Perosteck
@perosteck.bsky.social
Driving myself crazy by paying attention to politics and starting, but not finishing, books.
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When the answer to “how are you playing” is “I’m going to heaven,” things are going poorly
November 12, 2025 at 10:25 PM
When the answer to “how are you playing” is “I’m going to heaven,” things are going poorly
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November 2, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) on the shooting of Charlie Kirk:
"Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it."
"Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it."
September 10, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) on the shooting of Charlie Kirk:
"Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it."
"Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it."
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as funny as it is to imagine a scenario where Trump just randomly keels over and dies because he is an unhealthy senile 80 year old, it's important to keep in mind that the scenario where he has a stroke or heart attack and is merely severely incapicitated but remains alive is MUCH FUNNIER
January 6, 2025 at 10:58 PM
as funny as it is to imagine a scenario where Trump just randomly keels over and dies because he is an unhealthy senile 80 year old, it's important to keep in mind that the scenario where he has a stroke or heart attack and is merely severely incapicitated but remains alive is MUCH FUNNIER
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i think about this tweet every single day
August 18, 2025 at 3:35 AM
i think about this tweet every single day
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this is crazy bc some of you need new clothes
August 11, 2025 at 1:43 AM
this is crazy bc some of you need new clothes
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This week on the blog: Our look at the structures of life for peasant farmers continues with children and childrearing.
We model some plausible birth patterns for an ancient peasant farming society (Roman Egypt) and think through the implications for daily life.
acoup.blog/2025/08/08/c...
We model some plausible birth patterns for an ancient peasant farming society (Roman Egypt) and think through the implications for daily life.
acoup.blog/2025/08/08/c...
Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IIIb: Children and Childrearing
This is the back half of the third part of our series (I, II, IIIa) discussing the patterns of life for the pre-modern peasants who made up the great majority of humans who lived in the past. Last …
acoup.blog
August 9, 2025 at 5:18 PM
This week on the blog: Our look at the structures of life for peasant farmers continues with children and childrearing.
We model some plausible birth patterns for an ancient peasant farming society (Roman Egypt) and think through the implications for daily life.
acoup.blog/2025/08/08/c...
We model some plausible birth patterns for an ancient peasant farming society (Roman Egypt) and think through the implications for daily life.
acoup.blog/2025/08/08/c...
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Just this week, the 79-year-old president hallucinated a lie about the Unabomber, forgot he appointed the Fed Chair he hates, blanked on names of officials, fell asleep at a rally, threatened to strip Rosie O'Donnell of her citizenship and spun wild theories about his good friend the pedophile.
July 16, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Just this week, the 79-year-old president hallucinated a lie about the Unabomber, forgot he appointed the Fed Chair he hates, blanked on names of officials, fell asleep at a rally, threatened to strip Rosie O'Donnell of her citizenship and spun wild theories about his good friend the pedophile.
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![Comic. The Three Types of Unsolved Physics Problem (First panel) Vague. PERSON [next to curved diagram] What is the nature of time in quantum gravity? Is it a background parameter, a dynamic aspect of spacetime, or an emergent phenomenon? (Second panel) Precise. PERSON 2 with short hair [device with equation below: 71Ga + νe → 71Ge + e- .] Why does the *S.A.G.E.* Gallium Neutrino Capture Experiment produce only 75% as much germanium as predicted? (Third panel) Cursed. PERSON 3 with white hat [rectangular block with hairs growing out of it labeled Zinc Whiskers] Why does some metal randomly grow hairs? It keeps causing short circuits and we have no idea what’s going on. OFF-PANEL: Is this a joke? PERSON 3: No! Please help!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiguoi672ahbrlp4eewfdz6v2ynlajbtpmucqed6fl4npoeu3uypkm@jpeg)
July 16, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”
July 4, 2025 at 1:40 AM
“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”
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The American media wants war and likes Trump and will pretend like its 80-20 the other way in all their coverage
REMINDERS:
- Americans opposing bombing Iran outnumber warmongers by a margin of 20% (45-25)
- ONLY 25% of Americans support airstrikes against Iran at this time.
- Americans opposing bombing Iran outnumber warmongers by a margin of 20% (45-25)
- ONLY 25% of Americans support airstrikes against Iran at this time.
They are not going to mention in their headlines ofc but even @washingtonpost.com can't hide the numbers:
- Americans opposing bombing Iran outnumber warmongers by a margin of 20% (45-25)
- ONLY 25% of Americans support airstrikes against Iran at this time.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
- Americans opposing bombing Iran outnumber warmongers by a margin of 20% (45-25)
- ONLY 25% of Americans support airstrikes against Iran at this time.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
June 22, 2025 at 12:43 AM
The American media wants war and likes Trump and will pretend like its 80-20 the other way in all their coverage
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from "Classical Studies memes for Hellenistic teens" on FB
June 10, 2025 at 7:57 PM
from "Classical Studies memes for Hellenistic teens" on FB
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"lets check in on what's happening at bluesky dot app this afterno-OH FUCK BAIL OUT BAIL OUT THAT'S HOLOCAUST DENIAL ON MAIN"
June 11, 2025 at 4:27 PM
"lets check in on what's happening at bluesky dot app this afterno-OH FUCK BAIL OUT BAIL OUT THAT'S HOLOCAUST DENIAL ON MAIN"
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I know posting "the girls are fighting" seems funny, but it's actually insensitive and shitty.
My father died in a girl fight. He tried to break it up and the girls pulled him apart like freshly baked bread. He didn't even scream. One moment he was there, the next just a spray of dad viscera.
My father died in a girl fight. He tried to break it up and the girls pulled him apart like freshly baked bread. He didn't even scream. One moment he was there, the next just a spray of dad viscera.
June 6, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I know posting "the girls are fighting" seems funny, but it's actually insensitive and shitty.
My father died in a girl fight. He tried to break it up and the girls pulled him apart like freshly baked bread. He didn't even scream. One moment he was there, the next just a spray of dad viscera.
My father died in a girl fight. He tried to break it up and the girls pulled him apart like freshly baked bread. He didn't even scream. One moment he was there, the next just a spray of dad viscera.
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Excellent broken clock moment.
“I will be ordering the cessation of sanctions against Syria in order to give them a chance at greatness.”
— President Trump says before a standing ovation in Saudi Arabia today.
— President Trump says before a standing ovation in Saudi Arabia today.
May 13, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Excellent broken clock moment.
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I am speechless...
>> First fault movement ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar
m.youtube.com/watch?v=77ub...
>> First fault movement ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar
m.youtube.com/watch?v=77ub...
First fault movement ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar
YouTube video by 2025 Sagaing Earthquake Archive
m.youtube.com
May 12, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I am speechless...
>> First fault movement ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar
m.youtube.com/watch?v=77ub...
>> First fault movement ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar
m.youtube.com/watch?v=77ub...
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we're gonna keep appointing new, increasingly more vance-hostile popes until he converts back to protestantism
May 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
we're gonna keep appointing new, increasingly more vance-hostile popes until he converts back to protestantism
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Let this be a warning to you all: nobody steals my charts and gets to be Prime Minister of Canada
insanely funny to have the likely future Prime Minister of Canada just take my chart and intentionally crop out the watermark where I say I made it lmao
April 29, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Let this be a warning to you all: nobody steals my charts and gets to be Prime Minister of Canada
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Alright, @sarahebond.bsky.social in her cruelty has made me aware of this remarkably incompetent talk Malcolm Gladwell gave and so I am going to inflict it on all of you by going through all of the mistakes he makes here in the hope that none of you will ever take him seriously again. 1/
April 28, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Alright, @sarahebond.bsky.social in her cruelty has made me aware of this remarkably incompetent talk Malcolm Gladwell gave and so I am going to inflict it on all of you by going through all of the mistakes he makes here in the hope that none of you will ever take him seriously again. 1/
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on Jan 20, 2025 the Conservatives were *23 points* ahead in the polls
The last three months of this becoming first possible and then likely should not obscure how *obscene* a bag fumble it has been from the Conservatives. Genuinely one of the all time great implosions? Absolutely generational, it’s hard to remember one like it
CTV HAS DECLARED A LIBERAL GOVERNMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 29, 2025 at 2:43 AM
on Jan 20, 2025 the Conservatives were *23 points* ahead in the polls