Author | Lightnews

Ishkur @ishkur.bsky.social · 15h

Don't worry, Jamaicans are fast. They can run away from the hurricane.

Ishkur @ishkur.bsky.social · 1d

Baseball isn't a sport, it's a relational database management system where table data is generated by ten dudes standing in a field.

2

Ishkur @ishkur.bsky.social · 1d

Baseball isn't a sport, it's a relational database management system where table data is generated by 10 dudes standing in a field.

Ishkur @ishkur.bsky.social · 1d

Even more crucial -- the story emphasizes dynastic benevolent monarchies as the solution to corruption and evil.

Ishkur @ishkur.bsky.social · 3d

All arguments on the Internet eventually devolve into a semantic discussion over what words mean.

Somewhere Wittgenstein is laughing at all of us.

Ishkur @ishkur.bsky.social · 3d

With apologies to Randall Munroe

Sports is just vehicles for gambling. Always have been.

1

Ishkur @ishkur.bsky.social · 5d

RIP Dave Ball, one half of Soft Cell, The Grid, frequent collaborator with Genesis P'Orridge, and generous contributor to the acid house/bleep techno/progressive house pantheon.

Electronic Music's greatest generation has lost another one.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBpb...

The Grid - Floatation

YouTube video by ohnoitisnathan103

www.youtube.com

2 2

Ishkur @ishkur.bsky.social · 6d

It is, in fact, the core of their ethos. They believe they are the in-group, for whom the law protects but does not bind, while everyone else is the out-group, for whom the law binds but does not protect.

Ishkur @ishkur.bsky.social · 6d

The Blue Jays should be doing everything in their power to stay as far away as possible from the stench of failure that is the Leafs.

2

Ishkur @ishkur.bsky.social · 7d

Love content like this. Leave the wars and politics to the Kings & Generals crowd, I'm much more interested in the day-to-day life, how stuff works, what people did, the economies and mechanics of ancient societies.

Less James Holland and more James Burke.

Ishkur @ishkur.bsky.social · 8d

Is it just me or the Seahawks suddenly started playing bad as soon as the Mariners lost?

1

Ishkur @ishkur.bsky.social · 10d

Canada Governor-General Adrienne Clarkson's husband has some words of wisdom

1 2

Ishkur @ishkur.bsky.social · 10d

So you protested Fascism today. Good job.

But tomorrow the protest will be over and the Fascism is still there.

2

Ishkur @ishkur.bsky.social · 10d

Freedom is never just given away out of generosity.

It is fought for. It must be wrenched out of the hands of the oppressors. They will cry and whine about how they are the victims for not getting their way. Don't concede.

If you want freedom, you must fight for it. With violence if necessary.

Ishkur @ishkur.bsky.social · 10d

If it's any consolation, the Seahawks would totally whip the Argos.

(in whatever ruleset you'd like to use)

Ishkur @ishkur.bsky.social · 10d

They will push you with a bayonet. If you are soft, they will keep pushing. If you are hard, they will stop.

Harden up.

Teddy Roosevelt's words of wisdom for the modern age.

2

Ishkur @ishkur.bsky.social · 11d

Oh, I've read it. And also On Tyranny, The Road to Unfreedom, and currently reading On Freedom. Snyder is one of my go-to sources for understanding the current conflict.

Ishkur @ishkur.bsky.social · 11d

The Eastern Front was complicated. There were Soviet partisan groups fighting the Nazis and then afterward seen as a threat to Stalin and subsequently liquidated. There were Ukrainians joining the Nazis against Stalin only to be thrown into concentration camps.

The Eastern Front was complicated.

1

Ishkur @ishkur.bsky.social · 11d

Why, is there more than one?

1