Moira
@moirathat.bsky.social
DC/MD. Freelancer doing English review/copyediting for academic papers. Dance/art/language/bike life.
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February 14, 2026 at 6:54 PM
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This week on the blog: Against the State! Another military theory primer, this time focused on groups that take on the state itself, both with violent and non-violent means.
Given the enormous disparity in force, how can they win? How have they won?
acoup.blog/2026/02/13/c...
Given the enormous disparity in force, how can they win? How have they won?
acoup.blog/2026/02/13/c...
Collections: Against the State – A Primer on Terrorism, Insurgency and Protest
This week, continuing in the vein of some of our previous strategy and military theory primers, I wanted to off a basic 101-level survey of the strategic theory behind efforts, in a sense, directed…
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February 14, 2026 at 4:31 PM
This week on the blog: Against the State! Another military theory primer, this time focused on groups that take on the state itself, both with violent and non-violent means.
Given the enormous disparity in force, how can they win? How have they won?
acoup.blog/2026/02/13/c...
Given the enormous disparity in force, how can they win? How have they won?
acoup.blog/2026/02/13/c...
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How did I only learn today—as the episode played on a restaurant TV—that the classic Adam West Batman included an arc with a villain called The Bookworm, whose henchmen include Pressman, Printer’s Devil, & Typesetter??!!
Look at them in their printer’s caps!!! batman.fandom.com/wiki/The_Boo...
Look at them in their printer’s caps!!! batman.fandom.com/wiki/The_Boo...
July 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM
How did I only learn today—as the episode played on a restaurant TV—that the classic Adam West Batman included an arc with a villain called The Bookworm, whose henchmen include Pressman, Printer’s Devil, & Typesetter??!!
Look at them in their printer’s caps!!! batman.fandom.com/wiki/The_Boo...
Look at them in their printer’s caps!!! batman.fandom.com/wiki/The_Boo...
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In the 2010s, the Icelandic tv station Channel 2 accidentally added subtitles from a gritty crime drama to an episode of Teletubbies.
I have translated some of the highlights
I have translated some of the highlights
January 20, 2026 at 12:30 AM
In the 2010s, the Icelandic tv station Channel 2 accidentally added subtitles from a gritty crime drama to an episode of Teletubbies.
I have translated some of the highlights
I have translated some of the highlights
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Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over
January 1, 2026 at 4:43 AM
Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over
Always like listening to Ship of Fools around Christmastime m.youtube.com/watch?v=w4Pi...
John Cale - Ship Of Fools
YouTube video by The Best Of - Home Of Classic Music
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December 25, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Always like listening to Ship of Fools around Christmastime m.youtube.com/watch?v=w4Pi...
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Paul Kirchner
December 19, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Paul Kirchner
Read in a NY Times essay awhile back that happiness and unhappiness are not opposites, and felt that explained a lot about what this year has been like.
you ever feel hungry, and grumpy, and excited, and ALIVE! also sad, but for real SO hungry, heartsick, and trying to remember who played that one guy on friends? in a good mood, but it’s also a bad mood. thirsty. no NOT for the seltzer i already have. a different seltzer. so happy! everything sucks!
December 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Read in a NY Times essay awhile back that happiness and unhappiness are not opposites, and felt that explained a lot about what this year has been like.
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"You make a cup once, you wash it a thousand times" is gonna stick with me
October 29, 2025 at 1:05 PM
"You make a cup once, you wash it a thousand times" is gonna stick with me
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Real pomological perverts know that if the apples look like this they're going to be mindblowing
October 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Real pomological perverts know that if the apples look like this they're going to be mindblowing
Support the best local journalists I know AND your money goes toward a worker-led nonprofit instead of Bezos!
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We know there's a ways to go, but with less than half left to raise...we could reach it easy peasy if each person who donated asked one friend to give too. givebutter.com/SsQ8CG
We know there's a ways to go, but with less than half left to raise...we could reach it easy peasy if each person who donated asked one friend to give too. givebutter.com/SsQ8CG
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August 8, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Support the best local journalists I know AND your money goes toward a worker-led nonprofit instead of Bezos!
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Obligatory plug to move your money from Bezos to local, worker-led coverage—
Some very welcome good news! There's never been a better time to support our worker-led local newsroom! 51st.news/we-received-...
We received our 501c3 Status!
A welcome piece of good news and an important time to support our work
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June 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Obligatory plug to move your money from Bezos to local, worker-led coverage—
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I'm so scared of cities. All those buildings so close to each other. You can go to the movie theater and a restaurant and the park while walking, in defiance of God. There are people you haven't met before. Sometimes there's a dog in a jacket
June 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I'm so scared of cities. All those buildings so close to each other. You can go to the movie theater and a restaurant and the park while walking, in defiance of God. There are people you haven't met before. Sometimes there's a dog in a jacket
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Whenever someone says they’re afraid of downtown in American cities, I’m always like, brother, that’s where the Fogos de Chão are.
June 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Whenever someone says they’re afraid of downtown in American cities, I’m always like, brother, that’s where the Fogos de Chão are.
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We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.
June 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.
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Mandalay restaurant in Silver Spring, Md has great Burmese food, but purple line construction on Bonifant has been discouraging customers from going there. See their Facebook post below. They are asking for support despite that construction which makes it harder to get there .
June 9, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Mandalay restaurant in Silver Spring, Md has great Burmese food, but purple line construction on Bonifant has been discouraging customers from going there. See their Facebook post below. They are asking for support despite that construction which makes it harder to get there .
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a friend of mine shared this ai-generated "emotion wheel" and unfortunately i have been laughing my ass off at it for like 15 minutes now. today i am feeling Fnliinneon
June 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM
a friend of mine shared this ai-generated "emotion wheel" and unfortunately i have been laughing my ass off at it for like 15 minutes now. today i am feeling Fnliinneon
Portobello Beach: two goths in love, slinging an arm around each other and searching the clear blue sky for the best selfie angle. He in a grey kilt and she in a black skirt, but everything else the same.
May 14, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Portobello Beach: two goths in love, slinging an arm around each other and searching the clear blue sky for the best selfie angle. He in a grey kilt and she in a black skirt, but everything else the same.
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I was thinking about this Joe and Tracy anecdote from the supply chain crisis on gummy bears. Things are probably going to get really weird in a few weeks in unexpected ways:
April 12, 2025 at 11:17 AM
I was thinking about this Joe and Tracy anecdote from the supply chain crisis on gummy bears. Things are probably going to get really weird in a few weeks in unexpected ways:
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Antique bakelite pencil sharpener. #WhettingEngines
April 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Antique bakelite pencil sharpener. #WhettingEngines
