Dystopos
@dystopos.bsky.social
Personal account of the founder/publisher of Bhamwiki.
Statements of fact or opinion may change when I learn new things. (Distopos with an “i” at the old place.)
Statements of fact or opinion may change when I learn new things. (Distopos with an “i” at the old place.)
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Dystopos
@dystopos.bsky.social
· Nov 6
I’m saying this here for my own benefit.
“I will stand for factuality.”
“I will stand for factuality.”
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Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
November 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Lord preserve us from the scheming of nihilist ratfuckers.
November 29, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Lord preserve us from the scheming of nihilist ratfuckers.
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At left: a New York Times letter to the editor from October 9, 2001, warning that "the newly formed homeland security office" could lead America to a very dark place
At right: Tweets today from the Trump Department of Homeland Security
At right: Tweets today from the Trump Department of Homeland Security
![DHS tweets:
The stakes have never been higher, and the goal has never been more clear: Remigration now.
Help Deport Them: [link to job site]
Help Arrest Them: [link to tip site]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gljcmclsvuebhhnvpa2rwvjr/bafkreieiolswrlh6lfcepzxwbnwy2f7wklgse2lw2pe33xie4i6eeig7ry@jpeg)
November 29, 2025 at 3:14 AM
At left: a New York Times letter to the editor from October 9, 2001, warning that "the newly formed homeland security office" could lead America to a very dark place
At right: Tweets today from the Trump Department of Homeland Security
At right: Tweets today from the Trump Department of Homeland Security
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild
Great blue heron
Red fox
Manta ray
Black bear
Rough green snake
Great blue heron
Red fox
Manta ray
Black bear
Rough green snake
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild
Humpback whale
Grey seal
Puffin
Pelican
Black bear
Humpback whale
Grey seal
Puffin
Pelican
Black bear
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Ling cod
Joro spider
Dall's porpoise
Cornetfish
Luciola firefly
Ling cod
Joro spider
Dall's porpoise
Cornetfish
Luciola firefly
November 29, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild
Great blue heron
Red fox
Manta ray
Black bear
Rough green snake
Great blue heron
Red fox
Manta ray
Black bear
Rough green snake
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To be explicit, we executed a German U-Boat commander who said he had to sink lifesaving gear / “inadvertently” kill survivors because it might give away his position, thereby potentially resulting in the loss of his submarine.
We executed multiple members of that crew.
We executed multiple members of that crew.
November 28, 2025 at 6:11 PM
To be explicit, we executed a German U-Boat commander who said he had to sink lifesaving gear / “inadvertently” kill survivors because it might give away his position, thereby potentially resulting in the loss of his submarine.
We executed multiple members of that crew.
We executed multiple members of that crew.
Let’s get together and rid ourselves of Stephen Miller. We can do it!
November 28, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Let’s get together and rid ourselves of Stephen Miller. We can do it!
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The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
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Straight-up sociopath.
Asked about a Guard member who’s dead because of his bullshit and it takes him 30 seconds to make it all about how great he is.
Asked about a Guard member who’s dead because of his bullshit and it takes him 30 seconds to make it all about how great he is.
Q: Do you plan to attend Sarah's funeral?
TRUMP: I haven't thought about it yet, but it's certainly something I can conceive of. I love West Virginia. You know, I won West Virginia by one of the biggest margins of any president anywhere.
TRUMP: I haven't thought about it yet, but it's certainly something I can conceive of. I love West Virginia. You know, I won West Virginia by one of the biggest margins of any president anywhere.
November 28, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Straight-up sociopath.
Asked about a Guard member who’s dead because of his bullshit and it takes him 30 seconds to make it all about how great he is.
Asked about a Guard member who’s dead because of his bullshit and it takes him 30 seconds to make it all about how great he is.
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen —
White Stripes
Robert Plant
Drivin’ N Cryin’
Bela Fleck & the Flecktones
Sigur Rós
White Stripes
Robert Plant
Drivin’ N Cryin’
Bela Fleck & the Flecktones
Sigur Rós
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen —
NIN
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Soul Coughing
Poe
Tom Morello
NIN
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Soul Coughing
Poe
Tom Morello
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
Bowie *
Roger Waters
July Talk *
Metric *
Alice Phoebe Lou *
* multiple times
Bowie *
Roger Waters
July Talk *
Metric *
Alice Phoebe Lou *
* multiple times
November 27, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen —
White Stripes
Robert Plant
Drivin’ N Cryin’
Bela Fleck & the Flecktones
Sigur Rós
White Stripes
Robert Plant
Drivin’ N Cryin’
Bela Fleck & the Flecktones
Sigur Rós
I just learned that my father-in-law’s babysitter was Farrah Fawcett.
November 27, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I just learned that my father-in-law’s babysitter was Farrah Fawcett.
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Putting it out there since it is books-as-gifts time: I have two books in print and in paperback that answer many burning questions about why cities look the way they do geni.us/designofchil...
November 25, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Putting it out there since it is books-as-gifts time: I have two books in print and in paperback that answer many burning questions about why cities look the way they do geni.us/designofchil...
Let’s make it one, for old time’s and goodness’ and Pete’s sake.
Cannot overstate how, from my perch as a national-security reporter, this would have been an earth-shattering scandal in a prior era.
Billionaire Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, pardoned by Donald Trump, has been accused of facilitating millions of dollars’ worth of payments to Hamas in the wake of its attack on Israel on October 7 2023. Zhao also financed the Trump family's entrance into the cryptocurrency market.
November 25, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Let’s make it one, for old time’s and goodness’ and Pete’s sake.
Star Wars: Great bit of film magic. Stirring score. Holds up.
Star Wars universe: Y’all have fun if that’s your thing. I’ve enjoyed a few of the bits I’ve seen, but the prequel trilogy was not good and I’m not much interested in any of the stuff I’ve missed.
Star Wars universe: Y’all have fun if that’s your thing. I’ve enjoyed a few of the bits I’ve seen, but the prequel trilogy was not good and I’m not much interested in any of the stuff I’ve missed.
November 24, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Star Wars: Great bit of film magic. Stirring score. Holds up.
Star Wars universe: Y’all have fun if that’s your thing. I’ve enjoyed a few of the bits I’ve seen, but the prequel trilogy was not good and I’m not much interested in any of the stuff I’ve missed.
Star Wars universe: Y’all have fun if that’s your thing. I’ve enjoyed a few of the bits I’ve seen, but the prequel trilogy was not good and I’m not much interested in any of the stuff I’ve missed.
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"It seems like a marvel of financial engineering: Meta is building a $27 billion data center in Louisiana, financed with debt, and neither the data center nor the debt will be on its own balance sheet."
AI Meets Aggressive Accounting at Meta’s Gigantic New Data Center
Favorable treatment off the balance sheet hinges on some convenient assumptions.
www.wsj.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
"It seems like a marvel of financial engineering: Meta is building a $27 billion data center in Louisiana, financed with debt, and neither the data center nor the debt will be on its own balance sheet."
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The answer to this question is the answer to every single question about Trump and his motives.
Putin. It's always been Putin. It will only ever be Putin.
Putin. It's always been Putin. It will only ever be Putin.
Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace
Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace
Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:24 PM
The answer to this question is the answer to every single question about Trump and his motives.
Putin. It's always been Putin. It will only ever be Putin.
Putin. It's always been Putin. It will only ever be Putin.
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They are literally firing all the judges they think might grant relief. They just fired a friend of mine a couple hours ago. They have no shame. The bastards want an assembly line for deportations and nothing more; rubber-stamping bootlickers who’ll yes’sir at every new diktat to deny.
Instead of hiring more immigration judges, the Department of Justice just posted an ad for "deportation judges." join.justice.gov
November 21, 2025 at 11:17 PM
They are literally firing all the judges they think might grant relief. They just fired a friend of mine a couple hours ago. They have no shame. The bastards want an assembly line for deportations and nothing more; rubber-stamping bootlickers who’ll yes’sir at every new diktat to deny.
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you'd think the forced displacement of 10 million people from one of the oldest centres of civilisation in human history would get a little more news attention than beltway journalists writing essays on how Olivia Nuzzi is a genius because they want to bone her and you'd be wrong
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:59 PM
you'd think the forced displacement of 10 million people from one of the oldest centres of civilisation in human history would get a little more news attention than beltway journalists writing essays on how Olivia Nuzzi is a genius because they want to bone her and you'd be wrong
So did Bluesky adopt a throwback “3-D drop shadow effect” iOS icon or are my eyes failing?
November 22, 2025 at 4:53 AM
So did Bluesky adopt a throwback “3-D drop shadow effect” iOS icon or are my eyes failing?
Does the Mamdani campaign have a policy paper or FAQ or something on this “jihadism” plank that is apparently absolutely central to his platform?
November 22, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Does the Mamdani campaign have a policy paper or FAQ or something on this “jihadism” plank that is apparently absolutely central to his platform?
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He must be removed from office.
November 20, 2025 at 6:34 PM
He must be removed from office.
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
“The Bourne Odyssey”
November 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
“The Bourne Odyssey”
I guess in retrospect, in the context of the authoritarian horrors being foremost in our memory, it’s harder to cast the authoritarian’s previous calls for horrors as snide jokes.
November 20, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I guess in retrospect, in the context of the authoritarian horrors being foremost in our memory, it’s harder to cast the authoritarian’s previous calls for horrors as snide jokes.
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'People forget what Khashoggi was investigating when he was murdered. He was writing about Kushner turning over classified info to MBS, who used it to hunt down, arrest and murder his opponents.'
h/t @cocacolakid
h/t @cocacolakid
November 20, 2025 at 11:28 AM
'People forget what Khashoggi was investigating when he was murdered. He was writing about Kushner turning over classified info to MBS, who used it to hunt down, arrest and murder his opponents.'
h/t @cocacolakid
h/t @cocacolakid
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this is like "Olympus has fallen" for public agency science communication; worse than censorship, actively misinforming people and encouraging them to harm children
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 12:36 PM
this is like "Olympus has fallen" for public agency science communication; worse than censorship, actively misinforming people and encouraging them to harm children