Trai... so tired of billionaires
@trai70.bsky.social
Sometimes I write, rarely finish. I believe in public service. Library assistant. Retired bartender, carpenter. Father of 3 amazing adults. If I sniff even a hint of crypto on your account, you will be blocked. 🏳️🌈 and 🏳️⚧️ Ally
I'm old enough to remember when you could eat for free at Denny's on your birthday, which means I'm also old enough to know that it wasn't worth it 😏
December 30, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I'm old enough to remember when you could eat for free at Denny's on your birthday, which means I'm also old enough to know that it wasn't worth it 😏
It's mostly funny to me, but some jackball tried to insult me by calling me a luddite because I pointed out that his take on crypto was braindead.
What’s the funniest reason someone got mad at you on Bluesky this year?
December 30, 2025 at 9:11 PM
It's mostly funny to me, but some jackball tried to insult me by calling me a luddite because I pointed out that his take on crypto was braindead.
This thread...
I have my coffee
December 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM
This thread...
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An essential development over the past decade-plus is that the ignorant went from feeling chastened when their ignorance was revealed to banding together and deciding that, actually, they were right. They might disagree at times, but they agreed that ignorance itself was an indicator of trust.
December 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
An essential development over the past decade-plus is that the ignorant went from feeling chastened when their ignorance was revealed to banding together and deciding that, actually, they were right. They might disagree at times, but they agreed that ignorance itself was an indicator of trust.
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice in Chains.
So many songs on this album still get airplay, nearly 30 years later.
I will note, for the record, that a lot of artists NOT from Seattle also dropped excellent albums in the 90s.
So many songs on this album still get airplay, nearly 30 years later.
I will note, for the record, that a lot of artists NOT from Seattle also dropped excellent albums in the 90s.
December 29, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice in Chains.
So many songs on this album still get airplay, nearly 30 years later.
I will note, for the record, that a lot of artists NOT from Seattle also dropped excellent albums in the 90s.
So many songs on this album still get airplay, nearly 30 years later.
I will note, for the record, that a lot of artists NOT from Seattle also dropped excellent albums in the 90s.
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Times are tough, and some of my paid subscribers have had to cancel lately due to financial hardships. I get it, and I wish for better times for us all. Unfortunately, paid subscriptions are now dipping into unsustainable territory. I am hoping to get eight new paid subscribers before the new year.
Organizing My Thoughts
Kelly Hayes writes about things you should know if you want to change the world.
organizingmythoughts.org
December 28, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Times are tough, and some of my paid subscribers have had to cancel lately due to financial hardships. I get it, and I wish for better times for us all. Unfortunately, paid subscriptions are now dipping into unsustainable territory. I am hoping to get eight new paid subscribers before the new year.
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do not participate in the derogation of culture is a great 100-level answer! but they're just going to put kid rock or some other jackhole on for those open nights. i prefer the 300-level response of show them why we are and will remain the culturally dominant force in america. fuck back better.
December 29, 2025 at 12:17 AM
do not participate in the derogation of culture is a great 100-level answer! but they're just going to put kid rock or some other jackhole on for those open nights. i prefer the 300-level response of show them why we are and will remain the culturally dominant force in america. fuck back better.
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NEW
Jane Austen as a writer about law
Some notes on Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice, by me
(And also why there is only one good adaptation of her works.)
emptycity.substack.com/p/jane-auste...
Jane Austen as a writer about law
Some notes on Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice, by me
(And also why there is only one good adaptation of her works.)
emptycity.substack.com/p/jane-auste...
Jane Austen as a writer about law
Some notes on Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice
emptycity.substack.com
December 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
NEW
Jane Austen as a writer about law
Some notes on Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice, by me
(And also why there is only one good adaptation of her works.)
emptycity.substack.com/p/jane-auste...
Jane Austen as a writer about law
Some notes on Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice, by me
(And also why there is only one good adaptation of her works.)
emptycity.substack.com/p/jane-auste...
Oblivion, then and now.
Quote this with your favourite game NOW that was released in 2006, and what your favourite was THEN (if you had one)
Localisations/early access count, remasters/ports don't. Remakes depend.
Two-way ties count.
Refresher list: backloggd.com/games/lib/po...
Localisations/early access count, remasters/ports don't. Remakes depend.
Two-way ties count.
Refresher list: backloggd.com/games/lib/po...
December 28, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Oblivion, then and now.
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If someone says to you, "what are you doing about students' use of AI?" ask them, "do you think that this should be my problem? How good do you think my response can be? Should it not be up to legislators & administrators to defend against a commercial industry's attack on your child's education?"
December 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM
If someone says to you, "what are you doing about students' use of AI?" ask them, "do you think that this should be my problem? How good do you think my response can be? Should it not be up to legislators & administrators to defend against a commercial industry's attack on your child's education?"
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I’ll be impressed when NORAD starts tracking war crimes in the Caribbean.
December 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I’ll be impressed when NORAD starts tracking war crimes in the Caribbean.
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Christ on a bike, this is brilliant.
And disgustingly historically accurate. 10/10
And disgustingly historically accurate. 10/10
December 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Christ on a bike, this is brilliant.
And disgustingly historically accurate. 10/10
And disgustingly historically accurate. 10/10
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Carol of the Bells in #
Kyiv subway.
Voices of the Embassies of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom came together to perform Shchedryk in the Kyiv metro as a sign of solidarity with Ukraine.
Thankful to everyone who stands with us!
Kyiv subway.
Voices of the Embassies of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom came together to perform Shchedryk in the Kyiv metro as a sign of solidarity with Ukraine.
Thankful to everyone who stands with us!
December 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Carol of the Bells in #
Kyiv subway.
Voices of the Embassies of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom came together to perform Shchedryk in the Kyiv metro as a sign of solidarity with Ukraine.
Thankful to everyone who stands with us!
Kyiv subway.
Voices of the Embassies of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom came together to perform Shchedryk in the Kyiv metro as a sign of solidarity with Ukraine.
Thankful to everyone who stands with us!
German Shepherds are majestic and dignified at all times, and never, ever derpy. 🤨
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas
December 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
German Shepherds are majestic and dignified at all times, and never, ever derpy. 🤨
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas
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Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself. For @reuters.com
Pope Leo, on Christmas Eve, says denying help to poor is rejecting God
Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon on Wednesday that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and stra...
www.reuters.com
December 24, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself. For @reuters.com
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I've now watched the censored 60 Minutes report on CECOT. If you watched it too—and if you have any decency at all—I'm sure you came to the same conclusion I did: winning elections won't be enough; people like Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem will need to be charged and imprisoned.
December 24, 2025 at 5:40 AM
I've now watched the censored 60 Minutes report on CECOT. If you watched it too—and if you have any decency at all—I'm sure you came to the same conclusion I did: winning elections won't be enough; people like Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem will need to be charged and imprisoned.
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I think it was @gregpak.net who recently said something like "action alleviates anxiety." Take that to heart. You will feel less alone, less helpless, less defenseless if you become involved in local progressive action. It's already happening all around you; go outside and find it.
December 24, 2025 at 11:34 AM
I think it was @gregpak.net who recently said something like "action alleviates anxiety." Take that to heart. You will feel less alone, less helpless, less defenseless if you become involved in local progressive action. It's already happening all around you; go outside and find it.
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those who predicted authoritarianism were both dismissed, & deeply misunderstood, by the media
my latest for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
my latest for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
The Americans Who Saw All This Coming—but Were Ignored and Maligned
Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?
newrepublic.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:26 AM
those who predicted authoritarianism were both dismissed, & deeply misunderstood, by the media
my latest for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
my latest for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
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A definitional element of extremism is that harming an out-group is inseparable from the success or survival of the in-group. For extremists, such harm becomes an intrinsic need. They come to believe that denying them the right to harm out-groups is the same thing as denying them the right to exist.
The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
December 22, 2025 at 5:52 PM
A definitional element of extremism is that harming an out-group is inseparable from the success or survival of the in-group. For extremists, such harm becomes an intrinsic need. They come to believe that denying them the right to harm out-groups is the same thing as denying them the right to exist.
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TikTok is removing clips of the leaked 60 Minutes segment.
The Ellison family (which acquired Paramount — CBS’s parent company — and The Free Press, making Bari Weiss Editor-in-Chief of CBS) is set to co-own TikTok through a Trump-backed deal.
The Ellison family (which acquired Paramount — CBS’s parent company — and The Free Press, making Bari Weiss Editor-in-Chief of CBS) is set to co-own TikTok through a Trump-backed deal.
December 23, 2025 at 5:14 AM
TikTok is removing clips of the leaked 60 Minutes segment.
The Ellison family (which acquired Paramount — CBS’s parent company — and The Free Press, making Bari Weiss Editor-in-Chief of CBS) is set to co-own TikTok through a Trump-backed deal.
The Ellison family (which acquired Paramount — CBS’s parent company — and The Free Press, making Bari Weiss Editor-in-Chief of CBS) is set to co-own TikTok through a Trump-backed deal.
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BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
www.muellershewrote.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
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Nope. None of my business. What the children are doing to language is their business. We had ours, now they get theirs.
Also, this is me choosing to go Full Crone about this stuff. What? What's that you say? Hmph. Kids.
Also, this is me choosing to go Full Crone about this stuff. What? What's that you say? Hmph. Kids.
December 22, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Nope. None of my business. What the children are doing to language is their business. We had ours, now they get theirs.
Also, this is me choosing to go Full Crone about this stuff. What? What's that you say? Hmph. Kids.
Also, this is me choosing to go Full Crone about this stuff. What? What's that you say? Hmph. Kids.
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Wow, weird, when I go to The Free Press's website and search for "did not respond to a request for comment", it turns up a bunch of articles!
Someone should tell Bari Weiss this.
Someone should tell Bari Weiss this.
December 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Wow, weird, when I go to The Free Press's website and search for "did not respond to a request for comment", it turns up a bunch of articles!
Someone should tell Bari Weiss this.
Someone should tell Bari Weiss this.
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Out: Ship of Theseus problem
In: Center(s) of Meeseus problem
In: Center(s) of Meeseus problem
December 22, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Out: Ship of Theseus problem
In: Center(s) of Meeseus problem
In: Center(s) of Meeseus problem
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Bari Weiss does not seem to have a good understanding of what's been going on with the Alien Enemies Act, including that courts -- including SCOTUS -- have repeatedly faulted the administration for failing to give detainees a meaningful opportunity to challenge being sent to El Salvador.
December 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Bari Weiss does not seem to have a good understanding of what's been going on with the Alien Enemies Act, including that courts -- including SCOTUS -- have repeatedly faulted the administration for failing to give detainees a meaningful opportunity to challenge being sent to El Salvador.