@johnblambe.bsky.social
Software Developer. Treasurer, Dublin South Central branch of the Irish Green Party. Irish & US citizen. All opinions here are my own. #StandWithUkraine #BLM Supporter of democracy 💙 #NoKings. Came from X. Also on Mastodon: @JohnBLambe@Mastodon.ie
Gaza bombing. From https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/05/11/multimedia/11dc-israel-bombs-cpkz/11dc-israel-bombs-cpkz-videoSixteenByNine3000.jpg
anti-Semitism definition: hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group.
And imposing sanctions on a country because of the actions of that country (not because of the religion of its citizens) is not #antisemitic.
/2 #Israel
Trolly problem, where the trolly has an Israeli flag. If unswitched, it will kill 5 people. If switched, it will kill none. Caption: "Pulling the lever is antisemitic".
There is real #antisemitism, including when people discriminate against Jews because of the actions of Netanyahu. That's like discrimination against Palestinians because of the actions of Hamas.
But opposing genocide/massacre regardless of who the perpetrators are is not antisemitic.
/1 #Gaza
and don't even seem to have the intelligence to understand how cutting their own services and benefits will affect them (and #Trump will tell them it's somehow the Democrats' fault).
/4 #MAGAMorons
Since his actual claims of how it will be funded are fantasy, it would have to actually be funded by even more cuts, or even more borrowing (when we should be reducing debt).
But #MAGAs would vote for it, because they've no understanding of long-term consequences (e.g. of borrowing)
/3 #Trump
Another problem is that we've seen the inflationary effect of stimulus checks already. Last time, there was a need for them, and the effect was mitigated by the economic downturn of the Covid shutdown (which was greatly exacerbated by #Trump's science denial).
It's #Trump #idiocracy again.
/2 #GOP
#Trump wants to bribe taxpayers with their own money, to keep up the pretence of all the money that #tariffs are supposedly bringing in (which is actually paid by those taxpayers themselves anyway).
One problem is that the proceeds of tariffs are already spent on tax cuts for the wealthy.
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To #MAGA, calling for soldiers to not point their guns at peaceful protesters is "inciteful" and "reckless", but #Trump's calling on the crowd to "fight" on #January6 (before they murdered a police officer) and Charlie Kirk's comments are not.
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/1 #Trump #GOP #CharlieKirk
He avoids the question, but admits that the best solution is open markets. The true answer is that noone dares disagree with the dictator.
He claims that he hopes for open markets, but won't even ask #Trump to do it.
#DictatorTrump #GOP
He previously claimed that it was the "most dangerous vaccine ever and has killed more people than ... any other vaccine in history", and "there is no vaccine that is safe and effective".
/2 #antivaxx
Robert Kennedy admits that Covid-19 vaccines saved "quite a few" lives (in brilliant questioning by Bernie Sanders).
/1 #RFK #vaccines #antivaxx #Covid19 #BernieSanders
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And here's another Democrat prediction that Republicans falsely claimed was a lie:
/2 #DictatorTrump #GOP
#KamalHarris warned about #Trump likely use of the military and The Hill accused her of lying.
/1 #DictatorTrump
#KamalaHarris predicted it and an editorial in The Hill accused her of lying.
#Trump #DictatorTrump
Of course we know that exoplanets are common (usually detected by a few methods other than directly imaging them).
There is at least one image of a another star system - a planet and its star in the same image - but the planet is just a few pixels.
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This all seems unlikely in combination (and remember, their gravity would affect the other stars and planets).
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They seem to be emitting light, so must have nuclear fusion in their core (stars), but then they would be bigger than the large planets, and to appear that size, would have to be farther away, but their placement in the image suggests that they're orbiting the star in the centre.
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I think the orbits of the two large planets would not be stable being so close to each other, and some of those smaller planets (they must be massive enough to be rounded by their own gravity) would probably have collided with larger ones.
And what are those small glowing orange things:
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That image is not realistic (And obviously, it wasn't captured by astronomers. It's probably AI generated, with a bad prompt.):
That circle of wavy lines makes no sense, 6 stars orbiting one another is unlikely,
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Asylum from America. Something unthinkable just a few years ago...😭😭😭
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CORRECTION: In Part 4, he said "death penalty", not "death sentence".
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Another one: bsky.app/profile/iwil...
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Cancel culture, whether you agree with it or not, is a boycott by ordinary people. Its power comes from the number of people who support it, not from one authoritarian ruler.
That's very different to a president abusing his power to censor people who criticise him. That's what dictators do.
Democratic candidate Kat Abughazaleh was thrown to the ground by ICE in Chicago.
20.09.2025 00:40 — 👍 1704 🔁 1070 💬 316 📌 159THE HYPOCRISY IS THE POINT!!
18.09.2025 22:35 — 👍 1743 🔁 782 💬 61 📌 137while his lies and corruption would be called out by organisations that would honor it, and usually do so even when they don't have to.
The Democrats support it.
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He might be thinking of the Fairness Doctrine, which the #GOP abolished, but even that wouldn't disallow the satire and criticism he's talking about. And #Trump wouldn't like the Fairness Doctrine: #FoxNews and other far right organisations would constantly fall foul of it,.
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Continuing his attack on #FreedomOfSpeech (while ironically claiming to be supportive of it), #Trump says that criticism of him by media is "not allowed" (while his other actions and speech imply that all attacks (including with egregious lies) on his opponents is).
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#Trump wants anti-democratic suppression of his opponents (similarly to other dictators), based on lies, while most political violence comes from ideology similar to his own, and he incites violence and spreads and supports hate speech himself.
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And multiple studies have shown that political violence in the US comes much more from the right than the left.
The White House removed one such study from the White House web site.
Even the two attempted assassinations of #Trump were by Republican gun nuts.
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