In the Woods
@ctphil.bsky.social
32G(2HM2) '71-'74
I want to be a Crypto Ranger, outa sight and outa danger
Celtic Skeptic The Internet thing was a mistake, sorry.
Datapoint, Xerox, Wang, OpenConnect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Star
I want to be a Crypto Ranger, outa sight and outa danger
Celtic Skeptic The Internet thing was a mistake, sorry.
Datapoint, Xerox, Wang, OpenConnect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Star
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"In his final drive for power Hitler had considerable financial backing from a fairly large chunk of the German business world...What good [that] eventually did these politically childish men of the business world will be seen later in this narrative."
Shirer, p. 242
Shirer, p. 242
October 1, 2025 at 3:25 AM
"In his final drive for power Hitler had considerable financial backing from a fairly large chunk of the German business world...What good [that] eventually did these politically childish men of the business world will be seen later in this narrative."
Shirer, p. 242
Shirer, p. 242
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MN ice beats ICE
January 10, 2026 at 2:27 AM
MN ice beats ICE
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Occasionally as a litigator you run across an opposing party who repeatedly breaches contracts and settlement agreements and legal requirements — just never abides by them. Generally competent lawyers point out that you shouldn’t do business with or enter contracts with that person.
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January 7, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Occasionally as a litigator you run across an opposing party who repeatedly breaches contracts and settlement agreements and legal requirements — just never abides by them. Generally competent lawyers point out that you shouldn’t do business with or enter contracts with that person.
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In July 2024, I warned that if Trump were re-elected, "The age of multilateralism would be over, and something much worse will take its place. The UK and Europe will need to find the means of defending ourselves".
I was called "hysterical".
Well, here we are.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I was called "hysterical".
Well, here we are.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I never thought I’d argue for rearmament. But a looming Trump presidency changes everything | George Monbiot
A Putin-friendly president would pose a grave danger to Europe. Like it or not, this calls for greater defence, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2026 at 7:05 AM
In July 2024, I warned that if Trump were re-elected, "The age of multilateralism would be over, and something much worse will take its place. The UK and Europe will need to find the means of defending ourselves".
I was called "hysterical".
Well, here we are.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I was called "hysterical".
Well, here we are.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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“Taken for a ride?” They’re the fucking chauffeurs.
"The fact that the US is even attempting a kind of regime change by protection racket, one that began with the brazen abduction of a foreign leader, is proof that Vance and the many, many, many others who insisted that Trump is some kind of dove have been taken for a ride."
Donald Trump was never a dove
How critics of American interventionism fell for a myth.
www.vox.com
January 5, 2026 at 4:53 PM
“Taken for a ride?” They’re the fucking chauffeurs.
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A must-read message from Colin and Sophie Hortman, Mark and Melissa's children:
January 5, 2026 at 12:24 AM
A must-read message from Colin and Sophie Hortman, Mark and Melissa's children:
Frozen Candlewood Lake
January 4, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Frozen Candlewood Lake
Me: Poor thing has nothing to eat except those scrubby bushes.
Wife: Those WERE our azaleas.
Wife: Those WERE our azaleas.
January 4, 2026 at 1:11 PM
Me: Poor thing has nothing to eat except those scrubby bushes.
Wife: Those WERE our azaleas.
Wife: Those WERE our azaleas.
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Make no mistake about what is happening here. The president and his advisers are sitting in a makeshift SCIF at his palatial Florida estate keeping track of how the attack on a foreign nation is playing on social media.
the photographer was definitely like, "ok everybody, look tough!" but we know they're all just reading tweets with their arms crossed in a country club dining room divided up by bedsheets tacked to the beams
January 3, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Make no mistake about what is happening here. The president and his advisers are sitting in a makeshift SCIF at his palatial Florida estate keeping track of how the attack on a foreign nation is playing on social media.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn’t want you to know my name. That’s not an accident. I’m Shawn Harris. I’m a Democrat, a husband and father, a Retired Brigadier General, and a farmer. I’m running in a special election to replace MTG. I’m the only Democrat in a jungle primary against 17 Republicans.
January 2, 2026 at 5:54 AM
Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn’t want you to know my name. That’s not an accident. I’m Shawn Harris. I’m a Democrat, a husband and father, a Retired Brigadier General, and a farmer. I’m running in a special election to replace MTG. I’m the only Democrat in a jungle primary against 17 Republicans.
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“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.”
In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.
In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.
January 1, 2026 at 11:43 AM
“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.”
In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.
In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.
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Remember: The oligarchs who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us so they can become more powerful.
They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see where all the wealth and power have gone.
Don't fall for it.
They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see where all the wealth and power have gone.
Don't fall for it.
December 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Remember: The oligarchs who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us so they can become more powerful.
They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see where all the wealth and power have gone.
Don't fall for it.
They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see where all the wealth and power have gone.
Don't fall for it.
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This where we are:
On Thursday Trump made a multi billion dollar PERSONAL bet on a competing energy source and Monday he straight attempted to cancel potential competition.
It's incredible how inured the world has become to his naked corruption.
On Thursday Trump made a multi billion dollar PERSONAL bet on a competing energy source and Monday he straight attempted to cancel potential competition.
It's incredible how inured the world has become to his naked corruption.
December 22, 2025 at 6:27 PM
This where we are:
On Thursday Trump made a multi billion dollar PERSONAL bet on a competing energy source and Monday he straight attempted to cancel potential competition.
It's incredible how inured the world has become to his naked corruption.
On Thursday Trump made a multi billion dollar PERSONAL bet on a competing energy source and Monday he straight attempted to cancel potential competition.
It's incredible how inured the world has become to his naked corruption.
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And here we are...
Once right-wing oligarchs gain control of just about every national and local media company, social media platform, and big AI, as they are systematically doing with little notice from the general public, it will be game, set and match for the Republic.
December 10, 2025 at 11:40 PM
And here we are...
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"I think we'll risk the carpool lane, St Thomas"
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
"I think we'll risk the carpool lane, St Thomas"
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Most people in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark don't want to come here to live. They'll come for tourism, or they used to before Trump turned us into a shithole country, but why the hell would anybody from one of those places want to live here?
TRUMP: “I said why is it we only take people from shithole countries? Why can't we have some people from Norway, Sweden, Denmark… But we always take people from Somalia— places that are filthy, dirty, disgusting.”
Such a mystery what he means when he says this stuff, isn’t it?
Such a mystery what he means when he says this stuff, isn’t it?
December 10, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Most people in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark don't want to come here to live. They'll come for tourism, or they used to before Trump turned us into a shithole country, but why the hell would anybody from one of those places want to live here?
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This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
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I can’t believe how much of the Trump era is about solving problems that *don’t* exist while making all the problems that *do* exist, worse.
There is no one who thinks the biggest problem with air travel right now is not having an area to do pull-ups.
There is no one who thinks the biggest problem with air travel right now is not having an area to do pull-ups.
Duffy on what he's doing to improve the airport experience for travelers: "Maybe I want a workout area where people might get some blood flowing doing some pull ups or step ups in the airport."
December 9, 2025 at 12:10 PM
I can’t believe how much of the Trump era is about solving problems that *don’t* exist while making all the problems that *do* exist, worse.
There is no one who thinks the biggest problem with air travel right now is not having an area to do pull-ups.
There is no one who thinks the biggest problem with air travel right now is not having an area to do pull-ups.
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Again I feel like it's relevant that we're having these discussions in the shadow of a president that we all know could not possibly comprehend the notion of faithfully executing the will of another if his life depended on it
it is actually kind of bananas how unitary executive theorists have taken a straightforward clause requiring the president to "faithfully execute the laws" and transformed it into a grant for the exercise of limitless unenumerated power.
The Take Care Clause was a byproduct of the lessons learned from the Glorious Revolution that the executive should not be able to dispense with the law promulgated by the legislature. It was not a constitutional provision to empower the executive branch— but to constrain it!
December 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Again I feel like it's relevant that we're having these discussions in the shadow of a president that we all know could not possibly comprehend the notion of faithfully executing the will of another if his life depended on it
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How soon until “Fox legal analyst”?
December 8, 2025 at 6:55 PM
How soon until “Fox legal analyst”?
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Timeline cleanser 🐈
September 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Timeline cleanser 🐈