Trash Wave @trashwave.bsky.social · 3hI was watching East of Eden, but decided to shift to Taiwan's #1 show and do some calligraphy 000
Trash Wave @trashwave.bsky.social · 5hyoutu.be/GTJ3LIA5LmA?...youtu.beMr. Show - Blow Up the MoonYouTube video by Laser Time 100
Trash Wave @trashwave.bsky.social · 5hThe UN can, must, should, and will balkanize the USA before it blows up the moon www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...theglobeandmail.comThe elephant in the roomAlberta separatists have gone to D.C. offering fresh water and oil in exchange for American support – and Republican operatives have provided tactical assistance inside the province 100
Reposted by Trash Wavejess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 12hit's fascinating seeing people go back and look at all the alberta separatist coverage- all the tv spots, the big speeches, the tv ads, all of it- knowing that it was entirely an op from the ground up, completely fucking manufactured bullshit and a soft coup funded by the us state dept lol 217941
Trash Wave @trashwave.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This man is the incarnation of the unspoken social pressure that Orwell spoke of in "Shooting an elephant"- the idea that someone, somewhere is judging you, and that you can't laugh in their face or ignore them 000
Reposted by Trash Wavemtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This is also The Plot to Enslave America — monomanical focus on destruction of our education system comes first 521941
Trash Wave @trashwave.bsky.social · 27/09/2026But what conclusions do you draw from The Second Sex 000
Reposted by Trash WaveBill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Welp let’s just get ahead of things and transfer all these names right onto the National Sex Offenders Registry 33975142
Reposted by Trash Waveleon @leyawn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026new idea "one email a day" you should only be able to send or read one email a day 382371383
Reposted by Trash WaveEmily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Always a treat to be reminded of an old friend 5695503404
Trash Wave @trashwave.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The multi-tap soda dispenser acts as a fetish object for the idea of freedom in the American collective unconscious. 001
Reposted by Trash WaveDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project? 15145891298
Reposted by Trash WaveLee Cronin’s Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Paul Verhoeven would be all “no, that’s too unbelievable.” 131212211
Reposted by Trash WaveKeanu_reevebooks @jamesgameboy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026And you may tell yourself, "This is not my beautiful circus!" And you may tell yourself, "These are not my beautiful monkeys!" 0379
Reposted by Trash WaveBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 19/09/2026No responsible news outlet should go to the White House as long as this ban on their colleagues is in effect. It’s time for big media to show some backbone. Also, any apologies about that embarrassing WHCA dinner yukking it up with Trump and his apparatchiks? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/b...nytimes.comCNN and MS NOW Reporters Barred From White House After Trump Announces BanThe prohibition on certain journalists was a stark escalation in President Trump’s war on the media, and will probably face a legal challenge. 1422382582
Reposted by Trash WaveGarth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 17/09/2026great art articulates eternal truths 1048501483
Trash Wave @trashwave.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Truly, saying "I strongly disagree with the claims presented here, and here are my reasons why" is not as rhetorically effective as responding with tangible disgust in some situations. 000
Trash Wave @trashwave.bsky.social · 17/09/2026When my mom tagged me in an anti-vaccination disinfo post and I responded "Fuck off with that shit, keep my name out of this" she had words for me about being rude 100
Reposted by Trash Waveshaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 17/09/2026you just know that posting "i'm just trying to start a polite conversation about who deserves human rights" will not be marked 'toxic,' but anyone responding 'hey fuck off with that' will earn +5 toxic points 5454831221
Reposted by Trash WaveRS Benedict @rsbenedict.bsky.social · 17/09/2026this--THIS--is the truest recession indicator 702509610
Trash Wave @trashwave.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"Do we need to consider resituating the role of the "rabbit hole" in alt-right pipelining after Kash Patel's recent comments? 000
Reposted by Trash WaveGregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 16/09/2026Fair play to the wife of a Caribbean man and mother of mixed race children being informed by the BBC reporter that she’s in the minority in her community regarding immigration and responding with, “Yes, I’m surrounded by bigots.” 675771287
Reposted by Trash WaveRossyDoesDrawings (commissions open) @rossydoesdrawings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I drew a comic strip. 5291672061
Trash Wave @trashwave.bsky.social · 13/09/2026So you can say "remember the Alamo" to build animosity to Mexico or to build patriotism and "rugged individualism" at any time, as needed. "Never forget:" to create fear and anger and appeal to grit and patriotism to further shut down complaints 001
Trash Wave @trashwave.bsky.social · 13/09/2026the American emphasis on memory fucks me up because there's no indication of what to remember about the necessary events- it's "remember the Alamo" not "Remember that the Alamo was seized by slavers" "never forget 9/11" not "never forget how rabidly we scapegoated ordinary people after 9/11" 121
Reposted by Trash Wave@Shamlet @shamlet.bsky.social · 12/09/2026This is it, the entire project Northrop Frye in The Educated Imagination: “the end of literary teaching is not simply the admiration of literature; it’s something more like the transfer of imaginative energy from literature to the student” 0363
Reposted by Trash WaveBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/09/202625 years later and The Onion’s ParentCorner 9/11 explainer from immediately after the attack is a better understanding of the threat environment than the one produced by the U.S. government. 7258111130
Reposted by Trash WaveKeifer @dannyvegito.bsky.social · 13/01/2026[guy who can’t fully remember that Gramsci quote] it’s Monster Time 121895586
Reposted by Trash WaveJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 10/09/2026We need at some point to talk about American Evangelicalism as a heretical movement. We should not indulge the delusion of a bunch or nuts who cherry-pick the Bible to rationalize otherwise indefensible 21st century bigotries that they are representatives of a global faith. 4347441003
Reposted by Trash WaveAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 10/09/2026This German comedy sketch (with English subtitles) perfectly captures so much of what is going on right now in the UK, the US, and across Europe. "Playing the 'Nazi Card' in the Third Reich", by Browser Ballett. 5330031274
Trash Wave @trashwave.bsky.social · 10/09/2026www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/...poetryfoundation.orgThe Second ComingTurning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the… 000
Trash Wave @trashwave.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Anyways- I get paid to read "The Second Coming" 5 days in a row and really sink my teeth into it. To quote Monkey D. Luffy, "It's not about possible or impossible, I'm doing it because I want to." When I get stressed out and feel upset, I just go read. Grading can wait. 100
Trash Wave @trashwave.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I thought, "bet," and searched "teacher's strike Angola" and lo: a union there is calling for a strike on September 21st, citing three decades of unmet demands. www.verangola.net/va/en/02026/...verangola.netMinister summons union after teachers announce strikeThe National Teachers' Union (Sinprof), which called a strike starting on September 21, was invited by the Minister of Education, Erika Aires, for a meeting on Wednesday, a union source told Lusa. 000
Trash Wave @trashwave.bsky.social · 10/09/2026This is beyond the scope of this thread, but mimetic expression of misogynistic violence is itself a problem, and it is intertwined with global fascism and the decline in education around the world. 000
Trash Wave @trashwave.bsky.social · 10/09/2026More on that: gnet-research.org/2026/05/05/n...gnet-research.orgNot Just Copycat: Digital Ecology of School-Targeted Violence in Lázaro Cárdenas - GNET 100
Trash Wave @trashwave.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Teachers in Mexico were teargassed by police before the World Cup while protesting for a guaranteed pension, 2 months after a school shooting: www.nytimes.com/athletic/734...nytimes.comCould the World Cup’s opening game be disrupted by teacher protests in Mexico?Protesters in Mexico plan to reach the Azteca Stadium and disrupt the opening game of the World Cup 110
Trash Wave @trashwave.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Indian school students protest undignified conditions in underfunded schools: www.tasnimnews.ir/en/news/2026... 000
Trash Wave @trashwave.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Teachers in the US demand basic supplies, in protest of discourse suggesting they get guns instead- a decade ago: time.com/5172245/armm...time.comTeachers Are Demanding They be Armed With Supplies, Not GunsPresident Trump suggested that arming teachers could help prevent mass shootings 000
Trash Wave @trashwave.bsky.social · 10/09/2026British teachers struck in 2023- Dignity being among their concerns: morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/te...morningstaronline.co.ukTeachers strike for dignityNORMALLY I spend my time documenting and recording other people’s pickets for the website I co-founded a couple of years ago, www.strikemap.org. We list every strike and picket that we can and th... 000
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ESTRAGON: Well, shall we log off?
VLADIMIR: Yes, let's log off.
[They do not log off]
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