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Chris Bergstresser

@catsclaw.bsky.social

Geek, larper, world traveler when not sleeping late in the mornings

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There was an inquest in the UK recently which is why it's in the news again.

10.02.2026 15:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Trump has no intention of treating the current residents as citizens of the United States. Not that that counts for much these days.

12.01.2026 14:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Will this hellish reign of socialism ever end?

09.01.2026 21:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's established that a sledgehammer won't do it, which is why a construction company is hired.

27.12.2025 19:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Also, there were active investigations and appeals and releasing files can fuck up your ability to prosecute those cases. The Justice Department typically doesn't release materials for that reason, although here in retrospect the public interest here clearly outweighs that concern. 2/2

22.12.2025 21:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Justice Department is supposed to be independent, and make decisions separate from the White House and without regard to the party currently in power. That's largely been true under Democrats; that's why the investigation into Hilary's emails didn't get quashed. 1/2

22.12.2025 20:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Pretty sure Hegseth couldn't lead a wino to a bottle of booze in a liquor store, let alone a military coup.

On second thought that's a bad choice of example for Pete, but I think my broader point stands.

02.12.2025 19:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think everyone going for the Nazi SS is overreaching. It's clearly just what the person making the placard hears if the person demanding it is slurring their speech for some reason.

02.12.2025 17:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The Republican vision of a "race-neutral" society looks an awful lot like the Jim Crow South.

16.10.2025 10:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

While US fair food is certainly world class in the fry-something-already-incredibly-unhealthy competition, I assure you the average Glaswegian chip shop is equally innovative.

15.10.2025 10:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I take it as direct evidence of the current dystopia that it took me two minutes to realize this wasn't ad copy for a real company, and even then I had to Google it to be sure.

11.10.2025 09:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They're working to fix that glitch.

25.09.2025 07:31 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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13.08.2025 10:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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07.08.2025 07:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Brobdingnagian

07.08.2025 07:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The impressive thing is that the economy has been doing as well as it has *despite* them botching things in a half year. It'll be interesting to see how long Wall Street continues to convince itself this is all a momentary blip.

01.08.2025 15:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I can finally watch Oppenheimer as it was meant to be seen: silently on my neighbor's screen with subtitles on during a transatlantic flight.

09.07.2025 01:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

i think cuomo did well considering he couldn’t campaign while the sun was up

25.06.2025 02:14 β€” πŸ‘ 10442    πŸ” 950    πŸ’¬ 95    πŸ“Œ 26

Oh God I'm playing it wrong.

12.06.2025 16:57 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Am I the only one who feels like you can't describe someone as getting "gored" and then later describe is as "minor injuries?" Is it really possible to be "gently gored?"

12.06.2025 10:45 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Likewise! And here I was getting kind of fond of the angry lizard.

21.05.2025 13:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

See, the weird thing is you got the whole your/you're thing right on the second try in the same damn sentence. So it's kind of a marvel of low-energy posting.

21.05.2025 13:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

If I were Canada I would already have passed a massive amount of funding establishing a flagship biomedical research program based in Toronto and be well into recruiting the absolute top talent from the United States.

Is this already happening? Ditto in Europe? This feels like such a no-brainer.

20.05.2025 21:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Social media these days feels like one of those Super Mario games where you have to keep jumping from one platform to the next before it falls into lava and if you pause for half a second you end up dead. Or arguing with incel Nazis. I think I lost control of the metaphor, but you get the point.

20.05.2025 11:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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While I appreciate the presentation this is a sausage roll β€” vegan in this case β€” and it's altogether too fancy for my tastes.

07.05.2025 08:22 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

While Animal Farm is one of my favorite books, I'm not exactly convinced that what this particular historical moment needs is an impassioned argument against a theoretical communist revolution.

24.04.2025 10:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Blue Prince is designed for people who like loot boxes at least as much as they like solving puzzles.

21.04.2025 06:49 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I feel like Blue Prince is fun for people who like to solve half a crossword puzzle and then get told they aren't allowed to finish it but they can try a different one if they like.

20.04.2025 11:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I really don't get why it's so hard for people to understand that trans women *are* biologically women. The trans people I know didn't choose to be trans, any more than the gay people I know chose to be gay. There's a lot more to biology than the SRY gene.

19.04.2025 09:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A less oppressive government that's more antagonistic towards Russia would be swell.

18.04.2025 12:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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