Reposted by SamosæBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 20/04/2026All across the country, radical Dems and avowed socialists are sweeping primaries and elections, as voters realize that Blue No Matter Who will doom them to eternal torment in the Manchin-Synematic Universe: prospect.org/2026/02/11/p... 54/prospect.orgProgressive Win in New Jersey Hinged on Anti-ICE Organizing - The American ProspectAnalilia Mejia won a close congressional primary race by preparing constituents for encounters with ICE. She warned that the agency’s surveillance technology needs more attention. 1505
Reposted by SamosæBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 20/04/2026Trump is succeeding where Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and AOC failed: he's making the case for Democrats to defenestrate their useless, sellout, Epstein-poisoned leaders. 53/ 17414
Reposted by SamosæBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 20/04/2026The fortunes fossil fuel companies are reaping from this shortage is their last windfall. The writing is on the wall. Trump opened Alaska for drilling and oil companies noped out because they couldn't find banks to would loan them the money to get started. It happened again in Venezuela. 39/ 38519
Reposted by SamosæBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 20/04/2026When the oil-captured Texas leg introduced a bill to force electric companies to add a watt of fossil power for every watt of solar their customers installed, furious ranchers from blood red GOP rural districts flooded their town hall meetings, decrying the plan as "DEI for fossil fuels." 36/ 18914
Reposted by SamosæBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 20/04/2026Now Australia has so much solar that they're *giving away electricity*, with three free hours of unlimited energy every day. Stick your dishwasher, clothes-dryer and EV charger on a timer, invest in a battery or two, and fill your boots: billmckibben.substack.com/p/free-elect... 29/billmckibben.substack.comFree Electricity. Like, at no cost. For everyone. Now.Let's talk about affordability, abundance, and Australia--and why thanks to Trump we can't have nice things 418062
Reposted by SamosæBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 20/04/2026The advantages of an ebike commute over a car commute are legion, but my favorite little pleasure is the ability to easily make a stop at a nice coffee shop halfway between home and work, rather than being stuck buying shitty chain coffee near the office. 20/ 1856
Reposted by SamosæBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 20/04/2026But, thanks to Comrade Trump, Pakistan was *first* in line to become the world's solar capital. The country's LNG terminal - built with Chinese Belt-and-Road money - is now a stranded asset, because no one there needs gas. 10/ 19015
Reposted by SamosæBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 20/04/2026Pakistani bridal dowries now routinely include four panels, an inverter and a battery: billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-... This is an inversion of the normal order, in which rich countries get all the good stuff first, and countries like Pakistan get scraps after we've gorged ourselves. 9/billmckibben.substack.comA Tale of Two CountriesTwo superpowers, one behaving pathetically 218845
Reposted by SamosæBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 20/04/2026Pakistani solar installers learned their trade from Tiktok videos set to Tamil film soundtracks, and unwired the country so thoroughly that today, the national power company is in danger of going bust because no one buys their electricity from the grid anymore. 8/ 215430
Reposted by SamosæBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 20/04/2026This was really bad for America, of course, but those solar panels had to go *somewhere*. Mostly, they ended up in Pakistan, dumped there at such a massive discount that the country solarized virtually overnight. 7/ 110614
Samosæ @samosae.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Kash slow-rolling T••••’s fake cases like Biden / Garland slow-rolled T••••’s J6 prosecution, both had dead-simple photo proof 001
Samosæ @samosae.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Indian-type designer Erin McLaughlin’s fun IG www.instagram.com/erin_type 000
Reposted by SamosæBaptiste Lerak @baptistelerak.bsky.social · 29/04/2026"The last time we put Republicans in power, they made gas juice 10$ a gallon" is the kind of stuff that might as well be designed in a lab to absolutely obliterate the low-info, low-propensity coalition the GOP has relied on for most of the Trump era. 1121
Samosæ @samosae.bsky.social · 29/04/2026A Scots-German and a European Jew cosplaying as a failed empire, on the semiquincentennial of us overthrowing it: bone-deep losers 000
Reposted by SamosæChris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Even if a $18,000 BYD car is sending data back to Shenzhen I don’t really care because by that point I’ll be in the Chinese Car Hackers Discord channel sharing PCBs that prevent it from doing that along with 3D printing STLs of cup holders in the shape of Luffy from One Piece. 192440286
Samosæ @samosae.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Half the T••••ers I know don’t follow the news at all, to the point where they don’t know what a “Bibi” is. The other half only absorb it from right-wing middlemen. All are info-lazy, never seeking original sources. 000
Samosæ @samosae.bsky.social · 29/04/2026T•••• inevitably f—g over the sheikhs who fund his lifestyle is so very funny, he’s a fable made real. Shitass Midas 000
Samosæ @samosae.bsky.social · 29/04/2026We’re gonna end up with a T•••• toll on top of the IRGC toll, lol www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/trump… 000
Reposted by SamosæZach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 28/04/2026One thing the Kimmel incident, the Comey incident, and the ballroom obsession have in common is that they're all things I might do if I were an old man freaking out about reminders of my own death. 623934
Samosæ @samosae.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Altman: We trained too heavily on the fantasy-novel corpus 000
Reposted by SamosæOzmodiar, Space Elf @ozmodiar.bsky.social · 28/04/2026The suffering of the Gulf states is the only redeeming feature of this whole mess. 1986
Samosæ @samosae.bsky.social · 29/04/2026They don’t even care about the US economy, why would they care about anyone else’s 030
Reposted by Samosæhammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Has anyone asked the Saudi royal family how they feel about losing their entire national income for six months and what that’s gonna do to the professional golf circuit and jareds sovereign wealth investments 1453542
Reposted by Samosæae @aelkus.bsky.social · 27/04/2026when danger occurs the secret service cannot get the principal out quickly because he is too old and infirm to move but refuses to allow them to use a wheelchair or a stretcher. the entire thing is this giant stack of pretenses 120115
Reposted by Samosæae @aelkus.bsky.social · 27/04/2026the guest of honor at the gala is a declining old man (the president) that is incredibly unpopular and barely awake. the people at the gala are members of a declining institution (mainstream journalism) that want to suck up to him and will claim after he disappears that they were actually rebels 126825
Reposted by Samosæae @aelkus.bsky.social · 27/04/2026you couldn’t really find a more apt metaphor for elite politics in Trump II. Something absolutely crazy occurs, there is a momentary burst of panic, and then the people present at the gala go back and pretend like nothing happens. the gala itself is an attempt to paper over crazy 101514272
Samosæ @samosae.bsky.social · 29/04/2026WHCD runner may have fired, but it may also have been Sec Svc hitting Sec Svc www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/us/polit… 000
Samosæ @samosae.bsky.social · 29/04/2026“… Now what can I do to get you into a nice sequined number” They even got his skin tone right 000
Samosæ @samosae.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Re: radicalized centrists. “Is Preet Bharara gonna have to choke a b—?” 000
Samosæ @samosae.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Dems’ Loser Protection Agency 🤝 T••••’s whole thing www.wsj.com/business/autos/house-la… 000
Samosæ @samosae.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Next, the ghost of Meat Loaf addresses CIA on the Ukraine war 000
Samosæ @samosae.bsky.social · 29/04/2026More of Elon’s transparent grandiose woo, but I assume he’s beseeching the judge for a loss since Musk ❤️️ destroying charities 000
Samosæ @samosae.bsky.social · 29/04/2026GOP slavishly follow T•••• because even before politics they aspire to landing a no-show lickspittle job via connections to a small biz tyrant’s idiot failson. T•••• is no downgrade 000
Samosæ @samosae.bsky.social · 29/04/2026The 1990 sequel is supposedly Orientalist about Arabs—flying carpet tale, hooked noses, etc. 000
Samosæ @samosae.bsky.social · 29/04/2026“Howl’s Moving Castle,” the original book: Clever, engaging, reminiscent of “The Wizard of Oz” with a scarecrow come to life. Like a lot of YA, sunny tone, never gets dark. Always love space-folding / magic zippers / portals. 100
Samosæ @samosae.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Dubya abusing a crisis: Let’s invade some random country over a petty beef T•••• abusing a crisis: Let’s look faaabulous and say it’s nat sec 000
Samosæ @samosae.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Interesting comparing Riz jilt Ophelia (Morfydd Clark) vs. Ethan Hawke’s version with Julia Stiles. 000
Samosæ @samosae.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Memorable scenes: The ghost of Hamlet’s father demanding revenge in Shakespearean lines translated to Hindi. Riz slaying Polonius (Tim Spall) and dragging his bloody body into a wedding warehouse next to a row of Ganesha murthis. A Ravana / Kali Ma dance as the play accusing his uncle of murder. 100
Samosæ @samosae.bsky.social · 29/04/2026“Hamlet” (2025): Riz Ahmed’s style is restrained, usually comes off flat; but here he acts his ass off as a princeling in mental anguish, finally deciding upon revenge. 100
Samosæ @samosae.bsky.social · 29/04/2026“Michael”: Bad / sanitized biopic, electric concert film with MJ’s nephew who can really hit the moves. Whole movie should’ve been the scene of perfectionist Mike developing the dance routines. Leaving out the you-know-what is very sus. 000
Samosæ @samosae.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Ever see an AI dunk *not* so dumb, it causes psychic damage? Most of these are inarticulate howls by someone who thinks they’re going to lose their job, their investment in a law degree, etc. 000
Samosæ @samosae.bsky.social · 29/04/2026More voters foregoing passports → more GOP, smart ;) apnews.com/article/pass...apnews.comUS will issue commemorative passports with Trump’s picture for America's 250th birthdayThe State Department says it's preparing a limited release of commemorative U.S. passports celebrating America’s 250th birthday and featuring a picture of President Donald Trump. 000
Samosæ @samosae.bsky.social · 29/04/2026When I see a car behind me wanting to turn right, I move forward into the crosswalk. Some take the turn, some wait. Still learning the folkways 000
