broken bokonon
@redletter.bsky.social
Like most things in my life, this has been a huge mistake
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I’m old enough I remember when Georgia was a red state.
November 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I’m old enough I remember when Georgia was a red state.
When you have one (1) trillion dollars worth of juice
November 8, 2025 at 9:46 AM
When you have one (1) trillion dollars worth of juice
”Look at this perfect puddle. It fits into the hole just perfectly!”
I think the question "is Trump a good politician?" is genuinely a complicated one. He is extremely good at running for office in the United States as is, slotting into deep-rooted material and cultural dysfunctions that other politicians who are less sociopathic were loath to prod so directly.
November 8, 2025 at 1:21 AM
”Look at this perfect puddle. It fits into the hole just perfectly!”
Hell yeah, this government efficiency thing is off the charts
Speaker Johnson is officially keeping the House in recess again next week. This will be the eighth consecutive week the House has been out of session. The chamber hasn't met since Sept. 19. Adelita Grijalva, who was elected on Sept. 23, has not been sworn in.
November 8, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Hell yeah, this government efficiency thing is off the charts
a wartime footing? With *my* beautiful tax cuts?
Hegseth: "We are not building for peacetime. We are pivoting the Pentagon and our industrial base to a wartime footing. Building for victory should our adversaries FAFO."
November 7, 2025 at 9:47 PM
a wartime footing? With *my* beautiful tax cuts?
Can you believe the new mayor won't even give me the time of day? Me? A rich guy who sucks?
Canadian multimillionaire and Shark Tank guy Kevin O'Leary went on TV to say he's upset Zohran won't talk to him: "I and others who invest in real estate have tried to get a meeting to figure out what's rhetoric and what's policy. So far for me it's been crickets."
November 7, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Can you believe the new mayor won't even give me the time of day? Me? A rich guy who sucks?
is it a 40k thing cooking our online nerd brains, or have we all actually forgotten that heresy is normal and cool?
November 7, 2025 at 8:42 PM
is it a 40k thing cooking our online nerd brains, or have we all actually forgotten that heresy is normal and cool?
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Penny wise, pound foolish. The amount we spent on helping stave off poverty, oppression, and famine was a pittance compared to having to manage a refugee crisis.
November 7, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Penny wise, pound foolish. The amount we spent on helping stave off poverty, oppression, and famine was a pittance compared to having to manage a refugee crisis.
Strangely it's already dropped out of the discourse, but don't forget that Tuesday was a fucking sweep.
November 7, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Strangely it's already dropped out of the discourse, but don't forget that Tuesday was a fucking sweep.
Kristol-Trotsky Thought
Abolish Border Patrol.
Trump deportation agent: "I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.”
November 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Kristol-Trotsky Thought
You need to pay higher taxes babe
I dunno. I do like our government spending less money anywhere they can. I like even more if my taxes go down as a result. Since when is our job to be the world’s mom and dad? Did other countries step up to fill that gap?
November 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
You need to pay higher taxes babe
“You have a right to a life that is free.”
Damn son.
Damn son.
Sandwich Guy thanks everyone for their support, “emotional, spiritual, artistic or financial.” Intones, “Let us not forget that the great seal of the United States says…‘ out of many, one.’…You all have a right to live a life that is free.”
November 6, 2025 at 8:30 PM
“You have a right to a life that is free.”
Damn son.
Damn son.
Watching Hank Greene interview of Nate Soares and man there’s so much bullshit in here. Soares seems to assume that using language is the same as understanding language, and his whole theory of artificial mind seems to be based on this.
Genuinely surprising how credulous Hank seems to be in this.
Genuinely surprising how credulous Hank seems to be in this.
November 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Watching Hank Greene interview of Nate Soares and man there’s so much bullshit in here. Soares seems to assume that using language is the same as understanding language, and his whole theory of artificial mind seems to be based on this.
Genuinely surprising how credulous Hank seems to be in this.
Genuinely surprising how credulous Hank seems to be in this.
I feel like she looked at the polling
MTG: "I'm trying to lead by example to talk to everyone in kindness. We don't all have to agree but that's being an American. And thank goodness for that. Our freedom of speech, our 1A rights, allows us to do that. My personal belief is that I need to set an example by speaking nicely to everyone."
November 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I feel like she looked at the polling
Part of me wants to join in the dunks, but the other part of me doesn’t care what the world’s most insane fillers officianados have to say about this.
What’s even the point.
What’s even the point.
November 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Part of me wants to join in the dunks, but the other part of me doesn’t care what the world’s most insane fillers officianados have to say about this.
What’s even the point.
What’s even the point.
Good god I’ve missed having Dwarf Fortress update notes in my life
The Dwarf Fortress Siege Update briefly reintroduced an old bug where dwarf babies pilot their moms like mech suits until they die of dehydration because babies don't know what drinking is.
'The return of baby driver': The Dwarf Fortress Siege Update briefly reintroduced an old bug where dwarf babies pilot their moms like mech suits until they die of dehydration because babies don't know...
It has been 0 days without dwarven baby disasters.
www.pcgamer.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Good god I’ve missed having Dwarf Fortress update notes in my life
Personally I’m surprised you can take the train to Philadelphia from Australia at all
lmao the difference in times for AUS-PHL by air and by train
November 6, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Personally I’m surprised you can take the train to Philadelphia from Australia at all
@lastpositivist.bsky.social getting his friends to all like my lib skeets: that is the Popular Front, to me
November 5, 2025 at 7:52 PM
@lastpositivist.bsky.social getting his friends to all like my lib skeets: that is the Popular Front, to me
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i’d also say that the GOP’s obsession with this gives candidates an opportunity to articulate and stand up for their values. “i refuse to make anyone feel like they don’t belong in my [state/city/community]. and i want everyone to live the best life they can achieve [insert policy slogan]”
I am taking particular pleasure in the complete collapse of trans-as-unbeatable-wedge-issue narrative this morning. It might be an 80-20 issue in voters minds, but it has to be on voters minds to matter. The results in VA demonstrate that it is very much not on voters minds.
November 5, 2025 at 2:38 PM
i’d also say that the GOP’s obsession with this gives candidates an opportunity to articulate and stand up for their values. “i refuse to make anyone feel like they don’t belong in my [state/city/community]. and i want everyone to live the best life they can achieve [insert policy slogan]”
“You don’t like using their made up pronouns? I don’t care about that. So what. Be nice to them.”
“Look, I also forget what the proper term for a woman who used to be a man, but I also don’t think you should go out of your way to be a jerk to them Mark.”
“Look, I also forget what the proper term for a woman who used to be a man, but I also don’t think you should go out of your way to be a jerk to them Mark.”
Honestly I think you can even have a sort of dumb-guy libertarian take on a lot of the social issues.
Like, "I don't really get all this trans stuff, but we're talking about kids here. Shouldn't we be protecting kids?"
And if they're not kids,
"It's not my business, leave them alone."
Like, "I don't really get all this trans stuff, but we're talking about kids here. Shouldn't we be protecting kids?"
And if they're not kids,
"It's not my business, leave them alone."
November 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
“You don’t like using their made up pronouns? I don’t care about that. So what. Be nice to them.”
“Look, I also forget what the proper term for a woman who used to be a man, but I also don’t think you should go out of your way to be a jerk to them Mark.”
“Look, I also forget what the proper term for a woman who used to be a man, but I also don’t think you should go out of your way to be a jerk to them Mark.”
I feel like those of us here who have been fighting to shape what opposition to fascism should look like have been left behind, and the Popular Front is out there forming without us.
This makes me very hopeful.
This makes me very hopeful.
November 5, 2025 at 3:39 AM
I feel like those of us here who have been fighting to shape what opposition to fascism should look like have been left behind, and the Popular Front is out there forming without us.
This makes me very hopeful.
This makes me very hopeful.
I’ve been listening to Bouie and Ganz’s politics episodes on @unclearpod.bsky.social (I might have to unsubscribe because of the shutdown, tho) and man so far their discussion on military readiness is right fucking on. Especially for two people who haven’t themselves served.
November 3, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I’ve been listening to Bouie and Ganz’s politics episodes on @unclearpod.bsky.social (I might have to unsubscribe because of the shutdown, tho) and man so far their discussion on military readiness is right fucking on. Especially for two people who haven’t themselves served.