The Fig Economy
@figgityfigs.bsky.social
Father of lots, earnest as shit, Regular and not too fancy, weird li’l guy enthusiast. He/him.
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I think, for those of us on the political left, we need to address morale as a real and pressing issue that will fuck up our ability to fight if left unaddressed. We *need* to figure out a way to keep people feeling at least minimally good about things even in shitty situations.
Every one of you: post at least once a day about some small thing that makes you happy that has nothing to do with politics. This is a hard and fast rule. I won’t be keeping a spreadsheet or anything but if you don’t do it, I’ll know.
We’re out here looking for positive examples of masculinity and here’s Hegseth like “it’s crypto Nazi tattoos and sexual assault.”
Hegseth is very very terrified, deep deep down of something to do with maleness www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces'
Documents show the U.S. military is planning to sever all ties with the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts.
www.npr.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:08 PM
We’re out here looking for positive examples of masculinity and here’s Hegseth like “it’s crypto Nazi tattoos and sexual assault.”
Sometimes I’m like “maybe I can tell my wife about online” and then I realize some of online is like “the Netflix comedy lady’s villain origin story is being furious at Jeopardy Sam for supporting building more housing” and then I’m like nah.
the left nimby crashout bc Zohran actually wants to build more housing is genuinely so funny
November 25, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Sometimes I’m like “maybe I can tell my wife about online” and then I realize some of online is like “the Netflix comedy lady’s villain origin story is being furious at Jeopardy Sam for supporting building more housing” and then I’m like nah.
name a film you’ve seen six times
November 25, 2025 at 3:08 AM
name a film you’ve seen six times
It is bad for your soul to be so pathologically averse to accountability for your words and actions that you have to tie yourself into laughable knots to escape it, and even then only barely convince yourself and no one else.
Guy Who Explicitly Tweeted That Harris Is Going To Cause A Pointless War In The Middle East: I voted for the Coconut Lady who I definitely don't have weird misogynistic hang ups about with that nickname and duh yes Trump's not pro-war, stop reading the words I wrote so literally you illiterate trogs
November 25, 2025 at 2:54 AM
It is bad for your soul to be so pathologically averse to accountability for your words and actions that you have to tie yourself into laughable knots to escape it, and even then only barely convince yourself and no one else.
According to today’s WSJ, over half of GDP growth is represented by dumping money into the Mauna Kea volcano. Stopping this may anger the volcano gods, so we must press on.
One explanation for economic populism in the US is the recurring cycle of bubbles and bailouts that happens without any democratic input
November 24, 2025 at 11:35 PM
According to today’s WSJ, over half of GDP growth is represented by dumping money into the Mauna Kea volcano. Stopping this may anger the volcano gods, so we must press on.
I get that there is this obscure provision in the law allowing retired officers to be recalled to active duty and that the incompatibility clause could disqualify a federal legislator, but let’s be real: this would not be a small technocratic thing, but a declaration of civil war.
November 24, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I get that there is this obscure provision in the law allowing retired officers to be recalled to active duty and that the incompatibility clause could disqualify a federal legislator, but let’s be real: this would not be a small technocratic thing, but a declaration of civil war.
Do it, you cowards.
PUNCHBOWL: “.. GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term. Here’s one particularly exercised senior House Republican:
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November 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Do it, you cowards.
These guys looked at the failures of Iraq and Afghanistan and concluded the problem was giving a shit what happened after we wrecked everything.
Really looks like the United States is about to launch a regime change war against Venezuela with:
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
November 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
These guys looked at the failures of Iraq and Afghanistan and concluded the problem was giving a shit what happened after we wrecked everything.
Leave aside the AI thing, this highlights the problem with so much in the tech “solution” space: at best it’s like setting timers or turning up or down heat automatically or something, but like anything that requires physical manipulation, you’ve still gotta do that.
November 24, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Leave aside the AI thing, this highlights the problem with so much in the tech “solution” space: at best it’s like setting timers or turning up or down heat automatically or something, but like anything that requires physical manipulation, you’ve still gotta do that.
I don’t think remaining on Twitter will *necessarily* drive you insane, but it’s undeniable that it’s an enormous risk.
November 24, 2025 at 3:51 AM
I don’t think remaining on Twitter will *necessarily* drive you insane, but it’s undeniable that it’s an enormous risk.
I take @andycraig.bsky.social point about the necessary state mechanics of doing this, but I’ve long thought it would be great if there were RCV in primaries and delegate allocation could change automatically in retrospect as candidates dropped out, rather than delegates becoming free agents.
Democratic politicians and activists are quietly lobbying to upend the way the party picks its presidential nominee by urging the use of ranked-choice voting.
Scoop: Democrats eye ranked-choice voting for 2028 primaries
It's a tool that drew national attention when it propelled New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani to a decisive primary win.
www.axios.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:35 AM
I take @andycraig.bsky.social point about the necessary state mechanics of doing this, but I’ve long thought it would be great if there were RCV in primaries and delegate allocation could change automatically in retrospect as candidates dropped out, rather than delegates becoming free agents.
In more normal times it would be a near administration ending black eye that their signature effort fell so hard on its face it drilled down through the floor. This is exactly what happened with Bush and his 2005 social security privatization whistlestop tour!
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 24, 2025 at 1:42 AM
In more normal times it would be a near administration ending black eye that their signature effort fell so hard on its face it drilled down through the floor. This is exactly what happened with Bush and his 2005 social security privatization whistlestop tour!
This is like the stated view of the right about how the country should be governed! They believe the purpose of the second amendment is to arm everyone to make the government afraid that it will be overthrown. From them this is text, not subtext.
If elected officials are constrained in their behavior by threats of private violence, then it's the people threatening the private violence who are ruling the country
November 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
This is like the stated view of the right about how the country should be governed! They believe the purpose of the second amendment is to arm everyone to make the government afraid that it will be overthrown. From them this is text, not subtext.
Cleaning up ok for a visit to the Baltimore symphony orchestra.
November 23, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Cleaning up ok for a visit to the Baltimore symphony orchestra.
10YO: daddy, can you wear a scarf as a tie?
Me: Well, there’s an ascot, which is kind of that.
10YO: What’s an as—oh yeah, Andy Garcia!
Me: Well, there’s an ascot, which is kind of that.
10YO: What’s an as—oh yeah, Andy Garcia!
November 23, 2025 at 6:21 PM
10YO: daddy, can you wear a scarf as a tie?
Me: Well, there’s an ascot, which is kind of that.
10YO: What’s an as—oh yeah, Andy Garcia!
Me: Well, there’s an ascot, which is kind of that.
10YO: What’s an as—oh yeah, Andy Garcia!
Take I half believe: it wasn’t really fair for Return of the King to win Best Picture not because it didn’t deserve it but because it was a wrap up award for the whole trilogy, which was something no other nominees in 2004 could even come close to competing with.
My most alienating Oscar opinion of the year is that Wicked pt deux is not a sequel but the simultaneously shot second half of one movie and that therefore it'd be weird to renominate the two stars. This isn't the Emmys; you don't get rewarded for the same role year after year. Will delete shortly.
November 23, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Take I half believe: it wasn’t really fair for Return of the King to win Best Picture not because it didn’t deserve it but because it was a wrap up award for the whole trilogy, which was something no other nominees in 2004 could even come close to competing with.
This but “all crime is a result of society not meeting people’s material needs” and very much no.
Every 2-4 years, a bunch of left-wing populists have the brilliant thought “Hey, what if people’s resentment of social minorities is actually just sublimated resentment for capitalist elites?” and then we get to spend 2-4 years once again learning that no, it’s very much the reverse
November 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
This but “all crime is a result of society not meeting people’s material needs” and very much no.
So, up front, I did not have familiarity with the second half of the musical, and I adored the first movie, and was extremely ready to adore the second. Now that it’s done, my first reaction is that it’s markedly inferior to the first movie.
Heading to the drive in for a double feature of Wicked and Wicked: For Good. Hell yeah.
November 23, 2025 at 5:06 AM
So, up front, I did not have familiarity with the second half of the musical, and I adored the first movie, and was extremely ready to adore the second. Now that it’s done, my first reaction is that it’s markedly inferior to the first movie.
Intermission show was the Looney Tunes short “The Rabbit of Seville,” an absolute banger classic. Glad my kids got to see this one.
Wicked just ended so if you need me, I’m the guy weeping a little at the drive in, preparing myself for what I assume will be more weeping at the drive in.
Heading to the drive in for a double feature of Wicked and Wicked: For Good. Hell yeah.
November 23, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Intermission show was the Looney Tunes short “The Rabbit of Seville,” an absolute banger classic. Glad my kids got to see this one.
Wicked just ended so if you need me, I’m the guy weeping a little at the drive in, preparing myself for what I assume will be more weeping at the drive in.
Heading to the drive in for a double feature of Wicked and Wicked: For Good. Hell yeah.
November 23, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Wicked just ended so if you need me, I’m the guy weeping a little at the drive in, preparing myself for what I assume will be more weeping at the drive in.
Big name journalists treat scoops like they’re fuckin Rod Blagojevich now (I got this thing and it’s fuckin golden) and it’s completely rewarded and incentivized. Nuzzi and Lizza both are are just doing a particularly trashy version of this commonplace thing.
something i'll note is that if nuzzi ran catch-and-kill ops for rfk jr and lizza knew this prior to him being appointed as HHS, and instead of telling anyone, he decided to save it for his substack long after rfk jr had made communicable disease into federal policy, that's completely fucked
November 22, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Big name journalists treat scoops like they’re fuckin Rod Blagojevich now (I got this thing and it’s fuckin golden) and it’s completely rewarded and incentivized. Nuzzi and Lizza both are are just doing a particularly trashy version of this commonplace thing.
Heading to the drive in for a double feature of Wicked and Wicked: For Good. Hell yeah.
November 22, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Heading to the drive in for a double feature of Wicked and Wicked: For Good. Hell yeah.
Credit where credit is due: this take is exactly correct. Bunch of people on all sides of this thing are showing their whole asses by completely flipping the polarity of their responses to stuff based on their own intra-left factional alliances.
The Mamdani-Trump summit is fun but c’mon, it’s not the vindication of the left/right-populist or red/brown alliance stuff.
November 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Credit where credit is due: this take is exactly correct. Bunch of people on all sides of this thing are showing their whole asses by completely flipping the polarity of their responses to stuff based on their own intra-left factional alliances.
One nice thing about being a vegetarian is that when people start arguing at thanksgiving about whether turkey is good or bad, you can just smile and ignore the whole goddamn thing.
November 22, 2025 at 3:06 PM
One nice thing about being a vegetarian is that when people start arguing at thanksgiving about whether turkey is good or bad, you can just smile and ignore the whole goddamn thing.
Waiting for Cheryl Hines’s firsthand substack account to drop.
November 22, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Waiting for Cheryl Hines’s firsthand substack account to drop.