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Nick Wright

@nickthewright.com

I make the webcomic Treading Ground (a raunchy romcom about broke people), videos, games, and burritos. I talk about Star Trek, lefty stuff, and old anime. he/they Comic! - https://treadingground.com NSFW! - https://patreon.com/treadingground

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Nick Wright@nickthewright.com · last mo.

Yes, permanent DST is not as good as permanent Standard Time. It's like getting the fish when you ordered the chicken. But the alternative is to continue eating the same shit sandwich year after year.

ompuco@ompu.co · 4mo ago

found a whole operation of unmanned youtube channels making completely unchecked long form slop videos where the ai voice simulacra regularly trips up & does this for a full ten minutes every time. all the very legit comments are like "NO! THATS NOT TRUE! YOU LIE HE DID NOT" & never acknowledge it.

Dr. Damien P. Williams is just… so tired.@wolven.blacksky.app · 5mo ago

People like trump should be the last ones out the door when we abolish prisons in favour of real justice systems; housing for all is actually much easier when you remove profit motive from the equation; university education should and could be free for all; nothing you need to live should cost money

Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢@taliabhatt.itch.io · 9mo ago

"my least woke opinion is---" That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania. Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.

Nick Wright@nickthewright.com · 6mo ago

Did not expect to find great bicycle infrastructure in a tiny town in South Carolina, but kudos to Edisto Beach. The whole town is easily accessible by bike, almost entirely through dedicated paths and bike lanes. Even where there's only a dirt road for cars!

A paved bike path alongside a dirt road in Edisto Beach, SC.
Nick Wright@nickthewright.com · 6mo ago

My read on it is that Star Trek shows us the future we could have, and Star Wars shows us how we'll have to fight to get there. But a lot of people somehow completely miss the strong antifascist overtones of Star Wars, and stop either at "lasersword battle cool" or worse, "government bad".

Screenshot of a social media poll post by user “the-unflappablewolf” asking, “Who would you trust more?” The poll shows two options: “total stranger in a star trek shirt?” with 94.5% and “total stranger in a star wars shirt?” with 5.5%. Below the poll it shows “99,421 Stimmen · Verbleibende Zeit: 2 Tage 23 Stunden.” Underneath, a verified user “thebaconsandwichofregret” comments, “No exaggeration, the vote split on this poll is hysterical.” Hashtags #polls and #lol appear at the bottom.
Dr. Damien P. Williams is just… so tired.@wolven.blacksky.app · 7mo ago

Please read this extremely thoughtful & careful post on Tim Walz, Anne Frank, & the US Holocaust Memorial Museum from Martin Shuster, philosopher, Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, former Holocaust Memorial Museum Fellow, & scholar of genocide, the Holocaust, & authoritarianism:

Martin Shuster sdSreptoon1hm9t97235g2u5796glgh0435l6iaf05it1l232lc20cllf4g0 · So apparently on Sunday Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota, said in a press conference that "we have got children hiding in their houses, afraid to go outside ... many of us grew up reading that story of Anne Frank. Somebody’s gonna write that children’s story about Minnesota.” Then on Monday--one day before International Holocaust Remembrance Day--the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum tweeted in response that: "Anne Frank was targeted and murdered solely because she was Jewish. Leaders making false equivalencies to her experience for political purposes is never acceptable. Despite tensions in Minneapolis, exploiting the Holocaust is deeply offensive, especially as antisemitism surges." As someone who spent a year at the Museum as a fellow doing research, I feel embarrassed for the institution. First, it is very clear that Walz wasn't drawing an equivalence, he was drawing an analogy. So this kind of response reminds me of the atrocious positions that the ADL has started to carve out, and why it has become mostly a sycophantic joke, now seemingly mostly geared towards currying favor with MAGA. Not unrelatedly, I am noticing that a lot of--oftentimes even well-intentioned--people are spending time trying to delineate exactly which historical referent best captures what's going on now, as if we have to pick only one. There is the now well-circulated meme that says: no, ICE isn't the Gestapo, it's actually American--it's slave catchers. But this is a kind of odd distinction: the Nazis were themselves influenced by the Americans (if you're curious read the excellent book by James Whitman, _Hitler's American Model_). Nazis came here and studied American legal systems and statutes ... and remarkably a group of "liberal" Nazis decided that they couldn't make German laws as *extreme* as American ones (and this "liberal" group in fact won the day; German laws weren't as extreme as many of ours). Equally, Nazi jurists and theorists like Carl Schmitt were deeply influenced by American notions of manifest destiny. So the Nazi and American contexts were already fused. The idea of foreign/domestic is already quite complex in this context. (And this is before we even speak of the many actual Nazis that existed here and the many people who materially supported Hitler and the regime). We can complicate this picture more by noting that Nazism itself, even apart from these American influences, wasn't something that sprouted up out of thin air: it, too, had a(n experimental) history. Many of its barbaric practices and aims were developed and tested on colonial and imperial victims (as I have written elsewhere: there is a direct line from Shark Island concentration camp [called frequently simply "Death Island" where the Germans committed genocide against the Herero and Nama people] to the entire Nazi camp system). Thinkers like Hannah Arendt and Aimé Césaire drew our attention to this already in the middle of the last century. In noting this, let me be clear that this does not erase or make less relevant the centuries of European antisemitism that fed into the Nazi project. That's the whole point: these are all related phenomena. European antisemitism influenced the way in which European colonialism and imperialism operated against indigenous populations in the Americas. Strikingly, as innovations mounted in "administering" the Americas, antisemitic policies also evolved in Europe. Administrators (oppressors) would sometimes even move from one sphere to the other and back. They were all synergistic (a brilliant examination of some of this is María Elena Martínez's _Genealogical Fictions_). (And one could, btw, also tell an important story about the development of Islamophobia in this very same orbit, since policies stumbled on in the Americas came back to oppress both Jews and Muslims in Europe). This is all to say: Walz's analogy is not at all far fetched. The history of oppression doesn't move in any kind of neat or purely linear fashion. It is oftentimes recursive, shifting, necessarily granular. Neither is it a competitive history. It is, in the words of Michael Rothberg, a *multidirectional* history. Drawing these analogies in fact *helps* us understand all the involved phenomena better. At least this is what "Never Again" has meant and means to me: it does not mean only never again for me or other Jews. And it does not mean never again only something that looks exactly like the Nazi genocide. I think also, btw, that this is what it meant for Otto Frank, who spent time *editing* his daughter's diary so that it could be available to anyone, not only to Jews. For ultimately the Nazi genocide--any genocide--is a highly mediated phenomenon: it consists of many diffuse events, marshals an immense amount of people and institutions, relies on sometimes conflicting or contradictory cross-sections of society, and, indeed, emerges out of a process that does not neatly, especially as its happening, have a clear beginning, middle, and end, but rather arranges for itself a kind of constellation that harnesses a range of actors, perspectives, and also histories (this is one way to understand how German colonial projects or anti-communism or ableism were no less crucial to Nazism than European antisemitism). The genocidal outcomes emerge from the structural forms society adopts. And all of this without in any way eliding the special role that Jews played in the apocalyptic Nazi worldview.
Peter - Wackomedia@wackomedia.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I looks to me like Rp Omar was about to throw hands on that guy herself. I don't know what else that could have been.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7mo ago

REP. OMAR after being attacked with liquid: “We will continue! These fucking assholes are not gonna get away with this! Here is the reality people like this ugly man don’t understand — we are Minnesota Strong. We’ll stay resilient in the face of whatever they might throw at us.”

Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Eric Adams, former NYC mayor, launched a memecoin (cryptocurrency) today. He marketed it as an “NYC Token” and used media appearances and his social media to promote it. Within hours, Adams then drained its liquidity, apparently having scammed investors out of $3.4 million—a move called a rug pull.

Eric Adams ® @ericadamsfornyc X.com We're about to change the game. NYC NYC Token Don't blink. @buynyctoken • 5h 0:31 2:59 PM • 1/12/26 • 349K ViewsEric Adams @ericadamsfornyc X.com Proud to launch @buynyctoken, a new token built to fight the rapid spread of antisemitism and anti-Americanism across this country and now in New York City. Now live at BuyNYCtoken.com 1:03 4:59 PM • 1/12/26 • 464K ViewsRune @RuneCrypto_ X.com Eric Adams has now drained over $3,400,000 from the liquidity pool of his memecoin: it's now a rug-pull funny enough, his networth was only $2,000,000 3.43M USDC (~$3.43M) ~ Q Search by name / symbol / address Tokens (2) Positions (1) USDC O 3,432,243.8443 USDC NYC 34,565,184.501296 SNYC tics $3,432,243.84 51 VIEW ALL HOLDINGS RONATOON 10 mainao 4:56 PM • 1/12/26 • 29K ViewsZephyr @zephyr_z9•13m g Incredible rug pull Eric Adams @ericad... • 3h Proud to launch @buynyctoken, a new token built to 1:03
Nick Wright@nickthewright.com · 8mo ago

"we're gonna kill 80 people so we can kidnap you and your wife and take you to a special room where a 92-year-old will look at you sternly" This shit all falls apart when you think about it for half a second

Nick Wright@nickthewright.com · 8mo ago

Christmas feels like a Thursday holiday. Just make it the last Thursday of December and give us Wednesday to Friday off. Jesus would understand. It's not like it's his real birthday anyway