Taisa Sganzerla @taisasganzerla.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Look, it's very simple: young men in Gaza or Yemen who pick up arms and call it jihad are products of decades of oppression and deserve our sympathy, but Syrians and Uyghurs who do the same thing are head-chopping bandits astroturfed into existence by the CIA and deserve nothing but annihilation 000
Reposted by Taisa Sganzerlaelia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible 25150283943
Reposted by Taisa SganzerlaMatthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 16/09/2026User i_love_femboys6969 is The Last Man 0161
Taisa Sganzerla @taisasganzerla.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Yes this goes hard but also -- the Filipino accent is the most soothing accent of the English language, no contest 011
Taisa Sganzerla @taisasganzerla.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Huge day for the pro-Malvinas crowd on this site, congrats on getting the one endorsement that will make the rest of us reconsider 211
Taisa Sganzerla @taisasganzerla.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I miss when people had normal, boring opinions such as "exercise and eating well help you live longer and happier" and "some people can't exercise or eat well because of their circumstances and that doesn't make them moral failures who deserve to die", and no one thought they contradicted each other 030
Taisa Sganzerla @taisasganzerla.bsky.social · 03/09/2026As a woman who is also a normal adult, I usually do not 1- treat my loved ones as circus monkeys for likes 2- pay attention to what teenagers are doing on the tik toks 052
Taisa Sganzerla @taisasganzerla.bsky.social · 01/09/2026My favorite iteration of this game is when they pretend there is no difference between a country that puts lgbt people to death as state policy and another where lgbt people can obtain some legal protection against a homophobic/transphobic population 110
Taisa Sganzerla @taisasganzerla.bsky.social · 15/08/2026A decade ago I met someone who did their PhD on why climate denialism never took root on Wikipedia. Even now that fact alone still impresses me. After all these years, no single bad actor has managed to instrumentalise it (unlike Wikileaks for example). It's the biggest achievement of the Web 2.0. 020
Taisa Sganzerla @taisasganzerla.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Men really should ask themselves whether this is a price worth paying 0104
Taisa Sganzerla @taisasganzerla.bsky.social · 12/08/2026This, and I am very grateful to my past self for not turning social media into a career which would have condemned me to be forever trapped in a place I now can barely stand 110
Reposted by Taisa SganzerlaTuring Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴 @dov.bsky.social · 11/08/2026by the way it should also be pointed out that in actual fact american government policy re: ukraine is /already/ what the isolationists claim to want, idk how this has not caused massive shift changes in the discourse yet 630245
Taisa Sganzerla @taisasganzerla.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Said interview is painful to watch. I obsess over tiny details if I have to write on any topic, it's simply insane to me that someone would speak for an organisation with thousands of members, on an issue that org has pretty much made its omnicause, without bothering to learn the most basic facts. 000
Reposted by Taisa SganzerlaSven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Ivan Danilenkov, FSB's officer currently "on duty" at the russian embassy to Canada. Destroyed Ukrainian flag colored blue-yellow balloons an the embassy gates. But Canadian trolling game is too strong and next day installment is much funnier. Ty 🇨🇦 1628180
Reposted by Taisa SganzerlaBill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Left-wing writer visits China, 1960: my government sponsored tour assured me that workers have strong protections and good healthcare! Left-wing influencer visits China, 2020s: everything is so cheap there! 869181
Taisa Sganzerla @taisasganzerla.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I think that about 10-15 years ago too many people of my generation went through some kind of intellectual awakening via Zizek/Mark Fisher/Adam Curtis and proceeded to try their hand at cultural criticism, with results that have not always been, let's put it that way, an unqualified success 081
Reposted by Taisa SganzerlaMatthew Bradford @matthewbradford.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Hoisted by their own historical petard. ‘Amid unwanted chatter about the significance of 1644, the film’s positioning of Qing conquerors as heroes of national unity has been problematized by a countervailing narrative casting those same conquerors as illegitimate outsiders’.open.substack.comTaiwan Conquest Film ShelvedA Chinese blockbuster dramatizing the 17th-century Qing conquest of Taiwan has been abruptly postponed. Why are China’s authorities so uneasy about a film that was meant to celebrate “unification”? 29238
Reposted by Taisa SganzerlaBrett Fujioka @brettfujioka.bsky.social · 01/08/2026I think that I once opined that there isn't anything analogous in U.S. history to the inter service rivalries in Japan. But I've also said that the current administration is more comparable to Imperial Japan than other Quasi-Totalitarian States. cc: @sharonk.bsky.social @aelkus.bsky.social 15507114
Taisa Sganzerla @taisasganzerla.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Many of the prescriptions here are naïve and far less minimal than the authors suggest, but that doesn't make the question pointless. I'll be the first to say that the much of the global south often idealizes multipolarity, but romanticising the American-led order is equally unhelpful. 010
Reposted by Taisa SganzerlaAlexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 30/07/2026It would be a profound historical irony if instead of turning the Houthis into something more like the IRGC the Iranian regime's growing involvement in Yemen would parallel the IRGC becoming more like the Houthis. 2476
Reposted by Taisa SganzerlaChenchen Zhang 🤦🏻♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 26/07/2026sigh. pathetic but entirely on brand with most of the political commentary content on e.g. bilibili, where the belittling of Southeast Asia is normalized, but also this particular trope: they act entirely according to their "western masters" and have no agency. this kind of content is profitable 14412
Reposted by Taisa SganzerlaJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Reminder that some leftists were upset that Mayor Mamdani disavowed this person and called her "reprehensible," rather than expending political capital defending her. 420642
Taisa Sganzerla @taisasganzerla.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Fun fact: I know intelligent, progressive, highly educated Brazilians who genuinely and fully believe Zelensky is a corrupt cocaine addict hiding billions of dollars in Miami 100
Taisa Sganzerla @taisasganzerla.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Yes and I's say that The Banshees of Inisherin was a bit of a pivotal moment in mainstream discourse around "therapy speak" as one of the first major films of this decade to explicitly address the moral costs of setting boundaries 010
Reposted by Taisa SganzerlaBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 19/07/2026for the first time ever in history, Argentineans are sore losers. 545444
Taisa Sganzerla @taisasganzerla.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Fun quiz. I scored 8/16 and most of my correct answers came in the second half because by then I'd realized that gender and race are much stronger predictors than people's views. 100
Taisa Sganzerla @taisasganzerla.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Lamine Yamal has the chance of doing something very funny tomorrow. 040
Reposted by Taisa SganzerlaSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Today's special at the Horseshoe Cafe. 1724436
Reposted by Taisa SganzerlaMatthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 17/07/2026I think the answer to the data center question is that - indeed, data centers are valuable for all sorts of things, not just AI, but at present data center construction is the only somewhat democratic veto point society has on the progress of AI, so people are exercising it 817623
Taisa Sganzerla @taisasganzerla.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Lol should be kicked out of the tournament for that, viva España 030
Taisa Sganzerla @taisasganzerla.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Also not a hot take: Britain is/was on the right in all territorial disputes in Latin America (Falklands, Essequibo and Belize) 000
Taisa Sganzerla @taisasganzerla.bsky.social · 15/07/2026The British claim over the Falklands is stronger than the Argentinian claim over Patagonia and this isn't even a "hot take" 010
Taisa Sganzerla @taisasganzerla.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Yes, unlike Argentinians, who famously trace their ancestry there for millenia. 000
Taisa Sganzerla @taisasganzerla.bsky.social · 13/07/2026The anti-rearmament argument is basically this: "Insurance is a bad economic deal. Just make sure nothing bad ever happens". 0170
Reposted by Taisa SganzerlaMatthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 11/07/2026The fact that ‘settlers’ can detain foreign dignitaries would be the sign of a failed state except if the settlers are the state 11631111
Taisa Sganzerla @taisasganzerla.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Clearly his career as a Syria "expert" has run its course so time to pivot to the next grift. 040
Reposted by Taisa Sganzerla☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 11/07/2026people misuse the word tankie a lot but to me theres only ever been one unchanging definition, its original: blue lives matter guy for communist or nominally communist countries. Also the people who want to fuck Thomas the tank engine so I guess two definitions 2244044
Reposted by Taisa SganzerlaKatherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 09/07/2026The compromise I'm willing to make here is calling them Strasserites: but that requires understanding that this is a disease specific *to* the left: hating liberals more than fascists, obsessed with defeating liberalism, while believing an alliance with "working-class" fascist fans is possible. 36633171
Taisa Sganzerla @taisasganzerla.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Anyway, can't wait to support the very oppressed nation of Belgium against their former Spanish colonizers 000
Taisa Sganzerla @taisasganzerla.bsky.social · 08/07/2026I'm more upset about Egypt than about Brazil and I'm not even kidding 120
Taisa Sganzerla @taisasganzerla.bsky.social · 06/07/2026One silver lining of Brazil getting kicked out of the World Cup is that Brazil memes/posting immediately improved. Personally I'll take self-deprecating thirdworldism (such as exhibit A below) any day over this cringe decolonial larping of supporting the very based decolonial nations of... Morocco? 120
Reposted by Taisa SganzerlaMatthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Birthright citizenship is going to be the new Roe v Wade in the sense that Democrats need to win more elections than they lose in perpetuity to protect it, because Republicans are not making the mistake of appointing another Justice who will uphold it, ever 461822419
Reposted by Taisa SganzerlaNevin Thompson @nevint.bsky.social · 30/06/2026🇯🇵🐻🧵 Thread w/ news stories about bear attacks in Japan. It's a relatively new news topic. 25 years ago I hiked the hills of Fukui, Kyoto. Bears were around but were not a national menace. Now, Enivro ministry has installed 800 bear cameras nationwide! www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAJ2...youtube.com環境省 クマ個体数の調査開始 生息地に約800台のカメラ設置YouTube video by テレ東BIZ ダイジェスト 143
Taisa Sganzerla @taisasganzerla.bsky.social · 01/07/2026If Senegal wins I'll finally drink this baobab wine I bought there last year 120