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Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, 30 Years Later｜Vinyl Monday

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 18h

How every state in the US teaches about feudalism. A New post from me and @profgabriele.com, along with access to a slideshow and spreadsheet with more info.

24 states REQUIRE feudalism.
8 suggest feudalism.

Feudalism, ICYMI, is not a real thing. Click, read, share, subscribe (it's free!).

Revisiting the Medieval "F-Word" (Feudalism)

How Every State Teaches (or doesn't) about Feudalism

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ob1quixote @ob1quixote.bsky.social · 22h

Agreed. Icing sugar for me, please.

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Threema @threema.ch · 23h

FYI, Threema does not rely on a cloud hosting service owned by Big Tech (such as AWS). We run our own servers in two high-security data centers here in Switzerland.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

The reason for this is that this class of people has internalized the idea of conservatives as the American Volk, an idea downstream of the senate and EC giving them more power than their numbers that has somehow become a quasi spiritual belief about the nature of the country

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M. Gordon @dimespin.bsky.social · 3d

Sleep is a biological necessity, and sleep deprivation has real physical, psychological, and social consequences that need to be taken seriously. The way our society treats it as slothful to sleep according to natural rhythms (including midday naps and variant chronotypes like night owls) is evil.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 4d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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ob1quixote @ob1quixote.bsky.social · 2d

This was a post showing a flow chart illustrating how overthinking and perfectionism can be paralyzing.

ob1quixote @ob1quixote.bsky.social · 2d

Not only was it a chaos garden, but we neglected it too. Not pictured is pounds of onions. Just plant stuff and water it. It'll be fine.

Carrots and potatoes in a red plastic basket in a sunny garden.

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Jay Rigdon @jayrigdon.bsky.social · 2d

Not sure the folks at NBC/Peacock thought this one through

Two announcers, Jason Garrett and Dan Hicks, stand in front of a sign that reads "Big Turd" thanks to how they are blocking it

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🕯️ Crowley Rae Jepsen 🕯️ @mags.colvett.online · 2d

Something maybe worth noting is that all the frog costumes and signs and good-natured memeing came about because a wide spectrum of Americans saw someone in direct, brave confrontation with ICE—getting pepperballed and standing their ground—and thought “that’s awesome. That person is a hero”

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Mateo 🍄 @flyagaric.bsky.social · 2d

Something autumnal for the #BlueSkyArtShow: an October hike with my son last year.

#Vertical #AutumnColors #ColorfulColorado #hiking

The sun shining through tall October aspen trees sporting a gold and orange autumn outfit. A small child is in the frame on the trail dwarfed by the tall trees.

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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 2d

No Kings protesters, you done good. And the world is watching.
"In the US, Trump is repressing opposition and instilling fear. In his face, American citizens are mobilizing; a way to compensate for the Democrats' powerlessness. The streets this Saturday will be the barometer of this resistance."

Libération @liberation.fr · 3d

Aux Etats-Unis, Trump réprime l’opposition et distille la peur. Face à lui, les citoyens américains se mobilisent ; une façon de pallier l’impuissance des démocrates. La rue, ce samedi, sera le baromètre de cette résistance.

L'édito dans Libé ce week-end ⬇️

«No Kings» : le réveil de l’autre Amérique

Face à un président qui réprime l’opposition et distille la peur, les citoyens américains se mobilisent. Une façon de pallier l’impuissance des démocrates. Samedi, la rue sera le baromètre de cette résistance.

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Libération @liberation.fr · 3d

Aux Etats-Unis, Trump réprime l’opposition et distille la peur. Face à lui, les citoyens américains se mobilisent ; une façon de pallier l’impuissance des démocrates. La rue, ce samedi, sera le baromètre de cette résistance.

L'édito dans Libé ce week-end ⬇️

«No Kings» : le réveil de l’autre Amérique

Face à un président qui réprime l’opposition et distille la peur, les citoyens américains se mobilisent. Une façon de pallier l’impuissance des démocrates. Samedi, la rue sera le baromètre de cette résistance.

www.liberation.fr

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.

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ob1quixote @ob1quixote.bsky.social · 2d

An outstanding video.

Bunkers, Vaults & Biospheres

YouTube video by Sarah Davis Baker

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ob1quixote @ob1quixote.bsky.social · 2d

You could be forgiven for thinking I am exaggerating, but listen to his words. As always with such people, his beliefs have no factual basis.

Russell Vought: The Shadow President

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ob1quixote @ob1quixote.bsky.social · 2d

When people like Vought say "western civilization" they actually only mean white people. He and his fellow travellers are an existential risk to humanity. If there is to be a future, Vought and all his adherents must be removed from power permanently.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 3d

NEW: From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russ Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term.

Vought has consolidated power to an extent that insiders say they feel like “he is the commander in chief.”

@andykroll.bsky.social w/ @newyorker.com

Russell Vought, Trump’s Shadow President

From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that inside...

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ob1quixote @ob1quixote.bsky.social · 2d

Storm Warnings | Mark Lilla

The MAGA movement is not fed by conservative ideas but by a nihilistic, apocalyptic determination to stage a counterrevolution against the Sixties, against liberalism, against even democracy itself.

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Michael @shevekuk.bsky.social · 3d

Let me just geek out here: this instrument - not this kind of instrument, but this actual example - was played at the premiere of Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks almost three hundred years ago

Bloody hell!

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Introducing the Baroque Contrabassoon

YouTube video by Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 3d

"Are my migraines hormonal, or am I thinking too hard about how Peter Thiel has more money than all nurses on Earth combined?"

Is It Perimenopause or the Fascist Death Knell of Late-Stage Capitalism?

Are my hot flashes due to an estrogen imbalance or a rapidly warming planet hastened by unaccountable oil barons who own our elections? Am I irrita...

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ob1quixote @ob1quixote.bsky.social · 3d

Watching a guy just starting out take a pass at two songs in my act led me to want to be sure to keep a set ready just in case i am ever called upon to perform in an emergency.

A screenshot of the spreadsheet known as The Gizmotron™. Tonight's rehearsals:

Don’t Look Back in Anger
Eurotrash Girl
Heart of Gold
I Will Survive
If I Should Fall Behind
Santeria
Sister Golden Hair
The Real Folk Blues
Uncle John's Band
You Got Lucky

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 6d

Anarchists are known for our courage. We have gotten used to acting boldly in an array of contexts.

What is needed now is the courage to establish public positions around which a fighting movement can cohere.

This both scarier and simpler than many of the things we have done in the past.

No Kings, No Masters

A call for anti-authoritarian blocs at the October 18 "No Kings" demonstrations.

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Sojourners @sojo.net · 3d

Trauma upends everything we took for granted, including things we didn’t know we took for granted. (2014)
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A New Normal: Ten Things I’ve Learned About Trauma

Trauma upends everything we took for granted, including things we didn’t know we took for granted. And many of these realities I wish I’d known when I first encountered them. So, while the work of…

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ob1quixote @ob1quixote.bsky.social · 3d

Use of facial recognition should be punished just as harshly as uranium smuggling.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 4d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Val 🏳️‍⚧️ @valondar.bsky.social · 4d

Afraid to say the YouTube algorithm understands me far too intimately. Out of nowhere it presents me an edit of Blake’s 7 to Last Friday Night and yeah, that’s correct, I would click on that, you got me www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTAu...

Last Friday Night - Blake's 7

YouTube video by Sara P

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