary concern? 020 0
MrSandman @mrsandman.bsky.social · 20hAccording to Jeff Passan, their new argument is that this doesn’t matter since the fans want a salary cap, according to MLB surveys and polls. And ownerships always acquiesce to fan pressure. 110 0
MrSandman @mrsandman.bsky.social · 21hReplying to me and then immediately blocking is crazy work 000 0
MrSandman @mrsandman.bsky.social · 22hIf the extent of your research is just searching posts on Bluesky or Twitter, then you’re not really doing much, sorry. 200 0
MrSandman @mrsandman.bsky.social · 16/10/2026Polling from Ukrainian media says that the Ukrainians want security guarantees with troops from the EU on their land when peace negotiations end, which is not gonna happen unless Russia completely falls apart. english.nv.ua/amp/most-ukr...english.nv.uaPoll shows Ukrainians want European troops near front in ceasefire dealA majority of Ukrainians — 61% — support a ceasefire along the current front line if troops from European countries are deployed near the front in Ukraine, while 33% oppose that option, according to a... 100 0
MrSandman @mrsandman.bsky.social · 16/10/2026From Gallup, Ukrainians say that they support a “diplomatic solution to end the war” but it doesn’t say what that diplomatic solution would look like. Support of US leadership cratered after Trump got back into office and the public saw that bad meeting news.gallup.com/poll/711992/...news.gallup.comUkrainians Sour on U.S. LeadershipMore than four years after Russia's full-scale invasion, Ukrainians' approval of U.S. leadership continues to decline, while views on the war remain stable. 100 0
MrSandman @mrsandman.bsky.social · 16/10/2026What a waste of a great bullpen and starting rotation, honestly. 010 0
Reposted by MrSandmanescapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 15/10/2026"In order to believe the polling is accurate you'd have to think the GOP was in such a bad position as to be staring down the barrel of a complete political realignment like after other major historical events" buddy that is *the most rational explanation* right now, I'd start polishing that resume 71866125 0
Reposted by MrSandmanescapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 15/10/2026There's a Politico (lol) piece entirely about how Republicans' hope right now is that the polls are all way off and they only get a MILD wipeout and first of all it's full of a bunch of nonsense but the best part is how it ends on this incredible bit: 1062724454 0
MrSandman @mrsandman.bsky.social · 16/10/2026My question is what would be an acceptable peace outline for both Ukraine and Russia, given that both are currently fighting in a mostly stagnant front with no wavering domestic support? 100 0
MrSandman @mrsandman.bsky.social · 16/10/2026Western military advisors themselves didn’t believe the current Ukrainian government would’ve lasted this long. Instead they predicted a quick overthrow of the Ukrainian government. 100 0
MrSandman @mrsandman.bsky.social · 16/10/2026If it was up to the EU and the US, this war should’ve been over when the Russian Army rushed towards Kyiv to topple the government. They preferred the continued flow of Russian oil and gas into Europe, not Russian refineries being blown up during a global oil crunch currently. 100 0
MrSandman @mrsandman.bsky.social · 16/10/2026The Russian government itself has said that it views the current post-Maidan Kyvian government as illegitimate and not worth negotiating with, multiple times. 100 0
MrSandman @mrsandman.bsky.social · 16/10/2026On top of that, in the view of Ukraine, there is no sensible outline for peace provided by Russia. What Russia wants is a demilitarized zone between the Dnieper River and the Russian Border with no western security guarantees for Ukraine, which will easily allow a future Russian invasion. 100 0
MrSandman @mrsandman.bsky.social · 16/10/2026This is much like asking the Warsaw Pact and China to stop aiding the NVA and the Viet Cong so that millions of Vietnamese lives can be saved. Northern Vietnam viewed the split of Vietnam as illegitimate and imposed by western powers, so it’s gonna fight to reverse that, with or without support. 100 0
MrSandman @mrsandman.bsky.social · 16/10/2026This isn’t a war that Western Europe or the US can just end out of choice. Russia has developed Ukrainian animosity towards itself, given that the government has invaded Ukraine twice within a decade. Not to mention the fact that it’s been bombing Ukrainian residential buildings since the start. 100 0
MrSandman @mrsandman.bsky.social · 16/10/2026Notably, Ukraine wasn’t directly apart of negotiations until it got invaded, again. 100 0
MrSandman @mrsandman.bsky.social · 16/10/2026The peace talks between Western Europe, the USA, and Russia, immediately before the war popped off, mostly centered around NATO troop and missile defense placements in the Baltics and Balkans, and any notion of Western Security for Ukraine. 100 0
MrSandman @mrsandman.bsky.social · 16/10/2026I understand that argument, however the previous peace processes also didn’t give Ukrainians any real say in what terms they should or shouldn’t abide by (Minsk I and Minsk II). The peace was fostered upon them by Western Europe, IIRC. 100 0
MrSandman @mrsandman.bsky.social · 16/10/2026This has been more or less the Ukrainian vision for victory since at least 2025. Why attack Russian oil refineries, internet infrastructure, logistics hubs, and airfields if you weren’t trying to kneecap Russia’s ability to conduct war or have a normal economy. 100 0
MrSandman @mrsandman.bsky.social · 16/10/2026In order to have a successful offensive, you generally need to support advancing infantry with tanks and establish air superiority to defeat any enemy entrenched defenses and defensive systems. Both Ukraine and Russia have no ability to do so. As a result, the front stagnates. 100 0
MrSandman @mrsandman.bsky.social · 16/10/2026Also, I’m against the notion any military aide will not allow any Ukrainian offensive maneuvers, since both sides lack any competent air frames and any steady supply of tanks to conduct a planned offensive. Ukraine has only found recent successes due limited western supplies of tanks. 100 0
MrSandman @mrsandman.bsky.social · 16/10/2026The rationale is making any attempt of a continuation of war for the offensive side (Russia) more economically, politically, and socially costly as time goes on. 100 0
Reposted by MrSandmanjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/10/2026i think it is fun when people write things that are just totally in tension with easily observable reality. like, this is “charlie brown had hoes” levels of nonsense: “in his first term Trump largely respected the cultural consensus of the Obama years.” www.compactmag.com/article/how-...compactmag.comHow ‘Woke 1’ Radicalized the GOPOn May 30, 2020, five days after the death of George Floyd, the head of a prominent DC-area think tank issued a stentorian condemnation of the killing and the bigotry she said had enabled it. 1374205460 0
MrSandman @mrsandman.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Europe has continued to give Russia paths out of Ukraine since 2015 and Russia has repeatedly reneged on peaceful negotiations. Opting for more belligerent stances until the invasion started again. 100 0
MrSandman @mrsandman.bsky.social · 15/10/2026The solution is to give military aid to Ukraine. Peaceful negotiations with Russia has pretty much failed, since Minsk I and Minsk II, where the Russian follow up was an offensive in Donetsk and Russian missiles firing on Ukrainian residential buildings in Mariupol, as well as the current war. 100 0
MrSandman @mrsandman.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Subjects to be dominated, removed, and/or exterminated. 100 0
MrSandman @mrsandman.bsky.social · 15/10/2026This is also not conducive to peaceful coexistence in Eastern Europe. This isn’t to say Russia is a supervillain state filled with Bond villains, but its stance is either charitably almost or blatantly genocidal. Much like how the Israeli government views Palestinians or the Lebanese. 100 0
MrSandman @mrsandman.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Based on the comments about Ukrainian nationhood and Ukrainian Ethnicity by Russian government officials, Russian media, and the president himself, the Russian Government and it’s elites, as a collective, does not believe in the concept of a “Ukrainian” or a “Ukrainian State”. 100 0
MrSandman @mrsandman.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Is this why the United States should’ve invaded Cuba, coup’d a bunch of South American governments, and funded Right wing paramilitaries and drug dealers? Because it was threatened by it’s left wing neighbors? 200 0
MrSandman @mrsandman.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Why should Russia be afraid of anti-Russian nations when it has a giant nuclear arsenal? 100 0
Reposted by MrSandmanDallas Marcella @dallasmarcella.bsky.social · 14/10/2026when the reliever gives up the go ahead home run 658624 0
MrSandman @mrsandman.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Especially when Russia has stockpiles of nuclear war heads. 000 0
MrSandman @mrsandman.bsky.social · 15/10/2026People seem to think the invasion of Georgia and the justifications for it can be mapped onto any other Russian war of imperial conquest when the decade long Russo-Ukrainian war has not been about NATO security guarantees or great power politics between an encroaching west and a defensive Russia. 110 0
MrSandman @mrsandman.bsky.social · 14/10/2026I didn’t like the message of Digger, almost self-masturbatory to an extent, but I think it’s a well made film and people should see it. 3/5 010 0
Reposted by MrSandmanCraig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 14/10/2026This is the most joyful I've seen Kevin Kiermaier since that time he searched my timeline to find a photo of me with my cats and then implied that I was gay for having cats, after which he blocked me. bsky.app/profile/mlbb... 1946331 0
Reposted by MrSandmanSpectrum News NY1 @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Republican candidate Bruce Blakeman, during Tuesday's debate, said President Trump has endorsed him, but so have some liberal Democrats. To which Democratic incumbent Kathy Hochul replied, "You got two votes, good for you." 2114 0
Reposted by MrSandmanciel ✨ | firmament @konkondragon.bsky.social · 13/10/2026oh god this is so fucking relatable here in the philippines im generally assumed "white". in the US i got hit with just raw straight sinophobia. in Spain, people were confused, sometimes seeing me as a local and sometimes thinking i was from places as wild guesses as Russia 2323 0
Reposted by MrSandmanBen K. @benjaminkabak.com · 13/10/2026Blakeman is such a piece of shit. 317959 0
Reposted by MrSandmanthe abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 12/10/2026oh my god 1862772 0
Reposted by MrSandmanYour Scary Ad Here @cooluser354.bsky.social · 12/10/2026"The culture on X today is remarkably friendly and inclusive. It is a cheerful place." - John Gruber, Oct. 2026 224829 0
Reposted by MrSandmanNilo @nilo.bsky.social · 11/10/2026It's funny how NIMBYism is such a religious conviction for some people that developers will just say this worldwide without fear of repercussion. 726458 0
MrSandman @mrsandman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I was actually drawing a really good fish, all those years ago. 010 0
Reposted by MrSandmandepths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 10/10/2026four years ago I posted this image of paleontologist Jan Smit looking at rocks and his son-in-law replied with something even better 58152322934 0
Reposted by MrSandmanJoseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026No, bombing Yandex has not impacted automated Russian trolling operations in the U.S. 581414486 0