nostalgia is the most dangerous drug there is

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · yesterday

So this is basically one of the entry points to becoming a reactionary

With the caveat that this is all off the cuff, sure

John Herreid@herreidjohn.bsky.social · 18h ago

1 like = 1 book question

Let’s see what this is about

Ana 🤘🏻@anageorge.art · 2d ago

1 like = 1 completely dull mundane fact about me

www.404media.co/what-is-the-... This bill seems incredibly stupid and destructive, but I hate the lib tendency to pretend there can possibly be anything benign or positive about porn. All porn and all “sex work” is exploitative to everyone involved, full stop.

The SCREEN Act is a Christian Nationalist Nightmare

Mike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the arc...

404media.co

Honestly, filtering for, "the Nazis were bad, Stalin was bad, the correct side won WWII" is the easiest way to filter out 90+% of bad faith interlocutors if only everyone was honest about their views but the fascists and tankies know this and so sometimes falsify their opinions strategically.

Secretary of Defense Rock@sodrock.bsky.social · 2d ago

WWII propaganda is good actually

WWII propaganda is good actually

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · last wk.

"Debates over World War II became popular at Heritage, with a lot of “rehashing and going through who was the bad guy and who were the good guys,”" Also, sounds like a lot of anti-Semitism at the Heritage Foundation. Maybe Trump's task force on anti-Semitism could look into this!

The fish in Cat in the Hat repeatedly violates Seuss’s law which is why our age of nonsense rhyme is collapsing

Just thinking about how cool it is that my favorite historian/podcaster gets to share a name with a more famous namesake who is Spider-Man; The @tastinghistory.bsky.social YouTuber I like to watch, on the other hand ...

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 4d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "These are incredibly serious criminal accusations. If these accusations were true, I would be in jail — I would be. My former wife would not have been offering to cook me dinner and inviting me to playgrounds. Think about that."

I think it’s cool that Disney is so committed to showing us what is unique and special about the medium of animation that they keep making cautionary live-action versions of their animated films so we can compare and contrast.

Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers is hard to beat. Of course that’s followed by Exile on Main Street, Goats Head Soup, It’s Only Rock ‘n Roll.

Gavin (who is back in town)@11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 3d ago

If The River was a little better, The River/Nebraska/Born In The USA (Bruce) would work. For me, Sigh No More/Babel/Wilder Mind (Mumford) is pretty excellent. Transatlanticism/Plans/Narrow Stairs (Death Cab) is top 17 at least. Her Majesty/Picaresque/Crane Wife (Decemberists) is top 22 at least.

KennyGPT

Reading in ”Balkan Ghosts” about Greece’s dickhead criminal-and-criminality-loving demagogue Papandreou his pathetic sycophant party PASOK, and it’s a very familiar dynamic to a certain man and a certain party

restoring world borders to 1580 based on 10 seconds of looking at a map seems like a bad idea

Seems the most relevant question in this case, as so many others, is “what do the people who live there now want?” “Population and land transfers to resume the status quo hundreds of years ago” is bad news for a lot of places. (Currently reading a book about the Balkans)

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 4d ago

What if I told you that the foreign colonial power in Ceuta is… Spain. No, seriously, it’s true. Spain is a country in Europe, not Africa. It conquered a bunch of places years ago. The Spanish Armada, conquistadors, etc. Look it up. They lost most of those holdings, but still retain some in Africa.

Saw the Odyssey this week and it was really good with some excellent performances. The dialogue was a bit silly at times, but other than that, great experience imo. Elon Musk is braindead idiot, but I also don’t really care what experts like Emily Wilson think either.

My father-in-law is a graphic designer. He is insanely gifted. We were looking at a craft fair poster made with WordArt and I asked him what it would cost to make it today. I will never forget his answer… “We can’t, we don’t know how to do it.”

Even better it was my grandpa‘s 1960 edition (I was born in 1982).

S. Kramer@libraryephemera.bsky.social · 7d ago

Were you a child who read The World Book Encyclopedia for fun?

Our age of zuck is collapsing

A PHOTO ID IS NOT PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP I love the game of “are these people really this stupid or are they lying because they know their audience is”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7d ago

Rep. John McGuire on need for the SAVE America Act: "You can't go anywhere, you can't get medicine, you can't go to the Obama museum without a photo ID."

I think the biggest story and the more consequential reality is that 30% of the country is ride or die for a malignant narcissist whose policy on everything is “make it worse”. Nixon 2, W. Bush 2, etc. polled lower, but neither of them approached these levels of incompetence and corruption.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 7d ago

Trump absolutely cratering by many metrics in new CNN poll: 66% say he puts himself over country 61% disapprove of ballroom, arch, etc 57% say lacks sharpness to serve (!) 73% say he's out of touch w/regular people (!!) His personalist project is over. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2137...

Blueskyism is a discourse about a pilot program of city-subsidized groceries leading to dumbasses earnestly defending food stores in the Soviet Union and asserting that bread lines exist in America akshually.

Spending my day LARPing a popular European PC game* *pressure washing the outside of my house

christian right guy who insists that the golden rule was invented by hillel and jesus had nothing to do with it

Funny that foreign right wing conspiracists are doing the whole ”omnipotent and purposeful Democrats” thing

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last wk.

Javier Milei accuses US Democrats of financing ‘anti-Argentina campaign’ at World Cup

Hell yeah 3.5 hour long gritty CGI epic "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner"

Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.

Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now

*Don Draper voice*: Imagine that there’s a man from Nantucket.

Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.

Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now

It's still easy to dismiss as slop, actually. Always will be.

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · last wk.

Until recently, AI fiction has been easy to dismiss as slop—but not anymore, @willoremus.com writes. He reports on how “Daggermouth,” a best-selling romance novel, is raising uncomfortable questions about the future of writing: theatln.tc/AkahoImx

Does anyone know if it’s possible to repair/restore stemware if the bowl itself is not broken? And if so, what kind of person I’d have to contact? I have some etched champagne flutes from our wedding and I shattered the stem years ago, but the actual etched bowl is still intact.

Just saw some classic Blueskyism in the wild. “Erm, why are immigrants still even trying to immigrate to this capitalist hellscape?”

The problem with all of this is that I just don’t think ”The Nazis win WW2 and stay in power for much longer than the rest of the decade” is utterly implausible on its face. “The Nazis conquer Britain and *North America*” is pure fantasy.

Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 2w ago

Absolutely none of the “what if the Nazis had won WW2” hypotheticals really got how *nuts* things would have got, I think.