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Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social · 1h

Fuck this lying asshole.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 2h

God DAMNIT my typos are getting worse

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 3h

This one. Karen Attiah rted it.

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 3h

Not just that, it's complicated. I think it's more that the inflatables aren't aspirational at all.

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 3h

Even if you don't want to wear the inflatable - I don't - don't look down at the noble mascot, they do their part!

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 3h

Sure but there's a difference between that and the ridiculous inflatable suits

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 3h

People's problem with the inflatable animal costumes is transparently aesthetic - they don't just want to oppose fascism, tneyw want to be cool urban guerilla punks doing it, stylishly throwing hands while performing Protagonist.

Understandable! But sometimes only a clown can destroy a clown.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 1d

This video is everywhere because it's a hilarious visual refutation of Portland being on fire. You can't get a mass movement going without convincing the masses

so yes, this does do something actually

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This literally does nothing. You are not beating fascism by dressing up in inflatable suits and dancing

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Portland is leading the way. This is how you (non violently) beat Fascism. Humor and ridicule are key.

Stillframe from a video of Portland protesters dancing in inflatable suits

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 4h

Peasant women, especially, are basically always on the clock.

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 4h

It also makes an excellent point: we should not think of peasant families merely as idealized loving households returning to a simpler mold of sincerity, thrift and simple living.

These are effectively mini-factories, with all the attendant pressures & industrial rhythms - including procreation.

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 4h

There's a reason so many ancient and premodern societies viewed "idleness" - what we would often call just enjoying life and having time to think and play - as a sin and in many cases one of the more serious ones, and it's not just that they hated joy.

There was SO MUCH work needed doing.

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 4h

For the tl; can't read folks:

Being a subsistence peasant as an absolute nightmare and especially if you were a woman or doing "women's work," where meeting your "respectability" could be nearly impossible for many households.

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 5h

This week on the blog: More Peasants!

This week, we're modeling the full(ish) structure of women's labor in a pre-industrial peasant household, very roughly assessing the work required for textiles, farming, cooking, cleaning, childcare, etc.

Now with pie chart!

acoup.blog/2025/10/10/c...

Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVe: The No-Rest Of It

This is the fifth dish of the fourth course of our series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc, IVd) looking at the lives of pre-modern peasant farmers, who made up a majority of all of the humans who…

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 5h

This week on the blog: More Peasants!

This week, we're modeling the full(ish) structure of women's labor in a pre-industrial peasant household, very roughly assessing the work required for textiles, farming, cooking, cleaning, childcare, etc.

Now with pie chart!

acoup.blog/2025/10/10/c...

Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVe: The No-Rest Of It

This is the fifth dish of the fourth course of our series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc, IVd) looking at the lives of pre-modern peasant farmers, who made up a majority of all of the humans who…

acoup.blog

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 21h

"you are known here" is quite possibly the most unsettling way to say it

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 23h

this man's name is written in the book of life

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

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Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 23h

hot take: the finale of the Arachne plotline in Hades 2 sucks actually

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 23h

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 1d

every time he does this I want to scream

THE PRESIDENCY DOES NOT GET TO JUST DECREE TARIFFS FROM ON HIGH ON IMPULSE

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 1d

Feral hogs guy has every right to gloat and as far as I know he has never done so

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Teleri Dockworkers Union @yungdreyfusard.bsky.social · 1d

no one has ever been vindicated by history more than 30-50 feral hogs guy

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K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 1d

Because people keep claiming it didn't happen

K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · Nov 21

I mean come on

A now deleted post from BLMChicago showing a silhouette of a paratrooper with a Palestinian flag. This was posted after the Oct 7 attacks where Hamas fighters used paragliders to murder Israeli civilians.

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 1d

Reluctant credit where it's due.

Now sign the bills on your desk protecting trans Californians, @gavinnewsom.bsky.social

Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 1d

MAJOR NEWS: @GavinNewsom signed SB 79, my bill allowing more housing near public transit — rail, subway, rapid bus.

It’s a huge step for housing in California. It’ll create more homes, strengthen our transit systems & reduce traffic & carbon emissions.

Thank you, Governor!

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 1d

I'm familiar with how it's fucked up mutual aid circles on here, but less so official fundraising. Do tell?

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 1d

Hardly, you still see them all the time. If anything they got the normal folks on board.

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 1d

It was real bad and it's left a lasting hatred between portions of American Jews and the left

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 1d

It's not that weird that they fixate on it, because their entire world view requires they transpose American racial conflict into Israel/Palestine to, in their opposing Israel & wanting it purged, absolving themselves of American racism.

It's stupid, but not weird.

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