Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.social"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Notably, we seem to have avoided those price highs by drawing down basically every kind of inventory to eye-wateringly low levels. Those inventories will need to be rebuilt and until they are, the ability to weather an additional shock is very minimal. 1142369
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.social"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 26/05/2026-1 stability. 1744232
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.socialLuke Bones 🦴🦴 @lukemeister.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Dude really wants to be excommunicated 1972
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.socialJohn Bull @garius.bsky.social · 22/08/2024Alongside "who built Hadrian's wall?", another great example of knowledge falling foul of 'common understanding' is scurvy. The Royal Navy discovered the cure for scurvy, won the Napoleonic War, humanity then lost that knowledge without realising, then got saved by two Norwegian guinea pigs 🧵 /1 621657645
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.socialMathijs van de Sande 🟥🔻 @mathijsvandesande.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Ik zie heel veel videos van Gidi. Met in het bijschrift verontwaardiging, inderdaad. Maar we moeten ons realiseren dat verontwaardiging onderdeel is van zijn strategie, want die maken wel dat we zijn beelden en woorden telkens weer delen. 1173
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.socialMaaike @maaikeverbruggen.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Check out what i got 2221
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.socialMarieke Kuypers @marieke.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Far right violence against asylum seekers in the Netherlands. After a fire was started near the municipal building that currently housed 15 asylum seekers, far right protesters attacked police and obstructed firefighters. Fortunately, eventually the fire was put out. nos.nl/artikel/2614...nos.nlBrandstichting bij noodopvang Loosdrecht, betogers houden brandweer tegenAgenten die het vuur probeerde te blussen werden bekogeld. De ME is ingezet om de orde te herstellen. 813278
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.socialCold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 13/05/2026From the 1950s - 1970s the #coldwar #Swedish #Army was going to tow its troops into position behind a tractor! One soldier on the trailer indicates to the soldiers on bicycles which turn would be made and a long rope with a grip for each to hold on to... 0133
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.socialWhittmann @whittmann.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Some cookie banners feel like they're doing malicious compliance. If a user has already opted out, trying to funnel them back into accepting cookies through confusing UX is not an accident. 2173
superstrijder15.bsky.social @superstrijder15.bsky.social · 02/05/2026I studied data science and some classes were heavy on the "you learn methods here and then learn domain specific things to work with at a job". And that works well when the domain specific thing is "we make water so a temperature reading of 200 degrees is wrong" 1/? 100
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.social"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 01/05/2026It does seem like a lot of the business analysts are refusing to recognize that the logic of war is rather different than the logic of markets and this is, in fact, a war - however indirectly waged at the moment. 'How long will the war last' - well the mean war duration is more than a year. 10817134
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Okay this isn’t really happening anymore so I can tell you how l had “internal ICE sources”: the 3000 very stir-crazy ICE agents were all going wild on Minneapolis Tinder. Local girls would match with them and string them along for intel. They loved to brag about what they were doing all day 885546971
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.social"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Obviously a made up number but exciting implications for WTI and Brent front-month if true! 42079
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.socialRafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 06/04/2026i think pretty much constantly about the scene in seven samurai where the villagers are eating millet because they need to save the beautiful delicious white rice for the samurai they want to hire. then i eat white rice and i feel like a king and i also feel a very great and deep sadness 621221
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.socialOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/04/2026some people you can recruit, other people you have to simply defeat. politics makes more sense when you accept this 514146774
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.socialBruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 07/04/2026Can’t believe I’m expected to generate 0.00001% of a culture point today while all this bullshit is going on 0122
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.socialLouis @louisevans.bsky.social · 08/04/2026a fun law fact is that the crime of "assault" is not actually hitting, but threatening to hit. "battery" is hitting. that's why you hear "assault and battery" together so often. the threat is the crime because it's the threat, not the hitting, that breaks another's will. much to ponder. 1254
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.socialSpookMind: The Cortex of Fear @itsphetz.bsky.social · 08/04/2026after months of torturing me with awful genAI cointracker ads, reddit has rewarded my patience with The Good Stuff 1422
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.socialBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 05/04/2026I will write authentic Chinese fortune cookies using the 三世書 system. 'In your previous life you were a corrupt official in Henan. You will die aged 45 of the flux, and in your next life you will be a charcoal gatherer in Shaanxi.' 419921
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.socialMatt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 08/04/2026i fully support treating the cops like a distressed asset in need of PE restructuring. 412010
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.socialJen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 08/04/2026A thing that bothers me as a rhetoric scholar who studies propaganda, the public sphere, & democracy is the way that propaganda eliminates or frustrates the public’s ability to do sense-making. It’s hard to know what to think when no one else does either & there aren’t common facts. 711828
superstrijder15.bsky.social @superstrijder15.bsky.social · 08/04/2026I go to an event with a bunch of friends in the summer each year and it's the best. Quite some people take their partner by now but luckily there are yet more people. 020
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.socialMaaike @maaikeverbruggen.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Block US military activity from all EU ground man, and close US bases while we are at it. no taking off, no intelligence sharing, no refilling, no transit stops for arms to Israel and US bases overseas we will allow you to off-load your casualties for humanitarian reasons and that is it 318047
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.socialMaaike @maaikeverbruggen.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Dutch weather services are hosting a contest to submit storm names! Netherlands, Ireland and the UK share a storm name system together :) north sea pals gotta stick together 03010
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.socialMaaike @maaikeverbruggen.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Open the borders! Everyone is welcome in The Hague! 5779
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.socialGareth Edwards @garethmedwards.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Never interrupt your mistakes when you’re making enemies. 25313
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.socialBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 08/04/2026The famous Andor line is that "tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle." Here is a perfect example of that through malicious compliance: Idaho forced the city of Boise to remove its Pride flags. So the city painted rainbows everywhere else.idahostatesman.comBoise took its Pride flag down. But new art has popped up at City Hall. What it cost“The flag is not our only form of expression,” a Council Member previously said. 6097062711
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.socialJane @janehop.bsky.social · 07/04/2026I wonder if history will have anything to say about the fact that Congress decided to stay out on vacation while the US president threatened to start WWIII. And, of course, our vp is out campaigning for an autocrat in another country. No fiction book would ever try to make up such idiocy 23710
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.socialTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 07/04/2026“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” -Trump Article III The following acts shall be punishable: (a) Genocide; (b) Conspiracy to commit genocide; (c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide; (d) Attempt to commit genocide; (e) Complicity in genocide. 15455122217
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.socialStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 07/04/2026I wish I could figure out how to “Don’t worry, the president is simply an impulsive sociopath with zero credibility“ became a reason for why it’s okay Trump is still in office and not a reason to remove him. 317327
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.socialLouis @louisevans.bsky.social · 01/02/2026one of the key motions of protest is that it places the adversary in zugzwang: either they abide the protest, and look weak, or attack the protest, and look cruel 101179192
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.socialRafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 17/01/2026I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this" 22109681911
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.social"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Oh neat, there's apparently another film treatment of the Battle of Drøbak Sound (youtu.be/ccz0EXDYg9E?...) and the sinking of the Blücher. Alas, as with the King's Choice (2016) it doesn't seem like they included Eriksen's incredible "Either I will be decorated or I will be court-martialed. Fire!"youtu.beThe sinking of Blücher - The Battle of Oslo (2025)YouTube video by ashton 1017318
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/11/2025NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office. 6228861330
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.socialFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 17/10/2025note that the white supremacist weirdos real obsessed with their masculine Nordic heritage never, ever dress as cool as this 1953188
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.socialSasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 12/07/2025The pilot is about him getting called out to a remote valley because a dispute is disrupting local trade. The inhabitants still think the Soviets are occupying Afghanistan, with one pro-Soviet and one pro-Muj. When brought up to date, they draw lots for which side to be on and go back to feuding. 2151
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.social"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 16/07/2025When the historians of centuries future assess 'American civilization,' and I think what I would want them to remember about us - a man on the moon, the internet, the defeat of the confederacy, Norman Borlaug, Norman Borlaug a second time for emphasis. And we beat the Nazis into the ground. 1226217
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.social"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 17/07/2025I love 'carpet bombing' footnotes - the sort where you supply not one, but a couple dozen examples from ancient sources to prove your point - perhaps most than I should. But they always make me smile. 102189
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.social"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 19/07/2025There's something really endearing about this or that quality of life mod for a game that the original author is long gone, but someone else dutifully updates the mod for each new version, almost invariably with a "I didn't make this, X made this, all credit to the author, will remove on request." 524312
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.social"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 21/07/2025All of which is to say, the folks longing for the return of old birth-hierarchies are both morally damaged - slavery and the society it sustained were bad - but also grown-ass adults basically running into the public square shouting, "I want to be a pretty pink prince/princess!" Sure you do. 727330
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.social"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Right now, inside Hegseth's phone, there's an MI5 guy, a GRU agent, a Chinese MSS hacker, a North Korean intelligence offer and, like, one guy from, like, Romanian military intelligence, all looking around confused. They see a new log on, expecting Hegseth, but its a hacker from Mexico's CNI. 1333581
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.social"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 11/04/2025This is the correct response for every university to take with the Trump administration, as the latest demand of a *consent decree* on Columbia demonstrates. They intend to kill you anyway. Do not cooperate. 544387
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.socialKitty (now Doggie Dog) @bathematician.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Sure Alan Turing may have been instrumental in winning a war against fascism but his real accomplishment was creating a national security justification for governments to shovel money into basic mathematics research 1171
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.social"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 19/03/2025So this is absolutely an attack on democracy, but I am struck by the sequencing, because it doesn't resemble - to me at least - the normal sequencing for an authoritarian takeover. But I think it makes sense given a conspiratorial and inaccurate view of where liberal support comes from. 1/ 281973487
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.socialPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 22/03/2025The literal genie is a very common trope: when you "make a wish" you get exactly what you wish for. This is one of the explicit limits on the spell Wish from D&D - often called the most powerful spell in the game because its effect is "make a wish and it comes true." (this is a thread about tech) 4413115
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.socialCharlotte Moore-Lambert @charlottereads.com · 22/03/2025being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data: 11666112496