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Joseph @pelops.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Seeing that notification like Shrödinger’s text.

Joseph @pelops.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The best grift is a millenarian saying some disaster or salvation is just around the corner. Keeps people in a perpetual state of panic and frenzy, glued to your feed.

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Joseph @pelops.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

You want to get Angry? (Ignores replies) Zillow: What is the average rent in San Francisco, CA? Updated September 8, 2026 average rent for all property types in San Francisco, CA is $4,720. Average rent $4,720 Month-over-month change +$220 Year-over-year change +$1,040 Available rentals 1,413

Graph showing the average rent price in San Francisco comparing last year and this year. The price has gone up over 1k on average.

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Joseph @pelops.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Getting ready to board my flight home after an amazing week in Mexico City. I walked 55.6 miles over 5 days. Here’s me at Lucha Libre last night

A selfie with a stadium in Mexico City behind me, there is a ring for Lucha Libre

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Joseph @pelops.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The top of the Monument to the Revolution

A photo of me in front of Mexico City, stretching out below

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Joseph @pelops.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Having eye glasses prescriptions expire seems like an absolute racket.

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Joseph @pelops.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The basic idea Wittgenstein’s theory of language games is that words are like pieces in a game, they have a function. When one word is deployed in some context it affects the world in such a way as to achieve a goal. I say “fire” so that you run to safety.

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Joseph @pelops.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Going to do a long post. It is mostly because I'm just working through some of my own ideas, rather than looking to get off a real banger that'll do numbers, etc. etc.

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Joseph @pelops.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Just got back from a great discussion at the Oakland Public Library with @ahjohnson.bsky.social on his excellent new book, How to Sell a Genocide. It’s a really strong work of media criticism, and Adam is just as sharp in person as on @citationspod.bsky.social

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Joseph @pelops.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

“Sexuality, ceasing to be a factor of cohesion and shared elation, becomes an individual frenzy for profit. Everyone is obsessed with it and thereby isolated. And, in a characteristic feature, as it is exacerbated, it also becomes anxious about itself.”

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Joseph @pelops.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I phone banked for El-Sayed and have been a bit worried because the attack ads really did affect some voters. I listened to people really struggling with how they were going to vote. But El-Sayed has a winning message and I think Michigan is going to come through tonight.

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Joseph @pelops.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Very much enjoying reading Baudrillard again.

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Joseph @pelops.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The creations of generative AI, the slop, are created by taking the signs of things and removing any relation to what they mean. They are pure signification, just a system of signs mathematically related to each other but with no relation to the real world.

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Joseph @pelops.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Was doing some phone banking for McKinney in Michigan and a young lady asked me if I wanted to fight. I said no ma'am, but she had already hung up.

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Joseph @pelops.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

In answer to the endless discussion of the “vibe-session”, which is the idea that the economy is good but people perceive it as bad, there is a possible answer from Baudrillard. There are two orders of consumption, needs and privileges,

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Joseph @pelops.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Reading Baudrillard's The Consumer Society and came across a passage about the role of news in modern society which reminded me of Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities. 1/6

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Joseph @pelops.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Just finishing up Trade Wars are Class Wars, and strongly recommend it. While It is Keynesian rather than leftist, it is extremely illuminating on the relationship between foreign and domestic inequality to global production, surplus and deficits.

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Joseph @pelops.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Since the Gramsci quote is used endlessly- some further context: "If the ruling class has lost its consensus, i.e. is no longer 'leading' but only 'dominant', exercising coercive force alone, this means precisely that the great masses have become detached from their traditional ideologies..." (1/2)

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Joseph @pelops.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Reading Trade Wars are Class Wars, written in 2020, and have a strange feeling they may have been onto something: “Investments are worthwhile only if they satisfy unmet consumption needs. Otherwise they are just wasteful misuses of resources that could have been better deployed elsewhere.” (1/2)

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Joseph @pelops.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Just found through some jazz listening that the bassline from Steely Dan’s Rikki Don’t Lose that Number comes from Horace Silver’s Song for my Father. Both great tracks

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Joseph @pelops.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Awesome to see so many people signing up for DSA. Let's go!

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Joseph @pelops.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

“It is a matter of common observation… that any new theory studied with ‘heroic fury’… especially if one is young, attracts the student… and takes possession of his whole personality…”

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Joseph @pelops.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Why does this garbage bin look like Patrick Star

A garbage bin that looks like it has a face like Patrick Star’s from SpongeBob.

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Joseph @pelops.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

100% Whole Wheat sourdough at 94% Hydration. #breadsky

Side shot of a cut open loaf with an airy crumb.

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Joseph @pelops.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Made some Gochujang pita (a recipe I made and have been tinkering by with) and filled them with some homemade Mercimek Köftesi (Turkish lentil balls), sous vide chicken, cherry tomatoes and arugula #breadsky

Gochujang pita flecked with Aleppo chile pepper stacked on a cloth.

The pita stuffed with the ingredients listed in the text, on a plate.

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Joseph @pelops.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Got a perfect photo of Emma

My cat, Emma, mid yawn, her mouth is wide open one eyes closed and part of her mouth is more open than the other, her fang sticking out

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Joseph @pelops.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Roasted butternut squash & red onion with tahini & za’atar

The dish mentioned in the text, plated, sitting on a counter

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Joseph @pelops.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Chocolate Coffee Rye Sourdough #breadsky

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Joseph @pelops.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Was the photo hidden under his belly?

Random trashy news article with photo of John Goodman. Text reads: "John Goodman's high school photo unearthed after losing half his body weight"

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Joseph @pelops.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

“The world was a different place in 1983 than it is today. …Rumsfeld was courting Saddam Hussein in Baghdad; Israel was lobbying Washington not to pay attention to Tehran's calls for the destruction of the Jewish State;

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Joseph @pelops.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Ken Martin: “there’s no smoking gun” in the election autopsy, but “we don’t want people weaponizing” the report. No “gun” but it’s a “weapon”. Maybe it’s just more of a smoking halberd? Great stuff!

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Joseph @pelops.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Got summoned for Jury Duty, though the case ended up being settled before we started. For a moment, I thought it might be the Musk vs OpenAI case, which is at a courthouse that's like a 10 minute walk from my place. But I ended up being assigned to the other courthouse, 7 minutes away.

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Joseph @pelops.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

I didn't realize yesterday that Adam Tooze had posted the same section of Melinda Cooper's Family Values as I did, discussing the Chicago School and the AIDS epidemic, lol.

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Joseph @pelops.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

As I've said before, human behavior can't be explained as purely rationally motivated. This idea of the calculating rational actor is central to neoliberalism. As Melinda Cooper writes in Family Values:

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Congress’ War Powers vote fails by exactly one vote (214-213). Funny how this keeps happening!

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Joseph @pelops.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

You know we had to demolish them

Overwatch against a team of 4 people with Israeli flags for icons

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Joseph @pelops.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Pita, made with half whole-wheat. #breadsky

Pita shaped into balls for resting before shaping

Rolled out pita, sitting on a peel before baking

A pita stuffed with chicken, hummus, arugula, cherry tomatoes and sriracha

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Joseph @pelops.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

A second blockade has hit the strait of Hormuz

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Iran's 10 point plan seems to put them in a better position than they were in before the war www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

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Joseph @pelops.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Trump is thankfully predictable, he just tries to wave his arms around and swear to get the other side to capitulate and then lies about winning to save face when they do not. I mean how tf are you going to agree to a temporary ceasefire with Iran when they haven't offered one?

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Joseph @pelops.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Rather than cede an inch to leftists like Hasan Piker, some Dems would rather lose, literally: "'If people really are arguing that the price of winning is becoming like a bigoted misogynist like Hasan Piker, then I’ll take not winning,' Third Way president Jonathan Cowan told [Lauren Egan]"

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Joseph @pelops.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Trump had so little to say in his speech that it was boiled down to its essence of rhetorical tricks. Everything he does is the best thing that has ever been done, and everyone agrees. It was perfect, and no one saw it coming. His predecessors were the worst in history,

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Joseph @pelops.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I’m having a hard time imagining a single person who still believes the war is ending in “just a few more days” or whatever. Even the people who think full self driving mode for Teslas is still arriving soon are probably like “fool me once”. But I guess the world is full of rubes.

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Joseph @pelops.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Utterly nonsensical article about sourdough on Martha Stewart’s website. It wildly claims that sourdough has more calories, less fiber and less protein than “regular” bread. This honestly sounds like someone who does not understand what sourdough is. www.marthastewart.com/is-sourdough...

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Is Sourdough Healthier Than Other Breads? Here’s What Nutrition Experts Say

At its simplest, sourdough is bread made from three ingredients: flour, water, and salt. Is sourdough better for you than other breads, or is it just more fun to bake and brag about? Here's what your ...

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Joseph @pelops.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Finally finished Gramsci’s Selections from the Prison Notebooks. A really excellent work.

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Joseph @pelops.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

When people say that humans are rational or pleasure seeking and this explains all their behavior, they are using the words in a meaningless way. So that if you say that someone who hurts themselves always gets pleasure from it, you're removing the meaning of the word pleasure.

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Joseph @pelops.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Doing my best to introduce some levity into the TL 🤡

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