Ingrid

a trans friend of mine from kansas moved to amsterdam and got a letter over there telling her that her ks license is invalid and she made a post about the parallels to the nazis and immediately she was hounded by cis ppl yelling at her for falsely framing herself as a victim of fascist persecution

like buda and pest, or london and southwark, berlin was originally two cities on either side of a river, bearlin and twinklin

What does it feel like, as PM, to backpedal frantically away from an initial position of not being a panting lapdog, only to find that your master is rubbing your nose in his shit anyway?

personally as a trans person I celebrate trans ppl who can get out while they can and encourage cis allies to help out those who can't instead of falling into a crab bucket mentality

it's so crazy that radlibism has reached "being a refugee is a privilege bc other ppl can't leave" like bitch shut the fuck up oh my god

A political scientist saying "Sorry, Bluesky, but I have to say it: AI can already do social science research better than most professors with PhDs" and linking to his substack where he presumably makes some sort of case for this

i'm sorry but a political scientist WOULD think this

also even otherwise, who are they to judge

i wonder sometimes if the ppl who say emigrating is privilege ever think about the actual economic circumstances of the majority of actual immigrants

ESP CRAZY CONSIDERING HOW AMERICAN FASCISTS ARE ALSO PERSECUTING IMMIGRANTS RN BUT YOU KNOW. WE REFUSE TO CONNECT THE DOTS

It’s never that we are better at diagnosing various developmental disorders and catching them earlier in life than ever before. It’s always some nefarious sinister bullshit.

HAHA FUCK

British quislings are going to be orgasming right now

It is actually interesting that this is doing to the centrists of the party what Gaza did to the left

Has Trump forgotten about the single market

just to get out ahead of any "what do you mean we" commentary. we produce guys like this in greater numbers than any civilization in history. there is currently no plan whatsoever to stop making guys. we should have a plan. we need to hobble these guys with crippling taxes and restrict their rights

somehow, shell hunger returned

it rules that we're governed by a toddler having Big Feelings

tariff grandpa is at it again

Additional context here is that the Spanish socialists do not want to pay for eg NATO while benefiting from NATO. This is no longer a functional criticism of their politics, however; it represents a failure of EU libs to defend their own international order such that only the socialists remain.

Literally true, of course. And likewise of the UK. What are we going to do, send in the SAS to kidnap some USAF generals?

This administration cannot conceive of relationships built on mutual consent, apparently. I wonder why that is.

Aside from the nefarious absurdity at play here, this being said, one wonders what he threatened us with…

A screenshot of an article header from The Atlantic's "Ideas" section. The title reads "IN DEFENSE OF EFFEMINATE GAY BOYS" in large, serif capital letters. Below it, a subheader in a smaller font says, "If anyone had suggested that I might really be a girl, I don’t know how I would have responded." The byline at the bottom identifies the author as Ben Appel.

Babe, wake up. The Atlantic is doing the "they're transing the gays" conspiracy theory.

Actually, we're already there.
My commentary over a year ago for @thebulletin.org:
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Deny, delay, downplay: How governments hide climate change intelligence

Via @thebulletin.org by Scoville Fellow '22 @rsanta.bsky.social of the @nsarchive.bsky.social. thebulletin.org/2026/02/deny...

Alternatively we use the 'West/Central/South/Southeast/East/North Asia' scheme

This is the thing— do people think white South Africans weren't obsessed with "security"?

'Persianate civilisation'