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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔👻𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 14h

When even Stephen King is shocked and horrified…

Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 14h

Holy shit! That motherfucker TORE DOWN THE WHITE HOUSE!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13h

the ballroom will never be built and he’ll just pocket whatever money he collects because he is a grifter first and foremost

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 13h

Trump raises the price of the ballroom to $350 million

(It changed from $200 million, then $300 million, now $350 million within the course of a few days)

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 19h

Tapping the sign

Why Underachievers Dominate Secret Police Organizations: Evidence from Autocratic Argentina
Adam Scharpf and Christian Gläßel

Autocrats depend on a capable secret police. Anecdotal evidence, however, often characterizes agents as surprisingly mediocre in skill and intellect. To explain this puzzle, this article focuses on the career incentives underachieving individuals face in the regular security apparatus. Low-performing officials in hierarchical organizations have little chance of being promoted or filling lucrative positions. To salvage their careers, these officials are willing to undertake burdensome secret police work. Using data on all 4,287 officers who served in autocratic Argentina (1975-83), we study biographic differences between secret police agents and the entire recruitment pool. We find that low-achieving officers were stuck within the regime hierarchy, threatened with discharge, and thus more likely to join the secret police for future benefits. The study demonstrates how state bureaucracies breed mundane career concerns that produce willing enforcers and cement violent regimes. This has implications for the understanding of autocratic consolidation and democratic breakdown.

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Doubting Derek @doubtingderek.bsky.social · 16h

Modern Agriculture is one of the most under appreciated miracles of the modern world.

We moved away from subsistence farming for a good reason! It was a lot of labor for not much food!

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Doubting Derek @doubtingderek.bsky.social · 16h

This isn’t a Platner endorsement, but if Mills can’t beat him, then she was never going to beat Collins.

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Doubting Derek @doubtingderek.bsky.social · 17h

This confirms for me that the age thing is a HUGE liability for Mills going forward.

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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 21h

DIY

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · Jun 7

Stunts!

The Best Stunts of All Time
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The Best Stunts of All Time, Over Nearly 100 Years of the Oscars

A year-by-year "what if" filling in a century-long gap of Academy Awards recognition for noteworthy stunt artistry and design in Hollywood movies.

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RiceIsGood @ariceisgood.bsky.social · Aug 16

rough sketch - #6

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Coy Hall @coyhall.bsky.social · Aug 16

I’ve had fun with my anthologies. The 1st was WWI, a commercial topic to get things going. The 2nd is the Scientific Rev, which isn’t commercial. Hitting ignored eras is the real point of these, so we’ll see how it goes. If it makes its money back, we’ll go ancient with the 3rd.

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · Aug 22

How Arrogance Destroys Armies: Overconfidence and the Path to Military Failure

How Lies Destroy Armoes: Lies, Coverups & Russian Failures in Ukraine

How Corruption Destroys Armies: Corruption & Russian Failure in Ukraine

How Politics Destroys Armies: Politics, Factionalism, and Russia's War in Ukraine

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Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · Sep 5

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Explainer | Demon, spirit, ghost or monster? How Chinese mythology separates them

As the Hungry Ghost Festival nears, we look at ‘yao jing gui guai’ in Chinese culture and their habit of appearing as beautiful women.

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Valentine @valent6228.bsky.social · Sep 15

Night Symphony (2018) - Evgeny Lushpin #hyperrealismart #cityscape

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1d

“It is important to demonstrate that authoritarian gains are not permanent. That liberal society has the will to undo their grotesqueries.
Demolishing the Trump ballroom and restoring the East Wing will be symbolic. But symbolism matters to authoritarians.”

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We Will Tear Down the Trump Palace Ballroom and Casino

Thinking like a dissident movement.

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Doubting Derek @doubtingderek.bsky.social · 1d

My biggest concern is when does that realization of Trump’s unpopularity catch up to the elites?

Because it doesn’t matter how upset “the people” are, a united ruling class is a tough nut to crack.

A fractured ruling class is what makes a revolution.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 1d

This reminds me of the coolest thing in Bioshock Infinite: Demon Lincoln marching with the Army of the Free

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Doubting Derek @doubtingderek.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently his grandpa was born in 1919, sir. I don’t think the guy should be running, but there could be *some* wiggle room there. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_...

Warren Platner - Wikipedia

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Doubting Derek @doubtingderek.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently his grandpa was born in 1919, so there might be *some* wiggle room there. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_...

Warren Platner - Wikipedia

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Doubting Derek @doubtingderek.bsky.social · 1d

Make it a show!

$10 for a swing with a sledgehammer and soon enough we’ll be paying off the national debt.

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toonholechris @toonholechris.bsky.social · 2d

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Doubting Derek @doubtingderek.bsky.social · 2d

a man wearing a red shirt that says talladega nights on it

ALT: a man wearing a red shirt that says talladega nights on it

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Becca-Boooooo 👻 @maplesweetheart.bsky.social · 2d

The sun kissed the mountain.
I hope she enjoyed it.

Mt. Mansfield with a bit of sun on her lady-bits.

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maddy 🩸✨ @enjolieblue.bsky.social · 2d

the most annoying tag-team #bg3

A sketch of a sorcerer, Ilil, and a paladin, Vendetta, preparing for a fight

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 2d

The four aspects of a great character are the Need, the Want, the Ghost, and the Lie.

A Want is their conscious desire.

A Need is what they really want but might not know.

A Lie is the thing they believe that keeps them from that Need.

A Ghost is that spiritual wound that caused the Lie.

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Papa Woof und Krampus und Bleaken @papawoof.bsky.social · 2d

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