Reposted by Noise Rock Dadwavebidder.bsky.social @wavebidder.bsky.social · 26/06/2026ncase.me/polygons/ncase.meParable of the PolygonsA playable post on how harmless choices can make a harmful world. 111414
Reposted by Noise Rock DadYale University Press @yalepress.bsky.social · 2hIn WHY LABOR UNIONS MATTER, Nelson Lichtenstein shows how such trade unions can raise income, reduce racial and gender inequalities, and mobilize workers to become more socially and politically active. 1106
Reposted by Noise Rock DadGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 4hI LOVE how @propublica.org dealt with official comment here, editorially and stylistically. 1028741063
Reposted by Noise Rock DadLeor Galil @imleor.bsky.social · 1hChicago’s most exciting punk venue is in the back of a taco joint—and it just paused putting on shows for the foreseeable future. I spoke to Casa Cafe’s main show organizer about what happened.chicagoreader.comCasa Cafe takes a hiatus from hardcore - Chicago ReaderCasa Cafe’s bookers are pursuing a city license so they can safely restart shows. Plus: DJ Paul Nixon launches the pop-up shop Happy Home Records, and more. 2188
Reposted by Noise Rock DadDavid Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 6hWorse. I'd argue that Europe's social contract is essentially broken with two huge factors being an ageing population and the rise of the gig economy. Preferred fixes, of blaming China or immigrants, are obviously inadequate and probably counter-productive. 23415
Reposted by Noise Rock DadUnspun Heroes® @unspunheroes.com · 6hNext release on Unspun Heroes looks like this. Two discs of hand-poured translucent marbled vinyl made to look like the tide washing in on a Cornish beach. Preorders are shipping from tomorrow. Officially out on Friday. 5136
Reposted by Noise Rock DadDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6hThanks to Russ Vought for exposing this woke research 16830144
Reposted by Noise Rock DadProPublica @propublica.org · 6hThe government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️ 7844792622
Reposted by Noise Rock DadYTJF. @thewayoftheid.bsky.social · 14hWait I thought he was already dead whoops 4318
Reposted by Noise Rock DadJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Truly incredible that this is how the media is choosing to eulogize the longest-serving Republican Speaker of the House in US history, who was a serial sexual abuser of children. For all the talk about "deep state" plots to abuse children, no one even remembers this case. 931771486
Reposted by Noise Rock DadRobert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · 05/10/2026There was a foundational assumption that any claims about the behavior of the Assad regime were falsehoods intended to justify military action. This despite widely corroborated claims of chemical weapon use and the fact that neither Obama nor Trump had any interest in deeper intervention in Syria. 25510
Reposted by Noise Rock DadRobert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · 05/10/2026And it wasn't just the Far left. Bob Wright pioneered his work apologizing for Putin by doing softball interviews with Aaron Mate, laundering lies about Assad. 0326
Reposted by Noise Rock Dadfinrodsauronvorecommissionfolderabsurdres @yungdreyfusard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026it is difficult to fully express to someone who wasnt there just how widespread sympathy for assad was on the late-2010s online left. they all just immediately stopped talking about it the moment he lost but it was very ugly and tastemakers who didnt share it largely just pretended not to see it 828242
Reposted by Noise Rock DadKathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 16h“Violent insurgents sometimes impose checkpoints along the dirt road leading into town. Foreign aid cuts have forced health workers to make painful choices about already scarce resources, including where to build Ebola centers, said Luca Fontana, a senior W.H.O. official”nytimes.comHow Congo’s Ebola Epidemic Got So Bad So QuicklyWhat happened in Mangala, where residents were left with little outside support, helps explain how this outbreak became the worst seen in the Democratic Republic of Congo. 23615
Reposted by Noise Rock DadHellscape Navigator @hellscapenavigator.bsky.social · 16h"a philosopher king would be so efficient!" no. you are letting your own main character syndrome blind you to the reality of actual dictatorships. the dictator is not one super cool guy whose story is the story of his nation. he's at the top of a pyramid of relationships. nothing more. 05516
Reposted by Noise Rock DadCats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 16hGoblin training. 💪🏻 Photo from my collection, no date/info. 101847129
Reposted by Noise Rock DadMatthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 16hI was gonna say 9% but I was like “no better look up the unemployment rate when I graduated I don’t want to exaggerate” and turns out I was off in the wrong direction 0233
Noise Rock Dad @noiserockdad.bsky.social · 16hI'm still gobsmacked by the reality that we have a Pope who speaks with a full blown Inland North accent 010
Reposted by Noise Rock DadRegime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Why are the AI assistants being visually represented by birds or amorphous blobs when we already know what they should look likestatic.klipy.comAdjutant Starcraft Close-UpAlt: Adjutant Starcraft Close-Up 510215
Reposted by Noise Rock Dadzenlike @zenlike.bsky.social · 04/10/2026So, this very sympathetic piece where the subject is “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024”. 5 minutes of checking his facebook shows pro Trump posts as far back as 2019, and a post saying that he “stands with Trump” posted just a couple of days after Trumps coup. 261617424
Reposted by Noise Rock Dadsick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 03/10/2026jaw dropped when I read this www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/w... 5578107
Reposted by Noise Rock DadBrendan Davey @brendandavey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Every. Single. Time. #FML 330946
Reposted by Noise Rock DadUnfrozen Caveman Librarian @latefiennes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026 1565771287
Reposted by Noise Rock Dadryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 23h“You thirsty mayo ass” youtu.be/jD3PjSMgJB0?...youtu.beNo Country for Cancelled Men (Twitter reupload)YouTube video by Henry Krinkle 18010
Reposted by Noise Rock DadElreka|BB 🏳️⚧️🌵🐴🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱🇮🇷🇲🇽🇵🇸🇺🇦🇻🇪 @2puru2partisan.bsky.social · 17hYet another example of the AmeriKKKan neocolonial empire capturing the the capital of burgeoning nations in the global south 1589
Reposted by Noise Rock DadSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026static.klipy.comTwin Peaks: It Is Happening, AgainAlt: Twin Peaks: It Is Happening, Again 1821426
Reposted by Noise Rock DadAaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 17hstatic.klipy.comI Just Think They'Re Neat I Just Think They Are NeatAlt: Marge from the Simpsons holding a potato and saying "I Just Think They Are Neat" 0276
Reposted by Noise Rock DadMaterialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 17hTalarico if you pull this off I will forgive you for every fundraising ad you show me 0253
Reposted by Noise Rock Dadadriana @yungkarp.bsky.social · 19harabic speaking lutheran church is spiritually Minnesotan 022
Reposted by Noise Rock DadBill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 20hIt is crazy how quickly they’ve shifted from arguing about the purported cultural pathologies of black people to arguing that those exact same alleged pathologies are virtues in white peolle 715828
Reposted by Noise Rock DadBill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 20h“It isn’t American culture to try to be good at things” what the fuck are you talking about, you fucking loser 412110
Reposted by Noise Rock DadDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 19hthese are the same people who will go on and on about how the deep roots of somali herder pastoralist culture (?????) mean that somalian immigrants will never truly succeed in modern society 61397
Reposted by Noise Rock Dadednl🇪🇺 @ee1.nl · 23hAnother accent-related one seen below, made me laugh but he quoted himself so it's artificial 145338
Reposted by Noise Rock DadJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 19hSeems like if you're going to make a national story out of Hasan Piker, who campaigned a few times with the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, saying Israel causes antisemitism, you should also make a national story out of the favorite intellectual of the US Vice President supporting Hitler. 302785611
Reposted by Noise Rock DadAnthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 22hFound the perfect screengrab to use the next time someone tries to tell me I’m missing out on important discourse by not using Elon Musk’s mircoblog site 104671660
Reposted by Noise Rock Dadrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 05/10/2026america’s first woman president ❤️ 41807
Reposted by Noise Rock DadDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 05/10/2026one of the reasons i appreciated this essay from valentin tappia was its illustration of how even authoritarian regimes are trapped by their own narratives of legitimacy. even as murderous a man as pinochet was eventually undone by his own promise to be a "transitional" governmentliberalcurrents.comHow Chile Recovered Its DemocracyA leader operating beyond the margins of the law can yet eventually be defeated in a free and fair election. 37612
Reposted by Noise Rock DadDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 05/10/2026another lesson from these histories is that *margins matter*. it is easier to rig a 51-49 election; it is much harder to rig one that is 55-45, let alone 60-30. voting, in other words, will matter rather enormously in the next two years.en.wikipedia.orgBush v. Gore - Wikipedia 1485
Reposted by Noise Rock Dadlauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 05/10/2026you'd like to schedule a doctor's appointment? have you logged into MyHealthChart yet? Remember that MyHealthChart used to be Healbe. If you migrated your chart from Healbe Now or Healbe Epic, you are not eligible to make an account. Please make note Healbe Epic is formerly MyHealthChartRX. 762602313
Reposted by Noise Rock DadTuring Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴 @dov.bsky.social · 05/10/2026look the thing about leftist infighting is that it is just objectively more fun than fighting the actual bad guys. it matters less and you can do it on your phone 511616
Reposted by Noise Rock Dadex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 27/11/2023Vanilla ice cream is good actually 3634
Reposted by Noise Rock Dad👹woke islamo-leftist gremlin👻 @fabius.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Trump is like a grotesquely magnified George W Bush in that people in much of the rest of the world think he is uniquely *distasteful* or *tacky*, but they don't have much of a principled problem with his inhumane, fascist policies 2224
Reposted by Noise Rock Dadlastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 03/08/2026From a historical perspective it's a genuinely strange state of affairs that the Church of England turns out to be too woke for much of the modern right. But really it just feels like: having a consistent moral code that demands taking Lessers and Outgroup seriously is impossible for populist right. 23675112
Reposted by Noise Rock DadRobinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026major democracies electing far-right populist governments 131584279
Reposted by Noise Rock DadWaschesalon Grammy Campaign Manager @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 05/10/2026fascinating watching one of the Bulwark's stauncher conservatives realize that being a leftist outsider comes with its own general election advantages in places you might not expect 319022
Reposted by Noise Rock Dadsick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 05/10/2026former child laborer turned left-wing politician elected as president during a moment of genuine democratic crisis but have seen their popularity and mandate weathered down by short-memory electorate who have turned their back on the social democratic agenda for dubious future economic growth 316526
