The 7th estate
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@decolonizekant on twitter Still the 7th estate of the realm and even more committed to the bit
New video Sunday! This week we look at the material reasons for the exponential growth of Christianity from 200-300 CE youtu.be/bXf525KR3Uo
The Dawn of the Christian Era
YouTube video by Tribunate
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i believe jubilee and labubu and both demonic entities meant to sow discord and evil within this world
I've been to Kenosha within the last year. It seemed to be in fine shape.
Thomas Chatterton Williams@chatterton.bsky.social · last yr.I don’t care if you’re razing Kenosha, storming the Capitol, or doing whatever this is in LA, no democracy can function when every group and identity block decides it has the right and moral authority to take its specific political disagreements into the streets.
"people are biologically predisposed to racism because it helps keep them alive, chimpanzees kill other groups in the wild" counterpoint; bonobos have giant lesbian orgies upon encountering another group. we are more closely related to bonobos.
Joshua G. Schraiber@jgschraiber.bsky.social · 2y agoOr it could be that people are afraid of stuff that is different from them and it isn't a systemic operation to plant beliefs in people's minds. People can, you know, just be dumb and racist.
one thing that Democratic politicians should take note of is that the overlap between “great political optics” and “actual morally good stuff” is really big right now
Chapo does sometimes promote cynicism and quietism but it's honestly not their main thing. In fact they spend just as if not much more energy earnestly pushing for political change they clearly care deeply about.
Andy Vitek@avitek.bsky.social · 2y agoThe left cannot purge the Chapo brainrot fast enough. It turns out that caring about stuff, even when it's cringe, is in fact good.
I knew a guy in high-school who told me both his grandfathers fought for the nazis and he tried telling me about how his grandparents didn't know about the Holocaust they just wanted to defend Germany from communism. Even at the time I thought it was an insane thing to say.
🌈💙Love for All💙🌈@stoporangefascism.bsky.social · 2y agoMy grandfather fought against the Soviets in WW2. No. Full stop.
It really does turn out that all the women stuff was loadbearing.
The Alternate Histoween 🎃@althistorian.bsky.social · 2y agoI had no idea we needed DEI to prevent the accidental exposure of secret war plans.
I absolutely fucking destroyed the DA. Not guilty on what would’ve been two strike convictions. Violation of probation discharged. Δ walked out a free man one hour later.
☾ Lunar Soviet Socialist Republic ☭@lunarssr.bsky.social · 2y agoTrial tomorrow. Skating along the razor’s edge of madness tonight.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_c... there's already a Wikipedia page.
Trump coup - Wikipedia
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I am so tired of AI overviews giving blatantly incorrect information. Zheng Yi lived over a hundred years after the Ming ended.
Just looked at the city alderperson election in the area where I live it's an incumbent who talked about global warming, affordable housing, keeping a library open, racial justice as stuff he cares about. The challenger supports lower taxes and opposes "overdevelopment". Not sure who's better...
Fuck it! Lib mode activated! The watchword that must be on all our lips in the face of Trump's assaults on the rule of law: 就算誅十族，奈我何！
Genuinely these past few months have been the most brazen attacks on the rule of law in American history since IDK the civil war? And yeah there have been lots of other assaults that led here, but just wow.
Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social · 2y agoRidiculous.
giving three Pinocchios to claims Trump might not follow the constitution because he said he would.
Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social · 2y agoRidiculous.
"and many others" is wild because he's talking about rescinding pardons, "which other pardons?"
Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social · 2y agoRidiculous.
Annoying lefty infighting doesn’t hold a candle to the millions and millions of dollars in dark money + institutional support that right wing content creators get. This is how they pipeline. They admit this is how they pipeline. They’ve been saying this for 10+ years let’s be real
Please don't post stuff on social media that you couldn't explain to a judge.
Anil Dash@anildash.com · 2y agoEvery person on Bluesky should know: * Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever * Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies * Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured * Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic www.404media.co/the-200-site...
Every person on Bluesky should know: * Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever * Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies * Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured * Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic www.404media.co/the-200-site...
The 200+ Sites an ICE Surveillance Contractor is Monitoring
404 Media has obtained the list of sites and services that ICE contractor ShadowDragon pulls data from. ShadowDragon sources data from all over the web and lets government analysts easily search it an...
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Jeff Sharlet@jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 2y agoAnecdotal, but I'm definitely noticing an uptick in advocacy for violence here. About which I'll say only this: Promoting violence on social media is the work of trolls and fools, those eager to bait others into implicating themselves in the age of surveillance or fools rushing to the gulag.
Teaching these guys about the differences between backgammon and portes.
onion person@junlper.beer · 2y agoi’m losing my shit at this
Not to be an asshole but of course Caesar never said that, why would Caesar have ever said that? It would make no sense. His family of Caesar within the Julii gens was notable but not remarkably so and it would be bizarrely self referential Also Cesare Borgia didn't singlehandedly inspire the Prince
Jay 🦋@jay.bsky.team · 2y ago“Aut Caesar, aut nihil” was not actually said by Caesar himself. It was the personal motto of Cesare Borgia, a ruthless Italian nobleman who inspired Machiavelli’s The Prince. en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cesare_...
A mix of banning stuff that never happened once anywhere, stuff that a few kids do that's harmless, and stuff that every small child has done multiple times.
gwen howerton@kissphoria.bsky.social · 2y agoThe "F.U.R.R.I.E.S ACT" bill from Stan Gerdes (R-Smithville) would prohibit "non-human behavior" in Texas schools, including but not limited to: -Litterboxes -Tails -"Leashes, collars, other accessories designed for pets" -"Barking, meowing, hissing, or other animal noises" -"licking oneself"
