🇨🇦 RaW interest 🇨🇦
@rawinterest.bsky.social
Verbose geek; healthcare IT
Dilettante - history, Latin, Rome, gaming, philosophy, a little lit, dogs, SF, fantasy and more
i wouldn't bother if it was all in the mind
it's in the body: the body still knows best
No plan survives contact with the past
Dilettante - history, Latin, Rome, gaming, philosophy, a little lit, dogs, SF, fantasy and more
i wouldn't bother if it was all in the mind
it's in the body: the body still knows best
No plan survives contact with the past
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The videos of that bear shitting in the woods are grainy and inconclusive. And even if it did shit in the woods, we need to examine the events leading up to it. Was the bear provoked? Why aren’t local authorities supporting the bear? Bears do a tough job so give them some slack before accusing them.
January 25, 2026 at 7:23 PM
The videos of that bear shitting in the woods are grainy and inconclusive. And even if it did shit in the woods, we need to examine the events leading up to it. Was the bear provoked? Why aren’t local authorities supporting the bear? Bears do a tough job so give them some slack before accusing them.
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The central question of the last decade+ in America is if the police can kill you if they feel afraid, and it was my understanding that you sign up for the job knowing there’s going to be danger and you’re paid to be better than “I shot him because I was scared”
January 24, 2026 at 3:50 PM
The central question of the last decade+ in America is if the police can kill you if they feel afraid, and it was my understanding that you sign up for the job knowing there’s going to be danger and you’re paid to be better than “I shot him because I was scared”
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I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
Opinion | In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War
www.nytimes.com
January 19, 2026 at 12:56 PM
I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
The primary source quotations in this article from historiams of the American Revolution resonate strikingly after the last 2 weeks
wrote about the occupation in minnesota with a closing note on how the white house has exactly one tactic — repression with goons — but no particular strategy for dealing with entrenched resistance. gift link.
Opinion | This Is the Only Card Trump Can Play
www.nytimes.com
January 17, 2026 at 7:16 PM
The primary source quotations in this article from historiams of the American Revolution resonate strikingly after the last 2 weeks
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wrote about the occupation in minnesota with a closing note on how the white house has exactly one tactic — repression with goons — but no particular strategy for dealing with entrenched resistance. gift link.
Opinion | This Is the Only Card Trump Can Play
www.nytimes.com
January 17, 2026 at 6:28 PM
wrote about the occupation in minnesota with a closing note on how the white house has exactly one tactic — repression with goons — but no particular strategy for dealing with entrenched resistance. gift link.
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I hate the Nazgûl’s treatment of the hobbits as much as you do but the security of Middle Earth is critical in this age. I believe we can strike a balance between the rights of Shire residents and black land border enforcement with proper training and funding.
January 12, 2026 at 4:21 PM
I hate the Nazgûl’s treatment of the hobbits as much as you do but the security of Middle Earth is critical in this age. I believe we can strike a balance between the rights of Shire residents and black land border enforcement with proper training and funding.
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[God creating dogs] Oh these turned out great. Im going to want all of these back at some point
January 3, 2026 at 12:33 AM
[God creating dogs] Oh these turned out great. Im going to want all of these back at some point
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This post is for the determined little blood clot trying to make its way to a vital organ inside the most vile and putrid creature who breathes: I know you tried for the heart and couldn't find one. Don't be discouraged. Your job is too important. Just move toward the pudding. That's the brain.
January 11, 2026 at 6:54 PM
This post is for the determined little blood clot trying to make its way to a vital organ inside the most vile and putrid creature who breathes: I know you tried for the heart and couldn't find one. Don't be discouraged. Your job is too important. Just move toward the pudding. That's the brain.
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The ICE agent Jonathan Ross is a murderer. Pass it on.
January 8, 2026 at 8:32 PM
The ICE agent Jonathan Ross is a murderer. Pass it on.
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i know we're all busy but i just overheard a plumber say "parlez-vous français ? non ? you motherfuckers don't even speak french, do you" to a pair of french bulldogs
January 8, 2026 at 2:18 PM
i know we're all busy but i just overheard a plumber say "parlez-vous français ? non ? you motherfuckers don't even speak french, do you" to a pair of french bulldogs
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"If I should claim your land by word of mouth, that certainly would not make it mine; and if I were to claim it by a deed which I had made myself, and with which you had had nothing to do, the claim would be quite the same in substance, or rather in utter nothingness."
Abraham Lincoln, 1848
Abraham Lincoln, 1848
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January 6, 2026 at 10:12 PM
"If I should claim your land by word of mouth, that certainly would not make it mine; and if I were to claim it by a deed which I had made myself, and with which you had had nothing to do, the claim would be quite the same in substance, or rather in utter nothingness."
Abraham Lincoln, 1848
Abraham Lincoln, 1848
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I think you’ll find you preferred the United States with that hypocritical little fig leaf of liberal international order after all.
January 4, 2026 at 7:24 AM
I think you’ll find you preferred the United States with that hypocritical little fig leaf of liberal international order after all.
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(h/t zachariah.dracoulis/IG)
January 4, 2026 at 3:30 AM
(h/t zachariah.dracoulis/IG)
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His posting of the photo as well as The New York Times sharing it violates the Geneva Convention.
January 3, 2026 at 11:25 PM
His posting of the photo as well as The New York Times sharing it violates the Geneva Convention.
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Xitter doesn't have a CEO or visible senior execs; the head of safety last posted in October; the comms team is a snide auto-responder. Meanwhile Musk has spent the last few days blithely fashposting and yuk-yucking without acknowledging what's going on. So the reporters hallucinated a story. (2/2)
January 3, 2026 at 3:34 AM
Xitter doesn't have a CEO or visible senior execs; the head of safety last posted in October; the comms team is a snide auto-responder. Meanwhile Musk has spent the last few days blithely fashposting and yuk-yucking without acknowledging what's going on. So the reporters hallucinated a story. (2/2)
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Israel becomes the first country in the world to ban the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders.
Let that sink in.
File under "Things you do when you are committing genocide"...
Let that sink in.
File under "Things you do when you are committing genocide"...
December 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Israel becomes the first country in the world to ban the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders.
Let that sink in.
File under "Things you do when you are committing genocide"...
Let that sink in.
File under "Things you do when you are committing genocide"...
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people should say bye on the phone in tv shows and movies
Let’s air those grievances. I want to hear your pettiest gripes on this the holiest of days.
December 24, 2025 at 4:13 AM
people should say bye on the phone in tv shows and movies
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if bari weiss had tried to do 9/11 there'd be three towers now
December 23, 2025 at 2:36 AM
if bari weiss had tried to do 9/11 there'd be three towers now
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CHOTINER: and when you're in water you
PARTICLE MAN: don't get wet, that's right.
CHOTINER: And this is because
PARTICLE MAN: the water gets me instead. It becomes particle-manish
CHOTINER: There's been some debate on this point. Triangle Man, for example
PARTICLE MAN: I think we're done here
PARTICLE MAN: don't get wet, that's right.
CHOTINER: And this is because
PARTICLE MAN: the water gets me instead. It becomes particle-manish
CHOTINER: There's been some debate on this point. Triangle Man, for example
PARTICLE MAN: I think we're done here
December 23, 2025 at 3:24 AM
CHOTINER: and when you're in water you
PARTICLE MAN: don't get wet, that's right.
CHOTINER: And this is because
PARTICLE MAN: the water gets me instead. It becomes particle-manish
CHOTINER: There's been some debate on this point. Triangle Man, for example
PARTICLE MAN: I think we're done here
PARTICLE MAN: don't get wet, that's right.
CHOTINER: And this is because
PARTICLE MAN: the water gets me instead. It becomes particle-manish
CHOTINER: There's been some debate on this point. Triangle Man, for example
PARTICLE MAN: I think we're done here
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This is quite literally the job of an academic. Also, LLMs don’t do this either! It regurgitates what it statistically calculates as the most likely outcome. Stochastic parrots all the way down!
December 21, 2025 at 9:55 PM
This is quite literally the job of an academic. Also, LLMs don’t do this either! It regurgitates what it statistically calculates as the most likely outcome. Stochastic parrots all the way down!
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I feel like I'm going to get a lot of use out of this Pluribus screencap
December 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I feel like I'm going to get a lot of use out of this Pluribus screencap
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I am so sick of this naive analysis that treats racism as an aspect of identity.
Expressions of racial animus are *behavior*. It is not “writing off a segment of the working class” to condemn *changeable behaviors*, and socialism does not require endorsing every behavior every working person does.
Expressions of racial animus are *behavior*. It is not “writing off a segment of the working class” to condemn *changeable behaviors*, and socialism does not require endorsing every behavior every working person does.
December 12, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I am so sick of this naive analysis that treats racism as an aspect of identity.
Expressions of racial animus are *behavior*. It is not “writing off a segment of the working class” to condemn *changeable behaviors*, and socialism does not require endorsing every behavior every working person does.
Expressions of racial animus are *behavior*. It is not “writing off a segment of the working class” to condemn *changeable behaviors*, and socialism does not require endorsing every behavior every working person does.
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We need to bring back shame. Being outwardly racist is not “economic anxiety” it’s just racism.
December 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
We need to bring back shame. Being outwardly racist is not “economic anxiety” it’s just racism.
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There's a timeline where foreign adversaries turn American weapons back against their owners after deceiving the controlling AIs with poetic allusion. I just want to say that if the concept of poet-warrior bards makes a comeback, I'm okay with that.
December 9, 2025 at 10:28 PM
There's a timeline where foreign adversaries turn American weapons back against their owners after deceiving the controlling AIs with poetic allusion. I just want to say that if the concept of poet-warrior bards makes a comeback, I'm okay with that.
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