theternery.bsky.social
@theternery.bsky.social
Reasonable negotiating positions don't emerge from Dummköpfen high on colonialist authoritarianism.
January 20, 2026 at 7:16 PM
These people don't love Star Trek. Or, indeed, anything else. They're against things and people (*so many* things and people), but they can't actually enjoy anything on its own merits. And, of course, some are bots.

A combo of weird failed humans and weird fake humans.
January 11, 2026 at 2:44 AM
The phrase "Look it up" still rings in my ears!
January 7, 2026 at 12:48 PM
Sorry, I assumed you were an adult with the necessary background knowledge conversing in good faith. My mistake.
January 3, 2026 at 9:54 PM
The process is intended to encourage fealty to the vows taken to uphold the constitution, rather than a quasi-reification of the printed constitutional text, so a book/text meaningful to the oath-taker would seem to be the most appropriate choice. And, of course, affirmation is also an option.
January 2, 2026 at 12:26 AM
Ikr? So many words to express the settled understanding that structures of power may be neither critiqued or changed.

Doing so from without: attack. Doing so from within: treason.

The Westminster concept of a loyal opposition is utterly incomprehensible to this mentality.
December 27, 2025 at 2:53 PM
No, he's decreasing Washington's soft power in Africa. The relationship Africa has with the rest of the world is, thankfully, not in his hands.
December 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM