If all of those 40k moroccans wanted to and could and did enter the schengen area, this wouldn't matter one bit or be felt at all in a *half a billion* strong european community. This was just a coordinated media attack on spain for that one obvious reason that's irrelevant to migration.
"blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame. blessed is the flame that burns in the secret fastness of the heart. blessed is the heart with strength to stop its beating for honor’s sake. blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame." —hannah senesh, jewish partisan fighter
Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · 3w agoFellow prisoners also managed to smuggle in gunpowder in small packets sewn into their clothing until the Sonderkommandos had enough powder to blow up one of the crematorium buildings. The incredible bravery of these Jewish prisoners, who knew they were doomed.
Very interesting Benn Steil essay on the maintenance of a global, rules-based order. www.cfr.org/articles/dra...
Why Rules-Based Orders Fail | Council on Foreign Relations
For a brief period after the Cold War, Americans persuaded themselves that the liberal order had become self-sustaining. And yet, any rules-based system elaborate enough to govern and interpret its ow...
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“If one of us dies, I’m moving to Paris” This is a joke that Freud used. We are aware of the reality of death, but this knowledge does not change the fact that we actually behave as if it were otherwise. That is how disavowal works. And that is what this thread will be about! 🧵⬇️
holy shit bsky has a water sealant expert that predicted the reflecting pool failure mode perfectly
The Monarch Diaries@monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 3mo agoThey're using Rhino Pipeliner 5000, which freezes as sprayed-on curds almost exactly as it hits the surface. Won't flow out, flatten, and self-level like standard epoxy or paint would. Under standing water, the orange peel texture is a perfect scaffolding for algae, bacteria, and general bio scum
Find someone who believes in you like oil markets believe in the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.
Oil Prices Fall as U.S.-Iran Talks Show Signs of Progress
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Bluesky overrun by British teenagers at night because it's the one place the Labour government will never check.
Because I love making charts, here's one tracing general influences on the development of patriarchal institutions, and why large livestock particularly incentivize patriarchy
Doc Vivi Leandra【 VTC 】- Real-Life Scientist VTuber 🧬🖥️@docvivileandra.bsky.social · 3mo agoI think it's funny how much of my "real-world anthropology/agronomy applied to fantasy worldbuilding" threads have turned into "dairy is the original sin" Like it's almost funny how many shitty human behaviors can be traced to the keeping of large mammalian livestock
This was the original promise of social media. Dudes rock. We have fallen so far.
I still think these two paragraphs from Ganz are the most important contemporary political writing
This means he logged in as his mother to say that he was not allowed to cage fight Zuckerberg
Best of Dying Twitter@bestofdyingtwit.bsky.social · 3mo ago
You are a skilful and trusted vizier. You will advise me wisely on how best to rule the kingdom. You will not scheme or plot. You will not inveigle my other courtiers into turning against me. You will not lie to me about scheming or plotting. If you scheme or plot against me, you have to tell me,
so here's the thing, this is true of octopuses but it's also true of most living things in the sea that humans murder en masse. fish are remarkably intelligent, sensitive creatures, it just isn't widely known by internet dullards who get all their information from memes
Martyn@martynpedler.com · 3mo ago"The octopus on your plate can feel pain, delay gratification, and probably outthink a toddler. Just something to consider before you order."
Hard agree with rimidar on this. In fact, nothing has discredited wistful conservativism more to me than seeing people start to do it about times I lived through. Yeah the n64 was pretty dope when I was 10 years old, I guess; don't really think that should drive our immigration policy tho you loser.
rimidar@rimidar.au · 4mo agoI’m struggling to find an appropriate way to express my contempt for these kinds of ridiculous appeals to a highly subjective Arcadian vision of society as it was perceived to exist around the time that the person speaking was twelve years old and I really wish people would stop doing this
Almost 7 years later he finally has an answer and I think that’s beautiful
TVP World@tvpworld.bsky.social · 4mo agoA humanoid robot chasing wild boars through Warsaw has become Poland’s latest viral sensation. “Edward Warchocki” has racked up hundreds of millions of views as he patrols streets, chats with locals, and turns heads across the capital.
I'm hearing that on his deathbed President Trump received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the shahada
shes done this for a while lol people just didnt notice
Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 4mo agoThis account has 40,000 followers here and is taken seriously by a lot of people on the left. They are now directly arguing that Israel planned the antisemitic attack on Hatzolah ambulances in London this morning. This really fucking sucks!
“boo hoo i wish i went to Gay Fascist Hogwarts” thats the whole movement
"Every single person in my store is supportive and accepting of who I am, including my boss, the other managers, and every colleague in every part of the store. At times my workplace is the only safe space in my life which is a bit sad."
Kathy O'Donnell@kathyodonnell.bsky.social · 12mo agowww.reddit.com/r/transgende... Guess what? The story about the trans M&S employee and the bra fitting is a pack of lies and distortions. Want to know what really happened and how colleagues stood up for her? Read her own account here.
We’ve turned meaning-making into a problem-solving exercise: Religion is good for social cohesion; parenthood is good for demographics; friendship is good for mental health. Everything is instrumental. Everything is part of a control strategy.
One of my very best Internet friends, whom I've known since 2017, @atheopagan.bsky.social, has passed away. I will miss her dearly.
@atheopagan.bsky.social was a dear friend of mine. She was a brilliant and insightful, if some times cantankerous, philisophical sparring partner who really helped me get through a chromic illness that disabled me for much of the last year. I am deeply saddened by her loss and will miss her a lot.
Icelyn Jennings@icelynjennings.bsky.social · last yr.I'm sad to inform many dear friends that Gab (@atheopagan.bsky.social) has passed away. If you can spare it, please join me in helping their sister Amanda with funeral costs and assistance with emptying the apartment. Thank you. gofund.me/f2960acc
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx29... this bbc documentary about the paris heat wave that killed 3000 people in a day permanently shook me as to how deadly heat really is. and how underrated as a danger. i lived through this but it didnt even hit me until i saw the doc!
Extreme Heat Kills Thousands in Paris | Disasters | BBC Studios
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🥑🗽🏗🏘️ Na₂Ca(CO₃)₂•5H₂O@gaylussite.himbonomics.com · last yr.All you need to know about the importance of air conditioning for climate change summers via @jburnmurdoch.ft.com
guy getting briefed on 'opération satanique': «excuse-moi, vi are se gud guys, no?»
Stephen Schwartz@atomicanalyst.bsky.social · last yr.40 years ago tonight in Auckland, New Zealand (July 10, local time), French secret agents—in an elaborate covert operation codenamed Satanique—used two limpet mines to sink the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior before it could return to Mururoa Atoll to protest French nuclear testing there.
