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Once more time: the Orange Crew abandoning Taiwan was already foreseeable at least in Jul'24 and probably earlier.
Reading Elbridge Coldby stuff and the excellent thread by porteaux* it was quite obvious. While in retrospective I was too rational back then.
*Nice to see @ptx.bsky.social here
03.02.2025 03:39 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
bluesky is oligarch-free social
11.01.2025 17:05 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
interesting
22.12.2024 02:38 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
that’s him. he said “learn to code.”
21.12.2024 19:06 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
raw milk chuds reject pasteurization because it’s “unnatural” and then go and drink the mammary lactations of a cow.
21.12.2024 01:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
oh girl, it’s been seen
20.12.2024 21:03 — 👍 14 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
how it started / how it’s going
20.12.2024 16:21 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
honestly amazed by China’s forethought and good fortune having cultivated Elon Musk who now controls the U.S. government
20.12.2024 15:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
AfD is Germany’s neo-Nazi party
20.12.2024 15:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
New Jerseyans when a commercial airplane flies overhead
15.12.2024 20:14 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
exactly- VoA becomes much more like CGTN when a propagandist like Lake is at the helm. really unfortunate
12.12.2024 04:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
is this real love
11.12.2024 04:27 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
real
04.12.2024 20:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
korea’s Jan 7th was 100x better than usa’s
04.12.2024 18:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
1000% tariffs on podcast equipment
30.11.2024 16:26 — 👍 25 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
1000% tariffs on podcast equipment
30.11.2024 16:26 — 👍 25 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
surprise
29.11.2024 18:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“Get in losers. We’re getting measles.”
29.11.2024 15:52 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
the MAGA “landslide”
29.11.2024 02:19 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
old movie, fresh idea
29.11.2024 02:03 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
me, logging into X
28.11.2024 22:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
yeah… what’s amazing to me is the stuff they know *not* to talk about (anti-vax, jan6) in order to keep their world alive
28.11.2024 21:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
trying to listen as much as i can to smart ppl on the Right to understand their world view
so far have:
- spent 6+ months reading curtis yarvin
- listened to endless red scare episodes
- @RichardMCNgo (on X) DJT defenses
- currently listening to the 3hrs of rogan + andreessen
28.11.2024 17:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
thankful for such a smart and kind community of friends on Bluesky!
28.11.2024 15:31 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
very happy to be on bluesky
28.11.2024 03:44 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
good!
28.11.2024 00:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
lots of good movies recently, here are my faves in order:
Anora
All shall be well (广东话)
A Real Pain
Conclave
Wicked
27.11.2024 05:11 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
crackdowns on independent contractors is out of control. i don’t want to be an employee and can buy my own “benefits” and don’t need any government busybody “protecting” me by forcing me to accept a boss. NY in particular is backwards on this.
26.11.2024 23:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
big beasts and many tiny creatures
26.11.2024 18:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
windswept grassy plains, expansive landscape, and majestic clouds
26.11.2024 17:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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