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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 18h

naval battles in the Age of Sail are like if the only way to make war was for the sides to drive sports cars off opposing ramps and loose arrows at each other out the windows while in midair

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tar-minyatur’s court twink ✵ @caranthirs.bsky.social · 13h

feanor and son conversation

an excerpt of the talmud —
as it is stated: “let your fountain be blessed have joy with the wife of your youth” (proverbs 5:18). rav yitzhak, his son, said to him: such as whom? rav yehuda said to him: such as your mother

(continued) the gemara wonders: is that so? but didn’t rav yehuda once read to rav yitzhak, his son, from the verse: “and I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets” (ecclesiastes 7:26)? and rav yitzhak said to him: such as whom? and rav yehuda said to him: such as your mother.

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the illustrious IRIS JAY @irisjaycomics.bsky.social · 14h

setting my Rude filter to SHOW. setting my Unruly filter to WARN. setting my Vulgar filter to HIDE. setting my Churlish filter to SHOW BADGE. setting my Impudent filter to TSK STERNLY. setting my Callow filter to FROWN. setting my Naughty filter to... hmmm... DEPLOY OPERA GLASSES FOR FURTIVE PEEPING

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TobermorianSass @tobermoriansass.bsky.social · 1d

is there a place to see the rules on mobile? (I'm a bit of luddite and am not sure how these things work...)

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2d

5. They saw the countryside as the “true” heart of the nation, which upheld clean and decent traditions, and sustained old ideas about how society should be run. Crucially, they believed, it was not “polluted” by “miscegenation” and the “dilution” of “racial characteristics”.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2d

4. The city, for them, was a seething mass of “aliens” and “cosmopolitans” (ie Jews). It teemed with “foreign” and “degenerate” ideas and practices. Some of them, particularly Gerald Wallop (Lord Lymington), railed against its democratic impulses: he wanted a revival of aristocratic rule.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2d

3. It was rescuscitated in the 1920s and 1930s by fascist movements. “Rural revivalism” was a major force in the emergence of fascism in Germany, Italy, France, the UK and elsewhere. In the UK it was fomented by the likes of Gerald Wallop, Jorian Jenks, Rolf Gardiner and Henry Williamson.

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TobermorianSass @tobermoriansass.bsky.social · 8d

Wait can you not delete reskeets??? What is this.

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Koto Satsuki Claudia @dearchekclaudia.bsky.social · 8d

i hate how people and even literature sometimes reduces the concept of an unreliable narrator to 'the book lying to you', not 'you are viewing the world through the eyes of someone who does not see an absolute truth'

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Shilpi Chhotray @shilpichhotray.bsky.social · 10d

‼️The climate story is being shaped by the very industries causing climate chaos.

Edelman built the fossil fuel playbook and now it’s running comms for COP30. Meanwhile, frontline communities have a different story to tell.

My latest for @thenation.com.

How a PR Giant Hijacked COP30 to Greenwash the Planet

Edelman invented the fossil fuel narratives, and now it’s running communications for COP30. All the while, frontline communities are telling very different stories.

www.thenation.com

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TobermorianSass @tobermoriansass.bsky.social · 10d

the great vision of therapy as it exists in pop culture & commentary is literally just the aspiration of accepting the 1950s middle class usamerican happy family suburbia as inevitable, desirable norm & its completely wild to me that people seem to...enjoy this?

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TobermorianSass @tobermoriansass.bsky.social · 10d

just an eternity of peaceful greigeness imported wholesale and all ugly, sharp, imperfect emotions sanded away or slated for sanding away and if not, treated as a failure to "do the work" (that phrase in particular sets my teeth on edge).

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TobermorianSass @tobermoriansass.bsky.social · 10d

therapyfic where "comfort" is abt getting "better", but better is abt being emotionally stable, a resilient & mindful subject. the decadence & total lack of realism of "comfort" in hurt/comfort fics totally lost. almost as tho we are scared of our own ids & what they might say abt our imperfections.

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TobermorianSass @tobermoriansass.bsky.social · 10d

therapy showing up in the background fabric of published lit either as a sign of "doing the work" to either become cured/better, or just as a means of moral absolution - a shorthand for cultivating self-awareness and mindfulness. associating all of this with being "political" v. apolitical (lol!!!)

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TobermorianSass @tobermoriansass.bsky.social · 10d

pop punk songs abt going to therapy and getting better, instead of yearning to escape the stifling bounds of small towns and smaller mores. pop punk songs telling other people to go to therapy, instead of sticking up a middle finger, all part of that same yearning for escape from stifling authority

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TobermorianSass @tobermoriansass.bsky.social · 10d

can i be so fr with you. the whole "therapy" thing in art is overblown and just really fucking boring on like every single level and it feels increasingly like... a weirdly tempered fantasy of what a good life might look like in a way that seems more fatalist than actual fatalism/doomerism

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Danny Lavery @dannymlavery.bsky.social · 12d

"If you believe these guys are avatars of sexual ruination/failed masculinity, you’re buying into the thing they’re getting off on. Lots of trans people get off to similar ideas. Cis men just don’t have the escape hatch of calling it a coping mechanism for trauma"

www.thechatner.com/p/but-pornos...

"But PornosexualGooner101 Died 35 Years Ago...This Very Night!"

"There’s this idea that straight cis men have an entirely uncomplicated relationship to porn because they’re the most normative porn consumer demographic, but straight cis men are often surprisingly t...

www.thechatner.com

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soleil ✵ @silm discord! @skywardstruck.bsky.social · 12d

tolkien was a person, like any other. and assigning him to one "side" of the political spectrum or the other will never get to the heart of why fascists are drawn to his work.

it's not co-opting when the framework is there. put your attachment to middle-earth aside and fight fascism in all forms.

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TobermorianSass @tobermoriansass.bsky.social · 13d

...one day i will make posts on here without 1 willem spelling errors and typos goddammit

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TobermorianSass @tobermoriansass.bsky.social · 13d

to be clear i blame this one squarely on libblr for deciding to fingerwag over people making jokes abt the whole thing. however i did see an incredibly stupid post about regency romance today so leftblr also has a black mark. hashtag radical centrism.

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TobermorianSass @tobermoriansass.bsky.social · 13d

did we really need a week of museum discourse? did we really need to retread all the arguments for and again with net zero information gain? once again i am asking. is jouissance, joy, pleasure possibled? or is all query naive?

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TobermorianSass @tobermoriansass.bsky.social · 13d

said this to a mutual in the DMs but increasingly of the opinion that tumblr's libblr v. leftblr wars are just a retread of the fandom v. hipster wars of yesteryear, esp. in the stupid spiteful escalatory sisyphean arguments over small stakes stuff

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erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · 15d

this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread

atlantic article screenshot
headline: no one knows how big pumpkins can get
sub head: a decade ago, the worlds heaviest pumpkin weighed 2,000 pounds. now the 3,000 pound mark is within sight
by yasmin tayag

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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 20d

I can beat the medievalists! In 61 CE, revolting British natives attacked the Roman colony of Camulodunum (Colchester). In 2015, in a domestic space, archs found the remains of a whole box of coriander as well as fenugreek, poppy seeds, cumin, & other Indian spices. Homesick Roman women made curry.

Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 20d

I'm pretty sure there were Indian spices in England before potatoes.

Hughster @hughster.bsky.social · 20d

The British Right are just in total freefall into savagery at this point

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Kory Bing @korybing.bsky.social · 18d

Heard about the Louvre jewel heist and my first thought was “finally, some good old fashioned normal crime”

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