once in a lunchtime

you mean the geniuses behind the Electoral College?

the most useful book I read this year

Lotsa edgy fasc associating going on in the 70s punk and post punk scene. Not to mention Bowie…

What’s a Kershaw?

I’m sure to some extent they are afraid of him, but I think their real fear is what they stand to lose in the “chaos” of actually doing something about him

he’s been living under the dome

Obama was the equivalent of LBJ divided by Calvin Coolidge or in other words the derivative of the square root of 3.74 Franklin Pierces to the power of Ulysses S Grant

the game is afoot…

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I’m guessing its about China vs West discourse in the respective online spheres?

ooh what’s the book?

quinsy, catarrh, rickets, vapours, consumption, dysentery, scabies, Irishman’s knees

If you have to stick “but this time it’s good” on the symbol to detoxify it you haven’t detoxified shit

A Japanese "science warrior" rampages through NYC (in Oct. 1943), blending healthy doses of tradition, modernity, and delusion

As an outsider I’ve been pondering it for a while and here’s what strikes me:

1. Some geniuses made election administration a state issue
2. Machine politics never went away
3. If red state dems didn’t have to move heaven and earth just to vote, what might they be mobilising for instead…

Very convenient! Almost a little too convenient… what were Charles Lindbergh, J Edgar Hoover and William Henry Vanderbilt III trying to hide? The people need answers!!

I hear there’s good phishing up that way

alright

anyway

eggs

300

Vampire Weekend - A-punk

but theres a whole stupid music video and the bit with the guitar where it goes dweeeer-neer dweeer-neer-neer dweeer-neer-neer-neer neer-neer neer-neer

bisk no

November Rain is good stupid excess. Bazstralia is bad stupid excess

There might even have been a civil war at one point, iirc

some minor politico basically nobody has heard of

It is irresponsible to rule out the possibility that he was a playtester

yeah, servers are clusters of chat rooms, some you need to be invited into.

YouTube video by Joshua Lioi I'm the lindbergh baby

I blame Grandpa Simpson youtu.be/V3vlrRzzXk8

Wait til he starts asking for Big Beautiful Battle Ship Money

Could have if everything went perfectly, sure. As for gifting rivals, handing over the jet and the cavity magnetron etc to the US was simply the price Britain had to pay to keep its larger, stronger rival on side. Having a jet fighter in 1940 has no bearing on the gradual and decline of the Empire.

90% is abt the US, the rest is Europe. There's little voices from the global south. The significance of X/Twitter in the history of the internet is it was once a platform for activists from the global south to get global attention for their movements/revolutions. BlueSky will never be that, but X