Michael Parenti
@exiledsurfer.bsky.social
Not my first social media rodeo, probably not the last one either.
Sometimes I see something in nature and then spend the next several years waiting for the shot. Sometimes I never get it. Sometimes you see it and a week later you land it: I give you tonight's murder of crows in front of the sunset. 🪶
christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times
futute generations will look back on people in ice "uniform" the way previous generations looked back on photos of german national socialist trops; the only difference being the lack of faces for identification.
The Intercept@theintercept.com · 4w agoICE is issuing a new nationwide policy mandating a dress code for field operations. The policy, shared with The Intercept by a DHS whistleblower and confirmed by multiple ICE officers, details a new set of appearance standards aimed at making it easier for the public to recognize ICE officers.
This is where I'm about to be a killjoy: The appropriate behaviour is to put your fucking phone down and haze that bear. I'm talking banging pots, calling it a bad bear (seriously, it works, I don't know why), and letting it know it is not welcomed. b/c this below is how you make a dead bear.
Dom Ervolina@dominicervolina.com · last mo."Okay, your first mistake here is not letting the fire die out before putting the meat on the grill, but I honestly think your main issue is that you put a bear in charge of making the food."
one would think that an unpolluted, older source than existing translations would be of interest to theologists, right?
Isaac Samuel@rhaplord.bsky.social · last mo.*not-so-fun fact There is still no authoritative translation of the Ethiopian bible, more than 500 years after the outside world learned about it So it will be long before we get any translations of the hundreds of thousands of African manuscripts discovered in the last 30 yrs
the american process, designed for cotizen and internranch oversight being dismantled before your very eyes, completely captured. seems we can't even maintain a republic, let alone a democracy
Ken Morales@kbmorales.bsky.social · last mo.1/ I looked at 20 years of Supreme Court decisions and found that for the first time, all nine justices decided more cases by secret ballot — aka the “shadow docket” — than it did for cases argued in open court last term. 🧵:
Sargnagel immer so on point dass es schon fast unheimlich ist.
the cops just wanted her bbq ribs
b. supp@valhallabackgirl.bsky.social · 2mo agoAMERICA’S MEATHEART!!!!
sounds legit
Timothy Snyder@timothysnyder.bsky.social · 2mo agoIn this video, I say the obvious about Trump’s proposal to increase the military budget by nearly 50%: it’s a bribe to officers and soldiers so that they will side with him when he tries to overthrow the Constitution and stay in power indefinitely. snyder.substack.com/p/trumps-mil...
Basically all western governments have become criminal cartels run by socipaths and extracting anything they can in any way, and berift of any moral or ethical restraint. ansolute crazy times. complete and utter corruption and decay.
Everything has to change. Everything. Do not settle for politicians who want to go back to "normal." "Normal" was the garbage state of existence that allowed all of this evil to take root and thrive. Everything has to change.
MIT (endowment: $27B) shuttering three of its four main libraries is one of those news items that just knocks you off balance, auguring, as it does, profound and permanent changes to the entire institutional apparatus of higher education in this country.
eileen chengyin chow@chowleen.bsky.social · 3mo ago“I write with dismay, grief and sorrow for the permanent closure of MIT Libraries Barker, Dewey and Rotch, and termination of library staff in those libraries. For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..." fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...
so. much. THIS.
Cathy Davidson@cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 3mo agoI'm thinking about the late Aaron Swartz and copyright lawsuit US v. Swartz (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...) when he downloaded academic journals from JStor, presumably to make an open source archive. Felony? Fraud? And today ChatGPT, Anthropic, all LLMs can steal and remix everything?
🧵 The web is disappearing 🕳️ From Pew: 26% of pages from 2013-2023 are ☠️ A new study in VANISHING CULTURE gives hope: 16% have been restored through the Wayback Machine. 56% are preserved before they disappear. 📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE free from Internet Archive: archive.org/details/vani... ⬇️
Mixtapes lived in the margins of copyright and in the hearts of a generation. 🎧 What happens when the law forgets how culture actually works? A new post from Authors Alliance explores mixtapes, copyright & the policies that shape our cultural memory: authorsalliance.substack.com/p/i-made-you...
I made you a mixtape
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The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.
the awesome side of humanity
Daniel Pomarède@pomarede.bsky.social · 4mo agoIn case you missed it: first-person video footage of the U.S. Navy Divers Medical Team opening the hatch and entering inside the Orion Integrity capsule to meet the Artemis II heros U.S. Navy Courtesy Asset/ Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group One www.dvidshub.net/video/100269... #Artemis 🧪🔭
i've been on the internet for 40 years, and this is truly one of the wildest things i have ever seen, online, or offline
MachinePix@machinepix.bsky.social · 4mo agoBebe the parrot in a homemade scuba diving enclosure.
The fourth estate has become a flophouse tenant of the other three.