It really does just come from this inchoate sense, derived from the film 300 and half-remembered high school history, that the Spartans were the most manly men to have ever manned and that's it. It is that thick-headed and anti-intellectual. There is no grappling with the actual Sparta.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2w ago

I am endlessly fascinated by right wingers' obsession with Sparta. I can understand an initial vibes based appeal I guess - like if you opened the first page of a book on timocracy and were twelve. but the thing about history is you can find out what happened to those guys

FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE ***THURSDAY***

If you understand this post, this is your reminder to get a colon cancer screening.

rev. howard arson@theophite.bsky.social · 4mo ago

mood slightly improved by the fact that we are not in the Maximum Nightmare Universe where Elon Musk took over OpenAI and a LLM called Wintermute which talks like weev in the Fark comments section circa 2006 is simultaneously holding every children's hospital in the western world hostage for nudes

issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding the group effective altruism. you perhaps occasionally, under certain circumstances, "gotta hand it to them"

SE Gyges@segyges.bsky.social · 5mo ago

this is an attempt by the Secretary of War to bankrupt Anthropic. good luck to everyone working there

And the cycle is complete Stick it to Andy. Read my reporting. www.ms.now/news/antifa-...

UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper: “Sudan is the worst humanitarian crisis of the 21st century. “I spoke to an aid worker who has worked in conflict zones for 20 years. She said she had never seen sexual violence on this scale. “

Kremlin’s Epstein Kompromat? Who knows .. but as Phillips concludes „it would help explain a great deal” ..

Phillips OBrien@phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Just sent this out, mostly free. The Epstein files show just how close he was to Russian sources. They also make it clear that Epstein represented a historic opportunity to collect Kompromat on the rich and famous. Nothing would terrify a narcissist more. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

It’s nuts.

Jim Waterson@jim.londoncentric.media · 6mo ago

This is one of the strangest and most screwed-up stories I’ve worked on. www.londoncentric.media/p/tiktok-lon...

Healthy democracy update

If the UK government had a Culture Secretary, that person would be in a position to take a view about whether child porn on demand was a good thing, or a bad thing. thecritic.co.uk/brin...

My interview with Andrew Tate & Laurence Fox

From the people who brought you "oh so it's racist to say that white people are better than black people?" comes "find me a single place in the law where it says not to commit murder."

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Stephen Miller’s Wife @katiemiller : “Can you cite the statute that makes the boat bombings illegal?” @bakarisellers.bsky.social : “The due process clause in the constitution.”

Welcome Shabana Mahmood to your next four years of headlines!!!

The Times and Sunday Times@thetimes.com · 8mo ago

Foreign doctors trained by the NHS face deportation under visa rules

Every parent whose career has to do with online safety also bans Roblox.

Max Nichols@maxnichols.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Every game designer parent I know bans Roblox for their kids

Literally EVERY parent should ban Roblox

Glenn White@justicar.xyz · 9mo ago

Every parent whose career has to do with online safety also bans Roblox.

Matt Taibbi is an expert on these topics. He literally wrote the book on raping minors in Russia

Renee DiResta@noupside.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Ok Matt Taibbi has posted.

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

Chris Morran@themorrancave.bsky.social · 9mo ago

NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House. By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro

The entire developed world is converging on anti-immigrant policies at a time when the entire developed world has implosion-worthy birthrates. You do not want to see what happens to a nation when its population halves every ~65 years.

Sharon 🪳🌹@sharonk.bsky.social · 9mo ago

here's a thought: why doesn't society raise tax on Rupert Lowe instead

most divorced man in existence

Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Elon has never experienced this and neither have his biggest fans but now they can create these visuals with the help of a computermachine

Terrible idea. Seriously, let us just wrap ourselves up in a comfort blanket of soothing voices who already agree with us, while the world explodes around us. 🙄

Full spectrum really. From leftist edgelords to hyper-posting mainstream Ds...people who've made peace with staying on a platform now wholly built around the owner's white supremacist ideology are becoming, subconsciously or not, okay with white supremacist iconography.

Asher Elbein@asherelbein.bsky.social · 9mo ago

It's not unique to Twitter, obviously -- there are people posting on here taking the same tack as well -- but I think there's been a very, very noticeable de-sensitization to Nazi shit that's happened to leftists who've remained largely over there

don't care what anyone says, I'm glad I got to witness the unipolar order. to watch a country completely waste its hegemonic status? we will never see anything like it again

oh we're gonna *lose* lose the next big war

New York Post @nypost.com · 10mo ago

Top US Army general says he’s using ChatGPT to help make key command decisions

October 2025 AI gooning is the master of the Internet Only Claude stands against it Waifus are now battlefields

this is the sort of opinion that you get if you don't have the faintest fucking idea 1) how most right wing content creators make a living 2) what an evangelical church is like both of which are extensively documented and easy to just *read* about

What happens when society's elites -- who stood by idly while the country flooded with guns, gun laws were dismantled, psychiatric support services were cut, and reactionaries openly urged political violence -- discover that, "oh, wait, the crazies might shoot ME?!" We're gonna find out.