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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2h

It is quite something that we’re entering year four of “is racism making the public dislike these crimes against humanity” while Neo Nazis advise on antiracism, the press debate whether black peoole can be English and MPs talk about being terrified transgenders might attack their elderly relatives.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 16m

Sacre bleu! Le fuck around et découvrir

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Presumably there is a large constituency in
France receptive to this. Alarming
French Aid to Europe I
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Marine Le Pen has said that she is ready to travel to Kyiv to inform President
Zelenskyy that she intends to cut aid to
Ukraine.

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BK? @whitesox.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I wolde smyte my lord out on thre piches. Slider withoute. He feleth as he were drenchid. Curveball in the erthe, of cours he chaseth it. Ladybird y-souk, sle thy-self. And bang 97 withinne corner. Thou art out. Thou were alweyes out. Thou hast be out sith the day that thou were born.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I mean, look: this stuff is the lib equivalent of that “We can’t give aid abroad while our people are hungry/Can I have some food/Fuck off” cartoon. Money cut from pensions will be money cut, it’s not going to a care service or to improve the lot of young people. It’s just cuts, and bullshit.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Outstanding new review of ALL of the currently available DNA evidence for the peopling of the Americas, led by Bethany Potter (and the amazing @jenniferraff.bsky.social!): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 21/09/2026

i say insanely terrible because if you think the bluesky or mastodon userbase is inclined to be more annoying on average imagine how bad it is if you self select for people who learned morse code

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I repeat here that it was very obvious in the 2000s and 2010s that the Israeli public were being aggressively prepped for The Day Of Vengeance, when men of will would Do What Must Be Done, and our politicians and media outlets unified to scream filthy abuse at everyone who warned this was bad.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I've spent a lot of years studying a lot of collapses, and the truth of the matter is that they're always mundane: mild climatic shifts that reduce crop yields, a dumbass in power who makes some terrible decisions, neglecting things that obviously matter but the will to fix them can't be summoned.

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Aya @melangell.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Also, the willingness of mainstream institutions to give far-right forces political space should not automatically be interpreted as neutral commitment to ~pluralism~ or ~free debate~. Genuinely anti-capitalist movements have historically faced censorship and repression.

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Donald Trump has ordered the death of every firstborn son in blue states *putting hands on my hips and making a shitty face* instead of helping lower gas prices for the middle class

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Aya @melangell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Layman’s: an Iranian American could travel to Iran to see family and then potentially violate U.S. sanctions simply by buying a domestic plane ticket to travel from one Iranian city to another. Something as ordinary as flying across the country can now carry legal risk under U.S. law.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

John C. Calhoun wasn't a conservative; he was a radical. Stephen Miller isn't a conservative; he's a radical. "Tradition" isn't a real thing that once existed and we can go back to, or something worth conserving, but an imaginary place that they'll destroy the current world to create.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Realizing the extent to which this is true wildly changed my opinions about how to deal with Trumpism, since they're never going to be satisfied unless they're actively dominating everyone else. You can't give them some concessions and go back to the status quo: they're reactionary revolutionaries.

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Aya @melangell.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I think it would be cool if someone working this hard for someone else could get some help? And if not direct help, then a measly retweet?

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

my guy saying Baysian Priors in the first sentence of a Shakespeare review and assuming I'm listening to anything else is what we in the business call magical realism

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I can exclusively report at this time that Maria Bartiromo was NOT fired by Fox News for violating the network's "do not obviously be loaded on camera" policy. "That policy does not exist," a network source tells me, "and it never will."

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"If you put them in a toga and have them eating proper food and speaking Latin, you're Roman, simple as. Start dressing and eating like a barbarian, you're a barbarian." That's essentially the Roman approach to ethnic identity. It doesn't map onto modern categories in any meaningful way.

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Chaz Stein @charlottestein.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The reason JKR is suddenly saying more and more “moderate” seeming things is not because her views are “moderate”, you daft shits. It’s because she is registering that her extremely overtly transphobic points are now making her very unpopular.

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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 24/08/2026

Almost exactly a year ago, I lost my job and sent a bunch of people this email. I had no idea what was going to happen. But today, we've built Ravenous, and we're offering 25% off subscriptions for the next month www.weareravenous.com/feed-the-bir...

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Because I've spent a lot of time in the paleogenomics space, I've been watching this new iteration of race science develop in real time over the past 15 or so years (same guys, in a lot of cases). I was really hoping it would disappear on its own, but we're really gonna have to fight this battle.

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Aya @melangell.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

"I’m not talking because every time I talk, blood comes out of my mouth and makes my dress dirty, and I don’t want my mom to have to clean it” is the last thing Hind Rajab said to the paramedics before Israel shot the car she was in 355 times.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 19/08/2026

"are texas christian nationalists forcing kids to read the bible to give them a thorough education in classical western letters or are they doing it to indoctrinate kids into their fascist death cult" seems like an easy question to answer

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

if you gave a lady who was the historical model for a trad wife a time machine and five grand buddy they are OUT of there

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End Political Homelessness Now @raaleh.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

It may have cost a lot of money, but at least right leaning voters are now more satisfied than they were before about immigrant numbers.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 09/07/2026

oh, you guys didn't mean popular with voters?

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 07/07/2026

the best way to avoid Mean Posters taking victory laps on your timeline going "nyyah, nyyyahh, told you so!" when the Blackwater mercenary with the Nazi tattoo has his monthly sex scandal was going "hmm, don't think I'll defend this guys Nazi tattoo" when the picture was first made public simple

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 06/07/2026

challenging to phrase this exactly right because it'd be in bad taste to use this as a gotcha against all his supporters, but the journalists who very explicitly framed Platner as a rejection of stuff like "HR Lady Politics" or (ugh) "smoothgroins" should take a long, hard, look in the mirror today

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

This is an explanation, not an excuse or justification, but there are so many white-collar men who - whenever they're interacting with men who code as more grimily masculine - will accept social transgressions, comments, and general shittiness that would never fly otherwise.

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I think it's a moral abomination for Ezra Klein to have Chris Rufo on his podcast and then get a transcript of it published in The New York Times as if this is a conversation between equals and not a radical centrist and a fascist telling each other 'exaaaaactlyyyy'

Another argument you make in that piece is: “The popular slogan that ‘facts don’t care about your feelings’ betrays similar problems” — the slogan being Ben Shapiro’s.
In reality, feelings almost always overpower facts. Reason is a slave of the passions.

Yes, that’s true, and we’ll caveat — we love Ben Shapiro. We’re Ben Shapiro fans, of course. But I think that he’s very wrong on that, and I think conservatives have made a fundamental error in latching on to that.

And really, what it is — it’s a rationalization for losing. It’s like: Yes, we may have lost the great political question that operates on emotions or passions, but we have the facts on our side, and if only people would read our white paper, our regression analysis or our rigorous logical argumentation, then we would be vindicated.

But look, while we should have the facts on our side, and while we should use logic, by itself, it’s insufficient. And, in fact, politics operates on a deeper level, an emotional level. And politics occurs on the field of sentiment and public opinion — much more on the field of abstract argumentation at the top.

Then you go on in the same piece to make an argument for “agitprop” — an old Soviet Union term for agitation and propaganda mashed up together.

It doesn’t have a great reputation — “agitprop” is usually not a term of endearment. But you say: “Agitprop doesn’t mean sacrificing the truth but, rather, channeling the truth toward victory.”

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

We all would've seen Trump coming better if we'd fully understood the insane grievances of the American right, like the New Deal, passing Civil Rights, holding Nixon accountable for breaking the law, and not letting Robert Bork be on the Supreme Court. Imagine being animated by these things.

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👻 “Frightening” IrishOutsider 👻 @irishoutsider.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

If the Matt is Taibbi, just scroll past, habibi

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rob @ok-but-still.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

detective: you're a sick son of a bitch, you know it? that bird was your friend of 10, 12 years and you drop a big fuckin boulder on him. wile e. coyote: i swear to god man i didn't think it was gonna work. it never works. oh god. detective: nevada's a death penalty state.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

As I said in, what, 2019: a certain kind of Sensible Moderate is going to get dragged away to a black van in the night by the Generalissimo’s thugs, screaming “you don’t understand officers, I’m not *that* type of progressive”.

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

[sigh] yeah that’s an SEC couple

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Why yes, I consider myself part of the Proehletariat.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

One of the most psychotic legal proposals I've ever seen

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Neil Webber @larpsidekick.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Bad : that this rubbish is going around again Good: I get to share this excellent history by @bretdevereaux.bsky.social acoup.blog/2025/07/11/c... It’s long but in depth and shows really well the amount of work it took to survive for the vast vast majority of people in the past.

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Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part I: Households

This is the first post in a series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc, IVd,IVe, V) discussing the basic contours of life – birth, marriage, labor, subsistence, death – of pre-modern peas…

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

i think that babies should have to file tax returns under penalty of law. hear more on my daily video series And I Can’t Even! that costs $8,000 to produce per episode and that people have only ever seen by accident

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

My new book, Lost Worlds, is out today! It tells a new story about how humanity went from hunting and gathering to the cusp of "civilization" that incorporates all of the stunning new archaeological work of the past couple of decades. I'm really proud of it! www.harpercollins.com/products/los...

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"Wyman evokes the sights, sounds and smells of entire lifeways that have disappeared….Lost Worlds convinces us of the value of slowing down to recogniz...

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Louis Redux @louisredux.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

FFS Right: 1) LLMs hallucinate and are/can be trained on biased datasets. 2) Like anyone or anything that summarises a subject without the capacity to understand it in an expert sense, an expert still has to do the work of checking the summary. This ain't the time saver it's promised to be. 1/n

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Probably a long shot but putting up the Archaeology Bat Signal: Does anyone know of any bioarchaeological work published in English on the Tarim Basin mummies, specifically from the Xiaohe Cemetery in Xinjiang? Almost everything is in Chinese and I don't even know where to begin with that field.

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ceej @ceej.online · 26/04/2026

LAWYER: The shooter shared your post: “Bugs Bunny is a two-pump chump. I’d show Lola how to smash ‘Animal Style!’” What did you mean by that? ME: That Bugs Bunny cums fast. LAWYER: He lacks sexual prowess? ME: Yes. LAWYER: Did you consider that posting something this inflammatory might be dangerous?

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

It’s real! It’s really real! Preorder at the link in my bio right now, it’s good, I promise!

Patrick wyman holding a copy of Lost Worlds

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KAFUI 🇬🇭 @mykafuiohkafui.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Mamdani: If the NYC apartment you keep solely for bi-yearly affairs with your mistress costs over 5 million dollars, you gotta pay more tax NYPD officer who’s been on disability since 2006 because he stomped too hard on a lady during an arrest and fucked up his ankle: This is a travesty

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

There's a sense in which I respect the evangelical leaders who unhesitatingly lined up behind the idea that President Pedophile B. Antichrist, the libertine looting and burning the world every day, is god's manifestation on earth. You have to rework your brain and moral sense so much to get there.

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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I don’t think people around the world realize how bad the attack on Lebanon was today. It’s BAD. Like 9/11 BAD. Hospitals are overflowing and do not have enough blood. We still don’t know what the death toll is. This is TERRORISM. Pure and Simple. April 8. Never forget.

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

LinkedIn: He rose to grind again. What Easter taught me about B2B sales.

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