omg it’s finally happening. i’m going fungal.

“Kamala Fell to the Same Cabal That Destroyed University Presidents” by Moe Tkacik prospect.org/power/2024-1... ht @ddayen.bsky.social

enter, withdraw. enter, withdraw. Paris Agreement is for lovers.

don’t forget @tomashirstecon.bsky.social!

hi.

“The Party Should Throw Them a Party” by @resnikoff.bsky.social resnikoff.beehiiv.com/p/the-party-... // excellent on the need for thick ties between real-life humans to build coalitions and realities resilient to a captured, fickle parasocial online

when history is on the march, run.

i think it may look more like, hey, of course we love you, but you were never more than visitors here. we just cleared out some nice beachfront real estate in your true homeland. don’t you think you wouldn’t be happier there? we’ll increasingly insist you would be happier there.

both of these groups may find themselves disappointed, Arab Americans for what will happen imminently in Israel/Palestine, right-leaning Jews for what happens in the United States. these people take a whole lot for granted, people obsessed with their Judaism who’ve learned nothing from history.

i mean it could be a great consolation prize if the revenue model is to get acquired by people more than happy to run it at a loss… are we relying on principled resistance to that?

the more bluesky “wins” in terms of engendering an exodus from Twitter, the more it will become a target of capture by a political movement whose modus operandi includes capturing the media. how technically resilient is or isn’t bluesky to that? time is of the essence now.

Abnormal Returns, old-school finance blogger and link blogger is here! @abnormalreturns.bsky.social

democracy, whatever.

In any case, China seems the senior partner in that relationship, so even if their current “no limits” partnership holds, if European countries are China-allied, it seems unlikely Russia would risk something, um, bold.

thanks!

is there a way to download archives of one’s BlueSky posts?

“We're still the same country that we were on Monday. We just have changed our form of government.” @hcrichardson.bsky.social youtu.be/D7cKOaBdFWo

i feel like some random kidney cell still kidneying in the body of a thing that just blew its own head off.