Honestly. The show is actually well written, and the herrings properly red.
Deranged liberal and Bluesky Elder: public-sector researcher on terrorism and violent extremism, and I am such, such the biggest nerd.
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Honestly. The show is actually well written, and the herrings properly red.
#Mythology
Also, what use was that goddamn wetland anyway. It's not like birds make money for anyone.
#nzpol Big turn out tonight at the Living Wage Election Forum Event. The Living Wage right now puts an extra $172 a week into the pay packet of a full time worker. Dignity at work comes from decent pay for everyone - not from tax cuts.
It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.
Words are magic
That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.
My latest post analyzes the Annunciation Church attack and the perpetrator’s 96-day diary that documents their evolution from ideation to operational readiness, set against an eleven-year buildup of grievance, nihilism, and shooter-fandom conditioning. www.maargentino.com/true-crime-c...
Anti-nazi poster spotted in Thornbury, Melbourne
This is the secretary of energy and also why climate advocates almost universally feel like jumping into a volcano.
WFH and delving into the old CD collection while I type (my job requires me to draft a masters thesis every couple of years...). I've collected some really beautiful songs over time. Each CD is a wee time capsule.
Especially with China practically giving away panels due to over capacity. Now is the time.
Sheffield researchers doing The Lord’s work. Great study. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#Flint #Michigan #Sept1st #LaborDay #WorkersOverBillionares #GentleAngryPeople #PeacefulProtests
All wealth is wage theft.
Current state of UK political discourse.
A man that split a woman's head open yesterday, for asking them to just please leave, walked up to a Woman Premier and threatened them and he is still walking around. A 11 year old Aboriginal girl has been in an adult jail for 4 months for shoplifting.
What these Schatz posts say to me is that Dem elected officials like him seem incapable of perceiving the right as a *political movement.* The response to Covid mitigation and the Floyd protests was not a spontaneous reaction...it was a right wing backlash organized by a reactionary movement.
While his brain is imploding drop diversity in China.
Dad is the best job I ever had. Happy birthday to your wee one!
Someone please kill me right now.
I don't know about this one whanau... If I'm making $500k per annum I'd end up earning $419 less from my $6,200 per week. Are we sure this is a fair deal...
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Guy on marketplace is selling the C-3PO trading card where it looks like he has a boner for a reasonable price. Tempting.
"Superman is woke! Smithsonian is woke! Lego is woke! Cracker Barrel logos are woke!" It must be so exhausting hating everyone and everything, all the time. What a sad, pathetic way to live your life.
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I wonder if there are a particular kind of people who just don't grok that? Usually because their disposable income is high enough what are shocks to the middle class are just absorbed, move on.
Scottish police do not know where their sensitive data is going, because they trusted it to an American multinational (Microsoft) which simply refuses to tell them. Remember this when the US screams about Europe wanting to regulate the big tech players.
so @bootstheory.bsky.social is one of literally dozens of people who live outside the US
My kitchen is my workshop. I got an induction stove two months ago. It is faster, cleaner, better in every way than my old gas stove. I worried that I'd miss gas, but now I'll never want to go back.
Expected to be*. Stupid autocorrect
Jesus... Oh for an edit button
It's democratically unhealthy, removes agency from the public, and undermines free and frank advice. So yes Minister, you can make roads from candy floss if you want, but it is not a great idea...
I am to provide free, frank, and politically neutral advice, *even where that advice runs contrary to political imperative*. Of course, in the real world it's never that simple. But making the starting point "I do whatever the Minister says" is evidence of the ongoing corporatisation of the service
Well, then that is their perogative, and they can answer to the ballot box for their actions. Again, Westminster Democracy. But, I am paid by the public, and while I must conform to hierarchy, I am not required to kowtow to that Minister. In fact, quite the opposite.
My job as a public servant is too maintain the confidence of both Government and Opposition that I'll deliver neutral advice to whomever is holding the decision-making reins. If the Minister chooses to ignore that advice, or take advice from another source (read lobbyists)?
There are elected reps accountable to the public, *the actual boss*, and public servants also paid from the public purse. The job of the Government is to make informed decisions, a major information source of which is eclectic to be a politically neutral public service.
I heard someone at work the other day refer to a Minister of the Crown ad 'their boss'. So here's the thing. The Minister, with respect is no ones boss. They are an elected official paid by the public to make decisions. This is fundamental to Westminster Democracy.
Black Mirror, San Junipero
Awesome fact and Rey clearly providing proof that they are my offspring
I vaguely remember tweeting something like the country that effectively captures this free energy source at scale will rule the 21st century. whelp.
The pork we definitely do. And I think the chicken? I usually buy neither, and we eat seasonal produce...
I guess the good news is that we get a heap from Australia. But what about imported pork and chicken?
Dear Americans, welcome to the thrilling game of ‘Did this dictator die or just disappear for a day?’ We’ve been playing it with Putin and Lukashenko for decades. Enjoy the suspense.
you just know somebody’s being called by their full name right now
Going to be interesting next winter when our imported US fruits and veges are crazy expensive
It's crazy that we used to joke that the Simpsons predicted everything, but Charlie Brooker actually did...
The Catholic Christofascist undoing of 250 years of democracy and not a peep from NYT, Wapo, Mother Jones or any legacy MSM. @jayrosen.bsky.social @sulliview.bsky.social @markjacob.bsky.social linktr.ee/dissentinbloom dissentinbloom.substack.com/p/one-blood-...
I have a really good set of rain trousers for this kind of weather. The southerly this year hasn't been too bad.
One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen, was filled with cars until a 2 year pedestrianization pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued “no cars means no business,” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.
Old Soviet jokes are back in style. Turns out, dark humor ages better than democracy.
FYI, I believe this is called "the Landmine". As you were.
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"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
"both sides have some shortcomings", or somesuch BS
serious question. have you ever seen a photo of him a the beach... we might have found his achilles heel
Sand batteries are literally just silos of sand that retain heat exceptionally well -- so well that they can be tied to heat exchange systems to serve as proxy *electrical* batteries. Finland's new model can store enough power (100 MWh) to heat an entire town for a week. newatlas.com/energy/large...
Yesterday was the 11th anniversary of the biggest scandal of the Obama administration.
Black Mirror, 15 Million Credits.
only if you assume that political outlook is innate.
Came here to say this
pretty goddamn mad about all the goddamn nazis
one thing to remember about "ICE is going to occupy Democrat strongholds" is that ICE, if it hires to capacity, will employ about 26k people by the end of 2026, which is 1/3 smaller than the NYPD, which is not a large enough police force to occupy New York City itself.
Motive mongering - don't do it. This, from @azelin.bsky.social is equally, and perennially, applicable to these cases: “...any commentator who boils jihadist mobilization down to one particular cause should not be taken seriously." (from his book, Your Sons Are at Your Service).
Also, it's how the US annexed Hawaii
The notebook in Cyrillic is probably just coded to hide the content from nosey family, and is unlikely to be an indication of a link to Russia. All in all? A tragedy for all involved, both the murderer, their family, and the victims.
I haven't seen any details of their Internet history, but I'll unhappily assume they were in an online community dedicated to serial and mass killers, and had collected a lot of gore. If they fit the stereotype, their will also be all kinds of sexual and other objectionable material.
It's interesting watching people rush to label the Minnesota shooter as this or that. But some facts. The so called manifesto is actually a 4 page suicide note. The writing on the gun is a very specific kind of cultural script, and a claim to belong to a chain of killers.
Yeah I immediately thought of Julia Kupper's work on the Christchurch mimics. As she argues, this daubing is just "normal" now and a big nod to the NVE online communities.
Well. He's not getting any more sane, is he?
With respect, I don't think they were a member of anything. The gun daubing is just what's expected among idiosyncratic, self-selecting violent extremists. It's a cultural script one is expected to adopt when you're about to commit targeted violence. Plus the manifesto is just their anguish.
Please read this thread and the one @machete.gay links to in it. Very important to listen to experts in mass shooting and online far right culture.
I'm reading a pretty good paper at the minute where they build off Kupper's work and 'imagined community' is an applicable academic term for what you're describing
I genuinely needed that belly laugh today
Today I asked my students to respond to two questions. 1. How often do you use an AI chatbot? 1=never, 10=every day 2. What are your feelings about the future of AI? 1=apocalyptically dystopian, like I foresee dying at the hands of a murder robot, 10=I think AI will improve our lives immensely.
Well, it's an extremely busy week what with the students being back and all, but sure, we can squeeze this in.
From Marge Piercy's book, Available Light. #poem #booksky #writing
Yeeep. Less time organising and you might do more art
Yet more fossil fuel lies from RNZ's Sharon Brettkelly. NZ Hothouse agreed to sell their Drury premises to Fisher+Paykel Healthcare. In 2023. Here RNZ are telling the public that they may have to move because of lack of gas supply. THIS IS A LIE RNZ are LYING - AGAIN They are filth. #nzpol
Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein could not have sold women and girls for sex without wealthy men buying women and girls for sex. I feel like more people should mention that.
If you are experiencing suicidal ideation, please don't ask genAI for help. Here in Aotearoa NZ call 0508 TAUTOKO (0508 828 865) for the Suicide Crisis Helpline.
My review of the country's newest electric pickup truck is suspiciously well. Even the EV haters are being civil in the comments. Is this Chinese, battery powered ute bringing us all together at last? Something fishy is going on. 🤨 www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEoG...
On the upside, in a genuine banana republic these guys works be kept busy with low key graft, protection rackets, and r@pe. Wee way to go just yet.
Manager: "What's this milestone 'Living on a prayer' ?" Me: "That's the documentation deliverable." Manager: "What's the status of that?" Me: "We're halfway there" Manager: "Why is progress so slow?" Me: "You fired Tommy" Manager: "So?" Me: "Tommy used to work on the docs"
Ka whakanui au i tenei mahi.
The numbers on this are staggering: if we decided to meet the whole world’s power requirements with solar PV, we’d get payback in around six years - and then free energy for everyone… billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-modest-p...
Literal perennial post
Imports of solar panels to Africa rose by 60% over 12 months to June 2024 If installed, Sierra Leone imported enough solar to generate 60% of 2023 supply PV imports to Algeria up 33x; to Zambia, Botswana & Sudan over 6-fold; tripled to DRC, Angola, Ethiopia www.theenergymix.com/africa-could...
Adorno got it right in 1945
People keep telling me to wait for the next election & I genuinely think this reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of what’s happening. What we are experiencing is fascist state capture by a fascist political party, one destroying institutions, civil liberties, & the rule of law.
This is part of the plot to Soylent Green.
Ah, we’ve got an EO for fascist flash mobs
They’re making fun of the media referring to Kilmar Abrego Garcia as a Maryland man as they threaten to send him to Uganda, a country where he’s never lived. They’re simply fucking vile.
Correct procedure Regimes that do terrorism in your country in furtherance of their monstrous religious blood war do not get to be treated as good neighbours www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
The online antisemites aren’t sending their best these days. Rockwell was murdered by a neo-Nazi cartoonist who was a once member of the American Nazi Party that he founded.
An M.I.T. study found that 95% of companies that had invested in A.I. tools were seeing zero return. It jibes with the emerging idea that generative A.I., “in its current incarnation, simply isn’t all it’s been cracked up to be,” johncassidysays.bsky.social writes.
Ryobi have this great adaptor where you can drop a USB/240V outlet onto on of their normal batteries. That way it's not a dedicated emergency kit, it's a JIC and you can also drill holes, or sand a table while the world burns.
There's a cautionary tale in this about the degree to which the "root causes" of violent extremism are just people acting out on behalf of political elites. But we just keep looking to person-level factors for explanations.
@andrew-whitehead.bsky.social and @profsamperry.bsky.social find a link between Christian nationalism & votes for Trump in 2024 in "Christian Nationalism and the Vote for Donald Trump in the 2024 Presidential Election: A State-Level Analysis", #earlyview & #openaccess at onlinelibrary.wiley....
