Jimena_76
@jimena1976.bsky.social
Essentially, a bookworm with a long love affair with cinema 🇪🇺🇪🇸🇬🇧
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"We tend to imagine corruption as a transaction: money buying votes, quid pro quos in backrooms. But money’s real power is quieter and deeper. It decides which candidates get to run, which policies are thinkable, and whose voices get amplified or ignored."
Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:
Money Doesn't Buy Elections. It Does Something Worse.
Campaign ads barely move the needle. The real influence is hiding in plain sight.
open.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:58 PM
"We tend to imagine corruption as a transaction: money buying votes, quid pro quos in backrooms. But money’s real power is quieter and deeper. It decides which candidates get to run, which policies are thinkable, and whose voices get amplified or ignored."
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I did not ask for this gift of prophecy.
December 5, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I did not ask for this gift of prophecy.
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I also love the idea that a group of people who can’t sort out a workable hand ball rule thought they’d diversify into handing out peace prizes.
December 5, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I also love the idea that a group of people who can’t sort out a workable hand ball rule thought they’d diversify into handing out peace prizes.
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this shit is just beyond parody, man
December 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
this shit is just beyond parody, man
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Es ist fantastisch. Es ist wie Charlie Chaplins Hynkel. Nur spielen sich alle selbst.
December 5, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Es ist fantastisch. Es ist wie Charlie Chaplins Hynkel. Nur spielen sich alle selbst.
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“상나라 정벌“이라는 책을 읽고 왜 요즘 점쟁이들이 허접해졌는지를 깨달았다. 옛날 상나라 사람들이 점을 칠때는 사람을 수십명씩 제물로 바쳤다고. 은허 유적에서 발굴된 인신공양 시체가 만 명이 넘는다고 한다. 그 정도 정성도 없이 점을 치니 윤-김 커플의 샤머니즘이 다 헛 것이다.
December 4, 2025 at 12:38 AM
“상나라 정벌“이라는 책을 읽고 왜 요즘 점쟁이들이 허접해졌는지를 깨달았다. 옛날 상나라 사람들이 점을 칠때는 사람을 수십명씩 제물로 바쳤다고. 은허 유적에서 발굴된 인신공양 시체가 만 명이 넘는다고 한다. 그 정도 정성도 없이 점을 치니 윤-김 커플의 샤머니즘이 다 헛 것이다.
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“현재의 K-문학 성과는 체계가 만든 결과가 아니라 우연히 등장한 걸출한 개인에 과도하게 의존한 구조… 번역가 개인에게 모든 부담이 집중되는 현 체제를 벗어나 기획–저작권–마케팅을 아우르는 전문인력 양성 시스템을 국가 차원에서 구축해야 한다고 제안” www.munhwa.com/article/1155...
two women are sitting next to each other in a room and one of them is saying `` yes '' .
ALT: two women are sitting next to each other in a room and one of them is saying `` yes '' .
media.tenor.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:39 AM
“현재의 K-문학 성과는 체계가 만든 결과가 아니라 우연히 등장한 걸출한 개인에 과도하게 의존한 구조… 번역가 개인에게 모든 부담이 집중되는 현 체제를 벗어나 기획–저작권–마케팅을 아우르는 전문인력 양성 시스템을 국가 차원에서 구축해야 한다고 제안” www.munhwa.com/article/1155...
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Important story in today's Los Angeles Times. Preservationists also need to mobilize now to save the Ben Shahn frescoes in the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building in Washington, which is scheduled to be sold off by the end of 2025.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
A small army is racing against time and Trump to preserve U.S. history
Like 'monks' in the Middle Ages, volunteers are working to preserve cultural treasures they fear are under threat from President Trump’s war against 'woke.'
www.latimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Important story in today's Los Angeles Times. Preservationists also need to mobilize now to save the Ben Shahn frescoes in the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building in Washington, which is scheduled to be sold off by the end of 2025.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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And if you're not completely sick of my voice, have a listen to this new episode of @alexpodyssey.bsky.social all about apples - fron the golden one that started the Trojan War, all the way to Handel, Tennyson, Snow White, Wagner, Magritte, Alan Turing, The Beatles, Steve Jobs, and Ramsay Bolton.
BRAND NEW 🍏 How Do You Like Them Apples? 🍎
From the Garden of Hesperides to the Garden of Eden, from the Atalanta and the Trojan War to The Beatles and the iPhone, apples are laden with often conflicting symbolism.
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/70jw...
🎧 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
From the Garden of Hesperides to the Garden of Eden, from the Atalanta and the Trojan War to The Beatles and the iPhone, apples are laden with often conflicting symbolism.
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/70jw...
🎧 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
BONUS - How Do You Like Them Golden Apples?
open.spotify.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:25 AM
And if you're not completely sick of my voice, have a listen to this new episode of @alexpodyssey.bsky.social all about apples - fron the golden one that started the Trojan War, all the way to Handel, Tennyson, Snow White, Wagner, Magritte, Alan Turing, The Beatles, Steve Jobs, and Ramsay Bolton.
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Floréal garden city in Brussels looking very neat. 1920s.
November 30, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Floréal garden city in Brussels looking very neat. 1920s.
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This is an excellent, level-headed, informative piece. I'd kill for a government which could discuss the issue with the same sense of objectivity and calm.
Here's this week's column. Please - please - can we stop talking about migration in a way that's completely detached from the facts? www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Net migration is plummeting. Why can’t Labour say so? | Heather Stewart
An honest debate is needed on this polarising topic as sectors such as social care struggle with recruitment
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:48 PM
This is an excellent, level-headed, informative piece. I'd kill for a government which could discuss the issue with the same sense of objectivity and calm.
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6/ Finally, no one can make you play with anyone you don't want to play with, use rules you don't want to use or indeed do anything you don't want to do.
You can still play misogynist pillage simulator with rascist caricatures if you want to.
Let the rest of us enjoy the new wave of fans.
You can still play misogynist pillage simulator with rascist caricatures if you want to.
Let the rest of us enjoy the new wave of fans.
November 30, 2025 at 2:03 PM
6/ Finally, no one can make you play with anyone you don't want to play with, use rules you don't want to use or indeed do anything you don't want to do.
You can still play misogynist pillage simulator with rascist caricatures if you want to.
Let the rest of us enjoy the new wave of fans.
You can still play misogynist pillage simulator with rascist caricatures if you want to.
Let the rest of us enjoy the new wave of fans.
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5/ While we're on the subject - you're all posting about the male loneliness epidemic and then turning around and complaining when Netflix and Critical Role open your hobby to thousands of new people?
Are you bruised in the brain?
Take a shower and run a fucking one-shot. Make a friend!
Are you bruised in the brain?
Take a shower and run a fucking one-shot. Make a friend!
November 30, 2025 at 2:03 PM
5/ While we're on the subject - you're all posting about the male loneliness epidemic and then turning around and complaining when Netflix and Critical Role open your hobby to thousands of new people?
Are you bruised in the brain?
Take a shower and run a fucking one-shot. Make a friend!
Are you bruised in the brain?
Take a shower and run a fucking one-shot. Make a friend!
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4/ I will never understand why long term fans of things feel entitled to gatekeep.
You've been playing for 20 years?
Congratulations. No one cares.
Doing a thing you enjoy isn't some hardship worthy of laurels or authority.
You should be welcoming new players, not inventing hierarchicies.
You've been playing for 20 years?
Congratulations. No one cares.
Doing a thing you enjoy isn't some hardship worthy of laurels or authority.
You should be welcoming new players, not inventing hierarchicies.
November 30, 2025 at 2:03 PM
4/ I will never understand why long term fans of things feel entitled to gatekeep.
You've been playing for 20 years?
Congratulations. No one cares.
Doing a thing you enjoy isn't some hardship worthy of laurels or authority.
You should be welcoming new players, not inventing hierarchicies.
You've been playing for 20 years?
Congratulations. No one cares.
Doing a thing you enjoy isn't some hardship worthy of laurels or authority.
You should be welcoming new players, not inventing hierarchicies.
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3/ There is no correct way to play.
Dungeons and Dragons can be a played as a hardcore fantasy combat game, a high concept political drama, a romance story, a comedy improv game.
The best way to play is the way your group likes.
You don't get to tell people they're doing it wrong.
Dungeons and Dragons can be a played as a hardcore fantasy combat game, a high concept political drama, a romance story, a comedy improv game.
The best way to play is the way your group likes.
You don't get to tell people they're doing it wrong.
November 30, 2025 at 2:03 PM
3/ There is no correct way to play.
Dungeons and Dragons can be a played as a hardcore fantasy combat game, a high concept political drama, a romance story, a comedy improv game.
The best way to play is the way your group likes.
You don't get to tell people they're doing it wrong.
Dungeons and Dragons can be a played as a hardcore fantasy combat game, a high concept political drama, a romance story, a comedy improv game.
The best way to play is the way your group likes.
You don't get to tell people they're doing it wrong.
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2/ The hardest part of most nerdy hobbies is finding enough people in your area to enjoy them with.
More interest means more players means more games means more fun.
It also means you can find people who want to play the game the way you enjoy.
This brings us to:
More interest means more players means more games means more fun.
It also means you can find people who want to play the game the way you enjoy.
This brings us to:
November 30, 2025 at 2:03 PM
2/ The hardest part of most nerdy hobbies is finding enough people in your area to enjoy them with.
More interest means more players means more games means more fun.
It also means you can find people who want to play the game the way you enjoy.
This brings us to:
More interest means more players means more games means more fun.
It also means you can find people who want to play the game the way you enjoy.
This brings us to:
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1/ So many thoughts on this, but the tl;dr is that these gatekeeping dweebs can go screw themselves with a +5 Vorpal Longsword.
Dungeons and Dragons and tabletop roleplaying games more generally are wonderful, and it's brilliant that more people are getting to experience them.
Dungeons and Dragons and tabletop roleplaying games more generally are wonderful, and it's brilliant that more people are getting to experience them.
A game where you can do anything and they’re mad that people are doing anything.
November 30, 2025 at 2:03 PM
1/ So many thoughts on this, but the tl;dr is that these gatekeeping dweebs can go screw themselves with a +5 Vorpal Longsword.
Dungeons and Dragons and tabletop roleplaying games more generally are wonderful, and it's brilliant that more people are getting to experience them.
Dungeons and Dragons and tabletop roleplaying games more generally are wonderful, and it's brilliant that more people are getting to experience them.
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I'm sorry, The Telegraph is trying to gatekeep
Dungeons and Dragons?
Dungeons and Dragons?
A game where you can do anything and they’re mad that people are doing anything.
November 30, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I'm sorry, The Telegraph is trying to gatekeep
Dungeons and Dragons?
Dungeons and Dragons?
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"To achieve this, whether in Russia or elsewhere in the world, the same tool is always used by those in power: self-censorship."
"Self-censorship is far more effective than censorship."
https://inews.co.uk/news/world/exiled-russian-journalist-sees-worrying-parallels-trump-putin-4062823
"Self-censorship is far more effective than censorship."
https://inews.co.uk/news/world/exiled-russian-journalist-sees-worrying-parallels-trump-putin-4062823
I'm an exiled Russian journalist – I see worrying parallels between Trump and Putin
Vladimir Putin throttled free speech in Russia. The US must not sleepwalk into the same kind of situation
inews.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM
"To achieve this, whether in Russia or elsewhere in the world, the same tool is always used by those in power: self-censorship."
"Self-censorship is far more effective than censorship."
https://inews.co.uk/news/world/exiled-russian-journalist-sees-worrying-parallels-trump-putin-4062823
"Self-censorship is far more effective than censorship."
https://inews.co.uk/news/world/exiled-russian-journalist-sees-worrying-parallels-trump-putin-4062823
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Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps.
McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.
Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.
See the problem?
McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.
Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.
See the problem?
November 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps.
McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.
Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.
See the problem?
McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.
Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.
See the problem?
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being pre-crazy was like a vaccine against this new big crazy
November 30, 2025 at 5:13 PM
being pre-crazy was like a vaccine against this new big crazy
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That begs the question: why has everyone lost their damn minds?
And the answer I think is Phone x COVID x Neoliberalism = everyone is insane.
And the answer I think is Phone x COVID x Neoliberalism = everyone is insane.
November 30, 2025 at 3:01 AM
That begs the question: why has everyone lost their damn minds?
And the answer I think is Phone x COVID x Neoliberalism = everyone is insane.
And the answer I think is Phone x COVID x Neoliberalism = everyone is insane.
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I feel like one of the most underrated explanations for what's happening right now in global politics is that almost everyone has lost their minds.
November 30, 2025 at 2:59 AM
I feel like one of the most underrated explanations for what's happening right now in global politics is that almost everyone has lost their minds.
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You’re not mildly autistic.
This is going to be a tough take for some out there but that doesn’t exist.
I am sick and tired of seeing posts that describe themselves or others as mildly.
This is going to be a tough take for some out there but that doesn’t exist.
I am sick and tired of seeing posts that describe themselves or others as mildly.
November 28, 2025 at 11:40 AM
You’re not mildly autistic.
This is going to be a tough take for some out there but that doesn’t exist.
I am sick and tired of seeing posts that describe themselves or others as mildly.
This is going to be a tough take for some out there but that doesn’t exist.
I am sick and tired of seeing posts that describe themselves or others as mildly.
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What was meant to be a short, fun, bonus little episode, ended up - yes, short and fun - but also one of the most interesting topics, deepest dives, and interconnected mazes I have navigated.
One of my favourite episodes so far, I think.
One of my favourite episodes so far, I think.
BRAND NEW 🍏 How Do You Like Them Apples? 🍎
From the Garden of Hesperides to the Garden of Eden, from the Atalanta and the Trojan War to The Beatles and the iPhone, apples are laden with often conflicting symbolism.
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/70jw...
🎧 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
From the Garden of Hesperides to the Garden of Eden, from the Atalanta and the Trojan War to The Beatles and the iPhone, apples are laden with often conflicting symbolism.
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/70jw...
🎧 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
BONUS - How Do You Like Them Golden Apples?
open.spotify.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:49 AM
What was meant to be a short, fun, bonus little episode, ended up - yes, short and fun - but also one of the most interesting topics, deepest dives, and interconnected mazes I have navigated.
One of my favourite episodes so far, I think.
One of my favourite episodes so far, I think.