Luanne Platter
@luanneplatter.bsky.social
Commoner living in Austin TX. She/her
Puritans suck so bad.
Puritans suck so bad.
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For decades, smoking, drinking, and accidental deaths from men led Russia’s demographic problems - but then Putin started his disastrous war in Ukraine - a crime against their population that is also culling Russia’s own young men.
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Murmansk region lost 10 percent of its population during the years of full-scale war
Up to 30 percent of the population has disappeared from some of the closed military towns of the Northern Fleet, according to calculations by the news-outlet Chronicles.
www.thebarentsobserver.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:54 AM
For decades, smoking, drinking, and accidental deaths from men led Russia’s demographic problems - but then Putin started his disastrous war in Ukraine - a crime against their population that is also culling Russia’s own young men.
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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Tucker Carlson out here just saying stuff that would get a Columbia student blackbagged
November 25, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Tucker Carlson out here just saying stuff that would get a Columbia student blackbagged
Story is paywalled but all the Ocalan images are so cheeky. It's like the opposite of the Che Guevara images.
PKK leader Ocalan gains legitimacy in Turkey, bigger sway over Syria’s Kurds www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...
PKK leader Ocalan gains legitimacy in Turkey, bigger sway over Syria’s Kurds
The ongoing deadlock between Damascus and the SDF is seen as a major obstacle to progress in Turkey’s efforts to address its long-standing Kurdish issue.
www.al-monitor.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Story is paywalled but all the Ocalan images are so cheeky. It's like the opposite of the Che Guevara images.
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Bluey jams, if you’re on here, respect 🫡
November 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Bluey jams, if you’re on here, respect 🫡
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I dunno how these ICE chumps can handle this. Geared up like COD dorks to tussle with a guy in Bluey pajama pants. Incredible loser shit
November 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I dunno how these ICE chumps can handle this. Geared up like COD dorks to tussle with a guy in Bluey pajama pants. Incredible loser shit
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Erich Fromm once wrote a book called Fear Of Freedom.
Here David Graeber relates some of Fromm's ideas to the modern world of work.
Here David Graeber relates some of Fromm's ideas to the modern world of work.
November 25, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Erich Fromm once wrote a book called Fear Of Freedom.
Here David Graeber relates some of Fromm's ideas to the modern world of work.
Here David Graeber relates some of Fromm's ideas to the modern world of work.
People will just post anything on the internet
It's un-American to round people up and claim they have ties to a gang without evidence or proof. Especially as 92 people got caught in the crosshairs and were charged with NOTHING—including two teenage boys who were grabbing something to eat—just to meet quotas.
November 25, 2025 at 8:12 PM
People will just post anything on the internet
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If ICE has nothing to hide from its raid in San Antonio, why did they smash security cameras?
If authorities are so sure they arrested 51 members of Tren de Aragua, why can’t they offer proof? www.kens5.com/article/news...
If authorities are so sure they arrested 51 members of Tren de Aragua, why can’t they offer proof? www.kens5.com/article/news...
The latest: 51 of 143 detained in major San Antonio raid are Tren de Aragua members, FBI says
The Nov. 16 raid in the area of San Pedro and Basse was the result of an investigation into a drug dealer, according to records.
www.kens5.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
If ICE has nothing to hide from its raid in San Antonio, why did they smash security cameras?
If authorities are so sure they arrested 51 members of Tren de Aragua, why can’t they offer proof? www.kens5.com/article/news...
If authorities are so sure they arrested 51 members of Tren de Aragua, why can’t they offer proof? www.kens5.com/article/news...
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Surprise! We've got two super special, limited edition long out-of-print singles available on our Bandcamp right now: bikinikill.bandcamp.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Surprise! We've got two super special, limited edition long out-of-print singles available on our Bandcamp right now: bikinikill.bandcamp.com
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Let's not argue over 'oo killed 'oo!
November 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Let's not argue over 'oo killed 'oo!
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“I dismissed your argument without even looking into what it was based on because I didn’t like how it was phrased” is itself the emotional position
November 25, 2025 at 4:27 PM
“I dismissed your argument without even looking into what it was based on because I didn’t like how it was phrased” is itself the emotional position
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I found it so funny that he claims "pay a living wage" is emotional to dismiss all the data and reputable research and writing that went into this concept of a "living wage"
November 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I found it so funny that he claims "pay a living wage" is emotional to dismiss all the data and reputable research and writing that went into this concept of a "living wage"
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per this assessment, the real poverty line in the u.s. is $130K, which is $100K more than the measure we use.
in which the Chief Strategist and Portfolio Manager for Simplify Asset Management discovers how anachronistic & damaging “the poverty line” metric is in the USA— www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:42 PM
per this assessment, the real poverty line in the u.s. is $130K, which is $100K more than the measure we use.
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“if you measured income inadequacy today the way Orshansky measured it in 1963, the threshold for a family of four wouldn’t be $31,200. It would be somewhere between $130,000 and $150,000…”
November 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
“if you measured income inadequacy today the way Orshansky measured it in 1963, the threshold for a family of four wouldn’t be $31,200. It would be somewhere between $130,000 and $150,000…”
Bookmarking this because I want to read it again. This is a concept I want to be able to be conversational about. Also, lol at the hilarious swipe at leftists in the first graph. Lmao, even.
in which the Chief Strategist and Portfolio Manager for Simplify Asset Management discovers how anachronistic & damaging “the poverty line” metric is in the USA— www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Bookmarking this because I want to read it again. This is a concept I want to be able to be conversational about. Also, lol at the hilarious swipe at leftists in the first graph. Lmao, even.
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Just saw someone refer to their ex husband as "wasband" and I am SO PLEASED. Amazing. 10/10.
November 25, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Just saw someone refer to their ex husband as "wasband" and I am SO PLEASED. Amazing. 10/10.
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How the Kurds Outlived Empires and Borders intpolicydigest.org/how-the-kurd...
How the Kurds Outlived Empires and Borders
The enduring story of the Kurdish people and their unbreakable spirit.
intpolicydigest.org
November 25, 2025 at 10:30 AM
How the Kurds Outlived Empires and Borders intpolicydigest.org/how-the-kurd...
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... fully corseted and free-born Englishman, culturally to be accorded either the informal courtesy and respect of civil social intercourse or the rights of entitlement and citizenship. [...] The capacity to live with difference is, in my view, the coming question of the twenty-first century."
November 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
... fully corseted and free-born Englishman, culturally to be accorded either the informal courtesy and respect of civil social intercourse or the rights of entitlement and citizenship. [...] The capacity to live with difference is, in my view, the coming question of the twenty-first century."