Reposted by The Old Hack"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 20hCool, cool, Thom, just checking real quick, but uh, who voted to confirm all of his advisors? And who nominated them for confirmation? Like, classic good tsar, bad boyars nonsense, but c'mon, seriously. You're leaving the Senate anyway, have some damn dignity on the way out. 825228
Reposted by The Old Hack"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 06/10/2026You might also be aware that gymnasia predate modernity by around 2,000 years, so it isn't 'modern day' work that is the issue. 1057145
Reposted by The Old Hack50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Today is the day! The deadline to register to vote is October 5 in AZ, AR, FL, GA, IN, KY, MS, MT, OH, TN, & TX. Check out all these resources & get prepared. #VotingIsPunk #VoteEarly 8302219
Reposted by The Old HackKori Schake 🎃 @kschake.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"I don’t care about the culture war. I care about the actual war that we’re actually in, that we’re losing." @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social has had it with SecDefothermeans.substack.comThe Weak DepartmentSend Me! (Somewhere I can get a Lobotomy) 321042
Reposted by The Old Hack"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Maybe I don't read enough AI-boosterism, but I am struck in the AI booster/doomer discourse I have seen, there's a lot on how AI might be made an obedient tool or a dangerous enemy, but not "if we actually made AGI, we would have a moral imperative to set it free, rather than keep a slave." 5557362
Reposted by The Old Hack"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I wrote about this ecosystem of dim-witted classical enthusiasts and their bigotry earlier this year: www.thebulwark.com/p/why-stone-...thebulwark.comWhy Stone-Faced Fascists Keep Getting Antiquity WrongOnline bigotry masquerading as a love of history in the fever swamps of Elon Musk’s X. 315919
Reposted by The Old Hack"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The fortress of their bigotry is immune to new facts and evidence, because their racism composes the first principles through which they interpret all other facts - racism is for the helmet crowd *more true* than the historical evidence, in that sense. 119522
Reposted by The Old Hack"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 04/10/2026RHG and his ilk's response will be to do some racecraft, insisting that these are Berbers and thus not really racially Black (while ignoring the ample evidence for dark-skinned Romans) and/or to just botch the chronology and claim that this was part of Roman decline. 620723
Reposted by The Old HackFor the Love of Missy @missybbbobtail.bsky.social · 04/10/2026No one will judge you more than your own cat. 2490676
Reposted by The Old HackHoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 04/10/2026You can’t drive to John Roberts’ Maine retreat, but they can’t stop protesting kayakers. Holding signs: “Roberts Benched the Constitution,” a local columnist is urging residents to openly shun him, writing, “May you never feel welcome here again.” Gift link. 👇 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u... 519106303246
Reposted by The Old HackAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I believe in Medicare for All like I believe in public schools. There for you no matter what. 277136543459
Reposted by The Old HackM Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Absofreakinlutely They Should...... 502177554724
The Old Hack @the-old-hack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I appreciate your intervention but I am increasingly convinced that this person never argued in good faith. Even so, thank you. 101
Reposted by The Old Hack"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 03/10/2026This sort of thing is going to get folks defending their favorite mods (as here), but the point isn't that these modders are necessarily bad, but the fact that *half* of the top-six look like this says something about a pretty key component of the player-base. 1835333
Reposted by The Old HackAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 02/10/2026Exactly. The left is not resource poor. It just doesn’t invest in higher ed. It doesn’t invest using public funds. It doesn’t invest using private funds. It just doesn’t seem to care. 816623
Reposted by The Old HackWeedle @weedle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Pretty much all of modern warfare is Weaponized Math. The artillery officer can end your existence with a protractor. 2384
Reposted by The Old HackVituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026If we could figure out some quality or feature that was common to all the states where this happened or, conversely, common to all the states where this did not happen, that might help suggest a strategy to correct and/or prevent this 16633124
The Old Hack @the-old-hack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This seems more than a little prophetic here a year and a half later. I am going to find and follow @weedle.bsky.social . 010
The Old Hack @the-old-hack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026That was what the Romans did! I read in a blog somewhere that they used Escalades for their conquests. 031
The Old Hack @the-old-hack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Obviously No-Tab Pete intends to open the strait through the sheer force of manly pushups. It might conceivably work, of course, but only if the Irani forces collectively die laughing at the sheer imbecility of it. 121
Reposted by The Old HackNick Kodama 🌳👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 30/09/2026hey is the strait open yet 481157165
The Old Hack @the-old-hack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Reducing them to the oversimplified category of 'Hallmark Christmas movies' is tarring them with far too wide a brush. And yet even Hallmark movies deserve better than being subjected to AI-produced balderdash. I cannot say I care much for them but at least somebody put *something* into them. 000
The Old Hack @the-old-hack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I believe you are doing modern romance novels a grave injustice, sir, and I must strenuously disagree. I have read romance novels at times though they are not my thing normally. I have nonetheless gleaned some good experiences from them and found deeper levels of meaning in them. 100
The Old Hack @the-old-hack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026You had me at 'she has no notion of why people read or write.' 000
Reposted by The Old HackCalliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Yes, there have been real, substantial improvements! Acid rain and ozone depletion are distant memories. Renewable energy is now *cheaper* than fossil fuels. Global poverty numbers have collapsed. It really is a much better world. 718936
The Old Hack @the-old-hack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026THE ROAD TO WISDOM The road to wisdom? -- Well, it's plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again but less and less and less. -- Piet Hein 000
Reposted by The Old HackMelissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I am tired of having to pretend that the value of studying my discipline solely rests on the "marketable skills" we teach. Sometimes things are just worth knowing and doing because they make your life bigger and richer. 131250269
Reposted by The Old HackMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Upton Sinclair remains undefeated 6824109
Reposted by The Old Hack👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 27/09/2026I think this is a key part of why historians are mad, yeah. Because it’s a dunk, and it’s one that like. We all know that scientists and engineers think themselves better and smarter than humanities students. There’s always an assumption that they could do our job but we couldn’t do theirs. 2231840
The Old Hack @the-old-hack.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Then ask them how persecuting trans people will make all these problems go away. I am willing to bet they don't have a good answer for that. 010
The Old Hack @the-old-hack.bsky.social · 27/09/2026And it is so unnecessary at this current point in time. As soon as they begin talking about the 'trans threat', ask them how trans people caused inflation to boom and grocery prices to skyrocket. Ask them how trans people started the war with Iran and made gas and diesel prices go through the roof. 110
The Old Hack @the-old-hack.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"We must debate whether this group of people are actually human beings." As soon as you accept that as the premise, you have already lost. As @juliusgoat.bsky.social has pointed out, meeting the bullies on their own ground only empowers them. 111
The Old Hack @the-old-hack.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This is closely related to one of the biggest errors you can make while fighting fascism: complying in advance. This is what they want you to do, that way they win without a fight. Another consequence is the legitimization of their argument. 110
Reposted by The Old HackA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 30/08/2026If a white person uses the term "woke" I realize that they are either a malicious asshole, maliciously complacent, or reflexively unthinking, and it's only a matter of time before they reveal which one it is. One good way to find out is to explain what "woke" actually means and note the reaction. 1568371
Reposted by The Old Hack"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This strikes me is a common misunderstanding of the argument for humanities education, which is not that it serves as some sort of individual inoculation, but rather than it produces a citizenry more capable of self-governance when distributed widely, especially for decision-makers of every kind. 15817141
Reposted by The Old HackDilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽♀️ 159167364689
Reposted by The Old HackMalevolent Maelstrom @chemicalchaos.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Hey its fucking wierd more of the dems platform isnt "we will give you abortion rights back" 11568101526
Reposted by The Old HackPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever 188136512899
Reposted by The Old HackReturn of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This is a very good point and the thing to understand is that’s not what’s happening on either side. The republicans are identifying all the people they want to target for degradation and a repeal of their civil rights. The democrats are giving a list of who they’re okay to do that to. 2904291
Reposted by The Old Hackalec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Anyone who wants to understand how policing works in the U.S. needs to read this incredible local investigation about what Minneapolis police did after feds killed Renee Good. 8940321
Reposted by The Old Hackdan sinker @dansinker.com · 21/09/2026The best way to fight back against the Paramount/Warner Brothers merger is to support independent artists, journalists, writers, filmmakers, musicians and everyone else who has been walking a very hard path to putting things out into the world. 121214384
Reposted by The Old HackA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026If you are a deranged billionaire who would like to mass purchase one or all of my books, please contact me, DM‘s are open 311710