Mesopholese
@mesopholese.bsky.social
🏳️🌈(He/Him) 27.
🇺🇦 🇵🇸 YIMBY
Gay guy, recently moved to Portland, OR. Texas born and raised. Roll tide!
I love to talk about:
Lancer - Pathfinder 2e - Monster Hunter Wilds - Other TTRPGs - & more!
Mostly politics though 😭
🇺🇦 🇵🇸 YIMBY
Gay guy, recently moved to Portland, OR. Texas born and raised. Roll tide!
I love to talk about:
Lancer - Pathfinder 2e - Monster Hunter Wilds - Other TTRPGs - & more!
Mostly politics though 😭
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Feel very strongly that we can look back on this era and anyone who just stuck to weed and coffee will come out looking normal and like the future
Honestly all of these guys being obviously high off of their gourds and the fact that he's going to die soon are the two points of optimism I have about America. These guys aren't titans of industry, they're just dudes on ket
The CEO of Palantir.
December 5, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Feel very strongly that we can look back on this era and anyone who just stuck to weed and coffee will come out looking normal and like the future
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The way I'd put it is that there's currently a global struggle between democracy and nationalist gangster-capitalism, that this struggle is simultaneously unfolding both within and between states, and that the US currently sits at its epicentre
The New Cold War is against nationalist authoritarianism, and the US is on their side.
December 5, 2025 at 11:40 AM
The way I'd put it is that there's currently a global struggle between democracy and nationalist gangster-capitalism, that this struggle is simultaneously unfolding both within and between states, and that the US currently sits at its epicentre
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look it's an admiral we're talking about, by USN standards these days this is profiles in courage shit
>believes the boat strikes might be illegal
>>the drunk asks him to retire
>>>he retires
>>the drunk asks him to retire
>>>he retires
Exclusive: The four-star admiral in charge of Caribbean operations had concerns about the legality of the boat strikes. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth asked him to retire shortly after they started.
December 4, 2025 at 12:28 AM
look it's an admiral we're talking about, by USN standards these days this is profiles in courage shit
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Feels like "missing" is inaccurate. This child was kidnapped by the secret police and is now either a political prisoner or a trafficking victim.
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 3, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Feels like "missing" is inaccurate. This child was kidnapped by the secret police and is now either a political prisoner or a trafficking victim.
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Streets are saying If Books Could Kill is the Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 of podcasts
www.vulture.com/article/cult...
www.vulture.com/article/cult...
December 1, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Streets are saying If Books Could Kill is the Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 of podcasts
www.vulture.com/article/cult...
www.vulture.com/article/cult...
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If “The Canterbury Tales” were written today it would be called “The Airport Chili’s Bar Tales” and I think that’s beautiful
December 1, 2025 at 2:26 PM
If “The Canterbury Tales” were written today it would be called “The Airport Chili’s Bar Tales” and I think that’s beautiful
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oh my god
Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
November 30, 2025 at 4:38 PM
oh my god
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everyone will agree to my national housing program if we make the housing all art deco and mid century modern
My zoning code would only have two rules: glass tower skyscrapers should be adjacent from stonework ornamented ones to maximize cool reflections and there should be a Jamba Juice in every airport terminal. Otherwise, build whatever you want.
November 29, 2025 at 6:23 PM
everyone will agree to my national housing program if we make the housing all art deco and mid century modern
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ED WHELAN
Does Pete Hegseth have a "golden shield" against prosecution in the form of a DOJ OLC opinion? Ed Whelan thinks not.
November 28, 2025 at 11:06 PM
ED WHELAN
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Hegseth - and the people carrying out his orders - need to be tried in The Hague for this
November 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Hegseth - and the people carrying out his orders - need to be tried in The Hague for this
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We literally executed Germans after the war for doing what Bradley and everyone else involved did, and the Germans had a better justification (u-boat plausibly being targeted based on info provided by survivors vs.......whatever the hell pete was worried about here)
Given the justification was in part because they might communicate with someone, pete could ask Heinz-Wilhelm Eck and his XO what the law of armed conflict says about that, except oops, the allies shot them dead in 1945 after a trial
WaPo with reporting that Pete gave an explicit order to JSOC during the first strike post impact to immediately follow up in order to, and I quote, "kill them all"
November 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
We literally executed Germans after the war for doing what Bradley and everyone else involved did, and the Germans had a better justification (u-boat plausibly being targeted based on info provided by survivors vs.......whatever the hell pete was worried about here)
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Given the justification was in part because they might communicate with someone, pete could ask Heinz-Wilhelm Eck and his XO what the law of armed conflict says about that, except oops, the allies shot them dead in 1945 after a trial
WaPo with reporting that Pete gave an explicit order to JSOC during the first strike post impact to immediately follow up in order to, and I quote, "kill them all"
November 28, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Given the justification was in part because they might communicate with someone, pete could ask Heinz-Wilhelm Eck and his XO what the law of armed conflict says about that, except oops, the allies shot them dead in 1945 after a trial
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Yes, something that Israel does which is actually quite rare is consider all civilian workers, whether they be in municipal government or in private reconstruction or health sectors, to be combatants *by way of second, third, or even fourth degree association*.
Construction crews attempting to rebuild civillian infrastructure in Gaza or Southern Lebanon are also considered confirmed terrorists.
November 24, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Yes, something that Israel does which is actually quite rare is consider all civilian workers, whether they be in municipal government or in private reconstruction or health sectors, to be combatants *by way of second, third, or even fourth degree association*.
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good evening, BlueSky
November 22, 2025 at 6:59 AM
good evening, BlueSky
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This shit is so bad and wrong at every level, including the meta level, since Lizza has been sitting on all this shit while RFK, Jr. has been taking a bone saw to the medical system, and he's trickling the shit out in dribs and drabs to prop up his subs on the nazi newsletter service.
Fucked up.
Fucked up.
November 22, 2025 at 11:52 AM
This shit is so bad and wrong at every level, including the meta level, since Lizza has been sitting on all this shit while RFK, Jr. has been taking a bone saw to the medical system, and he's trickling the shit out in dribs and drabs to prop up his subs on the nazi newsletter service.
Fucked up.
Fucked up.
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I think Mamdani is doing what he has to for his voters by charming the pants off Donald Trump, and I'm glad he's got the natural charisma to do it, but I do want to point out that people would absolutely savage Whitmer or Shapiro for doing the same
November 22, 2025 at 3:01 AM
I think Mamdani is doing what he has to for his voters by charming the pants off Donald Trump, and I'm glad he's got the natural charisma to do it, but I do want to point out that people would absolutely savage Whitmer or Shapiro for doing the same
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![Comic. [Two people transferring cargo between a dock and a ship on a cart. A box has fallen off of it into the water labeled “EPIRB: Water-Activated Distress Beacons, 1600 ct”] [caption] “Hello, Coast Guard? We’d like to apologize once again for the 1,600 simultaneous false alarms this morning...”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreidpifawma7njovmrjjqs75maq6ggimmrbjcfjtwhfejj65veo32pq@jpeg)
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This is the hardest I have seen any member of Congress work to try and address transphobia in Congress, and her ability to get nearly all Democratic lawmakers to sign onto this letter is something any first would applaud
House Dems unite to tell GOP to stop "demonizing" trans people with "dehumanizing" slurs - LGBTQ Nation
Rep. Nancy Mace's "tra**y, tra**y, tra**y!" tirade is just one example.
www.lgbtqnation.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:49 AM
This is the hardest I have seen any member of Congress work to try and address transphobia in Congress, and her ability to get nearly all Democratic lawmakers to sign onto this letter is something any first would applaud
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are we supposed to vote for the ones we like more because it means they’re tastier or the ones we like less because we are condemning them to death?
BREAKING: We’re getting six (!) edible mascots at this year’s @poptartsbowl.com!
- six edible mascots, three on Team Sprinkles and three on Team Swirls
- fans get to vote on which mascot team to sacrifice to Mouth Heaven at game’s end, the biggest edible mascot sacrifice EVER
- six edible mascots, three on Team Sprinkles and three on Team Swirls
- fans get to vote on which mascot team to sacrifice to Mouth Heaven at game’s end, the biggest edible mascot sacrifice EVER
November 18, 2025 at 2:02 PM
are we supposed to vote for the ones we like more because it means they’re tastier or the ones we like less because we are condemning them to death?
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i don't like being forced to defend britain but on average, the UK has a higher life expectancy than any single US state, has a higher HDI than the united states, has less inequality than the united states, has a higher functional literacy rate than the united states... i could go on
People forget that Great Britain is basically Alabama outside of London only poorer people with weaker constitutions and worse food.
November 18, 2025 at 10:06 AM
i don't like being forced to defend britain but on average, the UK has a higher life expectancy than any single US state, has a higher HDI than the united states, has less inequality than the united states, has a higher functional literacy rate than the united states... i could go on