Ramon Noguera (Sad Dad)
@raywalnut.bsky.social
"If our society had to agree upon a symbol, it would most likely not be a circle, a cross, or a line, but the dizzying exponential curve." Niklas Luhmann; Die Systemtheorie der Gesellschaft (2017: 300)
I'm confused. Are they saying ISIS was right when they referred to US military as 'crusaders'?
Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
December 25, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I'm confused. Are they saying ISIS was right when they referred to US military as 'crusaders'?
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December 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Cunk spittin Christmas cheer
December 20, 2024 at 12:48 PM
Cunk spittin Christmas cheer
Breton "ominously reminded Musk of [his] legal obligations" just be the best unintended descriptor of this administration's attitude towards legality.
The Trump admin sanctions several European officials today after Elon Musk was fined for several violations of their Digital Services Act.
December 24, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Breton "ominously reminded Musk of [his] legal obligations" just be the best unintended descriptor of this administration's attitude towards legality.
Els 'zascas' i els 'hot takes' seran la mort de la democràcia.
December 22, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Els 'zascas' i els 'hot takes' seran la mort de la democràcia.
Bluscai en quatre frases.
December 21, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Bluscai en quatre frases.
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Wednesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/peter-brooke...
December 16, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Wednesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/peter-brooke...
On Catalan radio, the host pronounces "doomscrolling" as "dumbscrolling" and now I'm not sure he isn't right.
December 18, 2025 at 8:02 AM
On Catalan radio, the host pronounces "doomscrolling" as "dumbscrolling" and now I'm not sure he isn't right.
When the attention economy is stripped bare this all feels pretty existential.
(Am I doin' this rite?)
(Am I doin' this rite?)
"The peasantry feels sick and low-energy because they eat seed oils and doomscroll. But do they know that vitamins are an Ancestral Vitality Stack? Leverage your elite vocabulary to write that TikTok script. Remember it’s not magnesium it’s Mineral of the Stoics.
hegemon.substack.com/p/how-to-mon...
hegemon.substack.com/p/how-to-mon...
How to monetize the rise of Medieval Peasant Brain in a post-literate society
a short guide for the downwardly mobile elite
hegemon.substack.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:55 AM
When the attention economy is stripped bare this all feels pretty existential.
(Am I doin' this rite?)
(Am I doin' this rite?)
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En Oxford hay dos universidades (públicas); en Managua hay 39 universidades (la mayoría privadas). Yo diría que no es en Oxford en lo que Ayuso está convirtiendo Madrid.
December 17, 2025 at 7:54 PM
En Oxford hay dos universidades (públicas); en Managua hay 39 universidades (la mayoría privadas). Yo diría que no es en Oxford en lo que Ayuso está convirtiendo Madrid.
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El mayor parque solar de China reverdeció un desierto... por accidente.
Un "error" maravilloso.
Un "error" maravilloso.
December 17, 2025 at 7:15 PM
😍😍😍😍😍
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More leisure, better health outcomes, less inequality, less carbon emissions, all of which with broadly similar productivity:
The EU can be proud of its development model, and the Trumpists (and European conservatives that echo them) should keep it down a bit
The EU can be proud of its development model, and the Trumpists (and European conservatives that echo them) should keep it down a bit
December 12, 2025 at 12:32 PM
More leisure, better health outcomes, less inequality, less carbon emissions, all of which with broadly similar productivity:
The EU can be proud of its development model, and the Trumpists (and European conservatives that echo them) should keep it down a bit
The EU can be proud of its development model, and the Trumpists (and European conservatives that echo them) should keep it down a bit
Today, in our daily 2025 WTF Special...
And then there’s the story about Alex Karp’s not-at-all-weird interview (for lack of a better word) with Oswald Mosley’s grandson for a senior position at Palantir.
December 13, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Today, in our daily 2025 WTF Special...
This is the way...
December 12, 2025 at 12:36 PM
This is the way...
Una frase a Dune II, en boca de Leto II (i originalment atribuïda a Louis Veuillot: "Quan sóc més feble que tu, et demano llibertat perquè aquests són els teus principis; quan sóc més fort que tu, et trec la llibertat perquè aquests són els meus principis." Per guardar.
December 12, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Una frase a Dune II, en boca de Leto II (i originalment atribuïda a Louis Veuillot: "Quan sóc més feble que tu, et demano llibertat perquè aquests són els teus principis; quan sóc més fort que tu, et trec la llibertat perquè aquests són els meus principis." Per guardar.
" ...as politically implausible as Deneen’s ‘Aristopopulism’, and about as historically accurate as Asterix."
Yet here we are, pulling out the intellectual big guns to battle against nostalgia-tinted political infantilism, and "neo-royalist" arguments cooked in SV circle-jerks.
Yet here we are, pulling out the intellectual big guns to battle against nostalgia-tinted political infantilism, and "neo-royalist" arguments cooked in SV circle-jerks.
‘All post-liberals have at one point or another declared themselves anti-libertarian. Why is it, then, that once in power supposedly post-liberal politicians re-enact Thatcherism and Reaganism?’
@jwmueller-pu.bsky.social on post-liberal political thought.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@jwmueller-pu.bsky.social on post-liberal political thought.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Jan-Werner Müller · Caesar wept: Trolling the Libs
All post-liberals have at one point or another declared themselves anti-libertarian. Why is it, then, that once in power...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 12:09 PM
" ...as politically implausible as Deneen’s ‘Aristopopulism’, and about as historically accurate as Asterix."
Yet here we are, pulling out the intellectual big guns to battle against nostalgia-tinted political infantilism, and "neo-royalist" arguments cooked in SV circle-jerks.
Yet here we are, pulling out the intellectual big guns to battle against nostalgia-tinted political infantilism, and "neo-royalist" arguments cooked in SV circle-jerks.
Friendly reminder of why China is not our friend either. Sense of urgency, anyone?
China established a new UN “Friends of Global Governance” group.
Members include:
Iran
Cuba
Pakistan
Venezuela
North Korea
This initiative of Xi Jinping “offers China's wisdom to uphold international fairness, responding to the needs of the people.”
Members include:
Iran
Cuba
Pakistan
Venezuela
North Korea
This initiative of Xi Jinping “offers China's wisdom to uphold international fairness, responding to the needs of the people.”
December 11, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Friendly reminder of why China is not our friend either. Sense of urgency, anyone?
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SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
Zero proves però també zero dubtes que l'Estratègia de Seguretat Nacional de Trump és pro-Russa i anti-Europea perquè majorment l'ha escrit Grok, i la preposició 'trans' a l'expressió "Relació Trans-Atlàntica" ha disparat el filtre MAGA de la maleïda andròmina.
A few thoughts on the new US national security strategy that was released today.
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www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
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www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
December 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Zero proves però també zero dubtes que l'Estratègia de Seguretat Nacional de Trump és pro-Russa i anti-Europea perquè majorment l'ha escrit Grok, i la preposició 'trans' a l'expressió "Relació Trans-Atlàntica" ha disparat el filtre MAGA de la maleïda andròmina.
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BREAKING: Bernie Sanders just now:
December 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
BREAKING: Bernie Sanders just now:
When teaching about inequality, the main lesson I can give my students is "choose your parents well."
New: “Donald Trump Jr’s Fortune Jumped Six-Fold In A Year” 📈
@kylekhanmullins.bsky.social (who you should follow) for @forbes.com
@kylekhanmullins.bsky.social (who you should follow) for @forbes.com
Here’s How Much Donald Trump Jr. Is Worth
The president’s oldest son once shunned his father to loaf as a vagabond in Colorado. He eventually came home, joined the family business and is amassing the kind of fortune that would make his father...
www.forbes.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
When teaching about inequality, the main lesson I can give my students is "choose your parents well."
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not sure how one argues with a straight face anymore that liberal elites did not play an outsized role in the slow-then-sudden disappearance of the cordon sanitaire around open racism and eugenics
Thanks for validating me, governor
December 7, 2025 at 10:14 PM
not sure how one argues with a straight face anymore that liberal elites did not play an outsized role in the slow-then-sudden disappearance of the cordon sanitaire around open racism and eugenics
All hail Juché Britannia.
(It's truly surreal that this is coming from the Tories.)
(It's truly surreal that this is coming from the Tories.)
I don’t get how Jenrick can actually believe that we should shrink the population and then start making more of our own things from pots and pans to what iPhones? How does he think that happens?
December 6, 2025 at 10:37 AM
All hail Juché Britannia.
(It's truly surreal that this is coming from the Tories.)
(It's truly surreal that this is coming from the Tories.)
Now I understand better why Skynet hates humans. It was fed MAGA hatred from birth/inception.
The US National Security Strategy seems to be—at least in part—written/edited by AI.
There are hallmark AI em dashes in nearly every other paragraph — shocking but unsurprising.
There are hallmark AI em dashes in nearly every other paragraph — shocking but unsurprising.
December 5, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Now I understand better why Skynet hates humans. It was fed MAGA hatred from birth/inception.