why? when we already have bluesky??

If a person can't choose between a candidate who wants to kill them, and a candidate who thinks it's fair to limit their participation in some sports based on fairness to the other athletes, maybe that person isn't worth engaging politically.

"Palestinians have a right to freedom, and also Israelis have a right to not be killed in Palestinian terrorist attacks" is too complicated a position for social media.

Reupping this one because of today's car-juice news.

chazhoosier.bsky.social@chazhoosier.bsky.social · last mo.

A common ratbag progressive gambit on Bsky is, when they can't really make a credible rebuttal of another person's point, to accuse them of also being racist, as if two silly character attacks equal a serious one.

The cupboard is officially bare.

George Pearkes@peark.es · 2d ago

Diesel new highs, China crude making new record premiums vs Brent, backwardation accelerating, tanker rates exploding. All of this suggests the crude market is tightening rapidly because China has stopped relying on strategic draws. Much more impt than the US SPR if it sustains.

Japanese culture is funny because it loves using English words for things that already have perfectly fine Japanese words. Why get a book about making 紳士服 with 易しい 原型 when you can get the book "Sutandaado Menzu Wuea" with "Shimpuru Dezain" (standard menswear with simple designs)?

I hate to sound like a boomer blaming all my problems on avocado toast, but I really have been saving a lot of money just having leftovers or sandwiches from home for lunch every day.

This is seismic news for fisheries scientists. Northern cod is *the* iconic symbol of total fisheries collapse due to overfishing (and other factors) *and* the iconic symbol of a complete failure to recover for decades afterwards. This is like announcing the complete recovery of bison on land.

UBC Oceans@ubcoceans.bsky.social · last wk.

For the first time in over 30 years, Newfoundland and Labrador’s Northern cod stock has been deemed “healthy” by Ottawa. www.canadianaffairs.news/2026/09/05/i...

This is like arguing that a man is decent if he marries a woman after raping her.

Gashin fan account🇦🇷@tezukapilot.bsky.social · last wk.

After transfer of effective sovereignty over the islands the argentinian goverment must guarantee full respect for their human rigths and make them full citizents, with no discrimination against them. And not cause disruption in their lives.

This is the perfect example of the Argentinian mindset. Argentina's problems aren't Argentina's fault, it's ~the Jews~ who are to blame!

Gashin fan account🇦🇷@tezukapilot.bsky.social · last wk.

We could be the wealthiest country in South America, but first we must get rid of the USA and Israel occupation goverment we have, topple Milei as soon as possible, defeat the oligarchy and get rid of the judiciary clique and the corporate press.

The median Argentinian:

Gashin fan account🇦🇷@tezukapilot.bsky.social · last wk.

Ok, as a general rule I condemn dictatorships. Human rigths are universal and inherit, and human rigths violations must be condemned. However I will recognize I don't like liberal democracy and there are few dictators I like. For example the paraguayan hero Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia.

The persistent problem with the Argentinian mindset from the start has been that they love dictators and love it when dictators blame all their self-imposed problems on the UK.

Gashin fan account🇦🇷@tezukapilot.bsky.social · last wk.

Also UK occupation of those islands is seen a threat. For example our former president Cristina Kirchner, widow of Néstor Kirchner, our best president in the last 50 years, refered to UK occupation of those islands as a military threat to South America

It's genuinely funny that Argentina feels that "GIMME GIMME MINE MINE WAAAAH!" is a serious argument.

Hong Kong Free Press HKFP@hongkongfp.com · last wk.

Argentine President Javier Milei has called for a Hong Kong-style Handover of the disputed Falklands from the UK. In full: buff.ly/0a8l1Ym Photo: Screenshot & GovHK.

I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the Kingdom of Benin:

I mean “Don’t punch left” is absolute loser shit. It’s literally just “it’s not fair for you to criticise us, we’re the ones who criticise you”. People should be embarrassed to say it.

There is, however, quite a strong pattern of people who want to steal and/or kill seizing on to “I am vaguely oppressed” as a pretext for their bloodlust. A pattern which is unfortunately very visible on this very website

What if people in modern society increasingly lack phenomenal consciousness?

For the record, this very same bill is about to come due in the US pretty soon. I think the Left in the US is going to have to accept that a major expansion of the welfare state just isn't possible until we make some deeply painful policy changes.

We really should get ready for independent voters to completely forget how bad Republicans were the second we get a Democratic president.

I know we're working on the 2026 Senate elections, but the 2028 map looks fine for Democrats: a couple possible pickups, most of the rest look pretty safe:

It's the same with the Soviet lifestyle so admired by tankies. It's very easy to get a grey job, eat a grey diet, and live in a grey studio apartment with your whole family. Live your Communist dreams right here in decadent Capitalist America!

He got mad because I pointed out the sheer coincidence that the organization he thinks controls the world is Jewish:

One of the big reasons I find it so hard to take Bsky Leftists seriously is that they have no concept of self-sacrifice in their ideology. It's always ~someone else~ that will have to pay for their revolution.

Jesus, the images out of Nepal are so horrific I thought they were AI.

How are we still having Harry Potter/TERF discourse in the Year of our Lord 2026? By this I mean, how is a children's book that came out 30 years ago still getting so much attention and money that its author's beliefs about gender matter to anyone?

Is a printer that just prints when I tell it to print too much to ask?

"Medicare for All!" is just an empty slogan from people who think there is One Simple Trick to getting free healthcare.

Nostalgia for American cities in the 80's and 90's is crazy, man. Sure, housing was more affordable, they were also bankrupt, rotting away, and overrun with crime. There is such thing as too much local character!