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📍🇸🇪Sweden via London
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👻Frightful Hobgoblin
@loukas.bsky.social
· Jun 16
📝Ok this is my social media promise to you, as of June 2025:
🌩️We know things are terrible.
⚠️Sometimes I will share warnings and updates that help us understand the terribleness.
🌻Mostly I will share things that help us all to build a life together that stands against the horrors.
🌩️We know things are terrible.
⚠️Sometimes I will share warnings and updates that help us understand the terribleness.
🌻Mostly I will share things that help us all to build a life together that stands against the horrors.
Hi, I've been getting insomnia so I'll stop posting here until that goes away.
November 15, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Hi, I've been getting insomnia so I'll stop posting here until that goes away.
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[To the tune of Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison]
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
November 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
[To the tune of Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison]
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
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Searchable data base of the released Epstein Files. When do we start locking up the men who raped these little girls? couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea... #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
We created a searchable database with all 20,000 files from Epstein’s Estate
Easily find every mention of Trump, Clinton, blackmail, and potential sex crimes in the thousands of private messages between Epstein and his close associates.
couriernewsroom.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Searchable data base of the released Epstein Files. When do we start locking up the men who raped these little girls? couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea... #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
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November 14, 1152 BCE: the first recorded workers' strike occurred in ancient Egypt under Pharaoh Ramses III. Artisans and laborers working on the royal tombs at Deir el-Medina stopped working in protest of delayed and insufficient rations, a form of wages. collezioni.museoegizio.it/en-GB/materi...
November 14, 2025 at 12:33 PM
November 14, 1152 BCE: the first recorded workers' strike occurred in ancient Egypt under Pharaoh Ramses III. Artisans and laborers working on the royal tombs at Deir el-Medina stopped working in protest of delayed and insufficient rations, a form of wages. collezioni.museoegizio.it/en-GB/materi...
Not being on the list will get you laughed at in Exarchia
The Greek anarchist group Revolutionary Struggle was added to the FTO list in 2009 by Obama's Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. Another Greek anarchist group, Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, was added in 2011, five years before Trump's first election.
Wow: the Trump administration is for the first time ever designating four "Antifa" groups as Foreign Terrorist Organizations.
This is a big step. Until now, they had only pursued a domestic terrorist org designation, which has less teeth than FTO.
This is a big step. Until now, they had only pursued a domestic terrorist org designation, which has less teeth than FTO.
November 14, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Not being on the list will get you laughed at in Exarchia
I'm trying to think of other words that mean totally different things in plural form.
Of course there are things like shenanigans. There's no case of just a single shenanigote.
Of course there are things like shenanigans. There's no case of just a single shenanigote.
November 14, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I'm trying to think of other words that mean totally different things in plural form.
Of course there are things like shenanigans. There's no case of just a single shenanigote.
Of course there are things like shenanigans. There's no case of just a single shenanigote.
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Vårlök is also a specific small yellow flower of the Liliaceae family and generally considered not eatable, unlike tulips which you could happily use parts of to garnish your ramen with if desired!
(Please don't eat the daffodils thought.)
(Please don't eat the daffodils thought.)
November 14, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Vårlök is also a specific small yellow flower of the Liliaceae family and generally considered not eatable, unlike tulips which you could happily use parts of to garnish your ramen with if desired!
(Please don't eat the daffodils thought.)
(Please don't eat the daffodils thought.)
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It's even messier than that. You're talking about the plural form "vårlökar". "Vårlök" in singular is the yellow star-of-Bethlehem (Gagea lutea).
November 14, 2025 at 12:35 PM
It's even messier than that. You're talking about the plural form "vårlökar". "Vårlök" in singular is the yellow star-of-Bethlehem (Gagea lutea).
Beware of literal translations.
In English a 'spring onion' is something green you chop up as a garnish.
In Swedish a spring (vår) onion (lök) is something you plant in the ground to get daffodils, crocuses or tulips!
In English a 'spring onion' is something green you chop up as a garnish.
In Swedish a spring (vår) onion (lök) is something you plant in the ground to get daffodils, crocuses or tulips!
November 14, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Beware of literal translations.
In English a 'spring onion' is something green you chop up as a garnish.
In Swedish a spring (vår) onion (lök) is something you plant in the ground to get daffodils, crocuses or tulips!
In English a 'spring onion' is something green you chop up as a garnish.
In Swedish a spring (vår) onion (lök) is something you plant in the ground to get daffodils, crocuses or tulips!
Abusers and violent people generally make worse art. The only reason they are so prominent as artists is because they are able to thrive in an art production system that is based on abuse of power.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Abusers and violent people generally make worse art. The only reason they are so prominent as artists is because they are able to thrive in an art production system that is based on abuse of power.
RIP to all those killed by the gods for their hubris, but I'm better than them and maybe better than the gods.
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November 14, 2025 at 12:08 PM
RIP to all those killed by the gods for their hubris, but I'm better than them and maybe better than the gods.
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this thread is the content i signed up for when i joined bluesky.
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
November 14, 2025 at 11:48 AM
this thread is the content i signed up for when i joined bluesky.
Broke: playing video games
Woke: watching video game plays
Bespoke: reading historians write about their video game plays.
Woke: watching video game plays
Bespoke: reading historians write about their video game plays.
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Crusader Kings III, Part I: Making It Personal
This is the first post in a four-part (I, IIa, IIb, III, IV) series examining the historical assumptions of Crusader Kings III, a historical grand strategy game by Paradox Interactive set during th…
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November 14, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Broke: playing video games
Woke: watching video game plays
Bespoke: reading historians write about their video game plays.
Woke: watching video game plays
Bespoke: reading historians write about their video game plays.
Here me out. What if we turn the COP summits into one huge flypaper to utterly waste fossil lobby energy.
The problem with the climate regime in one article: With fewer people attending COP30 "one in every 25 participants at this year’s UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist." It is "the largest concentration of fossil fuel lobbyists at COP" and up 12% from COP29 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says
One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Here me out. What if we turn the COP summits into one huge flypaper to utterly waste fossil lobby energy.
We live in interesting times, when the bonds market is further left-wing than a democratic socialist government.
UK government bonds sink after Reeves ditches plan to raise income tax on.ft.com/4nRg5px
UK government bonds sink after Reeves ditches plan to raise income tax
Dramatic U-turn ahead of Budget sparks sell-off in gilt market
on.ft.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:45 AM
We live in interesting times, when the bonds market is further left-wing than a democratic socialist government.
This is true and this is the other half of my point about how fascism is basically founded on violence as a social relationship.
Any antifascist opposition must be founded on an ideology that grows out of different relationships, and discussion and clarity is how we get there.
Any antifascist opposition must be founded on an ideology that grows out of different relationships, and discussion and clarity is how we get there.
In a world where the Right has all the money and most of the coercive apparatus, moral clarity is the best weapon the Left has
"Morals are bad because they won't help your cause," an article by someone who hates your cause and wants your cause to fail.
November 14, 2025 at 8:40 AM
This is true and this is the other half of my point about how fascism is basically founded on violence as a social relationship.
Any antifascist opposition must be founded on an ideology that grows out of different relationships, and discussion and clarity is how we get there.
Any antifascist opposition must be founded on an ideology that grows out of different relationships, and discussion and clarity is how we get there.
If Labour change policy based on the gilts markets then this only confirms my points in this thread, since this market is as clear a representation of capital consensus as you can get.
The Labour government has forced me to reconsider my basic assumptions about The State as a Thing.
Given a huge amount of formal executive power they have not used it to strengthen the state, despite major threats of war, climate and internal subversion.
Given a huge amount of formal executive power they have not used it to strengthen the state, despite major threats of war, climate and internal subversion.
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 AM
If Labour change policy based on the gilts markets then this only confirms my points in this thread, since this market is as clear a representation of capital consensus as you can get.
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And there we go 10y opened up 11 basis points erasing 1/3 of the rally since October.
39 minutes until the bond markets make reeves reconsider I reckon.
November 14, 2025 at 8:02 AM
And there we go 10y opened up 11 basis points erasing 1/3 of the rally since October.
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opening moves in Gilt yields across the curve sending a clear signal to Reeves and Starmer that their latest nonsense is about as wrong as it could be:
November 14, 2025 at 8:02 AM
opening moves in Gilt yields across the curve sending a clear signal to Reeves and Starmer that their latest nonsense is about as wrong as it could be:
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NEW: Pope Leo XIV will share a meal this Sunday with Alessia Nobile and four fellow transgender Catholic activists, during the Vatican’s Jubilee of the Poor — marking the most significant public encounter shared between a pope and the trans community.
NEW: Transgender Activists to Dine with Pope Leo XIV during Sunday's Jubilee for the Poor
Papal luncheon with trans advocate Alessia Nobile set for Sunday at Vatican’s Jubilee of the Poor, highlighting a legacy of outreach and hopes for continued inclusion.
open.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:05 AM
NEW: Pope Leo XIV will share a meal this Sunday with Alessia Nobile and four fellow transgender Catholic activists, during the Vatican’s Jubilee of the Poor — marking the most significant public encounter shared between a pope and the trans community.
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Om man befinner sig i Örebro den 11e december kan man ta del av min, John Brauers och Jenny Johannissons forskning om socialt arbete i bibliotek! bibliotek.orebro.se/evenemang#/e...
Evenemang - Orebro
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November 14, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Om man befinner sig i Örebro den 11e december kan man ta del av min, John Brauers och Jenny Johannissons forskning om socialt arbete i bibliotek! bibliotek.orebro.se/evenemang#/e...
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Happy November 14th to all who celebrate the second appearance of Dr Manhattan after being atomized in a lab accident. Be sure to horrify whoever you appear to, when screaming for thirty seconds before vanishing
November 14, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Happy November 14th to all who celebrate the second appearance of Dr Manhattan after being atomized in a lab accident. Be sure to horrify whoever you appear to, when screaming for thirty seconds before vanishing
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"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.
November 13, 2025 at 5:58 AM
"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.