Stu F.
@sdfstu.bsky.social
The words I thought I brought I left behind.
Long suffering* Philly sports fan. Historian, REEES.
(*once again, after a bit of a reprieve)
Long suffering* Philly sports fan. Historian, REEES.
(*once again, after a bit of a reprieve)
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Stu F.
@sdfstu.bsky.social
· Nov 4
GUILDENSTERN: There must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it. Well, we’ll know better next time.
Some of our viewers approach our reporting with the unshakeable belief that the earth is round, while others are convinced that it is flat. How do you make sure that we challenge rather than validate these assumptions?
By situating the Times as nobly filling the space between the diametrically opposed wants of the “left” and the “right” and suggesting that all of these critiques are ideologically motivated and are equally valid (or invalid), this misses the point of much of the criticism of the paper’s coverage.
December 2, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Some of our viewers approach our reporting with the unshakeable belief that the earth is round, while others are convinced that it is flat. How do you make sure that we challenge rather than validate these assumptions?
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we are well past the point at which anyone who cannot identify bad faith like this is disqualified from commenting on it
the girl and her mother are basically screaming THIS IS A BAD FAITH ATTACK ON TRANS PEOPLE at the top of their lungs and if you can't see that you're stupid or lying
the girl and her mother are basically screaming THIS IS A BAD FAITH ATTACK ON TRANS PEOPLE at the top of their lungs and if you can't see that you're stupid or lying
a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
December 1, 2025 at 7:40 PM
we are well past the point at which anyone who cannot identify bad faith like this is disqualified from commenting on it
the girl and her mother are basically screaming THIS IS A BAD FAITH ATTACK ON TRANS PEOPLE at the top of their lungs and if you can't see that you're stupid or lying
the girl and her mother are basically screaming THIS IS A BAD FAITH ATTACK ON TRANS PEOPLE at the top of their lungs and if you can't see that you're stupid or lying
Every interaction he has with female reporters now has him charging in with unchecked, increasingly unhinged misogynistic belligerence, just itching to bully & insult them and the outlet they work for, no matter what they ask him.
AFAIK not a single male reporter has objected to this, it just is.
AFAIK not a single male reporter has objected to this, it just is.
TRUMP: If they want to release my MRI it's ok w/me. It's perfect like my phone call where I got impeached
Q: What part of your body were they were looking at?
TRUMP: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn't the brain bc I took a cognitive test & aced it, which you would be incapable of doing
Q: What part of your body were they were looking at?
TRUMP: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn't the brain bc I took a cognitive test & aced it, which you would be incapable of doing
December 1, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Every interaction he has with female reporters now has him charging in with unchecked, increasingly unhinged misogynistic belligerence, just itching to bully & insult them and the outlet they work for, no matter what they ask him.
AFAIK not a single male reporter has objected to this, it just is.
AFAIK not a single male reporter has objected to this, it just is.
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The New Deal wasn’t built on a promise that there would be “no ceiling” for the richest Americans.
Quite the opposite, in fact. FDR knew its politics could only work if he singled out the rich as villains and knew that its policies could only work if the rich paid their fair share in taxes.
Quite the opposite, in fact. FDR knew its politics could only work if he singled out the rich as villains and knew that its policies could only work if the rich paid their fair share in taxes.
November 30, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The New Deal wasn’t built on a promise that there would be “no ceiling” for the richest Americans.
Quite the opposite, in fact. FDR knew its politics could only work if he singled out the rich as villains and knew that its policies could only work if the rich paid their fair share in taxes.
Quite the opposite, in fact. FDR knew its politics could only work if he singled out the rich as villains and knew that its policies could only work if the rich paid their fair share in taxes.
Uh Oh: One of These Three Brothers Killed Their Dad. (Or was it the Creepy Weird Fourth One.)
On the other hand I think it would be very funny to retitle literary fiction light novel style. “Oh No! This Author Stand-In is Unhappily Married”
This attitude is how you end up with light novel titles.
November 30, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Uh Oh: One of These Three Brothers Killed Their Dad. (Or was it the Creepy Weird Fourth One.)
It is a gift to encounter and re-encounter an extremely gifted writer over decades of one's own life *knowing* you are reading and/or witnessing the works of a living talent who will (hopefully) be read & performed for a very long time to come.
Splendid skeet-eulogy by Mark here:
Splendid skeet-eulogy by Mark here:
I’m dumbstruck by news of the death of Tom Stoppard—maybe because he hoarded all the words and knew how to use them better than just about anyone. I hope we savor his spectacular wit and erudition and argue about the politics of his plays forever. He was monumental, and also a kind and curious man.
November 30, 2025 at 12:58 AM
It is a gift to encounter and re-encounter an extremely gifted writer over decades of one's own life *knowing* you are reading and/or witnessing the works of a living talent who will (hopefully) be read & performed for a very long time to come.
Splendid skeet-eulogy by Mark here:
Splendid skeet-eulogy by Mark here:
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Genocide just as Lemkin defined it.
euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/27/r...
euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/27/r...
Putin signs decree formalizing Russification of occupied Ukraine through 2036 - Euromaidan Press
Putin signs decree formalizing Russification of occupied Ukraine through 2036, setting 95% "Russian identity" targets for four oblasts.
euromaidanpress.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Genocide just as Lemkin defined it.
euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/27/r...
euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/27/r...
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Northwestern’s leaders will likely try to justify their choice to appease fascist extortion with some BS about needing to help researchers get federal funds that were illegally withheld, so it’s important to note that virtually all of the researchers said not to.
So apparently the administrators at Northwestern have caved to the extortionist demands of the Feds. Faculty voted 595-4 AGAINST this measure.
November 29, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Northwestern’s leaders will likely try to justify their choice to appease fascist extortion with some BS about needing to help researchers get federal funds that were illegally withheld, so it’s important to note that virtually all of the researchers said not to.
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Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
November 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
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It’s 7:20 am, dozens of missiles direction of Kyiv, air defense shooting down drones .. and a garbage truck just came to clean up the bins. Swiftly did their job - and moved to the next apartment building. War or no war, life goes on.
Impossible not to fall in love with these people.
Impossible not to fall in love with these people.
November 29, 2025 at 5:29 AM
It’s 7:20 am, dozens of missiles direction of Kyiv, air defense shooting down drones .. and a garbage truck just came to clean up the bins. Swiftly did their job - and moved to the next apartment building. War or no war, life goes on.
Impossible not to fall in love with these people.
Impossible not to fall in love with these people.
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We’re still under attack btw, 5th hour of nonstop explosions in kyiv
November 29, 2025 at 4:53 AM
We’re still under attack btw, 5th hour of nonstop explosions in kyiv
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I love Philadelphia
November 28, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I love Philadelphia
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This is innumerate nonsense. An average of 1.1 million people were watching The Simpsons throughout its entire thirty-minute broadcast according to a third-party data company contracted to measure viewership by Disney. Somebody, no way to know who, hit the play button 1.7 million times on Twitter
November 27, 2025 at 1:54 AM
This is innumerate nonsense. An average of 1.1 million people were watching The Simpsons throughout its entire thirty-minute broadcast according to a third-party data company contracted to measure viewership by Disney. Somebody, no way to know who, hit the play button 1.7 million times on Twitter
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you should support liberal currents!
November 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
you should support liberal currents!
Another one for the dayenu* impeachment list.
*this alone would (should) be enough
Cc: @mcopelov.bsky.social
*this alone would (should) be enough
Cc: @mcopelov.bsky.social
Pretty convincing evidence here that the Trump administration was planning to jailbreak and provide asylum for Bolsonaro -- and that Trump inadvertently revealed the plan.
And this, as the now-cliche goes, would have been a paralyzing scandal for any other administration.
And this, as the now-cliche goes, would have been a paralyzing scandal for any other administration.
Trump appears to blurt out secret plan, not knowing it's already a bust
YouTube video by MS NOW
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Another one for the dayenu* impeachment list.
*this alone would (should) be enough
Cc: @mcopelov.bsky.social
*this alone would (should) be enough
Cc: @mcopelov.bsky.social
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Each week the people in and around this administration set themselves a goal: how can we be even more cartoonishly evil than we were last week?
And somehow every week they are able to accomplish this with surprising ease.
And somehow every week they are able to accomplish this with surprising ease.
November 26, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Each week the people in and around this administration set themselves a goal: how can we be even more cartoonishly evil than we were last week?
And somehow every week they are able to accomplish this with surprising ease.
And somehow every week they are able to accomplish this with surprising ease.
Anyway love being back home, going to a Sixers game with my son and my nephew, and watching Orlando score 51 on us in a QUARTER
November 26, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Anyway love being back home, going to a Sixers game with my son and my nephew, and watching Orlando score 51 on us in a QUARTER
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A private call between Trump-appointed envoy Steve Witkoff and Putin advisor Yuri Ushakov was just leaked — and it shows the American envoy effectively acting as a strategist for Moscow.
NEWSFLASH: Witkoff was secretly giving Russians advice
A secret transcript reveals that the Trump envoy was helping a Putin advisor formulate a plan.
www.counteroffensive.news
November 25, 2025 at 10:48 PM
A private call between Trump-appointed envoy Steve Witkoff and Putin advisor Yuri Ushakov was just leaked — and it shows the American envoy effectively acting as a strategist for Moscow.
As a young boy, I dreamed of being a baseball.
November 25, 2025 at 4:50 PM
As a young boy, I dreamed of being a baseball.
Thread. Zamyatin's _We_ (written at the end of the Russian Civil War) is more than anything a critique/parody of Taylorism (and/or Fordism), which was being imported enthusiastically from the West to Soviet Russia at the time.
Can I just point out that modern "anticapitalists" really have to read Lenin and Trotsky in the early days of the Revolution. Lenin is talking about communism as MORE Taylorism, FASTER industrialisation, a Central Bank as the model for a bureaucracy which makes Line Go Up *faster* than capitalism
I've spoken before about how many so-called "anti-capitalists" are actually just Against The Modern World (feudal nostalgists or even primitivists); but some look at the Stalinist model of "we pretend to work, they pretend to pay us" and think that was a FEATURE rather than a bug
November 24, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Thread. Zamyatin's _We_ (written at the end of the Russian Civil War) is more than anything a critique/parody of Taylorism (and/or Fordism), which was being imported enthusiastically from the West to Soviet Russia at the time.
Betteridge's Law has been getting quite a workout recently.
Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against?
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November 24, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Betteridge's Law has been getting quite a workout recently.
I sleep in a big bed with my wife, Charlie Brown.
If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball, Charlie Brown
You cannot kill me in any way that matters, Charlie Brown.
November 24, 2025 at 4:32 AM
I sleep in a big bed with my wife, Charlie Brown.
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This is my favorite football team. They are the reigning champion of the NFL, the current one-seed in the NFC, they’ve beaten the Lions, Rams, Bucs, Packers, and Chiefs. Oh also I hate them and they make me want to die.
November 17, 2025 at 4:30 AM
This is my favorite football team. They are the reigning champion of the NFL, the current one-seed in the NFC, they’ve beaten the Lions, Rams, Bucs, Packers, and Chiefs. Oh also I hate them and they make me want to die.