Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
who said it's in australia check the street sign. the car is parked in the direction of traffic.
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
who said it's in australia check the street sign. the car is parked in the direction of traffic.
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
printing? or harvesting?
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
The Russian people have nothing to lose... but will they ever revolt again.
Seth Abramson (@sethabramson.bsky.social) reposted
I still think many Americans have no idea how bad this is going to get. I saw President Obama reposting a tepid, mealy-mouthed analysis by Ezra Klein—who's never seen a phenomenon he couldn't be 5 years late in incompetently circumscribing—and I felt like we don't have what it takes to survive this.
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh and also Dr. Cox
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
I have literally modelled my parenting on Hal from Malcom in the MIddle and Calvin's Dad. No apologies. You get what you get and don't throw a fit.
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes we will. And it will be fully engaged before 12/2025.
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
But there won't be a fine line. (see the French Revolution). Once it kicks off it's sledgehammers all the way down.
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
54% of adults read below the 6th grade level About a quarter are illiterate. 100 is the average IQ Yes many people will be ready to believe that.
Ready4c (@ready4c.bsky.social) reposted
This is all going to come down to who controls the military. Dems better start polling senior military to find out what side they will be on. Do they support suborning their oath and the constitution? Or will they stand with the people and help throw the bum out? Violence is in our future.
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
Well we'll find out in September when RFK delivers the definitive answer. i wonder what it will be...
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
I believe the children are the future...
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
We'll find out.
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes and... Seems to work great. How do we stop it? Outrage? Doesn't seem to work great.
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
The game is played by exploiting dissent. Disagreements among progressives/liberals/moderates - religion - race anybody not Trump will be exploited / widened until you turn what are fairly closely aligned groups into mortal enemies. It's a playbook as old as history, and it really works.
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
I wonder what he thinks of P Diddy and R Kelly?
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
This is still... NOT EQUAL TO THE MOMENT... Here's a speech. Base your response to Trump on this. "We will fight them on the beaches, we will fight them on the landing grounds... we will never surrender."
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social)
Alarms? Extremely disturbing. He's deploying the military to take away all freedoms and that's disturbing. Why can't we find better words? What are we saving them for? abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
Other way round. They base their lives on religion to validate themselves. They don't actually believe. They keep the bits that justify themselves, deny the bits that don't, and, above all, refuse to engage with its entirety. People are the curse.
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
Those with scruples seem to be at a disadvantage... But, we're willing to sacrifice and even die for our beliefs. We aren't transactional. We can stick together. When they break they'll scatter like the rats and roaches they are.
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social)
Here's what it's about. Trump and about 35% of Americans have no scruples. They are entirely transactional, believe in nothing, and will always take the route that benefits them. It's an enormous advantage. In a one-on-one confrontation, all things being equal, the one without scruples wins.
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
Wheeeeeeeeeee
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
Who makes this technology? Is it already in use domestically.
Marco Foster (@marcofoster.bsky.social) reposted
Gavin Newsom: “What more evidence of authoritarianism do you need? These guys aren’t screwing around. We can no longer screw around. It’s all at stake. People need to wake up. We can’t continue to play by the old set of rules.“
Sam Biddle (@sambiddle.com) reposted
Tickets to hear Peter Thiel opine on "the biblical Antichrist," based in part on the work of Nazi political theorist Carl Schmitt, have sold out lu.ma/antichrist
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't think it's just you? right? anybody
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social)
The officials ask "Where is your humanity?" Stop saying things like this! HE DOESN'T HAVE ANY. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
WHAT and pay an actor.
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
Palantir is the key.
Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted
Private prison and surveillance companies like Geo Group, CoreCivic, and Palantir just reported massive profits last quarter thanks to lucrative government contracts for Trump's mass deportation machine. All of course donated to Trump's inauguration. They're getting rich off cruelty.
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
It's a coup. We are in the middle of a fast-moving coup without the shooting. SAY THE WORD. It's not about this or that group. Trump is racist/misogynist whatever, but more than that he is AGAINST ANYONE BUT TRUMP. He's happy to steal from ANYONE. UNITE/UNITE/UNITE from MAGA to Antifa
Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted
Again: this is not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social)
WHY does it seem that repubs and ex-repubs get it better than anyone. Trump is forming an internal army not for immigration or safety but to enforce his will on all and crush all dissent. Stop saying it's this or that group that will suffer. It's everyone BUT Trump. thehill.com/homenews/adm...
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
Talkin' about the Nobel Peace Prize, baby!
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
Noise is the same as silence... indecipherable. They don't have to get to silence.
Gallifreyan Jedi (@jediofgallifrey.bsky.social) reposted
anyway, global peasant uprising pls?
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social)
Here's a novel take on immigration enforcement that flips the script. Can't tell if this guy's kidding... medium.com/the-differen...
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
Not saying 3-6 months is right. But 3 years is too long.
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
Not this time...
Adam Schwarz (@adamjschwarz.bsky.social) reposted
“Putin would eat you for lunch.” Today, exactly that happened.
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
It's not taking the reservation...
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
There needs to be more of this.
Raider (@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social) reposted
This tow truck driver is a true hero! He bravely took their vehicle while ICE GOONS were in the midst of kidnapping.
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
And it's a beanie with a propellor.
Jenny Sampson 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 (@jennysampson.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social)
TACO TACO TACO. Ha ha. TACO TACO TACO Trump is a bitch (specifically Putin's bitch) THANK YOU FOR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
It's TACO Friday! Actually every day is taco day it would seem. Frankly, I'm getting sick of it.
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
I'll always follow Rockford.
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
That is fascinating. It's almost like an AI hallucination. Combining ideas or facts to reach a certain conclusion. Was he a helpful assistant?
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
I saw that. I was reading too quickly.
Repugs R Stinky (@artfulscribe.bsky.social) reposted
Gavin Newsom is the leader we need at this moment in our history. Listen to this!
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes. 1000 times yes.
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
You have GOT to say RFK. I was just heading off to hunt that down as a quote from JFK.
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
That is a confusing, upsetting yet vivid image.
St. Gael (@stgael.bsky.social) reposted
This energy is everything. We keep pressuring Newsom to rise to his power. It’s working.
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
Everybody sleeps....
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
Is Stankey the name of the AT&T AI.
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social)
What is the religion of social media? I'm voting for Manicheanism
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
All those people who said. Don't call it fascism. You can't call it fascism. To hell with Godwin.
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
Huh... somebody making sense. Very unusual
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
So you're asserting the ship traffic was actually preserving the AMOC... Is that right?
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
Turkish Van?
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
Math eh? I'll start the bidding. 1+1 is not equal to two.
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
He's not scratching. He's flipping you off for calling him common.
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
TLDR; Do not listen to RFK.
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
This raises an interesting idea. If REM sleep is about consolidating memories and committing them to long term memory - are you consciously participating.
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
Which is why I never have nightmares. At no point do things "just happen" in a dream without critique. Frankly, it's annoying. Always the director never the audience.
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
i had absolutely no idea what company that was from the text. It could have been absolutely anything in any industry
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social)
Alrighty then... Alrighty then... I have no idea what else to say. thehill.com/homenews/hou...
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
Don't even hold your nose. Run to the polls. Make common cause with those you would never even speak to (c.f. Winston Churchill/Ernest Bevin) Vote your interest. Trump/Vance will kill us all.
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
right? Right RIGHT! Why is this a hard concept?
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm good with either one going first.
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes. Skim the bios of people like Goering, Himmler, Mengele. You can't diagnose historical figures blah, blah, blah. But apart from being nazis they were crazy - I mean looney tunes. sie spinnen
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm a honeydew! and I cantaloupe. sorry... I'm ashamed.
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
How much... I'd go with "unprecedented" and Yuge
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social)
hmmm. Interesting. Sounds a bit like a climate harm lawsuit but interesting... arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
I'd forgotten that....
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social)
This is what it's come to. I slept through middle school on purpose. WTH www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social)
Oh c'mon why choose? www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
carbon dioxide is important. Yes. So is oxygen. Let's do a thought experiment and run the oxygen level up to... IDK 30 or 40%. Get it right though, because you'll only do it once.
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
That is a raven. He has a very majestic beak and would deeply resent being mistaken for a more common corvid.
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
hmmm. make no assumptions and I'll tell you you know lies.
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't think the dutch bit is relevant. I think anyone could say that.
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh my god. Uncle Sam. Talk about being born for a role. Somebody write a screenplay immediately!
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
Be patient. They will soon.
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
As it turns out. Snit is a good dog.
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
Lord I thought that was a potato and Kerry Gold was the butter. Almost cooler if it were.
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
Overturning Obergefell in this context would also mean government officials can explicitly invoke their religion when making decisions and enforcing laws. If that happens... then there is no more Constitution or even any kind of rule of law. It's a free for all.
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social)
We needed "experts" for this... What are they experts in "the obvious". It's a bird it's a plane it's Captain Obvious! www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social)
I just followed Jeri Ryan. I'm very happy.
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social)
Some days you see people on here who are having a mental breakdown. I wonder if there could be a feature to report them so some kind of crisis intervention could be discretely offered.
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
dress?
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
clothes? I don't need no stinkin' clothes. (remote aura coding)
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
oh hell yeah
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social)
WHEEEEEEEEE ! www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social)
Apropos of nothing I was just enjoying Alex Garland's Civil War on hbomax. The ending is a hoot.
Valentine Wiggin (@v-wiggin.bsky.social) reply parent
Homan could have productively struck the word "these"