Reverend
@generalreverendum.bsky.social
Ronin academic, looking for some way to serve.
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here @nytimes.com ilham ahmed from the administration of north east syria / #Rojava discusses the difficulties in the transition process to a new syria. especially among christians, kurds, druze and alawites, there is fear of islamist violence & a new centralization.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/o...
Opinion | Syrian Freedom Is Dangerously Incomplete
www.nytimes.com
June 3, 2025 at 3:29 PM
here @nytimes.com ilham ahmed from the administration of north east syria / #Rojava discusses the difficulties in the transition process to a new syria. especially among christians, kurds, druze and alawites, there is fear of islamist violence & a new centralization.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/o...
Schrödinger's Hater
Like people on here are fighting about "did Trump voters vote for this" and the answer simply is neither yes or no. They did vote for it by casting their vote for him if they knew that or not! But they also did not necessarily consciously chose this exact policy implementation.
June 2, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Schrödinger's Hater
Here’s to hoping that foreign leaders telling Trump to fuck off births a whole new cross-cultural inter-lingual literary genre.
January 27, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Here’s to hoping that foreign leaders telling Trump to fuck off births a whole new cross-cultural inter-lingual literary genre.
So which would be more brutal: Giving the Nobel Prize to Trump for this, or giving it to Biden?
January 14, 2025 at 9:27 PM
So which would be more brutal: Giving the Nobel Prize to Trump for this, or giving it to Biden?
I feel like I’ve lost a 40 year long argument about “Dude, people aren’t really like that.”
January 3, 2025 at 8:47 AM
I feel like I’ve lost a 40 year long argument about “Dude, people aren’t really like that.”
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Fox News is describing the upcoming winter storm like it's ISIS + WW3 + pandemic
January 2, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Fox News is describing the upcoming winter storm like it's ISIS + WW3 + pandemic
I just put on a movie because Prime told me it was being removed in 19 minutes. Thing is, I’m not concerned that I’m vulnerable to such suasion; I’m worried that I’m feeling combative with a technology platform.
“Don’t tell me how to live!”
“Don’t tell me how to live!”
January 1, 2025 at 4:47 AM
I just put on a movie because Prime told me it was being removed in 19 minutes. Thing is, I’m not concerned that I’m vulnerable to such suasion; I’m worried that I’m feeling combative with a technology platform.
“Don’t tell me how to live!”
“Don’t tell me how to live!”
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Me to the American median voter after they say they dislike invading Canada:
December 31, 2024 at 2:38 AM
Me to the American median voter after they say they dislike invading Canada:
Oh wow… “quislings”… now if that there isn’t a word who’s time to shine has come.
(I do not think that Canada will accept annexation no matter what quislings slink down to Mar-A-Lago, the roadmap to a union will outstrip Trump's mortal lifespan anyways.)
December 31, 2024 at 5:05 AM
Oh wow… “quislings”… now if that there isn’t a word who’s time to shine has come.
Has “Wow, here’s the shit I got way wrong this year” replacing New Year’s Resolutions this year?
This might actually be an improvement.
This might actually be an improvement.
December 31, 2024 at 4:43 AM
Has “Wow, here’s the shit I got way wrong this year” replacing New Year’s Resolutions this year?
This might actually be an improvement.
This might actually be an improvement.
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ever since I started making seltzer at home I get to steal a little valor every time I swap my CO2 tank at the local gas supply place. standing in line with the tradesmen refilling tanks for their welders and getting up to the counter to be like, I can only drink water with little bubbles in it
August 6, 2024 at 9:22 PM
ever since I started making seltzer at home I get to steal a little valor every time I swap my CO2 tank at the local gas supply place. standing in line with the tradesmen refilling tanks for their welders and getting up to the counter to be like, I can only drink water with little bubbles in it
Pack it up. It was fun while it lasted, but everything’s gotta go now. Bulldoze the ashes and turn the lights off on your way out.
Cool how Google image search automatically returns AI garbage now. I was looking for a picture of Beaker from the Muppets.
December 31, 2024 at 1:23 AM
Pack it up. It was fun while it lasted, but everything’s gotta go now. Bulldoze the ashes and turn the lights off on your way out.
Peak: “You had one job.”
The "Did Jimmy Carter Die Today" bot author used the wrong timezone and declared he wasn't dead today at 6AM lmao
December 30, 2024 at 4:14 AM
Peak: “You had one job.”
Agreed. Problem: liberalism (small-L) tends towards dissolving the bonds of affinities people feel with respect to such groups, them being un-natural impositions on one's liberty. If said groups are important for the actual politics of promoting liberal policies (They are.) then there is a tension.
This is why I think the meso-level of democracy is so important, you really do need intermediary groups that transform something like fiscal policy into something legible to them. I think a lot of the problems with The Groups (derogatory) stem from them not really being member based anymore.
We have Id democracy, but people clearly actually want superego democracy! They hate populism even as they vote for it. Take their expressed preferences seriously, don’t just go by revealed preferences!
December 30, 2024 at 3:02 AM
Agreed. Problem: liberalism (small-L) tends towards dissolving the bonds of affinities people feel with respect to such groups, them being un-natural impositions on one's liberty. If said groups are important for the actual politics of promoting liberal policies (They are.) then there is a tension.
Some say the word "hero" is thrown around only too casually these days, but, sometimes, occasionally, you still hear about an act...
A student somehow accidentally emailed the entire NYU faculty and the reply-all carnage is like a freeway pile-up
December 30, 2024 at 2:52 AM
Some say the word "hero" is thrown around only too casually these days, but, sometimes, occasionally, you still hear about an act...
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Ah but you see, when Kamala Harris says something, that's fake, while when Donald Trump fakes something, that's real
December 30, 2024 at 2:31 AM
Ah but you see, when Kamala Harris says something, that's fake, while when Donald Trump fakes something, that's real
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Autocracy never works out for other people, but I think I could do it. I think I could unilaterally control all levers of power responsibly and benevolently.
The people would love my rule.
The people would love my rule.
December 30, 2024 at 1:38 AM
Autocracy never works out for other people, but I think I could do it. I think I could unilaterally control all levers of power responsibly and benevolently.
The people would love my rule.
The people would love my rule.
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It would be a lot clearer if they just included the toilet.
I was today years old when I realized just how clever the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy logo is 😳
December 29, 2024 at 11:55 PM
It would be a lot clearer if they just included the toilet.
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I think the reason why the heart in a blender song still gets a lotta streams in 2024 is because everyone feels like their heart is in a blender
December 29, 2024 at 2:19 AM
I think the reason why the heart in a blender song still gets a lotta streams in 2024 is because everyone feels like their heart is in a blender
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Me and my fellowship would have killed Gollum with hammers, I tell you what
December 29, 2024 at 4:17 AM
Me and my fellowship would have killed Gollum with hammers, I tell you what
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showing up in washington square park in the rain to play chess against randos is exactly the level of psycho competitor meets sensei that it takes to be the best player on earth. i’m moved
December 28, 2024 at 6:15 PM
showing up in washington square park in the rain to play chess against randos is exactly the level of psycho competitor meets sensei that it takes to be the best player on earth. i’m moved
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Dungeon Masters: My players are goofy murderhobos who don’t take RP seriously. Their characters don’t act like real people.
History: In 1630, a band of mercenaries came the village of Shitwaldberg, killed everyone, took their stuff, adopted a pig named Hans, and wrote a drinking song about it.
History: In 1630, a band of mercenaries came the village of Shitwaldberg, killed everyone, took their stuff, adopted a pig named Hans, and wrote a drinking song about it.
December 27, 2024 at 10:07 PM
Dungeon Masters: My players are goofy murderhobos who don’t take RP seriously. Their characters don’t act like real people.
History: In 1630, a band of mercenaries came the village of Shitwaldberg, killed everyone, took their stuff, adopted a pig named Hans, and wrote a drinking song about it.
History: In 1630, a band of mercenaries came the village of Shitwaldberg, killed everyone, took their stuff, adopted a pig named Hans, and wrote a drinking song about it.
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the downstream effects of algorithmization are so insidious. the goal truly is to produce to the exact level of “tolerable.” when I finally watched Power of the Dog after a particularly grim run of Marvel-adjacent smeary slop it felt like getting a full breath when I wasn’t even aware I was drowning
December 28, 2024 at 4:29 AM
the downstream effects of algorithmization are so insidious. the goal truly is to produce to the exact level of “tolerable.” when I finally watched Power of the Dog after a particularly grim run of Marvel-adjacent smeary slop it felt like getting a full breath when I wasn’t even aware I was drowning