The Archbishop of Bologna

We know that we've let Donald Trump down, and in future, we shall try to do better.

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My junior high school had a fantastic slot car track in its bomb shelter!

And the British public better start to defend it.

E.g, I believe the evidence strongly suggests that out of all human-tested schemes so far, the #Nordic Social #Democracy has been if not the best, then at the very least the least bad way to organize an industrialized society.

Despite its many flaws.

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Trump is literally shaking down the British public.

"Trump's legal team has written to the BBC, giving them until Friday to apologise and "appropriately compensate" him"

The BBC better start fighting back.

As I’ve seen this confused a few times, please note that Robin Gibb was a much-beloved member of the Bee Gees, whilst Robbie Gibb is the BBC board member who also, totally coincidentally, was editorial adviser in the set-up of GB News.

I know, Bee Gees, GBeebies, a bit confusing…

Absolutely. Love of country is not a bad thing at all. Wanting your own country to be the best it could be is good. Community is good.

One of the most beautiful things is a community standing up to the far right in defence of their neighbours.

Transformers Aligned Continuity Binder of Revelation Posted in Full We have a very interesting discovery tonight for the TF fandom. Back when the Aligned continuity was being conceptualized, Hasbro created an internal production bible dubbed the Binder of Revelation t...

Back when the Aligned continuity was being conceptualized, Hasbro created an internal production bible dubbed the Binder of Revelation to guide the overall franchise with overarching elements such as The Thirteen Primes.

…and here it is.

I once had a drunken chat with a far right Japanese nationalist who couldn't stop going on about immigrants.

So I listed what I and my family do to support Japanese culture, society, environment. What did he do?

What he did next was stare fucking daggers because he did nothing whatsoever.

That Tornado loves you.

Peter Thiel said it himself his ideologies are so controversial they would not be supported in a democracy. So he is trying all the other means.

When we distinguish between civic and ethnic nationalism, I think we are being too kind to ethnic nationalists.

They have a habit of being highly corrupt, fundamentally destructive people with little interest in the culture & history of their own country. They're not nationalists in the same way.

I think there is an element of every far right movement that genuinely loathes its own country. That it is in Finnish hands promoting Finnish culture is something that revolts them because they are digusted by what Finland is compared to whatever nightmare of perpetual violence and misery they wish.

Of course, this is very often done out of spite, like so many other far right policies.

Because “cultural people” generally aren’t fans of the far right, or their conceptions of Finnishness.

Not to mention how eyewateringly stupid it is to proclaim oneself to be a “defender of Finnish culture and way of life”… and then fiercely cut from the organizations like Yle which actually fund and promote Finnish #culture!

Even unironically suggesting that we all should just watch Netflix.

Aside from this and many other examples, it just boggles my mind that anyone could think that opposing the EU refugee burden sharing scheme is good strategy for a country that has some 1290 kilometers of EU’s external border… and that border can be crossed on foot.

A trusted, widely followed source of news and information that is 100% in Finnish hands is in this day and age a strategic asset and capability, just like fighter jets or long range missiles.

But the far right demonstrates again and again that their overriding objective is winning culture wars.

The Finnish far right has been trying their damnedest to do the same for the most trusted news source in Finland, the Finnish Broadcasting Company (Yle).

Due to #Finland ‘s geopolitical situation, in the age of infowars that is mindboggling strategic stupidity, if not outright fifth-columnist.

well, yeah i mean

BTW, this seems relevant in case you missed it: bsky.app/profile/diac...

I got Hasbro Transformers Age of the Primes Onyx Prime! It has three modes, and isn't too complex. Posing it is a bit of a challenge, though. www.16bit.com/fotd/251111-...

Here's hoping an IDW recolor is coming too!

Bluesky trending topics. Joyce Carol Oates is #2 after Katie Wilson

Joyce being the #2 trending topic without even posting here is why she’s the goat

*Yeah: what he said.

*And this is ten times more true for every cola-flavored sour UFO that glows all over, levitates livestock and does aerial loop-de-loops

Sour cola? How does THAT wor—

OH FUCK THEY’RE ALREADY 𝙄𝙉 SOME OF US!

i am mad as shit about the democrats caving, have a very good memory, and if you quiz me on exactly what happened this week on election day 2026 i will get maybe 30% right

Katie Wilson is ahead by 91 votes

Seattle's Mamdani is winning by an absurdly small margin over our incumbent mayor, who once pulled a gun on a pregnant woman in a parking lot.

Vote in your local elections!
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SNAP embarrassed him. So now he's against SNAP. SNAP is now the James Comey of government assistance programs.

Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”

You know what's amazing? Today is the 14th anniversary of this tweet. Immaculate timing.