Rain
@rainst0rm4759.bsky.social
they/them, 28 writer, game dev, anarchist, jewish 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇸🇾🇹🇼🇪🇭
If you live in a city you shouldn't have to own a car.
A big question in Imperial studies is why older empires seem more stable and longer lasting than modern ones (e.g. Ottoman Empire - 800 years, USSR - 50 years). There are many answers, but IMO the big one is that older empires lacked the state capacity to interfere in everyday life.
Númenorean Zhang Jue 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴@dov.bsky.social · last mo.People actually do like being free more than they like being not poor, which is rational, because you can't do anything about being poor if you're not free.
Zack speedran turning the Greens into a major party, and now he's speedrunning turning them back into a minor party
Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · last mo.Incorrect, Zack. In-fucking-correct.
It is pretty sad that so few people actually believe in open borders
Slightly off topic, but the AI aesthetic is so shitty, and it demonstrates how an underrated strength of Mamdani's campaign was his leveraging of strong graphic design from the get-go. The "Mamdani font" is now iconic and instantly recognizable; the AI slop font/palette barely even register
Abu Aardvark@abuaardvark.bsky.social · 2mo agoIt is so sad what Republicans have to do to compete now. I knew this guy as a serious Iraq policy guy and look at this bullshit he thinks he needs to win.
Two big southern states in the early primary states is really nice if you’re Kamala Harris
VoteHub@votehub.com · 2mo ago🚨 NEWS — The DNC Rules and Bylaws committee has advanced the 2028 primary calendar: Jan 22: SC Feb 1: NV Feb 8: NH Feb 15: NM Feb 22: MI Feb 29: VA
⚡️Breaking: Zelensky dismisses Commander-in-Chief Syrskyi amid widespread protests. President Volodymyr Zelensky on July 21 dismissed the Commander-in-Chief of Ukraine's Armed Forces, Oleksandr Syrskyi.
Breaking: Zelensky dismisses Commander-in-Chief Syrskyi amid widespread protests
President Volodymyr Zelensky on July 21 dismissed the Commander-in-Chief of Ukraine's Armed Forces, Oleksandr Syrskyi. The move comes amid ongoing mass protests in Kyiv and across Ukraine, in which d...
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Well, I had been debating on whether or not I'd see it and this for sure seals the deal that I have 0 interest.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo agoChristopher Nolan’s Odyssey used occupied land as a film set. That feels like a betrayal | Mohamed Sleiman Labat
The 13th annual international Gender Census 2026 is now open until at least 13th August 2026! survey.gendercensus.com It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy. #LGBTQ
now you got me anthropomorphizing the age of empire II goats
404 Media@404media.co · 3mo agoThe researcher's point is that it’s possible to build a neural network in Age of Empires II that works the same as the ones underlying Claude, ChatGPT, CoPilot, and all the rest. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. @mjgault.bsky.social story: www.404media.co/if-ai-is-sen...
yo @ec.europa.eu might need to ask your Vice-President and High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy why she's part of a secret society led by a neo-nazi
maia arson crimew 🏴@crimew.gay · 3mo agoHere are all 113 alleged members we were able to successfully extract. This data can also be verified via versions of the site captured by the Wayback Machine, even if it doesn't properly render the website.
SCOOP: So remember Dialog, Peter Thiel's private society that doesn't have a public website and no public list of members? I (along with a number of other journalists) have just been tipped off that embedded in the code of their closed off website there IS what seems to be a list of some members.
"Open Minded to Fascism" should be the Democratic Party slogan.
Jeff Sharlet@jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 3mo agoListening to hack Dem Senator Chris Coons say he’ll keep an “open mind” about intelligence nominee Jay Clayton, election denier, slush fund booster.
Me, an Anarcho-Syndicalist? I'm shocked, shocked! Well, not that shocked.
Immigrant Punk@porcupunk.eurosky.social · 3mo agoApparently, I am an Anarcho-Communist. This was a bit challenging since I did not grow up in the US... still pretty fun experiment.
So many breathy thinkpieces about the pink tide, but the black wave is just normal politics.
Bill McKay@mckay4senate.bsky.social · 3mo agoAmericans when they have to elect Hitler because they're bored
this shit is why I moved all my retirement index funds to a purely international blend, the US stock market is just a billionaire fantasyland playground toxic waste dump
Pam Spaulding@pamspaulding.bsky.social · 4mo ago‼️ "Elon Musk wants a SpaceX IPO valuing the company at upwards of $1.75 trillion. To get there, he got the rules changed so that index funds, with millions of Americans' retirement savings, are forced to buy in. Retirees could take huge losses, while insiders cash out." 📺 youtu.be/sYA-z0Y8WRQ?...
i'm not entirely sure what this means but also i'm not sure how to feel that my butt is a better poster than i am
Rain@rainst0rm4759.bsky.social · 4mo agoLo posted