I'm not a David Brooks fan by any metric, but I do think about this line from one of his 2017 op-eds a lot.
04.03.2026 08:33 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Please share widely! Another day, another amazing message of support from a @northumbriauni.bsky.social student - an international student nurse💉, no less! - for @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social's fight for pay and pensions justice ✊💙💚🧡💜💛. ucu-unn.org.uk/blogucu/329-...
04.03.2026 06:42 — 👍 6 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 2
Who can reply: anyone, nobody, people who can be normal about it.
trying out a new feature, lmk if it works
03.03.2026 18:38 — 👍 13004 🔁 2188 💬 2 📌 1Oliver North calling his lawyer right now.
03.03.2026 18:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Actually quite funny to retroactively turn Iran-Contra into "treasonously selling arms to an enemy combatant" because you were too lazy to devise a pretext before starting the war.
03.03.2026 18:08 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Can't play five-dimensional chess if you don't know how to play three-dimensional chess.
03.03.2026 16:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Sunak spent £250,000 putting chess tables in public parks.
03.03.2026 16:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It's George Orwell's world, we're just living in it.
03.03.2026 16:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Now not even the dead have seen the end of peer review.
03.03.2026 13:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Pls share widely! Wow! Yet another @northumbriauni.bsky.social student speaks out 🗣️against management's plans to steal staff pay and pensions and in support of @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social's fight for pay and pensions justice. Their words mean so much! 💙💚🧡💜
ucu-unn.org.uk/blogucu/328-...
✊✊✊@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social has announced more strike dates: 16, 17, 25, 26, 27 March and 20-24 April. Resolve is strong, the cause is just, and members are raging at @northumbriauni.bsky.social attacks on pay and pensions. No-one wants to be on strike, but no-one wants pay and pension injustice.
02.03.2026 15:38 — 👍 5 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social say to management @northumbriauni.bsky.social - time for a rethink on plans to steal pay and pensions? Our door is always open, and we have ideas to share!
03.03.2026 06:40 — 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0TRUMP: NSC TELL ME SONNY BONO AND SHIA LABOEUF HAVE GOT INVOLVED, UNCLEAR WHY -CNN INTERVIEW
02.03.2026 16:14 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"The trade was not that you were getting exposed to geopolitics when moving to Dubai."
02.03.2026 15:19 — 👍 3990 🔁 657 💬 217 📌 553#AccidentalMorrisseyLyrics
02.03.2026 08:20 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I'll say this for him, he knows exactly the pitch he needs to make to this White House.
01.03.2026 18:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Simpsons screencap. Marge holding up a novelty t-shirt with a picture of Ayatollah Khomeni and the slogan "Ayatollah Assholla." Caption: "Can we get rid of this Ayatollah t-shirt?"
Simpsons screencap. Homer and Marge cleaning out their attic. Caption: "But, Marge, it works on any Ayatollah. Ayatollah Nakhbadeh, Ayatollah Zahedi..."
Simpsons screencap. Homer looking concerned. Caption: "Even as we speak, Ayatollah Razmara and hjs cadre of fanatics are consolidating their power."
01.03.2026 10:56 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0If FIFA did, for some reason, regularly give out a Peace Prize, you’d think #1 on the list of criteria for potential winners would be “do not start a war with another nation in the World Cup, directly before the start of the World Cup”
28.02.2026 13:05 — 👍 1309 🔁 273 💬 12 📌 6To quote Mike Tyson, "Everyone factors getting punched in the mouth into their plans, that's why most plans go so well."
28.02.2026 15:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The inaugural FIFA Peace Prize was awarded just under three months ago.
28.02.2026 15:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Email subject line: "RE: Construction?"
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