One of several inhumane policies in Denmark targeting vulnerable people - and this is a social democratic country with roots in organized labour. Organized labor in North America and Europe has historically had anti-immigrant and xenophobic elements.
We have seen this policy in Denmark, it is the state stealing the possessions of people who have already lost everything else. Not only is this inhumane, it is immoral in the extreme. This is absolutely a "far-right" policy, and that goes for its use in Denmark. 58/
November 17, 2025 at 10:11 AM
One of several inhumane policies in Denmark targeting vulnerable people - and this is a social democratic country with roots in organized labour. Organized labor in North America and Europe has historically had anti-immigrant and xenophobic elements.
it is always weird that the US has the image of an imperalistic country when historically we've never been found of it. Sure we had colonies but we weren't flipping Europe or Japan!
November 17, 2025 at 2:48 AM
it is always weird that the US has the image of an imperalistic country when historically we've never been found of it. Sure we had colonies but we weren't flipping Europe or Japan!
This always blows my mind, because in Spain (and most of Europe) we've historically used these colors in reverse. Blue is associated with right-wing parties and red with left-wing ones :)
November 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This always blows my mind, because in Spain (and most of Europe) we've historically used these colors in reverse. Blue is associated with right-wing parties and red with left-wing ones :)
What is up with the Catholic converts? We're like 2 for 2 on Woke Popes and historically the U.S was so protestant that we pulled a Europe and used Catholicism as justification for our wars with Mexico.Someone thought it was a good idea to send the Irish for that one and they promptly switched sides
November 16, 2025 at 2:20 AM
What is up with the Catholic converts? We're like 2 for 2 on Woke Popes and historically the U.S was so protestant that we pulled a Europe and used Catholicism as justification for our wars with Mexico.Someone thought it was a good idea to send the Irish for that one and they promptly switched sides
Historically, turkeys did not exist in the UK. They are native to the Americas, were imported to Europe by the Spanish, and eventually spread to the UK from there.
November 15, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Historically, turkeys did not exist in the UK. They are native to the Americas, were imported to Europe by the Spanish, and eventually spread to the UK from there.
to show that queer people are welcome in the church. I live in historically very catholic South of Germany,historically,because religiosity is going down in most of Europe. Germany is not clearly protestant or catholic and the culture war or culture fight if you want to translate it literally2/?
November 15, 2025 at 4:09 PM
to show that queer people are welcome in the church. I live in historically very catholic South of Germany,historically,because religiosity is going down in most of Europe. Germany is not clearly protestant or catholic and the culture war or culture fight if you want to translate it literally2/?
Part 122 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg dnd
Victorian Prosthetic Arm, Europe, 1850s
Victorian Prosthetic Arm, Europe, 1850s
November 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Part 122 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg dnd
Victorian Prosthetic Arm, Europe, 1850s
Victorian Prosthetic Arm, Europe, 1850s
New paper out today in AI & Society w/ Arsenii Alenichev and colleagues.
"We can see a savage": a case study of the colonial gaze in generative AI algorithms
rdcu.be/ePXNQ
"We can see a savage": a case study of the colonial gaze in generative AI algorithms
rdcu.be/ePXNQ
November 14, 2025 at 5:52 PM
New paper out today in AI & Society w/ Arsenii Alenichev and colleagues.
"We can see a savage": a case study of the colonial gaze in generative AI algorithms
rdcu.be/ePXNQ
"We can see a savage": a case study of the colonial gaze in generative AI algorithms
rdcu.be/ePXNQ
We currently have less tax revenue than the OECD average. We also have historically high levels of tax for the UK, but we also have an ageing population and the threat of war and new trade barriers so...
November 14, 2025 at 11:41 AM
We currently have less tax revenue than the OECD average. We also have historically high levels of tax for the UK, but we also have an ageing population and the threat of war and new trade barriers so...
Part 47 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg
Jewish betrothal ring either from Italy or eastern europe. 17th century
Jewish betrothal ring either from Italy or eastern europe. 17th century
November 13, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Part 47 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg
Jewish betrothal ring either from Italy or eastern europe. 17th century
Jewish betrothal ring either from Italy or eastern europe. 17th century
Also included an an-Com critique of Marxist-Leninism; i.e., from Marx and Engels to Lenin, Stalin, Mao: citations from Patel and Moore's A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things (2017) regarding capital-state (American/Soviet) exploitation of care work/sex work:
lcparty.org/library/2021...
lcparty.org/library/2021...
![from Patel and Moore's A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things:
Figure 1. William Blake, Europe, Supported by Africa and America, 1796. Source: Stedman 1796, 394.
[…] reproductive labor [is] the work of caring for, nurturing, and raising human communities. Such work is overwhelmingly unpaid because it makes the whole system of wage work possible. Without unpaid work, especially care work*, wage work would simply be too expensive [emphasis, me …] But when we talk of reproductive labor under capitalism, we're referring to a very specific set of arrangements, ones that were rearranged through world ecology and persist today. Under these arrangements, some humans were confined to new political, social, and ecological units—households—the better to engage in care work in capitalism's ecology. Call this the Great Domestication. […] Just as Spanish colonists had bridled at Mayan sexual adventures, so the British demanded allegiance to their own version of sexual order and power, one that created the legal category of woman and set her in the household, the workshop of reproductive labor. But, of course, to use the term workshop is to mischaracterize how housework was viewed. It was considered precisely beyond the domain of wage work, a favor that women did for men, akin to the free gifts that nature offered enterprise. […]
*Ergo sex work, I argue; i.e., the whore and her exploitation (during the pimp's revenge) that requires said workers to rebel; re: in ways that reverse abjection, ergo profit and labor exploitation of nature as monstrous-feminine more broadly (the whore's revenge): the home vs the homewrecker upon which said home (ergo the state) is built.
re: https://lcparty.org/library/2021-01-10-10-04-52/175-a-history-of-the-world-in-seven-cheap-thin-raj-patel-jason-w-moore/file](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:d2545ppta4lpznhyjvs4tl6p/bafkreieqzfy7phsqmvdpltknpmaom6os7idfvkfxjztvjt3rz5ieyf43dy@jpeg)
![Mao surrounded by young Chinese women, the sort that he would exploit sexually:
"Many of the women that Mao slept with were daughters of poor peasants who Li said believed that sleeping with the chairman was the greatest experience of their life. Mao was happiest and most satisfied when he had several young women simultaneously sharing his bed, and he encouraged his sexual partners to introduce him to others. He often told the young women to read the Taoist sex manual 'The Plain Girl's Secret Way,' in preparation for their trysts" (source: The Private Life of Chairman Mao [1994] by Dr. Li Zhisui; cited: "Mao's Private Life," 2016).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:d2545ppta4lpznhyjvs4tl6p/bafkreighcmkryhnlsl35wq25pbwnzombylbchtna4dp4uqsdhxlvl3krxu@jpeg)
![(exhibit 3: Artist, top-far-left: Liu Chunhua; top-mid-left: Jacques Louis David; bottom-left: Chen Yanning; top-right: Bungie; bottom-right: William Blake. City or nation, state revolutionaries [and their poppy-red sanguine] historically decay into tyranny—from Caesar to Vlad Dracul [the dragon a symbol of status, sex and power] to Napoleon to George Washington to Mao—both in and out of fiction, with "purely" fictional additions [e.g., Shakespeare's "historical" play and its famous line: "Et tu, Brutae?"] actually gigantic "vampire hauntologies" that bear a non-fictional stamp; e.g., Balor the Leveler [and his own "dragon's" red cape of power, top-right] built on top of stories of stories of stories; i.e., the narrative of the crypt; re: from Hogle's "The Restless Labyrinth: Cryptonymy in the Gothic Novel" [1980]. However cryptomimetic these seem, they nonetheless bear a kernel of truth [as all vampires do]: dictators suck. Stemming from and venerated by city-states to nation-states in ways that historically-materially decay due to the fallibility of men and corruptibility of the structures propping them up—they're what Marx would describe as "the tradition of all dead generations [that] weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living"; i.e., while history repeats first in tragedy, then in farce [source: Marx' "Eighteenth Brumaire," 1852].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:d2545ppta4lpznhyjvs4tl6p/bafkreigs3wjadbonz5owphxxhcgyqmgrci5jzp72ydrfcqcxatsivx3ac4@jpeg)
November 13, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Also included an an-Com critique of Marxist-Leninism; i.e., from Marx and Engels to Lenin, Stalin, Mao: citations from Patel and Moore's A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things (2017) regarding capital-state (American/Soviet) exploitation of care work/sex work:
lcparty.org/library/2021...
lcparty.org/library/2021...
Could people not tell that he was clearly bipolar? The strategy behind his conquest of Europe should make that obvious. Like a child playing a game. He'd lose interest in one part of the front(s) and look elsewhere. Historically a multifront war is ill-advised even if you are not the aggressor.
November 12, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Could people not tell that he was clearly bipolar? The strategy behind his conquest of Europe should make that obvious. Like a child playing a game. He'd lose interest in one part of the front(s) and look elsewhere. Historically a multifront war is ill-advised even if you are not the aggressor.
Can Latin America find common ground at #COP30? One of region's greatest challenges is to contest global environmental narrative—historically defined by Europe; food production sector offers best ground for joint action, says Columbia Climate School's @wbaethgen.bsky.social. Via @thebulletin.org.
Can Latin America find common ground at COP30?
Although Latin America contributes only about 10 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, many of its territories rank among the most climate-vulnerable on the planet.
thebulletin.org
November 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Can Latin America find common ground at #COP30? One of region's greatest challenges is to contest global environmental narrative—historically defined by Europe; food production sector offers best ground for joint action, says Columbia Climate School's @wbaethgen.bsky.social. Via @thebulletin.org.
We diverge in the legitimacy of using the same approach the UK uses and historically used with the European Union and its member states, and the EU employing the same approach with UK and its component nations.
Comes down to what one thinks Europe is, and what trajectory it's taking.
Comes down to what one thinks Europe is, and what trajectory it's taking.
November 11, 2025 at 7:01 PM
We diverge in the legitimacy of using the same approach the UK uses and historically used with the European Union and its member states, and the EU employing the same approach with UK and its component nations.
Comes down to what one thinks Europe is, and what trajectory it's taking.
Comes down to what one thinks Europe is, and what trajectory it's taking.
Both Ukraine and Georgia belong to the European community both geographically and historically, they stood as a bastion against Russian and Muslim invasions for 100's of years, Europe would look very different without them.
November 11, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Both Ukraine and Georgia belong to the European community both geographically and historically, they stood as a bastion against Russian and Muslim invasions for 100's of years, Europe would look very different without them.
Haven't tried Europa Universalis 5 yet, but seeing a lot of people saying "France too OP, nerf France"
I don't know man, France being basically the final boss of Europe was kind of historically accurate :P
I don't know man, France being basically the final boss of Europe was kind of historically accurate :P
November 10, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Haven't tried Europa Universalis 5 yet, but seeing a lot of people saying "France too OP, nerf France"
I don't know man, France being basically the final boss of Europe was kind of historically accurate :P
I don't know man, France being basically the final boss of Europe was kind of historically accurate :P
... especially considering the wider political context, I think the big difference between Israel and say Myanmar (as a very rough comparison - civilians in opposition to the regime are also bombed) is how historically entwined Europe and the US's history is with Israel, vs Myanmar! (or others).
November 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
... especially considering the wider political context, I think the big difference between Israel and say Myanmar (as a very rough comparison - civilians in opposition to the regime are also bombed) is how historically entwined Europe and the US's history is with Israel, vs Myanmar! (or others).
When your century-old historically protected #stadium is at the centre of a neverending legal dispute, so it's been closed to the public for nearly two decades and has fallen into disrepair...
#ljubljana #slovenia #europe #plečnik #architecture #culture #streetphotography #ruins #overgrown #nature
#ljubljana #slovenia #europe #plečnik #architecture #culture #streetphotography #ruins #overgrown #nature
November 10, 2025 at 11:50 AM
When your century-old historically protected #stadium is at the centre of a neverending legal dispute, so it's been closed to the public for nearly two decades and has fallen into disrepair...
#ljubljana #slovenia #europe #plečnik #architecture #culture #streetphotography #ruins #overgrown #nature
#ljubljana #slovenia #europe #plečnik #architecture #culture #streetphotography #ruins #overgrown #nature
Don't get me wrong, welfare programs are a good thing. Just don't call it socialism - that word is a vague umbrella term for all kinds of shit that justifiably evokes horror and disgust in many people, especially here in Eastern Europe, you know, historically.
November 9, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Don't get me wrong, welfare programs are a good thing. Just don't call it socialism - that word is a vague umbrella term for all kinds of shit that justifiably evokes horror and disgust in many people, especially here in Eastern Europe, you know, historically.
The US continues to fall behind.
Europe, China and India are on the verge of this cross over from fossil to non-fossil electricity generation.
We on the other hand are the largest producer of CO2 both historically and currently.
We are also losing out on the commercial opportunities.
Europe, China and India are on the verge of this cross over from fossil to non-fossil electricity generation.
We on the other hand are the largest producer of CO2 both historically and currently.
We are also losing out on the commercial opportunities.
A milestone in India: in the electricity sector, non-fossil capacity (renewables, hydro, nuclear) is now larger than fossil capacity.
www.pib.gov.in
November 9, 2025 at 8:24 PM
The US continues to fall behind.
Europe, China and India are on the verge of this cross over from fossil to non-fossil electricity generation.
We on the other hand are the largest producer of CO2 both historically and currently.
We are also losing out on the commercial opportunities.
Europe, China and India are on the verge of this cross over from fossil to non-fossil electricity generation.
We on the other hand are the largest producer of CO2 both historically and currently.
We are also losing out on the commercial opportunities.
Ireland has a land border with our oldest neighbour & enemy. That country has done worse to us historically than Russia has done, in many ways. The US stops it. If the UK wants to ‘protect’ the back door that’s their financial problem. Europe has dumped warfare on Ireland for a millennium.
November 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Ireland has a land border with our oldest neighbour & enemy. That country has done worse to us historically than Russia has done, in many ways. The US stops it. If the UK wants to ‘protect’ the back door that’s their financial problem. Europe has dumped warfare on Ireland for a millennium.
and any analyses of African American history need to acknowledge this. To illustrate his argument, Robinson traces the emergence of Marxist ideology in Europe, the resistance by blacks in historically oppressive environments, and the influence of both of these traditions on
November 9, 2025 at 5:04 PM
and any analyses of African American history need to acknowledge this. To illustrate his argument, Robinson traces the emergence of Marxist ideology in Europe, the resistance by blacks in historically oppressive environments, and the influence of both of these traditions on
"Europe isn't racist."
Go ask any European how they feel about the romani people.
"THAT'S DIFFERENT THEY STEAL AND THEY'RE ALL DRUNK AND JOBLESS."
I have such news to tell you about how white people have historically spoken about black people.
Go ask any European how they feel about the romani people.
"THAT'S DIFFERENT THEY STEAL AND THEY'RE ALL DRUNK AND JOBLESS."
I have such news to tell you about how white people have historically spoken about black people.
November 9, 2025 at 12:13 PM
"Europe isn't racist."
Go ask any European how they feel about the romani people.
"THAT'S DIFFERENT THEY STEAL AND THEY'RE ALL DRUNK AND JOBLESS."
I have such news to tell you about how white people have historically spoken about black people.
Go ask any European how they feel about the romani people.
"THAT'S DIFFERENT THEY STEAL AND THEY'RE ALL DRUNK AND JOBLESS."
I have such news to tell you about how white people have historically spoken about black people.
I lean to the latter view, as I think that historically the most successful sanctions policy was that on apartheid-era South Africa. Lots of Russia opposition figures think otherwise, I don't have strong arguments against this. But for an "expert" to be surprised at Russians in Europe is idiocy 5/5
November 8, 2025 at 8:47 AM
I lean to the latter view, as I think that historically the most successful sanctions policy was that on apartheid-era South Africa. Lots of Russia opposition figures think otherwise, I don't have strong arguments against this. But for an "expert" to be surprised at Russians in Europe is idiocy 5/5