Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 2hMy husband just said every time they get rid of one the replacement is worse. 010
Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 3hBeing unable to take pleasure in lengthy torture and allowing a death at least as quick and dignified as a dog’s at the vet would also help. 000
Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 3hThere’s a little, tiny, slowly dying spark of hope left inside me that says it may not happen, that the forces of good may yet prevail. As I said, it’s dying, but it refuses to wink out. 100
Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 3hThis was my introduction to them. A magnificent work. m.youtube.com/watch?v=OXhj...m.youtube.comMussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (Orch. Ravel) : X. The Great Gates of KyivYouTube video by Berliner Philharmoniker - Topic 060
Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 4hThe German publication Republik has a fascinating bit on Peter Thiel’s Masters of the Universe yearly break-out sessions he calls Dialogue. It’s a real slap in the face. www.republik.ch/2026/10/09/i... 031
Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 22hThis is bullshit. They are experimenting on us NPCs without informed consent. They might as well be Pharma R & D dumping a drug in the local water supply to see what happens. share.inquirer.com/y3okoQshare.inquirer.comAnthropic’s artificial intelligence gave a false homicide tip to Philly police, triggering a meeting with the companyThe incident happened on July 18 but was not discovered by the Silicon Valley company until September, authorities say. 000
Reposted by RiggsvedaRepercussionist @repercussionist.bsky.social · 09/10/2026“I will free you from being someone who should have known better.” 😮 0175
Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Of course the plan to go after the ICC had already been in the works, but he let it fly today like a ballistic missile out of rage that he (once again) didn’t get the Nobel Peace Prize. Yes, he’s just that mad. 010
Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The link to Mike Collin’s X account with his posts on Trump and the out of context Blood Diamond movie meme are shocking enough, but his lunatic replies are just outright eliminationist. Not everyone in this country is so murderous, but it will be enough to destroy us if we let it. 060
Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 09/10/2026For my fam in Philly looking to get into Good Trouble, there’s a website just for you. www.findaprotest.info/usa/philadel... 000
Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The distrust, resentment & embarrassment will last a generation, and for sure, my lifetime. 051
Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Well, it’s worked with every other human rights atrocity they’ve tried so far. America seems to have a lot of spare human beings it’s willing to sacrifice to maintain its illusions of safety and greatness. 000
Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Honestly, I’m at a loss as to what he’ll be able to do to stop them. Can he rally a Minneapolis-type response? Can New Yorkers? Does Hochul have it in her to weigh in substantially? Walz was a disappointment, but could he have done more? Just thinking out loud. Anybody have any ideas? 000
Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Because a betrayal by people who supposedly share your ideals is always massive levels worse than your enemy just being themselves. 000
Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 09/10/2026A perfect portrait of the US Right. Ours may be a game that includes concentration camps, lawless public executions, & Third Reichian monuments to egomaniac stupidity, but as soon as Trump’s support is gone, watch how fast these opportunists stick a finger in the wind & switch from stripes to spots. 000
Reposted by Riggsvedajab lung @mobute.bsky.social · 09/10/2026"bully crumples after being hit at all" is such an interesting story, i wonder if there are any analogous ones that are already popular that would make doing something like this everywhere seem intuitive 353680
Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 09/10/2026So we’ve come full-circle with the Middle Passage, have we? 010
Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 09/10/2026All of our ancestors at some point in history fought and died to get their hands on salt. The first human discover what it did for food changed the world & never looked back. And it keeps us alive. This woman is either bait or insane. 000
Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 09/10/2026In the early 1990s when my sister-in-law moved to North Carolina, people there were still calling it The War of Northern Aggression. That’s a division that never healed. It always bubbles under the surface, erupting like lava in times of unrest. We are the Balkans of the Western Hemisphere. 010
Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 08/10/2026These are the kinds of people who, when they were young, you watched them at play and thought, “they could become serial killers.“ What does it look like when a serial killer can kill at industrial scale? 000
Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 08/10/2026(Sings in Joe Cocker voice): You are so beautiful…to me 0122
Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 08/10/2026When we moved to Philly from a 700-population town in SW PA, culture shock was intense. All the accents, languages, faces, colors, were scary & disorienting at first. 22 years later, we moved to a very white, homogenous rural area. Suddenly all those accents & colors gone…it was so sad and lifeless. 140
Reposted by RiggsvedaGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026And 175 years later, remains one of the most powerful forces in modern American politics. 171102294
Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I also don’t think people here realize how very, very, very, very, very much the rest of the world despises him. And here, even neighbors who have been the most godawful hardcore MAGAts have been taking their signs & flags down, or tucking them away in a corner of their yard where no one will notice 000
Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 08/10/2026“Rather than confirming the West’s smugness about its individual liberties and democracy compared to China, her book slowly builds to the disquieting conclusion that the crushing power of the Internet is steadily making the United States & China more like each other.” www.nybooks.com/articles/202...nybooks.comLet a Hundred Websites Bloom | Howard W. FrenchThe Internet and the smartphone have become formidable tools for the Chinese government to maintain tight control over society. 000
Reposted by RiggsvedaThe Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 07/10/2026This is seriously the "And then they came for me" of our cursed age. 310025
Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The same kind of thinking went into justifying the lynching of black men in the south, and everywhere else across time and space where men have used “protecting” women as a fig leaf for war and genocide. In WWII Germans & Russians raped their way back & forth from the fronts to “avenge” their own. 040
Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Gun lovers say a variation of this, too: “You don’t know anything about guns, so you can’t have an opinion.” Well, I don’t know much about internal combustion engines either, but I have a right to raise concerns about pollution, traffic dangers, & the vehicle designs that makes them worse. 4570
Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I’ve always been anti-death penalty, including public execution, but in Trump’s case I’d not only make an exception, I’d bring the snacks and gin. 010
Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This isn’t a statement easily mischaracterized. If I said let an enemy nation take out Canada, no Canadian would try to parse it into a harmless misapprehension. Trump‘s repeatedly proclaimed & acted on his hate for “Dem” places. He doesn’t see us as human. It’s foolish for folks to refuse to see it 010
Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I don’t know if your read Sulzberger's long love song of an editorial to his Precious on its 125th anniversary, but so far from being any kind of reassessment of its errors, it fairly crowed with hubris. The rot begins at the head and always has. 020
Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Our taxes builds concentration camps, terrorize “undesirables”, disappear people, let old men freeze to death, legalize torture, support a leader who lives like a cartel boss & a gov’t that brainwashes us into embracing Nazi aspirations. His rallies still giggle at the exhilaration of it all. 000
Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This audience! Morons, looking around at each other for clues how to react. Do they even know who lives in San Diego? Who cares? It’s not Dog Leg, Alabama, so have at it. And everyone knows Iranians don’t feel pain. They’re like Haitians! Don’t worry, John Yoo has a memo that’ll make all this legal. 100
Reposted by Riggsvedashauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 05/10/2026“every time someone is sleeping on a subway bench in a city, the rest of america can sort of say ‘ugh, look at these cities.’ but we are holding a lot of your people who you failed to love and take care of.” 👏 👏 👏 461931438
Reposted by RiggsvedaPhiladelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 05/10/2026Philly’s best sandwich lacks a consensus recipe. Assemble your own Italian Hoagie and help us define it.inquirer.comPlain or seeded roll? Mild or sharp provolone? Help us decide the canonical Italian Hoagie 151
Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 05/10/2026But but but the Ballroom! The Memorial Arch! The Concrete Ex-Rose Garden! The War! The Other War! The Secret Police! The Meme Coins! The Musk Contracts! The Voter Bribes! The Space Academy! The Concentration Camps! There’s just so much we can do when we don’t have to feed those lazy brats! 000
Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I guess it’s all about who Altman defines as “people”, and what “agency” he’s referencing. Given the psychopathic worldview of these Masters of the Universe, it feels like my family and I won’t be among those “people”. 010
Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Every time I get judgmental about one of Trump’s cult, there’s a twinge of guilt that I’m so unforgiving. Then this kind of crawly thing comes out from under a rock. Fuck this this guy even more. bsky.app/profile/mari... 010
Reposted by RiggsvedaMichael Bérubé @michael-berube.bsky.social · 14/05/2026I wrote about academic freedom and democracy for the Pittsburgh Review of Books, but I didn't say the usual things you would expect a person to say about academic freedom and democracy. I said other things instead. Hence the title of the essay! tinyurl.com/2skc3aum Thanks to Ed Simon for the gig.pghrev.comSome Counterintuitive Things about Academic Freedom and Democracy - Pittsburgh Review of BooksEveryone knows, or else should know, that there is an intimate relationship between the state of academic freedom and the health of a democracy. Judith Butler 1205
Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 04/10/2026He *should* be haunted. He and every other voter who took away that man’s hope and dreams when they put Hitler in the driver’s seat should be tormented all the rest of their lives by the hell they unleashed through their own careless hate. 120
Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 04/10/2026All the more reason to humiliate and crush their mentor, and render him an eternal laughingstock. 010
Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 04/10/2026As he illegally bribes voters in plain sight, the question isn’t just how cheaply he thinks he can buy us off (answer: very) but WHY hasn’t the $2B Medicare fund for improving hospital & insurance care been used for that purpose since it was created in 2008? share.inquirer.com/SFrCqshare.inquirer.comTrump announces plan to send $90 payments to millions of seniorsThe White House said the one-time payments would be drawn from a fund set up to improve Medicare. 020
Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 03/10/2026When your government has gone so completely teenage boy that you can’t tell the difference between an official US account and the rat’s ass bootlicker trolling put out by the reactionary sophomore son of your local car dealer. 010
Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Just discovered this account and am dying out here. And btw, BBC, “tallest”? Are cucumbers monopeds? 000
Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“…a little people, a silly people. Greedy, barbarous, and cruel.” --Lawrence of Arabia 000
