horizontalist
@horizontalist.bsky.social
st pauli / man city syncretist
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We bought Article II of the United Nations Charter with the blood of a hundred million human beings, and less than a century later, it's being sold for nothing by people who don't even understand what they're doing.
i think this is what drives me nuts. people talk about how, say, the UN was founded by "starry eyed idealists" who didn't understand "reality." the truth is that the UN was founded by those who had just fought and *won* the bloodiest war in human history.
February 14, 2026 at 8:03 PM
We bought Article II of the United Nations Charter with the blood of a hundred million human beings, and less than a century later, it's being sold for nothing by people who don't even understand what they're doing.
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Will people on the move soon be branded as terrorists? A new decree escalates Italy's war on migration. Yesterday, Meloni's ultra-right government published a proposal, including measures to deny our vessels entry into 🇮🇹territorial waters for 1-6 months.🧵https://t.co/Eot8NjJQHs
February 12, 2026 at 11:43 AM
Will people on the move soon be branded as terrorists? A new decree escalates Italy's war on migration. Yesterday, Meloni's ultra-right government published a proposal, including measures to deny our vessels entry into 🇮🇹territorial waters for 1-6 months.🧵https://t.co/Eot8NjJQHs
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Christian nationalist politicians lecturing Jews descended from Holocaust victims about what is actually antisemitic really is the logical endpoint to the current antisemitism discourse.
BONDI: You didn't ask Merrick Garland anything about Epstein
BALINT: Weak sauce
BONDI: And with this antisemitic culture right now, she voted against a resolution--
BALINT: You want to go there! Really? Talking about antisemitism to a woman who lost her grandfather in the Holocaust! *storms off*
BALINT: Weak sauce
BONDI: And with this antisemitic culture right now, she voted against a resolution--
BALINT: You want to go there! Really? Talking about antisemitism to a woman who lost her grandfather in the Holocaust! *storms off*
February 11, 2026 at 7:05 PM
Christian nationalist politicians lecturing Jews descended from Holocaust victims about what is actually antisemitic really is the logical endpoint to the current antisemitism discourse.
most Americans relationship with power is roughly analogous to an alcoholic’s relationship to their drink of choice.
“yes I overdid it a few times, but I’m in control here.“
“yes I overdid it a few times, but I’m in control here.“
February 10, 2026 at 6:35 AM
most Americans relationship with power is roughly analogous to an alcoholic’s relationship to their drink of choice.
“yes I overdid it a few times, but I’m in control here.“
“yes I overdid it a few times, but I’m in control here.“
I’ve used this line before but Starmer was a human rights lawyer in the same way Shipman or Mengele were medical doctors. Fascinated I’m sure by the mechanisms at work, chiefly so as to abuse and bend them to his own advantage.
1. People struggle to reconcile Keir Starmer’s ruthless ambition, Machiavellian manoeuvres, breaking of promises, collaboration in genocide, bans on protest, aid cuts, benefit cuts and war on nature with his history as a human rights lawyer. But perhaps there is no contradiction.
Read on.🧵
Read on.🧵
February 9, 2026 at 8:19 AM
I’ve used this line before but Starmer was a human rights lawyer in the same way Shipman or Mengele were medical doctors. Fascinated I’m sure by the mechanisms at work, chiefly so as to abuse and bend them to his own advantage.
mcsweeney gone, government collapsing and city win at anfield, maybe 2026 isn't going to be a total horrorshow after all
February 8, 2026 at 7:21 PM
mcsweeney gone, government collapsing and city win at anfield, maybe 2026 isn't going to be a total horrorshow after all
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fucking horrifying and entirely within expectations that a supreme court judge is listening to the rest is history
www.theguardian.com/law/2026/feb...
www.theguardian.com/law/2026/feb...
UK supreme court hearing interrupted by history podcast played from judge’s phone
Proceedings briefly halted after audio from The Rest Is History broadcast over the courtroom speakers
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 9:44 PM
fucking horrifying and entirely within expectations that a supreme court judge is listening to the rest is history
www.theguardian.com/law/2026/feb...
www.theguardian.com/law/2026/feb...
just waking up to the news that all my apes are destroyed but the president has deployed an ape to counter,
February 6, 2026 at 8:44 PM
just waking up to the news that all my apes are destroyed but the president has deployed an ape to counter,
love this guy, sort of excited to see A) where he goes from the mayoralty and B) how power will inexorably corrupt and ruin him as it would us all
Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.”
Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
February 6, 2026 at 8:40 PM
love this guy, sort of excited to see A) where he goes from the mayoralty and B) how power will inexorably corrupt and ruin him as it would us all
American shame died for good when Ford pardoned Nixon, though this is prehistory now apparently. Everything before that point was half-hearted impressions of shame, everything after is lurching closer and closer to unipolar imperial insolence.
No people can have so much power and remain sane.
No people can have so much power and remain sane.
"Since prison for Epstein’s fellow abusers gets unlikelier over time, America’s deeper question is whether it can restore a culture of shame." - marvellous, marvellous column by @edwardluce.bsky.social:
The Epstein rot goes deep
America must now ask itself if it can restore a culture of shame
www.ft.com
February 3, 2026 at 4:06 PM
American shame died for good when Ford pardoned Nixon, though this is prehistory now apparently. Everything before that point was half-hearted impressions of shame, everything after is lurching closer and closer to unipolar imperial insolence.
No people can have so much power and remain sane.
No people can have so much power and remain sane.
what better way to recover emotionally from a loss in the manchester derby and losing to a team with a forward slash in the name and an artificial pitch than a huge 5-0 hammering of the hated HSV
January 23, 2026 at 7:19 AM
what better way to recover emotionally from a loss in the manchester derby and losing to a team with a forward slash in the name and an artificial pitch than a huge 5-0 hammering of the hated HSV
incidentally I'm increasingly convinced that "UX" "research" and "design" don't only suffer from similar methodological errors but are proactively using them as mechanisms to reshape society around the whims of venture capitalists. Often unknowingly, sometimes cynically.
if i could make you read ONE (1) single post to improve your understanding of the challenges of social science in general it would be this one from @markfabian.bsky.social about wellbeing science specifically
profmarkfabian.substack.com/p/airing-my-...
profmarkfabian.substack.com/p/airing-my-...
Airing my grievances with wellbeing science
We have a streetlight problem
profmarkfabian.substack.com
January 19, 2026 at 1:41 PM
incidentally I'm increasingly convinced that "UX" "research" and "design" don't only suffer from similar methodological errors but are proactively using them as mechanisms to reshape society around the whims of venture capitalists. Often unknowingly, sometimes cynically.
doing 'peace in our time' but on your own on live television, bold manouvre sir keir
Starmer says he does not think Trump would use military force to seize Greenland ft.trib.al/qA4nUzP
Starmer says he does not think Trump would use military force to seize Greenland
Trade war with US risks ‘huge damage’ to UK, warns British prime minister
ft.trib.al
January 19, 2026 at 12:53 PM
doing 'peace in our time' but on your own on live television, bold manouvre sir keir
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It’s not just that Trump says the quiet stuff out loud, he also forces his suckasses to reveal exactly what they always were.
January 17, 2026 at 9:45 PM
It’s not just that Trump says the quiet stuff out loud, he also forces his suckasses to reveal exactly what they always were.
modding HOI4 is baffling sometimes because you can be tinkering with how supply or combat mechanics work and accidentally have the anarchists win the spanish civil war and think
what did I break that this happened
what did I break that this happened
January 9, 2026 at 11:56 AM
modding HOI4 is baffling sometimes because you can be tinkering with how supply or combat mechanics work and accidentally have the anarchists win the spanish civil war and think
what did I break that this happened
what did I break that this happened
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Am I anti-Semitic? No it's the (((North London Elite))) who are wrong
Farage tells @hugorifkind.bsky.social that accusations that he hissed gas sounds at Jewish students at school are a concern of "those that live in London and the upper middle classes".
January 7, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Am I anti-Semitic? No it's the (((North London Elite))) who are wrong
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look we're all making a big bet on AI! and if it pays off as big as we hope, well, it's going to make a handful of people super rich and you're going to lose your job but get to watch mickey mouse fuck geralt from the witcher. if it doesn't pay off well then you get to pay for the bailouts
December 29, 2025 at 2:25 AM
look we're all making a big bet on AI! and if it pays off as big as we hope, well, it's going to make a handful of people super rich and you're going to lose your job but get to watch mickey mouse fuck geralt from the witcher. if it doesn't pay off well then you get to pay for the bailouts
have there been any studies on people who enjoy cryptic crosswords? deeply, deeply suspicious people, cant be trusted.
December 26, 2025 at 7:27 AM
have there been any studies on people who enjoy cryptic crosswords? deeply, deeply suspicious people, cant be trusted.
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From that piece by Labour‘s Dr Economist MP - this is such a wildly reductive and bizarre reading of Britains role in the war that I hardly know where to start. Britain stood any chance at all only by virtue of the continued exploitation of foreign colonies.
December 20, 2025 at 11:36 AM
From that piece by Labour‘s Dr Economist MP - this is such a wildly reductive and bizarre reading of Britains role in the war that I hardly know where to start. Britain stood any chance at all only by virtue of the continued exploitation of foreign colonies.