OneThousandBooksLater
@1000bookslater.bsky.social
Fanfic at AO3. Because why not?
Currently riffing on Key's "Tongue Tied" MV
https://archiveofourown.org/users/OneThousandBooksLater/works
TAX THE BASTARDS
REFORM THE SUPREME COURT
Currently riffing on Key's "Tongue Tied" MV
https://archiveofourown.org/users/OneThousandBooksLater/works
TAX THE BASTARDS
REFORM THE SUPREME COURT
👇 [try to get past the frame job]
December 5, 2025 at 6:23 AM
👇 [try to get past the frame job]
[Rolls out a comment that I liked so much I gave it a homemade frame]
December 5, 2025 at 12:54 AM
[Rolls out a comment that I liked so much I gave it a homemade frame]
Jason Pargin delivers the evidence😸
December 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Jason Pargin delivers the evidence😸
"Commissar" has the Russian vibe, but the Chinese Communist Party is the real master at this indoctrination of students.
They have never let up.
Peter Hessler's 2024 "Other Rivers: A Chinese Education" was a fascinating read about how this intersection of party control & education plays out.
They have never let up.
Peter Hessler's 2024 "Other Rivers: A Chinese Education" was a fascinating read about how this intersection of party control & education plays out.
December 1, 2025 at 6:15 PM
"Commissar" has the Russian vibe, but the Chinese Communist Party is the real master at this indoctrination of students.
They have never let up.
Peter Hessler's 2024 "Other Rivers: A Chinese Education" was a fascinating read about how this intersection of party control & education plays out.
They have never let up.
Peter Hessler's 2024 "Other Rivers: A Chinese Education" was a fascinating read about how this intersection of party control & education plays out.
You summoned the Mencken demon!😺
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."
-- H. L. Mencken.
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."
-- H. L. Mencken.
December 1, 2025 at 1:48 AM
You summoned the Mencken demon!😺
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."
-- H. L. Mencken.
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."
-- H. L. Mencken.
Imagine you live in Alaska and earnest Democrats consistently suggest giving Murkowski kudos whenever she does something cost-free to her but mildly supportive of basic decency.
[insert scream here]
[insert scream here]
December 1, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Imagine you live in Alaska and earnest Democrats consistently suggest giving Murkowski kudos whenever she does something cost-free to her but mildly supportive of basic decency.
[insert scream here]
[insert scream here]
"Nodfather" FTW😺
November 30, 2025 at 5:42 PM
"Nodfather" FTW😺
I'd never read W.E.B. DuBois "The Souls of Black Folk," so did that yesterday. Written in 1903, when he was 35. Searing.
And here we all are, 122 years later, with hysterical raging racists in charge of our government.
And here we all are, 122 years later, with hysterical raging racists in charge of our government.
November 30, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I'd never read W.E.B. DuBois "The Souls of Black Folk," so did that yesterday. Written in 1903, when he was 35. Searing.
And here we all are, 122 years later, with hysterical raging racists in charge of our government.
And here we all are, 122 years later, with hysterical raging racists in charge of our government.
Or is the scaffolding a version of this?
Amoral oligarchy just keeps on propping up the predators?
Amoral oligarchy just keeps on propping up the predators?
November 30, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Or is the scaffolding a version of this?
Amoral oligarchy just keeps on propping up the predators?
Amoral oligarchy just keeps on propping up the predators?
Patrick Wyman's "The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World" was an enjoyable read, in case you, like me, missed it when it was published in 2021.
Nice interweaving of the role of mega finance in warmongering.
(Ahem.😼)
Nice interweaving of the role of mega finance in warmongering.
(Ahem.😼)
November 29, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Patrick Wyman's "The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World" was an enjoyable read, in case you, like me, missed it when it was published in 2021.
Nice interweaving of the role of mega finance in warmongering.
(Ahem.😼)
Nice interweaving of the role of mega finance in warmongering.
(Ahem.😼)
Liked this so much I glued it together😼
November 29, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Liked this so much I glued it together😼
Literal rather than metaphorical chains would be great.😺
November 29, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Literal rather than metaphorical chains would be great.😺
Here's the third slide in the series
www.instagram.com/p/C6v9y_cSx4...
www.instagram.com/p/C6v9y_cSx4...
November 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Here's the third slide in the series
www.instagram.com/p/C6v9y_cSx4...
www.instagram.com/p/C6v9y_cSx4...
My go-to book on debt is Louis Hyman's "Debtor Nation: the History of America in Red Ink"
Get those peasants/consumers indebted, collect the juice and get rich playing finance games sloshing it around from place to place.
Altho David Graeber had a point, too. Also. 😼
Get those peasants/consumers indebted, collect the juice and get rich playing finance games sloshing it around from place to place.
Altho David Graeber had a point, too. Also. 😼
November 28, 2025 at 6:48 PM
My go-to book on debt is Louis Hyman's "Debtor Nation: the History of America in Red Ink"
Get those peasants/consumers indebted, collect the juice and get rich playing finance games sloshing it around from place to place.
Altho David Graeber had a point, too. Also. 😼
Get those peasants/consumers indebted, collect the juice and get rich playing finance games sloshing it around from place to place.
Altho David Graeber had a point, too. Also. 😼
"Fascinating"? My initial reaction was "Jesus Fucking Christ!"🙀
Now feeling tremendously validated for pre-ordering Patrick Wyman's "Lost Worlds: How Humans Tried, Failed, Succeeded, and Built Our World"
Pre-history has some splainin' to do😺
Now feeling tremendously validated for pre-ordering Patrick Wyman's "Lost Worlds: How Humans Tried, Failed, Succeeded, and Built Our World"
Pre-history has some splainin' to do😺
November 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
"Fascinating"? My initial reaction was "Jesus Fucking Christ!"🙀
Now feeling tremendously validated for pre-ordering Patrick Wyman's "Lost Worlds: How Humans Tried, Failed, Succeeded, and Built Our World"
Pre-history has some splainin' to do😺
Now feeling tremendously validated for pre-ordering Patrick Wyman's "Lost Worlds: How Humans Tried, Failed, Succeeded, and Built Our World"
Pre-history has some splainin' to do😺
I didn't want to read this, but felt obliged to anyway... got only this far before deciding I'd need to be sedated if I went any further.
BURN THIS FACILITY TO THE GROUND, BULLDOZE THE RUBBLE, SALT THE EARTH
Not even Prez Pedo Pal should be incarcerated there, fitting justice tho that might be
BURN THIS FACILITY TO THE GROUND, BULLDOZE THE RUBBLE, SALT THE EARTH
Not even Prez Pedo Pal should be incarcerated there, fitting justice tho that might be
November 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I didn't want to read this, but felt obliged to anyway... got only this far before deciding I'd need to be sedated if I went any further.
BURN THIS FACILITY TO THE GROUND, BULLDOZE THE RUBBLE, SALT THE EARTH
Not even Prez Pedo Pal should be incarcerated there, fitting justice tho that might be
BURN THIS FACILITY TO THE GROUND, BULLDOZE THE RUBBLE, SALT THE EARTH
Not even Prez Pedo Pal should be incarcerated there, fitting justice tho that might be
For some reason this pic of Kibum cheers me up.
No, I do not want to know why😺
No, I do not want to know why😺
November 24, 2025 at 8:16 PM
For some reason this pic of Kibum cheers me up.
No, I do not want to know why😺
No, I do not want to know why😺
Fantasizing about the meltdown of the Trump family crypto empire causing a nationwide financial crisis after reading Matt Levine today...😺
November 24, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Fantasizing about the meltdown of the Trump family crypto empire causing a nationwide financial crisis after reading Matt Levine today...😺
Richard White's "Railroaded: TheTranscontinents Making of Modern America" was a riveting read. Called to mind a history prof's remark that corruption in US politics was a huge lasting scar traceable to the railroads boom.
With Yuen Yuan Ang's work on US access corruption as extra sauce.
With Yuen Yuan Ang's work on US access corruption as extra sauce.
November 23, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Richard White's "Railroaded: TheTranscontinents Making of Modern America" was a riveting read. Called to mind a history prof's remark that corruption in US politics was a huge lasting scar traceable to the railroads boom.
With Yuen Yuan Ang's work on US access corruption as extra sauce.
With Yuen Yuan Ang's work on US access corruption as extra sauce.
[cracks open Sapolsky's Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will]
Will try to re-read it without resorting to high-proof alcohol.
Will try to re-read it without resorting to high-proof alcohol.
November 20, 2025 at 3:27 AM
[cracks open Sapolsky's Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will]
Will try to re-read it without resorting to high-proof alcohol.
Will try to re-read it without resorting to high-proof alcohol.
Thank you for the gift link. This bit is especially tasty:
November 19, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Thank you for the gift link. This bit is especially tasty:
Now one of my recurring fantasies, I liked it so much upon first encounter that I framed it
[yeah, am a victim of Powerpoint poisoning, but it's probably terminal so who cares about rehab]
[yeah, am a victim of Powerpoint poisoning, but it's probably terminal so who cares about rehab]
November 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Now one of my recurring fantasies, I liked it so much upon first encounter that I framed it
[yeah, am a victim of Powerpoint poisoning, but it's probably terminal so who cares about rehab]
[yeah, am a victim of Powerpoint poisoning, but it's probably terminal so who cares about rehab]
Gonna trot juliusgroat out again on this one😼
November 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Gonna trot juliusgroat out again on this one😼
Kinda like a major mudslide barreling down from a mountaintop, with all the trimmings of broken trees, rocks, and bushes, destroying the village below?
November 18, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Kinda like a major mudslide barreling down from a mountaintop, with all the trimmings of broken trees, rocks, and bushes, destroying the village below?
Despite being an American, I actually know where this is and have been following the story. It's been awhile since Howard French's riveting "China's Second Continent," so interesting to see the empire building is continuing apace. Or maybe "interesting" isn't the right word...
November 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Despite being an American, I actually know where this is and have been following the story. It's been awhile since Howard French's riveting "China's Second Continent," so interesting to see the empire building is continuing apace. Or maybe "interesting" isn't the right word...