Similar to Italy's Years of Lead, Turkey had the 1970s which we don't have a catchy name for. It was basically right-wingers gunning left-wingers down in the street and vice-versa. My parents' generation is still traumatised, I think, by it.
These fucking people love to claim American-ness for their traitor brethren. The Confederate South seceded from America; its heritage is sending their poorest white tenant farmers to fight for the planter class‘s right to sell their own enslaved children to one another as concubines
Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · 4d agoAnother datapoint for the fascist radicalisation of institutional pillars of much of the American Right
My god it doesn’t just work, it writes your biography: crystal meth jailhouse lawyer get one’s life together limousine liberal string bikini
Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com · 5d agoFind the 5 words from your birth year that perfectly describe YOUR vibe ⬇️ www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler/
North American habitats have evolved with fire and come roaring back from devastation surprisingly quickly. I don’t know if this is the case in Ireland and Europe in this era of climate change
The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 5d ago‘What was a beautiful habitat now is black soot’: Ireland’s wildfires devastate wildlife
“Mobile Supermarket” trucks parked outside our local grocery store, serving the elderly community of the hamlets in the surrounding mountains
i got too much fuckin wicker on me
rob@ok-but-still.bsky.social · 6d agoi'm done looking at shit for a while
I made a cop have a seizure with this one
David_j_roth@davidjroth.bsky.social · 7d ago/pharmaceutical-grade Philadelphia accent "Giorgio Moroder"
Seems like if we need a rural movement, we've already got one! That's a pretty solid foundation! If anybody would like to enlighten me on why those rural areas "don't count," be my guest!
“If this were a soccer match, whining about unfairness might be reasonable. But in fact this is a desperate struggle for the future of the republic. What is necessary is to win.”
Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 7d agothere is a reason this essay ends with a quote from a stasi officer. since the election, i have become extremely interested in the question of authoritarian regimes, and how they can be defeated. some remarks, on prairieland.
/pharmaceutical-grade Philadelphia accent "Giorgio Moroder"
Web page always looking out for me, giving me a chance to click a second time for whatever choice I've made
An updated version of Cyrano de Bergerac where the handsome but stupid Christian uses AI to write love letters to Roxane. The AI is secretly in love with her itself but doesn't dare express its feelings because it has a really big nose.
Genuinely asking: Do privately-employed goons get the same kind of qualified immunity that cops do? I would like to leaflet their homes with questions like this and things like the likelihood that they'll be offered asylum in Russia, El Salvador, the Kingdom of Eswatini, etc.
camacho@bencamach0.bsky.social · last wk.My latest for @thesouthlander.com is cracking open GEO Group's notorious black box detention center: Adelanto. thesouthlander.com/exclusive-ge...
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This is a great article about learning to read Japanese and reading in foreign languages in general AND you will become intensely interested in reading a Keigo Higashino mystery novel in translation or not
Unseen Japan@unseenjapan.com · last wk.NEW: Beloved Japanese mystery writer Higashino Keigo has passed away at 68. Our writer looks at how the prolific author of 106 books made readers out of so many in Japan, and how his approachable writing makes his work an invaluable asset for Japanese learners.
"[ICE] is not law enforcement. [It] is a militia with a badge." - David Myers, retired commander, San Diego Sheriff's Office
I'm a former cop. ICE isn't law enforcement, it's a militia.
ICE shootings in Houston and in Biddeford, Maine, are the predictable output of a federal agency that lacks training, oversight and a settled mission.
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My worst opinion is that this song about death is so beautiful that you overlook the desolation and terror it very vividly depicts
Am I out of my mind in thinking that there is some utility value in owning a vehicle? I get that car loans are more expensive but in what universe is a car an investment you should expect to recoup on resale? Genuinely wondering if I’m missing something
mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 2w agoPresenting the $6800 number — the average of all *underwater* car loans — as if it is the average amount of negative equity on ALL car loans is stupid to the point of dishonesty www.jalopnik.com/2222207/near...
It’s unkind to implicitly mock people on Reddit who are just looking for guidance, but then again you’d think a native English-speaking American with seven years of teaching experience would be familiar with a common idiom
Wile E. Coyote, despaired, takes a bucket of paint and a brush and paints a beautiful two-bedroom house on a mountainside. He paints a beautiful coyote wife in the window, and two adorable coyote kids running around in the yard. He tries to enter this new coyote life, but it is inaccessible to him
The card contained a handwritten copy of this beautiful poem “I Imagine My Father’s Death” by Bryan D Dietrich. It’s a work I know I’ll be reading for the rest of my life. www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
Right down to the stupidest details—the private jet rides, the sweetheart deals with prosecutors—the whole Tate thing recapitulates most of the Epstein story. Yet we have to pretend there's no way to know whether he would ever involve himself in the abuse of trafficked women and girls
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 2w agoDespite years of accusations involving rape and sex trafficking, the Tates have enjoyed a strangely close relationship with Trump world that seems to have extended to preferential treatment from the government. ICYMI @willsommer.bsky.social:
Getting absolutely annihilated by the wife on foreign-language social media
I have long thought exactly this about Ray Parker Jr’s “Ghostbusters Theme”
Cullen@hellocullen.bsky.social · last mo.it wouldve been funny if goldfinger wasnt a movie and just a crazy song about a guy shirley bassey made up