Sal 🇵🇸🇺🇦
@sal46.bsky.social
I am interested in philosophy, religion, art and politics. I love pop music and dogs.
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Dawgs don’t lean on some lazy “Jewish people are not a racist” to disprove bogus claims of antisemitism because race is fake and not even “white” and “black” people are “races”
December 3, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Dawgs don’t lean on some lazy “Jewish people are not a racist” to disprove bogus claims of antisemitism because race is fake and not even “white” and “black” people are “races”
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there's something deeply wrong with this guy, like on a spiritual level
Elon Musk’s charitable foundation grew larger than ever in 2024. But, for the fourth year in a row, the huge charity failed to give away the minimum amount required by law — and the donations it did make went largely to charities closely tied to Musk himself, who is the world's richest man.
Elon Musk’s Foundation Grows to $14 Billion, but Gives Little to Outsiders
The philanthropy has become one of America’s biggest, but most of its giving went to charities closely tied to the world’s richest man.
nyti.ms
December 3, 2025 at 1:37 AM
there's something deeply wrong with this guy, like on a spiritual level
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Edwin Smith was a brilliant photographer as well as a painter and during his lifetime he produced a huge volume of oil and watercolour paintings. This little gem, 'Turf Fire,' was made in the 1940s.
December 3, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Edwin Smith was a brilliant photographer as well as a painter and during his lifetime he produced a huge volume of oil and watercolour paintings. This little gem, 'Turf Fire,' was made in the 1940s.
The synonymisation of the legally actionable and the unethical — the inability to morally judge outside the law, with all the nuance that comes with that — is one way progressives, through design or naive stupidity, invite ever more state power and surveillance.
December 3, 2025 at 10:57 AM
The synonymisation of the legally actionable and the unethical — the inability to morally judge outside the law, with all the nuance that comes with that — is one way progressives, through design or naive stupidity, invite ever more state power and surveillance.
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This evening you can see Richard Attenborough's Pinkie.
Here's what's on #TalkingPicturesTV today, Wednesday 3rd December.
December 3, 2025 at 8:31 AM
This evening you can see Richard Attenborough's Pinkie.
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Who let Steven Pinker on here
Bad? Ok.
Getting worse? Nah…
Live long enough and you can see astounding progress- even though it’s microscopic at the moment. Graph it and you feel good.
Getting worse? Nah…
Live long enough and you can see astounding progress- even though it’s microscopic at the moment. Graph it and you feel good.
December 3, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Who let Steven Pinker on here
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before we judge him—we don’t know what his life has been like ☝🏾 😔
Raccoon gets drunk at a Virginia liquor store and passes out in bathroom
Raccoon gets drunk at Ashland ABC store and passes out in bathroom
Talk about a trashed panda.
www.axios.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:11 PM
before we judge him—we don’t know what his life has been like ☝🏾 😔
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libertarians are people who want to use the media system to get out of having to maintain a community
September 19, 2025 at 1:19 PM
libertarians are people who want to use the media system to get out of having to maintain a community
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the people living on the falkland islands, right?
December 2, 2025 at 7:27 PM
the people living on the falkland islands, right?
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Limiting jury trials is a political choice
Defunding the justice system was a choice also made by successive Tory governments
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Defunding the justice system was a choice also made by successive Tory governments
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Limiting jury trials is a political choice
Defunding the justice system was a choice also made by successive Tory governments
www.newstatesman.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Limiting jury trials is a political choice
Defunding the justice system was a choice also made by successive Tory governments
🖊️ @RMCunliffe.bsky.social
Defunding the justice system was a choice also made by successive Tory governments
🖊️ @RMCunliffe.bsky.social
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Abolitionist John Brown was executed by the state of Virginia on December 2, 1859.
December 2, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Abolitionist John Brown was executed by the state of Virginia on December 2, 1859.
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There just are a bunch of people who revel in ostentatious cruelty, this kinda comfy no-actual-risk-taken-on performance of toughness that really just consists in barbarous violence.
Fox’s Greg Gutfeld on double tap boat strike: “It's just better for us to kill them in the ocean, make them shark feed, be done with it”
December 3, 2025 at 7:35 AM
There just are a bunch of people who revel in ostentatious cruelty, this kinda comfy no-actual-risk-taken-on performance of toughness that really just consists in barbarous violence.
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‘The Surrealists saw colonialism and imperialism as intrinsic to fascism, and from start to finish they campaigned against both, opposing the wars in Morocco in the 1920s and Algeria in the 1950s.’
Hal Foster:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Hal Foster:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Hal Foster · Tightrope of Hope: Surrealism v. Fascism
The Surrealists saw colonialism and imperialism as intrinsic to fascism, and from start to finish they campaigned...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 9:15 AM
‘The Surrealists saw colonialism and imperialism as intrinsic to fascism, and from start to finish they campaigned against both, opposing the wars in Morocco in the 1920s and Algeria in the 1950s.’
Hal Foster:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Hal Foster:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
My fear ultimately is less of a throwback reactionary like Trump than a new figure who will follow him and his ilk. She or he will fuse liberalism and reaction into a centrist, technocratic politics of ‘common-sense’ security.
The UK has gone quite, quite mad.
It's ridiculous that we (just about) survived 14 years of the Tories, only for Labour to allow the madness to take hold and spread.
Some of the stuff in those bullets is just breath-takingly evil.
And it's not winning Labour ANY votes. Just helping Reform.
It's ridiculous that we (just about) survived 14 years of the Tories, only for Labour to allow the madness to take hold and spread.
Some of the stuff in those bullets is just breath-takingly evil.
And it's not winning Labour ANY votes. Just helping Reform.
December 3, 2025 at 10:08 AM
My fear ultimately is less of a throwback reactionary like Trump than a new figure who will follow him and his ilk. She or he will fuse liberalism and reaction into a centrist, technocratic politics of ‘common-sense’ security.
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Excavation https://www.artic.edu/artworks/76244/
December 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Excavation https://www.artic.edu/artworks/76244/
My angle on the masculinity / male loneliness crisis is neither lib nor conservative but Marxist materialist. Socialise the economy so that the question of whether or not a man has succeeded is negated. Not a fan of the USSR but Kristen Ghodsee has a point here.
December 3, 2025 at 9:51 AM
My angle on the masculinity / male loneliness crisis is neither lib nor conservative but Marxist materialist. Socialise the economy so that the question of whether or not a man has succeeded is negated. Not a fan of the USSR but Kristen Ghodsee has a point here.
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Composition with Blue https://www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/composition-with-blue-1937
December 3, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Composition with Blue https://www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/composition-with-blue-1937
A 19th century male writer thing seems to be to have been lifelong obsessed with a woman (who he met when she was 14 and he 26 😭) who he elevates into a holy spiritual muse while she never gives a fuck about him. No record of a woman ever doing this in reverse.
December 3, 2025 at 9:35 AM
A 19th century male writer thing seems to be to have been lifelong obsessed with a woman (who he met when she was 14 and he 26 😭) who he elevates into a holy spiritual muse while she never gives a fuck about him. No record of a woman ever doing this in reverse.
December 3, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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Jury trials in England & Wales for crimes that carry a likely sentence of less than 3 years will be scrapped.
Bad move
Money may be saved but justice and trust in the system will be the biggest casualty.
Poor and minorities at the mercy of toff judges.
Bad move
Money may be saved but justice and trust in the system will be the biggest casualty.
Poor and minorities at the mercy of toff judges.
Jury trials scrapped for crimes with sentences of less than three years
The reforms are being brought in to tackle unprecedented delays in the Crown Court.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Jury trials in England & Wales for crimes that carry a likely sentence of less than 3 years will be scrapped.
Bad move
Money may be saved but justice and trust in the system will be the biggest casualty.
Poor and minorities at the mercy of toff judges.
Bad move
Money may be saved but justice and trust in the system will be the biggest casualty.
Poor and minorities at the mercy of toff judges.
Sex is good (so I’ve heard) but have you tried compiling your best albums of 2025 to impress everyone on BlueSky with your exemplarily sophisticated music taste?
December 3, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Sex is good (so I’ve heard) but have you tried compiling your best albums of 2025 to impress everyone on BlueSky with your exemplarily sophisticated music taste?
Hot take is that I have less of a problem with Reeves than any of the others. There’s at least a sense that she’s struggling while hedged about by all these pressures. You can see the stress in her face. Not a full endorsement but she doesn’t seem a wilful, enthusiastic arsehole.
I, a person who wants Rachel Reeves to not be chancellor of the exchequer, am increasingly tired of the number of shitty ways that the press are trying to stop her being chancellor of the exchequer
December 3, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Hot take is that I have less of a problem with Reeves than any of the others. There’s at least a sense that she’s struggling while hedged about by all these pressures. You can see the stress in her face. Not a full endorsement but she doesn’t seem a wilful, enthusiastic arsehole.
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If Trump’s cabinet secretaries were one person:
December 3, 2025 at 8:19 AM
If Trump’s cabinet secretaries were one person:
Agree totally. However, some age gap discourse is odd. There should be no controversy about a person of my age chasing after 18 year olds being thought a pathetic predatory specimen, but some of the stuff I see the youngs say to the effect of ‘a 25 yo with an 18 yo’ is pedophilia..
Today, I wrote about the fact that even if some older teenagers look the same as adults, we really don't need to "break the stigma" about adults lusting after them. Some things can just remain private thoughts and don't need to be accepted by society. www.cartoonshateher.com/p/do-you-rea...
December 3, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Agree totally. However, some age gap discourse is odd. There should be no controversy about a person of my age chasing after 18 year olds being thought a pathetic predatory specimen, but some of the stuff I see the youngs say to the effect of ‘a 25 yo with an 18 yo’ is pedophilia..