Thousands to blame for their own deaths

@kotonoaware.bsky.social

Stop description now

"Trump e seus capangas fascistas são um horror, precisamos dos centristas sensatos pra nos salvar" Os centristas sensatos: "e se a gente deixasse todo mundo morrer de fome pra aumentar o 2o orçamento militar do mundo?"

John Clarke@johncke.bsky.social · 3d ago

We are facing an international drive to create a #wareconomy, bringing with it austerity, growing authoritarianism and the the deadliest forms of global rivalry.

Headline in Financial Times calls for going from welfare state to warfare state.

Already noticed some AAA games from the last few years slipping in quality due to the attack on labourers by the wealthy class and uh... I think gamers need to know it's gonna keep deteriorating in small ways, not a big bang Games will still drop for a while, but they'll be quietly worse

This is a story about the President and several of his hand-picked appointees all committing crimes and blatantly lying to the public while stealing public funds and abusing the criminal justice system, but the NYTimes describes the situation like they're recapping a soap opera.

Larry Glickman@larryglickman.bsky.social · 4d ago

Another example of the problem with the fixation with Trump’s putative emotions: here a story about the Trump administration’s corruption, incompetence, and venality is framed as one about Trump’s “wrath.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/u...

They have explicitly said they want to control the flow of knowledge. This is ACTUALLY an idea landlord, not an author wanting to be paid for their labor. Why might a private company destroy a book with few existing copies? The answer is certainly not the rights of readers. You’re the product.

"Modern vernacular fantasy ideas get read backwards into a text that is perceived as having originated them but which doesn’t really contain them" is such a good way to put that phenomenon, holy shit. I've always wanted to find the right way to articulate that point.

Thread from tom Kilian (@tomkilianart.bsky.social) about how hobbit adaptations diverge from the source material in weird ways