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pyropeter.bsky.social @pyropeter.bsky.social · 11h

www.drawbackchess.com/game/f961c45...
I'm pretty happy with this game. A legitimate checkmate while taking advantage of black's drawback.
#drawbackchess

Drawback Chess

A chess game in which each player has a hidden drawback.

www.drawbackchess.com

pyropeter.bsky.social @pyropeter.bsky.social · 18h

Betcha exhausting global warming gasses don’t count.

pyropeter.bsky.social @pyropeter.bsky.social · 18h

I’m actually relieved that Dolly ain’t dead yet.

pyropeter.bsky.social @pyropeter.bsky.social · 23h

I’m down for a Butlerian Jihad.

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pyropeter.bsky.social @pyropeter.bsky.social · 5d

hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/h...

Hypocrisy and Fascism

Know Your Lane, Imagining the Real, Disrupting Whiteness, Thank You!, Punching Down, Civil Disobedience, The Arendt Center is Hiring | Hannah Arendt Center News

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pyropeter.bsky.social @pyropeter.bsky.social · 7d

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When Trump, Hegseth, and Miller talk about The Enemy Within -this- is what they mean.

Defining the Enemy | Holocaust Encyclopedia

Nazi ideology aimed to promote the myth of an ideal national community and label those who were to be excluded from it as enemies. Propaganda was essential in promoting such myths.

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💙 MaryH 💙 @maryh58.bsky.social · 8d

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pyropeter.bsky.social @pyropeter.bsky.social · 12d

This was on my mind today…
It is a must watch.

youtube.com/watch?v=3jTH...

Christopher Hitchens | The evil of Saddam Hussein & his "Republic of Fear"

YouTube video by Christopher Hitchens Youtube

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pyropeter.bsky.social @pyropeter.bsky.social · 14d

Wrong! All of the good, worthy, and morally upstanding Evangelical Christians -were- bodily raised up into Heaven.

All of them.

The noisy pretenders following false gods, predictably, we’re left here with us.

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Nick Fish @nickfish.me · 15d

This is a transparent attempt to sane-wash the conspiracy theorists and anti-vax nutjobs in this administration. They didn't have any "carefully laid" plans. They are eugenicists, grifters, and outright lunatics. Trump just says the quiet part out loud. Come on, CNN.

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pyropeter.bsky.social @pyropeter.bsky.social · 16d

If I get a time machine I’m pruning this entire timeline!
Pessimistic Alternatively, this has already happened and this… this… is the best possible timeline.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16d

Remember: The GOP’s nonsensical culture wars are meant to distract you from corporate corruption and plunder. [Cartoon by Jace Avery]

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pyropeter.bsky.social @pyropeter.bsky.social · 16d

Not gonna lie… if I was arranging Charlie’s memorial with an unlimited budget I also would have gone with fireworks.

pyropeter.bsky.social @pyropeter.bsky.social · 17d

I don't know why I'm posting a robot... but I have now posted a robot.

Robot Depressed GIF

Alt: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy robot Marvin (2005 version) saying "I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed"

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19d

A worker making $50,000 a year contributes to Social Security on 100% of their income.

A CEO making $20 million a year contributes to Social Security on less than 1% of their income.

Instead of raising the retirement age, we should scrap the Social Security tax cap.

Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 19d

BREAKING: Trump's head of Social Security says raising the retirement age "will be considered."

That's a betrayal of Trump's campaign promise to protect Social Security.

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Andrew L. Seidel @andrewlseidel.bsky.social · 19d

This is pretty remarkable and something I hope to see more of. The court, without NYT even responding to Trump's absurd lawsuit, dismissed the lawsuit because it was so utterly bereft of anything resembling lawyering.

I hope we see opposing counsel stick it to Trump's attorneys now.

Mike Scarcella @mikescarcella.bsky.social · 19d

NEW - US judge dismisses Trump’s $15 bln suit against NYT, says ‘a complaint is not a public forum for vituperation and invective — not a protected platform to rage against an adversary.’ Ruling gives Trump 28 days to amend www.reuters.com/business/med...

Order - tmsnrt.rs/4gAPWcK

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20d

We're witnessing the culminating rot of shareholder capitalism in real time.

Some of the most powerful corporations in America have sided with an authoritarian regime in order to protect their short term profits — the fundamental rights of everyone else be damned.

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pyropeter.bsky.social @pyropeter.bsky.social · 20d

#Disney
I don’t have a Disney+ subscription to cancel but I did have a stake in the company. I thought it was a poor investment in a good company. I was wrong. It was a cowardly company.
For an American Media company with an Army of lawyers to fold to such weak threats… it is shameful.

Filled Disney stock sell order of 108 shares

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 21d

if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved

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pyropeter.bsky.social @pyropeter.bsky.social · 25d

I don't know what it would be about but I need a colab piece by Scott Manley ( @scottmanley.bsky.social ), Scott Horsley (@HorsleyScott on that other site), and Scott Cowley ( @scottcowley.bsky.social ).
Sadly, Scott Henley recently passed. A maritime angle to the colab would have been interesting.

pyropeter.bsky.social @pyropeter.bsky.social · 28d

Stochastic Terrorist killed while performing job of Stochastic Terrorism. Other Stochastic Terrorists bemoan lack of empathy from targets of this Stochastic Terrorist after popularizing the concept of the Sin of Empathy earlier this same year.
#RestInPiss

pyropeter.bsky.social @pyropeter.bsky.social · Sep 5

@dropout.tv It is a crime that #KingpinKatie didn’t get a second season. I loved every minute of it!

pyropeter.bsky.social @pyropeter.bsky.social · Sep 5

Among my concerns is that this $8T market cap number might be realistic given an obscene, but not unprecedented, level of inflation.

pyropeter.bsky.social @pyropeter.bsky.social · Sep 5

It would almost… almost be funny if antivaxers were the ones suffering from the diseases they support. Unfortunately, it is kids and impoverished people hurt the most.

pyropeter.bsky.social @pyropeter.bsky.social · Sep 4

Episode 2: I'm already loving Betsy Sodaro's character. #KingpinKatie #dropouttv