Edward Banatt
@armavirumque.bsky.social
Techie, skeptic, ultracrepidarian, sciolist, patzer, erstwhile twittersnipe. Blast-beruffled. Emotionally tatterdemalion.
Esquerdopata.
Esquerdopata.
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Mamdani releases video overviewing Know Your Rights if you see ICE + promises to protect New Yorkers and the right to protest, specifically in response to anti-ICE action last Saturday that stopped a massive raid.
Comes following question from me asking for his comment on that action.
Comes following question from me asking for his comment on that action.
Know your rights. Protect your neighbors.
New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
December 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Mamdani releases video overviewing Know Your Rights if you see ICE + promises to protect New Yorkers and the right to protest, specifically in response to anti-ICE action last Saturday that stopped a massive raid.
Comes following question from me asking for his comment on that action.
Comes following question from me asking for his comment on that action.
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Absolutely buzzing over this new video of a rarely seen giant squid
December 7, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Absolutely buzzing over this new video of a rarely seen giant squid
December 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Thought experiment for sure. It that hasn’t changed in the nearly 60 years since i climbed through it as a kid, still a combination of cozy and claustrophobic, oddly socialized and brutalist, unduplicated in most of its aspects
On the edge of the St. Lawrence River sits Habitat 67, a building that looks less like architecture and more like a thought experiment.
#Habitat67 #Montreal #Architecture #OnlyThingTravel #TravelVideo
#Habitat67 #Montreal #Architecture #OnlyThingTravel #TravelVideo
December 7, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Thought experiment for sure. It that hasn’t changed in the nearly 60 years since i climbed through it as a kid, still a combination of cozy and claustrophobic, oddly socialized and brutalist, unduplicated in most of its aspects
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I’m pretty concerned about the number of graduates that emerge from Harvard Law with an open disdain for ethics and basic due process.
WELKER: Is there any hard evidence showing this particular boat was headed to the US?
TOM COTTON: That didn't come up in my briefing
WELKER: Are you comfortable having the US target a boat that you're not sure is heading to the US?
COTTON: I'm not just comfortable with it -- I want to continue it
TOM COTTON: That didn't come up in my briefing
WELKER: Are you comfortable having the US target a boat that you're not sure is heading to the US?
COTTON: I'm not just comfortable with it -- I want to continue it
December 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I’m pretty concerned about the number of graduates that emerge from Harvard Law with an open disdain for ethics and basic due process.
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This is an overdue profile and memorial of poor Polidori…much deserved recognition
Mad, bad and dangerous to know Byron, of course!
Wrote a piece about Polidori the other day, though... if I may ⬇️
wunderkammertales.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...
Wrote a piece about Polidori the other day, though... if I may ⬇️
wunderkammertales.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...
The Master and ‘Pollydolly’: John William Polidori’s Career in the Shadows
How Byron’s young doctor invented the gentleman-vampire at Diodati, lost the credit, and became literature’s most eloquent ghost.
wunderkammertales.blogspot.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
This is an overdue profile and memorial of poor Polidori…much deserved recognition
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legalized murder is a scam invented by murder companies to sell more murder
December 7, 2025 at 3:43 AM
legalized murder is a scam invented by murder companies to sell more murder
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Silicon Valley has come to understand that authoritarianism is the best way to ensure that their market dominance is preserved
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Silicon Valley has come to understand that authoritarianism is the best way to ensure that their market dominance is preserved
“Not the outfits. I don’t think we’re going to get the outfits, but the rest of it seems more and more plausible.”
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale has become ‘more and more plausible’
Canadian author discusses US under Donald Trump and says setting of dystopian novel has ‘become much closer’
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:31 PM
“Not the outfits. I don’t think we’re going to get the outfits, but the rest of it seems more and more plausible.”
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
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It really cannot be stressed enough that if we don’t have birthright citizenship we don’t have citizenship.
The only Americans who have any proof of citizenship are either naturalized adults or the tiny fraction of natural born citizens who are born abroad. Everyone else has birthright citizenship.
The only Americans who have any proof of citizenship are either naturalized adults or the tiny fraction of natural born citizens who are born abroad. Everyone else has birthright citizenship.
Stephen Miller thinks it’s terrible that I can vote
December 6, 2025 at 9:51 PM
It really cannot be stressed enough that if we don’t have birthright citizenship we don’t have citizenship.
The only Americans who have any proof of citizenship are either naturalized adults or the tiny fraction of natural born citizens who are born abroad. Everyone else has birthright citizenship.
The only Americans who have any proof of citizenship are either naturalized adults or the tiny fraction of natural born citizens who are born abroad. Everyone else has birthright citizenship.
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this is really it — this case isn't about the legitimacy of birthright citizenship or the 14th amendment, it's about the legitimacy of the court, and any ruling that doesn't uphold the former decides the latter
Counterpoint:
The Supreme Court lacks the authority to change the text of the Constitution.
So either it affirms the text or (further, and more completely) nukes its authority as Constitutional arbiter.
There’s no third option. Art III (courts) can’t just usurp Art V (amendments).
The Supreme Court lacks the authority to change the text of the Constitution.
So either it affirms the text or (further, and more completely) nukes its authority as Constitutional arbiter.
There’s no third option. Art III (courts) can’t just usurp Art V (amendments).
The Supreme Court will ultimately decide whether to uphold the longstanding principle that grants citizenship to the children of non-citizens born in the U.S., following a legal challenge by the Trump administration. n.pr/48E1oko
December 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
this is really it — this case isn't about the legitimacy of birthright citizenship or the 14th amendment, it's about the legitimacy of the court, and any ruling that doesn't uphold the former decides the latter
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If birthright citizenship is undone in any way, that would mean that none of us are bound to the Constitutional framework at that point.
December 6, 2025 at 4:16 PM
If birthright citizenship is undone in any way, that would mean that none of us are bound to the Constitutional framework at that point.
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"Write! The written letter endures!" Scribal wit at the start of financial records for London bridge in 1424. Cleverly, the scribe created the letter 'S' by folding a speech scroll, so the form of the letter conveys the meaning of the conventional proverb, "speech is fleeting but writing endures."
December 7, 2025 at 11:48 AM
"Write! The written letter endures!" Scribal wit at the start of financial records for London bridge in 1424. Cleverly, the scribe created the letter 'S' by folding a speech scroll, so the form of the letter conveys the meaning of the conventional proverb, "speech is fleeting but writing endures."
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Read this twice.
“Our findings redefine SARS-CoV-2 infection as a condition of long-lasting immune compromise.”
www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...
“Our findings redefine SARS-CoV-2 infection as a condition of long-lasting immune compromise.”
www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Read this twice.
“Our findings redefine SARS-CoV-2 infection as a condition of long-lasting immune compromise.”
www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...
“Our findings redefine SARS-CoV-2 infection as a condition of long-lasting immune compromise.”
www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...
All the past we leave behind,
We debouch upon a newer mightier world, varied world,
Fresh and strong the world we seize, world of labor and the march,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
We debouch upon a newer mightier world, varied world,
Fresh and strong the world we seize, world of labor and the march,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 12:26 AM
All the past we leave behind,
We debouch upon a newer mightier world, varied world,
Fresh and strong the world we seize, world of labor and the march,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
We debouch upon a newer mightier world, varied world,
Fresh and strong the world we seize, world of labor and the march,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
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tu fosti, prima ch’io disfatto, fatto
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 12:23 AM
tu fosti, prima ch’io disfatto, fatto
'Til Tuesday - Coming Up Close
YouTube video by TilTuesdayVEVO
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December 7, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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did… did the dog write this recipe
December 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
did… did the dog write this recipe
Reader, when I thought I saw the recherché Xmas lawn ornament *move* out of the corner of my eye, I had to hang a uey and confirm my suspicions.
That'll do, Ridgewood. #NJ
That'll do, Ridgewood. #NJ
December 6, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Reader, when I thought I saw the recherché Xmas lawn ornament *move* out of the corner of my eye, I had to hang a uey and confirm my suspicions.
That'll do, Ridgewood. #NJ
That'll do, Ridgewood. #NJ
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How it started, how it’s going 😬
Insects are excellent at hiding in plain sight. I often take pix of twigs only to realize they are just that. But sometimes the hunch pays off and I get to see a lovely little larva. Extra points for the alliteration 🌱
#insect #macro #nature
Insects are excellent at hiding in plain sight. I often take pix of twigs only to realize they are just that. But sometimes the hunch pays off and I get to see a lovely little larva. Extra points for the alliteration 🌱
#insect #macro #nature
December 6, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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160 years ago today, the 13th Amendment was ratified to end slavery, with one major exception: punishment for a crime.
The legacy of slavery lives on as people behind bars are still coerced into working for mere pennies or nothing at all.
It's long overdue to abolish slavery in all its forms.
The legacy of slavery lives on as people behind bars are still coerced into working for mere pennies or nothing at all.
It's long overdue to abolish slavery in all its forms.
December 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
160 years ago today, the 13th Amendment was ratified to end slavery, with one major exception: punishment for a crime.
The legacy of slavery lives on as people behind bars are still coerced into working for mere pennies or nothing at all.
It's long overdue to abolish slavery in all its forms.
The legacy of slavery lives on as people behind bars are still coerced into working for mere pennies or nothing at all.
It's long overdue to abolish slavery in all its forms.
LRP: [A 2000 newspaper column by Memorial University student Kelley Power references the "full fledged Black Horse drinking, touton eating Newfoundlander."]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touton
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touton
Touton - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 6, 2025 at 2:57 PM
LRP: [A 2000 newspaper column by Memorial University student Kelley Power references the "full fledged Black Horse drinking, touton eating Newfoundlander."]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touton
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touton
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Behold the food of my people: Toutons
(variations in photo: butter & molasses, butter & raspberry jam)
(Please read the entire thread before asking questions.)
(variations in photo: butter & molasses, butter & raspberry jam)
(Please read the entire thread before asking questions.)
December 6, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Dec. 6, 1925: Children in Germany awake the morning of St. Nicholas' Day to see "whether there are sweeties in their boots," according to the caption. In some parts of the country and the Netherlands, St. Nicholas' Day and not Christmas is the day for gift-giving.
December 6, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Dec. 6, 1925: Children in Germany awake the morning of St. Nicholas' Day to see "whether there are sweeties in their boots," according to the caption. In some parts of the country and the Netherlands, St. Nicholas' Day and not Christmas is the day for gift-giving.
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It’s clear from the video this woman had just come to the park to play with her child. She said as much and was upset that there were masked men with guns in the park.
Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino calls the woman an “activist” and Andy Ngo says the woman was using her child as a “human shield.”
Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino calls the woman an “activist” and Andy Ngo says the woman was using her child as a “human shield.”
December 5, 2025 at 11:57 PM
It’s clear from the video this woman had just come to the park to play with her child. She said as much and was upset that there were masked men with guns in the park.
Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino calls the woman an “activist” and Andy Ngo says the woman was using her child as a “human shield.”
Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino calls the woman an “activist” and Andy Ngo says the woman was using her child as a “human shield.”