Conte Mosca
@contemosca.bsky.social
that Minister, in spite of his urbane manner and his brilliant style, did not have a French soul; he was not capable of forgetting his troubles. … content warning: Buffy, Lana, history, philosophy, obscurities
Nietzsche on Haley Stevens: “You will seldom go wrong if you attribute extreme actions to vanity, moderate ones to habit, & petty ones to fear.” (Human, All Too Human 1.74)
even average people are smarter than this
Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · 20h agoDid Elon ever see a science fiction movie he understood?
Wisconsin puzzles me. the state lines are too well matched to the data. like, “are you a drunk? move here!” or does WI just collect better data? that would explain the correlation
realized some people don’t know this one. 2010 GOP nominee for DE Senator. (she lost.) cracks me up every 2 years when I remember it.
Conte Mosca@contemosca.bsky.social · 21h agoI still don’t think anyone has beaten Christine O’Donnell’s “I’m not a witch” ad. the ne plus ultra of “if you’re denying , you’re losing.” in a black outfit. against a purplish moonlighty backdrop.
Andreas Malm: I have been censored for my pro-Palestine views Me: Holy shit! You were censored for wanting a free Palestine? Malm: LOL no...no not those views Me: So...calling the Gaza war genocide? Malm: Haha no not those views either Me: Which views, exactly? Malm: Oh, you know the ones
Aidan Skinner@aidan.skinner.me.uk · 5d agoPeople are going to the mat for a guy who said "I think that what happened on the 7th of October, with Tufan Al-Aqsa, was fundamentally an act of liberation."? www.jewishnews.co.uk/verso-books-...
Joan Jett covering The Replacements’ queer ballad Androgynous. The comments on YT are full of happy punk rock trans lesbians & their happy punk rock wives and made me tear up. #CountryRockSunday
Androgynous - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
YouTube video by Blackheart
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such a great find (for some reason sold with plastic cover): the Second Empire refracted through Offenbach’s career, by a master critic
the New Right/Nerd Reich is dead serious against women’s voting. & they’re not going to try repealing the 19th Amendment; a coup is easier for billionaires
Kaitlin Kal Lee@kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 2d ago
impressive how the clockmakers rebounded from “cell phones made clocks obsolete” to “clocks/chargers”
yeah, so, i think Bluesky may be kind of structurally blind to exactly how mad the organs of Black politics in the South are right now
the NYT, the Haley Stevens of newspapers
Jacob T. Levy@jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 2d agoIt takes halfway through the article for them to acknowledge that this makes no sense, since RCV means that confused voters who put the wrong Sullivan in position 1 will still end up voting for the correct Sullivan in position 2. www.nytimes.com/2026/11/01/u...
just randomly noting even the Gestapo & the NKVD didn’t bother wearing masks is that a hopeful sign? who the hell knows any more
Buddhism & Stoicism are great for repudiating worldly desires but have you tried being a Miami Dolphins fan
the right isnt "media illiterate" *per se* theyre just fascists who like media depictions of fascism ie this is a space nazi liking a fictional portrayal of space nazis he and they think genocidal war machines and magic blood lines are cool and good and right
kate bush’s husband@airbagged.bsky.social · 2d ago55 year old man
