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“It is cruel jest to tell a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.” - MLK
World's southernmost capital city, NZ/Aotearoa
World's southernmost capital city, NZ/Aotearoa
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That essays like this need to be written makes me so sad, but I'm glad for people who write them like @lollardfish.bsky.social.
No two ways about it: Hate symbols are hate symbols. Hate is hate. Racism is racism. And so on.
No two ways about it: Hate symbols are hate symbols. Hate is hate. Racism is racism. And so on.
Hitler was bad.
An essay that, you know, I didn’t think I’d need to write.
An essay that, you know, I didn’t think I’d need to write.
Perry: The pro-Hitler problem with the American right
"We need to get back to the basics: Hitler was bad. The people who suggest otherwise are also bad," David M. Perry writes.
www.startribune.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
That essays like this need to be written makes me so sad, but I'm glad for people who write them like @lollardfish.bsky.social.
No two ways about it: Hate symbols are hate symbols. Hate is hate. Racism is racism. And so on.
No two ways about it: Hate symbols are hate symbols. Hate is hate. Racism is racism. And so on.
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Remembering Tsutomu ‘Tom’ Matano, Father of the Mazda MX-5 Miata www.theautopian.com/remembering-...
Remembering Tsutomu 'Tom' Matano, Father of the Mazda MX-5 Miata - The Autopian
I met Tsutomu Matano, the renowned car designer known as one of the fathers of the Mazda MX-5 Miata, in San Francisco just over a year ago. You may know him as Tom. It was June 2024, and I was at a Ma...
www.theautopian.com
September 22, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Remembering Tsutomu ‘Tom’ Matano, Father of the Mazda MX-5 Miata www.theautopian.com/remembering-...
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Remembering Tsutomu “Tom” Matano, 1947-2025
Remembering Tsutomu "Tom" Matano, 1947-2025
Learn more about Remembering Tsutomu “Tom” Matano, 1947-2025 on Bring a Trailer, the home of the best vintage and classic cars online.
bringatrailer.com
September 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Remembering Tsutomu “Tom” Matano, 1947-2025
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So, happy 50th anniversary to Melody Maker’s review of Bohemian Rhapsody: “Queen, with a suitably baroque vocal orchestration, contrive to approximate the demented fury of the Balham Amateur Operatic Society performing The Pirates of Penzance”
November 29, 2025 at 10:26 AM
So, happy 50th anniversary to Melody Maker’s review of Bohemian Rhapsody: “Queen, with a suitably baroque vocal orchestration, contrive to approximate the demented fury of the Balham Amateur Operatic Society performing The Pirates of Penzance”
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Some scientist believes this machine is sentient and capable of feeling hope; critics disagree
November 29, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Some scientist believes this machine is sentient and capable of feeling hope; critics disagree
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When Charlie Kirk died, MAGA leaders promised it would unify the base, while rallying millions of previous skeptics to the fascist cause.
Neither has happened.
Even better, Kirk's death is causing MAGA infighting that is tearing at the seams.
www.salon.com/2025/11/24/c...
Neither has happened.
Even better, Kirk's death is causing MAGA infighting that is tearing at the seams.
www.salon.com/2025/11/24/c...
Charlie Kirk's death is tearing MAGA apart - Salon.com
The killing of the Turning Point USA founder didn’t unify the base — it triggered infighting
www.salon.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:01 PM
When Charlie Kirk died, MAGA leaders promised it would unify the base, while rallying millions of previous skeptics to the fascist cause.
Neither has happened.
Even better, Kirk's death is causing MAGA infighting that is tearing at the seams.
www.salon.com/2025/11/24/c...
Neither has happened.
Even better, Kirk's death is causing MAGA infighting that is tearing at the seams.
www.salon.com/2025/11/24/c...
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One deeply underappreciated aspect of MAHA is how much it's often a fig leaf for domestic abuse. I'm not surprised doctors on the ground belive men are withholding kids' vaccines as a way to control and terrorize their wives. They obviously are!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/o...
November 27, 2025 at 2:14 AM
One deeply underappreciated aspect of MAHA is how much it's often a fig leaf for domestic abuse. I'm not surprised doctors on the ground belive men are withholding kids' vaccines as a way to control and terrorize their wives. They obviously are!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/o...
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I've uploaded my IBM 5150 motherboard illustration to Wikimedia. Free to use under CCA-SA 4.0
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November 28, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I've uploaded my IBM 5150 motherboard illustration to Wikimedia. Free to use under CCA-SA 4.0
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IB...
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IB...
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Seems like a weird thing to tweet on the day when your boss said he’d pardon someone convicted of sending 400 tons of cocaine into the US.
November 29, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Seems like a weird thing to tweet on the day when your boss said he’d pardon someone convicted of sending 400 tons of cocaine into the US.
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The next big battleground test: A Wisconsin race that has tortured Republicans
Republicans and Democrats have each poured tens of millions into the state's recent Supreme Court races — and the GOP has gotten crushed.
Republicans and Democrats have each poured tens of millions into the state's recent Supreme Court races — and the GOP has gotten crushed.
The next big battleground test: A Wisconsin race that has tortured Republicans
Republicans and Democrats have each poured tens of millions into the state's recent Supreme Court races — and the GOP has gotten crushed.
www.politico.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:05 AM
The next big battleground test: A Wisconsin race that has tortured Republicans
Republicans and Democrats have each poured tens of millions into the state's recent Supreme Court races — and the GOP has gotten crushed.
Republicans and Democrats have each poured tens of millions into the state's recent Supreme Court races — and the GOP has gotten crushed.
Trump & Khamenei are more alike than they care to admit.
‘Failed!’ Iran Supreme Leader dunks on Trump over major broken promise
‘Failed!’ Iran Supreme Leader dunks on Trump over major broken promise
Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei dunked on President Donald Trump Thursday over his failure to end the war in Ukraine, among the president’s key pledges on the campaign trail in 2024.“The U.S. instigated the costly war in Ukraine but failed to achieve its goals,” Khamenei wrote Thursday in a soci...
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November 28, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Trump & Khamenei are more alike than they care to admit.
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There was a time when the United States looked down its nose at the countries in South America for being lawless banana republics. Who's the banana republic now, bitches?
November 25, 2025 at 11:56 PM
There was a time when the United States looked down its nose at the countries in South America for being lawless banana republics. Who's the banana republic now, bitches?
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⚡️ Russia tightens grip on occupied Ukraine with illegal mobilization and child militarization, experts warn
Russia tightens grip on occupied Ukraine with illegal mobilization and child militarization, experts warn
While leaked reports of a U.S.-proposed peace plan have sparked international debates about the future of Ukraine`s occupied territories and the people who live there, Russia is forging ahead, entrenc...
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November 26, 2025 at 4:14 PM
⚡️ Russia tightens grip on occupied Ukraine with illegal mobilization and child militarization, experts warn
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November 26, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Stolen off @darienfenton.bsky.social FB
National are in line to produce the worst economic returns for a Govt term, even worse than the Bolger/Richardson disastrous govt.
Austerity does not work. End of. #NZPol
National are in line to produce the worst economic returns for a Govt term, even worse than the Bolger/Richardson disastrous govt.
Austerity does not work. End of. #NZPol
November 27, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Stolen off @darienfenton.bsky.social FB
National are in line to produce the worst economic returns for a Govt term, even worse than the Bolger/Richardson disastrous govt.
Austerity does not work. End of. #NZPol
National are in line to produce the worst economic returns for a Govt term, even worse than the Bolger/Richardson disastrous govt.
Austerity does not work. End of. #NZPol
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That Jair Bolsonaro is serving a 27 year prison sentence in Brazil for attempting a coup, while an America president who did the same thing is not only free, but trying to help him escape is exactly the kind of thing that makes the U.S. a third world country.
November 26, 2025 at 9:47 PM
That Jair Bolsonaro is serving a 27 year prison sentence in Brazil for attempting a coup, while an America president who did the same thing is not only free, but trying to help him escape is exactly the kind of thing that makes the U.S. a third world country.
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#OtD 27 Nov 1898 anti-Nazi resistance fighter Maria Vetulani was born in Poland. Under Nazi occupation she joined resistance and hid Jewish people in her apartment. She fought in the 1944 Warsaw uprising and was wounded then murdered in hospital stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9951...
November 27, 2025 at 7:25 AM
#OtD 27 Nov 1898 anti-Nazi resistance fighter Maria Vetulani was born in Poland. Under Nazi occupation she joined resistance and hid Jewish people in her apartment. She fought in the 1944 Warsaw uprising and was wounded then murdered in hospital stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9951...
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"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
November 27, 2025 at 5:52 AM
"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
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Politicisation of medical care. Puberty blockers: why politicians overriding doctors sets a dangerous precedent www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-...
Puberty blockers: why politicians overriding doctors sets a dangerous precedent
Analysis: The government's ban on puberty blockers for gender-affirming care prioritises politics and ideology over decades of expert clinical guidance and patient safety evidence.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 22, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Politicisation of medical care. Puberty blockers: why politicians overriding doctors sets a dangerous precedent www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-...
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I’ve often noted my belief that out of all societal systems industrialized countries have tested so far, #Nordic #SocialDemocracy is, if not the best, then at least the least bad.
Despite all its very real flaws and shortcomings.
Here’s one BIG reason: Social #Democracy makes us free.
Despite all its very real flaws and shortcomings.
Here’s one BIG reason: Social #Democracy makes us free.
I wrote this from personal experience almost 8 years ago (!!!). Still think it holds quite well.
Even if #Finland ‘s current right-wing government is hell-bent on reducing our real freedoms, by dismantling what’s left of our greatest achievement: the welfare state.
jmkorhonen.net/2017/12/05/f...
Even if #Finland ‘s current right-wing government is hell-bent on reducing our real freedoms, by dismantling what’s left of our greatest achievement: the welfare state.
jmkorhonen.net/2017/12/05/f...
Finland is the land of personal freedom, and that’s why I love it
On December 6th 2017, Finland celebrates her centennial as an independent nation. Exactly one hundred years ago, the Finnish Parliament finally voted for the motion to sever all ties to the revolut…
jmkorhonen.net
November 26, 2025 at 8:19 AM
I’ve often noted my belief that out of all societal systems industrialized countries have tested so far, #Nordic #SocialDemocracy is, if not the best, then at least the least bad.
Despite all its very real flaws and shortcomings.
Here’s one BIG reason: Social #Democracy makes us free.
Despite all its very real flaws and shortcomings.
Here’s one BIG reason: Social #Democracy makes us free.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:20 AM
"You'll be visited by three spirits."
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
November 25, 2025 at 2:41 AM
"You'll be visited by three spirits."
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
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“NZ is like mainly two large islands?”
“Yeah”
“So you must have a good ferry link”
“Our ferries are old and break down often”
“So you’ve got big tugs?”
“Minister of Transport just cancelled the tug. Said it wasn’t needed”
“Oh I guess the water is pretty calm”
“Rough as guts. Sunk a ferry once.
“Yeah”
“So you must have a good ferry link”
“Our ferries are old and break down often”
“So you’ve got big tugs?”
“Minister of Transport just cancelled the tug. Said it wasn’t needed”
“Oh I guess the water is pretty calm”
“Rough as guts. Sunk a ferry once.
November 24, 2025 at 11:16 PM
“NZ is like mainly two large islands?”
“Yeah”
“So you must have a good ferry link”
“Our ferries are old and break down often”
“So you’ve got big tugs?”
“Minister of Transport just cancelled the tug. Said it wasn’t needed”
“Oh I guess the water is pretty calm”
“Rough as guts. Sunk a ferry once.
“Yeah”
“So you must have a good ferry link”
“Our ferries are old and break down often”
“So you’ve got big tugs?”
“Minister of Transport just cancelled the tug. Said it wasn’t needed”
“Oh I guess the water is pretty calm”
“Rough as guts. Sunk a ferry once.
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My "Totally Not Another Enron" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.
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November 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
My "Totally Not Another Enron" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.
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It's remarkable how incompetent this administration is. In a way, I'm grateful for it. They step on each other's toes, leak stories, stick both feet in their mouths, and constantly infight. They're led by an ignorant and malignant moron that they're afraid of who keeps worsening.
November 24, 2025 at 7:05 PM
It's remarkable how incompetent this administration is. In a way, I'm grateful for it. They step on each other's toes, leak stories, stick both feet in their mouths, and constantly infight. They're led by an ignorant and malignant moron that they're afraid of who keeps worsening.