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C. E. Monaghan @cemonaghanofficial.bsky.social · 9h

Congration! My birthday is the fifteenth. :3

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C. E. Monaghan @cemonaghanofficial.bsky.social · 9h

This post was created specifically to hurt me. Grrrr. etc.

pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 16h

You know who I’m sick of? Astronauts. “The eagle has landed” “I’m on the moon”. Shut the fuck up

C. E. Monaghan @cemonaghanofficial.bsky.social · 9h

🐍Kassss Asssasssin🐍 @kassassassin.bsky.social · 22h

they want gengar to use hypnosis on the youth and eat the american dream

C. E. Monaghan @cemonaghanofficial.bsky.social · 9h

I wish culture-war conservatives a very eating cold spaghetti-o's from the can while sobbing in the shower

Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 10h

Mamdani saw a drag performance and smiled and clapped

Conservatives are folding over in fury. Shrieking in rage

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Laika L. Gagarin @laikalgagarin.bsky.social · 18h

You have stolen more than we could ever loot

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Sage @thisintermezzo.bsky.social · 15h

It is sooo rough as a creative when you just want to be frustrated about something but have to consider how it might be seen as fishing for attention etc etc. Sometimes we just feel creatively bad and want to commiserate...

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Adanedhel🌹 @danielwaweru.bsky.social · 17h

Encouraging.

But all is not lost. The cement is still wet, and even as it hardens we can find hope in the common sense of the global public. In a survey by Focaldata, of 36,000 people in 34 countries we find a clear majority are more resistant to an exclusionary nationalism and more willing to embrace international cooperation than many of the leaders who rule over them.

Across the world there is, perhaps surprisingly, only a small group of hardened anti-internationalists representing 16.5% of the global population (even if 25% in today’s US) who either feel coexistence between ethnic and religious groups is impossible or have a zero-sum mindset that if they or their country do well, it has to be at the expense of others doing badly.

But there are another 21% at the opposite extreme, whom we might call committed internationalists, who either still see cooperation across borders through open trade as a positive sum win-win, or are what the US philosopher and writer Kwame Anthony Appiah calls “rooted cosmopolitans”.

From Gordon Brown at: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/11/reform-nigel-farage-hard-right-politics-gordon-brown-labour

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C. E. Monaghan @cemonaghanofficial.bsky.social · 14h

Hmmmmm. Transvampirism: when changing your gender fluid isn't enough.

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C. E. Monaghan @cemonaghanofficial.bsky.social · 15h

Like all this talk of "this is just like Star wars or handmaid's tale!" when it's also mostly Atlas Shrugged.

C. E. Monaghan @cemonaghanofficial.bsky.social · 15h

Honestly, I think we don't talk enough about how the technofascists in power are following the Ayn Rand playbook of systematically collapsing society with their own safe refuges to retreat to in order to prevent decentralization of the economy. They all think they are John Galt.

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C. E. Monaghan @cemonaghanofficial.bsky.social · 19h

One of the major inspirations was the Armenian Genocide. Not enough people talk about how similar some of the methodology was, and that that genocide is what convinced Hitler he'd actually get away with it.

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 1d

I hate it when people talk badly about 1984 because if you actually read it, that book explains what’s wrong with society and what’s wrong with anti intellectualism

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Ozma @rowyourbot.bsky.social · 22h

I hope people have given up this idea. In a few select cases it ends OK but it almost never does and it’s a terrible precedent.

Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 23h

That may be dissappointing for those who were hoping for an argument in favor of democratic military coups. Not here. I think CMR scholars got that right. To quote myself: "Democracy will not survive a military that turns against it, but it also cannot depend on the military to uphold it".
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C. E. Monaghan @cemonaghanofficial.bsky.social · 22h

Oh, for sure! And if it strikes the curiosity enough, it's a great vehicle for learning new things you wouldn't generally otherwise.

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C. E. Monaghan @cemonaghanofficial.bsky.social · 23h

Rest In Spaghetti, I will surely never Forgetti.

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C. E. Monaghan @cemonaghanofficial.bsky.social · 23h

NO I REMEMBER THAT SAGA LMAOOOOOO

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Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @cometkins.bsky.social · 23h

Cheesecake Factory on fire

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 1d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 1d

"The chancellor approved it"

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

Not one of the assholes asked (because asshole) but an atheist proselytizer is someone who goes out of their way to try and convince people who haven't asked them that religion is bad or otherwise makes a scene about God when no one asked. They tend to be, ironically, Christiancentric.

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C. E. Monaghan @cemonaghanofficial.bsky.social · 23h

This is not conducive to functioning and living as a person, nor is it conducive to creating art. A flexible mind is a must.

C. E. Monaghan @cemonaghanofficial.bsky.social · 23h

In all seriousness, the problem of the authoritarian mind is that it must be inflexible, and so it breaks when finally overwhelmed with the chaotic, flexible reality of the world we live in.

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C. E. Monaghan @cemonaghanofficial.bsky.social · 23h

By the way, this also ties into that phenomenon of "failed creative takes a hard turn to the right," because their failure of creativity is assuming that being a creative works the same.

Also, this is why anarchists make some of the best art out there. In this essay, I will—

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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AffirmationCoyote.bsky.social @affirmationcoyote.bsky.social · 23h

It is National Gumbo Day!

Affirmation Coyote once managed to lick up most of a pot of Gumbo that had been tossed out of a house during a domestic dispute. They highly recommend it.

a close up of a bowl of food with the number 52 on it

ALT: a close up of a bowl of food with the number 52 on it

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 1d

You can’t hate fascists and use AI slop generators. They’re the same thing: total destruction of truth at scale.

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C. E. Monaghan @cemonaghanofficial.bsky.social · 23h

Anyway, I know it'll be fine and people will read it anyway, but for now, I am an anxious bean about it.