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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I have watched the full 9 minutes of that JRM video, and I am afraid to report it's was... not an entire waste of time. He is obviously a madhouse in terms of what he implicitly requires from immigrants, BUT he's a stickler for *his* own obligations towards people who fulfill the contract

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"Jusqu'ici tout va bien ... jusqu'ici tout va bien ..."

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

One of the funniest bits about this website (and don't take this wrong, I love you all) is how everyone agrees smartphones are the source of most social devil, but if you bring up the topic of surveillance of kids by parents, there is a good amount of 'well in some cases it's fine actually'

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Goddammit we're so fucking old. (Still one of the bangers of the century though)

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

quite something this paragraph.

After meeting with delegates from the two sides in South Florida, Kushner and Witkoff emerged with a peace plan that would have required Ukraine to accept nearly all of Russia’s demands: ceding territory, promising never to join NATO, and drastically shrinking its army. Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s press secretary, hailed the proposal as “a good plan for both Russia and Ukraine.” But, when the plan became public, it collapsed under a wave of outrage. Even Rubio reportedly derided it as “Russia’s wish list.”
Some observers suspect that Russia has effectively offered the Americans business deals in exchange for a favorable peace agreement. “This is the generally held view,” the former U.S. official in the region told me. A classified report produced by a European intelligence agency states that Trump and people around him have discussed several potential contracts in Russia. The report is not dated, but the European official who gave it to me said that the details were first discussed sometime after Trump invited Putin to Anchorage, in August, 2025. Twice that year, Kirill Dmitriev, the head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, was allowed to enter the U.S., where he talked about investment opportunities. “The privatization of American foreign policy is quite far along,” the official who gave me the report said. (A spokesman for Kushner denied that U.S. officials would profit from the deals under discussion.)
The document lists ten potential ventures, which it says appear to “have been originally designed by the Kremlin’s political and business elites.” They include reopening the Nord Stream 2 pipeline under American control, resuming ExxonMobil’s operations in Sakhalin, and drilling for oil in the Sea of Okhotsk. According to the report, there was discussion of unfreezing Russian assets that are held under American sanctions. The document mentions people who might participate, including Trump, Witkoff, and Kushner. It also names Richard Grenell, the former Presidential en…

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This used to be the worries of some of us wrt how technical and 'this one neat trick' the advocacy had become (cough shmemem-tee cough). At some point, there is no shortcut, you need to actually pitch the thing you want to fund on its own merit.

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

There is a grim reading of this, unfortunately: a country achieves those outcomes, but on relatively high-level comparison, has no marked difference in animosity (masked thugs on the streets, increasingly essentialist language in most media and platforms) versus peer countries, then what?

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Website idea to radicalise a certain type of person (me) into wishing the guillotine was back: 'Rightmove sold house prices', but for concert tickets. "We used to be able to see Prince for how much??"

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

✅ Historical precedents exist, we live in societies where you still need some sort of popular consent to exist and if/when the incidents start becoming visible, that can go away very quickly

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Can someone more knowledgeable in my mutuals explain to me, a five-year-old child, what's the likelihood that the implicit claim in there is true?

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I used to make that literal 'stocks vs flows' analogy as a quip to make people realise where we were going, and I was constantly told off for being too dramatic. Well,,,

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Hard to say how much is cope from sitting on the platform experiencing the most severe attrition, but the platform wars always sounded silly to me for that reason. It's crankville wherever you look, and for a lot of normal people the benefits have completely collapsed either way

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 11/08/2026

highly anecdotal, but I've been getting the growing sense that certain demographics are just kinda over social media more broadly

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Response to the OP downthread is always <lung cancer death rate.jpg>

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It's notable that no cultural property (fiction category) that has tried to handle this in any way or form. Or at least I can never think of one. Interesting given how fast we have otherwise become at turning historical events/characters into content.

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

This is just to say I have eaten the sun god's cattle on the island which you were probably saving for Apollo Forgive me they were delicious and so charred and so warm

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

There aren't many examples of a country self-inflicted ignorance of its national successes as glaring as how little is made of the tremendous, really wild footprint of the British stage/TV/movie educational pipeline on the global scene

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

*very deep sigh* Everything is going to sound like this now, isn't it?

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Yeah thing about the Canada stuff being nonsensical flailing is that so was the tariff stuff, and so was the bombing Iran stuff, and so was the defending USAID stuff, and so was the eliminating the department of education stuff, and so was the invading Venezuela stuff, and so was the abortion stuff

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I have acquaintances (some of them #onhere) who complain about tiki taka and boring Spain football, but in my book they are now 2-0 against football terrorism in WC finals

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Quite the achievement in terms of likeability to have the greatest player ever, who everyone loves, on your side, and still have your (famous last words) likely demise be rooted for around the world

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Mephisto, by Joaquín Espalter y Rull, 1872, 📸 by Dan Mullan

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Today: Friday I'm in Love Tomorrow: One Hundred Years

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Lovely gesture from England and France to offer this ridiculous no defense all out exhibition game for our hosts to enjoy, since that's probably more fitting to their sports taste than the midfield gang war we will likely see tomorrow

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FOHF @fohf.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

This is shaping up to be the funniest football match of all time

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Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Imagine how hard that must've hit though. More than 2,000 years of that analogy hanging around unused before the Jekyll and Hyde guy picks it up

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

No spoiler (and I am obviously not a classicist) but it's very funny how Nolan is *obviously* more interested in the Troy/warrior bits than he is in, you know, the journey.

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

"Likes first, reposts second" display is a UX crime against a decade+ of our brains intuitively scanning the quality of the post from the ratio even before we read the first word.

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

A month is a long time in football, huh

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Textbook case definition of online brain is watching an event unfold with people 'in the flesh' and thinking, damn, I could get so many jokes off about this with my pocket friends, but the format doesn't work FOR HERE, what a waste

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mathletic.bsky.social @mathletic.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Science has already answered this question!

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Movie dads of your childhood/teenage years passing away one by one do bring back how one feels about their actual dad don't they? This is a peak bluesky demo post, but #dark, have a great day all

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Absolutely tragic figure, isn't it? In the literal greek sense of the term.

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Do The Right Thing, but this time it's set in Essex

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The details there, and how the operation has all the mechanics of what you could call 'grooming' (digging at a particular set of young people's insecurities - here, intellectual competition - by offering them something grand), are not very far from what you'd read about daesh inner city recruitment

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The rejection of any introduction of fiscal drag on housing in the UK is often argued using tear-jerking boundary cases but at core, it's a demand to be able to continue collecting growing economic rent in perpetuity with no feedback loop whatsoever on how much public utility you're capturing

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Bancroft Sutherland @bancsutherland.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Send the hydration break beverages to the lab.

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Milei rushing to the stage to say that he's the one who called Infantino to ask for a VAR review

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The majority of humanity lives within a relatively small bandwidth of latitude. This #map is one of my all time favourites. It was created by radicalcartography.net in 2008 and remains a true classic today: buff.ly/2DJXO9z

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Fun life hack: live said life in a way that you never have to get too invested in the defense of someone who once got a nazi skull tattoo.

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Everything everywhere is freedom fries now. We live in hell.

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Rare that you find such a combination of high-but-real-life-inconsequential stakes, pre-set camp opinions where everyone obviously roots for their team, and a lot of 'I have known about this for five minutes' microtourism : the absolutely perfect petri dish for bad takes

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Brussels-centered legal saga involving a mercurial head of state unhappy about how his interests are supposedly unfairly treated by opaque international institutions. I am of course, referring to Euroclear Russian assets proceedings and the post below is unrelated.

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