Faine Greenwood
@faineg.com
civilian drone technology and GIS/spatial data consultant, journalist and writer, monitors small drones in the Ukraine war, humanitarian-aid adjacent, always annoying online. they/them pronouns. read my newsletter: https://little-flying-robots.ghost.io
as i keep saying we use "bad boyars" as shorthand for trumpers blaming other people and the actual czarist thing you do when you run out of bad boyars is to blame the jews
Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 7h agoBy 2028, the entire country is going to broadly regard Trump as a failure, which means the nationalist right is going to need to find a villain who betrayed Trumpism. And it is going to be very convenient to blame it on Israel for supposedly forcing Trump into the Iran War.
This is true. If Gen Z wants to look like millennials having a jam session in the common area of a tech startup, they need denim that fits like pantyhose and makes them look like blue footed boobies.
Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · 3h agotbh I’m not gonna believe the Gen Z millennial optimism costume-wearers are *really* committing to the bit until they start putting on incredibly tight primary-colored skinny jeans
omnishambles incompetence, man, these people are completely unqualified to do their jobs and are, at this point, not even really trying to pretend otherwise
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2h agoBessent: "Vice President Vance was unable to make it today:"
this is a downstream effect of the actual decision-makers in this administration being an extremely small group of intensely loyal idiots who don't know anything and won't learn and whose sole skill is kissing trump's ass. everything else is just sort of cruising and losing altitude
like, not even a 9/11 or katrina scale crisis, even something like a hurricane sandy or andrew is going to rip a whole bunch of things apart at the seams because they've so thoroughly damaged capacity, funding, leadership and command
we are going to be extremely, extraordinarily lucky if we get out of this administration without facing a major acute crisis (i'm specifying acute to separate this from the many major, ongoing, slower-moving crises they've already caused)
🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃@golikehellmachine.com · 2h agothis is a downstream effect of the actual decision-makers in this administration being an extremely small group of intensely loyal idiots who don't know anything and won't learn and whose sole skill is kissing trump's ass. everything else is just sort of cruising and losing altitude
Had to take the 12yo to school cause he couldn’t really carry his backpack and I wanted to make sure my borb (black-capped chickadee) could manage stairs safely. 🐡🪶
Exactly! It dovetails with another comment I made elsewher about how a study years ago showed that Norway had a higher rate of entrepreneurship per capita than the U.S., precisely because the social safety net vastly reduced the downside personal financial risk It literally makes people flourish!
Some discourse around the Phoenix Symphony shuttering its season unexpectedly has been folks glad we're punishing rich people and it's been profoundly sad to see.
Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · 22h agoIt deeply disturbs me how many otherwise liberal and leftist people are willing to just accept a future where only the children of the wealthy can pursue the arts. That’s bullshit. We can do better than that.
I've always found it fascinatingly backwards that for a country where Shakespeare, The Beatles, David Hockney, etc, are seen as cultural totems we see anyone working in the arts as not having a real job and see funding the arts as a waste of money.
also I want to see Gen Z millennial costumes featuring dresses worn over tight jeans, that’s a really crucial detail
No one in Gen Z is actually brave enough to wear v-necks as deep as the ones I used to buy from Urban Outfitters
Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · 3h agotbh I’m not gonna believe the Gen Z millennial optimism costume-wearers are *really* committing to the bit until they start putting on incredibly tight primary-colored skinny jeans
there was a brief bell bottoms revival in the 90s when I was in like third grade - I’m legit kinda surprised they haven’t come around again since.
Mr. Unenthusiastic Spookytime Grift@djdunclive.bsky.social · 3h agoEh, I'm just waiting for the cyclical return of the dreaded Bell Bottoms.
If you're not wearing painted-on-skin-tight burgundy jeans with a Lenny Kravitz-esque giant scarf, you're not committed to the bit.
Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · 3h agotbh I’m not gonna believe the Gen Z millennial optimism costume-wearers are *really* committing to the bit until they start putting on incredibly tight primary-colored skinny jeans
our future should be filled with hilarious people whose parents don't have blue wikipedia links
Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · 22h agoIt deeply disturbs me how many otherwise liberal and leftist people are willing to just accept a future where only the children of the wealthy can pursue the arts. That’s bullshit. We can do better than that.
tbh I’m not gonna believe the Gen Z millennial optimism costume-wearers are *really* committing to the bit until they start putting on incredibly tight primary-colored skinny jeans
I feel confident there is a big correlation between “voting in every election” and “volunteering and organizing in other ways.” I am also confident “not voting” correlates a lot with “NOT volunteering or organizing.” Yet some keep claiming voting makes you MORE likely to not do anything else.
It was sort of a joke on tiktok in 2024 that every election abstainer also claimed to have been doing mutual aid work when they were called out for their inaction
Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · yesterdayI feel confident there is a big correlation between “voting in every election” and “volunteering and organizing in other ways.” I am also confident “not voting” correlates a lot with “NOT volunteering or organizing.” Yet some keep claiming voting makes you MORE likely to not do anything else.
“It’s our state. There’s nothing we can do about *that*. It’s ours, and it’s incredibly dangerous. We absolutely have an affirmative duty to minimize the harm it can do, where we can, and to not let our wish it did even less harm and more good to get in the way of that.”
A short history of the democracy and the state - Lawyers, Guns & Money
So I was trying to have a discussion/argument with Henry Farrell on twitter, which was primarily useful for reminding me how much I dislike twitter. I’m still trying to make sense of where he’s comin...
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It goes the other way too. I tried to philosophize myself out of engaging with electoral politics in 2021 (it was a dark time) but mentors and working to organize people around doing good things brought me back to voting as the easiest, best, non-violent way to change things. You gotta vote!
Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · yesterdayI feel confident there is a big correlation between “voting in every election” and “volunteering and organizing in other ways.” I am also confident “not voting” correlates a lot with “NOT volunteering or organizing.” Yet some keep claiming voting makes you MORE likely to not do anything else.
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Picard Song
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Most of our society has bought the lie that arts jobs aren't real jobs, don't require advanced skills, and don't meaningfully contribute to economic output or social welfare.
Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · 22h agoIt deeply disturbs me how many otherwise liberal and leftist people are willing to just accept a future where only the children of the wealthy can pursue the arts. That’s bullshit. We can do better than that.
It deeply disturbs me how many otherwise liberal and leftist people are willing to just accept a future where only the children of the wealthy can pursue the arts. That’s bullshit. We can do better than that.
Jessica Ritchey@jmritchey.bsky.social · 24h agoIf you want more Patrick Stewarts, then you publicly fund the arts and learning programs, so that working class kids can find their way into making a career in them.
Look, there are legitimate reasons for not voting and if you don't then that's your right - but at least don't constantly and loudly argue online that "voting is evil".
Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · yesterdayI feel confident there is a big correlation between “voting in every election” and “volunteering and organizing in other ways.” I am also confident “not voting” correlates a lot with “NOT volunteering or organizing.” Yet some keep claiming voting makes you MORE likely to not do anything else.
bars can be sued into oblivion if they get someone shitfaced who then goes on to kill someone while DUI
Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · yesterdayOh, we talking about Ian Bremmer, Mr. “i don't accept the argument that if you cut foreign aid-even valuable, well targeted foreign aid (which some of usaid was)-you're responsible for killing people”? That Ian Bremmer?
